#do i have a language tag? i forgot

[rayclubs]

Another thing I want to see more in TF2 fics is Heavy being fucking rude.

English has special sentence structures to indicate polite requests. They're typically phrased as questions. Russian has it's own rules of politeness, and utilizes statements more often.

Something I believe is perceived as somewhat rude in English but not in Russian is an imperative. An imperative is a sentence where the subject is implied to be "you", and the object is an order, a request, or a call to action - i. e. "Wash the dishes!", "Go outside!", "Call me!".

Now, with friends and family it probably doesn't matter all that much, but I reckon it's way more important when talking to people you don't know that well, such as your colleagues or bosses or random people in the street.

My job is to make phone calls, and I catch myself accidentally being rude way to often. Like, today I was meaning to ask someone for another person's phone number, but they started giving me irrelevant information, and I was supposed to say, like, "Could you please just give me their number?" but instead it came out as "Just give me the number." and I could hear a double-take on the other end. I think it's partially because of the poor phrasing and partually because of intonation differences. I'll make a separate post about this if y'all want, just let me know.

Thing is, Heavy's worse. Like, way worse. He phrases his requests as "I need" and "I want" instead of "I would like", he doesn't know what a polite conditional is, he definitely wouldn't use sugarcoat-y phrases like "I'm afraid not" instead of "no". He probably doesn't know an appropriate response to "thank you", he hears "nice to meet you"/"good to see you" and says "yes". Someone asks him how he's doing, he answers "fine" and doesn't ask back. He's so fucking rude. I love his rude ass.

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

thinking about how mulder loves to get scully a gift, usually terribly heartfelt, even if disguised as something flippant:

the superbowl vhs tape he brings her when she wakes up from her coma in one breath (and her deadpan "i knew there was a reason to live")

tickets for a football game to watch together in irresistible

bringing her flowers to the hospital in memento mori (he lies, saying he stole them from a guy with broken legs to make her laugh)

the birthday keychain in tempus fugit (and when she finds a meaning to it, he claims "i just thought it was a pretty cool keychain")

that is a man who is always thinking about her.

[littleplantfreak]

Chatterbox Pt. 1 - SFW

>Their calling/texting habits, especially with a partner that loves to be on the phone for hours (part two with the others dropping tomorrow I promise!!)

Hayato Suo - Phone? What phone? Just kidding. He texts a regular amount, but if you wanna be on the phone for a while, his limit is usually an hour unless you're both planning a date or something. He'd prefer to be with you in person otherwise. Invite him over~ He'll bring snacks and drinks for you.

Sakura Haruka- Better on calls than he is on texts for sure. Takes a long time to figure out what to talk about when you two do have calls. Likes to keep them half an hour or shorter regularly. If it's a special occasion or you're on vacation, he doesn't mind if the call goes longer, wanting to hear your voice even if it's only been a day since you left. Accidentally calls you on facetime a lot instead of like...a regular call. So you just see his ear or neck, or it's just completely dark.

Nirei Akihiko - Can talk for hours without fail. He does have an exact bed time that he sticks to though, so while he wants to keep talking, he's about 2 minutes from passing out on the floor. Has call parties that are so chaotic but insanely fun that everyone ends up cracking up during. Added Sakura to one of your calls before, but then Sakura thought you were WITH Nirei. "Sakura-san we're all on different phones." "But you both sound like you're in the same room???"

Kiryu Mitsuki - Calls you when he's gaming and you both just stay on the phone as a way of hanging out. Sometimes forgets you're on the phone and starts humming one of the osts and it sounds sooo nice. He'd sleep with the call still going if it wouldn't completely drain his phone battery. Depends on the day, but when he hasn't seen you in a bit, he's like "Just come over please."

Tsugeura Taiga - Loves calls too. Will call you when he's working out to show you that he hit his new goal. "Babe check out my form, let me know if you think my posture's off" And your just on facetime while he's in his local gym? He asks the people he's with if it's alright first though. Loves chatting or listening equally, so if you just want to hear his voice? He's got plenty to say.

Sugishita Kyotaro - He'll listen if you wanna chat as long as you want, he just doesn't say much. If the call goes on longer than 2 hours he might end up falling asleep. He has to be extra careful with his phone because he's prone to breaking it. It's got the strongest screen protector and case known to man. Actually waterproof at this point probably. Likes to send one set of character emojis when texting and just that set. He's got a special ringtone for you set, and answers it on the first ring every time.

Hiragi Toma - He's fine with calling or texting, but doesn't wanna be on the phone forever. If you have something to say, that's one thing, but if you're gonna talk his ear off, he's also one to just want you to come see him. Actually takes cute candids (unlike Ume who is a menace with them) and has one as your contact pic. Sometimes he looks at it and his stomach feels just a bit better during an attack.

Umemiya Hajime - GOSSIP GIRL FR! He's on the phone with you for hours telling you the juiciest secrets he's found out during the day. If you call him up at 3am cause you had the wildest dream? He's answering and talking about it with you until you're ready to fall back asleep. Has the UGLIEST candid of you you've ever seen and it's your contact pic smh. He has other ACTUALLY cute pictures of you on his phone but he's adamant that you look beautiful in all of them. If he's busy doing something, he'll pass his phone around to either his friends or Kotoha and the kids when he's home to keep you company. Kinda like those "Hey can you watch my boss for me for a second?" Tiktoks?

[demonslayedher]

I finished posting the unabashedly educational Sword Fic.

It includes a detailed (but hopefully beginner-friendly) explanation of all the steps of making a Nichirin blade from a sunny mountain like Mt. Youkou, a touch of swordsmith and metalworker folk lore (including demons), meta about what must make Kimetsu no Yaiba's swordsmithing methods different from real life methods, some character exploration for Haganezuka and his polishing method, vocabulary and additional resources in the chapter notes, and hopefully, an endearing, silly POV character to learn this all through.

[porcubus]

Carmen and roses

i made this to be compared with canto 6's epilogue

[void-chara]

My gift for the @technoblade-gift-exchange !! i was assigned to @simplepotatofarmer who asked for dsmp rivals duo. i hope you like it Loyal!

rambling about headcanons, designs, and my process and stuff under the readmore, because i wanna talk about it but dont want the post to be super long !!

i had originally planned to not have a background and then at the last second i decided to speedrun drawing one in a few hours so um. quality difference but its fine. also unrelated but im pretty sure everything about how i draw animals and anthros makes it very obvious i used to be in the warrior cats fandom lol. anyway onto the designs!!

the gold on techno is scars from the totem at the execution, which i think is a pretty common thing for techno designs. he isnt supposed to be a piglin, but rather similar species of anthropomorphic pig. also his mane and tail fluff are naturally brown but he dyes them pink ^_^ so cool !! um. i maaayyy have forgotten the crown until i was way too far into the piece to add it. haha. oops. pretend its missing because. uuh. hes in a casual outfit. "but he still has the cape" yeah its comfy. "but dream has a mask thats not casual" dream is dream he does Not relax fully ever. see entirely intentional i would never make a mistake.

dream is an original shapeshifter species i came up with because i couldnt decide what i wanted him to be. i havent decided on a name for the species yet but i plan to make almost every solid-color or nearly solid color mcyt into this species. theyre mostly involuntary/unconscious shapeshifters. so like they change slowly over weeks or months to adapt to their surroundings, with little conscious control. basically i wanted him to be like five different things so i shoved them together lol, rabbit ears but in a pattern that looks like an axolotl, a cool tail, TOE BEANS tho you cant see them. this was actually the first time ive ever had a dream design im happy with so thats really nice.

i um. i made full use of my time lol, i spent a bit over a week on the lineart, another week on the coloring, and maybe a week and a half on rendering. unless i suddenly became shit at math(which is possible) that adds up to roughly the amount of time i had to work on it. im really proud of myself actually since i usually take a while to do art, and i wasnt sure i would be able to make something id be happy with in this amount of time. but i did! woah!! this was my first time participating in a fandom gift exchange and it was so fun, and also helped motivate me to draw more instead of getting distracted like i usually do (classic adhd moment) lol. anyway super cool!!

Loyal if u decided to read all this for some reason then again i really hope u like it!! u are so cool and i really love ur rivals duo opinions and creations so i hope u like this! i know theres been shit happening lately, i hope ur doing ok!!

[unironicallytes]

Btw because I'm insane, Gilvar (Galthili) Bosmeris does actually have a dictionary which I'm updating as I go.

Basically, I chose to make my version of Bosmeris a specific archaic dialect, that way it leaves room for others to make Bosmeris words when roleplaying. The dialect Zath speaks is a bit out-of-date with the rest of Valenwood, because his clan remains cut-off from others and doesn't have that evolving exchange of language, but some words may still overlap. Aka, I want any of my roleplay buds to still be valid in their Bosmeris language-building cause I like sharing the creative space.

I use Ayleidoon, both extrapolated and canon, mixed with irl Scottish Gaelic and a few other languages (because there's so little canon Ayleidoon). For example, there's a bit of French patterning in this conjugation table, purely because the canon Ayleidoon word for "our" is "nou", and that reminded me of "nous" being "we". So I just changed it lol.

And here are some personal pronouns and possessives, extrapolated from canon Ayleidoon. The highlights are a bit hard to see, but they indicate a canon word/root.

To negate a word, one adds ney- to the beginning, but this is often just shortened to n' . So for an example of a verb Zath uses in some of the stuff I've posted, "a ney-arken" means "I do not understand/know" but he shortens it to "n'arken". When he asks it of the player character in the animation, he fuses it with Tamrielic, resulting in "d'ye ken it?" -> which is an equivalence I wanted to land with actual Scottish slang and not at all learned initially from The Dark Tower.

Scottish Gaelic and Scots are not languages/dialects I naturally know, so I use a lot of dictionary sources and sift through subreddits to find context on word usage from its native speakers. If it's a language you speak, I'm extremely open to feedback on my usage. I chose it to supplement Ayleidoon because of the elves all having vaguely English accents in the games, and I felt like we could expand to more of the languages present in the British Isles.

[svtskneecaps]

friends i had a damn qsmp dream and the dream i dreamt was phil had been off doing something and when he went back to the house where chayanne and tallulah were i guess they thought he was offstream and had their mics on and were talking to him and he straight up did not notice there was anything strange about this until he saw chat panicking lmfao

(also jaiden came back and there was a celebration for her return 😔 i miss her)

[jihnari]

why for the love of god are people allowed to say "twenty three hundred", that is NOT where the comma is you can't just throw a tens into the wrong place what are you, drunk? stop it. that's two thousand. stop. it.

[moinsbienquekaworu]

Translated almost 4k words today 🎉🎉

[blueprint-han]

did i make a mistake?

[carnivorouswillgraham]

vent complain right now release your inner hater WHERE'S YOUR ANGER? RISE! RISE! RISE! RI

LSBSLAHDKE AH UHMB HHHHHH

LIKE FR OR ABT DUMB SHIT????

[anagumasaru]

X is for exit, methinks. Time to go. (I live here on Tumblr anyway. Send 🦀s.

what happens when you change your web standards to be only english-speaker inclusive

[commemorator]

najaa(addphonetic) : its a dutch thing i find myself using because sometimes theres a thing in a language that says something your language does not and learing that is how the human experience works And someties, that thing is really languaging, as in my case, I recognize

how it resonates to own fatalistic culture and implications for analysis of own(possibilities) culture and language + how lgs dynamic lends well to analysis on discourse(possibilities) + how i heard of it and how i was motivated to write and how it affects me on a deeper level and how it lends well to analysis of social media and its changes on our behavior(possibilities) and how it lends well to understanding terms and realities of subjectification(possibilities) and how deconstruction can be applied meaningfully and how this lends well to point on intentional exercising of forces of sequentiality and simultaneity + how everything is an opportunity for creation + how language can be used as conceptual tool for cultivation in all ways: educational, mentally healing or liberatory(possibilities), as opposed to it semantic isolation or lack of agency or unimportance

> first part: avg(q:high)! length - avg(q:avg)! harmony length/clarity/cogref - self level focus - low(q:low)! deterioration accuracy - low(q:low)! semantic markers > second part: high(q:high)! length - low(q:high)! harmony length/clarity/cogref - analysis level focus - high(q:low)! deterioration accuracy - high(q:low)! semantic markers > third part: low(q:high)! length - high(q:low)! length/clarity/cogref - communication level focus - low(q:low)! deterioration accuracy - high(q:low)! semantic markers > fourth part: low(q:6)! length - avg(q:low)! length/clarity/cogref - meta level focus - low(q:high)! deterioration accuracy - high(q:high)! semantic markers

[decodedparagram]

This class is actually going to kill me thanks for listening if you want to hear more search for 'procrastination my killer, my mind the murder' in any site you listen to your podcasts

[bmpmp3]

speaking of synthv its 2 am and you will listen to my half finished asterian hirari hirari cover (svp by ioliite)