He’s taking a nap

I just wrote 8 pages when I haven't written in months and was beginning to think I'd never be able to again. Idk what it is, but I am sharing and manifesting this energy for every writer who sees this. May you write 8 quality pages effortlessly and find joy writing once more

I made this chart last night after getting involved in a discussion on reddit where someone was complaining that a computer game had included a non-binary character and how they (the player) had felt confused by it. The person in question was a non-native English speaker, so even though part of their post seemed a little hostile towards enbies, I answered in good faith by explaining that singular they has the historical backing and the current usage on its side, and how English already did this exact thing by replacing thou with you, including using the plural grammar for it.

(Leading to the need for other ways of distinguishing between singular you vs plural you ("you all"/"y'all"/"you guys"/"youse").)

I was considering adding this chart to my explanation, but it seemed like overkill. Still, I made the chart and want to share it somewhere, so here you go, y'all. I marked all pronouns that are already gender neutral as such, and included both the archaic 2nd person and singular they.

This variant of the chart has some pros and cons.

Pros: color makes it easier to understand. All gender-neutral pronouns are marked in green (note how third person singular is the only one that even has the option to include gender). Highlights that singular they (in blue) follows the exact same pattern as singular you (in red). Also, worthy of note is that the English verbs become vastly more regular if one uses singular you/they.

Cons: it's a little too wide for the tumblr layout. And a little more technical, since I included both past and present of two verbs to make a point. And my hyperfocus on English grammar has me making "better versions" of a chart that no one even asked for in the first place.

snoopy of the day

'you still listen to music from 10 years ago 🤨?' bitch if prehistoric humans had audio recording technology id be sat up here listening to grog and unga bunga's greatest hits don't play with me

Aurora Australis, illustration from 'The Heart of the Antarctic: The Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole' by Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made 1910

So, there's a lot of USians around who are very clearly fucking fed up with their political choices this election cycle, and planning to sit it out.

And I get it! What's the point of voting if there's no one to vote for?

The thing is, I'm Australian. In Australia, voting is compulsory. We don't get to sit out our elections, and I'll be real honest with you - we don't exactly get better choices than you lot. So how do you vote if there's no one to vote for? You find someone to vote against. And there's always someone to vote against.

Now, we have the pleasure of preferential voting in Australia - We get to rank every candidate from 1 to X, and I'll tell you, there's something so cathartic about putting the biggest bastard of the lot at the very bottom of your preferences. I understand that USians don't get that option - you get to mark one person, and that's it.

That means that you get one shot, so aim it at the biggest bastard of the lot. The candidate you most utterly detest. Put your vote in the worst possible place for them. Don't even think about who that vote's going towards, that's not the point. Remember, every vote is a vote against someone. Make sure you fuck up that someone's election day!

I am not joking I am not exaggerating the thirst on this fucking website for cis dudes w a lil extra fat on their chests... And the insistence on referring to those as titties and boobs and big naturals. Has made me (trans man) feel significantly better about my boobs! Everyone here sees a dude with big ol bazoonkas and goes fucking apeshit. Hell yeah. Men's tits. I got those too! Maybe they're also hot on me! Holy shit! Men's tits!

You guys really like this post huh

The notes on this post:

1 hell yeah men's tits

2 sorry what did you say I saw men's tits and blacked out and reblogged

3 I'm also a trans guy/trans masc and I feel the same way!

4 I'm a fat cis guy and I feel the same way!

5 I'm a trans guy/ trans masc and I feel differently but I'm happy for u

6 I'm a lesbian, I don't even go here, but fuck yeah everybody loving their body is great

7 I'm a trans girl and I feel the same abt something this website finds hot (girldick, tall girls, also men's tits cuz less traditionally feminine titties being hot is great for anyone who wants to be happy with their body)

8 me wondering how the fuck my post got so many notes

9 people responding to that with what did you expect you posted abt men's tits on the liking men's tits website

2 sorry what did

you say I saw men’s tits and

blacked out and reblogged

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

it is well established canon that my response to nearly any outlandish behavior that has impacted my day is to write the perpetrator a polite but firm letter

the letter i composed today and am about to drop off is perhaps less polite than I am typically capable of

reporting in to announce it worked

The only funny post a Threads ad has ever shown me

heart - shaped scallion found In pho . reblog for good luck & yummy soup 500000 forwver

That post I made over new years had people at my THROAT for saying I only buy real leather. Sorry I really do think that wearing textured plastic that will fall apart in under 5 years and go on to irreparably poison the environment is the worse option here.

My friend sometimes brings her six-year-old to our DnD sessions and my husband (the DM) lets her roll for all enemy attacks and sometimes he will show her a few figures and let her secretly pick what creature we meet next. Who needs encounter tables when you have a first-grader around

She cheers when the monster is winning.

DM: *places an ugly, slavering, repugnant, spine-tingling creature on the battle map*

Child who can barely see over the table: ᵗʰᵃᵗ’ˢ ᵐᵉ :)

Tuesday Riddell (British, b. 1992, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, based London, England) - Bat, 2023, Japanning: Lacquer, Gold Leaf

Tagging this with gay fandoms sorry

There's currently a European proposition to ban conversion practice in Europe

If you're European please sigh it

If you're not please reblog

GUYS this would effectively ban conversion therapy in the whole EU! PLEASE SIGN AND BOOST

I like how the one dude had to sit down twice he was so overwhelmed