Here’s some more Bolin O: …ish
I tried to draw him looking younger than I first drew him xDyessssssss hino bolin before bed
Ohhh yessss~~
only the avatar can master all four elements and bring balance to the world
#it looks like they’re moshing #LET’S OPEN THIS PIT UP#DISRESPECT YOUR SURROUNDINGS
Linguistics and Language Stuff, for Beginners
Just a few things:
- All languages and all dialects, standard and vernacular alike, have “grammar.” Grammar is just a word that means “the order and patterns that we see happening in the language.” Saying “I only like people who use grammar correctly” is like saying “I only like dinosaurs who are dinosaurs.” No dinosaur is more or less dinosaur-y than another, unless we’re talking pterodactyls, which are technically flying lizards, not dinosaurs.
- Linguists, generally, believe that all languages are created equal. Speaking one dialect and not another doesn’t make you inferior or superior to another person. That’s just who you are, baby. It makes you you. In my opinion, it’s okay to simply dislike a dialect because it doesn’t appeal to your sensibilities, but judging people based on how they sound is dumb. It’s like saying you prefer Tyrannosaurus Rexes, and because of that, Triceratops is totally the worst dinosaur and they’re so dumb because they’re not T-Rex. It’s okay to like T-Rex better. It’s not okay to dis on Triceratops because of that.
- The formal standards we have that get taught in school and that we all learn are the best way to speak!!!!!! are standards because people in power made them so. Who wrote dictionaries? White dudes with access to printing presses and money. Who decided how we spell words? Those same white dudes (and sometimes, a white chick who, because she had $$$, got to proofread a white dude’s dictionary). Telling everyone who doesn’t speak the formal standard as a native dialect that their language is wrong or stupid sucks. Don’t do it. It’s like telling the Velociraptors that because they didn’t grow up acting like Deinonychuses, they’re never going to be as awesome as Deinonychus. Which is wrong, because I guess you never saw Jurassic Park.
WHAT A GOOD POST. Which I feel like elaborating on a bit!
Warning: James has now-annoyingly-rusty feels on sociolinguistics ahead. This is purely my own self indulgence speaking. As I said: rusty, so sorry for any errors.
"She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights."
— Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding (via commanderspock)
Aang is the best dad/uncle, y’all.
Never, ever, ever, ever, ever stop drawing stuff like this.
Ever.
-whimper-
Like the cycle of the seasons, the cycle of the Avatar, began anew.
"[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than females on the Math section but females achieved higher scores on the Verbal section. ETS policy-makers determined that the Verbal test needed to be “balanced” more in favor of males, and added questions pertaining to politics, business and sports to the Verbal portion. Since that time, males have outscored females on both the Math and Verbal sections. Dwyer notes that no similar effort has been made to “balance” the Math section, and concludes that, “It could be done, but it has not been, and I believe that probably an unconscious form of sexism underlies this pattern. When females show the superior performance, ‘balancing’ is required; when males show the superior performance, no adjustments are necessary.” "
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“Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org. (via vaginawoolf)
We were told our English Lang GCSEs were often about sport or politics because boys often underperformed in that exam. I can’t even fathom the number of things wrong with this kind of thinking.
(via benedictatorship)
oh my god there is nothing that annoys me as much as Journey being PS3 only
ARGH I WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME SO BADLY
WHYYYyyyyy well no I know why BUT STILL.
I CAN NOT TALK ABOUT THIS GAME ANYMORE, IT MAKES ME SO ANNGRRRYYYYY ghJKAdsaDSkj. I just want to plaaaaayy!
24 Hours of the Sun, Stars and Earth in a Single Panoramic Image
A stereographic projection of an entire day stitched together to provide the view of one rotation of the Earth. Wow.
(via Colossal)
