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“Beep Beep Bitch, You’re Gay!”

Updated the lesbian flag and added nonbinary, pan, ace, and aro for all your tacky LBGTQ+ barcode needs.

Hope yall  like my abomination

(And just so we’re clear: this is made in good faith. I fucking love all queers, it’s not ironic, y’all are all POG as fuck)

(Edit; all flags are in the tags, if your flag wasn’t included you’re still valid! I was just running out of space! And do not worry there’s no zoo/pedo flag those are not valid uwu)

i started talking to the owners of a new film cafe downtown, and it turns out they're both latine and jewish! :D

the place also has only gender neutral bathrooms, which is a huge thing not just for texas, but especially for el paso. ^^

i'm gonna be meeting with one of the owners, rebecca to set up events for pride this year! :D

a little frustrated because i pitched screening one lgbt movie each week in june but as soon as rebecca heard my synopsis of “paris is burning” that was the only one she wanted to do and she wanted to have a drag queen read kids a book before the screening. -___-

i genuinely can’t understand the cis obsession with drag queen story time.

anyway, i got some trans women who do drag to perform before the screening, and they’re both getting paid and being allowed to pass around a tip jar.

small update: they’re gonna be asking for tips for me since i’m homeless. i nearly cried when they told me that.

i started talking to the owners of a new film cafe downtown, and it turns out they're both latine and jewish! :D

the place also has only gender neutral bathrooms, which is a huge thing not just for texas, but especially for el paso. ^^

i'm gonna be meeting with one of the owners, rebecca to set up events for pride this year! :D

a little frustrated because i pitched screening one lgbt movie each week in june but as soon as rebecca heard my synopsis of “paris is burning” that was the only one she wanted to do and she wanted to have a drag queen read kids a book before the screening. -___-

i genuinely can’t understand the cis obsession with drag queen story time.

anyway, i got some trans women who do drag to perform before the screening, and they’re both getting paid and being allowed to pass around a tip jar.

Stop photoshopping Ron DeSantis in drag and start photoshopping him being ripped apart limb from limb by dogs

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@anais-ninja-bitch

karl lagerfield wasn’t an on the books member of the nazi party but his parents were and his parents directly benefited financially from being nazis and providing products for the nazi war effort and unlike a designer like coco chanel who did have to scratch her way up the class hierarchy of europe—provided him with access and mobility within the fashion industry and broader wealthy crowds (generational wealth has a way of doing that) and he understood that well enough that he changed his birthday and basically obscured his own past so why can’t y’all? his entire career was possible due in part to rampant antisemitism in europe. i need y’all to think critically for five seconds.

i guess i’m the asshole for thinking we should shame the descendants of nazis and slave owners into giving back the wealth they accumulated from their families killing, torturing and stealing. my bad!!

One of the ballsiest things Tolkien ever did was write 473k words about some hobbits called frodo, sam, merry, and pippin and then write in the appendices that their names are actually maura, ban, kali, and razal. 

This just in: Eowyn and Eomer’s names actually start with the letter “L.” [source for other nerds] 

#wait so they have hobbitish names and common names?

No, they have Westron names and English names.

What you’ve got to understand is that everything Tolkien wrote was him pretending to merely translate ancient documents. He was writing as if the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were actually been written by Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam (or Bilba, Maura, and Ban) and he was just some random contemporary academic translating it all into English for us. 

There are many languages in his books, but generally speaking, everything written in English in the books is a translation of the language “Westron.” Therefore any names that come from Westron, he translated. Names coming from other languages, like Sindarin, he left as they were. Why? IDK. Maybe because the stories are from a hobbit perspective and hobbits speak Westron, so he wanted the Westron parts to sound familiar and the other languages/names to remain foreign? 

“But Mirkwoodest!” you cry, “The word ‘hobbit’ isn’t an English word! And the names Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took, and Meriadoc Brandybuck” all sounds super weird and not like English at all!”

Psych! They are in English! (Or Old English, German, or Norse.) Once again you underestimate what a nerd Tolkien was. Let me break it down: 

In Westron, hobbits are actually called “kuduk,” which means “hole-dweller,” so for an English translation, Tolkien called them “hobbits” which is a modernization of the Old English word “holbytla” which comes from “Hol” (hole) and “Bytla”(builder). 

“Maura” is a Westron name which means “Wise.” Weirdly enough, “Frodo” is an actual Proto-Germanic name that actual people used to have and it means the same thing. 

“Banazîr” is Westron for “half-wise, or simple.” In Proto Germanic, the prefix “Sam” means half, and wise is obviously a word we still use. 

“Razanur” means “Traveler” or “Stranger” which is also the meaning of the word “Peregrin(e)” This one is a twofer because  “Razar” means “a small red apple” and in English so does “Pippin.”

“Kalimac” apparently is a meaningless name in Westron, but the shortened form “Kali” means “happy,” so Jirt decided his nickname would be “Merry” and chose the really obscure ancient Celtic name “Meriodoc” to match. 

Jirt chose to leave “Bilba” almost exactly the same in English, but he changed the ending to an “O” because in Westron names ending in “a” are masculine. 

I’m not going to go on and talk about the last names but those all have special meanings too (except Tûk, which is too iconic to change more than the spelling of, apparently). 

The Rohirrim were also Westron speakers first and foremost, so their names are also “translations” into Old English and Proto-Germanic words, i.e. “Eowyn”  is a combination of “Eoh” (horse) and “Wynn” (joy/bliss). 

“Rohirrim/Rohan” are Sindarin words, but in the books, they call themselves the “Éothéod” which is an Old English/Norse combo that means “horse people.” Tolkien tells us in the “Peoples of Middle Earth” that the actual Westron for “Éothéod” is Lohtûr, which means that Eowyn and Eomer’s names, which come from the same root word, must also start with the letter L. 

The names of all the elves, dwarves, Dunedain, and men from Gondor are not English translations, since they come from root words other than Westron. 

The takeaway from this is that when a guy whose first real job was researching the history and etymology of words of Germanic origin beginning with the letter “W” writes a book, you can expect this kind of tomfoolery.

Notes: Sorry I said “Razal” instead of “Razar” in my original post I’m a fraud. 

Further Reading: 

Rohirric , Westron 

I’m having a stroke

Tolkien was the most extra son of a bitch my goodness

This is why C.S. Lewis wanted to punch Tolkien in the face sometimes. 

In the great hierarchy of nerds, Tolkien remains at the very top.

No one can top Tolkien.

pretend? pretend to translate????

He also gave instructions for translators, directing them to translate English-derived names like the hobbits’ but not to translate Elvish/Dwarvish/etc names like Arwen.

This is also why I think a fanfic written from the perspective of another scholar arguing with Tolkien’s translation would be fun

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The simultaneous reality that a ton of you shut down any even remotely feminist 101 point by calling it TERFy while none of you are able to spot actual TERF rhetoric and continue to replicate it...

How many of the "saying that it's ok not to wear makeup as a woman sounds TERFy" idiots are agreeing whenever someone says "butch/femme is heteronormative and effeminate men are sus"? I have the feeling that the Venn diagram is a damned circle.

God and when they say shit that's explicitly, specifically transphobic terf rhetoric, like "trans men are lesbians" and then CALL YOU A TERF FOR DISAGREEING. With their agreement w terfs...

No one knows what a TERF is, they think it's just a name you call meanies.

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Homeless people are people too!

overwatch doesnt have any lore its all about lucio being cool and reinhardt being a sexy himbo thats IT!!!!

Aren’t you… Forgetting someone? *tries to not look hurt*

winston i am so fucking sorry i genuinely forgot ur an overwatch character for a moment you feel like a brother to me

@i-will-stab-god

tell me something funny that happened to you recently?

okay, so, one night when i was parked in a walmart parking lot i felt really sick to my stomach. which wouldn’t have been a problem, except that it was 10:45 and the walmart closed at 11.

i run, actually run, which is rare for me, to the nearest entrance. it’s locked. i’m holding on hard as i jog to the other entrance and dart in, making a beeline for the men’s restroom. i haven’t been wearing my breast forms and i know i don’t pass without them. 

the men’s room at the front of the store is full, and women keep coming in and out of the other one, so i clench as hard as i can and powerwalk to the back of the store. between my stomach and the store closing time i feel like i can hear a clock ticking my doom. 

the men’s room in the back of the store is being cleaned. i decide the risk is worth it and run into the women’s, all taken except for the stall farthest from the door. i’m not even sure i’ll make it, but by some miracle i do.

and once i get into the stall i see that there’s no lock at all. so i’m struggling to keep the door shut and also take care of everything else, and the maintenance worker who was cleaning the men’s bathroom announces that she’s gonna come clean the women’s in a minute or so. now i have to figure out how i’m gonna get out of the bathroom without any of the women in the stalls /or/ the maintenance worker seeing me. i feel like the world’s most ridiculous heist planner. but after the first woman leaves i decide i can time things based on flushes. 

a second woman flushes, and i race out the door, barely missing the maintenance worker while she has her back turned toward the bathrooms. i stumble into the men’s bathroom and literally have to stop and catch my breath from everything i’ve been doing. one dude is washing his hands and just openly stares at me, and i genuinely struggle not to laugh at his expression. i felt like i had just lived some weird surreal nightmare. lol

Winsor Mccay (1871-1934), ‘Technocracy’, 1933 Source