זה בעברית רק כדי להבריח אנטישמים (she

Crazy queer trans Ashkenazess, language lover, and survivor of rape, homelessness, and abusive psychiatry. I design graphics; all my work is CC0, but I also sell it at Redbubble and Teepublic.

[dikleyt]

i don't have any Jewish partners anymore, and this can be rough when antisemitic stuff happens because my partners can only understand so much.

if you're Jewish, over 30, polyamorous, and want to chat and see where things go, hmu. i have three partners and come from a Conservative background. i speak some Yiddish and Hebrew and help others with learning them. see my blog and my store for an idea of my personality

likes and reblogs will not be assumed to be interest. i am a fairly mature person

EDIT: gender is irrelevant. i'm a trans woman, she/her

[dikleyt]

congrats to trent reznor on making it through the depression that inspired the downward spiral alive

and living for decades longer, continuing to make incredible music

[coto524]

as a welsh person i want you all to accept that W is a vowel because honestly it makes pronouncing acronyms so much easier. wlw becomes ‘ooloo’, wjec becomes ‘oojeck’, love yourselves and stop giving us shit when we tell you welsh has 7 vowels. english actually has 15 vowel sounds but because y’all only use 5 letters you have to rely on a spelling system devised by satan

[saethwr-blog]

and please, enough with the “keyboard smashing” jokes. not original, not funny.

[coto524]

“ #okay but can any of y'all even pronounce your own town names tho? #bye”

yeah, we can actually because the spelling is phonetic. meanwhile english folks have placenames like bicester or keighley or beaulieu, which you have to learn the pronunciation for individually because the rules are so inconsistent. i mean people can’t even agree how to pronounce marylebone but sure welsh place names are the weird ones

[coto524]

“#But are you aware your language literally looks like a potato rolled across a keyboard”

fun fact: for decades children were beaten for speaking welsh in school, even in areas where english was barely spoken, because the government decided in 1847 that the language made people lazy and immoral

fun fact: welsh orthography is actually easy to read if you take your head out of your arse for one minute and learn our alphabet - just like french, or spanish, or korean, because surprise! languages use different spelling systems that are not based on english. novel, i know - and in the 18th century, travelling schools were able to teach people to read and write welsh in a matter of months, so that wales enjoyed a literate majority, a rare thing in europe at the time

fun fact: the english have been taking the piss out of welsh for years, just like they’ve been doing for irish, and scots gaelic, and cornish, and british sign language, and a hundred and one other languages, because evidently the fact that the whole world isn’t anglophone and monocultured and Still Part Of The Empire is a problem, and something that needs to be corrected

[dikleyt]

people love diagnosing others from afar

but when it comes to helping them, suddenly it's "i'm not qualified."

you weren't qualified to diagnose them, either, but if you're going to be effective at one of the two, it's probably asking "how can i help" rather than labeling someone based on pop psychology

when someone is struggling you don't shun them, that's the worst thing you can do to them. you ask "what can i do to lighten the load you're carrying"

[dikleyt]

if you want to support amatullah, creator of toki pona, with all the misogyny and ableism being directed at her atm, one surefire way of doing so is to buy her books

don't have pu yet? get pu. don't have ku? get ku. don't have Symbols of Flow? that's next for me.

symbols of flow looks INCREDIBLE! a huge hardcover book devoted to writing in toki pona, which expands existing toki pona writing systems and introduces new ones.

[dikleyt]

i had a dream where dragon quest xii was all gritty and gorey

every time you hit an enemy it'd show them getting all fucked up. bloody slimes with bones sticking out. it was wild

[dikleyt]

everyone's "smart" in different ways. if you have a PhD and you can't change a tire, there's at least one area of life where you are not smart at all

this isn't to say that such people are "dumb." they're very smart in one area, and not smart at all in another area

but you can't tell me a mechanic who knows most cars on the market inside and out, knows how to fix them when they go wrong, and has the ability to do so is not smart as all hell

[dikleyt]

cats are naturals at bilateral stimulation

[dikleyt]

If thou be wisest in thy compaignye, thou art nat in the right compaignye by dikleyt

If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room - Middle English style.

[icantspellthings]

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

Pronouns

An accent

Bias

[dikleyt]

4. ideology

[dualcasterjay]

5. culture

[dikleyt]

arabic and hebrew have some funny false friends.

like برد and ברד. cold in Arabic, hail in Hebrew.

or بشر and בשר. if someone says they are بشر in arabic, it does not mean they're meat! it means they're a human being

or لحم and לחם. meat and bread, two very different things! i eat לחם but not لحم

[baraphalloplastyclinic]

I actually do think we should discourage women from becoming housewives. Do not become financially dependent on a man. That's how a lot of women ended up dead over the years. A man gets violent suddenly and you have to choose between homelessness or potentially dying at his hand because you have an enormous gap in your resume and no degrees or certifications or anything that will help you pursue a career that will allow you to be financially independent. He owns your bank account. His name is probably the one on the car. Try and leave and he can report it stolen. Where will you go then?

Don't become a housewife.

[ladyfoxfire]

And if you do become a housewife, take steps to protect yourself. Make sure you’re legally married, for starters; stay-at-home girlfriends have very little legal recourse to claim their partner’s assets in a breakup. Make sure your name is on the house deed/rental agreement, and have your car in your name, even if your spouse is paying for it. Have your spouse transfer money every month into an account solely in your name, so you can buy yourself things without needing permission, but also so you can save up to leave if needed.

If your spouse fights you on any of this, then don’t quit your job. The tradwife to poverty pipeline is real, and so is financial abuse.

[dressedupliketheking]

also, many women/people experience controlling behaviour and domestic violence from their partner for the first time during pregnancy. don’t risk thinking “he’s just stressed, it’ll get better when the baby comes” because it won’t. neither you and your child will ever be safe with that man. get out as early and safely as you can

[dikleyt]

most mad people: I'm not broken. I'm just different

me: i am different but i am also broken, and i can name all the individuals who broke me

[dikleyt]

i hate how you're never safe from your old abusers in your dreams

[dikleyt]

leave me alone. get out of my dreams. go back in time and never contact me.

[dikleyt]

i hate how you're never safe from your old abusers in your dreams

[mouse-doubleo100]

the more i watch star trek tos, the more it becomes abundantly clear that the reason why modern trek doesnt get kirk at all is because they dont utilise mccoy nearly as much anymore

in modern trek, they always present the idea of logic vs emotion, with spock being logic and kirk being emotion, but thats not how tos has it. in tos, the logic vs emption debate is spock vs mccoy. kirk is supposed to be the mediator between the two, sometimes siding with one side over the other, sometimes finding a middle ground between the two. thats why hes the captain, hes able to see all angles and pick the best course

when you make kirk the emotional one, it completely breaks the format, because 9 time out of 10, it means kirk has to be correct. theres no more balance

mccoy is just as important to tos as spock is, and while i do understand why spock is as popular as he is, without mccoy, the show doesnt work. you need them both. kirk spock and mccoy are the three leads of the show, and removing one requires you to change the others, which is whats happened to kirk

[badger-angel]

always interesting whenever people start talking about polyamory as particularly unstable or prone to jealousy bc it begs the question of if they’ve ever seen or heard of monogamous couples

[badger-angel]

are you aware that those people are having sincere earnest discussions on whether following someone on social media counts as cheating