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ALT
ALTKings of communication: Mobei-Jun and Lan Wangji; and kings of misinterpretation: Shang Qinghua and Wei Wuxian.
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Today we were talking about how words can mean different things to different communities, and that people outside the community wouldn’t understand. Like how a non-poker player wouldn’t understand poker jargon the way other poker players would. Anyway, then my professor said he was gonna show us his “favourite example” and wrote a single word on the board that gave me instant psychic damage: beta.
Apparently sport climbers use this word with a meaning of “technique, method.” But for a horrifying, horrifying second there was the possibility in my mind that we were gonna talk about ABO in my fucking linguistics class
Professor Betas Georg, who writes 50k omegaverse fics during office hours, boldy wrote “beta” on the board while observing which of his students went dead. still.
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Love that Murderbot sees itself as the absolute worst most dangerous thing in any room at any given time
Except ☝️when a combat SecUnit or combat bot shows up
Then it’s a very sudden turn to “I am a mid sized herding breed and that is a fucking wolf. All my sheep and myself are going to die”
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writing tip: searching “[place of origin]ish names” will get you a lot of stuff and nonsense made up by baby bloggers.
searching “[place] census [year]” will get you lists of real names of real people who lived in that place.
I feel like I’m constantly shilling for them but BehindTheName.com, the only baby name site that doesn’t feel like it’s run by mommy bloggers, includes census-based graphs for dozens of countries/regions (though not all of them go back very far yet)
And you can expand them to see rank, number of babies, and percentage of babies and add a second name to compare. (in 1973 four percent of babies were named Jennifer! 1 in 25!!!)
Also this. Cursed.
@homoqueerjewhobbit what name did you search for your example, and what’s going on with Moldova?
Those are the graphs for Samuel. They only have 1 year’s data for Moldova right now, so that’s why it’s a straight line. Similarly, they only have 2 years for Mexico right now. The US goes back to 1880. I’m not sure how much of that is publicly available/translated records and how much of it is that it’s like 1 or 2 guys maintaining a website of 27000 names and a finite amount of time to format and upload.
You can’t advertise BehindTheName for writers without mentioning the advanced search! You can search names based on cultural origin and usage, gender (including unisex), meaning, and even things like meter and number of syllables, or famous namesakes (you can also see a list of famous namesakes on every name’s page, along with meaning, history, related names, alternate spellings in different languages, the above popularity graphs, and more).
I wouldn’t even call BehindTheName a baby name site. They have a surname sister site and a random name generator with tons of variables to set that is very clearly intended to be used for fictional characters (iirc it can even generate a cause of death? I haven’t looked at it in many years so it might have changed but these things predate generative AI so unless it’s been forcefully enshittified it shouldn’t be slop). Like, you can use it for baby names, but the website isn’t explicitly intended for that purpose. This website caters to us.
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“It’s okay that Rachel Reid writes mm romance because she’s bi”
No actually it’s okay for Rachel Reid to write mm romance because queer men are human and romance is a human experience and nobody owns any facet of the human experience over anyone else and we are all united by the human condition and the point of fiction is to explore the human condition you fucking weirdos.
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You make soup in a big bowl. You serve it in a smaller bowl. And then you convey it, using a spoon, to your mouth. But what is the spoon? Simply a smaller bowl still
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In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…
And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…
Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.
He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.
It’s incredibly sad people have to resort to this, but it’s a damn good resource. Use it. Spread awareness. Maybe one day people with physical disabilities won’t need DIYs like this. But until then, reblog and share.
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girl who finally is going back to reading by finishing one book: now i’m going to read all the books in the world.
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