the people's mess

i <3 when women characters feel they aren't able to express sadness in "normal" ways because they don't feel safe enough to cry in their environment so instead they opt for the more acceptable strong emotion of rage and they get recklessly angry at the people around them in fits of misplaced sadness and terror and make irreversible decisions and hurt others. i dont care as much when this happens to a man

(popular leftist voice) these right wingers are so mad because they get no women. if you are a Good Person a woman will appear and suck your dick.

(popular leftist voice) these right wingers are all sooo poorrrr and stupid. They are stupid because they are poorrrr, racism would never exist in my suburban area

Popular leftist voice: these right wingers must have brain damage. They must be bigots because they are literally reta suffering from blsck mold, or brain damage.

I was pondering animal vocabulary recently but another thing you stop taking for granted once you learn a foreign language is colour vocabulary. For the longest time I couldn’t remember what ‘livid’ meant in English because it refers to a blueish-grey colour and I had trouble associating it with anger; in French it would suggest fear (une peur bleue—intense fright). Another trap is green to mean inexperienced—in French we say blue! Switching between languages means switching from one worldview to another and that entails examining a large array of associations you weren’t even aware of and sometimes having to attach opposite connotations to the same concept. When I try to guess what an English speaker might associate with ‘feeling grey’ I picture apathy, boredom—but in French ‘se sentir grisé’ (or grisant / greying) means feeling excited, intoxicated, stirred up. Maybe it’s because grey is between black and white—not quite sober, not quite drunk, the giddy in-between space. The examples for ‘se sentir grisé’ in my French quotation dictionary are people feeling wonderfully grey after a great kiss, or while looking at a dizzying mountain landscape, an immense sky…

nothing like stepping outside while the seasons are changing and suddenly feeling a change in the weather that knocks you back in time by several years

sorry professor I'm going to have to miss class today bc when I walked outside in the morning it was cold and sunny in a very specific way and suddenly I was struck with a nostalgia for years past so vivid and potent that I had to sit down

Ingrid is the third child of a house that is now actively plotting against it's allies. Siding with Royce means Julien is probably the most likely political marriage, but also rewarding the stalwart soldier who keeps impressing you and making you wish he was one of your own, well it's not unheard of. Azune you are not safe from a betrothal you can't refuse.