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fictionadventurer

One of my biggest literary pet peeves is when historical or history-inspired fiction pretends that "courting" is a synonym for "dating". Usually it's just a one-to-one word swap--in a modern context, these characters would be dating, but this is olden times, so they call it courting instead. Sometimes they'll pretend there's a shade of difference, and that courting is a more serious exploration of marriage or something. But I read a lot of fiction that was actually written during these historical eras, and the word "courting" is never used like that.

Two people do not decide that they are "courting". One person decides to "court" someone else. It's an action, not a stage in the relationship. A man decides to court a woman because he wants to encourage her to have romantic interest in him. He's trying to win her favor. It's not an exclusive relationship--a woman could be courted by multiple men at once. She'll spend time getting to know the guy who's interested in her, but they won't officially define their relationship as one where they only show romantic interest in each other. If they reach a point where they want it to be exclusive, that's when you propose.

There's no middle ground--either you're getting to know each other, or you're committed to marrying each other. This idea of a period where you kind of commit to each other until you decide you definitely want to get married is a modern one, and it occurs in eras where they use the word "dating" to describe it. The closest equivalent I can think of are times and places where they'd talk about a couple "stepping out together", but they're still not calling it "courting". Words have meaning, and the word "courting" has never meant that, so stop using it that way!

#writing #history #interesting #queueueue

motherfuckingshakespeare

A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE.

#writing #languages #queueueue

hi-im-kaybee

jerma: listen... i just really like strawberries and bananas! (suppressed giggle) it's not- it's not weird to like fruit. to enjoy a yummy strawberry on a summer's day! (looks at chat) "strawberries are weird and gross". what?! huh?!? listen to yourself!! what are you even saying?!?

the game he's playing: [grinding corpses to viscera in an abandoned hospital]

pisces-comet

northernlion: Do. Do you ever think about those half-time events where they give away free tuition to whichever college student could sink a basketball into the hoop? How fucked up would it be if you were the person who didn't sink in a basketball and your only thought while an entire stadium is applauding your classmate is "If I'd only sunk one more ball in I wouldn't have had crippling debt"? They got college students out here in the damn hunger games and what? (reads chat) "...hey NL it's just for fun you know what fun is right". you're morally bankrupt. and you will never see the light of heaven. motherfucker. (shouting) AT LEAST IF THEY WERE KILLING EACH OTHER FOR SPORT WE COULD BE HONEST ABOUT WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING ON THERE!!! (adjust headphones) Anyway...

the game he's playing: [pastel emoji matching game]

#jerma #queueueue

psirem-deactivated20241025

It was the first time you realized God could not understand you.

#harrow the ninth #the locked tomb #queueueue

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chillyfeetsteak

guy who lives with me

chillyfeetsteak

yeah

chillyfeetsteak

you have a problem with my rabbit's large, veiny, fleshy ear, tumblr??

#animals #cute #queueueue

leviathan-supersystem

there's this video going around from youtuber Adam Something about how "the left pushed men into the arms of Andrew Tate by not having good dating advice for men" and it kicks off with a personal story where he says "when i was a young man and I'd ask 'how do I score a hot gf? 😏' the left responded 'uhm, the word score is actually very problematic!' and I said 'jeez sorry I asked' and then I went to the right, and (etc.)" and it's like...

look man. if you're going around saying "how do I score a hot gf", out loud, with your mouth, where people can hear you, then honestly "hey maybe reconsider how you talk and think about women" is actually really good dating advice that will help you cause saying that shit is gonna repulse women. maybe it's not what you wanted to hear but it's what you needed to hear.

#cw sexism #misogyny discussion #yikes!#queueueue

dogpuppy

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redstonedust

i understand (on paper) why companies are anti-piracy but its funny when random individuals are also strongly anti-piracy. like how does it negatively affect your life if someone you know downloads a cracked torrent of sims 4. you dont work for EA. EA isnt gonna pay you for this. you lose nothing. its fine. chill out.

#capitalist hellscape #queueueue

gawdland

"divorced the wife today. Probably wont get the kids. Drank beer that was 300 caIs. Gonna go yell at minorities on facebook."

#oldmanblogging #this is an old man blog #this is what makes us old men #the big lebowski #hell is a middle aged man #male testeria #man interrupted #humbert #nickleback #im just a man

#tumblr hate tag

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thinking about that post from the other day that was like. children need more media about complex topics and it does bring me back to avatar the last airbender. it is by no means the pinnacle of storytelling that a lot of now-adults like to laude it as. however, i think it is an incredibly good show for children because of the topics it broaches. this is a show about imperialism and genocide that aired for children in the united states during the war on terror. it's really hard to watch it and not think of the fire nation as an allegory for the united states, especially in the season 3 episodes where it depicts daily life for the citizens of the fire nation. poor people in the fire nation live with sickness and industrial pollution from the manufacturing of weapons. kids go to school and the first thing they do when school starts is recite the fire nation oath. like. come on. and it's easy as an adult or as a non-usamerican to be like "well DUH everyone knows the pledge of allegiance is weird" but kids only know what they're taught and what their lived experience is. you don't notice that something is different until you see or experience something else.

i think zuko's speech to ozai in season 3 is one of the biggest moments in the show in terms of explicitly telling the audience what the message of zuko's arc is. he mentions imperialism very specifically: "growing up, we were taught that the fire nation was the greatest civilization in history, and somehow, the war was our way of sharing our greatness with the rest of the world. but what an amazing lie that was." like it's a classic loss of innocence story, but it's also a very important message for children who were growing up during the war on terror, or any children living in the imperial core.

i also think often of the exchange in that scene where zuko says "how could you possibly justify a duel with a child?" and when ozai says "it was to teach you respect" zuko immediately responds with "it was cruel and it was wrong." when i watched atla, i was 12 years old, and that show was the first time i had ever seen parental abuse depicted in a piece of media meant for my age group. it helped me realize that i was experiencing parental abuse, and it helped me to be cognizant of it as it got worse as i got older. otherwise, i might not have known. because that was my only lived experience.

like atla is by no means The Best Television Show Ever Made and it's not the Anti-fascist Media of All Time like people like to call it. but i think it has a lot of really good and important messages for its intended audience of children and young teenagers.

#and before someone pisses on the poor in my notes Not Every Message In ATLA Is Good #atla #avatar the last airbender #neph.txt

ellewhile

the locked tomb is simply a story about everyone fighting over who gets to be the dead wife

#gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #queueueue

animentality

#artwork #important #queueueue

gothhabiba

god forbid Black women have fun

gothhabiba

Black woman invents or popularises a phrase -> it enters the vernacular and circulates widely amongst Black and nonblack people -> people removed from the phrase's initial context read it too literally, do not interpret it with sensitivity, assume that the ideas expressed when people use it are shallow / "over"-sexualised / problematic in some way or another that mirrors their feelings about Black people as a whole -> there is a backlash where a supposedly more 'thoughtful,' 'subversive,' etc. alternative to the initial phrase is offered, implying that the initial phrase contained none of that complexity within it to begin with -> rinse & repeat

#racism discussion #queueueue

ttaibhse

love this can’t believe it only has 1 like

#ecology

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butch-yaoi

people will post about butches like they're inanimate walking dildos I swear 😭

butch-yaoi

it goes hand and hand with the people who are What gifts do butches like? Would a butch like if I do this? um idk... they are people with different opinions u know it's not a hivemind who has come from another planet specifically to dom you

#lesbian #cw homophobia

byjove

Everyone makes fun of the millennial overpriced burger restaurants but the worst part is that they got you hooked on some bullshit and promptly shut down because their polycule broke up or whatever. You’ll never get to eat the caramelized onion apple parmesan sex bomb burger again. And it was $23 and good.

#yeah #queueueue

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