For reference: Natalie Dee is the artist behind a self-titled comic (found here) which often features adorably sarcastic vegetables.
Natalie Dee-
Sorry to bother you, girl. But we need to talk about your cartoon from
It's a decent analysis, I'll admit, though I will have to disagree about
your interpretation of the role of the sun. In such an outwardly optimistic
song, which nonetheless forebodes of future disaster, I'd have to hazard the
sun as a manifestation of Maximilien Robespierre or a Robespierre-esque
figure, which promises warmth in the beginning but, when channeled through
the magnifying glass of political power, will cause the scorching death of
the itsy bitsy spider. But that's not the point.
What we need to talk about is your improper spelling of the impersonal
possessive. I quote, "The spider continues to doggedly scale it's heights".
"It's" is appropriate in just two situations: as a contraction meaning "it
is" and as a possessive of Stephen King's novel "It" or the movie based on
it ("It"). I did consider that you might have been using one of these but if
that were that case the problems with your grammatical choices would be far
more severe. I'm going to have to ignore that for the time being. Let's just
assume that what you meant was "its".
People mess that up and write "it's" a lot because English possessives often
use apostrophes. The reason "its" doesn't have an apostrophe is it's a
possessive of a pronoun. Think about it, "his" and "her", "our" and "their"
don't use the apostrophe. They also don't use an s, but just pretend it's
irrelevant. I don't want to lecture you here, but you opened that door by
having and academically themed cartoon. Messing up your grammar like that
just rips away at your credibility as an analyst. I'm trying to look out for
you.
Much respect,
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