#and identity

[none-ofthisnonsense]

The irony is, I barely even consider myself French. I've lived in France much less than I have in any other country where I've resided. I don't particularly like the French language. I don't feel a big connection to French history or French identity or anything of the sort.

But somehow on the internet, something that I would ignore normally is forced into being my identity. I'm made to being a token French person and being a foreigner again and I just want to scream "IT'S NOT MY HOME" but I'm still labeled as if it was. And that hurts.

If I don't connect with other French people on here, then I'm denying a part of my identity, however small it is. But at the same time, I'm more English than I am French! English is my first language! I live and love my life in English! But of course that's only considered as the biggest part of me when it's convenient for other people. It doesn't actually matter what I define myself as, as long as someone on the internet can take the fact and twist it.

Yes France maybe isn't the best country, and I don't feel a big connection to it nor a need to defend it. Yes, historically it has done some shitty stuff. But it still fucking hurts when I see someone reply on a post "france?? the joke country?". When I see "no one wants to learn French because the people are so unpleasant anyway". When I see "yeah but why would you be french though". When I see hate on my mother's language, my mother's country.

Why is it that all the derogatory posts about the English language are treated as jokes and reminders of how unique it is while those about French are used as an excuse to dunk on it for whatever reason?

I'm not proud of being French normally, but when I see it being attacked regularly, it's fucking tiring to pretend it doesn't hurt.

Thank you, random stranger, for insulting the language in which my mother sang me lullabies, for ripping apart the country that gave me my ancestors, for attacking the city of my birth. Thanks for making me feel worthless thanks to your comment. It was so necessary of you.

#rant #owl rants #thoughts about the internet #and belief #and identity

[yumeyleo]

denji and i are one in the same

#thats why i stole his entire name #and identity #my persona here is like. not him #but when im just with my buddies i draw myself as denji #yumey dreams up words

[tea-and-antlers]

There is a Myth that says we were born with eight limbs and two faces; split in two to search for our other half to be whole again.

I think I do not need you to be whole; I do not think you are half of me. 

I think I have spent my life tearing myself into little pieces and giving them to people I love and getting torn pieces back, passed from hand to hand like swapping bread for cheese, paper for ink, love for love. 

I think I have a hundred faces.

I think there are parts of me to you and you to me.

I think I am changing.

I think I always have been.

And I think I have always been whole.

#rambles #witchcraft #bean #love magic #but not real love magic #mythology #witch #love #lovecore #dark acamedia #green witch #personal? #I've been thinking about love a lot #and identity #and mythology

[misty-missdee]

Q is now bursting from the seams. good stuff in there.

#tbh im enjoying #going back through likes from the week #on my day off #(today) #and choosing the things i feel really fit my blogs aesthetic #and identity #that feels good #50 things in there #so we good for a minute

[whoviandoodler]

just had one of those whiplash memories of an episode of bones (a show i watched for the secondary couple and Autism until a part of the secondary couple turned out to be islamophobic, at which point i just jumped ship lol) where they meet a non-binary scientist and they spend half the episode obsessively and intrusively trying to discern the NBS's primary/secondary sex characteristics so they can decide what NBS ACTUALLY is and i am incredibly uncomfortable again. that was a wild show huh

#dan talks #bones #bones critical #just. why did the writers do that #tho i could ask that for a lot of their decisions lol #this one thing just stuck w me subconsciously for years bcs theres something so disturbing #about a bunch of cis ppl intruding on and disrespecting a trans person's privacy #and identity #i too hug andro ppl until i decide if they have breast or penis that is. so normal to do aha #why. just why. why. #i mean ig it is realistic lol

[cuuzca]

OH MY GOD THANK YOU!! 😭🙏💖💖

I just received this gift on my Throne Wishlist!! 😭

Thank you so much for your generosity. I am so grateful and thankful for your heartfelt message. Hope the universe doubles it and sends it back your way somehow. Thank you so much!! 🥹🙏💖

#throne wishlist #cuz throne #updated to protect privacy #and identity #you know who you are and thank you so much 🥹

[roebeanstalk]

reblog to manifest gender euphoria for the person you reblogged this from

#it'll also give you euphoria btw #however you are rn is enough and you're doing enough #you deserve to feel comfortable even when your body doesn't match your identity #smooch

[wizardnuke]

"i hate microlabels" yeah i also kind of dislike the idea of putting ourselves and our identities into very specific boxes, i think it can be really isolating- ohh wait you mean you think they're invalid. ohh no that's not the way to look at it. killing you

#IF there is an issue w micolabels/identities it's with the isolation that comes w that level of individualism but also like. there's #nuance there and if you think someones identity is invalid bc you don't understand or agree with it im killing you #there are many things i don't understand but agree with the concept of! being cishet for example

[the-toybox-sys]

reading the symptoms of autism as a now grown adult after being bullied for no explainable reason all your life

#? #did system #did osdd #dissociative identity disorder #actually autistic #autism #audhd #asd #neurodivergent #autistic #neurodiversity #autism creature

[thegirlmirage]

Transfem to Transmasc solitary must exist as much as any trans solidarity must exist.

Protect my boys.

#queer discourse #trans positivity #trans #queer identity #transgender #queer solidarity

[lavender-0-menace]

god gives his most specific, hard to explain genders to his strongest dykes

#gender nonconforming #gender expression #genderqueer #genderfluid #gender identity #the gender tag #lesbian #dykeposting

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[a-flickering-soul]

OTC BIRTH CONTROL APPROVED BY THE FDA

#IM SO HAPPY I ALMOSY STARTED CRYJNG #it's a minipill its been on the market already for 50 years it's identical to the prescription version #FINALLY A GOOD DECISION FROM THE FDA!!!!!! #flickerthoughts #the only question i have now is pricign and accessibility but holy shit what news

[frownyalfred]

Dick is probably the nicest civilian ever when he’s in Bludhaven and all the little old ladies who bring him baked goods and his coworkers at the station have no idea he spends the night beating criminals half to death with his escrima sticks, has the kind of insane family & family loyalty you can’t buy, and would have the entire Justice League at his side with just one phone call.

#disorganized dick grayson thkughts #just his secret identity #out of all of them #save maybe Clark / #dick grayson #bruce wayne #batman #nightwing #dc comics #dc #thoughts

[mywillbedone]

#this is my identity #the one (1) thing i fear abt europe is no big drink :( #i love u kaiju sized sodas

[t00thpasteface]

"i've just been working on a... celebrity impression. it's for a sting operation of sorts i've been putting together. yes as a matter of fact it WILL keep me busy tonight—"

#RETROBAT. WESTBAT. WHATEVER. SORRY EVERYONE. this is very directly spoofed from a bit from the show #bc i'm always delighted to see this freak switching between brucie mode and bat mode in rapid succession #juggle your conflicting identities for my entertainment boy. FASTER. SILLIER. NOW DO IT ON ONE LEG #art #comic #dc #batman #bruce wayne #superbat #batman 66