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Just finished The Sisters short story from dubliners. Thought it was shit.
things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.
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
Just looked up why we do this and one of the first lines in this article is, “Adjectives are where the elves of language both cheat and illumine reality.” so I know it’s a good article.
Things this article has taught me:
This same order of adjectives more or less applies to languages around the world. “It’s possible that these elements of universal grammar clarify our thought in some way,” says Barbara Partee, a professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Yet when the human race tacitly decided that shape words go before color words go before origin words, it left no record of its rationale.
One theory is that the more specific term always falls closer to the noun. But that doesn’t explain everything in adjective order.
Another theory is that as you get closer to the noun, you encounter adjectives that denote more innate properties. In general, nouns pick out the type of thing we’re talking about, and adjectives describe it,” Partee told me. She observes that the modifiers most likely to sit right next to nouns are the ones most inclined to serve as nouns in different contexts: Rubber duck. Stone wall.
Rules are made to be broken. Switching up the order of adjectives allows you to redistribute emphasis. (If you wish to buy the black small purse, not the gray one, for instance, you can communicate your priorities by placing color before size). Scrambling the order of adjectives also helps authors achieve a sense of spontaneity, of improvising as they go. Wolfe discovers such a rhythm, a feeling-his-way quality, when he discusses his childhood recollection of “brown tired autumn earth” and a “flat moist plug of apple tobacco.”
Brain scans have discovered that your brain has to work harder to read adjectives in the “wrong” order.
TL;DR: No one knows why we do this adjective thing but it’s pretty hardwired in.
@deadcatwithaflamethrower Linguistics tidbit.
Since it’s never credited, this is from Mark Forsyth’s The Elements of Eloquence, and just one reason why I think it’s required reading for anyone interested in prosecraft. Every page is this useful.
20 Ways Characters Show Trust Without Saying It
Trust is built slowly over time. It's rarely given immediately and instead is revealed in the smallest vulnerabilities, the quietest choices, the moments where a character lets their guard down without realising it.
I've outlined some ways you can prove to your reader the trust your characters build together.
Sharing secrets they don’t tell anyone else.
Letting someone see their vulnerable side: emotional, disheveled, or undone.
Falling asleep around them without worry.
Admitting confusion instead of pretending to know everything.
Asking for help, especially when they never do.
Walking beside them instead of behind or ahead.
Allowing silence without trying to fill it.
Letting them read unfinished drafts, art, or work-in-progress ideas.
Showing up at their door in a moment of panic.
Not hiding their flaws or insecurities.
Giving them the spare key without overthinking it.
Delegating an important task without hesitation.
Relaxing their shoulders when that person arrives.
Sharing food straight from the same plate or drink.
Telling the truth, even when it’s messy or uncomfortable.
Revealing old scars: physical or emotional.
Accepting advice they’d reject from anyone else.
Allowing touch without stiffening.
Letting that character enter their space.
Looking at them like they’re a place, not a person. A safe place.
Trust can be woven into every quiet moment, even when broken and needing to be rebuilt.
Walking into a bookstore “for inspiration” and leaving with seven new books i won’t read for a month but will absolutely keep near my laptop because their presence alone fuels my delusions of literary greatness.

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Apocrital's Hymenoptera Year in Review 2025
I eagerly await my full iNaturalist year in review once I finish uploading all of December's photos, but I am finished with all of last year's Hymenoptera, so I've made myself a mini review just for them! Without further ado...
In comparison, in 2024 I had 548 observations of 80 species. It is a shame how few sawflies I saw, I'll have to try and seek some out next year
(Added extra labels since it's not interactive for you guys) Sooo many gall wasps this year! I actually only had one gall wasp observation before this year which is criminal, I have no clue how I didn't notice them earlier. I am the type to photograph and upload pretty much every individual of even common species I see so I end up with one william honeybees and bumblebees despite my waspy affinities
Nothing too suprising here. When it's warm the bugs are active and so am I, with the dip in May probably being because of exam season or something. Once it started getting colder there were galls everywhere so it didn't immediately dip
Along with some of my favourite observations of each from this year. We had a handful of cellophane bees nesting in our garden and they had a mating swarm going there for days. Also my first honeybee drone!
For anyone unfamiliar, lifer means a new taxon you haven't seen before. Presuming the tentative ones are correct, that would bring me up to 33 hymenoptera families overall
And now an unordered dump of some more observations from this year I haven't been able to include thus far
A cute woolly alder sawfly (Eriocampa ovata) and a bit of hym on hym violence with a sawfly larva being carried off by an ant (Formica rufa complex)
The first chalcid I was ever able to use my macro lens on and my first wasp galls of the year (ridiculously red compared to all the later ones too) (Cynips divisa)
A nomad bee (Nomada) emerging from, presumably, a mining bee nest (nomad bees parasitise mining bees) which I had noticed and decided to watch for a bit in case anything happened although I hadn't expected much. And also a very scruffy looking Clark's mining bee (Andrena clarkella) that let me get shockingly close to it
A torymid that had just finished parasitising a silk button gall and an ichneumonid larva parasitising a cucumber spider
An ichneumonid visitor to the picnic I had on my birthday, I love her subtle red patterns, and a crabronid I have to include because they're such deeply ridiculous looking animals. They weren't kidding that head can square
Andricus grossulariae and Andricus glandulae galls
My first (and so far only) beewolf (Philanthus triangulum), which are one of my favourite wasps to talk about, they have some really wacky adaptations, and Rhyssella approximator
Sycophila snooping around the oak galls, probably looking for one to parasitise, and a sleepy little nomad bee I spent a while photographing before it started properly waking up
One of my favourite photos ever hands down. I caught this little gall wasp cleaning itself and for a moment it looked like it was standing upright on two legs. Behold a man! And a gorgeous potter wasp (Delta unguiculatum)
A ladybird parasitoid wasp cocoon (Dinocampus coccinellae) and its brainwashed ladybird guard (Harmonia axyridis). Last but certainly not least, two more from this same patch of fennel that was overrun by so many species of wasps, bees and flies – Sphex pruinosus and an emerald cuckoo wasp (Stilbum cyanurum) I just barely caught, which is my profile picture here
It's been so fun running this blog this year and I'm so happy so many people seem to enjoy it! I hope to keep sharing wasps here as long as I possibly can
Wikipedia / Image from pinterest / Machiavelli / George Santayana / Thucydides / Image from pinterest / Abba - Waterloo / J. M. Barrie - Peter Pan / Fibonacci spiral / Catherynne M. Valente
When your Character...
Gets into: A Fight ⚜ ...Another Fight ⚜ ...Yet Another Fight
Hates Someone ⚜ Kisses Someone ⚜ Falls in Love
Calls Someone they Love ⚜ Dies / Cheats Death ⚜ Drowns
is...
A Ballerina ⚜ A Child ⚜ Interacting with a Child ⚜ A Cheerleader
A Cowboy ⚜ A Genius ⚜ A Lawyer ⚜ A Pirate ⚜ A Spy
A Wheelchair User ⚜ A Zombie ⚜ Beautiful ⚜ Dangerous ⚜ Drunk
Funny ⚜ In a Coma ⚜ In a Secret Society ⚜ Injured ⚜ Shy
needs...
A Magical Item ⚜ An Aphrodisiac ⚜ A Fictional Poison
A Coping Strategy ⚜ A Drink ⚜ A Medicinal Herb ⚜ A Mentor
Money ⚜ A Persuasion Tactic ⚜ A Quirk ⚜ To be Killed Off
To Become Likable ⚜ To Clean a Wound ⚜ To Self-Reflect
To Find the Right Word, but Can't ⚜ To Say No ⚜ To Swear
loves...
Astronomy ⚜ Baking ⚜ Cooking ⚜ Cocktails ⚜ Food ⚜ Oils
Dancing ⚜ Fashion ⚜ Gems ⚜ Herbal Remedies ⚜ Honey
Mushrooms ⚜ Mythology ⚜ Numbers ⚜ Perfumes
Roses ⚜ Sweets ⚜ To Argue ⚜ To Insult ⚜ To Kiss
To Make False Claims ⚜ Wine ⚜ Wine-Tasting ⚜ Yoga
has/experiences...
Allergies ⚜ Amnesia ⚜ Bereavement ⚜ Bites & Stings
Bruises ⚜ Caffeine ⚜ CO Poisoning ⚜ Color Blindness
Facial Hair ⚜ Fainting ⚜ Fevers ⚜ Food Allergies
Food Poisoning ⚜ Fractures ⚜ Frostbite ⚜ Hypothermia
Injuries ⚜ Jet Lag ⚜ Kidnapping ⚜ Manipulation ⚜ Mutism
Pain ⚜ Paranoia ⚜ Poisoning ⚜ More Pain & Violence
Scars ⚜ Trauma ⚜ Viruses ⚜ Wounds
[these are just quick references. more research may be needed to write your story...]
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I'm an electrical engineer and for the longest time I was saying that electricity and electronics isn't magic, but think about it.
You literally have to collect rare stones from remote locations, put them into specific formations to work. All of this gets written down in symbols which don't make sense to the uninformed. It gets powered by energy which can not be seen in most cases.
Like what else do you want. What's your standard for calling something magic.
"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works."
Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld #30)

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Portofino, Italy by Lucía Bárcena
Art by: Henry James Garrett
Someone today will read Shakespeare’s hamlet and say omg he’s just like me fr. Another person will read moby dick and proclaim Ishmael as an adhd king.
A person grieving for their recently deceased lover reads the iliad and they watch as Achilles rages and rages and god how righteous anger fueld by love is so devastating that it’s ramifications still affect the world several thousand years later.
We might one day settle down and read the epic of gilgamesh and watch as a king has to accept the death of the person he loved the most. One of the very first stories ever written and it was about coping with death, and how to grieve.
We don’t read classics because they’re old, we read them because they remind us that we are never alone. That a character created over 500 years ago struggled with the exact same problems we all still have today. That even a king from centuries past had to deal with death just like me. That’s what makes stories so powerful–they prove to us that we are never truly alone in what we are feeling.
The adorable (but sadly critically endangered) wild European hamster
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"È non è cosa più necessaria a parere d’avere, che quest’ultima qualità; perchè gli uomini in universale giudicano più agli occhi che alle mani, perchè tocca a vedere a ciascuno, a sentire a’ pochi"
Il Principe, capitolo XVII, Macchiavelli.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio : Incredulità di San Tommaso. c 1603. Olio su tela. Bildergalerie, Potsdam
Just found my earbuds after searching for them the whole day. I just experienced what a dopamine rush feels like.
#im so stupid #i searched every room in the house #turned over every thing i could find #searched my laundry #and all this time they were in my pillowcase #must have slipped in while i was rolling in sleep #had to take apart my whole sheets before I found them holy fuck.