“in this essay i will explore” memes piss me off because it implies y’all still using first person pronouns when writing academically. childish ass

In this essay, this writer will explore the implications of pretending that one’s own personal view is not part of one’s essay, and the inaccessibility of academia related to established custom of artificial detachment.

In this essay, I will demonstrate that the blanket ban on first-person pronouns in high-school and some university English classes is poorly understood and hastily adopted as a result. I will further illustrate that it is a mere substitute for explaining to inexperienced writers that excessive use of phrases like “I think” or “I believe” is unnecessary and rhetorically weakens academic writing, and that opinions expressed in an essay are already assumed to be those of the author. Finally, I will address strategies for effectively conveying that information to students, who often find it difficult to grasp.

In this essay, passive voice will be used throughout in order to distance the work done from any researchers, or, in reality, kind of imply all experiments were done by magical lab gremlins and the results were simply recorded. 

in this essay, enlightenment will descend upon you without the agency of any living being. you will know things, yet know not how you know.

prepare yourself. it begins.

In this essay, I will use the first person pronoun as a bludgeoning weapon

In this essay, you may find the use of second person surprising.

fuck jkr for convincing a whole generation that “witch” and “wizard” are male/female versions of the same thing

witches

wizards

Three years ago today. I love this bit of video. Not sure why.

Because this looks like a Monet painting or an old watercolour anime background come to life?! I was in utter disbelief until it started moving.

not recognizing abusive behavior as abuse until you’re out of that situation is not at all unusual and does not mean your experiences are less real, less valid, that the abuse didn’t happen, or that you deserved it

#the hallmark of trauma is that it breaks your brain’s ability to build a consistent narrative#some researchers believe that’s the DEFINITION of trauma (via star-anise)

Sometimes people will ask me things like “Oh no! I had a sexy dream with someone I’m not attracted to! What does it mean?”

Chances are, absolutely nothing. Sometimes your brain just churns out garbage because it can. Don’t worry about it.

The only sex dreams I’ve ever had were about Belle’s dad from beauty and the beast (shower sex) and a genuinely traumatizing dream about Mozart

oh

@paulblart-mallgoth Okay but are we talking like. Live action Belle’s dad? Because Kevin Kline is genuinely quite dashing, in an odd sort of way. Or are we talking Cartoon Belle’s Dad. Because like. Then the best I can tell you is your subconscious decided to play out a real life shitpost in the dreamscape.

No it was cartoon Maurice and he was very flexible

I changed my mind. Most sex dreams are nonsense garbage but this specific one actually does reveal your inner truths.

“you make me hard but she makes me weak” the 1975 really said sex is great but have u ever been in love

just crying over how romantic Freddie & Jim were nbd

So I read the book, and almost everytime Jim gave/made Freddie a gift, Freddie would always show it off and say “My husband got me those!” or “My husband made that for me!” It’s so sweet, especially for this one part when they first started dating:

today at work a customer’s card didn’t go through so I asked them to try again and it worked that time and I mixed up saying “there we go” and “there it goes” and I ended up saying “there we goes" and I just

why is this so funny i almost pissed myself laughing for the better part of 5 minutes

Flags

I have had 3 mineral posts flagged as adult content today. They contained a tourmaline, a muscovite, and a galena. On Friday I had 3 fossil posts flagged as adult content, including a fossil fish, a fossil tooth from a mastodon, and a Tyrannosaur vertebrae. I’ve submitted appeals for each. This has been getting worse over the past month, apparently most of geology content is now only for adults. 

Apparently you can’t get your rocks off on Tumblr anymore. 

i am contractually obligated to congratulate you on this reply

Putting potato chips on a sandwich with the other ingredients so you get a cronch is absolute the only righteous way to live

hey what the fuck

Stop being afraid to live deliciously

I made this and showed it to a friend. She said I should post it, so here we are.

vampires really should be able to get drunk they literally have to be alive forever let them have this

hc: vampires have no blood so they get drunk faster than people

charlie pulling over a shirtless carlisle at 4 am: dr cullen your blood alcohol content is literally 100% how are you not dead carlisle: au contraire im absolutely dead

how to determine the gender of my nipples

how to determine the gender of my nipples

The Hard Times absolutely crushing it like always lmao

squad goals

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Looks like millennials kill an industry before it even got off the ground😂

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