tarantula-hawk-wasp:

tarantula-hawk-wasp:

Shout out to the phrase “I’m going to become the joker” for capturing a very specific and real emotion

Shout out to Portuguese for verbing this!!

allthingswhumpyandangsty:

I hate how bot comments on ao3 are making more and more writers disable their comments and lock their works so that only people with registered accounts can access their works (because while some of these bots are from registered accounts and therefore locking your fics won’t guarantee that you will be safe from them, a lot of them are commenting as guest users so locking fics helps a little), because there are so many genuine readers who read and comment on fics without having their own registered accounts.

these bots are not only annoying and harmful (if you fell for their lies and gave them money, an access to your personal informations), they’re also keeping artists and art from genuine audiences and destroying the community artists built with their audiences.

this is a post to say fuck you every bot out there.

WITH EVERY REBLOG THIS POST GETS, A BOT WILL DIE

also here’s how to spot and deal with bot comments

allthingswhumpyandangsty:

allthingswhumpyandangsty:

ao3 turns 16 today.

reblog if you’re older than archive of our own

allthingswhumpyandangsty:

PSA: new type of bots plaguing AO3’s comments section.

as obvious as it is that these are all bots/scam, I believe there are still people who believe they are legit and fall victims to these trolls. so if you get a comment like these, don’t panic, don’t delete your works. they are all bots. you’re fine.

MORE ABOUT SCAMS ON AO3

amrii-absurd:

lolababyy:

Having someone match your wit or your weirdness without hesitation is actually so fucking comforting and fun.

It’s an unmatched level of non-romantic intimacy

mothdogs:

acti-veg:

taxevader69:

taxevader69:

economists really took the divine right of kings and turned it into billionaire CEOs

“it’s kinda fucked up to reject the business practices of jeff bezos when he rightfully earned his position under capitalism”

“About twenty years ago, I attended a lecture by a Harvard professor who talked about how corporations operate like modern-day kingdoms. At one time, she said, people believed kings ruled by divine right, and today we seem to believe the same thing about corporations. Toward the end, she asked, “Do you know what it is that allowed people to let go of, overcome, and reject the notion of the divine right of kings?” I held my breath and got ready to take some notes. Her answer: “They just stopped believing in it.”

- Frances Moore Lappé

- Ursula K. Le Guin, speaking at the National Book Awards, 2014

ariaste:

tteukbyeol:

aslongasitsblack:

whoever first pointed out that ilya americanises his accent around other people but not around shane i owe you my fucking life

also the idea of like when its just the two of them ilya can like just slip back into the more comfortable rudimentary accent he had at the start of their relationship :’) and that in itself being nostalgic for shane :’)

this would also be linguistically accurate!

i speak english the most in day to day life and also think in english sometimes. my accent in english is americanized, pretty indistinguishable from a native (excluding sets of certain phonemes like /rl/) .

but if i’m really tired or spending time just around my wife (with whom i speak english), i sometimes switch to what i call ‘lazy english’.

what this usually consists of is i allow myself to speak english with the russian /r/ phoneme that is more natural for me, i drop articles, replace continuous and future tense with simple present, use the ‘….,yes?’ construct, avoid contractions (bc the verb ‘to be’ is dropped/implied in russian, so contractions aren’t always natural)

for example, when i’m in ‘lazy english’ mode, this is how my speech varies:

‘i’m making the bed’ = ‘i make bed’.

‘you’ll help me later, right?’ = ‘you help me later, yes?’ (for this one, in russian, the same phrasal construct ends with the word ‘yes’ instead of the word ‘right’)

‘can you give me a tissue?’ = can you give me tissue?’

‘where’s the pen? do you have it?’ = ‘where is pen? you have?’

if you pay attention, you’ll notice that a lot of these patterns also occur in ilya’s speech, especially earlier on. that’s why i’m particularly impressed with the writing of his dialogue — it doesn’t come across as stereotyping/caricatural because the way he speaks english is consistent with russian linguistic/grammatical rules. this is often how russian-speaking people speak english when it is their second language and they’re still learning.

i like to imagine ilya reverting to ‘lazy english’ or speaking in a similar manner to me around shane. it is linguistically consistent and a sign of comfort/deep familiarity with the person.

The next layer of linguistic accuracy would be for Shane to start occasionally modulating down into a similar “lazy english” that’s reflective of Ilya’s style. I forget the technical term for this, but it’s a legit thing in linguistics – if there’s someone you love/admire/respect and you spend a lot of time with them, you unconsciously start picking up and mirroring a couple aspects of their idiolect (like a dialect but rather than being spoken by a group, it is a single person’s unique linguistic fingerprint), whether that’s gestures, vocabulary, or speech patterns.

So when Ilya says something like, “Where is pen? You have?” then over time Shane’s response might naturally shift towards, “Yes, I have.”

bebx:

quasi-normalcy:

quasi-normalcy:

The fact that you can’t raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldn’t be allowed to exist in the first place.

I’d just like to point out that every single thing that has happened in the 6 years since I created this post has only reinscribed its absolute moral correctness in my mind.

allthingswhumpyandangsty:

Reblog if you love “—” and have never used ChatGPT

ticklefighthockey:

when ilya admits that he hasn’t slept with anyone else since they last hooked up and shane’s like :DDDD really? no haha REALLY???? and ilya’s like oh my godddddddddd don’t look at meeeeeee i fucking like you okay don’t make me fucking SAY itttttt

wtf-is-hockey:

Nobody on earth has ever been wronger than this about anything. Did we watch the same show. Hello. Hellooooo.

academicblorbo:

femaustinpowers:

david hollander is the true winner of the idgaf war. he doesn’t know what youtube is. he doesn’t care about shane’s sponsorships. he understands why shane doesn’t wanna go to wimbledon and is just happy to go with his wife. he sees his son making out with his supposed arch enemy and turns 180 degrees, gets in his car, and doesn’t tell a soul. he pulls out the vodka when his newly out gay son is having a freak out at the dinner table. if shane had even 1% of his idgaf powers he would be unstoppable. unfortunately that boy inherited his mom’s gaf-ability, which is constantly set to 150%.

It’s that McGill swag. You either come out the most insufferable little shit, or the insanity there beats any fucks out of you

allthingswhumpyandangsty:

the solution to ‘seeing fanfiction tropes that bother you and seeing your favorite fictional characters being written in fanfiction in a way that upsets you’ is not ‘make posts insulting fanfic writers, complaining about xyz and saying fanfic writers don’t understand the characters’

the solution to ‘seeing fanfiction tropes that bother you and seeing your favorite fictional characters being written in fanfiction in a way that upsets you’ is ‘write the fics you want to read. yes, you. you write those fics you want to read yourself, instead of complaining about something other people write, as hobbies, for themselves and they’re just kind enough to share them with the world for free’