i’m a turtle

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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • Hate to break your heart over this, but it ain’t gonna happen. Give up on your dreams of arbitrarily changing orthography with an inconsistent look to the past, and realize that we have “th” in place, which was already taught to English speakers, and is present on every keyboard.

    I got two languages on my phone, and I’m not about to install the goddamn Icelandic keyboard so I can triple-tap past Japanese and type some sort of bullshitty shortcut to “th” which were already present on my second keyboard, English.


  • I don’t have to use your word, I can use whatever words I want. It’s why there are options.

    You can use whatever words you want to, and you don’t have to use the words I provide.

    You don’t have to use the words anyone provides, and no one has to use the words you provide.

    This is how language develops, how styles and dialect and vocabulary develops.

    And you can stay up and fill my inbox, I don’t care anymore, but I’m going to sleep. To bed. Conk out. Hitting the hay. Getting some rest. Zonk.


  • It is not.

    To censor a language is to censor thought itself.

    And if slurs and insults become censored and incapable of thought, what else is on the table, up for removal? Words about being queer, words about body rights, words about lived experiences, words that aren’t fucking corpo-washed.

    I have made my point in an unerring straight goddamn line.

    Languages should not shrink for any goddamn reason.

    Now go to bed, it’s 5:37 in the morning.




  • Bad take.

    You’re erasing the existence of Sappho, who was so gay for girls that the island she came from—the place heretofore unknown for anything—is now known for just how goddamn queer she was, and everyone who experiences sapphic love (hey, another word that got coined off of one poet’s fantastically omnipresent woman lust).

    Lesbians. Sapphic lesbians. From Lesbos. That Sappho started. Why?

    Girls pretty.