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apollos-olives · 2 months
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yall are kinda shitheads about people's accents and fluency in english tbh.
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Thanks so much for running this blog, I love tournaments and it's such a great way of finding new ones in time to submit to them!
Thank you! I was always kinda upset when I only found a fun tournament in the quarter finals, and so while I’m sure I don’t catch all tournaments (there must be non English ones for instance right?) I do this because I hope this helps a little, so it’s nice to hear that it actually does :)
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tamayokny · 8 months
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i keep getting dragged into the snow white discourse and it's starting to irritate me. like idc if rachel zegler was scared/didn't like the 1937 adaptation as a child, but she needs to do her homework because the prince was not a stalker--and that's the tip of iceberg. but on the other hand, i don't particularly care that the prince isn't going to be in the remake either, and i get that snow white can "choose both" (i.e., being a leader and being in love), but i feel like everyone forgets other details of disney's snow white.
like, of course, snow white has a wicked stepmother who wants her dead because of the queen's jealousy and vanity against her stepdaughter. and while the huntsman advised her to run away, snow white ultimately made the choice to run into the forest. but then snow white realizes she needs to support herself, and she eventually finds friends and creates her own little community of support (i.e., the forest animals and the seven dwarfs)! and sure, i get where some people have issues with snow white cleaning and cooking for the dwarfs and see it as a gendered role, but cooking and cleaning are important skills for fostering independence. so, after saying all of this, i think a lot of people miss the themes of community, support, and independence. all of these themes, along with themes of vanity and jealousy, are still applicable today.
also lol i'm sorry but the prince discourse, again, is so funny to me. like he's only in the 1937 movie for about five minutes but he does have an established relationship and reciprocated feelings with snow white. and when he appears at the end of the movie, the prince wasn't expecting to wake snow white up with "love's first kiss"--he was there to say goodbye to her. he didn't know that "love's first kiss" was going to awaken snow white--only the audience did, which is dramatic irony, a common literary device. anyway the prince is fine but if andrew burnap's character takes over that role and provides something fresh, i'm willing to watch that.
TLDR: snow white discourse is wild. i think people forget or feign ignorance about the details in disney's original snow white film. and while it's totally fine to want to offer a new twist on the tale, don't completely disrespect the original work or completely dismiss ideas on why the original work is so popular in the first place.
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Hi! I want to admit to share that I admire your blog and specifically the analysis of all seven books of the dissertation on Zutar and so on. I have read everything with pleasure and agree with every word. You have done a titanic job. It's good to know that I'm not the only one completely terrified of Maiko and Kataang. I like May and Aang separately, but not with Katara and Zuko, this is literally nonsense (incompatible personalities cannot build functional relationships, which ironically was confirmed in the so-called canonical continuation-completely stupid relationships in the family of Aang and Katara, the situation with May is also unclear, except for one thing-she could not to be close to such an emotional person and left him or he left her (history is silent, apparently it does not matter at all). It seemed that she was included in the final series by mistake (about her relevance in Uncle Iroh's tea room is a separate story). I still remember the bewilderment and disappointment from watching the last series, and after more than 10 years my opinion has not changed-Zutara had all the rights to exist, otherwise why all these hints (direct and indirect?). Why work out the mutual relations of Katara and Zuko, bringing them to such a personal level, because it was possible to do as with, for example, Toph or Suki? Do I need to repeat that the chemistry between them surpasses all the declared romantic couples, looks mature and viable? I don't know who to thank for this outrage, but this is a real spit in the soul of fans (especially when I recently learned that the 17th series was created solely for the purpose of trolling fans), as well as the humiliation of my own work. Thank you for the essay, it means a lot to me (I think there are a lot of us))) grow up for my English, it's not my native language.
hi, thank you so much for your kind words!! it makes me really happy to know that you like my blog and my dissertation! 
i couldn't agree more with everything you said. the show almost went out of its way to prove over nearly three seasons that mai and aang were incompatible with zuko and katara, and then suddenly expected us to jump on the mai.ko and kat.aang train in the last ten minutes? especially when zutara were right there and had everything - intimacy, compatibility, understanding, chemistry, narrative and thematic importance - going for them?? like be so fucking for real lmao, we all know zutara should have been canon.
i totally understand your bitterness (i will be bitter to my dying day) but if it helps, just know that the wonderful zutara community here on tumblr treats zutara so much better than bryke could have ever dreamed of. we don't need to bother with canon when fanon gives us everything we could ever need and more.
i hope you're doing well and that you have a great day/night! <33
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play-rough · 3 months
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Happy New Year! In my country it is now New Year's Eve and I want to tell you a lot of wonderful things. Thank you Playrough for being the person who soothes my pain and the place I return to every night whether happy or sad 🥹💖 thank you and your fics so much💞. Tôi yêu bạn (in my language, 'tôi yêu bạn' means 'I love you'. sorry for some grammar or spelling mistakes, my English is not very good 😭)
Thank you so much 🥹🩵 happy new year to you as well 💖🩵💖🩵💖
I hope your 2024 is amazing and full of good things 🥹💕
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irisbaggins · 8 months
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Oh man. So many people online would really not last through a bachelor or master's course in text and literature. Y'all know nothing of nuance and being able to disagree without making it a moral judgement. So man of y'all wouldn't last a seminar, I swear
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go6jo · 7 months
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Hi! Sorry for bothering with an ask, I didn't know If you would be okay with me answering your message publicly - but I wanted to truly thank you back for posting "love, as if it were carved in stone"! it has easily become one of my favorite Geto fics ... I literally had to pause a few times while reading because i was just so in awe lmao. I didn't want to ramble in the tags but there were so many moments that stuck with me .. I loved the atmosphere of their meeting .. Geto reflecting on reader's innocent appearance and reader tugging down on their skirt when they notice him ... Not to mention this passage: "how could you crave such a thing - attention, from a stranger, nonetheless. how could you be so vulgar, yearning for someone’s affection and admitting to being starved.", and then the one about Suguru feeling like a boy again! I could go on for so long .. It's such an amazing piece of writing, I'm definitely looking forward to rereading it. I am in love with the way you built the story/curated the details, and your style has such a beautiful pace too!
Please ignore this ask if you don't wish to reply to it, I just wanted to take the opportunity to truly express my appreciation for this piece! Leaving a nice comment was truly the minimum I felt i could do :)) (also excuse me for any mistakes, English is not my first language). Have a nice day!
omg you’re not bothering me at all, nothing makes me happier than to hear people say they enjoyed something i wrote. its scary sometimes to put your work out there and reading comments such as this one makes it worth it so thank you!! ultimately i write because i love to do it but to have people read your work and give you feedback and encourage you and help you do better in the future makes me love writing even more!! im so lucky to have had so many people read it and leave nice comments and reading your tags really put a smile on my face!
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dimiclaudeblaigan · 1 year
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The worst thing about my brain being an autopilot grammar nazi is that every single time I see people misuse “it’s” and “its” as well as apostrophe placements is that I don’t want to be rude and correct people... but my brain still is like UGH THIS IS THE WORST.
“It’s” and “Its” are more just my brain going weeo weeo on me when that’s a more understandable one bc “its” is literally the exception to a rule (because “it’s” actually means “it is”, so to avoid it being used for two meanings the apostrophe is removed for ownership cases), but when I see apostrophes before an S for plural wording and I know they speak English properly I’m just like. ugh. damn. bruh. please. go back to school.
Less severe cases of incorrect apostrophe use tends to be like, when people are playing Heroes and have duplicates of units and are like “my Ike’s” instead of “my Ikes”, because I think people are trying to... make it more clear that it’s referring to more than one? I think? Maybe? Or they literally just don’t realize it’s incorrect grammar, idk lol. Still can’t get past my weeo weeo autopilot brain though sadly.
LIKE. IT’S NOT ANYONE’S FAULT THAT MY BRAIN IS WEEO WEEO, IT JUST IS.
Which speaking of Heroes, FE in general seems to have its script in every single game ever coded to always use apostrophes for ownership cases even when the word ends in S, so don’t worry folks. IntSys isn’t getting off scot free from my brain either LOL. No amount of “princess’s” is ever gonna fly with my weeo weeo brain.
this has been a psa
mainly a psa of my brain weeo weeos
#DCB Comments#but the absolute worst offenders are people who overuse apostrophes and like#don't know how to write the plural of a word. today I saw someone write horse's to indicate more than one more horse#and I think the darkest depths of my soul finally cracked at the sight shjfgjhgs#this wasn't someone who speaks in broken English either or anything. they know how to speak the whole language just fine#also the other worst thing about my grammar brain is that I could absolutely get a job teaching English based on my knowledge alone#but I don't have an uwu master's degree uwu so getting teaching jobs even as freelance work is basically impossible#the world decides your worth based on how much you were willing to pay an institution for a certificate#and doesn't base you on your actual worth or knowledge so yeah that's great#can't wait until we're in an anime or video game where society's young decides that's bullshit and we're totally over it and rebel sjkfghju#also you know how you see those posts of ppl being like forget what you learned in school? yeah no don't do that with grammar#to an extent it's one thing (the really stupid ''rules'' like don't start a sentence with x word) and some of it was over the top#but there ARE actually legit reasons for some of those grammar rules; it's just that schools fail to teach them properly#I was extremely lucky to have very amazing English teachers for the most part ngl bc most schools don't teach even basic shit well#at least in my country. even in my school the stuff they taught was shit lol I just got very lucky to have great English teachers#but like for instance run on sentences are usually seen as an issue in writing because people lose their understanding of the sentence#if the sentence goes on too long with too many thoughts you'll probably forget what it was even about in the first place#if it's a WRITING style like a book or a fanfic or whatever it can make sense in some cases you just have to be thoughtful abt it!#but rly like I see people who can't even write basic English grammar who can speak it fluently and I'm like#what the fuck are these schools doing??? bc I can tell you what they're NOT doing e.e#this isn't limited to gen z btw I see ppl around my age who do this stuff with grammar too so... yikes#in fact I see people OLDER than my generation doing it too like... my own mom lmao#I'M SORRY I JUST HAD TO GET THIS OUT IT'S BEEN EATING AWAY MY EXISTENCE FOR MANY YEARS
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allbeendonebefore · 2 years
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todays instructor (he/they) referred to me with they today and im taking a moment this is a lot to process
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no-shxme · 2 years
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Thank you so much for all your Rhaayn fics! I feel like you really get the essence of their relationship and who they are as characters. I always come back to ASTAA when I'm feeling sad or lonely. And your AUs are so rich and creative!
English is not my first language, so sorry if anything sounds weird. I just really want to thank you!
hi sorry for the late response, i was afk ;w;
thank you sooo much tho! i'm happy you like my rhaayn fics (and my AUs, that warms my heart considering i rly like them) this is so sweet thanks anon ;W; thank you for reading !!!
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0v9 · 3 months
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if im being totally honest, the biggest reason I wish people on this website had paid more attention in english class and had reading comprehension is so that they would understand when and why jokes are funny. Maybe if y'all understood that a line like "None of these words are in the bible" is only funny because its totally unexpected. Or maybe if y'all understood how to construct jokes for yourself, we wouldn't have so many comments like "OP check your carbon monoxide detector" because you'd ALSO know how to build a joke. but anyways its the weekend so im fine about this. I'm normal about this. im NOT bothered.
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dutyworn · 1 year
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@moonfloret / cont. from ↷
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Wren isn’t sure where she is. She tries to comb through her memory for where it cuts off, all the while trying to pay attention to her immediate surroundings and the person she’s pointing her pistol at. She’s not armoured, but it’s her pistol. Why is she so certain he’s not a threat, even as she’s holding a weapon at him? She doesn’t know him. Yet her intuition is something she usually trusts. His body language tells her he’s no civilian  ⸺  he’s looking at her rather than the gun, not showing any immediate signs of fear despite the setting. If anything, he appears rather similar to how she would behave, in his shoes. Telling her to take a deep breath  ⸺  defusing the situation. It’s an odd comfort in a distressing situation, to be on this side of reassurance. She’s used to being the one to give the orders, yet she finds herself doing as he says, inhaling deeply, urging her body to calm down.
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❝ Do you know where we are? ❞    she asks, instead. She lowers the gun, lets it hang against her thigh, not keen on giving it up, but afraid of... it’s difficult to accept, that she’s just now not been in control of herself. It’s something she’s actively feared, ever since Cerberus brought her back, that they’d somehow... be able to control her. Only she knows that’s illogical, but what else...? If it’s the Reapers somehow, that’s... worse.    ❝ Can you describe to me what... How long have I stood here? What did I physically do? Other than point my gun at you. ❞   There’s still a hint of terror in her tone, but she’s regaining her mask of confidence. The fear keeps growing, if anything, though the outward appearance of it is dwindling.
She’s wearing a casual set of t-shirt and jeans, and her dog tags under her shirt give her comfort in their familiar weight. Still, the outfit doesn’t give her much to work with. Could have been on the Normandy, before... wherever she is, now. Could also have been on shore leave. She doesn’t remember. Everything is a bit jumbled up, and it’s hard to tell in what order some recent events have happened.
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dykesynthezoid · 1 year
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What is it about working customer service that makes ppl wanna come up to you and talk to you even when you’re off the clock… Like what changes in my body language have I unconsciously been making??? Normally I tend to have rbf in public and most people tell me I can be vaguely intimidating (plus I’m gnc so that’s another reason ppl tend to ignore me, bc they mentally put me in the category of “women who doesn’t care about her appearance/isn’t attractive to me”). It’s not a problem per se I guess (I mean. It kind of is when random men come up to me. But) but it is weird
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medicinemane · 1 year
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Oh hey, fairylights mod updated to 1.19 back in november... neat
Now I just need to figure out the biome thingy and technically I can work on this project whenever. Maybe next year I'll have a nice village to wander around in
#no spell check; I don't believe in capitalizing months and days unless I feel like it#what do you think I am; German?#the important thing to remember is that every language rule doesn't really matter#the real test is can you break it and feel fine and be understood; if yes it's prescriptive and can be ignored if you feel like it#as opposed to if I say 'I to the store went yesterday get eggs'... clearly that's not allowed#it's so not allowed that it's hard to even do on purpose and you notice I'm still following rules like not breaking up 'to the store'#always fun to poke and prod and see what you're allowed to do in your language; like investigate how it works#cause you're better at it than you realize; you have all kinds of secret rules you know by heart in your head; and that's grammar#stuff like... it's kind of hard to just toss out and 'if I...' statement without following it with a then statement or a question; right?#otherwise I'm just kind of leaving it dangling#but yeah... people are always so worried about what's 'correct' in language#what are you; french? are you an old french man dictating how the language is to be spoken?#if I can toss out words and you get it; i spoke right. like look here; breaking all kinds of punctuation stuff cause it's tags#but you know what I'm saying and frankly this is how it's usually done in tags; less capitalizing and all that; innit?#just do whatever with language; have fun with it; don't worry if it's right or not#was just vibing a thing till it was a thing? would it have been 'bad english' to say till it got tossed in the lexicon? who cares?#linguistics are super interesting; a language's structure is super interesting; ideas on how language effects how we think is interesting#idioms are interesting like how if I 'talk about' or 'talk on' something those have totally different vibes#but it's totally arbitrary; if a bird is on a tree or in a tree varies language to language and neither is right#but yeah... do what you want with it; damn perscriptivism and all these made up rules (cause so many old dudes thought we should be latin)#language is one of the few truly democratic things out there; and you should just have fun with it#mm tag so i can find things later#funny enough purely for these tags rather than the post
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lxkeee · 1 month
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MY HEART IS BROKEN SO I NEED TO CRY First of all, I LOVE how you write, and I wanted to make a request about Lucifer breaking reader's heart, it doesn't matter how, I just want a broken heart 😔note: Sorry for the English translator, I don't write it but I understand it, TOTALLY CRAZY
TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN
—Part One
Pairing: Lucifer Morningstar x Seraphim Angel! Fem! Reader
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Genre: angst (for now)
Warnings: none.
Notes: this one is short, 450 ish words but will serve as a foundation for the entire series lolol. Also, it's okayy:) your english is finee^^
PART TWO | NAVIGATION
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Life was good in heaven. Having been brought to existence by our creator, we were given a chance at life. The world is still currently in progress, slowly changing to adapt to newer life forms.
We angels were tasked to help this new world grow into such an amazing world. Speaking of worlds, I am very much grateful to be alive as I am given a chance to love. As one of the first few angels created, I was able to befriend Lucifer. God's most beautiful angel and whom I have the honor of calling mine.
Lucifer was such an awkward romantic lover, showing off his affections in his ways. Giving flowers, a pretty stone he managed to pass by while flying around, or perhaps by giving her kisses.
They've been married for some time now, being together for a few decades and recently got married. The wedding was amazing, friends and their creator attended the celebration. It was a very beautiful celebration, the wedding night was awkward yet romantic, two innocent angels experimenting, learning about the art of making love. It was wonderful. Despite being inexperienced, both had a great time being each other's firsts.
Life was truly good, until God announced that he made new creatures, mortals or humans as he calls them.
They looked like angels but without wings. They will be the very foundation of humankind.
Slowly and surely, Lucifer began to act weird. Ever since he visited the garden of Eden, he's been purposely avoiding [y/n]. Making up excuses to not spend time with her.
Rumors started to spread that Lucifer has begun to form ideas that threaten the order of heaven, [y/n] tries to stop him but Lucifer is stubborn. He believes that mankind needed this.
[Y/n] was heartbroken, why is the love of her life acting like this? Why doesn't he look at her with love and passion in his eyes like he usually does.
Why does it look like he doesn't love her anymore?
Deciding to spy on him, she followed him to the garden of Eden. There he saw her husband looking at the mortal woman, named Lilith with so much love and adoration in his eyes.
[Y/n] felt her heart and entire world shatter. Broken hearted, she quickly fled the garden. Returning back home and sobbed into her friend's slap.
She cried the whole night, Lucifer didn't even notice she wasn't home.
Not long after, Lucifer was cast out of heaven along with Lilith. [Y/n] was heartbroken beyond her understanding. She couldn't understand, her emotions all over the place. Her husband doomed humanity and was cast out of heaven with another woman.
[Y/n] didn't even get to tell him she was pregnant with his child.
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Happy Valentine's Day:)
Also, guess whose lap she was crying on? His name starts with A;)
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bomberqueen17 · 1 year
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tone indicators
I reblogged this post without adding any commentary bc queue and not a lot of computer time lately but like okay here's the thing about tone indicators:
they're yet another in-group set of coded speech. like an inside joke, or a meme, or a conlang. if you are in a group that uses them, they're great and perfectly comprehensible.
but if you don't happen to have come from inside a group that uses them, they are exactly as exclusionary as any other heavy jargon or inside joke or acronym. I mean have you ever listened to soldiers talk? The US Army communicates in heavily jargon-ified speech, liberally laden with acronyms, so much so that it's a self-referential joke to make up obscene or deliberately-obfuscated ones to slip into official reports since the sorts of people who'd kick up a fuss about obscene language won't understand them.
It is exactly the same thing. Except that's exclusionary on purpose, and tone indicators are exclusionary in effect but tout themselves as inclusionary.
So if I, an outsider to this, am reading along, and after a sentence, there's a / and then between one and three letters, that is not enough information for me to use to look it up.
This is absolutely inaccessible if you are not alreadhy in the group that uses it.
I wouldn't mind if the people who used them were just like 'oh ha sorry jargon, i'll try to explain if it's not clear, sorry i forget you guys don't know them' just like any other inside joke or meme or whatever.
But I was in a discussion with someone on a Discord and when I was puzzled about them including these weird slash-acronyms after their statements they were like oh how nice for you that you're not neurodivergent and don't need to use these.
Uh no. The opposite actually. I'm the kind of neurodivergent that needs context. I handle being excluded from conversations very poorly. And that's where I get pissed off, that people seem to be holding these up as the new be-all end-all of Finally Solving The Problem Of Ambiguous Tones In Social Interaction. The hell you are, kids. They're just another layer, and I'd say the worst one yet, out of many many many attempts to solve this exact problem. They are fundamentally inaccessible. Don't mistake the fact that you learned them (somewhere, in some context inaccessible to me) for them actually being universal.
Considered against the many different solutions that have been offered since text-only speech was invented, tone indicators stack up as among the very least-accessible of the lot, since they contain so little context in and of themselves-- if a key is not provided then they're totally inaccessible, and are exceptionally difficult for non-native English speakers, and in general require so much memorization or cross-referencing as to be prohibitively hostile to outsiders.
And that's fine, if what your'e doing is just meant for talking to your friends. But don't come into my conversations and berate me for not having memorized whatever incomprehensible set of acronyms you've newly-decided are the new universal truth. And what drives me the most insane is how many of these acronyms someone has now decided to assign a whole new meaning to are acronyms that are well-known and already existed and are in heavy use. So if you try to look them up guess what you get! is it gonna be the newly-created version or the one that's been in use for fifty to seventy-five years??
For one, P.O.S. has had a specific meaning in written and spoken English for a really damn long time and if you call me a piece of shit in the actual language I speak I am absolutely not going to interpret your conlang as having intended something nice. (YES REALLY THEY'RE USING THAT ONE TRY TO GUESS WHAT IT MEANS. NO. NO! I know. Fuck! That's wild. Absolutely the fuck not.)
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