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when will we be free of taylor swift
my English prof teaching abt cover letters today and me trying not to bring up the luke skywalker cover letter post:
@serialreblogger here you go:
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“Omg, I love these! They go up to size 6X AND they have pockets?! Wow!! But do you have anything longer?”
Sure do, no problem!!
“YES these are great!!! But what about.. longer?”
I gotcha!! Comin’ right up!
"Now that's what I'm talkin' about! But... how about if I'm feeling like it's the kinda day where I need my clothing to be bifurcated???"
Never fear, joggers are here!
*wild cheering* /scene
Source: witchvamp.com
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another one
This woman deserves an Oscar for this. She's got the voice right and pose. Perfection
Me: I shouldn't disturb Neil Gaiman. I shouldn't send an ask unless I really have no way of getting the information otherwise. I'll check old interviews and all the articles that vaguely mention the subject. Of course it goes without saying that I'll read though the FAQ in its entirety. Only then, will I send an ask. However, I'd be very polite and praise his work, as anyone would. I'd also keep it short, because I don't want to waste his time. But I'd keep it very very respectful. I'd be sending a message to a very talented, amazing author that deals with god knows how many like me. Or I'd just stay in the dark and not send him an ask. Yeah, I'll do that.
My Dash:
Wait what do you mean it's Danny Phantom 20th anniversary *explodes*
fanfic where they both turn into coniferous trees. mutual pining
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Dog Tricks 🐶
it could be worse. at least i'm not 17 again. or 16 or 15 or 14 or 13 or 12 or 11 or
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troy and britta share a braincell but they should not share kisses 🙏🙏🙏 ong
Literally academics went from village to village to "judiaze" their names into hebre and try to erase Arab Palestinian presence. This is not a secret. They wrote books about this. Dr. Salman Abu Sitta talks about this. But yeah the individual doesn't participate in apartheid, of course, and its only the government being mean. (Last sentence is sarcasm).
Listen, in my first undergrad degree, the department head bragged to me about how they got a defense contract with the US army for students to work on training software. I studied something related to 3d modeling and storytelling. The department was about 3d modeling and design. Academia participates in the army.
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My 11-year-old couldn't decide what flavor of ramen to make, so I told her to flip a coin. Heads for spicy chicken, tails for beef.
Taking my advice, she flipped a penny, and when it landed on tails she said "Wait! Wait! I did it wrong!"
I told her that she did it right, because the real reason for flipping a coin isn't to let fate decide for you, but because when the coin is in the air, you will suddenly realize what you wanted in the first place.
I'm sure there's a life lesson there somewhere…
But honestly, I have never known her to pass up spicy chicken.
Update: Yesterday, her brother asked her if she wanted a corn dog and she couldn't decide, so again I told her to flip a coin. She did so, and without even looking which way it landed, she snatched the penny up and said "I want a corn dog".
It’s a bit unrealistic how Toph never made any counterfeit coins once she learned to metalbend
There's literally an entire episode that's just "Toph commits fraud in various ways".
oh thank god my french-speaking friend is full trans and not non-binary. this is not about gender, it's about the french language gendering fucking everything
I asked writers, editors, language specialists, professors, i asked non-binary teacher-writers-language specialists
we have no idea. at this point we're just throwing everything at the wall and nothing sticks
sure we have neopronouns, iel is the most used one. it doesn't flow when you're speaking with a québec accent but i've been beating it into submission until i find a slang form that fits the rest of the language. so far i haven't heard of anyone else trying to make it into slang, and i think it's very important to make it usable in everyday life.
but gendering doesn't stop at pronouns. everything is gendered all the time. it's more than the table is a girl and the sofa is a boy.
we don't have the neutral 'a' (as in a director). we have 'un' or 'une'. and the word director is also gendered, we know immediately if it's 'un directeur' ou 'une directrice'.
we can dance around it, like 'une personne de la direction', we can try to write the neutral down 'un.e directeur.ice' or just go the full 'la directrice ou le directeur'.
it's all awkward.
like, real life example. the friend mentioned above needed a place to stay, i asked my mom for a mattress. my mom is not used to gender neutral language and i didn't want a discussion i just wanted a mattress.
do i say 'une amie vient rester chez moi', which is my friend's least favored gender
or do i say 'un ami vient rester chez moi' which will inevitably provoke a series of question about that unknown man that will stay at my house.
i did what we all end up doing, i danced around it. 'i need a mattress' is neutral. and then you try to never mention the friend. how sad is that?
anyway, french is a great language but recent discussions about gender neutrality and non-binarism have shown a great weakness and we need to find a solution, or several solutions that will at least allow us to talk about nb people as naturally as we do the rest.
(please, i don't want to see criticism of french from people who do not speak it. and don't advocate for the elimination of french either, that's a whole historical and cultural can of worms you do not want to open.)