#shoutout to my english teacher

[lanternliighting]

hi people who use the "they" in my he/they pronouns irl i love you. so much.

thats it thats the post

[depressed-crayon]

Fairy

I used to believe in faires

Ones with pretty little dresses and translucent wings

Pixies and seelies and brownies and dryads

I was so sure that they were out there

What if they did exist

Would they steal my name, my skin

Make me dance until I was only a skelton

If I ate their food, could I ever leave

If one would ask me who I am

And I said who I was

What would happen

Would I know myself

And if I stepped into their circle

Made of leaves and flowers and mushrooms

Would they take me away

To their fairy court

A place with dances and royals and beauty

Where every night I would celebrate until I would pass out

Only to wake the next day to do it all again

And would my beauty even fade

Because fairies could be fallen angels

Or a combination of heaven and hell

And mortal’s are not

They are temporary

Am I temporary

If fairies existed

Would I be the same

Or would I change

[jellybeanium124]

Hey. Gentiles. Listen up for a sec.

When September and October are nearing and you’re planning an event: google “Rosh Hashanah *year*” and *Yom Kippur *year*” and then, and I cannot stress this enough, don’t plan your event on those days. In fact, don’t plan any events starting sundown the night before. Those are the three most important days of the Jewish calendar, and, once again, I cannot stress enough how much this little bit of forethought and kindness will make every Jew you know cry tears of joy.

[dear-ao3]

This does not matter and will not affect your life at all, but a split infinitive is when you put a word between “to” and “your verb” eg., “to boldly go” rather than “to go boldly.”

Sincerely,

Your friendly neighborhood English teacher

you'd think that they would have gone over that at least once during my literal actual college writing degree that i graduated with. but no!

[ghostlylicious]

gotta thank my english teacher for getting me into cyrano de bergerac . also might redesign christian

(theyre free to use js credit me hsjgd)

[andromaqves]

which fictional character was Emma Mountebank's gay awakening?

I was sitting here looking at this for like ten seconds and then my answer entered stage left at light speed and hit me like a brick to the face: she def didn't REALIZE it at the time but like, in hindsight... Emma's Gay Awakening was Lara Croft circa 2001. The Angelina Jolie!Lara era.

Honorable mention to Evie's sai fight in The Mummy Returns (also 2001)

[bouncybrain]

Hey I know this might be hard if you’re dyslexic/newer to reading/writing in English so this really isn’t meant to be mean and nitpicky but

Weary ≠ wary

They’re very different words and can change the meaning of a phrase, if it still makes any sense.

Weary: think of this one as exhausted or tired; “he wearily dragged over another stack of paperwork” or “her steps were weary as she crossed the hall”

Wary: think of this one as alert or cautious; “they warily stepped into the meeting room” or “it was wary even as it tapped at the glass”

Now let’s take those sentences and use different, less similar words:

He tiredly dragged over another stack of paperwork.

Her steps were exhausted as she crossed the hall.

They carefully stepped into the meeting room.

It was cautious even as it tapped at the glass.

You can see now that mixing up weary/wary can change the way the sentence works, and might give off the wrong impression. See here, where they’ve been swapped:

He carefully dragged over another stack of paperwork.

Her steps were cautious as she crossed the hall.

They tiredly stepped into the meeting room.

It was exhausted even as it tapped at the glass.

Remember there’s no shame in picking different, “more common” words. God knows some traditionally published authors should have been told that. Check out online dictionaries and/or thesauruses if you’re confused, ask questions, it’s okay! Just maybe don’t go too far down the thesaurus list, or you’re going to get a completely different result than intended.

[iiboronii]

Me upon realizing that I can just have an AU instead of writing an entire fanfiction about an idea I had in my head once:

[justanapparatus]

whenever people talk about taylor being "fake" or "performative" is makes me feel extra autistic because are we not all performers? do we not all adapt our behavior to fit in and appeal to our audience, whether that be a stadium of fans or a room of peers? is it possible to ever stop performing in our contemporary era of social media and mass surveillance, even performing when ostensibly alone in case there is an audience we cannot see? does any of this make sense? Alexa play mirrorball

[songtwo]

12 year old me learning english through social media and green day lyrics never thought that would lead me to become a music journalist that only does interviews in english bc no one else here speaks english fluently

[yourlocalegotisticalqueerishere]

I see you have strong opinions on Macbeth... Care to share with the class?

Okay I don't have hugely strong opinions on Macbeth, I do however think it's a good play and I studied it for my GCSEs

Also apparently (don't quote me on this) Macbeth was a decent king and the guy who overthrew him was shit at being king. Or maybe that was the guy before him. Idk.

I think that lady Macbeth is a very interesting character, and the play has interesting themes, and Macbeth is a very interesting character

I also think that the context surrounding the okay with regards to King James 1st and 6th, witchcraft, and the whole thing with him being related to banquo

[samaspic31]

The fact education as it’s practiced rn is more mere validation of already acquired skills and information regurgitation (within the limits of what the state values ofc) rather than actual comprehensive transmission of knowledge is making me go mad

[prettyprincess-888]

Hiii hope you’re having a good day/night!

What are some of your favourite genres to read?

hi, hope you're having a good day too! im a big murder mystery reader, i also like to read romance and horror sometimes :)

[boycritter]

next year i have honors physics period one and ap calc bc period 2 so i think i need to just explode and die

[lucyfrostblade]

shoutout to the intense rage kipperlilly feels! have you considered journaling and getting into crafts?

[plant124]

I absolutely love the arc for “stereotypical barbie”’s character in the Barbie movie. At the start of the movie, she’s content to exist as she does — she doesn’t have a high profile job like some of the other Barbies, and she doesn’t necessarily have a specific slot to be put in that’s remarkable in a traditional sense (ie, she’s not President, or winning nobel prizes, etc.) but that’s okay because she doesn’t feel any pressure to distinguish herself by such dramatic means from the crowd. After she’s exposed to the patriarchal land of the real world and of Kendom she starts to inherit this worldview where she is only valuable if she is remarkable beyond reasonable expectation. Unless she’s literally president, or winning nobel prizes, which is a ridiculously high bar, she feels worthless and invaluable, where no one (not even her) questions the value of the Ken’s that are only drinking beer and devaluing the women around them. She inherits the view of so many women that if she isn’t perfect, or somehow dramatically different from everyone else, she’s worthless. She has a strong need to have something define her by her accomplishments or her looks because if that’s not there she can’t just exist without a purpose or some sort of justification for her existence.

Her arc of becoming human is so powerful then because all she wanted was to exist, and for that to justify itself. She doesn’t have lofty goals of running a massive corporation, or becoming president of the real world, or anything else (not that she couldn’t, but that she doesn’t have those goals in an effort to define herself) she is content in being — just *being.* She can exist and doesn’t have to prove herself worthy of that. She can just be human, and find intrinsic value in that.

I think so many women fall victim to this trap of feeling like if they’re not somehow the main character, or like the best out of a bunch of people, or can’t define themselves to the point of burnout or doing themselves harm, then they aren’t worth anything or their lives are pointless or they’re less valuable. When in reality, women don’t need to explain why they are valuable or why they have a point to their existence or a purpose or something — they can just be. And that’s okay. It’s beautiful.

I love that arc, and maybe this is me reading into it or maybe this is me exercising basic media literacy. Who knows!