#bodhimcbodeface

[curiosity-killed]

1, give me your favorite hualian song

Share a song that makes you think of [fic title]

ngl i got this and was immediately like "I Have Never Associated A Song With a Ship in My Life" but um very obviously it's Big God by Florence + The Machine. I've drawn multiple pieces of art about this 💀

fanfic asks! (to keep me from going to sleep at 9 PM)

[amour-de-tous]

@pilferingapples @kingedmundsroyalmurder @robertawickham @bobcatmoran @bodhimcbodeface @treblemirinlens @lovethefutureisthine

Lovelies, I just thought I'd make a lil post commemorating the fact that as of this Barricade Day, it's the 10th anniversary of the Texas trip! Ten years ago we were all together and I cannot believe it's been so long, and also only been 10 years. I am so grateful for all of you, and all the friends I made in the Les Mis fandom. I don't mean to be hyperbolic when I say that truly it changed my life to meet you all. We've all changed over the last ten years, and the world has, as well, but what hasn't changed is that I love you all very, very much, even if I am very, very not around most of the time anymore. Thank you for being my friends, and for being fundamental is my growth as a human. <3 Now, the law of progress is, that monsters shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before Fraternity. It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love. No matter, I do pronounce it. And I glorify it. Love, the future is thine.

[aflamethatneverdies]

top 10 comfort shows

thank you @sainteverge for tagging me xD i don't think i have 10 though. I need to find more comfort shows.

Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger: it's sentai, it's for selling toys to 5 year olds, it's an anniversary season, it's also still the best sentai season imo made with a lot of heart and one i watch over and over again. and also write fic for. pirates fighting against an Empire and in a polycule too, what more do i want. lies, i want more. but for now i settle for rewatching over and over. it's also really good during depressive episodes because it isn't complicated to understand and be emotionally invested in. i've used it to get through depressive swings this year lol.

Revolutionary girl utena: this show- y'all. i'm still in the haze from how good this show is and i have thoughts, so many thoughts but so many of the rambly variety and i've already started rewatching and just, this show is so good. soo soo good.

Natsume Yuujinchou: a slice of life anime about seeing youkai but really about being ostracised and shunned and about being weird and not feeling fully human and finding community with other weirdos. i really love its calm pace in certain moods, i love the characters and i want to know everything about Reiko. when will the seventh season come out, my crops are dying.

Black Sails: I've watched it twice, both times got something new out of it to chew on. It's a well plotted, well paced show and I can rewatch it again tbh.

Granada Holmes: It's Sherlock Holmes, it's Watson. It's got good acting. It's got a great read on the characters as they exist in the books. 'nuff said.

Shoujo Cosette: i don't think it needs a lot of explanation. It has a lot of rewatch potential and ability to wreck you during Fantine's scenes. It's good.

tagging @pilferingapples @lemeute @bodhimcbodeface and anyone else who wants to do this, really.

[magikant]

for the whimsy 😔

shuffle your on repeat playlist and list the first 10 songs, then tag up to 10 people (tagged by @lilpoundcakeofficial)

This Is Love (Air Traffic Controller)

Animal Skin (Bryan Dunn)

I Can't Decide (Scissor Sisters)

The Cult of Dionysus (The Orion Experience)

Bremen (PigPen Theatre Co.)

Mrs. Bluebeard (They Might Be Giants)

Community Gardens (The Scary Jokes)

Emperor's New Clothes (Panic! At The Disco)

The Masochism Tango (Tom Lehrer)

Bird Song (Florence + The Machine)

tagging @borninsideachair, @bodhimcbodeface, @bamfcrawler, @a-soue, @ramjam, @wyrdwulf, @tatter-demallion, @jakethesnake2594

[lemeute]

tagged by @curiosity-killed :)

Last Song: well currently I'm listening to an instrumental (?) youtube video called "adhd relief music" or something, if that counts. the last song I listened to before that was Loreena McKennit's "The Highwayman" bc I am in a Mood today

Currently Watching: I've recently started watching both Leverage and Avatar: The Last Airbender for the first time? I'm enjoying them both but my current episode of Leverage has been paused for like 3 days due to a secondhand embarrassment moment

Currently Reading: "Leaping Poetry: An Idea with Poems and Translations" by Robert Bly, and Les Mis via the chapter-a-day emails

Current Obsession: unfortunately I'm lacking one, but at least Les Mis is here for me in this trying time

tagging @pilferingapples, @bodhimcbodeface, @demenior, @tolstoyshchik, @arafinwes if you want!!

[pumpkinpaix]

Tagged by @three--rings

I also did not know the on repeat playlist was a thing but okay, 10 tracks on shuffle!!

1. Thnks fr th Mmrs —Fall Out Boy

2. Pay No Rent — Delta Rae

3. The Lost Words Blessing — spell songs collaborative album

4. Hum Hallelujah — Fall Out Boy

5. Idle Worship — Paramore

6. Caught in the Middle — Paramore

7. Bard’s Adventure — Yu-Peng Chen

8. The Parting Glass — Hozier

9. Raison Detre — Eve

10. Inochi no Tabekata — Eve

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Well this is certainly a list.

Tagging @ohhgingersnaps @tonyglowheart @bodhimcbodeface @pilferingapples @sauntering-down @sarah-yyy @minmoyu and anyone who wants to!! Just say I tagged u I don’t mind :)

[ohhgingersnaps]

Last line challenge!! Tagged by @mysticmikalla

“Yeah, it was just an issue with the cable jack again.” Maru sets the amp beside his guitar stand, and he leans down to inspect it. “I also switched out the electron tubes, which I think should solve the crackling problem, but let me know if it doesn’t.”

I know I'm gonna miss some people here but: @floopthecooper @coolcoolglasses @iamthepulta @memento-mariii @bodhimcbodeface @jedi-valjean @kingedmundsroyalmurder @blackcoffeewrites63 (no pressure y'all)

And you! Yes, you! If you see this and would like to join in the fun, consider yourself tagged :)

[theleakypen]

tag game! spell out your username/nickname in songs and then tag the same number of people. thanks for the tag @aiyexayen!

Tomorrow Will Be Kinder - The Secret Sisters

Here I Come (Jeymes Samuel Remix) - Barrington Levy

Enemy - Imagine Dragons

Libertango - Astor Piazzolla

Ex's & Oh's - Elle King

Amor i amistat - JazzWoman

Kостер (Campfire) - Машина Времени (Time Machine)

You're Dead - Norma Tanega

Puttin' on the Ritz - Fred Astaire

Every You Every Me - Placebo

No Turning Around - Jeymes Samuel

Whoof, now I gotta tag 11 people. Hmm. No pressure: @iamwestiec, @winepresswrath, @bladedweaponsandswishycoats (yes this is mean XD, sorry friend), @withbroombefore, @shadaras, @dirtycorzaharkness, @lifeinconfusion7, @bodhimcbodeface, @queerebrum, @mage-pie, @gendergriffins

[curiosity-killed]

Hualian pieta piece 👀👀👀

sometimes @bodhimcbodeface comes to ur DMs with a brilliant, brilliant idea and then you spend the next 4 months completely incapable of executing it

anyway have some hands!

[fancygeorgejones]

Tagged by@mechanicalcryptid

Thank you!

Three Ships:

Cutty Sark

Carte Blanche

USS Enterprise

First Ship:

Merthur? (my first memory of actively shipping something was watching bbc Merlin as a teen)

Last Song:

Song of Choice by Peggy Seeger

Last Movie:

Scrooge (1970). the ultimate christmas movie

Currently Reading:

Children of God by Mary Doria Russell. Sequel to 1996 novel The Sparrow, sci-fi set in the near future about a Jesuit-led first mission to a planet with two sentient species written by an ex catholic with a doctorate in anthropology and it shows. Intense literature on the level of Ursula K. Le Guin that I will think about the rest of my life. Highly recommend

Currently Watching:

Slowly moving through the X Files with my roommate (we’re in season 8)

Currently Consuming:

Endless holiday leftovers

Currently Craving:

idk realignment of my spine?? back hurt don’t know why

Tagging: @stringofturtles, @bodhimcbodeface, @anaranjadanaranja, anyone who sees this and feels the desire to Make Post

[amaliabalash]

via @bodhimcbodeface

reading about serial killers in the 1800s and they had female incels I guess

[disregardcanon]

@sols-actual-main-blog tagged me in this!

Last Song: Anti-Curse by boygenius

Favourite Colour: green!!!!!!

Last Movie/TV Show: When Harry Met Sally (1989) my roommate and i watched it for the first time last night and it was really good

Sweet/Spicy/Savoury: sweet then spicy and never savory

Last Thing Googled: i searched for the internet archive to see if my movie last night was on it. it was... not

Current Obsession: the Starkid Hatchetfield universe! Horror-comedy musicals with a big, interesting cast and some great world-building :)

tagging @titaniumsansa @buffysblackturtleneck @bodhimcbodeface @what-may-be-perceived and @gonewiddershins and everyone else is free to!!!!!

[pumpkinpaix]

re: the oxford comma

@bodhimcbodeface​ replied to your post: oh I really want to hear what you have to say about how the oxford comma doesn’t always reduce ambiguity? I can’t think of a situation where it’s unhelpful, please enlighten me! 

why can’t i just do reply to a reply anymore i had to paste this in manually 😭

ANYWAYS: you’ve activated my trap card!! here you go.

classic example of oxford comma reducing ambiguity:

I invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin. [w/o oxford comma - ambiguous: are JFK and Stalin the strippers, or are the strippers a separate group?]

I invited the strippers, JFK, and Stalin. [w/ oxford comma - unambiguous: the strippers are indeed separate.]

however, you can tweak this example very easily into a sentence in which the oxford comma creates ambiguity instead:

I invited the stripper, JFK, and Stalin. [w/ oxford comma - ambiguous: is the stripper named JFK, or are JFK and the stripper different people?]

I invited the stripper, JFK and Stalin. [w/o oxford comma - unambiguous: we can see now that this is a list of separate people because stripper is singular, and thus cannot be conflated with JFK and Stalin.]

my point is not that the oxford comma is good or the oxford comma is bad--my point is that prescriptivism is nonsense and that language should, first and foremost, communicate. grammar should serve that, not the other way around. And it’s not just about reducing ambiguity, it’s also about tone, mood, style etc. all those articles that are like “why you should always use the oxford comma” and “is the oxford comma necessary?” and “the polarizing debate over the oxford comma” are always missing the point. it’s not about the fucking comma!!!! the oxford comma is not a beacon of grammatical clarity any more than like, any other punctuation mark. they serve purposes, they are not purposes in and of themselves. I use a period at the end of questions in written dialogue sometimes because I think a period conveys my intended tone better, not because of some bizarre notion that the period is a superior punctuation mark to the question mark. it’s such a ridiculous argument. (that might be a false equivalency, i’m tired and i can’t dissect my own logical fallacies after midnight pls try again in one business day)

i have nothing against the oxford comma, and I think it’s very useful in many contexts. I am, however, quite peeved at the way we talk about it in mainstream debates because I think it obscures the real issue, which is the encoded prescriptivist attitudes in our studies of grammar and language and the consequences thereof. see: “lawyer dog” vs “lawyer, dawg” vs what counts as a clear and unequivocal request for a lawyer in a court of law. these are separate issues, and law is, of course, very concerned with precision of language.

anyways, prescriptivism is bankrupt, stop dragging the oxford comma into your pedantry olympics, and just like. allow context to matter. that’s my piece.

[needsmoreresearch]

From what I understand of how the US citizenship exam works, it’s not quite this.  It’s a test that is very much set up to encourage lots of rote memorization--they’re very helpful about listing all the possible questions on the USCIS, along with concise approved answers.  They really encourage you to memorize 128 (formerly 120) questions and answers.  Simple answers, usually not even a full sentence.

Given that, making the language technical and opaque mostly just serves to make things very difficult for people without a fairly high level of English--not a working level of English, but an ability to listen (this is a spoken exam) to formal test-taking language. 

The earlier form of the test wasn’t much better, but they did lean towards more direct language.  eg:

“Who is in charge of the executive branch?”  You still have to memorize the phrase executive branch, but--importantly in a spoken exam--the key words are easy to pick out.  Who tells you that the answer is going to be a person.  The sentence structure isn’t too fussy.  It’s a sentence structure that’s useful: Who’s in charge of the cafeteria?  Who’s in charge of car rentals?  Who’s in charge of hiring new employees?

vs the new version: “The President of the United States is in charge of which branch of government?”

What are the key words here?  President of the United States?  Well, that phrase is in many questions here.  So are the words branch and government. There’s not a lot to latch onto here, if you’re struggling to listen to a language you’re still learning.  And look at that goddamn sentence structure!

Similarly, several questions have been changed from things like “Why did ______?” to “Name one reason that ______”  For a language learner, it’s useful to be able to pick out question words: A who question is going to need a person for an answer, where needs a place, why needs a reason.  This is hard to do, but it’s an important daily-function language skill.  “Name one reason ____” is an important test-taking language skill.  The citizenship test is intended to test your English--but it’s not supposed to be gauging whether you’re ready for the SATs.

The basic memorize-a-bunch-of-specific-shit hasn’t changed, as far as I know (though I have no knowledge of how things look internally among the people doing testing).  But the shit you have to memorize has been made much wordier in much more abstract ways.

Disclaimer: i am really not an expert here--I’m tutoring some friends, based on a set of workbooks and what I can find on the USCIS site, etc.

[alasse-irena]

@bodhimcbodeface idk this just seemed like the kind of thing you would like

[curiosity-killed]

Tagged by @veliseraptor :D ty!!

Post 6 sentences from a WIP and then tag 6 people.

Crouched over the box, meeting the mouse’s trembling black eyes, she’d promised to take very good care of it.

In the morning, the mouse was gone.

Milly learned three lessons from this:

1. Love and fear can look very similar.

2. If care looks like a cage, people and pets alike are bound to run away.

3. Mouse pee stink never really comes out of fabric.

She’s mostly thinking of the third as she crawls on her elbows and belly through the musty old crawl space.

….i may have started writing the fix-it

Tagging @lookforanewangle @demenior @it-goes-on @bodhimcbodeface