Multilingual characters calling their lover pet names in their mother tongue is one of my favorite things.
#multilingual characters switching to their native language when they get too aroused / emotional / angry (via muepin)
Multilingual characters slipping into their mother tongue when they drink or are to tired/lazy to bother with the mental acrobatics of speaking the common tongue
Growing up, my mom and her siblings would make banana bread every week.
Literally every week since the first one of them learned how to make it, they started making banana bread- lo and behold though, they liked it with walnuts and they all knew their dad hated walnuts.
So they made a special loaf of banana bread just for him every week, just for him to eat. Nobody else was allowed to eat it because that was his banana bread, baked especially for him.
So anyways, they did this once a week from middle school up until every last one of them moved out of the house (and considering there was at least 10 years difference from the oldest to the youngest, this was quite some time). So that’s like… 16 years of weekly banana bread. And he always finished it. He, without fail, ate the whole loaf of bread by himself.
That’s approximately 835 loaves of banana bread.
Now
Skip ahead a few years…
and they’re all visiting and baking banana bread and they start making a dad’s bread and their mom comes in, “I don’t think he can handle eating one more slice of banana bread!”
“What are you talking about? He loves banana bread! He had it all the time!”
This is when my grandma, their mom, broke the news that my grandfather loathed banana bread with every fiber of his being. He just adored that his kids loved him enough to make him a special loaf of banana bread every week (and he didn’t have the heart to tell them that he couldn’t stand banana bread) and he was incredibly, utterly upset that my grandma told the kids his big secret.
My grandfather was a loving, patient, gentle man who absolutely hated banana bread but loved his kids so much more and I just wanted to share that with you guys. I think this story is just about the perfect example of the kind of person he was.
I just told my mom this had 1000 notes on it and let me tell you what
(Be sure to change the post type from link to text post when you reblog, if that’s what you want to do)
This method is best suited for textbook or article notes, and is a
version of revised notes. It is also well suited for books you plan on
returning to the bookstore or books you have rented, as it does not
involve writing directly in the book itself.
First, you’ll need to
find a notebook, and the pens you like the best. My favorite notebooks
to work with for note-taking, especially for my “revised” notes, are the
Moleskine, hard or soft cover, in size extra large. For this specific
class (Intro to Gender and Women’s Studies), I decided that lined pages
would suit my needs better. For my math, engineering, and science
classes, I usually opt for squared paper, as I draw in lots of diagrams
and graphs.
My favorite pens ever are Staedtler Triplus
Fineliners, so even though they show through the pages a little bit, I
still choose to use them. I just love the way they write. I usually
write out my notes themselves with a Pilot G2 05 with black ink, as it
writes with a finer line and doesn’t bleed through quite as much.
I usually try to set up my notebooks about a week or so before class starts, that way it’s ready to go on my first day of class.
You’ll
want to start off by setting up your notebook. On my first page, I put
my course code for my university, as well as the course title.
Next,
and this is perfectly optional (I just like the way it makes the book
look, especially at the end of the semester), I include some sort of
related quote to the course. For my engineering courses (which are
related to my major), I put a different quote at the beginning of each
section. But as this is a two-month long course during the summer, I
opted for one quote by Mohadesa Najumi at the beginning of my book.
Next
I set up my table of contents and include a page with basic course
information. As this course is all online, my course information just
included the start and end dates of the course, what time content is
posted and on what day, and the name of my professor. For my usual
courses, I will include the days of the week the class meets on and
where, TA names and contact info, as well as posted office hours for my
professors and TAs and tutoring hours either in the library or in the
College of Engineering.
Next is one of the things I’m most proud of.
While
I religiously use my Erin Condren planner to map out my days, weeks,
and months, I have found throughout my college experience that including
monthly views for the months my class ranges has been helpful. This
way, there’s no sifting through the multiple colors I have in my
planner, and everything related to that class is in the same notebook.
On
this calendar I include start dates of the class, the end date, the
dates of exams or quizzes, assignment deadlines, office hours, etc.
For
this course, as I just started a few days ago, I don’t have a lot of
dates or information, so my calendars are still very empty.
Next
up I go to my weekly overview. At the beginning of each week, I set up a
weekly layout, and I include a list of assignments, tests, quizzes,
tasks, projects, etc that need my attention throughout the week, and I
place the days I plan on doing them or the days they need turned in onto
the weekly layout.
Now you’re finally ready to get into taking the notes.
Gather your book, some sticky notes, and your favorite pen or pencil.
I
color code my stickies so that the “revision” process later goes a bit
smoother. In this case, I’m using blue to denote something interesting,
intriguing, or thought provoking, greenish-yellow to represent the facts
or important concepts, and pink for important vocabulary words and
their definitions.
Read the selection once.
As
you read along the second time, write notes on your stickies, and place
them in a place of relevance directly on the page in the book. Just
make sure you don’t cover up anything you need to keep reading.
Now,
once you’ve read all the material in questions (you can choose to break
it up however you want, but since Chapter 1 was assigned for the week,
I’ve elected to break it into chapters), carefully remove your stickies
one by one and lay them out on a flat surface. This is when having a
separate color for vocab can be helpful, as I sometimes put all of my
vocab at the beginning or end of a section, especially if the section of
reading was particularly large.
Organize your stickies in an
order that makes sense to you, and use this order as your basis for
transferring those notes into your notebook. The order you choose can
just be lumping them under similar headings. Some classes even lend
themselves to a nice chronological order. Whatever you choose, just make
sure it’s something that will make sense to you when you come back to
it in the end.
Okay so up there I wasn’t following my own advice, I just thought I would include the picture because my handwriting looks nice…
Now organize the stickies!
Now you just
start writing everything from the stickies into your notebook. I like to
take each category or subgroup and put them in the book on the facing
page, then put them back in my textbook as I finish with each post it.
Moving on to the next category.
Before you know it, you’ve written all of your stickies into your notebooks.
Now
you’re revved up and ready to go. You can either keep going and make a
note summary page (which I’ll show you next week), or you can leave it.
These will also be helpful when reviewing for tests and quizzes. You can
highlight or underline, or use even more stickies (which is what I usually do) as you review.
Well, that’s all I have for you right now. Happy studying!
THIS WAS LIKE THE FIRST SONG I HAD EVER HEARD ON THE INTERNET
just the breath at the start of the song and i was singing along already fuck i miss this song
This is actually a really great song ok
THE NOSTALGIA OF THE 00’S
how do i still remember every single word of this song
OMFG THIS TEACHER WOULD ALWAYS PLAY THIS IN ASSEMBLIES AND LITTLE SHY 11 YEAR OLD ME WOULD SING THIS IN THE LOOS AND SHIT
Every youtube amv I’ve ever seen of my otps is suddenly flashing before my eyes
OH MY GOD OTHER PEOPLE LIKE THIS SONG TOO THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE I CAN’T EVEN TELL YOU THAT IS LIKE TEN SOLID YEARS OF SHAME WASHED AWAY IN AN INSTANT GOD BLESS YOU ALL. MAY YOU ALL FIND TRUE LOVE AND/OR BROSHIP ACCORDING TO YOUR PREFERENCE AND MAY YOUR STUDENT LOANS BE LIGHT AND MAY YOU GET EMPLOYED AT A JOB THAT PAYS BETTER THAN MINIMUM WAGE AND MAY YOU ALWAYS HAVE YOUR MOST BELOVED MUSIC ON HAND THE MOMENT YOU NEED IT GOOD NIGHT.
thank you. Literally just thank you for the work that you do because I know sometimes minimum wage doesn’t always pay the bills and isn’t always enough and is certainly way less than you deserve. I’m sorry that you’re on your feet for hours at a time and you have to deal with snotty customers and annoying bosses and people who look down on you because you work in a McDonalds or Taco Bell or wherever. I’m sorry if you’re an adult and people make you feel bad for working at such places at your age but I’m so proud of you for having a job and working so hard.
I promise I will never make you feel bad for getting my order wrong or not giving me the right change or forgetting to put something in my bag. I promise not to snap at you, look at you badly, or get angry if you’re not moving at the extremely fast pace everyone expects you to. I will have a smile on my face when I talk to you and I will appreciate everything you do for the customers. Because even if people don’t realize it, you guys work so fucking hard.
Also thank you to everyone else who works a similar job because I know there are so many of you. I love you.
if anyone ever tells you that english isn’t ridiculous remember that the reason why we have a silent b in debt is because a group of guys got together to standardise english spelling and got to the word debt, which at the time was primarily spelled either ‘dett’ or ‘det’. so they basically went:
‘everyone speaks latin, right? so let’s put a silent b in debt. like debitum, which is latin for debt. problem solved.’
also the reason why there is a h in ghost is because when the printing press first came to england the only people trained to operate it were flemmish speaking, and they put a h after g because that’s what you do in flemmish. they put shit like ghirl and ghoose, but the only reason why ghost stuck is because people saw ‘the holy ghost’ in the bible and were like ‘well, that MUST be right’.
so yeah english is a really stupid language with some of the most ridiculous spelling
white dude in this horror movie : *translates old arabic text* *somehow it rhymes perfectly in english*
Now I really wanna see a horrible faltering translation from one of these movies, like “Whomsoever enters this room, they shall… well, this word is like… literally it means ‘unbecome,’ but it was used as a euphemism for death, pooping, and—wait, when was this carved? was it 15th century? Cuz it was a euphemism for sex too in the 15th century. This is either a cursed crypt, a bathroom, or a royal bedroom. Who wants to roll the dice?”
“You guys, I’ve gotta be honest, okay? This thing’s written in some kind of weird localized dialect, and I’ve only ever studied the standard form of the language. I mean, this part right here…I can’t even tell if it’s some kind of error, or an obscure slang phrase…whatever it is, I have no idea what the fuck it means.”
‘this is written in ancient sumerian. it’s about… uh… well that word is… uh. okay this is either a poem about farming, or straight-up a nasty sex guide. it might be both. i want a shower.’
“okay see the thing is in one dialect this word is the name of a terrifying Demon but in a completely different language from the same area that has the same writing system and gave a lot of loan words to the first, it means ‘horse’ - and the context is really not helping”
“You know what? This thing is bound in human skin and the walls are bleeding let’s just leave.”
I just went to deathtocapslock and I'm reading sistermagpie's ridic reread and I'm boggling at this. "Lupin continues to impress me with how smoothly he polishes up the story dishonestly on the fly. (Seriously, I love Lupin.)... he adds that James pulled Snape back from the tunnel at “great risk to his own life.” Except James is an animagus, as we’ve already learned, and werewolves are only dangerous to people." Is she suggesting that James saved Snape as an Animagus? Wow. The illogic is scary.
If Snape had seen James transform into a stag to save him, I find it very difficult to believe that he wouldn’t have told anyone. He’d certainly have told Dumbledore at the very least. And if Dumbledore had known that James was an Animagus prior to the end of POA (I’m assuming that he had a conversation with Sirius while Harry was unconscious), people would have been a lot more careful come POA to keep Sirius out of Hogwarts, because it was known that James and Sirius were inseperable (though many would still not think to include Peter) and that Sirius was likely one as well. And since we know from POA itself that Snape will drop hints and try to find ways to tell people something about someone he dislikes even if he’s been told to keep that a secret, I find it unlikely that Snape would have never dropped any stag hints to Harry in those first three years if he’d known and Harry didn’t.
The simple fact of the matter is that a certain segment of Snape fans will shit relentlessly on James, jeering at the idea that he matured and changed from his bad teen behaviour and stopped being a bully, preferring to think that Lily was just too gullible and stupid to know James’ true self (or else selfish enough to not care because he’s rich). They sneer at the idea that James spent three years working his ass off to become an Animagus for Remus, because somehow that counts as a selfish act, not a brave compassionate one. They discount that he saved the life of someone he hated because oh, he wasn’t really putting himself at risk, and anyway he didn’t do it for the sake of the person he hated (who he also bullied, did we mention that?), he did it for the sake of someone he liked so it just doesn’t count. And any character who says anything that contradicts that view of James (no matter how well they knew James and the sort of things he’d be likely to do) must be ‘polishing up the story dishonestly on the fly’.
And okay, fine, they’re free to say so. But then they seem really confused and even genuinely hurt as to why people apply those exact arguments to Snape. They’re bewildered that anyone would even dream of pointing out that Snape’s adult behaviour involved bullying others and that there’s not much to admire there, because to some of them Snape wasn’t a bully at all. They can’t get why people aren’t swooning over Snape risking his life to save Harry for Lily’s sake (which suddenly becomes admirable and romantic as fuck) by… sitting on his bum and staring at Harry and his broomstick really really hard while mumbling under his breath, because gosh, such a risk he was taking! His clothes caught on fire, doncha know? Also, Hermione is bad for daring to set said fire in an attempt to save Harry’s life, because she should have somehow assumed that Snape was trying to save the life of a kid he hated and bullied (and continued to bully afterwards). But Snape is totally kosher in thinking that James was in on the attempt to get him killed, because he’d been bullying Snape and continued to do so afterwards.
Most folks know that Fox News is not reliable despite, somehow, being a genuine news broadcaster but I’m always seeing The Daily Mail articles being passed around so keep in mind that TDM is just as bad as Fox News.
When it comes to science news try to avoid general news, they usually either get it completely wrong or are very misleading. Try to find the journal it was originally published in or, at least, somewhere with the abstract. Science Direct, the U.S. National Library of Medicine, and the Wiley Online Library are good databases.
When you see social media screencaps make sure a link is included, if there’s no link try to find the source for yourself and if you can’t find it than don’t put any stock in it. It’s incredibly easy to falsify facebook, twitter, and even tumblr posts.
I’ll admit to being occasionally frustrated with Tumblr’s penchant for taking a myth and running with it. But to be fair, this is hardly exclusive to this website.
All of these tips are sound, I just want to add a few more:
Donation drives for bloggers in need: check to see if (1) the original blog post still exists, it might have been deleted because the OP voluntarily put an end to the drive, (2) the original blog still exists, (3) the original blog is just a couple days old, in which case err on the side of caution and either move along or investigate a little more (even if they give a reason)
Missing person posts: check to see if
the OP gives details such where and when was the person last seen,
what clothes they were/might be wearing, whether they have access to
a car, etc. Contact info for their relatives or Amber Alert
details/police contact info is always a good sign that it is a legit
cry for help. Also check to see if the original post/blog still
exists, the person may already have been found or it may be a fake
post. Double-checking on Google to see if it’s a legit or recent
disappearance may also help Please remember that SOMETIMES ABUSERS
TRACK DOWN THEIR VICTIMS RESORTING TO FAKE MISSING PERSONS POSTS and
that there are people with legitimate reasons to want to not be
found!!!!
Lifehacks: Snopes it before you reblog
– most of them are bullshit or ineffectual. Still, reblogging bogus
lifehacks is not as serious as reblogging fake missing persons posts. Some lifehacks, however, are famously illegal or harmful to a person’s health (eg Oreo mascara)
Rape prevention tips – DO NOT REBLOG.
These are 99% of the time just CLICKBAITING SCARE TACTICS who won’t
save ANYONE from harm and will only result in contributing to a
culture of fear, chiefly among women.
Crime reporting signal boosts – this
includes: letters from a company that is purportedly a front for a
human trafficking operation, needles infected with HIV scattered
around public places, and other chainletter fare. These are most
often than not bogus. In any case, Snopes is your best friend. Check
to see if they give a date or a place for said crimes being committed
– if they don’t, it’s the first sign it might be fake.
Call-out posts with Twitter/Facebook
screengrabs – check to see if they provide a link to said postings.
If not, it might just mean that the person deleted them but BE AWARE
THAT INTERNET TROLLS OFTEN DOCTOR SCREENGRABS to make it look like
other people (usually women) have said hateful things that they NEVER
SAID. They do this to try and get them attacked by social
justice-conscious people.
Please remember that for every bogus
missing persons post, fake donation drive and poorly fundamented
problematic screengrab you reblog, you’re making it a little hard for
people who are actually in need to get the visibility and help that
they need. I don’t blame you for being trusting, but it would be in
everybody’s best interests to exercise some caution in what you
signal boost. <3
ED: someone mentioned this and it’s very much worth adding: also please be warned that the internet is full of assholes, and sometimes if you ask for assistance (especially technical assistance) in some less reputable forums and internet communities you might get people intentionally feeding you bad info that will damage your property, because they’re dickheads who get off on tricking gullible people into breaking their own stuff. Do NOT immerse your iPhone in water or put it in the microwave to “charge” it!!!!
Let’s play a game. Type the following words into your tags box, then post the first automatic tag that comes up. you, also, what, when, why, how, look, because, never
Normal show:
“Save the cheerleader… save the world”
Sense8:
“Save the genius transgender hacktivist girl who has the hottest girlfriend on the show… save the world.”
Normal Show:
Gay Boyfriend: “If you don’t get that skanky champagne soaked slut outta here I’m gonna throw a BITCH FIT! ”
Sense8:
Gay boyfriend: “…Eh, you know I never say no to bubbly.”
Normal Show:
Characters that suck.
Sense8:
SUN.
Normal Show:
*stereotypical portrayal of an Indian father who puts traditions or religion above the happiness of his children*
Sense8:
*An Indian father who cares about nothing but his daughter’s happiness*
*Another Indian father who finds no value in tradition or religion*
Normal show:
Gay guys.
Sense8:
GAY GUYS FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS.
No offense but “fifteen” is one of Taylor Swift’s most important songs bc it addressed what it’s actually like to be a 15-year-old girl and looking back on it from an older perspective without being condescending and lets young girls know we’ve all been there and we’ve all survived and it makes me mad that the media ever singled out the line “Abigail gave everything she had to a boy who changed his mind” as a bad example for young girls because not once did they ever address that line in context and how at 15 getting your heart broken literally does feel like the end of the world and how the line literally right before it was “back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday but I realized some bigger dreams of mine” and I know the media has become a lot nicer towards Taylor but I’m still pissed about all those years they held that one line in fifteen against her and tbh I trust no one bc of it.
My choir director loved to tell this story where she was in Italy singing in an Italian opera, and totally forgot the words, knowing that a horribly mean critic was watching. She just spewed a bunch of random Italian, and at one point ordered a pizza in Italian. The critic commented on her beautiful diction and connection to the text.
That is the most amazing diction substitution I’ve ever heard.
Still, [Junot] Diaz admits that writing in a woman’s voice comes with certain risks. “The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck,” he told me. “The baseline is it takes so long for you to work those atrophied muscles—for you to get on parity with what women’s representations of men are. For me, I always want to do better. I wish I had another 10 years to work those muscles so that I can write better women characters. I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.”
For one of the most lauded writers of his generation to say he needs another decade of practice to write better women is no small thing. But Diaz told me that he’s often appalled by the portrayals of women in celebrated novels.
“I know from my long experience of reading,” he said, “that the women characters that dudes [write] make no fucking sense for the most part. Not only do they make no sense, they’re introduced just for sexual function.”
He gave a high-profile example, though he wouldn’t name names.
“There’s a book that came out recently from a writer I admire enormously. A woman character gets introduced. I said, ‘I promise you, this girl is just here to throw herself at the dude, even though the dude has done nothing, nothing, to merit or warrant a woman throwing herself at him.’ And lo and behold. This brilliant young American writer, that everybody sort of considers the god of American writing, turns around and does exactly that. When I asked my female friends, we all had a little gathering, and I was chatting. I was like, ‘Have you heard of a woman doing this?’ They’re like, ‘Are you fucking nuts?’”
On the other hand, Diaz said, “I think the average woman writes men just exceptionally well.” He cited Anne Enright, Maile Meloy, and Jesmyn Ward as examples of younger writers who write great male characters—and pointed to two of his idols, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison, as timeless masters. But he also detects an across-the-board improvement even in woman-penned books that are less than high-brow, especially in Young Adult fiction. “Look how well the boys are rendered in The Hunger Games,” he said.
It’s come to my attention that I have not yet made a post
about Farmer’s Market Hot™.
Farmer’s Market Hot is a specific kind of aesthetic that is
the result of me watching Orphan’s Black and trying to describe the hotness of
Cal to others.
See my point?
Farmer’s Market Hot is a wholesome kind of hot. Rugged but approachable.
It’s not the kind of hot where you immediately go, “Oh my god they’re so
perfect, I want to take them home and photograph them/tear their clothes off.” That’s
for later.
This is the kind of hot for people who would visit the farmer’s
market to buy some organic cheeses on their way to pick up their kids from
their Creativity Through Music class. It’s the look that says “I’m here to
support our local beekeepers.” You see them and it makes you want to settle down.
You want to do your taxes with them, raise dogs together.
It’s borderline hipster without the elitism and irony,
borderline country without the sound of Tim McGraw. If they’re white, racist
shit like dreads automatically disqualifies them.
Guys will most likely be stubbly, or bearded, but not to the
point of lumberjack. Think Chris Evans in between Marvel movies.
Pictured: a man who wants to buy artisan bread from a stall
and be polite to the merchants.
Imagine a woman with a sunflower tattoo, wearing a high-low
dress and clunky dependable boots, holding a dog’s leash while she waits at the
knife sharpening booth. Imagine a man wearing flannel and holding a baby while
talking about ethical alternatives to quinoa.
okay, listen…corn flakes are the best cereal b/c they’re driven by some mysterious higher power. like, you eat some and they taste like cardboard and you’re appalled, but the box is right there so you have a few more and maybe it’s not that bad? and then you’re zoned out sort of, watching netflix or reading a book or whatever, and then you realize they’re just the right amount of sweet without being overpowering and that they’re probably the best damn thing you’ve ever put in your mouth, but then you stop eating them for like ten seconds, you gotta go to the bathroom or something, and by the time you come back you have to start the process all over again. corn flakes make you work for it, but that’s part of their charm
I, your Friendly Neighborhood Librarian absolve you from all literary sins and encourage you to go and read what you like on the platform of your choosing.
Never feel guilty for reading fan fic at 3am. Everything is fanfic in the end. From fanfic you were made, to fanfic you shall return.
Read that which has been panned by literary snobs. Read novels churned out by the dozen by authors with a dozen pseudonyms.
Read your US and People. Flip through Popular Science just for the gadgets section. Read articles about the perfect chocolate chip cookie.
Read books outside your comfort zone. Don’t finish them if you don’t want. It’s the book’s fault, not yours.
Read in your comfort zone. Read a YA and romance and science if and fantasy.
Skip over the boring bits. Read it because you heard about it from Oprah or because everyone else is reading it.
Giggle yourself silly at something so poorly written and full of author wish fulfillment that you just can’t stop reading it.
Don’t listen to the keepers of taste and culture. Their reward comes every time they pat themselves on the back for their superior taste.
Don’t listen to the academics that bemoan the downfall of society and learning. They have been doing that since Socrates’ time.
Don’t listen to the tv presenters who insist you are not cultured if you haven’t read from this list of books.
Audio books count as reading. Ebooks count as reading. Fanfic of questionable quality counts as reading. Rereading books for the third time counts as reading. Reading to your child counts as reading. Reading from the back of the cereal box (and doing the puzzle) counts as reading.
TL;DR: read what you want. Don’t be ashamed. Never let someone try to make you feel bad for how or what you read and enjoy. Tell them that I, your Friendly Neighborhood Librarian have absolved you from your guilt and have given you special blessings. Go forth and read, my child.
