As a nursing student, I can attest to the amount of bullying and horrible behavior I’ve seen from fellow nursing students. One of the students in my school’s nursing program got kicked out because she was bullying her own patient…
My mom is also a nurse and she has both witnessed AND personally experienced bullying from her fellow nurses. My dad is a nurse as well and has had his own coworkers try to sabatoge him.
This is called “lateral/horizontal violence” and it’s sadly prevalent in the Nursing profession.
“Why did it take you 10 minutes to clean 1 window?” “There was a cat.”
No but. This person is hanging from a harness several stories in the air, on what appears to be a chilly and/or windy day. And they took time to play with a cat.
Future episode idea: Lila in her anti-Marinette plot tries to take class president as she’s so popular
Lila: I think it’s time for a revote about class president as it has been a while, after all Marinette seems busy and-
Marinette: Thank you so much for proposing this! I’ve actually nearly backed down a few times because I just didn’t have time to deal with all your complaints…suggestions. Seriously, between the bakery, fashion work, occasional side work, building my portfolio, trying to get paid in more than exposure, homework, and being lady…trying to not get in ladybug’s way and avoid akumas I’ve just been so short on time. So seriously thank you.
Lila: Do we have any nominations?
Marinette: I would say Adrien but he is busy. So is Alya with the ladyblog. Perhaps Chloe. Yes, Chloe! She is an actual superhero, has been really nice recently, and has experience in the role.
Alya: Seriously?! Chloe. You’d give it to her
Chloe: It was ridiculous it was even taken from me in the first place. Marinette, I am happy to be honorary class president for when you are too busy
Max: What about Lila?
Marinette: I don’t think that would be fair with how busy her life is. After all, with always travelling, needing to catch up on missed classes, and all her famous friends where would she even find time. No, it can’t be Lila, it just wouldn’t be fair on her.
Bustier: Well, unless there are outstanding circumstances then we can’t hold a re-election until next term, but if Marinette is willing to have Chloe as a representative I think this is allowed as Chloe was the runner up
Adrien: Marinette, I didn’t want to ask this before as you were busy, but do you perhaps want to come over sometime. I’m sure my dad would love to see some more of your designs and I would love your help with a few things. Plus dad gave me the DVD from that movie we had to run out of so maybe we could watch it together
With that Marinette gets to win a fight against Lila in a way that can’t be turned against her. Lila still loses as power gone, Adrien gone, and Marinette is happy. That’s karma for you
Saves Lila from an akuma attack. Puts her “safely” at the top of the Eiffel Tower where nobody usually goes. You know, so she can’t get hurt by akuma
Next day Lila talks about how Ladybug kept her safest. How later Ladybug helped her get back down
Adrien: That’s weird, could have sworn the ladyblog reported Ladybug saving kittens around town the rest of the day. Apparently cats really like her
Marinette: how did she get down?
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Marinette organising regular counselling sessions with school psychologist and the classmates who cherish Lila so dearly to act as bodyguards for Lila. After all, would hate for her to be akumatised a fourth time. It’s for her own protection
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Lila: I just got the newest bag from Audrey Bourgeois’ collection. It was personally sent to me
Marinette: Huh, feathers, I remember when she was into sparkles. Nearly didn’t give Adrien the hat because of that
Chloe: It’s ridiculous but after your hat she got inspired and thought she could do better. Utterly ridiculous. Diamonds are much better.
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Never gives out Wayzz and Trixx together. Always does Pollen and one other miraculous. After all, Ladybug wouldn’t want the love birds being distracted and getting hurt
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Lila: Alya, could you maybe talk to Marinette for me? I don’t know what I did to upset her but it looks like she’s blocked me on instagram
Alya: I’m sure it’s just a misunderstanding
Marinette shows it was Lila who originally did the block. Creates new account for personal use as the last one was more portfolio type stuff of designs. Likes nearly every post Lila makes. Tags her in posts that she may like.
One time Marinette even tags Jagged on a Lila photo as Jagged follows both her accounts on insta (plus a few other places, they are mutuals). He says nothing. Likes Marinette’s latest crocodile inspired phone cover.
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Lila organises girls’ night with all the girls except Marinette. When asked, Lila says Marinette was “busy at the bakery.” They walk past the stairs/arch where Marinette goes for inspiration and came up with the hat design to find her sitting there sketching.
Lila: She lied to me. She really does hate me. This is so awkward.
Adrien walks up to Marinette wearing a jacket with linked cursive Ms. He poses for her and she examines it carefully, puts a few pins so it can be altered, and messes with his hair a bit. She’s completely in the zone. Snaps a few pics
Adrien sees the girls and waves.
Alix: Marinette how could you lie to Lila to spend time with Adrien? You could have been honest
Marinette: well, I heard you guys were getting together – guess Lila has wrong number as didn’t get a message – so I started working on designs.
Adrien: I heard from Nino Alya was out with a girls night so I texted Marinette to see if she had any more designs. I really liked her hat and as she’s a good friend I thought having a real model may help her out. We then came here so lighting and exposure
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Class has school trip to place. Lila manipulates it so Marinette is taking pictures of the class so isn’t in any.
Alya posts pic saying thanks for Marinette for taking great photos.
Adrien posts similar pic but with Lila cropped out.
Marinette turns camera, stands on a table so that she can get a selfie with everyone. Posts the picture where Lila is glaring. Tags everyone except Lila by accident.
Lila reports post for bullying or no consent
Marinette creates a story, does multiple posts where Lila is posing for pictures, a video saying “Lila, I’m recording now”, and tags her in every one. The icing on top comments “so glad we met”
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Lila accuses Marinette of stealing object x
Marinette sighs: Am I the only one getting deja vu?
Chloe: If Marinette was going to steal something it would be from me as she’s close. Not you way in the back
Marinette: Could have sworn I had a pen like the one you’re using Lila (underbreath) I wasn’t the one going around stealing friends
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Marinette: On no Lila, looks like your jacket has a tear in it. Let me fix it.
Lila: it’s nothing. Look she’s trying to steal my jacket! It’s so cold in this classroom. She’s trying to give me a cold.
Rose: She’s the best seamstress in the class. She made me the cutest hat.
Mylene: Trust her, she’ll have it fixed quick
Marinette: Hmm, don’t know if I have the right shade of red. Also not sure how warm this will keep you. This feels like polyester and this stitching is kind of messy. Didn’t you say this was from Agreste? Maybe he’ll still have the right shade
Adrien: Looks a bit like a knock off to me
Marinette: Are you sure this is your jacket? I’ve already sewn it up but you may want to check it’s yours. The size seems different. Perhaps you accidentally swapped with someone. After all, would be really sad if you lost a limited edition Agreste jacket
Adrien: There’s nothing limited or Agreste about it
things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.
WOAH WHAT?
That is profound. I noticed this by accident when asked about adjectives by a Japanese student. She translated something from Japanese like “Brown big cat” and I corrected her. When she asked me why, I bluescreened.
What the fuck, English isn’t even my first language and yet I picked up on that. How the fuck. What the fuck.
Reasoning: It Just Sounds Right
Oooh, don’t like that. Nope, I do not even like that a little bit. That’s parting the veil and looking at some forbidden fucking knowledge there.
How did I even learn this language wtf
I had to read “brown big cat” like three times before my brain stopped interpreting it as “big brown cat”
I’m kinda reading “brown big cat” as “brown (big cat)”, that is, a “big cat” – like a tiger or lion or other felid of similar size – that happens to be brown. “Big brown cat”, on the other hand, sounds more like a brown cat that’s just a bit bigger than a regular housecat – like a bobcat or a maine coon cat or something like that.
yeah, a brown big cat is almost certainly a puma. a big brown cat is probably a maine coon.
yeah, if you put the adjectives out of order you wind up implying a compound noun, which is presumably why we have this rule; we stripped out so much inflection over the centuries word order now dictates a huge amount of our grammar
Just looked up why we do this and one of the first lines in this article is, “Adjectives are where the elves of language both cheat and illumine reality.” so I know it’s a good article.
“It’s possible that these elements of universal grammar clarify our thought in some way,” says Barbara Partee, a professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Yet when the human race tacitly decided that shape words go before color words go before origin words, it left no record of its rationale.
One theory is that the more specific term always falls closer to the noun. But that doesn’t explain everything in adjective order.
Another theory is that as you get closer to the noun, you encounter adjectives that denote more innate properties. In general, nouns pick out the type of thing we’re talking about, and adjectives describe it,” Partee told me. She observes that the modifiers most likely to sit right next to nouns are the ones most inclined to serve as nouns in different contexts: Rubber duck. Stone wall.
Rules are made to be broken. Switching up the order of adjectives allows you to redistribute emphasis. (If you wish to buy the black small purse, not the gray one, for instance, you can communicate your priorities by placing color before size).
Scrambling the order of adjectives also helps authors achieve a sense of spontaneity, of improvising as they go. Wolfe discovers such a rhythm, a feeling-his-way quality, when he discusses his childhood recollection of “brown tired autumn earth” and a “flat moist plug of apple tobacco.”
Brain scans have discovered that your brain has to work harder to read adjectives in the “wrong” order.
TL;DR: No one knows why we do this adjective thing but it’s pretty hardwired in.
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