If You Have A Duolingo Account, Please Consider Upvoting This Request To Add Coptic To Their Language

If you have a Duolingo account, please consider upvoting this request to add Coptic to their language courses.

Coptic is the final stage of the Egyptian language. It is currently endangered, with less than 300 Egyptians speaking it as their native tongue.

It would mean a great deal to indigenous Egyptians in the Coptic community to have our language preserved, and this would be a huge step forward.

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ghostbur’s library being forgotten is sad from a historical perspective, from the perspective of all of the real documents and history that were burned away. but I have Never seen anyone mourn ghostbur’s journal

imagine if phil and techno had burned ranboo’s memory books and told him he’d understand why it was for the greater good one day, do you think we’d see people arguing about why it wasn’t that big of a deal because ranboo wouldn’t remember it happened anyways? do you think it’d just be completely Erased from the collective consciousness of the fandom?

ghostbur’s memory problems aren’t just a joke or a quirky character trait, they’re a disability just like they are for ranboo. his journal carried memories of what wilbur had done before he died And what ghostbur had seen and experienced while he was alive, memories that had faded once he no longer had access to the book. doomsday making a point of ghostbur forgetting the second verses of the l’manberg anthem that He wrote and having quackity finish the song for him was such an emotionally charged scene and it isn’t remembered at all.

it’s genuinely ironic that the scene that ghostbur was best known for has him pleading to phil to recognize his humanity, the fact that he feels emotions authentically and that they still Matter even if they fade, but he Still isn’t taken seriously

Damn it really just hit me how much sum y'all hate Muslims. Israel's colonial, genocidal aggression against Palestine isn't even a religious conflict but y'all have to be reassured that it's not about Islam to even think about showing solidarity. Mad how dehumanised Muslims are. There are Palestinian christians and atheists and agnostics and children not old enough to have even gotten a chance to develop a world view but y'all stay scared of aligning yourselves with the oppressed incase they Muslim folk. Mad.

Size comparison of Y’gathok, the Ceaseless Hunger and Bjorn, our level 20 Goliath Barbarian.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: tommy isn’t a uniquely violent character, he’s a uniquely punished character.

tommy doesn’t grief more than other people, he doesn’t kill more than other people, he doesn’t steal more than other people, he doesn’t cause conflicts more than other people (being involved is not the same as causing), but while other characters have faced consequences in the sense of revenge (think the pet wars) tommy is the only character that has Consistently faced consequences in the form of being punished from a place of authority.

people in the fandom treat tommy differently because the Narrative treats tommy differently, however the whole point of this narrative is that it’s unfair.

dream targeted tommy with exile because he wanted to hurt him, dream’s done worse to george himself and had actively been trying to frame tommy to get him exiled a week before. other characters have started blaming tommy for what’s happened because dream painted tommy as the center of all of their problems (dream holding l’manberg hostage to exile tommy, lying about the community house, announcing that he’s going to destroy l’manberg because tommy told tubbo to give him his disc, doomsday being centered around tommy despite techno planning to destroy it before tommy had teamed up with him). dream hurts people and tries to find a way to blame tommy to put a wedge between him and them, to hurt tommy with his attachments to other people and hurt people with their attachment to tommy. he’s being Unfair and tommy recognized that all the way back at the trial.

and the thing is? tommy’s still grown as a person. he’s Apologized, he’s made an active effort to change his behavior and try to stay out of trouble, and dream is Still hurting him. Still targeting him.

the argument that tommy being traumatized/a child/abused/etc not being an excuse, that he deserves to be punished for his actions, falls flat because he’s the Only character being asked to do so for the actual “crimes” that he’s committed. no one else is held to the same standard that he is, both in the lore and by the fandom. it’s not that tommy is flawless or that he’s never done anything wrong, it’s that no one’s Ever insisted that sapnap needs to be punished for griefing, that Tubbo needs to be punished for burning people’s things, or even Dream for having been the center of conflicts long before tommy showed up and long after.

it’s a double standard that sits Wrong. wrong because tommy’s made an active effort to apologize, to grow, to be a better person, and was still demonized by the fandom while it was happening and accused of never learning.

wrong because he’s been uniquely hurt in a way that no one on the server has been in the name of “punishing” him, and I think at that point we have to ask if “punishment” is something that he really needs let alone Deserves.

and Wrong because the logic and reasoning that we use to get there, to Get at the idea that he deserves punishment when other characters do not, stems from the same logic that his abuser used to justify his abuse.

if tommy was a side character whose personality wasn’t Any different he’d never be treated this way by the fandom, he’d never be demonized the way that he is. you can think that he’s annoying without thinking that he should suffer or without trying to justify it by pinning him down as morally in the wrong somehow. likewise he isn’t actually More guilty than anyone else is just because another character says that he is