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Not sure i can consider myself exactly bilingual, i didn’t grow up in English speaking setting, i learned it as a second language. But than i was in boarding school for two years and well, firstly a lot of terminology about school life was from English. Secondly our boarding staff used English with us on a daily basis. This resulted in almost everyone in school speaking runglish (russian + English) + casually switching to English because why not
So! Things that i and my friends have done / still do / have witnessed
• Often switch to English to talk about heavy topics or feelings. It’s a second language for all of us, so it kinda puts some..distance from all the emotions
• On multiple occasions i caught us all writing messages, where we spell an english word in Cyrillic and then switch to English fully
• Generally we often write English words in Cyrillic for various reasons
• We don’t notice that we code switch. On multiple occasions i said a very common for me phrase and my mother was just starring at me until i understood that the phrase was in English and i needed to translate
• Forgetting a word in both languages NEVER GETS OLD. BELIEVE ME. But usually it’s not something complicated, no, i can remember how to write deoxyribonucleic acid in both languages but forget the word “early”
• two years ago i tried learning Spanish. When we were writing essays in English class i wrote “trabajador” meaning “hardworking”. I knew something was wrong with it but i didn’t know WHAT. I didn’t understand until my teacher pointed it out for me
• I personally do not analyse English abbreviations. Sometimes i forget it has A TRANSLATION. Or a full version. Once i said “wtf” in front of my boarding staff and well it took me three shocked stares and a “ Valery!” to realise it’s not just a phrase with “what the hell” meaning but a swearing.
• *tries to speak English but fails because it’s too early* *tries to speak Russian but fails because brain demands that this setting needs ENGLISH*
• My first sports club, where not only the coach counted, but also the kids - aikido. We counted in Japanese. i haven't practiced Aikido for about three or fours years, but every time i do sports, i count in Japanese to myself
• Grammar? Spelling? Vocabulary. Oh no, what IS confusing IS PUNCTUATION. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE CODESWITCHING.
• at least one of my friends also spells difficult words while writing, but not with the correct pronunciation. we read them as if they're written in Cyrillic/pronounce every letter. It helps with not messing up the letter (for example when I write various i read it as ВЭРИОУС in my mind because I'm a) silly b) ADHD and often mess up the order of vowels when typing fast)
• OH ALSO - some of us (including me) don't have a stable accent. You watch Shelock - you''re British, you watch TikToks from a South American - you're South American. Or! Sometimes accents sticks to phrases and words :D. So it goes like
*speaking with one accent/neutral accent* *uses the Britishest accent in the world for ONE PHRASE* *continues normally*
• Dialects are the Death Of Us. My guy, i have NO fucking idea which pronunciation of "dance" is for UK and which is for America AND I LEARNED THAT WORD WHEN I WAS SIX!!!!
• interjections and sounds are ALSO confusing! You'd think we make similar sounds of surprise or joy or sadness. WE DON'T.
i keep adding things god help
anyway
• people can have different names for different languages! I don't consider my legal name (Lera) to be my deadname, i like it! but don't usually use it in English speaking spaces because...English doesn't have the sounds (it has similar sounds but still)...that are in my name...and it sounds VERY STRANGE
• same with pronouns btw! English doesn't gender verbs, adjectives, nouns, your way to point out gender is simple - pronouns. But in Russian words change depending on a gender ( he is clever - он умнЫЙ, she is clever - она умнАЯ). And the way words change for they/them pronouns doesn't sound right to me, so I don't use they/them for myself in Russian, only she/he! But i don't mind in English, because verbs, adjectives and etc don't change :)
im going to have a stroke
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hello!! I was wondering about if you'd be interested in writing a regulus black / sirius black x reader ff where reader is learning french but is terribly horrendous at it
No pressure pooks🙏
Hello hello~!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you for this idea!!! As soon as I saw this ask I knew I had to write it immediately. Now, like the reader in this fic, my French is terrible... I haven’t touched it in years— aside from the occasional Duolingo lesson— so I’m sure my grammar will be all over the place. Hopefully, it’s not too bad, but fingers crossed!
Paring: Sirius Black x Fem!Reader
WC: 1.2k
How has it come to this?
You’re perched on the couch in the cozy but slightly chaotic living room of your shared flat, flanked by Sirius and his younger brother, Regulus. Sirius— your boyfriend of six months —leans forward, scribbling something onto a notepad, his dark hair tumbling into his face as he mutters phrases under his breath. Beside you, Regulus sits cross-legged with the air of a reluctant tutor, his sharp features softened by uncharacteristic patience.
Together, they are attempting what feels impossible: cramming basic French into your overwhelmed brain before you face what you can only describe as a gauntlet— meeting the Black family matriarch.
The mere thought of her sends a shiver down your spine.
When she found out Sirius was in a relationship—and that she hadn’t been informed— she had, predictably, thrown a fit.
The result? An invitation, that felt more like a summons, to the infamous Black family home for Christmas. As if meeting your boyfriend’s parents weren’t already intimidating enough, there was a catch: she was said to be excruciatingly, almost maliciously picky.
Sirius hadn’t minced words about it, either. “She won’t like you,” he’d said bluntly the night the invitation, if you could call it that, had arrived. “Don’t take it personally. She doesn’t like anyone.”
Which was, of course, impossible to not take personally.
So here you were, cramming vocabulary in a desperate attempt to win even a sliver of her approval. If learning French wasn’t already difficult enough, doing it under the critical eye of the Black brothers was verging on impossible.
“Non, non,” Regulus corrects gently, his tone calm but firm as he watches frustration creep into your features.
You glare at the notepad in Sirius’ lap. The word rencontrer stares back at you like a stubborn enemy, taunting you with its refusal to stick. Sirius seems to sense your despair, because he sets his pen down and shifts closer, his hand moving in soothing circles over your back.
“I’m never going to get this right,” you groan, dropping your face into your hands. The muffled words escape from between your fingers. “Spanish wasn’t this hard. Why is this so hard?”
“You’re doing much better than you think, love,” Sirius says, his voice warm and low, a balm against your growing nerves.
“She might not even say anything in French,” Regulus offers, his tone neutral as though trying not to spook you.
“But it’s her first language,” you counter, peeking at him from between your hands with a pleading look.
Sirius exhales, setting the notepad aside entirely. “You’ll be fine,” he assures you, pulling you gently against his side. You don’t resist. Resting your head on his shoulder feels infinitely better than wrestling with foreign syllables.
“Honestly, you’ll probably win over our dad faster than her anyway,”
“But it’s your mom,” you mumble, the thought of disappointing her settling heavy in your chest.
“She’s probably making a fuss because she needs something to complain about,” Regulus says dryly, his mouth quirking in a half-smile. He gestures toward Sirius with a nod. “And let’s be real... he doesn’t care about her opinion.”
You let out a heavy sigh, knowing he’s right. You’ve heard enough about Sirius’ tumultuous relationship with his parents to know their approval— or lack thereof —means little to him. Still, it doesn’t ease the gnawing anxiety in your stomach. The idea of stepping into that house, of facing her scrutiny, feels like walking into a viper pit.
“Why don’t you try again?” Regulus suggests gently, patting your knee in what you suspect is meant to be a comforting gesture. Though awkward, the effort is endearing. “It’s probably just nerves messing you up.”
You exhale deeply, then nod. Sitting here with them helps—at least somewhat—but their fluency feels like a spotlight highlighting your every misstep. You don’t want to keep fumbling in front of them, even if they’re patient about it.
“C’est un plaisir de vous re—” The words stumble awkwardly on your tongue, frustration bubbling over. “FUCK!” you burst out, dragging out the offending syllable slowly. “Rencontrer, Madame Black.”
Sirius loses it, muffling his laughter behind his hand while Regulus shoots him a sharp glare, clearly unimpressed with his amusement.
“Rencontrer,” Regulus repeats slowly, his voice calm and encouraging.
“Rencontrer,” you echo, focusing hard to mimic his deliberate pronunciation.
“Perfect,” Sirius chimes in, his grin softening as he finally reins in his giggles. “Now just a bit faster, love.”
You shoot him a look, your narrowed eyes more playful than annoyed. “I feel like I’m just free entertainment for you right now.”
Sirius smirks, leaning in to press a quick kiss to your temple. “You’re always free entertainment for me.”
“Je t’aime tellement,” he adds quickly, the French phrase rolling off his tongue effortlessly.
You roll your eyes in exasperation. “Je te déteste tellement,” you counter, a smirk tugging at the corner of your mouth.
Sirius freezes, his expression twisting into mock offense. “YOU CAN BARELY SAY RENCONTRER, BUT YOU CAN TELL ME YOU HATE ME?!?” His voice rises incredulously, his hands flying up in sheer disbelief.
Regulus lasts all of two seconds before dissolving into laughter. “How do you even know how to say that?” he manages between wheezing breaths.
You shrug nonchalantly. “You two say it all the time.”
Sirius lets out an exaggerated groan, throwing his head back as Regulus dissolves into laughter again, shaking so hard he nearly falls off the couch.
“Oh my God,” Regulus wheezes, doubling over with laughter. “The one fluent phrase you know is I hate you!” His laughter turns into something closer to a breathless gasp, tears glistening in the corners of his eyes. His sheer amusement is contagious, and despite your frustration, you can’t help but crack a smile.
“Just—just don’t say that to our mom right off the bat,” Sirius interjects, fighting his own grin as he waves a hand. “If she says something awful, then by all means, go for it, but—”
You whirl toward him, eyes wide in mock outrage. “I would never!”
“Oh no, please do,” Regulus manages, wiping the tears from his face with the heel of his hand. “I’d pay good money to see that.”
“Je te déteste… you both,” you mutter, your attempt to insult them in French as clumsy as it is endearing. The effort only sets them off again, Sirius and Regulus laughing so hard you can’t help but join in.
“Je t'aime aussi, mon cœur,” Sirius teases, his voice full of affection as he leans down to press a kiss to the top of your head.
“Get a room,” Regulus groans, though the lack of any real annoyance in his tone makes his words land more as a joke.
“You’re in our home,” Sirius fires back without missing a beat.
That’s it— you lose it. Laughter bubbles out of you, breaking through the tension that had knotted your shoulders all evening. Sirius smirks triumphantly at your reaction, his arm pulling you closer, while Regulus just groans again, throwing himself back against the couch with dramatic flair.
In this moment, as the three of you laugh together, the anxiety about meeting the Black family fades ever so slightly.
It will return, but for now, there’s only warmth, humor, and the feeling that maybe— just maybe —you can get through this together.
Hopefully…
#aisies asks#aisie writes#petals and plots#marauders#dead gay wizards from the 70s#fanfic#marauders fic#the marauders#marauders era#sirius being sirius#marauders fanfiction#sirius black x reader#sirius black#sirius orion black#sirius black x you#sirius black x y/n#regulus black#sirius and regulus#regulus arcturus black#regulus and sirius#x reader#self insert#reader insert#fem reader#female reader#the noble and most ancient house of black#the house of black
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Ren owes me money, I'm being so serious right now.
Remind me again what Ren is or how he learned that he was in a game. Or is he just an all powerful being who made himself digital to get close to his angel
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#Ren also canonically doesn't know that he is in a game!!#💌 — answered.#💖 — 14 days with queue.#🖤 — shut up sai.#unhingedreader78
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hello!! so sorry if you've answered questions like this before, haha :)
i'm an atla fanartist, and i've been looking for accurate resources on inuit or yu'pik clothing/hairstyles/accessories for a while with little to no luck.
so i guess my question is- most of the things i've found have had conflicting opinions, so i'm not sure if it'd be respectful for me as an outsider to draw water tribe characters in native clothing that they don't wear in canon? and if it would be acceptable, do you know of/how do i go about finding materials that would allow me to do so in the politest way that i can?
thank you for your time, and apologies if i misworded anything!
My best advice is just looking for old photos and a LOT of them, and keep in mind that the swath of peoples you're trying to research are geographically scattered (the phrase "Greenland to Siberia" is often used for a reason) and culturally diverse. The clothes and hairstyles typical of Baffin Bay Inuit are completely unrecognizable to what i grew up around in my King Island Inupiat family. It doesn't mean one is incorrect, it means we're different cultures, even if we're lumped under the same label by outsiders.
Some practical research advice for this specific topic:
Use specific terms. It may help to read into how the tribes and nations referred to themselves and using that
For strictly traditional things, try including "pre-assimilation" or look up when assimilating forces, such as missionaries and colonizer school requirements, showed up and narrow your searches to images or accounts from before that time
Try to find sources with input from elders. Do not underestimate the wealth of knowledge to be found in the oral tradition. Even school projects containing interviews with elders can provide some insight
I grew up in interior Alaska in the 2000s-10s with my cultural identity very important to me, but as such, my cultural knowledge is based on my culture and catologued through the lense of generations of assimilation and cultural exchange with more local peoples. My idea of irl culturally accurate Sokka and Katara and their family and compatriates is not the inherently correct one, despite my jokes and rants.
If any fellow Inupiaq, Yup'ik, or Inuk fans would like to contribute to this, please do
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Back to the "Gamers need to be more comfortable not owning their games" BS again for a second
No, I genuinely do not believe that anybody should be "comfortable" with the idea of not owning something they bought.
If you buy something, you should own it, and the company that sold it to you should not be able to take it away on a whim. The idea that you don't own your purchases is one that you should never be comfortable with.
Imagine if you bought a movie on DVD, and then later on, the person who sold it to you breaks into your house and takes it back. Would you be comfortable with that? Didn't think so.
Anyway, it's been said by so many people, and I said it in my original post about this, but it bears repeating; if buying something isn't owning it, then pirating it isn't stealing.
#ubisoft#piracy#pro-piracy#anti-consumer practices#consumer's rights#customer's rights#not sure what the correct phrasing there is
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Forgot to post this earlier but I did in fact comb the entire Vesperia script to determine how many times he uses ま/まあ throughout the game, along with a few other phrases he uses repeatedly. This counts all of main story, every single sidequest, and every single skit in the game.
Final counts were:
ま/まあ: 279
Ma/Maa; translates to "well". He uses this at the beginning of a sentence usually, but it's sometimes in the middle. "Ma" is usually more quick and snappy. "Maa" is more thoughtful and/or prolonged. Obviously it can vary based on context, but that's the general breakdown.
んじゃ and any variants: 133
Nja, along with variants such as "ja", "soreja", etc. Variants are counted when they're all used to express "let's get going", when they're about to head off ("ja" could be used in a sentence such as "ja/but then, why is xyz like this", etc). They encompass translations such as "well then" (let's get going implied. includes "so then", "then" "alright then", and so on), "we should be off", "let's get going", "let's go", etc. (not to be confused with 行こう(ikou), 行くぜ, (ikuze), and other similar versions of this phrase. That can also mean "let's go", but any instances of Yuri using that particular phrase was not counted because it wasn't a variant of, specifically, んじゃ, which is also his most common "let's go" ja variant).
おい / おいおい: 66
Oi/Oi oi; translates to "hey"/"hey, hey", though "oi" is more or less an accepted word in English nowadays.
おっと: 12
Otto (not to be confused with "oto", referring to sound); an expression of surprise that can translate roughly to "whoa there" (which is the most common translation I do see for it and what I'd use in most cases too, context of course varying). The reason I included this one despite it being so seemingly low in number is because it's not a particularly common expression, much less one used multiple times by a single character? It's so rare from anyone else, which is just a regular thing relative to Yuri and his dialogue/speech (i.e. most characters sparingly use phrases repeatedly, as compared to Yuri... as you can see lol. Other characters use these words/phrases, but nowhere near as regularly, if regularly at all).
Realized along the way I should've included やれやれ (yare yare, "good grief", "oh dear", "oh boy" etc), but by the time I realized I should have in case it was an interesting count, I was too far into the script to be able to handle going all the way back through it LOL.
No. No, I am not joking that Yuri used ま/まあ 279 times throughout the course of the game. That is to say, it could be more if I missed any, but on the assumption I didn't, that's where it stands.
Why do I love this so much? Because it's a very specific character quirk of a character I adore. I'm very fond of his repetition. Thank you.
#GTF Vesperia Things#GTF Yuri Things#so glad I gave him his own tag jpfjugDFJISHFG he fuckin' needs it#OH ALSO note that I may or may not have (I genuinely don't know I don't THIIIINK I did?) accidentally picked up#the “but then" etc variant of ja. at this point I don't remember and I'd have to go back through my doc of this#bc I was skim-combing the script juggling several phrases mainly for ma. if I ever do a recount I'll confirm lol#also shoutout to Rays for using ま/まあ 68 times for him which is 4 more times than he uses it in Vesp arc 1 main story#I'm both thankful and amazed that Rays' writers ACTUALLY kept it to the correct general extent at large (when you consider the size of#both games and Yuri's role) I've always expressed how dedicated they are to the source material of the legacy chars but#that CEMENTED it LOL. the way they retain speech quirks for legacy chars is amazing and I applaud them#he uses おい / おいおい 54 times throughout Rays#おっと was used 10 times throughout Rays which is hilariously almost identical to Vesp's usage#んじゃ they did keep but I didn't count the amount of times#now MIND YOU Rays is split into 4 arcs prior to Recollection (which he's not in) and has to contend with about 200ish legacy characters#Yuri is largely in arc 4 and has a large chunk of appearances in arc 2#he's mostly absent from arc 3 after the beginning of it and he's not in arc 1 much after the first chapter (which is his chapter)#he does show up in a lot of skits early into Rays tho since they only had so many chars to work with for arc 1 skits#and I also included count of those phrases in events (both skits and events throughout the game)#WHAT I'M SAYING is that Rays still managed to retain his word choice repetitiveness#and managed to get the count that high which is a very accurate reflection of it#while trying to put about 200 legacy chars through a revolving door#they were THAT on the nose with Yuri's quirks and further cements that this is a very Yuri thing#and a character quirk choice that was brought in from the game of origin#and they DID do this with other chars not just him... but the fact that they DID to me means#they thought it was important enough of a quirk to make sure they didn't lose it in his dialogue#WHICH. I AGREE. I AM VERY VERY DEEPLY PLEASED THEY KEPT IT#it just goes to show how dedicated they were in faithfully translating the characters into a gacha game#(not tl in the loc sense but tl in the ''writing a char outside their origin game for a non-origin game appearance'')#it also proved my theory that Yuri's vocal repetition was done intentionally bc they found it part of him enough to carry it over#anyway yeah i have yuri lowell brainrot and he pretty much owns 98 percent of the real estate in my brain these days
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what if we held on to whatever we get the idea of as Normal as unquestionable & think all you can do to this normal is apply some veneers overtop it to be more polite & also resent that. maybe we could project that everyone who seems to be Annoyingly Disruptively doing more than this must be putting on a performance to look good &/or humor others b/c that's all we ever believe we're doing, & again, we resent even that much....maybe we could use our show of More Polite language to make the same points blaming everyone who our Normal mistreats for their own mistreatment
#perhaps we could lecture autistic people on their; ah; Lacking Social Skills or Intelligence. it's just matter of fact#completely neutral what Annoys those who do well enough when thrown into any group settings; completely neutral how they React#like yeah can't possibly take issue w/anything Acceptable to Encouraged in the realm of even ''successful'' ''normal'' social interactions#infinite ''smh this is why nobody takes ableism seriously'' like oh you mean b/c of the ableism? is why you don't take it seriously?#infinite ways of phrasing that everyone alleged so Annoying With It is just like you but someone actively Putting On An Act too much#all it can possibly be. just as someone's Anti Ableism would be knowingly ''humoring'' / ''tolerating'' an autistic person e.g.#ah you see to this Person Who Identifies As Nonbinary's face i will try to mostly use Their Preferred Pronouns. that's that done#but it's sooo annoying. what's next; multiple &/or changing pronouns? god even worse. so Inflicted Upon my correct norm#if i'm not feeling actively malicious & devious in how i treat someone i am surely as righteous as it gets#having to improve on perfection by occasionally feeling Put Upon to perform politeness around some individuals? ughhh#that's why it's actually illegitimate. shouldn't have to be Put Upon like that. (finding the norm Questionable? out of the question Lol)#shocked ppl report that casual usage of the r word is having a revival. by shocked i mean [already clear ppl didn't care abt that]#& again just the current ''polite'' rephrasing of ableism like oh um :) disabled ppl are just a Specific kind of unintelligent & unskilled#& unprofessional & incompetent & a harmful scourge :) & maybe if they learned to be otherwise they wouldn't be punished :)#just formalized ABA vs the less formalized ABA huh. & the [the Real ableism] it ostensibly is to be saying all this i'm sure#something something not a real ally if they encourage behavior that will Make other ppl treat you badly. helpless neurotypicality :(#just as the ppl saying ableism is baked into terms & phrases used casually well beyond the [bad but lol guess not That Bad r word]#were definitely the ones Advancing Ableism by annoyingly overdoing the Polite Veneer you imagine they were Demanding#(rather than a more thorough questioning of language & accepted ''norms'' in pointing out the logics in their usage / basis)#simultaneously as being too much to ask it was also always so Frivolous as to not be worth the apparently infinitesimal effort#hmm guess we'll never solve the contradictions there....#not even with the ''openly saying 'see? i don't take ableism seriously & now it's Your Fault b/c i saw this & scoffed at it''' clues#& a final shoutout to the classic ''it's called being Realistic'' language in this & wherever else relevantly applied lol. we could go on
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Logging into tumblr just does not disappoint what do you mean the website's name is tumblr.com where the fuck did that .com come from. The hell are you playing at what is this. As far as I'm concerned this is 'hellsite central the tumblr' did I miss it getting a doctorate
#1 am brain finds this funny without a fail so have at it girlies#It feels so weird logging into tumblr ffs#All smooth interface with the phrases and asethetical pictures in the background#Then you log in and it's blood-drinking violins and heated discussions about the correct way of eating semolina pudding#I love it here#Sometimes#Tumblr#Just Tumblr overall because yeah#funny#Also yes I am fully aware what .com means I'm just. It feels so weird. Imagine saying it out-loud#“Tumblr dot com” what is this#Sure it works with Twitter dot com#But Tumblr dot com feels like calling a kid with their full legal name
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Seeing that latest post, I will likely not be sharing any more fan content on Welcome Home nor publicly discussing or mentioning it in any way until the creator is given a chance to set their own boundaries on what they are okay with people making
Edit: Please note because I feel like people aren’t understanding clearly. The creator has done nothing wrong, I am not boycotting WH. I do not want to add to the pressure of having to perform, to make a story with a purpose past doing something for the love of it. I want to give them a chance to tell their story however they need to. And I’m a tiny creator in a sea of thousands, and I’m going to continue to support their own original content for the media, but until they have found comfort again in what they are making, I am not going to share any creations on it.
#not art#karmas clown moments#because it is most important he is comfortable and safe and able to tell his story#and I do not want to even minutely add to this stressful of a situation#edit 2: following the latest post. I’m not sure what to do#I know reasonably we cannot do anything to ease the situation but I’d hate very much to make it worse#I feel like I am not phrasing things well so anyone is free to correct me. but yeah
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girlies I'm losing my mind.
#personal#vent#oh my goddddd#i thought my coworker and i were finally making decent progress on our project#that we have to present on THURSDAY MORNING#and this is the biggest project we need to do twice a year#only to find. at five fucking pm today. that she had not informed me we are resourcing two of our biggest fabric programs to a new supplier#which supplier? don't know#just know it's not going to be the one I've been planning for#and that the fabric program i DID want to resource#and had SPOKEN TO HER ABOUT TODAY#cannot go to the supplier I pencilled it in as#i don't know if she didn't know herself or just forgot or didn't care or didn't understand or what#for fuck's sake this is your job to know this stuff#don't just sit there looking gormless while i have to find out from YOUR BOSS#who then speaks to me in the most patronizing manner possible as she tells me she can't do my job for me#like motherfucker i just. need. correct. information. jesus christ.#also shout out to the big boss who last week was like tell me if you have any scheduling concerns guys!!!#and then when i told her today i have scheduling concerns because. uh. the fucking project is not going. anywhere. at this rate.#get told oh no sorry we can't do any schedule moves you can figure it out#like???? what???? was the point????? of asking us to come to you????#this is such a prolific fucking issue in my workplace and it drives me nuts#it's like management have heard these trite phrases on a managing people skills course somewhere#and not realised you need to back it up. with actual. actions.#also my manager whomst i loved is now on maternity leave and her replacement is someone i've worked with previously and. hm. suffice to say#she has not changed one bit#in regards to her complete inability to stand up for her team#i'm sure she has her good points but she's as supportive as a fucking wet paper towel#ignoring me trying to set boundaries on my time#but making sure SHE leaves on time for school pickup
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Paul loves enjambments
Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break. For example, the poet John Donne uses enjambment in his poem "The Good-Morrow" when he continues the opening sentence across the line break between the first and second lines: "I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?"
These are the examples that I could think of right now of Paul hopping across lines (well, if you agree with where the cuts are placed, as lines in a song can be written in several ways, and if you agree that the breaks in syntax are unusual enough to be considered poetic/interesting enjambments) :
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I've just seen a face I can't forget The time or place where we just met
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I was alone, I took a ride I didn't know what I would find there Another road where maybe I Could see another kind of mind there
... Ooh, you were meant to be near me Ooh, and I want you to hear me Say we'll be together every day
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And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong, I'm right Where I belong, I'm right Where I belong
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There beneath the blue suburban skies I sit and meanwhile back In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass
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And when the broken hearted People living in the world agree There will be an answer Let it be
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Mull of Kintyre Oh, mist rolling in from The sea, my desire Is always to be here Oh, Mull of Kintyre
Feel free to add more if you can recall any!
#the beatles#paul mccartney#i like the instances when these enjambments make the phrasing ambiguous with several meanings#or at least one meaning that ends up replacing the first one you constructed (you can look up garden path sentences which is a#related phenomenon)#like the ambiguity in ive just seen a face or obviously fixing a hole (my mind was blown when i realised this one)#also as a nonnative speaker i never could parse the lyrics to mull of kintyre although I’ve heard it lots#especially the ‘oh mist rolling in from’ line#never knew what he was saying until i looked it up#so i would always interpret based on the way he sang it that ‘the sea; my desire’ was a distinct element.#like; he asserts the sea is his desire#then i guess i did understand the next bit (‘is always to be here’) so idk why it made sense to me. well it just didn’t i suppose but i#never really pondered over it or anything!#oh wait omg. The following sentence IS valid although strange in a poetic way : ‘the sea; my desire; is always to be here.’#(Excuse the semicolons to replace commas because im in the tags)#-> i.e. the sea (which is my desire) ought to always be here !#(vs. the basic meaning : i wish to always be here; with ‘the sea’ being part of the previous phrase)#OMG paul was this intended? king of ambiguous/multiple meanings!#(am not actually 100% sure this was correct english but i hope so)
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LITANY AGAINST THE FEAR OF OTHERS OPINIONS
Do it scared. Do it weird. Do it alone.
LITANY AGAINST PARALYZING PERFECTIONISM
Do it bad. Do it wrong. Do it half-assed.
LITANY AGAINST ?????
A third trio??? A trio of threes would be nice but I can't think of any more
#is this......anything#idk#I just always like the idea of three threes#idk some of these overlap a lot#not sure if the categories make sense#no idea what the third litany would be#perhaps something about...doing things for the “wrong” reasons or not feeling things “correctly”#like. do it annoyed do it apathetic do it for the wrong reasons. or something. I dunno.#look I just really like pithy repeatable phrases and groups of threes#not sold on half-assed either I just can't think of a good word#~~~I dunno~~~ but these have been genuinely helpful for me so#WAIT#ok maybe take do it scared out of the first one and replace it with do it without apology#then the third can be#LITANY AGAINST UNATTAINABLE VIRTUE#Do it scared. Do it apathetic. Do it for the wrong reasons.#as sort of a guard against the perceived necessity to be in the “correct” emotional or moral state to do things#HMMMM have I lost the plot??? who cares. my blog. do it without apology.
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you know that awful feeling when you realize that a word you had incorporated into your vocabulary and have been using for years means something different than you thought it did and you've just been using it wrong without realizing it
I have discovered an arguably worse version of this feeling, which is "I thought this popular saying was a malapropism but it turns out that that word has a secondary meaning I didn't know about and I've been both pretentious and a fool this entire time"
#cam thoughts#this also means that I've been misunderstanding the phrase as well bc the thing that I thought was the ''correct'' word#sure does mean a different thing than what the actual word means#hi I'm almost 30 years old and I'm still learning new things every day#stay humble @me
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what does tagging dialouge mean exactly
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#dragon anon poster#hi dragon!#were you the one who just posted a snippet?#tagging dialogue (idk if that's the “correct” term but that's what i call it) is how you attatch a phrase onto spoken words!#untagged dialogue is line a one-liner where it's not stated who said something.#for example: “Are you really quite sure about that?”#whilst tagged dialogue has something on the end or the beginning that denotes who's speaking and/or an action.#for example: Galen smile widely and opened his mouth to say[comma] “Honest! My son told me so!”#(sorry - the unicode commas aren't working rn;;;)
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such a big fan of how apparently easy it is for misinformation to spread in rhe loz fandom
#this is kinda reply to a moot’s post but didnt want to tack on my own feelings abt it if that makes sense#delete later lol this is nothing#kinda jsut on like. god people sometimes do not play the games (or even just. look things up)#with ph specifically (bc i pay attention to it) its fucking crazy. i hate how twisted it gets with l////u stuff specifically#not to vaguepost like a petty guy but there was a l/////u thing i decided to read bc im at least a little interested#and bam. objectively incorrect info abt ph that you can correct easily. bitch you got that from fanart and i know exactly what fanart it wa#please like. maybe do ur homework??? like i get forgetting stuff or making assumptions but when it comes to like. wide misinformation#(like the fuckass ocean kings world is a dream dogshit)#can yall PLEASE like. ctrl + f in the text dump for the game or something#anyways im gonna go ctrl + f in the text duml to make sure bc im paranoid#also its like. headcanon vs actual game info ofc but i do see a lot of just. Wrong Shit phrased like its real info and w/e
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idk if this is a weird/naive take but i really get the sense from some people that they go to art school expecting to be taught Nothing
#maybe they’re just complaining about the instructors tone of voice or phrasing or something in a super roundabout way#i don’t know#i’m just kind of sick of seeing people complain that they were told to correct literally anything at all about the way that they draw#i get the desire to have fun in art and preserve your unique style but like if you’re so sure what you want to do already why are you. there#they’re always like basic concepts too. what else were you expecting#dottxt
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