#what's proper grammar

[geraskierfanficprompts]

Prompt 57

Jaskier likes hugs. Like a lot. Like dozens a day, a lot. Which is why it's so odd when Jaskier suddenly stops touching Geralt unless he he absolutely has to. Geralt is admittedly getting quite jealous, however, because Jaskier hasn't stopped touching anyone and everyone else. Has the horror of being a witcher finally set in for the bard? Is he disgusted to so much as lay a finger on him, now? Geralt starts just being concerned about it, however, when Jaskier keeps almost hugging him. So Jaskier clearly wants to hug him, but refuses to do so. Did someone say something? Is he worried about Geralt? He worries for Geralt an awful lot. Oh fuck, is he cursed? Geralt finally breaks and asks (demands) Jaskier why he stopped hugging him, when Jaskier clearly still wants to. "It's because you hate it! Obviously! I- I'm trying to be a good friend!" Geralt knows he can be a bit stoic, but he thought Jaskier would take the fact that Geralt hugs back and doesn't shove him away as more than enough motivation to keep doing what makes him so happy. "I never felt so bad. I really thought you had no problem with me being so- So clingy. If I had known better, I wouldn't! Honest, Geralt!" "Why do you think I have a 'problem' with it?" "You growled at me!" Oh fuck. He purred. Jaskier doesn't know he can purr.

[luna-loveboop]

I've never done a poll before, so good luck

Who do y'all think Time'll handcuff to him be with for his group in the dungeon? I've seen a lot of people say he will try to control who goes with who since he's scared for their lives rn (valid)

The options are the individual boys, just go with who you think is most likely to be in his group I guess?

Anyways like I said I've never done a poll so it might be messed up or make no sense, should be fun :D

Let me know if this doesn't work. And yes I know it's not well organised.. it's ok. right?

I think that unlike when they split in the Divine Dark Reflections arc, they might try to stay in bigger groups, and I think Time would probably want to have as many close to him as possible (his group have three or four), but I uhh didn't know how to incorporate that.

It's silly, but right now I can't stop imagining a scene where they reach the central room and everyone sprints off into the groups they want before time can argue.

Anyone who goes with legend will survive physically and anyone who goes with four will survive mentally.

[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.

[menelaiad]

the narrative/timeline of the tantalids as i understand it.

[swallowtail-ageha]

Totally get why fromsoft would use not grammatically accurate latin lyrics for their songs because. Meter Shenanigans. But also as someone who chews it. It kinda hurts

[shoezuki]

is it notable that in the doctor fic sampo and gepard have different speech patterns? i mean im at a point of them goin back n forth n im hyperaware of how i want them to Sound different. like gepard tends to speak more 'properly', not exactly formal but in often in complete sentences while sampo is a lot more informal and a bit all over the place.

i mean I see it but im also the one writing it

[valewritessss]

Okay I understand the confusion of “lose” and “loose”(I don’t) but “YOUR” AND “YOU’RE”???

Are we actually being serious? Is it laziness or did we actually forget first grade spelling class. I’m not talking about non-native speakers but the ones that only know English what are we doing? Same thing with “two”, “too”, and “to”. What kind of epidemic are we living through because there’s no way you’re not understand the difference.

And I tried to be understanding at first because I know a lot of people who aren’t fluent in English or just didn’t grow up with it, my family included. But for my friends that have lived here their whole lives and have never spoken another language this is an issue. Every time one of them writes “your” but they mean “you’re”, a small fragment of my soul fades. “You’re house” am I??? The little blue dots underline the word as I write this.

When I say it’s going to be rare to know how to properly write in the future I was not kidding. Some mistakes are just mistakes but there’s people that never get it right, not even once. Once again, this doesn’t apply to the non native speakers. Although I must say, my mom has very limited English vocabulary but she knows the difference.

Do you know how much I cringed while revising my friend’s final essay. He was complaining that his English teacher scolded him for writing “u” instead of “you” and it was hard to keep my mouth shut— I repeat it was his final essay, and the final draft. And it’s not the way we’ve been taught it, because I know a handful of people that understand grammar and the majority of us have been taught the same thing in the same classroom.

I know people who brag about not knowing multiplication by 4, but that’s a different conversation.

I was born here, but I grew up only speaking Spanish until I started school and I’m thriving, so maybe it’s just me that can’t comprehend how someone who was born and raised here, whose entire family only knows English, who only writes in English can’t understand the difference between “you’re” and “your”. If there’s actually something that prevents you from learning it or understanding it then this isn’t about you either. I am talking about the people who just don’t care to learn or who don’t try at all. No one else other than that.

I’m sorry for this rant but I’m not because it had to be said. I apologize if it’s controversial but I just had to share. I’m not the queen of English grammar either but I know the basics (the bare minimum). For the final time, I am not talking about non-native speakers, or people genuinely have a hard time learning this stuff or remembering it. Take what I said with a grain of salt but my opinion remains and I express it shamelessly.

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

i've mentioned here and there that i made a relationships/dynamic spreadsheet. i have finally put it to use. look on my Works, ye mighty, and despair.

-extra note: i am not omniscient and i cannot watch every stream. i may have missed a sibling declaration or two.

-extra extra note: i currently speak only english and used google translate for the rest. if theres a translation error I'd love to know- i wont be able to go back and fix these, but im always so curious about how accurate google translate can be

extra extra note pt 2: do. do other languages use guardian as in "legal guardian" as in "not a family member but still Primary Caregiver of child" because i am suddenly aware those translations might not be correct. on the other hand tho if google translate decided that the parents are guarding warriors of the eggs im not going to argue

[necrotic-nephilim]

I’m here to bother you again!!!

You don’t have to if you don’t want to but maybe dark ship bingo with timjay or brudick????

hELLO i love being bothered by you this is delightful omg thank you, i would love to

Here is JayTim, I can't believe I only got one bingo for them. Ironically I genuinely don't view Jason and Tim as family, even when I'm not shipping them, I think they're tentative allies at best and you can only brother-ify them if you're doing very generously OOC fluff, a la WFA-style. They're absolutely toxic and codependent on each other's existence, Tim wouldn't exist without Jason and Jason is Undeniably Weird about Tim, but not brothers so I can't check off the familial squares. Also, I have no idea if I've been blocked by 10+ people, but it'd be funny if I am. And funnily enough, I don't think Tim or Jason are vanilla in any capacity even when they're not fucking. Especially not Tim, that boy is Certified Weird.

and ofc BruDick I nearly blacked out the whole board because they absolutely are weird and unwell. Some of these only apply to certain AUs of BruDick (like an idea I have rattling in my skull rn with Talon!Dick) but most of it applies to them all the time. I really need to write some fucked up BruDick, it's tragic I haven't yet. Right now the two fics I'm working on are a weird JayDick and a more fluffy DamiDick, but I have Plans™ for BruDick too. They are the OG and deserve their flowers for being the most toxic mess you've ever seen.

[deklo]

5, 7, & 8 for the fandom ask game? :)

5. something you see in fics a lot and love

this is kinda tough because i tend to choose specific tags on ao3 so i see a lot of the same stuff in fics based on those. and it’s usually angsty stuff hehe so idk how common it REALLY is, but ive read quite a few pynch fics (usually no supernatural) where ronan is an artist either at school or as a hobby/career and i just kinda love the idea of him being an artist :) it seems kinda fitting (or maybe i’m just projecting) also tattoo artist!!!! ♡

7. your favorite tropes to read/write/draw

one of my fav tropes to draw lately are kid AUs :) both my fav characters having non-canon children and drawing my fav characters as children lol i get bursts of baby fever and none of my friends are having kids so so i gotta draw some :/ also love putting my fav sad guys in loving situations!

fav trope to read (in fic) is always hurt/comfort stuff. love a good mental health issue. genuinely love a there’s only one bed trope fjfnfjfn SORRY. ALSO SICK FICS!!! give those characters a cold!!!!!

8. you hope more people will come to appreciate ___ (a ship, a trope, an episode, etc)

tbh. rovinsky :) love my beautiful rovinsky mutuals but i feel like i need more. actually, to go back to my fav fic tropes, i love reading fic that has unhealthy rovinsky with (healthy?) pynch endgame jcfnfjfb specific but common enough in fic and i eat it up every time!

[sleepy-aletheas]

Well, it's 3am. I have a lot of thoughts as I'm just running around in Divergent Universe, so I might as well just free-style my gripes with the game's plot-related messiness that hopefully one day they can fix.

(It's a bit of a long tangent with no real point??? Just something to toss into the ether to stop fixating on it so I can go to bed later with a lighter head)

The thing about Star Rail's story writing is that they got good ideas, some golden thought-nuggets one can ruminated over even long after the story beat, and enough materials (direct and indirect) that one can just construct theories from different angles for many moments. Star Rail being set as a space odyssey, really, leaves so much room for creativity and plot potential, it easily becomes detrimental if they don't convey it carefully enough.

My major gripe with the writing is not really in the plot holes, or unresolved stuff (not necessarily at least, unless I think too deeply about it and crave answers), especially since these can be filled out and explained later down the line by returning to places or new areas that expand on it; but it's in the setup and no pay off. It's not even necessarily about the later either, if they made the pay off in a patch way down the line, it would be okay, but they set everything up too much like "this is urgent now" and then left it hanging, or resolve stuff behind the scenes without many threads that we can follow to double check the logic.

Their biggest weakness is the rush of story telling. The plot moves too fast to really indulge in the ideas and the emotions, the characters do behave more naturally, but the plot is moving on before they even get a whole sentence out (hyperbolic as what I'm saying is, they speed through too many things at a breakneck speed to really digest and feel something about it). The only time we get a breather is when the plot of the patch is over.

Right now it's very noticeable in Penacony, because we just played it through, but looking back, Belobog and the Luofu had their pacing issues in certain areas too. Hell, them releasing Herta's Space Station, Belobog, and the Luofu at the same time probably was one of the messier decisions in the story telling department they made.

Belobog came out of this actually pretty well. We jumped a bit too fast into the whole "oh no, we're wanted now????" plot, but the story became more reasonable in the Underworld and then the various character quests and events made it also more lived-in and gave enough threads to emotionally attach to the place. It was like they wanted to get to the good stuff, so they sped through the first 20 minutes to give a conflict and plop us down to Boulder Town with Bronya, so she can have her character development as soon as possible. The various events and casual interactions with easter eggs made it more fun and filled in the spaces with life and meaning, but still, the main plot was a bit too fast at the start to really ease us into the story.

The Luofu was...a mess. The main plot jumped from one point to another, never really lingering on anything or anyone, and Tingyun's betrayal (can we even call it that?) came a bit too strong too fast with minimal foreshadowing (I mean, her probing through the text messages about TB's opinions about immortality and stuff was kinda giving it away, since she would dance around the talks of taboos too freely, but it was pretty uneventful and then it felt weird when the reveal snapped around). Yukong's character quest was one of the better ones, cause we actually got to know something about her directly (even if indirectly from her), and we got a chance to know more about her life as a pilot, a friend, and a mother. But the others like Yanqing or Bailu were pretty much side tracked and just thrown together as some fighting events with minimal plot or emotions. I learned more about Bailu in Aarum Alley's event than her outing with Dan Heng and TB. Truly, the most interesting story lines on the Luofu are about the NPCs, which is fascinating to see (I'm like one of 5 people that loves NPCs in games and gets probably too unreasonably attached to them, often more than the PCs). They can probably fill out the gaps and dissatisfaction with events and more characters and their stories, but the first playthrough of the main quest leaves a lot to desire, and that's a shame.

And then we got Penacony, which has a lot of ups and so much buildup, and then they didn't go anywhere. Not really. They set up stuff about the physical real planet where Penacony sits, and they hinted and put allegories about the past. They introduced a lot of characters, and conflicts, and motives, and relationships, and possible future events and alliances and plans. But a lot of these don't have a resolution. Which again, wouldn't be bad, if they didn't make it out to be as an urgent matter that needs to solve during this present plot, only for it to never be addressed again. Can that change any patch they want? Yes, of course. But in the current time it's unsatisfactory and could have been presented better to not leave everything up to guess work and anticipation of anything coming out of it right now.

I didn't really go into the story of Herta's Space Station, because it was more of a tutorial space that doesn't have any pressing matters (well, except the Antimatter Legion, but shhh) that need to be watched out for. It's really a good space to just introduce characters, events, possible plot for other places. It's a neutral space that can do a good amount of heavy lifting for the story, even if it would be used as a setup.

Even through all of this, I still enjoy the game, the story, the characters, the gameplay. I have my hangups, my huffs and puffs over stuff that could have been fixed or worked on more before release, but that can be said about any media depending on what a person seeks out of it. The game gives enough to go ham on theories, leaves enough breadcrumbs to go on wild goose chases between patches, and it walks the line between comedic adventure and serious talk enough to not discourage enjoyment.

The game is just over a year old, there is a lot of room for improvement, for change, and for fun. I just would rather they take their stories and work them through slowly, and give it to us later with all parts making sense and explained enough to not confuse than rush through good ideas and suffer the consequences of poor presentation where story beats and lore get muddled in vague foreshadowing that can be too easily misread.

[charlesxorxerik]

[naamahdarling]

Man, life online got so much better for me when I decided that I don't actually need to give even a fractional fuck about people's spelling and grammar. Should have come to that conclusion sooner. It literally doesn't matter as long as it is understandable to someone of the intended audience's dialect/language. And even when it isn't? Not a moral or intellectual issue. Just leave it alone.

[marxistjughead]

adam parrish so funny for his unethical academic weapon-ism. man is not #1 in ONE of his classes so he kills the teacher, blackmails his replacement into leaving town, dates the guy who's #1 and apparently (i haven't read the book) tells him that nooo it's okay if college is not for him haha. i respect the grind!

[softavasilva]

You know what… Beatrice has got me feeling some type of way. You know the scene where Bea finds Father Vincent after Michael takes him out and Father Vincent says “looks like Ava has a new protector”. You know that had to have been just an absolute knife to Bea’s heart. Because she has been Ava’s protector from the beginning, all the way back in Cat’s Cradle when she hugged Ava when Mother Superion accused her of killing herself all the way through Switzerland where she was entrusted by the entire order to protect the warrior nun, train her and make her stronger. But the sting of losing Ava, not protecting Ava has to be so much stronger in this moment because not only did she fail to keep the halo safe (her job) but more particularly she failed to keep Ava safe (her pleasure). And instead Michael of all people was the one to rescue Ava. That must just absolutely eat at Beatrice every single day

"because not only did she fail to keep the halo safe (her job) but more particularly she failed to keep Ava safe (her pleasure)" ... first of all how dare you. second of all how the fuck dare you that one sentence father vincent so rudely blurted out really just stabbed her heart twisted it around and put more salt in her wounds. it proved all her insecurities about her duty/job and the value she holds in this particular obligation of protecting the very thing she gave her vows/life to. Like she probably is reliving all the times her parents have been disappointed in the way she uses her existence without a "purpose". and now that shes joined the ocs and has a set objective - failing at this is her biggest fucking fear and regret. more so because she knows failing the halo bearer isnt the worst part of it all. its failing ava silva - the girl she first handedly saw live a life only beatrice would dream of for herself. selflessly helping the girl experience wonders for the first time unwillingly knowing ava was also giving beatrice that exact same thing. Falling in love with ava made her guarded "duty first" mindset tainted with emotions that was sinful to have - so she did everything she could to protect the warrior nun because she thinks thats the only version of ava she could have. bc no one will question and judge her for constantly having to protect her. thats just her job right? - so having a man be accused of doing this exact thing just brings back all her self sabotage ways of thinking about how a relationship between her and ava would never work bc yes she has a new protector now and its a man and it would be so easy for them to develop something from more than a "leader"(warrior) and a "follower"(sister warrior) dynamic.

[yugioh-why-not]

Sorry (well not really but IDK), but I just realised that Kaiba and Ryou would totally be able to bond over random clown dolls, it's shown since season one that Kaiba uses random clowns throughout his deck and its a common enough head-canon that Ryou collects haunted clowns and dolls (common enough i forgot for a moment that's just a random fact the fandom made up). But just imagine them going out and getting random clown dolls and then showing them off and discussing where they got them and even Kaiba dressing up to got to a flee market with Ryou (dressed up in a disguise cause he doesn't otherwise want to be seen there) looking for them and they can trade them and have loads of fun