#So take this with a pinch of salt

[hippopotatoe]

I only know about ö, æ, and å from the song~ If it pleases you, tell me about their history?

i have literally no idea what song you're talking about but okay, buckle up, long semi unhinged rant abt letters ahead!

so. the alphabet. what a concept. we learn it, we love it, blah blah blah. let's not get into the history here, just accept the latin a-z modern alphabet with it's 26 letters. well. some countries have more than 26 letters. many countries have extra letters (usually existing letters with addendums) which have their own unique sounds and are learned as if they were their own unique letters (which they are!) but not officially part of the alphabet. why? eh, varies. some languages have so many extras to so many letters that it simply would be too much of a trouble to separate what are unique letters and what are pronounciation guides. some probably have other reasons. i mean, some countries have 26 letter simply because of tradition (ask any swede to say the alphabet and they'll miss w 99% of the time, because it's a completely surperflous letter which should stop existing in our alphabet and just file under v. but whatever).

anyway. some countries have extra letters. german have ä, ö and ü, which are learned as their own letter bc of their unique sounds, but are filed under a, o and u in the dictionary. scandinavia have å, ä/æ and ö/ø, and they are treated as separate letters in the alphabet, which gives our alphabets 29 letters (should be 28 but WHATEVER). they have completely unique sounds in our languages, so why should they be treated as anything but unique letters? please note that ä and æ are literally the same letters. same with ö and ø

and here. HERE is where i get emotional: the differences in how and why sweden and denmark+norway write their "extra" letters

for as long as people have had writing, we have changed how we write. fonts are nothing new. every day we read three completely different looking version of the letter a without batting an eye. the way letters look are constantly evolving. and once upon a time in the 1500's there was a style called fraktur developed in germany. nothing new under the sun, someone wanted a font that looked cool, the style continued to develop alongside the "normal" looking latin alphabet, and eventually fraktur was seen as obsolete and phased out. but one thing fraktur was very good at, was combining letters into one to save space. it made sense for letters that was often written next to each other to make certain sounds to be written as one symbol. in fraktur there is a symbol that means tz, there is one that means ck, one that meant sz and so on... and some combos stuck. the symbol that simply was a space saving mashup of s and z eventually became the german letter ß (which is now being phased out afaik). however... fraktur wasn't the first style to do this. we already had æ

at some point, someone in germany decided that you know what? æ and œ actually still takes up unnecessary space. we want them to be even more compact; out with the middle ages, in with the new. we have a writing style that is so fucking good at mashing up letters and we don't like how someone else have done that already, we want to be the best. the best way to do this was apparently by looking at another old way of giving letters unique sounds by drawing lines above them, and modernized it by put e above o and a. like just. a teeny tiny e floating above a and o. which sweden thought was kinda cool looking. we were a very modern and cool country after all. this eventually resulted in people writing two lines or dots above them rather than a full on e, which became the ä and ö we know and love today. but in denmark and norway people apparently was fine with the way æ looked (or they were just really really conservative and didn't want to throw out a several hundred year old letter), but they agreed that œ was a waste of space, but that swedes were tools for following germany, and they came up with their own solution by shoving the letters together completely. e overlayed on o became ø. æ stayed as æ. and then all three of us turned our heads to germany and said "but you know what? we DO have a sound which kinda sorta sounds like aa or ao, but we have no way of really writing that beside á which could also have other sounds which just makes things kinda confusing. and germany do actually have a neat little thing going on with the lil' e on top of another letter. should we maybe... invent the letter å?" and then we did

and i just find it beautiful how swedish, norweigan and danish, three languages that are so close they would be dialects if we weren't separate countries, looked at the same unique sounds which we wrote in the same way, and said hey. let's make them into proper letters. and then we solved it in two completely separate ways.

next up: watch me cry over how different languages pronounce the same letters

[yarrowhark]

sometimes im like “ianthe is such a dick” until i remember she literally sacrificed her own arm to prevent (failed) cytherea from killing gideon

[justsigneduptolookattags]

reasons to vote for Joseph:

If Flynn was told someone was born 50 years ago he'd instantly know how old they are. Joseph Joestar would not know.

Flynn would have no problems riding a plane if they existed, Joseph Joestar crashes 3/4 plane he is on.

Joseph Joestar survives all fights by excessive BSing and pure luck to the point of magic, unlike Flynn who has a speck of brain. Joseph Joestars head is full of hot air and clackers.

I do believe they would be friends if they met, how even Flynn Rider would think Joseph was stupid AF, and would likely make a quip about it to Rapunzel.

Flynn Rider is a lot of things, but when it comes to himbos Joseph Joestar is a himbo is the eyes of himbos.

(Same could be said for Okuyasu considering Josuke is himbo Lite and Okuyasu is more himbo lmao.)

Round 2

[dance-magic-dance]

its wild how much engagement ofmd posts get on the max account. if you look at everything streamonmax posted in august it averages out at around 50k views per tweet. even house of the dragon gets around 200k. this video is almost at 500k views in less than 24 hours.

[kusanagihaku]

it’s cool how jabberwock has all nature related names and how ren is no exception!!

his surname is the most interesting to me because 白波 can be translated as “white-crested waves”. pretty big waves!! and the fact that his name includes 氵too, which are water splashes. it’s ironic considering how much he hates the sea & aquatic stuff, and extra funny when you consider that his artefact is a life ring.

also, considering japanese family names can originate from either family occupations or natural features around their home, does ren’s family business have something to do with the sea / did he make his deal because something happened when he grew up around the sea? ren origin story pls

i think it’s also interesting that ren’s name 蓮 means lotus. it’s an aquatic flower that usually germinates in mud, i. e. something growing from hardship, which makes me curious to see if he rly learns anything from being in jabberwock.

it also matches up with his 五格 (name divination)! his 总格 reads that his life will be full of hard work, but things may not go his way no matter how hard he tries. he will always feel like he’s under a lot of stress. darkwick pls assign him somewhere else

on the bright side, his 外格 (6) reads that his friendships will be stable. he helps others when they need it and in return his friends will bring him even more luck and help him out wherever they can!! which is something we already see in the jabberwock chapter w him & calamari!! it also reads that although he doesn’t attract a lot of attention, he can stand up for himself. and we can see for sure with the way he resists haru LOL

also his 地格 reading (18) is SO HIM i suspect the writers might have all the characters’ divinations in front of them during character design @-@ it reads that he has a lot of dissatisfaction, and instead of working through them logically he tends to complain and doesn’t really know how to solve them hdksjsjsj?? it’s become a habit and now whenever he’s in a situation if he doesn’t complain about it it doesn’t feel right,,, which is so him,, relatable king

anyway happy ren day!!

[sachsoup]

arkco 🤝 diakko

involving characters where one isn't so well versed with magic and was introduced to it by witches that weren't seen in a positive light by their societies and the other character being incredibly studious and better than the most and being from an ancient line of witches (which they're lowkey kinda the black sheep in)

[gluffering]

I'd say it depends on the person, but for me it's a sense of "wow I wish I was able to present like that" or "I wish I looked like that" while knowing that I don't due to facts outside of my control (body type, facial structure, etc). I don't pass as a male so when I see people who can at least pass as androgynous that's when the "envy" kicks in. It's more of a lighthearted thing for me though since it's pretty much only directed towards fictional characters lol, I don't particularly care that I don't pass.

btw how do people get gender envy. what’s that

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Eddie may not have said that he is straight on screen but Ryan has said it in interviews. I don't think he would call Eddie straight if it wasn't true. He would leave it unsaid like Oliver did regarding Buck's sexuality.

Hey Nonnie

I’ve said this several times - but I will say it again. Actors don’t know what direction their characters storylines are going to take - they can only speak for where there character is at at the moment of the interview they are giving. So an actor saying a character is straight means very little - Oliver referred to Buck as straight in interviews in the past - and look where Buck is now!

Plus Ryan has started using gender neutral pronouns in interviews and has talked about his delight at people from all demographics finding things in Eddie that has helped them - and that includes queer people. Ryan also has stated on multiple occasions that he is very much up for queer Eddie and buddie - if the show wants to go in that direction. we have enough subtext and foreshadowing in canon to make the conversations around Eddies sexuality valid. i would also point out that we know that Eddie was going to be the one getting a queer arc in s7 - but that they had to change it to Buck due to the availability of various actors, so to suggest that we are all reading too much into things - when we have plenty of evidence to validate our conversations is disingenuous. you don’t have to engage in those conversations - you can filter, block or scroll past stuff - and leave those of us who do want to speculate and enjoy discussing possible storylines for characters such as Eddie to do so.

We are talking about fictional people remember and so we can discuss whatever we want to discuss about them - it’s literally the purpose of fandom!

[fairylando]

good morning it's gonna be a good race for us girlie.

[f1-obsessed333]

Rachel Brookes just casually throwing it out that she heard that Helmut Marko is out of Red Bull next year and that Daniel has two races to prove himself?

WHAT???? No one followed her up on it so I’m not sure how true it is but she managed to knock me on my ass twice in 30 seconds.

[hp-debates-ramblings]

Did James trust Remus during the Frist war?

(Not an analysis, that might come at some point but certainly not rn)

for me the not trusting Remus thing always fell really flat

One of the absolute canonical thing we know about Jame sis that he had a lot of loyalty

Also like while we're not given an exact date we know that James gave Remus a monthly allowance which is not something you give to someone you think is on the side of the fuy trying to kill you

As for him not knowing, I think there are multiple ways Remus would have not ended up knowing:

He was not the secret keeper, and was not a part of the ruse.

We have no idea when exactly the switch occurs, so it could have happened just a bit b4 Jily's murder; even if it was planned in advance

The only people who knew were Jily (the ones going in hiding), Sirius (the original Secret keeper and the one who suggested the switch) and Peter (the final secret keeper)

We also don't know exactly when Sirius brought the idea up, but if I remember correctly he was the secret keeper at some point so the switch happened after that.

Most people didn't know where Jily were hiding, so it's not even singling Remus out, they just kinda cut contact with everyone other than sirius and Peter, likely any communications done b/w Jily, Harry and Remus were done b/w Sirius.

We know for a fact that Remus was distant and secretive due to his mission, and as Sirius suspected hi it's more than likely that he semi-shut himself out from his friends

It's possible that his Sirius, Lily and Peter convinced him to hide it from everyone not a direct part of the ruse

I doubt James would have been busy trying to fight with Sirius (Who the traitor was/was not is a ery serious topic during the middle of the war, for obvi reasons) constantly over it

It's even possible that James asked them to tell Remus, but they didn't (there wasn't much James could do about this)

It's likely that Remus was extremely low contact to the point where it wouldn't have made sense (they trusted Peter completely) It is possible, if not very likely, that they did try and contact Remus but couldn't resulting in him never finding out

What with being on a secret werewolf mission thing, Remus might not have been easy to find

He might not even have been around to be told, and it's very unlikely Peter would have sent him a letter explaining anything (Jily and Harry's safety would be compromised very easily with it)

James probabaly didn't have much of a choice on who to tell and who to keep it a secret from. Sure, he, Harry and Lily were the ones getting protected, but Sirius and Peter were also in this, so it might have been their call

James wouldn't have told someone if Sirius (and likely Peter bc he wouldve preferred them doubting Remus than him) was uncomfortable with it.

Remus likely was acting sus so James migt not have thought he was the traitr but decided to let it go, esp bc it would have helped Sirius feel better.

James trusted Sirius enough that he may have let the issue go.

They told no one about this except for those directly connceted, including DUMBLEDORE, the literal guy Voldy feared, so, esp with Harry's life on the line, they probs wanted to keep it all minimum to keep Harry safe and reduced the chance of someone finidng the plan out (someone meaning death eaters)

[ninyard]

just the thought of them trying to make it seem consensual makes me SO mad because ANDREW WAS SO INJURED!!! HE HAD A CONCUSSION!!! HE COULDN'T SIT DOWN WITHOUT PAIN!!! HE MUST'VE BEEN COVERED IN BRUISES TOO!!! KILL THE PROSECUTOR!!!!!! Anyway just casually getting mad as if this is a real case oopsie

YUP!!!! yupyupyup

and Andrew is probably going to have to hear them try to make it seem like Aaron didn’t know what he was really looking at <3 that he could’ve misunderstood <3

[korpikorppi]

蓝家家规

Lán jīa jīa gūi

Lan Clan Household Rules

云深不知处内不可喧哗

Yúnshēn Bùzhīchù nèi bùkě xuānhuá.

Making noise is not allowed in the Cloud Recesses.

Previous rule || Next rule

Breakdown:

云深不知处 - Cloud Recesses

内 - inside; interior; inner part or side

不 - [before a verb, adjective, adverb] no; not; won't; not want to

可 - can; to approve; to permit

不可 - cannot; should not; must not

喧 - make noise; noisy

哗 - make an uproar; be noisy

喧哗 - confused noise; hubbub; clamor; make an uproar; make a racket

Alternative translations:

Being noisy is not allowed in the Cloud Recesses.

Creating a racket is not allowed inside the Cloud Resesses.

(I have to say I kind of like the last one when it comes to Wei Wuxian 😄.)

Any mistakes in the translations or in the characters are mine, and if you spot any, please let me know 🙂.

The chosen images:

Wei Wuxian and Little Apple? The Cloud Recesses was Not Prepared.

(and as a little side note, Little Apple - 小苹果, xiǎo píngguǒ 🍎🙂❤️)

[sparkysxi]

Alien Stage Predictions

so ROUND 6 dropped. As an Ivan fan I am DEVASTATED. but we must move on (have copium he and sua are secretly ok) (this is VIVINOS we��re talking about those bitches are dead) so I decided to have a little speculation about future content in order to strengthen myself against the inevitable heartbreak I will feel

ROUND 6 is the official halfway point of the series, so here are a few things I think could happen/future videos likely to drop:

An IVANTILL video like MIZISUA explaining their backstory (the lab/adoption center) 

A solo Luka video and a solo Mizi video 

perhaps a video for Isaac and Dewey. I just think they deserve a duet but I am not as confident in this prediction 

A video about the human rebellion (perhaps rescuing Till?) 

A video in the style of TOP 3, as an in-universe advertisement for the Finals/ROUND 7 

Speaking of the finals, that’s literally going to be a self-harm-off. 

Till has lost two of the most important people in his life and was already Not There during ROUND 6 he is not doing well, and I think Luka only really feels “alive” on the Alien Stage, so he may be trying to kill himself through entering the competition multiple times 

Or Luka is fucking insane and wants a mountain of bodies behind him to prove his worth to the aliens

maybe because of his laundry list of physical illnesses-perhaps Luka is scared he will be abandoned or killed for being a burden to his owner?

I think I will go INSANE if Mizi manages to rescue Till, like they get out of the arena, but Till’s crazy ass goes BACK INSIDE, like how he did for Mizi all those years ago, because he’s not leaving without Ivan’s body to at least bury him properly 

like the cinematic parallels that could be achieved here UGH *chefs kiss*

also I think it would be really cool if Till’s character became an exploration of heteronormativity-he’s been pining after Mizi after all this time, but he realizes that the admiration he has for her is not the same as the love she shared with Sua or the love/obsession Ivan had for him 

maybe Till is gay/bisexual-or on the ace/aro spectrum 

regardless of what he is the societal expectations are likely that girl humans like boy humans and boy humans like girl humans 

Till enters his queer rebellion era how DARE these aliens expect him to do ANYTHING

alien historians will call MiziSua and IvanTill “just really good friends”

anyway I also expect more Sua and Ivan hallucinations 

perhaps they’ll act as “guiding spirits” from here on out??

wouldn’t it be cool if we got a post-death Ivan and Sua duet? maybe they’re singing to Till and Mizi from the afterlife 

I’m less confident about that one as well but I think it would be neat 

a video of saving the children from Anakt Garden-with Till at the helm using skills Ivan taught him-less confident here again but would be fun nonetheless

I think it’s pretty likely BOTH Hyuna and Luka will die by the end of the series-Hyuna’s already injured and Luka has death flags (wearing all white and having feelings of love/affection/obsession towards another who does not reciprocate it equally) 

The non reciprocated love appears to be a common thread between our male contestants, doesn’t it?

However Hyuna may survive-half the cast lives, half the cast dies kinda thing 

They all end up missing their counterparts

I think ultimately the final scene of the series will be very melancholy-they’ve won, but at what cost 

And a lot of choking 

Also: one very emotional scene where the characters actually talk to one another. Not singing: talking to one another

[oops-ibrokereality]

Day 5: laser

Hole Diggers Appreciation

[bongo-spindash]

Posted an animation of what I hc Sonic's name in sign being the other week, and thought it would be nice to post Tails' next!! This is what I came up with!!! :D

mp4 version and description under the cut!!

[ID:

A video of Tails viewed from the waist-up against a teal blue background. Tails is drawn in a simplistic style, with the only difference in design being the slightly darker orange patches of fur on the tips of his ears and the ends of his arms before his gloves. 

In the video, Tails is signing his name, using the word ‘tail’ in BSL, but with two hands, copying the gesture on the left as well as the right. Tail is signed by having the index finger and thumb pinched together, with the remaining three fingers extended out. The hand starts out at the waist before the arm lifts at the elbow to face height. Tails leans slightly to the right as he signs, head and ears tilting tilting and tails lifting upwards slightly. As he signs, he mouths his name.

On both the left and right sides of his head, “Tail” is written in a darker navy colour. Above this on the right side, the artist’s signature is shown; the silhouette of a bongo with the letters BD inside. 

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