I view the whole story and scroll through.. it’s just more convenient that way I guess, especially when I don’t have Wi-Fi. Also, I just randomly clicked on that option, not knowing what it does and I just never changed it after that 🤷
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divorced couple energy ship will always be immaculate to me. we hate each other. we've seen each other naked. I know how you take your morning coffee. I will never make you your morning coffee again. get it yourself. here you go, I gave it to you anyway. you disgust me. I will always be somewhat in love with you. I will be yours forever. you're not mine anymore. you will always be mine. fuck you. let's fuck, for old time's sake. did you steal my cd? no, no. keep it.
the fact that I love every single one of them that is from a movie/series I watched is quite funny to me
I will defend them with my life
So, personally I have always been a fan of the Harry Potter Books and Movies because they were very hyped when I was a child. I spent a lot of time reading the books and daydreaming myself into the HP world. Sadly enough, JK Rowling has made it harder for me to enjoy her media, because of her internalized misogyny and transphobia, that keeps popping up in her works. For example: Ginny, Molly Weasley and Hermione being mean to Fleur for no reason (Misogyny) and the description of Rita Skeeter hinting at her being trans (Transphobia obviously). I am still kind of a fan of the Harry Potter Universe but I do not agree with any of the disgusting and transphobic tweets she keeps writing. In my opinion, it’s very sad that she had to ruin her story with her stupid opinions and it’s also sad, that in order to make her shut up, we would need to make her (and in turn also her franchise) irrelevant. I might or might not watch the new Harry Potter series, but if I do I will do so illegally. One thing everybody can do is to not buy any Harry Potter merch and to not stream the movies on streaming services that earn money through that. Because these things end up earning money for JK Rowling. I just hope that people stop listening / paying attention to her bullshit and that trans people know they’re great the way they are.
So, let me add my two cents to this conversation. I’m German and in my language, every noun has a gender (either female, male or neuter) and gets referred to by gendered articles which are der (the, masculine), die (the, feminine) or das (the, neuter) and it‘s the same with the pronouns for said noun where there are either er (he), sie (she) or es (it) pronouns used for the word.
And while the moon in many languages is seen as a symbol for femininity, which probably stems from the moon being a female noun in Latin (Luna, Lunae f.), in German, that is not the case.
In my language, the moon is a masculine noun and referred to by male articles. We say DER Mond (the moon) and when we want to say that it looks beautiful, we‘d say: “er sieht schön aus”, aka “he looks beautiful.”
So, what’s the takeaway from all of this? The easiest way to phrase it is, that both cultures and languages are simply very different all around the world. I know that that sounds a bit.. obvious but I have recently observed that, especially on the internet, there seems to be a “right” and “wrong” way to go about things.
Seeing matters from a perspective that isn’t typically “Latin” or “American” is often shunned and shut down online because people aren’t used to it.
You can easily see that happen in the above post, where the user who posted the photo and caption was immediately shunned by the people in the comments for using the “wrong” pronoun for the moon.
Which is kind of funny to me, seeing as in English, nouns DON’T EVEN HAVE gendered pronouns. So this is definitely coming from the culture online being heavily influenced by Latin, as the internet seems to be a very western space and many of those languages have roots there.
But to me it is important to say that just because Luna is a commonly used term when talking about the moon, that doesn’t have to mean that everyone needs to agree on it being female. In my language, that isn’t the case and I’d very much feel pretty annoyed if anyone told me that my or my language’s/culture‘s perspective is somehow wrong.
So, as the person above my way too lengthy post already said: we‘re not all Romans. And in my humble opinion, that‘s a good thing. So stop policing other people on stuff like this, just because they have a different perspective on this. Emphasis on the word DIFFERENT by the way. Different, not wrong.
I think I'm gonna start using he/him for the moon on purpose now.
He’s never beating the gay allegations
God it’s so CUTE I can’t
just two baby chocobos 🐣💛 edit: more baby chocobos!!
crazy how sometimes u dance alone to your favorite song in your bedroom and you are like oh yeah thats why im alive