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stayawakee · 4 months

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rinconliterario · 10 months

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"Non ti impazientire, non spegnere il fuoco. Le ceneri sanno aspettare."

Michelle Buletti

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jacuzziwrites · 1 year

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And suddenly I'm back to that day. We were watching the sun set. You were falling down the ravine. What were you thinking that day? What were you so afraid to face? Why didn't you ever tell me how you felt?

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hedgehog-moss · 7 months

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One mistake I made a lot when I started learning English was writing both the auxiliary and the main verb in past tense—as in, "Did the rain stopped?" My English teacher had to really drill this grammar point into my head, she was like "the point of 'did' here is to indicate past tense, there's no need for another time marker." Me, genuinely baffled: "Why not?" Teacher: "Think of the 'ed' in 'stopped' as having migrated to the beginning of the sentence and become 'did'. So it's no longer in 'stopped'." Well I was sad to see it go. I pointed out that in French you'd say "The rain (itself) has it stopped?" and 'the rain' feels welcome to stay even though the whole point of the pronoun 'it' should be to replace it in a quicker way. But it would be sad if the noun & its pronoun never got to hang out together so we keep both <3

My teacher had a British look on her face that made my middle-school self wonder if maybe she thought my language wasn't optimally designed, and then she said that in English it would feel clunky to give the same piece of grammatical information twice, and "if you use 'did' then the -ed in 'stopped' doesn't add anything." That just sounded offensive, I mean since when do letters need to add something to a sentence? isn't it enough that they adorn the end of words & frolic with the others in friendship. If it bothers you so much just don't pronounce them. Idk, "did the rain stopped" felt so right to me. In the end my teacher said that "The rain has it stopped?" with the redundant pronoun is the more formal French phrasing anyway, and I was like yeah true we'd rather say "is it that it (itself) has stopped to rain?" and I felt like this really proved my point and I think she felt the same way

#i did the same thing with adjectives... eg my purples socks are warm #i know i know purple doesn't need an -s because socks already has one so it doesn't add any information :(#look i already managed to steel myself and not write ''are warms'' as would feel right #and it's already sad enough to have no way to indicate that socks are girls. give me something #spanish is even worse than english in terms of grammatical emphasis in some ways. it will give you nothing #spanish is like oh my god you don't need a noun NOR pronoun don't act like you can't remember who we were talking about just 1 sentence ago #in spanish the noun and its pronoun get to hang out together on the astral plane they just don't have a lot of work to do

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kidovna · 1 year

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🤝🏻 part 1 (next)

#byler #mike wheeler #will byers #stranger things #artovna #byler fanart #I almost made this my first post of 2023 and then decided it was too sad to begin the new year with lol #Joyce taught a five year old Will how it’s polite to say thank you and Will said thank you at the end of every sentence

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secretmellowblog · 1 year

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The thing is, Jean Valjean’s “nineteen year prison sentence for stealing a loaf of bread” from Les Mis isn’t actually unusual….not even today! I see people talking about it as if it’s strange or unimaginable when it happens every day.

In modern America — often as a result of pointlessly cruel (and racist) habitual offender and mandatory minimum laws— people are routinely sentenced to life in prison for minor crimes like shoplifting or possession of drugs.

The ACLU did a report in 2013 detailing the lives of various people who were sentenced to life in prison without parole for nonviolent property crimes like:

•attempting to cash a stolen check

•a junk-dealer’s possession of stolen junk

metal (10 valves and one elbow pipe)

•possession of stolen wrenches

•siphoning gasoline from a truck

•stealing tools from a tool shed and a welding machine from a yard

•shoplifting three belts from a department store

•shoplifting several digital cameras

•shoplifting two jerseys from an athletic store

• taking a television, circular saw, and a power converter from a vacant house

• breaking into a closed liquor store in the middle of the night

And of course, so so so many people sentenced to life without parole for the possession of a few grams of drugs.

And we could go on and on!

Gregory Taylor was a homeless man in Los Angeles who, in 1997, was sentenced to “25 years to life” for attempting to steal food from a food kitchen. He was released after 13 years. The lawyers helping to release him even cited Les Miserables in their appeal, comparing Taylor’s sentence to Jean Valjean’s.

And there’s another specific bit of social commentary Hugo was making about Valjean’s trial that’s still depressingly relevant. He writes that Valjean was sentenced for the theft of loaf of bread, but also that the court managed to make that sentence stick by bringing up some of his past misdemeanors. For example, Valjean owned a gun and was known to occasionally poach wildlife (presumably for his starving family to eat.) . So the court exaggerates how harmful the bread theft was—he had to smash a windowpane to get the bread, which is basically Violence— then insist the fact that he owns a gun and occasionally poaches is proof that he is habitually and innately violent. Then when Valjean obviously becomes distressed traumatized and furious as a result of his nakedly unjust sentence and begins making desperate (and very unsuccessful/impulsive/ poorly thought through) attempts to escape…. the government indifferently tacks more years onto his sentence, labels him a “dangerous” felon, and insists that its initial read of him as an innately violent person was correct.

And it’s sad how a lot of the real life stories linked earlier are similar to the commentary Hugo wrote in 1863? Someone will commit a nonviolent property crime, and then the court insists that a bunch of other miscellaneous things they’ve done in the past (whether it’s other minor thefts or being addicted to drugs or w/e) are Proof they’re inherently violent and incapable of being around other people.

A small very petty fandom side note: This is also why I dislike all those common jokes you see everywhere along the lines of “lol it’s so unrealistic for the police to want to arrest Valjean over a loaf of bread, there must have been some other reason the police were pursuing him. Because the state would never punish someone that harshly and irrationally for no reason. so maybe javert was just gay haha”. (Ex: this tiktok— please don’t harass the creator or poster though, I don’t think they were intending to mean anything like that and its just a silly common type of joke you see made about Les mis all the time so it’s not unique in any way.) because like.

As much as I don’t think Les Mis is a flawless book or that its political messaging is perfect….the only way that insanely long unjust sentences for minor crimes is “unrealistic” is if you’re operating on the assumption that prisons are here to Keep You Safe by always only punishing bad criminals who do serious crimes. And that’s just, not true at all. Like I get that these are just goofy silly shallow jokes, and I’m not angry or going to harass anyone who makes them. but it feels like there’s an assumption underlying all those goofy jokes that “this is just not how prison works!” “Prisons don’t routinely sentence people to absurd laughably unjust pointless sentences!” “Prisons give people fair sentences for logical reasons!” When like…no

Valjean being relentlessly hounded and tortured for a minor crime in a way that is utterly ridiculous and arbitrary in its cruelty is not actually a plot hole in Les mis. It’s a plot hole in …..society ajsjkdkdkf. And the only way to fix that is to fight for prison abolition or at least reform, and (in America) stand up against the vicious naked cruelty of habitual offender and mandatory minimum laws.

But yeah :(. I hate how Les Mis opens with a prologue saying the novel will be obsolete the moment the social issues it describes have been resolved— but two hundred years later, the book is still more relevant than ever because we’re dealing with so many of the exact same injustices.

#les mis #lm 1.2.6 #Jean Valjean #anyway sometimes lm 1.2.6 makes me sad and sometimes it makes me angry #today I feel both #: ‘(((((((((((((((#but yeah #also again I don’t hate people who make the goofy ‘lol valjeans prison sentence was so unrealistic javert must be gay’ jokes #i get that they’re jokes #and that they’re mostly made by people who like watched Les mis 2012 once #but also #but also but also #:’’’’(#I don’t know the tragedy of valjeans story and the continued relevance of that social commentary Gets to me #Les mis letters #Les mis daily

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buqbite · 1 year

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"The act of understanding someone started off with admitting that you didn't know anything about that person."

- CH. 539

[ID: Blue-toned Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint fanart of Kim Dokja emerging from huge book pages. He is in his Demon King form, his face is shadowed, and he is clutching his throat. Han Sooyoung and Yoo Joonghyuk, much smaller than Dokja, stand on the rippling pages and look up at him. End ID]

(ID by princess-of-purple-rose)

#needed an emo sentence for an emo drawing #I think about those three a lot. a lot. And there's a lot of that thought put in here #orv #omniscient readers viewpoint #kim dokja #orv kdj #yoo joonghyuk #orv yjh #han sooyoung #orv hsy #orv spoilers #yoohankim #yhk #my art #ok so.#Its like. there is so much impossibly deep sadness in this story #At the core of this story. Because kdj is the sole reader of this story #the enemy of the story and in the end it swallows him up and he becomes it. The ramifications of his boundless misery are world ending #And so much of him wants to become it and die alone. It feels like beating the final boss a bit doesnt it #But they won't let him. Theyll travel the snow field n travel the pages and text and the story again and again to reach him #And its so much greater than them and its so lonely and suffocating #But what else is there than to show that you wont give up on loving this person? That they are at the center of it all? The most powerful #yet powerless at the same time #I need to go the fuck to bed

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iamhereinthebg · 4 months

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"If the yorishiro isn't here.. Maybe it's in this one"

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decoyfinalgirl · 6 months

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this is the future that the liberals of godolkin want

#gen v #cate dunlap #marie moreau #jordan li #emma meyer #fanart #where are the gen v fanartists not enough people gave drawn my goatresses cate and marie and its getting sad cmon guys #*HAVE whatever im not retyping that whole sentence #did tumblr take notes from twitter wtf why is the quality ass.#the whole reason i started posting on tumblr was bc it would preserve quality UGHHHH fuck you blue apps

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reverentwormpriest · 19 days

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jet and zuko toxic yaoi is so real idk how i never saw it . when the hot buzzcut burn scar badboy with a past he doesnt talk about wont join your emo band and youre really upset but its all good cuz you saw his uncle firebending so you just decide to go fucking kill him instead

#finn txt #jetko #jet atla #zuko atla #zuko if my first kiss was jet my internalized homophobia would become externalized too dont worry #atla #jet would be like nooo :( pookie is a colonizer fuckkk :( and be sad over it for like 3 seconds #before being like well *unsheathes sword* all these bitches do is lie anyway time to sentence him to death #public execution style #seriously everything abt that scene was bitter gay yearning gone wrong

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stayawakee · 2 months

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rinconliterario · 10 months

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"Mi piace pensare che la poesia sia come la morte. Non può essere spiegata, neanche con il potere delle parole".

Michelle Buletti

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jacuzziwrites · 2 months

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I want to be kind and yet Cruelty seems so alluring. The way she whispers empty promises and sweet nothings into my ears burn, but I've listened to her for far too long to change now.

Despite my sins I hope the flames consume me quickly. I can't do this anymore.

#on regret #regret #on cruelty #cruelty #mistakes #excerpt from a story i'll never finish #sad sentences #sentences from a story I'll never finish #excerpts from a book i'll never write #sad writing #sad poetry #jay's attempts at writing

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moghedien · 2 months

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obsessed with whatever this weird ass romance arc they're in is

#i'm only on episode 8 no spoiler comments pls #Miorine will go from 'we aren't going to get married don't think about it' to screaming that Suletta talks to other people #to 'you have to marry me no choice' within literally the same sentence #and Suletta just this sopping wet creature like 'does that mean we're friends :D'#to which Miorine is like 'NO IT DOESN'T'#she's literally the 'you know other women?' meme and if she could keep Suletta on a leash she would #but also she'd bankrupt the government to prevent Suletta from being sad #the witch from mercury #mobile suit gundam #miorine rembran #suletta mercury

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martyrbat · 8 months

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batman: two-face strikes twice! #1.2

[ID: Batman shown from a low angle as he leaps off a metal grate. He's presenting—his legs spread wide as the focus of the panel is right on his Bat-gooch. He promises, “Harvey! No one's gotten hurt yet! Surrender, and I'll—!” END ID]

#his sentence had to be cut off for the E rating :(( so sad!#if youre delusional enough and have bad eyesight (like me!!!!!!!) you can see the camel toe. the bat toe even (if you will)#c: batman: two-face strikes twice! | i: 1.2 #crypt's panels #batman #batgooch #bruharvey #<- implied...#i love objectifying middle aged fictional men almost as much as comic book artists love objectifying middle aged fictional men <3

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fansids · 2 years

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I realized that absorbing the fourth ring could've come with severe consequences, and I've not known peace since.

#lego monkie kid #monkie kid #lmk #lmk sun wukong #lmk ao lie #long xiaojiao #lmk art #myart #tw death #This goes right next to my Long Xiaojiao is Ao Lie's reincarnation theory #see it's especially ironic cause Ao Lie was sentenced to execution for accidentally starting a fire that destroyed a pearl #anyway I've been burdened with this thought so now you get to be burdened as well.#It's especially sad to me since I personally hc that SWK was Ao Lie's favorite out of the jttw group

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