#kinds of noun

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[chicago-geniza]

Shirley Jackson understood that the incestuous, family-as-site-of-horror stories she wrote were subversive and that they "encouraged" (I know the text is not grammatically agential, don't @ me) feminist and family abolitionist readings. Anne Rice also wrote incestuous, family-as-site-of-horror stories but did not seem to realize their political implications at all beyond a basic appeal to the outsider and I think that's beautiful

[kirkwallguy]

still can't stop thinking about the fact that they have demigenders in tevinter but if you're in ferelden you're still using medieval euphemisms for being gay. there are some extremely funny situations to put several characters in

[from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras]

Yesterday @dancerinthestorm posed a question via tags that I’ve been thinking about ever since: what is the best collective noun (like a flock of sheep, a pride of lions, a murder of crows, etc.) for a group of elves?

Dancer has been reading the Silmarillion and suggested — and I love — an ostentation of elves, which comes from the group noun for peacocks. I think that perfectly fits the dramatic, showy and at times inexplicably aggressive and territorial nature of the First Age elves so well! But then it got me thinking about collective nouns for other inhabitants of Middle Earth…

A cozy of hobbits?

A gallop of Rohirrim?

A rumination of Ents?

A smolder of balrogs?

A craft of dwarves?

A hoard of dragons? (Not to be confused with a horde of orcs?)

A shadow of Nazgûl?

A wisdom of elves (later age elves only!)?

A flood of Númenóreans? (Too soon?)

I find Gondor especially challenging because they’re all over the place to me — imperial colonialists but also defenders of freedom, historical grandeur but also decay, Denethor but also Faramir, Beruthiel but Finduilas. Hard to put your finger on! (A confusion of Gondorians, it seems!) If anyone has suggestions for them or alternatives for any of these others, I’d be thrilled to see them.

There are no wrong answers, of course, but I find it fun to think about. All the thanks to Dancer, this kept me entertained for the whole (loooong!) walk to the metro this morning!

[apuff]

thinking about love in danger days

this is part of my conspiracy theory that that album is aroallo, but i've always gotten the sense that romance and romantic attatchment is much less important to danger days than any other mcr record. with bullets&revenge it's quite obvious as the demolition lovers take up like, everything, and the black parade has a heavy focus on a romantic relationship as well. 

while i do think there are lines in it that are romantically coded, there is a definitive lack of emphasis on it- like it's nowhere in the plot at all. 

i do think danger days represents a very familial type of love though. while other albums visit a sense of "i want you, i need you, i miss you, i hate you,", this is more like…"i love you, i want to protect you, i'm sorry"

i find this especially strongly in s/c/a/r/e/c/r/o/w:

"Nevermind about the shape i'm in, I'll keep you safe tonight"

"love, love, love won't stop this bomb"

"run, run, bunny, run"

and other songs: 

"i'll find you when the sun goes black"

"just save yourself and i'll hold them back tonight"

"how long until we find our way in the dark and out of harm"

relevant things i can't cover with just quotes are planetary go, oft-theorized to be about party poison and kobra kid, as brothers, leaving battery city together; sing, about the killjoys' last message to the girl while saving her; goodnite dr. death, phrased as him saying goodnight to children; and summertime, which i can't discern the meaning of but seems more like a family type of love. 

i think it makes sense that danger days is like this, seeing as it features main characters that take care of a child main character as opposed to main characters that love other main characters of the same age/ability. 

another thing i noticed while re-listening to the more sentimental songs for this essay is that there's just a distinctly different vibe to it. So much of it is focused around wanting to protect people, keep them safe and out of danger (<- ha that's the name of the album) and loved. i think this also makes sense, because the killjoys live a very, well, dangerous life without much security, and they'd want to provide what they lack the most. another semi-related thing i noticed is just how much of an emphasis there is on childhood in this album. i feel like there's a vibe of youth or teen-hood throughout the earlier ones, but this is just VERY strongly about kids. again this makes sense cause not only are the killjoys teenagers (a type of kid!) they also have a proper little kid to watch. 

also, i wonder how much of this stuff was due to gerard becoming a parent. just something to think about 

[petrichoremojis]

[ID: a drawing of a silver wrench holding a bolt. there is a clock underneath it with four highlighted sections and arrows turning around it. end ID]

symbol for 'maintenance'

[kinokoshoujoart]

I saw the lack of Rock in skirts reblog and

maybe you should 👁️

you got it🫡 💕

by popular demand: rock wearing a rock

in the jp version he says he mentions he intends his hypothetical book about fashion and stuff for a gyaru audience

and i personally suspect rock also plans to model for every single photo in the book himself since he’s, you know, the ideal man and all

[cookinguptales]

you know, watching smosh play beopardy feels a little cruel sometimes.

[underratedalpaca]

We're doing Plautus' comedy "Menaechmi" in my Latin class, and we will probably do a rappresentation of it, and, I'm in charge of the changes in the script, (to make it more 2024-ish) and I'm so happyyyyyy

[zestyzigzagoon]

Writing longfics is such a funny experience tbh. I love writing ahead for the convenience and foreshadowing of it all, but it's also like 'wow, you guys are going to go feral for this sentence in August of 2026'.

[lord-squiggletits]

just as long as you ask for it lives rent free in my head UwU

Sweet melty bottom Tarn and smug top Pharma... you have good taste 😊👌

[evilevilevilnotevilevilagain]

joked about KAs buddy Lev gifting them/Jewel a dog bcus u know how kids are. N also Lev just wants a dog but his roommate wont let him, so hes living vicariously through this guy. Unfortunately KA does not like dogs. Is in fact quite scared of them. Yknow what other things they find creepy and off-putting? Blue eyes. So naturally, a blue-eyed husky puppy is just what their household was missing uwu

and yes KA is the only person in the world who genuinely believes a dog is corrupting their child when in fact its helping him come out of his shell and act like a normal active child for once.

[blankmogai]

altrans flag and symbol!

altrans: a form of alterhumanity that is directly influenced, caused by, or inextricable from transness

[system-architect]

the character who i have a commander au of is pretty solidly a he/him transmasc but i love the notion of him as the commander just being kind of Whatever gender. NPCs all use they/them for the comm and there's now i guess the element of the commander/wayfinder having different titles and nouns in different situations, so i love the idea of the comm pulling a page from jormag's book and just being like "my gender/title/pronouns are whatever You feel is most convenient or funniest at the moment". it helps keep them more anonymous anyway so its kind of a win/win

[corvidcall]

im gonna be honest with you guys. gonna be perfectly candid. im fucking livid that lord of the rings is as good as it is. imo it should have been bad to retroactively justify why i was so hostile about it. but instead its really good and now i have to be the dipshit being like "wow have you guys heard about this thing i just discovered???? its called lord of the rings" like yeah bitch everyone knows about lord of the rings. how did you manage to go 22 years never learning the actual plot of lord of the rings.