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[lurkinginnernarrator]

I need Shen Qingqiu, who left for a week-long mission to not return. I need the peak lords to look for him, scouring high and low.

Only, they find him. He's crouched behind bushes, journal in hand fastidiously observing Malevolent Mango-Leopard Birds. He looks crazed. It's the dirtiest they've ever seen him. He has rivers of notes and illustrations.

He shushes them all and tugs them behind the bushes.

"The mating rituals of Malevolent Mango-Leopard Birds haven't ever been documented before. It's believed they only mate once every thousand years."

"Shen-Shixiong was here... watching birds."

"Shen-Shixiong didn't send word because... He was too busy watching birds. Mate."

"...don't say it like that."

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Hey question is Calculator a WFA only villain or from the comics?

From what I found, he is the same as the Calculator who was created in the 70s. He was introduced in the extra story of Detective Comics 463 which was actually mainly focused on the Atom, although it featured a variety of heroes including Green Arrow, Elongated Man, and the Caped Crusader himself. He was created by Bob Rosakis and Mike Grell. Basically his whole schtick was that he had a suit that allowed him to "calculate" the moves of heroes and defeat them using hard-light constructs generated from a little projector on his head.

He returned in the Birds of Prey 2010-2011 run by Gail Simone, Marc Andreyko, and Ardian Syaf. I'm pretty sure it was particularly in the 'Death of Oracle' arc, as he is the main antagonist of that event, but don't quote me on that. It's here that he becomes the "Anti-Oracle" and causes the arc, growing closer and closer to discovering her identity as she buries herself further into hiding. I don't think the hard-light constructs are present here at all, I'm pretty sure he's just a really good hacker now but again I've not read it, so take that with a grain of salt. He's not exactly what I'd call "obscure" as he has appeared across different medias, but he's a relatively deep cut to include in the story nonetheless and I like the choice to take someone so specific for Babs' arc as opposed to just covering the paralysis trauma or using her brother or something.

[foursaints]

what do u think of the popular pandora/lily ship

they strike me as almost... too healthy to properly compel me, if that makes sense? my lily characterization errs on the side of canon in that i see her as a force of light & goodness in the lives of all who she encounters. lily makes heroes out of the worst of people.

my pandora is someone with one foot in the dark & the other in light— halfway between the two, and teeter-tottering— and i find her at her most interesting when she is paired with someone "worse" (like lucius, or petunia, or rita, or barty) and grapples internally... i suggest checking out @/lilyrosiers for some great pandalily though!

[duckprintspress]

i'm considering applying for your anthology but am so extremely uncomfortable with the way google has been rolling full-steam ahead with AI in its various systems that even the thought of using google docs/drive is triggering to me at this point. do i have options for working with you without using google?

Hey anon!

I completely appreciate your reticence, and I share it. This is something we're actually working on - transitioning away from Google. It's extremely difficult to do, given how ubiquitous Google has gotten to be, but we've been pricing private/personal server options, looking at websites that offer similar functionality but, ya know, aren't Google, and otherwise entering the preliminary stages of trying to disentangle ourselves from... *gestures vaguely at the ever-growing dumpster fire that is Google* ...that.

For now, for submissions, I can tell you:

the current round of submission forms are still Google Forms

you can submit the writing sample as a .docx or .doc.

Basically: at this exact time, given that applications for Scholarly Pursuits are google forms, no, it's not possible to work with us without using Google at all.

But in the future, this is something we're working on, and yes, it should be possible in the future to work with us without using Google.

(Side note, I use Firefox as my browser and duckduckgo for websearch and have for a while, and the Press e-mail is through our web domain, which is hosted by Siteground. We've absolutely been trying to shift away from Google for a while, but in the last couple weeks we've begun to at least try to do a more thorough separation.)

Hope this helps!

-unforth

[fertbutt]

I know ive said in the past that murtagh would listen to mitski but that's just because I like him. if I'm being completely truthful in a modern setting he would listen to linkin park or perchance nirvana. eragon would listen to weezer and green day. ARYA is the only one who would actually listen to mitski.

[emeryleewho]

Anytime white people try to "examine" indigenous cultural histories and then insist that "there's no way to know" the truth because it wasn't written down, I lose 10 years off my life. Oral tradition exists for a reason. The idea that one person's rendition of history is somehow more accurate because you painted it on a bunch of leaves instead of seared it into song or bed time stories is why y'all can't dance and end up dead in horror movies.

[orfeolookback]

i feel like posts like these are based off of a sense of well-meaning anger but miss the point in a particularly radical feminist way and make people up just to be mad at them. Anyone [in a honest discussion setting, a non-tumblr discussion, academic settings primarily!] saying men are lonely is personally diagnosing a problem with patriarchy, not saying women don't experience it too. it's just pointing out the way that patriarchy has inner workings that differentiate, reward and punish even within the privileged class of men. Male privilege is intersectional and thus very circumstancial. I'm not saying OP is wrong, but there's a wayyy more nuanced take to be had if we understand that 1) the fact that we have so much reading on masculinities that Highlights the need for a new approach to masculinity that doesn't both drive men to and excuse men's violence, and 2) male privilege is tied to 'doing' gender correctly as well as the legal, optical, social, medical, etc, status of manhood (thank you Butler) so it's not like being cis magically makes anyone violent, smth smth Bourdieu's habitus theory applied to a masculine habitus that includes violence

some reading that i find interesting bc i've been on a bunch of feminist theory and praxis workshop groups about feminity and masculinity (as a transmasc, non-passing, effeminate non binary). the following are recommended citations!

Nancy E. Dowd, Masculinities and Feminist Legal Theory, 23 Wis. J.L. Gender & Soc'y 201 (2008), available at http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/415

Cramer, K.M., Neyedley, K.A. Sex Differences in Loneliness: The Role of Masculinity and Femininity. Sex Roles 38, 645–653 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018850711372

Pitt, S. L., & Fox, C. A. (2012). "Performative Masculinity: A New Theory on Masculinity". In Masculinity/Femininity: Re-Framing a Fragmented Debate. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848880948_006

Nikki Wedgwood (2009)Connell's theory of masculinity – its origins and influences on the study of gender1 ,Journal of Gender Studies,18:4,329-339,DOI: 10.1080/09589230903260001

Will H Courtenay, Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's well-being: a theory of gender and health, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 50, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1385-1401, ISSN 0277-9536, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-9536(99)00390-1. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953699003901)

Carrigan, T., Connell, B., & Lee, J. (1985). Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity. Theory and Society, 14(5), 551–604. http://www.jstor.org/stable/657315

and finally!

[paulmccartneyprostateorgasm]

I'm not even a beatles rpf shipper I consider myself a scholar

[mementokorie]

seems like a relevant time to drop this poll

[cypric-rat-hyperfixation]

As my following grows and as I meet more and more people who have rats, had rats, know someone who has/had rats, and love rats...

increasingly I wonder if/when a day will come... a day that I'll express rat enjoyment to someone and they'll enthusiastically ask me if I've heard of This Funnie Little Rodent Blog they like, figuring I may already know it or will enjoy it if not...

and it's.. my blog... and then I have to come out as popular Rat Tumblr blogger that they follow and now know IRL.......

[hourcat]

what i wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall watching pierre and charles' "why we should consider polyamory" powerpoint presentation to their gfs

[2x4swrites]

reposting this because I originally linked it in a reblog chain on @borom1r + I’m very happy with it:

a little over 5k words of wedding & sword exchange fluff with Éomer and Faramir, because I love iron-age Norse culture and the parallels that can be drawn between it & Rohan 💚

(link in notes)

[superchlorine]

goatober 2022 ✦ 09 scholarly prompt list by @foolofabookwyrm-activated

in which a goat studies a mysterious object, and draws an unusual conclusion.

[whentherewerebicycles]

therapy was “helpful” and I “liked it” and sigh I’ll “keep going”

[antidotefortheawkward-art]

You wouldnt happen to see have that analysis for Blue Erlang Shen would you? What you said about his Shu lineage sounded so cool if you don't mind sharing!

Here you go! The post just goes into what it means thematically for Erlang Shen to be depicted as human versus monstrous though wrt blue-green skin, and doesn't go much more into his Shu lineage. Basically all my thoughts about that are in the actual art post, but here's some more info!

I just think it'd make sense if the blue interpretations of Erlang Shen stemmed from Shu artifacts seeing as he's a Sichuanese god and is still widely recognized as a Lord of Sichuan.

[ID: Several variations of the 蜀 Shu character from varying dynasties. End ID]

[ID: Photos of Sanxingdui artifacts. One being a set of eye-shaped ornaments. The other being a head or mask with large rods protruding from the eyes and an intentional hole in its forehead. End ID]

People have noted that the motif of eyes reoccurs frequently in Shu artifacts, some coining it "眼睛崇拜". I haven't seen much consensus or discussion on why interpreting Erlang Shen's Heavenly Eye 天眼 as a vertical third eye is so popular, so this is just my own personal theory.

The first king of Shu country, Can Cong (also known as 青衣神 Blue-Green Robed God) was also noted to have vertical eyes 目纵 in texts such as 华阳国志·蜀志 "Records of HuaYang Country- Shu Annals." So. That's something I'm also pointing to. Both the vertical eyes and the blue-green theme.

TAKE THIS BIT WITH GRAIN OF SALT (can't find original source text for it, only references to it, but i still think it's interesting enough to mention): I've also heard that the archaeologist Wei Juxian 卫聚贤 has records around the 30th Year of Guangxu 光绪三十 of a Shu tradition called “Opening the Heavenly Eye 开天眼" wherein people carved a vertical socket into their forehead and placed a black bead in it to serve as a Heavenly Eye 天眼。 BUT I CAN'T FIND THIS SOURCE TEXT. SO AGAIN TAKE THIS WITH A GRAIN WITH SALT (<- guy covering all his bases bc once I answered an anon's JTTW question and someone quoted it on Iron Fan Princess's wikipedia, please don't do that, im doing very shallow casual research rn just for fun and should not be considered a scholarly source)