Neopronouns are not a “tumblr fad”. Gender neutral pronouns other than they/them have existed in the English language for actual centuries. They are not harmful to the trans community.

To those who are against neopronouns, you’re acting against the evolution of a language and acting against something that’s been around for far longer than you’ve been alive.

To those who use neopronouns, your pronouns are not harmful. You do not deserve to be made to feel ashamed for your pronouns.

Op you can’t just drop this and expect us to not ask what the old school gender neutral pronouns were!!! How on earth are all my nb friends gonna pick the dapper pronouns????

I found these doing VERY minimal research:

•Ey/Em/Eir (1975, created by Christine M. Elverson)

•E/Em/Es (1890, created by James Rogers)

•Per/Pers/Perself (1976, Used in a novel by Marge Piercy)

•Thon/Thos/Thonself (1858, Created by Charles Crozat Converse)

•Ve dates back to 1980

•Xe dates back to 1973

•In 1789, William Marshall confirmed the use of both“a” and “ou” as a replacement for he/she/they and even i.

•Co/Coself (1970, created by Mary Orovan)

•Ne (1850, appeared in print in 1884)

•En (1868, mentioned by Richard Grant White)

•Han/Hans/Hanself (1868)

•Un/Uns/One (1868)

•Se/Sis/Sim (1884)

•Hesh/Hiser/Himer (1879)

•Hi/Hes/Hem (1884)

•Le/Lis/Lim (1884)

•Hersh/Herm (1884)

•Ip/Ips (1884)

•Hae/Haes(Hais)/Haim (1884)

•Tha/Thare/Them(Thon) (1885)

•Zyhe/Zyhe’s/Zyhem (1885)

•Ir/Iro/Im (1888)

•De/Der/Dem (1888)

•Hor/Hors/Horself (1890)

•Ith/Iths (1890)

Sources for these as well as many others that I didn’t add due to the list getting too long can be found here.

An interesting note is that in the modern language a lot more people use neopronouns then you would expect!

•Yo is a majorly African American pronoun coined in 2004 and used by Middle School students In Baltimore, Maryland.

•Fae/Faer, coined in 2014, is used by 4.3% of participants in the 2019 Gender Census.

Plus a vast variety of newly coined pronouns that you will have seen commonly floating around!

Neopronouns have existed and been recorded for a long time, they are not a new concept, nor are they mogai or a tumblr concept. They are not modern, there have just been many modern adaptions to already existing pronouns.

Lesbian flag Seychellized.

All pride flags should be like this

seychellizes your flag

yeah okay ill reblog that!!

composited

im peer reviewing these ones (@notpukichosadly)

Okay this but with a blue shell+shrapnel, pink explosion beams and a white background would be a sick MtF logo.

Give me 10 minutes.

Hey @whalesharkcat I did it :3

rare vent art from a few months ago

I feel this!!! Also love how you muted the color along the way, I think it makes it that much more impactful!

This is the thing!

babe are you okay you rb'ed “you’re too loud” 15 times today

drawing people i see in the city (47/?) lil dude also had the best conversation opener:

“Lilo and Stitch” 2002

Deleted Scene

Lilo plays a trick on the tourists.

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Can’t help but think of the @argumate thread that strong borders is inherently xenophobic. It’s not, politely turn away criminals and drug runners at the border. It’s byzantine, arbitrary, cruel, and designed to be maximally financially exploitive. Designed to create that underclass who can’t dream of anything better because it’ll expose them to torture.

right, strong borders don't stop criminals, they create criminals.

One thing I didn't know is that if you say, "Okay, I'll buy a plane ticket home with my own money, when do I go"

They say, "No, we have to keep you in America and torture you."

Lord knows what the guards tell themselves at these places, but from what I can tell the general Republican response is a combination of "That's not true, we're actually really nice." and "If you cross the border illegally you knew we were going to do this to you so it's your fault, not ours.

Something I didn't absorb on my first reading is how many of these people were detained because their current visa was fine, but their previous visa had an issue. Or were detained while attempting to leave the country. Or attempting to get a visa to get into the country. Or applying for asylum.

And for this they are tortured for weeks or months at a time.

Not even deported! Even the ones who are willing to spend their own money on a ticket out of the country are instead imprisoned here, indefinitely, because the government will pay some contractor to torture them. Can't afford social security or Medicaid but we always have enough money to torture people for no reason.

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Can’t help but think of the @argumate thread that strong borders is inherently xenophobic. It’s not, politely turn away criminals and drug runners at the border. It’s byzantine, arbitrary, cruel, and designed to be maximally financially exploitive. Designed to create that underclass who can’t dream of anything better because it’ll expose them to torture.

right, strong borders don't stop criminals, they create criminals.

One thing I didn't know is that if you say, "Okay, I'll buy a plane ticket home with my own money, when do I go"

They say, "No, we have to keep you in America and torture you."

Lord knows what the guards tell themselves at these places, but from what I can tell the general Republican response is a combination of "That's not true, we're actually really nice." and "If you cross the border illegally you knew we were going to do this to you so it's your fault, not ours.

Something I didn't absorb on my first reading is how many of these people were detained because their current visa was fine, but their previous visa had an issue. Or were detained while attempting to leave the country. Or attempting to get a visa to get into the country. Or applying for asylum.

And for this they are tortured for weeks or months at a time.

Not even deported! Even the ones who are willing to spend their own money on a ticket out of the country are instead imprisoned here, indefinitely, because the government will pay some contractor to torture them. Can't afford social security or Medicaid but we always have enough money to torture people for no reason.

The Five Beasts

i think about them so often

“Made ya look!”

I have never hit ‘reblog’ so fast in my life.

Got me everytime!]

So I got bored and made it transparent

bless u

If you don’t have room for Genie on your blog, I can’t love nor follow you

RELEVANT TO THIS BLOG

average friend gathering experience

I feel like with the new ~fandom drama~ or whatever going around, I should re-introduce my favorite theory of fandom, which I call the 1% Theory.

Basically, the 1% Theory dictates that in every fandom, on average, 1% of the fans will be a pure, unsalvageable tire fire. We’re talking the people who do physical harm over their fandom, who start riots, cannot be talked down. The sort of things public news stories are made of. We’re not talking necessarily bad fans here- we’re talking people who take this thing so seriously they are willing to start a goddamn fist fight over nothing. The worst of the worst.

The reason I bring this up is because the 1% Theory ties into an important visual of fandom knowledge- that bigger fandoms are always perceived as “worse”, and at a certain point, a fandom always gets big enough to “go bad”. Let me explain.

Say you have a small fandom, like 500 people- the 1% Theory says that out of those 500, only 5 of them will be absolute nutjobs. This is incredibly manageable- it’s five people. The fandom and world at large can easily shut them out, block them, ignore their ramblings. The fandom is a “nice place”.

Now say you have a medium sized fandom- say 100,000 people. Suddenly, the 1% Theory ups your level of calamity to a whopping 1000 people. That’s a lot. That’s a lot for anyone to manage. It is, by nature of fandom, impossible to “manage” because no one owns fan spaces. People start to get nervous. There’s still so much good, but oof, 1000 people.

Now say you have a truly massive fandom- I use Homestuck here because I know the figures. At it’s peak, Homestuck had approximately FIVE MILLION active fans around the globe.

By the 1% Theory, that’s 50,000 people. Fifty THOUSAND starting riots, blackmailing creators, contributing to the worst of the worst of things.

There’s a couple of important points to take away here, in my opinion.

1) The 1% will always be the loudest, because people are always looking for new drama to follow.

2) Ultimately, it is 1%. It is only 1%. I can’t promise the other 99% are perfect, loving angels, but the “terrible fandom” is still only 1% complete utter garbage.

3) No fandom should ever be judged by their 1%. Big fandoms always look worse, small fandoms always look better. It’s not a good metric.

So remember, if you’re ever feeling disheartened by your fandom’s activity- it’s just 1%, people. Do your part not to be a part of it.

i have a new art piece to share it’s called ‘friendship’ i hope you enjoy it

Absolutely not a new observation but i love that the toki pona word for animal, "soweli," is written like this

fuck man that sure is

i showed this post to my boyfriend last time i saw it (because hes a linguistics nerd in general and a toki pona nerd in specific) and i am delighted to inform everyone that all the words for various types of animals are little fuckin dudes

@creatures-in-posts

Confirmed creature post

a personal favorite of mine

okay you know those virtual science labs they made you do in high school?

i bet they’d have mad science versions at evil high school

You know what? I’m going to take a stab at making an evil version.

They’re basically glorified slide shows, so I should be able to do it with my current skill set

excited to see where this goes

I’ll probably use the same style that I used here for it:

IT'S HAPPENING

update: you can fuck up

fun fact: it’s basically feature complete at the moment. I just need to make all the art for it

last sneak peek I swear

about 36% done with the art and animations 🙏

My first pass on the graphics is nearly done!

I still want to add some flashy effects, as well as program in some additional text to give more context and information to make it more educational 😈

I might also spend some time doing a second pass on the graphics to re-structure some scenes and add in more hand-pixeled details, but we’ll see how exhausted I am by the time I finish the first pass

The game is now in a presentable state— I just have to wait for PayPal to finish up with its bullshit so you guys can give me tips if you’d like, and so I can offer bonus content

LET'S FUCKING GOOOO

(game is free, but you're welcome to donate! I also have some bonus content if you do)

Would you mind if i streamed this on twitch? Im fascinated by the premise

Please do! Just give me a link to it so I can see