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the part that scares me most about the supernatural fandom is when they need a certain gif to add to a post they know exactly where to find it or know exactly what episode of any of the nine whole seasons to make one

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Middle-Eastern paladin lady commission

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fascinated by this screenshot where they took out the poster's username and replaced it with a very small picture of alex the lion

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word of the day: duhra

Today’s Valya word is duhra, meaning “water.”

It may seem odd, but until today I didn’t actually have a word for water in Valya yet. A few days ago I even had an example sentence with “riverwater” and “seawater” in it, but those compounds are literally “riverstuff” and “seastuff.”

One of my goals for these word-of-the-day posts is to fill in some of the more obvious gaps in vocabulary, so now I do have a Valya word for water—sort of. It’s only used for freshwater, so safli “seastuff” would not count, though sangisi “riverstuff” would count, as would saswa “rainstuff.” More commonly, though, duhra is used for the water that people interact with everyday: water for drinking, washing, cooking, etc. If you go to the river, you can fill up a bucket with sangisi but once it’s in your home and being used, it’s duhra.

Duhra is also sometimes used for beverages other than water. Mostly in that sense it’ll appear as part of a compound, though—when duhra is used on its own, you can be pretty sure just “water” is meant.

Zu hnara dvala ha pa safli lu tluzahnu duhra di zvu tkhu ki? /zu n̥a.ra dva.la ha pa sa.fl̥i lu tɬu.za.n̥u du.r̥a di zvu tꭓu ki/ Did you know that seawater is just water with salt?

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more people with the same first name should date. i want to study the linguistical influence

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The Delineator magazine, July 1934

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I'm finished with art for the semester soooo here's what I've been workin on! All assets are my own. I used a DSLR camera along with Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint

⚠️Prints and stickers available here!

Feel free to send asks about the unaltered photos/photo locations, cause some of the original signs were pretty interesting tbh

⚠️Prints and stickers available here!

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I've told this story before but the non-negotiable in allyship really reminded me of my gaming group. So one of my best friends is a twin and while I know *her* pretty well I don't really know her brother as well despite knowing him for roughly same length of time. We play videogames together and her brother asked to join us so at some point I took him aside and had The Talk with him because we at that point had a recently out trans fem within the group and she had just barely started hormones and hadn't done any voice training etc so I fully intended to head any trouble off at the pass.

So I basically had the "respect my friend's pronouns or die by my sword" discussion because while he knows I'm a trans guy and had so far been chill, I didn't know if that extended to all trans people.

What I did not expect was for him to pull an uno reverse on me and invite his two trans woman friends to game with us as well and did a "no no, *you* respect *my* friends' pronouns or die by *my* sword".

When I was working at Petco, one of my coworkers came to me having a total panic and anxiety meltdown and when I finally got them to tell me what was going on, the revealed they had sought me out because they were having Transgender Feelings and wanted advice. I ended up giving them my old binders that were too small for me but a perfect fit for them, and one of my roommates gave them their first masc haircut.

A few weeks later a customer speaking Spanish was saying many nasty things about my coworker and reacting with disgust. Another coworker- a cis gay man who speaks fluent Spanish- came to get me first so I could pull the other coworker away while he effectively cussed them out in Spanish. He told us the sparknotes version of the English translation and it was mostly horrifically transphobic drivel. My coworker had responded mostly neutrally to me being trans, but for him to be visibly steamed the rest of the day over my other coworker definitely bumped my respect for him.

And I've talked about how a cis lesbian friend of mine visibly bristles at anyone she even thinks is being shitty to me about being trans to the point of making them splutter and back down.

A cishet woman I am only sort of acquaintances with once caught me wincing at being she/her'd at a trial and asked if that had been happening all day. When I responded the affirmative, she stormed off and I didn't see her the rest of the day. The next day, any time anyone referred to me there was an audible pause before a deliberate choice to choose masc versions.

Another trans woman who is a friend of mine once beat up a bully for calling her trans boyfriend a heshe when they were in schooling together.

It's about holding the line. It's about making the active choice to show up for each other. And it's about linking hands and refusing to budge.

If you cannot hold the line with me by your side, then we are not moving together.

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my phone thinks I’m dating emperor augustus

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'respectively' is such a good sentence modifier. it allows you to define lists in parallel and zip them

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Obsessed, OBSSESED with this Boris Artzybasheff series

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horsethoughtbarn 5 name

if horses werent called horses what do you think they should be called

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Nok

Nok is one of the simplest glyphs - two forms shown above.

Nok [nɔk˺] means ‘angle.’ Another meaning, going back into prehistory, is any major bendy part or joint of the body - particularly the knee, but others as well. Hence, nok i-noq ‘knee, leg-angle’ or nokh û-qaw ‘elbow, arm-angle.’

Above: nokh û-qaw

Nok also means ‘corner.’ From this sense it has extended to mean ‘area,’ ‘region,’ especially a peripheral, local place in contrast to a main, central place. This can be seen in expressions like yuk nok ‘regional speech - dialect’ or chip nok ‘regional cuisine.’

Left: Yuk nok Right: Phan nok

Nok2, written as a mountain over an angle, is another word, but possibly related to the first one. Now found in Yuk Notoq, and reflecting Tepat’s past in hill people, the nok of a mountain is a point on the ridge of a mountain, such as were a trail reaches the ridgeline, where the slope changes or the trail bends, and a good view is often possible.

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I need y'all to watch this clip

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Aldous Huxley in The San Francisco Examiner, February 18, 1933