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[st4rstudent]

bugthinker but I just did whatever to him

bonus slop

[serpentface]

Brakul (and any other men with kinship ties to odonii priestesses) has to shave his beard every so often to undergo ritual purification and the results are somewhat unsettling

[lordslimeapple]

blorbachus from my theater productions

[icewindandboringhorror]

finally finished all of one character's entire quests/optional dialogue/questions/etc.... 100,000 words... .... aughhh

[cerealmonster15]

haikaveh... save me haikaveh...

i KNOW it's been talked about to death but. the haikaveh research project. it literally haunts my mind. i cannot get over the implications. alhaitham going through his school life as someone that most people dont even really know about because he keeps to himself and doesn't socialize, with kaveh being the one exception to that, finding his way into his life as his Best Friend, and then leading to alhaithams one and only time he participated in a research topic. his bio says he only ever did ONE joint project!!! one!!! the one with kaveh his best friend and i think also his only friend at the time!!!! and then it ended in not only the project falling apart but also alhaithams only friendship. kavehs best friendship. they were each others closest person. they had no family around - alhaithams parents having died when he was young and his grandmother dying before he joined the akademiya, and kaveh's dad dying when he was young and his mom having moved to fontaine. like even if you dont look at it through a romantic lens it's still undeniable how important they were [and are] to each other..........

i'm getting off track but my point is very specifically for alhaitham, the one time he got close to someone, made a friend, even agreed to join one(1) group project ever, it ended in disaster. it led him into a fight so bad that his one and only friend said he regretted that friendship!!!! it was so bad alhaitham left the project and he and kaveh didnt speak for ages until they just happened to run into each other again at the tavern!!!!! like obviously it has to be incredibly awful for both of them but i just think how this probably had alhaitham in the cynical mindset that friendships and collaborations like that might just never work out for him because the one time he let someone into his life, it blew up on him and he was all alone again. even though alhaitham never seems to care much if people dont like him, that clearly cant still apply to someone he was exceptionally close to. like if he didnt care he woudlnt have been the one to take his name off the project and mutually not speak to kaveh...... kavehs words are the ones that hit the most significantly to alhaitham.......... kaveh is said/implied to have had at least some other friends while at school / people knew who he was, but not so much alhaitham. people didnt know him and the ones that did just knew he didnt socialize/he was not easy to get along with. he only had kaveh and then, for a while, he lost him too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[skyburger]

really specific old crossover art i found... first image is the original, second has translated text. translation from here, typesetting and minor edits by me. read from right to left! original image from here. also, if you thought this artstyle looked familiar, this was drawn by the wikipe-tan artist!

[goldenpinof]

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[cantsayidont]

December 1986. In the wake of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, John Byrne plainly expresses the ugly nativist foundations of Superman's new post-Crisis origin. Contemplating the history and culture of Krypton, which he's just received as a massive telepathic info-dump from a hologram of Jor-El, Superman unequivocally rejects as "ultimately meaningless" every single aspect of his Kryptonian heritage, from language to art to religion. Moreover, he expressly denies that he himself is an immigrant. This is not simply semantic; in Byrne's version, the starship that carries Kal-El to Earth is a "birthing matrix" — an in vitro womb in which Kryptonian embryos are grown — so he's not technically born until he lands on Earth and is decanted by his human parents on American soil:

This is actually Byrne's kindest take on the post-Crisis Krypton in this period: His horrifying 1988 WORLD OF KRYPTON miniseries, drawn by Mike Mignola, presents Jor-El's world as a fallen, postapocalyptic society, ruined, both environmentally and morally, by the degeneracy (a word I use advisedly) of Krypton's last Golden Age. Only Jor-El is presented as having any moral worth, and only because of his interest in the traditions and history of Krypton before the fall, which his father and peers (including Lara) consider distasteful. This questioning of modern Kryptonian culture ultimately gives Jor-El the wherewithal to save his (unborn) son from Krypton, both from its actual destruction and from its soulless corruption of natural human values. Yikes!

It's also worth recalling the status quo that MAN OF STEEL erased. Since 1958, Superman had been part of a diaspora of Kryptonian survivors: Besides himself and Krypto (with whom Byrne later dispensed very harshly), there were the millions of inhabitants of the Bottle City of Kandor, stolen by Brainiac before the destruction of Krypton and later enlarged on the distant planet Rokyn; Supergirl, born on Argo City after Krypton's destruction; the prisoners in the Phantom Zone; the Kryptonian bully Dev-Em and his parents (who later traveled to the 30th Century); and Supergirl's Kryptonian parents (who survived the destruction of Argo City and later settled in Kandor). In his Fortress of Solitude, Superman kept a private journal in Kryptonese. His intimates often referred to him as "Kal," not Clark. He observed, to at least some degree, certain Kryptonian customs, and in moments of stress, he would invoke the name of the Kryptonian god ("Great Rao!"). He was, like many members of real-world diasporas, a man of two worlds — neither wholly of Krypton nor entirely of Earth, but part of both, and an interstellar hero.

The Byrne/Wolfman reboot erased almost every facet of that, and very deliberately. Part of this, of course, was a desire to shake things up for commercial reasons, while part was DC's editorial conviction (mistaken, I think) that allowing any Kryptonian survivors other than Superman himself weakened and undermined Superman as a character. However, as the pages above make clear, it was also a desire to slam the door on the idea of Superman as an immigrant — and, by extension, on the Jewish coding that had been a central feature of the Superman comics mythos for nearly 30 years.

[getvalentined]

Really not enjoying this sudden uptick in random blogs I'm discovering that have me blocked even though I have never seen or interacted with them before.

[ghostzzy]

good news: after four days, several angry phone calls, and approximately one million dollars, i finally have a working car again

bad news: my top surgery incision opened up under my arm and has been bleeding on and off for 24 hours and it's really fucking gross and it's stressing me out bad

[mossyflowers]

*gets possessed* okay anyways

[velvetineblue]

“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.” black fang verse hehehehehhe

oh? then call him a Dr. Seuss book, because he was FULL of ' character ' . " I like that... is that what you tell yourself in the mirror, to feel better? 'cause me, I'm more of a 'they hate me because I'm beautiful' type of guy, but it's whatever helps you sleep at night ... " loved by some, detested by many, taiyang tseng would not be the most qualified to mediate a conflict; he was, in fact, much better at provoking and escalating them . . . and here he was, face-to-face with a woman HUNTED by his . . . friend ? ( 'friend', perhaps, was a strong word for what Yamazaki Dai was to him. yes, they'd shared a prosperous coexistence in a single turf for a time; they'd shared meals together, and they shared a taste for chaos, at times . . . but they'd also been no stranger to suspicion and thinly veiled threats, and toed the line between business partners or competition . . . what was he to Dai, and what was Dai to he? ) if he were an ally, or a friend, Taiyang should draw his weapon and mean to take this woman down. then, to call the Yamazaki clan and let them carry her off, to dispense whatever punishment their leader decided she DESERVED for her betrayal of the family . . . she'd killed one of their own. but he's still, when he looks at her; except in the eyes. his eyes study her, wondering . . . what was Dai to him ( or rather, to Black Fang ) , and what could Feline be . . . ? WELL, maybe he'd decide she was best off as minced meat on Dai's table, but — there was no harm in getting to know her before he made that CALL . . . " 'hope that's not your way of saying I'm an enemy, though. you can't make enemies with a stranger.

I've heard the rumors, but... there's two sides to every story, right ? "

[moonlit-orchid]

good evening to everyone except a certain few fucking anons

[britneyshakespeare]

I love AbeBooks bc you can absolutely tell who is trying to rip you off

[olympusrox]

no stronger bond than between two people who were online friends and then lost touch

she deleted her tumblr in 2022

i hope she knows i still think about her

[nexus-nebulae]

i. hate feeling like im so starved for social interaction that I'm forgetting how to speak to anyone at all. but because im forgetting how to speak im too scared to reach out to literally anyone