#and presumptions

[lbulldesigns]

BREAKING NEWS: NOXIAN ATTACK WITHIN DEMACIA!

An attack at Demacias Grand Plaza Station took place at 11:30 AM this morning, the main culprits are a Noxian Fire Mage estimated to be around six years of age, and an unknown assailant who at this point in time is suspected to also be a Noxian agent, the second attacker is unidentifiable at this time what is known about them is that they are a presumed young woman, with long orange hair tied up in a single braid. She is a skilled hand-to-hand combatant and is armed with explosives and a firearm; both suspects are at large and presumed highly dangerous.

Captain Garen Crownsguard is leading the search for the attackers and has asked that civilians stay indoors and call the Mageseekers and City Guard if they see anyone suspicious, he also asks that if anyone comes across anyone fitting the assailants' descriptions to stay away and await assistance; the Mageseekers have also implored civilians to not be swayed by the fire mages young appearance, she is confirmed to be out of control of her magic and is suspected to have a contract with a Shadow Bear (a Noxian borne demon).

With the presence of a Noxian mage here in Demacia, the Vanguard are being issued to secure Demacias borders from any further infiltration from Noxius, King Jarvan IV has promised that all threats, internal and external, will be dealt with and has vowed to keep the people of Demacia safe and that the attackers today will be dealt with swiftly.

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

[vitaegratis]

@withliight​ sent: if you die on me after everything i’ve done for you… i’ll never forgive you.

that gives him pause. they’re friendly, yes, but still didn’t know each other all that well. for all that long. she’s saved his ass a couple of times, but... has he taken that for granted? or had she done more than he knew? ...did his life really mean that much to her, or did she just not want it all to be for nothing? if he died. on her. it was that particular wording...

"...forgive my lack of decorum, but if you want to fuck me, just say that. you don’t need to act like i mean more to you than i do.”

[wolfythewitch]

What is religions place in moral and ethics arguments in your opinion? I saw one of your posts and i was curious :))

It was smth about how you can't really be reliant on religion as a defense on its own because you'll never really be able to properly hold a discussion. Any argument wherein one party's only defense is "god says it's wrong" or "the bible says it's wrong" is a copout and already kind of doomed to fail from the start. And how it's also frustrating to go up against someone who uses that as their only counterargument (i.e. my dad) because there's really no way to argue against it without offending them. It can't be the end all be all argument because God is only real to the people who believe in him, and this stance will ultimately be worthless on people with any differing belief. I spent an Hour talking with my dad about capital punishment and it was because his only reason for why the death penalty is morally okay is because the government authorized it and God says that we should respect the authority.

You can't really use God in a moral argument until you can definitively prove to the opposing party that God exists and is fully omnipotent and omniscient and omnipresent. You will not be able to tell an atheist woman that abortion is bad because God says so, that would not work and would only antagonize her further. Something something what is god to a nonbeliever. Religion isn't like fully exempt from arguments or whatever, it has its own place in them, especially with how influential it is in every culture, but if man is born with free will then let him think without the constraints of a theoretical god's law

[raisins-n-space]

idk if this is like. something all fandoms get but one of my favourite parts of being into star trek is seeing previously non trek blogs be like “hey guess what i maybe saw this show called star trek idk it was quite okay blue and yellow seem kinda fruity to me ” and getting to watch people contract incurable spirk brainworms in real time basically without fail. idk i just think it’s neat.

[auspicioustidings]

You've been with Ghost since you were both teenagers. Really you're pretty sure you've loved him since you were 6 years old and he was 8 and he gave you his half of the pastry he was splitting between him and his baby brother. Your dad was on his own with you and worked long hours but it was a struggle to keep you both fed and it's as if Simon somehow just knew.

Even when he presented as an alpha and you remained a beta, he refused to entertain the idea of anyone else. Bit a claim into you the day you turned 18 even if you had been begging him to do it for years before.

It's a good life he's made for you despite all the tragedy along the way. People look at you strangely sure, it's not common for an alpha to claim a beta, but you pay it no mind. You love him and he loves you, that should be enough. You'll probably never have kids, alphas work better with omegas for that, but he's never indicated that it bothers him.

And then he meets John MacTavish. Omega, scent match, fated.

[pawthorn]

dude reading your meta for the first time literally can't tell if you hate ashton or not OP and that's fucking hilarious

Ashton is my favorite of the Hells.

No hard feelings Anon, I get it, but it’s wild to me that fandom has progressed to the point where you can’t point out that a character has a limited point of view without it being seen as possible hate.

I think Ashton is wrong, but their pov makes sense based on his life experience. It adds drama. It makes us wonder what the party as a whole will do next.

Characters can be myopic and smug and petty and hypocritical, I don’t care as long as they’re interesting.

Ashton is interesting.

[weirdlookindog]

Richard Wynn Keane (1809-1887) - Frankenstein's Monster, 1828

Concept art for the play "Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein", which was the first stage adaptation of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus".

[brainwormcity]

So Maggie totally knew Crowley pre-season 2, right? When Crowley approaches her about the meeting, she's not at all confused about who he is, he knows her on sight when he sees her out the window with Nina, and she is familiar enough with the two of them to say that Aziraphale and him never talk to one another. I don't know why this matters to me so much but it makes me happy. 😭

[sleepyconfusedpotato]

I never understand the discourse over ocs/self inserts, I mean yeah some of cod ocs can be a bit much 😬 I give them that. But some are just having fun! Yet they’re dragging them as if their ocs were any better

They don’t take issues when the ocs are always fighting, killing etc. but the moment ocs started having connections, intimacy, relationships with the canon—it’s not okay anymore??

And the chihuahua comment is wild 😂 guess some ppl still can’t see the difference between reality & fiction again !! 🫢

Thank you so much everyone for the love and support! I really do appreciate your messages so much (❁´◡`❁)

If I can say things, I could, but I won't try to make someone like something they don't like. I read the comments with popcorn and candies on my hand, and all I see is uninformed individuals who see my artworks only from reposted images in Pinterest and TikTok 🤣

(They also don't know that OG!Modern Warfare exists, that an artist's art style change/evolutionize over time, and that Jade is not a sergeant or a military personnel, and that a woman doesn't have to be 6'4" muscular, overtly masculine or even look scary and intimidating to be capable of something btw)

This happens because of course their only source of information regarding her is from REPOSTING MY ARTS. This is why reposting is DANGEROUS to OC creators like me.

However, I do saw all the comments supporting me, and I do thank all of you who defended me <3 I'm very thankful to all of you (❤️ ω ❤️)

At the end of the day, I'm grateful they mainly dragged me instead of someone else. I take these things very lightly; others might take it to heart and stop creating altogether. Be careful what you type folks.

Stay creating, don't stop being cringe, and be happy ✨🥰

[clonehub]

The Clones, Kamino, and Relationships

I've long speculated on what the clones' values would be as a people regarding every type of relationship they could possibly have with others around them -- antagonistic, romantic/sexual, professional, platonic, familial, etc.

Often times when making headcanons along these lines, people tend to project their own social upbringings onto the clones with or without realizing; they rely heavily on a reality that doesn't exist for the clones and then try to justify it with the same reality. Their analyses and theories and hcs end up flawed (and, for me, really annoying to read).

I'm sure you've all heard the fanon/headcanons that clones don't have the necessary and nebulously-defined "life experiences" that are required to mark them as adults. People think the clones lack a certain amount of knowledge about themselves and their bodies, and then others' bodies and how those work. They think the clones have no social awareness; I even saw someone say that clones wouldn't have had rivals, frenemies, or any negative interaction with other clones.

This long form and hopefully structured rant is going to lay out everything I think about how the clones were raised, why they're raised that way, and what that means when they interact with one another and with non clones.

Antagonistic Relationships

The clones argue. They fight. They disagree. We see this repeatedly in The Clone Wars and all throughout the Bad Batch. They disagree with superiors, both Jedi and non Jedi.

Disagreement within a group helps foster social bonds, can strengthen critical thinking/reasoning, and has a few other benefits I don't feel like listing out right now. Regardless, managing disagreements in a group requires conflict resolution skills.

The General Relationship Structure on Kamino

The clones must be taught to be loyal, to be amicable, and how to resolve conflicts within squads and bigger and bigger groupings of clones. The clones are going to war. They're trained soldiers. They have to be able to work on a team. Team work isn't just following orders and it isn't just being friends. That also means swallowing pride, setting aside ego, and even speaking up.

They can get jealous, they can be envious, they can have a whole host of complex feelings and emotions that they need to work through. The Drill sergeants would thus be instructed to be aware of and teach the clones who to work through this (whether they choose pats on the head or a fist is up to them).

I'm saying this to say that fandom often takes clones' "guns n battle" education a little (waaayy) too literally. They're not just given a gun at 2 and told to start firing. They need to be told that you can't turn that gun on your brother just because he said something annoying or you think he's dumb.

The Galaxy Outside Kamino

The clones learn about the galaxy outside Kamino. They get a heavily censored and propagandized history of the galaxy that plays up the Republic and absolutely villainizes anyone else, but they definitely do learn about the galaxy in general. They learn about other species, where those species are located, etc.

I say this to say that people like to act like the clones are so sheltered that they basically gawk at the mere existence of anyone who isn't a clone (so like....racist via ignorance?) which....I don't understand, really. The Kaminoans want to deliver a functioning and high quality product. They can't do that if they don't tell the clones that there's people out there that look different frmo you and speak a different language. A lot of clones are bound to interact with civilians; what sense is there in not prepping them for it?

These history lessons wouldn't even take too long to learn or anything like that. Some people like to headcanon that the clones' education schedule is so tight that they can't learn about "unnecessary" things (i.e. anything that isn't about guns n battle). But the clones are also fast learners. I think they can handle like two days of lessons about the galaxy's species.

Learning about the galaxy also requires --

Social Awareness

I've often seen headcanons that the clones, in one way or another, lack social awareness. "Non clones are basically an alien species! They're bound to ask loud, rude, ignorant, offensive questions! They're not shy, so they'd totally just strip in public if they need to!" (yes, I saw someone say this)

This comes from people infantilizing the clones and refusing to write or see them as the adults that they are. This is also severely shortsighted; again, being aware of the fact that the Kaminoans want a product that can do its job, who is helped by the clones blundering through greater society and destroying the genpop's trust in and comfort with them?

The clones get taught the basics of social politeness. They wouldn't manage the intricacies of cross-cultural interaction from two like high level senators, but that's not their job. They're polite, they're professional, they're aware of what is and isn't rude. They're self aware. They're adults.

Personal and Bodily Awareness

Sorry to the people who are weirdly misogynistic, but the clones also get comprehensive sex ed. It's inevitable that some clones are going to sleep with a non-clone. It's bound to happen! Rather than pretend it never does, the clones are told in detail about two things:

The human reproductive system.

Basic contraceptives and STI prevention.

part of maintaining the health and safety of any given population is making sure that they don't get sick. STIs are a way of getting sick. Part of maintaining the health and safety of a given population is managing unwanted or unexepcted pregnancies. Condoms prevent that. I think the medics have them and distribute them as-needed when they go on leave planetside.

So they get consent training (they'd have to, in order to learn how to interact with anyone ever in a normal and healthy way). The contours of consent would interact with their lifestyles in a contradictory way because they're also rather explicitly told they don't have the right to give/revoke consent over their own bodies, but they're at least told about other's bodies.

But here's the thing. The clones rarely. RARELY. Do end up having sex or a relationship because of two reasons:

They rarely interact with non-clones who are viable for sexual or romantic relationships (as in, most of the non-clones they're in contact with are COs and Jedi)

They themselves do not value sex and relationships to the extent that we do in our society.

for the first point: they're in battle a lot, and when they go on leave they face a society that does not like clones. There are anti-clone protests, 79s is one of the few bars that allows clones in, and when they're at battle they're notably not interacting with civilians for obvious reasons. The average jedi and non clone CO is not going to seek a sexual or romantic relationship with a clone.

This also presumes that clones don't sleep with other clones. I'm not giving ground on this. It's clear within canon that the clones view each other as true family. "Brothers" is not just "brother in arms", but quite literally a familial term for them. Fives' "same heart, same blood" speech in season 3 is evidence. Sister being called/naming herself Sister is another (her being transfem alone isn't enough; if they didn't view their familial relationships as fundamental to who they are, they would have given her a regular name, not Sister). They also refer to one another primarily as brothers, even when there's bad blood -- like Slick insisting that he did loves his brothers. Not comrades or friends or squad mates. Brothers. The entire 501st.

Frankly, the "they're bound to do it" view that many people seem to have is very bizarre to me. Who cares about proximity? What are their values as a people? What have they been taught? What do they believe? Why assume that any given clone would do that? Plenty of people spend a lifetime around their families without ever developing a desire to sleep with them. Who you grow up with can absolutely influence who you're attracted to, but not to this degree.

The assumption that clones MUST sleep with one another relies on a rather wide series of assumptions that just do the thing I complained about in the opener, which is rely on our own culture's values to write the clones. Which ties into point #2 up above:

The clones don't value sex or relationships as something they need to seek out. Yeah, they'd get horny. They're adults. It happens! Part of life. But what's socially considered an appropriate release of those feelings would be different from what we see in today's world. The drill sergeants wouldn't impress upon them the importance of having a partner, because how does that help them? How does it benefit the Republic, the civilians, the clones?

The clones are soldiers who were bred for war and are focused, first and foremost, on fighting and fulfilling their duty. Their most important social values are fighting, duty, and loyalty. Hierarchy, warfare, survival, etc. Can a clone seek out sex? Yeah! Is that even like, remotely common given the points I made above? No! Does the average clone chase civilians or even dream about relationships, sex, etc etc etc? Nope. They weren't taught to value it.

(This isn't to say that wanting these things makes a clone bad at their job, or that having sex means they're breaking a rule somewhere. They're not. it's just like how the majority of college students go for the most common majors because they're taught that those are valuable and desirable things to learn in school. You'll get one or two who have a concentration in something you've never heard of. They're not wrong for that, but they're definitely outliers)

So the average clone is a virgin that doesn't even think about it because it doesn't matter to them. They know about both male and female reproduction, and they know how to interact with civilians.

They're definitely sheltered. I highly doubt that any clone is given the skills necessary to manage like, romantic relationship problems, especially the really gritty ones. They're not told about their rights as beings, their ability to say no to most situations that involve a military CO. But they know about saying please and thank you, solving interpersonal conflicts, and about pads and tampons. They know about boundaries, appropriate behavior in public, and how to use a condom. They know about girlfriends and boyfriends and partners, they just don't generally care about them. They're rare -- not socially shunned, just rare. like the niche college concentrations.

A really good meta to read that I personally love is written by @canichangemyblogname and linked in his pinned. @saga-ordsmed also has a few interesting metas floating somewhere on her blog. theyre not about this topic in particular, but she's got interesting insights into the Republic.

I hope this was coherent enough. I wrote this mostly because I saw a contradictory post that pissed me off and I was yelling about it with friends in discord lol. Basically, the clones are adults, but don't presume that they have the same values that we do, or that the poeple in charge of their care and upbringing share our values either.

[sodapupz]

I want suitcase to resent mephone I want her to hate his ass

(There are spoilers in the tags btw!)

[beneath-the-mask]

Hot take but if Miquella was a girl I don’t believe the discourse surrounding his character would have arose with the dlc ending. Or at least it wouldn’t have been so bad. Like his ‘crimes’ are definitely not worse than Marika’s and yet I rarely see anyone genuinely hating on her character for what she’s done. Because she’s an attractive woman and that’s all that matters to some people.

Like he’s not at all the worst we’ve seen in a souls game and yet people are treating him like the devil. Suspicious, if you ask me…

[saint-vagrant]

4th annual day of my partner & i advocating for our safety in court. please send your strongest most powerful prayers (or whatever) ❤️

i always feel like i must add a bunch of explanations and disclaimers about what's gone on (many years of DV) and what i think of the system (negatively. i think negatively of it) but i'm so beyond fried... you'd think i'd get used to it but at no point has it been or become easier. the fear of it happening is equal only to the fear of it not happening. just gotta get through it.

[foundfamilywhump]

truly i don't care who thinks it's stupid or boring or "doesn't count" or can't be as intense as what they think of as "real whump" or whatever else, whump with comfort and recovery and caretaker(s) is always going to be my style of whump and i'm gonna have a blast vibing with people who also enjoy that

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Just sayin' nothing will change unless you call out shitty behavior. Or like. Do SOMETHING. (this is in reference to your Shitty English Architect Can't Pronounce Welsh Names post)

apologies if you have already done something about it and just not discussed it publicly. i just get tired of seeing people experience shit like that AT WORK and just cope instead of actually trying to put a stop to it

... obviously I have done something about it. This is a publicly viewable but personal blog, I use it to vent, not to provide you personally with all of the details of my actual life, and that of my work colleagues, without their permission. I suggest you climb down off that high horse, anon, I can see right up your nose from here and it's very unflattering