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Derry Girls is an interesting show where they flip the general media dynamic of a group of guys + one(1) girl and instead make it a group of girls + one(1) guy, but still make the flaws of each of the girls the same flaws and characterizations generally associated with similar types of male characters in this group dynamic and also give their male character the flaws and characterizations generally associated with the singular female in the group dynamic. From Erin the stand out main character having the characterization of a Ferris Bueller type with the same fatal flaw of over confidence and compensation, to Michelle having a Stifler from American Pie type characterization with the same flaws of general skeevyness and empty headedness, to Orla having the characterization of Kramer from Seinfeld with the flaws of general weirdness and lack of boundaries, to Claire having the characterization of Brian Johnson the nerd from the Breakfast club whose fatal flaws include caring too much about how authority sees her and often falling vitcim to peer pressure, and of course James has the characterization of every female character stuck in a group of guys with the flaws of needing to posture about they're gender expression and they're sexuality while also having to have interests in common with the main group that justifies their existence with them (the love of "girlie" music) and a familial connection to one of the core four further justifying his existence in the group while making his fatal flaw the fact that he is the "logical" one that doesn't generally want to go along with the crazy plan a la Katara in Avatar the Last Airbender, in this essay I will
I follow the "leave nothing but footprints take nothing but photos" rule of state/national parks yeah because conservation. But also because when I was 11 i read a short story about a girl who went to a museum and stole a bandage flake off a mummy on display with the mentality of "im just one person one piece won't be missed" then at night she was visited by the mummy and it plucked a single hair from her head and then the next night a different mummy took another hair and she realized that there were only so many pieces to her before there would be nothing left and that story was forever wedged in my brain. Anyways leave cool rocks where you find them or the mummies will get you
Mashups that should be illegal
I’ll never forget the time my parents said they were going out for a few hours, and left my siblings and me at home by ourselves (ages 9-14), and instead of going nuts or just sitting around, we all rushed and did our hair and makeup and got dressed as fancy as we could; sister pulled out the wine glasses and grape juice and made an hors d'oeuvres platter, another googled how to play poker, pulled out chips from a different game, dimmed the lights, and we set up a fancy 4-person gambling den at the kitchen table and played until my parents said they were on their way back with dinner. Then we quickly picked everything up, washed our faces, changed back into our casual clothes, and pretended nothing ever happened. They never found out.
Would you listen to his song?
The world is going to hell in a handbasket and this gets 28,000 likes.
Really?
And yet you gave it a reblog. Curious.
ppl w nonbinary genders are not all just “between” male and female. gender isn’t a male/female zero-sum game pls stop
this took me a while to unlearn, until someone basically said “look, colors are a spectrum. if you assign pink to women and blue to men, that doesn’t make every other color a variation of purple”
^potentially helpful way to conceptualize this
I remember one tumblr post that went around ages ago that suggested thinking of gender less like this
and more like this.
Which honestly helped me understand this concept more than anything else when I first started to explore ideas of gender and sexuality
Also also!!! There’s a saturation setting too!!!
So you can have much much gender, or varying amounts of gender, or no gender at all!!
sounds about right
in honour of the new update
Encanto + banned words
I love how the message of Frankenstein isn’t “don’t play god and commit hubristic acts of mad science” but instead “when you commit a hubristic act of mad science you are responsible for parenting whatever comes out of it”
THE FUCKING PUNCHLINE, I’M ENDED
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Awesome Childhood Spelling
Uhh…where it says “looked” read “lopped”. lol This is based on the original tweet you see up there by Twitter user @Sal_Perez4 (see the original tweet here).
Another, similar thread by Jonathon Owen on the linguistics of this same excellent tweet.
I know this is niche but it brings me so much joy! This kid is not being ridiculed for not knowing how to spell things, they’re empathized with and validated as having a deep and nuanced understanding of their native language! There’s so much interesting stuff to unpack here linguistically which is awesome but above all that is just, this beautiful acknowledgement of the humanity of it all. It’s so nice to see
Jewish mood
It’s almost that time of the year!
?חנוכה
?חֲנֻכָּה
Xanike?
xanike made me ascend out of the physical realm and into an astral plane
Honka and Xanike are on opposite sides of the spelling spectrum
the answer to “how do you spell Hanukkah” is “with a different alphabet”
Gather round, my children, and let me tell you how to spell this pesky word.
I’ll start by what everybody agrees on in the spelling: the vowels. Everybody agrees that they go -a-u-a- (I’m using the dashes to denote possibly missing consonants for now).
You may have noticed the 2 different spellings of The Word in Hebrew above:
חֲנֻכָּה: the original word, in which the /u/ portrayed in נֻ (/nu/) is a short one. Biblical Hebrew distinguished between long vowels, short vowels, and half-sized vowels. Due to Biblical Hebrew syllable-structure shenanigans, the /u/ is short.
חנוכה: the modern way of writing the word. The נו (/nu/) would have denoted a long vowel in Biblical Hebrew … but Modern Hebrew does not distinguish vowels by length.
The first /a/ (in חֲ) used to denote a half-length vowel. Since vowel-length doesn’t mean anything anymore in Hebrew, both /a/ are equal.
Therefore, in Modern Hebrew, חנוכה = חֲנֻכָּה.
That covers the vowels. Next, the bits where everybody who knows even a bit of transliteration would agree on:
There’s only 1 /n/. That means it’s -anu-a-.
There are 2 /k/ after the /u/. That’s because the Hebrew is כָּ. You see the little dot in the middle? That used to mean that the sound used to be geminated. We don’t really observe gemination in Modern Hebrew anymore, except that in some letters (v, f, ch) the little dot (dagesh) denotes something very important.
In case you don’t want to double the K, because the language that you’re using, AKA English, that doubling means absolutely nothing, you can skip it.
This leaves us with -anuk(k)a- as a definite spelling so far.
This is where things get murky. Because you see … this is when the transliteration rules start falling apart by way of a long tradition of transliteration as well phonology rules across several languages in the duration of about 2000 years.
The beginning ח: is it h, kh, or ch? Frankly, it could be any of these.
KH: This is the transliteration of a sound in Hebrew that no European language has or has had. Standard Modern Hebrew doesn’t have it anymore, but it’s still considered an acceptable, very common variance of the consonant ח. In linguistics, it’s written as [ ħ ], and in Semitic studies, it’s written as ḥ (an h with a little dot below it). You can listen to it [here on Wikipedia]. This is the classical, old-fashioned, origins-faithful spelling … which looks very very wrong: Khanukka-. Weird, right? Still correct.
If you listened to the recording, you might think it sounds between an /h/ and an /x/ (as in ‘ch’ in the Scottish Gaelic word for lake ‘loch’), depending on which sound you preferred.
H is how the Greeks transliterated the letter ח in the Bible (such as in the second h in the word ‘Bethlehem’)
CH is how Standard Modern Hebrew pronounces via the Ashkenazi pronunciation of Yiddish.
So if you spell it with a KH, you’re an out-of-date traditionalist; if you spell it with an H, you’re faithful to the name of the holiday in your own language, and if you spell it with a CH you’re faithful to the Standard Modern Hebrew pronunciation (and probably have family who speaks either Hebrew or Yiddish).
Possible, correct options so far:
Khanuk(k)a-
Hanuk(k)a-
Chanuk(k)a-
Which leads us to the very last dash! Is there an H at the end? Should there be an H at the end?
This is where it gets the most complicated, because it requires some background in Hebrew noun-noun constructs.
The word ‘ חנוכה ‘ is an actual word in Hebrew that means ‘inauguration, dedication, consecration‘ according to morfix.co.il (the Hebrew-English-Hebrew web translator). Since Hebrew is a gendered language, The Word is a feminine noun. A lot of feminine nouns in Hebrew end with what can be directly transliterated as ‘-ah’, or, in Hebrew, a word-final ‘ ה ‘ (the name of this letter is either He or Hey, depending on how much official Hebrew education the person had).
This Hey is silent. It hanging around does not mean there’s an /h/ sound in the word. All it does is tell the user of the language that they should pay attention to this word, because in noun-noun constructs, the Hey becomes a Tav (or Taf). This was ‘inauguration of [noun]’ is חנוכת-בית (khanukkat-bayit in pefect translit; ‘bayit’ is ‘house’ or ‘home’).
So, it’s really up to you whether to add that last H or not.
What you should be careful of, probably, is mix-and-matching. Khanuka is just outright weird, because you’re mixing a bunch of translit styles – going from extreme translit mode (KH) to mild mode (one K, no H). Chanuka also looks strange, because the CH is also somewhat strict-ish translit.
This all means that these are all the correct spellings in English, from a Hebrew standpoint, from most-strict transliteration to the most permissive:
Khanukkah
Chanukkah
Hanukkah
Chanukka (h is silent, double-k still serves a phonetic purpose that I didn’t bother going much into)
Hanukah
Hanukka
Hanuka (as much as it makes me twitch)
You’re welcome, and may you all confuzzle everybody you come across! 🎉
this is still my favorite xanuka post
absolutely delighted that this simplifies the situation
Having grown up here I do regard this as batshit, and yet also at the same time obvious and correct.
British peeps have lost all rights to make fun of the USA when it comes to measuring shit. Like, we’re still our little fucked up selves, but at least we only use the one system!