JKR Literally Wrote A Manifesto Against Nonbinary People And Trans Men, And Smeared Autistic People While

the gender performance of dolly parton and bruce springsteen (sources: x x)

My gender today is a really loud dad sneeze in a wind tunnel

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Feel free to stop here and rest before journeying to the posts below.

I did a very quick, sketchy comic because I was extremely inspired by this post. (Credit to @pinkdiamondprince for the original post.)

The entire analogy was just fantastic and so, so accurate, and I wanted to make a comic for it, even if it’s very sketchy because my attention span is nil.

My gender today is cursed worm furby (see below), courtesy of Sophie G on tiktok.

Warning: Potentially disturbing image.

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[Image ID: a flesh colored silicone sculpture in the shape of a furby that appears to be made of worms. It still has the yellow beak and lidded eyes though. End ID]

My gender today is this image of my dog macho (I think he's yawning)

[Imade ID: a chihuahua terrier with tan fur and grey markings curled up on a blue blanket. His mouth is open in a yawn and he's side-eying the camera. End ID]

My gender today is Dick the Birthday Boy, but also simultaneously the 'Friend' next to him (right).

[Image ID: A little boy in a blue shirt with "Dick the Birthday Boy" on it standing next to a mascot of unknown species (probably a rat). On the table in front of him is a cake and a little girl sits on the table looking at the cake. End ID]

TIL that the English word “Lord” in the sense of the head of an estate comes from an Old English word of Germanic origins, hlāfweard, later hlāford, later lord. 

Normally I wouldn’t remark on my romps through etymology, but “hlafweard” is a compound of hlaf, or loaf, and weard, which means guardian (see also Ward or Warden, etc). Meaning that when you call someone a lord you are calling him an esteemed keeper of the bread. 

HEY THERE BREADBOX PETER WIMSEY. LOAF GUARD PALPATINE. BREAD CLIP VETINARI. 

Lady also derives from hlaf, but in this case hlafdige or bread kneader. She makes the bread, he monitors it. Women have to do all the work as usual. 

Now, the reason I was looking this up was that I wanted to develop a gender-neutral analogue to lord/lady; there are analogues already out there naturally, but the Shivadh must be different and anyway I didn’t like the ones I’d seen suggested online. 

Given that the origins of Lord and Lady aren’t all that strongly gendered anyway (they’re about what the person does, not what their gender is), I decided that if a woman is a bread-kneader and a man is a bread-guarder, a nonbinary person should be A BREAD EATER, which would be Hlafetan.  

Thus I present to you the gender-neutral analogue to Lord or Lady: Ledan.