smolandweird

they/them (mostly?) neurodivergent trying not to cry 24/7

[nitewrighter]

Couple + Sibling/relative third wheel is honestly an S-tier trio dynamic and I wish we saw more of this in media.

"You are my soulmate. We are forged together by battle and tears and love. Also my brother's coming along."

"Yo."

[nitewrighter]

Bonus points if the non-related half of the couple is just as committed to keeping the third wheel around as the related half.

"Isn't it weird that your brother in law is always hanging around?"

"You've got a problem with Andrew?"

[notebooks-and-laptops]

[audliminal]

Having short hair really is just

I get up. I walk into the bathroom. I glance in the mirror. My hair is posed in a brand new, never-before-seen array that defies the laws of physics.

[audliminal]

Having short hair really is just

I get up. I walk into the bathroom. I glance in the mirror. My hair is posed in a brand new, never-before-seen array that defies the laws of physics.

[aro-rambles]

"there was only one bed" trope (aro version) where the characters just spend the whole night talking to each other

[ropeyringedwire]

Headcannon that the reason that Oisin said the oracle line to Adaine is that: Kalina heard the joke said "that's hilarious" and repeated it to Jace and Porter but took credit for it, Jace heard that and went "that's hilarious" and repeated it to The Rat Grinders but took credit for it, and Oisin heard the joke said "that's hilarious" and years later was able to repeat the joke and take credit for it.

[dyinginside-bro]

high as hell watching 10 things i hate about you and making the realization that kat and bianca stratford are a variant of aelwyn and adaine abernant but if the ages were reversed like if adaine was the older sister and aelwyn was the younger

[boringremlin]

Sketchbook Adaine

[florensicz]

My request is for a rarepair! Nerd Squad (Adaine/Riz)

nerd squad unite!! they are sooo special to me

[theodysseyofhomer]

every time someone refers to penelope's suitors as having been hanging around for 10-20 years i laugh. in the odyssey they are explicitly in their 4th year camped out at the palace, so they waited until odysseus had been well and truly MIA to come a-courtin'. they did not come the moment odysseus left for troy; for one thing they would not have been old enough. eurymachus says that odysseus used to bounce him on his knee. because he was a toddler

[theodysseyofhomer]

20-year suitor daycare truthers vs 15-year-old telemachus artists, fight

[cornercritter]

my self-indulgence. happy fucking pride.

[shine-reblogs]

Okay, today is Speak Your Own Language Day, so I should be speaking Spanish, HOWEVER I want to use this day of language learning and appreciation to explain something about how Spanish works, and Hispanic people already know that so it wouldn't make much sense to explain it in Spanish, which is why just for this post I'm gonna use English.

I'm gonna be talking, of course, of grammatical gender, because of this viral image:

I'm sure you've seen an image like this floating around and people crying about how having non-binary be translated with a feminine and masculine form depending on usage defeats the purpose of the term.

But it doesn't!!!

Spanish is not like English, it has ✨grammatical gender✨ which has nothing to do with gender identity whatsoever. It's not that we believe chairs are female and stools are male, our grammar is just like this. Every word has a grammatical gender and there must be grammatical gender concordance. Thus, non-binary must have both a feminine and masculine form to use depending with which word you're pairing it.

Let's say you want to talk about a "non-binary person". 'Person' in Spanish is 'persona' a grammatically feminine word (despite its usage being gender neutral and encompassing people of any gender, as I said, grammatical gender ≠ gender identity). Because 'persona' is a grammatically feminine word, you have to apply grammatical concordance accordingly, and so to say "non-binary person" you would say "persona no binaria".

Now let's say you want to talk about "non-binary gender". 'Gender' in Spanish is 'género' a grammatically masculine word, and because of that to say "non-binary gender" you would say "género no binario".

See? It's not about grammatically imposed misgendering, it's about how this language is built.

But Shine, I hear you say, that's all nice and good, but how do I refer to my non-binary friend? And well, dear reader, you're in luck because I'm not only Spaniard but also non-binary myself.

In Spanish 'friend' (like a whole lot of words) has a feminine and masculine form. When those words are used to refer to people, grammatical gender does match gender identity. For the most part. And broadly speaking, feminine words are associated with the vowel -a, and masculine with the vowel -o (this is not universal, there are exceptions to this, I'm trying to paint the broad picture to give you a general idea).

So what about gender neutral? Well, officially we don't have one. The Real Academia Española doesn't recognize it... But the RAE isn't word of god, it compiles usage, so the more a term is used, the more chances it will be officially recognized. Not using a term because it's not officially recognized is actively detrimental to the goal you want to achieve.

Okay, not an official gender neutral, but what have we come up with? Well, at least in Spain, it's associating gender neutral to the vowel -e. So you have the femenine ella/la/-a, the masculine él/lo/-o, and the gender neutral elle/le/-e.

Now time for practical examples!

"My friend, David, is a boy." 🇬🇧 → 🇪🇸 "Mi amigo, David, es un chico."

"My friend, Liz, is a girl." 🇬🇧 → 🇪🇸 "Mi amiga, Liz, es una chica."

"My friend, Alex, is non-binary." 🇬🇧 → 🇪🇸 "Mi amigue, Alex, es no binarie."

And that's how you do it!! At least in queer friendly spaces in Spain, can't speak for other places. I have seen the 'x' thrown around to make gender neutral in Spanish, but -e is way more intuitive for spoken language, so I like it better.

But anyway, thanks for coming to my TED talk and remember I generalized a lot when doing this. If you're learning Spanish I can only wish you good luck in dealing with our bullshit if you come from English, and assure you that once you internalize our orthography rules you will never again mispronounce a word you read for months before you hear it spoken (we have a very consistent spelling/pronunciation system, gotta be one of my favourite things about my language).

[nateconnolly]

Huge shout to my friend from an undergraduate philosophy program who started working out every single day, not for health benefits or to become conventionally attractive or whatever, but because -- and this is a direct quote -- he was concerned that otherwise he might "become lost in the world of signs and forget the things they signify". I have thought about this every single time that I've worked out since.

[smolandweirdwriter]

of all the bits they've done, THIS LINE really got me for some reason

[smolandweirdwriter]

had to have surgery so i've been in bed all week and decided hey what better time to watch all the d20 shows ive been wanting to see. so um. the first episode of unsleeping city post-anesthesia and high as fuck on pain killers was...an experience

[flawseer]

Here is a little sketch picture of Sunny, drawn for me by a friend. It was deliberately done with only three colors.

Her name is Teekayeh, and she usually doesn't draw dragons, but for something so far outside her usual wheelhouse it turned out extremely adorable.

If you like anime-style drawings, please go over to her bluesky and check out her work if you can, she is a very talented artist.

[skeletonclaw]

[what-even-is-thiss]

There’s an organization called Advance Peace in Fresno CA that combats gun violence by providing mentoring and social services to people likely to commit gun violence that has singlehandedly reduced our local violent crime rate and recently the federal funding for it has been denied for some reason and surprise surprise the violent crime rate is going back up OH WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS