another link lonk
the origin of the letter 🇦
(from the documentary The Odyssey of the Writing, 2020)
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Documentary is called “The Secret History of Writing” done by BBC
this has always fascinated me. I first learned it about 25 years ago, and ever since, every time I see a capital letter A a tiny voice inside me goes “bull!”
Fun to see an actual scholarly version of this, because I first read it as explained (-ish) by one of Kipling’s “Just So Stories” a very, very long time ago…
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I love The Golden Girls.
Ya’ll don’t have any idea how fucking brave and needed these plot lines were.
This was before Ellen came out.
This was before civil unions.
This was before Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
This was when your ass could be fired, blacklisted, and shunned with no legal protections for even being hinted at being gay.
And the Golden Girls said “Fuck you, Fuck this, we’re doing it anyway.”
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I think it should be noted that Blanche’s quote about AIDS is also “It is not god punishing people for their sins” and that the episode also deals with slutshaming.
I don’t know if people realize how much activism these women did for gay right and during the aids crisis. If you think about it they were all long established in Hollywood and Broadway. They had tons of friends personally affected and dealing with the aids crisis. Estelle Getty lost a nephew. I think they helped plant seeds in people who watched Golden Girls that helped make things a little more normalized and mainstream.
Matching Hua Cheng to go with Xie Lian! ^^ Really enjoying this particular composition which I'm calling "desktop wallpaper" lol
tolkien: fine. what about the other prophecy, then? shakespeare: "no man born from a woman can kill macbeth" tolkien: so ... a woman kills him, because she is "no man"? shakespeare: no, you see macduff, was delivered via c-section, so technically he's a man who wasn't 'born' from a woman. get it? tolkien:
(via @neverquiteeden ) You would be 100% correct, though it was at a younger age than high school would be. He was SO DISTRESSED at the fake-out about the trees and that is why we have Ents. He wrote about it in some of his essays, about how the wordplay was such a let-down from the wonder the prophecies inspired in him, and he used that to fuel his crafting of a story that could capture that wonder.
One thing that a lot of transmasc people struggle with before they fully realize they’re trans is the question of “do I hate being treated like a woman because women are treated like shit, or do I hate being treated like a woman because I’m not a woman?”
and one method (though not entirely foolproof) to figuring that out is asking “would I be upset if another girl was treated like this?”
like, I’d be just as mad if some dude said “you can’t do math because you’re a girl” to a female classmate as I would if he said it to me
however, I never got uncomfortable at waiters calling my female friends “m'am”, I was only uncomfortable when they called *me* that
and obviously everyone’s feelings are different and there’s tons of variables at play, but if you find that there’s a lot of the second scenario going on with you, there’s a good chance you’re not entirely cis
Where was this post 18 god damn months ago.
💯🙏💛🟨👍
Worst part about this is I've only ever used that yellow square emoji once and it was just to see how it looked. This isn't who I am. However, in retrospect, I suppose it is
Reading through the notes is a surreal experience please keep adding more to fuel my effervescent consumption of non descriptive emojis
