#but perhaps i am wrong!

[aeosandtheothers]

continuation of banjoposting: bluegrass or clawhammer first?? can't choose + my brain will get overwhelmed if I do both at the same time i fear

[putterphubase]

It's okay.

JACK AND JOKER | EP. 5

[im-smart-i-swear]

coming back home.

@barrenclan

[general-dweebous]

I might’ve missed the northern lights again but you know who would recreate them for me?

Gale Dekarios.

[lbhslefttiddie]

youve heard of sex flowers get ready for the flower that makes you into a celestial shoujo herione complete with particle effects you cannot turn the fuck off and creates a wifebeam so powerful it can incapacitate and maim and keeps making you burst into tears and fall on your ass which makes the wifebeam More Powerful and you also cannot turn this off either. and is also still, sort of, a sex flower

from one of my favorite fanfictions, Celestial Afterglow by elanor_pam, a fic that defies description in the best possible way

[fearandhatred]

instead of taking the fact that they only showed certain parts of the metatron and aziraphale talking to mean that aziraphale is omitting information. consider that those scenes are there instead to support what aziraphale is saying and prove that he's telling the truth. u feel me

[quillkiller]

it’s summer of 1899 and you meet a beautiful brilliant boy and he’s your equal who becomes your lover and you’re going to make sure you achieve everything you ever wanted together and it’s so intense and hectic and overwhelming and passionate that there’s no other way for it to end not only in heartbreak but also tragedy because you end up dueling each other and your brother joins and your sister is killed and there’s no way to tell whose spell killed her and then both of you with this history behind you become leader figures representing good and evil that people follow and trust blindly but the only person who really knows you is the enemy who was once just a beautiful brilliant boy you met in the summer of 1899

[kiwiaok]

firm believer in neil josten having just as many issues with sex as andrew

[redr0sewrites]

jason todd would be so good at comforting his s/o through a panic attack i said what i said

edit: MADE A FIC ABOUT IT HERE

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

something that really irks me in video games is this certain treatment of religion. specifically: when there is an explicit religion or belief system (explicit here meaning it has a name, describes specific beliefs or practices, or has its Creation Story described) and it's the Only One. no thought given to what other cultures might believe, hell, sometimes there's not even variations in the belief itself. worst though, is when this One Religion is also implied, or directly stated, to be True and Correct. Even whenever the game itself just. treats it to be True and Correct, and often so do fans!

of course, there's often a Singular Exception to this in a token athiest (or anti-theist) characterwho is often grouchy, grumpy, or Troubled in some way shape or form. their story arcs tend to revolve around them seeing the Truth of this particular (and only) religion, in a way that is often Miraculous.

a good example of this would be a certain popular farming sim which i'm not going to name because i'd rather this post Not explode.

in this farming sim we are only introduced to this one religion, something that even the ancient beings and cultures (possibly otherworldly) are shown to believe. some charaters believe more strongly, some believe more passivly, and one activly does not believe and drinks beer, is grumpy and grouchy, and generally a mean character at the start. we get Lore about this belief system, including excerpts from its religious text, items that mean to imply this belief system is True, and there's even a place of worship. as far as i am aware, in the base game we're simply not shown any other beliefs aside from the Lack of Belief (and look how good That character has it (no shame to him of course, i love him, but unfortunatly it is a fact of his character))

The entire thing, quite frankly, strikes me as Incredibly Christian. The lack of consideration of other religions, or what they may or may not believe, and how these religions are tied to different ethnicities and cultures and historie. thestrong beliefe that this One Religion is correct, absolutly so, and furthermore the importance placed upon the fact that it must be correct. The almost Evangalism of these atheist characters being shown to be depressed and miserable without this One True Religion, until their lives are made brighter and happier, usually after witnessing something that cannot be explained in a way Other than the One Religion being True and Correct. This last part doesn't always happen, but it does occur with enough frequency.

It's also incredibly frustrating as well with the homoginization of things, because in real life many many *many* religions are tied to herritage and culture and identity of shared history! It's frankly a touch disturbing seeing such a prominent lack of diversity in a setting, with such a heavy emphasis on all the characters sharing This Religion. No different histories, no different accounts, no different cultures.

i, personally, would just like to see more religions presented in video games, without one of them being Directly Confirmed to be the Good and Correct one that the other characters should be shamed for Not Following

[grimxark]

You know the problem I have with Brazilian teenagers trying to introduce a “neutral” pronoun into our language is that we already have one. Ele(s)/dele(s) is already a neutral pronoun. Ela/dela is a neutral pronoun. The deep roots of Americanization into a Latin language is so deep that you don’t even realize that saying we don’t have neutral pronouns simply because foreigners joke about how we “give gender even to a chair” is so sad. You don’t view a chair as a woman simply because we call it A Cadeira. A ship is often seen as feminine even though it is “o Barco”. I have identified as non-binary since my early teens and back then, when I thought English a superior language, I had this same train of thought. But now I just see it as my thoughts on the subject being made up entirely of USAmerican centric LGBT folks who only spoke one language and thought anything deviating from the English norm was strange and silly and sexist. I have never been bothered by being called “ela” in Portuguese the way I feel bothered about being referred to with “she” in English. I’m not 100% sure I’m getting my point across, I think if people want to add a “neutral” pronoun to Portuguese to include people who do not like she/he then that’s fine. Live your life. But treating our language like English feels weird

[chiropteracupola]

Sagt ihm, er soll auf der Lichtung stehen / Thymian ist da und auch Rosmarin / Mit Kraft zwischen Ufer und Wellen bestehen / Nur so kann er seine Liebste sehen...

[kangals]

I understand if you don't feel comfortable answering this because IIRC Stellina's breeder had some strict requirements in her contract with you... do you know how enforceable breeder contracts are? Asking as someone who works in a vet clinic and has seen contracts stipulating how many vaccines/when to give them or they are "void"

one of the reasons i went with stellina's breeder is actually because their contract didn't have strict requirements - it had a lot of suggestions, but they were all worded like "we strongly suggest following XYZ vaccine protocol" or "we recommend using ABC for tick preventatives," but nothing that was worded like "you MUST do (this thing)" (except i think that i must contact them if i ever rehome stellina, which i think is reasonable). i genuinely don't care if a breeder makes suggestions in their contract, but i would never sign one that ever states that feeding a certain food, or not vaccinating, is mandatory, or that not doing so voids your health guarantee. hell no, fuck that. my dog, not yours.

to answer your question: i don't honestly know how enforceable they are, but i'd guess it kind of depends on the specific breeder. i feel like i've heard stories about breeders going after puppy buyers on grounds of broken contracts, but i rarely hear about them actually enacting legal consequences (like suing, or repossessing dogs). i think the consequences are more often that you'll be blacklisted from a community/breed, as opposed to legal stuff or literally losing your dog. my impression has been that breeder contracts are more a show of good faith than anything else - but maybe i'm wrong, genuinely idk.

so: i think they're technically legally enforceable, but doing so requires a lot of legwork that most people arent willing or able to put in.

[sssssaarn]

Me when unicorns have been such an important part of a my life ever since childhood, and likely fall somewhere under the alterhuman umbrella for me, but I have no clue where:

[blondiest]

i tire of posts complaining about the quality of other people's writing. a) this discourages new writers from sharing their work. b) fanfiction is free. c) you're killing the vibe and the whimsy. d) go do it yourself if everyone sucks so bad. bitchass

[andromeda3116]

i feel like a lot of Discourse (read: fandom wank) happens in places that have forgotten or never learned the death of the author theory

(which i know is not sacrosanct but it is very useful for handling fandom spaces, particularly fraught ones)

for those who don't know, the death of the author theory goes like this: as far as the work is concerned, the author dropped dead the second that the final word was published, and thus cannot comment, object to, clarify, or expand on anything that is not on the page.

my understanding is that it's most strictly used to mean that that the author's interpretation of the work doesn't matter, but can be expanded to state that nothing which is not on the page matters. imo, the expanded definition is particularly useful for fandoms and needs to be adopted on a larger scale.

because what it means is this:

it doesn't matter what the creator(s) intended. it doesn't matter what they said in an interview. it doesn't matter what the actors think, it doesn't matter what supplemental materials say or imply, even if they're signed off on by the creator(s). it doesn't matter if everyone involved in making it hates your interpretation and says that it's wrong.

they don't get to say that it's wrong. they dropped dead the second the last episode/book ended. their interpretation is simply one more in a vast sea of others.

listen to me, fandom spaces. i am taking your face in both of my hands. embrace the death of the author. you will no longer be bound to the (possibly fickle) words of the creator(s), your interpretation can no longer be the wrong one. if the text can be used to support it in any way, even twisty ways, it's valid. you don't have to jump through hoops to defend it against haters who say you're wrong.

the death of the author. open your heart to it. live it. be free.