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Before I Go…

…most likely for good this time, you can ask me anything you want. I have been here for twelve years - since 2010 - in 5 different blogs, and have come to the inescapable conclusion that the death rays that normally shoot out from my Aspergerish forehead also slip from my fingers and through the keyboard into the letters I type. I am truly sorry for that, my most sincere apologies. This latest incarnation has been the best of the five, but…it’s starting to hurt again. There doesn’t seem to be anything I can do about it.

I’ll be around for a couple of days, so…ask away. Or don’t. Either way, it’s been lovely knowing all of you and I wish each and every one of you every good thing in your life. Please be good to each other, take care of yourselves and each other, and be safe.

#Last chance to ask ashockinglackofsatin anything you want

UNMUTE!!!

So, I have a fun linguistic question for yall.

As you may know, YOU was originally a plural only pronoun. (Thou/Thee being singular. This is why we still say "you are" and not "you is")

When YOU became both a plural AND singular pronoun, this created a lexical gap in English. How do you differentiate if you are asking just 1 person or the whole group "are YOU coming to the party?"

Various dialects of English have created new plural second persons as a response- yall, youse, yinz, etc.

Ok. So. Singular They is becoming more and more broadly used. It's unstoppable at this point, and that's very cool.(Its been in limited use longer than Shakespeare, but the recent broadening of its use is inevitable) But it will eventually have the same lexical gap issue. If Alex uses they/them pronouns, how do you differentiate "are they coming to the party?" (Is Alex coming/ are Alex AND other people coming?)

Will we see new regional plural THEYs form, like we did with YOU?

I propose "Th'all" personally.

bala5

animals-riding-animals

cat riding sheep

nonasuch

my name is Cat

and at day’s end

i visit with

my wooly frend

and as my pal

drifts off to sleep

upon his back

i knead the sheep.

maureen2musings

…

hymns_of_the_earth

gingerbbatch

make me choose | consultinggodofbowties asked: sherlock or watson?

#Sherlock

bai-xue

“You are responsible for the minors in your fandom!!!”

No, I’m fucking not. I’m not your parent. My past-times do not automatically sign me up to act in loco parentis. If you need someone else to monitor your own content consumption online, go get mommy and/or daddy to set up a content blocker on your computer.

elder-millennial-trash

Louder for the minors in the back, please.

mirrorstone

What I’m responsible for in my fandom:

1. Making a good faith effort to include relevant and informative tags and labels on my creative works.

2. Making a good faith effort to use the “author chose not to warn” rating, a “contains potentially upsetting content” note, cuts or community ratings, or otherwise indicating that there might be untagged, triggering content if I’m not up to or don’t want to tag it.

3. Being a good fandom citizen; not sending death threats or hate, not bullying people, being kind and thoughtful to those I interact with, and leaving alone things that would prompt me to act otherwise.

4. Curating my own experience; not engaging with people or material that I know will be harmful or upsetting to me, disengaging when I realize that something is harmful or upsetting to me, and using tools such as blocklists and tag filters to hide content I don’t want to see.

5. Doing the opposite of whatever the fuck bullshit is going on in tiktok at all times.

niuniente

Being a good fandom citizen; not sending death threats or hate, not bullying people, being kind and thoughtful to those I interact with, and leaving alone things that would prompt me to act otherwise.

It is simply JUST that easy. All the fandom shit exists because people choose to behave badly and it’s too often younger ones holding fandom spaces as societal influence & activism spaces instead of a HOBBY SPACES.

#Fandoms