#uses of noun

[english-mirror]

[milksockets]

goals

[official-linguistics-post]

"chat is a pronoun" has officially joined my list of internet linguistics pet peeves. "emojis are hieroglyphs" is welcoming them to the club.

[mywingsareonwheels]

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”

“It’s a lot more complicated than that –”

“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes –”

“But they starts with thinking about people as things…”

(Granny Weatherwax, to Pastor Mightily Oats, Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett.)

[elftwink]

going to say something about writing that is not a complaint and i know it sounds exactly like someone complaining but the conclusion i have drawn is that this rules. preface over am currently "working on" (in the most generous, nebulous sense possible) an original fantasy story & i just keep finding more stuff about the world i need to decide because it feels extremely formative to me even though it will barely appear on the page, if at all

but like... just the sheer volume of communication irl that happens symbolically that you never question becomes so apparent when you try to create a world that doesn't have those things or doesn't have the conditions for such a thing to be created. writing a character wearing a wedding ring and then going wait a minute— would these people communicate marital status via ring placement? why do we do that irl? when did we start? surely thats not the only way people ever communicate marriage— what does everyone else do? and really, come to think of it, what does it mean to be 'married' in this fictional world i'm creating? is there a legal component or just a social one? should it have all the same connotations/obligations as the real world (e.g. monogamy, having children, romantic love, impact on finances, etc)?

you can do this with literally Everything In The World. what language is everyone speaking? is it the same one? how many languages are there in the region i'm writing about? is the language we're speaking anyone's second language? when did they learn? is bilingualism common? and where does everyone here live? speaking of living, is that a permanent dwelling situation or are people nomadic? what's the climate like? are all the characters here used to the climate or is someone used to ten degrees cooler and kind of short tempered because of it? the clothes are probably impacted by the weather, what's everyone wearing? what's it made out of? what would be around here that could be used for dye? help me i have a case of worldbuilders disease and its incurable. these motherfuckers are never going to finish this journey because i cant even get them on the page long enough to pack a cart. also would they use carts? when did we start having cart and carriages pulled on roads irl? if there's roads, who's maintaining them— or is it just the path from years of people travelling that way? does the terrain allow for wheeled vehicles or would some other way be better?

anyway. you may call all this a waste of time and "not technically writing" since i "havent written any prose". i think im just slow cooking this novel. oooooh im thinking about it so much. you just wait when im like 56 im going to knock your socks right off with my intricate detailed world where i thought about everything except whatever element of society you understand most deeply. that part i fucked up and clearly didn't know anything about. sorry

[iamfuckingsorry]

So I've recently realized that murderbot's been translated into my native language and it's apparently a he in the translation (which admittedly makes sense, because it's a heavily gendered language and 1. gender-neutral language doesn't really exist in general and 2. "bot" and all the related words - I believe they use "droid" for mb in the translation - are grammatically masculine).

It made me curious how it's been handled in other translations though!

*e.g. being referred to by multiple gendered nouns/pronouns depending on the context, like both "bot" (masculine) and "machine" (feminine).

[jiraisupportgroup]

[carolkinopf]

that time period when feldspar spent more time in space than on timber hearth

[shedoesntevengohier]

By the way, whoever came up with benitence as a ship name is a genius.

(I don't use it bc of personal tagging preference but whoever came up with InnocEnce is also a genius).

[secretidentie]

What do the bat's in the batcave do??

Like they never get startled or shit on anything important so they're probably trained. But does Bruce ever use them. Sort of like how the government used pigeons yk. Do they spy on bad guys? Has he ever called on them to finish a fight? Are there carrier bats that just send letters coz "batman's too mysterious to send emails Alfred!"?

There's no way Bruce "breathes in contingency plans" Wayne has a swarm of bat's at his disposal and doesn't use it ever. I'm sure there's a bunch of bat-centric contingency plans. Partly coz it's practical but mostly coz it's on brand.

[visenyaism]

god. sorry for being a bad dyke I am way more compelled by this worlds dumbest idiot genius bisexual man and his bitchy hag cult leader lab partner soulmate doomed yaoi than I am Caitlyn and Vi

[bearotonin-international]

Murder kitty quivers before her

[rayb15h0p]

[ID: Three images, stacked vertically. Image 1 is an Elon Musk Tweet, from October 4, 2022: "Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app". Beneath it, the Image 2 is a close-up of a dictionary listing defining the word "accererant as 'noun: a substance used to aid the spread of fire." The word "fire" is highlighted. The definition continue with an example "stolent accelerants could be used as firebombs" and further continues the definition as "adjective (technical): accelerating or causing acceleration. 'accelerant factors for carcinoma'". Image 3 contains two panels from K.C. Green's Gunshow comic #648, better known as the "This is Fine" dog meme, in the first panel the MC is flailing their arms surrounded by everything that is on fire screaming "OHMYGOD EVERYTHINGS ON FIRE" and the second panel where they continue screaming "WHAT THE HELL IS MY PROBLEM, their face distorted, their eyes bulging, their cute little bowler hat suspended in midair on the precipice of not quite ever falling off. Juxtaposed over these two panels at a 50% opacity overlay is the (at the time of posting) new Twitter/X homepage teaser, which displayed a truly massive overcompensation of an X-logo surrounded by edgy font reading "what's happening what"s happening what's happening what's happening" all down the image. The image of the logo and "what's happening" provides a , /end ID]

[ahalliance]

many thoughts to be had about the german announcement for the qsmp but all ive really taken from it atp is that ‘auf der qsmp’ implies that the qsmp is a woman 🎉 happy late international’s women day to her

[postanagramgenerator]

how many asks do you have to pass over for lack of viable material

alright breaking the gimmick for this one. please look at this

if anyones thing doesnt get done it is through no fault of theirs. ive been deleting some stuff thats obviously going to be too hard/i just dont want to do but mostly im just randomly picking out whatever looks fun because i can only get through so many and still have it be a fun hobby i dabble in when i feel like it lol

[phlondsbian]

okay i’ve been holding this in for 10 years and i think it’s time to say something. the name danandphilgames makes no sense to me. people have named their channel [name]games because it was a singular person gaming. “games” was used as a verb. it should be danandphilgame but the woke left doesn’t want you to know that