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tiktaalic · 11 months
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concept i'm conceptualizing is. the narrative of destiel as a jenga tower. and how many episodes you would have to yank out of it before it lost cohesion. i think if you were very careful with your picks you could get down to three episodes and still have something that is undeniably destiel
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mantisgodsdomain · 2 months
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More notes for Roach conlanging. Roach has grammatical gender, in which only Male, Female, and Object are grammatical genders, whereas Worker uses feminine grammar, Queen and King use a slight variant on feminine grammar, and Drone, and Queen-Alate use masculine grammar. This is because King is derived from Queen, due to their similar positions in a colony, and Queen-Alate is derived from Drone, as both are forms of alate.
Queen is an alteration of feminine grammar that functionally just adds a handful of extra syllables to it, and King is an offsprout of Queen that uses the same grammar with different pronouns. Queen-Alate, despite the name, is derived from Drone, as they are both for referring to different types of alate ant.
Most Roach dialects are intelligible to speakers of Snakemouth Den Cordyceps Roach, but Snakemouth Den Cordyceps Roach is not entirely intelligable to speakers of Roach dialects due to a mix of the excessively specialized vocabulary caused by the specific needs of its speakers, the fact that its speakers do not necessarily have Roach mouthparts and thus may not pronounce syllables in a similar way, and due to the fact that Inanimate Object is a full grammatical gender that does not exist in any other dialect of roach and replaces a decent chunk of terminology for things that previously had Other Words For Them.
#we speak#conlang#bug fables#please excuse us if we're mangling the terminology here btw. we cannot for the life of us remember the proper terms for half of this#and every time we try to google things it winds up turning up nothing#probably because we're googling shit like “the term for the thing where self reference is different if youre a guy or a girl”#and like. “part of speech that you use to refer to other people that isnt pronouns or a name that has title associations”#if we reread some textbooks we will probably remember but unfortunately these are not our textbook reference posts#they are our “what if we told you about the cool ways that we did grammar in here” post#god we love grammatical grammar (<guy who doesn't have a strong enough sense of gender to remember der and die properly)#(because we are the specific type of speaker where we're half operating based on what Feels Right with the word and we are)#(so fucking bad at remembering how gendering words is meant to go)#(the secret reason we hate phonetics is because we have to contend with both figuring out how mouthparts would work and like)#(Working Out A Reasonable Collection Of Sounds To Have In Our Language. which means we have to actually like. name things)#(cruel and unusual that we have to make actual words rather than loosely tossing building blocks on the floor. honestly.)#anyways snakemouth den roach is one of those dialects where it's on the verge of becoming a language on its own#where it's very debatable on if it's Actually A New Language or just a very specific dialect of an old one because. well. boxes#picture it as like. trying to speak to someone who you Think is speaking french but they have an extremely thick regional accent#and they keep using like ten-syllable words that you probably don't know but that seem to refer to things that could be referred to#way more concisely?#and also rather than just le and la they have added an entire new lu to the mix and you are unclear if its the accent or a new word entirel#(note: we are not a specialist on french as we primarily know it in the “we've been around it long enough to vaguely know what's being said#way and are not currently caught up enough on whatever they have going on to know about any major grammar stuff going on over there)#(but we are terrible enough with remembering the grammar of the german that we do speak that we do not trust ourself to not be Worse there)
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eldritchqueerture · 4 months
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I'm so late for malevolent I keep seeing things and each time I'm like "good lord"
is this about the womb
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hardrockshrimp · 4 months
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fictionadventurer · 3 days
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Top 5 Arthur episodes?
D.W. Goes to Washington: It's a very close race between this one and #2, but I gave the edge to this one because almost every line here is classic. It's full of hilarious Imagine Spots and great D.W. zingers.
The Rat Who Came to Dinner: Another episode that's full of great jokes. The dynamic between Ratburn and Arthur's family is comedy gold.
The Contest: The pastiches of different animation styles alone puts this one in the top five, but it's also in service of some wonderfully absurd mini-stories with classic jokes. ("My brain was on cruise control" is the Arthur quote that gets the most use in daily life).
Buster Hits the Books: The pastiches of the different books are hilarious.
Arthur's Almost Boring Day: I had a very tough time choosing the fifth episode. I went with this one because the fighting between Arthur and D.W. reaches a hilarious fever pitch that goes beyond any other episode.
#answered asks#arthur#arthur pbs#lady-merian#this was extremely fun#and also surprisingly tough to answer because there are tons of episodes that have classic jokes#but it's harder to pinpoint which is the best overall episode#'the blizzard' (the ep paired with 'the rat who came to dinner') totally would have made this list if it weren't for the ouija board joke#my brother (i put this question to him one day) lobbied for the musical episode#which does have a lot of good bits but i had a tough time awarding the fifth spot to something written by That Man#'arthur's almost live not-real music festival' was a contender#but even though the songs are great as an episode it's not as compelling as some others#also when trying to settle on the fifth entry i skimmed through the wikipedia list of arthur episodes#and looking at the list that way#with the writers listed in a column right next to the episode names#individual styles become VERY clear#joe fallon goes for chaos (though he's got a lot of surprisingly tame ones)#kathy waugh has a certain type of heartfelt sentiment#there's a sandra willard who i never noticed on title cards before#but seeing her in the list she has a very distinct style#a sort of off-beat quirky sentimentalism#That Man actually has some really strong episodes early on#but as the seasons go on you see more and more of the preachy Very Special Episodes and they are all his#also going through the list that way reminds me of so many great bits across so many episodes
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lionbearfox · 2 years
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modern au in which they are foster siblings and scaramouche is VERY reluctantly conscripted to drive them both to school
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thelibraryiscool · 2 years
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80s-music-tourney · 19 days
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80s MUSIC TOURNEY: SIDE A+B ROUND 2
Down Under vs. Relax
Don't Worry, Be Happy vs. Love Is A Battlefield
1999 vs. Rock Me Amadeus
Rio vs. Don't Come Around Here No More
If I Could Turn Back Time vs. Take On Me
Miss You Much vs. Never Gonna Give You Up and White Wedding
Fight For Your Right vs. Land Of Confusion
Let's Dance vs. Land Of Confusion
This Charming Man vs. Slave To The Rhythm
Rock The Casbah vs. Opposites Attract
Total Eclipse of the Heart vs. You Spin Me Round
Links to previous matches here
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ariadne-mouse · 1 year
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sysig · 2 years
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#Doodles#Deltarune#Pink Addison#Spamton#Blue Addison#Orange Addison#Yellow Addison#The gang's all back together but some things have changed irreversibly#Addispam could sing with the group no problem! But now#How did they convince him to come to karaoke with them? Don't worry about it lol there's not a very strong timeline at the moment#Even if there was there's still the Loud Drunks to contend with lol#I see Orange as being the loudest happy drunk - Pink could get equally loud but is more combative so he's chilling for now lol#Blue is a bit more mellow and giggly - and Yellow goes with the flow of whichever one he's closest to#So everyone is currently being subjected to two Loud Happies rather than just one lol#They don't even have (visible) ears what are they covering lol#Bird ears? They do have the long beaks#Casual touches and meaningful touches - all sorts of friendly touches that are a lot! Feels weird now!#What used to be normal closeness is now just a reminder ♪#Doesn't feel good but doesn't feel bad - just feels complex and confusing#Everyone wants back what they had even for the length of a song ah#Drawing Spam with his eyes closed is fun haha - little moon-slivers of glasses colour#I had a lot of fun with the more extreme ear-covering poses too :D Oh wait that's still a thing I enjoy huh?? Lol#Pink actually protecting his ears and Blue doing the noise-panic pose where his ears are still exposed but it's Too Much to resituate#[Spamton is unaffected] lol#I imagined it a bit like the glass-shattering effect but for LEDs instead?? I can only picture it temporarily powering down#Like when a computer starts to overheat so it turns itself off lol - Sound too discordant must protect#It's not really his fault! Kind of! It's not a side effect he was expecting or knew about - nobody did#Orange completely oblivious the whole time tho lol - at least one of them is having fun haha
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sixth-prince · 11 months
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also. found the govt mandated bullshit boss. who in god's name was like yeah we'll make that guy faster than torrent. why did they do it like that.
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bonetrousledbones · 1 year
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anyway aside from me being angry at the internet i want u all to know that i am genuinely so sad that i wasnt able to sneak in a gif profile pic before they fixed it. i would have become so annoying about it i have so many papyrus sprites saved
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discoidal · 2 years
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whats your favorite short story like forever and ever and ever? mine is canonical babbling by lorrie moore <- no one is surprised by this
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townofcadence · 7 months
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I'll give ya a choice with this one. Artair with whichever prompt suits your fancy.
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Bad Situations ❄️ - trapped outside in a blizzard / snowstorm
It feels like being plunged into a bucket of ice, the second they pass through the ley-line, and his first thought is FUCK as ice finds its way against his neck and down the line of his back, and cold starts dampening his socks at the ankles. The second is immediate regret. Fuck--- fuck, why'd he ask Sal to come with him?
Not that she can't handle it, probably. Honestly she might be fine in the cold? Given some of her abilities as a death knight, it'd make sense. A body can get used to being in frigid temperatures too, if properly trained, and she spent a fair time in Icecrown and other frozen wastes. So really, this might be nothing to her.
Of course, that point might also be moot, given her status at the time was kind of....dead to the left.
Shaking his head, he focuses on their situation. He'd found something supernatural might be going on, since he'd heard about weird anomalies like wailing and something humanoid with long white hair that seemed to drift above the ground, approaching hikers at higher elevations in the mountains. He had invited Salena as a precaution since the data was vague, with the intent they'd either find nothing, or deal with whatever it was before things escalated too much. There had been mentions of some cold spots, but that was par for the course for some entities. And the mountain wasn't high enough to even see snow. He packed a thicker jacket in his bag, just in case, but there wasn't any evidence there'd be anything like this.
And they'd used the gas station ley-line for pain-free travel. Because they weren't trying to cross to Cadence exactly, they weren't guaranteed to land at the door of another ley-line when they were spit out. Which means they had to be near one, but that could be anywhere in at least a mile or two radius from here. And right now, the whole area was blanketed in deep snow, that definitely shouldn't be here.
So... priority one couldn't be an immediate exit. It had to be shelter. But that meant they were stuck here, not fully prepared for weather like this, given he hadn't found any info on any storms in the area. His skin tingled, both from cold ice brushing against his exposed arm, and where snow pelted the basin of his hoodie, but also with something electric. There was no doubt this wasn't a naturally occurring storm. Whatever was around here could be causing it.
Not that they could do anything about that, now.
"Salena!" He yells, so his voice carries over howling wind. He can see flakes already caked to his lashes, and frosting the tips of his hair. "Can you make a portal back?!"
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just-bendy · 2 years
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ok important question for science. Does your tail have the same properties as that of a cat, e.g. it helps to maintain balance or is involved in body language? Is it sensitive to touch? Like if I touch it gently, you will be horny or rather irritated
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It's more of a body language thing cuz I don't need it for balance since I can stand well enough on my own. When I'm happy, I wag my tail, when I'm sad, it droops, when I'm surprised it shoots straight up, when I'm scared, I wrap it around myself, and so on.
And I guess it's pretty sensitive like how you'd expect. If you pull on my tail or stomp on it, it'd hurt like hell! But, If you really must know...
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If you touch it normally, not much would happen in the arousal department, however it really depends on the mood and area, as well as the way you touch i-
Waaaait a minute... I'm just gonna stop myself right there.
An' don't you dare try lookin' for the sweet spot either! I'll save you the trouble of doin' it yourself an' say that nothin' will happen.
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