#ITS THE SAME ADJECTIVE

[hedgehog-moss]

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

[theallstore]

my beautiful princess with a disorder <333

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lyrics on white background ['the horror and the wild', album by the amazing devil']

lyrics on light grey background ['jenny from thebes', album by the mountain goats]

lyrics on dark grey background ['the moon will sing', song by the crane wives, alt title the most shadowheart song ever and what inspired this whole thing]

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background image of sunrise [lenstravelier on unsplash]

all other images are either screenshots from in game or taken from the bg3 wiki! https://bg3.wiki/ because boo hiss fandom.com always and forever

[marchsage]

i read this really good fic, it's a good day (sweet like honey), and dropped everything to draw something for it <:3

[olivers-cocoapuffs]

“plus sized” banging my head against the wall.

[youssefguedira]

wrote my second ever paragraph in arabic today and now i have a headache

[adhdo5]

Hello Glycerin Adhdo5 please share your Spore lore. I am intriqued by the spore lore. Hi.

OK so the first thing you gotta know is that all three of these are the daughters of the Unreaper, the save I had that I have apparently completely lost in the reset and had never published to Sporepedia. I am still pondering what this means diegetically for all of them but it's relevant

The Unreaper were my first experiment into the Murder Herbivore – they were a Harmony empire but a completely unearned one. They also had the traits of strangely oriented arms, deer antlers, and their starfarer foremost the Omnipotent had a strong penchant for throwing herself repeatedly into war, forgoing assembling a fleet and abusing her respawn mechanic to one-man terrorize worlds

kulupu pi tonsi sin li kulupu nasa li suli nanpa wan. ona li kama tan akesi wan taso ala, tan akesi tu a – soweli li lon li wile moku e akesi Senta la, akesi ni li poka e akesi Kakuta pi utala wawa, la akesi tu ni li kama alasa li kama tomo lon poka. ona li kama nasin e kulupu lon poka. akesi utala li tan musi – akesi kasi li tan mi. ona tu li ante sijelo, taso ona li kulupu wan, li jan sama. nasin pi kule tu wan la kulupu ni li lon nasin pi kule suwi taso – ona kulupu la lon ale li suli. ona li wile e pona suli. taso . nasin ale pi musi Spore la ni li ken ala lon ala, anu seme: nasin kulupu li weka ala a e utala.

kin, jan pi tawa mun li ijo ante kin a. kulupu lili li lawa e ilo mun. kulupu ona li nasa ala tawa nasin pi tonsi sin – jan pi sijelo Senta en jan pi sijelo Kakuta li lon. ona ale li tan wawa, li lon nasin wawa. wile mani en pilin wawa en wile pi pilin suli li lawa e pilin pi kulupu ni lon tenpo mute. wile jaki ni li kama e ike e moli. taso, pilin wawa ona kin li tan nasin suli. tenpo la ona li lukin e kulupu wan sin lon mun ante li wile wawa e ona. taso, kulupu ni li kama suli la, wile ona li utala. ona li wile e weka ale pi kulupu ante wan. lon la, pali ni li sin ale ala tawa mun ike ni. taso, tan utala li sin. ni li tan ala wile ona, li tan ala wile utala, li tan wile mani taso. ona li pini e pali la pilin wawa li lon tenpo lili taso li weka li kama e sona: ni li ike suli. ona en kulupu ona li lukin e ken ona e tan pi pali ona e sona ona li kama pilin wawa e ike pi pali ni, e ike pi pali pini sama. la kulupu mun li kama toki wawa e ni: tenpo kama ala la, ona li utala. (Translation under cut)

The Harp is a Zealot empire of antlered, winged pack hunters. The Harpy have gone red-red-green-green and as a species have had a long, long history of being fucking annoying. The mechanics of their pack dynamics are not well understood and the Harp is not forthcoming, but those packs/flocks/swarms have uncanny capability to coordinate (especially for the sake of mobbing some motherfucker), and no individual Harpy has been documented very extensively – their recording of history is deeply collectivist, and individual Harpy do not usually have names or stable epithets. They are somewhat oddballs among the Way of Spode – they lack many of the hardliner tendencies and have only erratically and mostly superficially adopted the Galactic standard practices of Spode, even having different practices around prosletyzation, as enthusiastic as they are about it – the Harp places almost no value on prosletyzation as beneficial to the recipient but instead treats convincing and being convinced as a ritual act in and of itself.

Some of the Harp's oddnesses are best exemplified in the Taking, the intervention that ended the Amahani-Aepox war. The Amahani Empire was the Harp's first interstellar contact, and was also a theocracy under Spode – the Amahani Empire and the Harp were close allies for a long time, and when the Amahani began to lose the conflict with the Aepox, the Harp was a frontline negotiator, and freely welcomed refugees. Eventually, though, the Amahani were pushed back to their home world, and followed there. The Harp officially annexed the remains of the Amahani rather than let them be destroyed – via induction of planet-wide religious frenzy by way of the Zealot superweapon.

In the time since, Harpy delegations sent to mend relations after that breach of the Galactic code have integrated extremely effectively, especially in Chance empires.

The Ikka'vetu, the First Step Unto the Land, are omnivores with much less pack definition than the New Transcendent and certainly than the Harp. I am going to say more about them later but basically they are also a Harmony empire which annoys me bc I wanted them to be Life rn I am going to TTRPG

The Empire of New Transcendence are my longest save and a weird one. They didn't come from one guy but two – after meeting a hostile creature, my herbivorous guys developed a symbiotic bond with an in-game Maxis-created creature that was much more statted for attack. The Senta (me-created) and the Kakuta (this is derived from "Kowkutter" which is the name of the Spore creatures in question but that isn't a diegetic name in The Lore) proceeded to develop side by side as a societal unit under the banner of New Transcendence. They r for all intents and purposes one society. New Transcendence is a Harmony empire, and does as such very much value The Significance Of All Life In The Universe, but being a Spore empire, they are not, despite this, antiviolent.

The infrastructure this society does build produces the crew of the Great Star of New Transcendence. They are a very expected bunch, consisting of the commonplace unit of Senta and Kakuta and also coming very much From Power. Releasing a bunch of very questionable graduates into space proceeds to cause several problems as pride and greed immediately show themselves as core motivators with more than one fatal result. But their pride too is affected by the Harmony philosophy – they dabble eventually in uplifting the Flowerdrifter Fairies... who come into their own as a Force empire and proceed to demand the eradication of another empire. The Great Star, which is functionally a warlord merc, initially accepts the bribe – but the reason is a new low of petty and unjustifiable, and the rush of completion immediately gives way to horror not just at this but at all the terrorism and murder they'd committed before. Shaken, the Great Star commits to a vow of peace.

[anothermouse]

I find it weird how ppl will say for reasons that systems are fake is that multiple alters talk similar or have similar interests. Have u ever met siblings. They talk similar and have similar interests because they've spent years together ya dork, as systems start to get along more they're gonna start sharing more interests and speech patterns just like you with people you spend a lot of time with lol. Also they all share a life, they have to be able to act like each other to get by and seem "normal."

[multidimensionalsock]

"I read 54 pages of a book today" - kinda lame, i can do better, used to be able to read an entire book in a day, year 5 type beat.

"i read a 54 page book in the language I'm learning" - way cooler, actually fast instead of slow, makes all your monolingual friends think you're really smart.

(these are my personal standards for myself and not to be applied to others based on my own reading speed)

[tragedykery]

just remembered when I tried to translate the first chapter of the priory of the orange tree like a year and a half ago but gave up not even a quarter of the way through and tbh I get why it hasn’t been translated to dutch because even translating the title and making it sound Not Horrible is pretty much impossible

[coern]

we when I'm young boy falling down to splatlandian corpse

[vanibear]

i will write sentences that are so run on the commas and clauses and semicolons in them form a track team

[deus-ex-mona]

my [redacted] anime parody fic really do be bringing all them bots to the yard

[laurent-ofvere]

I’m here for holding Paschal accountable I don’t hate the man but recent posts have reminded me that HEY

this dude could’ve spoken up literally anytime before things got this bad or at least spoken about it in private with either of our main characters but it’s just like Damen had to mention him or he would never have spoken up at all like

My man. You’re under arrest till I interrogate every braincell you possess and justification you can give as he seemingly was just leaving Laurent go off and die

PACAT WE NEED ANSWERS

literally????? sir might I suggest talking to, idk, laurent?? uuuuhmmmmmmm??

[grimmjowjaegerjaquez]

i like how i made a nice looking ref for yoshi and then like a week later all of the info on it became inaccurate lololol

[androcola]

there are so many fucking idiots going after some random person on tiktok for saying cis isnt a slur☠️

[mochapanda]

tbh im a lot more concerned about neurotypical people using the word "nonverbal" for when theyre just tired and fully capable of speaking than an actual autistic person who doesnt know every specific little term saying they went nonverbal during a meltdown