like i would enjoy being able to make my own fucking food and not sit there exhausted and dizzy and starving so like im pretty sure this isn’t a fucking issue of motivation here
doctor who fans who watched anything after season 6 are braver than any US marine
I thought I recognized this art so i looked at op’s blog
idk if y’all remember this homophobic mess of a comic. Granted people can change but op’s more recent stuff reflects the same views.
hi! wow, you have a good memory, this was almost a year ago!
I think you might have misinterpreted the comic. the joke was how she, an ace person, could forget something as obvious and familiar to other people as sexual attraction! I thought her reaction was so funny I suggested making a daily comic about it.
Lyd is my girlfriend! We’re in love! Passionate lesbian love. For four years now! Since that comic we moved in together and we’ve started building savings for our life together! We talk online (Twitter, we don’t really use tumblr) about struggles we face, homophobia, lesbian history and representation, and the intersection of being gay with being ace, not ace, gender conforming, and gender non-conforming. That comic you’re saying is homophobic might look like it to someone without the context of our life, and maybe it did cause a sapphic woman to feel alienated due to her sexual attraction. I understand that because I’ve felt that way many times from the words of both lgbt and non-lgbt people alike. But it was an accident, and while that can’t take away the damage, I promise that Lyd’s comics showing our happy life together, our posts online, even our youtube channel all do infinitely more good for fellow sapphic women and other lgbt people than this comic did bad. Lyd apologized for the misunderstandings and lack of clarity.
Please stop holding other lgbt people to an impossibly high standard. We have so many enemies in this world, the last thing we need is to be attacking each other for the smallest infractions.
It’s worth noting that Kenneth spent the entire episode making the game (and the subsequent fight) as inclusive as possible for JJ and his disabled friends (all of whom were played by disabled actors/actresses).
BONUS:
Bonus #2
Of course I had to show the best part:
Transcript: screencaps from ABC’s Speechless. JJ, a teenager with cerebral palsy, is playing a movie trivia game with Kenneth, his aide. Kenneth reads the card “What was Pierce Brosnan’s first James Bond movie?” He immediately answers his own question: “GoldenEye! In your face!” JJ, using his laser pointer, more slowly spells out GoldenEye on his communication board, and then gives Kenneth a very dirty look. “Okay, perhaps this isn’t the most inclusive trivia experience,” Kenneth admits. “How to level this playing field?” Kenneth reads out another trivia card: “Michael Myers’ mask was based on the face of what famous actor?“ Now both Kenneth and JJ are using laser pointers.
Bonus: JJ’s friend Aiden, a visually impaired teenager, says “Can we play?” Cut to Aiden, holding his cane, and JJ’s other friends, all also disabled teenagers. “Huh, let’s see,” Kenneth says. “Visual impairment, hearing impairment, Down syndrome, autism, and a walker. How to make this game fair for these beautiful kids?” Once they’re all ready to play: “Well, everyone has a laser and a letter board. Aiden, your letter board is extra large so you can read it. We’ll present all questions aurally and visually so hearing won’t be an issue.”
Bonus 2, the best part: Aiden says “You want to go?” Kenneth hastily gets between Aiden and JJ. “Whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no, no, no. Okay, guys, listen. This is a game, not a brawl.“ JJ spells out “What if we want a brawl?” One of the other teenagers, a girl, says “I know I do,” flapping emphatically. “Hmm,” Kenneth says. “What accommodations can I devise to allow these gorgeous youths an equal-opportunity death-match?”
Sometimes i think about the idea of Common as a language in fantasy settings.
On the one hand, it’s a nice convenient narrative device that doesn’t necessarily need to be explored, but if you do take a moment to think about where it came from or what it might look like, you find that there’s really only 2 possible origins.
In settings where humans speak common and only Common, while every other race has its own language and also speaks Common, the implication is rather clear: at some point in the setting’s history, humans did the imperialism thing, and while their empire has crumbled, the only reason everyone speaks Human is that way back when, they had to, and since everyone speaks it, the humans rebranded their language as Common and painted themselves as the default race in a not-so-subtle parallel of real-world whiteness.
In settings where Human and Common are separate languages, though (and I haven’t seen nearly as many of these as I’d like), Common would have developed communally between at least three or four races who needed to communicate all together. With only two races trying to communicate, no one would need to learn more than one new language, but if, say, a marketplace became a trading hub for humans, dwarves, orcs, and elves, then either any given trader would need to learn three new languages to be sure that they could talk to every potential customer, OR a pidgin could spring up around that marketplace that eventually spreads as the traders travel the world.
Drop your concept of Common meaning “english, but in middle earth” for a moment and imagine a language where everyone uses human words for produce, farming, and carpentry; dwarven words for gemstones, masonry, and construction; elven words for textiles, magic, and music; and orcish words for smithing weaponry/armor, and livestock. Imagine that it’s all tied together with a mishmash of grammatical structures where some words conjugate and others don’t, some adjectives go before the noun and some go after, and plurals and tenses vary wildly based on what you’re talking about.
Now try to tell me that’s not infinitely more interesting.
i find it fascinating how you said to stop thinking of common as “english, but in middle earth” and then proceeded to… precisely describe english, but in middle earth
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