#the passive voice

[trolledu]

The clearest image ever taken of Mars.

The last image taken by Cassini before it was deliberately smashed into Saturn’s atmosphere.

#mars #Saturn #space #space exploration #passive #the passive #passive voice #the passive voice #trolleng #trolledu #superlatives

[beaft]

i went to get my t-shot yesterday and it took me an hour and a half to get to the clinic and as soon as i got on the bed the nurse dropped my t-shot and it broke and now they're trying to make me pay for the replacement. i think the fuck not lmao

#why should i have to pay money because SOMEONE ELSE dropped my medication!!! make it make sense #also they kept referring to 'the medicine that got broken' please drop that youtuber apology line and lose the passive voice #it did not 'get broken' YOU BROKE IT #madness. utter madness.

[odinsblog]

Elon will probably have the community note removed, like he usually does on any facts that don’t conform to his opinion

#politics #media bias #passive voice #palestine #israel #gaza #the media is complicit #community notes #twitter #journalism fail

[freerangemosaic]

#alcohol #CDC #Center for Disease Control #excessive alcohol use #feminism #George Orwell #language #language detectives #let us all now swim in a barrel of pinot noir #mysteries #pregnancy #rape #rape culture #Rebecca Solnit #the passive voice #Todd Akin #warnings #women #Zika virus

[vexwerewolf]

I made it better

#passive voice #meme

[unbidden-yidden]

Hey major shout-out to my fellow trans Jews. This year has been hell and it's hard not to feel like we've been completely abandoned, betrayed, shut out, and made unsafe across the full political spectrum.

I'm so sorry; we deserved better. I hope you're okay and standing strong - we will get through this together 🕎 🏳️‍⚧️ ✡️

#the right either actively or passively wants us dead or disappeared because of our genders #and the left apparently wants us dead or disappeared for being Jews #where can we go? #who can we turn to? #who can we rely on but ourselves? #it's terrifying and excruciating #I'm so tired of begging people to see me as a person #trans advocacy is so important right now and being in trans community is so vital #and yet far too many trans activists and community leaders were cheering on the deaths of my people not three weeks ago #pan-Jewish solidarity is so important right now and being in Jewish community is so important #and yet a disturbing number of the strongest voices advocating for Jewish people's humanity and right to self-determination #are also very right-wing #and refuse to see not even the truth of our lived experiences but fail entirely to see our humanity as trans people at all #so again I ask: where are we supposed to go??

[comraderoscoes]

pov you want to have puppies (so you have his stuff frozen)

#lewis hamilton #australian gp 2024 #my dream is to have puppies. his ao3 filters are set to omegaverse and he's writing a tumblr text post that says to be cringe is to be free #do a calendar...looking forward to the day when he does a hello! magazine spread to announce roscoe's puppies like footballers used to #the colouring...we wont talk about it. every time i exported a gif it was so much more washed out than it was on ps?? #passive voice when he's talking about the snip. like who did this

[mihotose]

scale of how much steban enjoys getting hit (mention of communism grants +2 to pain threshold while aftercare only grants +1 i guess)

but as long as you dont hit him too hard uli will be very pleased ♥️

love wins

#if you refuse to hit him steban will be disappointed. but kim will be disappointed only if he likes you #also if you say nothing theres an authority passive about having *marked* him #then if you talk to cindy about it she also seems to approve of you hitting steban. good job gang you got him knocked up #out. i mean out #gemitus #disco elysium #im not going to lie i think i hauve pale over exposure #oh my god i forgot to mention uli's voice when he tells you to hit steban. jesus fucking christ

[amoxicillin-tangent]

i am given birth to by my mother. i am brought home to a falling-apart trailer. i am fed and i am not fed enough. i am aged into a small being with opinions and some semblance of autonomy; my childhood is a video game and i am given three objectives: sit down, stay quiet, and cease to exist. i am made good at the last part; it is a god-like sort of art, and so i do. silence is suited for me as well as i am suited for silence. 

i am told, gently, by my third-grade teacher to stop writing in passive voice. the noun of the sentence should be the actor, the doer, the taker. i am not a taker. never the actor of my own consciousness, of my own unconsciousness, remember, now, i am ceasing to exist. 

i am uprooted like a wilting plant, no sunlight, chipped terracotta pot, placed, never planted. grow, says the sunlight seeping between the drawn shutters, and i deny its case. i am made a masochist at all of eight-years-old, i am made for withering away. i am made mother, made martyr, made clever, made more, made machine. 

i am placed in a foster home and told the new rules. i will sleep at 2130 and wake at 0600. i will eat blueberries and coconut yogurt and i will make good grades. i will behave. i will sit down, i will stay quiet, and i will cease to exist. 

i am told, gently, by my ninth-grade teacher to stop writing in passive voice. like this, you are the subject of the sentence. i am brought home; i am subjected to my sentence. i am taught, i am created, i am embittered, i am disillusioned, i am ceasing. it is all i know how to do.

blurring letters litter the pages before me. maya angelou, oh pray my wings are gonna fit me well. oh, tell the hell-child to return to her cell. mangled beast, worthless mongrel, ceasing. perfect child, perfect victim, passive. the sentences are diagrammed by my expert hand and i am diagrammed as well, pages in a folder, problem child, trouble-maker, mentally unstable. infinitive, preposition, page-break. 

my eleventh-grade teacher is asked why was it okay for maya angelou to write in passive voice? she responds, because to write in active voice would take the focus from the corpse to the crew. i like that. i understand it. the pages aren’t so blurry anymore. i trace them with my fingertips, letter-by-letter. her bones were found//round thirty years later//when they razed//her building to//put up a parking lot. 

i am no longer still, silent, ceasing. i am no longer wilting, and no longer made, i am maker. 

grow, says the sunlight seeping between the drawn shutters. i am neither the corpse nor the crew. i reach forward with trembling hands,

and i pull the cord, and the light floods through.

#poetry #poem #poets on tumblr #spilled ink #spilled poem #parentification #original poems #poetic prose #poetry community #poets and writers #foster care #tw: death #tw: neglect #tw: emotional abuse #passive voice

[trolledu]

#trolleng #trolledu #speaking #reading #linking verb #linking verbs #present simple #the passive #passive #passive voice #the passive voice #past simple #modal verb #modal verbs #could #modal could #gerund #present participle #ing adjective #ing adjectives #adjective #adjectives #adverb #adverbs

[byoldervine]

How To Identify Active vs Passive Voice In Your Sentences

To clarify, active voice is when the subject is performing the action, experiencing the emotion, etc. and passive voice is when the subject undergoes the action, emotion, etc. These basically come up in sentence structure as a way to make a character feel like they have more or less agency

The way to identify the difference, or at least the way I’ve used for years, is to put ‘by zombies’ after the verb. If it’s coherent, it’s passive voice, and if it isn’t, it’s active. Let’s use some examples:

“She was killed (by zombies)” -> coherent, passive

“Zombies killed (by zombies) her” -> incoherent, active

And the effect of these techniques in your writing is to make the subject read as though they have more or less agency depending on the situation, even without changing what’s going on in the scene. Neither is necessarily better than the other, it’s all about utilisation in the correct circumstances

Now some longer, Tumblr friendly examples, and you can try and practice identifying active and passive voice if that can help you:

“You kneel before my throne unaware that it was built on lies”

“It may not be that deep, but the ground is soft and I’m ready to dig”

“I hope I make it a little softer here for someone”

“If they won’t match your effort, they don’t want to be in your life”

“God may judge you but his sins outweigh your own”

#active voice #passive voice #writing voice #writing #writers #writeblr #bookblr #book #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #writers of tumblr #writer #how to write #on writing #creative writing #write #writing tips #writblr #female writers #queer writers #writer things #writing is hard #writing advice #writing life #writer problems #writer stuff #writerscreed #writing tips and tricks #writing tool #writersnetwork

[odinsblog]

A humanitarian crisis is what happens after a natural disaster like a tsunami, or a hurricane, or an earthquake. A humanitarian crisis is when an unexpected accident happens. A humanitarian crisis is what happens to marginalized communities in a pandemic. Indiscriminately bombing a population of noncombatant civilians and then intentionally depriving them of food, water and medical access is a deliberate war crime, NOT some random act of nature. Words matter. Calling the aftermath of bombing civilians “a humanitarian crisis” is no different than using the passive voice to describe Israel’s war crimes without directly attributing them to Israel. Please do not let the well documented displacement, and the meticulously planned out ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians… don’t allow that to be whitewashed and erased away into some kind of unfortunate “accident” of nature.

And don’t even get me started on the tired media trope of labeling non-white starving people, “looters” when they take food to feed their families…

#politics #euphemisms #whitewashing history #palestine #gaza #israel #whitewashing #hamas ≠ palestine #nakba #genocide #ethnic cleansing #bds #boycott divest sanction #settler colonialism #israel is an apartheid state #benjamin netanyahu is a war criminal #war crimes #humanitarian crisis #passive voice #framing matters

[gildedlead]

Shout out to Gotham knights for having some the most mind numbing gameplay, with some of the best Batfam dialogue known to man to balance it out. It also has Jason with this fuckass haircut.

#Jason looks ROUGH in this game but I do like his passive :〉expression #The voice acting is pretty great too #‘you promised we’d have dinner together as a familyyyy’ #plus it’s got some ‘good father bruce Wayne’ and I eat that shit up with a spoon #chatterbox behavior #gotham knights #jason todd #dick grayson #tim drake #barbara gordon #alfred pennyworth

[thatdiva]

#passive voice #palestine #gaza #journalism

[connorboyyy]

Whether you ship the lovely Hank and Connor or just thrive off that sweet, platonic, father/son relationship or appreciate and enjoy both—I’m glad there’s one thing we can all agree on:

✨Connor moves in with Hank after the revolution and spoils tf out of Sumo✨

Bonus: Connor gets really into “bad” (in Hank’s words) music. i.e., pop music. Bonus bonus if it’s girly pop

#dbh connor #connor rk800 #dbh hank #hank anderson #hankcon #dbh #detroit become human #hank and connor #there is no hate here #we accept the shippers and non shippers and passive third parties here #I’m sorry tumblr #my stupid ass thoughts now have a voice

[tehrogueva]

comic by @cakesmelons

Dream needs some protecting, who better than his overprotective brother

#tehrogueva #My voice acting #comic dub #my voice acting #undertale voice acting #umtv voiceacting #undertale au voice acting #dream sans voice acting #dream sans #nightmare sans #passive nightmare sans #Uncorrupted Nightmare sans #dream tale #dreamtale #undertale au #dreamtale dream #dreamtale brothers #dreamtale au #dreamtale nightmare #Youtube