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satanandsoul · 1 year

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♍︎ Jungkook Birth Chart Analysis ♍︎

With his birth time confirmed in his recent instagram live, we can finally take a look how his astrological placements and aspects come into play.

Disclaimer: All these are for entertainment purposes only. DO take my words with a grain of salt.

Astrological body that will be looked into in depth in this post is Black Moon Lilith (BML) as it shows up prominent in my research.

Sun conjuncts Retrograde Mercury in 2nd house: This man is INTELLIGENT! Not in the traditional will-score-high-in-exam type of way, but street-smart. Pluto squaring this conjunction adds a well of depth to his insight. He is observant. Let's be real here. Sun-Pluto and Mercury-Pluto natives are distrustful in nature. They don't take things at face value. Especially with Mercury-Pluto harsh aspects, they will linguistically pull apart your words to look for hidden meanings. At the same time, Mars sextiles this conjunction, fuelling this mental process. This man's mind must be very busy. The chart above also shows that this conjunction inconjuncts Uranus, but I won't take this into consideration here as the orb is 3 degree, a bit too large for inconjunction. But generally, this indicates a person with a thirst to rebel.

Moon in 1st house trines Saturn in 9th house: The reason I don't feel this man is as emotional as other Moon in 1st house natives is because of this aspect. Saturn calms things down. The education that Jungkook receives is likely to be highly traditional. To a point that he could have been told he shouldn't cry as he is a male. (Fxxk toxic masculinity btw!) It doesn't mean that Jungkook agrees with this sort of teaching, however this aspect shows Jungkook restrains himself showing emotions because of this to a certain degree. But that doesn't mean he is unfeeling, in fact, he has some very disturbing emotions. His Moon squares Pluto in 5th house: the Weeknd also comes to mind whenever I see Moon-Pluto aspects in a natal chart. His music (his creations) encapsulates the emotional struggles a Moon-Pluto native has very well, e.g. the emotional guard, distrust, the yearning for emotional closeness but at the same time being scared of it etc.. The above chart also shows that moon inconjuncts Neptune but again the orb is 3 degree, I consider it too large for inconjunction. But generally speaking, this aspect can make a person more sensitive to his or her surroundings and others' feeling.

Mercury parallels BML: He knows how to fxxk with your mind with his words. Instead of actions, he teases with words. He would like to see the muscles around your eyes twitch when he says something naughty. I will stop here as this is not a 18+ reading. But BML is what the patriarchy cannot control. It will not surprise me if Jungkook muses over some feminist ideas.

BML conjuncts AND parallels north node: He is destined to become the exact opposite of what the conservative Korean society is. Actually he is already showing signs of this, with his steadfast stance on tattoos, I am glad he is on the right path.

Venus in 3rd house opposite Saturn in 9th house: Venus in 3rd house indicates that Jungkook shows his love through bantering. This is honestly becoming a recurring theme of his. He is smart himself and would like someone to challenge his intellect in a fun way. This is not an aspect that he will sing you love songs or cuddle you. Saturn suppresses that. This love style is strengthened by the fact his Venus trines Jupiter in 7th house. Someone with an outstanding alma mater can attract Jungkook's attention. I can envision Jungkook trying to get his or her attention by starting the conversation with a controversial topic. And of course Venus-Saturn natives loves partners who are more mature than them. And when you throw Jupiter into the mix, this partner also has to be wise, at least knowledgable.

Mars in 4th house squaring Uranus in 6th house and Jupiter in 7th house: There must be a lot of actions within Jungkook's household. Not necessarily competition, but definitely things are always happening in his household. Impulsiveness is likely as both Mars-Jupiter and Mars-Uranus aspects both indicate that, but for different reasons. Jungkook can do things because he thinks it is fun (Jupiter), or because he wants to challenge the status-quo (Uranus). Again, not diving into the sexual interpretations as this is not a 18+ reading. Mars squaring Ascendant: This man's competitiveness can rub people in the wrong way. People can view him as brash especially when Jungkook's mars falls into Scorpio. I mean, Scorpio Mars has a reputation of being ruthless and vicious.

Descendant conjuncts Uranus: This aspect attracts erratic people into Jungkook's life. Like minds attract. Jungkook can be as erratic as the people he is attracted to. Luckily, Uranus is in the 6th house, not in the 7th house of partnership, or else Jungkook will have a difficult forming long term relationships with others. But now, I see that Jungkook has an unstable working environment. This aspect can indicate people come and go in one's life, in this case, work life.

#jungkook astrology #bts astrology #astrology #birth chart #natal chart #natal placements #natal aspects #natal astrology #bts #jungkook

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alatismeni-theitsa · 9 months

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okay, i've heard you're one of the 'greek gods are white' people. how do you explain 'zeus athiops', considering linguistic research proved that's a word for what we now call Black. how do you explain drastically different depictions of the same deities in Syria and Lybia and more. how do you explain that a third of the pantheon have eastern roots. like girl... please get out of that mindset.

i think you need to legit drop that whole whiteness thing. it'd reductive as fuck, to us Europeans too. leave it to the people who made it, adhering to whiteness is just erasing heritages.

If that's what you got out of the discourse, you have a really USAmerican thinking pal, albeit not a USian. Or perhaps someone simplified this to you in this way and you took it word-by-word. Let me tell you what the discourse is actually about, and why there's a problem even when the Greek gods are depicted (for example) blue-eyed and blond, like N. Europeans.

It is about the treatment of pantheons by Western nations, a treatment with colonizing and imperialistic attitudes which separate the gods from their culture. A treatment that ignores depictions of a culture with an extremely large history and reduces it to distinctly Western and Anglophone pop-culture and Fandom.

Just because this happens to a nation which is considered generally light-skinned it doesn't mean it shouldn't alarm you. And the complaints of Greeks only alarm you when they address changes from lighter to significantly darker appearance, and not the opposite.

I bet you didn't send Greeks any hatemail when they were complaining about actors being too pasty and saying "This person doesn't even look like a Greek. More Irish. They even have an Irish accent…" We had this problem for centuries. N. Europeans had this super pale depiction of our gods which they considered "noble" and they saw actual Greeks are dark barbarians who are "not like the original Greeks". Now this type of projection is happening again, in order to make the West feel better, and we are actually told how we look and don't look.

Now we constantly hear "You are too light to be Greek"/"You don't look Greek" because another stereotype has settled among the powerful nations that control our image. Needless to say, this is negative too, just by the nature of being untrue, and harmful to Greek people. But this doesn't seem to worry you. You only worry when the West tells you to worry because now the cause is "noble" according to them. They never stopped seeing themselves as the righteous and noble ones. Fuck other cultures and their specific issues and histories, right?

Treating popular pantheons as a blank canvas will happen to more "races" and ethnicities when they start being considered "white" specifically in the US, our "beloved" planetarch nation. (There's already some discourse about Mexicans and Asians being the "new white"). In 50 years perhaps your grandchild will shout at a Mexican for not understanding why "it is okay" for the deity Tezcatlipoca to be depicted half-Chinese half-Nigerian.

The same thing happened to the Greeks. In many parts of the world, Greeks are still "non-white" and in the US we only recently became "white". The Middle Easterners and N.Africans are also "White" on paper. The Greek Whiteness is also only on paper, since the Westerners get the hickeys every time they hear our names, or see a part of our culture which so resembles the Middle Eastern ones. Or they clock us as Mexicans, Arabs, Turks etc. But I digress.

My point so far is that this Western approach, in its effort to be progressive, has used pantheons of foreign cultures in a way that it negates these cultures and their depictions, or their beliefs. (Something that I wouldn't call progressive)

Onto the depictions themselves. As you understand, me - and the overwhelming majority of Greeks - wants to maintain them. To this day, within the Greek culture I haven't seen depictions of native gods as - we would say today - Black. If we had some that would be okay. But we don't. I reckon, even other lands who got Hellenized didn't change the "race" of these gods. Sometimes they were alterations, yes, but to the point we are talking about a new deity, and certainly not a deity the Greeks would recognize or worship. Then we are not talking about Greek mythology, but mythology of other nations which, at some point, came in contact with the Greek culture.

But, again, it doesn't look like the Greek gods had different races in the depictions of other nations. Even today the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern nations don't racebend the gods. They see them as they are in the ancient depictions. Perhaps they indeed saw these gods looking a bit more like them but if you think Greek people and their neighbors (N. Africans, M. Easterners) belong to different races… you might want to check some racist notions you might hold.

"Aithiops" can mean "glowing" and "of burnt face". (αἴθω < πρωτοϊνδοευρωπαϊκή ρίζα *aidʰ- (φλέγω) = burn/on fire + όψη = face/look) It's an Epithet (an adjective) of Zeus on the island of Chios (Lycophron, Cass. 537, with the note of Tzetzes.). You can see where this island is and you may easily understand that it had more or less the same population as the rest of Greek areas, in which "Black" individuals were very rare.

But the most important thing is, we also haven't found a depiction of Zeus as a "Black" individual. If we had found a statue with the features of a "Black" man and the name Zeus underneath, I'd be happy to say "Some Greeks indeed saw Zeus as Black". I don't mind the "race", I mind how everyone gets in mental gymnastics to try and defend a lie just because it sounds progressive.

Perhaps in their minds this aspect of Zeus had the appearance of a Middle Eastern but... this is not what you call another race. Even today Greeks don't consider Middle Easterners and South Arabs a different "race". Also, as I said in the beginning, it could just mean "Glowing Zeus", like his face is glowing so much as if it is on fire. One word can have more than one use. The "αιθ-" root is also used about the sky, because it's glowing. The word Aether/Aitheras which we still use in Greece (αιθέρας/αιθέρες) refers to the skies. Maybe he had a "appearance/face like the sky"

Also, very important: Back then the region where the country of Ethiopia is today was called Abyssinia. The Greeks, in the period you're thinking about, probably had no contact with the land which today is Ethiopia. Aethiopia was a whole region, possibly the Middle East. (See the post here where many sources are gathered)

The first depiction of Andromeda, an Aethiopian princess as "Black" came from Ovid, who came much later and who is not part of the Greek narrative. He's also very unreliable because with his stories he wanted to oppose the status quo and therefore the mythological figures of his time. The Greek depictions have Andromeda and her family look more or less like Greeks. (Otherwise, they would have noted the difference in appearance)

Plus, Andromeda and Perseus birthed the nation of Persians. As you know, while there are "Black" Persians the population, in general, is not "Black". Plus, I am not even sure the Greeks had contact with the "Black" Persians because they are mostly extremely far south. Such a small population so down south it's not something to base the whole Look of a Nation on, at least.

It's the Northwesterners that always use the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern nations as an excuse to disrespect these depictions. (Meanwhile the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern nations don't agree with this. They never get ACTUALLY asked)

Not to mention, the changes the western nations make are not part of a cultural exchange and they don't happen naturally through cultural osmosis. It's plain theft and ownership over the gods of a foreign culture, which they have been doing for some centuries now. The Western cultures are dominant over the Greek one. We are towards the bottom of the ladder socioeconomically in Europe. The US is literally a puppet-master of the Greek nation (and many other nations). Our government can't even fart without checking with the US. Oh, and the US also helped the 70's Junta rise to power.

Lastly, the Greek gods don't have "Anatolian origin". This rhetoric (which again implies that ancient people of a region were all the same stock) has been refuted. Nobody "stole" gods from anyone. There are so many posts on these blogs about it. Greeks were also in Anatolia for 3.000 years before the genocide, so we are not even talking about separate regions. (But I know that you saw them as separate so I approached the argument the way you meant it)

There are common roots, common beginnings, perhaps but the difference grew so much that neighboring nations had distinct gods. They also believed that their gods were distinct. You have to respect that, and also you can't lump them all together because they "all look the same to you" or some sort of a similar mindset. The Greek gods are not interchangeable with the Assyrian gods etc.

One or two, like Dionysus, indeed were brought from outside. But most are considered native to the land. (Aphrodite, too, is native to the island of Cyprus) And the Greek gods are considered ethnically Greek. The Greeks considered themselves born by these gods. Each line had a god that gave birth to it or claimed to descend from a god. See more at the end of this great video: (Video with Timestamp) Again, the Greek gods are not ethnically Japanese, or ethnically Argentinian, or ethnically Norwegian. They come from a specific culture, with specific stories and appearances. You cannot imply otherwise without making all cultures a disservice.

You can see more discussions about this, including why the argument "But a minority must be represented!" kind of argument.

Some are a bit old but the general point is the same.

*In my language "Black" for a person is not exactly a positive term so it's in quotations. The term "race" is also extremely bad in Europe. I leave this disclaimer cause I know no one gives a shit if non-Anglophones must say slurs to convey a point, as long as we all speak the USAmerican way :) We also know that the individuals I am talking about weren't identifying as "Black".

#Guys I should find a way to tag this types of post and idk how #i have some stuff in my f.a.q. page but each ask is a bit different and perhaps the f.a.q. doesn't cover it #I know it's a long post so I tried to cut it relatively early :P #I TRIED #answered #xenoi doing bs #racebending

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unpickled-olive · 4 months

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brain is healing

I've always been depressed, but before grad school, I had interests. I was teaching myself woodworking, building things, drawing plans, and restoring rusty hand planes. I had bought my first ever digital microphone and was recording (bad) music. I was practicing the violin on a semi-regular basis.

I also had hyperfixations. I always loved the experience of being obsessed with something for a few weeks at a time, even if I felt empty when the feeling passed. Spending three weeks learning about homesteading, or being a travel therapist, or rollerskating, or learning Arabic.

Grad school wasn't a decision I made out of passion but out of necessity. After getting my Bachelor's in Linguistics (not a hireable degree but an extremely interesting one), I went as far I could with entry-level jobs before going broke and having a mental breakdown. So I decided that if I couldn't find a job I was passionate about, I would get one that where I could 1. decently support myself, 2. do something meaningful for others, and 3. have the freedom to pursue passions outside of work. My dream job became one where I worked 3.5 days a week.

The conclusion was to build upon my background in linguistics and go into healthcare via speech-language pathology.

But when grad school started, I noticed how quickly all of my passion evaporated. Over night, there was suddenly no more planning, drawing, violin-making.

From week 2 to week 100 of school, I didn't have any thoughts about it. I was emotionally drained and too busy to think about enjoying life. I felt like I'd sold my soul for a stable job and when summer and, winter breaks didn't allow me to do anything but sleep, I figured I would be like that forever.

The one creative thing I did that entire time was write a short little sci-fi story. While trying to read a research paper in the student lounge, I suddenly had an idea and deleted the notes I was taking. For three hours, I did nothing but sit there and type. But due to how inundated in academia I was, it was both super morbid (a story about how Earth is the only planet where life degrades and dies due to ageing) and super academic (it took the form of a research paper written by horrified alien observers). I was so in that world that the only thing I could write had an abstract, an intro, a methodology, a results section, and a discussion.

I'm currently 4 months free of grad school (I say like I'm in recovery), and I've noticed that passion and interest are slowly dripping back into my life. I've spent the last few days reading about Proto-Indo-Europeans, just for fun. I read a BOOK. I'm contemplating building an English joiner's bench. I'm even motivated enough to post something personal on a blog no one will ever read.

These days, learning feels like it takes more effort than it did before. I have this feeling that there isn't room in my brain for any more things, so I shouldn't get too excited. It feels like that, and like the inertia of not having exercised in so long. But I notice this feeling lessening with each month.

This is all to say: grad school couldn't kill my soul forever—it could only kill it for two and a half years.

#grad school #slp #linguistics #woodworking #writing #dark academia (but in a sad boring way)#grad life #grad student

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studykorean101 · 2 years

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What is the difference between -게 하다 and -게 되다?

Great question! First, we need to understand that 하다 is active whereas 되다 is passive! Your next question might be, “but omg, SK101, I’m not good at English grammar, too; what the hell is passive and active?”

Another great question!

The active voice is when the speaker/subject performs the action or is described directly–they did it, caused it, performed it; you’re gonna see people commonly use these ways to explain the active voice. In English, the active voice can look something like this:

I studied Korean; (저는) 한국어를 공부했어요

As you can see, I (the subject) am the one that studied Korean of my own volition. I caused the “Korean studying.”

The passive voice is when the speaker/subject does not perform/cause/do the action. Instead, the subject is affected by the action/performance. I understand this may be difficult to understand, so I’ll spend more time on this.

When can you use the passive voice?

When we have more interest in the object that experiences the action

When we don’t know (or don’t want to express) who performed the action (this is an academic loophole when we didn't do the proper research to support a claim)

When we want to emphasize the action!

The passive voice is not grammatically incorrect (take it from a linguist and someone who minored in creative writing). You will hear people say that the passive voice is not good or is ungrammatical (some bs like that). Even in Korean, the passive voice is entirely natural and used in everyday contexts.

The passive voice in Korean may look like this:

한국어가 (저에게) 공부됐어요; Korean was studied (by me)

The prepositional phrase “by me; 저에게” shows that we know who studied Korean. This may still be confusing, so let me give you another example:

부엌을 청소했어요; I cleaned the kitchen.

부엌이 청소됐어요; The kitchen has been cleaned.

Let’s add more context to the sentence to understand the situation better.

집에 도착했을 때 부엌을 청소했어요; When I got home, I cleaned the kitchen (meaning, I saw the dirty kitchen and cleaned it)

집에 도착했을 때 부엌이 청소됐어요; When I got home, the kitchen was cleaned (meaning, someone (unknown or otherwise) cleaned the kitchen when I was out)

*gasp!* Yes, by now, you've noticed that 이/가 goes with passive!

Now, onto your question: what's the difference between -게 하다 and -게 되다?

-게 하다: causative

The causative aspect shows that A causes B to happen. Pretend you have a younger sibling–here are some examples:

동생은 저를 늦게 했어요; My sibling made me late

저는 동생이 문제를 이해하게 했어요; I made them understand the problem

저를 귀찮게 했어요; You (the sibling) bothered me!

(저는) 동생을 화장품으로 예쁘게 했어요; I made my sibling pretty with makeup

A (동생/저) causes B to happen. B does not mean the recipient (저/동생) of the action – B represents the action.

-게 되다; to become (passive)

This grammar point shows that B changes A! Let’s use the examples from above.

동생이 화장품으로 예쁘게 됐어요; my sibling became pretty with makeup

동생 때문에 제가 귀찮게 되었어요; my sibling has been bothering me

문제가 동생에게 이해하게 되었어요; my sibling came to understand the problem [more literally; the problem was understood by my sibling]

동생 때문에 제가 늦게 되었어요; I became late because of my sibling

Now, I'm sure you've noticed that there are two spellings of a conjugated '되다'. The only difference between '되었어요' and '됐어요' is that '됐어요' is a contraction of '되었어요'. You may have other Korean learners attempt to tell you that you write one [되었어요] and speak the other [됐어요]. This isn't not true; it's just not a rule written in stone. You are very much able to write the contracted '됐어요' instead of the regular '되었어요'. In fact, native Korean speakers do this all the time. It would be like saying we shouldn't write any English contractions because it's not grammatically correct--it's just wrong. The rules of '되다' are more complex than just written and spoken, but that's a blog for another day.

I hope this helped answer your question! If you're still confused, don't hesitate to send me another ask or pm me! I'm always open to clearing up any confusion or directing you to a source that may help!

Happy Learning :)

~ SK101

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dalishious · 1 year

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I think a reason I relate to the city elves so much, despite the Dalish being my favorite DA faction, is that despite me being a minority, I have next to no ties to my ancestral culture. I was born and raised in the US my whole life in an almost all-white town, which influences me greatly, to the point I have greatly white-washed views of the world that I'm still trying to unlearn. Not too dissimilar to how many city elves view the world through the Chant, a non-elven religious text that actively condemns them or views them as an outsider.

Even when I visit my family overseas, it's hard to connect to them culturally or linguistically, no matter how much I want to. Even if I learn more about my ancestral culture through research, it never feels like it bridges the gap. I look at them with similar amazement the city elves view Merrill with when she first walks through Kirkwall.

This could be a big reason why I can relate to Sera as well. Her hatred of all things "elfy" as a result of the culture she was raised in bears a large resemblance to how the West demonizes my people, something that I had launched onto as it was the worldview school taught me.

When I see Sera's internalized bigotry, it's like looking at my younger self. Though this doesn't detract from the atrocious decisions in her writing. Like, let Sera slowly grow to let go of that worldview in the main game depending on player choice. Maybe it's easier to do it if the Inquisitor isn't a human. It shouldn't be sugarcoated either, it's a hard process and a constant one.

It's a story arc that I think a lot of people, especially 2nd and later generations, can relate to. And helps nail home how evil the Chantry is, and the long-lasting effects crusades and colonialism have.

#ask

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roseverdict · 3 months

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The Philestines were an ancient enemy of the Israelis who lived in the Mediterranean. Israel and Judea were renamed Palestine at different times by the Romans as a punishment meant to humiliate them following rebellions against Roman rule. Arabs didn't start living in Palestine until Ottoman rule. And Jews are actual people just like Israel is a nation state. Neither is dependent on what your Holy Books think should happen.

Oookay. It took me a second to remember that this is in reference to my half-asleep, already-known-to-be-probably-ill-informed ramblings, but lemme just make something clear:

We agree on that last bit.

Neither is dependent on anybody's holy books, mine or otherwise (because some branch-offs of Christianity have additional holy books I don't follow and I just wanna make it clear I'm talking about those too).

Unfortunately, the people in power over military superpowers sure seem to fucking think they are, and they are acting accordingly.

My brain was just making connections between similar-sounding words used to reference peoples who have called that stretch of the Mediterranean home during various points of human history. Part of why I posted about it instead of just letting it simmer silently in my head for who-knows-how-long; my memory is shit enough as it is, and I don't exactly want to be that person who convinces themself of something completely false, forgets that it's false, and then doubles down on it whenever someone points it out. ESPECIALLY not about something like this. I know a guy irl who pulls that bs constantly about all kinds of subjects, and it ranges from annoying to frustrating to downright infuriating, depending on the seriousness and impact of the subject he's spewing nonsense about at any given time. I've talked about him before- he donated half my DNA.

I don't exactly want to be a James Somerton or a Nick Hergott, who just sits there and thinks really hard about things and then says "okay, that's all my research done!" without so much as cracking open a search engine.

So thank you for pointing out that the history of that region has had more at play than just Today's Hot Topics over the past several thousand years. I didn't necessarily need a reminder that people who don't believe in the Bible don't believe in the Bible or what it says and shouldn't be held to the Bible's standards due to that, given that I've been trying to unlearn that very thing for the past decade or so and haven't colossally screwed up yet to my knowledge, but I appreciate it all the same. Keeps me humble. Clearly, though, I was correct in assuming I would need to do more research in order to figure out if the 2 AM thoughts of somebody with a special interest in linguistics had any basis in actual reality or not. I think I'll go do that.

#rosie answers #hellscape in palestine #sorry if i sound like. petty or catty or something. i haven't eaten yet today and this just sorta Popped Up in my inbox #food and research. gooOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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mlmxreader · 2 months

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This is a rather complicated question that I have. Nikto refers to himself as "we" right? I brought it up with my mom and a Slavic friend of mine, and what I've gotten from both of them is that there are Russians who will very casually refer to themselves as "we" in the singular sense to emphasize themselves in the sentence. On one end, this is just a normal casual thing. On the other end, doing it a lot can come off as arrogant or like you're trying to get attention. With that info, I kinda came up with the interpretation that this is Nikto using arrogance as a way to cover up any indication that he's deeply scarred. I'm not saying that Nikto can't have DID. It's just that I feel uncomfortable attempting to write him with that condition because I know nothing about DID. I don't know what it's like to live with the condition or to seek out treatment for it. And if I know nothing and can't fully understand it, then I shouldn't include it in my stories. So... would it be sanist for me to use this interpretation of Nikto? Why or why not? -Cyan.

that's actually really interesting to know! linguistically (I think that's the right word?), many people outside of English speaking countries do it, I know my gran sometimes does, as well as referring to people as groups as well! so it's actually quite interesting to hear she's not the only one lmao! that said, it IS also a common thing amongst people w certain mental health disorders as well, so it could well be a mix of both as bc he IS just an operator, its entirely possible that it could be that mix!

yeah, it could be; Nikto could very well be quite arrogant and quite, like, "if I pretend to be the most self-absorbed people in the world, maybe then nobody will know that I have this disorder" and he could very well be using arrogance to MASK his disorder - bc masking can and DOES come in many forms on top of that.

if that's the case, then I would suggest maybe looking into a bit more; now, there's nowhere near as much information on any dissociative disorders of any kind as there is w things like anxiety and depression, which IS down to the mental health field (globally) being extremely saneist and not really wanting to give us the time of day. but, I would suggest looking into it more; if you come to the conclusion post-research, that you still don't feel comfortable portraying EVERY ASPECT, then I'd say to at least mentioning that it happens - mention him having delusions, mention him having positive symptoms. e.g., "he couldn't deny that he had been feeling awful, lately, sleepless nights spent wondering if he and the world around him was actually real."

I understand you not wanting to portray every aspect, tbh, but erasing his disorder and acting like it doesn't exist when it IS a part of him WOULD be saneist; if you don't feel as if you can kindly and appropriately portray his mental health IN DEPTH, that is okay!! it's better, in that case, to leave it to those of us who DO have lived experience! but you don't have to ERASE it either, if that makes sense? you can just mention his positive symptoms so that it's clear that, yes, he has this disorder - even if it's just a few throwaway lines here and there!

I hope this all makes sense, it's currently 0605 and I am very tired and in a lot of pain 😅 but with that said, I'm more than happy to walk you through stuff if you'd like and I'm more than happy to point you in the right direction, and thank you for being so respectful on top of that <3

#asks #Cyan

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menalez · 4 months

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Sorry if this is rude please I am trying to educate myself As an ex Muslim woman I kind of struggle because people say I should support Is ra. El. Since it's the only country in the middle east that actually gives gay people and women their rights. I am genuinely trying to learn a bit more so I would appreciate sources and things to read. There is also arguments around the way that Pale.....stinians are of Arabian descendants who came in during Muslim conquests. I support a middle east that is de arabized and instead embraces it's other indigenous identities. So I struggle a bit because Jewish people are descendents of Hebrews and Isra..eli.....tes. Shouldn't we technically support that as ex Muslim feminists?

why does being ex-muslim mean we should support a colonial state? its such a bizarre argument to me 😭😭

“the only country in the middle east that actually gives gay people and women their rights” for one their pinkwashing is ridiculous because they dont. even have same sex marriage. they just will recognise it if you get married elsewhere. i dont know their women’s rights but they certainly arent the beacon of either gay rights or womens rights and its still bizarre to me to weaponise giving basic human rights to minority groups and then saying this state should be unconditionally supported on that basis despite the racism and inequality and colonialism underlying the existence of the state & its continuation.

the stuff about palestinians being from the arabian peninsula is just uninformed unbacked nonsense. u can check my tags on the topic but theres numerous studies which show that palestinians are very much indigenous to the levant and are very clearly a different group from saudi arabians for example. in fact studies found that every jewish group has shared ancestry with palestinians. research indicates that palestinians were the same indigenous people who never left.

this is in line with other arabised populations— we werent replaced as populations in the muslim conquests. we converted. sure, many of us have some arabian admixture but its clear that the “arabs” in the middle east & north africa share linguistic and cultural and religious traits, but not actual lineage. plus we look pretty visibly different from one another for a reason…

arabisation is primarily found in things like language and some superficial cultural traits, not genes. supporting the genocide or persecution for palestinians isnt somehow supporting dearabisation

“jewish people are the descendants of hebrews and israelites” not all of them are, and jewish people have lived in various parts of the world for thousands of years so, as is normal, they’ve mixed with the populations they’ve lived among and arent somehow more entitled to palestinian land due to distant ancestry. palestinians have distant and modern ancestral ties to their land. framing them as coloniser arabs is baseless nonsense.

“shouldnt we technically support that as ex muslim feminists?” i honestly do not understand why you believe zi0nism is sth anyone Should support esp not ex muslims or feminists. before the formation of israel there were palestinian christians and palestinian jews, palestinians were never just a group of muslims altho yes after the islamic conquests, the majority became muslim. this is the case for most of arabised nations but it doesnt mean that we somehow deserve to be harmed and persecuted and have our homes & dignity & land taken from us bc our ancestors converted over a 1000 years ago. im just not understanding ur logic here tbh.

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annbourbon · 1 year

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The Useful Post

I keep this post to remember the useful things (or interesting) I need and I have found here on Tumblr nothing (or maybe a bit of it but not all) of it is mine so it shouldn't be on my master list but I like to keep it where I can see it. Mostly they're reblogs of useful things.

But first things first: «Curate your own media experience and get your head out of your ass»

Part One || Part Two 🚧 || Part Three 🚧 || Part Four || Part Five

I'm moving The Language Section to Part Three (lack of space and then this whole section will be just writing tips)

Languages 101:

Korean★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★

♡ Korean 101 *A very detailed master list*

♡ Korean

♡ Google Drive: Korean Free Learning Resources

♡ A Pop of Korean: One page master list

Linguistics ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★

♡ Linguistics Master List #1

♡ Irish & AAVE (African American Vernacular English)

♡ Etymology

♡ Loanwords

Writing 101

Follow @givethispromptatry , @promptsforthestrugglingauthor and @creativepromptsforwriting they post often and their content is really good. I'll be updating this list with their best content plus, other people content... but that doesn't mean you shouldn't follow them<3

5 Frustrating Rules by Michael Bjork

About toxic behaviors and romance in writing...

Michael Bjork Writing Master List

Fiction writers you must follow

10 Worst ways to start a book

Comic Sans Trick

Writing Deaf Characters

Body Horror vs. Gore

Enemies to lovers #1

Pacing in your Story

Nicknames for Characters

Just write what you want

Holding each other accountable

Advice for writing relationships

Fairytale Research

Good traits gone bad

Trauma is not romantic

Writing animals

How to write emotions #1

Emotionally healthy people are quitters

Motivation (I believe it applies for fic writers but can also apply to writers)

Sins

Mythology or Religion & Lore?

In defense of Riven

Magical Girls are never attacked

Romance *master post*

Drunken Love Confessions

Writerblr Glossary

Nightmares & Insomnia

Saying I love you Prompts

♡ Kim Possible Movie

♡ Sentimonsters

♡ Bed Sharing Scenarios

♡ Webnovel Scam

♡ BookShop as an alternative to Amazon

♡ Characters being sick

♡ Grammar ≠ Creativity

♡ Writing Assholes: Just remember Dr House 💀

♡ Writing conflict #1

♡ Nature doesn't do TWs

Pink Panther & The Simplicity of things: Why some things are timeless and enjoyable

♡ Please get a Thesaurus 💀

♡ Joss Whedon Writing Tips

♡ Religion Lore 101: How to create it for your story

♡ Fluffy Masterpost

♡ Writing Heists

♡ Write more fanfics!!

♡ Ref Recs for Whump Writers

♡Short & Impactful

♡ Bonus: Fics & Fanarts

♡ Writing Erotica

♡ Writers are often lured 😭🤣 so true...

♡ Podcasts aren't novels

♡ Likable characters are lazy AF

♡ Awful Writing Advice by Susan K. Perry

♡ Worldbuilding (Fantasy)

♡ Engaging Readers

♡ Stage Fright

♡ Tropes and Cliches

♡ Forcing Diversity

♡ Boxing the Ears while fighting (Follow this account, it's amazing!!)

♡ Horror is not the only story

♡ WTF is a Claymore Mine!?

♡ Sentient Sandwiches

♡ Vampires are not...

♡ Nanowrimo Tips

♡ Punctuation Marks

♡ Abuse Apologism is Disgusting

♡ I promise you: It's not worthless

♡ Outfit References

♡ Deconstruction of fairytales??

♡ Novum

♡ Toxic

♡ Dominant vs Domineering (Things that can help you in the art of writing erotica)

♡ Binary Star Systems

♡ Fantasy Guide to Hosting a High Society Dinner Party by @inky-duchess (please check out her blog!! it's amazing~!)

♡ An empath creates monsters

♡ Alphabet Game (Prompt Idea)

♡ You are more than what you write

♡ Filler vs Plot

♡ What is...?

♡ ✨What is...?✨

♡ Tips for dates and sizes

If you want to be here, write me. I'll check on your post and see if I can make it work 😉

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lefthanded-sans · 1 year

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Hi! I've stumbled upon your "Determination, determinism and quantum mechanics" post while researching the topic of sans in connection to quantum mechanics, and I thought your post was pretty good. if you've written anything else on that subject i'd be interested in reading it (i think i found some just by searching your blog, but yanno how tumblr's search function is) and it'd be nice if you could point me in the right direction (but I'll understand if you don't have the time. Thanks either way)

Gosh, I'm responding to this a month late. My apologies! I hope you get this.

Howdy howdy, and thank you so much! It means a lot that you liked that post. You've probably already seen the My Analyses page, which is frightfully out of date. Anything that didn't make it onto that page will still have a my analysis tag. But yeahhhHhHh... tumblr's search function is.... yeah.

I know that, before I made this sideblog, I wrote a few ideas about Sans and Gaster on my main. It's still on the My Analyses page for lefthanded-sans, but I want to bring up Gaster Destroyed Himself with the SAVE Function in case you haven't seen that one yet.

Unfortunately, it's also been several years since I've analyzed Undertale, so I don't remember if I have other posts that discuss Sans + quantum mechanics. Going to the archive for the first year of this blog is where you're most likely to find things, I think.

I also was going to explore this idea in depth in a fanfiction, Reset or Resume. I had SUCH a long and COMPLICATED series of charts for how this story was to come together, and I was so excited for its epicness. Eheh. But I got tired and busy and never finished it, and instead of posting it with fanfare a chapter at a time as planned, shyly tossed the unfinished product all at once onto FFN at an obscure hour. I don't think I got to major quantum physics stuff, but I want to be helpful bringing up anything on the subject on the rare chance it helps you.

I do talk on the opening author's notes page on point #4 about a quantum physics inspo, but obviously, in many cases, creative writing details for flavor are going to be different than actually-thought-through-meta-theories (though I will say that if my characters make hyper-specific scientific references or name a paper author, that's probably referencing an actual article). Shoot, I'm sure I had story ideas that I never wrote down that were more meta...... hrmh.

If you have any posts that you've found or written, I'd be interested seeing those! This convo is re-sparking my interest in this area.

Lastly, I want to speak with humility to make sure people know the level to which they should be taking me "seriously." My college background was in linguistics and music. I enjoyed sciences in high school, but I am very, very clearly neither a hard sciences expert nor amateur, and shouldn't be taken as someone who knows or has any expertise on quantum mechanics.

I realize most of this was already on my blog, but I hope that helps! Thanks for bringing some smiles to me about UT!

#UT #Undertale #analysis #my analysis #ask #ask me #Sans #Gaster #tardisimpalatohogwarts

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pallanophblargh · 2 years

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Kindof a double question about ‘noph culture - what do pallanophs call their parents? Do they have a ‘mom/dad’ equivalent like most human languages, and by extension, what does Neng call his moms?

Second question - your pallanoph character’s names seem mostly phonetically English (completely assuming based on their spelling), but I was wondering if any or all of them sound different/contain non-English sounds when spoken by pallanophs. (And if you have any examples??? :D)

Thanks for your very kind words about my art the other day, it likewise made my week :D

Been trying to think of something approaching a proper answer for this question, but in the event of Continued Brain Mush, we'll just settle for some rough thoughts in the meantime. I'll preface this by saying linguistics is my second largest weakness, preceded by general culture.

I don't know if pallanophs have a proper distinction between "mom" and "dad", since the age at which this would make a difference (nursing age) they'd only be old enough to indicate hunger, which would be, at best, an undefined cry of some sort. At which point, they only want mom. I think by the time they are being weaned is when they might latch onto different words for mom and dad; I was thinking (jokingly, I admit) about "meh" and "beh" because words are hard and those two sounds should be easy to make by a baby 'noph. Regarding Neng, Qiara finds him at between 7-8 years of age, so while he's still quite young, he's long since been weaned and calls them by their names normally. He still probably yells out "MEH!" when he wants attention from either of them, though.

Definitely guilty of pallanoph names being largely phonetically English, since that's usually safe territory and what I know, with some forays into other European languages. Unless I do a lot of research on other languages, I feel uncomfortable knowing I'll undoubtedly step on toes during my linguistic bumbling. In all honesty, 'noph names shouldn't be directly influenced by neighboring human cultures, but... here we are. A lot of this issue could be solved if I bothered to pin down what pallanoph vocalization sounds like. Their teeth and lips enable them to make themselves decently understood by humans in human languages, but I imagine pallanoph language(s) have more capacity for guttural/snapping/popping sounds than English does. It's possible that pallanophs may have two names: one they are given by their parents/peers, and one they share with humans they interact with.

*points at generic high fantasy* "This is all your fault!" (totally nothing to do with me noooo)

#asks #pallanophs #pallanoph questions #april attempts worldbuilding #would be nice if I could keep my head glued together for more than 5 seconds #linguistics #it's my cue to learn other languages #could start by picking up where I left off with Spanish #I don't want pallanophs to sound completely unexpected with the sounds they can make #but this has been in my head for years with no real solid revelations #I had other thoughts that came up while answering this but can't remember now #they'll get addressed later?#yeah I'm rubbish at answering things these days but I'm trying regardless

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scary-senpai · 2 years

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Bestie you shouldn't have done this because I'm going to ask you the worst one. (I almost went with the most controversial tropes I could think of but decided it was too mean.) 🔪 Fuck, marry, kill: Florist AU, Band AU, Soulmate AU?

Ah, Bestie, CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

Fuck the Band AU (affectionate), because that’s what it’s all about, right? Raw attraction, carnal indulgence, “making beautiful music together.” It’s mostly fun and a little dangerous—always a good time

Marry Florist AU. It’s sweet, it’s stable, there’s nice symbolism… in a Florist AU, nothing can hurt you, not even bees.

…Unless your flower store is all about money laundering and (plot twist!) it’s been a mafia front all along. Anyway I did end up executing on that idea (no pun intended…or is it? 🔪🔪🔪☠️), but since the Jujutsu Kaisen cast happened to be a better fit, the OPM-verse is safe from me..for now.

You see, as I was brainstorming the Money Laundering Florist AU, it lead me to marry all the Flufftober and Whumptober prompts into some terrible, 31 day bastardization of two wildly disparate fandom events. Anyway, I hope for everybody’s sake Flumptober doesn’t take off—especially mine—but who knows. Maybe it will become tradition.

By process of elimination, this would lead me to kill the “soul mate au,” but as I’ve taken a personal vow of nonharming, I won’t be killing anything, which makes the ant problem in my office a bit of a sticky wicket.

I don’t the soulmate au needs to die, but I do believe it could benefit from more reincarnations. I think about how often we attribute strange, conflicting feelings to noumenal elements like the spirit or soul. And while I’ve never neither fully believe nor disbelieve in such things, I find myself leaning towards whimsical thinking when I want to escape the reality of something—historically, a bad romantic relationship. I feel like I’ve seen other friends experience more or less the same (especially late teens / early twenties). It’s hard to conceptualize healing from a broken heart when it hasn’t happened to you yet.

Anyway, even if soul mates are a scientific given, there’s still uncertainty in real science—even a seemingly straightforward diagnosis—so I thought it might be interesting to apply that same uncertainty to the concept of soulmates. I’m thinking back to okCupid algorithms, how you answer a litany of questions and get a percent match. I met my nest partner on okc and we eerily always order the same things, which makes sense since food / drink preferences were some of the questions asked.

Or what about different flavors of soulmates? Why just one kind, or just one soulmate? I (briefly) worked in a linguistics lab (even though I’m not really cut out for research), because I felt such a deep and immediate affinity for the grad students and faculty. We were on the same wavelength about pretty much everything except for how lack of diversity consistently and profoundly impedes developmental psychology research. I’ve (seriously) joked that my senpai John is my creative soulmate because we’re always absurdly on the same wavelength and people sometimes think we are dating if they see us together. (We are not flirting, we are “yes, and”-ing and they are not the same). But I do feel that way, that there are other types of otherworldly bonds aside from the standard romantic ones. My best friend and I were born exactly six months apart and I’ve always felt there was something auspicious about that.

And, of course, I’m a huge fan of The Good Place take, which is that “If soulmates do exist, they're not found, they're made. People meet, they get a good feeling, and they get to work building a relationship.” Because as I get older I find that the most fulfilling and beautiful aspect of a relationship is not that it just magically works, no matter what, it’s that I commit to making it working. Repeatedly. Every day. I think that this is a massively underutilized approach when it comes to prickly characters, because it can show two partners working to change behavior and strengthen communication as opposed to potentially excusing a “ride or die” mentality.

I had a whole rant about the unbearable lightness of being, but I decided to spare you because this is a Wendy’s an anime blog 🤷‍♀️

Thank you so much for the ask! I really enjoyed this (and I got a lot out of this question, including a new WIP)

#asks #ask game #splendiferous mutuals #wilf #(work i'd like to finish)#Flumptober #for my undergrad research project I asked if I could analyze the results of their existing experiments by zip code #or even by hospital (we ran studies on kids and half came from posh private hospital and others came from public hospital)#also our city had notoriously inaccessible public transit #two very wealthy neighborhoods were within walking distance of the university #it’s very easy to support science when you can pop by the lab with your nanny #but science is a bit more than that #anyway #the prof nudged me in another direction and I took the hint

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astriiformes · 4 years

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Oh no oh no my research into Khuzdul morphology lead me to a page on that brought up the connections between Khuzdul and Adûnaic, and the specific example it used was talking about how in Adûnaic, “gimlu-nîtir,” which means “kindler of a star,” incorporates the objective form, since “gimlu” is the objective of the word for star, which is “gimli”

And given that this is Tolkien and there is very little coincidence with his languages, and also that it’s canon that dwarves use names from the languages of Men instead of their Khuzdul ones when interacting with non-dwarves, that means Gimli is actually named “star” and I’m having some kind of feelings about it!

#wails audibly #linguistic research shouldn't DO this to me #is this a thing other people knew? did no one tell me??#are we okay??#f: the road goes ever on and on

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westerosoliviapope · 2 years

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After blasting onto the political scene on campaigns for the likes of Selwyn Tarth and Robb Stark, Sarella Sand is rising through the ranks of crisis consulting to become one of the republic's best-known fixers. While she refuses to dish on her top clients, she chats with us about her dual heritage, sisterly bonds, how she got into politics, and free advice to help celebrities avoid scandals.

On Her Heritage "I take great pride in having two homelands." But don't expect her to reinforce any reductive stereotypes about the Dornish or Summer Islanders. "I, unfortunately, dealt with a lot of coded language about my 'spicy' and 'inherently sensual' background when I first came to Westeros, but that's not what I take from my heritage," she says. "Growing up in two rich and distinct cultures taught me to be more open to the world than people who strongly identify with being one thing or another."

On Being Raised by the Ultimate #GirlDad "A man with my father's reputation shouldn't have been enthusiastic about raising a brood of girls," Sarella says of Dornish Prince Oberyn Martell, who famously fathers eight high-achieving women. A friend once said I grew up in a 'training camp for badass girls.' He wasn't entirely wrong."

On the Importance of Sisterhood "It's like being born into a sorority," she muses. "We have matching tattoos. We do an annual Solstice Eve sleepover with just the eight of us. As we speak, I'm packing for the King's Landing Tennis Open [her sister, Elia Sand, is the early favorite]."

On Keeping Her Cool in Tense Situations "My mother [Summer Isles High Court Judge, Jolona Qo] and her mother are extremely poised, some of it is genetic," she says. "Years of archery practice help, too," she answers. "You can't hit your target when you're panicked."

On Her Jump from Academia to Politics The former history and linguistics student credits her Citadel advisor, Maester Marwyn, with changing the course of her career. "He was big on tying his expertise [ancient cultures and anthropology] to the present day with guest lecturers from outside academia."

She planned to become a professor/researcher until she attended a guest lecture by political consultant Wyman Manderly in her third year. "I think it was called 'Mythology in Modern Politics' or something similar. And it helped me see how the seemingly abstract topics I studied still play out in modern power structures. I was hooked."

On the Craziest Problem She's Ever "Fixed" "I make problems disappear, so I'll never tell." But she's willing to share a recurring issue: celebrity sex tapes. "Just don't do it," she advises. "They always land in the wrong hands. I've seen too many of you [famous Westerosi] naked."

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1623448

#scandal abc #dornesolstice #dorneedit #dorneuniverse #sarella sand #modern sarella sand #dorne #modern dorne #modern westeros #modern asoiaf au #asoiaf modern au #house martell #modern martells #sand snakes #scandal westeros #scandal westeros magazines

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wearejapanese · 3 years

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I don't know if you take history questions or not...but do you know of any good resources on the Asuka Period of Japanese history? I ask because earlier this year I started editing a novel I wrote about Princess Nukata, a poet from that era. I encountered a poem of hers in college and was intrigued enough to look into her more. I did do research when planning the novel, but exhausted what I could find pretty quickly - partly because there aren't many primary sources (the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki are the closest I could find, as well as poems from the Manyôshû), and also I can't read Japanese. (I'm white, but very interested in Japanese culture - genuinely, not in a geek way, though I will admit anime & manga got me into it initially). I consulted a friend who has a degree in Japanese on the matter, and even she didn't think there'd be much.

I don't know where to look, because most of the things we consider "traditional Japanese culture" today didn't come about till later, so I feel for accuracy I can't include those (though I bent the rules to include tea drinking, which I hadn't realized beforehand came later). But I want to portray the culture too. I remember one thing that came up when I consulted people on the Japan region forum for NaNoWriMo about this novel was that I shouldn't use modern-day Shinto wedding practices as a basis for Nukata's wedding, but instead try to find sources about how they were done then. Except, as I said, sources of any kind seem scarce.

I also worry, given the concerns about cultural appropriation (and about white interpretation of Asian stories prompted by Disney's Mulan remake), whether it's even ok for a white person to write such a novel. I just found Nukata to be a very interesting person, and someone in history that no one really knows about (in America anyway; I don't know how well she is known in Japan, though I know the Takarazuka play Akane Sasu Murasaki no Hana is about her, and she was briefly referenced in Chihayafuru) so I wanted to make people more aware of her.

I don’t mean to be flippant, but have you considered the sources in the reference sections for the wikipedia articles on the Asuka period and Princess Nukata?

Obviously, if you want primary sources, your best options are all in Japanese. However, I skimmed the wiki articles and noticed several publications through University of Hawai’i, Stanford University, Columbia University and Cambridge University. I’d also recommend consulting publications from University of California and University of Michigan for pre-modern Japanese literature and history as both universities are known for the high quality of their scholarship in this field.

It’s not uncommon for non-Japanese people to be first introduced to our culture via anime. In fact, the Japanese government soft power machine has worked very hard to use popular media to package our culture for your consumption. There’s no need for you to be apologetic about how you became interested in Japan. What matters is how you continue to channel that interest, and whether you are interested in hearing perspectives that don’t come with a price-tag attached.

Speaking bluntly, without fluency in Japanese, you are likely not the best candidate to conduct primary source research on this topic. I have friends who get PhDs on this sort of topic. The issue is not that you are white. I happen to know that quite a few of the academics active in this field are white. The issue is whether or not you have the appropriate linguistic and cultural competencies to write a compelling, respectful story on your subject.

If you wish to have an anachronistic approach to Japanese historical fiction, I’m not enthusiastic, but you wouldn’t be the first non-Japanese writer to favor anachronistic depictions of our history for the aesthetics. Frankly, I’m generally supportive of people writing about whatever topic they want, but something about the way that you’ve phrased this reminds me of outsiders who claim a desire to study a language or dialect out of a desire to “save it.” In my personal opinion, if you want to learn more about a Japanese historical figure, I don’t think you need to couch you interest in caveats like trying to spread awareness. I assure you that poets who show up in Man’yoshu are pretty well known both in Japan and by people who cover the field.

-Saito

#y-k asks #in the dungeon #ask #wordsparks #writing

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