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[thatneoncrisis]

oooh ok feel free to ignore this since it isn't the ask game technically, but how do you feel tamsyn pulls punches with john? where do you think that could improve? i'm curious and i love hearing ur analysis of this stuff

ok so this is just my own personal opinion. but after reading the series like three times ive basically come to the consensus that tamsyn is much more in tune with writing john as kiwi and not as maori

and its not that is completely erased from the text. but you REALLY have to hunt for it as opposed to him being kiwi which is incredibly obvious in the way he talks about his old life in ntn. i dont think i would have even known he was maori if she didnt say gideon was and i was actively looking for it. but she kind of treats characters being indigenous as like a cool fun fact rather than an active part of their identity. and this is related to a much longer and more draining conversation about how race/ethnicity even WORKS in the empire which is set 10000 years in the future. we as a society Right Now cant even agree on what race cleopatra was do you like. get what im saying

anyway what im trying to get at is the empire, designed and run by One Guy, the Only person who remembers earth culture, actively deciding to model its systems of government, religion, military, language and aesthetics after staples of western imperialism (like most of the names are pulled from greek or roman or biblical figures) is one thing. because i understand the books are actively christian, tamsyn is catholic theres like Commentary on those elements. but there is no commentary as to why a polynesian guy would Actively gatekeep his own culture from a world HE made. they are clearly speaking english, gideons name had to be TRANSLATED to kiriona, theres a decent chance shes not even pronouncing it correctly. thats fucking insane. the characters in tlt are living in a cultural genocide by magnitudes that we cannot even comprehend and they cant even like. talk about it they cant THINK about it. the text hasnt given them time to. does he think theyre not worth it? why not? these are questions the text isnt interested in asking let alone answering

even when theres an opportunity for contrast, ie new rho, its all done in broad strokes of vague descriptions of Other cultures. we suffer speaks in accented house. what accent? pyrrha can speak 4 languages including house to varying degrees. what languages? she makes pikelets in the morning this is obviously a very nz/aussie thing, so this wartorn city Also has them theyre just a universal constant. new rho is just kind of described as Apocalypse Desert City, it could look like fucking LA for all i know and nothing would change

tldr tamsyn wrote very good kiwi characters and im obviously talking as someone who isnt kiwi but Is not white but her like aversion or indifference to writing inarguably indigenous characters in a way outside of their physical appearance wrt how it informs their ideals and motivations could be more. just More. this is literally one of the most insanely cruel things john has done and nobody in universe can even call him on it because hes scrubbed all traces of it from existence what if we exploded

[ohihopeicanchangethislater]

EVERYTHING'S COOOOOOL

so apparently… theres an odd squad fandom……….. sort of? wow

anyway heres oona

[kamil-a]

artfight PART TWO!!!!! mid-july to the end!!!

1. @halcyonminor's Future and Sim Young (1.2) 2. ArdRieBRie's Euphemia Deacon 3. @chaoticnebu's Seluna Silenthowl 4. @bisexualmaedhros' Listener 5. @almightyjanitor's Catthew Amariyo 6. @dinobot's Surveybot 7.NuggetCat's Slime Cat 8. MASS ATTACK PART 1 9. MASS ATTACK PART TWO

[chipotle-chicken-avocado-melt]

Top 5 favorite characters

Tagged in from @jack-fruit ty for the tagging me :3

Limited myself to one character per media, I don’t watch a lot of things I had to go look back in my camera roll to find more characters :,)

Tagging the only three people I know @voiidist

@bisexualmaedhros @gh0st-t33th

[flightboundtrolls]

this is like the best face i’ve ever drawn and it’s for a shitty au shitpost so i’m posting it here. the one on the right is @bisexualmaedhros ‘s oc .

[omiata]

temp pinned post but hey! this is a sideblog. main is @bisexualmaedhros

[finiel]

oh also! i had forgotten to change my pinned post but in case anyone wondered, my main blog is @/bisexualmaedhros! this is a sideblog so i follow and rb from there :-V

[willowplantcat]

i like this adition by @bisexualmaedhros

sorry for hijackin ur post op but i gotta agree that this episode is just a neurodivergent feast

I was already in love with Delicious In Dungeon for the clever world building and well crafted characters but episode 17 brought a true smile to my face for something far more mundane and close to my heart; Shuro completely fumbling how to deal with a neurodivergent person (Laios), and getting slugged for it. Bless this series for shouting out "we are not obligated to engage in your unwritten rules, if you have a problem just fucking say it". Refreshing.

[caladir]

caladir → @bisexualmaedhros

[thatneoncrisis]

am i bad at reading or is that last line saying that white women are held accountable for white men's racism...? and why do they call it the intersection of misogyny and racism when they're talking about misogyny aimed at women who have been racist... like. that's not what "intersection" means.

anyway no yeah you're right that post is bad

its less that their responsible for white mens fuck ups and more that op is positing that white womens fuck ups are amplified and attacked harder to like. ignore or distract from white men fuck ups. which i still dont agree with but whatever

[bisexualmaedhros]

CALADIR → BISEXUALMAEDHROS

(also ps my art blog is @finiel and my oc blog is @needletongues they’re side blogs to this one ok love u bye)

[carnivaldisasters]

@bisexualmaedhros

ok so basically. i was working as a girl scout camp counselor. this story takes place after all the kids left, and we were cleaning up the camp. i came back to help clean up after a got fired the week before (completely different scandal that was me being stupid and experiencing consequences don’t worry about it) so i left the cleanup earlier than the other people working there. after i leave, i get a text from one of my coworkers saying someone accused us of having SEX IN THEIR CAR?

now here’s the thing.

at no point did we even have the TIME to do this in the period we were accused

i’m not stupid enough to do that when i’m ALREADY ON THIN ICE

their car is tiny

IM DISABLED

WE DIDNT EVEN DO THAT UN THE FIRST PLACE

and i had to hear this AFTER IT ALL HAPPENED i wasn’t even there to DEFEND MYSELF

have i ever told you guys about the time i got into a sex scandal and the thing i was accused of didn’t even fuckking happen and realistically could not have happened at all

[kamil-a]

@bisexualmaedhros THINKING HIS KINPAGE WAS GONNA SAY VRISKA MVFSSJFJJFJJFSF

[thatneoncrisis]

do you have any color palettes you feel like you tend to fall back on by default when drawing? if so, do you embrace that, or try to consciously use different combinations?

i think i heavily favor the pink to dark blue side of the color wheel but i think im pretty generous with all my choices. a lot of the characters i draw have very strong individual color palettes so i dont reuse them a lot

[bisexualmaedhros]

omg in about a month it'll be one year of bisexualmaedhros url

[finiel]

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this is my art blog. it is a sideblog, so i like and follow from my main, @bisexualmaedhros . more info about me under the cut!

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name: finn/olivia

pronouns: they/them

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artfight: finiel