#I’ve heard some people say like

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Me watching the LGBT community who almost never rarely gives black women and girls, asexuals, or aromantics genuine respect, pretend we’re all friends and have always treated us right the minute it’s June 1st and want to use black women(mainly darkskinned) and girls as their little poster girl:

#asexual #aromantic #It’s always coming from the non black people(including other racial minorities) too #and the stuff coming out of the lgbt community towards black women and girls has gotten real nasty #i have seen numerous people(although they’re mainly black) say that black people are inherently queer because we’re unnatural and strange #in the eyes of white supremacy and white people #like are you ok in the head??? why do you want to say that black people are inherently strange and we defy every social standard #as of our existence is a social statement #I personally think the worst thing I’ve personally heard(from yet another black person) #was that black women and girls would get seen as men or trans women because our hair is nappy #what does our natural hair have to do with getting seen as men or trans women?? #and the white lgbt people just applauded them and hearted their tweet #it annoys me how for some weird reason political and social movements will mainly use black women especially darker black women as rep #and It’s almost always by a non black person #like why don’t you use a girl or woman from your own race in your political and social justice artwork #oh wait that’s right #because in general the lgbt community views black women and girls as magical negras who will be their ride or die sista soulja #who will mule and fight for them no matter how badly they outright insult us or sneakily talk badly about us #pride month is basically another black history month when it comes to how everyone reacts to it #every reaction to it is superficial and they’re only celebrating us because they feel like they had to or wanted social points #had it been any other month they would’ve been focusing on the group that they belong to

[voidscreamns]

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#i dont think i’ve talked my nonverbal!Diluc hc on here yet #but i keep seeing posts abt disability/chronjcally ill/neurodivergent hcs for genshin characters so here’s one from me #idk i feel like after That Night™️ and being on the run from the Fatui/working with a secret organization #diluc not just learns the ‘value’ of keeping secrets and staying quiet but also internalizes his guilt and trauma of saying smth that could #hurt people #it started with him telling Kaeya that he’s not a Ragnvindr anymore and then is exacerbated by his 3-4 Year Fatui Murder Rampage thru Teyvat #and with all ghat trauma and self-deprecation and paranoia he just. stops talking. #he picks up sign language in Fontaine and still writes but at some point he just stops talking and never speaks again #when he comes back to Mondstadt it was hard to adjust to for both him and the people around him #Kaeya initially assumes that Diluc just refuses to talk to him until he later hears gossip abt how no one has ever heard him speak since he #came back. he goes to Adelinde and/or Elzer abt it and they tell him that they neve even hear Diluc so much as hum or grunt #afterwards everyone changes up real fast— Kaeya and Venti drinking at the bar and seemingly just talking at Diluc but they’re always #observing his reactions and body language even when they’re drunk #Jean tries her best to be patient but she has a hard time reading him bc he’s changed so much in the time he’s been gone #Adelinde & Elzer and the winery staff are the most communicative he’s with— Diluc is far more likely to write with them to communicate #at some point Diluc has a business meeting with some rich dude from Fontaine or smth #Kaeya walks in bc he has an actual important mission thinf to discuss and he sees Diluc and this Fontaine dude and the dude’s wife #moving their hands so fast and with all kinds of gestured and stuff #and it’s the first time Kaeya sees Diluc look so EXPRESSIVE— he’s frowning and raising his eyebrows and mouthing words and all this #and Kaeya just goes ‘what’ #turns out the Fontainian dude is deaf and both him and his hearing wife know sign; she helps interpret this to kaeya for the dude and Diluc #and Kaeya is like ‘oh okay’ and goes to the kitchen like ‘i’ll just wait here till yall are finished’ #and he sees Adelinde and Elzer there with stoic faces and they just. stand there in quiet for so long. #Kaeya finally says ‘…..so. sign language huh’ and Adelinde and Elzer have the most pained looks on their faces #later that week Diluc finds like everyone around suddenly doing basic signs with him #he later learns that the winery has ordered a shitton of signing books from Fontaine and are trying to learn #+ Kaeya and Jean too with help from Lisa bc like dont you know learning several languages is a requirement for graduation from the Akademiya #soon the use of sign starts spreading in Mondstadt— there might be some small communities where they have their own native sign but it’s not #as standardized nor widely known as it is in Fontaine #this is getting really long so I’ll stop here but yeah. nonverbal Diluc who signs fjskdjs

[blupengu]

Oh how naive I was…

#recently saw a comment from someone saying they hoped there was more romance in Lucas’s salvation end and I. 👀 #did not have the heart to tell them to mentally prepare themselves 💀 #ahaha I mean. yeah sure in a way. 🙃 #we get a lovely bonding CG of us stabbing him in the neck and later kissing him after he’s died so like uh yay? 💀 #the more I see people commenting about their hopes and dreams for the salvation ends the more I feel the need to rant again lmaooo 😂 #AND! #vague maybe spoilers for the fandisk in the following tags so beware :O #I’ve heard some vague ominous foreboding statement about the fandisk and… y’all I can’t #I’m gonna break my controller if he still still gets a shitty depressing end even in the FD 😭😂 #like OKAY GAME. I KNOW HE’S DEAD. BUT CAN WE HAVE A SLIGHTLY HAPPIER/HOPEFUL AU??? #please nadia too she is so innocent… #please give the Proust siblings a break dear lord 💀 #virche evermore #shuuen no virche #Virche evermore spoilers #shuuen no virche spoilers #there’s not enough fanart/fanfics/shitposts for me to be able to cope with more despair even in the fandisk please I’m begging… 😂 #never before have I used the 💀 emoji so much when talking about a character before

[sonicattos]

might get flack for this, but i’m gonna be honest and say it: i don’t think “neurodivergent coding” exists. they’re either neurodivergent or not. it doesn’t have to be specified/purposeful for it to count as rep. and calling it rep isn’t “praising the creator” it’s just acknowledging the character’s traits as neurodivergent ones. if the traits are being represented then it’s representation for those traits.

#it makes no sense to me because it seems a lot of people have trouble writing about us when like #it really doesn’t have to be completely obvious if you’re writing the character with non visible disabilities #it’s just writing a character and adding the traits. not the other way around #this is about some things i’ve heard through out the years #idk i’m probably gonna have people get mad at me for this im just saying that writing nd characters isn’t hard #whatever

[theridgebeyond]

Spoilers for Barbie ahead, I guess. But who in the writer’s room looked at that plot line and thought, “Yes. Feminism.” ??

The citizens of Barbie Land spend the entire movie fighting for privilege, not any sort of freedom (I borrowed that quote from the interview with Alok on the Man Enough Podcast 10/10 recommend). Over half the movie is about how awful it is to be a woman in the real world, and then they literally treat the Kens the way women are treated in the real world. That’s canon. The narrator says it Herself.

We never learn where the Kens live. For all we know, when the precious status quo was restored at the end, they just made half the population of Barbie Land homeless.

Yay, girl power.

#when I heard people complaining about how this movie was anti-man I snatched my ticket and said yeah I sure hope it does like everyone else #but I did not feel empowered in the slightest by that movie #where was supportive stay at home dad vibe Ryan Gosling Ken?? #I was fully convinced by the trailers and the hype #like #I was fully convinced he was going to have Barbie’s back 110% and let her live her dreams while knowing that he was enough as he was #but I didn’t taste a drop of respect women juice #not at the beginning and not at the end #and they kept. bringing. up. how. Barbie. doesn’t. return. Ken’s. feelings. #I’m aro - I’ve been in that situation - I appreciate media normalizing how men aren’t entitled to women’s affection #but if you really wanted to make some kind of statement #just let them communicate resolve and move on #that’s it #the cellulite bit was my first indicator that maybe it was a good thing I didn’t spend $40+ on a bright pink outfit #let 👏 barbie 👏 have 👏 cellulite 👏 and 👏 be 👏 okay 👏 with 👏 it #like cellulite is damn cute I don’t make the rules #I could say more but I’m feeling mid as it is already #gonna watch Barbie Princess & the Pauper for some real gender class commentary #barbie movie #barbie #thoughts

[ava-does-dumbassery]

I’ve been staring at Jumilhac papyrus plates for like five hours. Anyway, I think this is my favourite drawing:

I like the contrast, with the red and black and how Osiris and Set are inverted from each other. (Also, obvious symbolism with Set in the stock “enemy” pose and him being upside down.)

That vessel on Osiris’s chair in the corner looks like it might be a heart? If it is that would be cool, like it relating to how Osiris’s heart is vindicated against Set when he becomes ruler of the dead and Horus is given his inheritance as king.

This is what Set looks like when you turn it the other way, by the way:

This papyrus is from the Ptolemaic period, and I believe Set (“Typhon”) was usually as just a donkey instead of a special animal by then. I like that he has a more canine head here, I think it looks cool (EARS!!! HE HAS POINTY EARS!!)

Also he has hieroglyphs next to him spelling his name instead of just an ideogram, which is cool. They’ve spelled it Stš here. (Usually it was Stẖ, but sometimes the š was sometimes used instead of ẖ in words sometimes.) Anyway, you’d pronounce that either S-t-sh or S-t-ch depending on who you ask (and of course the vowels are missing because it’s ancient Egyptian, so when you read it out loud you could say it Setesh or Setech even though that’s probably not how the ancient Egyptians said it).

#Egyptian mythology #Usir #sutekh #ancient Egypt stuff #Ava has thoughts #The Jumilhac papyrus #ẖ is a fun sound because we really don’t know how they said it #It could have been an L sound maybe #Most of the time people just say it ‘kh’ like they do for ḫ though #Knowing Middle Egyptian a little bit is messing with me on this papyrus #I think it’s probably in Late Egyptian? All the information about is in French so I can’t tell. It’s most likely Late Egyptian. #If it is I know enough Middle Egyptian to recognize some of the overlapping words. And my brain keeps trying to read the rest #Even though if it is late Egyptian then I probably won’t understand most of it or I’ll mistake what it says for something else #ity… I’ve heard that word before I think but I can’t remember what it means. Feet of our lord… gods something something through Osiris #I keep thinking something in there says ‘Nephthys was spoken’ but that probably doesn’t make sense #Doesn’t matter anyway cause like I said I’m probably wrong about all of it #No id #undescribed

[eyesopentv]

mcu is a bunch of white men and one woman > “mcu is cool”

mcu adds more cool women and poc > “mcu sucks now”

#miles thots #the amount of times i’ve heard people say the last thing they liked was spiderman is absurd #i’ve never particularly cared for the mcu but i got into it for spiderman and captain marvel #i Love captain marvel and seeing everyone trashing on her as the first woman to get her own movie in the mcu really sucked #and ms marvel is so cool too!! i read some of her comics and never thought i’d get to see her on the screen too #i can’t stand everyone that’s going ‘ugh feminism ruined the mcu’

[thefcmilymcn]

Howdy y’all I’m not dead I’m just a man now isn’t that rad

#yeah #so anyways howdy folks #I hope you all are doing well #I’ve genuinely missed this account. like no joke #maes has always been insanely important to me so I’ve missed writing him and working with him #I’m old and tired #and I’m a dude YALL who would have guessed #probably everybody #not a real shocker #yeah I go by he/him now! so cool #I probably won’t really use this account again ( can’t say no as a guarantee but it’s highly unlikely ) #yet hopefully #I can reconnect with some people I haven’t heard from in a long time #I’m also a very tired loon and not to say I’ll be choosy with who I welcome in fully but I take care of myself a lot more now #than I did in the past #I genuinely hope you all are doing alright. it’s seriously weird being back on here #I had a lot of wacky shit push me off of here in my life at the time and I was scared to come back #Y’know all that jazz #but I’ve missed him. #anyways prod me for a discord if you have one please #ooc #suddenlytrans #ALSO YALL TLOU SHOW IS FANTASTIC #thefcmilymcn

[alithetiredartist]

Post canon boiling isles politics fights are probably so funny. Like “NO THIS TEENAGERS IS EVIL” “NO THEY WERE THE GOOD ONES” whatever the boiling isles equivalent to thanksgiving is probably like hell

#the owl house #hexsquad #cause like obviously people had different view about belos #and people are gonna have different opinions #and then like they’re gonna be in these huge arguements about just some random teens #there’d be that uncle who’s been drinking a bit too much apple blood screaming about how belos was a good emperor #then the guy that he’s screaming at is like NUH UH #then it’s like that one random guy who claims he doesn’t have a strong opinion gets in on the arguement and like he’ll breaks loose #i think it’s even funnier if ome of the background characters who kinda sorta knew the hexsquad were there but are too scared to say #like potions guy #and he’s just like pfft yeah i’ve never met or heard of them ever #nope definitely not #then the kids in the corner just trying to play with their action figures #i think it would be funny if the hexsquad had those crappy action figures where their faces look all weird #they were against the idea of merch but eh they can’t control it #so they probably all have the complete set #what was i talking about

[designernishiki]

bro kiryu is a terrible parent. he may be happiest when he's surrounded by the kids at the orphanage but what kind of genuine happiness has he given THEM? the dude provides them no stability and haruka is the one that actually looked after them the whole time while he runs off to fix up the tojo again and again. it's better that he stays away from them. even kiryu finally sees that. it's why he chose to do what he did at the end of 6. i hope he continues to leave them the hell alone.

park mirei is that you????

I really don’t think it’s that simple. I don’t think he’s a bad parent and I don’t think he’s a perfectly good one either. I think some of the things that make him a “bad” parent are actually his fault, while other things haven’t been, and are instead more of an inevitable product of the shady world him and haruka both were born into.

TLDR: it’s literally factually incorrect to say he didn’t/barely raised his kids and instead just left haruka to do it (most of 2007-2011 he was fully present and solely devoted to raising them, no other job, no other intentions), and he absolutely has done a lot for them and their happiness. however, he’s made some bad choices as well and has his fair share of flaws as a parent. most importantly, his past does tend to find him in one way or another regardless of what he does, which is not something that’s easy to solve. taking himself out of the picture hurts the kids tremendously, while staying in the picture potentially endangers/hinders the kids. I can’t say what the “right” thing to do would be, because it’s not black and white. all I can say for sure is that he did have an important and positive impact on their childhoods, and they care about him just as much as he cares about them.

(more in depth version below)

the idea that he hasn’t done anything for his kids and didn’t actually raise them is something I wholeheartedly disagree with and is just factually untrue. before he starts getting threatened and manipulated by various groups/people to get him to leave, for several years (most of 2007-2011) he was a caring parent who devoted all of his time and effort to raising those kids and it shows from how much they love and miss him when he’s gone, and in the personal problems he helps each of them with whenever he can in y3. On top of love in general, he provides them with stability, a sense of family and home, and helps some of the more traumatized kids regain the ability to trust and overcome survivor’s guilt. he’s responsible for the years of those kids’ lives they would almost undoubtedly all consider the best of their childhoods. “what kind of happiness has he given them?” a whole damn lot, frankly.

kiryu never goes back to deal with shit in the tojo clan fully voluntarily. it’s basically always because something is threatening the orphanage and the kids’ wellbeing, or because there are people he cares about in the clan, which makes for a lot of potential issues but– considering he’s not heartless and can’t just turn off the bonds he has with certain people– can’t be avoided, considering the closest people he had to family were yakuza/yakuza-adjacent, and cutting all of them (that he has left) off completely isn’t as easy as you make it seem. when daigo– who’s like a son to him in his own right– gets shot and very nearly dies in y3, no shit he’s gonna be concerned. and he’s deeply conflicted at first on what to do (or not do) about it. it’s really really really not as black and white as him being a good person or a bad person for being dragged back into clan ordeals– much of the time it’s not his fault at all. by all accounts he feels guilty and horrible for his past endangering the kids, and it’s a HUGE recurring theme/conflict that contributes heavily to his distancing in y5, and further distancing in y6.

HOWEVER. he has absolutely made some iffy choices and I’d never say he’s a perfect parent. for one, I definitely think haruka was allowed to be more parentified than she should’ve been– he needed the extra help, considering one adult raising that many kids isn’t easy, but he should’ve gotten that help via employing another adult (I was hoping mikiyo from y3 would do this, but he doesn’t get mentioned after y3 for whatever reason sadly), not relying on her for more responsibility than a kid should have.

moreover, despite her parentification, there’s several times where he makes huge decisions for haruka (and the kids in general to some extent) without her input / against her wishes, and recklessly puts himself in grave danger despite having kids who rely on him to take into consideration. it absolutely baffled me at the beginning of y6 to see that there wasn’t any real adult put in kiryu’s place while he was in prison, and that it’d just been the older kids seemingly who acted as caretakers for the household. that was a horrible oversight and I think he should’ve known better– yeah, he didn’t have much time to find someone to fill the role, but he was in contact with haruka and he could’ve had her get help from one of kiryu’s friends to find someone. there were definitely options and I’m not gonna make any excuses there. he’s not infallible, no doubt.

Shit gets really complicated when it comes to him leaving the way he does a number of times. He does it in the hopes that it protects the kids from his past that keeps springing up and endangering their futures, but the issue with this is that BECAUSE he did, in fact, lovingly raise these kids for the most fundamental years of their lives and become their father figure, ripping himself out of their lives can’t be good for them– especially considering they’re orphans who have already had parents ripped from their lives and undoubtedly have abandonment issues as it is. this is terribly complicated and doesn’t have a black or white answer at all– leaving them has the huge emotional repercussions I just mentioned, and staying potentially endangers them and their futures. there is no easy way to slice it, and even the best parent on earth would be torn if put in that scenario.

personally I can’t help but hope he gets to reunite with his family, as I know they’d want that as much as he would; but it’s for the best at this point that they don’t have to fully rely on him and him alone. kiryu needs other adults to lean on in his life, and so do the kids. I think the kids are capable of this– of building new bonds and broader support systems– but kiryu has got a ways to go.

#but damn bro I’ve never heard anyone be this aggressive in their hatred for kiryu as a parent bchfhdbdbdb….. #like I’ve heard people saying he’s a bad parent and making decent points about it but. this sounds like some kinda personal beef ngl #kiryu is not real and he can not hurt you. it’s okay #interesting to contrast kiryu’s predicament with majima’s whole reason for avoiding a ‘normal’ family #family life or what have you. he’s made it clear that once you’re involved in the yakuza you’re ‘stained black for life’ and thus he’d made #it a point to avoid dragging anyone else down with him even if it means sacrificing his own happiness or potential shot at a more fulfilling #life. which is interesting because like. I don’t think either of them have made a /better/ choice than the other #kiryu tried and (arguably) failed- where as majima chose not to try at all in the hopes that it’d save people who’d potentially bond with #him some grief and suffering. I don’t think it’s wrong that kiryu tried to live a fulfilling life and give kids the parental backbone #he didn’t really have when he himself was an orphaned kid. it’s just the difference between an initially optimistic outlook and a nihilistic #(on a personal level) outlook. #god what I wouldn’t give to get a heart to heart beteeen those two on this topic man………… #anyway. yeah. I spent way too much time answering this lmao #kiryu #rambling #asks #long post

[kabutone]

ppl that still wear a mask regularly you are more punk than anyone else

extra points if you’re in a really shitty area where there’s a bunch of anti maskers/anti vaxxers/overall shitty people around. you are extra more punk than anyone else

and ppl engaging in any kind of community care u are more punk than anyone else it’s about love and care babey!!!!!!

#was talking w a friend who so much braver than i #you WILL care about other ppl #anyway when the gov is pushing deadly misinfo it is NOT punk to just go along with that shit. stand up against it #i know a lot of ppl feel social pressure to not mask bc nobody else is but daring to be brave and stand out should be the norm for u #don’t fall in w the normies dare to be different and care for others. esp if nobody else is #and when i see other queer ppl who don’t mask it’s like.. hey man! did you know a disease wiped out a huge chunk of us in the 80s? #the gov said it was a ‘gay disease’ and of course they wanted gay people to die so they did nothing. they let us die #now that covid has become a ‘only disabled people disease’ do you think it’s ok for the gov to do this again? #i see other hawaiians not masking or even PROUDLY being anti vax #and again i’m like hey man! did you know hawaiians almost completely died out bc of foreign disease? #our land was illegally annexed bc so many hawaiians had died there were too little to fight back! do you think more of us should die? #i’ve heard ppl say if you don’t mask you’re not a leftist and that’s true but it also applies to so many different identities and cultures #it’s like if you claim to care about the earth but you litter on the beach. like do you really care if you can’t do the bare minimum #anyway. if u see this and u need high quality masks literally DM me and i will send you some

[mars-ipan]

y’know i think the most annoying thing about trying to discuss reproductive rights with cis people is the complete and utter refusal to include trans people in the discussion. like they will only ever say “women” and if you dare to point it out it’s “well this is all being done to control women” or “‘people with vaginas’/‘people assigned female at birth’ is way too wordy” it drives me fucking crazy

like first off do you seriously think that the people who seek to remove bodily autonomy from women have nothing against trans people. do you think they hold zero ill will towards us. also do you think they view trans afabs as anything other than women.

secondly. NOBODY IS ASKING YOU TO USE BIG WORDY PHRASES LITERALLY JUST SAY “PEOPLE” INSTEAD OF “WOMEN.” WE LITERALLY JUST DON’T WANT TO BE EXCLUDED FROM THIS BECAUSE WE ARE ALSO BEING HURT WE JUST WANT SOME GODDAMN SOLIDARITY IN THIS BITCH. LIKE ACTUALLY JUST FUCKING SAY “PEOPLE” IT SAVES EVERYONE FROM WEIRD LOOPHOLES AND ALSO ENFORCES THAT WOMEN ARE PEOPLE FOR FUCK’S SAKEEEEE

#marzirants #my mom would say shit like this sometimes and it drove me fucking insane every single time #with her i truly feel like i have to pick my battles #bc 90% of the time she fully understands where i’m coming from! she understood the weird nuances of my queer stuff way better than any other #cishet i’ve met. ESPECIALLY considering she’s in her 50s #but every now and again she says some shit that drives me up a WALLLLL #i remember once i was talking about the language around it #and my mom brings up that she ‘disagrees’ with saying like ‘people with uteruses’ or whatever #and this kinda surprised me (she tends to catch me off guard with it) so i had no actual explanation for her #but i tried anyways i was like ‘well trans folks are affected by this too so it’s important that we’re included in the language’ right #and THIS WOMAN. someone who i know would fucking lay down her life if it were the best way to keep me safe #SAYS TO ME. #‘well this issue is about women. it isn’t about being trans and i don’t think the discussion should be derailed to trans issues’ #WHAT????? W. WHAT HUH???? #first off. this bitch goes hand in hand with trans issues we are talking bodily autonomy that is a huge trans issue #second of all. WHO THE FUCK IS DERAILING????? WE’RE ON YOUR SIDE WE’RE LITERALLY ASKING TO BE INCLUDED IN THE FIGHT #WH??? BITCH???? #my mom is so fucking smart. but sometimes the cishet nonsense overrides her smartness and she says the dumbest shit i have ever heard #don’t tell her i said that she’d get mad at me. even tho it’s literally smth all cishets do

[mycotoxin]

Sometimes it feels as if some people will use reference to some vague, mysterious “black people” as a way to get a leg up in an argument (“well I’ve asked black people any they agree with me! So if you don’t, you’re racist btw”) so when they learn they’re actually talking to a Live Genuine black person they actually gotta get their shit together and make up a real defense

#that’s just what if feels like sometimes #there’s always such an obvious switch up #but like. y’all really gotta stop acting like POC as a whole are a ‘gotcha’ or the fact that some POC said a certain thing is good enough #reason to hold a certain opinion. POC can be wrong and they can be willfully ignorant just like everyone else. were PEOPLE of color for a #reason. just because a POC said something is racist don’t automatically make it true #I’ve heard some of my own family members say that calling East Asians POC is racist! I’ve heard some say that being anti-flat earth is #racist!! some of js be talking straight out of our asses!!!!!!!

[soulsxng]

Sometimes, a person allows me to geek out about dog training/behavior/nutrition stuff a little bit (because they asked me for advice/help), and my brain just latches onto it for the rest of the day. And then I’m just going on long winded dog related info dumps completely out of nowhere to literally anybody in the room.

#[what is she getting us into now? -ooc-] #(aka my sister was asking for advice about some stuff with her dogs #and the entire rest of the day #I’ve been randomly going ‘…So I know I’ve said this like a million times before #and I’m sorry if I’ve already told you…BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT ONE OF THE MOST COMMON THINGS IN DOG TRAINING—‘ #‘Did you know that one of the most common food allergies in dogs are—‘ #luckily my family/a lot of my friends are very big dog/animal people #so a lot of times when it happens everyone else gets really into it too #or #they’re totally chill just listening to me word vomit about it at them) #I also had to give my sister the ‘do not give people vet advice when you aren’t a vet’ convo today #and that if she was going to like…relay something she’d heard or experienced #in response to a health/etc issue someone is having with their dog #that she needs to flat out say ‘in my experience/I heard once that…’ #and then say ‘but I’m not a vet and I don’t want you to rely on just my opinion. so if you’re really concerned about it #you should at least call your vet to discuss it with them if not just bring your dog in’ #it wasn’t over anything major but still #better she learns that sooner rather than later when she DOES try to give major advice and it’s wrong orz

[white-weasel]

Do…. Do people actually have an issue with stuff being written in present tense?

#I’ve heard of POV preference but seeing all these posts about how much people dislike present tense #maybe I’m just not an observant reader but I can count the number of times I’ve actively noted a book/fic’s tense on one hand #and almost always it was because I liked how it worked with the author’s writing style #you’re telling me people will consider dropping something JUST because it’s in present tense?? #genuinely can someone explain this to me? #I know some people don’t like first person pov because it feels too close and ‘I’ didn’t do anything. the character did #(I don’t really see it that way and don’t mind first person though I prefer third person) #and second person pov is rare and people don’t like it for the same reasons (being told what they as a reader ‘did’) #(I personally like second person pov a LOT but also prefer it to be a little treat actually suited to the story) #but verb tense?? as long as it all works grammatically I don’t see an issue #a lot of the examples I see of how present tense doesn’t work is showing two paragraphs side by side in the past and present #and I will agree that the present reads worse comparatively #but also it’s because the sentences were obviously (at least imo) written and structured for past tense first #and then ‘translated’ to present tense if that makes sense #I personally like how present tense lets me play with my sentences #but also I know that when I play with time and have a character recount past events within their own internal musings I switch tense #which I would think is allowed?? but maybe that’s bad form and I’m proving the point why past tense is ‘superior’ #(I don’t really care for fic writing purposes as long as it flows and isn’t distracting but who’s to say) #anyways this was long but yeah. genuinely curious about this one #white weasel talks #tbd probs

[tragedykery]

believe it or not but assigning morality to phones/phonemes isn’t the haha quirky little joke you think it is!

#like that has uh. a History! #elli rambles #there are definitely some Posts in the linguistics tag sometimes. #it definitely isn’t the most egregious example I’ve seen/heard and the op probably didn’t mean anything by it but. hm! #haha funny alignment chart. now quick tell me what you think about foreign languages. or the sapir-whorf hypothesis perhaps. #ok to take off my Silly Mask for a moment: what I’m getting at with those understatements is that assigning morality/any qualities really to #language has a bigoted—& more specifically: usually racist—history. language has often been used as a tool & justification for oppression. #take a look at the languages currently & historically deemed ‘pretty’ or ‘civilised’. compare that with the ones deemed ‘ugly’ or ‘barbaric’ #who speaks them? ​exactly which features make them ‘worthy’ of those adjectives? is it only phonetics? if so: in what way exactly? #is the categorisation of sounds of speech as having certain inherent qualities truly objective—or do they happen to align with certain #cultural or personal biases? what purpose does this categorisation serve? #are a people deemed ‘barbaric’ because the language they speak is inherently & objectively barbaric—or is it perhaps the other way around? #could this type of view of a language possibly be used to justify the subjugation of its speakers under the guise of ‘civilising’ them? #Perhaps? #which is obviously not to say phonetic features are the only ones used to assign certain qualities to languages! but it was what the post #I’m referencing was about so #anyway sorry I went off on a tangent. I just feel quite strongly about this #languageposting