authentic homestuck experience of no news for months on end broken by crazy shit suddenly dropping out of fucking nowhere, shit going down behind the scenes, no one having any idea what’s going on and everyone losing their shit and getting the tag trending on tumblr
I am writing this on February 20th, 2013. I do not
know when, or if, I will ever post it. But since you’re reading it now, it can
only mean one thing: the MSPA Prophet is dead, and it is now safe for me to
tell the world how I knew when updates were coming.
A friendly reminder that some poor probably under paid people at VIZ had to deal with this kind of hilariously sloppy web management/coding during the switch from MSPA to the official homestuck website.
Can you imagine Hussie,a man with adegree in computer science, trying to explain to you all the pages of homestuck exist on a secret forum under the reign of a million porn bots? I wish i had been in the room honestly to see the 7 stages of grief flash through VIZ’s corporate eyes simuntaneously.
“in this essay i will explore” memes piss me off because it implies y’all still using first person pronouns when writing academically. childish ass
In this essay, this writer will explore the implications of pretending that one’s own personal view is not part of one’s essay, and the inaccessibility of academia related to established custom of artificial detachment.
In this essay, I will demonstrate that the blanket ban on first-person pronouns in high-school and some university English classes is poorly understood and hastily adopted as a result. I will further illustrate that it is a mere substitute for explaining to inexperienced writers that excessive use of phrases like “I think” or “I believe” is unnecessary and rhetorically weakens academic writing, and that opinions expressed in an essay are already assumed to be those of the author. Finally, I will address strategies for effectively conveying that information to students, who often find it difficult to grasp.
In this essay, passive voice will be used throughout in order to distance the work done from any researchers, or, in reality, kind of imply all experiments were done by magical lab gremlins and the results were simply recorded.
in this essay, enlightenment will descend upon you without the agency of any living being. you will know things, yet know not how you know.
prepare yourself. it begins.
This is one of my favorite things about philosophical writing – they abstain from so much of the academic bullshit tradition like the no-I rule. If you thought it up and you’re writing it down, you’d better be okay explaining it in a personal and easy-to-grasp way, or else it’s useless. (Also everything is either a pun or a jab at another philosopher, so that’s great too.) I wish more writing focused on content and not convention.
Your mom admits to you that you have some… supernatural blood running through your veins. But she doesn’t remember what kind, cause she was kinda a hoe.
anyone who argues that one sided pining is better than mutual pining is a FOOL. i want fics that all or nothing babey they’re both stupid and in love and unable to see that the other is just as smitten as them. that’s where the good stuff is.
im also here for all their friends wringing their hands just watching the two of them so obliviously in love and pining over each other
people making all these nitpicks about Harry Potter canon and my only question is why didn’t we see people Cumberbatching Voldemort instead of calling him You Know Who like
“Oh no, it’s Moldywarts!”
“But we have to be careful because Toadybloat’s followers might hear”
“Ah yes the great and powerful Haggisplate”
“Refusal to say a name gives that name power, Harry. But mutilating the hell out of it to the point that people can’t take it seriously anymore strips that power away.”
“Vimeofail… Volvodoor… Vulvadynia… Fuck, what’s the Dark Lord’s real name again? I can’t fucking remember.”
