Grammar Pirate

[Grammar Pirate]

[raisinchallah]

the reason stiles is closeted despite homophobia seemingly not existing in the teen wolf town is because they go to faking it high school where being gay is cool and hes deeply psychologically attached to being a loser so he cant come out and this would upset the delicate balance of the high school heirarchy he has attached his status to (very jughead of him) so hes gotta be straight because he would make first line if he was openly bisexual (same level of social and atheltic capital as being a werewolf) scotts in the closet because in a world with no homophobia holding ur bros tight and flirting with men is normal lydias in the closet because there is no equally popular girls lacrosse team

[Grammar Pirate]

[corviiids]

so for nanowrimo this year i decided to not write a novel but instead write a screenplay for my dream project, A MUPPET ODYSSEY, which is homer’s odyssey but it’s muppets, a la muppet christmas carol. i didn’t finish it :( but here’s some of it.

that’s from the teaser. this is the first scene:

odysseus makes it to the castle in phaeacia:

thanks for reading a muppet odyssey. if you enjoyed please hit that subscribe button and petition disney to let me write a muppet odyssey

[corviiids]

thank you everyone for your kind response to a muppet odyssey. if i can muster the energy i’d love to finish it and pop a full script online for your viewing pleasure. alternatively, if anyone on tumblr works for the muppets studio please reach out to my agent (it’s just me in a hat).

some choice tags:

@yourfaveisamuppet​ you are a fucking genius.

@pyrite​ i did ultimately end up casting miss piggy as circe! i and some folks on twitter toyed with the idea of all the men on circe’s island being muppet pigs originally who she then turned into human people as punishment.

[Grammar Pirate]

[princess-okkotsu]

Oh the Onion is not playing today

[correspondingnerd]

Also from the Onion recently

Biden Expresses Doubts That Enough Palestinians Have Died

WASHINGTON—Saying civilian casualties were the “price of waging a war” and that so far the price had not been high enough, President Biden s

The Onion

[quasi-normalcy]

[Grammar Pirate]

[mjulmjul]

[Grammar Pirate]

[roisnoir]

I am test knitting a pattern I've charted out and am thinking of releasing, and i cannot overstate just how much i Do Not Want to write out the instructions for basic shit like K2tog and SSK and binding off.

Uggggh. How do other people DO this?!?!

[roisnoir]

Why yes, those ARE all the pushpins from the corkboard that lives over my workspace for doing miniatures - i'd love to know where my sewing and/or blocking pins are hiding.

I didn't do the optional bead on the spine, though i will do another test doily with them, probably soon.

Also testing out the border row repeat, which is new to this version of the chart and might do something untoward as charted. The border as shown in the sample does not have rows 35-38 repeated.

Cast on 8, join. Knit one round. Work chart 4 times per row. Each beaded row has 4 more beads than the last. I pick however many I need, sort them, and then put them on in order. They won't always line up, but on a large piece, it makes a very pretty gradient that shows the color distribution of the bead mix.

Test doily is knitted in size 20 crochet cotton on size 2 needles.

[Grammar Pirate]

[journeyman-tier-fibercraft]

Having a chronic illness bout and craving a doily. (From this post)

I had this random 25 grams of oil spill coloured beads that I think will look really good against the white doily in the One Corner of my bedroom that's decorated (gothic). The weight of the beads is sooo satisfying it almost makes up for how they keep rolling into stitches they don't belong in (a tension issue i'm too lazy to solve, hoping blocking + starching will mostly stop it).

[journeyman-tier-fibercraft]

My Doily craving has been fulfilled. I got the beads in the center of the petals as straight as I could bring myself to care about. I added the beads to this on a total whim but they're cute! I started with about 25 grams (250 ish beads) and I have 22 left.

Put the notes/revised chart I used below the read more.

Keep reading

[Grammar Pirate]

[just-shower-thoughts]

Blind people must save a lot on electricity.

[stomatium]

They do actually!

[mauve-moth]

I had a blind professor, last semester, and I swung through his office to make up an exam. It was a while before I knew he was in there because he was sitting with the lights off. I finally went in, apologized, and took the exam by the light of a nearby window (which was fine). Forty-five minutes into dead silence he panicked and yelled in this booming voiced, “WAIT, YOU CAN SEE!!!” before diving across his desk to turn on the lights. I’m sure he was embarrassed but I thought it was endearing and it highlighted a large aspect of disabled life that I hadn’t previously considered.

[hotmolasses]

Sort of relatedly I once had professor who was deaf, but she had learned to read lips and speak so she could communicate easily with hearing people who didn’t know sign language. One day she had gotten off topic and was talking a little about her personal life, so that one of the students said “Oh, I know, I grew up in Brooklyn too.” 

She stared at him for a long time and then said “How do you know I’m from Brooklyn?”

And he said “You have a Brooklyn accent.”

She said “I do?” and the whole class nodded, and then she burst out laughing and said “I had no idea!  The school where I learned to speak was in Brooklyn.  I learned by moving my mouth and tongue the way my teachers did.  So I guess it makes sense that I have their accent, I just never thought about it.”

[wrote-my-own-deliverance]

My moms a sign language interpreter, and she’s signed with people from all over the US. According to her, when she signs with people from the south they sign with a “drawl.” They have slower hand movements and exaggerate certain parts of the sign. People from the Midwest sign very fast and people from the south sign very slow.

So we were at a restaurant once and my mom started interpreting for someone who was trying to order and she was like “oh you’re from the south!”

And they were like “how did you know that?”

And she said “you sign with a drawl.” And they were really surprised that it came through that much.

It’s really interesting that even when not speaking verbally accents and heritage come through.

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Humans are so fucking fascinating

[Grammar Pirate]

[nereb-and-dungalef]

Mongolian history class, 2022, start of the semester. We're having a discussion on animal slaughter, featuring the one Mongolian student in our school.

The student explains that he's slaughtered animals himself, and there are two ways of doing it that avoid the spilling of blood. For a small animal like a chicken, you reach up into the chest of the animal and sever the arteries. For a larger animal like a camel, there's a spot on the forehead that, when hit hard enough, causes the animal to die instantly.

While this discussion is going on, a couple of the students are sharing something back and forth on their phone

The professor calls this out, asking if what they're sharing is more interesting than Mongolian animal slaughter

The room is dead silent for a few seconds. The two students look at each other awkwardly.

Eventually, one of the students pipes up:

"Well, the queen of England just died."

And without missing a beat, another student:

"Did they hit her on the head like a camel?"

[Grammar Pirate]

[aliciarose-art]

Maidens with Swords - 12th Century

[Grammar Pirate]

[aigenderated]

in my dream world that i live in sometimes we stop saying things like “NOBODY is gross or dirty!!!” And start saying things like “being gross or dirty isn’t a moral flaw or failing”

[aigenderated]

not brushing your teeth for months at a time is gross. It’s not a moral failing and does not make you a bad person.

[aigenderated]

being told I wasn’t gross online by posts by well meaning people when i was a very depressed young teenager for not showering for weeks did not make me feel better, because i felt gross and dirty. What would have actually helped was engaging with the reality (that it was a little gross, what i was doing/unable to do) but that it did not make me a bad person undeserving of help. “Youre not gross and (so) you deserve help!” Okay well i feel gross. This cant be aimed at me.

[aigenderated]

it also goes against your own brain- everyone thinks things are gross sometimes & to say Nothing is gross rings false. You can be gross and be loveable. Grossness is not failure. Grossness is not a flaw. Gross is not a moral thing. It’s just what it is and has no effect on personhood and i think preaching “having things about you that are dirty or gross does not make someone lesser or unworthy or failed” over “nothing is gross” will carry us a lot further

works for me, anyways. maybe it won’t for you, but it’s helped me a lot more than anything else has.