#Language compensation

[cvntroach5000]

filling out the 1.5 survey was more stressful than any exam ive ever written

pls listen to the players infold pls listen to the players omfg

[gemmahale]

Y’know what? If I’m going to be writing Scottish family members and such for Righteous Fury, I should have someone Scot-pick it. (This is a play on @pfhwrittes’ Brit-picking he helps me out with.)

I know I want to include Scots, because it’s a language that deserves more exposure, and it makes sense for the MacTavishes to speak it, I think. (We canonically know Soap slips terms into conversation, so he’s not unfamiliar.)

I’m drawing a blank on who might be able and willing to help me with this. I’m more than happy to negotiate a price, because expertise deserves compensation.

I don’t know that knowledge about the CoD characters is necessary. Probably gives an advantage though.

Help an author out, friends?

I want this to be done right, not by the seat of my pants.

[windcarvedlyre]

Somewhat related to your Komaeda autism post, but did you know that FTD can often be mistaken for mental disorders like depression, bipolar, OCD, autism, etc.? And vice versa? I always thought it was interesting and I like playing with the idea that Komaeda got misdiagnosed with FTD because of that overlap. Idk it's just fun to think about (also because a lot of typical FTD symptoms really don't match with him imo so it could be a fun explanation idk)

Disclaimer: I have zero expertise in this.

I was actually just discussing that with someone! I'm not sure that's possible, though? Because of his age I feel like it would have taken a lot of red flags (or a lucky coincidence) for doctors to consider dementia at all, and there's no way they wouldn't have confirmed it with brain scans. @cry-stars recently told me about a case in Japan where a guy in his 20s had dementia mistaken for depression for aaageees, so I could see him being the same.

So I could see him being misdiagnosed as something else- or correctly diagnosed with something he has on top of the FTD, attributing FTD symptoms to that- for years before having it corrected to FTD, or luck leading to brain scans/cognitive tests getting him diagnosed out of nowhere, but not the reverse of the former.

I still really love reading meta on potential comorbidities, though! On top of the post-traumatic stress there's no way he doesn't have. I've read some neat perspectives on him from people with OCD and BPD, but I don't have them myself so I can't add anything to those discussions.

[rewritingcanon]

i like to think harry suffers periods of madness when his wife isn’t around him for too long

[pigeonstab]

The urge to say 'I love you' to someone you know it would be wildly inappropriate to say it to

[screechingcheesecakecheesecake]

being a domestica fan is not for the weak both mentally and financially

[lawfuljude]

Thinking about art pieces of mothers holding their dead/dying children.

In order from left-top: Woman with Dead Child and Pietà(Mother with her Dead Son) — Käthe Kollwitz // Pietà-Michelangelo // The Family of Street Acrobats; The Injured Child(1874)- Gustave Doré

[honeyluned]

i just can’t get past one thing about The KFC Breakup Scene and that is gojo’s face. a man so widely known for being calm, silly, and carefree almost to a fault, his expression barely budging even in the heated frenzy of battle, a portrait of collectedness that comes naturally with being the strongest jujutsu sorcerer. his face, now screwed into a look of anger bordering on hysterical, his eyes nearly bulging out of their sockets and his pupils the size of grains of rice, unable to comprehend the idea of the love of his life his one and only best friend doing something so terribly horrendously unlike him, that he barely knows what to do with himself other than yell and shout and hope something he says gets through to the man he wants so desperately to save. the world’s strongest jujutsu sorcerer, reduced to a screaming, bumbling boy in the face of his closest relationship crumbling in front of him in real time. the sheer amount of pain and hurt and betrayal and heartbreak laced in the blue of his irises speaks louder than any of his desperate attempts to convince geto he’s doing the wrong thing ever could. the wrinkle in his brows pitifully juxtaposed against geto’s expression of indifference — almost peace — in his newfound decision. i can’t imagine that many have had the opportunity to come face to face with such a state of desperate rage and panic from gojo as geto in this moment — and i can’t imagine gojo would have it any other way. this side of himself, this aching, desperate side, is something reserved for geto. the way he gets into killing position with such a clumsy hastiness only further reflects how much geto has undone him. his body language coupled with such a painfully singular expression succeeds in demonstrating to the audience that, yes, jujutsu sorcery and the good of mankind are among the most important things to gojo satoru, and yes, geto suguru is very nearly capable of superseding those things.

[emperorcartagia]

[sun-marie]

was just struck by the idea of lydia calling lucanis "amatus" and i feel like i need to be put down

[team-mythic-beasts]

Now… what do we have here?

How did that little fox manage to hide this space from me for such a long time?

But alas, nothing can evade the watchful eyes of the Knight Shade forever. As Lucas is not available for the time being, I will be the one to take good care of this “secret” hideout.

Hello. Some would call me the Dark Tortoise of Water, Northern Seat of the Four Magistrates.

In Celinia, I am known professionally as the “Melancholic Lotus Dancer,” Nelum (鬱蓮). I mainly do fan dance and Eastern opera gigs, sometimes stageplay adaptations of historical events and Tenko’s works.

Very few even call me Vincent (畢參), but he is not actually me… merely one character amongst many I have played throughout my life.

My real name is Ma Jingcheng - but just Cheng will do. It’s only one syllable, and I know some of you are less likely to mess up that way.

Magic users typically live longer and age slower than regular beings. Me? The chthonic gods do not dare claim me. Back when I had just turned into a vampire, I battled Empress Tefna when she tried to claim my soul. As a result of my triumph, I get to keep her “gift,” my humanity, and my eternal life that I share with my two siblings. I bet a certain disgraced paladin would be really jealous of me if he learns about this.

Hm? My scarf is staring at you in the first picture?

Oh! My friend Hyatt was feeling a bit shy, so he decided not to speak that day. This is just what he looks like when he isn’t poking his head out. Don’t worry, he may be a snake… and a demon, but he doesn’t bite. Does choke a bit when I give him an order he isn’t too fancy of.

This is all I will let you in on for now. I will reveal more stories so long as the small one does not shoo me away from this platform… Though I’m pretty sure she’s more than happy that I’m here.

Looking forward to meeting you once again, fateful guest(s). 等下見啦。

— MJC.

(Makoto’s Note: Profile cards updated in March, with full name + alternate pronunciations and TMB design added. Reminder that his name is in Chinese and thus must be written in Eastern order: surname, then given name.)

[mariocki]

"We should stop thinking in terms of 'compensatory education' but consider, instead, most seriously and systematically the conditions and contexts of the educational environment.

The very form our research takes tends to confirm the beliefs underlying the organization, transmission and evaluation of knowledge by the school. Research proceeds by assessing the criteria of attainment that schools hold, and then measures the competence of different social groups in reaching these criteria. We take one group of children, whom we know beforehand possess attributes favourable to school achievement; and a second group of children, whom we know beforehand lack these attributes. Then we evaluate one group in terms of what it lacks when compared with another. In this way research unwittingly underscores the notion of deficit and confirms the status quo of a given organization, transmission and, in particular, evaluation of knowledge. Research very rarely challenges or exposes the social assumptions underlying what counts as valid knowledge, or what counts as a valid realization of that knowledge."

- Basil Bernstein, Education Cannot Compensate for Society, in Education for Democracy (2nd ed., 1972)

[missbehavior0u0]

Ok. As a fellow who is relatively new here, how are y'all pronouncing their names?

[july-19th-club]

spartacus seasons 2-4 was where all the cool story stuff happened but s1 had something they dont have and never could have had. and it's andy whitman my best friend andy rip king you were the only one who could possibly infuse that character with such mystic sadness. like a pilgrim or some kind of warrior monk. mcintyre doesnt do a bad job at all but his spart is just. like a sort of headstrong fighter. andy's spart was a paladin. i dont know how he did it but he gave this performance that was wildly elevated for the kind of show he was in. his spartacus came off like he really was a man of ordinary, melancholic emotions born into a classical tragedy and forced to live with it, balancing on the knife's edge between myth and humanity. mcintyre's version is an action hero with depth. andy's is a new senecan tragedy

[halftheway]

for so long ive put off writing fics that were solely abt non english speaking cc's bc it doesnt feel right to have them Only speaking in english, but at the same time i know google translate is clumsy at best esp for slang and such😔 but i'm biting the bullet bc there are stories i really want to tell w these characters