#Like... yeah. We were humans once.

[thorough-witness-enjoyer]

There’s something prominently anti-American (positive) (said with the utmost glee) about how we handled Eramis being chosen by the echo in Revenant that makes me smile

[alxastrx]

When you're one of the most selfish mc who only saves people because it's part of a job you never wanted and did not get to chose or you would've died, who took your co-workers' morals and ideals because you didn't have any and desperately wanted to fit in somewhere, be it with the heroes or the villains, who's activelly haunted by one the most tragic past to have been created and suffer from a psychosis so bad (dare I say schizophrenia) that even your enemies acknowledged that you are mentally ill and objectively flawed in your judgement, never hesitated to try to kill anyone and has the most egoistic reason to be a good person but the fandom still thinks you're just a kind crybaby "I don't know what a gun is" homosexual twink.

[flameo-trashman]

[repost] one of my fave AUs

[fandomsandfears]

something something kpop demon hunters allegory for reform systems vs punishment systems. The demons are in this eternal punishment and control by Gwi-ma. They are chained to him and made demons because they lived with such heavy shame and doubt or guilt. They did terrible things in life and have to live eternal with that shame instead of being allowed to rest.

Not all demons hold onto the guilt as clearly as Jinu does maybe, thinking about the demon that Rumi semi interrogates about the thoughts Jinu gave her.

Thinking about the mystery of Rumi's father and mother and their story. How Rumi's mother must have seen something so similar, seeing the humanity that lives in these demons. The possibility of them to reform if they find a way to face their guilt or shame and allow an understanding of their own humanity instead of being focused on the monstrous actions they've done.

The new Honmoon being focused on this idea of reform, of embracing ones mistakes with the effort of doing better and learning as we move forward. Accepting our flaws and trying to do better. Instead of the Honmoon of years past that we understand via Celine and the lessons she was taught and she passed on. The shame she ingrained into her girls and that we have to assume was just as ingrained into her because how hard she holds onto it as a defense and not as an attack.

The old Honmoon punished flaws and mistakes, which perpetuated both the pressure mounting on the hunters themself, but also the system that shut out the demons and likely made more in the long run. The new Honmoon encouraging reformation and understanding of ones flaws and mistakes so long as you can move forward instead of dwelling on these things you can't change.

[taraxippos]

Listening to The Horse and I was not expecting Is Here to be so serene after Remembers and Is Close... Really wonderful album, thank you for posting about it.

The Horse Is Here now. It's alive and in a moment of peace as just itself. I like that finale because the album is Very focused on the exploitation angle for the most part but the human element (via orchestral score) isn't absent from that moment of serenity for The Horse. There's some level of shared experience between the two animals, the horse as it exists today was shaped in interaction with humans and the total arc of human history (for better and worse) would not have happened without the horse. You can't paint the full picture without both.

I'm really happy the post got Some reblogs and got people listening to it because it's such an important album to me. I'm almost guaranteed to cry at least once on a full listen, and I don't cry easily so that's a pretty big deal lol.

[themoderatespeaks]

Call to action in America tomorrow

My fellow moderates.

Independent voters.

People who rarely vote, who aren't into politics, live and let live, mind thine own business.

Libertarians, vaguely liberal Democrats, moderate Republicans who prefer to stay on the sidelines, whoever you are.

We are famous for being a little more distant, a little more reserved, and a lot slower to put ourselves out there. We live for nuance. For slow, careful study of a few select issues within the broader context of history. We are the objective observers (or we try to be). Our role is to be the voice of reason between warring echo chambers, when we're not plugging our ears and just trying to live our lives.

For some of us, our distance is about personality and sensitivity. Some of us keep our heads down because of fear or trauma. Many of us can do this because of our privileged lives. And sometimes we're just plain lazy, bored, or too busy to be even remotely involved.

But we are still a vital part of the political ecosystem here in America. The luxury to not be involved in politics is part of the American dream for so many people. They wish they had the option of not really paying attention or taking a stand or being blissfully ignorant of the headlines. We do not apologize for our privilege; it's just simply part of who we are. A tool to be used for good.

And now it is time for us to act.

It is time for us to come out of the woodworks, into the light, to make our voice heard. Our message is a simple one, spoken yesterday by U.S. Senator Adam Schiff after U.S. Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a federal press briefing. Despite his nonresistance, he was driven onto his knees, handcuffed, and shoved down onto his face. The message:

This is not who we are.

So please, if at all possible, find a way to show up to a No Kings protest tomorrow. And find other ways to get involved too. This is all hands on deck. This is not a drill.

Our president is driving this country off a cliff into authoritarianism. And believe me: as a moderate, I do not use that word lightly. It is time for the quieter Americans to make our voices heard. Tomorrow. June 14, 2025.

Zoom in on the map here to find a protest. Be safe and good luck. I know this is a scary step. But we have to take it. Inaction is no longer an option.

[fidgetspringer]

I knew my old place of work treated us like dogshit. I knew England treated minimum wage workers like they're less than human.

But nothing has driven that fact home more than telling my new coworkers about what Tesco was like and having them look at me in absolute horror.

[purplepeptobismol]

The urge to quit my job and become a full time fic writer is strong. I was born to do this.

[onnahu]

Btw some time ago i got into a discussion with one guy about what humanity means. And he said something along the lines of 'humanity is kindness and empathy'. And like, I guess? But it's not only for humans! Our empathy and kindness are the same as other animals! We're not special!

[padmerrie]

soooooo i was sick for 2 weeks

[drawnecromancy]

Sometimes a silly bird disguised as a human sits on a dragon's hoard of gold and tries to seduce him.

Community label for it being vaguely suggestive I guess.

Art taglist : @jezifster @isabellebissonrouthier (feel free to ask to be added to the list!)

[seaofreverie]

We should normalize bringing these sort of "small talk ideas" cards to meetings with other people so that it's possible to avoid the awkwardness of not knowing what to talk about to kick things off or if it's considered normal to talk about this specific thing and AUGHGHFCG all this stuff.

[precalamity]

the talos principle 2 will be out on november 2nd. what will I even do. what will become of me. you will not hear from me for three days at least.

[bangcakes]

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[that-crazy-five-foot-two-chick]

THIS

Okay but the weirdest thing about the whole "Brotherhood is better you should skip 03" discourse that's become commonplace now, it sort of forgets the world Brotherhood came out in and why you should watch the original Fullmetal Alchemist. When Brotherhood came out, the original Fullmetal Alchemist was one of the most beloved and most watched animes of all time. Brotherhood assumes you the audience have already seen it because of course you have, everyone has seen it, so it skips important information and speeds the story up because it doesn't want to bore you with things you already know. Have you ever wondered "hey why does the first episode of Brotherhood kind of suck, and why am I being introduced to like 50 new characters, and why are they acting like I know what the hell an alchemist is?" It's because Brotherhood thinks you've seen 03.

The first 7 or so episodes of Brotherhood constitute dozens of chapters in the manga, and the first 25 or so episodes of the original Fullmetal Alchemist. The Nina Tucker episode in Brotherhood, in FMA 03 takes up nearly three episodes. Yoki gets a backstory in 03 and it's genuinely one of the best episodes and taken directly from the manga and Brotherhood glosses over it because: duh, you've already seen it. And so if you skip the original you miss out on dozens of really great character building episodes like Ed and Al meeting Hughes for the first time and getting to spend a whole episode helping him free a train from terrorists, or Ed and Roy having a duel that expands on the relationship they have, or episodes where the brothers just help out random people in towns before the major story gets going.

The original also paces itself quite a bit better than Brotherhood and is more in line with the mangas storytelling. In the manga we don't find out about The Gate until nearly two dozen chapters in, and the same goes for the original anime. Like, that's a twist reveal in those stories, and it's weird that the most watched series is the one where they tell you all about The Gate in the first two episodes because they assume you've already seen the original show.

What's more, people don't know that Hiromu Arakawa helped write for the anime while she was still in the middle of writing the manga, and as a result was inspired to write scenes in Brotherhood that the anime did first. That scene of Edward getting impaled by a falling beam? Directly inspired by a similar scene in the original anime. There's a lot of little instances of that and they're great when you can recognize parallels and things in Brotherhood that are direct references to the original anime, but people don't notice any of that anymore. Because the original anime is just an automatic skip these days, and it's a bummer because people don't realize what a giant it was back before Brotherhood was released. They treat it as *bad,* not realizing it was one of the most beloved anime of its time and the problems people take issue with have a lot more to do with personal taste than any kind of actual flaw in the writing. Brotherhood was never meant to dethrone it, and the original anime was always supposed to be part of the viewing experience which is why those first few episodes of Brotherhood are so fast paced. So like, please stop telling people Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 is a skip, or it's bad, or you don't need it because Brotherhood is better. Regardless if you think Brotherhood is better or not, the original wrote Brotherhood's check. It was huge, it was beloved, and Brotherhood is *banking* on the knowledge you've seen all of it and loved it. And trust me when I say there is so much to love about the original series. It's still my favorite branch of the FMA franchise, and it's worth your time, I promise you.

[homunculus-argument]

I don't think fantasy writers play enough with the concept of the different fantasy races having distinct ethnicities. Like imagine a group of mixed peoples, where the dwarves are all roasting each other like dwarves do, and one of them remarks that when he first saw one of the other dwarves in the group, he mistook her for a man. The other dwarves in the group blink in surprise - the closest that dwarves will go to an audible gasp of shock - and she pulls out a knife and tries to stab him.

Once the dwarves have been separated from each other and the situation has calmed, one of the humans asks another dwarf what that incident was about. Naturally a human woman would have been insulted too, but dwarves are so jovial about insulting each other, why was this matter different?

And the dwarf who was asked explains that there are things you can brutally insult another dwarf about, and there are things you simply do not touch. The dwarf-woman in question is from a completely different region of The Great Underground as the others, and her people have different norms about what kind of patterns men and women braid into their beards. The dwarf insulting her wasn't only insulting her appearance, he was being racist.

The human is surprised to learn that dwarves have different peoples, and the dwarf looks at them like at an idiot. Of course they do, they even look completely different from each other. And the human listens as the dwarf lists off various distinguishing clothing details too nuanced for a human to notice, and then how dwarves coming from different corners of the world have different physical traits, according to what kind of conditions their local stone types dictate.

The human spots a connection and goes oh! We have that too, though ours are not about rock types and tunnel air, but the weather aboveground. Humans' facial features vary by how hot, cold, arid or windy their ancestors' homelands were, and our skin tone varies by how much the sun shines in their native region.

The dwarf frowns at the last part, going "I thought you people just paint your skin and dye your hair for fun", and the human admits that yeah, we do that too, but not all the time, and not the whole skin. The dwarf asks, what of that tall woman the colour of dravite, her palms and the soles of her feet were lighter than the rest of her. Does that mean she paints herself dark to be more beautiful?

The human says no, that just happens naturally. Maybe it's because one's palms and feet aren't exposed to the sun as much, so they are paler.

The dwarf nods, still unsure whether this is actually legit or just the human habit of lying for fun, and proceeds to ask about the wild northman of their party. He is as pale as an olm, but the palms of his hands and the soles of his feet are dark. Are they painted, or naturally that way?

No, the human answers. That guy just doesn't bathe.