i was at the zoo and just kind of vagueing out leaning on a rail and watching the duck pond and in the background a kid started yelling “he’s coming for you! he’s coming for you!!” and i thought it was some game she was playing with her family or something up until i felt a little hand grab my elbow and looked down to see this tiny wide-eyed child staring up at me with the world’s most serious expression and she said in a solemn voice
“he’s here for you”
and something reached out and grabbed my other hand
it turns out that a resident cockatoo has figured out that if it just waddles back and forth along the rail it can get the maximum amount of attention and headskritches with the minimum amount of flying and objectively this is very cute but at the same time this was very nearly the way that a grown adult died of a heart attack at the zoo
i love bird tumblr so much, where else could you go “hey look at this bird” and have a complete stranger not only know where it lives, but declare that it’s their nemesis
It’s called copula deletion, or zero copula. Many languages and dialects, including Ancient Greek and Russian, delete the copula (the verb to be) when the context is obvious.
So an utterance like “you a bitch” in AAVE is not an example of a misused you, but an example of a sentence that deletes the copular verb (are), which is a perfectly valid thing to do in that dialect, just as deleting an /r/ after a vowel is a perfectly valid thing to do in an upper-class British dialect.
What’s more, it’s been shown that copula deletion occurs in AAVE exactly in those contexts where copula contraction occurs in so-called “Standard American English.” That is, the basic sentence “You are great” can become “You’re great” in SAE and “You great” in AAVE, but “I know who you are” cannot become “I know who you’re” in SAE, and according to reports, neither can you get “I know who you” in AAVE.
In other words, AAVE is a set of grammatical rules just as complex and systematic as SAE, and the widespread belief that it is not is nothing more than yet another manifestation of deeply internalized racism.
This is the most intellectual drag I’ve ever read.
that one college guy who was going to play the piano on campus until his ex took him back
the game designer who tried to propose to his (now ex) girlfriend via the spider man video game
the song “hey there, delilah”. written abt a girl who was in a relationship w another man
any time a guy tries to use art to manipulate a woman into loving him and/or giving him what he wants, he’s wielding it as a weapon
imma be real with you, this post put my iq in the double digits
i’m glad i could improve it!
Alternate take: men use art to express their emotions, and that’s beautiful.
That one college guy wrote and/or played songs that expressed his emotions in ways he’d never been able to fully express before.
The game designer took a medium he worked in, and one his (now ex) girlfriend enjoyed, and wanted to propose in a way that is both memorable and inclusive of both of them.
The song “Hey There, Delilah” is about a struggling musician in a long-distance relationship with a girl he loves very much, so much so as to express it in a song that would hopefully help him provide some financial support to their relationship, and also to reassure her of his love for her.
Guys will use art far more often to express their affections and emotions than they will to manipulate women.
@beckette Take your hate and leave. Stop trying to stop men from expressing their emotions.
i know you really think you Did That, but none of that is true:
the college guy was literally trying to publicly shame and manipulate a girl who broke up with him into taking him back (he got punched in the head because he was playing the piano on the college campus at like, midnight, or something, and thank god).
the guy, who i have been corrected was not actually game designer, but just a guy who wanted a favor, was in a relationship that he knew was going downhill. his ex-girlfriend didn’t care about video games and didn’t want him to propose. as a bonus, after he published his story about it, the woman had to deactivate all her social media accounts due to unrelenting harassment.
“hey there delilah” was NOT written about the singer’s girlfriend. she was at most, a friend of his, and was in a relationship with another man. the song included an uncomfortable amount of personal details, and lead to people accusing her of being a cheater.
i fully encourage that everyone, regardless of their gender, express their emotions in a healthy way. the way these emotions are being expressed, at the very least, made the intended targets uncomfortable, and lead to two innocent women being harassed because of the way men twisted the public perception of them.
Did I ever tell u guys about the time my ex legitimately thought he killed me with his dick???
Ok so picture this I’m 18 and excited about sex, trying out some new positions. We are having sex in a pretty similar position to this
And my pussy is so wet it might as well be a god damn Slip N Slide ok. And he’s pounding at it fast and hard but slips out and goes to go right back in… But something is wrong. He’s about to enter….
The. Wrong. Hole.
And my eyes widen, I go to shout “noooo!!!!” But it’s all happening too fast. He thrusts right into my unlubed asshole and I scream like murder and leap right up onto my feet.
We had only been dating a couple of months at this time and there was something very important he did not know about me: I am a chronic fainter. If I’m in pain or if I see my own blood, I will pass the fuck out. I get real quiet and turn to him and say, “I am going to pass out.”
He doesn’t know I’m serious, he thinks I’m just being emotional, and he’s like “no baby come here” but as he finishes that sentence i faint and my head ping pongs off my metal bed frame, onto the wall and then finally my whole body falls on the ground.
He has never seen anybody faint before and naturally assumes I’m dead. A couple minutes later I awaken to him sobbing into my naked chest. Like this motherfucker really thought he sent me to the grave with some accidental anal sex.
SIMONE I AM YELLING
Joining tumblr was worth it just to read this. I didn’t make a terrible mistake 9 years ago, after all.
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