#LEFT HANDEDNESS

[fuzzsimp]

Current desktop setup :3

[verthrogic]

Needless to say, Thel’s vacation on earth was quite the experience.

[hypothermiatapes]

What do you think about the headcanon that Tom Riddle is left handed by nature, but forced to write with his right?

I’m all for it and it would make sense since left handedness has been associated with negative connotations historically (which is so odd because who actually cares?).

Often in the past it’s been associated with the devil, sin, weakness, uncleanliness, and other things like that, mostly negative. What I’m about to bring up is from short research so if I get something wrong please correct me since I haven’t been Christian in several years. Tom grew up in the 30s in Britain where Christianity was the most prevalent religion and we also know the time wasn’t accepting of those different.

The Bible puts a huge emphasis on the right hand due to it being the dominant hand of about 90% of the population. Gods right hand side is the most honorable position to be placed, it representing strength, and while his left hand side is still an honorable position it’s not like his right hand side. People depicted in the Bible who are left handed are few, but they’re often given very positive connotations.

Now, if the Bible is accepting of it why would it be considered sinful? That’s because left handedness isn’t the norm, isn’t the most honorable. People will take this knowledge and decide that means the left hand is the right hands opposite, that means it’s weak and dishonorable. And what is the most dishonorable thing in the Bible? Sin, the devil, things like that.

In 19th century Europe left handedness was associated with homosexuality, and I do not need to elaborate on how negative of a connotation that is during the time. While that was the 1800s, people in the 1930s will likely still associate it with that. In Scotland it’s considered unlucky to meet a left handed person before a journey, they called the Roman Catholics left-footers, and there’s a saying to describe an unlucky person which is: he must have been baptized by a left-handed Priest.

Throughout history there has been a large pressure on children to write with their right hands because it’s preferable. In the United States in the early 20th/21st (study I’m using only said earlier this century so I’m guessing) century it was said left handedness was a disease they needed to cure and they would hit the knuckles of kids who were caught using the left hand.

The English word for left originates from the Anglo-Saxon word lyft which means weak or broken. The Oxford English Dictionary defines left-handed as meaning crippled, defective, awkward, clumsy and inapt and is associated with stuff like underhand dealings. Left handed “compliments” are often insults like a “left-handed marriage” means an adulterous sexual liaison.

Anyways, I could go on for hours about this so I’ll leave the study I used here.

I think Tom being left handed would fit his character extremely well considering how he’s depicted as violent, scary, prideful, greedy and manipulative (sinful in other words). Dumbledore says he was bad from the start and almost acts like he was an omen which goes well with connotations attached to being left-handed.

Now, I can see him being forced to write right-handed since this is the 1930s we’re talking about, but I refuse to believe he just went with it. He likely practiced with his left hand in private and the moment he went to Hogwarts switched (did you know the left hand was also associated with witchcraft?). He also probably used it as evidence as to why he was better than everyone else.

[slime-crafters]

I just remembered left-handed controls are an option in some games, but as a left-handed gamer, I have never used them. I find it so strange because I also don't make left-handed characters, even if I have the ability to because it seems so awkward. I'm curious as to how other lefties play games, so please only vote if you are a left-handed/predominantly left-handed person

[nevermore-headcanons]

Oooooo a headcanon confessions blog for Nevermore the webcomic, those are fun. You people like those. Hopefully. I like getting asks

I will engage with every ask. I will “yes and” them. Or I will vehemently disagree with them if you say you’re up for a fight. I will not just post things

no nsfw if it’s sex things. gore is encouraged

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fall of the house of usher

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morella nevermore

left handedness

headcanon elaborated

[magnetothemagnificent]

Being left-handed is fun because you notice more how clothing companies cut corners.

For example. I bought a new pair of pants yesterday. I was very excited because on a quick glance, the pockets had an extra inner zipper pocket. I'm always after extra pockets. Well. I wore those pants today, and to my dismay only the *right* pocket had that extra zippered pocket. The left didn't. Because the company operated on the assumption that people would only really use and notice the right side.

This comes up a *lot* with pockets. The amount of clothes I've seen or own with only the right side having real or bonus pockets..... it's so annoying.

It's really a minor kvetch in the grand scheme of things but it's something that really bugs me.

[dracaspina]

Most of the Muppets are left-handed because most puppeteers are right-handed. They usually gesture with their left hands, but this is most obvious when playing instruments. (If you don't know, on guitar-like instruments you strum with your dominant hand.)

Kermit? Plays banjo left-handed.

The Electric Mayhem? Left-handed guitar and bass.

All the Muppets are lefties!

[wanderingmind867]

"Anyway," Sam continued, "Alex was angry and scared. After I dropped her off, I started to realize why. She's Genderfluid. She thought that if she became an einherji, she'd be stuck in one gender forever. She really hated that idea." "Ah," I said, which was short for I get it, but I don't really get it. I'd been stuck in one gender my whole life. It never bothered me. Now I wondered how that would feel for Alex. The only analogy I could come up with wasn't a very good one. My second grade teacher, Miss Mengler (aka Miss Mangler), had forced me to write with my right hand even though I was left-handed. She'd actually taped my left hand to the desk. My mom had exploded when she found out, but I still remembered the panicky feeling of being restrained, forced to write in such an unnatural way because Miss Mengler had insisted. This is the normal way, Magnus. Stop complaining. You'll get used to it.

This. Rick Riordan, you made Magnus incredibly relatable once again. You put in words here everything that I struggled with when I read these early scenes with Alex. The fact that I don't fully understand it, but I want to and try to. Magnus is experiencing that same thing, and it's nice to know i'm not alone. Also, I love the analogy. It's actually a great one. Sure, left-handedness isn't technically like being genderfluid. But I think my kindergarten teacher tried to force me to write with my right hand too (although only my dad would remember now), so I get it. I understand Magnus' struggle, and I therefore can use it to help myself understand Alex's struggle. I... thank you, Rick Riordan. This was really helpful.

[roses-of-the-romanovs]

Maria Nikolaevna, the Lefty

"Of course, it's more difficult to for Maria Nikolaevna and Anastasia Nikolaevna to write, but all the same, give them my greeting and my impatient expectation from them, a letter, especially from Maria Nikolaevna, from whom I have not received a line yet, and meanwhile I am wondering whether it is true that she forgot me and does not want to write because she is not allowed to write with her left hand, and the right one refuses to write. Yes, and please tell Maria Nikolaevna what I saw five days ago in a dream: her right hand index finger and little finger were bandaged. After all, that's what the thoughts mean. In the afternoon I puzzle in my head, why she does not write, but in my dream I see the reason I did not think about, because I know from your letters that you are all, thank God, healthy." - Petr Vasilievich Petrov to Olga Nikolaevna, 1909.

[your-favorite-wof-dragon-is]

EVERYONE IS LEFT-HANDED.

EVERYONE.

Everyone is left handed!

[jasperhaleobsessed]

Jasper Hale headcanons?

<3 <3 <3

1- jasper has selective mutism due to his gift (he can feel others stress and anxiety) thats why hes so quiet </3

2- jasper lets his cowboy accent slip out when hes overwhelmed or when he wants to be flirtatious with alice

3- jasper is left-handed :)

4- jasper hides under the stairs when visitors come to the cullens house

5- jasper needs mcdonalds happy meal toys to help him regulate his emotions when everything is overwhelming (shared hc with @eeve06 <3)

[verthrogic]

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[rulersreachf4n]

LEFTY LEO PART II: ELETRIC BOOGALOO

ORIGINAL POST HERE

[stuffydollband]

My new song is out NOW wherever you get your music!

It’s called “Love Thy Neighbor” and it’s about Ned Flanders (you know Ned, from The Simpsons) grappling with faith and responsibility after the canonical loss of his wife. It’s a perfect song to be sad and mad to, and I think we’re all gonna be both of those for a while, so join me in processing grief by shouting!

Also today is my birthday so you legally have to listen to my music thank you 🫶

[shaylogic]

LEFT-HANDED~!

[very start of Ep. 3 The Case of the Devlin House 1:20ish timestamp]

[nevermore-headcanons]

left handed Morella bc I said so

Yo. I can see that. It doesn’t even come up obviously much given how little nevermore class work is on paper, but Eulailie, Pluto, Annabel, Lenore, and Duke have all picked up on it for different reasons. And all the other main group members have remained oblivious for different reasons.