#gerneral blog

[avameller]

𝐀𝐕𝐀 𝐌𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐆

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My aritst name is Ava Meller

Im Danish / German

My Pronouns are She/Her/Hers

Im a December Capricorn

Im a Lesbian

Been writing since I was 13 years old (Online & On paper)

I am a part of the The Last Of Us and The Black Phone Fandoms and you will probably be seeing that type of content :D

𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄𝐒 𝐈 𝐀𝐌 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐀 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐎 𝐈 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 <𝟑!

The late night show - Bella Ramsey 𝐁𝐲 @adorethedistance

Your lips my lips - Bella Ramsey 𝐁𝐲 @williamswifey

Pure pleasure - Bella Ramsey 𝐁𝐲 @lilpotatjj

Smoke me out - Ellie Williams 𝐁𝐲 @bonewreath

What if I dont wanna stop? - Ellie Williams 𝐁𝐲 @misserabella

New Years Kiss - Bella Ramsey 𝐁𝐲 @x-aefx

Priority - Bella Ramsey 𝐁𝐲 @x-aefx

Dear Dairy - Ellie Williams 𝐁𝐲 @sleepyangelkami

Cuff me up - Ellie williams 𝐁𝐲 @misserabella

THIS MASTERLIST!! 𝐁𝐲 @elslvrsworld

FIC RECS 𝐁𝐲 @diddiqueen

𝐓𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐈 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌!!

Ellie and Abby Twitter links p.2 - Twitter links 𝐁𝐲 @abbyshands

[letslovehateforget]

I'll NEVER understand those hate blogs. Why spending so much time on hating people you don't like?! Like do something useful with your life?! And if can't do anything useful (and having a hate blog is NOT useful for the society!) ... nobody is gonna miss you. Let's be honest. People who can only hate on other stars (who won't give a shit about someone so dispensable (and that's what you are for your oooh so beloved Harry - dispensable)) because their life is so miserable aren't gonna be missed by anyone - not even their family. ��🏼‍♀️

I don't give a flying f' about Niall, Zayn, Harry, Liam or One Direction. I'm just a fan of Louis but I know that the band and the guys in gerneral were and maybe still are an important part of his life, so I don't hate against them. I just ignore everything that has something to do with them. Like with everything else in life. I don't give a f' about alot of fandoms, so I just don't interact with them und ignore them. Easy. Life is wunderful that way.

[n3ongold3n]

Stroll through the garden starting to transition into summer

[stargazingsailor]

A Face Within

So back in 2021 I started experimenting with human faces on canvas and I made a series called "The faces within". It is a rather personal series and was a way of coping with one of my many issues - depression. By the day I have made no new artwork so I just looked around my pile of works "not suitable for the internet" and decided to upload it.

Not the usual ship stuff, but who said a blog has a limit?

(personal rambling) So basically this was to represent all the struggle one has when people in your life come up to you with "Hey what´s wrong?" and instead of giving them a 3 hours lecture of all the things that are going wrong you just block them with a short "I´m fine, everything like ususal."

At a certain point it´s an impossible task to form all the things in your head into words and most times you can´t explain them yourself. Like, you definetly know that things are not alright, but at about half of the time you can´t put those things into words and even more impossible is it to put them into words others can understand.

A lot of us struggle with that and instead of opening up, we just shove all those things inside us, eat them up and hope they stay burried deep inside us.

But time taught us that this does not work - at least not on long term. And sooner or later everything that haunts us of from childhood on will come back for us.

It will come back in form of depression, anxiety, isolation, panic attacks and the sheer incapability to form connections with other humans. The point I´m trying to make here is-

Don´t shove it down. Do not try to play it cool. It is not strenght to burry your issues. Try to find a way to get those emotions out. May it be through music, art, going outside - creating things in gerneral or whatever your body tells you to or just talking to a professional or a loved one.

You might not get the reaction you hoped for... It wont all just magically resolve when you adress the topic one time. But it will make a difference in your path. And it is the beginning of breaking out of your circle of issues. Take care my dear ones and never stop changing♥

( personal ramble finished.)

[himbos-hotline]

Sami stumbles almost dangerously on the balls of his feet, dark brown eyes slightly frantic as blood drips slowly from his bottom lip, he looks helpless and in some dark, twisted part of Kevin’s mind, handsomely fragile and human.

Kevin moves without thinking. He lands another punch against his friend's jaw and Sami’s legs finally give way. His body collides with the corner of a building, his head catching on something Kevin doesn’t see but it dashes the back of his skull open enough that blood starts to stain the surrounding snow.

Kevin breathes deeply, lost in how sweet revenge tastes on his tongue. His breath spirals like cigar smoke out his nostrils, anger turning to confusion when Sami doesn’t spring up like he always does when they argue. He doesn’t shift or move, just lays there with his eyes closed and chest still. “Get up Sami this isn’t funny.”

He pokes his leg with his foot, Sami’s thigh shifts with the force but he doesn’t crack a cheeky smile. He just…lays there, motionless.

“Samuel?” Kevin asks, kneeling down to shake his shoulder. His best friend's body moves, ragdoll-like and heavy against the pavement. Fear replaces the anger in his veins and Kevin presses a hand against his friend's head, swallowing when blood stares back on his palm. “shit shit shit.” He mumbles, standing quick enough to make his head spin.

preview of the fic im working on, posting cuz its 6 am and I need to sleep.

tagging: @zowens-blog @wrestlezaynia @shanie-the-toyaddict @ambroseasylum @moxleyunstable 

[reblogs are appreciated and asks are open just in gerneral or for requests or anything like that!] 

[jjsungie]

Requests

I want to make this post to clear out about requesting gifs on this blog. Gernerally, I am always open for requests. Preferably of groups I like but you can also try to request other groups. If I don’t make a post about taking requests, you have to expect a longer wait for me to get the request done. Real life often holds a tight grip on me 😉I still try to get the gifs done as soon as possible. If something drops from a group I stan and I want to gif it, I will make them first tho 😉

I will always post the request ask shortly before I post the set! If you request on anon feel free to add a little nickname or emoji, that I will use in the tags, so you can find your request more easily. I always tag requests with ‘request’ too.

Did I forget anything? Feel free to ask if I forgot or you have another question😊

[6ftslytherin]

Blank sheet here: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/6ftslytherin/665821416913043456

Name: Marie Lisha Roseanna Lowell

Hebrew Name: אלישבע (Elischeva)

Sex: Female

Gender: Female

Parents: Robert Lowell, dad, Regina Lowell (nèe Zedeh) mum,

Partner: Ismelda Murk

Sibling(s): James "Jimmy" Lowell, younger brother, Conan Lowell, younger brother,

Child(ren): None

Paternal Grandparents: Ford Lowell Jr, grandpa, Brittany Lowell (née Gardener)

Maternal Grandparents: David Zedeh, bebeyholu, Annie Zedeh (née Huseynov,) dedeyholu,

Former Love Interests: Legolas, Prince of the Woodland Realm (fictional character)

Pet(s): Bark (Eastern screech owl)

Birthdate: September 1 1973

Birthplace: Lowell Manor, Wiltshire, England

Current Home: Lowell Manor, Wiltshire, England

Ethnicity: ⅝ English, ¼ Kavkazi (Azerbaijani,) ⅛ Irish

Species: 4th Generation Cambion Descendant

Blood Status: Halfblood

Religion: Atheist

Date of Bat Mitzvah: September 7 1985

Known Language (s): English, Juhuri, Hebrew,

Accent: West Country

Manner of Speaking: Nervous and quite

Hair Color: Black

Hair Type: Curly and thick

Eye Color: Grey

Skin: Pale

Body type: Lean and underweight

Height: 178 cm, 5'10 ft

Shoe Size UK: 10½

Blood type: O+

Scent: Honey, vanilla, and oak

Sexual Orientation: Homosexual

Romantic Orientation: Homoromantic

Clothing Preference: Gender neutral to feminine

Handedness: Left, learned to be ambidextrous

Fiscal Status: Rich

Age When They First Cast Magic: 6¾

House: Ravenclaw

Alternative House: Gryffindor

Wand: 9⅓' Willow wood, Phoenix feather, flexible

Patronus: Ewe sheep

Memory Used for Patronus: When she came out to her parents and they were understanding

Animingus Form: Ewe sheep

Boggart: Herself painfully dying from cancer/Seeing Sabine's dying body again

Dream: Continue to study interesting things

Best Subject: Arithmancy

Worst Subject: Potions

Best Muggle Subject: Biology

Worst Muggle Subject: Gym

Extracurriculars: Sphinx Club

Prefect: Yes

Head Boy/Girl: No

Allergies: Penicillin (moderate symptoms, trouble breathing, watery red eyes,)

Medical Conditions: gerneral anxiety, panic disorder, major depression, avoidant personality disorder, carcinophobia, epistaxiophobia, autism spectrum disorder, underweight, pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (finished chemotherapy)

Favorite Food: Blueberry jam kurabiye

Favorite Drink: Water

Favorite Scent: Books and storms

Favorite Color: Silver

Favorite Music: Calm and soothing

Favorite Book: Lord of The Rings series and Monstrous Muggles series

Favorite Animal: Wool producing animals (sheep, goats, lamas, ect.)

Favorite Plant: Asphodel

Favorite Spell: Accio and anapneo

Most Disliked Spell: Crucio

Most Disliked Food: Calamari, beets,

Most Disliked Drink: Firewhisky

Hobbies and Intrests: Biology, thanatology, reading,

[tom--22--felton]

Gernerally speaking, I just don't understand how anyone can say they are a fan of Tom's and declare he is transphobic! Do you know him personally? You know this to be fact? What proof other than the one time he "liked" JKRs tweet? Its a double standard to say that his silence is admitting guilt. He clearly wishes not to get involved in this topic! Stop the hate mongering! BTW, luv the blog.

People can see Tom’s faults and still be his fans. But those who accuse him of being transphobic do it with such hate that they can’t be considered fans, in my opinion.

[serendipitous-magic]

Hey, I just wanted to ask, while we wait for the completion of the first chapter of the season we should've got, what is your primary reason for writing this project? Is is it because of the lack of certain relationship dynamics, or maybe presence of certain ships? Or is the writing quality of season 3 in gerneral just that subpar and poorly executed?

My primary reason for the fix-it rewrite is simply this: I do not believe that the S3 we got did justice to the story or characters at all. And I want the characters, the story, and the fans to have the S3 that the story should have gotten. (That sounds very pretentious, looking over this, and I’m not trying to be like, “Oh, I can write the story that we all deserved, no problem, let me just bust out my magical writing skills since I’m clearly the only one able to fix this mess (adjusts monocle and swirls a martini).” That’s not what I’m trying to say lol. I would simply like to try my damndest to give us that, whether I entirely manage it or not. And hey, shoot for the moon, right?) 

Let’s just forget ships entirely for a second. Hell, let’s forget the audience entirely. Regardless of what fans wanted, let’s consider this: the canonical seasons (1 and 2) were fantastic. The characters were complex and well-developed, and they felt like real people. The plot was fascinating and the storytelling was top-tier, with enough complexity and symbolism and background details and authenticity to captivate a huge fandom. The acting was on point. The writing was great. The whole show (the canonical seasons, that is) felt real. It felt like we were watching real people struggle against real events, and that authenticity and emotional connection was, I think, a lot of what made the show so great.

My main reason for my rewrite, honestly - more than being for the fans or even for my own satisfaction - is that I feel like the characters and story that we all know and love deserved better. The characters themselves, as characters, deserved so much better than (gestures angrily) that. (I won’t go into a whole ‘nother rant, because y’all know what I’m talking about.) The story deserved better. The writing was just... bad. Like, straight-up, it was just bad writing all the way around. It all felt like an over-the-top, cheesy B-list 80s movie, and not in the good way. While the dialogue of S1 and S2 felt like we were seeing and hearing real people talk and interact and react to things, the writing of S3 felt like a stageplay written by 13 year olds. Nothing against 13 year olds - it’s just, a professional TV show that was that good in the first two seasons really should be better than that, you know? So much better.

There were so many loose ends that S1 and S2 left hanging that S3 just straight-up ignored. There were so many wonderful, authentic, intriguing relationship dynamics - positive and negative - that they could have explored. There were so many aspects to the characters and their lives and their struggles (as a result of the events of S1 and S2) that would have been so fascinating and emotionally impactful if they had taken the time to address and explore that. And they just... didn’t. S3 completely abandoned any and all emotional connection with the characters - both between us (the viewers) and the characters, and between the characters themselves. The entire plot was driven by empty drama and meaningless action, with very few moments of real emotional connection anywhere. I’ve said it a lot and I’ll say it again: S3 is not the same show as seasons 1 and 2. It’s a completely different thing. The atmosphere is different. The aesthetic is different. The themes and morals are different. The acting is different. The writing is different. The characters are completely different people (I’ve beaten the phrase “paper-thin caricatures” to death, and I shall continue to do so). The construction of the plot is different. It’s a completely different show. From a storytelling perspective, it really does seem like we never actually got a Stranger Things Season 3 - what we really got was a show of the same name, with characters loosely based off of the ones we know, but the thing we got? It wasn’t Stranger Things. It just wasn’t.

And speaking of, I’ll touch on ships now: yes, of course I’m completely dissatisfied with the treatment of... uh... all the ships in S3? I mean, that’s an entirely separate rant in and of itself, but I’ll just say: it’s not just byeler. Ofc I’m gonna be writing byeler into my rewrite, because (gestures at my blog) I’m a byeler shipper. So. Yeah, of course. But besides byeler, S3 treated all the ships so badly tbh - even the ones that were “together” during the season. Even mileven! I don’t ship mileven, but I was pretty disgusted with how S3 treated that relationship. They played mileven for empty drama, and they didn’t even do a very good job at writing their relationship. (Again: that’s another rant.) And Jopper? WTF was up with Jopper? Who wrote that? No, seriously, who wrote that script. I just want to talk. Even Lumax, who were arguably the most stable and better-written couple in S3 - even they were very snippy with each other and apparently broke up and got together like 5 times in the span of half a year, and... It just seemed like all the ships were written so poorly, even the ones we were supposed to root for.

So, yes: another reason I wanted to rewrite S3 was to give the ships what (I think) they deserved. A respectful relationship built on teamwork and friendship for Jopper (which is definitely heading towards romantic, though it’s stalled a bit by both of their stubbornness and by Joyce’s mourning for Bob). An arc for mileven which allows them to see the negative aspects of their relationship, both grow as people (especially El, who really needs space to develop as a person), and retain their (amazing!) friendship. An arc for byeler that acknowledges and addresses their lifelong friendship, the bonding they went through last season, Will’s sexuality, Mike’s sexuality, etc. And so forth.

Reason #3(ish): the plot of S3 felt sloppy, based on empty drama and action (as I’ve said repeatedly lol), and it did not address many of the interesting loose ends left by S1 and S2, and I would like to address that in my fix-it. What happened to all the (many, many) hints about Will having powers? What happened to the Mind Flayer being a terrifying and fascinating villain/monster (without turning into a goo-monster for CGI flexing)? That guy said that Brenner is alive - is he? What about that Party trying to grow up too fast to escape and leave behind what happened to them as kids (except for Will, who’s trying to cling to the childhood that was stolen from him)? (We got a little bit of that in S3 but it was like... never addressed? Never resolved??) What happened to the Upside Down - like, the physical place itself? Why did we need to introduce Russians (like, literally just “Russians,” as a vague, stereotypical concept) as a villain when they already had good, solid villains established? Why the sudden “MURICA, CAPITALISM IS GOOD, RUSSIANS AND COMMUNISM BAD, DID I MENTION MURICA??” theme? Why? Why did they drop all the interesting loose threads from the canonical seasons only to shove in completely unnecessary new villains and drama that frankly just bloated the plot and didn’t add anything to the story that had been established in seasons 1 and 2?

Look, I could go on and on and on. 

TL;DR: My reasons for this re-write project are as follows:

1) I felt that the story and characters themselves deserved better, and so did we as viewers and fans. S3 did not even feel like the same show as S1 and S2, and I wanted to at least try to write a story that would do (better) justice to the story and characters.

2) All the ships were treated terribly in S3, in my opinion, mileven included, and I wanted to a) treat them better in my rewrite, and b) yes, make it gayer. A lot gayer. Because I’m gay and I can. So (throws confetti).

3) I wanted to address some of the interesting loose threads left by seasons 1 and 2, and cut out a lot of the bullshit that was shoved into the plot unnecessarily in S3.

[afoolishchoice]

If I ever stop reblogging

Pitch perfect (and Bechloe) Person of Interest The Originals (or TVD) Dragon Age or anything gay in gerneral you can probably assume im dead and someone else tries to run my blog

[dont-reblog--i-moved]

Changes Coming Up...

Hi friends.

As you're all probably aware, I was involved in sex work (porn only) for a very short bit, but took a break bc of the stress it gave me. I got a whiff of a second wind coming and wanted to start up again, only to realize I have no drive for it at all. So I'm quitting. I won't say I'm done forever, bc I don't like thinking about the future in definites like that, but I don't plan to come back any time soon.

I'm mentioning this here bc it'll probably lead to some changes on this blog other than just updating my FAQ. For one, I plan to change my url (not sure to what yet) and focus more on the clean (but still often sexually focused) side of my little life. I want to post more of my own pics, selfies (still no face obvs), art, and maybe even my writing like poems and concepts here.

I have the feeling I will get the urge to be nsfw online again, so when I do, I'll make a new blog for that and post about it here. You will still never see nudity on this page.

I'm hoping putting away my mask and camera will help relieve some unnecessary stress from my life and free up time for me to focus on my art and my vanilla life more. The balance in my head is so off it makes me feel like I'm having an identity crisis at times. I just need space from porn in gerneral too, I think.

So yeah, expect some slight changes coming up soon. But don't worry, the content style of this blog shouldn't be changing.

❣️

[mentosmorii]

I just saw the Dictionary.com tweet on the use of singular “they” in old texts, and I actually have a bit of information regarding the history of singular “they”! It’s true that ‘they’ was used as early as the 14th century as a singular, gender-encompassing pronoun — take, for example, this quote from the Wycliffe Bible:

Eche on in þer craft ys wijs." ("Each one in their craft is wise.") — Wycliffe's Bible, Ecclus. (1382) 

As a rule of thumb, if something crops up in writing during a time when the production of manuscripts was far more difficult than it is today, it is safe to assume that it pops up in daily speech quite often. For “þer” (their) to be used as a generic singular pronoun indicates its usage in speech was quite common — yet something changed around the 18th century (around the 1750s, to be exact). There was a movement grammatically to move away from the singular “they” due to the argument that ‘they is always plural, and a plural pronoun cannot take a singular antecedent’. I find this highly ironic, as this movement was coming on the coattails of the canonization of ‘you’ as being able to function both as a singular and a plural pronoun — so recent, in fact, that in 1660, George Fox (the founder of Quakerism) had published a novel deriding those who used the singular “you” as being uneducated and a degrading force upon the English language. 

So, what gives? Why the pushback against ‘they’ as being the singular generic pronoun? 

Well, first of all, let’s look at the function of grammar and the context of the time. Grammar can serve two purposes: first, as a tool that enhances clarity in communication, and two, as a tool that hinders clarity in favor of creating a way to distinguish class via forms of speech. When looking at the context of the 18th century, there would have been many reasons why the upper echelons of society would have been facing anxieties surrounding their prestige and importance in society. (Zuber & Reed)

Although historians debate whether the political upheaval between 1642 and 1660 counts as a “revolution,” there can be no doubt that these events had a profound and lasting on impact on how writers and readers perceived the nation’s social hierarchy. The creation of a republic in 1649 not only eliminated the king but also temporarily raised a stratum of the “middling sort”—including minor gentry, yeomen, domestic traders, shopkeepers, and army officers—into positions of unprecedented power and influence. This upstart regime abolished the House of Lords and subjected the royalist aristocracy and gentry to sequestration, severe fines, and the ruinous exploitation of their land... The restoration of the old regime in 1660, including the nobility and the bishops, was celebrated with a ceremonial magnificence that impressed even former officials in Oliver Cromwell’s government, such as Samuel Pepys, with a sense of royalist fervor and gratitude for restored order.

 [In the coming years, s]waggering displays of rank in the English aristocracy in fact disguised its own internal divisions, anxieties, and diminished confidence. (Hudson)

In essence, although the aristocracy managed to hold onto immense power, their social prestige was fraught — plays and literature at the time reflected this, with many pieces raising a critical lens to many of the elements of the upper class. As Terry Eagleton in The Function of Criticism writes, attempts to conserve authority crop up in times of political and economic upheaval, with linguistic authority being no different, and a threatened aristocracy could preserve its status by distinguishing itself grammatically (Zuber & Reed). As Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner explain, grammars also serve to “defend the language from ‘decay’” (49), i.e. from change associated with those who threatened social order (Zuber & Reed). 

Furthermore, England was staunchly coming into its position as a brutal imperial power. In “So Male a Speech”, Elizebeth Sklar suggested that codifying the language as “masculine” was a tool necessary to instating England’s specific type of colonialism — one that invaded the countries it imposed itself upon on a linguistic level as well as physical and political (think about why so many non-American and British individuals end up speaking English due to the historical presence of these powers on a global scale). In Zuber and Reed’s analysis of Sklar’s work, they write that, “in respose to perceived threats to established social hierarchies, to Britain’s imperial role, and to [patriarchical hierarchies], grammar[ rule books’ appear in unprecedented numbers: Sklar observes that more than 200 were published in England between 1750 and 1800″ (Zuber & Reed). 

This trend would continue, with in 1850 parliament passing “An Act for shortening the language used in acts of Parliament,” which ordered, “that in all acts words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females” i.e. that the singular he should be used instead of the singular “they” in pieces of law. 

Now, regardless of this trend in the 18th century and early 19th, people still used singular “they” — it is and always has been more inclusive, less presumptive of gender, and more intuitive than alternatives. However, a similar trend has been cropping up in the second half of the twentieth century. Zuber and Reed have noted that this trend of cracking down on the usage of the singular “they” mirrors the trend in the 18th century, with the anxieties this time of the “aristocracy analog” playing into a staunch refusal of linguistic evolution that has already come and passed them by. In Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg’s, “The Rhetorical Tradition”, the authors point to this trend of the rejection in high-society of the singular “they” as coinciding with the sixties, “when [a] burst of theory, combined with campus political activism, led to self-evaluation and efforts at disciplinary renewal [of conservativism]” — and Zuber and Reed point to the 60s and 70s as the time when many American colleges and universities established open-admission policies that seemed to threaten the prestige of traditional higher education — just as the aristocracy of 18th century England used language to distinguish themselves linguistically from the common man, so did high academia wish to create a similar distinction when the simple association of higher academia and monied whiteness began to break apart. 

tl:dr? “they” should be considered grammatically correct as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun, and arguments against the usage of ‘they’ as a singular pronoun are part of a history that attempts to use grammatical rules to impede, rather than enhance, clarity of communication.

Sources

Gerner, Jürgen (2000). "Singular and Plural Anaphors of Indefinite Plural Pronouns in Spoken British English". In Kirk, John M. (ed.). Corpora Galore: Analyses and Techniques in Describing English: Papers from the Nineteenth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerised Corpora (ICAME 1998). Rodopi. pp. 93–114.

Zuber, Sharon, and Ann M. Reed. “The Politics of Grammar Handbooks: Generic He and Singular They.” College English, vol. 55, no. 5, 1993, pp. 515–530. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/378587.

Meyers, Miriam Watkins. “Current Generic Pronoun Usage: An Empirical Study.” American Speech, vol. 65, no. 3, 1990, pp. 228–237. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/455911.

Baron, Dennis E. “The Epicene Pronoun: The Word That Failed.” American Speech, vol. 56, no. 2, 1981, pp. 83–97. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/455007.

Baron, Dennis. “A Brief History of Singular 'They'.” Oxford English Dictionary, 29 Mar. 2019, public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/.

Sklar, Elizabeth S. “So Male a Speech: Linguistic Adequacy in Eighteenth-Century England.” American Speech, vol. 64, no. 4, 1989, pp. 372–379. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/455731.

Hudson, Nicholas. "Literature and Social Class in the Eighteenth Century." Oxford Handbooks Online.  April 17, 2015. Oxford University Press,. Date of access 18 Jun. 2019, <https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935338.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935338-e-007>

Postman, Neil, and Charles Weingartner. “Linguistics: A Revolution in Teaching”. New York: Dell, 1966.

[pineapplebonez]

Q&A Soft Tag

I was tagged by @b-e-t-x-s-o to do this. Thank you 💕 (check out their blog too if you get a chance there is some good writing on there 🥰)

You simply answer the questions and then tag 5 of your most recent followers and 3 other blogs of your choice!

What’s the smell of your shampoo?

Uhhhhhhhh.... *goes to bathroom looks at shampoo bottle squints* macadamia nut?? Idk man I buy cheap shampoo!

What’s your aesthetic?

Uh? *looks around room* dark colors, plushies and cats?

What is your favourite time of day?

Late night. It is quite and time seems to stand still.

What do you like most about the beach?

The feel of the sand the sound of the waves.

What do you worry about constantly?

If the people around me are happy and if they are okay and if they are tired of me yet.

What is a song you cried to before?

Let’s see I cry a lot- Vixx LR: Beautiful Liar, Vixx: Walking, Whitney Houston: I Will Always Love You, Rascel Flatts: What Hurts The Most, Pokémon theme song (nostalgia) . Music makes me really emotional at times.

What are some relaxing tips to your followers?

Hot showers, warm tea, and fuzzy blankets. If it isn’t going to matter a year down the line then it doesn’t matter DON’T stress about it and if you are stressing try the 7x7x7 method breath in 7 seconds, hold 7 seconds, breathe out for 7 seconds.

What are some things that make you tear up?

Everything. Romantic TV. Cute animals. Nostalgia. Emotional songs.

What is your favourite from each of the five senses?

Touch - Animal Fur

Smell - Fresh Rain

Taste - Savory things

Hearing - music, thunder, cats purring.

Sight - sunsets, storms.

What is one alternate reality you’d want to be in?

Pokémon. I wanna be a Pokémon MASTER.

What are some troubles you face daily?

Gerneralized anxiety disorder, depression, and chronic pain.

What is one scene from a book that made you really sad?

GOD. This couple broke up (for a really stupid reason) and the girl accepted it, and started moving on with her life, she moved towns and made new friends and started dating some one new. Her friends needed a house to accommodate his wife’s disabilities so she had to brave up and contact her ex (he was an architect that specializes in modifying houses) he denied the project because the girl was going to eventually die (she had an illness but I can’t remember what) and he didn’t want the husband to be left with a house that would be a constant reminder of his wife. She eventually convinces him and he makes it so after the dudes wife passes away he can convert his house into a restaurant 😭😭. Then he and the MC share a moment and she is left crying as he tells her to take care and be happy with her new man. I WAS A WRECK after that.

Say something to all your followers:

Thanks so much to those who talk to me and those that don’t. Thanks for your support and amazing questions when I am up at 2 am. Please stay safe and warm and know that I care. If you ever need some one to talk to I’ll be there the best I can.

So my newest followers were porn bots.

So I will tag some of my favorite blogs @baronsbitch @that-twenty-something @snappyraccoon @aaa-vixx-aaa

Please remember you don’t have to do it 😊

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I did make myself an icon for this blog but I honestly don't need my art to be taken by someone thinking it's okay to steal art from someone being gernerally mean.

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Hey there!

I am participating in this years simblreen trick and treat, yay. I’ll be giving away some CC, nothing big, but why don’t you knock and see for yourself, from October 19th (Friday) to October 21st (Sunday)?;)  My porchlight will be on while I’m  around.

You can find out more about this years schedule and how simblreen in gerneral works on @simblreenofficial ‘s blog. Happy trick or treatin’!