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Lizzy

@someonelizz.bsky.social

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Queer fiction, linguistics, ephemera. Penhallow/Trevelyan stan. 🏳️‍🌈 she/her Header by @ThreatNotation on Twitter

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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 16h

When I was 14 and starting to realize that I wasn’t straight, I read a middle-aged lesbian’s MySpace post about how she was happy to be gay, and it made me feel like I could be okay.

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 16h

To me, “eldest daughter” implies that the daughter is the first-born child, whereas “oldest daughter” implies that she is the oldest of the daughters but may have an older brother.

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 23h

Then why does Norway have a lower fertility rate than the U.S.?

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 23h

Even artificial wombs wouldn’t be a silver bullet for birth rates though—you still need to get the gametes from somewhere, and egg retrieval is an invasive procedure, and someone still has to raise the kids.

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 1d

Lady Bird Johnson died in July 2007 which means she could have used an iPhone in the last two weeks of her life

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 1d

linguistics is word rotation send skeet

phantasmAgaric 🦑 @lalonde.bsky.social · 1d

being a word rotator online is so hard. this post should be angled upwards at like 60 degrees

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

We Have Always Lived in The Castle And That’s Why I Am Writing to Oppose to Proposed Housing Development That Will Fundamentally Change the Character of Our Picturesque, Gothic Community

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 5d

This is my ex-lover’s lover’s Mormon mother.

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 5d

We have reached a verdict, Your Honor. This man’s heart is deficient. He loves, but his love is worth nothing.

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 5d

Spouse A: “I love you, __________.”

Spouse B: “I repeat. Who cares?”

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 5d

Instead of “In sickness and in health”:

LOUIS: Rabbi, what does the Holy Writ say about someone who abandons someone he loves at a time of great need?

RABBI ISIDOR CHEMELWITZ: Why would a person do such a thing?

LOUIS: Because he has to.

Maybe because this person’s sense of the world, that it will change for the better with struggle, maybe a person who has this neo-Hegelian positivist sense of constant historical progress towards happiness or perfection or something, who feels very powerful because he feels connected to these forces, moving uphill all the time… maybe that person can’t, um, incorporate sickness into his sense of how things are supposed to go. Maybe vomit… and sores and disease… really frighten him, maybe… he isn’t so good with death.

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 5d

The stiffening of your penis is of no consequence.

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 5d

Now I’m thinking about what would be the most inappropriate quotes from Angels in America to read at a wedding

Rachel P-M @rpmastronomy.com · 6d

(And this is why I chose this particular reading for a wedding between an astrophysicist and condensed matter physicist. Also because we watched Angels in America on one of our first dates and just couldn't figure out how to use anything from that at our wedding but this Tony Kushner is perfect.)

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 5d

Many people in wealthy societies claim that people would have more kids if society were better, but the evidence suggests the opposite!

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Nov 30

4. Only one country above .9 on the Human Development Index has above-"replacement" fertility (Israel) familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/10/12/t...

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 6d

Kind of like how a man who gets mad and shoots his lawnmower is not someone I trust, but not because I’m concerned about the feelings of the lawnmower

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 7d

I mean…I’ll take it

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 7d

just met someone who said he voted for Harris in 2024 because Trump wasn’t anti-abortion enough lmao

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 7d

new reaction image just dropped

Young woman with closed eyes, in an “I can’t believe this is happening” expression, captioned “I’m being accused of not understanding the omega verse”

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 7d

I get the sense that it’s affective rather than a literal physical description, maybe by analogy with “fat ass.” “Fat” in this context might just express approval. Kind of like how “big dick energy” doesn’t necessarily refer to a physically large penis.

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 8d

I don’t think that’s regressive at all, I think the entire point of being pro-choice is that whether *you* would get an abortion is completely irrelevant to whether *other* people should be allowed to get an abortion.

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 8d

ergativity!

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 8d

you didn’t hear this from me, but *looks over shoulder* SOME languages have a system of morphosyntactic alignment where the less agentive argument of a transitive clause and the only argument of an intransitive clause behave the same—I KNOW, RIGHT??—and the more agentive argument of a transitive cla

Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 8d

Legit how I teach about the council of Chalcedon. So get this, there was this Empress named Pulcheria, who was beefing with Nestorius who refused to serve her communion because she was a woman, and she had this eunuch who thought Pope Leo was the bee’s knees…

learning is so boring unless it's gossip. teachers should just start every lecture like "omg did you hear about parabolas"

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 8d

Wild Nights with Emily

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 8d

I once encountered three different styles of em dash in the same sentence, written by someone with a graduate degree

Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 13d

But I don’t think most people want a return to a society where most people stay in their hometown their entire lives. They want to leave for college, grad school, a job offer, a long-distance partner, or just a different city whose culture or amenities are more appealing to them. I want that too.