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« After all, I am an actress, and quite a good one at that~ »
Grelle Sutcliff cosplay by yours truly 💋
Anastasia wasn’t a Disney movie. Saying it is now, simply because Disney bought Fox, is creatively anachronistic. Don Bluth didn’t fight in the animation trenches and escape the clutches of The Mouse to have his work artistically misattributed. I’m not dying on this hill. I’m defending this hill. I’m killing on this hill.
authority figures be like you are making my job hard on purpose by having needs i am required by law to accommodate for
if you did not hate me you would simply stop choosing to have a disability
You know how sometimes you see a character and you’re like “okay I know I have a type but jesus c h r i s t”
redemption arcs are kinda cringe if you think about it. oh youre powerful and evil and now… want to be a bummer and sad about it? lol what are you catholic
jk rowling may not have caused transmisogyny in the uk, but by being a high-profile figure who actively supports transmisogyny and funnels money into transmisogynistic groups she is a huge influence in keeping it both alive and, more dangerously, seen as a legitimate viewpoint and ‘acceptable’ in the eyes of the media. it is dangerous to ignore this and to ignore her significant influence
JK Rowling isn’t just a celebrity on Twitter sprouting her harmful nonsense into the void. She is actively involved in lobbying the government, and is part of the reason puberty blockers are now illegal in the UK.
anyway sorry for all the fuckin black butler posts i AM in fact ashamed
I was told that grell has "outbursts of masculine speech" in the manga...whatever that means.
Dear Anon,
At risk of sounding rude, I hope whoever told you that is not aiming for a JLPT1-certificate…
In the manga, Grell’s speech is not demure or calm (traditionally feminine qualities) in the slightest. As such, the ‘outbursts’ are one of unconstrained energy, not masculinity.
The femininity in Grell’s speech is very, very consistent throughout the entire manga (after she has dropped her role as the male butler, of course). I could therefore take photographs of the entire manga, but this one text-balloon itself is already a rather perfect sum-up of her speech. I shall go into more detail.
アタシだってアンタみたいなガキよりもっとイイ男としたかったワヨ!
ATASHI datte ANTA mitai na gaki yori motto II otoko to shitakatta WA YO!
I too would have wanted to do this with a much SMEXIER man than YOU, [YOU KNOW]!
As briefly touched upon in this post and this post, in Japanese, language is an exceptionally telling method with which speakers express their identity. While the latter post only discussed ‘formality vs informality’, the same goes for gendered markers.
Pronouns
Many of us are familiar with ‘Watashi - Boku - Ore’. Among the humongous list of 1st person pronouns, Japanese 1st person pronouns also include three hyper feminine ones: ‘atashi’, ‘warawa’ and ‘uchi’. As ‘warawa’ is incredibly old-fashioned and is only used by wives of lords, and ‘uchi’ is rather infantilised, only ‘atashi’ remains as a pronoun that may accurately represent a modern and sophisticated woman.
Similarly, ‘anta’, a feminine-coded version of ‘anata’ (you), is the 2nd person pronoun Grell consistently uses. ‘Anta’ is not used by speakers who wish to express masculinity or gender-neutrality.
Ending Particles
Though perhaps less widely known, Japanese is also punctuated with ending particles that helps the speaker express their identity. Among many others, feminine ending particles include ‘wa’, ‘yo’, and ‘wa yo’. Grell ends most of her lines with these ending particles. Other users of these ending particles include Madam Red, Nina Hopkins, Queen Victoria, Lizzie, and Irene Diaz.
Emphasis
Japanese uses three writing systems, Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana. Without going into details about the first two, the last, ‘Katakana’ is used to write 1. loanwords, 2. obscure negative connotations (sometimes ‘pimple’ or ‘brat’ for example are written in Katakana), or 3. to catch the reader’s attention. Number 3 is bit similar to CAPS LOCK. The feminine ending particles used by Grell are always written in ‘Katakana’.
The speech pattern Grell uses is known as ‘Onee Kotoba’, or **‘Tranny Language’, also briefly touched upon in this post. “Tranny/Onee” is of course a slur, but (trans)gender studies evolved very different in Japanese society, but 10 years ago there was a lack of accurate terminology, hence this offensive use of term.
The main difference between this so-called ‘Tranny Language’ and ‘feminine speech’ boils down to emphasis. Transwomen are not taken very seriously and still seen as ‘effeminate men’. It is likely that the greater emphasis originated from an attempt to ‘compensate’ for the speaker’s perceived masculinity. Nowadays the language has been more or less coined, and is more of a lingual statement. Hence: Grell’s use of language is to make a statement about her gender identity.
The ‘motto ii otoko’ or ‘SMEXIER’ in Grell’s line above is also an emphasised, very femininely marked use of language. (Do masculine-presenting English speakers use ‘smexy’ unironically??? Honest question. I am not 100% sure.)
TLN: ‘Smexy’ is not an accurate translation of ‘ii otoko’ (‘a good man’), but the connotation is what is important here.
For Comparison
As we are talking about this topic anyway, I wish to draw attention to Sieglinde.
ボクは魔女だぞ お前らの考えなど全てお見通しだ
Boku wa majo da zo, Omae-ra no kangae nado subete omitooshi da
I am a witch, I have seen through all your thoughts.
In this post I mentioned Sieglinde’s use of language that defies gendered expectations. Many of us know that ‘boku’ is a traditionally masculine language marker. On top of using ‘boku’, Sieglinde also uses ending particles such as ‘zo’, or other markers such as ‘omae-ra’ (plr. you), as opposed to the slightly more neutral ‘omae-tachi’ or fully neutral ‘anata-tachi’.
Other markers are ‘tomaran’, as opposed to ‘tomaranai/tomarimasen’ (to stop). More strongly even, ‘iza!!’ (⇈ left), a masculine and almost military way of saying: “Alright!!”, or ‘美味い!‘ (umai・⇊ right), an incredibly ungraceful way of saying ‘delicious’.
How did Sieglinde come to use this speech? Considering how Sieglinde grew up in a village consisting of only women with one notable exception - Wolfram - the only way to explain this is that she learned talking from Wolf ❤🐺 Well, I think it’s cute and a small, meaningful addition to her connection with him (*´▽`*)ノ
BONUS!
In case anyone is interested in how gendered the use of language is by some of the characters on a scale from feminine-coded to masculine-coded. (I know, I know, gender is not a linear scale, but for lack of a better visual representation, a bar).
Problematical cherry .. (wip with different filters - which one is your fave? uwu)
alright here she is, feel free to use for all yr very important online arguments
Literally nothing makes me happier than the idea of hunting Elon Musk for sport. I am completely serious. The thought actively brings joy to my day.
I'd even give him a backpack of food, maybe a day's worth. I'd even leave all his little gadgets on him. You'd only get connection with satellite anyway. He's got to feel confident or it's no fun.
Would you toy with him a bunch, or just go straight-in for the kill?
Oh you absolutely draw it out are you kidding? You let the initial confidence erode into loneliness as the food and batteries run low, and helplessness when they run out, then fear when he realizes I gave him a canteen but no water. Am I trying to prolong the hunt? Or is it a trap to draw him out towards the rivers? The answer is both.
I’d let him get clever. Maybe he can start a fire with the electronics, maybe he read that he can brew the pine needles into tea for some extra calories. Maybe hes one of those guys that carries a multitool he never uses. Maybe he whittles a branch into a crude spear and manages to catch a salmon. Maybe he learns how many little bones they have.
More likely he goes hungry. That’s when you start fucking with him. You sneak into his camp at night. You leave him protein bars. Good ones. You make him feel watched. You make him feel desperate.
You wait for the full moon. Then you break out the horns and dogs and you learn how fast he can really run.
You seriously need to see a therapist
I kinda wish the tables would turn on people like op
My gut says OP’s response to “what did Elon do to you?” is “he became wealthy and I’m envious and would rather him be dead”
It's actually the congolese child slave labor and the illegal apartheid emerald mines and the assisting overthrowing the democratically elected government of Bolivia for lithium but go off king
Idk who needs to hear this but bisexuality includes trans people. Not "it can" include trans people or it "sometimes" includes trans people. It does. It always has. Any bisexual who says there's doesn't is just a transphobe and doesn't fucking represent what we're about.
If you see fucking ANYTHING about how in the New Year you need to "lose the quarantine 15" or whatever bullshit guilt trip these bullshit diet companies are going to inundate us with- you look at that thing, you say, outloud "look at this toxic shit" and then you MOVE ON.
Your body has carried you through a PLAGUE. Through months and months of unrelenting physical and emotional and social stress. Your body kept you ALIVE.
You have nothing to be ashamed of. If your weight changed during this pandemic? Who gives a SHIT. Your body gave you what you NEEDED to keep going. So you keep going. Fuck those diet companies and whatever poison detox slurpee they wanna guilt you into buying.
i’m gonna say it
having teenages and ppl in their early 20s with little to no experience with irl sex, dating and LGBT communities lead online discourse on what is sexual orientation and what labels mean has done incredible damage to our community
so much of the shit that has come out of twitter and tumblr in the recent years literally sounds like a homophobic fever dream but if you dare point that out you will be sent death threats by a swarm of teenagers who have never talked to a lesbian offline