Throwback To That Time I Cursed Ye

wild to me that there are people who have no desire to paint their walls in fun ways. and i don't just mean "people who choose sad neutral colors on purpose" i mean: why aren't more homeowners out there scribbling on their walls? it's your property, you can paint and color and draw whatever you want to! when did we as a species stop fingerpainting our homes that was a mistake

my gf said something sooo insane about helly the other day and i cannot stop thinking about it. she was like. helena and helly’s relationship is almost maternal. the way helena created helly as an extension of herself, to serve her interests, to try and impress her own family. she scolds helly, talks down to her like a child. “i understand you’re unhappy with the life you’ve been given” “i am a person, you are not”. the way she envies and resents helly’s freedom. the way she feels entitled to helly’s life and is now living vicariously through her in the most literal sense. what if you created life and now they’re experiencing the things you’ve always wanted for yourself. what if you created life and they were flawed and loud and demanding and they were loved more than you’ve ever been. and you hated them for it. the mother/daughterisms are insane my girlfriend is insane

Oh my gods i forgot that part

Today's high schoolers romanticizing 2016 as if there weren't the clown incidents

Grumpy little rant:

I'm so fucking tired of trying to juggle a full-time class schedule as a student while also working full time. I work all day then come and I have to do MORE work for school and MORE work trying to clean up after myself which for some reason is obscenely hard because I'm the messiest person to ever exist and I'm SO FUCKING TIRED of not being able to cook a real fucking meal and I just keep eating chicken nuggets and pasta and I spend like 2 hours EVERY DAY thinking about how much I should be vegan or at the very LEAST vegetarian and I'm not and so here I am eating shitty food in a messy house and I'm Still overwhelmed ALL THE TIME I feel like I'm making compromises on everything instead of some things and getting nothing out of it and I'm just fucking tired. Oh, and did you hear the world is ending and I belong to the country that's fucking torturing people and fucking over literally everyone?? Sorry guys! Wish I had the time or energy to do something about it but I can't even put my fucking dishes away and I have 6 weeks worth of laundry on my bed. Fml

This is a fantastic linguistics paper – the researcher observed the artificiality and social pressure imposed on kids when they're asked to produce language on the spot, so instead had them talk to a rabbit in a room with a tape recorder. He found that when talking organically, without an adult authority figure around, their speech was exponentially more sophisticated, socially fluid, and creative.

As someone in the twitter thread points out, this has obvious implications for situations in which cued language production is used in diagnosis e.g. for autism. I'd add that (while this particular paper's remit is limited to children) it should also make us think about situations where adults are pressured to speak by authority figures: court hearings, police encounters, benefit assessments, asylum interviews, etc. If the presence of power hampers your ability to advocate for yourself, these are all rigged propositions.

Anyway, you can read the whole piece here (taken from a talk on his research, so it's very readable):

https://betsysneller.github.io/pdfs/Labov1966-Rabbit.pdf

e: sorry, I should add the context that this is a language study situated in Hawaii in 1970 so there are also some very significant racial socio-linguistic politics discussed here that might be distressing to read about. I don't want to discount that aspect of the power dynamic studied here either.

The Locked Tomb Series Official Reading Order:

- The Iliad

- The Bible

- The Apocryphal Book of Judith

- Dante's Inferno and Paradise Lost

- Don Quixote

- Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

- Revolutionary Girl Utena

- Homestuck

- Umineko

- Gideon the Ninth

- The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex

- Lolita

- Harrow the Ninth

- Harrow the Ninth Again

- The Barbie Movie

- As Yet Unsent

- Nona the Ninth

defying the odds with mama