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whitestnoise · 2 years ago

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#the fall of the house of usher #mike flanagan #tfothou #tfothouedit #flanaverse #(mine)#(i was looking for a generic gif set to put my little thoughties in the tags but there aren't any???)#(or not yet maybe??? hrmpff so i'll do it myself then!)#it really is becoming a flanaverse - again there were little things and phrasings carried over from the other shows #i can only remember the carcass of a house right now but there were more #i can't wait to see everybody's little posts and theories and comparisons!!! 😻#what i haven't seen yet and will come up probably is the angle of the opiod epidemic #some speeches sounded like they came right our of the other netflix series painkiller #which makes me think those quotes might be verbatim lifted from real life although they are so out there that they sound made up (?)#i don't know enough about it but it struck me as too much of a coincidence #spoilers

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prettyboysdontlookatexplosions · 2 months ago

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it's funny that not until i was flipping through reference material in the norton edition of the turn of the screw i got from the library did i make the connection that perhaps american literature's most famous ghost story was written by a guy whose brother was an active member of the society for psychical research

#i used to think william james was super famous bc he came up for me a lot in undergrad #but idk if that was due to a coincidence of classes i was taking #or bc he was affiliated with the university i was attending at the time #bc experiences sicne have taught me that he's not....#i mean i didn't think he was like freud or darwin but i would have placed him up there with... idk weber maybe?#anyway. he coined the phrase 'stream of consciousness'#and is credited according to wikipedia as first conceiving of the concept now referred to as neuroplasticity #(which i know bc seward identifies proving something VERY like neuroplasticity as one of van helsing's signature achievements #which caused me to look up the history of the concept lol)#and also he was p. into spiritual research and convinced of the authenticity of exactly one medium #i love the 19th century sorry i really do.....#also ok beloved is actually probably the most famous ghost story in american literature at this point #anyway i'n halfway through the book so far... p. good! spookier than i expected lol #bookblogging #turn of the screw #media 2k25 #i'm sick but not too sick to spend at least some time reading instead of dicking around on reddit lol

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frmulcahy · 5 months ago

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No but “it’s made you Dennis” is so fucking funny. Getting called out for alcoholism by being directly compared to the god of wine and madness. James you bitch.

#WHO CAME UP WITH THIS PHRASE #okay so we know they made a lil slang dictionary based on the lit they read from 20 years before/after 1845 #so I need to find WHICH BOOK uses this term #how common was this phrase. I must research.#the terror #fitzier

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lurafita · 11 months ago

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Going Commando

Izzy: "Ugh! This is so frustrating!"

Alec: "What?"

Izzy: "I'm want to know why not wearing underwear is called 'going commando', but the internet has about 8 different origins for it and none of them have a definitive verification."

Clary: "… Maybe it's more comfortable? For soldiers? I mean, it does stem from military usage, right?"

Izzy, turning to the guys: "So? Is it more comfortable, or does it just swing around down there and chafe more?"

Alec, Jace and Simon, red in the face and stuttering: "Y-y-you can't just ask stuff like that!"

Magnus: "Barring any strenuous activity, you don't really notice the swinging. It depends on what you are wearing, mostly. Tracksuits and other softer material pants are fine. Jeans can get a little chafy. And then there are some pants where you just don't want to have any underwear lines showing through. Like silk pants."

Alec: "… You are wearing silk pants right now."

Magnus, smirking: "I am."

#magnus bane #alec lightwood #shadowhunters tv #malec #malec headcanons #jace herondale #izzy lightwood #clary fairchild #magnus out here just answering dick questions as if he is talking about the weather.#I actually tried to find the origin for the phrase and there are literally so many explanations for it #and I couldn't make out which one is true #and then I brought this up in a discord group #and then we speculated about it and came to the conclusion that we needed to ask someone with a dick #so my friend just wrote her husband #and this is literally what he said #he is very used to his wife asking him weird questions.#I love them both.#*he didn't say that part about silk pants - that’s purely Magnus

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sysig · 2 years ago

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Hey, hey! RnR not requested! (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #DAX #ZEX #Does anyone still use RnR lol #I think I was a little too late for that but in my brief stint on FF.net I did get a couple reviews so *shruggles*#ANYway lol #The topic of VUX poetry came up and it would not leave me alone #But at the same time it is so hard to English-phoneticize VUK ZIX into my preferred poetry method!#So I gave up and went with a playground chant lol #I also wasn't sure which direction it would be read in apart from bottom-up :0 #Japanese is top-down right-to-left so maybe it's inverse?? I don't know!#That's what I went with this time anyhow lol #Also making up rules on the spot lol - ''a'' is always contextually inferred by its surroundings #Have I thought about the implications of inferred subject/singular vs. plural phrasing? No! Give me some time tho ♪#Lol #I have also pretty firmly come to the conclusion that -ing sounds just aren't a thing lol #At least not written and not comfortably spoken #You could force the sound but it's exactly what it says on the tin - forced #So the rhyme-scheme is a bit funny haha - that rhyme doesn't translate at all! But it is still fun to write a little ship-poem hehe #ZEX does not approve but it's not his poem is it! Tentacles to yourself! Don't stick your trunk where it's not wanted!#I do love when DAX is silly and lovestruck haha

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quietwingsinthesky · 7 months ago

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silly to me how cis people have like 3 things they know to say to trans people to be supportive. not being negative here, support is good no matter what, but it is ridiculous in practice when a guy is finally normal about me being trans and the first thing he can think to say in response is, “don’t worry, no matter what, you’re still Bug to me.” like yeah, sir, that’s nice, but who else would I be? you didn’t know me pre-transition?? you just met me. i started transitioning three years ago.

#to be clear: it was sweet and i did appreciate it #it was just also a situation in which a phrase he’s obviously heard before as support came barrelling up against the reality of it not #making a lick of sense in the context of him supporting *me* specifically

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viktortittiforov · 3 months ago

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heyy i just realised i forgot to tell u guys, if any of you have bluesky i'm newly on there so add me if u want!! warning though i have a lot more irls there and occasionally may post pictures of my life. it's definitely less fandom-focused, though i do follow the yuri on ice feed hehe, and i also definitely post more in czech on there than i do here. but like if u want to see slightly different facets of my multitudinous and complicated being then go ahead

i'm on there as @prichazimvqueeru.bsky.social

#my username is a very clever pun i came up with ages ago hehe. it only works in czech though #basically queer rhymes with mír which is peace in czech and přicházím v míru means i come in peace #hence přicházím v queeru = i come in ✨queer✨#no one cares why am i explaining it lol #(but like if you care the phrase i come in peace to me also connotes to me like. an alien during its first encounter with humans)#(and queer people are systematically othered and portrayed as foreign and alien!!! get it!!!)#wrinkly brain ass username is what it is #neptalks

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imagine-nerd · 30 days ago

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Oh small acts of kindness, we're really in it now

#theo's thoughts #My dad came into my room earlier to show me something I had apparently given him years ago now when he first became ill #What we now know is a progressive muscular atrophy disease would have been a terrifying unknown back then when it first started #Tbf it's still terrifying but there's something to be said for being able to name the thing destroying your life vs having no idea #It was a little plastic baggy containing 50 (they were numbered) phrases #Things like encouragements‚ inspiration‚ things to remember‚ and the like #He said he still looks at them all the time #Which means now I have to make him more #Like I don't have to but I want to #I'll have to go take the bag later to look through what the current ones say so I'm not repeating anything #But I'm sure what I could come up with and write now at 26 is very different than what I probably put at 15

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bywandandsword · 2 months ago

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I wish I could learn French passively like how I learned English. My writing vocabulary lists and memorizing grammar rules and all that isn't getting me anywhere, and that's when my adhd riddled ass remembers that I need to be consistent with it

#also learning French on paper is just making it all the worse since the orthography is so unintuitive #why is it spelled three different ways but pronounced the same? Why are half the letters there if they aren't pronounced??#What absolute moron came up with this system??#also language books do this thing where they give the intended meaning of phrases instead of the literal meaning #like yes ''s'il vous plaît'' is used the same as ''please'' but it literally translates to ''if you please''#which 1) is helluva lot cuter and 2) gives the learner some indication of how the phrase is structured #so you can use that knowledge in other phrases #(also French retains a lot of phrases and stuff that reminds me of ye olden times and I just find it really charming)#(especially Cajun Creole and Québécois)#sword speaks

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red-dyed-sarumane · 2 months ago

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aru sekai songs have like a difficulty tier to them i think. u have the easy (in relative terms) songs like yamete kudasai & laboratory & i dare say kyuuyaku if ur only looking at the lyrics, then the mid tier like maximizer & canon & oumen, then the hard tier like apoptosis & shuuen touhikou & kyuuyaku if u count the text, and then theres the tier thats so hard the jpn fans dont even want to touch it with shoushitsu, ashura & kannagi

#aru sekai series #relatively speaking. compared to an average song all series songs are 'hard'#i do think apoptosis counts as hard. the verses are fine but chorus is a bit of a beast #can be if u let it anyway #yamete & labo are really the easy ones tho.#i got through ashura when it came out and then labo was next & it was like what the fuck this is so direct #and yamete even more so #and then there was kannagi which killed the trend but thats okay #i mean i dont think the phrasing in kannagi would be that bad IF ONLY it were in modern jpn #maybe kyuuyakus more mid tier than hard tier i'd have to look at the text again and i dont want to rn #i just remember emimin saying its reminiscent of dantes inferno #and also desperately looking up what the fuck 卑徒 i think it was?? ik the first kanji was that one #& being like WHAT is this supposed to mean #i now realize its probably supposed to be read hito & carry that connotation too #but thats my ranking what does everyone else think

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gxtzeizm · 6 months ago

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#it's quite a while that i do a really long rant here #but i really need to get all the shit out from my mind and clear everything inside my brain #and yeah it's actually related with yesterday's race actually #i mean we all always saying that never let sports ruin or dictate our own emotions and other phrases that related with this #but in a serious matter it really really exhausted my mind and honestly yesterday is the peak of it #and the fact is before the race start i was feeling so happy that srg wins mpl malaysia for 2nd time #and i say to myself that whatever happens during the race i should be happy that my fav esports team wins another title this year #but yeah....the race happens and it all just chaos...i mean not that usual chaos but i feel it's even worse #especially after the race #like seriously i should have stay away from any social medias for a while today #because i know how awful the vibes and environment there (and here as well tbh)#but yeah 🥲🥲🥲#like i really expecting that f1 is the only sports out of other sports that i'm getting into with #that i really feel mentally drained and doesn't makes me feel any joy by enjoying it at some point #but yesterday...that's the peak of it #i'm just getting more and more tired of the whole thing happens in f1 #and the real life 'job' (more like uni life) doesn't even help me brighten up my mood either #where during app development my group is having a really though situation to going back from the start #in which we had some conflicting on some of the solutions are as same as other one group #and forreal all my groupmates were just fed up thinking about how to came up with new ideas #so yeah it's just this past few hours are just mentally emotionally physically drained out #like i really need to take a break for a while but idk i'm sure #i'll starting to get more and more tasks and assignment for the next few days *sigh*#nahhhhhh i know it's really long rant but i just want to be in a good headspace rn

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daydreamerdrew · 6 months ago

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excerpts from “The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes” in The Complete First Edition: The Original Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, translated and edited by Jack Zipes, and from “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” in Transformations by Anne Sexton

#in the original story there’s no real emotion given to the soldier #aside from maybe that he had a pleasant chat with the old woman which inspired her to give him advice and the invisibility cloak #but it makes sense to portray him as angry when he rats out the princesses #‘his eyes fiery like blood in a wound’ and ‘his purpose brutal as if facing a battle’#since the princesses condemned many men to die and were going to have him killed as well if he had failed the challenge #and he’s defined as a soldier but he’s really not a soldier anymore because he was declared unfit after being injured #so this man that is said to be old had to find some new life for himself #which I don’t think he would have been happy about #in the original story he came across to me as wistful and directionless in the beginning of the story #as he was headed to do the challenge because he was curious about the mystery of the princesses’ dancing #but then actually became determined when the old woman gave him advice on how to win #but how he’s characterized in this poem makes me think that he was originally going to do it because #he would either be set for life or have been quickly killed #the phrasing that ‘the sun came up naked and angry’ stood out to me #because it was so different from the early phrasing of ‘dawn coming up like statues of honey’ in the modern section #so I interpret that as being from the soldier’s angry perspective #and I think the purpose of that very mundane example that passengers on a modern airplane would understand the princesses #was to indicate that had they lived when the poem was written their desire for nightlife and to marry who they chose #would have been respected- but since they lived in the past their father the king had the ability/right to control them #fairy tales #the twelve dancing princesses #my posts #poetry

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topaztimes · 1 year ago

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Hi this is a vent post! Continue scrolling if you'd rather not see that

#Giving time...#Still more time...#Wouldn't want to plague any previews #Maybe another filler. Just for some fun #Is this enough?#It certainly is now #Alright start:#I'm so bored. I am so incredibly; intrinsically; entirely bored. I have been taught the same thing for four years straight #'It's only four years!' that's literally a quarter of my lifetime right there. My formative years are being spent stressed and in a state /#/of constant self-loathing #I was watching a YT video and the phrase 'attention-starved STEM major' came up and I was like. Yea #What am I even working towards? The hope that my version of capitalist hell isn't as bad as everyone else's? I'm just so sick of not /#/having a stable future what with politics and normal working people becoming more and more oppressed #I don't want to work and that's not because I'm lazy. It's because my brain is recognising that there is no reward anymore #I used to have such a little spark in Yr7. I remember having things to say and wanting to share everything I've done #I still do that now; sure I do. I don't enjoy it though #I thought I liked drawing but I'm realising that all I really like is the attention. I COULD draw things I like drawing... but then I /#/ don't get attention which my mind then classifies as zero reward #I'm very tired of doing things for no credit; reward; or validation. This is becoming a theme #Then I wonder what I'm doing wrong. What part of the algorithm am I not hitting. Then I realise that I'm just not marketable in a way #God. I'm seriously breaking rn. It's not even only because of GCSEs #It's just a culmination of doing all these things to be told that I am unworthy of Having as a result. It doesn't matter if I'm smart; my /#/ parents still don't own their house and can't afford to pay for heating most days #Literally what am I doing this for #And then I realise that all of this is ALSO attention-seeking behaviour! I'm my own worst problem; I recognise exactly what's wrong with /#/ myself but the body wants what it wants. And what it wants is validation that I'm not going to get in this life #Hi guys! Maybe don't interact. That could fix me #Wean me off of needing virtual numbers just to feel something. Jesus #I can't even be happy with the things that I make for myself. Because I make nothing for myself anymore #It's just a whole sad existence of an expected 12hr+ of school every day until I get a job I guess. Then it's 12hr+ of job every day until

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i-am-simply-here · 7 months ago

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Ohohoho I got a lot of bite from someone on a Muslim sisters group for saying we could in fact be friends with Christians and be in a church (so long as we aren't doing any worship and whatnot).

She said we aren't supposed to associate with Christians at all and even being in the church "mimics them" or whatever and I was leading this sister (who asked a question abt a group she's in meeting at a church) astray with incorrect info. Sister those are people of the book. Men can marry Christian and Jewish women, but yet I can't have a Christian friend? I think we're looking at very different things rn.

I was just shocked (idk why tho, I have seen that type of extreme talk on there from some members) she came at me like that 😩 it didn't bother or offend me though. I had a feeling she would bc I saw her comment saying that to the sister asking the question before I made my comment.

#and its not like i phrased it like an opinion of mine either #bc i was in classes #and that question came up bc my dad is a pastor and i go to the nonreligious events #and the teacher said it was okay to be in the church so long as you didnt participate in any rituals or religious activity #which is what i said in the comment #i was actually more shocked thats what she focused on #bc the sister asking the question said she was in a choir group that meets at a church #so i thought people would get on her about music and singing as well #but no one mentioned it

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squipdop · 2 years ago

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sorry im a god gale truther btw i DO think he should get to usurp mystra and ascend to godhood and i do think that should be an absolutely awful thing to happen to him but also literally everyone else. sorry

#bg3 #not main tagging this further bc its. mad man 1:30am rambles #but listen. mh.#ok so. heres the thing.#while i do think. their relationship was absolutely fucked. and yeah we can argue for grooming and or abuse.#i also dont QUITE enjoy how ppl make gale like. the poor poor totally blameless victim. like. mh #how to phrase this so it DOESNT sound victim blame-y. but like.#from how i interpret the things he told & what the game shows.#my mans REALLY struggles with No's and rejection. and i wouldn't just put that as a Mystra Aftermath Thing #he WAS forbidden from trying to ascend/was told by her she wouldnt make him an equal. and his response basically was.#'but let me prove i am worthy of this'#which yeah. plays into the fucked up self worth. ill get back to that.#plus the uh. touch the orb scene? he just. grabs your hand and pulls it towards him because he WANTS to show you this. Now.#any rejection within the relationship? I Should Blow Myself Up #he got that gifted kid energy of everything always came easily to him and yet it wasnt ever enough and the relationship w a literal goddess.#certainly didnt help that.#so hes constantly reaching for more. and thats a fault of his because he will do that even if told not to because #at the same time he thinks of himself as smart enough to actually Get to that More.#and yknow w the orb? he literally. got So Badly Burned. is it deterring him? nnnnnnot really.#and i think. godhood would. idk i think he could do it. and i think it still wouldn't be enough.#and having an all powerful deity who ALSO a) still never is satisfied with his amount of power and control and b) thinks he know better than #anyone and could do better than anyone #sounds like its gonna fucking suck #anyways im rotating this all in my brain + ofc the delicious bloodweave combo of ascended astarion + new god gale bc thats just. ough #the mess. of this combo.

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maggotwithanf · 2 years ago

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trans dudes who customize fashion dolls make me weak in the knees

#hiiiiiiiiiii hihihiihihi #*twirls hair*#there's this guy i think is hot who i KNOW is into me but we only can really see each other once a year during con season #pleek #he works as a game journo and came up to my table once & was like 'hey hi i heard u like monster high'#which i guess is my activation phrase #imma be at wasteland this year so i won't be at the same con but heh. hey hi hello i'm gonna flirt with you on twitter #monster high #i'm gay

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