The World Is Quiet Here.

He/Him | I like vibdeo games

[masterspider5]

[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

[finnglas]

It was always a thermometer, not a thermostat, and I’m begging people to understand that.

[riv3rboychaos]

again on the isaac ranson (trans guy who had to play on a women's team to be allowed to continue within the league he plays in) stuff

trans guy: has to join a women's team to be allowed to play, will not be able to medically transition whether he wishes to or not for as long as he plays within that league

people:

.

WHAT THE FUCK. i guarantee you these people would not be having the same reaction to a trans woman having to play on a men's team. in fact, they'd probably be coming out in waves to offer support for her. but no, suddenly because the person in question happens to be playing on a team they want to play on (and that person probably doesnt want to have to) its transmisogynistic and hes the weakest link in the trans commun and he should be jumped?? what the absolute FUCK?? this has to be a fucking joke. these people cannot genuinely be serious.

person: finds a way to continue playing their sport, while having to make sacrifices, but still finding a way to play

other people: he's evil. he deserves to be jumped. i hope he dies

just genuinely what the actual fuck

[chimeracauldron]

What the media doesn't want you to know

[phaeton-flier]

Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.

[phaeton-flier]

The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there

[theaudientvoid]

[transcyberism]

the species that can take you out are literally wizards with magic boom sticks that instantly wound you from a distance. they're mostly just scared of you though, if you catch one without the boom stick they're very easy to kill. also they leave treasure chests full of delicious food around where they live and if you're smart you can figure out how to open them. going into one of their settlements is basically a dungeon crawler RPG.

[biglawbear]

Hibernation lasts 6 months in Alaska I think. Truly powerful.

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

Also worth noting the conspicuous presence of another two conlangs (esperanto and Israeli) but no Persian or Tagalog

[meshugenist]

israeli hebrew is not a conlang it is just a partially-relexified de-diglossified form of rabbinic hebrew, with grammar and phonology primarily from the hebrew component of the ashkenazic diglossia/triglossia, and pronunciation primarily from the sefaradi counterpart with heavy yiddish and arabic loan components

(the sefaradi pronunciation is cuz maskilim were stupid orientalist self-hating morons who dovetailed with the dominant goyishe european orientalist idea that sefaradi hebrew was "pure/real" while ashkenazi hebrew was "corrupted/butchered" but that's a whole nother post - but suffice it to say that the majority of the "first speakers" of israeli hebrew were simply ashkenazi settlers who dutifully stopped speaking yiddish as a vernacular and shifted the same hebrew that they had used for prayer and liturgical purposes as well as for religious discourse and as a lingua franca to that purpose instead - in many cases even with the ashkenazi pronuciation before getting browbeaten into speaking it "properly" (sefaradically))

the idea of it being a "conlang" is a telephoned version of a zionist mystification of its de-diglossification in service of the zionist nation-building project and its goal of imposing zionist hegemony via linguistic homogenization upon global jewry; for this purpose, in line with the negation of jewish diasporic history/culture, a myth of a "miraculously revived dead language" was spread, seeking to replace and erase not only the diasporic vernacular components of jewish diglossias (eg. yiddish, judeo-arabic, spanyol, etc) but also to characterize the language that millions of jews have spoken in a wide variety of contexts for the last two millennia as but a pale shade of the "real thing" (monoglossic hebrew used as a vernacular) and homogenize the unique hebrew dialects in each di/triglossia into a single israeli ideal. the ostensibly antizionist version of this myth buys this farcical narrative hook line and sinker and then goes uh but that's like, bad, actually,

this also has major implications for legitimate native language revival and revitalization projects cuz this myth is so widespread that it is super common for ppl seeking to run these kinds of projects to get suckered into taking advice from ulpans for a bit before realizing that it is not even close to a revival. or a conlang for that matter! i hope this will become less common now at least that antizionism is more widespread

tl;dr no israeli hebrew isn't a conlang nor is it a revival. for an equivalent example it's like if a bunch of daeshi chuds in settler paramilitaries peer-pressured their buddies into only speaking fus7a and then instituted this as national policy to linguistically homogenize the nation

[thesituation]

i don’t feel like debating that topic much farther bc truthfully if it comes down to “women will lose to men in every sport bc they don’t have as much testosterone!!!!!” my elite feminist response is honest to god “ok we will lose with honor as equals instead of having our own special Easy Mode Female category so we can win amongst ourselves” like i’m sorry i just can’t be persuaded. i’m a brick wall. i want co-ed sports

[thesituation]

i bring a sort of “women can lose at some sports against men if it means being regarded as equals” vibe to the debate that “testosterone objectively increases performance” people don’t really like

[important-dog-pics]

[deepseasmetro]

can this fucking wizard stop texting me ive already blocked him 3 times but he keeps making new crystal ball lines to contact me about wizard ween. get the fucking hint man

[deepseasmetro]

BACK OFF MAN

[teaboot]

My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

[teaboot]

Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect

[ot3]

"kids deserve good art instead of slop" is also the wrong takeaway. the kids need slop too. ideally from the moment you start reading board books to your kid you should try and work in a ratio of like 7 things that are actually good to 2 that are mid but have potential and 1 thats complete dogshit. this will allow them to start exercising the parts of your brain you use to form and develop media opinions as soon as possible. follow my instructions to the t and gen beta or whatever the hell they're gonna call the next one will start producing the kind of experimental webfiction the likes of which we are not yet capable of imagining. you'll see. you'll all see.

[lapanzona]

If you have smart lightbulbs in your home that change colors I recommend having the lights turn green a minute or two before 4:20 so youre reminded to take your medicine.

[hug-your-face]

via @swatercolor [insta]

[delmondo]

[trigonomicon]

I'm experimenting with comic-making.

[butch-king-frankenstein]

Putting the term "male gaze" on top of the fridge until everyone remembers that it refers to a cinematographic trend and not the act of looking at things while being a man

[assaultmystic-archive]

reaching up to get it off of the fridge and the big tshirt im wearing as pyjamas rides up and the reader sees my panties

[hagiomoto]

I am feeling depressed about the silence of women's and rape advocacy organizations worldwide regarding the rapes and sexual abuses of Gaza flotilla activists.