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All of these are so fucking funny for no reason
Did a poll on both here and Instagram for what TLT I should draw and Camilla won both 👍 here’s two slightly different versions of her
have you ever considered baby gideon nav with her favorite pillow. her favorite blankie. like u know no one in that house was hugging her so like. imagine baby gideon curled up under her one thin blanket on that terrible cot hugging her single, very lumpy pillow. oh my fucking god.
"You, in this moment, have bought exactly what you wished. You have kept your word and seen your quest through. And now the hour comes to pay the price"
Brennan Lee Mulligan, World's Beyond Number
Lev Grossman, The Magican King
fun fact: this fun fact made me uncomfortable in real life! thanks hank!!
but… they’re not. Trans is short for “transitioning” which is to say you go from one gender to the other. Non-binary people are not transitioning to another gender. They’re just not moving from one to another.
baroquecourse
trans is not and has never been short for transitioning you dumb hoe
gaydiskhorse
trans is short for transgender dumbass
underwaterarcades
also for those who don’t get it, the creator of the trans flag herself (monica helms, to be exact) has stated verbally, herself, that the white stripe in the flag was for nonbinary individuals + that nonbinary ppl are absolutely trans
if you exclude nonbinary folks and tell us we’re not trans go fuck yourselves
For people who forget: the whole thing of being transgender is that you identify with a gender that isn’t your sex/what you were born as. Because no one is assigned nonbinary at birth, being nonbinary is inherently transgender because you’re not cis about it.
have you ever heard of jack zipes? he's a folklorist who coined the theory of story contamination, wherein fairy tales are intentionally "contaminated" by outside additions and changed with every telling to keep them alive and enable every storyteller to connect personally with the story. when i studied an essay of his i thought it fit perfectly with your poem "locks" - the idea of a story being changed with every telling, with the new additions being cemented in as the role of storyteller passes on from parent to child. and I think it goes quite well with the quote "we owe it to each other to tell stories".
I've known Jack for twenty five years and known his work for longer. He's brilliant. He and Maria Tatar are my favourite US folktale academics.
Una Stubbs remembered by Martin Freeman ❤ The digital version of Martin’s orbituary of Una Stubbs ( x )
I actually really like the thing when you're starting to get the hang of a new language, enough to understand and say simple sentences but you gotta get creative to get more complex thoughts across, like a puzzle. I remember a time in the restortation school when a classmate who wasn't natively finnish and did her best anyway dropped something and sighed, telling me "every day is monday this week. I have had four mondays this week." And I understood.
I don't think I speak much of spanish anymore, but in the nursing school training period I did there, I did manage to get by with making weird Tarzan sentences. I got a nosebleed at some point and startled another nurse. Not knowing the words "humidity" or "stress", I managed to string together: "This is ok. It is hot, it is cold, I have a bad day, I am sad, I have blood. This is normal for me." And she understood.
And sometimes you just say things weird, but it's better than not saying it. One time, I was stuck in a narrow hallway behind someone walking really slowly with a walker, and he apologised for being in the way. I was not in any hurry, but didn't know the spanish word for "hurry", but I did know enough words to try to circumvent it by borrowing the english "I have all the time in the world."
The man burst into one of those cackling old man laughters that they do when something in this world still manages to surprise them. He had to be somewhere between 70 and a 100 years old, and I guess if there was one thing he wasn't expecting to hear today, it would be a random blond vaguely baltic-looking fuck casually announce that he is the sole owner and keeper of the very concept of time.
Yeah, I just watched that new queer show that just dropped on streaming. The one that’s based on a book. Yeah, with the darker haired guy with the dimples, and his blonde boyfriend. No, not that one, the other one. No, the other one—
Georgia Tennant really is out here introducing herself like "Hi! I'm Georgia, this is my husband David, and this is David's husband Michael."
Me trying to explain supernatural tumblr to my civilian friend