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shapeofh2o

Can we talk about the moments in the novel that never made it into the film?

  • Elisa not only dreaming about water, but dreaming about a mysterious man under the water and thinking that man was already better than any man she’d ever met before.
  • Giles’ van being called the Pug.
  • Basically the whole of Lainie Strickland’s character. Her development is so well-written and she deserved better in the film. She starts out as a meek housewife, who then realizes that her husband is a piece of shit and starts to forge her own path. 
  • How Giles and Lainie’s plotlines converged. 
  • Giles keeping his toupee on a human skull named Andrzej.
  • Giles being sick but not knowing. 
  • Zelda dreaming of opening her own cleaning business and taking Elisa with her to get out of Occam.
  • How Strickland keeps calling Zelda Mrs. Brewster. 
  • Strickland hating eggs. 
  • Strickland being so traumatized by the jungle he constantly hears monkeys screaming in his head. 
  • Him being called the “Devonian” or “Deus Brânquia”
  • The creature glowing with light every time Elisa enters the lab. Her heart breaking every time he’s in the tank and not in the pool. 
  • The fact that the creature can only be out of water for 30 minutes. 
  • How Zelda thought Elisa didn’t want to be her friend when in reality she just wanted to protect her by not dragging her into this mess. 
  • The creature changing the color of his bioluminescence according to his mood.
  • Dmitri almost committing suicide before the Occam job.
  • Dmitri constantly thinking of his parents.
  • The creature signing E-L-I-S-A, his favorite word. 
  • Elisa wading into the pool when trying to free him, almost drowning, but he’s there to hold her and bring her above the surface. 
  • Elisa pouring water over him in the back of the van from bottles as she holds him. 
  • Elisa buying plants and lots and lots of tree-shaped, pine-scented air fresheners to create a little jungle for the creature in her bathroom.
  • The creature trying to love said air fresheners “for her for her for her.”
  • Elisa being so lovesick she thinks about him while she’s doing her shopping.
  • Elisa being covered in his shiny scales after they make love. 
  • Elisa teaching him useless things like “New York Philharmonic Orchestra” and “Egypt” and him going along with everything because he just wants her to be happy.
  • Him having a little tail!
  • Him trying to eat everything that he gets his hands on while exploring the apartments. Him thinking that everything is a rock. Him calling Giles’ drawings his “little twins.” 
  • The cat actually offering itself up for the creature.
  • The creature licking Giles’ wound instead of touching it.
  • Elisa lying in the bathtub with him on their last night together.
  • Animals (even a pig) gathering on the docks to see the creature. Him parting a group of rats like the Red Sea.
  • Elisa signing “stay, stay, stay, stay, stay,” when he can’t see.
  • Zelda and Giles beating up Strickland.
  • Zelda and Giles bonding after the creature and Elisa disappear under the water.  
  • Him referring to Elisa as “the woman we love.”
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cannibal-rainbow

“they” (1 word) is shorter than “he or she” (3 words)

“they” is more inclusive than “he/she”

“themself” flows more naturally than “him or herself”

“they” is less clunky than “(s)he”

it’s time to replace the awkward “she or he”

gregthyst-is-real

“hey can you go ask they what does they want for dinner, and when is they coming over to watch movies with they?”

lisa-franck

“Hey, can you go ask them what they want for dinner, and when they’re coming over to watch movies?”

Step one is learning how to talk like a human person.

anghraine

Friendly reminder:

“I shouldn’t like to punish anyone, even if they’d done me wrong.” —George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“A person can’t help their birth.” —William Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)

“But to expose the former faults of any person, without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

“Every Fool can do as they’re bid.” —Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (1738)

“So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.” —King James Bible, Matthew 18:35 (transl. 1611)

“God send every one their heart’s desire!” —William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (~1600)

“Now this king did keepe a great house, that euerie body might come and take their meat freely.” —Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia (1580)

“If … a psalme scape any person, or a lesson, or els yt they omyt one verse or twayne…” —William Bonde, The Pylgrimage of Perfection (1526)

“And whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame, / They wol come up and offre a Goddés name” —Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Tale (~1380)

“þan hastely hiȝed eche wiȝt on hors & on fote, / huntyng wiȝt houndes alle heie wodes, / til þei neyȝþed so neiȝh to nymphe þe soþe [Then hastily hied each person on horse and on foot / hunting with hounds all the high woods / ‘til they came so near, to tell the truth]” —William and the Werwolf (transl. ~1350-1375)

“Bath ware made sun and mon, / Aiþer wit þer ouen light [Both were made sun and moon / Either with their own light]” —Cursor Mundi (~1325)

advanced-procrastination

We’ve been using they/them/their pronouns to indicate a person with unspecified gender for a long ass fucking time. The only reason it’s become a big issue lately is because it can be used as a semi-respectful term for trans and non-binary folks and we can’t have that can we

These fucks are literally trying to change our language to hurt trans/nb folks, and claiming that’s just the way its always been

signawyvern

It’s in the Oxford English Dictionary as a singular gender-neutral pronoun so anyone who says it’s not grammatically correct can suck it, plus when is grammar more important than affirming the existence of people?

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