diary of a whimsy kid

footling about i write poems i guess 16 (minor) probably frolicking in a field somewhere

[cactus-cactus-cactus]

The niche theatre scene on here needs to start reverse gatekeeping Grace McLean oh my god I’m re-listening to My Lovely Enemy for the first time in a while and I NEED weird pretentious pop nerds to get into this. Genuinely mindblowing production and just absurdly good vocals…….. music listeners this is your sign.

[oyeevarnika]

what's wrong babe you've barely touched your potential even though all your elementary teachers really liked you and said you were gifted and that you were going to do great things

[a-little-miffed]

listening to Alice by heart is so good and so fun and the harmonies and I feel like I’m ascending then another room in your head comes on and it’s like don’t cry on the bus DONT CRY ON THE BUS

[memories]

#alice by heart and Other Things That Ruined My Life: An Autobiography by whimsberrypie

[memories]

Pour one out for #alice spencer.

[penicillinsteve]

So I've been listening to Comet lately

[abacus-and-paper-money]

Marya Dimitryevna is to moscow as mitochondria is to the cell

[queerasfact]

Trans activist Marsha P Johnson was the founder of the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, which provided a home, legal aid, and other support to homeless trans youth. She would readily give away her belongings or her last dollar to those who asked, and is remembered by those her knew her for her kindness and generosity.

Learn more about Marsha in our podcast!

[auxins-insanities]

this disability pride month lets be kinder to folks with moral ocd . no more “if you really care about this minority , you’ll reblog this post” , “someone will die if you don’t reblog this” , etc etc , and all other kinds of guilt tripping reblog bait . at the VERY LEAST tag your reblog bait so we can filter it out and avoid unnecessary spirals . it’s 2026 , we need to move past using guilt to get engagement .

[astralduck08]

owie

[birdplushie]

"it's not that deep" START DIGGING!!

[magn-animously]

DIG

[14-opossums-in-a-trenchcoat]

DIG

[buriedunderyourmum]

DIG

[hannisconfused]

DIG

[kitsunesakii]

DIG

[yourlocalfandomfriendo]

DIG

[apple-notplural]

DIG

[vivitur-moritur]

DIG

[spacecat24-7]

DIG

[chub-froggy]

DIG

[thatghostthateatspeople]

DIG

[krowbreaker]

DIG

[spid-the-spider]

DIG

[annabelle--cane]

DIG

[yellow-faerie]

DIG

[vampiraptor]

[philosopherking1887]

OOPS TOO DEEP

[astralduck08]

REFILL

[trans-ewenmontagu]

REFILL

[debian-official]

reblog to boop prev with your paw

[walrus-wizard]

opening a restaurant called "the seven seas of rye" where the only menu item is "breadie mercury" and its just rye bread

[hercarisntyours]

and in addition i'll go on if you give me permission how does someone so delicate, dimwitted and lackadaisical land his position? with no opposition his ego's inflated, admit it he's SO overrated our great republic is lame because of him honestly brutus i hate it

[dyk-this-musical-song]

Do you know this Musical Song? #376

I know the song and the musical

I know the song but not the musical

I know the musical but not the song

I may know this

I have never heard this

Remaining time: 1 day 17 hours

[kyliaquilor-archive]

If your language lost, it should die with dignity, not be put on artificial life-support because ‘reasons’

[domhnall-na-feannaig]

#Sorry but I have no sympathy for that fight#let the dead languages be dead#grumping#controversial opinions#because people always get annoyed with me when I say this#but Gaelic (for example) shouldn’t still exist

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Gaelic hasnt been lost.  It’s never died or been brought back.  There’s an unbroken line of native speakers going back to the beginning of the language.  That doesn’t seem like a ‘lost’ language to me.  Furthermore I’m not sure what ‘artificial life-support’ means in this context.  Gaelic is given funding for schools because there’s still native speakers of the language.  It’s no more artificial than money being given to schools for English language lessons.

[domhnall-na-feannaig]

If anything is ‘artificial’ its the imposition of a foreign language (English) into a Gaelic majority zone and native speakers having to fight for decades to be able to be taught in their own language.  Native speakers being forced to learn English to exist within their own regions because a central government would not allow services to be given in a people’s own language.

But then the clock only goes back so far with people who wish that minority languages would just die.  There’s nothing artificial about shooting someone but suddenly it becomes an ‘artificial’ act to maybe phone an ambulance?

[calystarose]

“There’s nothing artificial about shooting someone but suddenly it becomes an ‘artificial’ act to maybe phone an ambulance?” — THIS RIGHT HERE

[fenrir-kin]

Also just gonna point out here:

In the UK, the languages Gaelige, Gaelic, Cymraeg and Kernewek (that’s Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Cornish respectively) didn’t just “die out.” There was a concerted effort by the English to kill them off. 

For example, in Wales, if a child was heard speaking Welsh in a classroom, they’d be given a “Welsh Not”, a wooden plaque engraved with “WN” to hang around their neck. They’d pass it onto the next child heard speaking Welsh, and whoever had the Welsh Not at the end of the day was punished - usually with a beating. 

Kernewek was revived after a long hard struggle by the Cornish folk, and is now being taught again, but a lot about it has been lost because everyone who grew up speaking it has died.

And languages are never revived “just because.” The language of a place can offer so much insight into its history, so if you’re content to let a language die then you’re content to let history die.

People talk about “dead” languages as if they dwindle away gradually, naturally coming to an end and evolving into something else, but that’s rarely the case. Languages like Cymraeg and Gaelige and especially Kernewek didn’t have the chance to die with dignity, they were literally beaten out of my parents and grandparents. 

Is it any wonder every other country hate the English? We invade their country, steal their history, claim pieces of their history as ours or flat out re-write it, and kill every part of their culture that we can. 

It’s a miracle that any of the Celtic languages survived, so even if you don’t see the point in keeping them alive, the actual natives of each country we’ve fucked over are clinging onto what heritage they have left through the only thing they can: their language. 

[roughlytwentytwofrogs]

That’s really funny to me because in my high school breton class (the celtic language of Britanny, France), I remember going to a local retirement home to translate a classmate’s deceased grandma’s recipe because breton has been so destroyed by the french government in the last century that some of the words she wrote weren’t in any published dictionaries. So the only way for this kid to get the recipe his grandma used to bake for him growing up was to go to the last generation of people who spoke breton.

I also remember a guy whose tiktok was dedicated to showing indian recipes that were slowly being lost because of english and other dominant languages drowning out the language of the culture that made them.

And I remember in my breton class learning about AAVE through US rap, and about how shaming the use of a language or dialect as wrong and/or stupider is also about shaming a culture out of existence; and then I learned about how killing breton was as much about closing schools and forcing administration to be done in french as it was about shaming people who spoke it. There is a well known 1900s school poster with a rule on it that goes “no spitting on the floor and no speaking breton”, and the punishment for either was a whack on the tips of the fingers with a wooden ruler. Breton was called the language of pigs and geese. There’s still insulting words existing in french language that were about bretons, like plouc (a rural and stupid person) or baragouiner (to speak unintelligibly). And then I remember learning about the colonisation of Africa by France and the methods that were used to smother the languages there too.

A language dying is a normal part of life: it usually evolves into something else, like latin giving us a bunch of languages, and historians can reverse engineer it through those languages. A language being killed means nothing of the sort gets left behind. It means meeting an 80yo grandma with alzheimer who cries to a 14yo me because she’s ashamed of remembering a word in her “dirty” mother tongue but not in french. It means learning about the almost century where a language that still has alive native speakers has stagnated so badly that in the early 2010s it still didn’t have a word for computer. It’s learning about how historians were touring retirements homes in hopes that someone there could help them translate documents dating WWI, because the main form of language conservation for breton in the 20th century was oral transmission.

Language is about more than just words. It’s stories, tales, songs, music, dances, food, traditions, history, community and identity. It frames the way you relate to the world and the way you think. It shapes a culture and remembers it the way it was, not just the way onlookers saw it. Its decline is as important as its evolution, and it cannot be boiled down to “but english is more useful anyway”.

[wintersmitth]

Only an impersialist could say what OP said.

[xx-k4nd1-1n-cyb3rsp4c3-xx]

Is fuath liom an postáil bunaidh… get more decolonial now or shut up forever.

[beetlesyourjuice]

if you look at someone’s self harm scars and say some bullshit like “oh i could never” or “you must regret that” you are the literal scum of the earth