talk to me about anne of green gables, the dawn treader, hitchhiker's guide, dirk gently, a squire's tales, sense8, harry potter, jane the virgin (though I haven't seen s3 yet)
talk to me about anne of green gables, the dawn treader, hitchhiker's guide, dirk gently, a squire's tales, sense8, harry potter, jane the virgin (though I haven't seen s3 yet)
haha eep so i feel like i have mild/medium auditory processing issues so i don’t usually listen to the lyrics. so here’s a quote:
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
do you believe in love at first sight?
nope not at all! (i’m pretty much a romantic but i feel like you have to know somebody to love them, right? otherwise you just love your idea of them)
hi guys!! i’m offering some quick commissions for OCs and DND characters bc i need some cash right now. all you have to do is DM me a reference pic of what you’d like drawn. my ko-fi is https://www.ko-fi.com/marzipans
“ i VERY much love ur elf designs with the toe beans and tails. premo shit. i love this design but am accused of being a furry bcs i draw my elves a lil like you do, can you back me up on elves with tails NOT being a furry thing, thank u ” — strangerscity
people who draw nico di angelo looking badass or cool are SO funny like nico is, in my mind at least, a scrawny ass 5'3 15 year old boy who gets 4 hours of sleep MAXIMUM and wears a parka because he thinks it’s a fashion statement. nico holds a sword and calls himself the ghost king but he is physically incapable of looking badass because he always wears an entire happy meal in the form of various crumbs on his shirt. nico’s hair is like, 50% grey and it’s getting greyer by the minute. the bags under his eyes go against tsa rules. he goes to pull out a weapon from his jacket and ends up pulling out a stack of mythology pokémon cards. nico di angelo is a MESS and i will not stand for any other interpretation of his character
While I’m personally grateful services like Tribalingual exist, creating some academic access to Indigenous languages, particularly for Indigenous diaspora (if they can afford it), I’m extremely dubious of the notion that a outsiders learning an Indigenous language is somehow “saving” it.
There was a testimonial from some white American girl learning Ainu itak, and she spoke of it as if she were collecting some rare Pokemon card before it went out of print or something, framing it in typical dying Native rhetoric. What is she going to do with Ainu itak, except as some obscure lingual trophy?
If you want to save a language, save the people.
Language means nothing without history and culture breathing life into it, and in turn we are disconnected from our history and ancestors without it. Support Indigenous quality of life, ACCESS to quality education, quality health services (mental and physical), land and subsistence rights, CLEAN DRINKING WATER, advocate against police brutality and state violence, DEMAND ACTION FOR MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN.
Damn, if you really want to “save the language” pay for an Indigenous person’s classes for them to reconnect to their mother tongues. I’m not saying outsiders shouldn’t learn languages they’re invited to learn, but don’t pretend like you learning conversational Ainu itak is saving it from extinction.
I was lucky enough to take Linguistic Anthropology under Dr. Bernard Perley, a Maliseet Native who brought a very real sense of judgement and urgency to his lessons. One that stuck with me was his framing of Zombie Linguistics. Languages that are “saved” from “death” by people who aren’t of the culture can become ambling, empty shadows of their “living” selves.
Outsiders who record native speakers as disembodied audio spirits frozen in time, or (usually white) linguists who copy down the bones and organs of a language without respecting its body, are guilty of resurrecting something that is not the original language. Language is so much more than files and corpora, and this idea that we who have degrees are the most qualified to “save” a language is colonialist and foolhardy. Every linguist who takes National Geographic money to go to a remote village to analyze an endangered language is just a vulture circling to feed — to truly save a language would be to give the community resources to teach and learn it as they see fit.
But that doesn’t get us published.
Read more on Zombie Linguistics in Dr. Perley’s paper here.