#just english being weird

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Why do homophones exist?

Eye halve know clew.

Its A reel gambol too chews witch whirred two yews.

#homophone #not technically unreality #just english being weird #homophones #english

[atmothart]

Jon he's really trying here cut him a break

(tumblr crunched the resolution of this comic a lot rip)

#dracula daily #hello im back from the void with shitty dracula doodles #i actually drew this last year but never posted it #here it is now though #count dracula #jonathan harker #Drac reading the english bradshaw guide is still one of the funniest moments in Dracula to me #i know it is supposed to show how he's planning to infiltrate england and appear local #but it really does just come across like he picked it up in a panic and pretended to be reading it when Jonathan came back into the room #and being the weird guy he is thought reading train schedules was really normal behaviour #bram stoker's dracula is a romcom #re: dracula

[junespriince]

Little Chickadee meet little Sparkle au

8yo Dick, picks up 3yo Wally: so this baby kid flash?

Barry: yeah, this is apparently him at three years old according to Iris.

Dick, looks at the tiny boy in his arms: and his dad hated him!? Adults are useless.

Bruce, sighed: can't wait for Constantine and zatanna to fix this... Alfred where's the leash? *Leaves*

Dick, gives Barry, Wally back: I will make sure nobody hurts him again.

Barry: aw, that's so sweet of you.

A few hours later

Bruce: I told you to watch him, how could you let him get away!?

Barry: he said he went to the bathroom, how was i supposed to know he would leave, the time I knew him he listened in Central!

Wally, fussy because people are yelling:

Bruce: where could he have gone to, all his usual hits are protected.

Barry: ... Oh my god, OH MY GOD HE'S AFTER RUDY!

Bruce: Rudy?

Barry, grabbing his things: Wally's shitty bio dad, he read Canary's file on Wally and asked me questions.

Bruce: AND YOU GAVE THEM TO HIM, FREELY!?

Barry: I'm sorry I forgot he was blood thirsty as a child, okay!

Jason, holding a now crying Wally: hush it dipshits, and he's like eight how far on foot could he have gone.

Tim: he knows about the zeta tubes.

Jason: oooo, yeah that mother fucker dead dead.

Cass: I also saw him grabbed Barry's phone and called up Iris.

Barry: SHIT MY WIFE GONNA GO TO PRISON! I GOTTA GO!

#dick grayson #wally west #jason todd #bruce wayne #tim drake #barry allen #cassandra cain #birdflash #batfam #flashfam #little Chickadee au #little sparkle au #when you and your husband get de-aged and then go on wacky adventures and revenge murder with your mother in law #just tagging this to get the point across do not tag this weird their dating as adults but as deaged they don't remember each other and+ #+ are just friends #i seen too many weirdos get weird with my de-age aus #this is supposed to be cute kids being silly not for your sick twisted minds perverts #also yeah Dick was leash child because he ran off too much and it not Bruce's proudest moment #but it's okay dick got loose from the child leash so it didn't workout for Bruce and murder happened lol #Dick only remember 10yo kid flash so he's reading up on his friend files and learning English again #poor Dick relearning English for affective murder

[2sw]

it's a very long post about THAT scene in 7x03... (30 gifs)

and...

season 4 was one of the darkest periods of sam's life and his relationship with dean. but at the end of s5, in swan song, sam showed how strong he could be. he took control of lucifer and sacrificed himself to stop the apocalypse. sam could do that cause he wanted redemption. he was able to do that cause he loves his brother. dean was there with him the whole time and just decided to keep doing this shit? especially when sam is struggling with the hallucination of the devil?? sam took on hell memories so he could be there for his brother. and later in season 7, he lets hallucifer in because he's so desperate to save dean... Sam's devotion to his brother is always so quiet and sacrificial. give your baby brother some credit, dean!!!! no wonder why sam was so suicidal in s8.. wait why did I say that. now I'm officially sad anyway, I couldn't believe what dean did in this episode when I watched it for the first time and still can't so I'm posting this.

#sorry if my grammar is weird. english is not my native language #sam winchester #dean winchester #spn 7x03 #s7 #gifs #for the record I don't hate dean #just hate most of what he did to sam (I'm not being sarcastic)

[demadogs]

ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE

(2023) Dir. Shawn Levy

#i dont think theres much of fandom for this book/show this is gonna get like 9 notes #as always these look fine on my computer and horrific on my phone so thats super fun #my gifs #all the light we cannot see #shawn levy #louis hofmann #aria mia loberti #tvedit #usergreta #dailyflicks #filmedit #atlwcs #really wish they didnt cut frederick #also its weird that this was all in english #i was expecting a mix of german and french and english but theres like no other languages just accents thats pretty stupid #also this is just the film bitch in me but when he exploded the door and she was deaf for a couple seconds and you didnt hear anything they #really should have also completely unfocused the shot too to replicate her being blind AND deaf in that moment #the fact that they only deafened the audio for the audience kinda makes you forget that shes blind they just focused on the deaf part #and blindness isnt just darkness she can probably see some light (npi) so just a really blurry shot with no audio wouldve been great #thats the only like film specific thing i wish they did tho #i really love the shot werner on the ground and in bed #i also dont hate that they made em kiss... #even tho when i read this in high school i was the only one in my socratic seminar who was glad they didnt lmao #its not like reylo like it works #ok im done #OH AND IM GLAD WERNER DIDNT DIE THAT WAS VERY NICE OF THEM

[lord-pain]

I think a lot of how Paul was more phisically willing to touch John in their early days (or that's just what it seems to me). I can't stop thinking of how he was extra flirty and didn't seem to care about coming across as gay, until he started to look completely afraid of touching men. I like to think young Paul knew that John found him atractive and he loved it

#so i did an ugly drawing of just that! #I SWEAR EVERYDAY I ASK MYSELF WHY HE SUDDENLY BECAME HOMOPHOBIC DASKLJ #like who was speculating about them for him to become self conscious?? #allegedly people were not talking about him being gay #no one or at least no one who really mattered! #so that makes me so sure that the person who was worried about Paul being bisexual WAS PAUL HIMSELF #Sorry if i'm speaking weird english i hope my point came across #mclennon #mclennon fanart #john lennon #old man yaoi #the beatles rpf

[starrysmiling]

ephemer's song

(read right to left)

i blacked out and when i woke up i had a(n albeit roughly drawn) comic

original (jp) version underneath!

#woaaah player oc lore...? headcanon...???? sorta??????? #if you can read music then i'm sure you can tell me what the notes are!!!! #there is absolutely no way this is canon but a guy can have headcanons #(and let's just pretend the baroque society or something has a nice kitchen like this i was sorta delirious while drawing) #also i'm sorry about the text boxes being weird in some places. i wrote this in japanese and didn't want to fix all the boxes #i put the original under the cut but my handwriting is worse than the english HASKLDFJLSDKJ #kh #khml #player kh #player spring #player zero #player kaz #remus kh #ephemer kh #en art

[neversetyoufree]

Lord I cannot believe it took me this long to realize this, but. Vnc's refrain of Noé trying to grab Vanitas's hand is a metaphor.

This whole time I've been reading the constant references to "Noé grabs Vanitas and saves him from falling, but one day he'll fail" as very literal foreshadowing for a day when Vanitas is going to fall and get hurt (or die?) and Noé will fail to catch him. And I still think there's a good chance that's true! However, it's also really obvious symbolism for the idea of salvation in general.

I've beaten this drum to death, but Vanitas is more or less the ultimate example of a character doomed by the narrative. He is going to die; the entire story is the buildup to his death. And one of the main conflicts is that Noé wants desperately to save him (and wants it more and more as they grow closer), but by nature of the story, we know he can't.

At least by Noé's definition of salvation, Vanitas is unsaveable. His death and suffering cannot be prevented, and despite Noé's best efforts, he is going to die by Noé's hand.

Enter the falling metaphor.

The absolute certainty of Vanitas's death works like the force of gravity. He is constantly being pulled down and down toward his doom like an endless free fall. But then Noé steps in and tries to save him, and in little ways he even succeeds! In all the little less important ways, he grabs Vanitas's hand time after time.

When Vanitas goes toppling off the ledge in Gévaudan, Noé catches him and shortens his fall. When Vanitas sinks into despair in Moreau's lab, Noé snaps him out of it. And when Vanitas gets lost in his own trauma and self-hypnosis at the amusement park, Noé brings him back to reality. For all of the little free falls, both literal and metaphorical, Noé is there for Vanitas before he hits the ground. The beating heart of their relationship is Noé's constant attempts to catch him.

However, Noé is haunted by the fear that he is going to fail someday. When Faustina reverts back to Naenia and dissipates in Gévaudan, he's shown a vision of Charlatan(?) telling him his hand cannot reach Vanitas. Naenia preys on people's worst fears and weaknesses, and this is one of Noé's. He fears that his hand will not reach the one he's grasping towards, and he will fail to save those that matter to him. The very broad line "you persist in reaching out for them" in the middle of Noé trying to literally catch someone more or less tells us outright that the falling and catching is a metaphor for salvation.

And when he speaks from the future, Noé confirms that this exact fear has come true. Noé in his narration is haunted by the regrets of "that day when I didn't grab your hand." His grand attempt at Vanitas's salvation has ultimately failed, and he didn't catch him when it mattered most.

The night that he first meets Vanitas, Noé throws himself out of an airship in the attempt to catch and save him. And from that point onward, he tries to catch him over and over again. Their relationship is one long straining outstretched hand as Noé attempts to pull Vanitas from his endless plummet downward. He is the one person deeply focused on Vanitas's salvation. However, Noé cannot ultimately stop the forces of tragedy and gravity and doom, and in the way that matters most, he can never quite reach Vanitas's hand.

There is going to be a day when Noé will be unable to catch him, and that day is the day that the entire rest of their relationship (and the entire rest of the metaphor) is building to. Noé is constantly reaching out, but he cannot save a man that is already dead, no matter how passionate the outstretched hand.

#vnc is so absolutely jam packed with symbolic things #that sometimes even the really obvious stuff like this goes over my head #like how long it took me to think about Jeanne's gauntlet case being a coffin! or this whole massive metaphor! #there's just so much going on that even the most blatant things can be missed in the flood #vnc #vanitas no carte #the case study of vanitas #vanitas #noé archiviste #english major hours #the vanoé agenda #<<I've been tweaking my tagging system and trying to keep track of all my posts about their relationship. rather than just the shippy ones #but hooboy does it still feel weird to use that tag here lmao #Noé arqueueviste

[allamericanb-tch]

HELP ok do i text him or not

#and by him i mean #this guy who i was really good friends with all of middle school and freshman year who i had a very bad friend break up with #who texted me a month ish ago and we talked for a little bit #and then he was asking me if i was into girls but in like a really weird rude way #so naturally i was weird and rude back #and we have not talked since that (which was like 2 weeks ago) #he thought i had a crush on the girl i sit next to in english (i did / do?) I DID NOT TELL HIM THAT #bc she’s sort of dating (“talking” and having sex) with my friends ex boyfriend #but he was just being weird #anyway i went to prom with said girl and i saw the guy i am contemplating texting #i feel bad for being mean to him and also i deleted his number and our conversation but i have his number memorized for some odd reason #my last english class is tomorrow and said girl will not be there bc she has a tennis match #so if i do text him what if he tries to talk to me bc my safety net isn’t there #OR should i talk to him in person tomorrow #no that’s a horrible idea #ok #help

[satsuha]

ageswap au made by @tenretsuzan on twitter! there's a brief explanation beneath the readmore

your name is hikari ku, age 30. you were banished from your home nation of ku at a young age and led a failed rebellion against your treacherous brother, laid low by a harsh betrayal.

"even if it means harnessing this darkness... i will see my country freed from war."

marred by scars left by your once erstwhile friends and plagued by a darkness that grows uncontrollable, you grasp onto the small hope that you may one day reclaim your nation once more...

-

your name is temenos mistral, age 21. you led a peaceful life in flamechurch until one day your brother disappears after leaving you with an ominous message about the church.

"roi... what could have led someone like you down a path like this?"

despite your father's protests, you follow after his footsteps in hopes of uncovering his whereabouts, as well as the church's secrets that forced his departure...

#satsuhart #temehika #octo2 #their goals are still the same it's just at different times #if you think about it hikari's rebellion would realistically take at least a few years lol #but this is after he tries to fight mugen but ends up being betrayed by both ritsu and rai mei and has to retreat to find another way #being alone and significantly less hopeful about his situation he starts leaning into his shadow more and more #temenos' is just a matter of... what if he went after roi immediately instead of choosing to stay #tldr its the 'im gonna fuck that old man' temehika au (30 isnt old but 21y/o teme thinks it is) #yeah teme looks the same but whatever. the light has not left his eyes #also fun(?) fact the english ingame descriptions of each char removed the ages #i can get why because saying 'you are x and you are a 21 year old warrior' sounds a little awkward in eng #but its also like. why i wonder if this is the reason people are way more weird about some of the ages #bc they werent told anytime within the game #meanwhile any jp player immediately going 30 YEARS OLD? 20? 18??? yeah u know who im talking about

[sincerely-sofie]

Does Opal still speak very formally around Team Skull? Because this scenario is playing out in my head and I want you to hear it.

Opal: *says something in an archaic manner, the specifics don't really matter*

Skuntank: "Chaw-haw! Uh, Yeah! Sure I can do that!"

Opal: *content, leaves to go do something*

Skuntank: *leans over to zubat and koffing, sweating* "Do either of you boys know what I just agreed to?

Oh my word.

#Team Skull rapidly flipping through the thesaurus they’re all hunched over so they can understand what the heck their goddaughter said #I’m having flashbacks to the day I made a guy in my math class genuinely freak out bc I was speaking entirely in biblical english #I thought he was kidding about it being weird and unsettling #he wasn’t :[ #he was lowkey terrified of me for the rest of the year #turns out this isn’t a skill everyone is able to whip out at random? #which felt fake to me as a youth #Like #No. Everyone is able to do that #Just like how everyone reads dictionaries cover-to-cover for fun as a 3rd grader! #/Obviously./ #shadow baby au #pmd team skull #pokemon mystery dungeon #pokémon mystery dungeon #pmd explorers #pmd sky #pmd eos #pmd2 #pmd #sofie answers asks

[lesbiangiratina]

Never not having a crisis over how much i should allow things only present in localized media inform my perception of it yes this is about testament

#i saw a post a couple days ago like. ‘is it translated bad or is it Just Localized’ and well #yes. yes i understand the importance. #but you have to understand it drives me a little crazy when i learn something isnt in the original text. #both as someone working on a wiki trying to stick to the most accurate information. and as someone who is Just crazy #sorry for blaming baby wiki its mostly the being crazy part. #BUT THERE IS SOME WEIRD SHIT IN GG LOCALIZATIONS OKAY. #DID YOU KNOW THE ENGLISH XX MANUAL SAYS SLAYER DESCENDED FROM NOSFERATU. NOTHHING ELSE SAYS THAT. ITS SCARY OUT HERE #the kat goes meow

[lightofjedi]

I wish people understood that a female character being written by a dude who objectify and sexualize her is not her fault but the writter's, and that going on about the importance of not sexualizing female characters while simultaneously using said sexualization as a reason to sprout misogynistic remarks about and dehumanising sexualized female characters just shows your hypocrisy and how little you actually care about women.

#just to be clear i'm not defending ''people's right to sexualize women'' #i'm complaining about people who are misogynistic towards female characters for being sexualized instead of criticizing the author #you can hate a female character all you want #but stop acting like you're defending feminism or some shit while calling sexualized female characters ''c-md-mpster'' and shit like that #or selectively distort canon to make said character seem like a villain or a monster #that's disgusting and even more disgusting when yall be talking about an honest to god teenage girl #just ranting #this is about inoue orihime btw #people need to stop being creeps about her fr #tbh this post goes to all shonen anime fandoms #the writers and yall be so fucking weird about girls #english not my native language so apologies if this makes no damn sense. i'm too moody right now

[shikai-the-storyteller]

There are SO many cool interactions and lore things we can look forward to now that Rubius says he'll come back to QSMP (not only as an angel / demon, but potentially as a human too!), but that little detail reminded me of something:

Even though q!Vegetta and q!Rubius were mutually interested in each other wayyyy back in the beginning of the series, as an Angel / Demon, Rubius said he can't have relationships with humans because it's against the rules.

But a bit ago on stream, Rubius said that he's thinking about having a "human" side so he can build and do more things on the server as a regular player. I'm excited because this means he can have more casual interactions with people and we can see him interacting with his friends more (and he can experience The Horrors), but also...

I think we're in for some very interesting drama in the next few weeks.*

* ( Assuming Rubius doesn't get harassed off the server by toxic shippers and weird fans of the Eggs again. Please be nice to Rubius and welcome him back kindly, he's a very cool guy and his character is SO interesting )

#Full disclosure: shipping stuff always comes second (or dead last) to fun random interactions and dumb bits between friends #I'm more excited about Rubius coming back PERIOD #but u know. the potential for some Rubegetta crumbs or full-course meals is a fun little bonus for yours truly #i talk #qsmp talk #Anyways like I said #god forbid I see anyone being freaks about Rubius again because it'll be ON SIGHT #''But FooIi//getta is-'' I Simply Do Not Care #I don't care about fictional ships I want Rubius to interact with his friends on the server without fans being freaks about it #(I'd like to reiterate I have nothing against that ship I'm just very tired of seeing people being weird to Rubius because of it) #(because they think he ''gets in the way'' or whatever) #I will say that's one massive advantage Karmaland had over QSMP #characters could flirt or make out or bang or whatever and fans would just laugh it off because It Wasn't That Deep (usually) #I think a lot of the younger fans (...and many English fans...) need to adopt this mindset #I'm looking forward to seeing how Vegetta handles it though because knowing him... it'll be very interesting... #<-- I say this knowing full well they're just going to be their normal idiot selves and I'm so glad about it #I miss seeing Vegetta and Rubius interacting they're so funny together and they have a beautiful friendship #I do have my head in my hands listening to them talk sometimes though LMAO

[princessnijireiki]

it's always such a strange thing when people say stuff like, "oh, my developmental cognitive delay, mental illness, etc NEVER gets believed in, not like PHYSICALLY disabled people," or, "oh, I NEVER get accommodations for my physical conditions in school, not like other students' LEARNING disabilities," "THIS kind of thing I experienced is uniquely oppressive and one of many roots of evil in the world, other power structures & people in positions of authority are NOT as harmful as the one I experienced, and the world is soooo much nicer & easier to everybody & every kind of cripple except me"

like I know of all the social media platforms tumblr has the rep of being the pity party site, but while you truly may have suffered and nobody is here to diminish that, y'all are moving very weirdly through life

#just saw a post abt gym teachers being sooooo much more abusive creepy & underqualified than academic teachers #and how gym is useless & has NO accommodations unlike how in math or english student accoms. must be honored & material must be taught well #my baby your experiences are nawt universal lmao #and the weird ableist elitism & snobbery of it all is deeply bizarre #like i've had shitty gym teachers who were freaks about people's capacity skill disability etc but you think MATH is better?? bffr lol

[junipershouse]

loppits who live onboard the same ship rrikrik works on

their names and jobs are are (top to botton, left to right) sister swii-qui and sister uuuii, students on a work experience apprenticeship position, little yui, a mechanic specializing in "biobotics" - machinery using biological function as opposed to electricity to run, big yui, the main doctor and biological scientist onboard, and finally gwii, an electronic coder.

i also drew big yui's entire body, because i was trying to think how the large loppits would move and interact with the world around them.

#oc #xenobiology #speculative biology #alien species #worldbuilding #loppit tag #im really happy and grateful for the love that loppits have gotten! i wasnt expecting it! #im still not so sure about using english feminine terminology for loppits... #its hard in general to write stories about aliens when you have english #because english uses gender is such a way. at least it isnt worst case scenario language for such a situation #so i think it could be useful to use english gendered grammatic structures to convey an alliance or a similarity to english gendered #expression. for example i think im gonna use she/her and feminine terms for sadum cows for now on and he/him and masculine terms for hounds #not because sadums reproduce like humans or have reproductive or social categories of “male” and “female” #but more because sadum society's use of gender based oppression and sex exploitation is similar to patriarchy for humans #but then that terminology wouldnt make sense for ki despite them also having gender based oppression #because ki society is much more complex in how they structure both sex and gender #while sadum society is generally binary much like how patriarchy is binary #anyway in this example i use “sister” less in a gender way and more in a religious way #because the educational establishment that swii-qui and uuuii come from is a religious one and theyre like nuns #theyre very sheltered and priviliged and also very annoying about things but theyre just learning #like they try and tease little yui for being an industrial worker and l yui gets really sensitive about it cus theyre a sensitive person #and then they try and tease big yui too but big yui takes no shit and shuts them down and they gain an appreciation of them because of it #OH YEAH. the little pink section of skin that is open on swii-qui and uuuii's faces is not a mouth! #it is like a VNO like dogs and cats have on the roof of their mouths but for sound #they eat thru the weird slit they have on their “chests” and they breathe thru their tail bumps #oh yeah ONE MORE THING #uuuii and swii-qui are both very flashy alt fashion fans and so their outfits are very weird for loppit standards