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Ok as a Filipino I HAVE to give it up to Kuang on this very interesting detail on the Tagalog Grammatica. As far as I know, in my very limited history, Japan, China, and Korea weren’t as influenced by the West prior the 20th Century due to their distrust with Westerners/outsiders to the point their borders had to be forcibly opened by either Western forces or by one another (a gross oversimplification—forgive me or educate me where you can).

However, the Philippines was colonized in the 1500s by the Spanish—the country’s own name is derived from Philip II of Spain—and they didn’t leave until 1898, when they sold us to the US. So Spanish influence is deeply ingrained in our art, music, food, and most evidently, language.

However, unlike English, the Spanish language didn’t exterminate native languages as well as it could’ve. My great-grandparents would’ve spoken Spanish AND Tagalog, and a couple of other native dialects besides. Yes, the Spaniards taught (usually wealthy, usually mixed) Filipinos their language, but Spanish friars utilized our language to their own advantage to better spread the word of God to us “savages”… and also because it was unfeasible to teach so many people who spoke so many languages Spanish. So, they learned one of our most spoken languages to better win us over, to colonize us, to “enlighten” us with their civility.

It would make complete and total devastating sense that these Spanish/European scholars can translate so much of our native canon and oral or written myth and commit it to their own languages. And it makes so much sense Kuang flecks that detail there, in a book that mentions time and time again the silent but sinister undercurrent of imperialism and colonialism in everyday British life in the 19th Century and academia today. I am frothing in the mouth. I am banging my head against the wall. So much history behind one tiny fucking detail.

starfallkaz

Babel Spoilers!!!

Been thinking a lot about Letty Price and her inability to comprehend how the act of Robin, Victoire and Ramy standing up and joining a resistance against Babel was so integral to their identities and experiences as POC and scholars in Britain.

How could they hate and do this to a nation that gave them so much? That gave them literature and translation, education and funding and the ability to expand their minds. How could they turn their backs on that?

She could not conceive that they had been given these opportunities, but at every turn they were disrespected and mistreated for who they were. Given rewards and treats and opportunities with the consolation that yes “you are lesser than” but don’t worry we can beat the ethnic out of you. And to hang that over you, it is only natural to form a twisted sense of self-worth contingent on the whily and abusive whims of their oppressor. The constant need to prove that they were worthy of acknowledgment, of this position. The anger and twisted gratuity for the opportunity, but injustice in being used for their minds and their abilities by an empire refusing to acknowledge them as humans, let alone equals. Stolen bodies and stolen lands.

And Letty, her only framework of suffering was the coddling of a girl in an upperclass white family and the restrictions of conservative social constructs. That while hindering and discouraging, were not a question of life and death or of humanity, but of simple opportunity and intelligence. And looking through these eyes, how could she comprehend such a thing?

"to fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."

and what a god she is.

i worship at the altar of her love daily

giving offerings and incense to garner her blessings.

kneeling and praying that i am enough,

that my sacrifices are enough

that my offering of loyalty and pledges of love towards her,

and only her,

are enough.

to love a god as fickle as her,

to be a devotee of a divine being with mercurial moods takes courage

and i pray that mine takes root and blooms,

stretching its roots deep into my heart

so as to be as unshakeable as the great reds,

yet bends to gentle words and loving caresses like bamboo.

to love a god such as she,

is to witness an act of creation,

to see the birth of an entirely new universe

where she and i

are the only two beings at the centre.

my love,

you and i are made of stardust,

but only you make it seem like you hold the planets within you.

to love a god is hard,

yet as effortless as breathing,

complicated while being as straightfoward as a dirt road in the countryside.

to love a god is a study of contradictions

and paradoxes,

of which you will spend a lifetime unravelling,

an endeavour i willingly and wholeheartedly undertake

my love,

to love you,

the god whom i worship at the altar of love,

to be claimed by you,

is a blessing i never could've hoped of getting.

this tiny little ring holds the weight of a universe i cannot possibly fathom,

yet ache to have in my reach.

my heart,

to be chosen by you,

is like reborn into something more.

my love,

my god,

fallible as you may be,

i will spend the rest of my life worshipping you

#original poem #poems and poetry #poetry #love #goddess #can you tell i have a worship kink #in my feels

a dream well dreamt

here's a dream i have.

i have many but this is the one that recurs the most.

you

and

me.

in bed in the early hours of the day,

the sun barely peeking over the horizon.

i wake up first,

you still wrapped in sleep's warm embrace

and there i lay.

watching,

looking upon you as you slumber on,

a look of utter peace i rarely ever see on you while awake,

and i just can't help but think

that maybe this is what love is,

us warm in our bed,

safe,

together.

i breathe in the comforting scent of you as i feel your arms find their way around me

because even when you're utterly dead to the world,

you still want my touch,

to feel me against you in your most vulnerable moments,

craving skin on skin as if this was our last chance to touch and feel one another.

as i lay there

in your arms with the sun shining on us,

waiting for the new day to begin,

i feel my heart,

what with all its cracks and chipped edges from missuse,

flutter

a little thrill of utter happiness and contentedness

and i close my eyes,

sleep coming easily as i relish in the knowledge,

that everything i could have ever wished for

is here

#hopecore #love #poetry #oving #original poem

falling

you are the sun and i am icarus,

the wax on my wings slowly melting in the heat of your love,

the excitement of flying clouding my eyes from the undeniable fate of falling

falling into the deep depths of the cold sea,

where the fishes will make a home in the place where my eyes that gazed upon your shinining face once were

where seaweed will weave their leaves through the bones of my ribs that once protected lungs, whose air were stolen whenever you were around, and a heart that beat only for you

i am icarus and you are the sun,

and i will gladly fall again and again and again

if that meant being able to reach out,

and hoping against all hope that this time,

somehow,

i'd be able to touch you

#poetry #original poem #love

i ask god why.

and all i hear are the words I've spoken out loud echoing back at me.

i don't know who i am.

maybe i never will.

#poetry #vent

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Original

shavingryansprivates-deactivate

dopenmind

Reblogging this once more because my mom and I legitimately laughed to tears.

idiotlibra

this is my favorite video on the internet

hashtagloveloses

mental health tip: save this video. watch it when you’re sad. it’s the best goddamn thing on the internet

i-am-a-fish

everyone who reads this post will get some big spicy joy within 24 large minutes (hours)

darknesshaspurplehair

Ok y'all but like I’m not even kidding about this I read this post yesterday and today I got an email from the peeps at hamilton and I won the lotto gor $10 tickets and I would like to give all my thanks to the internet’s favorite fish, Goldie Gurston, for making this possible because I totally believe they did this with their amazing gay powers

thuriweaver

So I know this is likely a coincidence…but I reblogged this and just now discovered I’ve been given a $150 amazon gift card as a bonus at work. So thank you, fish!

ren-allen

If it worked for them I hope it works for everyone else

em3rgence-st

Some big spicy joy pls

felixluvsketchup-deactivated202

SOME BIG SPICY JOY PLEASE

saturnianshade

i request the big spicy joy

hongjoongssailor

No joke I legit got told today I’m being moved to a department that I wanted to be in so badly and I’m so fucking excited omg

fandomsandfeminism

Some YA/Middle Grade books for Native American Heritage Month

In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse

I Can Make This Promise

Indian No More

How I became a ghost

Race to the Sun

Code Talker

Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

If I Ever Get Out of Here

Hearts Unbroken

Apple in the Middle

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People

Please add your own suggestions in the comments!

obsessivelollipoplalala

It’s 2018 and people still think we dislike Mary because of sexism and not because she explicitly tried to murder the protagonist of the show lmao it’s been 4 fucking years since HLV and they still don’t get it

holmesianscholar

I SO wanted to like Mary. God knows I did. I was pumped for her entrance. I wanted to see what the writers will do to her. Then BAM she started belittling john’s feelings, making jokes, not as remotely invested as Sherlock when John was in literal fire, eventually killing Sherlock and lying and LYING AND LYING oh dear God. Then I waited for her to be the baddest villain, more cunning and vicious than Moriarty, then fuck! She got a redemption arc, she had an entire episode ABOUT HER, they made John forgive her?????? After what she did to both Sherlock and John??? And made her narrate their sodding life??? I can’t. I can’t and I won’t ever forgive Mary. I wanted her to be an awesome villain, but what we got was a wank on what she could’ve been. I still deny that John could forgive someone who so much as laid a finger on Sherlock. We’re talking about John “I do not hesitate to chin the chief of the Yard when he calls my friend a weirdo” Watson. I am forever sighing.

fallenkingtel-deactivated202602

An Actually Unpopular Opinion

Here’s an unpopular opinion: abortion should be illegal from the moment that living bundle of cells starts having nerves and feeling. I.E. 2 months onward. If you couldn’t decide before two months was over, you shouldn’t have a choice in the matter anymore. You dragged your feet, you ignored it, you knew you were pregnant, and you waited until it could feel pain to get rid of it. So now you’re actually killing a child who can feel pain. Good on you.

heartandstride-deactivated20190

Or they found out much later as every person is different. Or it takes time to get money to get a procedure. Because medical procedures cost money! And they have to pay out of pocket for it a lot of the time! Sometimes it takes awhile because some people are in abusive situations and risk being abused by their partner for even trying.

I’ve already debunked fetal pain in my other response. So they didn’t “wait until they could feel pain to get rid of it”.

And no, they are not “killing a child who can feel pain”. They are getting a medical procedure they needed. Abortion also doesn’t kill children.

vote-deadpool4president-deactiv

@fallenkingtel First of all, where the fuck are you getting this two month bullshit from? The brain connections needed to feel pain are not in place until at least 24 weeks

In the U.S., most abortions are procured within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Babies can’t feel pain until 24 weeks. By then it’s a late term abortion. Do you have any idea how rare those are? Only 1.3% of abortions are done after 21 weeks. 80% of abortions at or after 21 weeks are for anomalies and the vast majority are before 24 weeks. There are approximately 600 abortions a year after 24 weeks and most are for fetal anomalies.

fallenkingtel-deactivated202602

Receptors are nerve endings. The receptors being there mean, whether they’re apparent connected to the brain or not, you can feel pain. It doesn’t distribute into thought, but you can still feel it. That’s what an organism is. Organs working together in systems, working together as a whole. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/54774-fetal-pain-anesthesia.html The receptors being present means that the skin cells in that area can react. In other words, yes, they can feel even without a connection to the brain.

im-okay-with-my-crazy

So.. How do you explain phantom pain people experience after amputation?

Or how people who are paralyzed do not experience any pain in the paralyzed part of the bosy?

When there is no connection to the brain to process the pain.. There is no pain experience.. So no.. Fetuses do not feel pain at 2 months..

fallenkingtel-deactivated202602

I just said the cells react even if the brain can’t process the reaction. It’s a very surreal thing to think of, I know, but just because you as in your brain can’t process pain into thought doesn’t mean you as in the organism can’t feel it. The muscles and cells still react. They did testing on this.

im-okay-with-my-crazy

Yeah.. That was no answer whatsoever on my questions… 🙄. But anyway.. Thank you for your not so well put argument.. Can I have some sources on that testing they did?

You really do not have to explain to me how pain receptors work and how this communicates with the brain.. I am a neuro nurse who works with revalidation patients. That is why I know what you say is not true..

Yes, cells can react to all kinds of stuff. Like pain, or pleasure.. And that gets sorted out, guess where? In your brain! Without your brain YOU DO NOT EXPERIENCE ANYTHING.. So how do the cells know they are in pain when they do not have the organ to register it as pain?

fallenkingtel-deactivated202602

I don’t know how, but it happens. There’s a film that demonstrates it, it’s graphic and old, but I’m sure you’ve heard of it. It’s called, “Experiments in the Revival of Organisms.” It shows the Russian scientists prodding, poking, and pinching the decapitated dog’s body and the body reacting to stimuli without a connection to the brain as well as the dog’s living head reacting to hearing, vision, smell, and taste. I believe it’s more reflexive, but you should know just as well as I do that when cells work together in an organ and organs in a system they become reactive to what even one cell experiences on a constant. You needn’t insult my intelligence, or phrase things in such a way that may be taken in such a manner, nor need you attempt to make me feel inferior with your medical background. It seems more vain than otherwise, as it almost assumes that your reputation should precede you.

sad-loaf-deactivated20210529

So you’re now comparing dead and dying nerves/cells and their reaction to stimuli in general and not just pain causing stimulus to developing nerves/cells reaction to stimuli which again will react where it’s pain causing or not. Ok lololololol. “ If the unconscious, unfeeling, cells react to stimuli then you can’t get an abortion!”

fallenkingtel-deactivated202602

Cells are conscious. A foetus has a brain and is also conscious. Do you see the problem here? Technically no it can’t feel without connection to the brain, but does that make me any less of a person because sometimes I can’t feel pain either due to diabetic neuropathy? Absolutely not. Despite not feeling the pain, the LIVING, CELLS ARE ALWAYS LIVING UNTIL THEY DIE, cells react to stimuli and move away from danger instinctively.

fandomsandfeminism

Im confused. You said that there should be a post eight week ban on abortion because of fetal pain (even though fetal pain doesnt actually develop until 27 weeks and this argument total ignores medically needed abortions)

And NOW youre saying that the ability to feel pain doesnt matter because “cells are alive.”

But like, why the 8 week ban then? Are the cells not alive until 8 weeks?

And like, skin cells are alive, but I shed those all the time? The walls of my uterus are alive, but I bleed those out on the regular?

ladymothwing

No, no, we’re reading this completely the wrong way, fallenkingtel is coming out strongly against male masturbation because it needlessly kills sperm cells.

fallenkingtel-deactivated202602

I’m against killing humans. Keep misrepresenting me, you’ll just make yourself look like a fool. As for the previous statement, I apologise. I was half asleep, and by feel I didn’t mean actually feel. I meant react - living organisms even with no connection to the brain react to painful stimuli. I also mentioned 2 months being the period - realistically, now that I’ve actually woken up and given thought into it, it should be 4 months. Yet again, I’ll state I’m not against killing cells, I’m against ending human lives. Killing a foetus is killing a human. You gave it an opportunity to live, then ripped it away.

fandomsandfeminism

Fetal pain has not developed at 16 weeks. Fetal pain develops at 27 weeks. And apparently, fetal pain isnt even your argument.

If you are worried about PEOPLE and not cells, then the “cells react to stimuli” argument doesnt matter. Fetal cells reacting to stimuli doesnt make them a person.

Ultimately, if you are going to make timeline for when a fetus becomes a human, you SHOULD have some kind of scientifically backed reason for it. Kinda seems like you pulled 2/4 months out of your ass.

fallenkingtel-deactivated202602

Let’s get this straight instead of being actually rude when I tried to be civil, k? K. A foetus. Is a human being. Period. It becomes a human being as soon as it stops being just an embryo and begins developing a single primitive organ. I’m not saying they become human at 2/4 months. I’m saying I’m okay with abortion until 4 months. I’ve said this multiple times, please read my statements for once.

fandomsandfeminism

Child, you making a series of confusing, poorly explained, unscientific, muddled, contradictory points doesnt mean Im not doing my damnest to make sense of this nonsense.

Lets start over. Real simple: why 16 weeks?

fallenkingtel-deactivated202602

It gives time. There’s an opening before it’s entirely conscious or able to feel, you can still find out if you’re pregnant. You can still get the tests done. You can still get the money. Yes, it’s human, but it can’t think or feel for itself yet and even though morally it’s still wrong and you’re still killing a living human being, if it wasn’t something you wanted or had a choice in you should have the choice in whether or not to keep it. If you have medical complications though, you should absolutely always have the option available.

fandomsandfeminism

But fetal pain doesnt start until 27 weeks. So why only 16?

And, as I said before, over 90% of abortions happen by 13 weeks. The main reasons people wait longer than that is because of financial and geographic obstacles. Your 16 week limit doesnt do a whole lot for those people who arguably need elective abortions the most.

So, if over 90% of abortions happen by 13 weeks ANYWAY, and the people who arent covered by that are either the most needy OR are covered by your medical exemption anyway- why even have a legal cutoff? Why do you think its needed?

buzzfeedlgbt

Everything You Need To Know About Changing Gender Markers On Your Identification Documents

maylik-deactivated20121223

reblog if i can message you and awkwardly make conversation with you so we can become best friends

some straight person: being gay is such a small and insignificant part to someone!

me, a Gay: sorry what was that i was too busy thinking gay thoughts and watching gay TV and drinking gay soda and using my gay phone and have i mentioned today that i'm gay???