Lack of Sleep Starters!

pronouns and context can be changed as you see fit.

If any of ye have started creative endeavours in a minority language then this is a post to promote them!

Writing - fiction, non-fiction, poetry, blogs, fanfiction etc -, videos, art pieces, songs, anything! If you made it and it’s related to a language you think deserves more love then feel free to share it!

🐁🌸 On the topic of No.6 holding a minute of silence every month or so—I actually think it's an amazing solution to honouring Mao in a respectful and pertinent way. There is humility in silence. It's a simple gesture that reminds everyone to pay respect without making a grand gesture or statement that would overshadow the actual Mao heritage.

The No.6 government robbed the Mao of their voice and agency, and even though No.6 people cannot give those voices back ( that would be vastly inappropriate as Nezumi only can speak for his people ) they can stand with the Mao in remorseful silence.

And then—when Nezumi comes back—he could hold a minute of silence with them, and as the minute is coming to an end, he would sing. He would be the voice of the Mao, of his people, and his song would finally carry their souls away peacefully. ( Doesn't matter if it happens in public, intentionally, or in private at first, and then they turn it into a public ceremony, both works imo. )

I think that would be a powerful message. Nezumi was the singer of the Mao, and through his song, not only the souls of the Mao but also the people of No.6 could find peace.

Afterwards, there can be talks of a memorial, depending on what Nezumi would find fitting and what's even possible because there is an airport on the Mao land, and that'd be quite hard to relocate or rebuild. But that's exactly why it needs time, and other gravesites ought to be established first so that No.6 understands the importance of knowing and remembering the past so that they can honour the Mao properly.

If i had the willingness and time and dedication i'd learn so many languages

👀 same. I really need all the motivation and discipline I can get.

i feel like 20-smthings who are mean to teenagers and kids are not just emotionally immature but actively trying to take out their own hatred of who they were as kids. ive never met one of these people who speaks kindly about their childhood self

alternatively. having been treated badly as a teenager by the adults in your shared spaces doesnt make it normal for that to happen. part of growing up is realizing that what the people who would now be your age did to you was wrong. if you never reflect on that or change you will, in fact, end up just as miserable and mean as they were. why revel in that?

No.6

Quick reminder that July is disability pride month. Not “gay wrath month”.

When ableism is a massive issue in the queer community and most pride events aren’t accessible maybe y’all should. Idk. Try a bit fucking harder to educate urselves this July.

The road from Jerusalem to Malta is long… but the destination is worth it.

I was so blessed to be allowed to let myself by inspired by @hoax1918​ ‘s wonderfully emotional, vivid and intimate art to write a fic for the TOG Reverse Big Bang this year. Read it here!

Chapter 2!!

Here are all my art works for @oldjane‘s beautiful fanfic. The story is completed!

The road to Malta

thank you again,Jane!<3

i’ve been struggle with trying new art style and colouring lately…

sheep

Running Running Running

Gustave Doré 1832 – 1883

Death on the Pale Horse engraving 1865

The Comet Book (1587), details, “16th-century treatise on comets, created anonymously (or maybe it was a woman who endured erasure) in Flanders”. Originally named in german Kometenbuch.

One time I heard a dude online compare new and obscure LGBT terminology to newspeak. This I think is one of the biggest examples I have seen of people with their whole chest ignoring the basic themes of 1984.

In 1984 the whole point of newspeak was that it shrinks. Ideas that could once be communicated now cannot. Everything is simplified as much as possible. You cannot explain complicated ideas of freedom or equality because the words no longer exist, or they don’t mean what they once did.

More specifically, there is canonically no word for “gay” in 1984. There are only two words for the entire spectrum of sexuality. “goodsex” and “sexcrime”. If you’re gay it’s the exact same as being a pedophile. And those are is the exact same as cheating on your wife, which is the exact same daring to fuck your wife just because you feel like it. Which is no different than literally any sex act that might offend big brother.

Do you see what’s happening? In 1984 can no longer ask your wife to peg you or something because the word for pegging is the exact same word for pedophile. And you can’t come out as gay because all you can say is that you did a criminal sex act, which means you cannot make a case for your rights either.

Inventing made up words to describe obscure things that previously lacked words would literally be a perfect remedy to newspeak. This language would counter every barrier to communicating the necessary concepts. Because it’s what literally every normal non-dystopian language does.

Keep this in mind especially in regards to what's happening in Florida right now. They associate LGBT+ content with grooming, define it as pedophilia or child abuse or sexual crimes or etc. Then they pass laws calling for sex offenders to be executed. Bigots or morons claim "Oh, why are you against these anti-child abuse laws?!" Because the state is trying to redefine LGBT+ activity and individuals as being the same as child abuse. For all the bluster and anger over "Grrr, words don't mean anything anymore! These terms I grew up with don't matter anymore!" the truth is THEY are the ones trying to limits what words mean because they want to associate certain groups of people with evil people to make more innocent/ignorant individuals be okay with hurting those groups of people.

“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”  

- @robinlayfield

Grace Hopper did more than coin the term “bug”. She invented the first program linker in the early 1950s, for the UNIVAC I. A program linker translates instructions from one language to another (for example, numerical codes that represent instructions translated to machine code that computers can read), which is the very foundation of how computer’s operate independently. she also pulled a steve rogers and tried to enlist in the military a bunch of times and was denied. then, an exception was made for her when she joined the navy reserves, and she ended up serving for over 40 years (half of which was active duty). she retired from the navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. she was born in NYC in 1906. Grace Hopper was a fucking badass.

also computing was typically a job for women (many of whom were black women that made incredible contributions) back in the day, so it’s absolutely fucking wild that straight white men think they are the foundation of computer innovation. men PUSHED women out and took the credit.

Reblogging to do what the failed education system never did.

Reblogging to do

what the failed education

system never did.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Adding Wendy Carlos to the list! Trans icon and pioneer of synthesized music!!

Also, just about every computerized device outside of desktops is running ARM chips now. Your phone, your keyboard, your car, your watch. Basically everything.

And ARM was primarily designed by Sophie Wilson, a trans woman.

Can I add Jerry Lawson? I’m gonna add Jerry Lawson, creator of the video game cartridge.

Truth is, it reads more like "she can do everything" and "him, it's just Ken"

And ken is a slang used in French that means "to fuck"

So "Him, it's just fucking"

Which I think is even more hilarious