An Aromantic Bucky Adventure!

I would love to learn more about the development of languages and dialects, last year I read a short story collection written in phonetic Afro-Peruvian dialect (it's called Monólogo desde las tinieblas by Arturo Gálvez Ronceros) and was intrigued with how similar it was to Caribbean Spanish dialects, with the dropped vowels and changing "r" sounds to "l". Or rather, I would like to learn not the theory but the particulars of certain cases, like in this one I imagine it would be the shared African influence given the distance between one another. I remember I also liked to find out that certain words in New World dialects were considered antiquated in the peninsula--it had to do with the time period that the language was brought, and decreasing contacts over time.

One thing I would like to do--and I think it will be hard, especially in English--is to stop calling castellano "Spanish." It always feels wrong, especially in its own language--when I learned to speak I called it castellano and when I grew older it continued to make no sense because, as I found out, there are many languages spoken in Spain, that originated in the territories of what is now Spain. It's not only inaccurate but disrespectful. Even more, when someone speaks castellano and says "español," it sounds to me like a calque of the word "Spanish" as it is used in the English language, much like saying americano when you mean estadounidense. It could be that some dialects natively use the term that way--I've heard Spaniards do it for example, and people from some Latin American countries--but to me it does not sound right. Is this too political? In reality I don't think anyone notices, but I will remember. Is this one of those antiquated words? Reading a 400-year book will have you saying, "See, they were calling it castellano," though for other words you have to break open the dictionary because usage has changed or the term is associated with topics that have nothing to do with your modern life, like artisanal fabrics and horse-rearing and outdated military practices.

if somebody hcs a character as aroace i instantly accept it. no matter what. like yeah that character IS aroace, thanks for pointing that out.

“I didn’t like that intersex person/trans masc and what they were saying, so I aggressively called them a cis woman over and over until they left in tears” that’s called misgendering and bigotry actually and you should be deeply ashamed of yourself . what the fuck is wrong with you

bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry

Hey everyone! I'm here to make a callout post for @aroallothoughts . They have been policing others identities, been inherently acephobic, spreading misinformation, encouraging discourse, and supporting negative stereotypes. Please find a better aroallo blog! This user has been incredibly rude and illogical. Block him! I would reccommend @aroallo-corvid instead!

Can I have everyone’s attention please? Especially Australians

Sign Petition EN7163 - Asylum for Gender and Sexual Minorities from the United States

There is a petition imploring the Australian government to take in LGBTQIA+ refugees from the USA. Given the rapidly worsening political situation over there, I want to at least give this a go. I don’t have any illusions that it will get through to the people that need to see it but I want to try anyway.

The petition closes in 8 days; if you aren’t Australian, please do me a solid and pass this around. Reblog this if you can. Thank you.

aph.gov.au

e-petitions

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Cuadra 11 By Afro-Peruvian Jazz Orchestra, Lorenzo Ferrero, Anibal Seminario From the album Tradiciones Added to Discover Weekly playlist by Unknown User on April 29, 2024 at 12:00AM Listen on Spotify https://ift.tt/ByrSVUN

“don’t trace my art” cool “don’t steal my art” makes sense “don’t take inspo from my art” ????what the fuck are you talking about

One thing I’ve learned about writing is ”give everything a face”. It’s no good to write passively that the nobility fled the city or that the toxic marshes were poisoning the animals beyond any ability to function. Make a protagonist see how a desperate woman in torn silks climbs onto a carriage and speeds off, or a two-headed deer wanders right into the camp and into the fire. Don’t just have an ambiguous flock of all-controlling oligarchy, name one or two representatives of it, and illustrate just how vile and greedy they are as people.

it’s bad to have characters who serve no purpose in the story, but giving something a face is a perfectly valid purpose.

If your gonna talk shit about me, at least do it correctly lmao. Yeah, I misread you to be 20 in your blog when you actually wrote yourself as 'late 20s' in your bio. That was my bad. With the 'infantilising aces' claim though...

"Aint no way you call infantilisation a privilege" suggests that aces portrayed as "uwu innocent aces" or "pure aces" are infantilising. You were comparing the portrayal of aces vs the portrayal of aros. You did not claim that aces were innocent or pure, you were accounting the portrayal of aces. Thus, you didn't infantilised aces and there's no evidence of me claiming that you were infantilise aces. And given your response, "not being stereotyped as a sexual predator is a privilege" instead of something like "I am not infantilising aces" means that you knew my intended message was about the infantilised portrayal of aces, not accusing you of infantilising aces.

"are aroallos old evil predators or are we young people not knowing what we're talking about?" How did I even imply your a predator? Is it this reply?

Because that doesn't even suggest aroallos are predators. It's talking about one of asexual's major struggles; corrective rape. It is a type of rape specifically to "fix" someone's sexuality. According to sources such as MCSA, 43.5% of Asexuals experienced sexual violence. This was in order to highlight that the infantilised portrayal of asexuality is not a privilege due to not only the portrayal was in order to make asexuality invalid or not to be taken seriously, but it is even more of a disgusting portrayal when combined with the fact that asexuals have gone through sexual violence for their sexuality to be "fixed." In no way does the reply even mention aroallos in any form. How you can even come to that conclusion is beyond me. Plus the "or are we young people not knowing what we're talking about?"

"Your 20, aren't you going to college?" Suggests that you should be more smarter because you are an adult/at least older than me and college is one of an advanced form of education as a highlight. Me thinking you were 20 didn't mean I thought you had no idea what you were talking about. If anything, it was the opposite because I thought at the age of 20, you should already know better. Your not 20, I know that now, stupid of me as I misread your bio. My point still stands that it's not that your age makes you dumb, it's that you said something dumb despite your age.

"i'm a predator until you don't like my opinion." What does this even mean and who even said that to you? Cuz it's definitely not me.

All of this also shows that there was no arophobia and aroallophobia. My guy, if you don't like the criticism I gave you then that's fine. It's you making false claims about me to not be though.

not arophobes complaining about me "infantilising aces" (which i didn't) but then deciding that "late 20s" actually means 20. which one is it? are aroallos old evil predators or are we young people not knowing what we're talking about? i'm a predator until you don't like my opinion.

if you can't even tell the difference between 20 and late 20s you shouldn't be on the internet. aroallophobes are fucking cretins my god.