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Freaky Friday – Luxelen (Resent to Correct Tumblr.)

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Luxelen stumbled through the hall on her stilettos, cursing to herself and awkwardly flailing her arms about as she used the wall to keep herself steady. At the end of the corridor, Roses waited patiently for the arrival of their leader, one which ran towards Luxelen as she approached.

“Luxie! Come on, we’re almost on!”

Luxelen scowled at the Rose uncharacteristically, clearing her throat as she turned her attention to those gathered.

“Right ah… What are we doing?”

“It’s the Phoenix Season fashion show, duh!”

“Right. Alright ladies, get into formation and prepare to march down the runway! If any woman falls before she makes her turn, I’LL FEED HER CORPSE TO THE DOGS.”

The gathered Roses all stared at Luxelen in horror, the woman in turn coughing awkwardly.

“I mean ah – Let’s… Strut our stuff.”

(( Some of the Roses would just nod knowingly and not stare in horror. Well, we might stare at the stumbling on the stilettos…. ))

dduane:

thescienceofjohnlock:

punkgang:

how about instead of sending the xkit guy mean messages complaining that he isn’t fixing everything fast enough you send him messages reassuring him that it’s okay and he should keep focusing on college and fix xkit when he has the time. i guarantee he’s already stressed from school so complaining about tumblrs update breaking xkit will just make it worse.

I can’t believe people are sending him crap! Seriously he does this purely out of the goodness of his heart, not because he’s being paid for it.

SERIOUSLY. Xkit Guy is a practitioner of quiet heroism. Every week or two, Tumblr breaks new things, and every week or two, within a day or so of the breakage, while we lie cursing and moaning on the floor, XKit Guy arrives with splints and bandages and tea.

To berate him for not doing what he does fast enough is a sign of corruption by endemic overentitlement. XKit Guy is not a public utility. He’s a digital philanthropist, and he deserves to be treated like one, not like some pizza driver who arrived two minutes late.

(stalks off muttering)

Reblog if you say “Y’all”

norcumi:

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

morgynleri:

lynati:

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

It’s even more fun if you say, “Fuck all y’all.”

*narrows eyes at screen and tries to figure out if that is redundant or not*

It’s not, but I cannot remember why. (I know there’s something in grammar that applies, and would explain why it’s not redundant, but I’m drawing a blank because late-night reblogging.)

English is fun.  It’s not redundant but it’s one of those borderline moments where it almost doesn’t make sense because we don’t speak that way any longer.  Take out the contraction:  “Fuck all you all.”  Now, consider that all has two different meanings here.  The first all is rounding up the subject to be verbed.  The second all *is* the subject to be verbed, i.e. “Fuck all of you all.”  The inclusion of of is what makes the reader realize it’s not redundant, but it’s actually not a necessary word.  Think of it this way:  “Fuck all you people.”  In this case, the original all has been replaced by people, but it means the same thing.  The language has just evolved to the point that instead of saying ‘all’ for a group, we now typically assign very specific names for a group.  People, them, girls, boys, those assholes, ect.  For example, Battlestar Galactica’s “So say we all!” is a throwback to the older use of all.

I fucking love this cracked up language.

As with many things, this damn Yankee gets to blame this quirk on my Latin teacher.