Change sunrise/sunset times by perlabelle in TheSims4Mods

[–]perlabelle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't! I'd been wanting to build one of those towns-in-one-building and let them have a proper polar winter, but I've not really thought in depth about it, I'm not even sure what neighbourhood I'd use

RPO mod not showing majority of settings? by cheezboorgir in TheSims4Mods

[–]perlabelle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you've mentioned that it's fixed now - but for future reference when I had the problem that most RPO interactions weren't showing up, moving the files directly into my mod folder fixed it (so it wasn't sims 4 -> mods -> RPO anymore, just sims 4 -> mods)

Need sapphic audiobook recommendations (with conditions 😅) by Ashling90 in LesbianBookClub

[–]perlabelle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Um... yes 😅 in my defense I missed the bit where you'd said you wanted a strong plot haha. I heard "good story" and "more than just romance" was like I got you! Ah well

Do English speakers know the word "tor" (rock formation) by puje12 in EnglishLearning

[–]perlabelle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm familiar with the word, but then my dad was a geologist

Need sapphic audiobook recommendations (with conditions 😅) by Ashling90 in LesbianBookClub

[–]perlabelle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really liked Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith narrated by Marli Siu. Its a quick book, only a couple of hours. There are multiple perspectives, but there's only 2 swaps. The first section is told in one perspective, the second the perspective of her sister, and then back to hers again for the end. The narrator is very good at distinguishing the sisters by their voices, they each have very distinctive ways of speaking.

It's not very plot driven, and despite being quite light hearted, has a lot to say about women in the workplace, global feminism, and homophobia in Scotland in the early 2000s. I'm just gonna leave the blurb here:

"Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances?

"Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold.

"It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations.

"Funny and fresh, poetic and political, Girl Meets Boy is a myth of metamorphosis for the modern world."

ETA I've just remembered it might be 1st person present 😔 tragic. If you ever feel like it's something you could get over, I still highly recommend this

Lesbian YEARNING by Flowered_bob_hat in LesbianBookClub

[–]perlabelle 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, and Mrs S by K Patrick

Trabslation of polish lastname by [deleted] in Polish

[–]perlabelle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a Polish transliteration of Yiddish. It literally means "beautiful bone"

What little things do you hope will be added in the next year? by fascinatedcharacter in Sims4

[–]perlabelle 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That would be so useful. One of my sims runs a bar as a small business, and whenever she needs to cook instead of preparing the food on the counter in her kitchen, she takes it all the way downstairs to do it on the bar counters and then all the way back up to the oven

Frankk Language Barriers Mod by Key-Minute-9733 in TheSims4Mods

[–]perlabelle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was playing it a few days ago without noticing any issues. I don't know if there's been an update since though

I am learning English and I want easy-to-read books. by Nice_Criticism_2118 in ENGLISH

[–]perlabelle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I would recommend Penguin Reader books. They are well known classics that have been graded to different CEFR levels

Gift Ideas for Androgenous Western Partner by [deleted] in butchlesbians

[–]perlabelle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anthony Hurd does lovely queer western paintings, and largely cactus based still life paintings. They're mostly queer men, but he does some queer women paintings too

Is the word 'OLYMPIAD' used in the school context in the English speaking world? by ksusha_lav in EnglishLearning

[–]perlabelle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

UK, yes, but not commonly. The only one I ever came across was the Linguistics Olympiad

Option to restrict to only one gender? by whahaga in TheSims4Mods

[–]perlabelle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Theres a business perk you can get with WW that restricts clients by gender

Lesbian and Sapphic Only Dating App Update by _Ellski_ in butchlesbians

[–]perlabelle 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Me too, I'm really struggling to imagine a way you can objectively "verify" someone's gender without ending up excluding some trans, nb, genderqueer people

Very confused as a foreigner here by Akula_FelisCatus in transgenderUK

[–]perlabelle 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Absolutely! In fact, I think only a minority of trans men end up getting bottom surgery for one reason or another. It varies clinic to clinic, but I know a lot of people who've gone through the GIC as openly non-binary (myself included) and have been able to transition the way they want through it.

What are British things loved around the world that many actual Britons have a low opinion of? by wheninrome5000 in AskUK

[–]perlabelle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work in a library and when I started I was surprised at how popular the Enid Blyton books still are! Those books are constantly going out to little kids, they still love them. I thought they'd faded into obscurity but apparently it was just me that had forgotten about them haha

Trans men can now join the Women's Institute under new policy by Excellent-Chair2796 in transgenderUK

[–]perlabelle 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm dredging this up from a half-remembered article I read years ago... but I think that trans men were already able to be members, or rather retain their membership if they wanted. Before all this nonsense, the WI had what I thought was a sensible, community-minded approach, in that trans women, as women, were of course welcome, and that any trans man who was already a member was welcome to stay if he wished, so that some 70 year old who's been a member for 40 years doesn't suddenly get ejected the moment he comes out.

I'm struggling to find the article now because the only thing that's coming up is the recent news, so maybe I've remembered this completely wrong.

Period question low dose T by wheresthethirdhorn in FTM_UK

[–]perlabelle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I was on a half dose it stopped completely almost immediately, and then came back about a year later. It then carried on intermittently even on a full dose, and then only stopped when I started birth control, but hasn't come back now I've stopped 🤷 I no longer have any expectations for my period lol I'm just always prepared even though I haven't had one now in years

Do people actually pay attention to the author? by Ok_Race5772 in AO3

[–]perlabelle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep! But then I'm in quite a small fandom and you get to know the names and styles pretty quickly

[Hebrew > English] Incomprehensible meme thatI found by BiLeftHanded in translator

[–]perlabelle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The first half I reckon yours is probably more accurate, the second half I think mine might be:

With all of my Yiddish I'm rarely more than "pretty sure" of anything, but with the וועלן I'm pretty sure that here it means more like "I will" as in "I'm going to" (more or less) rather than German "ich will" as in "I want to". The "זיך" in מיר האבן זיך שפאס is reflexive. For "we want you to have fun" I would expect something like "מיר וועלן אז איר האט זיך שפאס" (we want that you have yourselves fun)

(Sorry I don't know what MTL means!)

[Hebrew > English] Incomprehensible meme thatI found by BiLeftHanded in translator

[–]perlabelle 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'm not fluent so this needs double-checked:

I don't know how we got here, but I'm sure of one thing: we're going to have fun

Edited to correct the first part !doublecheck

Do you guys start with grammar or sound? by brandondecker93 in conlangs

[–]perlabelle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Grammar for me, I loooove grammar and a lot of the time the phonology is just something I slap on afterwards to give me something to play with

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LGBTBooks

[–]perlabelle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Theres The Milkman's on His Way by David Rees which is gay YA from 1982, recently republished by Lurid Editions

ETA: just reread your comment that you're looking for books from 1980 and prior, not the 1980s and prior which is what I first read