Wow. While I wouldn't say it made me laugh, that is pretty well done. Garfield being like, "I don't fucking care, give me lasagna, Jean" is pretty on-point.
Edit: granted, that kinda is Garfield's entire personality, but it would have been so easy to have Garfield ignore Jean's request and focus entirely on the lasagna.
perfect characterization 🤌 like that’s garfield alright
why does every trans meme assume we change our name to just the other gendered version of our dead names lol. It's a trope at this point, but speaking as a trans woman that would be dysphoric af.
I guess, to be fair, I actually considered making my middle name similar to my dead name as a way out for my parents from the "it's just hard for us" but I realized I hated that idea and screw them if they think respecting me is too hard for them.
Edit: btw 2 years post come out and my dad finally used my chosen name for the first time. They can change, though my dad keeps misgendering, which shows me his heart isn't in the right place. He's thinking "appease" me as in his heart I'm still a guy, even though he definitely glanced at my chest... guh
General ease of identification. Going from "John" to "Jean" is an easier logical leap of "this is the same person" than "John" to "Sarah".
Of course, when dealing with a well known character with an easy to recognise overall design, it's kinda weird, but visual and mental recognition are in general.
Fictional characters also have a bunch of naming rules that real people don't. Quite importantly, unless you're GRRM they should not have the same or similar name to another character in your story (i.e. what you're saying, one name per person and one person per name). Else shit's just confusing, as knows anyone who tried to learn anything about Elden Ring's lore.
Names also should match the character's personality. John's John because he's meant to be pathetically average and John is the most average white american name there is. Naming him Bartholomew or Rico would not have worked for that particular character.
I would therefore posit that if John as a fictional character did transition, Jane might be a better fit due to being more common while still being familiar enough not to be confusing. Or perhaps Jess which retains an alliteration but sounds even more "basic" then Jane IMO.
that's true
Two of my friends have done it. I've considered doing it because I like the sound of my irl name, just not the gendered connotations.
I do think it's overrepresented in fiction, but I don't think it's silly or anything.
That's fair, I never intended to invalidate anyone's decision to have any sort of chosen name.
hey now, some trans memes are about changing your name to "msulseth the devourer"
But see, that's a really great chosen name so I totally get that.
Most of my friends who are trans immediately got a nickname because it was easier to go to that instead of their dead name and then you just needed to eventually go from nickname to their new name.
Me too, I had a non-gendered nickname based on my dead name, and was going to just have my middle chosen name be a lovely name that fit that nickname. But then I decided I hated the nickname and got sour on the idea of "making it easy" for my parents to dead name me in their heart, while using a chosen name.
Ended up not having a middle name, which is cool because I get to "legally attest" to not having a middle name sometimes which I thought was interesting.
it's too funny to actually be Garfield
Wait. What if Garfield eats lasagna all the time because the freezer is literally an endless pocket dimension full of lasagna...
Shit, I need my morning coffee. I hate Mondays and it's only the Sunday morning now.
I love how the first think he did with the news it's making the girl go to the kitchen.
It's weird to bring that up when Garfield in particular and cats in general would have the same response to any person that can make them food.
It's funny cause even if someone is transphobic, on some level they do see you as valid which they'd never intentionally admit. But they will unintentionally admit it with their misandry/misogyny.
Wow, I didn’t realize there was Garfield shitposting outside of I’m sorry, Jon.
If that's how you feel "Garfruleld" then I'm leaving you and I'm going to got live with my new beauchat, Handkerchief.
That is an English language word used for several grammatical purposes. These include use as an adjective, conjunction, pronoun, adverb and intensifier; it has distance from the speaker, as opposed to words like this.
The word did not originally exist in Old English, and its concept was represented by þe. Once it came into being, it was spelt as þæt (among others, such as þet), taking the role of the modern that. It also took on the role of the modern word what, though this has since changed, and that has recently replaced some usage of the modern which.
Pronunciation of the word varies according to its role within a sentence, with a strong form, /ðæt/ ⓘ and a weak form, /ðət/ ⓘ.
i need peter griffin to explain this one to me
