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IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL THANK YOU

ADDITIONALLY:

YOU ARE NOT ‘PHASED’. YOU ARE ‘FAZED.’

IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.

ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME

‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’

THANK YOU

BREATHE - THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE

BREATH - THE NOUN FORM

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE

WANDER - TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY

WONDER - TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)

DEFIANT - RESISTANT DEFINITE - CERTAIN

WANTON - DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)

WONTON - IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING

BAWL- TO SOB/CRY

BALL- A FUCKING BALL

YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT

AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.

THANK YOU.

*slams reblog*

IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.

SLEIGHT - DEXTERITY, ARTIFICE, CRAFT (FROM ‘SLY’) SLIGHT - VERY LITTLE, FRAIL, DELICATE

IT’S ‘SLEIGHT OF HAND’.

DISCRETE - SEPARATE, DISTINCT, PARTED

DISCREET - SUBTLE, STEALTHY, DIPLOMATIC

BORN= existing as a result of birth

BORNE= carried or transported by

LIGHTENING = to make something less dark in color or to lessen its weight

LIGHTNING = bright flash of light during electrical storms

{This is quite helpful. Thank you Rebloggers.}

((adm: I just want to add-

Loose- untight

Lose- opposite of winning))

((ALSO: A fun trick -  Affect = Action  Effect = End Result ))

There = In that place

Their = belonging to them

can’t = a contraction for cannot

cant = a tilt or lean at an angle, usually to accommodate accessibility

Me thinking that this is child’s play and that I know it all already:

Me realising there are some things I didn’t already know:

TO- GOING ONE PLACE TOWARDS ANOTHER

TWO- 2, A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 AND 3

TOO- A DESCRIPTIVE WORD, THE MUSIC IS TOO LOUD, THE SHIRT IS TOO LOOSE.

Trick for telling whether to use “me” or “i”

Drop the other subject(s) and if the sentence makes sense, you’re using the right one.

Examples:

Incorrect- Arthur and me are going to the mall//me am going to the mall -no

Correct- Arthur and i are going to the mall//i am going to the mall

Incorrect- they brought presents for Henry and i//they brought presents for i -no

Correct- they brought presents for Henry and me//they brought presents for me

Rogue - a scoundrel or disreputable person

Rouge - a kind of makeup

IT IS A TENET OF YOUR RELIGION

IT IS NOT A TENANT OF YOUR RELIGION

Vicious- mean

Viscous- sticky

Conscious- awake, mindful

Conscience- Jiminy Cricket

getting rid of family vlog channels one state at a time let's gooo

—

Johann Hari,

Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?

(via bigfatsun)

what are you even supposed to do when youre angry.  cant scream at anyone cos im not a dick. cant break anything cos i paid money for that. cant rip my hair out cos i need it on my head. literally what now

some options, because it’s way healthier to express your emotions than to shove them down and bottle them up - including anger:

Btw if I say things like “by god” or “good lord” in posts please be aware I don’t mean it in a catholic way I mean it in a 1950s scientist reacting in horror after they create an evil creature in the lab set in the distant future year of 2005

No offense but the internet gives you the most wrong and fucked up idea of helping people because people get mad if you don't care about disasters happening in 72 countries, meanwhile the people in real life that are doing the most good picked one VERY SPECIFIC thing to care about and care about it REALLY HARD

Walks up to a guy working on restoring a native tree species to his downtown "why aren't you posting about grasses in Turkmenistan!"

The internet has taken a whole generation of bright, motivated, passionate young people who care and have big hearts and turned them into paralyzed, shattered wrecks too crushed by the weight of the world's pain to hand a pair of socks to a person in need

I keep seeing Takes about how recent media like Glass Onion and The Menu aren’t taking “eat the rich” seriously enough to launch real change or revolution and like?? yeah??? popular crowd-pleasing entertainment where horrible rich people Suffer A Comeuppance for the pleasure of an audience is one of the oldest tropes in all of human history???? It is a crowd pleaser! It is the bread (ha) and butter of the Western canon! It is in Chaucer it is in Dante it is in Shakespeare it is the stuff of Dickens and 95% of Agatha Christie and almost every teen movie ever made??????? “look at these horrible rich idiots and hypocrites…and now enjoy their DESTRUCTION” transcends time and space and historical moments! It is so strange to be surprised that Hollywood returns to this well without any intention of seeking anything more transgressive than an audience having a hearty chuckle lmao

fucking THANK you

don’t really have much beef with a lot of this sentiment but it feels worth noting that while “little guy wins the day” or “justified downfall of rich asshole who Had It Coming” are both long-attested story types, they’ve long: a) come from different artistic settings and contexts (there is for example a decent amount of court poetry which boils down to ‘my stingy lord can/should get fucked’, and which largely has the same non-functionality as the current spate of eat the rich movies: nothing will happen to the lord, but we’ve all had a little chuckle at someone’s expense); b) been less legibly to current audiences part of a clear trend of Eat The Rich (which follows most clearly in the footsteps of the more artistically successful parasite).

i also see the point in being like “why are you surprised that Big Money Movie Industry isn’t meaningfully on your side” but it seems to me that this particular argument from narrative history misses the above point: the long history of this particular kind of narrative of catharsis has not frequently involved the storytellers being so easily identified with the Rich Guy Who Has It Coming. given as well the higher amount of visibility of these directors and the clear desire to make movies that are Saying Something, there’s also a clearer distance between how the movie is framed and what it is. like you can see rian johnson, for example, saying that whodunits are an inherently conservative genre, which is shaped like a critique, and then be like hey dude so how come that doesn’t pan out when we are ostensibly in the same boat re:conservatism. (we aren’t, is the answer, but you know.)

but i think there’s also something to be said for the way the current trend of eat the rich movies started and where they’re going. people did argue about whether bong joon-ho had a leg to stand on re: parasite and telling stories about class struggle, but it seems genuinely bad faith to view parasite as cynical. on the other hand, movies like glass onion and the menu (due in part, i assume, to the relative ease of their western audience promotions as compared to those for bong’s parasite) are more clearly presented as having an angle and have very clear corners of culture they’re speaking to and about. i think parasite will age better because it’s not as palpably about its exact cultural moment as the menu (bad labor practices at noma getting big press; high saturation of alinea and other equally precious restaurants in high-budget tv shows; and the i think currently quite heightened desire to prove one’s anti-elite bona fides) or glass onion (which you can imagine people in 50 years needing no-fear shakespeare levels of glossing and apparatusing in order to parse).

a lot of the backlash to these movies strikes me as a result of them simply not working as this genre does: if a work is fun, or charming, or successful, it is much easier to simply enjoy it and move on. this is as op says how so many narratives have worked! but it seems to me that finding these movies cynical or politically toothless or hypocritical is what happens when the catharsis they usually provide is no longer possible. i think that because glass onion is a worse movie than knives out, the latter inspired less animus than the former; but you might also say we’ve reached a point where this kind of narrative does not hit the way it used to, even as we continue (and arguably more so) to insist that art is politically both solvent and incisive, and as these movies, more than a lot of their historical predecessors, insist they are as well.

mech with “student driver” stickers slapped all over it

YOU CREATE YOU, ISN'T THAT BEAUTIFUL?

i’m gonna make a movie where two normal ladies fall in love. everything’s chill, no age gap, they’re both out of the closet, their families love them, everything’s fine. the catch is that one lady has a cat and the other lady never figured out what the cat’s name was cause the Owner Lesbian ALWAYS uses a dumb nickname and now it’s been three years and they’re getting married and it’s too late to just ask

It’s garnering more and more urgency because the cat’s importance is growing (the cat is going to be the ring bearer, oh no!)

The First Lady asks her fiancé if they should get a fancy collar with the cats name for the wedding and her fiancé throws her arms around her and says “great, would you go do that tomorrow?”

the longer i think about it the more that sounds like a valid conflict to base an entire movie around and the fewer problems i could think of that cant have a solid writing solution available

“Just wanted to confirm the spelling before I gave the order, hun. This shit is costly and I only got one form.”

“Oh, just the normal spelling, no crazy vowels or anything.”

This is so good. Plus it’s not like you can try out likely names and see if the cat responds, like a dog might. It’s a cat. It’s just gonna sit and squint unblinkingly at you regardless, no matter how many names you try.

Plot twist:

It’s not a stupid nickname.

The cat really is “miss kitty.”

Y E S

no no no. the cat doesn’t have a name, the cat owner never decided on one so she just goes with various silly nicknames. but since her fiancée acts like she is aware of the cat’s name, the cat owner assumes the fiancée mistook one of the nicknames for the actual name. but she doesn’t know which! so the cat owner doesn’t know what the supposed cat name is either, and relies on the fiancée revealing it at some point, but it never comes and she’s getting agitated too because she doesn’t want to admit she never named her cat

Hey hey hey in a similar vein to ^^^

What if

Neither if then know the name

Because it’s neither of their cat.

The cat decided to move in about the same time one of the girls did. Both think it’s the other one’s cat. Both are committing these increasingly elaborate shenanigans to figure out the name from the other.

The true wlw miscommunication romcom we deserve

please listen to albums someitmes youll be amazed at what an artists songs do when theyree in an order they made. for you to listen to. etc

playlistification is the mind killer. the little death.

okay so being real here, as an independent musician, playlists are cool and serve a purpose - for making a driving mix or an exercise mix, or careful curation of music with similar themes or within similar genres. that's the power of playlists - the personalisation aspect and also the sharing aspect.

but albums, albums my beloveds ! sometimes it's more a collection of music made at a similar time; sometimes there's a real cohesion and storytelling aspect. concept albums go 110% on this ! an album is an entire art piece made up of smaller art pieces.

some music is destined to get released as a single as it stands strong on its own as well as within that album. other music belongs entirely to that album. this is also where you get all the beautiful interludes and connections.

the real kicker here is a full album is expensive to produce and will make far less than if you release that same number of tracks as singles to get on playlists. this is why the EP is so popular now as it lets you do the album thing without losing a ton of money, and there's usually 1-2 singles you can get off it.

merch is the saving grace for many artists, so if you love albums or you want to get into albums and you want to support your favourite bands, go buy a t-shirt and a CD at their next show.

buy a CD player if you don't have one, or get an optical drive for your desktop/laptop. rip that CD and then you can put those files on whatever device you want and you still have the original physical copy <3

there's something beautiful about putting on a CD or a vinyl to listen through. the physical act of picking it out and putting it in the player. the experience of sitting back and letting your mind get absorbed in it. go on a journey, my friends ! ^w^

Y'all don't know what rural love looks like. Y'all don't know. We got 6'2" burly fellas rolling in from the logging camps like "yeah I'm looking for a packer for my boyfriend". We got welders coming in after work and you gotta ask em to scrape off their boots at the door and their hands are black with gunk so we gotta help em sift through the strap ons. Three ladies come in wearing floral dresses with their hair in rings like they just got out of church and you ain't sure if they're together or just friends but when they leave they're all holding hands and one gives another a kiss. Old fella with a walker comes in for some lacy lingerie. 85 year old widow is going on a first date since her husband passed. People are people all over the place, it's not different when you can't see it

Nah, because one time I, a girl from Texas (the great green yeehaw) listened to a girl I can only describe as Western Gothic describe to me in detail how she pegged her boyfriend. Who is on the baseball team, has a mullet and a country accent, and is about 6 inches taller than she is. And then he picked her up after school, happy as could be in his Ford pickup! Literally, she brightened. And so did he. It was adorable.

Rural love is amazing in its eclectic nature.

Adult ProTip, from a security professional: If a kid tells you, "My parents are gonna kill me / kick my ass / kick me out" for something relatively minor, don't respond with shit like "Really? ;) that sounds a little extreme, don't you think sweetie?" because that shit really does happen.

Instead, respond as though whatever threat they are afraid of is fully valid, and offer whatever you can do to help- ask if they believe they are in danger of being hurt in any way, and work accordingly.

If they're overreacting, they'll usually realize and dial it back, self-correct and begin thinking a bit more rationally.

If they're not overreacting, and the danger is real, then they'll need a level-headed adult in their corner, not another condescending authority figure who doesn't believe them.

EXACTLY!

I wholeheartedly believe that straight men are envious of gay men and their relative freedom from patriarchal pressures. A gay man can walk into a bar and order a “girly” cocktail if he wants to. He can cry and be outwardly emotional. He can be vulnerable and sensitive. He doesn’t always have to be “in charge.” These pressures slowly crush cishet men and when they see someone free of that weight they feel a deep jealousy.

It occurs to me that this is something homophobia and fatphobia have in common.

So many diet cultists lose their minds when presented with a fat person who isn't miserable and shame-ridden and celibate. They view thinness as a prerequisite to having basic human dignity, in the same way that homophobes/transphobes view gender conformity as a prerequisite to having basic human dignity.

Body policing is the same.