I’ve noticed that a lot of people have been asking on how to this or that with sigils, so I’m making the huge list of resources we have on our blog a rebloggable post for any that would like to have it compiled on their own blog for easy access and use. As I update the references page, this post too will be updated, so keep an eye out for any future additions / modifications.
Please note that many methods of creation and charging will overlap within these articles; you do not need to read all of them, we are just providing a variety for you to choose from; pick whichever you like, and read until you find a method you like / have enough information to come up with your own method(s).
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I’ve directed some of you to this post recently so I thought I’d reblog it! It has a ton of awesome information, I learned most of what I know from this post. ♥
Icelandic-English: This is very indepth, but hard to navigate unless you know what you’re looking for.
Icelandic-English: A great resource, with links to common abbreviations and short grammar guides.
English-Icelandic-Danish: Online dictionary that has English-Icelandic, and Danish-Icelandic. Though it may require payments to access some information.
Slangurorðabókin: Icelandic Slang dictionary. It is in Icelandic, but fun for someone learning to see.
fuckyeahislenska: Posts pictures with words on them. The posts usually include notes on the declensions and uses.
icelandiclanguage: A really great resource for anyone interested in studying Icelandic, run by an incredibly nice person that is always very helpful to anyone with questions.
longicelandicwords: Like most Germanic languages, Icelandic has many long compound words. This tumblr shares some of the longer ones.
who doesn’t love languages? or free resources? or free! language! resources!?
i was on duolingo, reading a discussion, and saw a link to a free swedish grammar book! and when i checked the website, there were loads of free language books in downloadable pdf form just waiting to be put in a tumblr post. i even used proper capitalisation for the book names! but that was shortlived, as i have a nonchalant online presence to consider.
obvious disclaimer: i don’t own any of the rights etc etc to any of the above etc etc, i just thought i’d share.
and while i’m here, if you want an actual free online course to do, FutureLearn has some language ones (as well as lots of other disciplines too!) i did a few modules of their Italian For Beginners which i really had fun doing and i learnt a lot of the basics- unfortunately they don’t offer those at the moment, but do check back as they introduce new courses all the time!
Open University offers loads of free courses, including some language ones. i haven’t done any language specific ones through OU, but i have done a few history ones which i enjoyed (although personally, i prefer the format and structure of FutureLearn, if i’m being honest).
Open Culture seems to have lots of language courses (48 languages, to be precise), although i have never personally used their resources they have been recommended to me, and they seem to offer a lot of languages not previously covered by any of the above, so it may be worth a look!
YouTube and Spotify also offer some good visual/aural learning resources which really helps with pronunciation, but you’d have to check for your specific target language. i am currently trying to learn swedish and italian (although i have fallen dreadfully behind in the latter) and i’ve found some useful things on both!
These are probably skewed more towards modern authors and books, but that’s because I tend to read newer stuff, not because only men or only white people wrote sci-fi in the past.
Authors and books below the cut, including links to Goodreads. I’m not providing trigger warnings (if I make the post too long Tumblr starts freaking out about it), but you can use the search function on Goodreads reviews to find more specifics.
I’ve done some Twitter threads on this topic, so thought it might be nice to do a Tumblr post too. One of my pet peeves is when people act like adult fantasy (or sci-fi for that matter) is just a straight white dude thing and that diversity only exists in young adult fantasy. That’s such a disservice to all the authors of marginalized identities currently writing adult fantasy!
Authors and books below the cut, including links to Goodreads. I’m not providing trigger warnings (if I make the post too long Tumblr starts freaking out about it), but you can use the search function on Goodreads reviews to find more specifics.
i dont have a link cause mobile but stef sanjati is the sweetest and shes also a transwoman!
recurringvs is fantastic and her commentary is hilarious! Plays all kinds of games, I really cannot recommend her enough.
Since nobody said her already,Minx is a married lesbian LPer. I’ve enjoyed her for years.
Geek Remix are amazing! Queer ladies making really inclusive Lets Plays. Mari’s theories are really good and they shine most with thoughtful games like Life Is Strange.
So, as many of you know (I mean just look at my URL lol) I am Intersex.
But what does that mean?
In the spirit of the upcoming holiday, the 13th annual Intersex Awareness Day (a fortuitous number, since age 13 is a very common age for people to discover hey are intersex!) I thought I would try my hand at making a little informational post.
This will be a bit different from my usual stuff, and perhaps hopefully a little more accessible to people who aren’t familiar with the subject!
What is “intersex”?
Intersex is a personal and political identification that people adopt to empower ourselves in light of having certain medical conditions!
The simplest definition I can give is that intersex people are people whose primary sex characteristics do not fall into the ranges associated with the typical model of male or female!
So it’s people who have “both kinds” of genitals right?
Not really!
Some intersex people do have what are called “ambiguous genitalia,” which can look and even function sexually like “having both,” this is not the only type of intersexuality.
Do not just go around asking people about their genitals. If you have any need to know, the person involved will tell you. Otherwise, let it be.
Okay, so what makes someone intersex then?
Having one of the several dozen conditions referred to collectively as “disorders of sexual development” (also referred to as differences in sexual development, and as intersex variations).
Basically, there are two medical models to be aware of.
The model of the perisex male: male assignment, XY chromosomes, testes, penis, and as an adult, testosterone dominant hormones.
The model of the perisex female: female assignment, XX chromosomes, vagina and vulva, ovaries, and as an adult, estrogen dominant hormones.
If you fall outside these two models in any way, then you can call yourself intersex!
What about transitioning, then? Doesn’t that make you intersex?
Nope! Intersex conditions are in-born. If you are using medical intervention to achieve traits that fall outside the persex male and perisex female ranges, that doesn’t make you intersex.
Intersex variations are congenital and inborn.
That said, there are some rare cases of people whose bodies are “otherwise perisex” but who were forcibly assigned the “opposite” binary gender at birth, usually as a result of medical malpractice or severe genital injury.
These people absolutely have the right to claim the intersex identity as well.
Well, can you be trans and intersex, then?
Absolutely!
Anyone can be trans: it just requires identifying outside of the gender assignment you were given at birth, or, in some cases, adopting the term to make your gender identity understandable to white and/or western people who do not have an analogous gender role in their cultures.
Being intersex doesn’t prevent you from determining that the gender you were assigned doesn’t fit right.
Cool! So you can also be cis and intersex, yeah?
Kind of, but not quite.
Intersex people do not experience protection and prioritization under cisnormativity. As a result, calling intersex people who identify with their assigned gender “cis” is very misleading.
Because of this, a lot of intersex activists suggest the inclusion of the word ipsogender into our vocabularies! Ipso comes from the same chemical and latin roots as cis and trans, but rather than meaning “on the other side” (trans) or “on the same side” (cis), ipso means “in the same place as,” and refers to the fact that an intersex person’s intersex identity has been replaced with the pericis concept of gender assignment.
Pericis???
Pericis simply means people and social forces based on perisex (that is, nonintersex) and cisgender (that is, neither trans or nonbinary) people.
Here’s a brief run down of terms you might see around:
Perisex: someone who is not intersex
Perisexismand/or perinormativity: The normalization, protection and prioritization of perisex people in society.
Dyadic: An alternative term for perisex. It often has severely ableist and racist connotations, so unless you are intersex yourself, be wary of using it.
Dyadism: The normalization, protection and prioritization of dyadic people in society.
Forcibly Assigned Sex At Birth: (FAFAB, FAMAB, FASAB, FAGAB) A gender assignment experience unique to uintersex people, wherein one’s gender was surgically or medically forced on you in infancy or childhood.
Incorrect/Intersex Assigned Gender At Birth: (IAFAB, IAMAB, IASAB, IAGAB). For intersex people whose genders were not forcibly assigned through medical violence.
Assigned Intersex/X at Birth: AIAB, AXAB. In some places, “intersex” and “X” are possible birth assignment. So, there are people out there who were night assigned male or female at birth. They may or may not have subsequently been raised as male/female.
Intergender: The state of being intersex and having a gender identity that is influenced by that fact.
Intersex as gender identity: Many intersex people, such as Kelly Keenan, the second Legally Nonbinary person in America, use “intersex” as their gender identity. In this way, intersex can sometimes be considered a gender identity, even though it is usually separated from other gender identity terminology.
Hermaphrodite: This one is often a sexualizing, dehumanizing slur. However, it is within the reclamation process and has been for a couple of decades now, albeit patchily. Some people identify as being hermaphrodites, in which case, by all means, call them this. But don’t use this word to describe intersex people or organizations unless or until you know that it is a word they use for themselves.
Okay, so this all sounds really medical, why do you keep contextualizing it in terms of queerness, gender, etc?
Well, because it’s both.
Intersex people experience huge amounts of often extremely violent ableism, ranging from the most well known examples (genital mutilation and forced feminization/masculinization) to pervasive but fairly quiet things like “intersex” not being an option on medical forms, and doctors not knowing how to deal with our unique medical needs. In fact, many intersex people go undiagnosed for decades of our lives, to serious personal detriment.
But we also experience vicious social backlash stemming from the same place as other forms of queer antagonism: an absolute inability to perform all facets of gender correctly.
Even if we identify within our assigned gender, even if we are only attracted to cis people of the opposite assignment, even if that attraction is complete and typical and has no divergent aspects such as relationship models or asexuality, we are nevertheless persecuted for not living up to those standards.
Intersex antagonism is a form of ableism, undoubtedly. It is also a form of queer antagonism.
Much like many intersex people, our oppressions are simultaneously neither and both. Our identities are complicated, and so are the ways that we are attacked for having them.
So… intersex people are LGBT+? I heard that intersex people don’t want to be called part of that community?
A handful of intersex people on tumblr do not get to speak for us all, and we have been active voices in these communities for generations. These spaces are our homes, and you will not evict us from them.
There is a reason that the official acronym in so many districts is LGBTI. There is a reason that the expanded acronym is LGBTQIAP+. The I is for Intersex, and it belongs to us.
We have the same right to be here as anyone else.
What about queer? Are intersex people queer?
If they choose to identify as queer, then yes. Your queer spaces should always be intersex friendly.
What kind of issues do intersex people face?
Primarily, we are hit by medical violence, erasure, and social stigma.
We are often subject to conversion therapies and forced medical procedures. Even in the event that our parents aren’t willing to have our bodies mutilated, that refusal can be used as evidence that they are unfit parents, and we can be removed from our homes and subjected to this violence by state care facilities.
We receive poor medical care, and have high incidents of comorbid conditions that dramatically shorten our lifespans and reduce our quality of life. Even for those of us without severe life threatening complications from our variation s(which is the majority of us), the poor application of medical models we don’t fit leads to being given medications and procedures that can kill or permanently maim us. We often experience side effects to even seemingly innocuous treatments that can create serious complications.
Doctors often focus on making our bodies as normative as possible, instead of focusing on our health and comfort. And as a result, our families and communities often do the same, robbing us of any sense of support or autonomy.
We are often conflated with trans people, and face similar types of interpersonal violence. All the horrific social violence that the gender binary inflicts on other people, it inflicts on us as well.
We are told that we don’t exist, or that we exist only as sexual fantasies. That we are freaks of nature, that we are oddities to be examined and discarded. We are erased, trampled over, and even when someone claims to be looking out for us, they are often using us as a weapon against other queer people. We are isolated from each other. We are subject to all the traumatic psychological effects of that.
This is some heavy stuff. Can wrap this up on a lighter note? How about intersex pride stuff?
Sure thing!
This is the intersex pride flag:
#eye strain
It is a bright yellow field, with a thick purple ring centered on it. Pretty cool, huh? A bit of a divergence from the typical queer flag, but then, ours is a bit of a divergence from the typical queer experience!
The flag is meant to symbolize that we are neither male nor female (through the yellow) and yet that we may also be both male and female (through the purple), but that no matter what, we are whole and complete beings unto ourselves (through the unbroken ring).
It can be a bit hard to look at on computer screens. I promise, the colors are less dramatic in real life!
For digital purposes, you can use just about any shades of yellow and purple that you want, and there are certainly less straining versions out there.
Here’s some fun pride graphics too!
[Image description: Friendly looking bubble text reading Intersex Pride. The e’s in intersex and i in pride are purple, while all over letters are yellow. From The Telegram sticker set “pride”.]
[Image description: a grey scale drawing of an individual with a soft smile and closed eyes. They are wearing a head scarf in yellow, with a purple ring framing their face. Drawing by Danshing-yehet]
[Image description: A drawing of a dragon curled around a heart reading “pride.” The dragon and heart are yellow, with a purple ring on top of them. Design by catalystic rising.]
[Image description: Revolutionary Queer flag, intersex version. A yellow field with two violet chevrons, the upper pastel and the lower a stronger and darker violet. The chevrons are separated by a cream band. Design by Bizexuals.]
If you yourself are, or suspect yourself to be, intersex, then there is also the tag #ActuallyIntersex here on tumblr. As with any queer and/or disability tag, please be careful as it can be rife with discourse and with people on both sides of major issues.
I strongly do not recommend the blog actuallyintersex, however, as they have a strong habit of blocking, silencing, and being party to hate tactics against the voices of any intersex person who disagrees with their exclusionary politics.
Anyway, I hope this has been an enlightening experience for you, and I look forward to seeing you all on the 26th of October!
A collection of categorized links for your Beltane needs! What is Beltane? [X] Beltane is celebrated between April 30th to May 1st (October 31st to November 1st in the S. Hemisphere) and is also called: May Day, Lá Bealtaine, and Beltaine!
here is the COMPLETE list of minecraft mods, texture packs and shaders i use to make my game gorgeous and fun :) (each mc version i use will have its own mod list-post, so just click on the one you want to see!)
> Main gif tutorial In this tutorial you are explained from A to Z how to make a gif. While this tutorial does not go into the steps in a detailed manner, per section it will have links available which can be used to find a more detailed tutorial I wrote on it.
> Setting up Photoshop Are you new to Photoshop or have you never put too much thought into setting it up just for gifmaking? Do you want to improve the performance of the software so that everything works faster and smoother? This is the tutorial for you! We explore the general preferences for Photoshop that suit gifmaking most and look how we can easily set up our interface.
> Converting video files Before you can import something to Photoshop, you need to make it a short MP4 file. In this tutorial we talk about how to use converting software and efficiently import files into Photoshop.
> Colouring pastels This tutorial is an exploration of colour theory with a focus on how to properly execute pastels. It goes into how certain colours will or will not work for certain scenes and how to generally edit a colour scheme from scratch. While it focuses on pastels, the theory discussed is applicable to everything!
> Sharpening gifs What does sharpening do? How does it work, what settings do you use? How do you get those smooth lines and how far should you go with sharpening? What does everything even mean. Let’s find out!
> Removing panning from gifs You ever find yourself with a scene that would look wonderful if there were no camera movements going from one side to another? In this tutorial I explain exactly how to get rid of it.
> Reducing filesize Tumblr requires gifs to be under 3MB in filesize. Sometimes your gifs will be bigger than that and you’ll have to reduce the file size. In this tutorial I go over several options you have to reduce the filesize without really affecting the quality too much.
> Creating and using actions Actions are recorded steps you take in Photoshop which you can then execute on different files. Especially in gifmaking this can shorten your process by a lot. In this tutorial we look how to make and use actions of our own.
> Save for web explained Gifs aren’t saved the same way other pictures are saved in Photoshop. You need to go through the save for web option. But how exactly does this all work? What is everything you see in save for web and how to do you get optimal saving results?
> Making a gif loop You want a gif that never ends? In this tutorial we look at how to find the looping point of a gif easily and make it so that the gif itself looks like it keeps going forever.
> Making a clean/grainless gif Removing grain is not only aesthetically wonderful, but also reduces the file size of a gif by a lot. In this tutorial we go over how exactly you use Photoshop to ensure that there’s no grain or hardly any grain in your gifs, to get that smooth and clean result.
> Timing a gif How to not make a slideshow and instead make a smoothly animated gif.
WebGL Wateris a great water simulator, with a sphere that can interact with the water’s surface. It can be paused which means you can then use it as a reference for lighting, reflections, refractions, etc.
hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better
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