#i will use it now >:D also ;P

[cj-the-random-artist]

Made a secret life impulse doodle (heavily inspired by the skin made by @lolli-popples because its absolutely 11/10 gorgeous)

I gave him a flannel and an extra piercing for the vibes lol

Enjoy doodle

#secret life spoilers #traffic smp spoilers #secret life smp #impulsesv #just some late night marker doodle that I made because art is hard lately #lucky me the sketchbook I used was Bristol paper so no marker bleed I feel powerful #also. lolli popples. if u would like to be untagged lmk but u very heavily inspired this so I figured I’d tag ya for now if that’s ok :D #also tagged as spoilers cuz idk if they’re actually spoilers but I figured ehh I’ll err on the side of caution for now :P

[karamazovanon]

"Let's see Pyotr Petrovich's card."

(another american psycho raskolnikov to go with the first one!!)

#rodion romanovich raskolnikov #crime and punishment #hed like to return some video tapes your honor #HI this was so fun to do. drawing rodya is always fun but i love doing these american psycho redraws sm #I DIDNT FORGET HIS STUPID HAT THIS TIME WHO CHEERED #using white for this burned my eyeballs out of my skull #okay i think that's all my tag rambling i have for now im almost finished w c&p yay #i think im gonna read notes next and then the i/diot..... unless one of yall thinks i should read d/emons first #idk starting with tbk as my first dostoevsky was Such a decision on my part LMAO #anonart #crime & punishment #raskolnikov #also i drew him in the Soup Powered Fuck Machine shirt i rbed the other day but im scared that god herself will strike me down if i post it

[loveoaths]

it fucking kills me that i have seen NO ONE talking about the reaction jess jordan, kendall roy’s assistant, has. because it is jess, and rava and sophie roy, who have the reactions that twitter and reddit and all the succession lovers are looking for in shiv, for some goddamn reason. it’s jess who not so subtly pleads with greg to delay calling the election, who is blown off dismissively and ignorantly by greg who cannot understand or even SEE how strong of a panic reaction she is havjng. to him, and every other roy and tom and everyone else at their level, this is just another crazy day with literally zero consequences. a fascist dictator president will literally not change the quality of their lives as rich white people. but it will change jess’ life, as a biracial woman. it will change rava and sophie roy’s lives, in spite of kendall’s money and protection. and the show purposefully cuts off their reactions — jess blinking fast and breathing hard and about to have a panic attack meltdown in the hallway, rava and sophie scared in the back of an SUV — because the show isn’t about them. the show is about the roys, who do not care about the consequences of their actions, partially because they never have to SEE the consequences of their actions. greg does not see jess freaking out; even when she is clearly panicked in front of her he cannot see her pain and if he could, he wouldn’t care. it’s only when he turns his back on her that she starts to break down, which is a great if painful blocking choice. not only is it realistic — she can’t lose face in her workplace, she can’t react negatively when she works for the guy who owns the Devil Right Wing Fascist TV Network, and she most certainly can’t react any way people don’t like because she is one of the few, if not the only, black women in the building and working for the roys. while greg sighs and laughs about this day being crazy, she is having a meltdown as she fears what this election result means to her. if rava, a wealthy woman of color with a powerful ex husband, is scared, how much more scared is jess? is everyone else under jess?

but the show cuts off her reaction and takes us back to shiv because this show is from the roy’s pov, and this episode is largely from shiv’s pov. shiv “cares about democracy” and the country to an extent, because democracy only effects her to an extent. she knows on paper this election is bad news. she also knows it’s not going to change her life directly because she’s rich. like her brothers, who do not care at all who is President, who only care about which candidate will give them what they want, shiv is more upset because this election means she isn’t getting what she wants. she’s going to lose her power in the potential matsson deal. because that is how the roys chose who would be president: they chose the candidate they could buy and who could sell them control over their interests for the lowest number, and meincken outbid jimenez by a landslide. tldr the reaction people are looking for in shiv and in the roys were there, but in jess and rava. and even rava and jess aren’t progressives, aren’t “feminist icons”, they’re also complicit and victimized all at once, like shiv is, but with far less say and power. it’s almost like… the show about face eating leopards… is making a point that if you get in a cage with a hungry leopard, at some point you will run out of steaks to throw at it and it, too, will eat your face off. huh.

#succession #succession spoilers #this is a ramble but my god i am getting heated now #so many gifs and essay posts about the roys… zero about rava and Jess…. who are actually used as surrogates for the audience and marginalize #*d and even they HAVE HIGHER AMOUNTS OF POWER AND CONTROL AND AGENCY than the average person and woman of color #like. idk y’all I know the succession fan base is overwhelmingly white and therefore has a white USAmerican pov etc etc etc but my god I am #seeing greg levels of missing the point and not recognizing the pain in characters other than the Roy’s lol #and like I get it’ they’re the main characters #but also like. idk. jesse armstrong has a p strong vision and uses his characters effectively so like #maybe let’s look at some of those minor characters reactions here to paint a less insular picture yknow

[the-converse-high-top]

Affixes, Clitics, and Particles

i think that these parts of language are really cool! so im going to try to explain them :D also i definitely did not get sent down an hours long rabbit hole of linguistic papers and i also definitely didn't find out that the reason i wanted to make this post is actually a misconception :D i love ignoring things :D

Affixes:

the wikipedia article for affixes says that "in linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form."

in hopefully simpler terms, this basically means that an affix is a letter, or a group of letters that form a single sound or syllable, that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form.

some examples of these are the somewhat well known prefix and suffix, but also the beloved infix:

prefix: undone suffix: spotless infix: abso-fucking-lutely

sidenote: my favorite thing about english infixes is that they pretty much only work with expletives. in fact, there's a tom scott video about expletive infixations!

Clitics:

wikipedia defines a clitic as such: "a clitic is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase."

in layman's terms: a clitic is a letter, or a group of letters that form a single sound or syllable, that has the function of a word in a sentence, but depends on another word or phrase based on the sound rules of the language.

a few examples of clitics can be seen in finnish (which also has a great many affixes but we're not talking about those right now):

-ko/kö -han/hän -pa/pä -kin

the spelling of the clitic depends on vowel harmony. if you want to learn more, this dissertation is all about finnish clitics!

you may be asking yourself how to tell the difference between clitics and other parts of speech. well this study has just the thing for you! quite a few tests are suggested by the author of this study if you want to be able to tell if something is a clitic or not, including some of the following:

a phonological test observe how the clitic forms a phonological unit with an independent word. (do not ask me how this one works i dont know) accentual test "clitics are accentually dependent, while full words are accentually independent." put simply, if you can't put stress on it, it's probably a clitic syntactic test a word can stand on its own and be subject to normal word processes such as tense changes while a clitic cannot do this

Particles:

"'Particle' is a cover term for items that do not fit easily into syntactic and semantic generalizations about the language[.]"

read: "particle" is a miscellaneous, catch all term for anything that doesn't fit into the above two categories (or any other word categories like nouns, verbs, etc.)

the author of this study (who i'm going to refer to as Zwicky from now on because it's easier) says that theres no such thing as a particle and that its distinction from affixes, clitics, words, and clauses is unnecessary. i think thats an. interesting take.

anyway even though Zwicky just said theres no such thing as particles (which, how could he do that? theres kids around! we dont want to ruin the magic!) he concedes that there is actually a group of words that are commonly called particles that he agrees are actually particles. but he decides to call them discourse markers instead. because fuck you.

i dont like any of the words that Zwicky included so i made a list of my own:

-ね (ne) eh (canadian english) innit (common transcription of "isn't it", british english)

the funny thing is im coming out of this still not entirely clear on what a particle is. i thought i knew, i did some research, realized i didnt know, and now i'm here. based on how Zwicky puts it, it feels like the category of "particle" exists to accommodate the fact that there might be words* that arent affixes, clitics, words, or clauses but it feels like Zwicky is just being contrary. I should probably have done more research but this post was supposed to be done 24 hours ago.

out of context highlights from my research process: - sanskrit - the panini rule - doch - verbosely long section titles

*i dont actually mean words, i mean a morpheme which is a letter or a group of letters that form the representation of one sound that carries meaning, but i didn't want to make that sentence long and unreadable

if i'm wrong, please tell me! i would appreciate being corrected, i know i am not an expert on this topic in the slightest.

#i think this post is about to go off the rails. #which will be quite amusing for everyone except me #and then later me in the future [as well]. #i think i'm finally done :D #citing is so much easier on tumblr 😔💕 #i can just link the source on the words #i dont have to deal with a stupid bibliography #i really feel like with particles i have like net 0 information gained #but hopefully you learned something about clitics and affixes!! #i def learned about clitics because i only had very surface level knowledge before 🤔 #i also dont understand any of the properties of particles given in the paper #i also felt very much like “are the properties of particles in the room with us right now” #like i dont think they were listed #granted i did skim the latter half because i was tired and just wanted to get this done #but still :p #also #a note from myself from about an hour in: #linguistics my beloved <3 #linguistics

[jaevy]

your room was square

i once noticed from there

in your bed, as you slept

and i held my breath

everything had its own place

and i wondered what space would i take

in the order you kept

#in this drawing i wanted to use the song ‘Square’ by Mitski #personally i feel like this song is about being in love and trying far too hard to be the perfect lover that you are incapable of being #to me it’s like trying to see where you fit in that person’s life and not knowing where you belong in it #but then you’re still longing for that feeling of belonging there with them #so you self-destructively go to great lengths to ‘earn’ your place with them #i feel that the self-destructive behavior of trying to be that perfect lover just to ‘earn’ their love #is exactly the ‘burning’ that Mitski describes #it hurts trying to fit in but not quite succeeding again and again and again... #this is something that i think i relate to #trying far too hard to belong with someone who is 'only sometimes madly in love with me' #and says that i 'wouldn't be their first choice' #-that person kept switching between wanting me as a friend and a lover and now i am neither #and yet therein lies the problem: if i cared less and gave less effort #perhaps we could’ve worked things out without me trying too hard to “earn” their love #but why would i ever try to care less? #the situation was doomed from the start and i lost a friend in the process #i made this illustration to reflect that the best i could. I think the square motif was particularly obvious— #the canvas itself is a square and the illustration itself has to fit in a square box #everything else i drew would have to fit within this box to maintain the “order” #the colors are all some type of blue with not too much contrast except for the text eyes and teardrop on the figure #i wanted to keep contrast low within this illustration— everything should be “fitting in" after all #for the figure itself i wanted it to be clear that the figure is being forced into that square #its body’s being forced into that half of the box and even then its head is forced downwards #it’s clearly not fitting comfortably but it’s sure trying its hardest to #also also also!!! i wanted to do more angular shapes with this drawing because square and whatever lol :P #i don’t think i was particularly obvious in communicating that in the drawing though #but anyways i just wanted to draw to help process something that happened to me a while back :0 #i still think i love that person but just like how i don’t have a place in their life #i don’t think they have a place in mine and i think i’m starting to make peace with that :D #jaevyart

[stabbyfoxandrew]

i just wanted to come say thanks to y'all who like my oc posting the other day TwT it made me really happy

#i have several more idiots to show you. so... maybe i'll do that soon :) #i also really Want to make like character sheet type things for them all so you can 'get to know them' #but my art skills p won't allow for that. D: #maybe i'll use the picrews i've made or smth? idk #anyhow i'm gonna go start wipw now! vampdrew is up first! #diaerie

[lenievi]

TOS-tober day 16 (triumvirate prompts)

Favourite Spock headcanon.

No matter what is happening, no matter how stressed he is, no matter if he has time to eat or not, he will always, always shave. His mid-20s is a period he would really like to forget.

-

Spock didn’t move out of his quarters since he started to serve on the Enterprise. All bridge crew’s quarters/officers’ rooms are the same size, so it isn’t logical to move all of his things just because he’s moved up in ranks. His quarters are perfectly satisfactory. And it wouldn’t feel right to move into the room that used to be Una’s.

[prompts]

#terms of service-tober #just reusing something i said before #i don't really have 'new' headcanons #and these are always true #discovery gave spock the same room assignment as tos so... i'm gonna use it #scotty is probably using the first officer's quarters #just because i say so #spock #i skipped all the questions before this one yes lol #but now i'm caught up :D #(also just a note: it's absolutely unfair that it's spock who's first when kirk is the MC :P) #even alphabetically kirk should be first

[sysig]

Only the cutest prettiest sparkliest aliens (Patreon)

Bonus comparison | 2023 | 2021

Oh no he’s been yasssified

#Doodles #SCII #Arilou #ZEX #YIK #Leftover SCII doodles! Remember how I left off on SCII at the end of September? That feels so long ago! #I had a few ancillary doodles left over ♪ A bit of Pirate Fic a bit of just general silliness :) Fun! #Outfit designing for the guest Arilou at the Captain's defense-planning table :D Cute! #I went looking for references of maritime naval uniforms for them as well but nothing in particular stood out to me :P A shame #So I mostly went with something comfortable and easy to move in :D And cute of course! The Arilou's shoes in their actual outfits are ♪ cute #They also give me Knifecat vibes lol - I guess I'll have to see how that holds up once I meet one for real #Looking forward to it for sure! #A couple of ZEXes - thinking around flintlock pistols! Again while I was rewatching Muppet Treasure Island lol #Gosh that feels like years ago now haha - but the scene where Silver leaves in the boat with the stolen treasure #I just like ZEX with weapons ♪ Doesn't intend to use them just puffing up to appear more deadly than he wants to have to act on #Always always paired with the knowledge of his history and where he stands with other humans - the blood on his hands! (Arms? Tentacles?) #But he wouldn't really want to hurt him <3 Would he even be able to? I guess it's mostly a matter of aim and fire #One arm around the barrel - ouch - and one squeezing the trigger #These weapons are not made with VUX in mind! #A Very pretty ZEX - there was an animation meme going around and my brain was Fighting me for who it would better suit #Between Scriabin and ZEX actually lol - normally it'd be an easy choice (which way??) but I was So in on SCII at that moment #It was the GOD meme - first of all so many gorgeous entries hhhh <3 <3 But they are honestly both kinda perfect for it?? #ZEX wins this time ♪ Good for him #And rounding off with a YIK <3 <3 <3 #I don't remember if there was any inspiration for drawing her in a veil other than just - she pretty ♥ No thought just YIK 💖 #She did end up super pretty :) I think veils would work well for VUX! Especially like jewel or gold embroidered ♪ All the decoration! #Oh and technically sort of one more - I had forgotten I'd made a similarly-posed doodle of ZEX a bit back lol #Interesting style evolution and Totally Nothing Else lol

[elytrafemme]

okay i actually have an insane amount of work to get done but to lovepost about my college best friend RQ bc since coming to college and realizing that i actually escaped the borderline unlivable conditions of my high school life i realized i'm actually really talkative (crazy that you talk a lot when people listen LMFAO) and my poor friend has had to hear like SO much shit about dan and phil. and with the other folks i talk about them to they already know who dan and phil are but my best friend never got into them and he knows the Era but it was never up his alley and yet he's been. so patient to me as i like ramble to him about the Dan is leaving me video for the thirtieth time... sometimes there is joy in being annoying Sometimes there is joy in knowing your friends don't care about WHAT youre saying but just care that you're saying it. idk i love him

#nightmare.personal #last night i was talking to my other very close friend who was the one i watched WAD w #and i was like reading ALL the song titles off their gaming channel album and talking about the significance of The Photo #and my other friend was on his phone but he was listening and i just. Appreciate hjim #all my friends heal me in many different ways like in the future i will probably lovepost abt the friend i watced WAD w (aforementioned one #i used to have a crush on them (one that read CS also) but now we're just really good friends #and i'm spending a ton of time w them in the near future and FAWKK i love them so bad #they make me feel so much better about who i am as a person like they r THE most comfortable person to be around #also my roommate is no 1 enabler of my hyperfix on d+p which i appreciate

[deus-ex-mona]

#aka ‘h e l p why is lxl more than half of these options????’: the poll— #used ‘and’ instead of & for l&k bc i have no idea if i can now use &s without butchering the formatting~~~~~~ #there are wrong answers on this poll btw (ʘ‿ʘ) g o o d l u c k . (ʘ‿ʘ) #also p l s don’t look too hard at the low-effort lxl senpai edit that took way too long to make i was bored y o u s e e —

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

i want ike to be in three houses

for science

#DCB RD Run #y'all know what i'm talking abt if u follow me lmao #ike rly does say all the most perfect shit but most ppl don't even get to see it these days #bc intsys won't make the games accessible and they cost hundreds of dollars for a used copy jfhsagjdg #BUT ALSO this line? REALLY fuckin wish they said to zelgius too with someone anyone even if it wasn't ike #would've been really awesome tho for it to be ike who said it so that zelgius couldn't uwu my teacher his way out of being a villain #what is it with them making ppl be like uwu my teacher and that suddenly make them not a villain fhajgdgsj #like WHERE WAS THIS LINE WHEN IN REBIRTH 2 #we had tibarn with us! ranulf! shinon! oscar! SOMEONE could've said it!!! #hecky schemcky if OSCAR said it? that would be like DAMN u fucked UP tho #if OSCAR couldn't forgive you for something? d a m n sonny that one would cut d e e p #but also?! shinon! being calm about it! and just telling him outright! look! nah! you did all that shit! and now you want to uwu us to death #nah! what you did was unforgiveable and you kept doing unforgiveable things! #i mean come on there's a line out the door of ppl who wanted to get or deserved to get revenge on that guy #YES I HAD TO LET IT OUT AGAIN I'M STILL MAD THAT SEPH GOT THE WHOLE NO U DID BAD #BUT ZELGIUS DID ARGUABLY WORSE BC HE DIDN'T DO IT AFTER LOSING HIS ENTIRE FUCKING MIND #AND HAVING HIS ENTIRE FAMILY SLAIN AND HIS FOREST HOME BURNT TO DEATH #LIKE. COME ON. SEPH AT LEAST HAS A LEGIT REASON TO HAVE LOST HIS MIND BUT ZELG? #siiiiiiiiigh. anyway put ike in three houses so he can teach all the dumb stans how to be a proper mc #yeah that's right i said it A PROPER MC #blorbo is in the corner hiding bc he doesn't like these tags. see his bow? see it? it's poking into the pic #ALSO HOW COME REYSON DOESN'T GET ANY LINES WITH SEPH ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENED POST BATTLE #this post has gone in three entirely different directions in the tags good for me good for me

[thedeadthree]

ok ok listen…….. what if i made a oc verse set in m*etriod.. like a clown or two set in the verse ✨👁🥀❣️

#for the audience of me hehe but they’re the clowns of my heart at the moment along with t*lou clowns and the asoiaf dears hehe #i mean ive had this storyline in my mind since i was like.. a kid and playing the remaster of p*rime it brought back all those memories? ✨😭 #they were some of my first ocs too ! and returning to them again with fresh eyes im like.. a little emotional u know? #likely will yell more on ye olde oc blog but wanted to hear the besties thoughts on it if i were to talk about it? #(though i may transition them to an original verse instead but for now ! that’s where they’ll be hehe 🖤) #but ! yea ! for setting its like.. g*ot in space skzjjzjx and the empire is the liege lords of the space pirates hehe #they were brought up by the c*hozo and ofc they disappear and this gave the current empress an in to overthrow the old emperor #(and dad of one of the antagonist/deuteragonists !) #so that’s a little bit of it ! #leg.txt #*personal #i am thinking as well of like a sort of a*nastasia sort of plot where a princess (and the daughter of the new empress) loses her memory ? #her love interest is the son of the old emperor and the current right hand of the new empress (its actually what she’s using against him ?) #(that he loves her and for that she would zero her if he didn’t aid her in overthrowing his father? it’s a time to be them!) #he was also brought up and raised by the same c*hozo who raised s*amus so they’re childhood friends ! #basically he can’t stand her now bc he isn’t aware of her memory being gone and thinks she’s her hostage sksjzjjx #a bit of a misunderstanding going on! in later things he joins the team but! and he also has a brother as well! #and there’s a director of r&d who’s a bit of a snob and an master of intelligence who join the team too later!

[cinna-bunnie]

lmfao i am beating my laptops ass rn 😭 i have 3MB of ram free, i need to convince my job to let me get a lil dedicated server to run at home.

#i have 50 laptops to setup and i think i got all the infrastructure and configurations i need to do like. #the basic task of pushing an image to laptops that r connected. now doing that Faster? 😅 #i need to read more but also need to figure out where my bottleneck is bc one laptops getting it at 1.3GB/m and the other is #about 835MB/m. the image was shrunk too but it's like 38GB so uh. yea lol. #im using hyper v with pfsense as a firewall and a fog server for pxe/image deployment and they're doing DHCP for the physical LAN #the laptops are on. but that lan is just usb to ethernet connections and an unmanaged switch. #do i happen to have any computer nerd followers who know what im talking about and could give some tips on speeding this up? #otherwise I'll just keep looking into it after lunch since the laptops r at least Doing Something now :p #don't tell me about MDT unless you're about to make the end to end process dead easy and straight forward for me 😤 #omg some D dude was talking shit over fia's body after i rested at the grace site?? my boy.. buddy #i killed him swiftly do Not trash talk my wife 😤

[heatherfield]

Hi! Just wanted to tell you that you tagged the DW post with 10 and Donna with "ouat s4a" too 😅 which isn't really the same fandom

Bahaha you're so right, I totally did. 😂 Thank you for letting me know!! I tag so many things back-to-back and sometimes my fingers have a mind of their own. At least I can see my brain was connecting that it was "season 4" lol.

Thanks again! I fixed it.

#heather answers #how to tumblr #user none ofthisnonsense #i've definitely mixed up 'once upon a time' and 'outlander' before haha #i used to think i had good attention to detail #but now i'm wondering... :P #i'm also just impressed that people notice my tags so that's nice :D :D

[withinthesebones]

@vihilum sent 🗣 for a randomly generated dialogue starter for tommy (from renata).

“i’ve always hated it.”

#shes not on my page yet but #fc an/a d/e ar/mas #single mom who used to be a dancer #now owns the family restaurant and is trying to make a go of it #loves to cook #big mom vibes but also very Tired Burnout vibes #she could be talking abt anything here tbh the town she lives in her appearance her life KLJSKLSDJ she can be p cynical #i: renata

[halorocks1214]

me deleting the tumblr bookmark on my computer and the app on my homescreen the night before bcuz i wanted to force myself into a break since i wasn’t feel great about Other Things getting back online One Time to check my notifs before i go to bed

#so. ive been pretty detatched from m/c/y/t as a whole recently. not to the point that ill abandon fics #but enough that i only engage with content directly on my dash (no going into the tags is what im saying) #for now im just gonna chill. maybe write those other fandom fics i mentioned on my writing blog since the hobbies taking up most of my time #have been wrung a little dry lol #mostly im just gonna wait and see how this plays out. i plan to start writing for m/c/y/t again eventually of course #as for d/s/m/p related stuff that could be Officially Done Finally. #any completed fic will stay up. the WIPS will at the very least be orphaned (if not outright deleted) #this is worse case scenario Everything Plays Out Badly tho (i guess if you can say it hasnt already) #i think im gonna fully uninstall/logout. i didnt want to logout bcuz resigning in is annoying but that looks like what its gonna take F #mutuals feel free to ask for my discord over a tumblr ask in case any of yall wanna talk while im Offline and Touching Grass For Once #regardless of mutual status if you wanna send in an ask i might pop in to answer it and then pop back out #mainly because i rarely get asks anyway LMAO i highly doubt ill get any now #i say use an ask bcuz i get emails for those. comments and/or dms dont reach me outside of tumblr #i think what will bring me back the soonest is if i actually sit down and watch cour 2 of season two for t/&/b YES I HAVENT WATCHED IT YET #cringefail moment i know #otherwise thats basically where ive been. i have a bunch of funny videos saved in my likes that ill queue for yall #as well as some fandom posts in my drafts ill sprinkle in there #drink water stay safe etc etc #i will see yall on the flipside <3 #oh also b4 i forget VOTE SNIFFER