#I FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT THIS

[eluminium]

if you speak ill of them once this coming year unfollow me. block me. i never want to see you near me ever again. kill yourself.

[mishine-mi-gua]

who decided kissing is inherently romantic. or holding hands. i will find u

[notebooks-and-laptops]

I am once again imploring people to stop claiming that the companions and factions needed to be sanded down compared to previous games because otherwise there would have been Discourse. I am imploring you to stop thinking that any world (real or fictional) needs to be smoothed down and made simple to make others comfortable. I am asking you to think about what that implies when the 'softening' relates to things like characters cultural heritage, systematic oppression they've experienced, their trauma or even their anger. Demand better from your stories; do NOT fall into the trap of thinking that fan Discourse and Bad Reactions should be avoided at all costs. This is Not something we want to be encouraging or a direction we want all our mainstream media to head in.

[biboomerangboi]

Beefy Shi Qingxuan Appreciation

Somehow Beefy Shi Qingxuan flexing their arms, carrying their best friend like a sack of potatoes and starting fights in their constraining purple dress - that somehow show off their tits more in their male form than their female form - was not the design I expected but it is what my genderqueer ass deserved.

[nocasdatsgay]

You’re gonna look at me and tell me mama’s boy Eris Vanserra, who probably watched his mama struggle cause you know Beron ain’t shit, wouldn’t take his babies to meeting with him so his spouse can rest?

You’re gonna tell me he wouldn’t use a nursing pot (aka a bottle) if it meant his spouse could have a moments peace?

And you KNOW he would light up any male who questioned him or made a comment about it. He’s high lord. He does what he wants and what he wants is to be a better male and father than Beron ever was.

[soobrownie]

every time Soobin hugs someone, a new fairy is born

[jedi-enthusiasm-blog]

Kind of a vaguely tangential to Jedi meta comparison for you - I've been reading a lot of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels recently. It's canon in Discworld that wizards don't have sex or marry. The sex thing is partly bc an active sex life makes it hard to care about and practice magic. It's also implied that performing magic can be as good as sex anyway. In The Light Fantastic, Rincewind performs magic successfully for the first time: "Magic! So that's what it felt like! No wonder wizards didn't have much truck with sex!" In Mort, Wizard Cutwell hooks up with Queen Keli and implicitly never really does magic again. The no marriage thing is bc magic can be hereditary, and if a wizard who is the youngest of eight sons then himself fathers eight sons, the eighth runs a risk of being a sourcerer, a being of godlike magical power (Sourcery)

I basically thought it was an interesting point of comparison to the Jedi bc it's kind of just a fact in Discworld canon that wizards are celibate by choice and live exclusively in single sex communities (though that gets challenged as early as the third book in the series, Equal Rites), and no fans really freak out over it, or talk about how the Unseen University was wrong for having such restrictions. It's not a 1:1 obv, bc Pratchett was writing comedy, but clearly some fandoms can handle the idea of people living monastically and asexually for supernatural power reasons. Maybe celibate academic spiritual communities are only good for making fun of. Idk.

I haven't read any of the Discworld novels, but there is something similar going on with the Avatar (the last airbender not the one with blue people) fandom.

Air Nomads are inspired by Buddhist monks just like the Jedi (although the Jedi have a heavier philosophical inspiration). Air Nomads give their children to the Temples, children are raised communally and they are given to a mentor when they reach a certain age so they can learn airbending. Likewise, the Air Nomads focus not on obtaining earthly pleasures but spiritual enlightenment. Their similarities with the Jedi are stunning, but the hypocresy that gets me is:

If I posted an anti-Jedi argument with the names swapped about the Air Nomads, I would be skinned alive.

And the Air Nomads have more "shady" things than the Jedi going on! We have seen in all three other nations that not everyone is a bender and meanwhile all Air Nomads are airbenders? How is that possible? Do they commit eugenics or something? This is probably poor worldbuilding on the creators part, but still, easier to have bad faith interpretations.

And yeah, if sex does impact your magic negatively, it makes perfect sense that you'd either have no magic or be celibate. And if magic is as good as sex? Count me in, goodbye sex you won't be missed.

[mismatchsocks]

jack failed both will AND abigail actually

[superloves4]

I would fight Tolkien himself over my absolute belief that Maglor not throwing himself into the water but singing in sorrow on the shores forever is simply the best possible ending fo him

[basementbugnest]

every time someone draws an aged-up Dipper design where he’s got a patchy beard and greasy hair and it looks like he’s got one foot in the grave because he’s been subsisting on 13 shots of espresso and 0 showers an angel gets it’s wings

[broomsticksareoverrated]

Post one (1) gelphie movie take here because I'll lose my mind if I don't.

Galinda should have either been left out of the lion cub scene, or gone with Elphie and Fiyero. There's no WAY Elphaba feels more comfortable around this guy who's only redeeming trait at this point is never having actively been mean to her than Galinda.

20 seconds ago we were in the middle of "That may be your secret but that doesn't make it true" and "Look at you, you're beautiful", and you're trying to tell me Fiyero gets a pass over Galinda?

The correct scenario is, of course, that Galinda goes with them, because this opens up an opportunity to introduce Gliyeraba as a concept. In this essay I will-

[lollytea]

I don't think Willow and Hunter start dating immediately after the events of W&D. They know they're something and they're both open to exploring that when they're ready. But they also agree that it would be in their best interest to adjust to their new normal and do some soul searching before they make themselves an official item. They don't consider themselves dating but they don't consider themselves single either. And the way the two of them approach their feelings for each other in this murky limbo state is vastly different for both of them.

Like if somebody asks Willow if she's in love with Hunter, it's like

Willow: Am I in-...? Well, it's...complicated. It's a very complicated situation we're in and I don't want to make any bold decisions right away. Do I love him as a friend? Of course I do. Am I physically attracted to him? Yes, but hormones don't mean love. Am I also emotionally attracted to him? Yes, but a crush isn't love. Do all of these things at once equate to being in love? Well, that seems like the kind of question that would keep a very nervous very scared person lying awake all night. Good thing that's not me, haha. It's not like I'm scared to be in love and I'm subconsciously avoiding confronting the fact that I am. I just believe in staying rational and analyzing your emotions so you don't get too reckless and dive into things without thinking. You'll hurt yourself. I've heard that's it's really easy to hurt yourself when you're in love. You see it's...we...Hunter and I met at a really crazy time, when I was just starting to become the witch I want to be. And then everything got so much crazier and we were confused and scared and it was hard to think about who you wanted to be when you weren't where you wanted to be. So now we're home. And finally, we have the chance to figure ourselves out. And that's exactly what we're gonna do. I want to be with him...eventually. When we're ready. I like him and I want to kiss him but I'm not in love with him. I'm totally not.

Meanwhile, on the other side of Bonesborough

Del: Willow seems like a nice girl.

Hunter: Yeah. I'm in love with her.

[accidentallyatekneecaps]

Komaeda and how people try to minimize and erase his disabilities:

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I genuinely hate how people treat Komaeda's disabilities.. like it even comes out in micro ways. Like, no, I don't think it comes from malice, but it is something that really does bother me as a disabled person. It's probably why I do notice the micro things about it.

I feel like inherently we have been taught to pity disabled people and to wish away their ailments and yes I understand that this doesn't come from a bad place and understand disabled people can wish they never had their disabilities but it does come across weird to me and a bit ableist when people want to wish away the disabilities of characters who are canonically disabled. Especially because a lot of these characters are representation for those who are disabled and it can come across in a way that can just feel weird when you take that away from a character, especially from one like komaeda, whose disabilities have shaped how he acts and behaves. The komaeda we know in game and the anime comes from how his brain and body react to his disabilities and by taking that away, there really wouldn't be komaeda.

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[pinazee]

Ok im calling it now, the Griswald sisters bastard brother will be the huntsman in Snow White

[rimouskis]

as a society we really must stop bringing pet dogs everywhere. the only inside locales a pet dog should be are pet stores, frankly.

[driftwooddestiel]

i need the world to hear my message. castiel is a wombat. to me

tell me thats not an incredibly cascoded animal right there. plus theyre very legitimately dangerous and powerful and are fully aware of this however people tend to view them as cute cuddly harmless creatures (mistake). and in bushfires wombats will often allow other animals to hide in their burrows to keep safe from fire. which is not particularly relevant i guess but i wanted to share that tidbit also because its a nice fact

and also they have incredibly powerful . uh . buttocks. that can crush bones and are one of their main defence mechanisms. and if that isnt cas i dont know what is