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truths89 · 8 months

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“Awareness without action is like sun with no breeze, it is upon you to facilitate life with ease. And although trees require photosynthesis, they, too, wither if they do not breathe.”

-Zisa Aziza

#poetry #zisa aziza #spirituality #energy #evolution #Awareness #resilience #implementation #Negressofsaturn #truths89 #poets on tumblr #Death is a metaphor #Live is a verb

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somecunttookmyurl · 11 days

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the original badly translated shirt didn't even end up saying 'black lives matter'

it actually said something more like. where you live is made of blue stuff.

#Gorm Chónaí Ábhar #gorm as established means blue EXCEPT in reference to people when it's black #but there is no reference to human beings in that sentence actually #because!#Chónaí is a verb. it's not 'lives' in the noun sense of... a life #it's lives. as in. where you live. your residence. or town.#but the blue dwellings are important right #no!#Ábhar is a noun. it's not matter as in 'is important' it's matter as in like. physical. dense matter #it's still grammatical nonsense but really it's closer to #'places you live in are made of blue stuff'#IN A BLUE HOUSE WITH BLUE WINDOWS

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sugaroto · 7 months

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Made this meme some months ago but forgot about it, yesterday some kids at work told me I looked 30 and thought I was talking about my daughter (I'm 18 and I was talking about my cousin)

#look. when i was 16 i did try to make an unlikable cousin to believe im 32 as a joke #and she did believe it for a few years #but i accidentally mentioned my real age in front of her. so now she knows #but...#why did these girls thought i was 30😭😭😭#kids have no sense of aging do they #they way they said i looked 30 sounded like an achievement #which- it can be- not everyone lives to grow old and i dont want to be one of the people that hide their ages #but i will not be 30 for the next 12 years #... wow 12 #btw for anyone not understanding the plural form joke #plural form is the polite manner #you use plural 'you' and verbs when talking face to face with someone older or someone you should show respect to #(like a boss or a teacher etc)#so- its used for older people #im not that old 😭#they keep -σειςσαςing me😭#sugarenia talks #sugarenia thoughts

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jumpscaregoose · 3 months

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omg guys I can't believe shaman king flowers predicted cozmez in 2014

#shaman king #paradox live #paralive #asakura hao #kanata yatonokami #goose draws #I sorry to the everyone else on the planet seeing this with only half the context #no I'm not go watch [thing you haven't seen]#<- actually you should probably listen to paralive and read shaman king but watch is the verb they have in common #shoutout to paraani for somehow doing what made people mad at BOTH shaman king animes at the SAME TIME. iconic. I love her #paralive mutuals if you think cozmez was insane get ready for hao duplicating his brother's soul from when he was a teenager #to fight his nephew. in the afterlife. because he's god. and his nephew was dead at the time #shaman king is weird

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olivia-anderson-fanfic · 2 months

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Have you never heard of such a thing, darling?

(The Timari Buzzfeed Unsolved AU)

Chapter 5: The Mysterious Case of the Dupain-Cheng Household

Lovingly, if you guys want to leave off on a kinda happy note, I suggest not reading this last one

Adrien smiles at the screen. He looks human, even if his hair is a little tousled and his skin is a little too clear. He probably could be a model, if that was what he wanted.

Of course, that was clearly not what he wanted, as he was currently filming a video for YouTube.

He waves to the camera.

“In this episode, I am going to solve the mystery of whether Tim Drake and Marinette Dupain-Cheng are dating!” he says, before immediately turning the camera around to show the pair of them curled up in bed together. Tim’s face is pressed into the crook of Marinette’s neck, his arms wrapped around her tightly even in his sleep. Marinette is awake, one hand lazily playing with Tim’s hair, the other doomscrolling on her phone. “Sorry, Gothamites, but it looks like you’re not going to get Tim back.”

She looks up at Adrien. Tries to look mildly annoyed, as if that will distract from the red starting to dust its way across her cheeks.

Adrien gives a dead-eyed stare to the camera. “Anyways… yes. They are dating. Save me.”

Marinette sets her phone down to give Adrien what can be assumed to be a rude gesture, but it is censored with a giant demonetization symbol.

Adrien only laughs in response, blowing a kiss her way.

She rolls her eyes, but still responds by blowing him a kiss of her own.

The demon seems to light up at the affection, a bounce in his step when he leaves.

Adrien pulls the camera away, and the video continues to follow him as he walks downstairs and takes a seat on the couch. For just a moment, people start to wonder whether this was a simple mistake and he forgot to cut out this part of the video. Confused viewers touch their screens, wanting to check to see how much longer the video is supposed to be continuing on for.

Only to find that the video is supposed to be over.

The time stamp reads 0:28/0:28.

So, why is there more?

Adrien looks at the camera again, and all traces of joy are gone from his expression. His eyes still gleam, but this is far less amused, far more wicked.

“Aren’t my humans cute?” Adrien asks the audience. It doesn’t feel like a real question, or even just a conversation starter. It sounds like a threat. “Tell me how cute they are in the comments below!”

He rests his head in his hand. His elbow is seemingly propped on thin air, but this doesn’t bother him in the slightest.

“Now that that’s out of the way. I want to talk to all of the government officials and researchers who have decided that they want a piece of me. I’m flattered and all, but…” He smiles wider than usual, showing off a set of wicked fangs that always seemed to be missing in the looks he gives Marinette and Tim. “Stop. You have finite resources, I don’t. And I will continue to dwindle down your numbers until you all leave me alone.”

He laughs, but this time there is a cruel note to it.

“Oh, and just in case you get any funny ideas. Touch my humans and I will start bringing innocents into this. It’s only fair, don’t you think?”

He tilts his head too far to the side, his smile stretching still wider. His mouth is no longer entirely fitting on his face, the corners almost seeming to have escaped it entirely. “And don’t bother trying to warn Tim and Mari in the comments, by the way. They won’t be hurt. You will.”

The viewer’s hands paused where they had been typing out that exact warning to the owners of the channel. For a moment, they dared to think it was a bluff, they began to type out the rest of their sentence.

Then, too-cold arms looped around them from behind, crossing themselves over their chest, a body (if you could call the writhing mass behind them that) pressing against their back. A chin came to rest atop their head.

“Well, you can’t say that I didn’t try to tell you,” it said, its mouth not moving, its voice so deep it buzzed in their ears. Long, gnarled, clawed fingers began to dig into their sides, not even stopped for a second by the fabric of their shirt. They couldn’t even bring themself to scream. “Leave my humans alone.”

Blood splattered.

It paid no mind. Bloodied claws reached over their slumped form, to their keyboard.

It held down backspace.

And then typed a simple message for the channel that it so adored:

What a cute couple :)

#and then everyone lived happily ever after :)#more seriously though. its a demon. this isnt the kind of story that gets a full happy ending #like sure timari is doing fine #because they happened to luck into genuinely being favored by 'adrien' here #but uh... not everyone was as lucky #*casually changes the verb tense in the last scene to intensify the feeling of wrongness and drive home that what happened is inevitable*#maribat #timari #timinette #timmari #have you never heard of such a thing darling?

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verbjectives · 2 months

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🫠🫠🫠 nothing like needing to be up by 3am that makes getting any actual sleep impossible

#anyway its 2:30am. im so fucking tired #havent rolled out of bed yet and i already miss it #cant wait to just. be at the airport. this shuttle trip is gonna be HELL #at least im not the one driving but my god i hope whoever is is better rested than i am #verbs whines for ts #literally the worst thing about not living with/near my parents is that i can't have my dad drive me to the airport anymore

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vvelegrin · 4 months

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ungulates with a proboscis send tweet

#sometimes the good lord shows you many photos of the guy that is the saiga antelope to tell you that they are a very nice animal :)#oh the tapir oh the elephant!#oh! oh!#but how can i forget the honorary ungulate with a proboscis!#that is our gentle friend and brother the elephant seal #first time i saw those dudes in the wild it was INSANE #i love living on this fucking earth with creatures such as these that i can just see #sorry fellas i had a panera lemonade that kills you after talking with a good friend of mine and my eyes are opened #to the various beautiful people places and things #the various lovely nouns and verbs and adjectives and other parts of speech #love looking at them #prattling about the self #yes i am at my writing group and i should be writing. lmao.

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the-sky-queen · 2 months

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Not to be that person, but I love conlangs, do you know anything about creating one or are you just going to wing it?

I asked some advice from a teacher once when I was trying to make two languages for an old story. He directed me to a video with a person who's apparently super knowledgeable in creating languages and I watched through it. It was really helpful, but I haven't watched it in a while. I think in was specifically conlang? But I don't know the specific definition of that word.

So, I'd say my knowledge is basic at best.

If you've got any tips, I'd love to hear them!

#thanks for the ask!#asks #Sky Queen #I remember one of the things the video talked about was having words be related to each other? if that makes sense?#and have them center around the culture?#so for the language i worked on that surrounded a people who lived in basically the arctic i got creative #every word relating to snow or ice or anything translated literally to cold-something #and I played around with the subject-verb-noun agreement in sentences which was really fun!

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optiwashere · 6 months

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I don't know what I was on when I wrote some of these fics for Kinktober. I went from "3,000 words at max" to just doing whatever I wanted. American portion sizes and all that, I guess.

Anyways, here's some role reversal for my lovely ladies.

Written for Kinktober Day 24: Toys (Strap-ons)

Rating: E for Eh, she's got the Spirit if not the Stamina

Category: F/F

Ship: Shadowheart/Trans Fem Tav

Tags and Summary under the break.

Tags: Explicit Sexual Content, Shameless Smut, Trans Female Character, Half-Orc Tav, Role Reversal, Strap-Ons, Pegging, Anal Sex, Cunnilingus, Face-Sitting

Summary:

When Asheera has too much on her mind, too much on her shoulders, it inspires Shadowheart to help her let go for a night.

#bg3 #bg3 fanfiction #shadowheart #shadowheart x tav #asheera x shadowheart #oc: asheera #kinktober #kinktober 2023 #anotheropti's kinktober 2023 #my fic #Shadowheart after a few years of lazy cottage living needs the practice to keep up that stamina #I know a couple folks were looking forward to this one and I hope it turned out like you wanted!#the term “pegging” is a mixed bag w/r/t trans women but for Asheera it's pegging #and Shadowheart definitely pegs Asheera often enough for it to be a Thing #anyways the word “peg” as a verb has lost meaning to me now #I'm endlessly curious about how people find my POV choices for these fics - I pick Shadowheart a lot and IDK how others feel about that?#bc I don't self-insert and just envision the moment/scene and pick based on whichever emotion/experience would be more interesting #p.s. I just looked and the Kinktober series wordcount will wind up at around 87k; why am I like this?

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velaraffricate · 7 months

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phonology for my new conlang! nothing too special really, but it's my first language to get a lateral and alveolo-palatal fricative, and a non-trilled rhotic. and i've never done a three vowel system before either. still need to figure out the allophones. i'm considering adding a very simple tone system, but i'm not so sure about that yet.

#if i add tone. and thats a big if. itd be purely lexical not grammatical. and maybe just a normal high and rising tone #i can tell im gonna have so much fun making a polysynthetic language lol guys i LOVE affixes #like none of my conlangs have auxiliary verbs cus i prefer marking everything with an affix #i dont feel so bad about starting another language so soon since it lives in the same world as my latest one #and this wont become an abandoned wip for sure #ramblings #phonology #unnamed conlang

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shoechoe · 16 days

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Learning languages is so difficult but that moment where you hear someone speak the language you've been studying and it hits you that you can actually understand what they're saying without subtitles makes it all feel worth it I think

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flute-of-pan · 1 year

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Someone should have told Ace that Luffy (the person he loves the most) is very similar to Roger (the man he blames for ruining his life)

I think he would have gone through the five stages of grief, except that instead of landing in “acceptance”, the last step would be “forget about it completely and carry on as if nothing happened”

#spent a solid minute deciding whether to use past or present verbs lmao #present won because he lives in my heart #well it’s mixture of past and present but meh #one piece #flute thoughts #portgas d ace

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coquelicoq · 11 months

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weird how have got seems like it should be a past form of "get" but in american english is actually equivalent to "have" in the present tense:

what have you got there? -> what do you have there? i've got rhythm -> i have rhythm you don't know what you've got till it's gone -> you don't know what you have till it's gone

while got by itself can be either a past form of "get" or a shortened form of have got with the "have" dropped:

i got you, babe -> i've got you -> i have you i got you! -> what you say once you've caught a toddler you were chasing around saying "i'm gonna get you!" to

so got is a form of the verb "get", but when used as a past participle, it's a form of the verb "have". the past participle of "get" is not got but rather gotten (in american english). and got can only be used as a particle in have got; had got is generally not used (again, in american english; i know it works differently in, e.g., some uk dialects). so:

got: simple past of get, or a shortening of have got (present of have)

have got: present of have

have gotten: present perfect of get

*had got

had gotten: past perfect of get

i'm not sure entirely how this came to be, but i wonder if it's because of the get=acquire and have=possess senses; that is, once you acquire something, you now possess it, so to get something in the past is to have it in the present. but it's complicated by the fact that the have in have got is functioning as an auxiliary used to form a compound verb tense, rather than as the "have" that means "possess", even though the full phrase have got is equivalent to the "have" that means "possess".

#syntax #my posts #'got' feels like...the inverse of an auxiliary #you put an auxiliary next to a verb to specify a nuance (in tense or mood or whatever) about that verb #whereas you put an auxiliary next to 'got' & suddenly it's 'got' that's doing something to the auxiliary! uno reverse!#what's this? can it be...? i don't believe it! got is doing it! it's converting the auxiliary to a main verb!#and then even if the auxiliary is like 'hmm. don't like that' and leaves...#'got' continues to stand in for the main verb it turned the auxiliary into. all by itself!!! and in a different tense!!!!#and this is only possible because 1) the word 'have' is both an auxiliary and a regular degular verb #(not the case with all auxiliaries!)#and 2) one of the meanings of the regular degular verb 'have' semantically describes the state of the subject and object #once the subject 'gets' the object. so 'have' essentially corresponds to the future of 'get'#i'm trying to think of other verbs that have that relationship. live and die maybe?#die is the future of live and live is the past of die. if you die that means you once lived. if you have something that means you got it #but it doesn't really work because living isn't a one-time event the way acquiring is. and it's not as directly causal #maybe learn and know? if you use learn in the past tense it pretty much corresponds to know in the present tense #(though you can forget things you learned. but you can also lose things you acquired so i think that still works)#so let's say 'know' is an auxiliary. maybe with a meaning similar to 'can' but for the purposes of this thought experiment #let's say it functions like 'have' or 'be' in that the main verb is a participle rather than an infinitive #so 'i know swum' would essentially mean the same thing as 'i can swim'. i know swum = i learned to swim #but 'i know learned' would just mean 'i know'. and you could also drop the 'know' & just say 'i learned' & it would also mean 'i know'#idk idk idk! much 2 think about!!!!!

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kimjiwoong · 9 months

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I went on a random walk around my neighbourhood and I realized a few minutes in that I was accidentally taking the route I always took with my dog and now I'm literally heartbroken all over again lmao

#how does one go through the grief of losing a pet? i quite simply don't know #i was very young when we got our first dog and very young when she passed away so i think losing lola truly feels like #my first time experiencing something like this #she spent 14 years with me and now it's like my parents leave and im home alone and im actually really alone #how can u spend 14 years with a living creature and then forget her just like that #like i remember the morning she passed i had to go to work??? girl i wanted to cry and cry and cry. not teach the fucking to be verb #god it feels nice to say it tho #miss her soooo much #i never knew u could form bonds like this w animals until her #sweet girl #sigh ANYWAYS #gonna go have some mate outside while there's still some sunlight #rose.txt

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marnz · 3 months

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if I’m real with you I do believe most people are capable of learning most skills at most jobs. However work is not ONLY skills, I think there has to be a wide variety of things at play—training, mentorship, temperament, aptitude, funding, benefits, etc—but skills are how we learn and why experience is so highly valued.

if I remember correctly, in a Marxist school of thought, you as a worker are selling your labor power to your employer for $$$ and your employer is then applying it to labor that needs to be done. you don’t hold the work, you hold the power to do the work. I think given the amount of economic coercion our society operates under, this power is forgotten until strikes happen and remind us.

and I think this framework does account for experience. you get paid more as an experienced worker (in theory) because your employer is paying for all of your past labor power! so we can say labor power accrues over time and is not depleted by being applied to labor. I would not say labor power is a measurement of your CAPACITY to do labor at any given point though, only that it does not work like capital where you “spend” it. Marx probably does a much better job of laying this out but it’s been a long time since I read Capital.

But say you are not a Marxist and the idea of labor power is too much like trying to do physics equations that calculate force. Fair enough! Let us return to skills. “Skills” have, for a long time, been used to devalue certain kinds of work—as if manual labor, customer service, retail, agricultural work, teaching, cleaning, etc, require no complex and difficult to acquire skills your average office worker does not have in their repertoire. all work takes skill! this is a labor slogan. and it does.

however I think there are other skills we must hone in the work place (and in life), and there’s been a lot of talk (anxiety?) recently about skills that are not being taught. tech skills! I also think it takes skill to learn and retain information and schools do not always do a good job of teaching this for whatever reason. resourcefulness.

so if we have established all of this…why say “it’s not hard” and devalue yourself as a worker? just because you can do it DOES NOT mean it’s not hard.

#currently #the union makes us strong #live look at me learning replete is not a verb and also me mentally comparing labor power to physics equations re: force #this is a call out post for myself

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verbjectives · 2 months

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Aw fuck I forgot about spring forward happening. One less hour to get everything I need to done before I have to be out for a 4am pickup to get a shuttle to the airport to catch an 11am flight

#verbs whines for ts #i'll survive. itll just be...unpleasant #i miss living close (within an hour of) a large airport. that made travel so much easier

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