Source: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/meaning-3
smbc is not particularly good, but sometimes hits the spot.
I also found a tumblr blog about all the times JRR Tolkien used queer and gay in the old timey way: https://myqueeresttolkien.tumblr.com/
how queer can they be if they're not excited to meet Judy Garland?
how i turned my roleplaying group into the other kind of roleplaying group, 2021, colorized
Honestly I weirdly like the usage of "queer" to mean "strange". As long as it's not like "strange, therefore it's bad".
English being my second language, i learned that meaning first (i had some very old textbooks). Then i realized it was used as a slur, and that it was reclaimed.
Playing catch-up with semantic developments across different languages can get hairy sometimes.
I tried to read the "Open Borders" book he illustrated but the author kept calling colonizers "natives" :meow-tableflip:
he also really wants to brag about his wife leaving the soviet union.
Well, I have rather a rascally look, have I not?’ said Strider with a curl of his lip and a queer gleam in his eye.
Strider? No, I'm into dudes, actually.
Both links lead to the same place fyi
I want to read this blog dangit :meow-cactus:
oh crap sorry! my copy/paste game is not at its best today. Changed it, ty.
Lol, I was just going to say Tolkien loves using the word queer.
Also, he uses molested to mean harassed (like in a military sense). In Fellowship one of them suggests they stick to the south bank to avoid being molested by orc patrols before they reach Rauros falls.
Yea, even more common is the antonym 'unmolested', meaning unbothered, or unhindered.
