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idk anything about yinglets or the whole thing about how they speak/type but my main takeaway is that stuff like this is the reason physically abled people don't feel comfortable/safe in disabled spaces/communities bc of how neurodivergent people complain about how hard it is for them to remember to include us and make accommodations for us. like you do realise a lot of us physically disabled people are neurodivergent too right.

i don't really want to be involved in the conversations surrounding it really bc my god some people are vile. but it is very upsetting that things like this seem to be a common trend. and maybe it is hard to learn to remember to tag something, but just bc something's difficult doesn't mean it's not worthwhile. it is worth taking effort to take the time to give other people our basic needs.

that's the thing that irks me the most i think. why is other people's fun and comfort always prioritised above physically disabled people's actual basic fucking needs and accessibility.

... It's because of deep thinking like this that it irritates me when I see medieval Ireland being portrayed in simplistic terms, as though everyone was sitting around a fire telling stories about gods and heroes; as though the stories which emerged from medieval Ireland are folk tales without authors. These writers thought so carefully about words, and wrote with a consciousness of having meaning layered upon meaning, that to reduce it all to 'mythology' feels like an insult. The tendency to romanticize it seems disrespectful to writers who valued precise engagement with words and what they signify.
The sophisticated grammatical terminology attested in Old Irish shows how writers subjected their own language to the same rigorous analysis as Latin.

Elizabeth Boyle, 'Fierce Appetites'

we're so back 😎 i read bits of the john collis celts book in my first year and i've been meaning to read celtic from the west and the atlantic celts since then too. also the atlas looks cool i like maps :) no idea how long the university library will let me borrow books for over the summer though lol. i got a book on ulster nationalism and one on gorsedh kernow, but that was about all i could fit into my bag before it got too heavy for me 😔😔😔

there's been a number of articles on various news sites recently about cornish language revival and there's always comments like "i'm cornish and i don't care" "i live in cornwall and this isn't interesting to me" "i'm from cornwall and the cornish language is useless" etc etc. like christ it drives me insane. the absolute apathy. the disrespect/ignorance for your own language/culture/history. idk. they probably just haven't decolonised their way of thinking but still. insanely frustrating.

i know there's a lot of english people living in cornwall who've displaced the actual cornish population (which has happened with my own cornish family members), so maybe that's a factor in it?? i.e. english people living in cornwall who just see it as a "beautiful sunny holiday retreat", or just another part of england and english culture, or whatever. but regardless, if you've moved somewhere with a minority culture i think you should also want to take interest in it at least a little bit?? especially like if you're from the place that has oppressed that minority culture for 100s of years, i think you should at least learn a bit about that culture's history and the damage that's been done to it etc.

idk. very frustrating.