#factual-fantasy

[ekko-anarchist]

turtle pile

this is platonic, meant to be wholesome, creeps stay away💀

[honeyhotteoks]

um……. i started writing something unhinged and i’m like praying i can stay motivated and get this done by halloween because i really want to participate in kinktober for at least one fic but 🙈 anyways yeah this art killed me

[r-yui]

English Terence profile: He rose through dragoon's rank. He's Dion's lover.

German: He rose through the ranks of the dragoons thanks to his dedication and talent. Through their constant closeness, an intimate romantic relationship eventually developed between them.

[dungeonmalcontent]

Reminder to the d&d people who have migrated from Reddit. This is a fandom and creativity site.

Don't engage in fantasy factual discourse here. If you want to argue/debate about a bit of d&d lore and how it is supported by real world factors... Don't. That isn't fandom and it isn't creative, it's an erosion of entertainment that grew in popularity with the Game Theory YouTube channel--where the IP didn't matter, but the facts did and the facts were the only value of the IP (was The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time a fun game? Doesn't matter. The hookshot exerts enough force to obliterate link's entire arm when used).

If you wanna do that go back to Reddit. Or go to Twitter.

It doesn't work here and if you start doing it here you're going to learn real quick how smooth sharks are. There are no victories or points for winning. Your argument will be lost in the slurry of posts that it shares a tag with. It will not be archived or preserved in a stable manner. In a number of years, more than you may expect, it may emerge again only for you to realize that somewhere along the line you became a pariah and then you weren't and then your opinion was slaughtered like a hog. And it still won't matter.

[zannisterr]

okay so I saw this post and

at first I was like "haha imagine", but then I started to question "what if the human gene is recessive?"

considering that both of his parents are only half human, would imply that the human gene is not as strong as the non-human gene, and that made me question the probability of someone from half human parents being completely human.

so there's two ways this could go

Option A:

Minotaur genes being stronger than any other genes thus killing everyone else in the chart

or

Option B:

Fish genes being stronger than the others and thus killing everyone else

I'll, however, consider that Minotaur genes are more dominant than Fish genes, due to how much non-human characteristics Minotaurs have.

following by basic knowledge of mathematics and genetics, here's the probability of the offspring of a mermaid and a minotaur being a full human:

25% of probability

which would be 1 out of 4 combinations, and considering that Minotaur and Fish genes are dominant over the Human genes, the offspring would more likely be half minotaur, half fish (around 50% of probability)

I dropped out in freshman year tho so I could be wrong.

[pain-after-dark]

Love how this blog is just like the most normal hornyposting like ‘I sure love to suck cock’ followed by the some of most depraved gay sex you’ve ever seen like the duality of man

[batberryparfait]

there's a fascinating phenomenon on this site where people very clearly want to be doing complex, interesting political media analysis, but also very clearly have media tastes that aren't super conducive to that. so they're trying to wring big statements out of farming simulation games and network TV sitcoms and making very menial, unimportant things seem massive in the process.

like, yeah, everything is political. all art believes in something because all people believe in something, and even total neutrality is a belief in and of itself.

but like... you're fishing in a puddle here. you're treating Minecraft and Factorio like they've got the writing and depth of Disco Elysium. there's statements to be made about all three of these, but not recognizing what the thing you're analyzing is trying to do is just silly. it's like watching Young Sheldon and trying to extrapolate some grand statement about anti-intellectualism or classism or white christ-nationalism in the American South.

the statement's probably not incorrect, but you're talking about Young Sheldon.

[eager-wolfboy]

Whenever you consider making specifically a bottom/top joke, please consider using omegaverse dynamics instead.

[decepti-geek]

i ADORE that the message in one of the 90s S3 episodes is 'if a boy picks on you, it means he likes you - and if you do not care for his attention, you can use this fact to your own tactical advantage against him.'

[halfkasster]

so uhhh

d20 folks

so fig absolutely just changed fortunes with gilear huh,,, thats her monkeys paw

[keigora]

Suddenly feeling like sinning idk

[tessellated-sunl1ght]

I need to draw Classic Mystery Twins hurt/comfort/fluff so bad bUT I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DRAW AGHHH

[cubikzoa]

Oh god. Oh god. ALL OF THIS actually has a historical factual basis but it would take like 2 entire days to summarize it in post form. I’m busy rn so I don’t dare and it would be impossibly time-intensive, but my nerd ass brain is HYPERVENTILATING like a rabid gremlin from the desire to explain all this wild fuck shit rn

Further new discoveries have been made on my theory.

[ihadalobotomyhyperfixationonce]

I want to see a fantasy world where humans aren’t seen as fragile or frail creatures compared to everything else, I want to see other worldly being being shocked that we can stub our toe and not be hospitalised.

“You can cut your hair so easily! It’s like it doesn’t even hurt to you!” “Yeah that’s because it doesn’t…”

“Your species eats that poison on regular basis’?!” “Are you pointing to the coffee or the chocolate?”

“How did you not die of stress?!?!” “It’s just a small burn from the air fryer…”

[a-memory-a-distant-echo]

i feel like people forget that sometimes characters in fic are written like that because it's a reflection of real life.

people have sex without setting boundaries. people have unprotected sex without talking about their sexual histories or producing recent sti tests. people play with kink without discussing it ahead of time or establishing a safeword. they have anal without 'enough' prep or lube—they may even prefer it like that.

and none of this is really a fantasy. it's all pretty normal. you can feel that it's inappropriately normalised, and you'd probably be right! but it is normalised: one study found that 58% of female undergraduate students on the campus studied had been choked during sex. 20% of those students said that they'd never been asked if it was ok; another 30% said they'd only sometimes been asked if they consented. fully half! (non-paywalled journal article on choking during sex here, including these numbers.) despite a rise in stis of all sorts, condom use is declining. (pdf link to the full text of this study about declining condom use in the us; aidsmap article about an australian study with similar results.)

even when people do talk about things—sex or anything else—they communicate imperfectly. 'yeah, but don't go too far' is consenting and setting a boundary, and also relying that the person you're talking to has the same metric for 'too far' that you do. for some people, 'the trash needs to go out' is a neutral, factual observation; for others, it's a request that the person they're speaking to take out the trash.

even when people understand each other perfectly, people react unpredictably to things sometimes! we behave irrationally! people laugh uncontrollably at funerals, or get angry at the straw that broke their back rather than the enormous load they were already carrying. they get scared and lash out at people trying to help them. when hurt, most people do not instinctively reach for therapy-approved grounding exercises and 'i feel' statements.

pretty much any bad choice that characters could conceivably make is a choice that people make in real life, on purpose, all the time. people do things that can have catastrophic, life-changing effects because it felt like a good idea at the time, or they're leaning into the vibe, or they just didn't think about it all that much, or an infinite number of other reasons.

fiction isn't intended as a guide on the best, safest, and most responsible ways to live your life, and fanfic isn't any different. it's not a narrative flaw to let characters do things that are messy or harmful or downright stupid—it's a reflection of what people are actually like, and not something that authors should feel they have to apologise for.

[lorei-writes]

Mmmm, the temptation to start another longfic now that there's only one chapter left to write for Trials and Tribulations.... Ughh.