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I am so fucking Gay™

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relationship: Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor

rated: E

word count: 11k

Summary:

"You like it when I'm on my knees for you," Lena states, not a question after all this time.

"Yeah."

"And... this?" She opens her mouth and licks a messy, showy stripe over the soft curve of her packer.

OR

packing fic

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 [COMPLETE]

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Sorry, I could never be a capitalist, I suffer from “wanting humans to have their basic needs met” disorder, where I care about people who aren’t me.

Someone once asked me if, assuming we got universal healthcare, I would be okay with the rise in “healthcare tourism” where people who are sick come to our country to get their medical bills taken care of and life-saving medical treatment cheaper than in their home countries. I was just like, yeah thats fine, I’d actually prefer it if 0 people died from preventable causes kept behind a paywall for no reason.

“even the addicts?” yeah dude did i fucking stutter

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questbedhead

“fish don’t even know theyre wet” and? you don’t even know youre luft (air equivalent of wet)

This is a really good example of how we can just make up words that work. “Luft” is a perfect word for this it feels correct and we understand and can feel it.

Like it would’ve necessarily work with other words but “luft” is a combination of sounds that means luft (air equivalent of wet).

Thank you but the reason it works is because it is a deliberately chosen word!

The closest word we have in English for ‘wet but with air’ would be ‘aerated’, which is the past principle of the verb ‘aerate’. As a multi syllable Latin derived word, aerated wouldn’t feel equivalent to wet even if you just used it as an adjective in a sentence- so to have something that feels like ‘wet’ I looked for a monosyllabic air-related word with a German root.

As many have pointed out in the notes, ‘Luft’ means air in a lot of languages, because it comes from the proto-Germanic word ‘luftuz’. It’s also used in English as a chess term, and is a doublet of ‘loft’. Because it’s rare in conversational English but has the right etymology to evoke the idea of air and the texture of ‘wet’, it is very easily appropriated for the concept of ‘air equivalent of wet’.

official linguistics post

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sayruq

Kerem Shalom Crossing and the Rafah border have been closed since May 6th. Very little aid was allowed into the Gaza Strip before that, far less than what the 2.3 million residents need to survive the genocidal blockade but now there's nothing coming into the Gaza Strip.

I need people to understand how dangerous the situation is. The people of Gaza were facing acute hunger and thirst problems before the Rafah invasion and things have gotten so much worse.

These settlers and the soldiers helping them are putting hundreds of thousands of civilians on the brink of death.

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The moment when the crew of The Wurst decide to not do anything about the brain parasite that has taken over their captain really sets the tone of the Dimension20: A Starstruck Odyssey as this truly absurd, star-hopping, madcap adventure.

Literally any other series (Star Trek, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, etc.) would have become about "We gotta save the captain", but the crew of The Worst say "man, the captain sucked but this guy seems cool. Let's see where this goes."

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reminder that donating just a few $ to gofundme campaigns actually helps, you don't have to donate huge amounts if you don't have the funds, every little bit is useful. give $10, $5, even $1. it all adds up. don't scroll past because you think you can't help. help in your own capacity. donate a dollar. share and speak up.

here are a few gofundme links that still need a lot of help

If everyone who reblogs this post donates $5 (which I now know is the minimum you can donate on gofundme) to at least one of these, think about how fast we can help them all reach their respective goals

Since I made this post less than 24 hours ago we've collectively raised over $2000, and a lot of those donations were in the amount of $5-10. Keep sharing and keep donating. There is strength in numbers, and if those in power won't help we still have to do what we can. Small numbers add up. Thank you all for doing what you can. It does make a difference.

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