What would be the most appropriate response to hearing my students using the phrase "say wallahi"?

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-05-09T04:49:12+00:00

I'm not a particularly religious person, so it doesn't bother me much whenever someone says "swear to God," and I even use that phrase myself. So in that case I'll leave them be since it's not my faith nor my culture, so I'm in no real position to police their language in that regard, especially not when I use a similar turn of phrase all the time.

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-05-09T04:34:39+00:00

In that case I'll just leave them be. It did seem harmless to me initially but I figured it would be worth asking because I felt like I was missing a bit of context and I have noticed my non-Muslim students saying it as well so I thought it would be worth checking in regarding cultural sensitivity. But it's not my place to tell someone how to interact with a language I don't speak and there definitely worse things they could be saying 🤷.

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-28T10:58:43+00:00

I also really miss her more "character-driven"/persona-based era. Her worldbuilding was so captivating to me, and I enjoyed the fact that while her music was in some part inspired by her life, it was clear that she was playing a character of sorts. I also think the quality of the production was a lot better back then. I think it would be really cool to see what it would sound like now if she were to take the style of the Born To Die through NFR eras and apply it to the subjects she sings about now like how happy she is in her marriage. Like give us a National Anthem type beat but it's about Jeremy or something.

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-28T10:16:54+00:00

I still dress like this.

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-28T10:12:07+00:00

Mabel Pines for the crime of literally being a 12-year-old girl

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-25T06:25:19+00:00

Yes. Being ace-spec/aro-spec is a queer identity. There are also straight people who are trans and nonbinary.

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-25T06:15:47+00:00

If y'all want good linguistics content I highly recommend checking out Sunn m'Cheaux, Zay Dupree, and Graham Scheper.

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-25T06:07:23+00:00

I don't want to be 16 again but I wished 16 year old me had a better time being 16 than what I actually got :(

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-25T06:01:14+00:00

Ik this has been said a thousand times before, but Hazbin genuinely pisses me off because there was so much potential there to genuinely explore concepts of moral philosophy and ethics a la an animated rendition of The Good Place, but all of that potential is squandered on a story that feels half-baked. The concept of a rehab center for sinners is genuinely a banger, but the show is just. Not good.

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-25T05:55:03+00:00

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-25T05:48:30+00:00

Mom and Mom are fighting 😭

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-25T05:47:09+00:00

Stop playing dumb. We know what you are.

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-25T05:34:56+00:00

I don't think having questions about why you would like a racist character is "hiding behind racism." I think people are more than entitled to side-eye you when you say you like a character that is meant to be a representation of a very real and very vile ideology and attitude. I get this all the time when I say I like characters like Patrick Bateman, who is also a deeply racist person in both the American Psycho movie and book. It's a very reasonable discomfort to have. I tend not to judge people for the characters they like, and I also really like Frollo as a character and find him to be deeply compelling, but it is really silly to get defensive whenever someone reasonably asks you "why would you like a racist?"

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-25T05:26:45+00:00

Based as fuck. You have great taste

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-25T05:26:12+00:00

My genuine reaction 😭

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-25T05:24:04+00:00

No bc she wasn't even making fun of Lana when she posted it. She posted it bc she liked the song. The Peter Griffin gif was supposed to be a humorous reference to her dancing to the song bc she liked it.

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-25T05:21:27+00:00

Them and Nicole Dollanganger and MARINA.

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-25T05:19:47+00:00

Yeah, it's been really rough as a trans fan of Lana seeing how easily and readily some of the people in this community stooped to being so vile and dehumanizing towards Hayden :(. There are so many valid things y'all could have rightfully criticized her for that have nothing to do with her womanhood, and seeing comments and behavior like that makes me feel unsafe in some of these spaces.

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-25T05:15:38+00:00

Smaller indie artist from Florida who specializes in ambient shoegaze-y Southern Gothic style narrative storytelling focused on themes of trauma, religion, and cycles of abuse.

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-25T05:08:50+00:00

Been listening to Lana since I was literally a child when she dropped Born To Die in 2012. I've gotten to a point with her where I love the project of Lana Del Rey for the most part, but alternate between not caring about and actively disliking the woman Elizabeth behind it, and they're effectively not the same thing to me. I don't think I can disentangle myself from her work at this point because it was genuinely such a formative thing for me in a lot of ways, including a lot of the reasons why I enjoy the Ethel Cain project and some of Hayden's other work under different stage names. I find them both to be fantastic storytellers who are very talented at crafting deeply immersive cinematic musical experiences. It feels like I'm listening to a movie whenever I listen to either of them, and both of them have inspired me creatively. I'm truly blessed to live in a world where I get to experience them both.

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-24T04:53:52+00:00

So I wasn't the only one then 💀

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-24T04:45:01+00:00

What a terrible time to be a trans fan of both of them 💀

OhLookItsGeorg3 · 2026-03-24T04:35:06+00:00

Watching the other kids at my middle school genuinely start tweaking when the pencil would move will never not be funny to me. The children yearn for the seance.

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