#agreeing with Op

[sarcasticcollegestudent]

Also a human has a right to make the decision to treat themselves well or poorly without societal judgement; an animal has no ability to make that call.

if ur confused about why animal people advocate for keeping your pets at a "healthy weight" but sometimes also in the same breath will advocate against human diet culture, its because we know what body condition a cat is supposed to be at optimally. but literally there is not one for humans as far as we can tell.

humans are a weird, opportunistic, hyper-adaptable and variable primate and we have evolved to have a LOT of variety in size, shape, metabolism, and weight retention. this has been essential to survival in hard times and easy times. you know the thing people talk about sometimes how about half the population are night people and about half are morning people so we'd be better able to watch at night as a group? yeah, weight variation is like that: there's a lot of latent variation in human populations because as a community we survive significantly better if some of us are fuckin ready to not die during the longass winter of death and some of us can eat their weight in fish and then run a mile immediately after. this is also why some people gain muscle crazy fast and some people don't: muscle requires a lot of energy, so some people are built to gain a lot during a plentiful season and be really efficient then and some people are built to use less energy over time and be more useful during a long hungry period. cats and almost all other vertebrates simply don't have this kind of complex community variation built in, and tend to be much more uniform in build and weight. humans tend to be really variable in body and brain, and that's one of the biggest factors that's made us so successful! there are just a LOT of ways to be a human being.

all of the "science" on "ideal human body condition" we have at the moment is almost entirely bullshit and was done by white supremacists for eugenics purposes. it's just not something we know, and right now there's significantly more evidence that there is no ideal body type for everyone to reach. recent research indicates that humans are healthiest at a variety of weights and builds, and dieting is almost universally bad for you. even if the culture hasn't caught up yet.

[ariadne-mouse]

I feel fandom would get along a lot better if there was mutual understanding that liking a character, agreeing with a character, and thinking the character is well constructed/executed are all separate (if often overlapping) positions, each with their separate tastes and subjectivities. Also: character portrayals are intended to make the audience feel things; this is separate from (if often overlapping with) analyzing/appreciating their actions and role in the story.

[timelessbian]

actually that ao3 post about calculating kudos-to-hits ratios to decide if a fic is worth reading has me so pissed off. someone put real time and energy into something they are SHARING WITH YOU FOR FREE on a site where you can quite literally filter and search by anything you want and you're STILL trying to find a foolproof method to find stuff that's "good enough to read"???

YOU ARE NOT THE TARGET AUDIENCE FOR EVERYTHING

you don't have to like or read everything in a given fandom or tag, but you also don't have to be a cunt about it and imply that it's not worth reading. this is the kind of shit that moves people to stop creating altogether, and to see people agreeing in the tags is so disheartening. absolutely unserious behavior.

[januscorner]

Also that’s such a weird argument, my is referring to them being in relation to you not ownership, you don’t say “my friend” cus you think you own them

I was just thinking about the time I was at a queer group, waiting for it to start, and we were just casually chatting, talking about what we did over the weekend. I mentioned what my wife and I did. A younger woman scoffs and said "I hate when men say 'my wife'. It's like they think they own her." I'm just standing there, confused, kind of expecting the other people around us to also be confused. But no, all the women started talking about how awful men are to their wives and how wives deserve better than straight men.

So now I'm super uncomfortable because we're at a group for all types of queer people. Yall know I'm queer too and at groups like this, I try to make a point to queer it up because I'm safe to. We havent met, do you even know how I identify?

If you knew anything about me, you'd know that at the time my wife and I got married, marriage equality had only been legal for about a year. Legally, we were no different than any queer couple. We didn't know that we'd be able to be legally married. At the time, I couldn't legally change my gender marker in my state (the law at that point was you had to have 'irreversible surgery' to change your gender marker). Just because I am a trans man does not mean that there was some switch that flipped and instantly put me on level playing field with cishet men.

I don't know what made me think about this again. But that was a very uncomfortable experience for me. It was the last time I went to that group.

[agendratum]

©lix.isi

[sonoda-oomers]

realizing thistle never actually reached the maturation point for an elf is so. eye opening. especially bc he actually witnessed both delgal's birth and the birth of delgal's son (AND HIS GRANDSON!!). as a human reader it's so easy to be lulled into thinking he's so old and marcille's remark of him being a child came so fast it's so easily forgotten

like i definitely think the golden kingdom and delgal himself never knew let alone be able to perceive thistle as an immature person. bc in their years he's just so old. and i think growing up surrounded with all tallmen also gave thistle false perceptions of how mature he was and it played a part in him taking on the responsibility of rejecting death for the whole kingdom. it's a brilliant and raw display of what age discrepancy actually means in the world of dungeon meshi

[3liza]

I don't know how many times we have to say this but this is because the United States of America does not have public transit in any form that a European would recognize as such outside of a few very small, highly-dense municipal locations like NYC and Chicago, and having used both those systems and the U-Bahn i can firmly assert that the U-Bahn blows American subways into smithereens. we especially do not have accessible interstate passenger train service outside of that one commuter Amtrak loop in the northeast. the country is designed to force its citizens to use cars and only cars, and the government has made it policy to incentivize car ownership since the 1940s and punish any other form of transit, including just walking around. do you understand? the vast majority of roads here do not have bike lanes. when we do have bike lanes they are not protected by a curb or divider, they are just white lines painted on the asphalt. you will regularly encounter roads and streets--inside of cities and suburbs, not just in rural areas--that do not have sidewalks

[bobwess]

The take "I don't want to see this go away so these people should work in unlivable conditions" is a bad take. Every worker deserves to unionize, and the film industry can afford it.

Honestly, if CG artists unionising kills the use of CG in films, I don't see a downside.

[mel-loly]

[mademoiselle-cookie]

TFA Megop sexual tension

Optimus is in a situation where he can talks often to Megatron, alone. Like the Elite Guard is tring to interrogate te Decepticon but Optimus is the only he accepts to talk to.

HUGE sexual tension between the two. They are well aware of it and play on it. It's their only fun

Optimus has no moral dilemma because he doesn't do anything immoral/illegal to the prisoner - they just talk, nothing more - and he has no intention of betraying the Autobots.

Megatron is the only one he can be like that with because he is unreachable (apart from the fact that he is very sexy), nothing can happen between them. Megatron is covered in chains so he can't touch him. They will never sleep each other.

Optimus hates him and Megatron hates the Autobots, so no problem sentimentally and emotionally.

Totally safe!

Until Megatron escapes.

[spicypotstickerbliss]

BBC Sherlock took only vague inspiration from canon and this is so obvious when watching it. As a show by itself, the writing is solid and the acting performance by the leads is incredible. The cinematography is so cool and it looks nice in a rad aesthetic sort of way. That said, is it a human and deeply touching narrative? Idk. Like yeah I’m just here to watch these weird guys do stuff, like picking at their brains under a microscope.

Sh&co vs. bbc sherlock

Something I feel that really separates Sh&co from bbc Sherlock is that Sherlock is not some super computer mind thats a million steps ahead of everyone.

Yes he is incredibly smart, but he's not the only one who is solving the problems. Like there are several episodes where he couldn't have solved the crimes without John and Mariana.

I just really love how they all work together- Like Mariana and John don't just exists to look stupid compared to Sherlock.

[theposhperyton]

I'm almost finished with Enies Lobby, manifesting this energy for the end of the arc 🙏

[ariadne-mouse]

Tiny Hut: has a 10ft *radius* which means it is a generous 20ft across from side to side, or 314 sq ft

Artists and Writers everywhere, absolutely correct: it's small enough that whoever's in it simply must all pile together like a basket of puppies

[shirmart]

My piece for OP AU zine

Also

Happy birthday, Zoro

[saintaviator]

dmc5 redraw 👍

[corporatecoinings]

seriously , saying for cishet men to dni will not fix transphobes

if you have "cishet men dni" in your bio i, a trans man, will not touch you with a 10 foot pole. i should not be forced to out myself as a trans man just to interact with you. on top of that, cishet men are not inherently evil. stop trying to reinvent bioessentialism with your "girl good, boy bad!" mentality.