#urrr

Not because im anti all transx terms, im very neutral leaning pro on all nonharmful ones, but because honestly? 1 i dont like the sound, transx sounds so clunky to me... 2 the community itself holds alot of negative memories with me, and unfortunately does trigger me due to that and 3 i think it's a better descriptor for how it feels to us,

so take a nonofficial coining post, I might make another post later on that includes a flag, but here's a little definition

Ontohope - An Identity referring to the hoping/longing of something your being - that being your physical body, or your identity - does not have. This can be nearly anything.

Ontohope does not claim the user IS that thing, however experiences a longing to be, and in cases where appropriate, would like to transition to such thing. Ontohope also supports all types of dysphoria, but not all types of transitions.

Ontohope doesn't include folk who want to transition to things that would be harmful for them or others, but instead is pro-healing from such feelings, and finding alternatives to relieve dysphoria. ( example . Cane User Ontohope would be reccomended to getting a walking stick, preferably bought from a thrift store/nonmedical shop, but discouraged taking medical resources nor harming themselves to transition ).

X Ontohope = used to specify what the user long for. ( Example . We are Love Ontohope, we hold a longing to be the concept of love. )

im very curious as to what others thing of this, so feel free to tell me if you like it 💕

so SO it’s a more complex issue than that, both in-world and with authorial intent too. Theres- ajsdakjs I do not know where to start- lets start with the BASE in universe stuff. 

So firstly the Gondorians and Northmen have always been on generally good terms. This is mainly because the northmen were never invaded and enslaved by Sauron NOR were they really wanted by the Gondorians either. Their lands were very much cradled in the forests of Mirkwood or further north and they were in a tricky spot to get too. Much of the people or Rhun and Harad, meanwhile, were simply not that lucky. Sauron essentially controlled the east and southern peoples through fear, magic and sheer might of armies LONG before Numenor even fully returned to middle earth. It’s doing the Harad and Rhun peoples a disservice to say they ‘allied’ with Sauron, they were forced to be there as much as anyone else a majority of the time. 

Even the times when there were wars between JUST Gondor and Rhun and Gondor and Harad, those were either because of Sauron egging them on in the background, or because, indeed, Gondor straight up just had a gratuitously long stint of colonising the south. So IN TEXT the initial reasons for allying with the northmen were very much still selfish on Gondor’s part and had much more to do with land placement and common enemies than anything else, they were still very condescending and did not view the northmen as equals by any means. Hence why Valacar’s marrying one of them caused an entire civil war. 

Which also brings me too... I think the Gondorians DID try to ‘understand’ the Haradrim at least, in the way they tried to ‘understand’ the northmen. Which is, tried to figure out how they could benefit them. Tarannon Falastur MARRIED a Haradrim princess, a black numenorean of Umbar, so he must have had discussions and there must have been diplomatic attempts. The fact that he hated his wife shows more that Tarannon Falastur was a bastard, not necessarily that Gondor as a whole viewed the Haradrim differently than the Northman, that is, thought them useful but lowly. 

However, now going out of text for a while, I would not place the northmen or the rohirrim in the aspect of like... NOT representing marginalised groups. Yes, blonde and white etc, but I’ve been reading and watching quite a few articles and seminars about late british colonialism and the concepts of ‘warrior races’. To me, taking just the rohirrim, they seem pretty clearly like Tolkien just took Mongolian styles of horsemanship and farming techniques and mashed them together with a kind of old english aesthetic. Hear me out a second because this is really only my own conjecture. The relationship between the Rohirrim and Gondor is this kind of... strange romanticised version of England’s colonialist opinion of India. Like this ‘warrior race’ that is noble? But not developed and we honour them! But we’re not to become like them and we happily let them fight and die in our wars but we’re friends so it’s ok! God this is hard to explain with a migraine. Suffice to say that, just like the rest of the book, the colonialist aspects are VERY present in Gondor’s relationship with the northmen down the years and the racism within the text is very multilayered and very much spiced the the opinions of the time which are somewhat different now and therefore difficult for us to spot. 

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Gotham (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Oswald Cobblepot/Other(s), Oswald Cobblepot/Edward Nygma Characters: Edward Nygma, Oswald Cobblepot, Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Sex Tapes, Rough Sex, Group Sex, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Gangbang, Double Penetration, Spitroasting, Dirty Talk, Masturbation, Unsafe Sex, Barebacking, um, yeah - Freeform Series: Part 16 of The Summer of Smut Summary:

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