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@aescling “a storytelling device wherein something fictional stands in for something real” is what i am arguing a metaphor is

@aescling zelda, the character, is a storytelling device wherein a fictional sequence of events (her character development) stands in for something real, the way in which trauma provides an opportunity for white women to confront how the forces which oppress them are necessarily implicated in their own whiteness

@aescling zelda the character not zelda the series

@aescling it’s a perfectly fine example because interpreting “metaphor” as “a figure of speech” is clearly nonsensical (Zelda is not a figure of speech), yet the sentence is sensical, therefore that interpretation of metaphor must be the wrong one

@aescling surely you are not arguing “Zelda is a metaphor for how trauma provides an opportunity for white women to confront how the forces which oppress them are necessarily implicated in their own whiteness” is nonsensical or ungrammatical

@aescling but you agree it does take one

@aescling you would be wrong since “X is a metaphor” takes a prepositional phrase, “for Y”, which makes no fucking sense with your definition

@aescling as opposed to “speaking metaphorically” meaning telling an invented story which is made to stand in for something real, which was the first option in the poll

@aescling when someone says “X is a metaphor” that means X is a figure of speech like “the mountains were a great maw rising towards the stars”

@aescling so when you think people are speaking metaphorically that means they are saying “her smile was a sunrise” a bunch

@coriander it's like punching only your fist is large and filled with compressed air

@aescling taking your phone in the shower will not give your pokémon walkies

@aescling get wet

@coriander these posts are extremely “trying to start a cult without actually starting a cult” vibes

@coriander you're being a curmudgeon but it's valid ✨

@aescling anyway i meant desktop distros not embedded/server

@aescling not sure i would describe alpine as “pretty ok”