#cultural stuff

[kitramune]

Random fic rant but while Inuyasha's definitely a softboi and surprisingly devoid of sexism, I feel like a lot of fic authors show their western perspective when it comes to the subject of old timey families. Japan didn't really shut down women until way after Inuyasha's time, ironically due to western influence. In his time it was only fashionable to be demure and ladylike amongst the noblewomen but even then they were praised for being witty or fun at social events and especially towards their husband's superiors and family to make good connections. Lower class women were way more in charge of the household since being in charge of the family and finances was seen as super important and the husband's job was just to work or be away at war. Wives of warriors in particular were expected to be able to defend the household from enemies and got training in wielding Naginata to make up for how they wouldn't be able to overpower a man with brute strength. They often had hidden weapons too, kinda like Sango's, in case of ambush or even as a suicide tool for attempted SA against them.

So while Kaede's village is still considered maybe abnormally matriarchal since there's no head priest, peasant families were less gender divided, if that makes sense. And it's hard to find info on peasants from so far back but I don't think there were any traditional rules on like men being banned from births or anything (cuz I also see that a lot) Even many noblewomen had priests in there to abide by the taboos properly, cuz they were obsessed with that shit like "your vagina must be pointing north and have X amount of feng shui blah blah blah". XD I can't even really blame people though, cuz like I said peasants weren't really documented closely until later when higher ups decided they deserve to be part of history too. I just thought I'd leave some food for thought here.

[goblang]

"I love you"

Goblin, being composed of three different languages and influenced by many others, has multiple verbs for love with varying meanings.

Mitkush (/'mɪt.kʌʃ/) means to love in a casual way. You might say this to a friend you aren't terribly close to, to a particularly cute animal, or about anything that isn't alive.

Shehyeedi (/ʃe.’ji.di/), meanwhile, is extremely serious. You would only say this to someone who you could not live without-- parents and children say it to each other, as do lovers who have or intend to spend their entire lives together and friends who would die for each other.

Drook (/dɾuk/) means to love romantically, specifically.

Shamagem (/'ʃa.ma.gɛm/), also meaning "to worship", means to love or admire your superior. The classic example is how a cleric loves their deity.

Koochna (/'kux.nə/) is the reflection-- to love as a deity loves their cleric. It implies a kind of benevolent superiority.

[oid19]

these's four types of kazakh/turkic mfs:

1. the milk tea human!

2. the qymyz human!!

3. the meat broth human!!! (elite clan!!!!1!!)

4. the default water human I guess

no in-between unless ur a hybrid angel demon wolf or a runaway graduate

[vilea777]

sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour

[puppyeared]

filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^

[ayatheav]

Silesian Miku

[anxious-m3ss]

“I hope this email finds you well”

First of all the only emails that ever find me well are from AO3

[noxious-fennec]

Tunisian miku 🇹🇳👍

[july-19th-club]

seriously have been thinking about this all night long. call me autistic but the fact that 90% of workplaces the point is not to get your work done and then be done doing it but to instead perform an elaborate social dance in which you find something to do even when you're done doing everything you need to do in order to show your fellow workers that you, too, are Working . because you are at Work . disgusting why cant we all agree that if there is no work immediately to be done. we just dont do anything

[kitramune]

I desperately need content of Kagome being a miko and doing miko things like participating in Kotodama or the Kagura dance. And Inuyasha's so hypnotized because he's never seen this and she's so perfect and pretty. JUST IMAGINE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOvVJrdtj1Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpgB-e8iIlE

[goblang]

Vocabulary: the names of the races

The word “goblin” stems from two roots:

Gob - /gab/ - old Goblin word for “us”

Lin - /lɪn/ - a suffix meaning “people”

So in full, “goblin” translates to “the people we are” (although no one would use it like that anymore).

The word “hobgoblin” does not stem from old Hobgoblin, but from old Goblin.

Hob - /hab/ - fort, bastion, settlement, home

Since Hobgoblins lived in walled cities and forts while Goblins lived in small towns and were less sedentary, Goblins called Hobgoblins “those people that are like us, but live in one place”.

“Bugbear” has roots in two languages.

Behr - /beɾ/ - the old Bugbear word for person. In modern Goblin, it is used to refer to an old man in a poetic way

Bug - /bʌg/ - friend

So “bugbear” translates to “the people who call themselves this are our friends”

[unknowinglydeceasedlol]

I genuinely mourn the person I could have been.

[vilea777]

sorry i overreacted i had no idea everything would be fine

[dukeofankh]

I cannot express how jarring it was after being raised by a "Porn Addiction Coach" to get into a relationship with a woman and come face to face with the fact that she did actually want me to sexually desire her.

Like, in Evangelical Purity Culture, male desire was basically poison. It was a threat. It was this constant temptation that would destroy everything. And even after leaving, in the sort of queer, feminist spaces i spend most of my time in that wasn't something that pretty much anyone was spending time actively dissuading me from feeling.

But my desire is good. It's not something that I'm being accepted in spite of. It's a positive thing. It's a bonus. Not even just vanilla stuff, all the stuff I'd convinced myself were these weird terrible desires that were shameful to have.

It honestly took me over a decade to fully accept that. To stop dissociating during sex and confront that I was, in fact, being a massive perv and that was fantastic and preferable and that I could accept that into my self-image without shame or self hatred.

But it's important to do. It's important to leave relationships that don't welcome that part of you. To know that your sexuality is valuable and valid and worth owning and celebrating. Because the alternative is just...not being. Either existing as yourself and repressing the part of your identity that is sexual or allowing that sexuality to exist but turning off your self while it does.

[artsekey]

Thinking about the time I lost a game of Overwatch and I was so mad about it that I genuinely considered getting into shit with the other team in chat and then realized that it was a colossal waste of my living breathing Human Time and uninstalled Overwatch instead because it was only making me angry.

And then thought about the OTHER time when I was on TikTok and realized I was Not Enjoying Myself and was, in fact, seeing so many sad videos and fake influencer ads that I felt Truly Despondent and then just…Deleted it.

Imo I want my social media /general media experience to be a pleasant break from real world and I get to decide what I get to cull to make that a reality for myself. I highly reccomended it! Life has improved considerably!

[buriedasylum]

being alive is just so exhausting