catchymemes:

harbingerdiana:

For the last time dude, my leitmotif sounds exactly like it always has. There is no symbolism for creeping corruption in there

maple-cloak:

patricia-taxxon:

i love explaining the etymology of the word “rickroll” because the story starts with “ok, so at one point 4chan applied a filter to everyone’s posts that changed the word egg to duck”

sophsun1:

#me being invited out anywhere

The Golden Girls – 2.15: Before and After

blumineck:

This isn’t a dig at any creators or educators who use Robin Hood to talk about history or connect to the past, but it bugs me when films or TV use Robin in a bland or uninteresting way when he has such potential!

Robin with a posh accent, or Robin as dispossessed nobility, or Robin as a supporter of a good king against a comically moustache-twirling villain all lack the edge of a folk hero from ballads sung by commoners about a man who stood up to the corrupt church and the law to fight for the poor. And that feels like a Robin that would have some things to say about now.

(I did a longer rant about this with a more context on Patreon if you’d like to hear more of my thoughts)

official-linguistics-post:

iwilleatyourenglish:

iwilleatyourenglish:

something i have always found really weird is when english texts italicize words from other languages.

i remember reading a book as a kid and the author continually italicizing the word tamales

official linguistics post

dialupmodern:

goqmir:

setting up a tiny detail in one chapter to pay it off in the next few chapters feels sooo devious like oooh i can’t wait to write the small little reference here that 70% of readers will miss but 30% of readers will cheer for

it feels so good loading the gun when you’re Chekhov

ralfmaximus:

its-the-blob:

bigfatbitchdotcom:

bigfatbitchdotcom:

bigfatbitchdotcom:

Endlessly diabolical how you can’t say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

It’s not r*pe, it’s rape. It’s not su*cide, it’s suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

And it’s been proven that on certain websites, you don’t even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can’t ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like ‘unalive’, I think of that.

Use the real words. Words have power, and they matter.