#language changes

[bundlofcigars]

D'you reckon the fae would be unstoppable if they found out the thing that mums do to get you to do things. Like I'll be sitting on the couch and the dishes aren't done, then my mum comes and says "thanks for doing the dishes" the I go do the dishes. Like if they acknowledge a debt for something that hasn't happened yet, technically aren't you in their debt BC you haven't performed the service you have been explicitly thanked for? Idk if this makes sense but ye

[webbydoo]

You know what I can’t stand? The “bi only means two” people!! Who apparently I’m just finding out my fiancé is!! I mean, it’s not a deal breaker cause he has so many good qualities, but cmon!! Bisexuality for such a long time has meant loving two or more genders, and he has the gall to come in here like “I’m bisexual but I also love nonbinary people.” I mean, being a stickler for language is one thing, but you also should keep track of how language changes!! That’s what language does, and that’s what it was always meant to do!! It just felt sorta weird when he was trying to explain how he felt about his identity to me, and then he dropped that in there. It felt like “ I see bisexual as meaning only 2, but you get your own special category over here.”

[metafucked]

Isogender Is not trans in denial!! Someone may be an identity that still aligns heavily with their agab! So they don't feel like part of the trans community! But they don't have to identify as cis because their identity isn't fully the same as their agab.

My sister is enby. They are afab and use they/she pronouns. As you can tell, they are still heavily fem-aligned. They feel that them being enby doesn't take away their identity as an afab but also doesn't make them a woman. They don't use this label but that's an example of why someone might.

There are lots of labels for systems who have strange experiences with being trans! This is a label some of our transfem alters are interested in. We are afab and masc-transitioning enby. So our body will not be cis to them ever either. But they were still formed in an afab body so using trans doesn't feel quite right to them. Boom! (used for reference: instagram account nocontext_inclus and lgbt-pride.fandom.com ).

I believe this flag was coined by @beyond-mogai-pride-flags and from top to bottom, the colours represent; masc, fem, mix of both, and the gradient represents a strong-to-weak attachment to gender, from top to bottom. (Source: lgbtqia.wiki and mogai.miraheze.org ).

[booksdogsmagicandmore]

Saying “people with uteruses” is NOT erasing women any more than saying “all humans are created equal” is erasing men.

[ettiqu-rtz]

today’s “pathetic sopping wet cat of a man” is yesterday’s “smol bean, cinnamon roll too pure for this world”

[actualalivecreature]

every new person who found this and is reblogging it with ‘tw slur’ or ‘f slur’ is getting blocked. you don’t get to censor my identity, my identity is not a slur.

not femininity or masculinity but a secret third thing (faggotry)

[ghostjelliess]

Millennials keep hating on "skibidi" like we didn't run around saying "skadoosh" and "badum-psh" or a billion other wicka-wicka-wicka sounds—we just didn't write them out because we didn't have to communicate via text to have friends, leave the children alone. 😭

[littlemizzlinguistics]

Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"

[iwasbored777]

We're not appreciating the Weird Barbie enough. It's said in the movie that she helps everyone who need help while they always see her as someone who's not as good as them. She was friends with all dismissed Barbies and Kens, was there to offer support and safe shelter for everyone who needed it in Kendom, without her nothing in the movie would've been alright. When Stereotypical Barbie calls her "ugly and unwanted" she still helps her.

She was representing a woman in women's world who was pushed aside by other women because she didn't fit in but still had more wisdom and kindness than everyone who thought they're better than her.

[lrgcarter]

Starting the queer history in 2005 is also a sweet summer child sorta thing.

I'm not going to get into the relationship between gay culture and older Who because I am in no way an expert and don't want to do misinformation.

What I can do is offer my lived recollections of a period I don't count as Old Who.

In 1996, Doctor Who briefly came back in a story where he kissed a woman.

There was backlash about this.

Half of it, the most publicised in newspapers half, was from the right wing puritan "everyone in fiction should be asexual but not in the good way" crowd. They were a dominant force in the UK in the 80s/90s. They didn't want the Doctor kissing anyone. For purity reasons.

The other half was people who didn't want the Doctor kissing a woman.

Because he should be kissing men.

Because Doctor Who was, even at that point, a Gay Nerd Culture Thing.

RTD didn't make Doctor Who gay. He is a gay British nerd of a certain age. Therefore, he was into Doctor Who. For gay reasons. Statistically speaking, if Doctor Who was going to come back, it was going to be brought back by gay people, because they were the champions of the show.

Because it was already gay, before 1996.

how is Doctor Who landmark queer sci-fi?

I don't think the 2005 showrunner, first and foremost a very prevalent author of queer fiction, can or should be disentangled from the show, both literally and thematically, and I don't think it can really be understated how groundbreaking it was for pg rated sci fi (or really any sci fi) in the year 2005 to have a recurring character in a heroic bisexual man who the doctor openly flirts with and kisses in a dramatic context, much less that this character heads a major spin off aimed at a queer audience. among other things.

slight tangent but honestly I feel like queer discourse can be a bit dismissive of this sort of stuff, art that they don't find to be notably gay by 2025 standards, or which comes from a queer perspective but in which queerness isn't baked into the literal premise, works that are metaphorical; these often get dismissed as less good or less important or less gay somehow and I think that's a really limiting way of looking at queer art. Stuff like doctor who, in my opinion, should be looked at in much the same way we'd consider davies' other works, rather than only notable when the lead specifically is explicitly characterized as queer (as he is currently, 20 years down the line)

[colloline]

Bluest hour.

Originally a bw lighting study but i played around and found blue prettier. Anyway here’s the bw version because i like it too.

[oobbbear]

I want to post this here too because I’ve seen it happen a few times

Please understand that there are cultural differences and language differences, if you see this happening let the person clarify what they meant, that person might just not be familiar with words the western side of the internet use

[estragonsgayass]

[toastflower]

you know what fuck it, I love you historical spelling. I love you weird fossilised preservations of obsolete alphabets, grasping for something that exists now like mist, like liquid, its true pronunciation lost to time but not quite forgotten, not yet. a ghost remains, a friendly one, comfortable in this old house. I love you repurposed letters for phonemes that neither the old language nor the variety they were borrowed into has any need for anymore. I love you sensible vowel pairings that have grown - improbably - centuries later, into unwieldy diphthongs, quietly thriving in an ever-shifting environment like weeds nestled cosily beneath the shade of grander plants that have long since turned to mulch. I love the word 'diphthong' (the little thicket of consonants in the middle of it, sprouting up from nowhere to trouble tongue and penmanship alike). I love how Phoenician fingerprints remain in a Norman revision of an Anglo-Saxon reworking of a Roman borrowing of a Greek repurposing, all these shapes and signs moulded again and again like clay, like mud, spun like flax to carry all those lovely glides and nasals and obstruents which come and go and come and go over time as the sounds mutate and grow apart, and the people grow and age and die, leaving behind nothing except (sometimes) a page. a poem. a piece of themselves, their voice, rendered in imperfect beautiful scratchings whose contours match the ceaseless flow of time, heavy with all that history and somehow also light with the sheer urgency of being written. look at it, isn't it wonderful? this moment in time that holds within it yet other moments? other echoes calling down through the centuries? this is how we spoke, this is what we sounded like, once. this is how we thought our ancestors would have said it. I love the inconvenience. English is so hard to learn. the spelling is so illogical. so cumbersome. it's frustrating. it makes no sense. it's inconvenient. yes and yes and yes, and yet you too are inconvenient, you too are inchoate and too much and you fail to resolve into a neat and comprehensible order. but look at you. how lovely you are. I treasure you. why should the words you speak be any less lovely.

[astracora]

someone's probably pointed this out cause i'm not browsing tags but

Caleb's flower is hydrangea.

Not only a flower that changes colour in differing soil (Caleb is a chameleon or changes who is is depending on the person he's talking to or where he is?)

But the meanings are;

One sided/obsessive love, heartlessness, frigidity/coldness, apology, family and gratitude.

[hinamie]

playing around w slightly different hair renders