You know, I get it-

AFTG mostly, and sometimes others (cp, bf, fence, SoC)? also HEY I'm Aditi, she/they [I'm temporarily back omg hi guys how's it going]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[angieloveshua]

I want this book in my hands so baaaaaaaaad.

[jamieboya-deactivated20230909]

they could murder me and i WOULD thank them <333

wlw andreil is a blessing 💃

[lunapiq]

Nicky’s halloween photo..? 🤭🎃

[paradoxolotl]

Andrew’s never let himself be sick around others. He’s always dealt with it himself, refusing to be weak. Until Neil takes care of him once, and from then in he becomes completely useless at the slightest cold

For @jingerhead

[ellaisfangirling]

"Will you ever stop talking about and move on from The Song Of Achilles?"

N

　 O

　　　 O

　　　　 o

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[wellsyonpiano]

chaotic academia is [writes on hand] [ink on ankles] [ink on elbows] [ink on neck] [urge to buy white flowy dresses] [writing unfinished poems] [making a big deal of birthdays] [writing prose and poetry for friends] [forgetting mundane schoolwork] [researching something niche] [reading old queer love letters] [editing a friend's book] [wishing for love] [shouting into the void silently] [reading incessantly]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

suggestions for gender neutral version of mom/dad? something less formal than just ‘parent’

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

please note that while progenitor, guardian, spawnpoint etc are all respected titles, they are more the equivalent of mother/father than an affectionate nickname you would scream through the house multiple times a day. gimme something we can use people

[whyarehterecomendednamesstupid]

I just tried to combine the words and got “dom” and i cant-

[tinkering-goblin]

but wait, if we reverse ‘dom’ you get ‘mod’. I suggest we use ‘moderator’ as a gender neutral version of mom/dad

[madskittens-202-deactivated2026]

Admin and op would work makes them sound powerful and in charge of everything

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Admin (respectful) Op (derogatory)

[doggoneloser]

i was going to add something else to this but instead i got to thinking and i was like huh. what could you use.

in most languages the word for ‘mother’ usually starts with an M, because phonetically [m] is one of the easiest sounds for a newborn to make when they start babbling, and mothers tend to be the one most around the child. so in my mind that crosses M off the list, because it’s automatically associated with a feminine figure

similarly, ‘father’ tends to start with D, T, P, or B. (phonetically these sounds are very close together; [p, b] and [d, t] are all only different because of being voiced or unvoiced.) these are also phonetically easy letters and ones kids pick up on earlier.

now the hard sounds for kids are the following: [ɹ, d͡ʒ, tʃ, θ, ð] or in normal speak: the English R, the “j” or “dge” sound in “judge,” the “th” sound in “thigh” and the “th” sound in “the.” and we don’t want kids unable to say their parent’s name for years, so those are also off the list.

additionally, it’s easiest for young kids to just repeat the same sound twice rather than figuring out the tongue gymnastics of putting different sounds together, which is why kids will say Ma-Ma or Da-Da and not Ma-Mo or Da-Po. and we’ll want to stick with low back vowels like “ah” and avoid ones like the hard “i” or “ee.”

so what does that leave us? when we want a sound kids can learn easily and early but don’t want to just put a funky spin on “mama” or “dada”?

my suggestions: G, K, W, L. i personally lean towards W and L. they’re called liquids, since they’re the consonants that kind of aren’t consonants, and kids (and ESL learners) will tend to swap out the English R for a W or L until they can learn the R.

if i ever have a child, they’ll start calling me Wawa. then when they get older, they’ll call me Wala, or maybe even Wally.

and then, once they’re finally phonetically developed, they can call me by my true title as their nonbinary guardian for their 18+ years:

Waluigi.

[cipheramnesia]

[far--from-h0me]

Okay, but on an actually serious note, Baba is used in several different languages, but the meaning changes between mother, father, or grandparent. However, it is not used in English afaik, so it could be a good English option.

[simpingforpjo]

Stop reading fanfics and go to bed

how did you know-

[sophiliated]

@junkiejosten10​

[junkiejosten10]

Shut up fae <3

[kalesbug]

[triquetrine]

andrew returns from a month-long trip to find neil josten, star striker and co-captain of US Court, infamous media nemesis and instigator extraordinaire, curled up on the couch cuddling both cats and wearing andrew’s favorite black sweatshirt, the collar pulled up to his nose so he can smell it

[soapeter]

this post by @triquetrine

[verdiris]

I think I forgot to post this here oops

[just-shower-thoughts]

Every single odd number has an “e” in it.

[savvygunner]

[violetnpurple]

LISTEN-

[bl6ckwoman]

Not all of them. 30 and 50 aren’t spelled with the letter e in it …

[antiandrogen]

[teamnowalls-deactivated20180918]

father god 

[abrown16]

…if you can split a number in half evenly, it’s even. 30 and 50 are odd.

[antiandrogen]

[ethereal-sketches]

-_-’

(15+15=30

25+25=30)

[britteryikes]

25+25 = 30? You sure about that??

[laurdlannister-kingslayer]

Lord have mercy….

[kumasenpai]

Bye

[mf-johnson-deactivated20190605]

3 days into 2018 smh

[kwantsu]

LMAOOOOOOO

[effigyofubiquity-deactivated202]

[lizzysarai-deactivated20190109]

One

Three

Five

Nine

And since everything else after that is a variant of these numbers, then all odds have the letter ‘E’.

[britteryikes]

🗣YOU FORGOT SEVEN!!

[thxrsdxy]

It keeps getting worse.

[e-wifey-deactivated20201128]

LMAOOO WHAT IS GOING ON

[ellsworthej]

[goldensweetcheeks-deactivated20]

My head hurts…

[skullprincess]

This is why that Tumblr University shit was the dumbest idea ever just look at this

[drankinwatahmelin]

who failed yall?

[microtear-deactivated20181213]

IM SCREAMING

[lukestarkillerisgay]

[hey-hey-shutthefuckup-deactivat]

You whole ass forgot about eight - a number with an e and is pretty fucking even

[shaolinbynature]

why would 8 be brought up if it’s EVEN in a post about ODDS??????? the post said “every single ODD number has an ‘e’ in it” not “every single number with an ‘e’ is odd” what the fuck

[emma-d-klutz]

3 days until 2019 and we’re still here

[legowerewolf]

happy New year’s eve

[prguitarman]

I’m going to bring this flaming dumpster into 2019 so future generations can see what a mistake Tumblr was

[majitowfoxlover]

Er, guys two is odd and doesn’t have an e. Just saying…

[hurleyquinnzel]

did you deadass just try to tell me two is odd? i’m fucking crying throw the whole website away

[untitled42717]

Reblogging for the last one😂

[kitsumekat]

The one thing I notice is that no matter how much you want to throw this site away, you just can’t.

[alternative-memo-deactivated202]

TWO IS ODD?!?! PFFFTT I’M SCREAMING

[binkeljuice]

Wait what about zero that’s an odd number ,no?

[hurleyquinnzel]

[mysticalpoodle]

ok but hear me out fifty and thirty make up for the fact they have no e by the way they are pronounces third-E fifth-E

[im-an-aesthetic-mess]

bro why do 30 and 50 matter THEY’RE FUCKING EVEN

[fish-food-s]

what the actual fuck is happening

[dickplinko]

1 is an even number

[link-the-feral-anon]

I’m gonna smack you

[insert-gay-pun-queer]

-30 and -50 have an e in them

[kurlyfryz]

Wait why are we so quick to throw away the Zero idea

[anachronistic-cat]

Zero isn’t a number

[kurlyfryz]

It can’t be divided by two though, can it

[toaster-120]

It can??? 0/2=0??

[kurlyfryz]

[baconaxolotl101]

OD NUMBERS

onE

thrEE

fivE

sEvEn

ninE

[batsdotjpg]

OD numbers huh?

[the-kleptomancer]

Anything that ends with a 0,2,4,6,8 is even and the rest is odd (1,3,7,9) stop freaking out y’all

[batsdotjpg]

YOU FORGOT 5

[ozzypawsbone-princeofbarkness]

DUDE WHAT ABOUT FOUR

[batsdotjpg]

What about it?????

[ozzypawsbone-princeofbarkness]

THAT DOESN’T HAVE E IN IT

[batsdotjpg]

THAT’S BECAUSE IT’S EVEN?????

[frogseyy]

A R E Y O U G U Y S O K A Y

[biggest-goldiest-fish]

IM FUCKIN SOBBING HAVAGAFDHFDHHBJJ

[dannydanoninoo]

I’m honestly so confused right now

[sophfandoms53]

[youmaycallmeyourhighness]

This is the height of our stupidity, It has to be or future generations cannot exist

[bakugou-klancey-lance]

ZERO IS BOTH ODD AND EVEN 

[stardoesthings-deactivated20191]

Technically zero isn’t even a number

[claytonical]

what even is zero then

[stardoesthings-deactivated20191]

It’s similar to black and white. They aren’t official colors and neither is 0.

Black is a “shade” and white is a “tint”

[bakugou-klancey-lance]

Numbers aren’t real

[ufohshit]

Is anything really

[cornposting]

this post really makes me feel better about my math skills, thanks, tumblr

[just-shower-responses]

how did this manage to get worse

[snailpockets-deactivated2019032]

ojijaijoiwjdaoijwoiwjoirajpdkaokfpf

[justcallmedumpling]

i thought i was bad at math and then i found this post

[everythingfox]

“Mum was fed up of the squirrels stealing all the bird food so she greased the feeder!”

(Source)

[transgooglesearches]

Articles I can use against truscum

[queercoded-villain]

I have got your back. Here are those damn sources

There is not enough difference in male or female brains to tell them apart

A gender-neutral pronouns other that they/them has existed since 1858, thon 

There are more than 2 genders (tons of sources in the description that if i tried to write them all here i would die of age)

“””Transtrenders””” aren’t actually transitioning and then regretting: 1  2  3 4  5 

Biological binary sex isn’t a thing: 1 2 3 4

in the wikipedia page for social construct of gender category sex and sex category the sources are 7 27 28 

He indeed is

Being trans is not a mental illness/ you don’t need dysphoria to be trans: 1  2  3  4 5 6 7 (this one is massive)  8 (also if you want a living example of a cis person with dysphoria search godflex here on tumblr, careful it’s nsfw)

From here

This might be updated in the future

[official-lucifers-child]

fantastic

[beyond-a-name]

Simply because the link about the gender neutral pronoun “thon” leads to a google books page (gross) in Portuguese, it may not prove particularly useful for English speakers. Instead, here’s a link to a Merriam-Webster post about it. While they don’t have links to their sources, they do include all the titles to the publications referenced, most of which are surely public domain.

We added a gender-neutral pronoun in 1934. Why have so few people heard of it?

'Thon' was a singular, gender-neutral pronoun in our Unabridged dictionary. Until it wasn't.

In addition, if “thon” (or “þon,” for any literary nerds) doesn’t suit you, here is a list of proposed gender neutral pronouns regardless of whether or not they have seen usage.

It even has usage notes! Please DM me if the links don’t work.

[sneakiestofsneks]

Ammunition against fools

[butallmystars-deactivated202410]

i think one of the things i love most about AFTG is that there isn’t a single pairing (platonic or otherwise) that i’m not deeply fond of .. i know we would all lay our lives on the line for any of the canon pairings but there is something so nice about being able to read a headcanon or fic about any of the friend(ships) within the books and get warm and fuzzy over them ? even when they are slightly ooc it’s still so fun !

here are mine:

allison, nicky & andrew do this thing where they watch the met-gala together purely to judge the outfits

it was an allison & nicky thing to begin with but one year andrew walks in on them and decides to stick around so now it’s an unspoken tradition

allison has varying levels of disdain and praise for the designers of the clothes but she always rates them fairly

nicky though, is purely out for blood and he drags the outfits within an inch of their lives “the theme of this year may be heavenly but you sir are going to hell for that monstrosity of a dress-coat”

andrew judges exclusively through monotonous one word ratings; “bad” “horrible” “moderate”

nicky and matts text thread consists of photos of dogs they spot when they’re out and excessive use of the heart-eye emoji over the cuteness

dan misplaces her sleep head-wrap that protects her hair during an away match & amidst the panic of trying to find a suitable substitute with the limited options andrew cuts up one of his spare arm-bands and hands it to her wordlessly

if she sheds a tear over the thoughtfulness that is her! business!

allison takes any opportunity she can to put mascara on kevin and neil because their eyelashes are unfairly long and a definite danger to society

“i don’t care if you have ties to the japanese mafia, the shared power between your eyelashes have more force than any moriyama”

whenever the foxes drink together for celebratory (or typical) purposes, kevin gets into these long winded rants about history and since renee is sober she is usually on the receiving end of his spiels

kevin, solemnly: i’m serious about this renee, you have to believe me

renee, gently prying the vodka bottle from his grasp: very interesting kevin! who would of known cleopatra wasn’t actually egyptian :)

it is a very pure exchange

aaron and neil have a strained relationship but im a sucker for development so i think they get to this point where they aren’t necessarily friends but it’s not burning hatred anymore, either

like one night aaron is at the kitchen table grumbling to himself about his calculus homework and neil wanders in for a glass of water but he hears him and he kinda hesitates before drifting over offering his help

aaron is quietly grateful but also shocked because how is neil so good at calculus and when did he have time to master it ?

“so uh how’d that test go today?” “it was actually pretty easy uh thanks for your help” “oh cool, whenever dude”

let me dream okay!