Emzzy

I don't talk to people. too many fandoms. they/them, voidpunk/non gender (questioning) space ace. aro spec too, maybe. Planet of origin:kepler 9 b

[nariiminus]

[pineappical]

think about it long time

[rebranden]

“Grace,” he sings- and reaches for the harmonics above that basic note as scaffolding upon which to drape meaning. Unreachable, indispensable, dearer than self.

I smile, stretching my now-spidery fingers as I gather the music I'll need. 

“Rocky,” I play.

Fic: Cadence by Heartniche AO3

[valtsv]

eridians are radially symmetrical and have no eyes, which means that it's normal and expected not to "face" someone to acknowledge them, and even engage in other activities while doing so, effectively dividing your attention between multiple points, so i wonder how long it took rocky to realise how frequently grace would just. look at him. direct his complete and entire ability to focus or protect himself towards unnecessarily fondly gazing at rocky, acknowledging him or just reminding himself that he's there and taking comfort from that. probably not very long, he's not stupid, but i'm willing to bet it never stopped feeling like something special, no matter how often grace did it - because of how often he was the focal point of grace's entire universe, even.

[high-wilderness]

The spines of regret

[sneefss]

trans women:

center yourself in language that includes you. if it includes women like you, it includes you. it's not "them" it's "us". women are your peers. when someone says ladies that means you. keep reminding yourself. don't forget. it is a fact. treat it like one. you HAVE to treat yourself like a woman. keep reminding yourself. keep reminding yourself.

[sneefss]

this this this this.

that song is about you. that advertisement applies to you. when someone tries to lift women's self esteem it's supposed to be lifting YOUR self esteem. how many songs come on the radio telling women they're beautiful??? that's YOU. you're beautiful. take it seriously. take yourself seriously. you ARE a girl and you HAVE to act like it. if you don't treat yourself like a woman, and you ARE one, then you're not treating yourself like a person, and THAT IS SELF HARM. you HAVE to treat yourself like a girl. it isn't optional.

[prguitarman]

she is a beautiful triangle

she is beautiful triangle

[horridbeaftf]

Three Mighty Ladies from Livonia, Albrecht Dürer

[bodhranwriting]

Pick an opening to a children's book I'm writing!

Flotsam House

Mistlewoods Rest Home for Dragons

Ector the Balloonist

Remaining time: 11 hours 15 minutes

Flotsam House

The third thing Ferret did before she ran away was pick a new name.

It nearly had been the first, but Ferret was a little more sensible than her family tended to believe. Instead, she packed her schoolbag with clothes and snacks and trinkets and then wrote a short, but important letter. She’d left it on her parents’ bed before she’d walked out the door and into the swirling afternoon mist.

That mist had rapidly become fog.

Now, it was something even thicker that made Ferret wish she’d packed a dictionary so she could accurately complain about what it was. It was silver and cold and grasped at her tufty brown hair and bright green raincoat. Little drops of water kept finding their way into her hood and rolling down her spine, making Ferret jump and squeak every few feet.

Ferret was starting to realise that, even if she wanted to turn around and go home, she had no idea what direction to go.

Mistlewoods Rest Home for Dragons

Making a dragon their afternoon tea was a very fiddly operation. Especially if that dragon hadn’t yet burnt off all their tastebuds and tended to be prone to grumbling flame if it wasn’t done just right.

Sorrel Thistledale took her duties extremely seriously.

First, she tied up her golden plaits, put on her father’s spare apron (the blue one), and fetched the stool from the pantry. After that, she put the full pot on the fire without catching her sleeves alight. Then she ground the coal and the quartz and the little red flowers into a gritty, sweet-smelling paste and scraped every bit into the now-boiling water. The last step was to stir and stir with the long wooden spoon until the water turned a pretty pale pink.

Once it was done to her satisfaction – and, hopefully, Old Ember’s – Sorrel very carefully poured the brew into a teacup the size of a bowl and carried it towards the big dining hall where the earliest riser of the dragons would be waiting. Ector the Balloonist

Ector’s first solo flight began on a cold autumn afternoon when Grandma Elaine discovered she’d been sold an improperly stored phoenix feather – just as it blew her clear across the workshop, singeing her eyebrows and breaking her right leg in two places.

Even Ector heard the explosion. He’d taken his hearing aids out to better be able to focus on the details of his newest project, but the deep boom rattled his head and the walls.

It took a few moments of ringing, stunned stillness before the smell of smoke knocked him from his daze. Ector scrambled to his feet, heart thumping painfully against his ribs, and burst out of his room. He hurtled down the corridor – almost knocking into his older sister, Linet as she staggered out of her room – and threw himself at the workshop door.

[crimson-chains]

Polaris just loves his star creatures so much <3

[kookenhakken]

this is so haunting to me i think about it weekly

[kookenhakken]

the world is covered with them...

[rob-by]

The pathologization of anger needs to be talked about. What do you mean my therapist is telling me that there’s something “chemically wrong” with me because I am still angry about my mom DYING OF COVID.

of course I’m still angry? My mom and 1.3 million other Americans are dead and you want me to shoot sunshine out of my ass about it?

[rob-by]

“But It’s been 3 years since she died, you have complex grief” yeah and she was on a ventilator for 11 days and she kept writing “I am scared” and “I don’t want to die” on a notepad over and over again. While you were still going out unmasked and unvaccinated and coughing all over each other, I was living a nightmare I couldn’t fucking wake up from. And every single day I’m reminded of it in the form of “haha wasn’t the pandemic such a wacky time haha” and “I’m not getting a booster you can’t make me 🤪 (nobody asked)” and “it’s not real they made the numbers up!!!”

“You’re not coping” Ok here’s the deal; I’ll stop feeling this anger when we have a national memorial (we don’t) or a cdc equipped to stop it from happening again (we don’t) or a population that takes a deadly disease seriously BEFORE it effects them personally (WE DON’T!)

until then, I’m pretty sure my anger is A COMPLETELY NORMAL HUMAN REACTION given the facts at hand

[ohevoyev]

why are british people always so mad when people make jokes about their accents. sorry you say yewchube. it’s funny though innit

[bees-and-mice-and-frogs-and]

This is something I’ve been dying to talk about.

There’s something called culture. People (especially USAmericans) think of culture as cultural dress, cultural food, cultural music. These are culture, but they are only the very superficial aspects of it. Like the icing on your cake. Far more deep rooted is the more meaty bits of culture: the attitudes, the ideas, the taboos.

There’s a guy on tiktok who has done a series that shows this very well, of Germans Vs Irish. In one video the German offers the Irish person two kinds of tea, green or black. The Irish person keeps putting off the choice with things like “Oh sure whatever is easiest”, “Which have you more of?” and, “Ah sure I don’t want to cause a fuss” whereas the German just wants a straight answer. This is a cultural difference of politeness.

Here in the UK, accents mark your class very openly. They let everyone know where you’re from (though this has become less pronounced in the last 50 years,) and what your background is. A lot of people (especially northerners, but also a fair contingent of working class southerners) face discrimination on the basis of their accents.

Some of us (myself included) even change register (though I believe USAmericans call it code switching) in and out of our regional accent and a close approximation of RP. We learn to do it because it makes us seem more intelligent (even though it shouldn’t) and helps us be taken more seriously.

Thus, our country carries a lot of baggage when it comes to accents. Especially those of the working class who have had their accents made fun of, or have faced discrimination based on it.

So when someone outside the country (usually USAmericans) makes fun of our accents they’re stepping on a lot of cultural taboos and boundaries. Especially because the “It’s Chewsday, gonnae wot-ch sum yewchube innit” is a working class accent.

Now, that’s not to say we can’t take a joke, but this is the kind of joke you share with someone who you have been friends with for a while. My boyfriend often will pick up on the way I say certain words, in much the same fashion I pick up on his idiosyncrasies of speech (English isn’t his first language so he says stuff like close the lights, which is adorable.) If we aren’t predisposed to liking you, then the joke you’re trying to make is more like an insult.

The way I like to think of it is if you were in a pub, and made those sorts of jokes to someone. If they knew you, and they liked you, they’d probably laugh along. If they didn’t like you or know you, they would punch you in the jaw.

HOWEVER: I recognise this post as a joke. I don’t personally find these jokes offensive, but then no one really makes fun of me or considers me stupid because of my accent.

[badolmen]

Oh that actually makes a lot of sense! It’s like how it’s assumed in media that the southeastern Appalachian (‘hick’ or ‘redneck’) accent is audible shorthand for ‘this American character is stupid.’ That sentiment reinforces negative stereotypes about that region which has historically been home to a large working class population that has suffered from an underfunded education system and other systematic abuses. It is ultimately an underhanded joke, but not everyone from America (or even the region necessarily) considers it to be offensive despite its classist nature.

[mighty-meerkat]

yes, that’s basically it! it grinds my gears when certain Very Online Americans will quite rightly say that europeans have no right to mock the us’ lack of healthcare/gun control and working-class accents…but then turn around and act like working-class british accents and foods are hilarious and should be mocked ‘bc of colonialism and the bp oil spill’ as though all british people are directly responsible for the oil spill. and then some of them conveniently forget that there are in fact british people of colour - in the wake of brexit, a smug american blog defended saying that british people upset by the referendum were getting ‘karma’ for the british empire, even when british poc pointed out that they were the ones most likely to be negatively affected by brexit, by saying ‘obviously i don’t mean you’, to which said british poc responded ‘THEN WHY DID YOU SAY BRITISH PEOPLE’

[stormclouds-chainmail]

The hatred, by the privileged of England, towards Scotland and any Scottish accent was so pervasive that my mother wouldn’t let my brother and I develop a Scottish accent. She was born in Jamaica but her family moved to London when she was 11. She moved to Scotland when she was pregnant with me. Both my brother and I were born in Scotland and spent out entire childhood there. Mum was adamant that neither of us would have the local accent. It was “common” and “low class” and “would hinder us in the future”. She used to fine us half our pocket money if we used any Scottish slang or said anything in a Scottish accent. I got bullied at school for having a “posh English accent” but she thought my job prospects were more important than a modicum of happiness at school. My outsider status was doubled by that. I was brown and “English”.

Even now, after decades in Scotland, I still don’t sound Scottish. The English hear a slight lilt but that disappears as soon as I spend any time with them.

I feel alienated on two fronts now, skin colour and accent. And one of those was avoidable if it hadn’t been for the prejudice against against perceived lower class accents. Even in Jamaica Mum learnt to speak in an English accent like the white girls at her school. She could switch between the two. Jamaican with her parents, posh English everywhere else. Why couldn’t I have had that?

[amuseoffyre]

The fact that a lot of regional actors are expected to code-switch their accent patterns the a kind of neutral English accent in Britain shows how pervasive the classism is.

When Christopher Eccleston was cast as the Doctor in Doctor Who, people were surprised that he used his own northern accent, instead of performing with an accent like every Doctor before him. That was only 15-ish years ago.

Even now, this still happens - James McAvoy made a very vocal protest a couple of years back about a critic who complained about the use of Scots accents and only applauded the “plummy English” accent of one character in a play.

Regional and working class accents were used as joke accents for decades in British media. Look up old broadcasts and notice how many people only speak RP English (ie. the formal pronunciation that smacks of elocution lessons and enunciation). As media accessibility and productions expanded, there have been more regional accents showing up, but it’s still a big problem.

[sillyjimjam]

Putsimply when you mock “innit” you’re mocking poor people and often people of colour. Boris Johnson doesn’t say “innit bruv”.

[phoenix-ghost-town-deactivated2]

I would like to add that there was a study by the Worcester College that found that people talking with a Birmingham accent were twice as likely to be accused of a crime as people who speak RP. Accents carry huge baggage in Britain.

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[pangur-and-grim]

right before he GETS you

[penandinkprincess]

used the phrase "i mean, i don't think we're paying enough attention to what the back of that embroidery is going to look like" in a meeting today because if business bros get to throw out meaningless jargon all the time, i! get! to play! too!

[queer-as-city-folk]

Minecraft is possibly the worst tutorialized game ever released

[queer-as-city-folk]

The entire game play requires you to know this it never tells you

[queer-as-city-folk]

Ie: tool progression, there is nothing actually telling you that diamond ore and redstone require an iron pickaxe, you need to figure that out through fucking up or cultural osmosis

[queer-as-city-folk]

Or nether portals prior to the addition of ruined portals having nothing to tell you how to make them

[queer-as-city-folk]

This is all to say that if a data or mod pack does a shit job telling you how to get started, that is actually completely in line with Minecraft's design philosophy

[queer-as-city-folk]

Genuinely, how is someone expected to know that right clicking dirt with a water bottle is how you make mud, a mechanic notably unused in any other blocks

[no-celebration]

Luna

[silly-filly]

i just realized theres a huge similarity between how aro and ace characters are treated in fandom to how enbies are treated, primarily within the context of shipping.

despite their respective orientations and genders generally being acknowledged, they're often treated as what is most convenient or acceptable. that is, treated the same as alloromantic and allosexual or binary gendered characters.

aro characters are being shipped as though they are alloromantic. ace characters are portrayed in sexual relationships as if they are allosexual. how often do you see people portraying these characters' orientations beyond the surface level?

nonbinary characters are referred to with gendered terms based on whoever they're being shipped with. with a woman? they're called "yuri", "sapphic", etc. with a man? it's "yaoi", "mlm", etc. how often do you see people using nonbinary-focused terminology for these pairings? why is the binary-gendered partner a priority in most cases?

when the problem is brought up, the "rebuttals" are the same: "aros/aces can still date/have sex!", "some nonbinary people identify with [lesbian, wlw, sapphic, yuri]/[gay, mlm, achellian, yaoi]!". neither of of these address the issue that this is what fandoms with these characters default to.

this is not to say you can't headcanon characters to have these traits. as someone who is all three, all i want is for people to acknowledge the full spectrum of being aro, ace, or nonbinary, not whichever is most convenient.