The Jimjam Times

hellu it me the jimjams from twitter and insta | OC and Where Winds Meet brainrot

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so um yes this thing is open now ; w ; I don't know how many slots i'm opening but it's not a lot cuz i'm frail and can only do so many things at once

[afcroyjamie]

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

never be good at your job. it's a trap. they'll just give you more and harder stuff to do and it'll pull you away from your true passion of writing gay fanfiction for people on the internet

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i love doing relationship maps

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i love doing relationship maps

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every day i log onto wwm and admire my son’s face

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yapping some more but it’s tearing me to shreds that one language quirk/gag i love and am trying to work into the Nivaesi drow culture is something that’s untranslatable in english. or even at the very least, it’s difficult to localise because it’s so rooted in the way mandarin works and how chinese (and confucian-based) culture shapes the use of the language

so like we have this thing where we sharply refer to someone using their surname, but translated literally it’ll mean

“the one with the surname (X)” or “Surname (X)!”

“姓（X）的!”

it’s an extremely rude way to address or refer to someone, usually played for laughs in media. even funnier if the “surname” isn’t even their proper name. my favourite example is a silly idv compilation where the player yelled “姓勘的!” (“SURNAME KAN!”, for Kan Tan Yuan 勘探员 the chinese word for prospector, as though norton’s government name is Pros Pector)

in many asian cultures it’s rude enough to call someone’s name directly without honourifics (unless you’re close friends), but especially in chinese it’s often very openly disrespectful to only use someone’s surname to address them. doubly so if they’re older than you or have a higher “rank”. and there’s a whole thing where nouns serve as names perfectly well, so taking a noun and treating it like a proper name with surname + given name works very easily (again, the “Pros Pector” thing)

i’m sure i could just have some nivaesi drow straight up snap at another and call her by her surname, with side characters reacting appropriately to the Disrespect. but it does make me a little sad to lose the joke of it because it’s not a Thing in english and english-speaking cultures.

that and i think even in canon lore drow seem to just use their given names and their family names (if any) seem to serve more like titles. so maybe there’s a different sort of misunderstanding there where a faerunian drow would hear a nivaesi drow call out someone’s surname in anger/frustration, and they’d think it’s Weird but for a different reason

…i’m using my homecooked drow to explore differences in culture and language while i’m rediscovering my own culture and mother language hmm

[aromantic-journal]

"everyone should get more aromantic" can appeal to tumblr's sensibilities but I genuinely think everyone should also get more asexual. I don't mean everyone stop having sex, what I mean is

Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.

Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.

You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.

Sex is not what makes someone an adult.

Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.

Sex is not equally important to everyone.

You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.

You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.

Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.

The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.

Anything can be sexual but not everything has to be sexual.

[mixanji]

just gonna start yapping because why not

basing my homebrew drow off ancient chinese culture is fun because i get to think about hundreds of drow stressing out about Imperial Exams, drow scuttling around palaces and official buildings doing paperwork on whole networks of scrolls

mmmm calligraphy on ink that glows in the dark…

[seharuuchan]

Nosy imperial parrot

[insufficient-multitudes]

no because the second I feel like I'm "bothering" anyone I'm out

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the delightful thought of Nivaesi drow revering spiders but also having cat-sized jumping spiders everyfuckinwhere and constantly having to ping pong between “this is the messenger of our Weaver Mother she is a little god in her own right i must show my respect” and “BUT WOOK AT HER BIG ADORABUL EYES WOOK AT HER PAWSIES OH THE LITTLE GOD WANTS UPPIES YES YES HERE I GIB UPPIES”

nivaesi drow bickering about the proper way to treat the cat-spiders in their kingdom

[yesterdaysprint]

Hartford Courant, Connecticut, March 9, 1906

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doggo and ket must protecc their sunshine rat

my boys Linxiu, Zhenyue and Leafling~ (and Leafling’s adoptive sister Caiyan)

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doggo and ket must protecc their sunshine rat

my boys Linxiu, Zhenyue and Leafling~ (and Leafling’s adoptive sister Caiyan)

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new clothes for the son

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when camera angles really do make a big difference…

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new clothes for the son