counter, original, spare, strange

🦇 Najia. 1995. he / they / she 🦇

[cleaningouttherooms]

*widely praised poetic quote in a foreword by a usamerican translator voice* see this language.... it's not like other languages. sometimes it has metaphors. or abstract thinking. sometimes a word has several meanings. sometimes a lot of meaning can be condensed into two words. sometimes those words even have etymologies. sometimes if you translate idioms or break down the components of words you can get something pretty cool in english. and naturally this gives us essential insight into the timeless national character of its people

[gothhabiba]

you want me to be your what? oh! well, I mean, this is kind of sudden, but I might be down to—oh, it just involves—oh, I would just be, like, reading your fanfic? and telling you if it’s good? yeah, no, sure, I can do that

[gothhabiba]

Mohammed Abu Alwan is raising three young children alone after the killing of his wife in an IDF strike.

There is a continual need for funds to buy food, water, and medicine, but Israel's destruction of infrastructure in Gaza means that jobs are nearly nonexistence.

You can help this family stay alive through genocide by donating via:

GoFundMe

Or via:

venmo (@gothhabiba) paypal (paypal.me/Najia) Cashapp ($NajiaK)

all with note "🍓" or "strawberry"

$50 / $200 (June 9)

[gothhabiba]

Thank you to everybody for all of your help so far. I haven't received any donations for Mohammed's family in a week!

[gothhabiba]

$120 / $200 (June 13)

[papayajuan2019]

one day, i hope to be moved from your downloads folder into somewhere more deliberate

[gothhabiba]

in response to people saying things like "men aren't allowed to cry in public, unlike women" other people will then say things like "women are penalized, not rewarded, for public displays of emotion—the fact that women are presumed to be overly emotional & irrational is misogyny, not a privilege"

which is often true but like, it's contextual innit. lest we discount the phenomenon of White Woman Tears

[gothhabiba]

I've recently had white women in professional contexts tell me that they were quote "hurt" and "gutted" by what amounted to very minor professional faux pas on my part. I remember reading a white woman academic's essay on Jane Eyre that began with recounting her emotional upset upon having Jane Eyre "taken away from her" by postcolonial / anti-racist scholarship. white women's emotions do have currency in personal and professional spaces in selective contexts, i.e. when wielded against people of colour 🤷🏽‍♀️

[gothhabiba]

in response to people saying things like "men aren't allowed to cry in public, unlike women" other people will then say things like "women are penalized, not rewarded, for public displays of emotion—the fact that women are presumed to be overly emotional & irrational is misogyny, not a privilege"

which is often true but like, it's contextual innit. lest we discount the phenomenon of White Woman Tears

[indigosfindings]

some people act as though "prescriptivism" is when you say that there are observable & describable patterns in language, whereas "descriptivism" is a practice where describing language in any capacity is like, forbidden

[gothhabiba]

Mohammed Abu Alwan is raising three young children alone after the killing of his wife in an IDF strike.

There is a continual need for funds to buy food, water, and medicine, but Israel's destruction of infrastructure in Gaza means that jobs are nearly nonexistence.

You can help this family stay alive through genocide by donating via:

GoFundMe

Or via:

venmo (@gothhabiba) paypal (paypal.me/Najia) Cashapp ($NajiaK)

all with note "🍓" or "strawberry"

$50 / $200 (June 9)

[gothhabiba]

Thank you to everybody for all of your help so far. I haven't received any donations for Mohammed's family in a week!

[gothhabiba]

Mohammed Abu Alwan is raising three young children alone after the killing of his wife in an IDF strike.

There is a continual need for funds to buy food, water, and medicine, but Israel's destruction of infrastructure in Gaza means that jobs are nearly nonexistence.

You can help this family stay alive through genocide by donating via:

GoFundMe

Or via:

venmo (@gothhabiba) paypal (paypal.me/Najia) Cashapp ($NajiaK)

all with note "🍓" or "strawberry"

$50 / $200 (June 9)

[gothhabiba]

every year there are apparently a bunch of people who are vehemently against cishets being within 20 feet of a pride parade, and these people are apparently numerous and influential enough that their viewpoint needs to be addressed and opposed constantly

[gothhabiba]

personally I have never encountered one of these people. but from the plethora of defiant responses to them that one reads each June, surely they must exist

[gothhabiba]

#and tumblr users would never make up a guy to get mad at. that just doesnt happen

[ashenmind]

wild to me that people (including medical professionals) still refer to the monoamine hypothesis when discussing depression and antidepressants

“depression is caused by an imbalance of these neurotransmitters in your brain, and anti-depressants fix that. no I don’t have direct evidence of that imbalance being the cause. no I can’t explain why these medications that change the balance very quickly still take weeks to have any effect. no I can’t explain why many patients do not benefit from these at all. no I can’t explain why meds that should make the balance worse do not cause depressive symptoms. you just gotta trust me.”

[gothhabiba]

every year there are apparently a bunch of people who are vehemently against cishets being within 20 feet of a pride parade, and these people are apparently numerous and influential enough that their viewpoint needs to be addressed and opposed constantly

[gothhabiba]

personally I have never encountered one of these people. but from the plethora of defiant responses to them that one reads each June, surely they must exist

[cryptotheism]

Looking to get into philosophy does anyone have any thoughts for beginners?

[hollowtones]

Yep some stuff is bad or good.

[hollowtones]

But it depends

[zmpl]

do you consider online text posts to be “true” reading/writing similar to books or articles?

yes

no

Voting ended onJun 11

no nuance, if you answer is “sometimes” or “in certain circumstances” your answer is yes

[pleuvoire]

that poll is crazy because first of all invoking the idea of "real" reading that is not defined in any way other than "like books or articles" is already invoking an extremely culturally loaded idea: we're taught that reading is good for you, that it inherently instructs and edifies, or if it's fiction that it inherently enriches the brain in some way, compared to "fake" reading which is like "junk food" (another loaded metaphor) and has no benefits to the soul and may even be detrimental. and this quality is conferred not by the strength of the ideas contained within said writing, or by the technical skill of said writing, but by its institutional approval: if it's published, it's "real". this is already the cultural baggage that is being brought to bear by the poll question, that you necessarily have to play along with in order to begin to entertain an answer - in other words, we are being asked if a post can contain the same amount of "value" as one of the kinds of "real" writing described above. notably, we are being asked if it CAN. not if it always or inherently is, but if it CAN. and i would think that the answer would be a resounding "yes", right? if "real" reading is defined by its ability to edify or put forth a complex argument, then people write essays with complex arguments in posts all the time. if "real" reading is defined by challenging the reader, people write challenging posts all the time. and so on and so forth. it bears repeating that right before reblogging that poll i reblogged a post that was a short story. these certainly don't comprise a majority of posts, but they do exist. and yet the overwhelmingly popular opinion is that a post on the internet, by virtue of being written on a platform that doesn't grant institutional literacy, CANNOT (no nuance!) be enriching, edifying, challenging, or any of the qualities ascribed to the cultural idea of "real" reading. not only that, but people who believe differently are being derided in the tags for their lack of intelligence or for being a symptom of social degeneration! (or that they're going to hell which is a very interestinggggg concept to invoke here) that's wild

[gothhabiba]

every year there are apparently a bunch of people who are vehemently against cishets being within 20 feet of a pride parade, and these people are apparently numerous and influential enough that their viewpoint needs to be addressed and opposed constantly

[gothhabiba]

personally I have never encountered one of these people. but from the plethora of defiant responses to them that one reads each June, surely they must exist

[gothhabiba]

every year there are apparently a bunch of people who are vehemently against cishets being within 20 feet of a pride parade, and these people are apparently numerous and influential enough that their viewpoint needs to be addressed and opposed constantly