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phai

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My sweet

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I'm so fascinated by languages with different levels of formality built in because it immediately introduces such complex social dynamics. The social distance between people is palpable when it's built right into the language, in a way it's not really palpable in English.

So for example. I speak Spanish, and i was taught to address everyone formally unless specifically invited otherwise. People explained to me that "usted" was formal, for use with strangers, bosses, and other people you respect or are distant from, while "tú" is used most often between family and good friends.

That's pretty straightforward, but it gets interesting when you see people using "tú" as a form of address for flirting with strangers, or for picking a fight or intimidating someone. In other languages I've sometimes heard people switch to formal address with partners, friends or family to show when they are upset. That's just so interesting! You're indicating social and emotional space and hierarchy just in the words you choose to address the other person as "you"!!

Not to mention the "what form of address should I use for you...?" conversation which, idk how other people feel about it, but to me it always felt awkward as heck, like a DTR but with someone you're only just becoming comfortable with. "You can use tú with me" always felt... Weirdly intimate? Like, i am comfortable around you, i consider you a friend. Like what a vulnerable thing to say to a person. (That's probably also just a function of how i was strictly told to use formal address when i was learning. Maybe others don't feel so weird about it?)

And if you aren't going to have a conversation about it and you're just going to switch, how do you know when? If you switch too soon it might feel overly familiar and pushy but if you don't switch soon enough you might seem cold??? It's so interesting.

Anyway. As an English-speaking American (even if i can speak a bit of Spanish), i feel like i just don't have a sense for social distance and hierarchy, really, simply because there isn't really language for it in my mother tongue. The fact that others can be keenly aware of that all the time just because they have words to describe it blows my mind!

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the average person with bad taste can be into some extremely banal garbage but when you get close enough to someone with otherwise good taste that they start a recommendation by going off on a preamble about how they don't necessarily recommend it you know you're seconds away from hearing about some real torturously wretched dogshit

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the great pretender

12/100

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I need some people to understand that I will absolutely ship two characters who would absolutely never get together in canon simply because I want to. No I don’t think they’re canon nor will I look for subtext that they like each other. In fact, I don’t even want them to be canon. I just like the art and fanfiction man. Like their shippers low-key got something fire going on and I wanna be a part of that. It really isn’t that deep.

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i do write for attention, actually, because that's a normal reason to create art

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details by Roberto Ferri

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give me more stories with a trans guy as the main character. give me a action movie where the hero has to take his shirt off bc he got hurt and we see his top surgery scars right in front of us. give me a sitcom where the trans guy talks openly about his period without him being laughed at. give me a drama where the main guy is a father and the story shows how his kid grew up while his dad went through hrt and turned from being a mom to a dad, without it implying that the trans dad is less a man bc he gave birth. give me a romcom where the main love interest is a trans guy. give me horror where the main guy has to face his abusive past from transphobic family members by fighting monsters, and winning through blood and sweat. give me a happy old trans man who lived through decades and survived despite the many tragedies. give me a young nervous trans man who just started to explore his identity and get support from older queer folk. give me trans men from different time period and countries and how their identity would be shaped there. give me more trans men. give them a happy ending.

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"Listen up: This person is mine. I'm taking him"

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i love the phrase "sex pervert" like. as opposed to what? abstinence pervert?

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the tiefling kids are the best part of act 1

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what if your doppelganger loved being you more than you ever loved being yourself. they're better at being you and everyone loves them and it feels almost selfish to want your life back. i want clone horror but the horror is that the thing trying to replace you is also the person you always wanted to be.

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Has anyone done this one yet? (guessing yes, but it's still funny)

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practice facial hair

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