lin·gua·phile

Are you signing up for the upcoming YW fic exchange? Also give me your female Roshaun headcanon. C:

1. I am maybe not signing up because I will be traveling in a foreign country when the fic is due and don’t know if I’m competent enough to get it together? But I could be talked into it…!

2. OH GOD I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START. Um. (I have legit never thought about this before!) Well, first things first: girl!Roshaun has a far more complicated relationship with her parents, because while I am not totally sure where I stand on Wellakhit gender politics headcanon, it does seem to be the kind of society where it would be more stable for the Sunlord to have a son than a daughter. As soon as she’s old enough to be in public company, she’s surrounded by suitors, so she grows up with a strange sense that she is the most important person in the room but also that this importance depends entirely on her ability to manipulate the opinions of men? She doesn’t have a lot of female friends because she can’t participate in the kind of frivolous boys-and-clothes-and-makeup conversations that they can — and also she could never trust a girl with a brother (or male cousin, or, ew, widowed father!) because she would always be suspecting them of trying to get at her power. She goes through a phase when she’s younger where she tries not to be attractive, or polite, or any of the things that she’s supposed to be, but people keep coming at her anyway, because she’s heir to the throne, and it doesn’t matter that she’s chopped off all that golden hair, it’ll grow back and the servants will keep better track of the scissors from now on.

And so when she shows up on Earth and meets Dairine, it’s just such a slap in the face that this girl gets to be a girl, gets to have a childhood, doesn’t have any boys scrambling for her attention, or if she does, doesn’t have to worry that boys like her for anything other than her.

theonewhoisruledbyfear:

Put one character or ship and one of these symbols (or more) in my ask box, and I’ll let you know the following for that character/ship:

☾ : Sleep headcanon

☠ : Drinking/drunk headcanon

☼ : Childhood headcanon

☯ : Genderbent headcanon

⋆ : Sex headcanon

☮ : Bedroom/house/living quarters headcanon

☄ : Any AU headcanon (modern, school, medieval, and so on)

♤ :  Cooking headcanon

☻ : Mood headcanon

♒ : Any other question of your choosing

This seems fun :) Also I don’t want to grade student papers any more, SAVE ME.

(via mooncactus)

High Line in bloom! Perfect antidote to still-not-done -with-papers blues.

But like seriously I wanted to go out and do things with my day after turning in this paper but I just feel NUMB AND EMPTY INSIDE and like no reading will be pleasurable because I have just spent way too much time reading. AND I HAVE TO DO THIS ALL OVER AGAIN, and this time for a prof who’s a real dick (and I am not one to throw insults around lightly) and who I don’t want to give ANY MORE OF MY TIME EVER. And who just wrote me an email that I can summarize as “Oh, that sounds like a good topic for a short paper, but you might also want to touch on this other huge theoretical thing IN ADDITION to the thing you are already engaging, even though it would make your paper a lot longer, but I wrote a book about this theoretical thing that you should really read (you could write a longer paper if you wanted to and I would still read it).”

SCREAMING

If you’re seeing this, I am done with my last seminar paper* of the semester and have absolutely no fucks left to give.

*Unfortunately I still have one shorter paper that will require as much research as a seminar paper but it’s not due til May 28 and I DON’T CARE DID YOU NOT SEE THE PART ABOUT NO FUCKS LEFT?

(Source: shibaconfessions2, via avatarsnowy)

Kifah Shah (via myheadisbloodybutunbowed)

(Source: ear2ear, via euchroma)

riddlerose:

raspberrying:

andithevillian:

This is HANDS DOWN my favorite grammatical example.

i am such an oxford comma enthusiast

I will always reblog the best argument for the Oxford Comma ever.

Never not reblog.

thumbcramps:

hi guys! this is a comic i made for a final in my comics in literature class. we had to do a research paper on a topic we’d discussed in class and then accompany it with a comic with a relevant subject. my paper was about hyper-sexualization of women in comic books, but i decided to broaden it out here as well as personalize it and make myself the subject and discuss something i’ve been subjected to in the convention circuit and on the internet as well as thousands of other women, as well as give a cue to thought about how the comic book industry as well as the video game industry and even just media in general (all of which are male dominated) push such ridiculous pressures onto girls and women.

also, it feels kind of silly to have to add this since i hope it’s obvious, but i am very aware that there are men that don’t subscribe to this attitude, and am incredibly grateful that these issues are brought to light to people other than the ones that are subjected to it. 

anyway haha i have literally been staring at this for 9 hours i don’t even know which direction is up anymore. thanks for reading!!!

(via euchroma)

floozys:

“boys will be bo-“

*flies in* 

*punches you in the face*

bOYS WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE 

Tautologies aren’t logic. They’re an excuse for not thinking.

(via elviella)

gunnarolla:

This is brilliant

1. I wish my library did this.

2. I spent like ten minutes being sad that I did not know and therefore could not read the book whose description contains “Bears” and then I realized it’s The Golden Compass duh self.

(Source: alethiosaur, via fuckyeahbookshelves)