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She: This word evolved naturally from Old English from seo/heo which were just words to refer to feminine-female people evolving from Proto-Germanic words meaning ‘that/there’. He as a word evolved from the same ideas but Proto-Germanic words for ‘this/here’. Your idea of “patriarchal language” further falls apart when you compare this part of English to other Germanic languages, of which English is related, the words in German for he and she are “er” and “sie”, completely unrelated. So it is by clear happenstance, not some patriarchal conspiracy that the words “he” and “she” in English have similar form. 

Woman: Oh god this one always gets my goat when people go for this one. Man did not used to mean “male”, man used to mean “humanity/human being”, the old words in Old English for male adult person and female adult person were “werman” and “wifman” respectively, we can see this relation in words like werewolf and wife as being the remnants of the base “wer-” and the base “wif-”. Woman evolved phonologically from the word “wifman” by natural processes where the ‘f’ sound dropped and the ‘i’ became lax. Man dropped its “wer” stem for reasons mostly unknown but I can guarantee have nothing to do with “patriarchy” because phonological change has no basis in that.

Female: Male and Female actually come etymologically from two completely different words. Male comes from Old French “masle” which meant masculine, while Female came from Old French as well “femella” which meant young woman. This is another case, just like he and she, where the words coincidentally ended up looking similar without having any direct correlation in historical linguistic processes to make them as such.

Human: This word etymologically derives from Proto-Indo-European “ghomon” which means earthly being as opposed to heavenly being which would refer to gods. You have some small glimmer of hope here in that the word does eventually branch off into the word for “man” in some languages but this is still too small of a precedent to base any conspiratorial thinking like you are doing off of.

Person: This one offends me the most, simply because I love the fuck out of Etruscan language and your continued ignorance just irks me at this point. Person derives from “persona” from Latin which meant the same meaning, which ultimately derived from “phersu” Etruscan for ‘mask’ as Etruscans would often have theatre performers use masks to give identity to the performers. So never once did “person” have any meaning to do with “son”. So yes, this IS the “natural order” or language.

Proposed theory: vampires cannot eat solid food but otherwise go wild

Avi: Name means "father", caretaker/parentified child Orville: Name means "golden town", the golden child Bucky: A male goat is called a buck, the scapegoat Ghost: nickname is pretty self explanatory but he's also named after a character in "the lost boys", the lost child

Orville is the oldest, he was dodging the draft during the Second World War and nobody noticed when he went missing for a totally different reason. Pathologically well behaved and currently breaking down over the lack of structure. Has no idea how modern money works.

Bucky is the second, having been grabbed when the police broke up a party in the 70s. Most of the people who would have checked on him assumed the cops had him, so he just disappeared before anyone realized. Award holder for ‘most escape attempts’, ‘most fights picked with Orville’, and ‘only bitch in this house with any self-respect’.

Avi is the third, grabbed a few years into living homeless in the 80s after aging out of foster care. Extremely resigned to his fate with nobody looking for him to begin with, he has been trying to keep a handle on Bucky ever since. Extremely fragile sense of self. Throws up when nervous. Lactose intolerant.

⚔ "You keep trying to save me. Has it occurred to you that I don't want to be saved?"

⚔ "We're not so different. I know you hate hearing that because you know it's true."

⚔ "I could've killed you three times tonight. Think about why I didn't."

⚔ "You fight for a world that wouldn't fight for you. I find that heartbreaking."

⚔ "Stop looking for goodness in me. You'll only disappoint yourself."

⚔ "I've been waiting for someone to oppose me properly. Finally."

⚔ "You're the only one who's ever made me consider stopping. I resent you for that."

⚔ "We could fix everything together. That's what keeps me up at night."

⚔ "You call me a monster. You've never asked why I became one."

⚔ "I don't want to fight you tonight. Don't ask me to explain that."

⚔ "Every time you win I feel something I haven't felt in years. I think it's hope."

⚔ "You see the person I was before all this. Stop. That person is gone."

⚔ "I built this empire on everything the world took from me. You want me to just walk away?"

⚔ "You're good in a way I forgot existed. It's infuriating and magnificent."

The problem is that the black hole has mega gravity, so my first concern is that it's gonna grab onto the Really Long Stick (RLS) and start schlorping that thang into its wretched gullet, and then whatever the RLS is attached to (e.g. hands, maybe with a lil wrist lanyard so you don't drop it; spaceship; a planet) will also be schlorped toward the black hole even if it had previously been a safe distance away. It's like when you have your dog on a leash and he starts dragging you towards a mud puddle. If you're standing still, it's way easier for him to yank you off balance and into the mud puddle.

However, if you're jogging past, then your momentum helps overcome his yanking and you go away mud-free. So we can't be hovering in space for this and slowly extending the RLS towards the black hole. My suggestion is that we attach the RLS to the bottom of the spaceship, pointing downwards, so that we look like a lollipop, and then we start a good distance away and go to faster-than-light speeds (light cannot escape a black hole, but *faster* than light maybe can) (suddenly i'm worried about whether WE turn into a black hole every time we're going FTL but that's a problem for another time). Point is, we angle our trajectory so the end of the stick dips into the black hole as we nyoom past.

I posit that one of three things will happen: 1. We will be slingshotted around the black hole because the gravity well still has enough force to curve our trajectory before we get out of it. As for the RLS, it: a) realistically probably breaks, or b) gets stretched like taffy so now we have an Even Really Longer Stick

2. Have you ever seen one of those coin whirl machines? This thing? This is what would normally happen if something heading past the black hole got too close to the gravity well to escape -- it spirals faster and faster the closer you get to the center, because the pull of gravity gets stronger. If matter traveling FTL cannot escape a black hole's gravity well, this will still happen to us, but it will happen at light speed as soon as our stick touches the event horizon. Because that's how fast we are already going. :))))))))

Really Long Stick into a black hole is an extremely fun game and let me tell you astrophysicists love to play mental games. Yes black holes do have heck of large gravity, but they don’t do much schlorping.

I’m going to assume several things here, the first of which is that by “into” the black hole we mean “past the event horizon” which is the point at which light cannot escape.

While in principle if you get close enough to poke at a black hole you should also be falling into it, I’m also assuming that we are far enough away and our stick is improbably long enough that I personally am not primarily under the influence of the black holes gravitational pull.

So in this situation your first and most immediate problem is that the force of gravity on your Black Hole Facing end of the RLS is going to be WAY stronger than the end that you’re holding onto, and so the stick will experience a stretching. Under most definitions of stick, stretch is not a thing they do very well, and so your stick will begin to fray, first by fracturing and then at an atomic level, into smaller and smaller pieces. If you’re poking a small (star sized) black hole this should happen well before you get to the event horizon. So small black holes will simply “nope” the stick before it can touch it.

Large black holes will nope the stick after they get into the black hole and so pulling this stick back out (good luck) will give you a shredded, slightly less Really Long stick.

If you want to nyoom your way around the black hole while you do this, you sure can, but you have a momentum problem with the twisting motion of the stick now and the easiest thing is to just smash the stick into the side of the black hole (this will also fracture the stick and then shred the fractured bits into finest powder).

Probably the most fun you can have with a black hole is, instead of Poke with Stick, throw some gas at it. Not only is gas something that can’t get shredded (it already has no structural integrity), you can watch it do the doomed coin spiral from a distance. AND. As the gas spirals in, it will heat up to a ridiculous temperature and start to glow with visible light. (and x rays. Free scan of every single bone you have. Medical or astrophysical doctors do not recommend standing nearby.)

lots of internal monologue and even dialogue with oneself

social awkwardness

despite longing for connection, avoiding it because they are not used to it

or: seeking connection anywhere they can, even in the tiny interactions with employees and strangers

making their home a very comforting space since they spend so much time in it

not feeling invited to activities unless explicitly told they are, and even then doubting it

not even considering the possibility of talking to someone

feeling warmth in their chest after a good talk with someone, only for it to twist into dread and doubt later on