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Where do these words come from?

*RPing* Brain: Oh yeah, the word you want there is "moribund". Me: ... do we even know that word? What does it mean. *Some googling later* Me: Huh. Brain: Toldja. Write it down. M-O-R

#writing #roleplay #language is weird #guess that's why they call it 'acquisition'

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Me, but amab: I simply seeketh to understand the issue from an objective perspective.

u ever see someone with extremely fucked up views (or actions) and think wowww if a couple of things in my life went the tiniest bit differently that would have been me

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every single time

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every single time

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oh boy

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I'm Eternal Sunshining any reference to the impending show out of my head and replacing it with this. Vico Ortiz even looks like that Teagan and Sarah fan animation.

anyway. a couple nonbinary actors of colour off the top of my head who i would've loved to see as murderbot :)

(indya moore / janelle monae / vico ortiz / sara ramirez / aya furukawa / amandla stenberg)

#murderbot show #murderbot

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Murderbot, played by a white dude. Fun.

#murderbot #murderbot show

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ursula k le guin said sci fi/fantasy does not have to be about giant wars or battles of good and evil or galactic disaster; it is best served as a lens through which to examine what is actually intrinsic to the human condition and what, once removed a few layers from our own perceptions & assumptions, begins to fall apart. and she was correct.

#if your scifi don't do this gtfo

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Ich bin kein kartoffel?

Language learning is wild, because you can think wow, I am getting a handle on this language, and then walk into your kindergarten and the teacher is like, "Are you a potato?"

#idiomatic #language #i wasn't born in a barn either

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Tag yourself, I'm 2. Big Salieri energy.

Every friend group needs:

Nominal protagonist who'd rather be literally anywhere else

Perfectionist rival whose libido is so tangled up with their drive to compete that it's unclear whether they want to fuck you or kill you

Ray of pure sunshine with something deeply wrong with them

Emotionally impenetrable cipher guarding an unspeakable secret that turns out to be actually kind of dumb

Hyperviolent meathead who's just happy to be here

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Hello rollerderbyists! There's a new borderless team forming. Plz tell your friends.

#roller derby #roller skating #community #Instagram

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We sure do have some mythology for members of our groups going off, breeding with giants, and bringing those babies back, don't we, Loki?

I just *want* all the tales of giants/dwarves/elves/fairies to be a telephone game with echoes of a time when there were a lot more homo* species wandering around.

The thing is that the portrayal of Neanderthals as having been inherently grotesque and alien to H. sapiens is something we will never have proof of. But we do have proof that, in different locations and in different populations across time, we all found eachother desirable. We saw eachother and wanted to touch. And the offspring were held by their mothers and raised and had their own offspring in turn.

When you look for the first proof that H. sapiens found Neanderthals repulsive, you have to wait until the Victorian era, when the white masters of empires were busy portraying Neanderthals as stupid, brutish, and (of course) dark-skinned.

In more modern times, we’ve had people arguing that instead of seeing Neanderthals as Benighted Savages, they should instead be seen as Noble Savages, (allegedly) cruelly destroyed and driven from their lands by H. sapiens. Which one of their two you believe says more about your modern political views than it does about ancient H. sapiens.

And, whether we construct Neanderthals as Savage or Noble Savage, the fundamental assumption we project into the unfathomably distant past is still that H. sapiens saw Neanderthals as an Other, with the language we use being almost explicitly that of modern racial dynamics.

But we have no proof of any of that. We have no proof of hostilities. We know we co-existed and we had sex. That’s it.

Humans obviously have sex with some humans and kill others. We also know that, when small groups of humans occupy vast spaces with infrequent contact with others, unique cultures will always form, some more hospitable, some more neophobic/xenophobic. But many cultures of small settlements placed among huge unpeopled landscapes place supreme emphasis on hospitality to strangers. Plus, we fucking love other social animals, as evidenced by how we befriended wolves.

I’m a humourless weirdo and a wet blanket about popular constructions of Neanderthals as “monstrous”, and I freely admit it. But that’s because it’s tied up in legacies of imperialism. Not only that, but it also privileges one culture (yours, mine, modernity’s) as being most human by implicitly assuming we can project it onto people in the past. Since you don’t pretend that all global cultures share exact same values as you do, it doesn’t take more than a few moments’ reflection to realise you can’t do that to the past.

#neanderthal #fanfic #please

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concept: guy who leaves a lot of comments in their code which should be good but the problem is they're all written like this

#i am ready for this interactive fiction

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This is beautiful, but if you look at Wachowski work (and I'm mostly thinking of Sense8 here, because it was a goddamn perfect thing that did not get the life it deserved) there is a LOT of villains saying the same thing as heroes, but meaning something entirely different by it. "I hate violence," says the man who is about to torture Rylie to figure out where his drug money is, "but violence changes things." SOUND FAMILIAR MY V FOR VENDETTA WATCHERS!!?!? The r/redpill, and the Columbine shooters hiding guns in trenchcoats is part of this idea that there is no ideology so pure that it can't be twisted to mean exactly the opposite of its original intention.

#see: that religion where a guy is executed by the state becoming a state religion #the wachowskis #the matrix #v for vendetta #sense8

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I've noticed this trend in Discord servers where they state in the rules "use only English." The logic being, we have limited resources to moderate, and don't have moderators in other languages. But "speak English" triggers a really specific revulsion for me, and I can't help but wonder, has anyone who *isn't* monolingual ever thought this was a good idea? I know this is new, because some of the servers that have it still have their alt language channels live.

#discord #moderation #language #multilinguism

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Massive fuck you to everyone who is talking about Palestinians as if we’re already all dead and sharing more solidarity with our corpses than us living. “We will never forget the beautiful Palestinian people-“ how about you stop “making peace” with Palestinian extermination. My people are not going to be forgotten because we are going to live. Palestinians have already survived one genocide and have been surviving one ever since.

Do not ever let the idea that all Palestinians are going to die exist in your mind. Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living.

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