why not donate to a trans rights org or abortion fund instead of sending me anon hate?
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hey, everyone, I’m Indrid/Rook/Ore, you friendly local cryptid. welcome to whatever the hell this is
I like 80’s goth music, non-American horror movies, and arguing about the finer points off Jewish law — like if unicorns are kosher. feel free to drop me a line if you see me reblog something you’re interested in, I love to yell about random bullshit
I also make glitch art and beaded jewelry! pm me if you’d like to comission me
besides making art, I also do visible mending-style pottery and glass repair (photos pending), edit writing for gammar and punctuation (plus stylistic feedback if wanted) and can be a sensitivity reader for people writing Jewish characters or people with PTSD
Funniest scenario for Wyllstarion in a Wyll playthrough is Astarion thinking that he fits Wyll’s Old Man/Monster Fucker niche so well that there’s no way he could have competition. Then Mr Wyll ‘Thank Balduran’ Frontiers finds out the Emperor (squid monster) is Balduran (Hero of Legend) (Very Old man). The Emperor keeps dream-calling Wyll. He’s giving him his old stuff. He’s taking his shirt off. Astarion’s screaming.
I love it when there’s people in the comments of supremely bizarre and absolutely incomprehensible videos providing context so you get a better grasp of whether something that makes zero sense to you actually makes any sense at all. Like you can see shit like a video of a teenage boy standing on top of an exercise ball that’s lager than he is tall, inside something that appears to be a barn, holding a length of rope, triumphantly yelling something completely incomprehensible, clearly about to do some kind of a stunt, failing immediately and slamming into the barn wall, falling right through. And there’s people in the comments providing context like:
“That’s not just unintelligble nonsense btw, he’s speaking [language], but I can’t quite tell what he’s saying because he’s speaking in such a strong [region] dialect that I can’t make sense of it. Something about the sky, springs, and nut butter.” “[Region] native here - he’s announcing that he is going to anally fuck the sky until the sky prostate orgasms peanut butter. It doesn’t make any sense to me either.” “I’m not trying to question the validity of your translation but how do you fit that much meaning into like three words.” “That’s actually five words but two of them were compounds. And yeah [region] dialect has a specific slang verb for ‘to anally fuck someone until they nut from a prostate orgasm.” “Why the fuck do you need a specific word for that?” “Nothing else to do around here I guess.”
Normally I wouldn’t remark on my romps through etymology, but “hlafweard” is a compound of hlaf, or loaf, and weard, which means guardian (see also Ward or Warden, etc). Meaning that when you call someone a lord you are calling him an esteemed keeper of the bread.
HEY THERE BREADBOX PETER WIMSEY. LOAF GUARD PALPATINE. BREAD CLIP VETINARI.
Lady also derives from hlaf, but in this case hlafdige or bread kneader. She makes the bread, he monitors it. Women have to do all the work as usual.
Now, the reason I was looking this up was that I wanted to develop a gender-neutral analogue to lord/lady; there are analogues already out there naturally, but the Shivadh must be different and anyway I didn’t like the ones I’d seen suggested online.
Given that the origins of Lord and Lady aren’t all that strongly gendered anyway (they’re about what the person does, not what their gender is), I decided that if a woman is a bread-kneader and a man is a bread-guarder, a nonbinary person should be A BREAD EATER, which would be Hlafetan.
Thus I present to you the gender-neutral analogue to Lord or Lady: Ledan.
HEY NATIVES! heads up for those going to see Killers of the Flower Moon
haven’t seen it yet myself, but a friend just gave me the rundown:
-SUDDEN OWLS ON SCREEN, twice apparently? also appeared to be screech owls, no less.
-a very intense and violent rant by DiCaprio that features the S-slur.
definitely sounds like a tough movie for ndns to watch overall, but these two things stood out to me. might be good to know… if you have owl taboos or are very traumatized by the S-slur, please take care of yourself. maybe wait for it to hit streaming services next month so you can control your experience a bit better.
The hero’s identity was accidentally revealed, but it turns out they are moderately poor, have no friends or family, and their civilian life is frankly…sad.
I think it’s very based of Halsin to walk into Baldur’s Gate, criticize the entire structure of civilization and its treatment of the less fortunate and the vulnerable, get *this* close to sending a racist back to the Oak Father, defend rats as a species, have a midlife crisis, and then decide he wants a baby.
