I think I dreamt this interaction, and I thought it would make a cute comic
I wanted to make a version of this with the epilogue included
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tags somebody left on one of my Riverdale posts. we live in such a beautiful world. yeah bud, you could say there's comics
This is yet another thing I thought Pratchett had made up but turned out to be totally real.
Unrelated but any time someone mentions clown makeup I'm reminded of how highly successful stage magician Penn Jillette almost flunked out of clown college and had to take remedial clown makeup classes.
emo boys used to make out with each other for attention. what happened. where did it go
Because I'm only seeing other Jews posting about this, non-Jews I need you to be aware that for the past month or two there has been a wave of bomb threats and swattings at synagogues all across the US. They usually do it when services are being livestreamed. I haven't seen a single non-Jew talking about this. High holidays are coming up in a few weeks, which is when most attacks happen against our communities. We're worried, and we need people to know what's happening to us.
‘bread is bad for you’ ‘rice is bad for you’ sorry im not subscribing to the idea that staple grains that have been integral to cultures for centuries are evil. i love you carbs
sorry we abolished your boyfriend. yeah the abolition of the family and disintegration of the couple form kind of rendered him redundant at the end. he's not really sure what the term "boyfriend" is supposed to meaningfully describe anymore
the best part about james team rocket is that you can put his face on any pride flag and there’s like a 97% chance it fits
Pokemon Heritage Post
there is no greater tragedy than the Riverdale cast having to spend their days being exposed to only the wicked instagram bugheads who don't appreciate their artistry rather than hearing from the gay tumblrinas who actually know what Riverdale is about
anyway I love things like having independence, being intelligent, taking pride in my skills, not feigning incompetence, referring to myself as a woman instead of a girl, aging unapologetically, having pores, stretch marks, grey hairs, wrinkles and body fat, listening to my body's needs, eating as much as I need to satisfy my hunger, being bare-faced, wearing comfortable clothes, etcetera
Grammar homework instructions: explain why this sentence is wrong
Me who has been passing grammar classes on pure instinct since 3rd grade: the brain worms told me so
Fun fact! This is actually the starting point that linguists work off of when trying to figure out how (and why) some particular thing in some particular language works. It’s called “native speaker acceptability judgements” and very basically, it involves a sentence that the linguist things may or may not work, asking a native speaker “does this sound okay?” And then checking their answer against their hypothesis (and any previous data they’ve gathered). If it confirms it, that’s cool, but a lot of times it doesn’t, because maybe the speaker has a different dialect (and you have to figure out how that acceptability judgements in that dialect conforms to the universal truths we’ve figured out about language (or think we have, at least), or why that speaker may have such a different judgement than most speakers of their language or dialect- is it a quirk of their idiolect, or have they been desensitized from being raised in an area with a lot of different languages contacting with each other and changing the L1 that way, thus causing the potential birth of a new dialect in its early stages, etc…).
Anyway, when speakers have “instincts” about what is “okay” in their language or dialect, that is actually what linguists are so interested in- it’s where we work off of, and it shows us that language is so inherent to the human experience that it’s literally subconscious instinct a lot of times, and even linguists themselves disagree on some of the “rules” that define those instincts! @mist-the-wannabe-linguist , This is good! This is human! You’re doing great! You’re what makes linguistics so fascinating to linguists like us!
If you've ever wondered why people in Hawai'i hate tourists, try to wrap your mind around the fact that there are CURRENTLY, RIGHT NOW, tourists sipping martinis and looking at fish within swimming range of the fresh corpses of local people who couldn't escape the overnight destruction of their entire town.
Try to comprehend that there are fully functional, high capacity boats passing through the waters in front of an area full of survivors who are stranded and in need of supplies, refusing to help. They are hosting snorkeling tours.
Really think about, try your best to actually picture over two thousand people unhoused and in need of shelter, with nothing but the clothes on their backs and nothing to return to. Understand that the island, stolen land, is littered with hotels full of air conditioned of rooms with beds and showers and toilets, each fully equipped to host hundreds of families for weeks, turning these people away because they're booked up with tourists who refuse to leave.
And understand that these tourists were offered free transport to return home or be hosted on other islands. Free. Courtesy of local tax dollars. 4,000 wealthy tourists were offered free flights shelter on Oahu and begged to leave the island, BEFORE the survivors were given shelter.
And enough still insisted on remaining and carrying out their vacations that people are left without shelter and resources while they enjoy "their stay in paradise".
In case this gains any traction, I NEED people to understand that this is not an invitation for mainlanders to get on a soapbox and start telling each other whether or not or how to visit Hawai'i. The tourism situation is complex and difficult and you don't get it if you haven't lived through it at minimum wage. You don't fully understand the complexities and you will not. And you are liable to do more harm by trying to dictate rules and ethics of visiting the islands to each other.
If you want to help, listen to local people. Seek out and boost what they're saying. Send each other local sources of information. Research from local sources. DO NOT take this crisis as an opportunity to insert your views and speak for us.