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yesokayiknow

i miss this goblin queen (yes and even the rat king too)

drragonfly

sitcomedy

endangeredbodiesnyc

PSA to our followers this Autism Acceptance Month:

Use Autism **Acceptance** Month (as opposed to Autism Awareness Month).

NO “light it up blue” or puzzle pieces. Google “Autism Speaks hate group” to learn more.

Use red or gold instead, which are colors supported by the autistic community.

Use identity-first language (most autistic people prefer “autistic” instead of “person with autism”), but don’t police the language of someone who prefers to be called a person with autism.

NO scare terms like “suffering with autism” or “afflicted with autism.”

Avoid functioning labels like “high functioning” or “low functioning.”

If autistic voices are not at the center of your efforts, you’re doing it wrong.

When in doubt, ASK AN AUTISTIC PERSON.

To learn more about autism, visit autistic-run organizations like the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) and Autism Women’s Network (AWN).

doona-baes

moldyjunk

KITTEN IN MY CAR

moldyjunk

BABY IS SAFE

moldyjunk

Dave: “We probably can’t keep him so don’t get too attached now ok”

(one hour later)

Dave: “I named him Meep Meep”

airyairyquitecontrary-deactivat

a good story

jillianleedy

geekgirlintraining

This is an important message.

majaminxx22

I will never NOT reblog this.

fuckyahumor

YAS YAS!!!!

moopleaf

Stu caught his reflection in my camera lens! I love him so much wtf

1softe

lightheartedsuggestion

Sometimes your biggest accomplishment of the day is going to be taking a shower or getting out of bed or having a meal. Sometimes you won’t feel like you’ve accomplished anything but know that you don’t always have to. Give yourself a break and try tomorrow.

welcometomomuniverse

An underrated joke in Into the Spider-verse is when Miles tells Peter the head scientist is a woman and Peter goes, “Cool. Step 3: Reexamine my personal biases.”

artisticclusterfuck

there are only two genders: broadway actors who were on smash and broadway actors who were on glee

gorgeousnerd

this is broadway actors who were on law and order erasure

manokein-blog

arkhamknignt-archive

jimtheviking

Oh my…

Okay, so my friend Chloe just pointed this out, and it’s amazingly accurate:

“Because of the scarcity of Dwarf-women, their secrecy and similarity in appearance to males, and their lack of mention, many Men failed to recognize their existence.”

Okay, so?

Well, Tolkien was a philologist, and a Norsist, and that means he knew Völuspá well enough to pull the names of every dwarf from Dvergatal and he had a pretty firm grasp Old Norse grammar.

In fact, he grasped it well enough that he knew if you dropped an n from a name ending in -inn, it changes from the masculine definite enclitic to the feminine.

Well, what the hell does any of this mean?

Well, I give you the names of the Dwarves from the Hobbit, as they appear in Dvergatal (stanzas 14-16) and in the order they appear:

Dvalins,* Dáinn, Bívurr, Bávurr, Bömburr, Nóri, Óinn, Þorinn, Þráinn, Fíli, Kíli, Glóinn, Dóri, Óri

Now, in the Hobbit, they’re named as follows:

Dwalin, Dáin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Nori, Óin, Thorin, Thráin, Fíli, Kíli, Glóin, Dori, Ori.

Now, you notice something with the way those names got changed? That’s right, he changed the masculine -inn definite suffix to -in, which is feminine.**

That means that, at least grammatically, Dwalin, Dáin, Thorin, Thráin, and Glóin are female Dwarves.

Since we know Tolkien was meticulous about his grammar, this was done most likely as an in-joke (lol we’re so learnèd about Norse grammar that my comment on Dwarf women being indistinguishable from men is hilarious because of this grammatical funniness)

But there’s a not-inconceivable chance that the Dwarves were using the masculine pronouns in Westron because that’s what the Men who met them used, despite the fact that a third of the company was female, and hey, it’s kinda neat to think he wrote a bunch of Dwarf-ladies going on an adventure.

*-ins is the masculine Genitive definite article suffix in Old Norse

**He also dropped the double-r suffix, but -r as the root is still, in general, a masculine grammatical feature

maybekatherine

I’ve said it before, we know two things about the genders of the Company: that dwarf men and women are indistinguishable to outsiders, and that Bilbo is an unreliable narrator.