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@starsflowered
Hi there, welcome to my profile. You can just call me Astra (ïŸ^Ï^ïŸ)
I use she/her and it/its pronouns; sometimes also kitty/kitty's/kittyself!
Transfem, queer, and I'd like to think we're pretty pawesome. A catgirl of various sorts; watch for my mischief. I, and we, are a median system, each a facet of the whole that is Astra.
This account is for my own fun and leisure, nothing else. Oh, and this is an 18+ space, so if you're not 18+ then leave.
Googled something about quick hydration and it suggested big jug of water, couple tbsp pickle juice, dash of lime juice.
Its surprisingly tasty????
Pleased to report that after a day of this i am not longer craving caper brine and my mouth is not dry as usual. There's some good suggestions in the notes too that I want to try.
-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)
-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt
-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint
-Agua pepino: water, cucumbers, lime, sugar, optional mint.
I have been reminded of:
-shrub: vinegar, sida water, elderberry (or other berry), sugar.
I have now been informed of
-sekanjabin: honey, vinegar, mint, water.
"Wow, I wonder why this post was popular this week."
-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-
"... ah."
"Why would this character be jealous of their friend's romantic relationships? Clearly they're in love with them" I don't know if you guys have ever Had Friends but it's actually pretty common for people to feel jealous if their best friend suddenly has less time for them and is prioritising someone they just met over them. That's not inherently romantic, that's the general human desire to be valued by the people you value.
me: yeah okay y2k puppygirl who goes xD and ^w^ when she's taking you from behind. Is that anything. Does that do anything for you? No? Okay, so how about this, puppygirl... but she's scenecore. Okay. Okay. But what if she was your big sister. Does that do anything?
[the camera moves to behind the mirror, revealing it to be a one way mirror]
panel of emo girls: [leaning in] alright, do the next one. gosh, none of these are landing are they? looks like focus groups just don't like what we're doing anymore
single radical emo girl whos new to the firm and has the potential to turn this thing upside down: i know what we're missing... [leaning back in her chair and pressing the button on her microphone] make her fat and autistic.
panel of emo girls: [stunned silence]
me: okay, so she's fatter and more autistic. does that change anything
focus group: wow i really like that
focus group: thats huge. im so excited about this. my perception of your image just went up 20 points
focus group: fuck, pardon my french, that's awesome
me: [looking back at the window] girls.. i think we have our puppy...
panel of emo girls: [all turned to face the lone emo girl] you just singlehandedly saved the polycule
lydia davis
In the same vein:
"The simultaneous borrowing of French and Latin words led to a highly distinctive feature of modern English vocabulary: sets of three items, all expressing the same fundamental notion but differing slightly in meaning or style, e.g., kingly, royal, regal; rise, mount, ascend; ask, question, interrogate; fast, firm, secure; holy, sacred, consecrated. The Old English word (the first in each triplet) is the most colloquial, the French (the second) is more literary, and the Latin word (the last) more learned." (Howard Jackson and Etienne Zé Amvela, "Words, Meaning and Vocabulary: An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology." Continuum, 2000)
via ThoughtCo
Though I like how John McWhorter phrases it better:
But language tends not to do what we want it to. The die was cast: English had thousands of new words competing with native English words for the same things. One result was triplets allowing us to express ideas with varying degrees of formality. Help is English, aid is French, assist is Latin. Or, kingly is English, royal is French, regal is Latin â note how one imagines posture improving with each level: kingly sounds almost mocking, regal is straight-backed like a throne, royal is somewhere in the middle, a worthy but fallible monarch.
from "English is not normal"
that's called language prestige!
french has not just been a lingua franca, but a language of the educated class and latin was the language of a clergy throughout most Europe - so indisputably a highly valued language. this is what English has become in past ~80 years
English also tends to have substantially different grammar for Saxon vs Romance words, given that different Registers of English actually disagree on how Negation works (see the difference between "I dont got no house" vs "he does not possess a home")
âThey said they wanted a vampire relationship with no age gapâ
âNo age gap??!?!?â
âAnd no non-con elementsâ
âNO NON CON?â
âAnd no coercion or otherwise manipulative behaviorsâ
âJoe they want a vampire with NOTHINGâ
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great now i got wind spirits to deal with. as if i dont have enough problems
My elderly father started talking about how frustrating he finds âthe pronouns thingâ and I was like. Oh no. He had such a good stand on this, heâs been they/them-ing his cishet siblings for godâs sake! Is he regressing?? And he was talking about how difficult it is to remember, and how onerous it feels to expect strangers to keep track of it, and Iâm like oh no oh no.
Then he says, âI mean, the problem isnât the gender thing. The problem is four words: she, her, he, and him. We got rid of stewardess and turned it into flight attendant. It doesnât matter if the flight attendant is a man or woman, so we got rid of it. We just need to get rid of those. I donât need to know.â
âYou donât need to know⊠peopleâs gender?â
âNo. I donât care, I donât need to know, and I donât want to remember it.â
So we can relax. Itâs just a continuation of his crusade to they/them the world. He doesnât want to remember anyoneâs gender. Heâs abolishing the genders.
Your dad is so powerful
He is so so correct
"Trans women are actually women for real, not in a metaphorical sense, not in a "anyone can be anything" sense, but genuinely actually make more taxonomic sense to classify in the category of women than any other group" is a position you'll find is pretty radical even in queer spaces
My cutting-edge radical queer politics: Actually meaning it instead of just saying it as an empty slogan
I am so fucking done with this post coming back to haunt me over and over, so let me explain:
"Taxonomy" does not inherently refer to biology. Because I'm a weird nerd on the internet and was thinking about the science of inventing systems of classification, the word happened to come to mind when I was firing off this post waiting for a tram or some shit.
IN PARTICULAR, I do not mean that medical transition makes you bIoLoGiCaLlY fEmAlE. Insofar as sex is a meaningful set of traits, transition can change all the ones that matter, and I don't give a shit. I mean the un-transitioned trans women too. I mean the trans women who never realize. I mean the young trans girls who know they're different, but don't know why yet. Every trans woman is a woman, for real, and is marginalized as a woman by a society that hates women.
"More than any other group" in the sense that if you're going to group trans women with anyone, you're grouping them with other women. Not in the sense that trans women have The Greatest Claim To Womanhood, you clowns.
The context of this post is that I am making a point about how ostensible allies to trans women will analyze trans women like weird type of she/her man instead of type of woman, and reach completely wrong conclusions through that analysis, which they then INSIST on despite evidence to the contrary. Whether it's employment, medical risk factors, mental health profiles, you will be wrong about your guesswork on all of them when you work from a starting point that isn't "trans women are a type of women".
It's radical because it addresses the root cause of an issue, which is that significant portions of society, including other queer people, have the wrong fundamental conception of trans women. It's also radical in the other senses of the word.
Finally: This is inward criticism. I am expressing frustration with other queer people. I don't care what Jeremy, 57 at the pub, has to say about my identity. I care that Elliot, 23, thinks I don't belong in lesbian spaces while he does.
Karma farm THIS ONE on Reddit, if you absolutely have to.
My âkuudere alterâ is a skeptic and she tells me that she doesnât exist, sheâs just a thought construct that I created to help me process my thoughts, but she also said she doesnât mind playing the role she thinks I created for her as long as itâs helpful for me
Exactly! She even acknowledges that effectively the result is exactly the same whether she is real or not, but she does keep insisting that sheâs not real
i think every publisher should have to institute a ban on books that fail what iâm calling the âlittle lifeâ and âwhat else?â tests
for reference.
"When I taught creative writing at Princeton, [my students] had been told all of their lives to write what they knew. I always began the course by saying, âDonât pay any attention to that.â First, because you donât know anything and second, because I donât want to hear about your true love and your mama and your papa and your friends. Think of somebody you donât know. What about a Mexican waitress in the Rio Grande who can barely speak English? Or what about a Grande Madame in Paris? Things way outside their camp. Imagine it, create it. Donât record and editorialize on some event that youâve already lived through. I was always amazed at how effective that was. They were always out of the box when they were given license to imagine something wholly outside their existence. I thought it was a good training for them. Even if they ended up just writing an autobiography, at least they could relate to themselves as strangers."
-Toni Morrison in an 2014 interview with NEA Arts Magazine
you know those studies showing that cursing helps with pain tolerance or whatever. thatâs how i feel about making my weird little noises to get through my basic daily activities. sometimes you just have to go hggblaaaah for a minute so you can find the strength within yourself to get up or wash the dishes or send an email. mmmnneh. urgh. the torments are unending but you can always make some little sounds about it.
âLord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom ⊠at 12. After breakfast we sit talking till six. From six to eight we gallop through the pine forest which divide Ravenna from the sea; we then come home and dine, and sit up gossiping till six in the morning. I donât suppose this will kill me in a week or fortnight, but I shall not try it longer. Lord B.âs establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it⊠. [P.S.] I find that my enumeration of the animals in this Circean Palace was defective ⊠. I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. I wonder who all these animals were before they were changed into these shapes.â
â Percy Bysshe Shelley on the lifestyle of Lord Byron (via timemarauder)
#i am glad history has produced at least two people whose shit was even less together than mine
wordle in 1: joyless. it is statistically inevitable that your go-to starting word will be the solution one day, and this is no more of an accomplishment than running a random number generator once a day until it gives you "1"
wordle in 2: misleading. you may think that this is the highest achievement, but it suffers from the same disappointment of a lucky guess that wordle in 1 causes. your second guess is a strategic choice, but ending the game this early just isn't interesting
wordle in 3: the peak. your starting word gave you some information and then your second guess contextualized that information into a solvable position. your sharp intuition and restraint is what truly separates you as above average.
wordle in 4: statistically average, par for the course, the baseline against which all other wordles are compared.
wordle in 5: you're sweating. you made a mistake at some point, or your starting word was effectively useless, and it took an extra guess above average to close things out. wordle in 5 comes as a relief.
wordle in 6: crushing humiliation. you have technically succeeded but at what cost. your thirty square grid will stare back at you like barrels of a firing squad. a failure in all but name.
wordle failure: never your fault. what kind of stupid word even was that like come on
