#discourse on main

[jazzybot4]

Writing a massive CoD tea post, if you don't want to see it please block the tag CallofDrama. Love you guys take care of yourselves watch this space.

[jojotier]

okay but for real dude. I get wanting to make sure subject matter is handled well but also, if a story featuring a marginalized group is being written by a member of said marginalized group, I feel like we should take their word on how they write their culture into the story and listen to other readers who are of that group if there's any criticism of that portrayal.

if you still think that even marginalized authors writing their own stories should be scrutinized for not being squeaky clean you're never going to expand your literary horizons.

you're just gonna get queasy at the first sign of an author of color presenting something less than perfect and run back to ""apolitical"" white authors, because you mistake authors of color as being inherently political for telling stories about people of color. Because you mistake the luxury of never needing to engage with race issues that whiteness affords for being above politics. tl;dr grow up.

[tomis-problem]

IF UR AN ANTI SHE IS NOT “LITERALLY YOU”

SHE LITERALLY HAS A HIT ON HER FOR BEING A PROSHIPPER. SHE HAS A HIT ON HER FOR SHIPPING INCEST. YALL ANTI MFS WOULD BE THE ONE PUTTING THE HIT ON HER ‼️‼️

[skyward-floored]

*steps up on stage*

*clears throat*

Wild is one of the most religious members of the chain, second or equal only to Sky

*I’m booed off the stage*

[bosons]

people bitching about buck complaining to tommy about gerrard and no one else mentioned for that part

that's his boyfriend. why would he not complain to his partner?

tommy has a lot of experience with gerrard and understands what buck is going through.

buck has never had this before. he's never had someone to come home to before that he can really talk to about what has happened and is happening to him.

hen, karen, chim, maddie and eddie all have their own stuff to deal with atm.

why can you not be happy for buck that he finally has someone?

[antiproshippers]

Bakugo wants you. Kuroo wants you. They aren’t teenagers on behalf of not being real. He is not actually in high school, because his high school is not real, and HE is not real. If you find his design from earlier on more attractive or more appealing or even just like him at that point as well as later on, that is perfectly fine, and he would find you attractive, too. Unlike the OP, most 30-year-olds know this due to having been alive to mature for 30 years. I hope this helps anyone who may have been confused.

[give-grian-rights]

you'll look good when you're not an abusive piece of shit who doesnt understand consent. love him using his real name. why the fuck are all the names on the thumbnail? you trying to tell the non mcyt fans of your music "haha nooo im not wilbur soot the abuser!! im will gold the artist!!"

fuck will gold.

Considering how low his understanding of consent is, chances are you're supporting an eventual sex offender.

[faerygardens]

There are more tallulah & tommy fics on ao3 than there are pac & mike fics

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

it always pisses me off when fantasy stories have a cast of conventionally attractive humanoid characters with like,, different colored hair or something. like what do you mean your story is set in this amazing fantastical world with monsters and centaurs and aliens and sentient blobs, but your main cast is just a bunch of average joes?

[rockatanskette]

Semi-related to my post on how human conservation practices, but I have a cold today, and it's got me thinking about biological altruism—the biological imperative to put other creatures ahead of yourself, to benefit the group.

When talking about possible interactions with other species, we talk a lot about humans being crazy and thrill-seeking and impossible to kill. Never use a warning shot as an incentive to keep humans out of a fight; it'll just make them angry. And that's true. But a valid criticism I've seen in the "Earth is a death world" community is that according to our understanding of evolution, every planet must be some form of death world. Competition fosters evolution—the wolf with sharper claws survives when its litter mates die. You can't reach space travel without some casualties along the way.

But the dog survives because it makes friends with the strange ape carrying a sharp stick. And the strange ape survives because it befriends the wolf. Underneath the death world is an inextricable and undeniable layer of the bond world; the love world; the world, together.

I imagine some worlds are not death worlds. They're peaceful and tranquil. I suspect there are worlds far more deadly than Earth, where the skies rain diamonds, harder than any substance we know with the species to match. And I imagine that they are united in their confusion at the duality of humankind.

Today is a great example: I have a cold, and I want someone to take care of me, but the people who would are immunocompromised, also sick, or live 8 hours away, respectfully. I also want no one within the walls of my apartment or I will eat them. I feel gross, I feel tired, and I don't want a single human being anywhere near me, even if they did bring soup.

In my constant scrolling through my phone today, I decided to look up why the hell I feel so bad—why everyone feels so bad when they're ill. And the answer surprised me. I always thought it was because your immune system is active, so it's using a lot of your energy. That is part of it. Another part is that your brain and body are communicating across the blood-brain barrier to fight the infection, which is rare and energetically expensive.

But that doesn't explain everything, and according to more current research, it could also be what's called the Eyam Hypothesis: that we feel so gross, so we instinctively isolate from other people. We're too tired to deal with others, and so we don't infect them. Misanthropy for the good of the species. Of course, it can also backfire: one of the criticisms of the Eyam Hypothesis is that humans also instinctively care for each other. If my brother has a headache, I drive to the store for Advil.

Personally, I think it's a little bit of both: biological altruism. Either way, the majority live on. The first thought I had this morning when I woke up wasn't "I feel gross" it was "there's no way I'm going to work today." And while that might not be everyone's first thought, you don't even have to be a particularly altruistic person to not want to leave your home or your bed when you're sick. It's inborn.

And so when the human named Ismail comes down with a case of the interstellar common cold, his alien friend Dyos grows very concerned. Ismail is usually intensely social, almost off-puttingly so. Some crew members joke about how his quarters are for sleeping and prayer only; if he's home alone? You should be worried. But when Dyos demands an answer to the severity of Ismail's malady, the other humans just nod knowingly.

"Nah, he's okay, the medics already cleared him. It's not a severe infection."

"But there are so many...fluids. And his body has changed color."

There is a moment of confusion there until they remember that Dyos's species can see in the infrared color spectrum.

"Nah, that's just a low-grade fever. It should break in the next couple days."

"But he doesn’t want to play chess today," Dyos insists.

"Ohhhh," says human Claudia, finally understanding. "No, that's normal. Humans don't like being around other people when they're sick, it's supposed to be one of the major evolutionary advantages. Protect your community from your illness and the genes live on."

"So we're just going to leave him alone?" Dyos is troubled by this. He can go for weeks without speaking to another life form, but he has seen Ismail grow despondent when unable to participate in social gathering.

"Oh, no," human Claudia says, laughing. "We're going to employ one of the other most longstanding human evolutionary advantages."

There are many to choose from and Dyos settles on, "middle age?"

"Sort of," human Claudia opens up a small shipping container and holds up a brown paper bag tied with a colorful ribbon. It glows brightly in Dyos's vision, almost as brightly as human Claudia's smile. "His nanni's hot soup, express delivery."

[luckthebard]

I’m not gonna continue to argue with the person on my post because they seem really set on wholeheartedly believing that YouTuber about the CR gods copyright situation. But I have to get this off my chest:

If the copyright issues around the gods names/personalities were such a mess for LoVM and TCSR, to the point of being worried about any small mistake or slip up or accidental use of a proprietary name that it would compel CR as a company to try to write them out of future Exandria stories…

Why on earth wouldn’t that have been done quietly and unobtrusively instead of spending 3 years in a campaign centered on bringing up the gods every 5 minutes and including playing them as PCs

[xray-vex]

hey remember when the OFMD s2 teaser video dropped and there were people who were somehow CONVINCED that Stede was referring to Izzy when he said "I don't care what any of you say, he's actually a good guy" and not, y'know, Ed, whom they were literally just talking about in this scene?

like what the hell was that about

[chososhairbuns]

no but fr i really enjoy dev's character arc and peri's straight up my new favorite character (<- basic) but people should care about hazel more. she's literally the main character and it's a supremely bad look to only care about her for her relationship with the rich white mean kid

[deepseasmetro]

and people fucking looked at this went "ohhh ok so lapis was the REAL abuser"

[tezzbot]

Bad Faith Readers - UMM I don't like that the message of trolls 1 is Just Be Happy what is that communicating to those with depression uhhhhh

T1 is about letting others in, isolating yourself isnt healthy and the way to be happy is letting other people help you find it within yourself obv it wont happen overnight but its kids movie they only have an hour and a half

Bad Faith Readers - Barb Is A Nazi Trying To Make An Ethnostate

TWT is teaching kids that if everyone was the same THAT WOULD BE BAD everyone being the same isn't peace differences are important and cool and interesting and Matter and you should open yourself up to that and learn from them Barb understands this at the end of the movie once she's faced consequences of her plan going wrong and is open to learn from there

Bad Faith Readers - They just had Branch forgive his abusive older brothers and let them back into his life without consequence uwu poor smol bean (choke)

TBT is about the fact that No One is perfect and to want that and expect that is unhealthy, your family might not be angels but that's okay, because working that out with them and just letting everyone be who they are, warts and all, and loving them for that is the best way to navigate having to share life with someone

I hate you morons where is the fucking joy in your life watch a colourful kids movie and have fun for ONCE

The fact that these are From the movies:

"Happiness is inside of all of us, right? We just need someone to help us find it."

"Harmony needs Lots of voices! Different voices!!!"

"We don't need to be perfect, we just need to be as we are... together."

LIKE ITS NOT EVEN SUBTEXT ITS JUST TEXT TEXT. STOP SHITTING ON PEOPLE FOR NOT DOING THE SAME DUMBASS MENTAL GYMNASTICS YOU DID.

Whatever. What ever.

Childrens movie for babies you are not the target demographic die

[ineedmojoe]

when you take a step back, it really is funny because the creator of the show said, "so, i'm pretty much writing this couple's story as a romcom," and a contingent of people still decided to say, "they're clearly MISERABLE!"