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hey hey hey

Assigning you a song that makes white people go nuts (from experience)

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AWWWWWWWW OH MY GODDDD

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the first sin was a woman who became aware of her own conscious.

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Laios was right - she's so cool!!

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Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

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My baby?....

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Wings anyone?

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Hello there! I run A-Writers-LittleThings, and I have a request! I received a question from a follower, and English is their second language. They’re struggling with trying to find the “right words in their writing, and a problem with details” because “the words won’t come.” In the end, their stories wind up “too short and to the point or too heavy on dialogue.” I was wondering if you had any posts that can help me point them in the right direction?

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Hey, you’ve come to the right place! As an ESL teacher, I’ve had many students with this problem before. It’s really tough to deal with being able to describe something beautifully in your first language, and then struggle in your second. Here are some things I hope your asker can try.

Read. I know this sounds obvious! But if they pick up a book, a good book, and scan it specifically for descriptions, they can start getting a grasp on where to put them and how much to say. Write the best ones down, if need be, and look them over carefully? What to they include? Just as important, what don’t they include?

Learn synonyms. This is the one thing my students struggle with the most; sometimes an idea is better conveyed with a word that almost means the exact same thing, but not quite. For example, beautiful and gorgeous. They convey the same idea, but tend to be used in different ways. On that note, pay attention to connotations! Some words have more meaning than their literal ones, just because of the associations those words have.

Practice. Drink a cup of coffee. Write down that experience. Try to be as descriptive as possible. Don’t forget to include taste and smell, make sure you cover how it made you feel. Practicing description is the only thing that made me get a handle on it, and it can help an ESL writer too.

Check out Wordpainting. This book helped me loads on figuring out what details were important and how to convey them. It’s really fantastic and it has plenty of prompts. If they can get their hands on it, it’ll do wonders. Hope that helps!

(Note: Shoot, I forgot to make this rebloggable. This version might be more helpful!)

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Somehow no one has asked for Gras milk, so I'm here to fix that!

Since Gras is getting sooo agitated from his chest being filled, master decides to tie him up all pretty while they help with this newfound problem. Great idea right? Well not so much for Gras, because it quickly becomes clear that Master intends to utilize his lack of movements by being as sweet and gentle as they can. He can't just walk put of this one, meaning master can be as tender as they want with him. How lovely!

"Agitated" is indeed an accurate description of Gras's state after long enough spent aching and full. No one wants (or dares) to get close to him when he's like this, so until you step in, he's been agonizingly frustrated from the discomfort and not-quite-pain. He's looking forward to finally getting some measure of relief, and the bindings only make the whole situation seem more promising... right up until you're gentle. The sweet, loving touches, easing him into release instead of forcing the process to get it over with quicker, are absolute torture. Any relief he gets from the milk being drained is immediately outweighed by the emotional tension that takes its place, and Gras hates it. He'll curse and struggle and spit insults, putting up an awful fight in the hopes that eventually, you'll get tired of pretending like he deserves such softness.

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Who did you leave behind? 👁️‍🗨️

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TW: Blood, horror-ish a bit

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Can I just say while I don’t love the Shuro hate

it is kiiiiinda funny that the man is the one getting hate for getting between the most popular wlw ship right like can we acknowledge that

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you ever feel like you were born with something rotten inside you and if people get close enough they’re gonna find out

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“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

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i dont think ppl understand that thistle is a good example of the “1000 year old kid” trope. it was used right, it makes such a good allegory to the adultification that happens with brown kids. everyone around him ASSUMED he was an adult and gave him adult responsibilities, and it backfired tremendously. but the thing is people in this fandom are so ship brained it flies past people’s heads so they do shit like ship him with an adult like laios or his brother.

he’s not a *literal* child but there is a reason why kui has deliberately drawn him several years younger than his first appearance lol. even his tallman form looks like a child, whereas short elves like fleki and otta look like adults as tallmen

remember, wrt full-blooded elf aging 80 year olds are equivalent to 16. if thistle was brought into the castle when he was 20, and delgal was 40 by the time the dungeon was made, he’d be 60 at most