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I am re-reading The Left Hand of Darkness and unfortunately, my brain is too rotten for this, because all I can think about is an alternate timeline where the girlies got absolutely sauced on this book and instead of inventing the Omegaverse, people just wrote Kemmering AUs instead.

to be clear, Ursula K. LeGuin would hate this

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It still doesn't really make sense that the richest enclave kids have to go to the Scholomance. The enclaves ARE pretty good at keeping out mals, and their magical security forces consist of powerful and experienced adults, and the richest families could just hire teams to follow their children around all day and night fighting off any mals that get close, and not let the kids set foot outside the enclave until they come of age.

I have ultimately decided that El's "MOST INDIE KIDS DIE A LOT ALL OF THE TIME" is just El being Unreliable Narrator El, even though I do believe in-world she would be clear-eyed about this.

Because otherwise Naomi's population stats make no sense from beginning to end. A girl has gotta compromise somewhere.

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executive dysfunction is telling yourself for two and a half hours that you need to shower bc you smell like your workplace and you absolutely Cannot do Anything Else until you shower, doing Any Other Thing before showering is illegal!!! but you still haven’t for some reason??? you’ve just been sitting on your bed in a towel scrolling tumblr for 2+ hours thinking “I need to shower right now immediately” and growing increasingly frustrated that you are still not clean and you haven’t eaten or done your laundry either

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So far it seems like some of the magic words are related to Hungarian and/or Finnish, and some are more Slavic? And others I just have no clue about. So I guess it's a mix.

I said finally, a question, "Solya?" The name felt strange on my tongue, moving, like the high shadow of a bird, circling; even as I said it, I felt the brush of a piercing eye. "It means falcon, in the spell-tongue," the Dragon said.

In Naomi Novik's fantasy book Uprooted, the protagonist's culture is probably based on Polish culture (the kingdom is called "Polnya"). But the language of magic seems to be based on Hungarian?

The wizard called "the Dragon" is named Sarkan, and the Hungarian word for dragon is sárkány. The wizard called "the Falcon" is named Solya, and the Hungarian word for falcon is sólyom. There's also a spell called "loytalal":

"Loytalal," I said softly, to the small coiled braid of Kasia's hair: good for finding the whole, from a part, the scribbled note on the spell had said.

This is probably related to the Hungarian word talál, which means "to find".

Maybe someone who speaks Hungarian could figure out the meanings of the other magical words in the book.

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"Desire is like a blister that needs to be burst."

- The Child Garden, by Geoff Ryman

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I want to do so many things! (But no difficult things.)

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i am not gonna lie a lot of you seem to be treating "presumption of innocence" as a technicality, a legal loophole, a little *wink wink, nudge nudge* "he's the shooter lol except uuuh presumed innocent amirite" when talking about the mangione trial

some posts will have a "well we just don't know, he could have done it but he also could have not" stance thats Slightly better, but even that is not enough.

Luigi Mangione is innocent. the prosecution, during the trial, would need to produce convincing, direct evidence (not the stupid forged shit the cops obviously planted) and i highly doubt that they'll be able to, hence why they're banking on getting everyone to treat him as the shooter already.

As the man himself said: This is completely unjust and is an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience.

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I said finally, a question, "Solya?" The name felt strange on my tongue, moving, like the high shadow of a bird, circling; even as I said it, I felt the brush of a piercing eye. "It means falcon, in the spell-tongue," the Dragon said.

In Naomi Novik's fantasy book Uprooted, the protagonist's culture is probably based on Polish culture (the kingdom is called "Polnya"). But the language of magic seems to be based on Hungarian?

The wizard called "the Dragon" is named Sarkan, and the Hungarian word for dragon is sárkány. The wizard called "the Falcon" is named Solya, and the Hungarian word for falcon is sólyom. There's also a spell called "loytalal":

"Loytalal," I said softly, to the small coiled braid of Kasia's hair: good for finding the whole, from a part, the scribbled note on the spell had said.

This is probably related to the Hungarian word talál, which means "to find".

Maybe someone who speaks Hungarian could figure out the meanings of the other magical words in the book.

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Your top 3 tlt men do say something about you but it is mainly like. So is your favorite palamedes or john. That's the main distinguishing factor

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You can only eat 2 foods for the next 2 years (with no health repercussions)

Spin this wheel twice to figure out what they are!

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Italian etiquette: There's no such thing as "spaghetti and meatballs"! Pasta is a separate course and you must eat it separately!

Me: I think I'll pour my hot vegetable soup onto my bowl of cold potato salad.

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i should wake up and automatically be restored to full health, that's how sleeping should work, what is this horseshit

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Thanks, Anon!

-submit your poll!-

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maybe my least favorite anti-autistic stereotype is the trope that autistic people are ultra-rational and thus chock full of bigotry. like house m.d does this*, bones does this, i'm pretty sure the good doctor also did this with their trans episode. allistic showrunners looovee writing an autistic character who says blatantly racist, sexist, ableist, etc. things & justifies it by saying that autistics are simply too Rational and Incapable Of Understanding Emotion to pretend that our current social hierarchies aren't natural!

it sucks for one because it promotes the stereotype that all autistics are hypoempathetic, AND that being hypoempathetic means that you uncritically believe bigotry. but it ALSO sucks because it also promotes the idea that bigotry is driven by rationality and being anti-bigotry is driven by irrational emotions. and that the fight for social justice is really about making people set aside their rational bigoted beliefs because its mean. rather than making arguments based on the actual material evidence of oppression, and how the logic of oppression is deeply flawed and often extremely contradictory because it's only goal is maintaining power. and how that is in fact morally wrong.

my examples are mostly TV but i was thinking about this while rewatching munecat's video debunking evopsych (around 2:47:06). in which an evopsych guy is justifying a misogynistic paper arguing that women are less inclined towards STEM because Evolution, by saying that the author is "Aspy" and thus ~too rational to tone himself down for The Woke~. It's such bullshit and it hides behind aspie supremacy and fantastical ideas of autistic people as robots instead of human beings filled with biases and fallacies and yes, EMOTIONS, in order to push the narrative that bigotry is rational and the left is motivated by our squishy soft womanly irrational empathy rather than the fact that systemic racism objectively exists and misogyny is a self-contradictory mess.

also it's just a way of avoiding the reality of their own bigotry. if misogyny isn't scientifically valid, then that means they must choose to hold misogynistic beliefs, rather then those beliefs being natural. which means they have to actually grapple with the question of whether or not it is moral to maintain a misogynistic system rather than deconstructing it and creating a more equal society. if misogyny is just Nature and Facts and Logic then they can pretend that it's all out of their hands! they want to side-step the question of whether or not its right by arguing making an appeal to evolution as some divine ruler which will destroy our society if we ever deviate from 1950s US social hierarchies.

*to give this show credit, it has other reasons why house is Like That, and he also has plenty of moments where he criticizes the status quo and/or the audience is meant to disagree with his behavior/views. but they still do engage in "house is bigoted and his bigotry is justified by the story" such as in the infamous asexuality episode. but the writers also refused to make him canonically autistic even when they wrote him Like That so who gives a fuck

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love it when people say “your silence on this issue is deafening”, like what a wild metaphor