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Born to write and draw, stuck getting a "degree" or whatever. Narcissist Cookbook enjoyer.

Into Vampires SMP and Hermitcraft right now. But tomorrow? Who knows.

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thevampirecrow

fellatio sounds like a supporting shakespeare character rather than oral sex on a penis to be honest

divorciada

something I haven't seen people mention about The Hunger Games trilogy and movies is how it genuinely revolutionized the Minecraft server scene

punkrock-bottom

If you stay up late to hang out with friends I don’t think you should have to be tired in the morning. I think it should be a freebie

catasters

monchursouls

Smacka smacka smacka

beemovieerotica

hate it when pets learn words, my dog flips out when he hears "greenie" so we had to start saying "G word" but now he knows G word so we have to say shit like "are we out of emerald indulgences"

derinthescarletpescatarian

In my country "greenie" is a slightly derogatory term for an environmentalist, which made this post confusing on first read.

cotton-twolip

what's so confusing? the dog eats environmentalists

didipenny-blog-blog

exchanging headcanons and AUs with friends like

alamuts-lair-of-madness

Alternatively:

veamers

ok but what about:

frowningfox

but sometimes also

#prev somehow these r all us

neo-hexane

THERE’S AFUCKING BEETLE IN MY GUITAR

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update: i smacked the back of my guitar to try and get it out and now i have no idea where it is 👍

neo-hexane

I FOUND IT

neo-hexane

BEETLE EXTRACTED !!!!

neo-hexane

THERE’S AFUCKING BEETLE IN MY GUITAR

neo-hexane

update: i smacked the back of my guitar to try and get it out and now i have no idea where it is 👍

neo-hexane

I FOUND IT

neo-hexane

THERE’S AFUCKING BEETLE IN MY GUITAR

neo-hexane

update: i smacked the back of my guitar to try and get it out and now i have no idea where it is 👍

#hex.talks

THERE’S AFUCKING BEETLE IN MY GUITAR

#hex.talks

catgirlforeskin

trying to make a creative project without men and uproot any masculine words will drive one insane. There's the obvious stuff, right, swordsman becomes swordsmaid, count becomes countess, gladiator to gladiatrix and so on.

But did you know that "-er" is a masculine suffix, for which "-ster" as in "sister" is the feminine equivalent? Baker means a man that bakes, the historical feminine equivalent is a bakster, a webster is a female weaver. Some words already have the feminine as default, youngster, teamster, mobster, but most? Trying to be a principled feminist has you saying shit like goonster

gwenadier

Wait for real? Fascinating.

catgirlforeskin

for real! Lots of other examples too, anything "patr" comes from father, "patriarch" is the obvious one, but patriot, patron, patronym all would need "matr" for mother is instead. Pope and Papacy derive from "Papa" and would be Mome/Mamacy if you want yuri catholicism (hellworld!!) it's EVERYWHERE

catgirlforeskin

My favorite example, beyond the obvious ones like lord/lady, waiter/waitress, steward/stewardess, is housekeeper, which is now the more acceptable term for a maid, when maid, of course, just means "woman" and keeper is masculine, would be keepster or keepess but (to my knowledge) neither were used historically because, well, keeping wasn't something women got to do!

Likewise, waitress has fallen out of favor for host or server, which are also both gendered terms. (hostess or serving girl, respectively. Servant is also gendered, maidservant and servantess were used)

There's been a concerted push with a lot of these to phase out the feminine variants of these words and just treat the masculine variants as neutral, or find neutral alternatives like fireman -> firefighter (even though fighter is also gendered) because the feminine variants are seen as inherently lesser, which, yeah that's how women are seen.

There is a line you have to draw somewhere of "okay let's just treat this and below as gender neutral because, frankly, most words that just mean "person" mean "man" historically because women weren't (and still largely aren't) considered people, and otherwise we're going to shred the whole English language" and I get that.

BUT. I think a lot of folks draw that line at the start and insist that man/guy/dude/bro can be gender-neutral which is obvious stupid. And I think it's always worth having this investigation and questioning how we speak, it shapes how we think about worlds and people real and fictional.

Okay one last silly aside about barista, which is supposed to be gender-neutral from Italian but men got weird about it and then invented baristo so now -ista is kinda feminine? Typically it's just borrowed into English to sound Foreign (Sandinistas leading to the exonym Corbynistas)

catgirlforeskin

Bucket, Captain Lieutenant are gendered masculine btw, it'd be buckette captaine and lieutenante. It's not just an issue of suffixes being "ignored"(masculinized) when borrowed from french because we write Debutante with the e. Multiple times a month I stumble into new examples, the battle never ends

gooned-out-tgirl

hey i'd just like you to know ever since i saw this post it's been the only thing i think about when at work. Because of it i've tried imagining a version of english that is more feminine or even 100% fem. 1. it's been such a wild ride just going "my god how we speak is weird." 2. I has been a pure joy coming up with an idea for a world for a bee species and a lesbian lizard species to speak in this language.

catgirlforeskin

we are now sisters in arms in an eternal war 🤝

#reblogging this again

TODAY. today is the day. today is the day that i actually work on my fucking wip. PLEASE

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