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「🔞」Qara

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「💬」ENG・CEB・TAG 「📖」Trans, Pan, Polyam, Anticolonial Trans, SEAn, #bisayâ na dakû. Yaps a lot about: #gardening #conlanging #worldbuilding #food #gaming #music Anything Goes Acc: this XIV OC Focus Acc: @qara-ff14.bsky.social

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「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · 12d

People on twitter will deadass look you in the eye and basically confidently declare that trans men are class traitors who "choose" to become part of the opressor class

I swear every time I open that app to check on the few porn artists who haven't switched, I get faceblasted by braindead takes

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Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social · 19d

speak of the fish and he appears

Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat with green eyes, laying on the arm of a gray recliner chair. He looks up at the camera with a relaxed expression. His back paws and one front paw are tucked towards his body.

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「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · 19d

Yeah, outright hating a country because of its language is nonsensical and reeks of some kind of supremacist snobbery

Like one can criticise that country's history and they validity of its institutions but that's another argument entirely

「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · 24d

But this does not necessarily mean getting rid of grammatical gender. It can be settling for a neutral gender for animate (amigue) while keeping gender for inanimate (colegio), it can be disassociating gender with noun classes.

A conservative, prescriptive language academy can impede that though.

「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · 24d

Like we still struggle because we unfortunately inherited a lot of queerphobic ideas from our colonisers (our religions and cultures used to be very "queer")

But the language does help make life easier, and I think moving towards an un-gendered state will help queer speakers of European langs.

「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · 24d

It's just that in the Indo-European languages the noun classes (animate, inanimate) got tied up with social ideas of gender (masc/fem) at one point.

That said, as someone who speaks a mostly un-gendered language, it DOES make queer existence a lot easier.

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「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · 24d

Grammatical gender on the other hand is a just a fancy way to describe noun classes in the context of the Indo-European languages. Using the term more universally, languages can have grammatical gender but be largely ungendered (see Zulu)

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「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · 24d

I think a line needs to be drawn between gendered language and grammatical gender, even if there's an association between the two in most I-E langs.

English has no grammatical gender but it *IS* a heavily gendered language. And every attempt to make it more gender-neutral is met with resistance.

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「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · Sep 18

"gamâ mu'g analisis sa tulu kabuok balítâ"

-> analisis
-> bugwak CheatGPT dyay

「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · Sep 18

Nakyáwang gaCheatGPT man ing kakláse nakun e

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「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · Sep 7

Same with mine

I was so used to seeing my 'blocked by list' being full of the guy's nonsense blocklists that I was actually surprised to see it pared down to just about 8 or so, most just NSFW blocklists with a few others butthurt over me blocking them over their reputations as shitstirrers lol

「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · Aug 22

Ludo🌵🤠 @shaaloani.bsky.social · Aug 21

#FFXIV ARTIST THREAD: Please reply or Quote Reply your links so we can all support each other right now. There are a lot of us willing to draw your blorbos.

「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · Aug 21

Those laws also stop them from adding anticheat iirc but they can absolutely mess with us without having to resort to that

「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · Aug 21

The problem is that if people make enough noise, it WILL reach the 'suits' who are less concerned about the game's ecosystem and more about the paycheque and their laws, and they will then go 'why does this even exist in the first place?' and demand that they put more efforts into stomping us down.

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「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · Aug 21

Yeah. Like that's the thing: laws literally prevent them from ever acknowledging or accepting it, which is why even though some QoL is obviously inspired by mods they straight up never mention it. We don't know what the devs truly feel, but they're aware and are choosing to ignore it.

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Mits and the Waking Saints (7.35) @southseascion.bsky.social · Aug 21

Some of you would fold at a customer service job, I swear before Hydaelyn.

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「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · Aug 21

The post that's apparently apologia btw

「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · Aug 21

Are you DAFT?!

Because this will only make mods and modding harder for the company to ignore. Modding was never a right; for legal reasons the company could never endorse it. It's banned. It only exists because they chose to turn a blind eye. Doing this makes it harder for them to do that.

「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · Aug 21

The TL;DR: do NOT complain on official channels about why modding is being taken away. Modding is and always will be against ToS and we only got so far as we did because they turned a blind eye. Do NOT do this shit. It does no good.

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「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · Aug 21

Since OP blocked me over these replies (apparently they couldn't stand being called out for awful arguments), I figured it'd be a good idea to thread my post so that it's visible (the argument are important) as well as their original post for context

image of someone trying to incite people to bring attention into an underground scene

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「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · Aug 21

Strong words are sometimes needed, but I guess you can't handle having your arguments thoroughly torn.

「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · Aug 21

But you do not save an underground scene by yapping about it to the authorities. The underground scene thrives by BEING FUCKING UNDERGROUND.

「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · Aug 21

Ultimately we don't know WHY they chose to act on it now. It's incredibly unlikely it's a payment processor issue; there are several things that come to mind that are more likely culprits, one of them being modders doing something SE could not ignore. It could be UK/EU Laws.

「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · Aug 21

This is not defending the corporation or playing apologia. It's about keeping the community safe. You CAN absolutely organise mass unsubbing if you want—that's your perogative. But do NOT shine a spotlight on the modding community unless you want us to lose everything.

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「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · Aug 21

Modding has always been in the gray zone. Over and over again they've reiterated that it is NEVER acceptable. They will NEVER change their mind. You can't feasibly cry that they've banned something that they've ALWAYS said was never allowed. We are in no position to make demands.

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「🔞」Qara @qarabihoa.bsky.social · Aug 21

It doesn't matter how hard you complain. All you'll do is make it harder for them to ignore the rest of the community. You're not just talking about the fight club, you're yapping about the fight club to the authorities.

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