@anitmata
@beneprism.rip's Canadian girlfriend. I am going through some stuff. Semiotics, Assyriology, literature, writing, and border collies. Liberal. Words mean how they're used. Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.
"why do I feel so tired all the time? why is it so hard to sleep? why can't I get my life in order? what's wrong with me?"
-trans woman living through a largely unacknowledged internal trans refugee crisis
three panel comic from Achewood, Téodor Orezscu walks into a room and says "Hey guys! Guess who just got... yelled... at..." except "yelled at" has been replaced with "referred to the MH crisis team"
don't ever tell a psych about the frozen tomato that made you wanna ███
The thing about advice is that people seldom take it
The continued assault on sexual expression online should in fact be fought against by pointing out things like the existence of trans people being called pornographic by fascists.
But it bums me out that "I'm not fucking hurting anyone, please don't take something I hold so dear away" won't do shit
There it is. Fuck us sideways.
160 minutes into the flight.
As we descend through opaque clouds of ice crystal we see below...
It's fucking Toronto. FUCK!
Using a crowbar to pry the metal panels off the side of a bus so I can harvest the succulent busmeat within
I had criteria:
1. Starts with 'M' (like my deadname)
2. Feels appropriate for a woman of my age, temperament, & cultural background
3. Common enough that I don't have to explain how to spell or pronounce it
4. Ideally has a short but feminine nickname, if long
5. Not a family member or ex's name
What about Mulva
I read a list of women's names starting with M and the moment I saw "Marceline" I was sure that was it. "Marcy" just fit like a glove. There was a bit of indecision about -y vs -ie but I felt like I picked the right one. And I do have French ancestry as well as Irish (not that it really matters).
Ultimately I don't say "X is nonbinary" because of this problem (I wasn't joking): bsky.app/profile/anit...
I preach loud and long that meaning is contextual and intensional definitions are always a trap. I'm kind of a bore about it actually.
I thought you might say that. I think there's less difference than one might imagine.
Grammatical genders are useful linguistic categories, same as assigned genders. They influence how we think about nouns. I think of sports cars in French as ...well, femmy.
...wait what DO they mean
In English. What about in French
I’ve been gradually rebuilding things that Jaz used to host that are interesting to me. Here’s an interactive version of the Firehose; every post everywhere, in real time, with filtering options and sentiment analysis (no AI involved)
REE$E (@reesebepuffing) on twitter: "a beautiful chinese woman named Deer Xing is communicating with me through road signs"
Neil Renic @NC_Renic: Junior scholars: "l feel awkward citing myself" Senior scholars: "as I cleverly argued (1988; 1991), admirably reiterated (1993; 1995; 1996); and handsomely concluded (2001; 2004; 2007)..."
Hey Mandy was cool
(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa) BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history. REGINALD: Wow! What's it do? BEARTATO: It... what? REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do? (Beartato thinks.) BEARTATO: I don't know. REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do? EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this! (The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet) MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk! (Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)
True Art
today has been so dumb. started with grandpa hollering “unconditional surrender”, then he takes a nap and a flunkie says “we must follow Derrida and focus on the inherent instabilities and oppositions inside the term ‘unconditional surrender’”
...did you do a sermon on a mount once
*likes this skeet* hey waitaminnit
God is a blue-haired theyfab with little round Lenin glasses and wears a lot of flannel
You've put serious thought into this
I was asked to place the T800 on this chart of clueless time travel hunks. In this ranking “posh” will just represent “polite graces”, like, is the appeal the visuals or the conversation
After I came out, some relatives accused me of disloyalty to the family and to our Armenian roots.
So I named myself one of the ancient poetic names for Armenia, and my middle name is that of Bagratid Armenia's capital.
"Claiming other people have agreed with me when they haven't is *my* thing"
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
