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[heronetworkgg]

ESL One Birmingham: El equipo de 1Win es excluido del torneo por problemas de Visa

1Win, equipo ruso de deportes electrónicos, ha sido excluido de ESL One Birmingham 2024 debido a problemas con sus visas, a pesar de haber asegurado su participación al ganar las clasificatorias regionales de Europa del Este. La noticia llega después de que ESL anunciara que OG ocuparía el lugar de 1Win en el torneo, citando […]

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[patchdraws]

My sign for the ESL One Birmingham 2019 Dota 2 tournament. Make Jakiro meta again.

[deoidesign]

Please for the Love of God let me tell you about my gay time traveling vampires

[canines-crown]

I swear to fucking GOD if the alterhuman community on Instagram does the same as the first, and at the same time, last fandom I've ever felt comfortable in I'm going to FUCKING LOOSE IT

"I don't support this, I don't support that" PEOPLE NEED TO HAVE THEIR SAFE SPACES. Why does it bother you if someone is experiencing something differently from you, or has a different opinion on something.

I don't CARE if someone is "delusional", I don't care if someone's therianthropy is so strong it causes them distress. I'm NOT in the position to judge why exactly someone identifies as an animal, if I too, identity as an animal cause guess what, alterhumanity is different for anyone. Guess what, if you think you can physically turn into an animal it is still an IDENTITY and therefore makes you a valid alterhuman.

I'll stop posting about this on Instagram because dear GOD have I learned my lesson when it comes to having different opinions on something, in a community that can't think for themselves, for whatever reason that may be.

With that being said. Even though I am not going to post about this on IG anymore, just know that I fully support you physical alterhumans, all of you. You need your safe space too. Even if your identity causes you distress in any way, I love you. I do not support the pain it causes you, but I support you as an individual.

Sorry for getting a bit negative. I'm just angry right now

[harringroveera]

Like do you think Max breaks a little bit inside every time she turns older? Especially on her 19th birthday, seeing how she gets to grow up but her brother doesn’t?

[pomeraniandancer]

How the fuck does this even happen...

There are a number of languages you can search for works in on AO3, including Eald Eanglisc of all things, but the one language on there that really throws me for a loop is...American Sign Language.

Like, is there even a video option on AO3 for this to be possible?

I once picked a really big fanfic collection to search for ASL fics in and the only one that categorized as ASL was *written* in English. No videofile too be seen.

The most you can do in ASL in writing is write English words with ASL syntax. But that's still not ASL. ASL does not have a written alphabet or syllabary.

Genuinely bewildered about how this came about. Can people just post something and write in an "other" language and AO3 just adds that language to the list of languages they have fics written in?

I can't think of any other way that this might've happened, and as much as I adore AO3, this is pretty problematic.

[casual-eumetazoa]

I'm gonna try applying for jobs today! Wish me luck 😬

[theyuniversity]

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Here are some more examples:

The two-year-old (n.) broke my iPhone. 👶

I was nine years old when I went to my first NBA game. 🏀

My uncle bought me a new iMac to replace my six-year-old (adj.) laptop. 💻

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[blank-house]

Would the guys try to learn a bit of mc's language when dating if English wasn't their first language? I'm just curious at what point would each try to get, as for Jamie it's not something that far-fetched

Hmm…

I think Jamie would go all the way, just because it would be easy for him. Plus the amount of shenanigans he can get up to talking about things that only MC would understand would be incredibly appealing to him. Talking about other people, messing with MC, talking to MC’s parent(s) in their native tongue.

Yeah he’d learn the whole thing if he really likes them. But he wouldn’t flaunt that he learned it just for them, it would be more like MC learns one random day that Jamie can fluently speak it and they’re just like:

MC: “Since when did you learn how to speak my language???”

Jamie: “Since the first week I knew you were the one for me. Come on, MC, keep up.”

And he’s just smug about catching them off guard haha

Elio and Percy I think would be entirely dependent on if MC wants them to learn it, their parent(s) only speak that language, or if they’re made aware that MC’s culture and native tongue is very important to them. Like if any of those case are true then 100% they’ll learn it!

Otherwise, they probably wouldn’t. Like maybe Percy would learn a pickup line or two or Elio might try calling MC an affectionate name in their first language, but I really don’t see them learning beyond that. ^^,

AJFJFHEHEHR I feel bad saying it in case someone was dreaming of them making the effort on their own— but unless it’s dear to MC… yeah…

[clambuoyance]

I’ve never been so obsessed with a character so bad that I literally can’t do anything else I’m like the squidward meme watching SpongeBob frolic outside the window stretching a hand out to all the pretty paintings and animations and comics I see in my head but being unable to feel any motivation for it . If only i could use the energy spent to create 20 kon doodles to sit down and concentrate on a single finished full piece I used to be able to make like 5 page comics what happened to me

[drysauce]

i mean it in the best way possible (to u) but wow from what u've been posting ur uni friends sound like fucking cunts. hope it gets better :/

haha well, yeah no i agree with you

the thing is it's not really uni friends. those just either don't reply or reply that they're busy when it's about something esle than school, they're clear with us that they have their own friend groups they value more and outside of the university setting we don't really keep in touch too much. i mean i tried befriending one girl but it eventually backfired at me so i decided it's not worth to spend my time and health on that

the thing that's happening lately is with people i have known before for ~5 years out of which one of them is my rommate. and only around january/february this year it started becoming clear what we stand on. that's probably why the whole thing is so frustrating to me now, especially that situationship with my roommate/best friend that we ended up in. it's such a complicated and multilayered situation at this point that it's just simply more tiring than upsetting

but in any case thanks for nice words, i hope it gets better too

[certifiedbi]

and next year when a british moto3 rider pops up matching your dream then what

It would be so weird because I had no name or face to go by, but the post I was desperately searching my actual irl Tumblr for was a post where I was quoting some big, insightful things he has said being like "wow this guy is so intelligent and thoughtful he is really amazing" so that's all I have to identify him with.

But unfortunately I know all the potential future British moto3 riders and they are.... Not so intelligent. But if one comes through that I don't recognise I will be very weary

[eroticcannibal]

Idk why im reading slang discourse on esl subreddits but as a native English speaker, it is perfectly acceptable to use informal English in "official" communication (work, education) if whoever is higher up does it. In English culture specifically, *not* mirroring informality can be seen as quite arrogant and standoff-ish, which is worse than appearing a bit unproffesional. This is more true the more north/rural you go.

This might not apply in London, because Londoners arent people. Or in America, because america is weird.

[buffyspeak]

my relationship with shipping in bbc merlin is. complex. i ship nothing and i ship everything. i don’t particularly want or need any of the characters to kiss/cuddle/have sex/be in a Relationship (TM). that’s not to say i’m opposed to reading fics like that. (though i really don’t read much fic for it because i’m not sure any of it could make me feel as insane as the actual show does.) but like. when i say i ship mergana, for instance, it’s not so much that wish they had kissed. again! not opposed to it! but more like. they are one of the most fascinating relationships in the show to me. i want to atudy their brains under a microscope and watch a 10+ hours long youtube essay deep dive about how they genuinely cared about each other and then proceeded to destroy each other from the inside out. is there anything more intimate than that?

[not-poignant]

You love living in your home in the countryside. You do not like to live in a flat in a big city. You know foreign languages. T/F

You love living in your home in the countryside. You do not like to live in a flat in a big city.

~

True!

~

I have liked temporarily staying in big cities, but would rather not live there. Though the convenience and the food choices do make aspects of it appealing. I also wouldn't want to live in straight up countryside (though given the choice, it would be countryside over cityscapes). We are semi-rural/semi-suburban (a suburb with farmland and bushland all around, but not anything I could walk to), which gives us good aspects of both!

You know foreign languages.

~

False!

~

Not for lack of trying, but I'm monolingual. I got fairly far on German for a while, and I know a little bit of spoken Dutch because my Oma and Opa were Dutch and spoke it to my father. But we were never encouraged to speak it, and were never taught, which makes me really sad.

Unfortunately, if the language isn't around me, I don't have any kind of retention. I do pick up languages fast when I'm around them.

I also just randomly know about 200~ spoken words in Japanese after years of just...osmosis, I guess? But nothing about grammar or the written language so no, I don't know foreign languages.

I mean I know they exist, but I don't know them. aslkfdsa

[friccinfricks]

Joe Elliott x Reader head canons: penpals edition

- of course when the guys go on tour, you and Joe have an agreement to try to call at least three or four times a week, especially right before he goes on stage

- but sometimes those short phone calls aren’t enough to get everything out that you need to say to each other (keep in mind, these are international tours we’re referring to)

- so before the tour, you and Joe sit down over (what was supposed to be just one, turns into three) coffee and go over all the different hotels he’ll be at, explicit addresses, and the exact dates.

- it brings a smile to your face, watching how intently he sifts through piles and piles of paperwork, just so he can be sure you’ve got a mailing address “just in case” you decide you want to mail him a letter.

- it’s February of 1983 and the band will be in America for over two months, and with the tour starting in England, you plan on clinging onto him and finding ways to pop in at his hotels when it’s not too much trouble to get there

- but as you go over the list, you realize how exact and precise your planning will have to be in order to get a letter to him. it’s daunting. they’ll be in an entirely new city, oftentimes state, every. single. night.

- he seems excited just to have had the conversation with you, though. he’s eager to maintain this new, sprouting relationship with you, despite the ever-approaching tour. three months is a long time to be away, but knowing you’ll be back home waiting for him makes his heart leap.

- in actuality, he has already started writing letters to you. he started just weeks after you met, but felt too bashful to actually send them, seeing as you went on dates every weekend and he tried to come over on nights when you’d had an excruciating long day at work and were in no circumstance to cook for yourself

- so now he’s found the perfect excuse to show you in writing, what his words have always wanted to tell you.

- ah, but you’ve got a little trick up your sleeve too, don’t you?

- you’ve got a friend in texas whose got a friend in the international airlines and you’ve landed yourself not just a ticket across the pond, but a few nights in Dallas, perfectly in time for just when Def Leppard’ll be playing.

- but you love seeing how excited Joe is. it thrills you knowing that at least every once in a while, you’ll get a letter from him.

- and so it begins.

- after starting the tour in Europe, you find a way to go to the airport with the boys and see them off.

- Phil and Sav are both making vomiting noises when they see Joe plant a tender, but firm kiss on your lips, to which you both respond to by giving them each the middle finger

- you watch as the five of them board the plane, Joe boarding last, and giving you a final wave.

- it’s bittersweet, only because you sent a letter to their first hotel a week and a half ago and alreadr made sure that they’d received it. Joe was absolutely thrilled when at check in, their tour manager walked over and said, “I don’t know how, but you’ve got a piece of mail.”

- much to your surprise, when you go home that day, you notice a thick envelope on your doorstep

- it’s not got any postage or any indication that it went through the postal service, so you’re trepedatious to open it

- you just smile and sigh in contentment when you look inside, seeing tons of hand written notes, all addressed to you as, “Y/N, my beloved,”

- there are poems, doodles, lists, photographs, a little bit of everything.

- one of the last notes you find says, “I’m sorry for the creepy delivery, I just had to be sure you got it today! specifically, today!”

- a few days later, you get your first call from America.

“Y/N!”

“Hmm, who is this? you sound so��� American.”

“Oh, how funny.”

“Hello, Joe.”

“Hello, Y/N.” you can hear all sorts of sudden noises in the background now, mostly exclamations of your name.

“Hi, everyone.” you giggle. you hear a thump and a bit of static.

“Y/N, hi- it’s Rick. please, you have to tell Joe to shut up. I speak for everyone when I say he cannot stop lamenting over-”

“Lamenting? who are you? shakespeare? give me a fuckin break. Y/N, don’t listen to him. he’s a liar and a thief.” you hear Joe distantly in the background.

“Lamenting over how just heartbrokenly lonely he is.” this time it’s Steve who chimes in.

“It’s as if the man has never used his hand before.”

“Bollocks!”

you can’t contain your laughter, it just keeps rolling out of you, your sides hurt as you gasp for air.

- all of the calls right before shows are like this

- some, however, are made from hotel bedrooms, and include much more… explicit, dirty conversation.

- you listen intently as Joe tells you all of his most wild, urgent thoughts. you can feel your heartbeat throughout your entire body as you obey his commands through the phone receiver, accompanied by stern reminders that you have to be quiet, as you wouldn’t want to disturb your neighbors on the other side of your flat’s walls.

- it’s fair. you’ve had it coming, after all. with every new letter sent, there includes a page full of paragraphs of the most raw, animalistic urges you’ve had in his absence.

- and the pictures. oh, the pictures.

- Joe loses his mind every time you send him a new polaroid of some shocking nude pose you’ve gotten yourself into.

- the letters continue throughout the entire tour, back and forth, as do the calls.

- and let’s just say when you show up at his Dallas hotel room an hour before he checks in, clad in a mini skirt, a button up a few sizes too small, and a smile, he goes absolutely feral.