Arturite

Mixed-race Brazilian, adult, it/they. I post and draw stuff I'm into, mostly the SCP Foundation currently. [Profile description: Icon is a drawing of my gem OC, Azurite, from the shoulder up. She has light blue skin, darker blue hair and eyes, and smiles while looking away. The banner is a simple doodle of her and my Lapis smiling.]

[arturite2]

Hello! You can call me Arturite or Lake.

This is my blog for pretty much anything I find funny or cool! I really like history and linguistics, and my main fandom interests are Steven Universe, Undertale/Deltarune, and SCP.

I like to draw but I am very inconsistent at it, so don't expect much. 😅

If I reblog your post with an image description, you can add it to the original post. No credit needed!

Art tag is #my art.

My Undertale/Deltarune sideblog.

[arturite2]

Iris G. Thompson #pride

[even-more-nonsense]

Failure to reach the heavens

[we-have-black-marble-at-home]

my final act of love will have casualties

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[cepheusgalaxy]

[ID. A tweet by claiiir (@/himmeljoshi): peak fiction is when two characters that absolutely despise each other are just parallels of one another /end ID.]

[biocrafthero]

perceived skill

[official-linguistics-post]

uh oh

"etymologynerd" is at it again and this time i do feel i have to say something. the disability advocates have it covered on addressing the impact, but there's also a serious problem with the linguistics.

in a video shared on may 16, adam aleksic begins by saying: "i think we have to accept the fact that the 'r-word' [retard/retarded] is permanently coming back and it's functionally changed meanings to no longer directly refer to disabled people."

this first sentence alone betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of language change in several points.

this word never went away. what we're seeing now is an attempt at re-normalization by people who sense that they will not be socially punished by openly using this term.

we actually don't have to "accept" its return to mainstream use. for decades, disability advocates have worked to inform the public of the harm caused by casual use of this term. the harm has not disappeared, and neither will this advocacy and its impacts.

now i'm just mad. how tf does it NOT refer to disabled people? the entire point of a pejorative term is that it negatively invokes comparison to a person, group, etc. the assertion that the r-word has changed meanings is categorically false. at most, its primary context has changed from clinical to casually pejorative, but the insult fundamentally rests upon the original reference.

he goes on to refer to the "euphemism treadmill," another concept he misrepresents by extending the metaphor to say that terms which have been sufficiently distanced from their original reference are no longer pejorative. to quote: "...once we sufficiently distance a word from its historical usage, it stops taking on the same offensive power and just becomes colloquial instead."

which... what? what the fuck is he talking about? the words he uses as examples – idiot, imbecile, and moron – are definitely still offensive, if perhaps less impactful. "just becomes colloquial instead" is a nonsense phrase. are offensive words not colloquial? the only english word that comes to mind as having changed so much in definition as to no longer be offensive is "nice," which has been shifting in meaning for more than 700 years and was never a weaponized clinical term.

he ends by saying, "it is undeniably true that the people who are afraid to say the r-word right now are going to get old and die out, while younger generations keep saying it with no knowledge of where it came from." again, fundamentally misunderstanding language change in society over time. it rests on the assumption that we're all going to start or re-start using this slur and never have a conversation about its harms, which just completely ignores both the abovementioned disability advocacy and the fact that people tell each other not to use offensive words. you think i'm just not gonna teach my kids that using slurs is bad??

the whole video is devoid of both empathy and an understanding of long-term semantic change.

tl;dr etymologynerd is wrong, we do NOT "have to accept that the 'r-word' is coming back," and we all need to read more crip linguistics.

[snout]

people on this site will make the biggest scene whenever any of the crystal gems has the tiniest flaw but i don’t see ANYBODY talking about all of the innocent people steven callously stabs per episode ..? :/

[snout]

it seems like almost every time i watch the show i’m like, great, another steven’s knife episode. it’s like, enough? we get it??

[boxghost]

is this what steven universe fans concern themselves with

[snout]

its important, what kind of message is this to send to children? kids are gonna watch this and think that stabbing people is okay just because steven brutally, mercilessly slaughters his fellow Beach City residents by the dozen every single episode and nobody is there to tell him no. There too afraid of the knife

[boxghost]

yall ever watch like. grim adventures. or. anything like that lmfaooo

[snout]

the only “grim adventures” ive ever seen are steven universe’s bloodthirsty massacres, when he stamps out entire villages using his famous trusty knife, in every episode of the show steven universe. men, women, children, steven doesn’t care . It Just How He Gets his Jollies

[retquits]

artistic rendition of how my cat fell asleep this morning

[mrsterlingeverything]

You have to follow a couple cringies to #keepitreal. Dont unfollow me.

[razerbackbitch]

[kallistoi]

[image text: I pulled this bih panties to the side and 2 cigarettes fell 😭 out 😭]

[acleverclover]

[arturite2]

[Image description: Artwork of Iris and Meri from the SCP Foundation. Iris is a girl with long blonde hair and blue eyes, wearing a jacket and gloves. Meri is a girl with long blonde hair and reindeer antlers, wearing a dress shirt and a cross necklace. Iris is holding a bouquet of blue flowers, surprised. Meri stands close to her, smiling with her eyes closed. End description.]

[cherubheartz]

favorite phenomenon

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

occasionally, you will discover an artist who drew roughly 300 beautiful pictures of your favorite characters over the course of a month and then never touched them again. you must accept this as a gift.

[gursevraq]

shipping the popular yaoi pairing but shaking my head while i do to indicate that i also care about the work's themes and other characters

[artsymeeshee]

they chillin like old times

[dungeonbarbeque]

i think unicorns are tuff