I never use Tumblr, but I figured this was a good way to ask this..
As a reader is it harmful to continue to buy books during the writers strike? I'd think it would be beneficial, giving money to the writers, but if this is about them not being paid for their work then maybe publishers aren't giving them the right amount from book sales either?
I'm ignorant, I'll admit, which is why I come to you, someone I see very involved in this strike for your thoughts.
Thank you for your time taken to read this, even if you don't respond.
everyone needs to stop telling rich white women to stay safe by “trusting [their] gut” bc now theyre just attacking minorities
rich white women will see a man of color or a poor man or a disabled man or god forbid all 3 and go “i dont know guys im kind of getting bad vibes. like he seems dangerous i cant put my finger on why. he just acts off. my gut is telling me to call the police idk why”
the only time it was actually funny and entertaining when a “ship” was “confirmed” by someone who worked on the show was when someone asked rene auberjonois at a panel what the nature of quark and odo’s relationship was and he replied “sexual.” without elaboration
Genuinely and unironically my philosophy abt music has expanded to “stop writing off music because it’s from a specific genre” and I think that could be applied to most mediums actually
Is country music really all bad or are you only catching snippets of christonationalist propaganda on the radio? Are horror movies always shallow torture porn or are you just thinking of trailers you saw for slasher movies? Are fantasy novels only for kids or was the last one you picked up Harry Potter? Is anime always fan service or are you just running into ecchi clips online over and over and over? Are you looking for good media or are you finding bad media and considering it representative?
Jonathan Crane (Shia LaBeouf Parody)Codot (Originally by Rob Cantor)
Jonathan Crane A Parody of Shia LaBeouf by Rob Cantor Sung by Codot
You’re walking in the woods There’s no one around, and your phone is dead Out of the corner of your eye, you spot him. (Jonathan Crane) He’s following you, about 30 feet back He gets down on all fours and breaks into a sprint He’s gaining on you! (Jonathan Crane)
You’re looking for your car, but you’re all turned around He’s almost upon you now, and you can see there’s blood on his face! My god, there’s blood everywhere!
Running for your life from Jonathan Crane! He’s brandishing a knife, it’s Jonathan Crane! Lurking in the shadows, gothamite superstar Jonathan Crane! Living in the woods, Jonathan Crane! Killing for sport, Jonathan Crane! Eating all the bodies, actual cannibal Jonathan Crane!
Now it’s dark, and you seem to have lost him But you’re hopelessly lost yourself, stranded with a murderer You creep silently through the underbrush Aha! In the distance, a small cottage with a light on! Hope! You move stealthily toward it, but your leg! Ah! It’s caught in a bear trap!
Gnawing off your leg (Quiet, quiet) Limping toward the cottage (Quiet, quiet) Now you’re on the doorstep Sitting inside, Jonathan Crane!
Sharpening an axe, Jonathan Crane! But he doesn’t hear you enter, Jonathan Crane! You’re sneaking up behind him Strangling Gotham Rogue Jonathan Crane! Fighting for your life with Jonathan Crane! Wrestling a knife from Jonathan Crane! Stab it in his kidney Safe at last from Jonathan Crane!
You limp into the dark woods, blood oozing from your stump leg You’ve beaten Jonathan Crane!
Wait! He isn’t dead! Scarecrow Surprise! There’s a gun to your head, and death in his eyes But you can do Jiu Jitsu Bodyslam man of fear Jonathan Crane! Legendary fight with Jonathan Crane! Normal Tuesday night for Jonathan Crane! You try to swing a scythe at Jonathan Crane! But blood is draining fast from your stump leg He’s dodging every swipe, he parries to the left You counter to the right, you catch him in the neck You’re chopping off his head now You have just decapitated Jonathan Crane!
His head topples to the floor, expressionless You fall to your knees and catch your breath You’re finally safe from Jonathan Crane!
As a nonbinary person it feels uncomfortable when strangers perceive my partner and I as a straight couple,
But it’s hilarious to me when they perceive us as father and son.
“Does he have his own luggage?” the agent behind the check-in desk asks brightly, making eye contact with my partner.
“Just carry-on,” I say as I slide my driver’s license across the counter toward her. Confusion dawns on her face. She glances up at me briefly before printing my boarding pass in silence.
“A soap making booth!” I exclaim. I’ve been to the renaissance faire a dozen times but I’ve never visited this shop. “Let’s make soap!”
“First you have to ask your Responsible Adult for five dollars,” says the vendor in a measured, singsong voice, and wags her index finger at me.
I look around, confused. Who is she talking about? Does she mean the young man trailing behind me? I turn back to her.
“I have five dollars …”
“Well you still have to ask him,” she smiles sweetly.
As I open my mouth to ask why, I suddenly realize she has misjudged my age by at least two decades.
“I’m older than he is,” is all I can think of to say.
“Would you like a children’s menu?”
“Sure, and if you’re taking drink orders, I could also go for a Corona.”
I’m kind of glad to hear that everyone does this. Because it means it isn’t colonizer bullshit, it’s what everyone does. It’s just people discovering new things. Everyone goes:
“Oh hey these people have their own style of [language A’s word for thing. Say, what do you call it?”
“Oh it’s [language B’s word for thing].”
“Got it, it’s [language B’s word for thing] variety [language A’s word for thing]”
This is seriously not colonizer bullshit, it’s just one of the common ways that loan words work.
linguistics side of tumblr please talk about how this is a type of reduplication
Andso, a finger on the monkey’s paw curled.
This isn’t a type of reduplication. Reduplication is a very specific linguistic phenomenon which refers to the duplication of phonemes, morphemes, words, or whole ass clauses, as a way to changing meaning, add or remove emphasis, or a whole bunch of other things. But it’s specifically about the repeatition of sound: ‘bread’ is reduplicated to ‘bread bread’ or ‘brebread’ or ‘breadad’ or what have you depending on your reduplication scheme; and not ‘naan bread.’
Naan Bread and such are an example of an entirely different linguistic phenomenon centering reduncency, except it isn’t the sound that’s redundent but the meaning assigned to the sound. It’s the broadest terms, naan bread is a tautology(linguistics); narrowing in on specifics, it’s Semantic Pleonasm, in which two words which convey similar information are paired together to give the best combination of information; Think “tuna fish” for a monolingual example of variety-category semantic Pleonasm. Then getting to specifics, we have Bilingual Tautological/‘Pleonastic’ Expressions, in which the combination of words are sourced from two differet languages. This is where we find 'Naan Bread’ and everything else this post is talking about.
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