thank you Ianthe Tridentarius/Naberius for answering the age old question of “what if Cersei Lannister was completely unbound by most moral/legal codes, patriarchal society, and had complete freedom of gender expression and also magical powers” drumroll please the answer is that she is just as crazy and finds ways to violate norms that we as the audience and the characters couldn’t conceive of until she broke them. And Coronabeth is just if Jamie Lannister was forced to be Cersei for the first twenty two years of her life

i think there should be two nighttimes. one for sleeping and a second one for being awake but at night. and then only one daytime because daytime doesn’t matter as much except for the birds

let's play doctor and patient I'll go first 🥰 you're faking.

Fuck the patient knows I'm not actually a doctor

"Racialised" is much better than PoC but I've been leaning a lot on the concept of racial markedness. Because that allows us to make statements like "the name Jamal is racially marked in USA". Rather than saying something like "Jamal is a PoC name", a nonsense statement, saying it's racially marked in USA allows us to contrast with societies like Albania or the Arab countries where the name Jamal is ordinary, thus unmarked.

It's a concept I've kind of imported from linguistic analysis; saying a speech pattern is more or less marked does not really allow us to avoid the subject of who's doing the marking. A statement like "womens' speech is more marked in Lakota" necessitates that we understand that it's the Lakota who are marking womens' speech. A foreigner can't tell the difference and probably doesn't understand why it would thus be weird to see a man using speech patterns associated with women, in the same way an Albanian wouldn't understand why USA people would think Jamal is a Black name.

The "text" in textbook comes from textile. Turns out a lot of people thought the metaphor of weaving a story was an apt one, and when you're finished weaving you have a text

Whenever my grandmother had the least difficulty opening something with fingers, she would tear at it with her teeth. And my mom if she witnessed this would go "MoooOOOOMMM!! We have SCISSORS and KNIVES!" And my Grandma would retort a) that the scissors were all the way over there and her teeth were right here, and b) that God gave us teeth before he gave us knives. She was so right about all this, and I'm on her side. Sometimes the biting power of teeth is what you need. That said she also used to use a paring knife as a toothpick which would also make my mom say "MooooOOOMM!! we have TOOTHPICKS!" and my grandmother would say that God gave us knives before he gave us toothpicks. Fascinating temporal hierarchy of God's tool blessings implied here.

Spent about ten minutes yesterday searching through my backpack for the heavy object that was making it heavy but eventually I had to accept that a bag which only contains light objects can be heavy, throuvh the process of addition. It feels unjust to me. I have the same problem with purchases. It feels wrong to me that buying ten cheap things is expensive

Suck the fingers that fuck you or whatever the saying is

that voice in your head telling you that you’d look better skinny is the devil and he needs to be shot in the back of the head execution style