#category: TERMINOLOGY

[revenant-coining]

Silly Attraction

(pt: Silly Attraction /end pt)

Silly Attraction; a type of attraction characterized by silliness, or can only be described as silly.

Terminology can be decided by the user! but here’s some we came up with;

babush (based on “baburra”) or slush; who one has silly feelings for

fatuaner (based on “fatua”); one in a silly relationship

frivoship (based on “frivolous”); a silly relationship

ludity (based on “ludicrous”) or sility; one’s silly orientation

for cam!

symbol from here (link)!

tagging; @radiomogai, @tertiary-attraction-archive

[frownyalfred]

What's your opinion on gender bent characters? I've read some pretty good fem Bruce ones lately, so am just curious? I know it's not for everyone

I think there was a trend in fanfiction from like 2005 - 2010ish where a lot of people were genderbending character simply to avoid the stigma of shipping two male characters together. Or because they were uncomfortable/unfamiliar writing a sex scene between two male characters. Many people wrote M/M anyway, but I think we forget how much shame and stigma was attached to some of those early-on writers -- I remember seeing people get flamed over on ffnet simply for openly shipping a M/M ship, not for anything else "problematic" at all.

Nowadays, I think we've moved on from that trend, at least a little. There's been good discussions about how we reduce male and female characters to "acceptable" characters for sex and relationships and how we can better examine our motivations as authors when choosing to genderbend. Now that discussion has moved onto other tropes -- a/b/o with single sex male omegas, trans character-bending (I'm not sure what the right term for this is, my apologies), etc, and how those are sometimes (note emphasis) used as a "substitute" for traditional M/M sex. All really important discussions, I think.

I enjoy reading some genderbending, depending on the character and setting. Examining a canon relationship or storyline from a woman's perspective instead of a man's can be very interesting and provide alternative complexity to certain events. Sometimes it feels a little reductionist and half-hearted. I think it really depends on the author. Or I'm just a little picky after all these years haha.

[cator99]

out of curiosity, would you consider yourself butch?

used to be a blonde underweight twink and now I'm a based jock still got the chanel bag and the sick albeit matured mind of a suckpig to prove it so I'm gonna let you decide whether you wanna call me that word just cuz I got a pussy and short hair. I promise you that there have been enough advancements made in the art of lesbian sexual dynamics in the past 50 years to broaden the vocabulary used to describe the plethora of types of masculine females.

[lwcina]

the fact that the us government can continue funding and arming a genocide despite massive public opposition really highlights how inherently non-democratic the united states is

[mantisgodsdomain]

We do think that Riz is a gynandromorph of some description, especially since damselfly sexual dimorphism tends to be pretty distinct and he's displaying a very unconventional morph for a damselfly of any flavor. He would have no goddamned clue what that would mean, of course, and he probably wouldn't care about it if you told him, but he's definitely got something going on there.

[specialmouse]

Drag =/= ballroom !

[eisthenameofme]

Stumbled on a book called Horror in Architecture by Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing on accident while looking for a copy of Exquisite Corpse online because I can't find my physical copy (there was a key word matchup) and I can only assume that is some kind of Smirk's architecture Leitner bullshit

[scorpius-rising]

Was going to do a big response to the person who wrote this, but I checked and they're a terf, so kinda glad I can just block and move on

[napneeders]

im sorry. I cannot write this fic after all. the word for this one minor action doesn't exist in English and it's non-negotiable

[revenant-coining]

Tudexitii

(pt: Tudexitii /end pt)

Tudexitii/Tudexiti; a neogender/non-xenine umbrella term connected to/affected by delight & beauty in death & the macabre.

this term is characterized by adrenaline, thrill, fun, blood, flirting/playing with death, catharsis, instincts, the thrill of a chase, banter, blood, bloodlust, hunting, restlessness, murder, etc etc!

can also be connected to death with no consequences, seeing death as intimate or a game, love intertwined with death & hunting, death in a positive or romanticized light, etc, but doesn’t have to be!

Terminology:

dexi/dexine/dexinity; tudexitii gender quality, equivalent to fem/feminine/femininity.

transdexi/transdexine/transtudexitii; one who has or is transitioning towards a dexi/dexine/tudexitii identity.

tuxitian; tudexitii gender alignment, equivalent to xenic.

arietisian; a galactian alignment term; a gender for non-binary individuals who are tudexitii and/or tudexitii-aligned.

hasis; a tudexitii individual.

tharsan (singular)/tharsen (plural); a tudexitii adult.

thrill(s) or thrix(s); a tudexitii minor.

tdxin; tudexitii in nature.

tdxingender; an umbrella term for genders that are tdxin.

haemanian; a term for tudexitii-loving-tudexitii, or a juvelic/GLG term for those who are tudexitii attracted to others who are tudexitii, exclusively or not.

tudex(s); a tudexitii gender.

flags for the terms above coming soon!

etymology; “(belli)tud(o)” latin for beauty, loveliness, “exitii” latin for death, destruction, ruin, mischief

for boosfer [:

tagging; @radiomogai, @in-nature-archive, @rescanwriter

[radioconstructed]

⌖ I WILL say that I appreciate how much of the newer terminology originates as SELF-DESCRIPTION and SELF-DETERMINATION. This has not ALWAYS been the case, HISTORICALLY SPEAKING!

[locally-normal]

At first glance it's easy to confuse for a space, but actually it's more than a space, it's a spectrum! (There's deloopings up the wazoo, it's called hrt, makes you less loopy.) Luckily for us spectra can be algebraic, here we see that this is at the very least a ring spectrum with concatenation.

Of course we don't have associativity on the nose, but one can transition between say girl(boygirl) and (girlboy)girl, so it's homotopy-associative. I believe the higher homotopies should cohere and this would make gender at least an A-infinity ring spectrum, but there may be even more structure. One could even argue for homotopy commutativity, making it an E infinity ring spectrum.

There's people in the notes saying it's a *vector* space, which is absurd. Vectors have an underlying ground field, what would that be? And they're commutative which is what we said doesn't happen here. I saw arguments for sedonions but that's balderdash, because again, do you see a ground field? Who here is grounded?!? Sure gender is complex but that just refers to a complex manifold structure on loops infinity of the spectrum, or something of the sort, it's unclear to me if this complex structure is compatible with the ring spectra operations, I'm not really familiar with how complex manifolds relate to spectra, perhaps this is an area for more research.

It's these traditional notions of strict algebra that are holding us back! We all need to hear what Jacob Lurie preaches in kerodon and study higher algebra set in infinity categories!

The fact that boygirl adequately explains my gender but girlboy does not implies that gender is noncommutative. I’d be surprised if it was associative too.

[oh-dear-so-queer]

As we have seen, one way that zoologists have tried to avoid classifying same-sex activity as "homosexuality" is by using terminology and behavioral categories that deny it is sexual activity at all.

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

[headspace-hotel]

gazing in wonder at the wikipedia page for meander

Out of all the terminological categories in the English language, geological terminology is the most intensely poetic; who could fail to be moved by metamorphism and orogenesis? There is something awesome and mythic about it.

Anyway as I was reading this article I recalled a dim, possibly inaccurate memory of Chinese mythology where four dragons transformed themselves into the four rivers that flow through China.

I've been taking walks beside the creek. The creek has "an erosion problem" as it was once described to me. I notice on one bank the creek cuts underneath the roots of the trees and threatens to collapse the bank, and on another it deposits a low, broad beach of broken stones and mud.

The recent history of humankind would mislead us to think that erosion is a linear process of degradation, but the article for meander tells me that rivers move, the loops in their channels steadily rolling along the river's length, like the slithering of a snake over a time scale of thousands of years...

A river is a kind of dragon.

[prokopetz]

don't answer that last ask I sent you actually. a) because I've since realized you rightfully don't give a shit about wizards of the coast, and would be justified in deleting the info I wanted from your brain as soon as you learned it, b) because I realized you aren't Google, and c) because I Googled it and found out myself.

on a related note, did you know wizards copyrighted the term "d20 system??" wtf. that was the last place I expected to have problems. I thought it'd be, like, "armor class" or "difficulty class" or something else similarly oppressive and cruel to copyright that would force me to change my whole rules document, and mess with my player's ability to remember which mechanics have had their name changed.

Somehow copyrighting the term "d20 system" feels even wronger than that.

Wizards of the Coast is the outfit that popularised the idea of categorising game systems according to the shape of the dice you roll in the first place. There are a few prior examples of games with similar naming conventions, including West End Games' D6 System – which is where WotC probably got the idea – but the idea of "dX systems", where X is the shape of the dice you roll, as coherent categories of games is very much a post-d20 System phenomenon.

That is, it's not that WotC trademarked (note: not "copyrighted") an existing piece of in-use terminology when they trademarked the term "d20 System"; it's that the idea of lumping all game systems which make use of twenty-sided dice together under the category of "d20 systems" was popularised by WotC's trademark.

(Indeed, if one were feeling conspiratorial, one might observe that the idea that all systems which roll the same-shaped dice are basically interchangeable with one another is a notion whose popularisation has proven very convenient for WotC's post-3E marketing strategy!)

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Am absolutely SWEEPING the categories in celebrity jeopardy