im just someones weird sister

"what the fuck is your problem?" (compliment)

"are you sick in the head or something?" (flirtatious)

"fucking freak" (affectionate)

“did you bring protection?” “don’t worry babe” *pours salt in a circle around bed*

"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.

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they seriously expected us to worship cops & soldiers when street cleaners and sanitation workers exist? fuck off i know who my heroes are

cast iron? yeah thats a pretty common spell to learn

skillet issue

Idk what "euro summer!!" tourist currently in south europe needs to hear this, but ordinary people still live in the cities you're spending all night drunkenly blasting music and singing in and they have work tomorrow

And also your music taste sucks and you're much worse at singing than you think