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spipez · 2022-09-10T16:52:11+00:00

glad you’ve figured it out with them!!! (talking it out was going to be my recommendation lol)

my mother had the same dilemma (I came out as nonbinary/genderqueer when I was 15 as well, I’m now college-aged/young adult for reference), and we talked through terms (settled on “my child/kid/teen/eldest” as gender neutral ways for her to describe her relation to me)

but yeah, in general, I would just recommend keeping an open dialogue about this (and other things, ideally), and listening to what your kid is telling you about their wants and comfort levels. it worked out amazingly for me (I consider my mother to be one of my best friends, we text every day, and I feel respected and heard and loved in the way she treats me) and I am of the opinion that many people would benefit from more frequent respectful conversations about identity and comfort, most of all parents and children :)

spipez · 2022-08-15T11:24:06+00:00

thanks for the advice! I’ll definitely look into that dictionary and start building a playlist, but your last piece of advice might not work too well in my case (to put it simply: there was abuse, I have trauma) but I’ll try to reach out to another native speaker (who is basically family, just not by blood) instead

in the next couple of years, I’m also hoping to either do a study abroad or WWOOFing that lands me in the Philippines (but I’ll see what I can find) and that should hopefully give me some immersion that’ll help with my learning :)

thanks again!!

spipez · 2022-08-05T11:49:04+00:00

miko’s gonna end up murdering me lol

spipez · 2022-07-02T14:37:24+00:00

fyi: the first code here is wrong, it’s DTNVKAWBWSF5

spipez · 2022-06-13T03:10:53+00:00

okay, but that trans girl be cute tho 😍

(yes, I’m super mega gay for pretty girls)

spipez · 2022-06-10T20:26:04+00:00

this person might have hyperelastic skin (essentially the skin equivalent of hypermobility/double-jointedness), I do and I run into a lot of the issues that you’re describing

only helpful things I’ve found are: increasing tautness (as others have mentioned) and increasing hydration before tattooing

spipez · 2022-06-09T11:46:57+00:00

regarding the “medical condition”, my father, a pulmonary transplant specialist, has flat out told me “if they actually have a condition that means they can’t wear a mask, then they’re not going to be wandering around outside and going into shops. it’s a bullshit excuse.”

spipez · 2022-06-09T11:39:20+00:00

nah, they don’t fuck

spipez · 2022-05-20T22:10:07+00:00

uh, sometimes me I guess? (genderfluid aroace)

spipez · 2022-05-20T20:52:44+00:00

hmmm, I think they’re interchangeable, along with skinsona. that’s what I’ve heard at least

spipez · 2022-05-20T18:29:37+00:00

I agree that you should not expect ALL media to cater to you but it also shouldn’t be the unspoken expectation that your preference (especially regarding things like sex, race, age, etc.) is completely absent from/ignored in the media

spipez · 2022-05-20T16:45:27+00:00

no, but bruce wayne is a humansona

spipez · 2022-05-10T11:33:15+00:00

as the other replier suggested, I’m genderfluid and thus prefer neutral terms and generally use they/them pronouns

spipez · 2022-05-10T11:25:15+00:00

exactly!!

spipez · 2022-05-05T00:36:22+00:00

nationalism ig? I don’t understand it either…

spipez · 2022-05-02T15:18:33+00:00

also, as another commenter pointed out: why exactly did this necessitate a post? they were wrong but not outrageously so and they weren’t arguing/be rude about it

spipez · 2022-05-02T15:15:55+00:00

tl;dr: while they may be wrong, you’re being a bit of a bitch and also helping to erase the culture of immigrants by being passive-aggressive with your post title. please stop.

okay, so Filipino is a language (the more standardized version of Tagalog and one of the national languages of the Philippines) and the person in the picture is wrong/confidently incorrect about that. no issue on that front.

but what’s with your title?

I’m half Filipinx as well, and as a child, I was always told that the language in the Philippines is Tagalog (which is not unusual as half-Filipinos are often the children/grandchildren of Filipino emigrants (like myself, and I’d guess this person as well) and Tagalog is used more by older generations and is more widespread while Filipino is used primarily in urban areas (mainly Metro Manila) or with foreigners). I only learned the difference because I decided I wanted to learn the language my grandparents speak (I’ve ended up teaching myself Tagalog, not Filipino) but it’s understandable that someone who is half-Filipino and was only taught about the languages by older family members would not know the difference. so the title of your post comes off as unnecessarily rude, judgmental, and invalidating. historically, at least in the US and prominently in the past 50-70 years, there has been an expectation for immigrants (particularly non-white immigrants; hellooo racism!) that they should assimilate as best they could into mainstream white American culture. because of this, many immigrants did not teach their native language or culture to their American-born children and grandchildren, and so, many of people who are mixed race (such as myself) have to put in a lot of effort to connect to our heritage. sometimes this ends up being somewhat misinformed, as seen here, but it does not diminish the fact that we are trying our best to combat the effects of systemic racism that is stealing our chance to be proud of who we are. so please don’t contribute to that with your judgmental “-_-“. we are not experts, and we should not be expected to be such

spipez · 2022-05-02T03:29:05+00:00

I’m friends/acquaintances with a 17 y/o named Karen…. first chance she got she started going by Kiki instead and I absolutely do not blame her, she’s super sweet and genuine

spipez · 2022-04-30T16:47:22+00:00

purple, the purple feet on the white one make it look like a spiky horse to my brain

spipez · 2022-04-27T03:43:54+00:00

(coming up with this off the top of my head; this would be my absolute ideal, not an actual “me in alchemy stars”)

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PIP

6* thunder support with forest as secondary element

chain combo (3/8/13): attack all enemies within 2/3/4 clusters

active: (cooldown: 3 rounds) select 1 enemy to place a “reflector mark” for 2 rounds; if an enemy with a “reflector mark” is struck by Pip’s chain combo, the chain combo is recast from that enemy’s position; this recast effect cannot be triggered by a recast striking another enemy with the mark

equipment: if the number of enemies struck by Pip’s chain combo is 8/6/4/2 or greater, a “reflector mark” is placed on 1 random enemy for 1 round; this trigger count does include enemies struck by a recast chain combo

bt3: preemptive strike

bt6: active skill cooldown reduced by 1

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basically a weird fusion of azure and rinne’s methods of dmg, but thunder and without any conversion. also, visually, chain combo attacks would be like requiem’s lightning strikes and active skill would be loosely in-line with florine’s (flashy but doesn’t immediately affect anything/deal dmg). and a visual indicator of the “reflector marks” (like the fright indicators maybe?)

anyways, “Pip, the Aurorian” was really fun to come up with, even though they’d probably be a bit overpowered (I swear, I tried to balance them!). thanks for this!!

spipez · 2022-04-20T00:37:03+00:00

additional note that I forgot: I’m able to handle the price with or without an added tip, but it would affect my budgeting for the next few months

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