Lehmuusa

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[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 4 points 3 hours ago

I'd say it's largely deprecated

But yeah, edited my comment. It's a fucked up word and in this case it was juat a translation error in my head.

[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 12 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (4 children)

It has several transgender characters that are properly fleshed out and not just tokens that are put in the game in order to fulfill some specific criteria. And they are presented as "just another npc with lots of interaction", and you need to talk quite a bit with them to notice they are trans.

It is often considered to be the game with the best transgender representation among all mainstream games out there.

[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Hm, do you mind if I copy that design, though?

I've currently got only four of my fingers with nail polish, because it's still the enby flag, as I've basically chosen that for now I will enbymode and girlmode depending on context, and I kind of like that it's a meaningful flag, but you need to know quite a bit about the queer vexillogy in order to be able read a meaning into those four colours. And now I digress, dum-dee-dum. Well, anyways, that flag has four colours, and my thumbs are therefore deemed to be... uncoloured. image

That uncolouredness has symbolized me being a work in progress, and how I am feeling completely unprepared for this turmoil I'm suddenly going through (and enjoying!). But now it really feels like there should be something on the thumbs too!

So yeah, I figured I'd kind of like the idea of that one finger with the two dots and I could just replicate that in my thumb. Does that feel bad to you or okay?

[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

7,5 is read in Finnish as "seitsemän pilkku viisi". 7.5 would be read as "seitsemän piste viisi".

The rule is that if it's in decimal system, you use comma; if in any other system, you use dot. And you read what you write.

[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 12 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (5 children)

In Finnish we typically say "Än, yy, tee, nyt!", because our word for "now", nyt, is composed of letters N, Y and T.
The "y" is pronounced roughly the same way as "ew" in "new". "ä" in the same as "a" in "cat", and "e" is the same as "e" in "well".

How about translating this to English and using the following as the standard?

"Aehn, oh, double you, now!"
🙃

[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

...and whales are closely related, even if one step further separated – they only have three stomaches instead of four, for example. But ungulates all the same!

[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lets hope that eventually Belarus and Russia will rejoin the European family.

That will take time.
The Russia is now politically about where Ukraine was around year 1970. And it took Ukraine until 2008 to start seriously becoming democratic, and even then it seemed to keep regressing again and again. Only the aggression by the Russia in 2014 stabilized Ukraine's path towards democracy. This took Ukraine altogether about 40 years and the Russia won't be able to be faster than that. The couple decades of extremely immense propaganda have taken their toll. If the propaganda somehow ends this year or the next, then the children born now will still be imbued by it because of their parents' thinking, and the children of the children being born now are going to be reasonably okay, already. But still not really ready for EU. But the grandchildren of children being born in 2026 might really be able to feel European. So, when those are adults, then maybe. If the Russia ends the propaganda now.

But the Russian propaganda is something that has existed for several centuries and from conversations I've had with Russians in Russian language, I don't really get a feeling that they will be letting go of that anytime soon. A Russia without Pushkin... What would that even be? Such a huge part of their literature is so toxic that whatever they try to achieve, their old literature will pull them back into what they have been for centuries.

We can always live in hope, but I really don't think the Russia can become anything humanely thinking anytime in the next two centuries at least.

[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Conservatism means wanting to keep the society as it is. It is the antonym of being progressive. And that's it.

A party that wants things to to just remain stable as they are is a conservative party. A party that wants to make dramatic changes is a progressive, or maybe also regressive, party. But absolutely not conservative.

Yes, in USA some people have started using the word "conservative" in a different meaning. That doesn't alter what the word really means. Those who want to conserve what exists.

(And in USA the Democratic party has taken the conservative role, whereas the Republican party has taken an anti-conservative role, driving radical changes to things. Changes to a direction I see as very damaging for everyone, but changes all the same. Wanting such huge changes makes you an anti-conservative.)

[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Apparently this is in some country with a Latinic language, such as French, Portuguese, Spanish or Italian?

The first word is probably "punto" for "point". "Point of evacuation emergencial" is how those languages would handle this kind of phrase.

[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

A centaur has explicitly horse features until a certain point, then explicitly human features from that point onwards.

That would mean the upper part not being allowed to divert back to horseness/giraffiness, as the left pic does.

[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Cows are short giraffes, though... (And both cows and giraffes are just forms of land whale)

[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 13 points 1 day ago

I… what the fuck am I looking at… ?

It's the human centipede. But giraffe.

 

It started getting a bit difficult posting here because my old username, Tuuktuuk, is based on my official name that is slowly fading away, and the temporary username I invented to get started here, Egghead, no longer properly fit me either. So, I just became unable to post or comment anything at all in the Forumverse because the nicknames didn't feel "mine".

But this one really makes me happy. Before I was born, my mother still knew I'm a girl, and named me Linda, which then was changed to another name right after I was born.

So, I took that given name as a base. It has several concurrent etymologies, but one of them is the linden tree. It symbolizes softness and caring, and those have always been adjectives people have used for describing my personality. Linden in my native language, Finnish, is lehmus. But, in many Indo-European languages -us is a masculine suffix.

But then: added an a to feminize it a bit. Made the u longer to include the word "muusa", which is Finnish for muse, the goddess things from Greek mythology. And then Lehmuusa also sounds like a Finnish dialect reference, and it can be understood as meaning either "linden-y" or also "kinda cow-like" (from lehmä = cow), which is kind of a bonkers way to refer to a fine lady, but I have always had a very absurd sense of humour. Happy to be a little bit of a cow! Also, I'm very good in emulating mooing sounds of a cow, so it fits. Plus, there's also "muu", which is how you write "moo" in Finnish.

Also, an earlier nickname I had used for about two decades had been a reference to me being good in quacking like a duck, so the mooing, also an animal sound, connects to my past.

And then, I studied Latvian philology as my main subject for a long time before I changed professions, and the linden tree has importance in the Latvian folklore, as a symbol of feminity. And Latvian language and culture have become important parts of my identity even though I have no Latvian roots.

Then, I also lived in Germany for some years when I grew adult. My German was good enough that people confused me for a native speaker. And Lehm is German for "clay", and I like clay as a material. And it connects to my past in Germany.

And of course, I just really love trees and forests!

This is by far the best nickname I've ever had anywhere. Feels mine! 🌳💚♀️🐮🇫🇮🇬🇷🇩🇪🇱🇻🫖

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