inaweofdiana:

house-of-crows:

absolxguardian:

hownottolearnalanguage:

I’m kind of glad to hear that everyone does this. Because it means it isn’t colonizer bullshit, it’s what everyone does. It’s just people discovering new things. Everyone goes:

“Oh hey these people have their own style of [language A’s word for thing. Say, what do you call it?”

“Oh it’s [language B’s word for thing].”

“Got it, it’s [language B’s word for thing] variety [language A’s word for thing]”

added to which it is LITERALLY JUST LINGUISTIC SHORTHAND for 

[item] the way [culture] makes it. 

If you don’t want sliced bread, you want bread the way Eastern Indians make it you ask for Roti, not bread. Because Roti is bread THE WAY [EASTERN] INDIANS MAKE IT. Like fuck, it’s not that complicated a concept. 

OF COURSE it’s not colonizer bullshit! It’s just linguistic shorthand!

It’s called reduplication! Repeating a word to denote the prototypical meaning of the word (or for emphasis!) Examples include:

“Do you want potato salad or salad salad?” (Prototypical)

“I’m sorry, we don’t have almond milk, we only have milk milk.” (Prototypical)

kemdraw:

everythingeverywhereallatonce:

everythingeverywhereallatonce:

jesus fucking christ

“i wish i could do something 😔 / i wish the wga had a kickstarter or a gofundme, i would throw money at it” good news! it’s amazing how you can literally go onto the wga strike website or the wgawest linktree from their twitter and find links to support writers and other workers affected by the strike

Groceries for Writers — Humanitas

Humanitas

THE SNACKLIST: Support Entertainment Workers!

I just contributed to THE SNACKLIST to support Entertainment Workers!

actionnetwork.org

Entertainment Community Fund

Actors Fund

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hacash:

txttletale:

i dont agree with a lot of the posturing against people who only watch kid’s cartoons because it feels mean-spirited. like if you want to do that it’s cool and i don’t think you’re committing some moral or intellectual sin–but it is very silly when people who do this forget that they’re watching cartoons for children, not in a ‘you can’t expect children’s media to be good’ way or even a 'the politics of children’s media aren’t worth analyzing way’ but in a 'you have to be realistic about genre expectations’ way. because that’s how you end up with arguments over whether steven universe should have killed people or not

#children’s media often has 'violence is bad’ messaging in it that would be obnoxious in media for adults#this is bcos many little kids do need to be told not to bite their siblings (via @penny-anna​)

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brown-spider:

ingdamnit:

brown-spider:

Hey remember how Noir is an anti-fascist from 1933

You know we don’t know the Noir isn’t black

It’s true that if he was black, he would still use the term “negro” because black ppl themselves preferred that term at the time, but unfortunately-

We do know for a fact that Noir looks like Peter Parker and Peter B. Parker 😔

sauntering-vaguely-downwards:

hallownest:

imo the best way to interpret those “real people don’t do x” writing advice posts is “most people don’t do x, so if a character does x, it should be a distinguishing trait.” human behavior is infinitely varied; for any x, there are real people who do x. we can’t make absolute statements. we can, however, make probabilistic ones.

for example, most people don’t address each other by name in the middle of a casual conversation. if all your characters do that, your dialogue will sound stilted and unnatural. but if just one character does that, then it tells us something about that character.

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kayjayo1227:

*Digs these of the archive for this the last day of pride*

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pepprs:

memewhore:

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