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I know I follow a lot of ed blogs and when they follow me back it shows this blog. If you want check out @tothemfnbone instead lol this one here is for my random shit. Need more people to relate pls 🥺 LGBTQIA+ and everyone are welcome here.

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JK Rowling: hey this guy’s pretty cool for a man

Stephen King: trans people

JK Rowling: AAH nevermind

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Clementine von Radics, James

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i just want to clarify something.

i’m going to take what i want but the MINUTE my princess uses their safeword it’s cuddles, headpats and hair twirlies.

i might be a fucking sicko but i have standards

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This soaked me thinking of both my doms 😩

#bd/sm kink #cnc k!nk #bd/sm dom

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Reblog if you wouldn't mind some curious anons

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Surgeries and operations are being cancelled on the day of the queen’s funeral. These patients will have been on a waiting list for months if not years.

Everyone should be absolutely seething with rage.

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what if everyone referred to him solely as "princess diana's ex-husband"

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it’s all just a blur

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Truth.

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Well- I’m a psycopath now

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People get stuck in the same routine because humans adapt to their environment to survive

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Actually screaming on the inside at how they basically told queerphobes and exclus to please fuck off and explicitly included us aspecs even beyond aesthetics like the pride flags and nail polishes

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Yes yes yes yes YES I love S4 even more now!!!

#sims 4 #lgbtq #ts4 gameplay

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Anyway the thought about Christianity was a tangent, I was actually thinking about ranking Fall Out Boy songs by how far back in time you could go before the lyrics were completely unintelligible due to untranslatable cultural differences.

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"Uma Thurman" is partially unintelligible even to me (I have next to no idea who Uma Thurman is) but I feel like it would be a good example to help explain what cultural Christianity is, because the amount of song lyrics that would make zero sense if you didn't know what Christianity was is always way higher than you think it is

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This is also a good exercise in estimating just how much we, as modern readers, are missing in ancient texts

Imagine explaining this to an ancient Sumerian. They don't have July, let alone the Fourth of it, and the significance of that date and the connection to fireworks requires you to explain everything from gunpowder to the concept of a nation.

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I like "This is a black, black ski mask song" from Novocaine because even a historian that knew what skiing was might not necessarily know what the significance of a ski mask is here.

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"I Don't Care" is almost timeless though. I'm pretty sure an ancient Roman would "get" most of it.

Same with "Alone Together." "My heart is like a stallion, they love it more when it's broke in?" Perfectly understandable for someone a couple thousand years ago.

"The Mighty Fall" is an interesting case because you could envision trying to explain "Your crooked love is just a pyramid scheme" to an ancient Egyptian

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Trying to do this with Owl City makes you appreciate just how MUCH clever wordplay is in Owl City lyrics, because you're like "SO MUCH would definitely get completely lost in any attempt to translate, but I can't even break it all down"

owl city lyrics have a habit of punning on idioms, which probably is the worst for historical longevity. In "Plant Life" there's the lyric "new leaf turns over, unwilling to fall" which is referring to the speaker's reluctance to let go of the past and move on. this is both playing with the idiom "turn over a new leaf" meaning to start something new, and creating the image of a literal leaf reluctant to fall from the tree (as leaves do in fall, as part of the natural progression of seasons).

Also from the song Plant Life

so, there's "spirit" and "ghost," but neither actually mean in context the same thing that they mean when they do mean they same thing, and "pull off your sheet," which is a reference to sheets being used as a ghost costume. then there is the concept of a "teddy [bear]" and "grin and bear it" which is punning on "teddy" referencing a bear. this is kind of brilliant but incomprehensible

Would the wordplay in "Get me out of this cavern or I'll cave in" in "Cave In" necessarily be intelligible when translated for a future historian or person from the distant past

By the way, Cave In is at the top of my minecraft themed playlist because it mentions the largest number of things that are in Minecraft that I have found in a song

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You'll have the most fun if you assume that what technology is and does can be explained to your listener, and focus purely on cultural and linguistic barriers

In the song "Paparazzi" by Lady Gaga, knowing what a garage is and is for does not help you understand what it means to be "garage glamorous" at all.

Sometimes the barrier isn't not knowing what something is, it's knowing what something is like.

Speaking of Lady Gaga, Poker Face is great for this

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Listen, *I* barely know how poker is played. But I still know that the first line references a variant (?) of poker called Texas hold 'em. There are so many double meanings here. "After he's been hooked" probably references gambling, and "I'll play the one that's on his heart" references the fact that "hearts" are one of the four suits in traditional playing cards.

Imagine not knowing any of this. Now imagine knowing all of this—does that actually let you understand what a "poker face" is?

I go back in time, I try to show an ancient Sumerian some bangers from the future, I end up stuck explaining the complex legal and cultural status of gambling in the United States, fuck time travel honestly

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Songs that make roughly the same amount of sense to nearly everyone regardless of their position in history

almost everything by Cosmo Sheldrake

the devil went down to georgia (look, this story conceptually has nothing to do with the Christian Devil specifically and everything to do with a type of folklore character who is just Like That)

Hurt by Johnny Cash (i know it's a cover, I don't care)

American Pie by Don McLean (come on, does ANYONE actually understand this song?)

Bohemian Rhapsody

About Damn Time by Lizzo

Boom Clap by Charli XCX

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It helps that most songs throughout history are about roughly the same things:

the level of partying and getting lit that will happen tonight will be greater than it ever has been before

a hot girl was dancing and it blew all of our minds

There was a guy that did so much crazy stuff and boy was he a guy

I met a fucked up guy who was dead or a demon or something

I went to a fucked up place that was haunted or something

my lover's butt is just the best

we're drinking SO much alcohol

I miss my lover, who is not with me right now, so much and I'm sitting here thinking of holding them but I can't and it's making me SO sad

You broke my heart and I hate you now

I can't wait to get back to the land that is my home

There was a hot girl one time and trust me, she was really something

this job sucks

What if [completely nonsensical scenario]

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See this is fascinating because we're already leaving the time in history where people understand things like "meaner than a junkyard dog" but the Archetype still works

"You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC has some specific cultural references, but people throughout history would Get It okay

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what's being highlighted here I think is "technical meaning is understandable, but emotional/thematic meaning is completely obscure" untranslatable things vs. "technical meaning is obscure but the song still Hits" untranslatable

I think "fast car" by tracy chapman could make sense to someone who doesn't actually know what a car is. Like, it's clear from context regardless that the car is a symbol for the opportunity to escape the circumstances you were born into and feel trapped in

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