La Lunatica

13| Female | Philippines

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This is a contest entry for a contest here: http://marshmallowpapylove.deviantart.com/journal/Mini-Undertale-Contest-616529789

This is the same picture (yes the account is also mine), but with DA-induced quality lowering: http://multifandomlady.deviantart.com/art/CONTEST-ENTRY-First-Encounter-617987313

[jeanqrey]

[col-lunatica-blog]

Just a question...

I’m writing a novel, or well trying to revive a novel idea that I abandoned a few months ago. I looked over the characters and realized I had some LGBTQ+ characters there that really had great personalities. Naturally, I wanted to keep them.

Problem is: I’m straight. I don’t know how to write these characters well without offending anyone, so I need some help.

I know this might be triggering to some, so you’re free NOT to say anything if it makes you uncomfortable. Otherwise, please reblog or message me with some tips on how to properly write LGBT characters. They’ll really help me, and I appreciate anyone who can give me help. 

[cottoncanyon-deactivated2018012]

Reblog if it’s ok for people to give you $599.99

[beyondfullmetal]

On Writing LGBTQ* Characters

[missturdle-blog]

missturdle:

A list of links that folks can add to! This was requested as a follow-up to Writing Characters of Color. Please be forewarned: I apologize in advance if I link to something that turns out to be wrong, or unhelpful. I try to skim everything to make sure it’s a good resource, but I don’t have the time or means to read every single thing word for word before I post this list. Please let me know if something is terrible - I will remove it straight away. 

Writing a Trans* character in Fiction

Questioning Transphobia’s Cispeople are rubbish at writing trans* characters tag [So, don’t do any of that?]

Writing Gay characters

The best way to write a trans* character

Trans Characters: An Open Letter To Spec Fic Writers 

Gay Characters, Straight Writers

How to Write Gay Characters in your Mainstream Fiction

Queering SFF - Writing Queer Languages of Power

Authors say Agents try to “Straighten” Gay characters

Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes in YA

I’m here, I’m Queer, What the Hell do I read?

Lambda Literary - LGBTQ literature, reviews, writing advice, etc

Writing Lesbians when you’re not a Lesbian

Suggested Rules for Cispeople writing Trans* characters

GLAAD Media Guide

Thinking Queer: A guide to writing LGBT characters for Roleplay

Can a straight woman write gay characters and so on and so forth

Starlightify’s submission: How to Write Trans* characters without being an ass

[col-lunatica-blog]

 just gonna reblog this for reference. 

[visual-poetry]

»swofehuper« by richard tipping (+)

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[myterus-is-uterus-deactivated20]

men fabricated the idea that they are the default sex to compensate for their biological inferiority and general superfluousness

this is not just the “natural order” this is the language of a patriarchal culture

[rhysiare]

Omg no, you are wrong on so many levels and as a linguist this makes me ache something terrible. In my linguistics class in undergrad, we actually made fun of people who think like you along these lines and for good reason, because you are wholly ignorant and are choosing to spin narratives about things and fields which you know completely nothing about yet pretend you do.

She: This word evolved naturally from Old English from seo/heo which were just words to refer to feminine-female people evolving from Proto-Germanic words meaning ‘that/there’. He as a word evolved from the same ideas but Proto-Germanic words for ‘this/here’. Your idea of “patriarchal language” further falls apart when you compare this part of English to other Germanic languages, of which English is related, the words in German for he and she are “er” and “sie”, completely unrelated. So it is by clear happenstance, not some patriarchal conspiracy that the words “he” and “she” in English have similar form. 

Woman: Oh god this one always gets my goat when people go for this one. Man did not used to mean “male”, man used to mean “humanity/human being”, the old words in Old English for male adult person and female adult person were “werman” and “wifman” respectively, we can see this relation in words like werewolf and wife as being the remnants of the base “wer-” and the base “wif-”. Woman evolved phonologically from the word “wifman” by natural processes where the ‘f’ sound dropped and the ‘i’ became lax. Man dropped its “wer” stem for reasons mostly unknown but I can guarantee have nothing to do with “patriarchy” because phonological change has no basis in that.

Female: Male and Female actually come etymologically from two completely different words. Male comes from Old French “masle” which meant masculine, while Female came from Old French as well “femella” which meant young woman. This is another case, just like he and she, where the words coincidentally ended up looking similar without having any direct correlation in historical linguistic processes to make them as such.

Human: This word etymologically derives from Proto-Indo-European “ghomon” which means earthly being as opposed to heavenly being which would refer to gods. You have some small glimmer of hope here in that the word does eventually branch off into the word for “man” in some languages but this is still too small of a precedent to base any conspiratorial thinking like you are doing off of.

Person: This one offends me the most, simply because I love the fuck out of Etruscan language and your continued ignorance just irks me at this point. Person derives from “persona” from Latin which meant the same meaning, which ultimately derived from “phersu” Etruscan for ‘mask’ as Etruscans would often have theatre performers use masks to give identity to the performers. So never once did “person” have any meaning to do with “son”. So yes, this IS the “natural order” or language.

Please never proselytise your faulty ideology and misandrist thinking within speaking about word origins and morphology again, as unless you actually do fact checking, I will school the everloving hell out of you, stay in your lane.

[obsessedwithlanguages]

thank god for the explanation above

[viktormayrin]

“Nuked the site from orbit” option selected.

[kaliforhnia]

Tell him you’re excited to have his last name and then marry his brother

[tardis-mind-palace]

This is some Shakespeare level shade

[col-lunatica-blog]

hahahahaha

[col-lunatica-blog]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Yeah, this is my AO3 account. Head on over there if you like. 

My current work so far is a Sherlock fanfic. Soulmate AU, except Soulmate A doesn’t get together with Soulmate B. 

[the-vaudevillain-deactivated202]

Let's talk about mynoise.net

Have you ever been listening to Rainymood and thought, “Yeah, this is good … but it would be nice if I could customize the sound more, or if there was a little more choice.

Let me introduce you to MyNoise.

MyNoise is a customizable sounscape looper with so many options, even within each soundscape.  So say, for instance, you really love rain sounds when you write or study or relax.  Anything.  I know I’m a big fan of rain sounds.  They have a page for that.

But say you like really high, pattery rain, and LOTS of low thunder.  Here’s where MyNoise really stands out: you can customize that.  See those sliders with all the cute colors?  That is your equalizer. You can adjust the levels based on what you want to hear more and less of.  Here’s how it looks when you want high, pattery rain and low, rumbly thunder:

But say rain isn’t really your jam.  Say you want something a little more ambient, a little more background noise-y.  Something with people.  Well, they have customizable coffee house chatter that even has the levels listed for things like “kitchen,” “babble,” and “table”:

Or say you miss the ocean.

Or say you miss your cat.

Or say you miss your spaceship.

Or say you miss the dungeon where you and your team of scalawag adventurers used to explore and face off against, say, dragons.  In the dungeon.

This site is seriously so helpful, and those are just a fraction of every kind of sounscape the site has to offer.  The best part is that if you want to layer it with music (for instance, I’ll layer a playlist + rain + coffee shop if the scene I’m writing takes place in a coffee shop), you can adjust the master volume, meaning all of your layers stay at their respective volumes, just louder or quieter.

Enjoy!

[readysetgaikokujin]

OH MY GOD

[cherribalm-deactivated20140609]

site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition 

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

site that gives you synonyms and antonyms

[bumblebeebabie]

THAT FIRST SITE IS EVERY WRITER’S DREAM DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I’VE TRIED WRITING SOMETHING AND THOUGHT GOD DAMN IS THERE A SPECIFIC WORD FOR WHAT I’M USING TWO SENTENCES TO DESCRIBE AND JUST GETTING A BUNCH OF SHIT GOOGLE RESULTS

[col-lunatica-blog]

bless all of your souls i need this like i need to breathe 

[towardsmorning]

[col-lunatica-blog]

juice colored i need some science help

It’s summer for me.

YAAAAY

Even though I willingly got myself into a summer Math class. But whatever.\

By August, we need to have done a science project done, and guess what--I have some pretty lenient groupmates. A good thing if I had an idea myself--which I don’t. 

It’ll be awesome if you reblogged this with a chem or bio related problem in the philippines, or a science project idea for high school guys. thanks ^^ 

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[treeloverfan]

Was this the intention

[falafelpide-deactivated20170822]

very tired cat writing a term paper

[col-lunatica-blog]

very tired cat cramming a term paper

[col-lunatica-blog]

can you please click the link for me? this is the only time i might ever have money i can use for gaming, and it won’t cost you anything, really, to click on it. 

http://steam-community.com/?ref=YtvYKNq 

EDIT! By the way, you can reblog this after clicking and add YOUR OWN referral code. Share share share

[mishafer]

If you LIKE pineapple on pizza, reblog this post.

And if you DON’T like pineapple on your pizza, reblog THIS POST.

I’m doing a census on this ongoing argument please help it’s obviously important. 

[col-lunatica-blog]

so apparently the teachers of the 8th graders 3 years ago decided to pull off this tradition of Miss Grade 8 (but with boys instead of girls)

AND APPARENTLY IT’S GONNA STOP WITH OUR CRAZILY UNLUCKY BATCH BECAUSE IT WAS APPARENTLY NOT KNOWN OF BY THE PRINCIPAL (AKA ILLEGAL) (HOW THE HELL DO YOU HIDE THIS FOR 3 YEARS SIR)

Well fuck this stupidly unfortunate batch. We’re the batch who didn’t have an acquaintance party, and apparently this happens. 

Lemme guess, next year we 9th graders won’t have prom. 

[col-lunatica-blog]

DVD IS SO CLOSE

AND I HAVE THE SAVINGS FOR IT MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR MYSELF

because I know nobody from my school will waste their money on me  SO I’M GONNA WASTE MONEY ON MYSELF