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emma (she/he). i feel very strongly about many things, such as textile arts, mystery cults, the use of textile arts in mystery cults, the use of mystery cults in textile art, and riverdance (1996).
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i sometimes forget that this is everyone’s first time on earth too. like. this is my first time seeing a butterfly this color. but its that little girl’s first time seeing any butterfly, ever. and i accidentally left a bag of groceries at the store after paying and now i’m cursing under my breath and it’s like. there a thousand other people out there who did that today too. and a thousand more from yesterday. and. like. we’re not actually alone. and we’re not actually failing. at least not in a way that a few billion people haven’t before you
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characters whose philosophy is “if i cannot be wanted, i will be needed and if i cannot be needed, let me be used until there’s nothing left of me.” thank you for everyone’s attention. falls off stage and dies
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And Domhnall, famed even in the west, has passed;
his grey, war-weary son rules now
Governs a land of teeming beasts and rich black soil
Where his vegetables grow;
Ei-eye ei-eye oh
And wandering that place, a thick-tusked boar
With thunder-bearing feet,
Gimlet eye, and ancient tread;
A monstrous rooting sound
Precedes it; echoes, through that shaded realm;
And follows, where that great beast goes;
Ei-eye ei-eye oh
Ah! Domhnall, famed even in the west, has passed!
His grey, war-weary son rules now
O’er fields of grain and forests wild
Where twisted ranks of brambles grow;
Ei-eye ei-eye oh
And writhing in some jewel-like pond a drake
Lifts up its head, and snaps its jaws,
And shakes the earth; and rumbling quake
Precedes and follows as it goes;
Ei-eye ei-eye oh.
And monstrous rooting sounds still ring
Out here, and there, and everywhere;
Past Domhnall’s grave, across rich land
Where yet his willow-bent and stiff-limbed son endures
To reap; to rule; to, of the fates of
beasts and men, dispose;
Ei-eye ei-eye oh
The sun has set. Domhnall has passed.
His grey, war-weary son rules now
A land of sprawling hills; great-walled paddocks
Wherein his silvered cattle low
And groan, to fill the moon-touched air.
—there is no end to them
But where night’s grieving edge bears down
And silent, eerie deepness grows:
Ei-eye ei-eye oh.
In the dusty wind, the sound of boar
fades out.
The drake’s last call rings out, and falls
Away; and so it goes:
Ei-eye ei-eye oh.
The light is lost. Domhnall has passed
His grey, war-weary son rules now
O’er field and drake and boar and cow
(with bludgeon, boar-spear, gun, and plough)
And brambled chair to be his throne:
Ah! Ei-eye ei-eye oh.
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So like i've heard english is 3 languages in a trenchcoat pretending to be one is that true?
it's greatly overexaggerated.
english is structurally a germanic language. it had a large influx of french vocabulary following the norman conquest, and it's picked up a lot of lexical items from other languages too, sometimes with their original morphology still attached (like pluralizing "addendum" as "addenda" the latin way, rather than english +(e)s plural).
so it's more like one language that really likes to accessorize and maybe kept the fancy suit that old norman left at its house one time.
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I don’t want to be mean but for an awful lot of people on social media I think writing you’re a “community organizer” “activist” (without further explanation of what kind/which organizations) or “cultural worker” as defining identity/job is kind of like the modern leftist version of saying out loud that you’re good in bed
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Being as Dracula Daily is starting up again in about three days, I think this is a perfect opportunity, as we follow along this year, to play the PG-13 game.
For the unfamiliar, the PG-13 game is as follows: you are allowed to insert one and only one instance of the word "fuck" into the text as written. For maximum impact, where do you put it?
#oh that's a hard one#i do have to agree with the person in the replies who said ''crawling down the walls like a fucking lizard''#jonathan should definitely get it wherever it goes
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Tips for Spotting Bad & Bullshit History
There's no way to make sure you never fall for historical misinformation, and I'm not expecting anyone to fact-check every detail of everything they read unless they're getting paid for it. But you can make an effort to avoid the Worst Takes.
Ask yourself – if I wanted to verify this, where would I start? If you look at a statement and can’t actually find any facts to check, then you already know it’s bullshit.
Read the Wikipedia article on weasel words. Some experts say it’s very helpful!
Look for specifics: a who, a what, a where, a when. If one of those is missing or very broad, that’s a red flag. Statements need to be rooted in a time and a place. “People in the past have always…” Nope.
Vague is bad. Unless you’re looking at a deliberate large-scale overview that’s being broad and generalizing on purpose, you want names and dates and places and primary sources, pictures and quotes and examples.
But an example is not a trend. There’s a difference between what’s possible and what’s common, and history is full of exceptions and outliers. Extremely unusual people and events are overrepresented in the historical record (because nobody writes down what’s normal,) and they can tell us a lot about history, but they’re not directly representative of their place or time. Imagine a historian trying to reconstruct the 21st century based solely on Kiwifarm.
If a historian is competent or even just trying, you won’t have to go digging for sources, they will be shoved right into your face. Not out of mere academic rigor, but because a person who found them, either first- or second hand, is proud to have found them. People who have proof want to show you the proof, people who figured something out will want to show you their work, walk you through it. If they don’t, ask yourself – how do you know this? And - why won’t you tell me how you know this?
Someone might have a legit historical source, and then try to stretch it to cover times and places where it no longer applies. What’s true of 12th century England may not be true of 14th century Venice, even though both are “Medieval Europe,” so watch for those stretches.
Anecdotes are fine, they reveal a lot about people’s values and perceptions, pro historians often use them for context, but what anecdotes are not is factual truth. Notice when someone is feeding you cute anecdotes.
If someone attributes a large-scale social or cultural transformation to a single person or event, yeah that’s usually bullshit. Chances are, that person was part of a larger trend, a small link in a long chain. You can still appreciate their contribution, just put it in context!
Second-guess anyone who acts like they possess secret knowledge that the Media or Academia (or somebody) is hiding, they’re usually bullshit. Remember, if something has a Wikipedia article, it’s not actually a dark secret.
Remember that if it happened in the past sixty years, tons of people will still remember it, and you can literally just go and ask them.
Learn to recognise a smear tactic. Did this person really fuck dogs, or was their posthumous biography written by their worst enemy? Should we take it at face value? Also learn to recognise overt propaganda in the opposite direction: is the king that great or does he have a court historian on retainer? Remember that people sometimes *lie* in their autobiographies.
It’s fine to speculate about what “could” or “might” have happened, professional historians also fill the gaps in the sources with the occasional educated guess. But failing to differentiate clearly between fact and speculation is a huge mistake.
Do not seek validation in history. It's not there. I’m not saying you should approach history in an impersonal, apolitical way, of course not. Our present situation influences our interpretation of history, and it should. What I’m saying is, try not to hang too much of your individual or group identity on a historical narrative. Especially if it’s bullshit. You’re worthy and human because you’re worthy and human today, not because of the deeds and misdeeds of people in the past.
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art is about spending an embarrassing amount of time trying to get something to look right giving up and then moving on to do it slightly better next time. at some point if you're an exhibitionist you then post it for internet strangers to look at.
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the whole guilt-tripping language in posts about important topics paired with how I'm still getting bitches in my notes talking about why it's actually good to tell "bad" people to kill themselves continues to prove to me that a lot of people have absolutely no concept of social justice or activism outside of assuming the worst of and then viciously attacking strangers on the internet
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i don't smoke for the obvious reasons of not wanting to develop an addiction to nicotine but god do i so often feel the emotion 'i need a cigarette'.
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Can't stop thinking about how Jimmy Akin accelerated his entrance into the Church so that he and his wife could receive Communion together at least once before she died of cancer.
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The linguistics world feels so delightfully small sometimes. I recognise 80% of researcher names I come across now and it always makes me laugh
it's all fun and games until you're trying to track down sources but the source appears to be "an email chain from the 90s that led to 5 different publications"
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Just to clarify - I do not believe that chat is a pronoun, but that has got me thinking, what even defines a pronoun? At which point does a noun end and a pronoun begin?
just. glance through this chapter and please god maybe people will begin to understand why i cannot answer this in a simple and punchy post.
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#Ides of Iulius Ides of Kulius Ides of Lulius Ides of Mulius Ides of Nulius Ides of Oulius Ides of Pulius Ides of Qulius Ides of Rulius Ide
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