#subtangent

[blueberry-ink-93]

GREETINGS YALL

according to what ive read so far ive officially finished my third year of uni lol and the first half of my degree yay :D (altho i still have a summer term left but im not complaining)

anyhows thank u all for being so cool and patient and holding my hand as i spiralled and went on subtangents of tangents, i look forward to many more years of insanity with my moots lmao <3

ive plenty of things to do this summer esp before term starts (online whoop whoop!) like more driving exams lol and finally going to the gym (healthy coping mechanisms ew) and reading the 65432123 books i have and yelling about them here as well as writing stuff hopefully so i can start the next phase of uni with a clearer mind :'D

off the top of my head heres what i have so far:

essays: besides fic stuff i want to start writing essays on this blog from analysis criticism or just sharing bits and bobs from my life and language and culture from time to time :> the one i have in mind atm is for sinners (as i have threatened to write in my reblogs XD) and me just yapping about the video essays ive binged this week lol

kindred reads: good lord i have so much to read; greek stuff (dracontius, a few plays, and the iliad- odyssey- aeneid)/ essay & non fiction stuff (blues people, orientalism, two books i have on the ottoman empire and one abt the black death etc)/ childhood classics and faves i want to revist. listen i need the whimsy okay :')

fic stuff: going to try my hardest to kick the writers block in the face before it kicks me (pro gamer move) and write stuff for willow and probably bayan? jazzys going on the shelf for now lol or ill write like an au timeskip thing bc i want to skip on the character study and just write her raising her girls fkdjjfd. i can imagine how confusing this paragraph is lol so i wont be providing context bc i think im funny. also pylectra stuff is in the works muehhhehe

thats all i can think of now lol thank u for reading this far and sticking around so long :D will be probably back in a bit bc i tend to remember everything right after hitting post lmao

[legallyobtuse]

I’m so exhausted by the whole ‘Nick hates rwrb’ discourse, some people ought to touch grass. Had he hated it, why would he even agree to sign on for the sequel? I’m sure he’s had a ton of offers to do something different, and yet he chose to portray Henry once again, even though it might put him back into typecasting territory he’s trying to break out of. At the panels, when he spoke of rwrb (the story and the character), he was oozing fondness, and he’s clearly getting on w Taylor well. As for his not posting about the sequel announcement, has it not occurred to y’all that he’s most likely under contractual obligations to promote M&G and the Idea of You? Considering the latter is another Prime project that only came out 10 days ago, Nick posting about rwrb would definitely put it in the back corner. People harassing him on his socials and calling him a homophobe (yes, you heard that right) only achieves taking out the enjoyment of making something wholesome and beloved by many.

As for the subtangent harassing him bc he’s straight but portraying a queer character, I am of the opinion that ‘only queer people should play queer roles’ is essentialist, and will mostly result in detrimenting queer actors. 1) to be viewed as validly queer by the chronically online folk, people would have to be open about their sexuality, and they don’t owe you that; 2) it’s inherently reductive and will put LGBTQ+ actors in a pigeon hole of only being cast for queer roles, since the flip side of the coin is ‘only straight people portray straight people’. I, for my part believe, that what matters most is the chemistry on screen rather than the actor relating irl to the experience they’re portraying. Nick and Tay have chemistry and charm aplenty :) instead of advocating for ‘only queers play queers’, I suggest we advocate for more diverse queer projects instead, how about that?

[echthr0s]

I hate trying to make OC posts because I swear to god my whole brain is that Pepe Silvia meme but it's multiple universes connected with red string that is all tangled up like a cat's been at it. I feel like every post needs to be a Twine game where you click on a word and then that branches off into another tangent and then some subtangents and so on and and by the time you realise what just happened you have to close 100 tabs just to get back to the original post but suddenly Everything Makes Sense now (in the exact same way that Everything Makes Sense when you're high as fuck but then you try to explain it to someone and they're like "dude. wat")

the Heart of Khorl. it's an anagram of "Lorkh". Dayir talks to a horned sage named Talan in her waking-dreams. Talan is Qunlat for "truth". Ishan's Void orb :: Black Thirteen, the malevolent black orb of Maerlyn's Rainbow. Adrian Shepard sees a strange ship pass his own when he's awake during unspace travel, emblazoned with the name "Ragnarok". there is a Heimdall's Last Sight on the moon and there is a Heimdahl's Last Stand in Tyria. in Tyria, dragons are responsible for the cycles of the world. in Thedas, dragons are responsible for the cycles of the world. where did Midgardsormr come from? (open-ended question. many stories, all true; Midgardsormr is a shard of itself.) none of this important but it's all important To Me. it is the most important. frankly, I don't write things because how the fuck do I untangle all this yarn

[likeahyacinth]

minor addition - in English, pronouns can't take determiners or adjectives, that is, in standard speech it isn't well-formed to say "the him" or "big her". You *can* do this with this usage of "bro"

(there's a fascinating subtangent here about Japanese "pronouns" being able to do this, which leads some linguists to classify them not as pronouns at all, but that's beside the point of this discussion)

what do you think of gen alpha children using "bro" as a third person pronoun? ie "what is bro doing?" "bro's flabbergasted" etc

noun

[utseas]

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