let's all smile and make completely sound & rational decisions starting... now
person who assumes maleness as default and refuses to interrogate this: yeah this character has no gender, they're just a little Guy
ive always rly liked the idea of a member of a group of adventurers having what everyone assumes is very well trained hawk and then at the end of their journey its casually revealed that thats actually just his buddy whos a shapeshifter and just rly likes being a hawk
the guy also like thinks everyone knows bc he never tries to hide the fact that the hawk is a person but everyone assumes hes always just joking. like the others being like "damn its crazy how he knows exactly what you want him to do its like he knows english or something." and the guy is just like "well yeah thats his first language so ofc he's fluent??" and they all go "haha good one" and move on, leaving him confused
they just think hes a quirky guy that really loves his pet and says things like "the 9 of us" even tho there are clearly only 8 people! he just cares about the bird so much he counts it as a group member haha !
Archaeologist problems: slightly losing my mind laughing at this choice to translate the French "blé" (which I see as wheat; grain) throughout the English version of the book into "corn" as a generic cereal crop. Corn. A crop from the New World. In a book about houses in the Middle Ages when nobody in Europe knew what the hell "corn" was.
And then checking etymonline.com out of curiosity, and finding out that technically, yeah, "corn" isn't wrong, it's just kind of weird to use it this way in a 20thC context. WHAT.
I have seen "corn" used to refer to grain in multiple 20th-century works (not archaeological), thanks to the British.
Times like these I remember that Malcolm X quote about healing and how it requires acknowledging the knife is there. Things like "this isn't who we are" and "this is un-American" and "what are we? [insert another country]??" reveal a deep seated denial of American history and state-sponsored domestic terror that I'm just not gonna entertain anymore from leftists over the age of twenty.
i'm so fucking over it
Oh so you'd rather use eugenics on animals and abuse them instead? 🙄
i was about to get violent then i saw the handle im crying
