There are additions on this post that have been added later one through remarks
Truth is, it reads more like “she can do everything” and “him, it’s just Ken”
And “ken” is a word from a slang language system where you switch the syllables (verlan) used in French that means “to fuck” (niquer (to fuck (familiar)) -> quer-ni -> kéni -> ken)
So “Him, it’s just fucking”
Which I think is even more hilarious
ADDITION: An anon pointed out that orally (without paying attention to the comma), it can be understood as “Lui sait juste Ken”, which would translate as “He only knows (how) to fuck” and I think that’s even MORE hilarious
“You can’t be a lurker on tumblr.” Yes, you absolutely can. I’ve been quietly reblogging things since 2014 and I haven’t interacted with anyone in years.
“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.
“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement.
“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”
“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”
Things I didn’t know
“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”
You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.
and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND
I didn’t know about zeugmas until just now! That is so awesome, everybody:
zeug·ma
ˈzo͞oɡmə/
noun
a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).
You can ship characters for happily ever afters, sure, you can ship them for tragically-then-happily, you can ship two or three or four or more, you can ship endless combinations of personality types and relationship dynamics
but you can also ship characters under very specific circumstances, or for a certain period of their life but not for all of it, or only in a certain universe. You might say “I ship these characters” and what you mean is you think they are fascinating together and could have a story together. That story could be any kind of story.
Sometimes it means you want them together for the rest of their lives. Sometimes it means something different than that.
I don’t know about you, but for me, “I ship it” means “There is a story in this ship and I am interested in that story.”
for me, “I ship it” means “There is a story in this ship and I am interested in that story.”
Thank you for articulating this. Yes. Exactly.
And sometimes that story’s a tragedy, or a black comedy.
It doesn’t have to be healthy or happy to be a good story.
One of my biggest frustrations in trying to discuss queer media is how many people seem incapable of separating “this is an important milestone in representation” from “I did or did not enjoy this piece of media.” Media analysis goes beyond just “fandom stuff,” and queer media in particular deserves analysis and discussion because of how hard it’s been stifled.
It doesn’t matter if you hate Steven Universe, it’s still important to talk about, because it showed the first queer wedding in American children’s television. It has been cited by the creators of subsequent queer family animation as a major milestone in allowing their shows to enter production. The Ruby/Sapphire wedding is a historical milestone, and that doesn’t stop being true just because you hate the show or think the ending was bad.
It doesn’t matter if you think Will & Grace is entertaining or if you have any real interest in watching it, it’s still a majorly important entry in televised queer representation. It kicked down the door to allow even more to come after, and deserves credit for what it did even if you don’t personally care about the story.
It doesn’t matter if you have any personal interest in Rocky Horror Picture Show, it’s still got a ton of important history in queer spaces. Understanding why Rocky Horror showings were and still are hubs of queer expression is important even if you despise the movie and the creator.
Giving credit for representation milestones doesn’t mean you can’t have criticisms of a piece of media, it doesn’t mean you have to like the media, and it doesn’t mean you can’t prefer other media. It doesn’t mean it’s free from problematic material, it doesn’t mean it’s god’s gift to television, it doesn’t mean it’s better or worse storytelling than other stories.
It just means it’s worth talking about and understanding the context in which it was made.
Reblogging this to mention a couple specific examples people have brought up in the notes, that I thought were really good–
Glee. How many of us fucking hate Glee? I do. You couldn’t pay me to watch an episode of Glee today. Damn important at the time, though!
Rent. Fucking goddamn Rent. I hate Rent. But how many people did it introduce to broader queer stories and issues and community?
The Ellen Show. The show was a HUGE deal, and the impact of Ellen DeGeneres coming out was far, far reaching. Ellen as a person, however, is the kind of rich asshole who hangs out with fucking Dubya. And that’s something that can (and should!) be talked about in the analysis of the show and its aftermath, without ever saying that “the show is bad and shouldn’t exist and Ellen’s coming out should never get talked about.”
I just blocked someone for going on a tag rant about how Rocky Horror doesn’t deserve to be on this list because it’s “irredeemably transmisogynistic,” and I need all of you to sit down and listen.
I never said you had to like the things on this list. I never said that you are required to engage with them.
What you are obligated to do, if you want to exist in queer community spaces, is respect the history and culture of the space you’re in. You don’t get to go into queer spaces and shit on the communities and traditions that kept the community alive. It doesn’t matter if you “approve” of those traditions, what matters is that they kept. people. alive.
Every now and then someone gets over-the-moon pissed at me for defending Rocky Horror, and I just want so badly to introduce all these people to the 60-something year old trans woman who came up to the cast & crew when I was helping clean up after a RHPS shadowcast performance to tell us all about how she and her fiance have both been coming to Rocky longer than I’ve been alive, and how heartwarming it was to see people keeping the tradition alive.
If you have never been part of a queer space putting on a Rocky show for other queer people, don’t talk to me about Rocky. Go count your fucking blessings that you live in a world where we can have new, better kinds of representation, but don’t you dare act superior to the queers who have been Time Warping since before either of us were fucking born.
I was searching for some pretty Hanukkah gifs to schedule a post tomorrow wishing my Jewish followers Happy Hanukkah and I found a fit/shape/body building site that posted this
And I thought to myself, I simply must show my Jewish followers fit Menorah Man
muscle tov
MUSCLE TOV IM SCREAMING
This was NOT how i planned to wish my Jewish followers Happy Hanukkah but with that said I must share these additions to the post:
Let’s do a Wild Hunt larp where we kidnap Jeff Bezos and release him in the forest and then give all the larpers (who are amazon employees) weird masks and motorbikes painted to look like fucked up horses and wolves.
Somewhat disturbed at how fast this post started picking up notes.
don’t set out food if you don’t want us to eat
i love that i can’t write the word fuck on facebook without risking getting zucced and here I’m greeted everyday by posts like this
I need a cooking show with these three as the judges. Please.
They trade who wears the hat every round
The left picture makes me go into grandma mode. Wanna pinch his cheek and give him hot chocolate and cookies.
The middle picture makes me go “Yes Ma*am” with a healthy dose of fear.
And the right one puts me into a monstrous rage of wanting to tear through his creations because I love him, i love what he does, but by everything holy, I hate him with the passion of a scorned lover who wants to f*ck him one last time to show him what he will be missing.
Don’t censor fuck or he will force you to watch him make the word out of chocolate.
