counter, original, spare, strange

🦇 Najia. 1995. he / they / she 🦇

[fluentisonus]

they're trying to get me to do something called ""my job"" instead of reading about medieval english poaching laws

[gothhabiba]

lately I've been experiencing less of the "no, I mean, where are you from originally?" and more of the *stares into your soul*

[gothhabiba]

him: and where are you from?

me: [hometown]

him: [hometown]?

me: yes

him: and... that's where you're from originally? [hometown]?

me: yes

him: 😐

me: 😐

him: 😐

me: 😐

[gothhabiba]

lately I've been experiencing less of the "no, I mean, where are you from originally?" and more of the *stares into your soul*

[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)

[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