#tongues are discussed

[canisalbus]

Shit I love those gay dogs they're in my head all day 😭😭😭😭

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[andromeda3116]

people actually went on about how game of thrones made it socially acceptable to be a fantasy nerd, as though the lord of the rings movies hadn't been released less than a decade earlier and left far greater cultural ripples and i am just

got may have made the adults feel better about liking fantasy, but lotr got into the kids' heads when they (we) were just young and impressionable enough to be absolutely transported and emotionally rewritten by don't you leave him, samwise gamgee and my brother, my captain, my king and and rohan will answer

lotr was rewriting entire generations' brain chemistry long before asoiaf and so obviously it's not fair to compare any post-lotr fantasy novel to it, and each book series was trying to do different things within their own spheres and so that also is not a fair comparison, but in terms of the cultural impact of the adaptations that came out within a decade of each other, saying that it was game of thrones that made fantasy mainstream is baffling

game of thrones could only run because the lord of the rings movies laid the path, and i will die on this hill

[trans-cuchulainn]

a nuance to the uni/school thing is also i think that like... for most humanities subjects in the uk you mainly won't have "classes" in the form of lessons (languages i think would be a key exception here), you'll have lectures which are a one-way thing and then seminars which are more discussion based and involve reading/prep work beforehand, and at some unis you'll have smaller group tutorials or supervisions

but like. the pedagogical culture is a bit different i think? it is much less like school and more heavily reliant on independent learning. you might only have a handful of contact hours a week and everything else is you in a library doing the reading or whatever; you're not gonna have a lot of short assignments and quizzes so much as, like, a bunch of research essays (how many will vary heavily by course and institution) so it's more like Doing Research than doing Homework the way you would at school, even early on in undergrad

and this is partly due to specialising earlier rather than having gen ed courses so you've got a much narrower range of modules to be doing yunno

(this doesn't apply to like, stem subjects. they've got labs and shit. god knows what they're doing over there.)

[halfagony-halfhope]

i honestly can’t deal with you guys who take pride and prejudice too seriously… i made a joke about darcy and someone tagged me on a post as if i don’t understand him and his character development. 🙄

[leliesblou]

Chief Inspector Alwyn "Gag-chewing, remember the academy, Fleet" Keller would admire Clara's gag-removing technique

[datastate]

regardless of what i say toward michiru (or kazumi to a lesser extent), i don't think anything will ever compare to how severe my feelings for lurien were and still are (i've just gotten shy since i rarely post abt hk anymore, i don't want it to solely be 'this bug needs to be real so i can spend the rest of my days tending to him' . . .)

[mwolf0epsilon]

Who wants to hear about what happens to Tongue Twister, Conch and Syrup?

[lemondoddle]

Please I'm losing my mind over this pokemon that I can't find any evidence of existing bc I KNOW I've seen it before mentioned with pokemon but I can't find it in the dex or anything so can someone PLEASE tell me if you know what this is and if it's a real pokemon based on this horrible drawing

[I.D. a poorly drawn pokemon with a large square head and bipedal lizard-esque body. It has large half-lidded eyes, an even bigger nose and dots above its eyes, it also has a mouth and is gritting its teeth. End I.D.]

[mint-ty]

Every time I come to check this godforsaken tag, there's always something 😮‍💨

Toppy Jere was a nice brief idea that has been sufficiently killed and burried after tonight

Also.. him on all 4 but still can't stop waffling about smth is so funny and so on brand hah

[cosmic-walkers]

Hmmm if Henry wasn't king and just some normal lord or Duke or whatever and he did some shit that required him needing a lawyer and that lawyer was Thomas...Thomas would drop him as a client expeditiously I fear.

[loser-user-noaccuser]

Trying so hard to hold my tongue with the Bad Omens and Linkin Park tour but 😬

[bijoumikhawal]

got reminded of the "saying Arabs conquered and colonized North Africa is Zionist because obviously no one saying that coulx possibly draw a distinction between North African Arabs and Palestinian Arabs, and even drawing a distinction between Arabs and Imazighen is colonizer shit" school of thought

[freakwiththeknifecollection]

Years of reading and writing disapproving parent fic have come back to haunt me, as I'M now the one committing faux pas in front of my partner's uptight parents 🫠✌️

[claw00]

Had to listen to a liberal moan on about how she struggles to view certain groups of people as human and how she doesn't understand how someone could become so devoid of humanity and turn to extreme violence. She kept saying she was well traveled and has seen poverty stricken communities and she also works in a poverty stricken, marginalized community.

[stellerssong]

*waves at u from several mutuals away* hi!! i just wanted to say I've been reading your through endless revisions fics and I'm enjoying them tremendously, i love the way you treat dream and lucienne as characters, and their relationship to one another, it's just so good 😭😭😭💜💜💜💜

[waves energetically at you over probably sunbreak & lucienne-thee-librarian's heads. i am most likely standing on a box or phonebook or maybe a chair in order to accomplish this. fun fact: i am not tall.]

hello and thank you for your kind words! i'm so glad to hear you've been enjoying the fics—while i've had my ups and downs with that series and this fandom in general, i do feel like i'm filling a worthwhile niche with revisionsverse (namely: dannydream talks to LITERALLY ANYONE. LITERALLY. ANYONE. other than hobert gabling. god.), so it means a lot to know someone's still enjoying it. three more fics to go, folks, and the next one is. well. i say it's "close" but i've been saying that for some time now and it keeps being a lie but i prommy it's not this time. even factoring in all the formatting cleanup i'm going to have to do. cries in "someone please find me an italicizable 'okina special character"

and here's the thing. i WILL be on my dannyluce bullshit until someone takes me out back and puts us all out of our misery, so until someone gets real brave, i WILL be sobbing and screaming and gushing about how theirs is the fruit of a love that never could have let itself be, the promise of hope born of world-ending tragedy, the impossible denouement that neither Lucienne nor Morpheus would have permitted themselves the luxury of dreaming about, concrete proof many times over that love endures through and beyond death, the possibility of perfect communion on a shared metaphysical plane with all the terror and vulnerability and utter satisfaction that entails, et cetera, ET CETERA,

[volkswagenital]

its still so fucked and surreal that im getting surgery in 10 days. so insane