#is that how you pluralize that word

[senselessalchemist]

My horrible bastard brain: haha what if you tried to make the line "time for your medicine" poignant

Me: bet

Me, 80k worth of words later: this was a mistake (tm)

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

In hindsight, perhaps it would’ve been better to specify a group of invertebrates that sturgeons eat. “I like mollusks/worms/crustaceans, because they have no bones!” certainly does not leave much for interpretation, as it is quite obvious that sturgeons are not a secret group of one of the above. My worst fear is that people’s takeaway from my video is that sturgeons are invertebrates “because they have no bones” TToTT

[startagainaprologue]

i think . hcing characters who dont have rlly. any canon evidence for it as being plural is fun

[blue-lollipops-and-ice-clouds]

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[unproduciblesmackdown]

bloodsong of oh shit....oh fuck

[coffeeastronaut]

while im sure that rvb's portrayal of systems is not exactly the best* i do think that it says Something that like. 99% of the plurals i know are rvb fans. this isnt a bad thing btw like to be clear i think it's nice.

*im singular and not the most educated on thr subject beyond being nice to people + my friends who are plural's shared experiences so i dont want to commit to an opinion on that point here at the piss on the poor website

[kittycowboy]

Jamaican patois my beloved U are suxh a helpful referwnce

[bardkin]

been doing some internal questioning that boils down to “is it the auADHD or i am plural in some way???”

and i’m. not sure if i want to know the answer. at least not yet.

[imjustaf444keriguess]

also i think people's opinions on what they're comfortable being called or would prefer being called can differ from what they find as acceptable as an umbrella term to describe the experience itself, so saying "would you be comfortable if someone called you specifically a certain label" is MUCH different than "would you be comfortable if someone labeled the experience that you also have as a certain label"

for some, the answers would be the same. for others, they might understand why the umbrella term(s) might differ from their comfort term(s)

[just-eyris-things]

Vent post. Because i feel like kicking a hornets' nest.

Honestly im just tired of how people will call someone ignorant/uneducated and will go for the throat for every little thing, while they themselves say shit like pierogis all the time. If you're going to point fingers at others, you yourself should be without fault.

The question is... can you?

[ava-is-up-to-something]

Awhile ago I made a post saying that my favourite dualistic Horus and Set epithet was rHwy, but I have since learned that there’s another spell in the Pyramid Texts that calls them snwy (which is just the number two in Egyptian), so I’ve changed my mind, that’s my favourite one. A dou so iconic that the Ancient Egyptians will literally just call them “the two” and expect you to figure it out.

The translations of this spell add another word usually to make this make sense, like “the two (assailants)” or “the two (contestants),” but that is not there in the Egyptian.

(The spell in question is Pyramid Text spell number 407/Pharaoh Teti’s spell number 284, if you want to have fun figuring out the huge mess that is Pyramid Text spell numbering in order to find it. The line in spell where this occurs is about the pharaoh deciding court cases, so that does make it pretty obvious which two gods they must be talking about, but this is still very funny.)

[mayonaisalspray]

One thing about me is I’m always fighting myself because i am both a coward who wants to never ever express an opinion and an over-sharer who has to tell everyone everything all the time and those two parts of me hate each other

[buffintruder]

on the scale of 'monolingual english speakers assuming gender in all languages works the same way it does in english' this is so low in the importance scale that it doesn't matter

but sometimes i see people making posts on tumblr about japanese speaking characters using they/them or it/its, and like those words barely exist in that language, and any words you could use would just be weirdly convoluted and odd when its so easy and normal to not use any pronouns at all

like i know it's a joke but it is fun to imagine those conversations happening in japanese and being utterly baffled as to how it would actually work

[sunlessys]

let’s see if i can phrase this in a meaningful, legible way…

Problem:

we introject characters that we are fully capable of talking about for hours. they don’t ever get more distinct if that isn’t true. but that leaves us with the question: if you know that character so well, isn’t there implicit pressure for the introject version of them to be exactly the same guy?

if they act in a way that isn’t in character, you’ll notice. they’ll notice. sometimes the pressure comes from other system members; sometimes it’s internal pressure to prove that you are who you say you are. some people are immune to it; some people are more sensitive. as with everything, it varies between individuals.

and there’s an additional problem called “this person’s source is something i could talk about for hours on end and never be done with.” that is: this introject is here because we like their story. the easiest way to prevent an introject from feeling pressure to conform to their source is to give them as much room as they need to decide their relationship with it. this is made harder and more complicated by sharing a head with someone who’s obsessed with them/their world/their story. it becomes a balancing act: how do you let the introject decide where they stand on their source without make other people feel like they aren’t allowed to enjoy a story that they love?

that is: how do you talk about the character in the story without implying things about the real man in your head? how do you examine the character’s traumas without hurting the real man in your head? how do you decide what personal details to share with friends who wouldn’t otherwise know anything without sharing things the real man in your head would prefer to keep to himself? how do you criticize a character’s flaws without shaming the real man in your head? and on and on. nobody wants to force anyone to be something they aren’t. but nobody wants others to give up the things that bring them joy, either.

Solution:

fictional characters and the introjects that resemble them are different, distinct people. when we talk about a story, enjoy fanart, engage with a source, or talk about the character, we are talking about the fiction. we often specify this in the way we talk: Loid Videogame, for example, is different from Loid; the line between the fictional and the real is clearly defined. in this way, Loid can decide for himself what is real to him; he is always free to say “that thing from the story also happened to me,” but it’s never assumed before he decides. this is also useful in the cases in which a system members has some kind of attraction to the character; defining it as “I’m attracted to this character but not the person I need to share a brain with” handily removes the fear of making someone in your brain uncomfortable for having feelings for a character.

this is also helpful for the introjects whose sources haven’t been completed, or who introjected before they reached the end of the story. if it does turn out that later events don’t feel true, or if there’s a wild twist that casts them in a bad light, they can say “well, that’s the story. my life went differently.” and it’s okay, not even surprising.

it means that even people familiar with the source have a chance to get to know the real guy more personally; we’ve always felt better about it when people remember facts about us and not just facts about our various sources. Bren doesn’t even share what his source is if he can help it; he doesn’t want people making assumptions about his character based on something he didn’t share himself.

obviously there’s more nuance to all of it than this. there are as many ways for an introject to experience themselves as their are introjects. but as far as a simple, stopgap rule that lets most of our people live with just a bit less stress? we’ve found this extraordinarily useful.

[larryrickard]

i had a dream that i made little cards that say "THEY!" on them that i handed out to people at work who got my pronouns wrong, immediately after they got it wrong. and in smaller text (or on the back) it said "i don't want an apology, i want you to do better" or "don't say you're sorry, DO BETTER" and ..... i kind of want to do it. maybe i'll get some moo cards made lmao

various scenarios included:

me slamming it down on a desk in front of them.

instead i had stickers, would slowly peel one off while they watched, and stick it on it on them.

handing out a quarter sheet piece of paper based on the 'i caught being good' tags we'd get in kindergarten which said 'i got caught misgendering hallie/my coworker'. it would have their name and date on it and a giant 🙁 face. i had them as a pad of paper and would hold up a finger to say 'wait a second', dramatically pull it out of my back pocket, take my pen out of another pocket, slowly fill it out in front of them, and hand it to them while staring them in the eyes.

getting a whiteboard for the outer side of my cubicle wall that said '[days] since i was misgendred' (with a bonus by saying 'last offender: [name]'

i also dreamt that i got into trouble for it because i was making people feel bad and was 'creating a hostile work environment'. i was just like.... okay and how do you think i feel? and my boss shut up real fuckin quick. dunno if that would be the case irl but if that does happen i can only dream.

[titansarmy]

considering that trials of apollo is a story about tyrannical family dynamics, the recognition of one as a victim and the acknowledgement of one’s own hand in reproducing the same cycle of abuse, trials of apollo would have benefited from making jason grace apollo’s companion. in this essay i will—