#i have nothing to offer here

[highlifeboat]

@horror-lady00 Wasn’t the real reason they wrote the line about the Ultimate Spider-Woman not thinking as much about their past as Peter was that the new writer realised that because the previous writer essentially had written her as a trans girl without meaning to, since it was explicitly Peter’s mind unaltered that was copied, that would imply Peter also was, or at least agender?

‘El Goonish Shive’ had an IDENTICAL storyline, where Elliot (the clone left as a girl) going on to ‘resume’ dating Susan, their ex-girlfriend as Elliot (who’d realised she was gay, but still loved Elliot, so it was a win-win), while Elliot later saw themselves as gender-casual, not really minding eventually being cursed with a SheZow-type situation of being able to turn into a girl superhero and back again?

I wish a series in the future would explore this in more detail, since both of them are still around / not being written for. Maybe also doing something more with Courier (a 1990s ‘Deadpool’/‘Gambit’ character who was a guy trapped in the body of a girl and annoyed about it, but not always annoyed about it).

@horror-lady00 I think our mail got mixed up.

[baggy-holmes]

is this enough to bless you with?

[professorjirt]

*grinds my teeth together and pretends to be normal about people reducing Bilbo taking Frodo in to simply a Bagginshield thing with zero regard to Frodo as a character save how he can be compared to Thorin or Bilbo and zero regard for the deeper reasons why Bilbo might have been compelled to take in a young hobbit at that stage in his life*

[respectthepetty]

Hi Petty,

I dont know if you can help, if this is a field of interest for you or not, but I hope you can clear something up for me.

The Loyal Pin is set in the 1950s. The idea is that Anin goes to the UK, gets liberated, and starts pursuing Pin romantically. At least to me, that is what the text is saying.

My hangup is that the 1950s were famously a conservative decade. Talking specifically about the UK, Alan Turing, a war hero, was castrated for homosexuality. Clearly, they were not favorable to gay people if that happened to a war hero who basically saved the Allied Nations. One look at history, and you can tell 1950s UK was not any more liberal than any other cross-section of humanity at the time. They liked their gender roles and hierarchies.

So, how does this story make sense? Am I missing something?

(Sorry for my English. It's not my first language. I'm relying on autocorrect here.)

Your English is perfect, so never worry about that with me!

But your question . . . I can't answer this.

I haven't read the book, which I'm sure gives more context and I'm an American who knows some Spanish and Latin American history/politics, so there is nothing in my life that would properly prepare me to answer this specific question.

@absolutebl wrote about historical politics when the Thai BL I Feel You Linger in the Air came out, and although that series and The Loyal Pin are set in different decades, I think the implications still holds that Europe shaped the mentalities of the Thai elite, which conflicted with Thai beliefs at the time.

@hallowpen has also been writing about the series weekly in their Koda's Royal Records in which they explain the Thai culture, customs, and historical content of the series. They could possibly answer your question.

And @lurkingteapot always knows things about Thai culture.

Perhaps someone else has thoughts to offer on this, so I'll leave it to them to educate us all on this.

[dj-wayback]

happy month to ns. I love the month sep

You are just saying nothing. This is nothing.

[teddybeartoji]

i have just ONE more big thing to do today and then i can fuck around in peace but oh my god it's so annoying .

[hallowclave]

What a whimsical looking young man I wonder if he has received any job offers recently

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[beastsovrevelation]

Right, then. The sick part of my brain is terrorizing me once more, and taking an idea from it is like taking a bone from an angry rottweiler.

Who wants a fucked up Michael Langdon x Reader oneshot?.. I really do not feel like making a yet another OC, and adding a yet enother epic to my endless list.

[lala-blahblah]

I will never make this because it would be for an audience of one (me) but ever since reading "If we Were Villains" (story about serious drama kids in college who perform shakespeare and deal with a murder) I have been entertaining the thought of a crack fic crossover with High School Musical The Musical The Series where the staff decides they will no longer put on shakespeare after the tragic accident that happened at Thanksgiving, because Shakespeare plays would only increase the tension and drama. So they hire Ms. Jen who decides their spring play will actually be High School Musical (which exists in the 90s in this universe) and it ruins the vibe so much that everyone gives up on being dark and mysterious because they're universally pissed at Ms Jen for making them learn choreoraphed basketball dancing.

[googoogojob]

[lenzimanot]

I kept thinking about wether to post anything, but I’ve been doomscrolling, my anxiety is high & I need to let it out somewhere. As a German, as a former history student & as a child raised by parents who grew up in a dictatorship- I am f-ing scared. I‘ve learned from a young age how it all starts, what to look out for & seeing what is happening in the us? it‘s exactly that. & knowing how much the us influences the rest of the world just has me terrified for all of us ngl.

[crimeronan]

was reading the first part of your "the other thing about hiking accidents" post and thinking "haha yeah, like that time my sibling and I accidentally did a hike that was fully snow-covered all the way up and down the mountain with so little experience and none of the things we would have needed if something went wrong, though at least we weren't foolish enough to do it on a mountain more than like a quarter of the elevation of mount hood" and then I got to the second half of the post and started laughing out loud because our ill-advised hike was literally in the white mountains this past april. luckily the trail wasn't icy even at the top and was close to a big info center, and we had substantially better weather than you did! look up your hikes yourself kids, and don't assume that the person in the ski shop where you stopped for coffee will take into account that you're a dumbass from the midatlantic when giving you recommendations for a "short hike" 😂

THE LATTER HALF OF THIS ASK MADE MY HEART STOP. SLKDJFSJDLKFSJL. OH GOD.

in Complete fairness, the lower white mountains aren't Super deadly -- it's typically once you hit the alpine tundra that conditions can get Very Dangerous. i'm guessing you didn't do one of the 4,000+ footers if it was called a quick hike.

and also, i DID eventually get to go up to the white mountains during that trip in april -- we just had to check for favorable weather before we left. so possibly we were up there at around the same time!

but yeah, i've found that hikers from new hampshire tend to have a difficulty baseline that's.... different from the average vacationer's. for ANYONE hiking in the white mountains, i 100% recommend looking up reviews of the trail on alltrails before you go. bc they can be Telling.

if the one-stars all start with "it's flooded with running white water" or "we didn't know about the vertical rock climbs" then..... well. assess your readiness with caution 😭😭😭

[sunburstsky]

So in this last episode we had confirmed:

1. Indri, who 2/3rds of the party is infatuated with, is Big BAD Lady in a very real way and can call down the memories of stars, including the ones shining into her library

2. If you “flee” (and i just feel that the definition of that might be a little squishy in this specific scenario) *within a mile* of Grimore, you are as good as dead

oh this is DELICIOUS

[icewindandboringhorror]

currently at That Point which occurs once every few months where one briefly begins pacing around the house teary eyed contemplating selling their own organs or becoming an online scammer or getting on anxiety meds so you can bear the risk taking required to be a hitman or so on and so forth.... why must everything so Expensive... Surely all would be healed in life if only I had one big plate of lasagna and a simple loan of $40,000 ... auoughhh....

[cr0wded-r00m]

i'm gonna make a keychain of this just wait until the shrink paper arrive ☝

[krokaxe]

Stage one of dental/jaw treatment cost £410 today 🧍🧍 If any of you would like to help me out you can paypal me and I'd really appreciate it.

If you're unfamiliar, I'm disabled and medically signed off work with ongoing chronic/incurable conditions like fibro/EDS/ME etc. I don't like asking for help but I'm looking down the barrel of a very long, frankly horrifying gun in terms of this specific problem. @krokaxe for srb purposes.