nightlifemingus:

veruca-slut:

girlsgetbusyzine:

writeswrongs:

cumaeansibyl:

coffeeandconlangs:

Unnecessary “fillers” in our speech. I’d rather have “like” than up-talking, though (if we had to choose one, that is). Ewwww, up-talking. Then again, a combination of the two would render me homicidal maniac.

Like, did you ever notice? That, like, the speech patterns people, like, think are stupid?  Are, like, commonly associated with, like, women?

And, like, there’s this thing? Where, like, women aren’t supposed to be, like, assertive? So they, like, qualify their speech? Because, like, we’re not supposed to, like, stand by our opinions?

1) humiliate women so they don’t feel qualified to speak authoritatively about anything

2) humiliate women for speaking in such a way that reflects how you treat her

3) laugh, you are superior because you don’t use words like “like.”  It isn’t as if being a huge stupid asshole has ever made you worse than a woman who speaks with verbal tics.  

all of this and also if you actually read what the woman is saying in the ad it’s really sad and supports what people have said above rather than what the ad is “trying” to “say”

‘Academy of linguistic awareness’

As if any legitimate society of linguists would ever give a shit about eradicating minor speech patterns like this with aggressive prescriptivist poster campaigns

renkris:

(Rebloggable By Request)

peachymints:

For character development of course.

I miss my OCs right now.

cute-overload:

I haven’t seen many Aardwolf cubs around here, I think they’re adorable.

ladyzolstice:

Okay so here’s how Mili’s dressed when she lands in the Kobekan mountains with Ben (not pictured whoops). She was out looking for Jay, who’d been missing for a few days (Jay, in turn, was looking for Trapper, who’d been gone a week) and was dressed in her usual hunting gear.

With bonus Jay to get an idea of their respective heights and body types. Mili is taller and leaner than Jay is, but lycanthropy gives her a lot more brute strength. Jay is smaller and more nimble, and has had more training in hand-to-hand combat.

The blades are custom made in Dublin, hard steel with silver edges, and she carries three: two in easily-accessible hidden sheathes concealed under her jacket, and a small one in her left boot (she’s left-handed). She wears thin gloves to handle her own weapons because silver + werewolf = third-degree burns.

While Mili is your standard wolf in London - that is to say, she only shifts on the full moon and has no control over the process - arriving in Hetherev rattles the beast in her head in ways she is not quite prepared to deal with. Her existing issues with anger management can trigger partial shifts, which can be as inconsequential as gold eyes and pointed teeth to whole limbs shifting into their lycanthropic counterparts. The first thing she does after arriving in Kobekan is to tear apart a giant boar that dared hurt Ben (in front of a horrified Vincent).

Heth gear and summer festival outfits forthcoming! :D Along with a proper turnaround.