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thosaigh mé ag caitheamh brístí 1940s (ach níl siad éadaí 1940s fíor go deimhin! cosúil le bershka)

AGUS OH MO DHIADH A CHAIRDE!! is é an rud is fearr a rinne mé! mhothaím cosúil leis an príomhcharachtar an am ar fad!!

ach caithfidh siad a bheith míchompordach, a deir tusa ACH TÁ TÚ MÍCHEART TÁ SIAD AN-CHOMPORDACH

TÁ SIAD AN-PHEAK :D

ag-caint-seafoid

GABH MO LÉITHSCÉAL RINNE MÉ DEARMAD AR NA PHICTIÚIRÍ A FOILSITHE ACH SEO É PICTIÚR AMHÁIN DE NA CHUID BRÍSTÍ

#cosúil le feic!#táim i ngrá le na bhrísti chun an fhírinne a rá 😭😭#gaeilge #fashion #vintage #vintage fashion

depsidase

cruiserweight

take a gamble that love exists, and do a loving act

thosaigh mé ag caitheamh brístí 1940s (ach níl siad éadaí 1940s fíor go deimhin! cosúil le bershka)

AGUS OH MO DHIADH A CHAIRDE!! is é an rud is fearr a rinne mé! mhothaím cosúil leis an príomhcharachtar an am ar fad!!

ach caithfidh siad a bheith míchompordach, a deir tusa ACH TÁ TÚ MÍCHEART TÁ SIAD AN-CHOMPORDACH

TÁ SIAD AN-PHEAK :D

#clothing #fashion #vintage #póstálfaidh mé cúpla pictiúr i gcúpla lá ar feadh #táim ro-léithsciúil ag an am seo #1940s

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

step one: be extremely depressed during covid-19 quarantine

step two: in your diffidence, leave many half-drunk glasses of water around your apartment

step three: your cat, who is stupider than any other mammal on earth, living or dead, starts drinking from your many abandoned water cups

step four: the cat now believes these are for her

step five: years later, you keep a glass of water on your bed side stand. not such a strange sight. however, it is the cat's glass of water. she loves it. she drinks from it, she sleeps beside it on the bed next to your pillow to jealously guard it from harm, she cries when the level gets too low and she can't cram her little head in far enough to reach the water. when overnight guests are there you have to explain that even if they are parched in the night, they don't wanna drink the glass of water, because that is the cat's glass of water.

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

you know how easy it was to get this picture? i picked her up, smooched her on her little head, put her down on the bed facing it, and she went "!!!! ooomye glase ofwater🥰" and started slurpin

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

i tried to tell her she's famous now. she licked me

ilytimdrakeugayball

bruce whos been awake for 56 hours: cass can you pass me the case file?

damian: ...what

bruce: sorry i mean jason,wait no, dick. uhm Stephanie, i mean tim, no wait duke. alfred? no uhm barbara. wait ace.

damian:thats our dog father

bruce:alfred pennyworth the cat?

damian:

bruce: damian, i mean damian.

damian: leaves.

bonus!!:

bruce whos been awake for 56 hours: cass can you pass me the case file?

tim whos also been awake for 56 hours: sure thing clark one washing machine coming up.

ag-caint-seafoid

OMD IS FÉIDIR LIOM A BHEITH AG FEACHAINT SEO AG TARLÚ 😭😭

an-spideog

Gender Neutral Pronouns

Saw a few posts about gender neutral pronouns in Irish so I thought I'd talk about it a bit.

So like others have said, there's no native gender neutral pronoun, traditionally in Irish if you don't know someone's gender you'd call them duine (person) which is grammatically masculine, and then use masculine pronouns to refer to that.

But of course there's lots of non-binary people who wouldn't really want to use masculine pronouns so let's talk about alternatives a bit.

Siad

Siad is originally a plural pronoun in Irish meaning "they" (pl.), but is the most commonly used option nowadays for non-binary people. It is a direct calque from English, but as far as calques go it's a pretty useful one.

Neopronouns

Neopronouns are pretty tough in Irish, harder even than in English where still they have pretty low adoption rates. This is because pronouns in Irish come with a lot of grammatical baggage. It's not enough to say "subject / object / possessive"

A pronoun in Irish needs to have subject, object, possessive, and a prepositional form for every preposition.

Like for brevity we often write pronouns as like sí/í. But in reality what we have is:

Subject: sí, object: í, possessive: a (h-prefixes, no lenition), ag: aici, ar: uirthi, as: aisti, le: léi...

So to create a neopronoun you have to both document all of these forms, and then get people to adopt them (which is hard, because there's more to adopt).

Also for the possessive form it's hard because the third person possessive is always a, it's just that masculine lenites, feminine h-prefixes and plural eclipses. If you try to add a different a, it will have to have the same mutation pattern as one of them, at least in many situations.

One possible solution to this is to use a neo pronoun but use the grammatical forms of siad, so like tá siú ag obair ag labhairt leo féin (they are talking to themself). But at that point we are still calquing from the english.

ea exists in the language in certain situations as a neuter reference, historically it existed more, but if you tried to use it now you would have similar difficulties to the neo pronouns, you'd need prepositional forms.

Also, é gets reduced a lot in speech especially in Conamara, to the point where it would sound very similar to ea if you were trying to say things like Is dochtúir ea for "They're a doctor" it would sound a lot like Is dochtúir é "He is a doctor".

Conclusion

Because of all that, I think generally the most flexible option is to use siad, even though it is a calque of English. But for those who would like neopronouns, now you're prepared for the large table that comes with it!

If you want something that's a little bit neo a little bit traditional you could consider adapting dar, the ending of the 3rd person plural past in words like bhíodar (they were). This ending has become a pronoun in some limited contexts (still for the plural, but stuff like tá dar - they are) but if you wanted to use it as a singular pronoun with the grammatical forms of siad, that could also be an interesting option.

bettedavisgf

i’m a very rational person in general but i kind of do believe in sports curses. because of the evidence

winged-machine

Mr. Marston again. Combo digital + traditional sketch page from last year

fankiiv

tired

c00kietin

"i asked chatgpt" well I asked the Salmon of Knowledge and I took a bite out of it and now i know every single thing ever in the whole entire world.

ag-caint-seafoid

TABHAIR RUDAÍ MIOTASEOLAÍOCH AR AIS LE DO THOIL

#tá uaithne uaim chun dul i mo chodladh #gaeilge #miotas #irish culture #irish mythology #irish language

rockthrowingbutch

reducingemissions

Canon btw

ag-caint-seafoid

mise agus mo chócaire

#rí den gcistin #is aoibheann leo mise #oki #cooked

trekkiesagainstchastity

It doesn't matter if that fic has been in your drafts for years and is now self-indulgent to the point of parody. If Steven Moffatt is allowed to do it professionally, you are allowed to do it for fun.

thefuzzydave

drinkyourjuiceshelby

stupidbeecandle

I lived and worked in a lighthouse at a previous job. There was a thick line painted in a circle around the shack where the fog signal was kept. The line represented how close you could get to the fog signal without experiencing physical harm in the form of eardrums shattering or worse.

Even in the house it was LOUD. Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval. You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off. It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.

At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks. People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.

One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit. It did. Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that. People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.

That said Id do it all again, I really do treasure those days