Sometimes i think about the idea of Common as a language in fantasy settings.

On the one hand, it’s a nice convenient narrative device that doesn’t necessarily need to be explored, but if you do take a moment to think about where it came from or what it might look like, you find that there’s really only 2 possible origins.

In settings where humans speak common and only Common, while every other race has its own language and also speaks Common, the implication is rather clear: at some point in the setting’s history, humans did the imperialism thing, and while their empire has crumbled, the only reason everyone speaks Human is that way back when, they had to, and since everyone speaks it, the humans rebranded their language as Common and painted themselves as the default race in a not-so-subtle parallel of real-world whiteness.

In settings where Human and Common are separate languages, though (and I haven’t seen nearly as many of these as I’d like), Common would have developed communally between at least three or four races who needed to communicate all together. With only two races trying to communicate, no one would need to learn more than one new language, but if, say, a marketplace became a trading hub for humans, dwarves, orcs, and elves, then either any given trader would need to learn three new languages to be sure that they could talk to every potential customer, OR a pidgin could spring up around that marketplace that eventually spreads as the traders travel the world.

Drop your concept of Common meaning “english, but in middle earth” for a moment and imagine a language where everyone uses human words for produce, farming, and carpentry; dwarven words for gemstones, masonry, and construction; elven words for textiles, magic, and music; and orcish words for smithing weaponry/armor, and livestock. Imagine that it’s all tied together with a mishmash of grammatical structures where some words conjugate and others don’t, some adjectives go before the noun and some go after, and plurals and tenses vary wildly based on what you’re talking about.

Now try to tell me that’s not infinitely more interesting.

I found two owls under my bed.

(vine by Jellebol)

two things i want:

“i open the basket and i see tomatoes, and i’m immediately thinking ‘oh fuck i dont even like tomatoes god shittign damn”

A chopped-style cooking where where neither the judges nor the competitors have any cooking experience, but both groups are told that the other group does, and they try to convince each other that they do too with nonsense words and unnecessarily complicated dishes.

mewtwo is savage

I need more pokemon shaming

0 fucks to be offered by Mewtwo

Galaxy Quest (1999)

When you get all the love and attention. (via imgur)

She kissed me back ?

this made me so happy

listen. hogwarts houses but instead of placing all the houses in the same dormitories you place them in mini dormitories that each have a Gryffindor, slytherin, ravenclaw and hufflepuff

that way when these 4 kids eventually become friends (and lbr they will after basically living each other after 7 years)

all these personality types are evenly balanced out. when the Gryffindor wants to be reckless the slytherin is like ok chill or we could think this through. when the ravenclaw devotes too much time to studying the hufflepuff is like or you could care abt urself too

and etc

this way ur chances of having 3 reckless Gryffindor children trying to save the school every year dwindles js

when your favorite characters get reduced to generic or obvious traits or cliches and the whole fandom adopts it as canon

After 9 years of development, the full version of POKÉMON URANIUM is available to download!

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yessssssssssss

There are three ways to leave a fandom

Can you imagine the changes to the workforce and how we treated workers if no one HAD to work to survive?

Like often I see these complaints about a universal basic income that are like “well then no one would work!” and I think there are lots of people motivated to have more money even when they have enough to get by, but I also I think, that’s kind of true, if regular employment looked and functioned the way it does now.

But with UBI if both employers and society wanted people in certain jobs those jobs would have to offer more than just “you need us to survive”. They’d have to offer satisfaction and community and purpose.

Imagine the changes places like WalMart and McDonalds would have to make to how they run their enterprise if they had to woo and entice their employees into wanting to be there. Imagine the end of “the customer is always right”, both because employers know their workers won’t put up with and because consumers are forced to have a respect for workers choosing to do this with their time to make the community function when they don’t have to.

Imagine the progress to automation and technology now that we don’t have to worry about unemployment as a result. So instead of a store having 40 employees, they have 10 and automated self check out and price scanners and store apps you can pay on, and automated self-driving bots to keep inventory and restock at night. (And that’s when you don’t just order online, shopping in-store is now inherently a Boutique experience).

But those ten remaining employees are So Valued by the company, and so carefully educated and trained and respected as experts in what they do. People go “you could do that when you grow up, help people shop and find what they need and know what products are best for them.” And it wouldn’t be an insult like “you’ll wind up flipping burgers”, but instead a respected option “you can help people have warm fresh food in one of the oldest and most prestigious international groups in the world, and look at their travel programs and free clubs and classes” (McDonalds wins the Fast Food Mario Kart Tournament every year, their team is best in the nation and if you want a good esports program you work at McDonalds).

Evidence shows people would still work. Evidence shows people want to improve their situations and want to have structure in their lives. Evidence shows the only populations who take advantage of a UBI to not work are students who choose to focus more on their studies and new mothers, who choose to spend more time with their kids.

But it would increase the bargaining power and social power of the average employee by so much. They’d have the option to walk away. And employers would know it and consumers would know it and employees would know it. So if we wanted it to keep working, employers would have to start catering to their employees wellbeing and health and happiness as well as their wallet.

And it would be so good.

what i want to work for. 

How is he not catching fire?

Because the ponyta trusts him did you even watch the fucking episode

They were trying to get Paras to evolve by letting him think he defeated Arbok and Weezing. Team Rocket is the best.