This was my art school’s water fountain. Drink from them wolf tiddies
Assignment misunderstood. I have now built a city.
Give it a day
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citationless behavior
sourceless behavior
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To note:
FR: concentrer /EN: focus
FR: écureuil /EN: squirrel
FR: pingouin /EN: penguin
FR: câlin /EN: hug
the “PINE-GUINE” fucking killed me asfgashasfg
Google Translate: focus
This man, with extreme amounts of self-confidence: fUCK US
notajerusalemcricket-deactivate
....
EUGHJJ
EUGGHJJ
"hug"
NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Rocking chairs are proof autism and ADHD have always existed, there is no way a neurotypical person said “what if there was a special chair for rocking back and forth in”
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Not to get too intense about it, but I really do love a good retelling, but my criteria for good retellings are... not high, but perhaps more specific than they are for most people. If I had to make a list
- A good retelling must understand the original text and its context. If one is retelling a Greek myth, you must understand not only the plot of the myth, but the author should also at least understand the intent behind the myth, both in charitable and uncharitable interpretations.
- A good retelling must add something new by telling this story again. You can't just say that this is the same story... but in space! You have to know that the creation of a different context for a story fundamentally creates different themes and understandings, and take advantage of that. To go back to Greek myth, Hadestown is fundamentally a retelling of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. However, instead of solely focusing on Hades as a figure representing Death, Hadestown focuses on Hades as a patron of the wealthy, the lord of all wealth hidden beneath the earth as much as the bones that also lay there. The story is then reframed as not just the story of Orpheus and Eurydice but also of the story of an early 1900s company town wherein Hades is the exploitative boss. Orpheus is voice of the downtrodden, traveling to this place of the downtrodden and trying, in his own way, to affect some tiny bit of change. In what I'd consider one of the seminal songs in the musical, "If It's True," where his simple action of singing this question about whether this is the only way things have to be awakes the deadened workers and their collective force makes Hades respond.
- A good retelling must stand on its own even if the audience is unfamiliar with other tellings. Knowing the original should enhance the experience, but it should not be necessary. Sorry to keep using musical examples, but The Tain by The Decemberists is still a great song with solid lyrics, even if they're abstracted from the original story of The Cattle Raid of Cooley. They change the lyrics to more modern ideas, with references to Charlemagne, cars, and so on, but the through-line of the story is very clearly there. The story even ends with a direct question to Medb - was all that really worth it?
I dunno where I was going with the rest of this, but those are my thoughts on the matter.
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i cant believe that to be a translator i just have to come to terms with the fact that translation does not exist. there will never be complete identity between two different languages there can only ever be equivalence. there is no such thing as translation without loss & in fact loss is inherent to translation you cannot escape it. and as a translator you will always have to make choices that will lead to those losses and it will feel like a betrayal and you will be haunted by what you have killed in translation & grieve and there is nothing you can do about it. the only way to curb that loss is if everyone everywhere spoke every language which is not feasible & there is just a void of meaning, a cemetery of significance in every translation and a world of footnotes and translator’s notes will not be enough to fill in the gaps. but still. yknow yknow
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girl I would kill myself if I did that lol
tricotbf
reading harry potter actively makes you less literate
j why did you censor the name of the scottish play
some-j-name
I think doing that is way funnier than saying the Scottish play, and I’m not going to risk actually saying the name and having something bad happen
i just realized despite me making fun of you for saying m*cbeth, i refused to say it myself. i am fucked up
even I, the op, flinched while writing it in the notes 😔
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tsurangaconundrum
shakespeare isnt special my autistic friends can all talk in a pattern too
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The cup song would have been the worst thing to experience during the tiktok era
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pavlovs dog and schrodinger's cat armed with chekhovs gun and occams razor to take down freud. new hit movie coming april 20th 2069
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I recently found my “gold” hammer after misplacing it. It’s my favorite tool ever because it looks like a regular hammer trying to be fancy,
but then you twist both halves and unscrew it to find a flat-head screwdriver in the middle.
BUT, if you twist the very end and unscrew that
you find a phillips screwdriver.
BUT DON’T THINK THAT’S ALL THERE IS! THERE’S MORE!! unscrew the very end again to find a smaller flat-head screwdriver!
BUT THAT’S STILL NOT THE END!!
unscrew the end of this screwdriver to find a final, teeny tiny, flat-head screwdriver
look at how cute it is!
it’s like a matryoshka doll of tools.
I have one of these and I keep it in my IT toolkit because that teeny little screwdriver is the right side for laptop casings, but because it lives inside a large object it’s harder to misplace than a standard tiny screwdriver. Also because the look on a client’s face when you bring out a brass hammer to fix their laptop is absolutely wild.
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passionpeachy-deactivated202312
every time you post “let women be feminine💖” we give a t-shot to a disney princess
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a woman alone will download pdfs. two women together will send links and articles. three or more women? that’s a library
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a californian but there’s something just a bit wrong and spooky about her. call that an uncanny valley girl
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im hyperventilating
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tenorgender
ˈsɑri, bʌt wi kənˈvɜrtɪd jʊər ˈbɔɪˌfrɛnd ˈɪntu aɪ-pi-eɪ. jæ, ði ˌɪntərˈnæʃənəl fəˈnɛtɪk ˈælfəˌbɛt. ɪnˈstɛd ʌv ˈbiɪŋ meɪd ʌv wɜrdz naʊ hiz ə ˈstændərˌdaɪzd ˌrɛprəzɛnˈteɪʃən ʌv spiʧ saʊndz ɪn ˈrɪtən fɔrm. jæ, ˈprɪti mʌʧ ˈɛniˌwʌn ˈspikɪŋ ˈɛni ˈlæŋɡwəʤ kʊd ˈfɪɡjər aʊt haʊ tu seɪ hɪm. ˈsɑri
#translation:#sorry but we converted your boyfriend into IPA.#yeah the international phonetic alphabet.#instead of being made of words now hes a standardized representation of speech sounds in written form.#yeah pretty much anyone speaking any languages could figure out how to say him.#sorry. (tags via @3--2--1--gone)