"Why Don't People Recognize Link In TOTK" Bc Everyone Imagines The Legendary Swordsman To Be Built Like

stupid idiot man staring lovingly at his boyfriends

“ why was his half more important than his entirety “

Hizashi: I don't have the time or energy for this...

Shouta: for what?

Hizashi: *gestures vaguely*

This was my favorite piece for a WHILE! can’t wait for the new Tears of the Kingdom🤩🤩

I still love this piece a lot, flaws and all. I’ve had the rest of the pages for this scene on my to-do list for literally months, but I keep not doing them bc I’m scared I won’t like them as much 💀

Anyways. The vaguest of spoilers for @blackholeca ‘s fic Pied Piper. The next art I post will be more spoilery but far less adorable

Linguistic drift is an inevitable result of majority groups adopting language developed by minority groups. To give a silly example: when I first heard the phrase "theydies and gentlethems", it was legitimately funny. It was taking a traditional greeting that excludes nonbinary people and making it all about nonbinary people. What happened next is that the phrase spread and found its way to the cis majority where it started to take on connotations of "greetings to nonbinary people of both sexes" and instead of being a subversion of something else it became a reference to itself, and a tool cis people could use to sort nonbinary people into "really men" and "really women". A similar thing happened with "afab" and "amab". Their coinage by trans and intersex people originally served to make visible the act of gender assignation itself, instead of sweeping it under the rug with terms like "mtf" or "born female". Then cis people got a hold of them and used them mostly to talk about other cis people and the words started to take on connotations of "men and people I think of as men" and "women and people I think of as women".

I don't think there's an easy solution to this problem. I do however think that being aware of it is half the battle. When you recognize that language shifts fast, you can be more accepting of people who use language you think of as outdated. When you see that the connotations of words are not fixed, it's less tempting to sort them into "objectively problematic" and "objectively unproblematic" and to sort people into good and evil by which words they use.

one of the best/funniest dynamics on TV is antagonistic best friends who insult each other constantly but are immediately in cahoots whenever there’s a whiff of shenanigans. nothing better than two bozos bickering nonstop as they execute the stupidest plan you’ve ever heard

Bakugo: What you want to do is get a phone book and beat him on the torso with it. Because everyone knows that a phone book doesn’t leave bruises.

Izuku:

Izuku: That’s not a way to intimidate a criminal for questioning. How are you not sued yet for brutality?

people will hear you talk about struggling with mental illness and say “you can do anything if you just put your mind to it”. brother what part of the body does the mental illness happen in. what do you think is the problem

just found out about the Cinnamon-headed green pigeon... holy shit how gorgeous