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[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

why shax misspelling toast actually makes so much sense and says a lot about this ridiculous language of ours

Yeah this is a post I'm making now, fight me. I was trying to explain spelling bees to @komorezuki and she mentioned the demonic misspellings being understandable now because English is, well, English (other languages do not have spelling bees, and now that I think about it, having international competitions where even native speakers are struggling to spell words is a wild concept).

And Shax is actually being so logical when spelling toast as t-o-s-t-e. Especially with the hesitant addition of the e. Here's why.

Because in English, often, the e is added at the end to elongate the vowel sound. This is probably best explained with examples.

Think about how you would have pronounced 'tast' out of context versus taste. The first one has an 'a' sound that resembles apple, right?

(Side note, the double consonant often performs the opposite function of the e, it shortens vowel sounds, like apple vs able. 'Abble' would have a short a and 'aple' would have a long a, which is why they're not spelt that way. Another example where both the e and the double consonant get illustrated perfectly is the word app verses the word ape.)

Also, ad verses -ade (like youtube ad vs lemonade). Right? So toste rather than tost. Shax was operating logically when she added the e.

Except well, English is a fuck-all free-for-all fuck-it-let's-ball language. If you squint at a section it makes sense and then you look at another section and it doesn't at all.

Like cost is short vowel, but coast makes it long, it isn't a 'coste'. So it's actually toast, rather than toste.

But also post doesn't need an e at the end and it's still a long vowel. Caste has an e at the end and is pronounced the same as cast, with the short vowel.

Yeeeeeeep.

Shax gets a gold star for logical thinking and effort.

[vaguely-concerned]

there are a lot of daddy issues to go around on DS9 in general, but odo, bashir and garak are really in their own special little fucked up 'what am I but wrought in my father's image' club

[hauntinghyrule]

well shit

[itspileofgoodthings]

the average comment section on Instagram underneath a picture of a woman who does not hit every requirement of conventional beauty is disgusting for so many reasons but it personally drives me crazy because it’s so full of idiotic thinking and false premises on all sides. like “she’s so unhealthy ewww” and “actually she is healthy” both leave me angry because it ! doesn’t ! matter ! if she’s healthy ! or not healthy ! That is a) none of your business or your concern, b) doesn’t give you the right to be a jerk! You owe people basic respect and decency!!!!!! No !!!! Matter !!!! What !!!!!! Doesn’t matter if they’re the unhealthiest person alive!!!

[abyssaldyke]

Oh my god if you are in the USA and filing your taxes yourself this year, please use the irs free file tool to find guided tax software. You can calculate your agi (adjusted gross income, basically the first thing on your W-2) quite easily and if it is under $79k USD, the irs will direct you to free tax software so you can file both federal and state at the same time. I ended up using 1040.com for my slightly-complex return and it took me 2 measly hours. Be not afraid! Go forth and file!

[oplishin]

unfortunately i do have a general distaste for ospreay because of *gestures vaguely* all the speaking out stuff he tripped ass backwards into???

[willowcrowned]

man it’s so weird that people are always at their most incompetent and deserving of ire when I have to wake up at 6:30 AM. surely this is a strange coincidence that is 100% their fault and not because I didn’t sleep enough

[carefulfears]

what do you consider the heart of californication? like really carries through the series & makes it compelling

thank you for this question, i really love it. to me, it's a number of things, starting with that the show cares deeply about hank and takes him seriously in a way that the culture doesn't. in a way, yes, he's their dog and pony show with the funny one-liners and the salacious pull. but the arc of the series is unequivocally aligned with him and his desires and his needs and his values.

hank wants to be with his family, wants to be better for them, wants to not let them down- and the show needs him to fail at all of those things. for the dog and pony of it all, for their viewership and for their thesis and for the food in their mouths, but it simultaneously feels bad that he is failing. simultaneously knows that this isn't what he wants, and that it's sad. and it can be as simple as a dream sequence or a look or a quiet final scene, but every single episode is ultimately going to remind you that everything you're laughing at is a loss.

which, like i said at the top, speaks to a level of respect that the show had for the character that is just gone in discussions of the series. they take the time to recognize that he is missing something. he is losing something and he is without everything that means anything to him, this is the cost. equally important, duchovny respects that character and understands the same.

i was listening to an interview last night (trish you heard this) where he was speaking with some podcast dudebros and one of the hosts said that he always wanted to be just like hank moody, and then he made some "bad decisions" and got there, and he doesn't like it. and duchovny said that every time people come up to him saying "i'm just like hank moody," he says "i'm sorry."

men watch and they want to be just like hank moody and women watch and they want to fuck hank moody so bad, and all of you miss what the source comprehends: that it's an irreparable deficit.

other than that, i feel like what roots that show is that it really isn't all that cynical. not in the way that it could be. and the show believes in hank.

there is a lot of kindness and hope (often false hope) that runs underneath most every relationship and interaction and dynamic in the series and i really really appreciate that about it. it's like in the pilot when hank is being mean and he wants marcy to yell at him and she just says "go home, honey. sleep it off. tomorrow's another day."

there's always a little bit of understanding and grace amongst the crazies and i think there's something really special about that

[beevean]

Johnny did change his mind later on in his more recent colors review about the story.

Though now that you mentioned him it reminded me of a Discord server I'm in who take potshots at his opinion for ever thinking the story is good because "they knew it was shit even as kids" insultingly they're adventure/dark era fans.

I know! That proves my point even more! I pulled his review from 2010 for a reason 😭

I think we're straying further from the main point. It's not about specifically Johnny's opinions. It's about how the fandom has shifted in the last decade, and Colors, a game that nowadays is considered decent but the start of many problems writing wise, was lauded! It broke the infamous Sonic Cycle! Things that nowadays fans criticize like the cheesy jokes or the simple plot were what the fans wanted, because the average mentality was that the 2000s, which nowadays are worshipped and are getting a nostalgic comeback, sucked major ass in everything and they brought Sonic to a low!

I'm trying to put things into perspective, that's all.

[beetlehoven]

does anybody actually like crespecular like his wiki is so barebones i was giggling. anyway i love eccentric fucks

tbh i don't think I'll ever draw him again after my little project is done bc he is not important to me but! im going to animate a little thing and he will be in one (1) frame so i had to have some sort of doodle-y reference ♥️♥️

[emdotcom]

New Post Shift 2 content has dropped. We eat well, tonight, lads (the lads being myself)

[thebirdandhersong]

on a more serious note I would really appreciate prayer for an awful email I have to write (which I've been desperately putting off the whole week). It is a necessary one that I hate to write and I hate to do it but I have to and I REALLY don't want to.

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Call to Mystery

Electric voices whisper in the dingy grey of attic walls. They crackle effervescently in the hollows of adjoining spaces, Illuminating the pathways seldom seen in silvery circuits. Their touch, sharp yet satisfying, is a necessity and a danger. It is too easy to simply float away and forget the grounded state. Mystery is the oldest temptation. Yet every time the voices whisper, We take the Same Electric Bite.

[dazzlerazz]

Me figuring out the story of the game just a few dialogue boxes before it feeds me that information

[tungledotedu]

'losing the support of arab and muslim voters is fine actually' -maga but blue

biden loyalists outright admit that minorities who support their party are interchangeable. they will happily ignore the grief, despair, and anger of the people impacted by biden's policies if they can rely on another group to show up and vote.

and it's interesting how they note that american voters almost never care about foreign policy. i mean, we've known that for a while. you don't care what your leaders do outside of your country as long as they're good to you. if that isn't chauvinism, i don't know what that is.

and you can't claim to care about antisemitism while conflating jewish people with zionists!

(21 dec) editing to add more receipts:

'normal people'. wow.

aren't these libs also white. condemning 'talking over minorities' while claiming from the river to the sea has 'really ugly connotations'...

and when they do share one palestinian voice, it's... ahmad fouad alkhatib. who graduated from the american military university and works for an american 'near east' policy institute. there's a great takedown of the newsweek article by apollos-olives, who is also palestinian.

i highly doubt that sprinkledsalt actually follows other palestinian people, whether they're everyday people on tumblr or media personalities (unless they have convenient opinions for liberals). and no, you can't claim they're prioritising their mental health when they freely share articles about hamas atrocities and mass rapes. there's no way they wouldn't know about the general strike.

[urne-buriall]

Dreamy Drabble Prompt: Adventure

It was between them and the family adventure park, and on Dean to convince the financer, Rich, to fund the money-sink of a blind horse rescue.

After a tour of the farm they clustered around the kitchen table. Dean paged through budgets, blueprints of new outbuildings, program plans for some small revenue. Cas' knee knocked against Dean's to stop it bouncing.

Rich sat back, looking around with long consideration, then pinned his eyes on Dean and Cas.

"You're together," he said. So flat and plain that Dean struggled to respond.

Rich took out his chequebook. "My Dave just loves horses."

prompts :: spirit of the west