There is no “lei” because people are not gender neutral. You can pretty much tell from context and when you can’t, you ask their preferred; or you guess. I usually base my guess on body size and hair length but that doesn’t work on black people in my experience so with them I usually assume female cause (again just /my/ experience) if you call a black man by a female pronoun they tend to either not care and roll with it or they let you know politely “I’m a man” but if you call a black woman sir she will flip tf out on you)
Second question. The one about aspirin fixing tons of stuff. It is actually a vasoconstrictor which helps soothe headache and reduce fever which is pretty much the majority of the illness in America until you get the big stuff. We don’t have many middle of the road illnesses. It’s basically nothing just ignore it or GET TO EMERGENCY ROOM NOW! Type stuff here. And the tiny stuff aspirin fixes.
Wait that’s not what they meant with the ‘Lei’ question. It has zero to do with gender. You use it with both male and female, the discriminant is social status/age/degree of knowledge. It’s like the french ‘Vous’, it’s a formal pronoun used to address people with respect. It’s actually extremely disrespectful for us to use the ‘tu’ instead of the ‘lei’ when you don’t know them, which was the question that was posed in the video, the gifs are not complete, the question in the video was “why don’t you have the ‘lei’? who gave you this much familiarity?” here a vague explaination
Fun fact: during the fascism Mussolini actually tried to suppress the usage of ‘lei’ substituiting it with the ‘voi’ that was used in southern italy (still in use) actually because of the gender implication. (can’t use the female pronoun to address people with respect, can’t we? *sarcasm*). Many bureaucratic problems ensued.
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No but like……. If Ford had fucking included Mabel in any of this, none of it would have happened? But because he overlooked her she was upset at Dipper leaving her and about school, and she had no idea what the rift was.
Mabel is so fucking pivotal like not what he seems? Ford got brought back all because she is loving enough to put her trust in Stan against all reason. And here Ford is trying to convince Dipper to leave her. I’m so fucking mad.
In proper astronomy terms, it would probably be Delta Ursae Majoris c or d, so if you’re looking for a planet name that would be the one to keep an ear out for.
Not really in the gravity falls fandom but something struck me during the episode that I needed to share. As Ford is dragged away to space purple things flash in the air. First this
Then it zooms in on this
Which looks a lot like the Big Dipper reversed.
See? Then it flickers over each of the dots
and settles on one of them, which looking at the star map above probably corresponds to Megrez
before zooming in even farther to what looks like a planetary system.
And choosing one of the planets there and zooming in on it.
Basically I’m pretty sure these aliens come from, or at least were sending Ford to, the second or third planet orbiting the star Megrez in Ursa Major.
She should not be blamed for anything. Ford made Dipper keep the rift a secret from her. She had no way of knowing what it was. Ford caused this whole mess by keeping Mabel out of the loop.
I feel like Ford is deliberately trying to separate Mabel and Dipper because he despises his own twin.
stop
she’s literally 12 years old and she just found out she had to leave her brother and even dipper said that he’d never been apart from her. her birthday was ruined, she didn’t think she’d get to say goodbye to her friends (which probably wont be a problem anymore considering the world is ending!!!!), and she’s SCARED
shes scared of high school and of growing up and of being made fun of, shes scared her brother will leave her shes scared her and dipper will end up like stan and ford.
she had no idea that blendin was actually bill, and she had no idea what the rift was
she even hesitated handing it over
how do you think shes going to feel when she realizes that she helped cause the apocalypse? shes 12 and scared she didnt mean for any of this to happen
But yeah, as I went on about at great lenght, the parallels between Angua and Vimes are just astounding, once you start pay attention (I sure didn’t, at first), but Thud! is just a bloody masterclass like
all that stuff about not giving into the Beast part of you? Who are we talking about? The werewolf who has been having a personal identity crisis for probably half a dozen years by now, or the man with the walking substitious entity of Law in his head?
And it’s no coincidence either; as demonstrated by their (unusually) short fuses during the book (largely triggered by things being outside their control); Emphasis on marked activities to remind themselves they are not said Beast (reading to young Sam, paying for chickens – going after chickens in the first place instead of people), about not making excuses, presisting in prevening themselves from treating the people they despise badly (deep-downers for Sam, vampires for both of them) and, oh, this ENORMOUS prejudice they have against, you guessed it, VAMPIRES.
Like, it’s almost funny how similar they are in their response to Sally. Angua can wave it off as being ‘a werewolf thing’, but their reasons are pretty much the same; they hate that vampires get treated as human when they are really not. And yet Angua prevents herself from pouncing on her when her instincts tell her to do so, and Vimes tries his hardest to treat her like just another copper, even when he’s three parts furious and one part terrified off her.
(the funniest part is when they, together, confront her about spying on the watch, and then refuse to allow her to resign. Like, you successfully infiltrated the Watch and fed information to our sorta-frenemies? You’re gonna be a GREAT copper, even if we don’t like you personally.)
But the clincher for me is that, in the end, it’s Angua who brings down Vimes just as he tries to stop himself from giving into the Beast and killing any more deep-downers. In her werewolf form.
Like. I’m sure I don’t need to rattle on further on just how symbolically relevant that is.
A Middleground 