Since I have a lot of time on my hands here in my Azkaban cell, I've decided to make myself a scrapbook to remind myself of the glorious days when Lord Voldemort reigned over the wizarding world and instilled fear in all those who heard his name.
You can expect to see pictures of fellow Death Eaters, famous Slytherins, as well as blood trators and other pettier enemies, as well as things you might not have known about my universe...
Science & Conservation Intern, at Butterfly Pavilion captures video of octopus changing colors as it sleeps. It raises the question of whether cephalopods can dream/experience REM sleep.
The original tweet is in response to a tweet about Ellen Maud who sought out medical help and was routinely told to just lose weight. She later died of cancer.
“Look, it- Is that what this is about, that I was
a little distracted last night?” “It’s not just last night. You’ve been like that
ever since I got here. And you weren’t distracted. You’ve been avoiding
me like I was Typhoid Mary!”
he could’ve built it with his own two calloused hands and it would still be grandmas house
The reason it was “grandma’s house” is because grandma took care of the kids/ grandkids, loved on the kids/ grandkids, socialized and got to know the kids/ grandkids. But granddad thought all he needed to do is work and make money and was okay being scarce.
A lot of older men realize (if their wives predecease them) that they have no relationship with their family and that the family was only emotionally held together by his wife/ grandma.
But I think that today – if men take a more active role in parenting and being part of the family – that it will be “grandparents’ house” not grandma’s.
Other than “tu” and other small things, your formal education probably isn’t preparing you for informal situations within the realm of languages. And while it may not seem super important, you might just make a friend in your TL and start speaking to them like you would the Queen. That’s why I’m offering you this (very) limited list of ways to make your speech informal. AND I highly encourage others to reblog this and add their own thoughts. Without further delay, let’s jump into this shit.
Tu vs Vous
This has been beat to death so I won’t bore you too much. When appropriate, switch from Vous conjugations to Tu.
Prepositions
While your French prof probably said you can’t end your sentences with prepositions, you actually can (*notice: limitations apply). You can change your sentence from “Tu viens avec moi ?” to “Tu viens avec ?” and it changes the formality slightly. Another example is “tu es pour cette nouvelle règle ?” to “tu es pour ?” (The stipulation being that someone must have previously mentioned this “règle” of which you speak).
Annoyance
Instead of “ça m’énerve” use “ça me fait chier” or “c’est chiant”.
Filler words
Honestly, a little of this goes a long way. Words like “quoi,” “ben” “euh,” and “genre” can make you seem like you know what you’re talking about. So you can use “quoi” at the end of the sentence to just dangle without having a real meaning: “elle m’a dit ça mais elle a fait qqch d’autre. C’est chiant quoi.” “Ben” and “euh” function like “uhm” in English. “Genre” means “like” so you could say “il est genre euh un fuckboy.”
Bref & ‘Fin
“Bref” means “in short” or the way less formal version of that. So you could say “George a fait ça et ça et ça. Bref, il est con.”
Drop the “ne”
In a formal setting, you might use both the “ne” and “pas” to negate a sentence but in an informal setting, drop that “ne.” Ex: J’ai pas mangé.
Close the Gap
If a verb starts with a vowel, combine “tu” and the verb. Ex: Oui, il a menti. T’as eu raison.
Question inversion
If you want to be fancy and formal, you can invert the subject and verb for questions. However, if you are trying to be informal, DON’T DO THAT. “As-tu mangé ?” is weird so just say “t’as mangé ?”
Ça vs Cela
Please don’t say “cela” in informal settings (or most settings in general). It’s more for writing. “Cela te plaît ?” sounds forced whereas “ça te plaît ?”
Pronunciation
This is a multiple-part suggestion so let’s number these.
If an un-accented “e” is between two (but no more than two) consonants sounds, drop that “e.” Ex: “Rapidement” > “rapid-ment”
Il(s) becomes “y” (especially when followed by a consonant-sound).
“Puis” and “parce que” get shortened to “pis” (don’t pronounce “s”) and “pas que” (pronounce “s”)
As I said above, I want this to an open discussion so please include your own thoughts and observations.
Whoever did these photos really, really understands what women want. There’s no rippling muscles or pouting at the camera or crotch shots; instead, there’s a soft-eyed long-haired man reading a book in an underwater paradise. Whoever did this looked at all of the media produced and aimed at women and concluded, correctly, that Mr Darcy coming out of the water in the 1995 Pride and Prejudice is where human sexuality peaked.
I truly don’t understand how the female gaze is still so hard for the media to nail down when the Simpsons gave them such big hints.
Kudos to this gorgeous girl (Lucy Nuzum) for doing god’s job:
So here’s the thing, not only did he have a woman doing the photography (and I suspect made that decision on purpose–if you flip through his old photoshoots you can tell he’s more comfortable with a woman behind the camera), his mum is his art director, and he’s like super hella proud to have her doing that job and basically she says stuff and he just goes “sounds good, I trust you.”
So Lucy Nuzum did an amazing photography job, but it was Raine Hozier-Byrne who went “what exactly can I do to meet both the album themes and the desires of his fanbase, which is 98% women and 2% gay men and other queer people who aren’t women,” and came up with “I know, let’s try to make him look like a drowning Oscar Wilde.”
