#the language of god or whatever

[outer-edges]

just discovered cockney rhyming slang and i am SO obsessed with this i wish it didn't sound absolutely ridiculous in american english because it is right up my alley i LOVE doings that make my speech borderline incomprehensible

[m4g0hun]

lost child

[seashellronan]

so depressing i was shopping and saw a child no older than one and a half clearly not even walking or talking yet in a pram with a phone in front of their face watching cocomelon or whatever the fuck, like your child cannot even comprehend language they do not need to be stimulated like this they should be looking around at the world and learning!!!!! some people are just so terrified that their child might make a noise or ask for something so they plant them in front of a screen to be seen and not heard. do you not realise that a child crying or making noise is them attempting to learn to communicate with you???!! if every time they do that you instantly distract them and overstimulate them you are going to seriously hinder their development like please just don’t have kids if you’re not prepared to actually let them be children this makes me so sad

[bleachbleachbleach]

Kenpachi's Place

On the subject of "what people call each other" more generally, my favorite Bleach topic, Aizen is also kind of weird about Zaraki. He refers to Renji leaving the 5th for the 11th as Renji being "taken away to Kenpachi's place." Was he. Was he kidnapped. Is Kenpachi's Place a trafficking front.

Referring to Zaraki by title is a Choice, for sure. I don't know if anyone else does that (besides Ichigo), but I can think of many who do not, would never.

Referring to the 11th as "Kenpachi's Place" also feels like a Choice. It makes me think about Renji's question to Ichigo when they first meet:

[Bleach 054]

His meaning of is speech bubble is, "Which [number] Division are you affiliated with?" but the pronunciation is just "Where are you affiliated?" So there's already a sense, I guess, that the geographic question of "where" implies your divisional affiliation, and that divisions are thought of as places. Makes sense, given that all the divisions are meaningful geographic spreads in the Seireitei.

Is it still weird that it's "Kenpachi's Place" and not just idk, "the 11th Division"? I mean, I think it is, but it does speak to the unique tradition of leadership succession the 11th's got going on, and how intense the cult of personality is in the 11th, as a division whose nature is extremely tied to the nature of whoever its leader happens to be.

Aizen also never actually refers to the 11th as the 11th, so in order to make that connection we'd have to remember Zaraki's name and number from when he showed up at Byakuya's Place. Why wouldn’t he? Idk but I enjoy it as character info. (NB: Byakuya is perfectly happy to refer to Tousen purely by number, as "9th Captain" and not by any name at all, so there's a lot of different conventions out and about across the various captains.)

[donovan-desmond-official]

its been a week and i am standing my ground on not commenting on the most recent sxf chapter. everyday i see a post that makes me want to rip my hair out but i stay silent. #maturity

but what i will say

a few months back i made a post about the prevalence of incest in anime and it's relation to individualism and separatism (purity culture based). where essentially close relationships between two adult siblings of opposing sexes is eroticized and seen as unnatural and childish.

the combined belief that adults of the opposite sex should only interact for romantic/sexual purposes and the idea that being an adult (in an individualist culture) means distancing yourself from your family and starting your own family (aunts and uncles do not exist in the nuclear family).

so it does not surprise me that Yuri's continued attachment to his seen as childish or that part of Yor's development following marrying Twilight is distancing herself from her brother and prioritizing her family over him. but what makes me laugh the most is seeing fans push this idea that Yuri needs to get with Chloe as part of his development. that what he needs is a girlfriend to help him move on from his sister. that he needs to start engaging in a heterosexual relationship and stop clinging onto his sister.

and yet, i was told i was wrong in my assessment. hm

[simcardiac-arrested]

wait, that elias?

[luna-the-cretar]

“you would know, during our time together, that I have a close relationship with fire”

ANDY. ANDY WHY YOU GOTTA WORD IT LIKE THAT. ESPECIALLY TO SARNAX OF ALL PEOPLE.

[highest-seas]

unsieg gipfel??? really???? REALLY UNSIEG THE FIRST NAMES GOT TRANSLATED TOO????? okay no fr now bc i legitimately just got confused and kinda jumpscared by this so i will bitch about it for a second: in my native language the asoiaf books are all split in two so we have ten books in total atm (there is one other translation in five books but that one was limited). up until book 7 so the first part of affc the translation left names of characters and locations how they were in the original. and then boom 2010 14 year old me was thrown into misery when part two of affc came out and it was that new translation (the previous books also came out in that new issue obv) character and location names changed, appendix with the og names and the translated names added so you can look up who tf this and that mf even are. the reason why i was seething abt it today once again was bc i wanted to look smth up and i'm always shown the biggest german asoiaf wiki and the biggest english one and i don't really care which one i click when i just want some piece of info. and that when i heard that aggravating grating voice in my head reading "unsieg gipfel" and i deadass needed at least five seconds to get that that's unwin peake. peak=gipfel in german so okay that wasn't the surprise but. win=sieg in german so yeah they even translated some first names when they saw the slightest chance and now we're full circle with this post bc UNSIEG??????

[justaz]

thinking of genderfluid merlin married to arthur :(

someone calling for the king asking where he is only to find merlin and immediately correct themself and refer to her as the queen :( thinking of merlin shifting for in the middle of a feast or meeting and people immediately switching from referring to him as the queen to calling him the king :( arthur calling merlin his beautiful wife or handsome husband or beautiful husband or handsome wife bc he’s a sap in love :(

[zephyrlion45]

Trifecta of worlds, and you're a different man each time

[to-the-starlit-west]

whenever i feel depressed i read a novel (fiction!) in irish and then i remember im a minority language speaker fighting the good fight against colonialism and i feel better about myself

(the book by the way was amstardam by éamon ó ruainí, it’s a very short novel but a great read!)

[boltlightning]

life, restored

A Guardian rises from the deep from his centuries-long rest. (or: the James Norrington as a Destiny Guardian AU absolutely no one asked for) ✦ destiny + potc au, somehow. 2k+ words

His first life, he drowns.

A pure white light cuts through the darkness, steady and strong despite the deadly crush of the ocean. From the ball of light, one eye, black with a blue diamond iris, searches him over, and then he drowns, lungs crushed and body soon following.

His second life, he takes a breath, and drowns again.

His third life, the water is lighter around him. The white light looks at him and says, somehow, voice clear as a bell in his ears, “Fly!”

In the moments he has before he drowns, he reaches out to grab the light, and finds that his arm glows with a matching incandescence. Flame rips through him. He curls up into a tight ball against the pressure and cold and resists the urge to gasp at the sudden rush of sensation. The light is a sun bursting from his heart—and around him, the illuminated halo turns to flame.

(read here on ao3!)

[mantisgodsdomain]

More notes for Roach conlanging. Roach has grammatical gender, in which only Male, Female, and Object are grammatical genders, whereas Worker uses feminine grammar, Queen and King use a slight variant on feminine grammar, and Drone, and Queen-Alate use masculine grammar. This is because King is derived from Queen, due to their similar positions in a colony, and Queen-Alate is derived from Drone, as both are forms of alate.

Queen is an alteration of feminine grammar that functionally just adds a handful of extra syllables to it, and King is an offsprout of Queen that uses the same grammar with different pronouns. Queen-Alate, despite the name, is derived from Drone, as they are both for referring to different types of alate ant.

Most Roach dialects are intelligible to speakers of Snakemouth Den Cordyceps Roach, but Snakemouth Den Cordyceps Roach is not entirely intelligable to speakers of Roach dialects due to a mix of the excessively specialized vocabulary caused by the specific needs of its speakers, the fact that its speakers do not necessarily have Roach mouthparts and thus may not pronounce syllables in a similar way, and due to the fact that Inanimate Object is a full grammatical gender that does not exist in any other dialect of roach and replaces a decent chunk of terminology for things that previously had Other Words For Them.

[rivilu]

One side effect of the autistic sense of justice for me is going insane over justice and vengeance as concepts in themselves whenever applicable in media.

Which unfortunately means that thinking about justice dragon age for too long (especially with the post inq takes on spirits) makes me want to rip my hair out.

[ezlo-x]

Just found out that totk Ganondorf’s motives was butchered in the English translation!! 😁

[nonndrawz]

When Týr becomes an companion in the next game and he has a wonderful dyamnic with Kratos, everyone is gonna start shipping them and the Kratýr nation will rise up again!!! 🗣🔥