#this sentence is useless

[communistkenobi]

I’m reflecting on cesaire’s work again and one of the little flourishes he does in discourse on colonialism is that he says the west will have to answer for its crimes against the human community. and I especially love this line because he’s using the same bourgeois universalising language that the imperial core so often does (“human rights” “freedom and justice for all” “spreading democracy across the globe”) but as a cudgel against the west, to reframe the human community as all those who lay outside of it. anyway I think everyone should read discourse on colonialism

#I need to brush up on my post colonial reading I’m not as well read as I’d like to be #once I finish my coursework I’ll have more time for reading shit I actually want to read lol #like I’m reading so much stupid bullshit that does not matter for class #genuinely useless theory that I will never pick up again #I want to finish orientalism in particular. one of the most didactic books I’ve ever read #like said’s writing is like every sentence restates his central argument. It’s an unrelenting book in a really compelling way #Interspersed with him talking fine grain shit about a bunch of European intellectuals I’ve never heard of lol #book club

[unforth]

@esper-aroon has enabled me, so here let me scream at y'all about The Imperial Uncle.

Okay, so I recently read The Imperial Uncle (Huang Shu) by Da Feng Gua Guo from Peach Flower House and I really loved it??? It's first person pov, mlm, about the Emperor's uncle Jing Chengjun, who is mistrusted by everyone simply because of who his parents were and his position, and so he's basically given up on trying to convince people that he's actually a nice, decent person without ulterior motives. He's super trapped by his position, and there's so much he can't say and do, and he's also a hopeless romantic, like, from his own mouth all he really wants is to sleep beside and wake up next to someone who actually gives a shit about him, and even that is basically out of reach in his life. Like, the book starts with his wife (who he has never once had sex with) storming into a meeting he's having and announcing he's a cuckold and she's pregnant.

But also, this poor bastard really thinks he knows what's going on and his very smart. Very unreliable narrator. He's actually kinda a hilarious, impulsive himbo. But the TL:DR is that his loneliness and isolation and the extent to which he's politically trapped routinely lead him to make absolutely terrible decisions.

E. Danglar's translation is absolutely gorgeous, too, and... idk, if you love political plots, melodramatic idiot main characters, a dose of pining, and a slow burn that eventually pays off, come take a look??? (some people think it's a love triangle??? idk, I never really got that vibe, I never felt it was really in doubt which of the two potential dudes he'd end up with, but maybe I only feel that way because I got it right, lmao).

Anyway, I can't stop thinking about how these two idiots end up finally finding each other and getting together, and I have an entire AU in my head (a modern corporate one) and part of another (canon divergent from like a decade before the book starts), and I just want people to love this book as much as I did and scream with me about it.

#unforth rambles #da feng gua guo #the imperial uncle #huang shu #the first au is jing chengjun and li ransi meet and have a fling during a vacation #and then find out that they work for the same company #hijinks ensue #the other is an au that starts with what if jing chengjun's father had actually been accused and convicted of treason #whether he was guilty or not #and his family was sentenced to death #but because jing chengjun is a youth he is instead made into a eunuch and forced into servitude to the imperial family #i know it's a stretch that someone of his stature would be treated that way instead of killed or sold off as a slave #i just don't care #anyway he's given awful jobs at first and they leave him weak and sickly but eventually it because clear he really isn't a threat #and he's allowed to help raise the princes in the next generation including the crown prince #and he also gets to know the other young people around the palace but as a subservient slightly older person #instead of as their elder of higher rank #and then liu tongyi is like okay so everyone thinks you're useless do you want to be a spy for me and help me uncover treason #and he's like FUCK YEAH #and love unfolds from there ofc

[trek-tracks]

Being a Type 1 diabetic Trekkie means that sometimes your two autocorrect suggestions are “insulin” and “I, Sulu”

#star trek #star trek tos #hikaru sulu #sulu #type 1 diabetes #diabetes #diabetic life #Trekkie life #are there any sentences where either would work #insulin saves bev’s life #I Sulu saves bev’s life #close enough #had my site ripped out while I was sleeping and woke up to an off the charts high blood sugar #no number just HIGH #could use Sulu to stab my stupid useless pancreas

[dyymi]

"you've gotta write a first draft!" fuck off.

#my first draft is just the final essay with some sentences taken out #that is all you're getting #'first drafts are useful!' not for me #they're completely useless #myymi.misc

[simlicious]

UBou caaanD evn decyfer wah they want fromyuSF enemoarrr S I 💀

#at least formulate a regular sentence you useless bot #i hate these messages with a passion #i get so disappointed #i see a notification and then it's just this #spambot #nonsims

[thatiranianphantom]

There’s a lot of teachers on here so I feel like you’ll get this: professional development is supposed to treat us like PROFESSIONALS. As in, it’s not supposed to be useless and it certainly isn’t supposed to treat us like five year olds.

And yet.

#at today’s PD it was #well it was standard fare #talk to your elbow partner #draw on a sticky note #what did you notice about the responses #craft a sentence #read off the board #and those stupid little attention getting songs #the principal moved a teacher closer to the group #we are not children! #we are adults! #treat us like adults! #and for god’s sake respect our time and don’t fill it with useless shit

[boxwinebaddie]

writing…

did u mean just one, long run-on sentence?

#nina writes sometimes #yes it’s the fight scene #yes i think jerseys inner dialogue is funny #him: with his ribs broken coughing up blood #god you motherfuckers are ugly #the nina special really is just #one long sentence of useless description huh #also if all the text doesn’t fit perfectly in a line #i get angry i can’t explain this #but it has to be uniform #even the tags like i will edit this #if the mobile tags aren’t fitting perfectly #see what i mean

[demobatman]

i hate seeing theories i agree with because eventually i will forget where i saw it let alone Who wrote it but its already been filed under canon in my brain despite it LITERALLY being a theory. a Game Th

#the one that was like the upside down is all of wills mental map of hawkins #kind of like the other mothers world in coraline #and vecna never made it at all it was just what will made to keep himself safe/familiar #im forming sentences weird its 6 am forgive me #but that. that theory is canon to me already and if the duffers change it theyre wrong #id love to see a gate outside of hawkins. to see if itd still be hawkins or the like #empty weird place when vecna first got to it #like is it like the nether in minecraft (endless/the same size as the overworld) #or is it a fixed size..... whos to say.... #theres no gate in russia so just ANOTHER THING that makes the russia plot useless #right ? theres no gate. yeah no way bc they couldnt even make one in hawkins barely. yeah #YEAH HEY.... they were like we Have to open it In Hawkins bc it wouldnt work #weird..... very weird indeed #anywho #stranger things

[guardiandae]

Made so much progress picking up writing 5+7 again. Gonna celebrate by posting out of context sentences whenever I feel like it until I finish this chapter.

This one feels nice rn:

If the 11th was awful, then the 12th arrives like sunshine after a long and devastating storm.

#wiptalk #genosai #this'll be funny bc one sentence of mine is kind of useless usually #you need a lot more context #for anything to come into focus #but thats ok

[muckyschmuck]

i have this weird evil productivity demon in my head that’s like WOW YOU HAVE ONLY DRAWN NON COMIC ART TODAY YOU ARE USELESS and it’s also like WOW YOU HAVE ONLY DRAWN COMIC ART TODAY YOU ARE USELESS but it’s also like YOU LEFT THE COMIC OFF MID SENTENCE WOW YOU ARE USELESS +STUPID but also like WOW YOU LEFT THE COMIC OFF AT THE END OF A CHAPTER/PART, YOU NEED TO WORK ON A NEW ONE TO KEEP U BUSY OR YOU ARE USELESS

#hmmmdmmmmmnggghh #i’m mad that i left it off mid sentence but like #for selfish reasons #like the fact that i can’t read more #HONESTLY THE WHOLE BASIS OF THE COMIC IS SELFISH #I MAKE IT FOR ME TO HAVE MEDIA FOR ME TO READ OF MY OCS #maybe the productivity demon is just my thirst for content of my babies #maybe #in the grand scheme of things #in the eyes of society #i’m useless no matter what #so if u think ab itttttt #healthy nihilism

[scrawlingskribbles]

tonight we mourn the loss of ~8 years of data/files & memories bc my iphone bricked itself so I had to factory reset & never had any backups made bc I'm a silly dumb idiot :'))))))))

#I may have already gone thru all the stages of grief yesterday when I Realized #but I'm still allowed to Mourn the loss #man the entire script for The Aftermath was in my notes app fjkhsdjkd I never moved it off TwT #not to mention the one filled with all the various passwords of my life. and little story snippets/sentences jotted down #and not to mention all the Photos xDDDD I mean. most of those were prolly Useless & needed trimmed out anyways #but just. god. there was So Much in there #oh well~! :) live & learn I guess lmfao. I'll be making backups with the new phone for sure lololol #shut up Wisp

[wordnerdsworld]

parallel sentences are BORING. Where is the EMOTION? The DIVERSITY? The INTEREST? STOP trying to make sentences conform for YOUR comfort, ELA teachers everywhere.

#not meant to shame !! #if u couldn’t tell I’m a lil miffed #my least favorite unit by far #it’s so useless! #no offense #but it is #like lowkey who cares #I mean I get it but…ew ugh #writing #writers of tumblr #writer things #writers #writer community #writing community #writers on tumblr #writing humor #parallel sentences #parallels #sentence structure

[sometipsygnostalgic]

Saw a shera fic that went from the silliest thing ever to the darkest most fucked up backstory, instantly snapping back to its silly plot afterwards

I kimd of hated that, because it made me too sad and unable to concentrate on or enjoy the lighthearted stuff

But i guess that i should be used to this by now

Between Adventure Time and of course Shera itself

#average shera episode #glimmer and bfs: who wants a SLUMBER PARTY #catra: my mother abandoned me to a death sentence and ive been choked unconscious for being a useless piece of trash and now i will die

[satans-knitwear]

moving my eyes too much or too quickly makes my tummy do that rollercoaster dip thing. 😷

#all my limbs have pins and needles! #i am not thriving today! or yesterday.or the day before. #i have multiple messages from ppl irl that i NEED to reply to #but i am slightly useless rn! #like...yes i would love to meet up and possibly get railed this week but i cant actually speak sentences rn!! so ask again tomorrow pls

[lycanthropicture]

will you tell me about syntax

this reads like a pickup line. are u trying to fuck over a conversation about sentence structure

#hehe yes i would love to tell you about syntax those were my favorite classes #i had a latin language background so i was really good with understanding case wrt word groupings and sentence structure #basically i was very good at building little sentence structure trees :) useless skill but made me feel smart

[running-in-the-dark]

I'm soooo tired. it's 8:30pm. do I sleep a little now and then study? or do I keep packing stuff. orrrr. just. don't do anything all night and go to bed really late and be unprepared and tired tomorrow? 🤔

okay fine I'll have a nap 🙄

#and I won't sleep much at night #because I'm already planning on taking my Lorazepam after (!) the exam #unless it miraculously goes really well (it won't.) I will need it #and then I'll need to sleep for like... 6 hours probably. which would mean I'm useless for the rest of the day but it is what it is. 🤷 #and then I could pack again at night #idk it's probably stupid but. I have forgotten the rest of that sentence. it probably WAS stupid though #this exam is THE scariest thing for me. I almost didn't go to uni because the thought of having to do this at the end was too scary #and now. it's the only thing I still need to do. the ONLY thing. the last damn thing. I'll never have to go back there. I'll never have to #see any of those people again. it'll finally be over #maybe I'll finally feel better when it's done. I don't know. #but fuuuuck I am so scared #I'm shocked I haven't cried yet #I'm so so so so scared #😭 #anyway nap time #personal