Everytime I get obsessed with a media it just consumes me for months or years, and it's really hard for me to show interest in anything else lol
Literally every once in a blue moon I'll be open to trying out something, and if I decide I want to be obsessed with it, I'll be closed off to anything else for another ten years :D (and that's why I only listened to the 3 same singers until I discovered alien stage and the clair obscur tracks jdjsideks)
This results in me being lost when someone mentions a piece of media, singer, group or whatever, and even if it's super famous, I sometimes have never heard abt it (which is a little embarrassing lol)
Not directed at anyone here, I block anyone who treats me like this, but I wanted to talk abt smth. Very specific phenomenon but sometimes people discover me off of my cooler, more palatable art, or my feminism/communism posting and stuff, and then they get grossed out by my other art (like my yaoi shipping). Then instead of thinking "oh ok Im not interested in All their art" they instead begrudgingly look at my yaoi art and grow resentful because I'm not who they wanted me to be (smart sexy well read woman who has no gross tendencies or Opinions besides her political ideals). I keep having this with art mutuals who were surprised I would ship soushin, or royai mutuals who got surprised I don't oppose elriccest.
But then there's also people who discover me off of age gap ships and then ask me why I don't like lolicon. Like.
"Do you think you can crawl away and leave, just like that?"
I wanted to repost my nurse Ivan stuffs but it felt bad to do it without giving him some new fresh love. Under the cut is blood and orally exiting sluglike things (stylised sketch) and gore (in text on the image). ART BELOW IS RLLY OLD.
I hate to say it, but I think Till does associate Ivan's kiss with his assault by the segyein. And I'm almost certain Vivinos intends for us to too. There are several parallels and Till's reactions and behavior are very similar. I think part of the purpose behind including the karaoke scene is for it to contrast with Ivan's actions during Round 6.
In both scenes, Till is expected to sing but has given up.
Urak and Ivan both grab his face while he looks at them with uncertainty.
He's manhandled and overpowered. He's kept trapped.
They both grab him by the neck.
Ivan's hand is also threaded through Till's hair.
Till's expressions are similar in his eyes and the shape of his mouth.
He's biting into his lip the entire time which seems to be a habit he does when severely distressed.
In Karma, during the metaphorical representation of Ivan's kiss, Till's shirt collar is undone just like it is in the karaoke bar.
In spite these similarities, the differences are just as significant.
Till's eyes dilate when he sees Ivan.
Till fights against the segyein, but when Ivan kisses him, he flees.
Urak grabs him harshly but Ivan grabs him tenderly. Ivan pushes Till's lip back up when he bites down into it.
Urak grips Till from his nape to avoid damaging his vocal cords. When Ivan strangles him, he presses directly on them.
Till resists the segyein, but he surrenders to Ivan.
Still, there are distinctions we can't claim. We can't claim they're not both trying to control him. We can't claim they don't both cause him pain. We can't even say they don't both intend to hurt him. Ivan's motivations are certainly different, but both the segyein and Ivan resorted to violence and power to make Till do as they want.
Till is incredibly confused and scared. He's severely traumatized by both experiences. Yet while Till wants to hurt the segyein, he doesn't want to hurt Ivan. His expression towards Ivan also holds concern. His fear is for Ivan as much as it is for himself. He's willing to hand his life over to Ivan. If he has to die, he wants it to be by his friend's hands.
I just wanted to remind you that, yes, shipping a lesbian with a man or a gay dude with a woman is homophobic. No, it doesn't matter that they're fictional. You're being homophobic
I doubt vivimeng ever thought about language as deep as I do so these aren't theories, just thoughts. If you want actual rebel Ivan content, scroll to the bottom
I don't think humans would have any legally recognised languages, so any language distinction being made between humans would have to be done by humans to humans. This doesn't come without grouping, which humans would find very difficult to do. I assume that they would have way less language families than we do here, unless they managed to keep any languages from earth directly (that option doesn't appeal to me because the most common and easiest language would dominate, which would be American English, and I feel uncomfortable saying that the human language would be English lol.)
Aliens however probably have a lot of languages, BUT MORE INTERESTINGLY, A LOT OF DIALECTS. Different exterior body parts such as beaks and lips and teeth arrangements don't suggest a lack of speech capabilities (think of how city crows can mimic human speech almost perfectly, alongside a lot of other birds) but different interiors can really change what sounds you're able to produce. Considering we've seen wegyien with multiple tongues, they can definitely have variation in their throats, meaning they would have a (heavy) accent, and if grouped together often (as wegyien seem to be?) that can develop into a dialect. Standing upright vs not standing upright is a big factor in how much variety you can produce in your speech.
I know Freddie is a segyien who has a wife and kids but I have no idea how he did allat. He just has good game I guess. He certainly didn't talk his wife into falling in love with him, he has like, An Eye.
Humans have gone through a lot of genetic engineering but I don't think their voices were impacted a lot? Not for any lore reason I don't think. Probably just because how would you express that without heavy ugly editing.
Someone find me that panel, I can't do it for the life of me, but there was something about Luka and Heperu, and how he was able to understand Heperu's gossiping or something.
Rebellion would have a mix of human languages, a very deliberate mix if they're smart. What's more important about rebellion imo is that their mission related talk would eventually bleed into casual speech. I think they would also use sign/gesture a lot. I do not assume that any sign language from earth would be retained after #alieninvasion unless there was a very strong human effort for otherwise. They're very frequently restrained by the hands/arms after all.
Now that we got allat out of the way, ivti and their language issues!
Till is mute in my AU. I just did that because I'm not fond of full-recovery after traumatic injury. He uses some form of very simple (proto in this stage) sign language that's mainly derived from mission related gestures. His psychological recovery was also accelerated by being taught these gestures, because it gave him a more efficient means of communication than writing, which freed up a lot of mental space. I don't think he's aware that that helped so much though.
Ivan has brain damage from blood loss, which affects his language usage. Fun fact, we still don't know where the brain processes language! Neurolinguistics is a field that's basically taken over by people who don't know what a brain even looks like. That's what happens when you let my fellow language students try to tell you medical stuff. While Noam Chomsky's Language Acquisition Device (LAD) theory may lead you to think that there is such a thing in the brain, he has not presented a single piece of evidence to support it besides "trust me bro" and I personally will not be trusting bro. Brain damage + language capabilities works in mysterious ways for now. Ivan mainly experiences language issues in the form of difficulty recalling words, which is a memory problem and not a language comprehension problem. However, he's also functionally unable to learn a new language due to lowered frustration tolerance, let alone sign language.
They mainly communicate in written way because of this. Ivan has bad days where migraines make him not incapable but mostly unwilling to read writing. Till will sometimes avoid him entirely in these instances, because he does not like it to be rubbed in that he's mute.
Ivan also has a tendency of being "uncharacteristically mean" because he masks gaps in speech caused by not remembering words by just insulting people. Luka likes this behaviour from him, so the two sometimes engage in very fast paced topicless discussions that no one likes to overhear because they're speaking in perfect Anakt Garden Teachers Pet while they do that.
Speaking of, both Luka and Ivan sound disturbingly Pet-like in their speech. They don't know how to turn it off at first, but Luka learns quickly. Ivan can do the accent (I assume he had a similar one in the slums) and often does mirror, but he sounds awkward due to not using the slang that comes with it.
The kids are monsters at codeswitching (the act of using more than one language or dialect within one conversation), especially the pink one. Luka likes dragging her into the fast paced topicless discussion hour too, since it makes Till stop getting upset with him for "ganging up" with Ivan.
You guys can have a little Kurov headcanons autism as a treat, the pink one was my kid of choice because autism and masking can specifically make you better at codeswitching.
the rise of conservatism and gen z puritanism while still simultaneously trying to be hip and woke is so annoying because you have these people saying "match my freak" and then they get mad at ageplay and petplay and cnc and somno and anything raunchier than a pair of fuzzy handcuffs. you're not a "freak" if you think having a fetish is synonymous with being evil
Sometimes I go to make a post in Turkish, then I google translate it to check if it makes sense to everyone else, then I promptly give up speaking Turkish
June 12, 2016. Putting a date on this for when it gets reblogged months from now by people who think the post is about something from 30, 40 years ago.
I am a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting, having grown up in Orlando and just turned 20 a month prior. If you didn’t know, there were several families who refused to claim the bodies of their relatives due to their sexuality. One family even had their relative’s name removed from the memorial. Murdered by the same hate with which their families reject them in both life and death.
Many, many people celebrated Pulse. We were told we deserved it. That it was God’s punishment for our sin of loving the same sex. We are sent messages like these I received in 2018:
We in the community often call the victim count 49+ to include the survivors who couldn’t live with the pain.
The event was never officially declared a hate crime or targeted homophobic attack and is rarely listed as one in databases.
At our vigils for those slaughtered, Extremist Christian groups showed up to protest, holding signs like this:
ID: Me kissing a woman I was casually seeing in front of an angry looking man with a “Sodomy is Sin” sign.
Please understand how much more than just a mass shooting this was. We are still to this day harassed and told we deserved it by some.
This year was the sixth anniversary. The first couple years I received dozens of messages checking in on me on 6/12. Year 5 got enough news coverage for people to think to reach out to me. This year it was my therapist, the woman I kissed in that photo, and a couple of other gun violence survivor friends. People are forgetting already.
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