reminder that this blog, while not politically focused, supports BLM. bootlickers and racists aren’t welcome here, and never will be.
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Holy FUCK, this is an amazing tool.
Reblogging for my artist fellows.
Reblog this!
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how do you play a kind prank on someone?
I’ve told this story before, but I will again.
When I lived in London, there was an old widow who lived near me. She had almost nothing to her name thanks to the laws at the time, except a small room in a house full of lodgers. She frequently made the difference in her meager living by doing spinning. Trouble was, she was almost completely blind and had very frail hands. She would nod off in her chair–the one piece of furniture she had–and leave the wool in the basket. I could see her from the rooftop that I liked to sit on, just off of Fish Street. And I knew her at sight, because she was always meeting her daughter in front of a particular shop I used to frequent. One night, I saw her nod off and the spindle hit the floor, and I thought, “I’m bored, and isn’t this a fun game to play?”
So I went and did it. I like spinning. It’s calming. It troubled me not one bit to do, and when the habit persisted, she began to wonder about it. She started leaving me presents and relying on me a bit, going to sleep on her mat, rather than sitting up in the chair. The spinning would always be done.
What wrong with giving an old woman magic, if it is within your power to do?
I found her body when she died, by that very means, and made sure someone else knew of it. It makes me very happy that when she laid down that night, perhaps not feeling her best, or perhaps knowing it was time, she said to herself, “My little imp will come tonight and see to me.”
And I did.
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The real life Rumplstiltskin.
I’m afraid that was not my name at the time, but yes.
Many fairytales are built on real deeds.
“that was not my name at the time”
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Anonymous asked:
why do black people use you in the wrong context? such is "you ugly" instead of "you're ugly" I know u guys can differentiate, it's a nuisance
you a bitch
rsbenedict
It’s called copula deletion, or zero copula. Many languages and dialects, including Ancient Greek and Russian, delete the copula (the verb to be) when the context is obvious.
So an utterance like “you a bitch” in AAVE is not an example of a misused you, but an example of a sentence that deletes the copular verb (are), which is a perfectly valid thing to do in that dialect, just as deleting an /r/ after a vowel is a perfectly valid thing to do in an upper-class British dialect.
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What’s more, it’s been shown that copula deletion occurs in AAVE exactly in those contexts where copula contraction occurs in so-called “Standard American English.” That is, the basic sentence “You are great” can become “You’re great” in SAE and “You great” in AAVE, but “I know who you are” cannot become “I know who you’re” in SAE, and according to reports, neither can you get “I know who you” in AAVE.
In other words, AAVE is a set of grammatical rules just as complex and systematic as SAE, and the widespread belief that it is not is nothing more than yet another manifestation of deeply internalized racism.
This is the most intellectual drag I’ve ever read.
Reblog every time
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Anonymous asked:
youre not better than other people just because you listen to weird music
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Becky combing through Professor Boxleitners old notes looking for a way to bring him back.
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She took all the penis bread in the divorce
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you know, i had heard the rumours that Trump's wife was gonna divorce him once he was out of the white house but filing for a divorce in the SAME DAY that he basically got sacked is hysterical. love that for him.
really?
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no
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soooooo how we feelin two months into our first furby presidency
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the sheer terror I felt on reading this… when I was a kid, my little sister had a furby. It broke and we took out the batteries and I didn’t see it for a solid two months before it showed up in my closet at one am making weird noises
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that was the president
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the legality of parodies is so funny. if you take a bit from someones work without their permission its illegal UNLESS you make fun of them
amazing
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why does there need to be a monsters inc series. and why does the new character look so boring
this is not a monster. this is just some guy
are you fucking kidding me. this is the design they went with are you serious
i want to reiterate that im not making a post about this just to like. i dunno complain about something. disney is the largest media corporation on the planet, and they have been for a long time. they have infinite resources at their disposal. they have entire teams of animators and character designers and insanely talented people working for them. stuff like this gets vetted by dozens of people, people had to individually look at this dipshit design and be like yep. thats what we want. that’s our new marketable character. he looks like fucking gumby im done
CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS JUST-ANNOUNCED CHARACTER WHO IS JUST MIKE WAZOWSKI BUT BLUE
i cant take it anymore
Disney hitting the DeviantArt "Sonic Recolour OCs" phase at this point in its monopoly isn't really what I expected... but somehow I'm not surprised.
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little baby man
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Controversial opinion: I don't give a fuck how high the cringe factor is / was for dudes who were fans of The Matrix and V is for Vendetta back in the day, the era of undiagnosed autistic teenage boys running around with longcoats and swords was sick as fuck and did so much for my aesthetics regardless.
Some of the last remnants we have of people expressing themselves and feeling empowered in the most sincere and unsuspecting ways on the internet are a bunch of goth guys with sharp objects and I think that's fan fucking tastic.
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i usually hate true crime documetary type things bc theyre all “lets get into the MIND of the serial killer…. tortured soul” or whatever but i like the buzzfeed unsolved stuff bc theyre just like “what a freak lmao”
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