Wanderer above the Sea of Fog – by Caspar David Friedrich (1818) // Me on a rock in Massachusetts (2018) So many people have made the comparison since I first posted my photo that I finally looked it up!
You know, I think the thing I appreciate most about this ask is the period at the end. See, without the period, it would just seem like a string of nonsense. With the period, it seems like a very long sentence translated, possibly from German (which would account both for the length of the sentence and for the capitalization of words in the middle of it), into some arcane avian tongue, a dialect spoken only by the most educated birds, which a mysterious creature has, for reasons unknown, come to the conclusion that I, your humble mod, might understand. I get a lot of weird shit in my askbox, but that period elevates this particular message so far above the common herd that it is even now wandering the astral plane.
[Image Description: Ask reading “Hallo und dooten Tag!”]
For fuck’s sake anon, I’ve got giant cuts across my rib cage and bandages restricting my ability to inhale you cannot fucking make me laugh this hard
Alternate take: the capitalized Doots form a diagonal line from the top right-hand corner of the paragraph to the last word of the last line, which makes me think this is actually some kind of knitting pattern.
Everyone’s going on about having a ‘traditional, old-fashioned Christmas’, but when I burst into the house covered in green paint and demand a champion strike my head from my shoulders with my own axe so that I may return the blow next year, I’m ‘scaring Grandma’.
One time in I asked my English teacher if I could go to the bathroom and he said the ‘I don’t know, can you’ line like it was something new and clever and my mind just sort of went stupid and I told him that if there was a colloquial gap between ‘can I’ and ‘may I’ that was significant enough to genuinely confuse him in the context of a classroom then maybe he shouldn’t be teaching highschool English, and what nobody tells you about that sort of situation is that no matter how good it feels, you do have to come back and finish the rest of the class
Finding out that Frances Dana Barker Gage, a white woman, rewrote Sojourner Truth’s famous speech to be more stereotypically “Southern slave” (complete with slurs and misspellings like dat, dere, dey) when Sojourner Truth was actually from New York and spoke only Dutch until she was almost ten and wouldn’t have actually sounded that way linguistically and decidedly did not use the phrase “Ain’t I A Woman?” at all is…whew. And on top of everything, she embellished details about Sojourner Truth’s life (like the number of children she had/how many of them were sold into slavery), wrote that ST said that she could take beatings like a man, and the reception of the speech in the room (she claims ST was called a n*gg*r, earlier accounts say the room was welcoming).
Lmaooo peak white feminist antics.
You can read the most accurate transcript here, alongside the racist edited one.
I was already disgusted just reading about this but looking at the side-by-side comparison of the real speech and the rewrite really brought it home.
Mooncustafer 