Author: movementsinshadow

witch-vomit:

Also idk if y’all are dweebs about local legends and obscure historical facts and monuments and cool things in your city that are like…..unconventional I guess

But there’s this website called AtlasObscura.com where you can literally put in ur zip code or ur city or ur state and it’ll literally show you a map and list of a bunch big super cool interesting sometimes spooky things in ur area!!!

Like if you’re into crypts and catacombs and history and legends and unusual attractions….this is ur best bet

Especially if you’re visiting a city (like Boston cough) where you want to not solely do the popular overpriced and over packed typical tourist shit this summer!!!

please… if you’re going to attempt to speak in “old” english

wolfdownwords:

theliteraryarchitect:

veryrarelystable:

gehayi:

lukas-langs:

THOU is the subject (Thou art…)
THEE is the object (I look at thee)
THY is for words beginning in a consonant (Thy dog)
THINE is for words beginning in a vowel (Thine eyes)

this has been a psa

Also, because H was sometimes treated as a vowel when the grammar rules for thou/thee/thy/thine were formed,THINE can also be used for words beginning with H. For example, both “thy heart” and “thine heart” appear in Elizabethan poetry.

For consistency, however, if you’re saying “thine eyes”, make sure you also say “mine eyes” instead of “my eyes”.

Further to the PSA:

Thou/thee/thine is SINGULAR ONLY.

Verbs with “thou” end in -st or -est: thou canst, thou hast, thou dost, thou goest.  Exception: the verbs will, shall, are, and were, which add only -t: thou wilt, thou shalt, thou art, thou wert.

Only in the indicative, though – when saying how things are (“Thou hast a big nose”).  Not in the subjunctive, saying how things might be (“If thou go there…”) nor in the imperative, making instructions or requests (“Go thou there”).

The -eth or -th ending on verbs is EXACTLY EQUIVALENT TO THE -(e)s ENDING IN MODERN ENGLISH.

I go, thou goest, she goeth, we go, ye go, they go.

If you wouldn’t say “goes” in modern English, don’t say “goeth” in Shakespearean English.

“Goeth and getteth me a coffee” NO.  KILL IT WITH FIRE.

Usually with an imperative you put the pronoun immediately after the verb, at least once in the sentence (“Go thou” / “Go ye”).

YE is the subject (Ye are…).  YOU is the object.

Ye/you/your is both for PLURALS and for DEFERENCE, as vous in French.

There’s more, but that’ll do for now.

Oh wow. Reblogging for reference.

very handy!

writing-prompt-s:

You are a member of The League of Extraordinary Doctors, a mixture of the nation’s best healers that treat superheroes. Describe your average day on the job.

I don’t have a lot of really unshakeable opinions, but here’s one: teenagers should not be superheroes. You know how psychologists say teenaged brain chemistry makes them think they’re invincible? Not a trait that translates well to life-threatening situations.

So I’m minding my own business, going through my day in the clinic like a normal person, when my phone rings. It’s a dispatch call from the League of Extraordinary Doctors, which should really be called the League of People with Extraordinary Patience. 

I respond to the dispatch on a busy downtown street. There’s debris all over the place, and ambulances coming for the injured bystanders. A policeman directs me over to a mountain of cracked concrete that I think used to be a parking garage. I climb up a ways and find the teenaged hero lying on their back. I don’t know this one’s codename, but judging from the theme of the costume I’m guessing speed powers. Good. They’ll heal faster. I wave over an ambulance and ask someone to find a car jack. 

Then the kid groans, so I run over to them. “Hey. I’m here to help,” I say. “I’m going to get you to a hospital, alright?”

The kid starts to get up, and I hold them down by their shoulders. “I’m fine,” they say. “I gotta get after Mackerel.”

I do not question fish-named super-villains. Instead I find myself fighting this clearly seriously injured child, trying to keep them still. I don’t want to wonder what a speedster would do with a spinal fracture. 

Another doctor on the same dispatch finally arrives, and we end up having to sedate the kid to get them into the ambulance. At this point the other guy IDs them as Lightspeed, which as far as names go isn’t too bad. I’ve certainly heard worse. Then we call the kid’s mentor.

By the time we’ve sorted out the kid – and trust me when I say you don’t want to know how that went down – the mentor’s already waiting in the recovery room. I guess they went and chased down Mackerel before coming to the hospital. Twisted priorities, if you ask me, but, hey, nobody did. Mentor – I believe he introduced himself as Mr. Quick, but I wasn’t paying too much attention – proceeded to chew out the kid for A. Getting almost killed, and B. Resisting medical care. I left them at that, because my phone was ringing and also because that was as far as I wanted to go with this particular story.

I kept seeing that kid. Reckless. Always put up a fight. Mentor never really taught him otherwise, and was never anywhere to be seen when I showed up. Always chasing down the bad guy. Eventually the kid retired, which was just as well for all involved.

And it makes a good tragic tale to tell the other stupid kids.