Lover (est. 1988)

Reblog to bonk your mutuals on the head every time they start thinking negatively about themselves

Reblonk

i'd truly be fucked in her situation because rumpelstiltskin is not a name that would come to mind for me

reblog and put in the tags what your childhood password that you just stuck with is!

the worst person you know thinks they're super empathetic. the kindest person you know thinks they're fucked up and evil

does anyone want to see a really good picture of my kitty cat

not a cat, first off

snale

To be frank I think talking about your fiction project on the internet is poisonous to the creative process. It's a placebo hit. Makes you feel like you wrote without having to write. My rule used to be "nothing plot critical should be revealed outside the text" but my stance has since hardened into "nothing even plot related should be revealed outside the text"

There is literally no romantic thing here, it’s just two friends being goofy and dancing weirdly together. Everybody needs to calm the fuck down.

whoops.

i tried explaining to this girl at a party once how i could be gay and asexual at the same time and it basically boils down to never being into anyone but like once a year i’ll find a man attractive. and she was like “so what am i if i only like girls, and i’ve never found any of my boyfriends attractive and and i just wanna do cocaine all the time?” i was like “you’re a lesbian with a coke addiction?” and she was like “woooooah”. she broke up with her boyfriend that night and had a threesome with two girls in the bathtub. rebecca if you’re out there, i hope you’re going places. well, not far, since you’re electronically tagged. but spiritually.

WOAH WHAT?

That is profound. I noticed this by accident when asked about adjectives by a Japanese student. She translated something from Japanese like “Brown big cat” and I corrected her. When she asked me why, I bluescreened.

What the fuck, English isn’t even my first language and yet I picked up on that. How the fuck. What the fuck.

Reasoning: It Just Sounds Right

Oooh, don’t like that. Nope, I do not even like that a little bit.  That’s parting the veil and looking at some forbidden fucking knowledge there.

How did I even learn this language wtf

I had to read “brown big cat” like three times before my brain stopped interpreting it as “big brown cat”

I’m kinda reading “brown big cat” as “brown (big cat)”, that is, a “big cat” - like a tiger or lion or other felid of similar size - that happens to be brown. “Big brown cat”, on the other hand, sounds more like a brown cat that’s just a bit bigger than a regular housecat - like a bobcat or a maine coon cat or something like that.

yeah, a brown big cat is almost certainly a puma. a big brown cat is probably a maine coon.

yeah, if you put the adjectives out of order you wind up implying a compound noun, which is presumably why we have this rule; we stripped out so much inflection over the centuries word order now dictates a huge amount of our grammar

@deadcatwithaflamethrower Linguistics tidbit.

huh…

I love my job, but reblogging employment jelly for someone else I love.

I’d approve that one, it adds context

you know back then they didn’t use to romanticize the past