can we make it a rule that only people in the homestuck fandom are allowed to talk shit about the homestuck fandom like once you quit you lose shit talking privileges
It’s like when you bully your younger siblings. You can do it all you want, but no one else can.
Seer: Descend.
miguel-the-sexy-and-powerful-god:
every time I use “they” to refer to a single gender-unknown person on Tumblr, another piece of my grammar-filled heart shatters, and the pieces scatter at the bottom of hell
“They” has been a singular pronoun for hundreds of years, you melodramatic dipshit.
well… actually… no… they is plural. people use they when they should use he, she, or it.
dense motherfucker, the pronoun “they” is an english equivalent for the third person indefinite singular and has been for literally centuries. it remains morphologically and syntactically plural therefore you don’t need to shit your little pantaloons at compromising your surely rock solid grammar rules.
i guarantee every fuckin time you’ve ever had to refer to a person of an unknown gender you’ve used “they” subconsciously. (“The post clerk gave me a message for you.” “Oh, what did they say?”) but you only have a problem with it when people specify it as a pronoun for themselves because you’re a shitlord i fuckin guess.
grammarized straight into hell
cackles linguistically
one time this dude was being stupid so i said
“well you can’t spell stupid without u”
and he got really angry and shouted
“WELL THERE’S AN ‘I’ IN STUPID TOO”
and i just stared at him for a rly long time
FUN IS NOT AN EXCUSE
i-sauntered-vaguely-downwards:
Saying ‘video games are supposed to be entertainment’ or ‘they’re just for fun!’ does not in any way excuse the sexism, racism, or other bigotry they express.
Because YOU, the privileged gamer, might be having fun. But the gamers who feel the sting of the nastiness these games throw our way, by stereotyping, sexualizing, badly characterizing, killing off, or even not including us?
We are not having fun.
Whenever someone says ‘it’s just for fun’ in this sort of context what I’m hearing is ‘my entertainment is more important than the actual life, safety and happiness oh real people who are constantly shit upon already’
media, including video games, are not created in a fucking vacuum.
– Leon
THIS. EXACTLY.
typical conversation
wait okay is it bad that this sounds a LOT like what we had going on in third and fourth grade?