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ugly-pickle · 4 months

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wait!- ☆ scara

CHARACTERS: idol!scara x gn!reader

SYNOPSIS: scara had always promised you that he will always love you and will always have time for you, but he never confirmed that hes a man of his word…

GENRE: angst 🦢 (comfort from another at the end)

W/C: 1.3k

C/W: cheating, moaning, hinting of intoxication, kissing, toxicity, and cussing (if theres anything that i missed let me know!)

A/N: a lot of people liked my previous post so it motivated me to make another! im still new at this so please keep that in mind if a few bits are off (IT’S REALLY REALLY REALLY CRINGY). most grammatical errors are also intentional!

your boyfriend, scara, has a performance today and youre really excited. you received flowers, theyre beautiful. maybe this is an apology for the lack of affection and being more grumpy towards you lately, i mean to be an idol certainly is tiring, isnt it? so it makes perfect sense why he’s acting like this… right?

as always, he gave you tickets to his concert. you couldnt get the chance to say goodbye to him because he left so early in the morning, so youll make it up to him when you meet him backstage.

you got dressed and headed out the door, youre excited to see your beloved scara preform, because he looked happy while doing his job, you were excited to see his smile because… well, he doesnt smile at you anymore… but you quickly brush it off, i mean, being an idol is very stressful.

youve arrived, you tried to enter backstage but some bodyguard stopped you, “hey! what do you think youre doing missy?” you sigh, he must be new, “scara is my lover, i just want to see him,” you try to explain but the bodyguard cuts you off and says “thats what they all say,” he rolls his eyes. “no! really, i am!” you show the bodyguard a picture of you and scara together kissing, “oh” the bodyguard grunts, “so youll let me in?” you look up at him, he looks a bit uncomfortable, “well uhm… ive been given specific orders to not let you in… im sorry,”

“w-what?...”

you heard him loud and clear, the world around you begins to spin, but you quickly ground yourself by comforting yourself with false hopes. maybe hes just planning a surprise for you back there, i mean, it might explain why you got flowers, yea! that must be the reason… you hope.

you found your spot, perfect timing too! the concert begins, you see scara. you melt when you see a smile on his lips, he looks so happy. the crowd screams, theyre chanting 5wirl (the name of their group). venti, xiao, kazuha, heizou, and scara is greeting the audience with warms smiles and kind words.

after a while, the performance ends, it was quite long actually, but it felt so short, time does fly when youre having fun. you head to the backstage doors, hoping that the bodyguard lets you in this time. as you make your way to the backstage doors you see scara’s back in your peripheral vision. hes in a secluded place, he looks like hes trying to be hidden from the crowd, makes sense. you decide to scare him, as you get closer you can see a beautiful lady’s lips pressed against scara’s. you hear the sounds of kissing and soft moaning coming from them.

your heart shatters into a million pieces, it broke so bad that you swore you heard it make a shattering sound. tears fall down your face, youre so stunned that you cant even form words, instead, a pathetic whimpering sound escapes your lips. scara turns around to see where the strange sound is coming from.

his eyes widen a bit, but he immediately regains his composure. “stop crying like a baby and get over it, youre just a nuisance in my life,” now scara was just stomping all over your already broken heart. these simple actions somehow drained all of your energy, just standing was exhausting, not wanting to waste time or energy you give him an “ok,” and you turn around and leave.

you arrive at your shared apartment and decide to eat and rest for a little, so when he comes back you can properly confront him. but, he comes back the next day, hes wasted and the smell of sex is clinging onto him. he walks past you and immediately collapses on the couch and knocks out cold.

when he finally wakes up, youre making dinner. he remembers the encounter from last night. his eyes wander, wanting to look at anything but you. something in the trashcan catches his eye, the flowers. theyre pretty but it didnt come from him.

youve finished cooking, you see scara sitting at the table. you sit down, and placed your meal in front of you and you start to eat. “…what about mine?” scara asks you with a quiet voice. “oh wow, youre initiating a conversation with the nuisance. well, if you must know, that having to take care of you is quite tiring and ive realized that youre quite troublesome and it would be better if you werent in my life. so, kunikuzushi, im breaking up with you.”

hes taken aback when you use his birth name, “h-hey y/n, i didnt mean what i said yesterday… i regret it, it was just the heat of the moment,” he says, his voice trembling a bit. you sigh, “that still doesnt change the fact that you cheated on me, pack your bags and leave, this is my apartment after all,”

his trembling demeanour quickly turned aggressive, “DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH LOVE AND TIME IVE SPENT ON YOU?” you scoff, “WHAT LOVE? WHAT TIME? SURE, YOUVE PROMISED ME THESE THINGS BUT HAVE YOU EVER FULFILLED IT? EVER SINCE YOU BECAME AN IDOL, EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU CHANGED,”

the two of you are now yelling. “WELL, BEING AN IDOL IS TIRING, AND BEING BOUND TO ONLY YOU IS TIRING. ANEMO RESEMBLES FREEDOM, I CANT JUST BE BOUND TO YOU. A-AND SHE LOVES ME FOR WHO I AM” youre hurt, you stop yelling, “she loves you for who you are today, but will she when you have nothing?” “NO ONE LOVED ME WHEN I HAD NOTHING, WHEN I WAS NOTHING-“ “I FUCKING DID”

your voice begins to break, “i loved you when you had nothing, i was the one who helped you get back on your feet,” you sigh, hot tears now spilling down your face, “im gonna take a walk, and when i come back your things better be packed.” you leave the apartment, “you didnt even get to enjoy your meal,” he mumbles to himself. he begins to pack his things.

youre walking towards the park, youre tears making your cheeks glisten in the sunlight. you spot kazuha admiring the scenery, hes sitting down on a bench with a pen and notebook in hand, you assume he was making song lyrics or a haiku. you walk up to kazuha and wipe away your tears, “u-uhm hey kazu,” you sit down beside him. “oh hey y/n! nice seeing you here!” his voice is warm and comforting.

“im surprised that you arent swarmed by paparazzi yet,” you giggle, “me too, the quiet is very relaxing. my day has become better now that youre here. wheres scara?” you can feel your eyes watering up “we broke up… he cheated on me,” kazuha hugs you, patting your back, tears are now falling down your face. “you dont deserve that, you really dont, youre one of the most amazing people that i know.”

tip tap tip tap tip tap

you hear the sound of footsteps running, it’s probably someone jogging. kazuha tucks your hair behind your ear while looking you in the eyes.

“WAIT!-“

kazuha presses a gentle kiss on your forehead. you turn your head to see who had just called out, it was scara, he was standing there in shock, tears slipping down his face. “YOU BITCH KAZUHA,” scara yells at him. the bouquet of flowers you threw out earlier was now in his hands. “YOU LIKE Y/N, DONT YOU? YOU HAVE HER THESE FLOWERS, RIGHT?” scara scoffs, “and what if i do? theres no harm in having a crush, unlike cheating on your lover. and, i did give those flowers to her, so what?”

scara turns to you “b-baby you still love me right? a-and not this bastard, right?” his voice seems desperate, “kunikuzushi i-”

A/N: UHMM I LITERALLY HAD NO IDEA HOW TO END THIS- I AT LEAST TRIED LOL ┐༼ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°༽┌

(ngl i wanna make a part 2 because the ending was so messy ‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )‧º· )

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#genshin x reader #genshin impact x reader #genshin angst #scara angst #genshin wanderer #wanderder #wanderer x reader #wanderer angst #wanderer #genshin scara #scaramouche #scaramouche angst #angst #idol scara #anemo

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sommerregenjuniluft · 6 months

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‘no beta we die’ as in Little Death because Fuck if it doesnt make me horny whenever authors just pour their raw brain puke into a doc and upload that shit with Maybe a single proofread

like Yes, pls give me all ur unedited filth and art. the word you used in a context that doesnt make any sense because maybe it’s not ur first language or maybe you were sleep deprived as hell. give me all your spelling errors babygirl. grammatical ones esp!! my panties r getting damp. You changed the structure of ur sentence halfway through and forgot to edit the first bit out Pls let’s make out you demented loser. Used the same specific word three times in a paragraph?? i’m cuming all over my bed.

#fanfic writer #ao3 writer

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dedalvs · 1 year

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Hello Sir

OP asker about Aemond’s grasp of High Valyrian.

The post in question <https://www.tumblr.com/twinpeaksfireblogwithme/709747767312023552/aemond-fully-doesnt-know-valyrian-at-all-lmao>

Thank you for clearing this up. As I mentioned in my previous ask while it would be chuckle worthy that Aemond has a mediocre level of Valyrian; it would literally make 0 sense given what we’re told about his character (studious), interests (history, philosophy, and the blade like a fedora tipping mall ninja), and the status of HV in the World of Ice and Fire as a Latin analogue that anyone with enough status or wealth would be able to learn (Tyrion mentions having tutors in GOT). More to that the fact that as a Targaryen it would be his mother tongue (Daenerys says as much in S3 GOT) we’ll just have to put this kerfuffle down to an dialogue goof on the part of the actor. Clearly from your original notes it is supposed to be grammatically correct.

Thank you muchly for your input sir.

The taobus > taoba thing is absolutely an actor error, but the other one is, unfortunately, my error. That should have been gēlȳsso. Fack. Unbelievable. I think the note in the dictionary confused me. It could be fixed by putting an i- in front of the verb. That is, from...

Jemēla gēlȳni enkā!

...to...

Jemēla gēlȳni ienkā!

And given that it's the same vowel on either side, you could kind of just say it's there, and no one would be able to tell the difference.

Now, unfortunately, there are two other errors here—one my fault, one not.

There's a mismatch between jemēla and enkā. The former is plural; the latter singular. Honestly, I'm shocked the folks over at the Valyrian Discord missed this... No idea why the mismatch is there. It should either be aōla or enkāt. As for using the second person plural at all, I didn't know whose line this was. I think this was a request over email and they didn't say what it was going to be used for. I had to guess. I also hadn't seen the script. I didn't know who was talking to whom, or how many each of them were. That's how that goes sometimes.

But, yeah... What a gloriously butchered line. Yikes.

#conlang #valyrian #high valyrian #house of the dragon #hotd #asoiaf #aemond targaryen

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randomfoggytiger · 11 months

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I don’t know why you need to be a “mulder apologist.” You should just accept that the show as a whole is a tragedy, and misogynistic. The fact is that Mulder DOESNT love scully as much as she loves him, his world doesn’t revolve around her. I don’t think that’s a very good relationship, but believe what you want to believe I guess if you want to be delusional

I think you're my first hate anon! What an honor! :DDDD

(Note: Probably grammatical errors below; I'll edit later~.)

I disagree-- the show gave Scully powerful agency, Mulder gave her respect and love and admiration, and the two of them "didn't regret a day." If you notice, Mulder and Scully save each other at the same rates (for every Unruhe there is a Kill Switch); and more often than not, Mulder is too late to save Scully, leaving it up to her to save herself/stall for time/survive by chance. She never blames him and he never blames her, because that's their job and their life.

Onto the romance~

Okay, so: Mulder's whole goal in life was finding Samantha: "Nothing else matters to me" in the Pilot. By the end of that season, he and Scully were already dancing around their feelings-ish for each other (Mulder more in denial than Scully in Tooms, for instance.)

By S2, Mulder was adrift and internally bleeding without his partner; and it was Scully who saved him and showed him he CAN still talk and work with her. His adorable stuttering over the phone to her in Sleepless and his rage and grief in Ascension were peak early s2. 3 and One Breath touched on Mulder living in shuttered down mode: he became a lump who poked around cases, antagonizing more than helping. He connected with Kristen because she, too, had loss to his same degree. He wore Scully's cross, he shoved a gun in CSM's face, he gave up the X-Files as self-punishment for his partner's coma. He then gave up revenge, his secondary fall back, to sit and hold her hand while she lay dying. The rest of S2 Mulder hovered like a comforting shadow, peering into Scully's face for nuances and keeping himself constantly in-tune.

S3 they'd both mellowed out, lost a sister, and were united under a flag of avenging their loved ones. Scully was BACK, and Mulder didn't 'need' to tip-toe around her anymore (as she'd sensed in Irresistible.)

S4 was unfurling from strength and teamwork into Mulder beginning to ponder their future-- Home, for instance-- and Scully knowing he wouldn't be ready for that until he had his answers. BUT it was Mulder who mentioned settling down, gene pools, and then reestablishing distance by "mom"ing Scully's 'nagging.'

S4 ALSO explored Mulder's bottomless grief as Scully got worse and worse, his silent screams at her dying bedside, how he ALMOST sold himself to save her but knowing SCULLY would never forgive him and would rather die. (Her smile at his "you would tell me if I was making a mistake" confirms this.)

S5 was a dark season for Mulder; but his reliance on Scully never wavered. He lost more and more and more; but, in all his loss he never overshadowed Scully's losses: Emily, chiefly. Neither were distant (because that duo never could be, really); but they were walking-- especially after the Sims episodes-- like a birds with a broken wing each, leaning on each other for support but also limping slightly away in their stride.

S6 followed FTF's big revelation and confession; and The Beginning tainted the overall perspective. But I posit it was a good time for Scully and Mulder despite being on toilet brush detail: Mulder included Scully in everything except the time-sensitive mission in Triangle; but she still saved him, even in another dimension. One Son really got everyone angry at Mulder-- understandable-- but for every mistake me made in that episode, he turned around and did his best to correct it (doubting Scully = investigating Diana, giving up to CSM/Diana = pulling himself together and becoming supportive backup to Scully's mission, etc.) The rest of S6 was Mulder trying to make sense of his muddled happiness with Scully and the progress they've made while also having his full-time X-Files life back. Milagro-The Unnatural proved to himself the shift in his priorities; so much so that he later took her doubt in Field Trip very personally. Again, that episode proved that, without Scully, there would be no Mulder.

Biogenesis-The Sixth Extinction-Amor Fati was a joint realization for Mulder and Scully: it explored Mulder's craving for a normal life-- willing to give up the X-Files and himself, but failing without Scully-- and Scully's confrontation with herself over her beliefs and fears of believing. This led Mulder (whether he and Scully were dating seriously yet or not, like I think they were) to toss his final, fearful reservations aside and COMMIT to Scully (publicly) in Millennium.

S7 was a good time for both, so much so their HEAVY traumas were weathered and survived with each other (Orison, Sein und Zeit.) Mulder knew Scully so well that her "I'm fine" in En Ami told him she was in trouble; and he adored her competence in The Goldberg Variation and The Amazing Maleeni and Theef and X-Cops and Hollywood A.D. so much he was practically melting.

Requiem was Mulder's realization that Scully's importance was so much greater than the quest, willing to set their life on the X-Files aside to live it peacefully with her (both afraid it was an alien problem or a cancer problem.)

The whole show proved how lost Mulder was without his Scully; S8 proved how lost Scully had become without Mulder. But STILL, she kept up an impressive solve rate, made connections personally and professionally, and somehow managed the Kersh boat so well he attended Mulder's funeral (for optics, yes; but he wouldn't have come if there wasn't something to preserve between his and Scully's good will. He would have made a nice statement, left before the service, and that would be that.)

S8 Mulder flounders in the face of Scully's competence WITHOUT him, not realizing that Scully solved so much because she took cases that were, likely, easily proven (especially after Mulder's death.) She'd come to rely on his instincts, and almost died or made a faulty move without him there. (That's why she was so grateful to Doggett and conflicted about leaving him so unceremoniously in Alone.) It culminates in Mulder believing Scully and her baby would be safer in a location far away from him, his confidence in himself at an all-time low; but he still charged after, commissioning a helicopter in his quest, to 'save' her once again. Mulder's smile at his partner and his son in the final moments of Existence are priceless.

If you want to argue for canon past S9, it was Scully who convinced Mulder to go on the run; he wanted to see her and his son all those months, writing forlorn emails to her; and his family were the first people he wanted to know about when he was brought back and incarcerated. He questioned himself and his quest in The Truth; and it was Scully who assured him (like she had in TFWID and FTF.) IWTB is a weird one, but Mulder only took up the case because Scully talked him into it; and he kept at it likely to help others but also to win his freedom and a "normal" life for Scully. The breakup was even weirder; but Scully was just as damaged as Mulder and decided they both needed space to reassess their lives and grow stronger as people (as unjustified and unexplored as that was in canon, it was at least better than the original reason of "we weren't compatible." ) Mulder spends the Revival winning back his love with his charming, more in-tune habits; and Scully enjoys their old dynamic and being wooed. The Finale was the weirdness cherry on top of the cake; BUT it was Mulder who was desperate to be a father and Scully who brought him back from the brink with the news of their second miracle. So... there's that.

I don't think the show is misogynistic. The show didn't JUST take from Agent Scully because it first pickpocketed, robbed, and beat up Mulder before she was ever partnered to him. Mulder's losses are tremendous; but he's so internal and monotoned that his grief is harder to detect compared to Scully, who is more visceral and a horrible liar (plus, the writers wrote about her tragedy a lot because GA's acting was so good they wanted to see her carry story after story. That's a compliment. Mulder got squat, especially after his mother's death and his abduction/PTSD.) Scully's story-- written mostly by men in the 90s-- rang so true with women audiences that she has a cult following to this day. GA was encouraged to write and direct her own episode, with a very supportive cast and crew there to aide her whenever necessary. I think good or bad writing is not confined to the sexuality of the writers; and to think so reduces the humanity and experiences of a person down to what genitalia they were born with... almost like that's *gasp* misogyny (literally denying Scully her choices and amplifying her faults while completely dismissing Mulder's losses and when he was done dirty by the writers). Or in this case: misandry.

"but believe what you want to believe I guess if you want to be delusional" I shall, indeed! :DDD If you want to live in a reality of your own making where Scully is a bossqueen but also a hapless victim, be my guest. Because you, dear anon, are stripping her of her agency; you, anon, are ignoring her own words she's repeated over and over to Mulder every time he second guessed himself and his work-- "I wouldn't change a day"; and you, anon, are only looking at pretty gifs of her face and thinking you somehow have the right to judge others for the life choices SHE made, erasing her own agency in the decisions that culminated in All Things and set her free from her own insecurities. That journey wouldn't have happened if she had "chosen another path"; and it wouldn't have gained her the devotion and admiration and respect of a man so much greater than anyone she had previously picked for herself. And let's be clear: Mulder would have made the EXACT same mistakes; and had already done so. It was fate they were to wind up together; but it was HER (and his) CHOICE to keep going.

Thanks for sending in an ask! Hate doesn't bother me; so, if you want to send more, it will give me motivation to prove the opposite~!

#anon #asks #txf #meta #Scully #misogyny #what an unreasonable take lol #thanks for sending an anon!#send more hate! >:))))#this is my first hate one right?#I think so #memory ain't what she used to... well she never was. so.#2023 #Tumblr #I do enjoy answering anons #even the negative ones #analysis #hate

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inpursuitofbetterment · 8 months

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No one ever gets to make fun of “I before e except after c” ever again.

I just read a several page blog post about how and when to stick an H into Irish words and it doesn’t make any sense.

On a specific set of consonants, if you’re using a specific list of prepositions, using the word “my”, asking someone a question (yes you literally change how you spell and pronounce another persons name apparently. My name is now pronounced gella but only when you ask me a question), or using a feminine noun (did not explain the rules of that) or a feminine adjective (who the fuck is grammatically gendering adjectives) but in some of those cases if it’s a D or an T it DOESNT actually happen…

Then you stick an H after the first letter and change how you pronounce it.

…..in one specific dialect.

And it did not clarify in what tenses this applies. Is it only present tense? All of them? Some but not all?

#gaeilge #irish langblr

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sya2cool · 10 months

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❝ My William Afton headcannons 🔞 ✦ ❝

This is literally my first blog, I just wrote these headcannons few hours ago, I hope this is good lol

✦ Warnings ⚠️: This content is full of explicit stuff, if you do not wish to see this please scroll immediately

─ Notes﹕English is not my first language, I apologize if theres something grammatically incorrect or doesnt make some senses. I wrote this just to my likings, sorry if theres any mistakes. And ofcourse this is all before the springlock incident happened

William Afton headcannons 🔞

✰ William would LOVE quick blowjob when hes working, especially if hes stressed with paperwork's in his offices to relieve his stresses

✰ For me I'd think he'd love to tease you in public secretly, for example maybe when you both in a public meeting he would purposely sits next to you and slide into your panties just to tease you until its over

✰ I also think its pretty hot when you think William would make something like a self-pleasure robot/machine to pleases himself while you're not around

✰ He would love to be bitten sm! He would get turned on even more everytime he goes too rough on you and you bite his shoulders/back ( he would moans if you do that, he could whimpers too but always tried to hide it from you 🤭 )

✰ Im pretty sure he'll love every breast size, as long it is a breast he would caress your nipples and lick on it just to tease you

✰ have praising + degrading kink, like for example "you're such a good fucking slut darling, i love it when youre being a good dirty whore and always listens what i told you to, always doing a fucking good job being a dirty slut for me, right' huh darling? You fucking sexy whore" ( for me its even better if he says it with his british accent 😍 )

✰ sometimes he'll love to tie your wrist with his tie if hes wearing it at the time!

✰ He loves punishing you if you're being a bad girl by tying and teasing you with toys mostly vibrator or sex machines that he created. But if there's no tools to use around he'll tease your clit with his finger!

✰ William love taking pictures of you ( including dirty ones ) and i bet he'd even take pictures secretly without you knowing bit like a stalker! he would jack it off too everytime he got new pictures of you, and he has so many of it hidden. Mostly hidden in his offices or his bedroom!~

✰ I also like to think that William likes to admire your body sm! He loves it when youre acting like a stripper infront of him everytime he comes home from work tired but he'll praise/degrade at you while you're stripping just for fun ( After that, he would rail the shit out of you )

✰ William loves it when you're wearing a skirt, he could took a picture underneath just to see your panties ❤️ he also thinks skirts is better cause he could just lift it up easily

✰ I JUST KNOW IT HE IS THE TYPE OF MEN WHO LOVES PASSIONATE SEX!! ( It could even be rough sex! )

✰ hes so into bdsm or bondage fucks, especially if you're being submissive for him 🤤

This is all for now hope you liked it! Critics and advices are appreciated as long it is not in a rude way! Sorry if theres any mistakes ^^

I am also working on a one shot story and a William Afton x reader fanfic, stay tune if you'd like :)

#william afton #fnaf fandom #fnaf #william afton smut #smut #headcannons #william afton fanfic #dave miller #headcanon #i wrote dis #bro im so tired #wrote this at 3am #ok what the fuck #peepaw afton

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gemsofgreece · 2 years

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I saw the post about Erasmian accent.... please allow me to add on to this rant. Let's take the simplest word and the simplest word and the simplest grammatical rule.

Εἶναι. Pronounced ee-neh. Two syllables.

The tone it has is a perispomeni ( ῀ ) and it is there for one reason:

the "ει" in the first syllable is a long term vowel (sorry i do not know if this is the correct term in english)

the "αι" in the second syllable is a short term vowel.

long term before short term = gets a perispomeni.

its legit the most basic rule you learn for ancient greek.

and if anyone says "its pronounced as two letter but its one syllable" well lemme tell you what!! it ruins the whole point!!!!

the long and short term letters and grammatical rules about their punctuation were literally created for the flow of the words and for everything to sound in-place. if you add another letter it destroys the entire rulebook, whether it is theoretically one syllable or not.

and if we go on, the erasmian accent will just keep ruining more and more rules. i am so disappointed that my greek language teacher told me about the erasmian accent. she is a filologist and might know a bit more, but if you think about it it just doesnt make sense! it ruins the flow and beauty of pronouncing a word the right way.

Very good example. I think it's funny because even though αι and οι are generally long vowels (which are conventionally and questionably pronounced as two syllables), in the end of the word they become short vowels (one syllable pronounced as such). So... since the two letters are pronounced separately how can this be explained grammatically? Each letter has the length of half a syllable or something XD honestly how such things have escaped people so much...

Inspired by your example, I found another similar one: the word άνθρωποι (humans). The stress is on the antepenultimate which means that the last syllable must mandatorily become short as the antepenultimate syllable can never be stressed if the last one is long. With the Erasmian, not only the syllable doesn't become short but it also lasts the length of two syllables, raising the stress even higher in the word which is impossible, violating three basic rules simultaneously (the never antepenultimate when the last syllable is long, the change of the diphthongs to short when they are in the end and the impossibility of having a stress higher in the word than on the antepenultimate).

I think some Greeks in the past did spread the Erasmian (and a few still do), or at least some of its elements that are more valid, due to the overwhelming perception of western academics as the ultimate authority on everything. I imagine it would be hard for a linguist to phrase a different theory without getting marginalised. It's weird how fiercely defensive western scholars and students have been about Erasmian - most still go literally feral if you express doubts on its validity. Let's remember Erasmus was a Dutch who lived in 15th-16th centuries and never in his life met a Greek, medieval or modern or ancient. He never had exposure to spoken Greek, so I don't get why people swear by him without a second thought. Of course, for his time, his work has been colossal and great but achievements do age, and sometimes not very well.

#anti-erasmian #greek #greek language #ancient greek #linguistics #langblr #languages #anon #mail

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bitterblackberry · 1 year

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EUGHHH SIMS MAKING ME CRAZY

i made a sim who has their orientation stuff as follows:

interested in exploring romantically: no

romantic interests: none

woohoo interests: women

because i wanted to play an alloaro sim. BUT THEY CANT FLIRT ? AT ALL?? LIKE IT LITERALLY DOESNT LET YOU USE THE OPTION EUGHHHH. okay for one. my two sims here are SUPPOSED to be like life partners kinda deal and so i want to have access to options like “look deeply into eyes” “hold hands” and “embrace” but i just CANT do them shaking and slamming my head against my desk. i feel like EA never actually bothers to understand queer stuff they put in the game

1. those fuck ugly pride clothes

2. even though we’re allowed to put any clothes on any sim regardless of frame - EA still hasnt bothered to make anything actually *look good* on the opposite frame to what it was made for. like great my masculine frame sim can wear a skirt - but its going to clip weird and fit awkwardly

3. i have so many complaints about the binders and top scars oh my god. okay for one, your “female frame” sims HAVE to have tiddies - they can be small but they HAVE to have them. so this means no top scars on female frame sims but like? what about people who get surgery but don’t idk start t? like its so limiting. ALSO the binders suckass the texture is kind of ugly and theyre completely useless. they SHOULD be an accessory that your sim can wear under their clothes because when are you ever JUST wearing a binder?? like with regular undergarments i get it because people sleep in those - but with binders it makes no sense. they SHOULD actually compress your sims chest too like it literally does nothing. i was so excited to have a sim that like actually binds and like they have the binder on during most outfits but not for like sleep right idk itd just feel more like me in the game.

4. the pronoun update: its actually just grammatically incorrect. like the basic they/them preset option isnt implemented properly so the sentences will be wrong sometimes

5. i cant marry my sims without a romantic relationship um i dont want to do that let them have a wedding and be best friends and look deeply into each others eyes

kills EA

in trying to be “inclusive” they just keep making everything more and more binary so in the end they keep trying to force queer experiences into a system that was built from the ground up as allocisheteronormative. i know they wont do it but if they actually want queer sims in their game theyd need to rebuild CAS and the relationship system from the ground up. in this case the exclusion of queer people other than allocis gays at the launch of ts4 isnt a bandaid fix problem.

#ts4 #the sims 4 #sims #sims 4 #lgbt #queer #transgender #aromantic

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yuukei-yikes · 1 year

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This might be a little weird, but in the light novels (i think it was the 8th or 7th) where takane becomes ene and leaves hibiya, ene tells hibiya that he reminds her of "him way back when" and then hibiya thinks she just compared him to shintaro but he doesnt think it makes sense. When i read that i always thought it was haruka especially because ene says something like "youre just smart enough to keep hanging around but youre always worrying about the future" part. Like shintaro (as far as im concerned) never really cared about the future, and i think that haruka cared about the future tbh. Any way everyone says that ene was ACTUALLY comparing hibiya to shintaro and no one made the connection that I made. Please dont tell me i am the only one in this fandom who thought that ene was comparing hibiya to haruka!!

(Also sorry if this makes 0 grammatical sense i just need your oppinion on this)

THE FONT AGAIN!!!

also damn that's actually really interesting!!!! hmm i don't think i agree but i really read this and i was like damn this is a good one like this is a good idea and interpretation...

personally, i do think she means shintaro. i do think shintaro worries abt the future! i can think of the moment where he thinks of his dad and wonders how must he feel abt him if he made it out of the daze and sees his son as this deadbeat shut in. i know that's not super specific on the future, but it's like... shintaro's whole "18, virgin, unemployed" thing to me is him worrying abt the future in a way.

even if in the novels sometimes it writes out like he considers these things indispensable parts of his character (in my reread i was so annoyed in his povs i was like god. shintaro we KNOW youre a virgin STOP MENTIONING IT), i think they're there to point out how he's so stuck in the past he cannot move forward and in a way THAT IS worrying abt the future!! he's... alive. and his life isnt going anywhere, he isnt going anywhere. he IS suicidal but by the time ene gets to him shintaro is more or less more easy going if that makes sense?? thats why im so crazy abt shintaro and ene lol like he really went out on august 15 and tells ene, yeah we can go to the amusement park. its not like im ever going out again anyway. and it's like... by this point he isnt even gonna kill himself. he fully intended to live inside his room with ene forever. idk. shintaro stressing over how much of a loser he is and how he's not doing anything with his life is him worrying over the future kind of. or rather the passage of time.

it's kind of like he sees the ridiculousness of his situation. to me, shintaro's insistence on mentioning he is 18 and unemployed is him frustrated with himself and his stagnancy. like... god. next its 19 virgin and unemployed. then its 20 virgin and unemployed. and so on. to me shintaro does worry abt the future in the way the years go by and he's desperately trying to lock himself away from it?? idk.

while haruka had NO future to look forward to. haruka's problem isnt that he was worried of the future, he was depressed he didn't have one. he desperately wanted a future, he didnt worry abt what he was gonna do with it like shintaro and hibiya in this case. idk. that's my interpretation anyway and even if it's different from yours i LOVE yours, its definitely super interesting and i definitely love asks like these!!! like u rly got me thinking!!

#ask tag #kagenalysis

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bambi-lesbian-posts · 1 year

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i get filled with pure rage when someone uses he/she instead of they

it looks so fucking ugly?? and just clunky and icky and unnecessarily long

OH you mean in daily conversation. I thought. I thought you meant preferred pronouns.

I see what you mean though, when people use "He or she" in reference to an unspecified person, like "The customer is always right, you need to do whatever he/she asks of you" it irks me a bit because it is unnecessary and also enforces the 'they isn't a pronoun it doesnt make grammatical sense' idiotic idea so yeah. I agree

#if you DID mean preferred pronouns however #im gonna need you to leave #anyways thanks for telling me xoxoxo #hatred bonding xoxo

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livinglizzy · 9 months

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while reading through my old files, i found my old suicidal letters that was written for various people in my life. i think it gets better. i dont think that it's the same for everyone but it did for me. im glad to have lived up to this moment where i find deep appreciation for the sunlight when its 3pm. if my time has come i wish to have lived every moment of my life fully and happily. i feel comfort and restlessness on knowing that all this is fleeting. there is so much i want to do, such short time will not suffice. i want to live long but aging is excluded from this want. i want to be 16 forever. i want to be in love. i want to feel how it is to love someone beyond my own understanding. while writing this i never realized, before this, how much i hate drinking cold coffee. also. not related to the previous train of thought, i am saddened by the fact that i will never be able to write like ocean vuong.

ps not edited written directly on tumblr so im sorry for the grammatical inconsistencies its just that editing is so tiring and i feel like it removes the authenticity of what im writjng. it probably doesnt make any sense but whatever

#girlblogging #diary #whatever

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clownsnake · 3 years

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everyone’s always confused abt if you should use “themself” or “themselves” when talking about a person who uses they/them pronouns, but only Toby Fox was brave enough to consider

#grammatically it doesnt make any sense it’s like if you said ‘hisself’ lol #but it’s fine pronouns can have unique quirks. who cares #going post #undertale #this is pulled from dialogue abt napstablook btw #edit: I’ve been informed that hisself is used in aave! so dont read my tags & assume I’m right about what’s ‘right’ for the English language #im sorry about that. obviously different vernaculars of English having different grammatical rules is something I should be more conscious o #*of #I’ll try to keep in mind from now on that grammar (especially in the English language) isn’t something that can rlly be 100% uniform #or something to be controlled/‘’reasoned’’ into being uniform #thank you to that anon for letting me know :)#also I genuinely do love the use of theirself here. i worry tht that might have been unclear so jsyk #when I say ‘only Toby fox was brave enough to consider’ I mean it genuinely like I’m saluting him for this #idk I just think tht we are in the baby stages of figuring out gender nuetral pronouns for individuals & I just appreciate a cis dude making #an Effort to use them even tho it’s unclear even to nonbinary people how we should be saying certain things #like themself/themselves/theirself #so to see a cis person making an effort even though its hard or confusing. well i just think that’s neat

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everythingmustgo · 5 years

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what kind of moodswing am i living I went from bonding w the goth girl on my course over manic street preachers nd boosh (we literally did the soup crimp like the EXHILARATION)........and then another girl idk well decides I look like a fun person to talk to abt sam smith using they/them and comes out w "saying "they" just makes me think schizophrenia like how many people are in there haha" im 😳 are u fucking kidding me

#like ok im used to ppl not respecting they pronouns i kno a lot of ppl dont get being non binary and fuck up #and im not easily pissed off abt it cuz u hear it every day #but im raging 'i just like english and grammatically it doesnt make sense' shut up shut upppp it does ur giving me a headache #the schizophrenia thing oh my godddd im a nonbinary person w psychosis can u shut up can u please shut up #personal

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nako-doodles · 5 years

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Wow you’re so impressive I only speak two languages and I suck in both

sadaegjergioag im literally nOtT my brain doesn’t function with the languages separate so at any given moment, if im not careful, some random amalgamated language chimera pops out my mouth and everyone around me goes ????? you cant tell here simply bc the keyboard doesnt let me….and also I TRY to keep myself coherent here since you can’t see my arms waving around chaotically like a fool

#for an example literally three seconds ago: my mom asked me if I needed new towels for my shower later #and I replied 'ah 不用妈妈；the towels 出くるします #that doesnt even make any grammatical sense in any way shape or form in any language??????#and my mom bless her soul just went 講乜嘢 or in more polite terms: 'bitch what the fuck just came out your mouth'#in my defense I just woke up from a nap bc what is a circadian rhythm? dont know that bitch #thank u for this tho this was really sweet #im really just a mess masquerading as a polyglot ;;#ans

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would u help me out for a second. im in the mood to write for the first time, and i think your style is beautiful. sitting down n actually trying though, im stuck as fuck! i’m realizing that in your dialogue/scenes you’ve got a lot of Little Things. little tiny elements that are subtle & just enough. how are you deciding that lily is building a house of cards at the moment or sirius is sitting in a tree or whatever during a given scene? how do you come up with those ideas for dialogue that are so silly & real & sneakily tender? do you know where it’s going when you begin? any advice for just… starting something?

ps: i appreciate you. you make it look easy & that’s very very cool

This is a lovely question!! Sorry it took me so long to get to it, I didn’t want to get it wrong. Also I’ve included some examples to try and explain what I mean in practise, but it also comes off rather like plugging. tragically this is unavoidable. Anyway, all that being said I have no idea how to advise you about dialogue and coming up with it, I think just listening to people talk helps. Don’t forget contractions, and when in doubt always trust the reader to keep up, real people don’t say perfect or even grammatically correct sentences a lot of the time. We also cut each other off all the time, especially when we’re trying to be funny. Like, here’s an example from warm front:

“He’s not even two. He probably would have thought it was, like, having a lie down or something.”

Harry was laughing now, “A lie down?”

“Yeah, a spontaneous, truck-induced–“

“–Permanent–“ “

–Permanent, lie-down. I’m almost jealous now actually.”

Another thing, but people say um and like or can't speak or cut themselves off, especially when they’re nervous. James when Lily says she loves him for the first time: ‘“Wow,” He breathed, “I’m– wow.” He put both hands on her cheeks and kissed her crazy, abruptly, dumbly. Her head spun.’ He can’t even speak! Dumb boy.

I think natural dialogue sometimes just requires you to read it aloud, which is very embarrassing but ultimately quite useful in trying to figure out whether something sounds normal or not. Use casual words, and try not to go dictionary hunting: if you cant think of the word chances are your character can’t either

In terms of concepts I have no idea, but I do have a few tips. I write all my short one-shots in one document (its called ‘just bad’ lmao) so its easy to start something, write a few lines, and then if it doesnt work just start a new concept, but still have all the old stuff handy. if you feel like you’ve written yourself into a corner its probably because you took a wrong turn earlier, so its just a matter of going back up and figuring out where you turned onto the dead end, or where a line could be funnier and/or sadder and/or more meaningful. Sometimes the bare bones of a decent line is there but you have to work it a little.

In this harry/ginny thing where harry is apologising for all the attention and ginny brushes him off she says:

“It’s nothing,” her voice, all force, “Anyway, it’s more funny than annoying.”

The response went through a few drafts, all variations on the same thing:

(1) “You’re funnier.” [too short, doesn’t make sense, and not really that funny. unholy trinity]

(2) “You make it funny.” Harry said, looking at her for real, “It’s not– you make it like that.” [this could work! I have no idea why I cut this, I think I forgot abt it lmao]

(3) “You’re the funniest person I know, Harry said, sincerely, and Ginny felt her heartbeat all through her, “You make it funny.” [jumping from ‘its more funny than annoying’ to getting this sincere out of nowhere is a little much, even for harry who is famously whipped]

I ended up going with this:

“It’s nothing,” her voice, all force, “Anyway, it’s more funny than annoying.”

“You’re funny.” Harry said, looking at her for real, flustered, “I mean– you make it funny. That’s all you.”

It follows the flow of the conversation and I think the way he says it, ‘you’re funny’ like its obvious, and then being like oh fuck and over-explaining it stumbling a little “I mean– you make it funny. That’s all you.”. You know when you like someone and you say something that gives you away before you can stop yourself? I wanted it to sound like that. Just gotta keep in mind how people behave, we are so stupid a lot of the time, we give ourselves away.

The thing about short stuff i find is implying a lot of history without actually describing a lot of it. I normally do this by having memories come up as almost shards, one second of feeling. You know when you’re in a conversation with someone and they mention someone or a past event, and it rises to the top of your brain, but only for a second? i find sometimes when you’re reading stuff people will try and replay entire memories or events mid-conversation, which is not something you do when you think. You don’t need to replay it beat by beat, you were there! This sounds vague as hell so I’ll try and show you what I mean:

From good crimes: “Petunia is engaged.” Lily’s voice, raw and wrong, “To Vernon. Eliza Hunt told me at the supermarket.” Sudden flashes of Petunia, the only time he’d ever met her, sat in the back of Lily’s twenty-first, pinched and whispering. “Whose Eliza Hunt?” This seems as good a thing to say as any.

pretty on the nose (the phrase ‘sudden flashes’ is pretty so i'll allow it from past me). But see how you don’t need to know how Petunia didnt talk to anyone, how she left early, how she was the odd one out: you don’t need to read all that, you already know because she was sat in the back and because pinched is such a mean verb, spiteful and sharp, you can already imagine how the evening went without me saying so

From my proposal take, after Sirius finds out they’re engaged: Sirius’ grip on his shoulder tightened for one second, still grinning, and James knew what he meant. “I know.” He said, because only Sirius had been there for all of it, when they were fifteen, drunk on Firewhiskey for the first time and James had said I think I’ve fucked it, I think I’ve fucked it but I like her for real.

you don’t need a description of the whole night, what party they were at, who they were with, what they were talking about: the important bit is that Sirius was the first person he told, and that they’re both remembering that at the same moment because they’re soulmates lmao. You know when something big happens for a friend and you feel so full of pride & love that you feel like you’ll burst into confetti?? this needed to feel like that, and you only need a flash for it

I feel like I’ve sort of strayed off from what you asked me, which is really advice on how to start something. I normally start with a line, usually of dialogue, and then try and build from there because dialogue is my thing. You might have a different thing! Some people write from concepts or locations, or an image. i might start with one or a few lines of dialogue, write them down, and then try to build from there. For example for the proposal thing I started from james just saying “Marry me”, which I find more romantic than ‘will you marry me’, purely because it sounds like he simply couldn’t stop himself from saying it, like it rushed out. Another example, this thing started from just “don’t be mad at me” “okay” James agreed instantly, because he is such a sucker for her.

When I write I don’t normally know where I’m going! I normally set out to write something I think is vaguely funny and evokes An Emotion, and then I just play around with stuff until I get there. when I write certain stuff and I have scenes in mind, stuff I want to happen, but I find that if I try to plot it to tightly its not exciting to work on, because sometimes you write a good line by accident, that you hadn’t thought of when you sat down, and you surprise yourself. That is a really nice feeling! i want to maximise that feeling.

'What I mostly try to remember is that writing something down, anything down, is useful. Sometimes you write for a whole night and dont get anything useable, but its like clearing pipes. Sometimes you have to flush through shit to get to the good bits. All the rough stuff, the things you don’t like or didn’t work, you wrote to get you to the stuff that did work. All of the bad shit got you here! It wasn’t a waste, you were working to find the good thing

If I had any tips its just the usual stuff, read! It is annoying how much that helps. Also, and I know this may make you shudder, but reading poetry is useful just because in no other literary or media form is language so important. In comics you have pictures, in novels you have plot and character, in film you all that and cinematography, but in poetry you live and die by how good the words are. If you want recs here’s my poem roundup tag, that I do sometimes, or if you want something just now read this by Anne Carson, which uses words like ‘smashing’, ‘boatwash’, and ‘green’ in the best way possible. Also it has these lines: “Recently having learned to recognize the type of tree called sycamore, / I see them in any forest— / the ones that look harrowed, / in shreds, but / go also / straight up into life,”

I mean, think of a sharper image than that?? It’s not possible. Just try remember to stay true to your characters and that in real life, the little stuff is the big stuff. Little things the people around you do normally show they care more than big speeches, and if you want to show love that’s how to make it feel lived in. You want to build a world! the little stuff is usually the world. Take some from your own or dream the ones you wish you had.

This truly was a very kind message and I’m so grateful you like my stuff, I hope any of this was even half-useful, although now reading it back it is borderline nonsensical. I’m going to bed now, good luck with the writing, and don’t forget to send it to me!!

caro xoxo

#writing bitching #said it already but loved this message it was so thoughtful. seemed pretty articulate to me i think ur writing is gunna be just fine!!!#rooting for you & anyone trying to write something rn. words suck and are difficult! they are also better than drugs & sex. regretable #kindnesses

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