i love when words fit right. seize was always supposed to be that word, and so was jester. tuesday isn't quite right but thursday should be thursday, that's a good word for it. daisy has the perfect shape to it, almost like you're laughing when you say it; and tulip is correct most of the time. while keynote is fun to say, it's super wrong - i think they have to change the label for that one. but fox is spot-on.
most words are just, like, good enough, even if what they are describing is lovely. the night sky is a fine term for it but it isn't perfect the way november is the correct term for that month.
it's not just in english because in spanish the phrase eso si que es is correct, it should be that. sometimes other languages are also better than the english words, like how blue is sloped too far downwards but azul is perfect and hangs in the air like glitter. while butterfly is sweet, i think probably papillion is more correct, although for some butterflies féileacán is much better. year is fine but bliain is better. sometimes multiple languages got it right though, like how jueves and Πέμπτη are also the right names for thursday. maybe we as a species are just really good at naming thursdays.
and if we were really bored and had a moment and a picnic to split we could all sit down for a moment and sort out all the words that exist and find all the perfect words in every language. i would show you that while i like the word tree (it makes you smile to say it), i think arbor is correct. you could teach me from your language what words fit the right way, and that would be very exciting (exciting is not correct, it's just fine).
i think probably this is what was happening at the tower of babel, before the languages all got shifted across the world and smudged by the hand of god. by the way, hand isn't quite right, but i do like that the word god is only 3 letters, and that it is shaped like it is reflecting into itself, and that it kind of makes your mouth move into an echoing chapel when you cluck it. but the word god could also fit really well with a coathanger, and i can't explain that. i think donut has (weirdly) the same shape as a toothbrush, but we really got bagel right and i am really grateful for that.
grateful is close, but not like thunder. hopefully one day i am going to figure out how to shape the way i love my friends into a little ceramic (ceramic is very good, almost perfect) pot and when they hold it they can feel the weight of my care for them. they can put a plant in there. maybe a daisy.
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hiii im sure you’ve answered this before but in regards to your twst x Pokémon, how do you choose which Pokémon go give to the cast?? really curious since your choices are unique :O
unique in a good way, I hope? 😅 (jk jk I haven't come across too many pokemon AUs, so I was going in without preconceptions, I guess!) I was sorta aiming somewhere between doing, like, a full AU with internal consistency and everything, and just picking entirely based on theme/character, so maybe that's why! basically I just set some arbitrary rules (no legendaries/no repeats/evo stages based on year) and then went on ~vibes~. a couple were also suggestions (thank you guys!) and last-minute decisions, so it was a bit of a delightful mess of ideas!
my one regret is that I should have given Riddle a Togedemaru after all. ...you know what, he can have one now, why not
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i find it funny that butch hartman is a huge scamming homophobe but he allows the character designers to make big, buff characters with small waist lines.
like okay freakster, you definitely have a thing for curvy waists
update: IM SORRY GUYS I NOW KNOW THAT BUTCH DIDN'T DESIGN LOTS OF THESE CHARACTERS
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You ever think about how the Rat Grinders represent what the Bad Kids could have turned out to be if they hadn’t found each other freshman year?
Fig, the depressed rocker, all performance
Riz, the highstrung control freak who never found Penny
Fabian, the asshole jock who looks down on dancers
Gorgug, the uncommunicative loner
Kristen, the chosen
Adaine, the unwilling participant in her rich evil family’s plots
Because I do, and now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go scream into my pillow
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I will be a Frodo defender till I die. You guys who are like "well Sam wise Gamgee was the REAL hero and Frodo didn't do almost anything" really don't understand that he was carrying such a magical and evil item of unimaginable power that Gandalf was afraid to touch it in fear it would consume him, and y'all say he's weak? I just want you Samwise Gamgee stans who hate Frodo to know that Sam would not like you one bit.
Mr. Frodo is his best friend for life who he was protecting and caring for as his BEST FRIEND carried the LITERAL EMBODIMENT OF EVIL with him in a trek across the world to destroy it. He watched as he best friend who he loved so dearly was slowly destroyed by the Ring but kept going because someone needed to be strong enough to complete the task and carry the Ring to Mordor. He watched as his friend descended into giving into the Ring at the last moment, when nearly all others would have given in moments after first holding the Ring. He watched as Frodo chose to take on the impossible task and never gave up on the quest, even when the Ring was so heavy the chain was ripping into his skin.
Sam knew how brave Frodo was, and he would stand by his side to help him no matter what. If you said Frodo was weak and pathetic in front of Sam, you'd get a frying pan to the face.
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