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[flower-sniffing-friend]

how do people write long scenes, i can't get mine over 600 words 😭

[arowitharrows]

It's aromantic visibility day and I've been thinking about how far we've come as a community and also what I wish would change in society to make things just a little bit easier. So. I wish it were more common to have conversations about boundaries surrounding romance.

I wish people were more aware of the morality they tie to romantic love, and the inherent effect that has on how aromantic people are perceived. I wish I could tell my friends that the reason I can't be open about this part of myself is because I fear that they will see me as less human. After all, what is the meaning of life if not love? What makes us human if not our ability to fall in love? What is a story without romance?

I wish that I'll never have to read an article again that equates saying no to romance forever with being mentally ill, misguided and selfish. I wish that growing older and staying unpartnered weren't seen as a failure, a sign of instability and untrustworthiness. I wish people wouldn't assume that not feeling romantic love leaves a void in my life, it doesn't.

I wish people would put a bit more effort into learning about amatonormativity and what it actually means instead of brushing it aside. And I hope that these things get easier in the future, as we grow as a community and find more support around us by allies who care enough to listen.

[uncanny-tranny]

At this point, gender nonconformity is about what the person says their experience is.

If a woman with a beard or a man with lipstick and a mustache says they're gender nonconforming, then they are! If a woman with short hair or a man with long hair says they aren't, they aren't! And that's not even getting into the awesome nonbinary, abinary, genderqueer, intersex, and general genderfuckery that may both be and not be conforming.

So much of what is even considered gender conforming or gender nonconforming is based on a world of exclusion. When we start defining one's conformity with whether they fit into white cishetero perisex standards or not, we play into the idea that there's only a very narrow window of what is considered worthy of time and thought.

[acheronist]

original seaman's papers scan i found -> zoom in on the description info -> after i stared at it for hours trying to read the incredibly faded + loopy script.

@bridglars 🤝 insane people alert

[shikai-the-storyteller]

One of the funniest things about the QSMP finale was Pac going "Yeah, Cucurucho transferred my consciousness into this Egg body to save me," and Mike is immediately like, "Wait, why the hell didn't they save me?!?" pfttt

[contagious-watermelon]

what is the deal with everyone identifying themselves by their birth sex? i see it all the time. everywhere. and also — maybe it's just a function of the people i happen to see, but it's almost always people saying they're "afab" rather than its complement.

it's telling, to me, what they really think of (other) trans people, because they act as if your sex at birth is constant and unchanging throughout your life. one of my coworkers said they had a low voice for an afab (meaning low for someone who's never gone through a T-dominant puberty). people use the acronym — denoting what sex a doctor determined you to be when you were born — not always accurate because sex traits can be mixed or ambiguous — as a placeholder for present-day "male" or "female."

it's the same thing, i think, as when people say that sex ≠ gender and mean that trans men are female and trans women are male. sure, some of them are, maybe (though I'd bet it wouldn't go over well calling them that), but it's called SRS for a reason; transsexual. with our current technology, we can't completely change a male person to a female one or vice versa — but we can change a whole lot of their phenotypic sex characteristics, whether that be by removing them or switching them to the other sex. that's kinda the whole point of medical transition, actually.

so to me it just, idk, it reveals how people are really thinking of their own transition as well as others', that they see your birth sex as unchanging, fixed, inevitable destiny. that's exactly what transphobes think of us. why does our own community have to think of us that way too?

[nostalgia-tblr]

but unlike AO3's tagging system i do kind of consider TVA!Loki and Movies!Loki to be separate characters, similar to how Alligator!Loki and Sylvie are, to the point where i at first actually assumed everyone in the fandom (both the series-specific one and the mcu) would think the same on this topic especially since that series was about alternate universes and their associated different versions of characters.

so in my innocent imagined world there were - for instance - no long posts about how the main Loki in the series was "OOC" because well it's a different guy of course he's not the exactly same as that other guy. though there would i am sure be equally long posts comparing and contrasting and declaring one superior to the other, and doubtless people would argue about whether an alternate version was what the existing fanbase had wanted from the series and whether it was a good idea generally. so in my little bizarro-world the discourse is a bit different (as befits an alternate universe).

so like i still think of them as separate characters, but i am at least aware now that this is apparently an odd view of the situation somehow.

[katyspersonal]

1 Insight: Djura's third companion is Josef

15 Insight: Josef is just a cooperator variant of the NPC type 'Izzy's Successor', Djura's third companion is that corpse you pick Charred Set from

40 Insight: 'Djura's companion' might not even necessarily mean Powder Kegs. For example, Djura's Ally doesn't have any Powder Kegs weapons but is clearly included! Even then, there were multiple Powder Kegs, why just three specific ones? Maybe 'companions' refers to his polycule divorces closest friends or whatever. Could that mean Bestial Hunter who is from Oto Workshop (beta Powder Kegs workshop)? Could that mean Valtr since his weapon was made in Powder Kegs? Could that mean Izzy? Who knows!

60 Insight: Djura's third companion is an OC spot because developers forgor/had no time and we've been doing blue curtains effect this whole time

99 Insight: Djura's third companion is a Blood-Starved Beast that Djura's Apprentice fights with, they left Old Yharnam together and this one was poisoned with Ashen Blood all along and eventually turned

0 Insight: You've been fighting Brainsucker in Upper Cathedral Ward's corridor for too long lol

[peanut-with-wifi-access]

if Alastor's "unclip my wings" line is taken literally, then that adds Peryton onto his Wechuge

[iwanttobepersephone]

Trying to figure out if I'm pagan or atheist is so frustrating it's funny cause like. I don't believe in any gods persay, but I am more inclined to believe in the old gods than the Christian god, and the practices and beliefs surrounding them just feel right. Like, I just instinctually view holidays like Samhain or Beltane as Correct and celebrate them as best I can, but I don't actually believe in the gods, so can I call myself pagan?? Or am I just atheist with a special interest?? But it feels like so much more than that it really does

[random-bi-writer]

Christian Hazbin Fans, I need help here.

I'm looking over a few sites and I found something interesting about Adam but I want to be sure if it's accurate and if I'm reading this right.

Genesis 2:7 is the first verse where "Adam" takes on the sense of an individual man (the first man), and the context of sex is absent; the gender distinction of "adam" is then reiterated in Genesis 5:1–2 by defining "male and female".

Is Adam not a CisMale?

[bear-cubs-art-things]

so I thought about something last night (my brain smelled like burning plastic)

So you have all these different remakes of the iliad/odyssey (especially odyssey) in film or other forms of media. Which is cool, it focuses on the heroes of those stories. Odyssey is especially focused on bc if I had to take a guess it's more well known than the iliad. People love Odysseus apparently 💪🏼

but what if... what if we had a show (let's say) that followed the adventures of Telemachus? Like after the events of the Odyssey and the Telegony which I still haven't read? What about him? What kind of mischief would Odyssides get into? Things like that.

I really love telemachus I just want to give him his own light ahdjsjdjsjsjssn

[cakemoney]

i don't want to put my uninformed foot in my mouth or get involved with the Discourse but i've been seeing the two extremes of reactions to the korean low birth rates issue (on tumblr and twitter both) and i'm just kind of like. look. i feel like "low birth rates (in many countries but especially japan and korea as part of this conversation) are more broadly the result of capitalism/a culture of overwhelming overwork that makes social relationships and having families incredibly inaccessible to young people" and "low birth rates are very much a part of the current conversation about misogyny and social expectations for women in korea especially in the context of reproduction as 'unpaid labor' for women" are statements that can both be true

[mommytimmy]

what do you mean people can make posts on the internet without knowing anything about what they're talking about? 🤯

[evilwickedme]

If you're still doing fic recs, do you have any with jayroy and Lian dealing with normal parents and pta stuff?

I am still doing fic recs and I absolutely have that plus like a million other jayroy domestic fluff that I had to sort through. I'm keep the tabs open in case anybody wants regular ass domestic fluff later

Like the Wind Needs the Trees is a fic where Jason's been off galivanting and doing missions and shit for two years and comes back to find that Roy has a daughter?? and everyone knows but him???? it's mainly a get together fic because Roy has an established life with Lian and the arrowfam but there's a really nice scene in a park that has other parents involved

Some Kind of Disaster is one of my favorites and I might've actually already rec'd it? but anyway it's a fic series where Roy survives Sanctuary and Jason basically says "whelp I'm going to stick to your side like glue and never leave". and then Lian turns up. the fifth fic in the series is an ongoing that's exactly about jayroy dealing with other parents, and it just updated a bit ago! I was sure I was going to be recommending this as an incomplete for the rest of my day.

Besos is a phenomenal oneshot. jayroy are MARRIED and Jason is currently off doing whatever superheroing and both Roy and Lian really miss him. the scene with other parents is short, but I just really like this fic in general and it's worth recommending

is any fic rec list complete without one of my signature favorite authors? anyway so poisonivory has a fic called We'll Have to Muddle Through Somehow and it's about Roy just drowning in Christmastime stuff that needs to be done as a single parent and Jason comes over from Gotham to help him and also give him kisses

I think you can understand why, when I was looking for domestic fluff, I kept rereading the fics instead of just making the post😅 enjoy!!

[unenomainen]

Oxford comma Does Not exist in Finnish please stop trying to put it where it doesn't belong or so help me