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rosemillk
he descends
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High School English Teachers: This is a subject. This is a verb. They should be as close together as possible in written communication because it makes your writing easier to follow. Why? Well, because this is English, not Latin or some shit, and that's just how English works as a language. Chill out, Vergil, we don't have your fancy pants declension patterns that tell us which parts of speech are modifying which other parts of speech.
Academic Writing: See, that's really nice and all… but what if we took, and I'm not saying that we should take these things in the sense of pilfering or purloining them but rather in the transitive and figurative sense of the term "to take" that connotes removing something from any given place, all of these so called subjects and put them miles away from their verbs in a sentence. Who needs intelligibility when you have posturing and bloviating and hey look at this cool stuff I found. :3
Me: *rage twitches and storms off to the Angry Dome*
#oh academia i adore you but why do you have to be#this is particularly an issue when it makes stuff inaccessible to people#who can't understand the writing because of disability or not having access to the education needed to parse it#(god like it's a nightmare with my younger siblings because they all have dyslexia and they can't understand academic writing for shit#which makes it a nightmare to be their english/history teacher because they find it well-nigh impossible to parse academic texts#and that's where most detailed information IS#so there is a lot of me translating the damn book into english that doesn't require you to deconstruct the sentence before understanding it#sorry I've been making lesson plans for a few hours#so thinking about this puts me back on my rocket to the planet NO)#Adventures of Morag#(it also makes me worry because at least one of them wants to go to college#and college textbooks are far worse than high school and I can't be their on-call translator forever#so that's a thing)
OH MY GOD.
(I finally outran the doom clock for today. Getting it done! Slowly but surely! Not as far ahead as I like to be at the beginning of the month, but that's what obligations will get you.)
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hooded figures need more love. they’re just like peaceful shy very confused eldritch entities. it’s like they just want to understand these weird human things and oh, maybe steal their babies. but in the nicest way possible.
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It’s Asexuality Awareness Week. Be aware of asexuals. They’re up to something sneaky.
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Media psychologists … have been trying to understand why people subject themselves to entertainment that they know will elicit negative emotions.
Dolf Zillmann, widely recognized as the founder of entertainment psychology as a field of study, theorized that the answer lies in the emotional intensity these types of shows make us feel. His excitation transfer theory says that we can experience a wide range of emotions while we watch distressing shows, and that all the excitement from each of those emotions builds up while we watch. … Experiencing intense stress might not be very pleasurable while it’s happening, but according to excitation transfer theory, all that intensity can carry over to boost positive emotions like relief or happiness if the episode ends on a good note. In other words, enduring some emotional turmoil during viewing can actually heighten the rewards of a happy ending.
[…]
Other media research suggests that we seek out hard-to-watch shows because it makes us feel more competent and in control during emotionally difficult situations. … Watching [such shows] makes us feel sad, anxious, or aghast, but in reflecting on our emotional reactions (which often seem appropriate) we may conclude that we are very in-touch, sympathetic, and humane. This feels good. This can even make the experience of watching a fictional portrayal of terrible events somewhat enjoyable.
Several theories on the psychology of why watching stressful TV shows appeals to us.
For a deeper look, see The SAGE Handbook of Media Processes and Effects.
(via explore-blog)
*takes notes, nods* Misery, endless misery…
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"I don’t mean to cast a dark shadow on all your hopes and dreams, except of course I do because that is who I am. I’m a dream ruiner."
-Angela, Untold by Sarah Rees Brennan
(Angela is my hero.)
(via achickwithacrossbow)
I just like to see people likin’ on my ladies. ;)
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"What are you doing?" Angela complained. "Are you trying to make me jog? You know I think people who jog should be shot at midday."
“Why at midday?” Kami asked absently.
“There’s no need ever to get up at dawn,” Angela told her. “Not even to shoot joggers.”
Untold, Sarah Rees Brennan (via golden-d)
LIKING ON LADIES DAY! ;)
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I was messing around with a quote-graphics-maker-thingy and this quote from UNTOLD stood out.
I am so pleased!
I’ve never written from the point of view of a writer before, and though Kami and I are very different types of writer, it was really fun to explore some of the reasons I write what I write, and how I write—how my reasons intersected with hers.
I feel like I—and Kami, so much, and a lot of other people in the real world—hear a lot that our voice isn’t important, what you’re doing isn’t important, if you’re not doing it perfectly you’re worthless, you need to be doing something different entirely, you should have a different kind of power, if you think you have any kind of power you’re wrong.
I believe that’s not true. I believe the above.
[Image: Goldenrod background. Text: Every act of defiance counts. Every call to arms that people hear matters. Untold by Sarah Rees Brennan. End description.]
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when people attack trans* ppl for “making up words” like genderqueer and etc, makes me wonder where they think words actually come from. is it god? does god make the words? or perhaps some sort of mischievous river spirit
as a linguistics major I can confirm that it is in fact a mischievous river spirit
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So I was watching one of those elephant documentaries and some guy walked over to the elephants and the elephants all crowded round to look at him and stroke him with their trunks.
And it reminded me how when there’s a cat in the garden my entire family will go out and cuddle it.
Guys.
Elephants think humans are cute.
maureenmargaret
gabriel why are you doing this to me.
Accurate commentary.
OKOKOK SO
Have any of you ever had like, a cuddle crush?
Where you just see a person and just think: “Yes, you are cuddly, I would very much enjoy some cuddling with you.”
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I lay on my bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people that way.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (via concretedesign)
#so I saw Neil Gaiman last night#and I had a lot of feelings#because his books mean so much to me that I don't even really have the words#they've saved my life a dozen times and kept me from breaking in two#and I will never have the right words to thank him for it#signed#Someone who will remember a man who told good stories#neil gaiman#is a star
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All This Talk of Babies Reminds Me
… of how I once spent a day writing evil nursery rhymes to amuse my friends. I don’t think Hallmark is going to be knocking on this door, folks. Warning: not gifted in the poesy.
ONCE UPON AN EVIL TALE
Some parents in fairytales
Get such bad raps
Before we condemn them
Let’s look at the facts.
Cinderella’s doing great
Snow White is a queen
All those raised by normal folks
Think of what might have been
Think of all those losers
Raised by the just and fair
Climb up that beanstalk Jack
Get on out of there!
Don’t just trust in your star
Can’t leave it to fate
Get adopted by a witch
Things will work out great
That girl who spun straw
She seemed kind of odd
Rumpelstiltskin’s baby
Could have been a god
A crown for your pretty head
A kingdom for your son
Don’t you worry baby
Witches get it done
Rapunzel’s mama got her
A prince’s hand in marriage
Those other loser parents
Didn’t even have a cabbage
Get on my broom, admire the view
Baby soon you’ll see
Mama’s got it covered
No-one loves you more than me.
#Of course I'm okay. I'm always okay. I'm the king of okay.#it's been a hell of a day and I need five minutes okay#this might help make up for how shitty today was#sarah rees brennan#I'm sorry that my blog is nothing but reblogs of srb but she's too beautiful and fantastic#actually i'm totally not sorry
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MUM: Do you think the royal baby is a boy or a girl?
SARAH: Dunno. Don’t mind. I’m not like you.
MUM: Celebrity-obsessed?
SARAH: … English?
MUM: You are just too busy in your fantasy land, obsessing over the Hunger Thrones.
SARAH: The Hunger Thrones.
MUM: City of Thrones.
SARAH: Go again.
MUM: You know what I mean, the one with the zombies.
SARAH: If the royal baby is a zombie, I’ll be so in.
iremade333-deactivated20150328
imagine becoming a personified version of ur url
alasmypetticoats
i pretty much already am lbh
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“People talk about escapism as if it’s a bad thing …once you’ve escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn’t have before.”
— Neil Gaiman (via terribleminds)
It’s true. I hope the whole answer to that question was videoed…
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