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My name's Akemi/Becca. Pisces. 26 yro. Ridiculous. Gender Non-comforming/Non-binary/not sure (Me and pronouns don't make sense). Future Geologist

[apolloendymion]

since mrs, ms, and mr are all descended from the latin word magister, i propose the gender neutral version should be mg, short for "mage"

[apolloendymion]

some people think this is a shitpost so i want to clarify that i am dead fucking serious. make mage the official gender neutral honorific NOW. i want it on my passport. i want it on my bank account. i want doctors and judges to use it for me. i don't care if it sounds a little silly. people thought "missus" sounded crass at first. call me mg.

[apolloendymion]

benefits of mg:

easy to pronounce, even for children (though kids 4 & younger may pronounce it more like "mayd" or "maygh")

ONE SYLLABLE!!! ("individual" is too goddamn LONG.) you have to be able to say it quickly and casually

ends in a soft vowel sound, so it'll flow right into the next word ("ind" halts the whole sentence)

fits neatly into the existing structure as a relative of master/mistress that can be abbreviated down to an m and one other letter

distinct enough that it can't be mistaken for either gendered term (if you call me mix I'll kill you. it sounds like miss with extra steps)

wizard.

drawbacks:

there aren't any

yes, i know about milligrams and magnesium. i don't give a shit. ms can also mean microsoft. who cares.

[kapreday]

I had to find this from somewhere and reblog it again because I work at a high school summer camp and told the kids to call me Mg. Day during our first day programming today.

They went NUTS for it! Not only did they love it, but there was an immediate click in understanding about they/them pronouns *from the entire cohort* that I haven’t experienced in 3 years of programming.

And linking it back to the root words Mister and Missus as OP so wonderfully provided helped establish that using they/them or neopronouns isn’t just playing around or “Miss but different” the way it can be with Mx. I used to try to go by Teacher Day because I was still getting she/her’d all the time but that also came with the problems of the students only being able to see me in the role of Teacher and being intimidated by the educational institution and their grades (I don’t even work for the school I’m external staff I don’t even have WiFi access). And I’d still get she/her’d all the time.

As soon as I introduced Magister they saw that a nonbinary person could be an Adult with a *societal* role outside the binary. It was immediately visible in their ecstatic faces. And I didn’t get misgendered today.

The only downside is I’m gonna have to practice my card tricks because I did promise I could do magic!

[astro-inthestars]

@the-archivists-corner @water-mellie-seeds @chipistrate @ayyyyysexual go my strange gender people! i want your opinions on this in my tags

[akemi713]

Now I only have one reason to strive for Dr., but that’s okay cuz my one reason is rage spite so I’m gonna be Dr. Mg. Alexander/Mg. Dr. Alexander and no one can stop me 😈👊🫶

[ashstfu]

[fraddit]

Adorable story implied by the 9-1-1 set dressing?

Over the last few weeks, I’ve spent far more time than is reasonable obsessing over the set details of Eddie’s house for this series of posts and also Buck’s apartment, because his is next on my list, and I noticed something about Christopher’s room.

From our first glimpse of Chris’s room in s2e04 onward, there is a terrarium/fish tank on Chris’s dresser. Here is its first appearance:

And here is its last appearance in s4e08:

Because the next time we see Christopher's room in s4e13 and s4e14, the terrarium is gone and has been replaced by a record player and speakers.

I was struck by that, because it's kind of a peculiar item for a boy of nine or ten years old to have in his room. But that feeling only lasted for a few moments, until I remembered who else has a record player on constant display from nearly the moment he has his own place.

Here is Buck’s record player from s3e01 and s3e03:

Obviously, the only explanation that I will accept is that whenever Christopher is at Buck’s place, they listen to records together and Christopher loves it a lot and got super into it and eventually Buck bought him his very own record player and speakers to have in his room for his birthday or Christmas (what months are between these two episodes?) or just because. And and… seriously… the specific model that Chris has…

Look at this work of art. This is a Crosley Voyager Turntable that retails for around $100, bluetooth speakers and accessories not included. This specific model -- gorgeous orange velvet y’all -- seems to have been a special edition just for Urban Outfitters. Obviously there are more impressive and expensive turntables out there, but this is just so perfect for a kid, I think.

I'm losing my entire mind. If that’s not a gift that says “I love you with all my heart” I don’t know what is. Just picturing the excitement of Chris opening it and Buck trying not to burst at the seams with joy as he watches Chris opening it and Eddie’s utter fondness leaking from every pore as he watches both of them… I'm going to expire.

Also, at this point, no one will ever disabuse me of the notion that Chris’s favorite color is orange.

I’ll admit that I'm generally kind of unimpressed with the set dressing on 9-1-1. And, when I first started taking screenshots of Buck’s apartment for building a model of it, I kind of rolled my eyes at the record player’s existence, since the man has never mentioned having such a hobby one single time. But, I was willing to grant them leeway, since he has to do something with his free time at home and it’s obviously never been watching culturally relevant films (much to Chimney’s chagrin).

But now you can pry audiophile Buck and his new apprentice, Chris, from my cold dead hands.

Anyway, thank you for joining me on this little journey. If (I’m crossing my fingers so hard here, lol) anyone happens to feel inspired by this post and winds up writing a fic about it, please let me know so I can read it.

[fraddit]

This is the first post in a series of three four about Eddie’s house on 9-1-1.

part two, part three, part four | Buck’s loft

Okay! So! I’m a bit of an architecture and interior design enthusiast, which means I’m constantly paying too much attention to the living quarters of characters in shows I’m obsessed with. I decided to put that to use and make up a floor plan for Eddie’s house and got a bit carried away. Anyway, a-thousand-something screenshots and three weeks of effort later, we have what I would normally make just one long post but is instead a series of three posts, because of the tumblr image limit.

Also, sorry in advance if this is just way too much information. I figured, since I’ve got it in my brain, I might as well put it in the post.

Anyway, here’s the floor plan as a whole. I’m going to focus on each individual room in later sections of the post. This section kind of covers the house in general.

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[jeonha-art]

Half Awake in Our Fake Empire by @hmslusitania

inspired to draw christopher and molly based on the line “But princesses get to have dragons” in chapter two 😭

[like-the-rest-of-la]

Mr. “‘He’s not- we’re not’ - subtle is what you are not!“-Diaz in Close My Eyes and Stumble (Right Into Your Love) by @hmslusitania  

Eddie’s PTSD is just that little bit worse and when he moves to Los Angeles, instead of joining the LAFD, he joins dispatch.

Which is all good and fine, except for this one firefighter he keeps ending up talking to.

[andavs]

[stellarflex]

[butterflypeaflowertea]

trees are very 🥺 because sometimes i’ll stand under the shade of a tree and look up at it and it’ll sway its branches about in the wind and i’m like oh my God i’m alive and YOU’RE alive. we are alive together and made up of the same starry stuff and standing right next to each other in this moment on this earth. do u feel it when i reach out and press my hand to your trunk? can you hear me? i think you’re so neat. and then the sunlight filters through its leaves just so and that lovely green color leaves me dazzled. it’s just very nice to be an alive thing next to a different sort of alive thing

[extraordinarilyextreme]

finally watched Guardian (2018) and i need to talk

Warning: contains MASSIVE SPOILERS, probably too much music/song analysis, my poor translations from Chinese to English, and some references to the original novel (disclaimer: my novel-reading was mostly jumping around because i have a problem where I’m not fluent enough to read the original Chinese novel and I don’t usually like English translations)

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[hidey-writes]

wip wednesday

Zhao Yunlan finds him, of course. “Something wrong, Professor Shen?” he asks, coming to a stop in front of where Shen Wei is sitting, back ramrod straight, in one of his guest chairs, gaze trained on the floor. “Nothing’s wrong, Chief Zhao,” Shen Wei says without looking up, and his voice is calm and measured, but he’s lying. Against Zhao Yunlan, who can see through him to a terrifying degree, it’s almost a pointless gesture. Zhao Yunlan moves to sit in the other chair, but seems to think better of it and merely leans against it, body turned slightly away from Shen Wei as if to give him some privacy. He laughs, awkward. “It was that bad pretending to be my new husband, huh.” Shen Wei’s eyes snap up. Zhao Yunlan is uncharacteristically still, uncharacteristically despondent. There’s a tired slant to his shoulders that Shen Wei doesn’t like. “I won’t make you do it again,” Zhao Yunlan says, quiet and decisive. “We’ll find some other way to talk to her. I’ll go in alone if that’s the best we can come up with.” Shen Wei’s out of his chair before he registers himself moving, hand coming up to cup Zhao Yunlan’s cheek, but he catches himself and pats Zhao Yunlan awkwardly on the shoulder. “No,” he says, too sharply. “No,” he tries again, gentler, “my apologies. That wasn’t my intention at all.”

another cut scene from a scrapped version of the 520 day fic! we are in ... revision for this fic at last! woohoo! i'm desperately hoping that i will have time to get two drafts in but that really depends on how quickly i can type in the next two weeks i think.

[ripeteeth]

"I waited 5 years." - Luo Binghe and Mo Ran

"I waited 16 years." - Lan Wangji

"I waited 800 years." - Hua Cheng

"..." - Shen Wei

[yilian0203]

[preciousqiqi]

guardian (2018) // ep. 12

goshhh, moody zhao yunlan is actually scary though. someone who seems nice and would tolerate you (sometimes), turns annoyed when he senses you're hiding something from him.

[nevicha]

If Guardian episode 1 was from Shen Wei's POV

[t-catch22-deactivated20191029]

So a while ago Bai Yu did a podcast on Lizhi where he discussed his character in Guardian and read some lines from the novel. I did my best to make translations and put together an Eng subbed video. 

The audio comes from lizhifm here

There’s another video of Bai Yu reading lines from the novel, which @naanima posted here

[emilybeemartin]

I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

[emilybeemartin]

Some people have been wondering about the raccoon. Listen. Listennn. Don't ask about the raccoon.

[mavaris]

But does the racoon survive the Uruk-Hai? Does he curl up on Aragorn's head, or does he go straight to Faramir? Does he bite Denethor?

[emilybeemartin]

My friend. My colleague. My brother my captain my king. I too have been pondering this question, and in my mind there can be only one ultimate outcome.

A few months later

All hail the High Warden of Gondor.

Epilogue: It ADORES Faramir.