Sharper head, wilder heart

saw someone say it’s breaking their brain that hugo weaving could play both mitzi del bra and agent smith ???? the guy who does a campy masculine take on hyperfemininity in a movie directed by a gay man also does a campy feminine take on hypermasculinity in a movie directed by two trans women and, additionally, in another movie written by two trans women (as v)? not so weird to me?

you must prove yourself a master of drag queenery, drag kingery, and drag thingery on the field of battle before you may assume the title of Number One Elf

the thing about writing fantasy stories is that language is so based on history that it can be hard to decide how far suspension of disbelief can carry you word-choice wise - what do you call a french braid in a world with no france? can a queen ann neckline be described if there was no queen ann? where do you draw the line? can you use the word platonic if plato never existed? can you name a character chris in a land without christianity? can you even say ‘bungalow’ in a world where there was no indian language for the word to originate from? is there a single word in any language that doesn’t have a story behind it? to be accurate a fantasy story would be written in a fantasy language but who has the time for that

Tolkien had the time apparently

LIsten. Linguistics Georg, who invented over 10,000 conlangs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.