Le sigh

All I want to do is reblog cute soft pretty pink things but I have stuff demanding my attention 😩

Unpopular opinion on this hellsite apparently but fiction has no rights.

Fictional people have no rights and no agency.

They are not equatable with real people - no matter their age, gender, sexuality, or presentation they do not need to be “protected” from anything.

Because they are not real

and if you think that fiction does have rights, then you are unable to tell fiction from reality and should probably get that looked at because it is not healthy in any way shape or form

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but word definitions are entirely subjective.  This is why one word can have several meanings and uses.  If something doesn’t fit the definition of a word, we can either make up an entirely new word or adjust the definition to be more accurate to what we’re describing.

You do not get to cry and scream about society “changing” the definition of language when language is ever evolving and new words and definitions are always being created.  Nor do you get to ignore or change the new definitions to fit your backwards way of being.

One of the downsides of following people who are vocally anti-terf and engage with them: occasionally Tumblr recommends me terfy radfems to follow.

Like no Tumblr I’m on the other side of that one

Anyway just a reminder that you don’t have to be lesbian to call yourself butch (or femme!!) and LGBT+ people of all stripes have used it throughout history.

Exclusionists how about you fuck off this time and don’t bother opening your mouth on my shit pls and thanks.

tired-fandom-ndn:

The more I learn about variations in languages, the more irritated I get at the idea of a universal or magical translator in media.

How do those account for differences in sentence structure? How do they translate words with no actual translations? What about words that DO have translations but have different connotations that aren’t part of a translation? What about words that have MULTIPLE translations depending on the context?

Would a magical translator translate 俺 as “I (strongly masculine)” or just as “I”? What if a character says something like おおかみ, which has two major meanings depending on how it’s written? Would a magical translator be able to understand the context enough to translate it correctly, know that they’re talking about kami as opposed to wolves?

Don’t mistake this for a complaint or demand for change or anything, it’s me desperately wishing that there were more issues with universal translators in media because it’s not only more realistic (and doesn’t essentially frame every language as either “English” or “Not English But It Can Be”) but there’s also a lot of fun comedic potential there.

I think this might be specifically why I like the Bable Fish from Hitchhiker’s - Douglas Adams was not shy about saying the story was supposed to be nonsensical and the translator fish that enters your brain through your ear fits that. It’s not science, or technology - it is a living organism, a parasite even, that lives in you and somehow has the ability to translate all languages. That’s all you get

The other major plot point is that Earth no longer exists, so the only Earth language left is Arthur Dent’s Very British English, and everything else is absolutely literally alien. Then the first alien language he encounters is Vogon - and the first thing we learn is that they have the worst poetry in the galaxy, capable of literally killing people upon hearing it. The scene is wonderfully silly as it is and I think the organic nature of the translator makes it more seamless than trying to work in tech or science.

To your point - I do wonder if the Babel Fish suffers the same painful convulsions during translation that the organism listening to the poetry experiences, or would it be “immune” due to being a parasite?

lvlbeginner:

so-far-with-this-puzzle:

hells-finest-gentleman:

noonecanmagentalikeyou:

xcuteikinz:

gryffindorgeek7777:

mad-piper-with-a-box:

thetomska:

giddytf2:

the-last-teabender:

Robin Thicke is unapologetic about how rapey ‘Blurred Lines’ is, meanwhile the dude who parodied it issues a public apology for one word.

And that is just one reason why I love Weird Al.

It’s great that he’s addressed this but are we really supposed to believe that NO ONE during the extremely lengthy processes of writing a song, recording it, mastering it and animating the music video wouldn’t have brought it up?

Excuse me but how the hell is spastic even remotely insulting?

So I just recently learned that in the UK calling someone spastic means the same thing as calling someone retarded, only much worse.

If it makes people in the UK feel any better, people in the US literally do not know this (like literally no one I have ever met and/or know). Here being spastic is usually meant to mean something along the lines of acting like a hyper-active child (like running around in circles yelling just because they feel like it please be quiet for just 2 minutes type of child). NOBODY here uses it as a slur.

Since Weird Al is a US musician and the US music industry is pretty non-international, yeah actually I think its entirely possible that none of the people who worked on this song actually knew that spastic was considered an awful slur in some parts of the world.

And I’m like 99.9999% sure that Weird Al is genuinely very sorry that he was accidentally offensive.

^^^^^

I just found out it is a slur by reading this.

Same, like chill everybody.

Australian seconding the US understanding

OK, so I do live in the UK and my name is Yasmin. My dear, beloved sister used to call me Spas as my nickname. (Which is short for spastic.) I found out that spas/spastic was a horrible thing to call someone when a git at school called me a spas and I joyfully replied that Spas was my nickname.

When I told my sister about this, it was the only time I have ever seen her apologise.

Please note being spastic is actually a symptom of some disorders.

My father IS spastic; it’s part of his CP. In this context, spasticity is abnormal muscle tightness due to prolonged muscle contraction. It is a symptom associated with damage to the brain, spinal cord or motor nerves, and is seen in individuals with neurological conditions, such as: Cerebral palsy (CP) or Multiple sclerosis (MS)

So my dad jokes about being spastic the same way I joke about my ADHD.

Context matters so much; a lot of people in my life are literally spastic. I can refer to them as such without it being a slur even if outsiders don’t know.

“We should bring back being pretenious; yes I am better than fans of X popular media”

“We should start gatekeeping cool things again”

“We need to -”

Congrats! You’ve reinvented hipsters!

It’s not like these attitudes have ever gone away first of all.

Secondly, I like myself a whole lot better when I just let myself enjoy what I like and I mind my own business.

So I’m going to be over here unironically enjoying the things people create and not thinking too hard about it.

Life is too short to care that much.

People who still treat you like you’re a kid after you turn 18 are so dangerous

unique-opportunity:

I’ve been a Raiders fan since 1998. They’ve not only been a laughingstock, but primarily THE laughingstock of the league for most of the last 20 years. WWE fans defending the disappointing Raw rating by saying they were up against the Raiders is unintentionally the funniest excuse they’ve used so far.

As a Bills fan I take some offense to your portrayal of the Raiders. We spent the longest time without a playoff game at all, and the Raiders have had more success in their time overall.

Anyway, you do not need dysphoria to be trans because there are as many ways of being trans as there is to being human. Xenogenders and neopronouns are totally valid and beautiful and counts as direct action to show what a joke gender is in the first place.

This is definitely going to be a controversial post but I think even if everyone involved is canonically a minor, I still think it’s really weird for minors to be making posts about how you can’t do certain things to the characters of an adult show.

We didn’t have a whole Sexual Revolution in the 1970s so that chronically online teenagers today can talk out their ass about how “bdsm is abuse” and “sex has no narrative purpose in media” and “wearing sexy clothes is non-consensually involving people in your relationship” 🙄

It’s crazy how “children should be mindful of adults in adult online spaces” is such a controversial take and by that I mean I hope any minor who disagrees with me gets grounded off the internet and banned from interacting with said adults.