Vivian Jefferies Art

Wait for real? Fascinating.

for real! Lots of other examples too, anything "patr" comes from father, "patriarch" is the obvious one, but patriot, patron, patronym all would need "matr" for mother is instead. Pope and Papacy derive from "Papa" and would be Mome/Mamacy if you want yuri catholicism (hellworld!!) it's EVERYWHERE

Bucket, Captain Lieutenant are gendered masculine btw, it'd be buckette captaine and lieutenante. It's not just an issue of suffixes being "ignored"(masculinized) when borrowed from french because we write Debutante with the e. Multiple times a month I stumble into new examples, the battle never ends

hey i'd just like you to know ever since i saw this post it's been the only thing i think about when at work. Because of it i've tried imagining a version of english that is more feminine or even 100% fem. 1. it's been such a wild ride just going "my god how we speak is weird." 2. I has been a pure joy coming up with an idea for a world for a bee species and a lesbian lizard species to speak in this language.

we are now sisters in arms in an eternal war 🤝

The original design outright sucks and I cannot believe the shift from saccharine disney furries to grungy taxidermy creatures is at all controversial.

If you tell a yankee "its never okay to kill people for the US no matter how poor you are" you can trigger secret dialogue that makes you understand why Malcolm X hated liberals the way he did

it's actually impressive how after almost 3 months this post just keeps catching yankees who are dying to show you what their secret dialogue is

can I just say that we all owe Kojima an apology for Metal Gear Solid 2? He looked right into the camera and said “the future of information control will not be censorship, it will be drowning people in trivial noise and misinformation until people partition themselves into their own separate realities” in TWO THOUSAND AND ONE. Three years before Facebook existed. Kojima gave us the biggest Babe-Ruth-pointing-at-the-sky called shot of all time and we weren’t ready for it.

Raiden is a diegetic video game character who is an anxious millennial being told to replicate the past while living in different circumstances who is a parallel between the player obediently accepting the limitations of the game and a soldier taking orders. And he gets sexually harassed by the president of the United States of America.

TME queers will exclude us from their spaces and then get mad when we exclude them from the "in-group" in our analysis of our own oppression. we're all in the same boat apparently, except that you kicked us out of it, except that you really want to insist we're all still in it

you push us off the boat, and then when we acknowledge the fact that you're on the boat and we're in the water, you act like we've started a special drowner's club that we're cruelly gatekeeping you from

[Image ID: Text reading: Degenerate art (Germann: Entartete Kunst) was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. /End ID]

the #1 thing the olympics are about besides like. nationalism. is about how much of a genetic freak you are. like you basically have to be a genetic freak to compete on the highest level, but apparently being a girl who has or has had a dick makes you too much of a genetic freak for the "who's the biggest genetic freak" competition

I do hate how many people are talking about these laws "just" being in Brazil and the UK as if one of the largest most populated countries in the world and one of the countries where transness is most openly in the crosshairs aren't places that should be concerns in their own right, as if whether kids and teens in those countries are being allowed to use the internet or denied from it isn't a concern, and as if it's harmless to expect internet users in those countries to submit identification to US-based corporate entities that run websites like tumblr

It never ceases to amaze me how much of anglophone's sense of morality is completely captive to whatever's legal in the US and UK. Every recent moral scare or discourse can be traced upstream to some bill that was attempted or successfully passed 5-15 years ago, before which it wasn't even widely considered an issue. Seeing supposedly progressive people turning hard towards sexual censorship and anti-sex education, justifying people getting arrested or having their income confiscated because "it's against the law/corporate code of conduct", forming witch hunts to brand random pin-up artists as sexual predators, and reifying conservative taboos... it really feels surreal when I still remember last decade how it was a common refrain to make fun of entertainment industries for permitting military propaganda and violence more than a half-naked body.

Similar feeling to. When it became evident that China was self-sufficient and not just a production factory owned by the west, and the US started an economic campaign against China. Everyone and their mother flipped their switch from fetishising Chinese culture (not a particularly good thing either) to vilifying every Chinese person they see and treating everything coming out of China as surveillance and propaganda from the 21st century manifestation of Nazi Germany. I was a grade schooler while this cultural switch was occurring, and even then it felt blatantly absurd to me.

It deeply saddens me that "pdf file" has become slang for pedo. Don't you dare disrespect my wife the beautiful portable document format ever again

and to the children in the notes saying we need this fucking baby talk to get around censorship online; there's been no credible evidence that any site other that YouTube (which will only demonetize your video, ftr) will actually censor or hide content that include words like rape, pedophile, gun, terrorist, etc. etc. and even if we take as a given they were (which, again, they are not), do not fucking comply in advance, you absolute fucking coward. and ESPECIALLY do not comply by altering your real life fucking vocabulary. don't let the technocrats dictate what words you say holy fucking shit dude!!!!!!!!!!!!