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You'll always be my soulmate, my rancher

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Name: Neo or Jimmy

Pronouns: He/Cod

Orientation: Aego-aroace, homo-platonic, bi-aesthetic

Gender: Libramasc

Fandoms: Hermitcraft, Empires Smp, the traffic series's, Undertale, Deltarune, Hades by supergiant, Pokemon, Legend of Zelda, Linked Universe and Wings of Fire

Ask to tag but understand I almost always am fast rebloging and make no promises

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microwave mimic that just eats the food instead of cooking it

tags written by microwave mimic. "oh just reach in the moment the food is 1 second from ready. yeah your whole arm."

I do not want to be in writing training

I am thinking about making a passionate defense of the passive voice just to cause trouble on purpose

Look once you learn how to use the passive voice it will become clear to you why I spend half my time deliberately writing in it

Fuck it, let's talk about it

Warning: Passive voice can be used for evil! Do not do it! Do not write sentences like "The man was shot by police." No! Do not hide state violence in sentence structure!

You should use active voice when:

1. You introduce new information

2. You take or assign responsibility

Active voice is key for clarity when the sentence doesn't have anything to refer back to. If you have to put "by (person, organization)" at the end of the sentence, it should have been active voice. Ex:

Our company fucked up the project and we're sorry

NOT

Regrettably, the project was fucked up by us/on our watch/by one of our teams

But here's why passive voice is great: because it collapses who did a thing and centers the fact that it happened. When you are referring back to something the parties already agree upon, it puts the result up front.

All project review will be completed by 18 Never 2029.

NOT

Kyle | Mark | us Arch | itects, Jim's Construction, the Statesonia Department of Endangered Hummingbirds, the Federal Bureau of Staying the Fuck Out of It and like twelve other people will complete their reviews by 18 Never 2029.

No! Bad! The completion of the action matters, not the parties involved. And no, "The parties will complete their reviews" is absolutely not clearer, because it requires the same knowledge.

In fiction, passive vs active refocuses a sentence towards what you want the reader to pay attention to. Active:

A fog covered the city

Passive:

The city was covered by fog

Nothing wrong with either of them. It's just what you want the reader to think about. Bonus round: the sentence feels more natural if you put the bulk of the description in the second half, so you can add more without making it impossible to follow. Active:

A fog covered the quiet, unsuspecting city as it slept

Passive:

The city was covered by a terrible, choking fog that crept through the silent streets

These are different sentences, but nothing's wrong with either of them.

Passive voice gets a bad rap largely because even the dumbest professional development expert can ID it fairly regularly. It's bad when it makes a sentence less clear; it's good when it makes a sentence clearer. That's it.

AND it can have immense humoristic potential, for the exact same reason you outlined, because passive voice reads as an attempt to dodge responsibility and misplace blame.

"The man was shot (by police)" and "The project was fucked up by us" are bad in serious contexts and actual writing.

But you can have a lot of fun with things like:

"My boss has been described in impolite terms."

"Alice's boss has been described in impolite terms by someone who wishes to remain anonymous."

"I have been vilified, demonised, slandered, calumnied, scapegoated, lied about, written horrid pamphlets about, unlistened to, and reputationally walked all over."

"The priceless crown jewels known as The Fanciest Rock Ever, insured for 100,000,000 billions and entrusted in our care by HRM the Queen of Fancyland, were found to have been misplaced this morning and have not been located at this time."

"He was separated from his head."

"He found himself divorced from."

Useful friends in such cases: euphemisms, unexpected verbs, grammatically questionable sentence constructions, and obfuscation of the responsible party when it is glaringly obvious to the audience that there should be one or even who it is, etc., etc.

Anonymous asked:

Saw some asks and chose to leave this.

The camera people have code names for who is meant to record which scene at which time. Examples are any Pearl scenes that are referred to as Bovine due to Moo being the one who records her scenes, and Ram is Gem scenes due to Aries. All to avoid any schedule leaks as well as possible.

Huh, that's a cool idea.

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Idk how popular an opinion this is but... I absolutely LOVE really obvious symbolism.

Because like... I'm dense. I don't pick up on subtext very easily. There are some instances where you could spell it out for me and I still wouldn't get it. So yeah I absolutely adore when authors lay it on real thick. And I get so excited because yes!! I understand!! I am so normal about this!!

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Related to a other ask somewhat

Any time the watchers are referred in any show to it is just the actors breaking the fourth wall and pointing out the camera people and everyone thinks it's connected to the lore in some insane way

They're all just having a goof. But as theorists are prone to do, they can and will overanalyze anything they get their hands on.

They are FULLY in red strings and thumbtacks territory though.

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Every single blooper reel was made by the camera men with them just searching hours of bloopers for the best ones and posting them anonymously with permission of course

There is SO much bts content because of the cast and crew's tendency to videotape anything funny that happened on set.

The blooper reels are only a part of it. The fans adore it.

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there's something really magical when you're learning a new skill, and the switch suddenly flips from, "wait, what do I do here?" to "oh, I know exactly what to do here!" and you realize that you've actually learned something! that you've worked hard and studied and now you don't have to look up youtube tutorials, you don't have to stare at documentation and instructions, you can just...do stuff!

the only downside here is that this feeling is very addictive, and you'll soon find yourself with more hobbies than you have the free time or physical space for

ah, well. worth it!

I don't know if this relates to the Actor au much but I feel like Arieseva and PearlescentMoo (Aries/Reese and Moo) were part of the camera crew and they just happened to look like Pearl and Gem enough that they also became the stunt doubles for them and their standins incase anything happened to Gem or Pearl during production. They prefer to be the camera people, though.

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I feel like Pearl does all of her own stunts but I do like the idea of incorporating stunt doubles for some of the scenes lol

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Still enjoying the actor au ^^

Headcanons- while filming the Wedding scene they planned on Xornoth crashing the reception, so he had his makeup and outfit on. During the exchanging of vows he went and sat in the back of the set to watch up close. He thought he wasn't visible from the cameras, but Joey noticed him and decided to improvise a bit. When Joey started to talk about his one true love, Xornoth realized he was being filmed and immediately got out of sight, and that's how we have the wedding scene XD

Grian is a friend of Jimmy's. He brought Jimmy lunch one time during filming and was, ironically, wearing a purple sweater. Fwhip was vlogging of what the studio is like behind the scenesand caught Grian and Jimmy talking. When he posted it, some of the fans recognized Grian from like Evo and Hermitcraft shows, they went berserk over theories that Watcher Grian would show up in later episodes.

Shelby and Katherine were going to go on a small date in the show, or have a romantic moment, but it didn't make the final cut.

Scott and Sausage wrote fanfics about the show XD

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These are all SO funny I adore them.

Xornoth was a little disgruntled that they ended up being cut from the wedding aside from that little improvised bit. It takes HOURS to get them into costume and they didn't even put their part in? They also hate Joey for putting them on the spot like that because they've never been the best at improv.

Ohh I love that. The fans went WILD coming up with theories and writing fanfic. And when Grian was actually a guest star in one of the episodes? You better believe the fandom freaked out.

The writers were still on the fence about putting Katherine and Shelby's characters into a relationship. They knew it was a popular fanon ship but weren't sure if the relationship was strong enough to be made canon. That's why in season two they really went all in.

Oh definitely. And everyone in the cast has read at least one fic of their character.

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Anonymous asked:

Fuck shiny hunting I’m gonna look for the real treasure (a spinda with a spot that looks like amoong us)

as humans we've perfected years of selective breeding. we've domesticated dozens of starter pokémon. we've mastered the science behind genetic ability and nature transfer.

there MUST be an among us spinda out there.

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Anonymous asked:

double life, but everyone is partnered up with their irl romantic partners. joel and lizzie would probably dominate due to both being professional minecrafters, but also imagine grian's wife seeing what a menace her husband is in minecraft.

OH I'M IN LOVE WITH THIS IDEA-

Jizzie WOULD dominate on account of being the best- however, watching Kristy and Jimmy play together... 🥺

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Martyn and Netty!!! The return of Netty to Minecraft would be so exciting.

Also can't believe this is a concept just created to bully Scott for being one of the few single Life SMP members /j

Do the single members just have to play alone as penance for being single?

I see people like this idea as much as I do!

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so funny to me when white american christians are like “ooh i incorporate my religious trauma into my art and thats why i draw these stained glass gothic church gold multi eyed reneissance sculpture angels agnus dei” like i know your protestant southern california ass didnt have any of that. go make some art about this

ok

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Damn way to read the assignment and go above and beyond.

the bleakness and sanitized feel of most American protestant churches really is an underused medium.