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i’m taking a break from tumblr. the frank iero fans sending hate have gotten too much. it’s literally not that serious. if any of my moots want to keep in touch, send me a message and we can message on discord or something.
i’ll probably be back at some point but i don’t need this level of brain rot festering around me when i’m trying to finish up the uni semester, so stick around if you want. or don’t. I can’t tell you what to do.
[Image of text saying,
Some AAVE speakers pluralize 'child' as 'childrens'. People get racist about this ("It's already plural!"), but 'children' actually comes from Middle English speakers doing the same thing: slapping their plural marker on word already pluralized by an extinct plural marker.
To oversimplify: in Old English, 'childer' ('ċildra') was the plural of 'child' ('ċild'). Middle English developed an '-en' plural marker, which we see in 'oxen'. Instead of updating to 'childen', people slapped their preferred '-en' onto the end of 'childer' - so now we have 'child-er-en'. AAVE carries on this tradition with 'child-er-en-s'.
"Pure" language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.
End ID.]
You know what?
My ancestors would have wanted pasteurization, vaccines, antibiotics, disinfectants, birth control, psychiatric medications, pain management, anesthesia. My ancestors would have wanted to be able to keep their loved ones around longer, and not lose them too early/too soon to childbirths, injuries, bacterial infections, mental illnesses, and diseases that are curable and/or preventable in our modern day life.
Modern medicine saves lives.
In fact, we know they did want these things, because they invented them. They gave them to us out of generations of struggling to understand and make use of nature itself. "Ancestral knowledge" includes the unglamorous things like germ theory, the functioning of the immune system, and how to manufacture lifesaving vaccines. It's not just magical or mystical or remote, it's present in our lives at every moment. It's the reward of human connection: the sum total of human discovery and the boundless ingenuity of human invention, surrounding us at all times with absolute miracles made banal by their familiarity.
If we reject modern medicine, then we reject all the labors and trials our ancestors went through for us; we reject our very nature.
Please, for your ancestors' sake: vaccinate your kids, and take your goddamn medicine.
kys
i will thanks
being a neurodivergent, queer māori means i'm used to having shit thrown at me.
it's slightly different when i'm having shit thrown at me by other neurodivergent queer people because i said their fave was (in his own words) a straight white man.
really puts life into perspective about what really matters.
via @swatercolor [insta]
This is the best tag I've ever received on a post, I think
frank iero is a straight man. he has described himself as such. I’m honestly so sick to death of “fans” labelling people. it’s like a reverse kit connor.
i think i’ve outgrown the mcr tumblr fandom which is heartbreaking (both literally and figuratively because like where the fuck did all these minors come from) but i’m just so done with how severe the parasocial relationships are.
lmao my inbox is full of raging stans 💀here’s the fuckin proof now leave me alone jfc
I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know
I think...you might be right
what the fuck
COMMUNITY 1.15, Romantic Expressionism
reverse gatekeeping. I am on my knees begging people to engage with the source material
I wasn’t required to give a speech, but I did give one.
i should wake up and automatically be restored to full health, that's how sleeping should work, what is this horseshit
