#singular you | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

vinx909 · 1 year

Text

for those that argue against singular they

some people love to say that they refers to multiple people. a popular retort is that singular they predates singular you. on that topic i very much enjoyed finding this source: https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/

singular they dates back at least since 1375, nearly 650 years ago. you as singular was argued against in 1660.

so roughly we can say that singular they predates singular you by 300 years.

#pronouns #singular they #singular you

7 notes · View notes

ourflagmeansgayrights · 6 months

Text

actually can we stop talking about “deserve” when it comes to characters dying in fiction. not everything is a fable with a moral lesson to be learned. romeo and juliet didn’t “deserve” to die. bambi’s mom didn’t “deserve” to die. izzy dying in the finale doesn’t mean ofmd is saying that certain types of queer people “deserve” to die. fictional death can serve more narrative purposes than just punishment for the character doing the dying.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2 #ofmd 2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #izzy hands #dizzy izzy #israel hands #the izcourse #txt #mine #og #s2e08 #the singular toe i will dip into the post finale discourse #saw screenshots from twitter that were essentially saying “i relate to izzy so ofmd is saying that i deserve to die”#like actually the ofmd writers don’t know you and weren’t saying anything about you. u can be sad abt izzy dying but cmon man. come on

5K notes · View notes

lunar-years · 4 days

Text

what's so clever about Clara Bow is that when she references her own name at the end, she's not talking about the present but the future, quoting the inevitable way people are going to one day talk about her, imagining it will only be in regards to the woma(e)n who surpass her. because there will be someone who surpasses her, eventually. that's the cycle of fame, isn't it? we're simultaneously captivated by the alluring trick of the past while looking for the next big thing. we compare current stars to the lights that shined before them, "you look like taylor swift." but we're also constantly waiting for someone new and greater to take the crown and captivate us anew, "you've got edge she never did." And half the song is about acknowledging that being revered is hell on earth for the people who are in it, because you're always trapped between what came before and what will come after. you're only safe insofar as you remain shiny. But the real beauty of the song is that it never succumbs to this dichotomy, but embraces it. It's Taylor acknowledging she wouldn't be who she is were it not for the women who came before her, who shared the same dreams, and recognizing her place in the chain of the women who will come after. The future's bright, dazzling.

#it's about appreciating and finding comfort in the people they want you to be intimidated by #and hoping she can be a source of comfort for the girls to come #it’s about knowing you’re not alone even when they’ve made you’ve out to be Singular. and how fucking IMPORTANT that is.#ttpd #clara bow #taylor swift #i love this song so SO much. wow #ts

1K notes · View notes

thecl0wnfather · 1 month

Text

eddie, get on the loveseat, eddie. eddie. eddie. eddie. save me, eddie. eddie, save me. eddie... save me...

#first thought upon seeing the chair #lol sorry not sorry eddie #and all this for one (1) singular (one) pea (just one)#i love you please don't die #Eddie Dear #Welcome Home #Welcome Home art #Welcome Home spoilers #Grease Paint.

2K notes · View notes

blithe-bee · 2 months

Text

of all the good reasons to have an ace headcanon for him, why would you land on this

#not maintagging this #and I wish I could say this was a singular instance #but sadly it isn't #people can be uninterested in sex without being reduced to children or having their intelligence insulted #not even mentioning that a-spectrum experience is so varied in general #the two sides of terrible asexual generalisation: unfeeling robots and children #if you say someone is too dumb or emotionally immature to understand sex #you imply that if they just grew up a little or learned a bit more they would change their mind #ace people get that kind of patronising enough we don't need the call to come from inside the house as well

1K notes · View notes

elder-millennial-of-zion · 3 months

Text

Chase the Jews out of every country so they flee to Israel, and then vilify them for living in Israel.

Put Israel under constant threat of annihilation, making mandatory conscription a necessity, and then use that as an excuse to declare that “there are no civilians in Israel,” that the entire population is guilty, their lives and human rights forfeit, for being “complicit” in their own survival.

#antisemitism #jumblr #israel #idf #antisemitic double standards #‘there are no civilians in Israel’ congratulations you did it #you found a reason why the entire population of one singular country deserves to die #it’s totally a coincidence that it’s the only Jewish country #Jews can never exist or have sovereignty on conditions the world would find acceptable

1K notes · View notes

technicolourtelevision · 1 year

Text