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I'm Elliot and I'm 33

I'm an agender butch lesbian and I use he/him pronouns.

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setulose

I think I might be about to send a deranged email

setulose

Couldn't find an email address so it was instead a deranged form submission

setulose

HUGE NEWS

det395

bleedingmarkers

"Volcano in formation"

I got bored and decided to remake something I had made on paper years ago.

jordanbolton

'16 Scenes of You and Your Dad in Cars' - Jordan Bolton

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fimbry

Love the pose I found this baby in!

Python brongersmai

em0goose

Posting ocs is so embarrassing. Here's my stupid loser I guess. You can kill me if you want

em0goose

Posting ocs is so embarrassing. Here's my stupid loser I guess. You can kill me if you want

no-sharks-on-the-sun

they killed him for this

lvmimis

tbh i love hear me outs but i also love the opposite of hear me outs where it’s like nearly everyone thinks they’re fuckable except you

#me when Astarion Baldur's Gate

snakes-in-mirrors

Let me help You [oc] 🪞

absintheansfolly

prim's bathroom has been claimed

@fearcrowz

willgrahamscock

reading problematic fanfiction but shaking my head so random tumblr user who thinks thought crimes are real knows I don't condone it in real life

willgrahamscock

ignore my boaner 👍

willgrahamscock

fictional characters can't consent because they aren't real.. but YOU can consent to reading heavy themes, and you can withdraw consent by clicking the back button and stopping any time, it is your choice to read stories that include or exclude consent 👍

willgrahamscock

I love when puritans are so far up their ass they circle back to being more perverted than the original concept

animate-mush

The thing about the whole AD vs CE vs whether it's all just cosmetic discourse is that it totally ignores where this numbering system comes from. We should just call it what it is: Bede notation.

It was invented by one person for a specific purpose - to have a universalizable way of establishing historical dates, rather than having to deal with dynastically based date systems. And it was a really good idea. This is not surprising, since Bede is basically the father of Historiography. He also is the guy who gave us the notion of Primary Sources. Bede is amazing.

When a guy revolutionizes the entire way calendaring is done, he has the right to set his zero point wherever he pleases.

People have pointed out that one problem with CE notation is that it presents itself as neutral when it is exactly the same system as AD. What exactly is "common" about this era? The zero point doesn't become neutral just by effacing its source.

(Also BCE is nonsense. Just use negative numbers)

It makes sense for scholarly tradition to not want to be tied to a specific religion. But scholarly tradition is very enthusiastic about being tied to earlier scholarly tradition. The convention of AD was established by a scholar for a scholarly purpose. We know his name. We know what he was doing, and why, and how. And he was doing it better than anybody else. That is worth honoring.

Rather than pretending that it's a neutral system, acknowledge that it's not. It's not some naturally occurring "common era," it's the system developed by Bede, centered around dates that were important to him personally (but which he intended to be universally applicable).

Like we should be honest about the facts that (a) an awful lot of people have been measuring dates this way for nearly 1400 years and changing it in a non-cosmetic way would involve a lot of seriously obnoxious bookkeeping, and (b) the zero is where it is because that's where the guy who invented the system decided to put it. "Anno Domini" is meaningless to people who aren't into that particular Dominus, and "Common Era" is meaningless period (and imparts a false appearance of neutrality). Pinning it to its creator, though, is already scholarly convention and is objective. It may or may not be the year of Our Lord, and it certainly isn't Common (whatever that means) but it is unarguably the schema developed by Bede, for better or for worse. So unless we're actually going to rebuild it from scratch, we may as well call it that. And even if we do rebuild it from scratch, we should still call it that. Because that is what it is.

animate-mush

Reblogging in honor of the feast of St. Bede today.

I have been informed that Bede notation may in fact have been first devised by Dionysus the Humble of Scythia to calculate the date of Easter more accurately. But my broader point stands.

Bede, yo.

animatedamerican

I think I'm going to try to adopt "Bede notation" except where it would be funny to continue saying "the year of Someone Else's Lord."

prokopetz

A fun thing about fiction with large casts of characters is that sometimes you'll have a Spicy Bananas moment where every single character has an identical yet wildly atypical experience of some very mundane thing, and slowly you realise that the author isn't Making A Point, they just think that's normal.