~A Mess of Flesh and Bones~

Being gay takes more practise than you’d think

I mean like feeling comfortable in your identity and rejecting everything negative you’ve been taught about yourself takes constant practise and self affirmation. being gay is a lifelong experience of telling yourself that it’s good and okay to exist and feel the way you do even when your subconscious is against you

A nonbinary femme fatale is a themme fatale

sorry but if your bed isn’t against at least one wall you’re not valid

Are you telling me there are people out there who have their beds just floating in the middle of their rooms like animals?

who paid for this study bruh

it’‘s literally seasoning.  that’s it. that’s what make food taste good.

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.

I have questions, though. If this is so common across languages (which ones?) and hardwired into our brains, how come we have such trouble ‘learning’ this rule when studying a new language?

transphobes aren’t allowed to shop anymore because making a purchase is a trans action ://

an octopus but the tentacles end in human hands

that is exactly and completely what i meant thank you

humans are so harsh to each other. like damn i don’t care if you drink decaf coffee or don’t like to read. we’re all just trying to survive. i love you. i’m proud of you.

[ID: a tweet from Ruth H. Hopkins @RuthHHopkins. Text reads: as you celebrate thanksgiving, know that the trump administration is taking away 321 acres of land from the Mashpee-Wampanoag, the tribe that helped the pilgrims survive and were present at the first thanksgiving. Tell legislators to support the Mashpee Reservation Reaffirmation Act. End ID]

Lakota People’s Law Project has another article with background on this & the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s website also has a link to the text of the bill, phone numbers of legislators, posters, etc.

I’m in the mood to be cuddled kissed & fucked

ever since i met you no one else is worth thinking about