One small moment I always loved in ATLA, is when Sokka asks if Mai is the gloomy girl who’s always sighing and Zuko says, “yeah” all softly with a smile; like he genuinely finds that to be a truly endearing and lovely trait of hers.
I don’t know - I just always found that moment to be super cute and sweet.
Mai may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but she certainly is Zuko’s and that’s what love is all about.
bonus points bc the positive rep comes from a show with good non-binary AND Jewish rep too like AYYYY
It wasn't until this tweet that I realized how much of a thorn on Portia's side Colin has been since s1, she couldn't marry Marina off to him, he took it upon himself to expose Jack and now he snatches Pen for himself when Portia was already hyped over the money and power and control over Pen that match with Debling would give her
And now that Penelope is going to marry him she can't get rid of him, he's gonna be on her life forever, of all the Bridgetons THAT ONE had to end up her son in law 🤣
contrary to popular belief, someone who is fluent in their second language (L2) is unlikely to slip into their first language (L1) in these circumstances:
it is slightly more common in these circumstances:
that being said, it is very common for people to intentionally use their first language in front of people who don’t speak it for a variety of reasons (they might use a short expression they only know in L1, call their partner pet names, dirty talk during sex because their partner finds it attractive) – but this is on purpose!
also this doesn’t account for people who grew up in an environment where people often mix multiple languages in their speech (e.g. spanglish or franglais) – in that case, they may accidentally drop an L1 swear into an L2 sentence, though they’ll still generally stick to L2 when speaking to people who only speak that language
also: if you for some reason forget a word in L2 (or L3 or L4) in many cases your brain will automatically try to recall it from the last language you learned, not necessarily your mother tongue/L1. it’s a really nifty little phenomenon that has the bane of my existence for some time.
also: it’s more likely (at least to me & other bilingual people I know, and ESPECIALLY if your second language is english) for you to slip into L2 while speaking L1, or to pepper L2 terms into a L1 conversation because you happened to forget how to say those words in your native language.
Also if you grew up around multiple languages (especially when they’re being mixed a lot), you might not know for sure which word is in which language. I certainly don’t. Like, I learned in my mid-thirties that something I thought was a Tamil diminutive was actually a bit of Kannada that my family used as a diminutive? And that two words I thought meant slightly different items, were actually just the Tamil & Hindi words for the same thing?
Also! Small bi/multilingual children will mix things up in the cutest way. Hathiphant is my fave example :) (Hathi is Hindi for elephant)
official linguistics post
That thing about automatically reverting to the last language you learned when you forget a word is LEGIT.
In high school, I lived in Germany for nine months (long story) before moving back to the US, like, a week before school started. There was no international school in the extremely small Bavarian town where we’d lived (again, long story) so I went from essentially auditing high school in a completely German-speaking curriculum (I did not speak German and was frantically trying to pick it up from immersion, it’s a LONG story) to being back in an American high school.
I had, previously, been learning Spanish since kindergarten but my teachers were not good, so I never really progressed past introductory-level.
God bless my junior-year Spanish 1 teacher, honestly, and I’m extremely lucky that the woman was a genius who spoke like seven languages fluently (she left after that year and became a college professor) because.
I got an A+ on my Spanish final. Then, on the last day of school, she pulled me aside and told me very kindly that she gave me full credit on my essay, which was 50% of the final grade, because I did an excellent job, showed off a lot of vocabulary, and all of my sentences and conjugations were absolutely correct and in the proper tense…
“I just need you to be aware that you did write half of it in German. I’m not taking points off because it was GOOD German, and I could understand it, and I understand why that was happening, but I did want to make sure you know you’re doing that for next year.”
For your consideration, dracula daily fans
From the Wikipedia page on loons
Violet Bridgerton is truly gods strongest soldier. Every season she tells one of her children they're in love and every season they scoff in her face before causing seven different scandals to reach the same conclusion.
glad google ai is on top of this
Renfield.
"average person eats 3 flies a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 flies per year. Flies Renfeld, who lives in an asylum & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
"average dozen of flies is enough for a meal" factoid actualy just statistical error. average dozen of flies has 0 calories. Nutricious Georg and his 11 friends, who live in a cave & have over 10,000 calories, are an outlier adn should not have been counted
Please reblog for visibility and a bigger sample size, I need answers so I can die in peace
This result is so fuckin funny
One of the best writing advice I have gotten in all the months I have been writing is "if you can't go anywhere from a sentence, the problem isn't in you, it's in the last sentence." and I'm mad because it works so well and barely anyone talks about it. If you're stuck at a line, go back. Backspace those last two lines and write it from another angle or take it to some other route. You're stuck because you thought up to that exact sentence and nothing after that. Well, delete that sentence, make your brain think because the dead end is gone. It has worked wonders for me for so long it's unreal
I don't remember where I heard this now, but I absorbed the advice, "if you're stuck, count ten sentences back and start again from there". It's not always ten sentences back, for me, but it does force me to look at the last handful of lines I've actually written on a sentence instead of a story level, and that is eminently helpful in unsticking myself most of the time.
I recently resolved a point where I'd been stuck for months not by changing anything in the scene I was currently writing, but by realizing I needed to add another scene before that one to establish key information I couldn't work into the current one
HEY WRITER MUTUALS COME GET YOUR WRITER JUICE
the fact that walls get dusty is ridiculous. you're vertical. act like it.
Imagine being the opponent, top of game one of the best in the world, making eye contact as you pass the leader of the race who stopped for some ducks, only to have that same person eclipse you by 30 fucking seconds before you reach the finish line. You would never get in a boat again.
