lady-raziel:

skelettes:

mantorokk-writes:

“This character is dead in canon” to you. They’re dead in canon to you. To me they’re fine

“This character is dead in canon” then explain to me why they’re still running around and living rent free in my head.

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keep-looking-to-the-sky-me:

OK so what I think happened (mind you I don’t have the game I’m going off spoilers) Nintendo realized how popular sidon was for queer ships and needed to make him straight but to make him straight they would need to delete major aspects of his personality which they couldn’t do for obvious reason so thay gave him a ‘oc original character do not steal’ girlfriend.

But he still acts LIKE THAT to Link so Nintendo accidentally made it canon that Sidon a down-low gay in a nonconvencing beard marriage and that’s not the funniest thing Nintendo was ever tried to do?

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sew-birb:

animentality:

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I like how the colours all mean “this horse is a bitch” except for white, which means “this horse is a bitch and that’s why I’m selling it”

(via acepalindrome)

mysharona1987:

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I appreciate Karl Jenkins bemused reaction to the theory that he, a 79 year old white Welsh man composer, is, in fact, a 41 year old black American woman from California.

I mean, how else do you respond to an accusation like that?

“Look, my moustache isn’t that cartoonish and silly, surely?”

Like, what is this scenario? It’s Scooby Doo and Fred rips off the mask to reveal: “Oh my God, it’s the Duchess of Sussex!”

And she would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling hardcore royalists.

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What's this metal bird doing, bro, we're in Unova!

realpokemon:

realpokemon:

oh my god he’s headed right for the towers

tags: "#they hit the pokégon"ALT

(via @mcgruffthecrimedog)

sabrebash:

If you follow Selmers to the poetry society meeting in Night In The Woods, this is her poem.

I loved it and the themes of the game, and wanted to use it as practice to see if i can control the way readers ‘hear’ the words through images.

(via thistlefly)

cassolotl:

Results of the nonbinary name survey

Hi folks, just thought I’d throw together a quick report about nonbinary names based on the recent survey.

The survey ran from 4th until 13th May, and there were 5,179 usable responses. For this one I won’t share the full spreadsheet of all responses, as it contains potentially identifying information. Having said that, you can find a spreadsheet of the information I can share with you here. Every name entered only once has been redacted.

Most popular names

Let’s kick it off with the main reason I did this survey, finding the nonbinaryest name:

Graph title: Top 20 names. alex, 1.60% jay, 1.24% sam, 0.95% charlie, 0.70% max, 0.70% ash, 0.64% robin, 0.64% rowan, 0.60% kit, 0.58% eli, 0.56% quinn, 0.54% finn, 0.50% bee, 0.46% elliot, 0.46% jamie, 0.46% jack, 0.44% aster, 0.41% blue, 0.41% crow, 0.41% lee, 0.41%ALT

Alex was #1, with 1.6%, which is 1 in 62 nonbinary people.

Here’s the full top 10:

  1. Alex - 1.6% (83)
  2. Jay - 1.2% (64)
  3. Sam - 0.9% (49)
  4. Charlie - 0.7% (36)
  5. Max - 0.7% (36)
  6. Ash - 0.6% (33)
  7. Robin - 0.6% (33)
  8. Rowan - 0.6% (31)
  9. Kit - 0.6% (30)
  10. Eli - 0.6% (29)

Name length

I’m familiar with the stereotype that nonbinary people choose names by taking 3 letters from a bag of Scrabble tiles, or that nonbinary people take letters off their given names until it’s one ungenderable syllable, and I would like to take this opportunity to add that these are both excellent ways to create new names. :D

This graph takes a rolling median name length from the whole list, and it shows that generally speaking the most popular names tended to be shorter:

Graph title: Length of names. Subheading: More popular names tended to be a little shorter. Horizontal axis: Name rank. Vertical axis: Median name length. Graph shows that overall most median name lengths were 4-6 letters, but a trendline shows that the more popular names were a little closer to 4 and the less popular names were a little closer to 6.ALT

The average name length was 5.1 characters long.

This seems to support the stereotypes, but I feel it’s worth mentioning that we can’t know for sure whether it actually does, because for all we know, binary people’s names might show these kinds of patterns too.

Number of names per person

Participants could enter as many names as they wanted, in a list separated by commas. That made it pretty easy to count them, and it turned out like this:

Graph title: How many names does everyone have? Horizontal x axis: Number of names, up to 25. Vertical y axis: Number of people. About 500 people gave zero names, and just over 3,000 people gave only one name. Under 1,000 people gave two names, and then after that, fewer and fewer people entered x names, with the bars becoming invisibly short at 7 names upwards.ALT

That’s fairly straightforward, most people have only one name.

Problems with survey design

Overall I definitely feel that the survey had some flaws. I knew in advance that there would be some people who have more than one name that they like more or less equally, but for some reason the first question I came up with assumed that you have one name that you like most and then required a single answer from a list stating how that name happened to you - leading the respondent to a different section based on that answer.

What if you’ve got two or more names that you like equally, and one was given to you by your parents when you were born that you use for work, one is a nickname based on that name that evolved between you and your family and friends as you were growing up, and one is a name you chose yourself and your closest friends call you that? That’s pretty much an impossible question, isn’t it?

And there were several other questions in the survey that took that approach, making the data from those questions basically useless.

I didn’t think it would cause problems for so many people, but it did, and I have learned my lesson there.

However, there was a question asking you to list all your names, and that’s what I used to make the ranked list. I don’t see how people with more than one name that they prefer completely equally (i.e. those people who would be thrown out of the survey by an impossible required first question) would prefer different names from people with one name only, so I think the ranked list is probably approximately okay, and same for the number of names per person graph and the average name length.

Implications

I haven’t decided yet, but I definitely think there’s scope for doing this survey annually - but separately from the identity/titles/pronouns survey, for anonymity reasons. It could be fun to track popular nonbinary names over time, similar to the popular name lists for babies that are usually split by boys’/girls’ names. It might be a bit meaningless unless I collect country data as well though, which is why the list currently reads very……. American……….

Now that I’ve learned a lot from a big and not-so-well-designed survey run on my personal account, I’d feel more comfortable designing something a bit more fit for purpose, and running it from the @gendercensus accounts to hopefully get more participants.

~ Fin ~

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kavaeric:

kavaeric:

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I don’t like to add to the noise of Software Developer Do Dumb Thing, but I feel like this is as if the Japanese government sent me an email going “it turns out there are a lot of you named Kenji Tanaka, so to solve this problem we are retiring passport numbers”

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Our username system makes it difficult for folks fluent in other languages to express themselves. That’s why we’re moving to a system like the one on Twitter, where every Asian artist forced to get an alphanumeric username has a handle like @bc2931a or @2023jx or @wabababxa_, which is very easy to remember and shows how versatile alphanumeric handles are at expressing one’s non-English-speaking self

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nordarknessdimsthesky:

ok hear me out reacting to discord messages with emojis essentially serves the same purpose as aizuchi (interjections that show the listener is paying attention or understands the speaker). if a friend is going on a spiel in discord DMs, reacting with emojis to successive messages can be a more efficient way of showing you’re listening without interrupting the flow of messages by responding with “yeah” or “yep.”

and then you have custom emojis that vary across servers which allow individual servers to develop their own emoji dialect. joining a new server and looking at its custom emojis scratches my linguist brain because immediately i think about when/where/how said custom emojis are used.

i also think about nitro discord users being able to spread server emoji dialects (but only to a limited extent because regular discord users can’t save and use custom emojis outside of their original server). i’ve now been in a handful of interactions where i’ve had to ask about the etymology of certain custom emojis and the explanations i’ve received are always fascinating.

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