#it just sounds wrong to my ears

[hello-eeveev]

thee/thy/thou usage: a brief explanation for writers.

Every so often, I see people attempting to use Early Modern English in their writing, and so many people get it wrong. From fanfic to published works, I see little misuses so frequently that it’s become a bit of a pet peeve of mine, because one thing that growing up reading the King James Version of the Bible and other related religious texts gave me was an instinctual understanding of Early Modern English. And as a grammar nerd, I would like to share my knowledge with all of you. So here we go:

THOU is the subject form of you. THEE is the object form.

Example: “Thou hast given me an egg, and in return, I giveth thee flour.”

(Modern translation: “You have given me an egg, and in return, I give you flour.”)

So while you can be both a subject and an object, THOU is only ever a subject and THEE is only ever an object.

THY is the possessive form of THOU. Use it in place of your. HOWEVER, the most frequent error I see is the misuse of THINE, the other possessive form of THOU, but I promise the rule is so simple.

THINE is only used in front of words that start with a vowel. If the thing that is being possessed starts with a consonant, use THY.

Examples:

“Thy marvelous egg.”

“Thine excellent egg.”

MY and MINE follow the same rule:

“My marvelous egg.”

“Mine excellent egg.”

See that ye take this lesson to heart. I have faith in thee and thy capabilities. Shouldst thou err, fear not, for such is the process of learning. If thou art unsure, if thou needest a question answered, ask of OP, for I am here to guide thee on thy way. But bear in mind, no one knows all, and I am but one man. Google is also thine ally in this, for scholarship abounds, and it may aid thee when I cannot.

Now go forth, my friends! Write prose with such confidence as to make our forefathers weep! Yea, they shall sing thy praises: Lo! how our children command our language with such beauty! Such skill!

[novelconcepts]

Slowing an audiobook from my usual 1.5x speed (anything slower USUALLY sounds like molasses to my ears) happens for two voices and two voices only:

Neil Gaiman and Tatiana Maslany

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

fuckfuck fuck i need to make more physical crafts i need to create tangible things that i can hold with my two hands and put it somewhere i can See It and think Wow. I Made That.

[aphsillyos]

his default recall is so cool..........

[yourpaceangel]

OH I meant to make a post about this yesterday and then I forgot but I went over to my sister’s house to bring my niece her birthday presents and of course my niece wanted to show me all her new toys and play with them with me. I don’t mind doing this, in fact I actively enjoy playing with her because she’s a good storyteller and I know she loves having someone that will listen to her. Anyway, she brought out some slime and my stomach just straight up DROPPED. Yall I can’t STAND touching slime, like it makes every part of my body want to crawl up inside of itself, I just can’t do it. So I told her I couldn’t touch it and why and she stopped for a second and goes “you can’t touch it?” And I was like “no I can’t touch it, I don’t like the way it feels and it makes me upset to be touched with it.” And she nodded and set down her little jar for a second and was like “hold on” and dug under her bed and pulled out a little plastic horse and handed it to me and says “you can touch it with this!” It kind of rocked me because I mean of course that was a solution, and it was a fantastic one, I just didn’t expect her to understand and offer an alternative way to play so quickly! And it worked great! I didn’t have to touch the slime, and using the little horse was fun to roll and poke it with. We didn’t have to stop playing just because I didn’t like something, she figured out a way to let me play with her anyway. So I guess my thing is like, tell kids exactly why you do or don’t want to do something. You may need to explain it a couple of times, or in a different way, but they get it. And they will find a solution.

[decarbry]

would you be willing to elaborate on Yaburemes “birth”/development in the glass tube? Was he conscious during it?

so this is actually the content of chapter 3 (I swear I'm working on the next part, I intend to get faster with them I just keep getting distracted ksdfg) so I'll leave the details for then. he is... semi-conscious for the capsule process. but it's a very low-input kind of consciousness because he's essentially blind, deaf, and mostly immobile for all of it :")

[istopaskingmemate]

season 4 special spoilers

"oh yeah because normally you just RUSH to my rescue"

It goes without saying that this seems harsh and it is. On first glance, it seems like wukong is undermining everything Macaque has done for him but I don't think that's what wukong meant by it. I think he was referring to the fallout of the war against Heaven.

Let me explain. Wukong was the only one captured by heaven meaning the others including Macaque would have retreated without him leaving him at the mercy of heaven. We know they don't partially care about 'mortal' life (yes wukong is very immortal I mean from the mortal plain aka not a god). and keep in mind that wukong doesn't know he is imvisable from his perspective his closest friends, family even, just left him for dead. Something that he is terrified of to the point of paranoia (which is understandable, I would be too if I was kidnapped in my sleep and taken to the underworld).

Sure he may hope they come back for him but if he does that just makes it even sadder because well they don't. and it's not like they didn't have any time to either. for one, I really doubt that wukong was taken off the battlefield and straight to execution. I'm sure would have been a few heavenly days in a prison cell even if just to give them time to set up the execution but like also there is no way I don't see heaven torturing him for either information or just daring to fight against them. plenty of time to stage a rescue. even if he was taken straight to the execution bloke it still would have taken a few minutes if not more to get there. since each heavenly day is a mortal year that would probably translate to weeks. so there is no way that the Brotherhood didn't have time at least try and save wukong. Macaque specifically could have probably done it even without the support of the rest of the brotherhood. he can just shadow portal either wukong out or himself in to free wukong. we see that Macaque can do this in season 4 so we know he can portal there he just doesn't.

Even if there was a spell preventing shadow portal-ing on the holding cell the brazier of 8 trigrams would not have this security feature since it normally wasn't used for executions. This means that it theoretically should have been easy for Macaque to get Wukong especially given that Wukong was in there for 49 mortal years and especially especially since wukong was probably calling for him or at least screaming. which Macaque could probably hear given his abilities (which are proven to exist in the show). Furthermore, the brazer was probably left unguarded after a few days or so it should have been a piece of cake.

Then there is havoc in heaven. which would have been the biggest slap in the face for Wukong because none of the Brotherhood would really need to do anything but show up. Wukong almost defeated Heaven single-handedly. The only thing that the brotherhood would need to do is stop Wukong from making the bet with Buddha and they would have won and completed their goal. They were so close but no none of the brotherhood came to support Wukong in the battle. it's not like no one knew of battle as demons repetitively bring it up in jttw. and again there would have been time. Most battles last hours if not a full day which means there would have been months for the Brotherhood to prepare and join but they didn't. Even if it wasn't well known what was happening at the time Macaque with his good ears should have been able to tell. I know that Azure, Yellow Tusk, Peng, and DBK probably wouldn't want to go fight heaven to defend Wukong but Wukong wouldn't have needed them. even if it was just Macaque. If he had shown up before the bet they would have won.

This would be very upsetting. traumatizing even because he was abandoned and left for dead. terrifying because he thought he was going to die. Frustrating because he was right there. Sure there could be a valid reason why Macaque didn't help Wukong but we don't know it, Wukong probably doesn't know it. From Wukong's perspective, Macaque just left him to be tortured and killed only to return once he lost everything to give him one 'whole peach' as an apology while saying "You know I'd help if I could" despite there being multiple times that he could have helped. Which triggered the line of Macaque not 'rushing' to his aid. After the facts are laid out from Wukong's perspective you can kinda see where Wukong is coming from and why would lash out so badly. The reasons why Macaque's got the wrong approach are better explained in the post if you're interested.

I like to finish by saying I'm in no way saying that what happened was completely Macaque's fault nor I am saying that Wukong had the right to treat him so harshly. all I'm saying is that it is understandable for Wukong to act like this given what he went through, his words are not completely unfounded, Macaque and Wukong both shoulder the blame for this, and Wukong needs therapy yesterday. chop chop people/j

[revvethasmythh]

I need to stop struggling to articulate to doctors what's wrong with my ear. why do that when I could explain it in the context of "Boom Clap" by Charli XCX? like "boom! clap! the sound of my FUCKING EARDRUM what the FUCK is that"

[smute]

americans who have watched the gilded age, what accent is carrie coon going for in your opinion? i NEED to know because i am obsessed with her. she has a beautiful voice and i guess much of the charm is just her own timbre but i still suspect that she's doing something very clever with mrs russell's accent.

to me it sounds like a very overenunciated and deliberately general north american accent? which would make so much sense for an upwardly mobile 'new money' character who's trying super hard to sound like she came from everywhere and nowhere (i think her ancestors are referred to as potato pickers at one point)

other people have said she's simply doing mid-atlantic, which would still be period (and class) appropriate i guess? just a little less exciting lol. but to me she sounds so different from most of the other rich bitches, like she doesn't drop a lot of R's for example (afaict at least?) im not a native speaker though so im just wondering if there's something i'm missing. am i reading too much into it?

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

i think it is probably a sign of the process of healing from the trauma of having every word out of my mouth ripped apart, mocked, and treated as an unforgivable offense warranting Extreme Rage and Vitriol, and having it explained to me in excruciating and hateful detail why my thought processes and basic turns of phrase and the things i thought were worth expressing were stupid worthless gibberish, unbearable to listen to, and the root of everything wrong with society, by redditor-ass faux-intellectuals in my life growing up for being awkwardly phrased/not concise enough/mildly whimsical, that some days i'm proud of my meta and some days i can barely stand to look at it. but god that does not make the second one more fun.

[akuma-homura]

the heart acoustic still does a weird audio illusion thing to me where I legitimately hear 'girl' instead of 'boy' for 'i was just a boy you see'

like, I don't know how, and even despite knowing it's boy I still fuckin hear it

It drove me insane a bit bc at first i just kinda accepted it as >oh this must be neat little lyric trick or something, maybe gender weirdness or something something metaphorical given it's the heart's part

i even tried making it clearer and all of that and strained my brain to hear 'boy' and tried listening through different qualities and everything but no, I kept hearing 'girl'

and my brain just got stuck on it for a little while bc it wasn't acting like audio illusions usually act for me-- once I know the right word or whatever that's being said, I hear that, but it wasn't doing that for me here

friend even suggested doing a test to see what people'd hear but I just kinda gave up on that thought immediately because I felt embarrassed wheezes

a year later I still hear 'girl' there but my brain knows it's 'boy' so I just think 'boy' anyway, and a couple times I've managed to hear 'boy' there

basically: my fun time with the heart acoustic and whatever the fuck my ears / brain were doing

[chaoticgremlinbrainspace]

was going insane at a friend last night now I need to research transness in the 70s and all that fun stuff so I can be fully unhinged and maybe actually write smth for once instead of being haunted by visions

[corntort]

reminder 2 self to ask someone abt a chord progression im rlly struggling qith

[waybrightgender]

is there any way that i can tell moirail that theyre definitely autistic or at least suggest that they look into it without sounding mean

[josephtrohman]

wait Patrick said “friction in HIS jeans??” Or is twitter lie

i saw ppl talking about that!!! i haven’t seen video yet so i’m definitely suspicious unless/until there’s video tbqh!!!

[jefferythejelly]

can i be real i cannot hear “me needing you” but glad y’all are having fun😭😭😭