OMGOMGOMG ITS A SIGN PLEASE STILL BE THERE TOMORROW
ok sure
you go to TJ and if you can find me a purebred german shepherd puppy that’s as healthy as can be after living on the streets/being in a shelter environment with tons of other dogs around and small children sticking their gross hands through the bars to lick and touch
then you can complain about our price on yelp
until then, who tf do you think you are? there were only two people who met those puppies today that we would’ve talked to about the medical and i’m 99% damn sure your name was not ANYWHERE on that list
seriously who tf is this person?? (10$ says its someone who’s pissed because we wouldn’t let her adopt a puppy that would eat her toddler the second she turned around but y’know we’re just ~*greedy*~)
also, it’s a written complaint, why would you put in the unnecessary “like” as a filler word, this isn’t a verbal conversation???? whyyyy
I love all of these, but fuckin the gills one speaksssss to me.
Like Gabe taking a bite out of a cucumber when Jack’s not around, and it’s the most delicious thing he’s ever tasted. He finishes it quickly and can’t help but grab another, chewing on it less ferociously. Jack comes out of the house with lemonade and sandwichs in time to see Gabe start to cough.
He asks if everything is alright and Gabe passes it off. But it gets worse and worse until he’s doubled over, gasping for breath and clawing at this neck. Jack panics and doesn’t know what to do until he sees the half eaten cucumber, and bodily hauls him to the pond, tossing him in armor and all.
Gabe freaks right the fuck out, trying to hold what little breath he had as his armor drags him to the (surprisingly deep) bottom. He holds out for as long as he can, and then fighting to get off his clothes so he can swim back up. Just as he feels he’s about to pass out, he gasps and suddenly feels the rush of oxygen.
Struggling out of his armor, he makes it back to the surface. He’s all ready Jack to curse at him for the lack of warning, and Jack is just sitting there holding the half eaten veg, glaring daggers at him.
“I told you not to eat the vegetables. I was getting lunch.”
“Figured it was a job thing and not a ‘weird make you grow gills fae thing’”
“Well it was and now you have to live in the pond while I sort out this mess. Enjoy the webbed fingers.” Jack said, tossing the cucumber at him, and stomping back to the house.
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Que Gabe having to stick around for a week while Jack grows the things he needs for a cure and barters for a few others. He spends most of it hauling his shit off the bottom and trying to prevent his armor from rusting.
((The pond is now a thing. Beside the house and under/in Jack’s roots. Extremely deep dispite looking like a normal pond on the surface.))
Omg the horse thing tho, imagine that scene from spirit stallion of the cimmarron, the get off of my back scene, but with a big black stallion Gabe, and jack hiding in the bg laughing while Gabriel bucks all the thieves off
In case y’all thought Hebrew was an easy language
(Those tiny points around the letters appear only in children’s books btw)
those dots and dashes being the VOWELS, which only appear for children and language-learners
This seems like a good time to ask… why? Is there a reason why the vowels are omitted from most texts, given that there’s a system to indicate them? *curious*
Is this is unique to a certain language system? Tolkien’s made-up tengwar does a similar thing…
arabic does this too! i’ll let hebrew speakers explain theirs, but the explanation is simply that if you’re a fluent arabic speaker, the written forms and usage will provide the (non-textual) context that guides your pronunciation. what i mean by written forms for arabic is that every letter actually has a different morphology depending on their position in a word. kinda like… how… mm… the roman R in cursive changes forms depending on its position. tht helps a lot, i think. in any case, in regular practice, you do see the arabic vowel marks (depending on romanisation, is called harakah/harakat/harkat) appear regularly as a standard in quranic editions for non-arabic-using muslims. like, i grew up reading the ‘al-qur’an mashaf malaysia’ and thinking i was hot shit, and then i found my grandma’s pakistani one AND I DIED. lmao.
Semitic languages are like, reading: expert death mode.
I hate when men smirk and gloat and say shit like “Women are attracted to powerful men,” like that negates any feminist impulse, like they think that at the heart of all women is this little, mincing girl that wants to be dominated.
I just roll my eyes because, dude. If you ever read the second half of any fucking harlequin novel ever, and saw how the hero always ends up blubbering on his knees and saying shit like “I can’t live without you! You unman me!” you’d realize that being attracted to powerful men is just the first part of a two-step plan.
The second step is to completely fucking annihilate him.
Apparently this is the most important thing I’ll ever say.
*clears throat* Allow me to quote Jayne Ann Krentz:
“In the romance novels … the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence, and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on earth, the human male, to his knees. More than that, she forces him to acknowledge her power as a woman.” (“Introduction” from Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of Romance.)
The romance hero may start as a total alphahole, but by the end of the novel, as stated above, HE HAS TO CHANGE. He needs to become respectful and treat the heroine as an equal partner, otherwise it won’t work. This is why Elizabeth Bennet refuses Mr Darcy the first time but accepts him later. This is what so many people miss. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this post.
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