I'm Kenith, live in VA. All about butts, cooking, eating, video games, and anything else that strikes my adventurous fancy! Eagerly awaiting your questions!
Someone thought my snapchat pic I took today was cute. So in a mood of self-confidence I’ll post it. I took it while working on my kayak this afternoon!
The world changes, but the far right? the far right never changes.
(May all holy gods grant that, some day, classic Herblock cartoons will stop being topical and relevant.)
One of the most important reasons to study your past is to make sure you’re making sufficient progress to see why it was wrong then and use it to see why you may be wrong now.
Too many current bigots are still making the same prejudiced judgments their predecessors did for the same evil calculations.
Can we stop saying religious/religion when we mean Xtianity though, please?
… you know these cartoons are like 60+ years old, though?
I keep seeing people making fun of using growled, hissed, roared, snarled etc in writing and it’s like.
have you never heard someone speak with the gravel in their voice when they get angry? Because that’s what a growl is.
Have you never heard someone sharply whisper something through the thin space of their teeth? Or when your mother sharply told you to stop it in public as a kid when you were acting up/being too loud? Because that’s what a hiss is.
Have you never heard a man get so blackout angry that their voice BOOMS through the house? Because that’s what a roar is.
Have you never seen someone bare their teeth while talking to accentuate their frustration or anger while speaking with a vicious tone? Because that’s what snarling is.
It’s not meant to be a literal animal noise. For the love of god, not every description is literal. I get some people are genuinely confused, but also some of these people are genuinely unimaginative as fuck.
This for real. Alllllllll of this. All of these sounds are the way different people speak based on their emotions. A snarl is not going GRAWR like a dog. It’s so furious their teeth are bared, every syllable sharp and cutting and loud. A growl is lower, the words dangerously rough and hot, a warning.
It’s the same with softer sounds. A purr is that low, gravelly mmmmm noise of pleasure, or words warm and smooth as melted chocolate. When someone chirps, it’s bright and happy and quick, the syllables a little clipped in excitement. Panting is not tongue lolling like a dog; it’s a heaving chest and words that are half-breath.
This is what language, what storytelling IS. It’s symbolic, it’s imagination, it’s metaphor and analogy and simile. Strip that away and all you have is textbook descriptions, which are of course useful when reading actual textbooks, but far less entertaining when reading a goddamn fictional story.
(I originally posted this response on a post made by a TERF, but I think it does better here.)
Genuinely sharing this, for anyone who might not know, because Maude knows what counts for “teaching to the test” these days:
A simile compares two things using “like” or “as”. In the example above, we’d rephrase it as “His smile was like a whisper” or “His smile was as quiet/tenuous/subtle/etc as a whisper” if you want to point out the specific aspect that makes it similar to a whisper.
A metaphor compares two things without using “like” or “as”. Saying “He gave a whisper of a smile” is a metaphor, because it’s saying his smile is similar to a whisper without using the words “like” or “as”.
Can someone literally whisper a smile? Well, unless they’re literally whispering the words “a smile”, probably not. But what might an author be suggesting about a person’s smile by comparing it to a whisper? How quiet is it, how tenuous, how secret? What qualities might a whisper share with this smile, and why? What peace might be broken if the wrong person were to see this smile? What might be gained that he’s sharing it with you?
Not to be Ancient Greek on main but does anyone else get a strong urge to strip down, get wine drunk, and wrestle around with the boys every now and then?
This is why we need universal basic income: so people can pursue their passions without worrying about surviving
“But people won’t want to work if their basic needs are met” this just proves that that’s a lie. There will always be people like this who genuinely want to do the “dirty jobs” that no one else wants to do
This person is lucky enough to have a job that also pays them well enough, but that’s not the case for most
