#but the joke was worth it

[solstinky]

[inkskinned]

having good & true friends will literally save and protect you in a million unfathomable ways. like okay we have written so many times about lovers. but the way a platonic friend laughs and cries with you. the way they hold your hand at 14 years old and at 34. the way they keep a little silver tie to you, touching base over and over and over. how you can go years without talking, only to re-meet and discover: oh shit! you're still cool!

there are people who have been in my life for more than half of it, and i have loved every version of them. do you know how fucking beautiful that is. yeah love will save the world. but the way friends love you is gonna save the you.

[fanaticalthings]

important family group chat discussions

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[lucabyte]

something about marine biology and benefits

bonus:

[mischieviem]

That natural soup show or whatever

[headslikekites]

🐟🔁

[teaboot]

Yeah Doctor Harleen Quinzel *has* commited a number of federal crimes, but so have a lot of successful academics. What I think we need to discuss is that she dated a patient, which is like. A different kind of icky

[orpiknight]

Awhile back, I was doing some research that led me to Neil Gaiman's online journal. But as I was looking through old posts for it, I got very distracted by an entry from 2008.

https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/02/102-pages-so-far.html

I’m going to need you all to scroll down to the bottom of that entry. Please.

[lolli-popples]

Wow, Impulse sure looked weird on this episode of the Guess the Build.

[explodingstarlight]

saved leo from the prison dimension just in time for the holidays

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

When in doubt, Soup it out.

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[gammija]

tiefling jon's first day at the Archives

[sleepytrancysub]

Yes it would be 'highly unethical' and 'downright morally reprehensible and irresponsible' or whatever, but have you considered that permanently stripping away my free will and keeping me as a hypnotized pet would be pretty hot? 🤨

[your-therian-parent-says]

isnt it beautiful how a wolf can be a singer, a sheep can be a barber, and a raven can be at a writing desk?

[bixels]

The Ryoko Kui interview's reception is such a disaster over a pretty normal (yet still flawed) interview between a non-Japanese fan and Japanese artistic. This is discourse for discourse's sake, and it's no surprise that almost every Twitter user I've looked at who's using this interview to parade Kui around as a goated mangaka standing strong against Western ideology is anti-trans.

Like, I do think the interview was kinda wonky with its focus on fandom culture, which Kui clearly didn't have much interest in. But sometimes that happens. Sometimes interactions between two people, especially a fan and a creator, two people who view and interact with a piece of media in completely opposite perspectives, don't click. Does this really need to get blown up into a "West vs. East culture war" issue.

Anyways, Kui saying "I don't consider my audience's interpretations when writing. I leave it to their imaginations, but I have my own read on things too" is the healthiest, most normal thing an artist/writer who wants a non-parasocial audience could say. Artists and writers use this line all the time. If Kui didn't enjoy autistic Laius or Farcille headcanons, she would have probably voiced/signalled her discomfort, like she did on the topic of Senshi fanservice. Overall, Kui handled the interview really well. Props to her to sticking to her guns and keeping a healthy disconnect from the fandom. While I think the interviewer could've/should've been more tactful and restrained, the flaws in their questions is not a symptom of the woke mind virus trying to wriggle its way into the pure Japanese psyche. It's the sign of an over-eager fan who sees a piece of fiction differently than its creator.

[wannabe-f-f-friends]

Wei Wuxian might have been hiding from dogs but Lan Wangji was playing gay chicken