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quinnhills

Be sure to salute the flag today 🏳️‍⚧️🫡

quinnhills

Four score and one hundred and twenty-eight weeks ago, my queer ass brought forth on this continent a new gender 🏳️‍⚧️

Today is not like any other day. Today is a time of reflection and a time of reckoning.

Today I celebrate my Quinndependence Day, and I hope you will, too.

quinnhills

🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

FIVE YEARS OF QUINNDEPENDENCE

DON’T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN

AS FANNIE LOU HAMER SAID, “NOBODY’S FREE UNTIL EVERYBODY’S FREE”

PEACE AND LOVE TO YOU ALL

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

redstonedust

if i was a youtuber and i saw someone making gay fanfiction of me i dont think i'd neccescarily enjoy it because i'm aroace as fuck but i'd also be like oh hell yes i've made it. i'm in the yaoi big leagues now. sign me up for that markiplier money im riding this stock to the moon.

piescientist

Grian’s new Hermitcraft episode

awkwardexxodus

oh man the painting on this drawing is insa- fuck do you mean #minecraft build

awkwardexxodus

the specific build in question btw

parchmentengineer

I looked up some of the artist's other builds and they're all just absolutely incredible

#woah

floweroflaurelin

All twelve rulers of the Empires SMP! One 2-hr painting a day for twelve consecutive days—this was a really fantastic exercise and it was a nice way to relax and take my mind off things while I’m sick with Covid. Thank you to everyone who followed along as I progressed! It’s unfortunate that being sick prevented me from being able to take commissions this winter but I’m glad I was able to do these, if I go too long without painting I get all itchy inside 😅

Some take-aways from doing this series:

- I love painting faces! I feel like this is apparent, but worth mentioning.

- I’m very bi. I feel like this is also apparent, but also worth mentioning ;)

- Speaking of, Empires has a really fantastic gender balance!! This makes me very happy.

- The number of highlights that are visible in the eyes really affects how you interpret the characters’ personalities. I plan to speak more on this later :3

- There are only so many different angles of 3/4 view faces and I think I might have found them all

- While getting Covid is really awful on my body, it turns out to be amazing for my tumblr activity statistics. Silver linings!

I don’t often do this (and I can’t link it because tumblr hates links) but if you enjoyed this series, I have a Ko-Fi I can plug if you’re interested in supporting me that way! The link is in my bio ☕️ 🥰

Bonus reference image under the cut so you can compare my paintings to the original skins:

floweroflaurelin

Five years exactly since Empires SMP premiered!!!

#fuck I miss this server so bad

lorefulgood

male translators adding misogynistic overtones to helen’s dialogue that weren’t present in the homeric original is kinda like the fh happily ever after, in a way

lorefulgood

bear with me; this is still about minecraft youtube. it’s about the misogyny inherent in translating a word that means dog as bitch only when it’s applied to a woman. it’s about male translators making helen call herself a whore when in the original text she called herself an ill omen. it’s about selective editing, at the core of it; redubbing and rewriting helen’s description of herself into how men think she should describe herself: slut, whore, bitch. it’s about dogs :) and about how no one has ever seen helen as helen, they only see her as an image, a symbol, an object, a possession. she’s trapped in her own narrative. she’s a harbinger of doom. she’s not even allowed, in translation, to keep her own words. in 3L ep 1 scott tells jimmy use your words and then edits out specifically that line. in 3L ep 4 jimmy says I look like the villain, but I wasn’t and scott edits out specifically but I wasn’t. jimmy didn’t get a say in whether he was going to be part of scott’s happily ever after, because you only get to see that happily ever after from scott’s perspective. he wanted jimmy there and so jimmy was there. twice now has helen’s eidolon been brought to troy.

a note: helen does have a misogynistic view of herself and her role in the narrative—all characters in the iliad view helen through the lens of both cultural and personal misogyny—but the specific word choices made by male translators often superimpose modern misogynistic language atop the original layer present in the text. one such instance is when helen, speaking to hector, refers to herself as ἐμεῖο κυνὸς κακομηχάνου ὀκρυοέσσης (6.344). literally translated, that’s I | dog | harmful | horrible. most male translators over the years have interpreted dog as bitch, e.g. “bitch that I am, vicious, scheming— / horror to freeze the heart!” (robert fagles, 1990); “I’m a horrible, conniving bitch” (ian johnston, 2000); “I am a bitch and a cold-hearted mischief-maker” (anthony verity, 2011); “I’m a bitch, a horrible mischief-maker!” (peter green, 2015). when the same word is used elsewhere to describe men or actual dogs it is usually not translated as bitch.

a further note: to be clear, I’m comparing the dehumanisation inherent in stripping a woman of her own words when translating her dialogue to the dehumanisation jimmy experienced by being stripped of his autonomy in third life. I’m not saying the way jimmy was treated was misogynistic, although most hierarchical systems of dehumanisation are structured similarly, so there will of course be parallels. really the reason I’m comparing jimmy to helen is because they’re both hot and everyone wants them.