#present indicative

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Women with books are all that

#noel coward #present indicative #hedy lamarr

[materia-list]

William Blake "I want! I want!" t-shirt | Present Indicative

#t-shirts #william blake #present indicative

[evenmyhivemindisempty]

My controversial opinion about Hob Gadling is that I believe he’s absolutely the sort of guy that “puts things behind him”, and tries to wash his hands clean of the things he feels icky about. This is implied pretty well in the show, with him blithely moving from soldiering and robbery to printing, from slaving to… whatever it was he was doing in the 19th century instead. That being said, this is not at all the same as actively trying to atone, or even making a concerted effort to be a better person, and I really wish fandom could tell the difference!

#the amount of times I’ve seen people argue that Hob has redeemed himself and ofc feels really horrible about his role in the slave trade #but there is ZERO textual indication that’s true #in fact judging by how he acts in the 19th century and how he was after all the other shit he did that he maybeeee feels kind of sheepish #and would just like to move on thanks! #i love flawed characters and I love monstrous characters and I love hypocrites and I love friendly amoral assholes #Hob is genuinely a super compelling character and embodies the sort of greed of humanity we see in other forms in Madoc and Burgess #he’s got a more friendly face and he’s a slightly lighter version of it but sandman presents humanity as fundamentally flawed and greedy #and Hob is that to a T #I’d really love it if fandom embraced this version of Hob #making him a fluffy anti-racist progressive hip college professor is just so weird #or especially when they have him espouse progressive views… in the past??? #look Hob is actual facts a worse person than the Corinthian in a lot of metrics #when I see 17th century Hob talk about the beautiful diversity of humans I just lose my mind a little #also he’s clearly a wolf of Wall Street yuppie asshole in 1984 #hot take Dreamling would be more fun and spicier if people leaned into Hob’s canon traits more #both Dream and Hob are kind of awful #I actually like Hob! #but… man I do not like fanon Hob one bit

[shadow-the-crow]

You know these really weird moments when you don't know whether reality glitched, you're brain wired something wrong or the internet is just gaslighting you?

I was convinced that rusty quill had a podcast called "the mechanisms". At the same time, random videos about a band with the same name popped up on my tiktok fyp, so my brain somehow assumed that rusty quill created a fictional band for one of their podcasts.

Now i googled "the mechanisms" to check if i was right. Turns out there used to be a band with that name who had fictional personas or something like that. And who told stories through their albums. But i found nothing remotely related to podcasts.

I feel really dumb but... has my brain just made a wrong connection, maybe because some horror podcast fans are also fan of this band? Or... what's going on?

Update: I think this might be related to Tim Stoker from tma being compared to a certain Gunpowder Tim - and i think someone even said the... voice? Actor? Whatever, the real person behind Gunpowder Tim voiced someone in tma. Also there's apparently a Jonny in that band too, and i thought they were talking about Jonny Sims. And posts about "listening to the mechs" popped up between posts about listening to podcasts, so... i guess i just assumed it was a podcast too.

#lol wtf #i swear #i feel so stupid #my brain just presented this to me as a fact #maybe this is how mandela effects are created #my research is indicating there really is a surprising overlap with horror podcast fans #rusty quill #horror podcast #the mechanisms #the mechs #mandela effect #idk why im posting this

[cbk1000]

So, Mr. Jenn's grandma is in her 90s, and has been in the early stages of dementia for a while now. She's still coherent, and still able to take care of herself and live independently so far, so there's been no move to put her in an assisted living facility. But this does mean we hear some kind of wild stuff. She has a lot of paranoia and has been complaining about people in her attic (she lives in a one-story apartment), and recently she told my MIL (her daughter) that the people who were out to get her are also after MIL and FIL's new Labrador puppy. The people in her attic have also attacked her with some kind of ray gun? (Not actually sure if that's what she called it, but her descriptions of it basically sound like some kind of sci-fi weapon that they're apparently using to knock her down.)

Anyway, the latest now is that my FIL and I have back-to-back birthdays (me on Monday, him on Tuesday), and we always celebrate together with a dinner on whatever the closest Saturday is when our birthdays fall on weekdays. He called Mr. Jenn today (they talk every day when Mr. Jenn gets off work) and tells him that grandma will not be at the birthday dinner tomorrow, because 'no one loves her.' As a specific example of this, she said 'Jenn hasn't spoken to me in two years.'

We have a family get-together at his parents' (grandma included) for every major holiday, plus every birthday (hers included). She's seen me multiple times in the last few months. She just saw me two weeks ago, for Mr. Jenn's birthday. I remember talking to her at his birthday. My FIL told Mr. Jenn he specifically remembers me talking to her at his birthday.

No idea why she has decided that I specifically have not spoken to her in years (we get on well because she was a bit eccentric even before the dementia, and I go down enough weird rabbit holes that I can hold a conversation on lots of things without judgement because when you've sought out the parts of the internet I've sought out, you can't judge), but dementia is really a bitch if it makes you turn down a free dinner.

#personal #i've been wondering for a while how much longer she'll be able to hold out #i'm hoping she passes before it gets to a point that she has to go into care #because i know the loss of her independence would be a huge blow to her #but i'm wondering if this is indicative of it worsening #does she think she hasn't seen me in two years? #or just that i've ignored her at every family get-together for the last two years? #either one is not great in terms of what it says about her cognitive function #she can be a bit tantrum-y dementia aside #so i'm not surprised she's throwing a fit #just at what's prompting it #i'm not offended #it's not her fault #just kind of baffled at the various ways cognitive decline presents #my grandpa in the last few years of his life didn't recognise any of us #grandkids or kids #and thought he was still on a navy ship in ww2 #she doesn't seem to be slipping in that way #it's more these delusions about people out to get her and now me snubbing her

[creeperfont]

something something the first battle of ACOC was them getting ambushed on a road and the first battle of TRW is them ambushing someone on a road

#I have no thoughts about this I just think it is interesting #and a very good indicator of the difference between the relative innocence/naivety of the ACOC crew #vs the obvious darkness in the pasts of some and present of others in the TRW party #this world and these seasons are very cool #dimension 20 #the ravening war #a crown of candy

[just-gay-thoughts]

So today is my last lecture from my Religion and Gender class and I've loved it and there's one thing we talked about that is just sticking in my head, and it's the idea of gender as a performance. And the idea that that's all gender is for anyone. Everyone is performing their gender constantly, in the way they dress, how they carry themselves, all that jazz.

Like I know the idea of gender being a social construct gets talked about, but idk the wording of performance just makes more sense to me. Like yeah, the cis guy really into going to the gym and afraid of looking 'gay' is performing his gender. The cis woman who wears a lot of dresses and grows her hair long and gets acrylic is performing her gender. Like yeah those are the stereotypical 'male' and 'female' but there just as much of a performance as drag queens.

Idk I like it because to me it takes away from the 'x thing is a female thing' and just is like gender can be what you want it to be and it doesn't have to be deeper than you want it to be.

It's just a performance

#gay thoughts #ill try to find time later to find the reading we had attached to it because it does such a good job of talking about it #but i jist like the idea of #distancing actions/how you look from gender #in the sense that like #hair length should be an indicator more of how someone likes their hair to be than gender #and if things have gender meaning to you thats great thats wonderful! perform that gender in the way that makes sense for you! #reminded me of some discussions ive seen about how there isnt one set of steps trans people take when transitioning #not everyone will have the same goals in their gender presentation just like how not everyone will perform gender in the same way #and thats good thats great thats wonderful

[fisheito]

What is this weirdly feelyweely status exclusive to yakumo

#unless i missed something #it felt like everyone else had pretty rational text effects...like standard conditions in their status boxes.... #was this the only status that explicitly mentions being all squishy to GENTLY convince someone #because right now it feels like #eiden in a sequential interview situation. he is alone in a board room with someone he needs to win over. he's prepared his thesis(?) #with edmond first #eiden brings out his master plan and says OK HERE'S MY PITCH. PLEASE GIVE ME JUST A LITTLE BIT OF TRUST ONCE YOU HEAR IT #we're going to do THIS at THAT PLACE at THIS TIME with the goal of THESE RESULTS. My capabilities include: THIS. ThaT. AND PERHAPS THOSE. #PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES indicate that method A and B will do well but in case that fails i have prepared options C D and F #eiden pointing out his massive presentation board with the spreadsheets and red strings #edmond deliberates very seriously before cautiously approving of eiden's plan #when edmond exits and oli takes his place. eiden starts the presentation anew #oli nods thoughtfully and encouragingly throughout... like yes! this sounds like a good plan! i trust you with this :) let's do it :) #then oli leaves and yakumo comes in to take his place #eiden doesn't even need the presentation materials. #he just sits across from him. gently places yakumo's hand on his chest over his heart. then stares soulfully at mr protoserpent #and says (please trust me? 🥺) #yakumo crumbles IMMEDIATELY #and when they emerge from the room into the hall where edmond and oli are waiting #eiden's like GREAT! EVERYONE'S ON BOARD! let's get this started n_n #and edmond's just like.... yakumo why did you come out so fast. eiden's presentation lasted at least 7 minutes #oli just smiles knowingly and thinks lmao eiden heckin got im #journey to a nu world #nu carnival yakumo

[cringefailcabitha]

I’m ruined,

#inanimate insanity #inanimate insanity invitational #ii cabby #ii test tube #cabtube #💙💚 #the present tense changing to past tense breaks my heart 😭 #‘​‘Everything I was recording indicated that Test Tube would lend me something a little more subjective #than I have been able to convey in my writings.’’ #what the fuckkkkk🥲 #anyways happy Something Warmer Saturday guys

[comfymoth]

seeing “vuestro” on my assignment sheet feels so ominous, like hang on a minute now… you don’t. you don’t expect me to use that. right??

#i haven’t had to use vosotros since seventh grade #i remember how to conjugate present indicative and that’s IT #this is what’s so scary about signing up for spanish classes. you never know when vosotros is going to jump you and steal your lunch money

[south-sea]

art prompt, if you're still willing: since Metal's free to go where he pleases now, where would his favorite spot be?

metal can visit hundreds, even thousands of worlds, and his favorite place will still be wherever shadow is.

#consider these open indefinitely if it's second chance related ;D #sea answers #art by sea #metal sonic #shadow the hedgehog #second chance au #for slightly extra context #his new caretaker coded in the whole 'blue eyes to indicate sadness' thing #but the thing about metal is they tend to display blue whenever he's overwhelmed with fondness too #it really only happens with or in relation to shadow even if shadow is not physically present #so take that as you will

[scribblersobia]

You see how some words are made by combining different words. And it is so beautiful how every word in a different word defines its meaning and uniqueness. 

I was literally staring at the word beautiful, and then I realized there is 'be' in beautiful, which means 'exist' which implies that you are beautiful when you simply exist the way you are! Isn't that simply beautiful? 😍

More words that make more words:

There is man and ding in demanding,

king in taking,

Dow and wry in dowry,

bene and fit makes benefit,

our in journal,

pert in property,

pose in impose,

there is art in article,

there is man in woman,

the wo in woman is variant spelling of whoa,

there is article "an" in man,

raint in variant,

Spell and ling makes spelling,

there are words mar, ria and age in marriage,

Sand in thousand,

ate in date,

Con in connection,

Ran in transfer,

Son in prison,

there is men and one in mentioned,

Be in beautiful,

Kin in kind,

ears in years, etc.

@scribblersobia

#shit post #I will never look at the words the same way again #words building words #beautiful #there is pose in impose means force(ruling) on someone.. & pose means present or constitute (a problem or danger) .. look how they connect. #ofcourse not all words are made by combining words #like VOID ... i can't see any other word in void but then I see maybe thats why it is called VOID! #tumblr posts #tumblr #journal means a daily record of news and events of personal nature and there is OUR in journal and our indicate possession! #words words words #writerscreed #poeticstories #scribblersobia

[prolibytherium]

Bagman is the best BCS episode to me by far. LOVE me a good tv episode where two guy's (gender neutral) struggle through a wilderness they are woefully unprepared for (where the wilderness also perhaps reflects an internal struggle through the wilderness of the self or Whatever??!!?!!) and the guys involved (for better or worse) learn more about each other in the process. AND he drinks his own piss

#bcs #AND it's got 'I Got The...' by Labi Siffre one of my favorite songs #The fact that the piss drinking is not even ONLY an indicator of how awful the situation is but also functions as a legitimate #dramatic beat with symbolic baggage is SO fucking funny. Amazing choice no notes #I do think they could've gone a LITTLE further to make the situation more unavoidably dire like they kind of present Mike as a #knowledgeable survivalist but for some reason this guy isn't carrying at least two camelbaks or something into the fucking desert #Even if you're assuming you'll have a car it's crazy to not pack extra water #Then again this is me being a pedant about fucking everything

[uncanny-tranny]

Scrolling through some terf shit to block them off and I found this wonderful quote

“Trans activists keep saying "sex isn't real Scientists have disproven it! There's no difference between male and female bodies!"

HUH??????2)-5 Last I checked we are ACUTELY AWARE that sex is a real thing, it’s just not as binary as you think it is and also gender is a different anthropological concept. God these straw men could keep away every crow in the tristate area

People take "sex is not as set-in-stone and mythological as we're lead to think, hence why transition works and why intersex people exist" as a personal threat, sometimes because they think that it means "sex isn't real"

What trans people usually are criticizing about peoples perception of human sex is the fact that people tend to see male amd female as almost like they're seperate species with no overlap. Honestly, I see this as an extension of misogyny in that it justifies why women (and people presumed and forced into the gender and sex associated with "woman") "deserve" to be subjected to misogyny.

If human sex had no overlap, I wouldn't be able to transition in any way, but I've gone through my ~sex change~ without a hitch, y'know? Transition really teaches you that human sex has more overlap than people want to think. We are more alike than we are different.

I know you didn't send this ask to hear my views on human sex, but it's something I've seen. The idea that "sex = everything and is your destiny" is outdated, and it harms more than just trans people. It harms intersex people who don't "neatly" fit into the male/female dichotomy immensely, and it hurts perisex cis people. We aren't helped by treating other people like seperate species.

#ask #anon #trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #tags just in case #what science has proven is that humans are varied #and in my view it proves that nature isn't this ~all-knowing ever-present~ entity that either makes you perfect or not #i see human sex as this complex venn diagram with overlaps. there *are* trends of differences between sexes but by no means... #...indicates that there are *no* similarities between the sexes #and this can be changed. doesn't it make more sense that humans are more alike than they are not? even down to sex #i *cannot* understate how much our views of human sex has harmed intersex people though

[mrs-gauche]

So, let me get this straight…

- The latest EA earnings call indicated that DA4 won't be out before April 2024.

- EA seems to favor relatively short marketing campaigns these days, if we're looking at how Jedi Survivor or Dead Space started to be advertised around 6-8 months before release. (Also, BioWare has probably learned their lesson with Anthem, when they showed stuff way too early.)

- Jeff Grubb says that DA4 is currently targeting Summer 2024 and is not expecting it to be announced this summer, yet people are speculating that DA4 might release on DAI's 10th anniversary in November 2024.

- All this considered, I just can't see them showing something until maybe the Game Awards in December? :/

- HOWEVER, the date of the pre-sale for the vinyl is now (apparently) tomorrow June 8th, coinciding with Summer Game Fest. Which, oddly enough, marks now the second time this happened, when it was previously said to start at May 10th, the same date that the finale volume of The Missing came out (...yet nothing was released that day and no one knows what happened there? lol) Which is why people are now thinking this can't possibly be a coincidence and there will be something at Summer Game Fest. lol

- The Missing comic was marketed as a direct tie-in to DA4, but if the game is still more than one year away/marketing won’t begin any time soon, then I’m just wondering why they would even do such a build up *now*? In conclusion: I'm just so damn confused at this point and I have no flippin clue what/when/why something’s gonna happen anymore. 😂 ......Am I going to watch every single one of these live gaming showcases anyway?

Absolutely.

#anyway.. see you tomorrow at summer game fest 🤡💀 #the most hilarious part to me in all of this is how this one playtester from those leaks said that.. #..(quote) ''They could've told me that the game would release tomorrow and I would've believed them'' lmaooo #and that was a few *months* ago 😂 #of course this is in no way indicative for what the rest of the game looked like.. #when this person was probably only presented with a very small part/specific levels of the game #but it's still funny to me nonetheless lol #I like to imagine that the game is basically done and they're just adding cosmetics or something at this point lmao #or they're polishing hair animations #*siiiiigh*

[apricotesque]

possibly a way the show could tackle the different languages in season 2 is: if mizu attempts to learn english while on the voyage to london, its likely she may learn it with south-english diction? or however fowler teaches it to her (assuming he helps her with english at all). and so thats probably one way the audience can tell if she's speaking japanese or english: if maya erskine speaks normally or puts on a rough british-english with japanese intonation?

#idk im just spewing here #i heard another way could be having very special transitional effects between cuts to indicate that the language is being #presented differently #either way i feel like they cant not address it lol #hmm #blue eye samurai #na's chatter