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Impersonal passive construction - In German it is possible to use passive without having a subject or an agent. Such a construction is called an impersonal passive construction.

Samstags wird schwer gearbeitet. On Saturdays people work hard.
Sonntags wird nicht gearbeitet. No one works on Sundays.
Es wird jetzt gearbeitet. People are working now./There is work going on now.

The pronoun es begins an impersonal passive construction if no other words precede the verb. Es is a dummy subject. An english equivalent of the impersonal passive often uses an introductory phrase such as there is or there are.


I have a minefield in my black mold. I swear to god this thing is crawling around the inside of my brain grabbing onto anything it can find and building up higher and higher. Also, I am Spider Jerusalem.

Ahem. If I can ever not be hyper, other things that happened today are that I managed to get a scene and a half edited, not including what's going to be going on tonight, so, that section is probably going to be halfway done in the next day or two. Which means all the way done by the end of the week? Maybe? I hope. Which puts me at somewhere around halfway done the actual anthology, since I have two largish stories to edit after that. I think. Oogh. Either way, it's more progress than I had before!

Oh dear god there was a dead possum under our house. Gross. (This tangent brought to you by an unexpected phone call from the boy who just pulled the corpse out of the crawlspace.)

Again, one of those times when I feel like I should have more to say considering I spent the better part of the afternoon babbling about mostly writing things. But no. You get me and my writing babble and dead possums. Enjoy!

ETA: And while I'm thinking of it, two more things. (See, I knew I had more to say.) The first, a question: Duotrope, worth it, yes or no? The second: Things What I Need To Get Done:

1. Last two worksheets for web page
2. Finish line edits on Horror Big Bang, THEN go back in and add the extra scene(s)
3. Something for Luna Station
4. Kink Bingo Amnesty (Ray/Randi, which is what provoked it to mind)
5. Black Ice pages (w/illustrations and fake ads)
6. other stuff I have since forgot.