TiredSpaceDragon

"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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AAA video game publisher voice: "Look. The goose layed a golden egg, and that's nice! Everyone loved that egg. But keeping the golden goose means paying for bird feed and I don't want to, so I killed the goose."

rb to tell ur mutuals ur fond of them

people should be allowed to have low ambition, and also be able to feed a family on the salary of a cashier at a convenience store.

Here’s a hilarious video of this phenomena. 

hau caught destroying innocent players on camera

Pokemon Heritage Post

I think a lot of fandom's problems would be solved if more people who need some kind of religious structure in their lives actually found an appropriate faith tradition and stopped trying to derive a moral code and a reason for living from movies and TV shows. You can't have a fun conversation about art with someone who is treating that art like their sacred text, particularly when they become enraged that the blasphemous show runners and writers are destroying the True Religion by putting in a subplot they don't like

Key to Mutran and Chirox is that they’re both idiots. Chirox is unimaginative but gets to the point. Mutran is incredibly creative but cannot get to the point to save his own life. Like quite literally that’s how he dies. I imagine Mutran was more popular prior to the Brotherhood’s turn to darkness because Chirox ruined everything he touched (albeit in a more impressive way than Spiriah, whose work was generally mediocre) but when the Brotherhood became corrupt, Chirox’s work became exactly what it needed as he got elevated to Mutran’s level, maybe even more because Mutran lacked a certain practicality when it came to taking over God’s body.