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littlemizzlinguistics · 6 months

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Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"

#linguistics #gen z slang #english #as people in the reblog pointed out!#most gen z slang comes from (or was appropriated from) aave #honestly I was just excited to talk about how people in my field actually get excited about non standard uses of English #instead of ridiculing speakers #and I tagged incorrectly and didn’t point out the very real issues of language and power and appropriation inherent in modern slang #in that much of it was appropriated #and even that which experiences language change in the wider culture still originated in aave #aave is just as linguistically valid as any other English dialect because it is a proper language #and the grammar is incredible!!!#habitual be is fantastic and an excellent example of how a richer case system or a certain case can render an adverb unnecessary #and the phonology is just beautiful #anyway I’m very sorry #I fucked up

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sleepygaymerdisease · 1 year

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guys i think this website is recreating misogyny

#i cant say specifics of what the media is or who the character is but like. if theres a character (who happens to be a woman) who is never #directly shown on-screen. but shes absolutely integral to the plot. and it's all with an extremely serious tone. maybe headcanoning them as #a silly ditzy bimbo wifey who believes in astrology and doesnt know anything about computers and her only interests are animals and plants #and taking care of her husband and cleaning the house and she also only wears bright pink and dyes her hair bright pink......#maybe. just maybe. thats fuckin awful?!?!? 💀💀💀💀#IM GOING INSANE HERE. LIKE GOD DAMN I THIUGHT I COULD TRUST TUMBLR USERS ABOUT THIS MEDIA TOO. I WAS SO WRONG. BLOCKED INSTANTLY.#also im not even going to begin to tackle the casual whitegirl racism involved with the interests listed for this character. like idk people #loooove to be vaguely spiritual without respecting a single culture who actually does these practices. 😀.#but im so mad like. i cant even say shit like 'ummm think about this for a sec!!' because the OP clearly put tons of time and effort into #their insanely misogynistic post. multiple drawings lined and full colored. like. they thought about this and thought it was amazing. 😐#anyway... ive noticed lately that a lot of people think misogyny is a dying bigotry or that its 'not as serious' as other forms of hatred?#but sexism is a very real systemic and individual issue. drawing cismenkissing.png doesnt auto-clear the sexism allegations 🫢#anis gaymer moments #ok sorry for the long rant im done now i prommy

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piromantic · 18 days

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i know i say 'i wanna make a video essay about xyz' like once every three months and i've never followed through but hoooly shit i want to make a video essay on queerbaiting in gacha games

#i dont care if they hold hands in canon theyre only doing that as a marketing tactic #but alsooooo censorship is a real issue and representation is great #but then again you can literally see character design philosophies changing with a game's demographics changing #but also theres differing cultural contexts and expectations of what a 'queer character' really is #none of these things come to any coherent point but theyre things people dont TALK ABOUT #i think this is partially because genshin/hsr has little overlap in its playerbase with other gachas #so people will play them and think wow. representation. no other game from the continent of asia does this.#and partially because nobody in these spaces knows much about queer coding from non-western perspectives #like they'll just miss out on huge yuri tropes and then at the same time catch tropes but get stressed about explaining them #when they could just point to so many other works that are being referenced. but they dont know about them #SORRY FOR PUTTING THE VIDEO ESSAY IN THE TAGS #j rambles #ignore me #its like im not even the right person to make this essay BUT NOBODY ELSE WILL APPARENTLY so.

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marklikely · 2 years

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starting to get worried abt this site's userbase and their determination to boil every evil in the world down to "tiktok did it"

#sorry that post thats going around thats like 'well nobody had a REASON to be worried about other social media so we're different'#REALLY? nobody had reason to be worried about facebook? about TUMBLR IN 2013??#or the idea that lack of media literacy is "the tiktokification' of media #bc as we all know the tumblr teen generation was SO media literate in our day right? this is SO new right?#(that was me being sarcastic because almost the exact problems people complain about w tt were also true here)#avpost #i do think the app itself sucks. probably worse than any other social media out there.#but im kind of getting tired of boiling complicated society wide issues down to 'this one app that im not on is the true enemy. '#with a HEAVY side of 'grrr kids these days.'#there are actually other sources of evil in the world and also a good chunk of the stuff you guys complain about tt for are non issues #like ~stealing tumblr quirky culture~ . please get a hobby who fucking cares if tiktok girlies post about mushrooms and soup.#but yeah more importantly a lot of the issues being attributed to tt are much larger and older than one single bad app.

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transannabeth · 1 month

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i need to get more into filipino music please does anyone have any recs

#we're going through another im ''''not filipino enough'''' phase. whatever that means.#i'm so disconnected to being filipino that it sometimes feels like a deep physical ache #(for context i grew up in a completely white town that had so few people of color for most of my time there)#(and then i went to an online school for most of college where we didn't . like. make friends.)#the issue with wanting to learn more about filipino culture tho is that i'm afraid that i'll be invading people's spaces #or be appropriating the culture which ???? brain what.#(i am only half filipino my mom is white but i've got a complicated relationship with calling myself half filipino or mixed tbh)#(i'm trying to sort it out but it's hard. it's hard!! ok!!!)#my filipino family lives about 13 hours away and we haven't seen them since um...my cousins cotillion in like 2021?#sorry i'm having a moment i'm having a night does anyone have any music recs from filipino artists #i'll try anything tbh #i actually did a final paper on the evolution of filipino music so this is slightly embarrassing but asldkfjsdkjf its. fine!#this is embarrassing i'm gonna queue it #not pjo #chitter chatter

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sophielovesbooks · 2 years

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Almost every time I talk to people about my wedding dress, they mention weight loss. They ask me why I am buying it so early and I tell them that it is custom-made and I am in fact *late* for a July wedding, as most places recommend buying it a year early. And almost invariably people respond by either hinting at or saying outright that they expect me to lose weight until July and "it won't fit you anymore then, will it?"

And honestly, it is so triggering for me, because what I hear is that they believe I should lose weight for my wedding, that I can't get married looking the way I do right now. And that is so incredibly hurtful to hear.

Stop assuming people are planning to lose weight for their wedding day like that's a given! Stop diminishing a future bride's joy about having found her wedding dress by talking about diets and making her hate her body more! Stop assuming that weight loss is normal or possible or safe for everybody! It is honestly so shitty. Diet culture has done a number on the majority of people and it needs to change.

#tw weight loss #tw diet culture #tw diet talk #tw ed #tw eating issues #tw eating disorder #look i have always tried to keep this blog completely free of any triggering content bc i want it to be a safe space #i hope with all those trigger warnings the people who don't want to see it didn't see it #if you did see it and that was not safe for you to read i am so sorry!#please take care of yourself and forget what i said <3 #everybody else who has perhaps done this themselves... please reflect on your actions #i think the best thing to do would be to stop diet talk entirely #unless somebody has actively told you about wanting to lose weight and this seems like a positive thing to them simply don't mention it!

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samwisefamgee · 6 months

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everyday I join lethal company lobby to Just Vibe and am sent Multiple Friend Request

#help #SORRY im good at video games and fun to hang out with its a CURSE not a blessing #sea of thieves was the same too man every lobby falls in love with me and i just want to play with strangers for a bit #why the instant commitment geez dinner and a movie first #and HALF the time its like bruh you called lootbugs gay no more than 20 minutes ago and you try to friend my fag ass you YOU FUCKING YOUUUU #and the other half theyre just. not my style? had more great times with randos online than i could count but not once met someone who like #i would think about continuing to hang with?#kind of a shame given this is my main recreation? feels like id have made at least one lasting buddy out of the hundreds i played like #3 hours of sea of thieves with one time or something #now to circle back this could Perhaps be due to me not accepting friend requests #but i will circumvent this issue by means of not confronting it #anyway it's fun playing with randos. hoppin in a lobby of strangers is like a jack-in-the-box of the human experience #lots of austrailians on at my 3 am makes for great convos. i sure as hell aint meeting any out in this fuckin city #or anyone else in funky distant timezones #this place is a white suburban hell and this is nearly my only decent recreation and cultural exposure pls #IM NOT EVEN THAT COOL everytime it happens i think of the hercules hades “He's a GUY' line like cmon

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bitchycasenthusiast · 10 months

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It is so fucking hurtful to tell my mom and sister about my horrible experience with medication - how my suicidal ideation actually increased, how tired I was, how little I ate cause of how nauseous I felt — and have their takeaway be that they should look into taking those meds cause I look sooooo skinny now.

#my sister #whose a NURSE #heard my experience #and decided to take Prozac #just to get skinnier #despite not needing any mood inhibitors at all #it makes me so fucking mad #the response was not oh I’m sorry you were going through such a tough time #no it was you being medically induced into not eating anything for a month was worth it #it sucks it sucks it sucks it sucks #I know this is a larger cultural issue with fatphobia it’s not just my family #but I’m gonna be mad at my family anyway #personal

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buildarocketboys · 1 year

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Basically, overuse of machine translation is a symptom of a problem, not the problem itself. If my company stopped using machine translation for everything today, would that stop translators being underpaid or force companies to only ever produce good translations? Absolutely not. We would still be paid the same, and probably still be expected to produce the same amount of work at the same rate, but this time without a useful tool to make our work go faster. And if we couldn't keep up to those rates or the quality took a dip because of it (and it would, if only because having to work even faster would introduce more errors), then companies would simply go somewhere else where prices were lower or where they still use machine translation or, worst case scenario, actually not bother using a translator at all and just use machine translation which is what people in that post are scaremongering about in the first place!! As with literally every other industry, capitalism is the problem, but that doesn't get solved by attacking one aspect that, while it can have disadvantages and be used to devalue translators' work, is also an incredibly useful tool when used correctly.

#anyway I guess I should probably go join a union huh?#translation #I don't necessarily think those people in that post weren't connecting mt overuse to capitalism #but they were doing so in a way that hugely obfuscates the issue for any reader who isn't in the translation industry #translation isn't magic and while it can be an art and creative it's also...just a job like any other lol #and is therefore susceptible to the harms of capitalism like any other job #I don't work in literary translation - most translators don't #but i'm pretty sure the issue here is not like. Literature and poetry being machine translated #bc I seriously doubt mt is used in literary translation at all #it's mt being overused or used without oversight for job types that it would generally actually be useful for if used correctly #anyway sorry I'll stop ranting about this now but learn some fucking nuance and stop being swept away by outrage culture #especially if it's about something you don't personally have experience of bc you're likely to not understand what the actual issues are #and if you do understand what the issues are idk maybe actually explain them and don't flatten out the issues just to get people mad #anyway definitely shutting up now

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maiteo · 1 year

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maia what are your thoughts on this world cup? in general I mean, did you enjoy it? any surprises or disappointments?

ooh I have a lot of jumbled thoughts, my love, I’ll try to organize them in a legible way💕

I can’t say I didn’t enjoy it bc I love this goofy lil sport of course & I look forward to the wc whenever it rolls around. obvs the schedule was an issue. not a fan of it being right in the middle of the leagues seasons…that immediately worried me when it came to fitness/health etc. plus it was near my finals so I didn’t watch/pay as much attention to everything like I would during the summer schedule. & of course the never ending issues surrounding this tournament and location kinda felt like a cloud over something that’s supposed to be special. and the final…I just wasn’t moved. at all. lol.

ooof there were plenty surprises: I thought brazil would go further (potentially to the final), did NOT expect uruguay to get eliminated at group stages, didn’t even expect my tugas to make it out of the group😭, there were plenty of teams I imagined going further & they just. didn’t? or they were just lackluster.

on a more positive note! I think there were plenty of enjoyable moments too🫶🏽 absolutely LOVED watching all my club boys ball out, even if they weren’t on the pitch long, they made an impact when they were❤️ enjoyed watching moroccos run❤️ loved watching the non-euro teams show out on the world stage & show that they can hold their own even when people don’t believe they can, im very sentimental so seeing the fans always make me emosh, I love seeing their excitement/passions/culture come thru, my tugas gave me a lil hope of what the team could look like in the future. tbh that can be said about so many of the teams there like imagine how ‘26s gonna look..and whose gonna be there…

#answered #idk I feel like I’m forgetting something like I don’t think I covered everything😭#im excited for ‘26 tho I genuinely feel like anything can happen and any team is capable of making history #im obvs not ignoring the issues in this country & the culture surrounding⚽️😭 I’ve already seen some tales on that and…oh brother…#ily ily ily thank you for asking🫶🏽 did you enjoy it? did you enjoy the outcome?#sorry if this took long I kept reading over it and thinking I’m not mentioning something.. I think w time I can come up with somethg better

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bbeeohazardd · 12 hours

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jrwi fan community on twitter THE most annoying place on earth, my congolences to jrwicrew because good lird

#it's literally mainly just people complaining about stuff the crew decides or people being weirdly obsessive or other stuff like that #like literally you can tell these people were fans of the minecraft roleplay stuff back in 2020 just from the way they expect SO MUCH from #the crew when like bro they don't owe any of us shit #i esp feel bad for slime bc that dude has to deal with so many twitter brainrotted people getting mad at him for dumb shit #like fuck man if i ever somehow got to his level of popularity i'd get into trouble just from blocking and yelling at people for being-#-weirdly obsessive #augh idk i'm not trying to make any big points with this ig but if you're a fan just remember to have a level of separation #when it comes to the crew bc at the end of the day they're just a group of friends playing dnd while letting us watch that #constantly complaining about what the crew decide to do or not to do with their characters and campaigns is just an asshole thing to do #and being constantly obsessive(even on a small level) about what the crew are up to is just fucking creepy #tbf that last one is more of an issue of Slime's fans but still be normal and be chill #also for the love of god get off twitter get off twitter and detach yourself from twitter fan communities #i promise you that the moment you do that you'll have a much healthier view of fan culture and a healthier relationship with your interest #take my hand free yourself from the shackles of algorithm encouraged obsession #also if this somehow gets in the maintag due to tumblr's wretched posting system i'm so sorry

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genericpuff · 8 days

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Tbh at this point you should just make your own webcomic app/website because it would probably be 100 times better than whatever going on with webtoon right now.

hahaha it wouldn't tho, sorry 💀

Here's the fundamental issue with webcomic platforms that a lot of people just don't realize (and why they're so difficult to run successfully):

Storage costs are incredibly expensive, it's why so many sites have limitations on file sizes / page sizes / etc. because all of those images and site info have to be stored somewhere, which costs $$$.

Maintenance costs are expensive and get more so as you grow, you need people who are capable of fixing bugs ASAP and managing the servers and site itself

Financially speaking, webcomics are in a state of high supply, low demand. Loads of artists are willing to create their passion projects, but getting people to read them and pay for them is a whole other issue. Demand is high in the general sense that once people get attached to a webtoon they'll demand more, but many people aren't actually willing to go looking for new stuff to read and depend more on what sites feed them (and what they already like). There are a lot of comics to go around and thus a lot of competition with a limited audience of people willing to actually pay for them.

Trying to build a new platform from the ground up is incredibly difficult and a majority of sites fail within their first year. Not only do you have to convince artists to take a chance on your platform, you have to convince readers to come. Readers won't come if there isn't work on the platform to read, but artists won't come if they don't think the site will be worth it due to low traffic numbers. This is why the artists with large followings who are willing to take chances on the smaller sites are crucial, but that's only if you can convince them to use the site in favor of (or alongside) whatever platform they're using already where the majority of their audience lies. For many creators it's just not worth the time, energy, or risk.

Even if you find short-term success, in the long-term there are always going to be profit margins to maintain. The more users you pull in, the more storage is used by incoming artists, the more you have to spend on storage and server maintenance costs, and that means either taking the risk at crowdfunding (ex. ComicFury) or having to resort to outsider investments (ex. Tapas). Look at SmackJeeves, it used to be a titan in the independent webcomic hosting community, until it folded over to a buyout by NHN and then was pretty much immediately shuttered due to NHN basically turning it into a manwha scanlation site and driving away its entire userbase. And if you don't get bought out and try your hand at crowdfunding, you may just wind up living on a lifeline that could cut out at any moment, like what happened to Inkblazers (fun fact, the death of Inkblazers was what kicked off the cultural shift in Tapas around 2015-16 when all of IB's users migrated over and brought their work with them which was more aimed towards the BL and romancee drama community, rather than the comedy / gag-a-day culture that Tapas had made itself known for... now you deadass can't tell Tapas apart from a lot of scanlation sites because it got bought out by Kakao and kept putting all of its eggs into the isekai/romance drama basket.)

Right now the mindset in which artists and readers are operating is that they're trying way, way too hard to find a "one size fits all" site. Readers want a place where they can find all their favorite webtoons without much effort, artists wants a place where they can post to an audience of thousands, and both sides want a community that will feel tight-knit. But the reality is that you can't really have all three of those things, not on one site. Something always winds up having to be sacrificed - if a site grows big enough, it'll have to start seeking more funding while also cutting costs which will result in features becoming paywall'd, intrusive ads, creators losing their freedom, and/or outsider support which often results in the platform losing its core identity and alienating its tight-knit community.

If I had to describe what I'm talking about in a "pick one" graphic, it would look something like this:

(*note: this is mostly based on my own observations from using all of these sites at some point or another, they're not necessarily entirely accurate to the statistical performance of each site, I can only glean so much from experience and traffic trackers LMAO that said I did ask some comic pals for input and they were very helpful in helping me adjust it with their own takes <3).

The homogenization of the Internet has really whipped people into submission for the "big sites" that offer "everything", but that's never been the Internet, it relies on being multi-faceted and offering different spaces for different purposes. And we're seeing that ideology falter through the enshittification of sites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. where users are at odds with the platforms because the platforms are gutting features in an attempt to satisfy shareholders whom without the platforms would not exist. Like, most of us aren't paying money to use social media sites / comic platform sites, so where else are they gonna make the necessary funds to keep these sites running? Selling ad space and locking features behind paywalls.

And this is especially true for a lot of budding sites that don't have the audience to support them via crowdfunding but also don't have the leverage to ask for investments - so unless they get really REALLY lucky in EITHER of those departments, they're gonna be operating at a loss, and even once they do achieve either of those things there are gonna be issues in the site's longevity, whether it be dying from lack of growing crowdfunding support or dying from shareholder meddling.

So what can we do?

We can learn how to take our independence back. We don't have to stop using these big platforms altogether as they do have things to offer in their own way, particularly their large audience sizes and dipping into other demographics that might not be reachable from certain sites - but we gotta learn that no single site is going to satisfy every wish we have and we have to be willing to learn the skills necessary to running our own spaces again. Pick up HTML/CSS, get to know other people who know HTML/CSS if you can't grasp it (it's me, I can't grasp it LOL), be willing to take a chance on those "smaller sites" and don't write them off entirely as spaces that can be beneficial to you just because they don't have large numbers or because they don't offer rewards programs. And if you have a really polished piece of work in your hands, look into agencies and publishing houses that specialize in indie comics / graphic novels, don't settle for the first Originals contract that gets sent your way.

For the last decade corporations have been convincing us that our worth is tied to the eyes we can bring to them. Instead of serving ourselves, we've begun serving the big guys, insisting that it has to be worth something eventually and that it'll "payoff" simply by the virtue of gambler's fallacy. Ask yourself what site is right for you and your work rather than asking yourself if your work is good enough for them. Most of us are broke trying to make it work on these sites anyways, may as well be broke and fulfilled by posting in places that actually suit us and our work if we can. Don't define your success by what sites like Webtoons are enforcing - that definition only benefits them, not you.

#my favorite out of these is comicfury because it gives you the most control out of all of them #and you can offer monetization tools like ads and patreon links #it also offers super easy tools to help build your own site if you're new to that #it's as close to “running your own site” as comic hosting can get #but you can also learn how to run your own site if you want undeniably full control without fear of the platform host shuttering #also look into collectives like SpiderForest!#they basically operate as a co-op where people host their work with them and get ad opportunities #but you have to apply to get in #ama #ask me anything #anon ama #anon ask me anything #webcomic tips

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bigendershadowthehedghog · 1 year

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to the person in my askbox trying to accuse my mom of child abuse for homeschooling me: reevaluate the way you interact with people online please. also why do you phrase it like texas is the only place to exist

#not posting it because theyre off anon and i dont want anyone going after them this isnt a big thing and i dont want them getting harrassed #also im sorry if i come off rude here but like #in the tags of the homeschooling poll i literally said i dropped out because the TEACHERS were abusing me #like my mom had me drop out because none of the teachers followed safeguarding rules and i was actually in danger #i was having severe blackouts and getting out of school and none of the teachers did anything about it #even though anything couldve happened i couldve gotten hit by a car someone couldve kidnapped me ect ect #and none of those things happened but i dont know what went on in those blackouts so anything couldve happened in that time #and when i wasnt having blackouts the teachers were lying to both me and my parents #and they did this with another kid too #like i get your point but i wouldve been in more danger if i stayed #and i couldnt have transferred to another school because all the ones in the area have full waiting lists or are notably WORSE for safety #so i promise you my mom is not trying to homeschool me to isolate me i actually felt more isolated when i was in school than i do now #she has her issues sometimes and i can rightfully point those out but i promise she is definetly not abusing me #i know theres a whole different culture arround homeschooling in america but like i even said i dont live in america. i live in the uk #i also never mentioned texas at any point idk where you got that from #i understand that homeschooling CAN be used for abuse however this is not the case here

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fairuzfan · 7 months

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This post is for the anon who sent me that video asking me to debunk it's claims so they can be better equipped against accusations of antisemitism.

Sorry, I won't post the video since I refuse to have that man on my blog but I can give you common Zionist talking points and the illogicality behind it.

To preface: most of the questions Zionists will ask you are a trap, and will make you fall into a "rabbit hole" (as I was once told when I was younger), as we try to apply their reasoning. My advice is to ALWAYS center the humanity of Palestinians. For example, when a Zionist says:

"Don't Jews deserve a homeland to be safe?"

It fundamentally ignores the core issue: Palestinians are being raped, murdered, and expelled from their homes so that the establishment of this so called "homeland" may exist. When people ask this to you, I personally advise saying something like:

Why must Palestinians suffer for the establishment of this homeland?

Always recenter to the issue at hand—the inhumane removal and treatment of Palestinians.

"Palestine belongs to the Jews and Not Muslims"

The whole premise of this claim is flawed—there is a weird tendency to equate Arab/Palestinian=Muslim when it just is like. Completely untrue. There are Palestinian Christians, Bethlehem is famously a Christian city, who have been there for centuries. There are Palestinian Jews, who have been there for centuries. There are Palestinian Muslims, who have been there for centuries. My grandpa told me stories of how he would turn on lamps for his Jewish neighbors in Al-Khalil (or Hebron) during Shabbat.

To claim that Palestine is EITHER Islamic or Jewish doesn't make any sense and completely neglects the fact that dissemination of culture has occurred for centuries, as well as the intermingling of people throughout generations. To somehow assert that for some reason, Jews and Muslims did not have ANYTHING to do with each other—did not create together, did not build families together, did not build culture together, all while being PALESTINIAN—is incredibly racist and nonsensical. "Palestinian" is not a religious identity—it's a cultural and ethnic one.

Also, it does not negate the core issue—Palestinians are being killed, removed, and tortured so that others can live on that land.

"Well what about [something about partitioning land]?"

Honestly like, who cares about the partitioning throughout the 1900 and early 2000s. Sorry, I'm not going to list the whole "partitioning" history nonsense. The whole reason "Israel" exists is because of a Mass Exodus, murder, and rape of Palestinians. Everything after that is rendered obsolete.

"Well, I heard Palestinians allied with Hitler"

I don't know how to tell you this but Palestine was under British Control. No they didn't.

"Israel withdrew from the Gaza and left them to themselves and they put Hammas in charge"

Oh yeah, Israel totally left Gaza, that's why Gazans' water, electricity, internet, and food is completely controlled by Israel (this is sarcasm, Israel still controls basic life in Gaza).

Go back to centering the idea that no human deserves to be shoved into an open-air prison, starved, and controlled. Did you know that the Zionist Entity controls the amount of water Gazans receive, as well as counting their calories to ensure they don't have enough energy on a day to day basis?

"I heard Israel asked Arabs to stay"

Show them these papers and videos when they say this:

youtube

If you can't show them these videos, check in the next point what to say.

"Well the Palestinians left of their own will in 1948"

Palestinians in 1948 didn't "leave." They had heard of how the Zionist Entity was slaughtering Palestinians en masse. Women especially heard stories of rape and sexual violence. They fled from *violence*. Again, from an earlier post, that this was a calculated effort on the Zionist Entity's part to try and get them to "leave" on their own and "abandon" their houses so that they can come in and say "hey, they left on their own so, we can come in and take their houses now."

Anyways, the idea that once you leave your house you can't ever come back to it is incredibly odd to me as an argument on Zionists' part. Like if you leave your house right now to go to the grocery store and you come back and see someone in your house and they're like "sorry dude, this is my house now, you left so that means you can't come back," you'd be like, "what the hell!" It would be even weirder if everyone agreed with the guy who took your house, which is what happened to Palestinians.

In Al-Khalil, or Hebron, Palestinians always have to have someone stay in their house or else a Settler will come in and take it from them. So it still goes on today as well.

This is not a point, but when that one person in the video said "Arabs lived under Israeli rule" and showed a clip of a bustling city with mountains, I'm pretty sure that was Amman, Jordan, not Palestine lol. Those buildings in the mountains look like how downtown Amman builds the residential areas. Could be wrong tho.

"There are no Jews living under Palestinian rule in Palestine"

What is this, some sort of gotcha argument? What are they trying to prove, the racist (obviously false) notion that Palestinians hate Jews as a whole? How do they know no Palestinian Jew lives in Gaza? Also, Settlers in Palestinian Territory exist??? I had never heard this claim before, its incredibly stupid lol. You're automatically a citizen of "Israel" if you're Jewish, whether or not you live in or outside of Palestinian Territories. So of course technically they don't live under Palestinian rule, they're granted full rights as an "Israeli" citizen automatically!

Go back to talking about the inhumane treatment of Palestinians, I wouldn't bring up the above counterpoint unless they really won't let it go since the main point is mistreatment.

"Why are Christians supporting Israel then, if it's a secular issue rather than a religious one?"

Well actually for a couple reasons:

Oil interests and regional control of goods (White People Supporting White People).

Weird fundamentalist ideology where they want to enact the second coming of Christ.

And finally because they are racist and don't think Arab Christians deserve to live. They literally bombed a 1500+ year church the other day. Why would (White) Christians cosign that.

Anyways, its a stupid argument again, because it forgets the core issue of Palestinians dying and being displaced.

In summary, always go back to the point of centering the Palestinians being displaced, tortured, and murdered, no matter the argument a Zionist gives you.

#palestine #gaza #info post #maybe i should do a masterpost with links to palestine education #maybe later #Youtube

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daybringersol · 2 months

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as someone in the aro community (and i think this is also applicable to the ace community, which is why y’all are included), i think there is something to be said about people trying to find a moral explanation to their repulsion. in a some situations, it is helpful and there is a conversation to be had about it but in a lot of others, it’s just recycled purity culture, i’m going to be honest.

before you send a post about how you think it’s actually exhibitionist to kiss in public, or predatory to talk about people you want to sexually pursue with your friends, please ask yourself first if there is genuinely something wrong morally going on there, or if it’s just something that grosses you out. it’s completely okay if it’s something that grosses you out. you don’t need to make up a moral reason behind it. you can just say ‘it grosses me out’ and find a way to remove yourself from that situation, for exemple, by looking away, or asking your friends to not talk about those topics around you (if they refuse, that’s another problem entirely and you should get better friends).

it is as unhealthy for allo people to repress their romantic and/or sexual attraction than it is for us to repress our aromanticism and/or asexuality. this isn’t like an theoretical extrapolation, this is a proven phenomenon, we’ve seen it with the catholic church. i understand and empathize with the fact that it feels like all of this is forced upon us, because it is, but there is a difference between someone telling us ‘i like this’ and someone telling us ‘you’re weird/broken if you don’t like this’.

anyways, sorry for the rant, i keep seeing posts in the aro and/or ace tags that try to justify their repulsion with morality, and i don’t want to single out anyone so i thought i’d make this post. there is no issue with posting about repulsion itself, for the record, it’s the moral justification that i think is unhelpful.

you don’t need any justification for your repulsion, you can just be repulsed. that’s fine.

#aromantic spectrum #aromanitc #aromance #aro pride #aromaticism #aroace #acespec #ace pride #aceallo #aroallo #alloaro #alloace #asexuality #asexual spectrum #asexual #aromantic #romance repulsed #sex repulsed

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yandere-kokeshi · 4 months

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I remember you posted that you write alien vs predator now, so if possible could you write something about a yandere yautja x chubby!f!reader??? Like maybe she accidentally witnessed some them hunting on earth but as they were going to kill her another yautja grabbed her and ran or fought the others, he’s usually content just watching but she was threatened and he couldn’t stay away…. Or even just headcanons about them and what they’d be like as a partner

Sorry🫣

— Yandere Yautja with a female! chubby mate

Warnings: yandere behavior, talks about chubby reader, and yautja stuff.

A/N: I changed it up a bit and decided to write headcanons about having a darling who is chubby. I hope that’s alright :)

In his planet, or rather culture, female Yautja have a naturally larger and masculine build: muscular thighs, fit hands that’ll be thrown at anybody, and a good athletic build. But, since the day he saw you and touched you? He died at the second, and swore to protect you to all the Gods. And ensuring, you’d be his by the end of the night.

To get it easy — he sees no issue with your size. Generally sees you as a ‘plushy’ and more huggable, there’s nothing wrong with that.

But if he senses you being sad over your weight, he clicks in annoyance. How dare you insult yourself like that? Within seconds, he hikes you up on his shoulders by one hand, showing you that weight doesn’t mean a thing to him, so nor should you care.

It’s no surprise that Yautja’s love heat, and your beloved mate sees you as a heat source. He has to be touching you at every given moment, muzzling his face deeper into your belly rolls as you two sleep in.

Finds your stretch marks remarkable. Scars are a symbol of strength, and are praised highly in the culture and with your lovely Yautja, he views them as a form of scars.

Handsy to a capitalized H, and doesn’t know a thing of personal space. Your skin is so warm and soft, his paws squishing and handling you is his favorite hobby. Adores the scent you have, and uses your thighs as pillows.

Generally would love for you to go naked in the house. Nudity isn’t a source of shame in yautja culture, so he’d be confused if he sees you embarrassed. In all, he admires and wishes for the day to come; imagining himself pulling your clothes off, chirping and clicking in excitement as his hand covers your hips and addicting curves.

Very protective, and whilst that’s guaranteed with his aggressive stance, it’s mustered up a bit because of how gorgeous you are. He’s convinced that if any other ‘ooman, or yautja, sees you – they might get attracted and try to steal you away. He’s ready to fight and tear off limbs if must. Possessive to its finest.

Treats you with the finest things he can find and cook. He cooks you amazing food, ones that leave your mouth salivating, and wakes you up with breakfast in bed; admiring your sleep figure and messy hair from awakening.

Loves to dress you up in clothes, especially if it’s in pelts that he hunted for you. Admires looking at you from behind, smiling like he’s made the day, and stares you down like a mad-man. You’re just so cute, ‘ooman.

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