#i'd put it under a read more

[not-cool-enough-to-scuba-dive]

actually I would quite like to hear your thoughts on gender philosophy in omegaverse worldbuilding? :3

hm. anon, I fear this is a far larger can of worms than you probably anticipated. I'm going to spare you the worst of it by only giving you a short version, but be careful what you wish for.

I'm also hiding it under a cut because even the short version is embarrassingly long.

I'm hardly a connoisseur of omegaverse content, nor would I consider myself anywhere near an expert. I don't want to speak for all fics as I've admittedly not read many. I did do my master's diss about legal gender recognition, so this is more about gender and philosophically sound worldbuilding than an indictment of any particular writing or story tbh.

the short answer is I find omegaverse worldbuilding really interesting, but I've never fully been able to enjoy it due to the way a/b/o identities tend to have a biological determinist slant to them imo, and tendency for a lack of real world implications of what the omegaverse does to gender and character interactions anywhere outside the bedroom. I'd love to figure out a version that's more inclusive and philosophically/ideologically consistent, both with itself and with my own views on real life gender (basically, I want to make it make more sense, have less biological determinism, and be more inclusive of the wider range of human experiences). this is a big task, and ngl I haven't achieved it and don't anticipate doing so any time soon. I have like, a concept in my head, taking apart all the key pieces and putting them together again but different, but to make it thorough enough would require more effort and time than I have because I'm like, employed 😔

I feel like someday if I ever get invited to a powerpoint night though, this could be It.

[yakuzabrainrotlive]

NO FUCKING WAY THEY JUST ENDED MY MAN KASHIWAGI LIKE THAT

Not like this.... damn.... it was so sudden!! He was one of my faves too...

Kiryu's last proper bond to his old family is gone!! Holy shit that hurts!!

[dravidious]

You're more amazing than rules

Working on Modified Set 2.0! I've made some commons today and the ally-color archetypes are:

Auras

Modified

Equipment

Supplies

And Enchantments

A lot of these probably really need the context of the enemy-color archetypes to make sense, but this post is already long. One little hint: Red also gets Resonance creatures, but Differently.

[ask-artsy-oncie]

I wish I was not an unintelligent manchild.

[wah-pah]

*Possible The Gilded Age Spoilers*

Don't you fucking dare killing Luke, Fellowes. Don't you fucking dare. Not only because it would absolutely wreck Ada but story-wise it would be quite interesting to see a middle-late age first marriage like theirs.

*End of Possible The Gilded Age Spoilers*

[alteredphoenix]

As glad as I am that BG3 is being positively received, I hope subsequent patches later on down the road allow you to establish friendships with your companions and allow you the option to leave them at just that while giving you to be able to pursue beyond them into consensual romance, because if I ever get around to trying it out for myself I am not going to look forward to having my PC get sexually harassed over and over and over again until the NPC finally takes no for an answer and backs off.

[violetsareblue-selfships]

i want to hug him so bad - like idk his age in the anecdote (it goes on to say that he only just started working (aka i'd assume he's out of med school) but even then, ten years back would put him as a teenager... that's too young to dream about that...)

[continued reading the anecdote. he was 12 when the dreams started]

[edgepunk]

heads up fellas I'm about to post a long-ass ask I'm so sorry for clogging your dashboard hang in there 🫡

[bugsbenefit]

got prompted by seeing a horrible Billy-lover take in my notes so feel free to ignore this, just me ranting about Billy's character and how all this apologism is genuinely infuriating to me

because the treatment Billy gets in fandom is so incredibly bizarre to me, especially because it ruins the actual intrigue his character has. when i first watched the show and didn't get involved with the fandom a few years ago i actually thought Billy was quite an interesting character because it was a realistic portrayal of a horrible person.

he was abusive towards his sister and a raging racist, an absolute piece of shit. but i think it's interesting that the show doesn't just turn him into a one dimensional cartoonish monster, he's one of the human characters after all. so there IS some human aspects we can see, some black and white. like how he also has an abusive relationship with his father and how genuinely scared he was by what the MF was doing to him in s3 (also leading to his death)

because that was Interesting to me. irl horrible racists and pieces of shit are still human. they're also scared of things like spiders or are scared of monsters etc. and so many properties make the mistake of portraying the "bad guy" like an evil caricature. like a guy you can see coming down the block and you already know he's evil without ever talking to him

and that portrayal is so SO dangerous. there's real people today that struggle with picking up on irl racists or homophobes or nazis Because the person doesn't seem cartoonishly evil the way they were taught they Should look like

i'm from a german speaking country and we spend multiple years of our school time going over ww2 over and over again, and something that my teacher kept bringing up is how dangerous some of the education regarding it can actually be. there's this very easy trap you can fall into where you ignore the horrible people's humanity. where hitler just becomes a cartoonishly evil monster you learn about in history class, that you would immediately recognize as such would you meet him irl. when in reality, he was human, which was the whole danger. because today there's multiple politicians i know that are emulating his views and rethoric, but since so many people struggle to recognize that Anyone could be a nazi, and that it's not something you can just "see" like in movies, it's largely ignored. the whole danger that hitler Was just a regular politician at some point and superficially blended in to the mix of other right wingers at the time is often forgotten because people think you should be able to recognize a monster on sight

and that boils down to the problem i often have with books and shows. the bad guy is just... bad. there's no realism there no nuance. when the real danger actually is that you often Don't recognize a monster, or that you do but other people don't believe you because the monster looks normal and human enough. and real people's views often get twisted as a result, to the point where they expect to be able to "clock" real life horrible people just by looking at them, because it has to be obvious right? if a person's only personality trait isn't violent homophobia or racism and they have real fears and wishes, then people often don't recognize how horrible they really are, or don't Want to

and that's what i originally actually enjoyed about what happened with Billy. most people in their school either didn't pick up on it or didn't care about his views, he was actually quite popular. and there is depth to him, it's just that he's still a horrible person regardless. the abuse shown in his family maybe explains things to some degree but it doesn't excuse anything. he torments Lucas specifically because he's black, even the actors and showrunners have spoken out about this by now. and he never makes amends for anything, doesn't even try to change, there's no actions he takes to improve. he lives and dies a racist. he dies scared, yes. but he's still just as racist and abusive as he was when he walked into the show. he doesn't even apologize to Lucas or even Max. he is and stays a racist, no matter how "human" he gets to be, because some humans are just horrible people, see Billy

so now imagine my disappointment when i actually joined the fandom and had to realize that that Wasn't the popular opinion and that the irl phenomena of "but he's scared/he was abused/he's just a kid he can't be a bad person" still happened here. the actual nuance of his character is Gone the moment you start trying to apologize for his actions

he's a walking red flag of how not every monster Looks like a monster. how monsters can have friends, be poplar, be scared. but despite all the things that make him human and that might make you sympathize with a person, he still chooses to be a vile and horrible person regardless. and now in order to "redeem" Billy's character people are making that exact same real life mistake that is so so dangerous irl, where you only see the human aspects of a character and then go "but they're (insert a thing that shows you that they're human) they can't be a horrible person, it was a mistake/misunderstanding/he changed"

it essentially boils down to me originally being interested in Billy's portrayal in the show because he's one of the few examples where monsters aren't portrayed as one dimensional evil guy number xyz. which, in a show filled with real supernatural monsters, getting a guy who acts like a monster but looks like just an ordinary guy is all the more scary. because that is a REALISTIC monster

so then seeing that there's so many people dead set on apologizing all of his actions because they bought into all the things that make him human, but don't realize that that's the Point, that people can be human and still Horrible. is just endlessly frustrating to me

[elkidu]

just some general Thoughts

with time i think i've become less jumpy about liking "embarrassing" things, but i've never really gotten over the embarrassment i feel over how i talk about them... i won't sincerely apologize to anyone about liking one game/series or another because i know what i see in them to like them. but i do always feel really humiliated whenever i realize that i've rambled, especially if it's someone else pointing it out... i think i might be considered reserved in a lot of ways but it's really hard for me to disguise when i'm excited about something. and i think i get too intense and creep people out

i think growing up i fixated a little too much on what was "normal" to like and to what extent, which led to me having interests i rarely talked about... i tried really hard to moderate my energy to match the people around me. i tried really hard to grow out of that!! but when i got older and gained more tolerant and patient friends, i swung really hard in the other direction, which isn't harmful or anything but makes me think that people probably find me quite annoying to engage with for any substantial amount of time... more than anything i hate the thought of people finding me exhausting T_T

[purenguyening]

Re: one small step - isn't that just because we're so used to the phrase now that it no longer registers as wrong? We're kinda biased to think of it as correct, as it's been repeated over and over again

Possible.

I always find it hard to use myself as a frame of reference whenever I have to focus on anything English-only because I'm considered bilingual. For what it's worth, casual Vietnamese does have tendency to drop information and the listener has to extrapolate based on what's not being said out loud, so I always presumed I was just used to it.

In theory, I'd imagine "one small step for man" while it doesn't make sense semantically (I believe the full quote is meant that Armstrong is literally taking the first step and then the latter quote saying it is symbolically a huge accomplishment for man kind as a whole), it does flow better from a phonetic perspective. Take this with a grain of salt since I never finished my linguistics degree and so I might not be applying the theory correctly, but the reason "one small step for a man" is awkward to say is due to the Stress Clash Avoidance Principle.

The general gist being that in English has an alternating pattern of stress and unstressed syllables where "content words" (like nouns and verbs) will have a little more emphasis when said and less important words like articles can sometimes sound distorted or unclear. This is why when you say 'a' in context of a sentence it gets shortened and will sound like 'uh'.

So going back to the phrase, if we try to say the original phrase intuition will put emphasis on 'step', no emphasis on 'for' but then, we run into a problem of needing to put emphasis on both 'a' and 'man' which is why there's that awkward feeling. In theory you could try to omit the emphasis on both 'for' and 'a' but I don't think that'd be possible either since English does require an alternating stressed/unstressed syllable pattern and there's not really a way to insert more syllables in something like' for' or 'a'...

Ultimately, while it doesn't make much sense, I do have a feeling this is the reason why "one small step for man" is a lot more natural to say than "one small step for a man".

[taegularities]

YES RID WE NEED TO BEHAVE TODAY AND AS FOR THE OTHER DAYS TOO BECAUSE I KNOW THAT HE WILL BE THE DEATH OF US HE IS THE DEATH OF US

I SAW THE CONCEPT PICS RIGHT AFTER I FINISHED MY FINAL EXAM. WHAT KIND OF REWARD WAS THIS? HUH JEON JUNGKOOK? WHAT WAS IT

LOSING MY MIND RN

HE MAKES ME SO DRAMATIC GOD

HOLD UP, YOUR FINAL EXAM?? CONGRATULATIONS !!!! please, that's the perfect reward. this is him saying, "i'm proud of my good girl, here's some chest" </3

[edenorisshitposting]

Everyone keeps saying how tattoos are addictive, and "you'll see, once you get one, you're gonna want more". But honestly, my first tattoo left me pretty satisfied with my experience, and with no desire to get another one.

If my friend didn't die suddenly I would probably never want a second tattoo.

[kakusu-shipping]

💕 for Undertale & Deltarune? :3

Thankyou very much for asking!!

I'll be honest here I haven't gotten super into Undertale or Deltarune shipping. I have a lot I like sure but I didn't really go out of my way to find content for any of them like I do for other fandom ships?

That also means anything not mentioned I'm probably neutral towards tho, sense I don't have strong opinions on the one's I like anyway fdkgjdfk

Problematic ships under the cut

Undertale Ships

I really liked Toriel/Sans back in the day, and still reblog it from time to time. They're losers and I think that's funny. Step-Dunkle Sans for the win

In that same vein Asgore/Gaster is so very *chefs kiss* Devoted Royal Scientist X The Depressed Lonely King. My god. What dreams are made of

Because of those two I got really attached to Asriel/Papyrus, just to continue the Goat/Skeleton thing??? fdkgjkdf Mostly tho Post Pacifist Flowey or Souless Asriel. I think they're cute. "I think I'm the evilest thing to ever live" 11 year old mentality X "I think I'm the greatest thing to ever live" 12 year old mentality (Papyrus is a grown-ass man though I am not infantalizing him)

ACTUALLY though Papyrus/Frisk was my OG Papyrus ship, while everyone else was all about Frans and Papyton, I was on the Stupid Little Guys train. I ADORE them. Frisk didn't want their Gender so they gave it to Papyrus

Does liking Alphys/Undyne even need to be stated at this point? It's like the default of Undertale shipping. They're cute. Good for them.

Alphys/Madds/Undyne is INCREDIBLY cute though I hope she gets pulled into the Alphyne polycule so badly she is their little meow meow

There was like a week of my life where I got super hard obsessed with Asgore/Mettaton spesifically because of one artist who drew the thottiest Mettaton with a Biggest little guy Asgore I'd ever seen and I'm still on that. Mettaton deserves to be a Sugar Baby to the King of Monsters

Chara/Asriel is extremely cute they are best friends they are siblings they are partners they kiss and snuggle and one day they'll rule the underground together and Chara is convinced they don't deserve Asriel

I think Asgore/Chara would be a very cute ship but there's probably no content for it. I just think on it sometimes.

Frisk/Chara Queerplatonic body sharers post game is very good to me. I've also seen an AU where Frisk gives up their soul for Asriel to come back and they share a body and I think the three of them should vibe like that.

Frisk/Monster Kid is always appreciated in this house we love Monster Kid content in this house

On that note I love you artists who make the briefly mentioned Suzy an Undertale version of DR's Susie and have her hang out with Frisk. They are buddies and I love them so much.

Deltarune Ships

Kris/Berdly is the only one that actually hard matters to me I love them I love them so much they are gaymers. Especially love it with Transfemme Berdly for no other reason than I love her my baby girl

Kris/Spamton is!!!! So good!!! I love Spamton a little freak an old man who's really weird about this teenager he just met he makes them so uncomfortable I think it's hysterical

Kris/Ralsei while we're on the train is incredibly cute and another instance of a Darkner being very Unnormal about Kris in a way that makes them uncomfortable. Ralsei infantalizes Kris while also putting them on such a high pedestal. Good uncomfy Yandere content

Another probably doesn't need to be said but I think Susie/Noelle is pretty alright. My opinion on it is very same as Alphyne it's fine it's canon gays and it's cute. No complaints from me

Lancer/Susie/Noelle though?? Incredible. Top tier. Susie will go nowhere without her little guy Lancer, and Noelle thinks he's cute as can be and incredibly silly. Is he involved romantically? Unclear but he sure is there

Roulxs Kaard/Spade King was very juicy back when we only had chapter one. The last bit of porn I witnessed before Tumblr fully closed it's doors was some nasty shit of the two of them. RIP the OP of that work they got hard banned four separate times.

Roulxs/Queen has sense filled the Roulxs Kaard malewife shaped hole in my heart however and it is so much funnier than whatever he and Spade King had going on. Queen talks about him like how we all talk about Spamton and I think that's glorious

Queen/Swatch Queerplatonics my dearly beloveds

Are Sweep Cap'n Cakes a polycule? Someone said they were brothers and I cannot remember who or if it was canon. I like them as a polycule. They kiss on the mouth

I love you Jevil/Spamton divorce does it count as a ship if my favorite part of it is they're broken up?

Jevil/Seam is incredibly cute I love them soft I love them angsty I love them devoted and broken and wishing for the old days and I love them together and happy and silly old married couple

Spamton/Addisons any Addison or all Addison I love Spam/Addi ships a lot because it can't be sweet they left Spamton homeless and alone in the streets. The good ol days only kinda ship.

[yllowpages]

THIS POST CONTAINS HEAVY SPOILERS FOR J.W4 —

john is not a good friend.

at least not that we see in his journey through these movies. in fact, he fairly consistently acts selfishly — he asks for things for personal vendettas, he puts people in conflicting positions, and he even ruins or ends lives just by asking for favors from those he may have considered friends. pretty much every person who helps john is punished and faces the consequences for doing so, no matter how much john cared for them or thought highly of them. marcus saves john's life and viggo kills him for it. charon puts john in his own favor and the marquis kills him for it. winston obviously also favors john over many others and he has to jump through many hoops to gain back his respect and the hotel when all of that is taken away because of john. the bowery king pays for his act of supplying john with a weapon in receiving a physical punishment. sofia is put out when john comes to her and it can be implied she was punished for helping him based on what happened to both the director and the bowery king. koji is killed by caine for even temporarily giving safe harbor to john in the osaka continental.

caine (and, by some extension, winston) is the first time john actually fulfills a less-than-selfish act for something technically bigger than him. allowing caine to shoot him so john could save his last shot for the marquis was john's one slightly selfless action in these films. and only slightly since killing the marquis would free himself (and also winston). still, it seems to me that john came to this realization in chapter 4 that there was nothing left for him. (the dog, yes, but the dog seemed to be doing just fine with the bowery king as well.) his family, helen, was gone. and he'd alienated himself from anyone else he might have called a friend. plus, he'd killed too much to continue trying to avoid the consequences of his actions. he had no life to return to. he didn't want to die, but knew if he had to, he'd rather die as john, "the man who loved and was loved by his wife." and so the moment the marquis was dead, he was able to do that. but ... even if he had no life to return to, caine did. and taking that away from him — after taking koji from his daughter, arguably sofia from hers, and many others from their lives — this was something he owed to both caine and himself. so, in the one moment of real character development he has, john saves his last shot for the marquis so he can have the final word and have his freedom, but also took cain's last bullet so that caine could be with his daughter. it's exactly what koji said, something that john had never considered, therefore had to be reminded of so he could dig himself out of his selfish pit of grief:

friendship means little when it's convenient.

[whileyoureinschoolidothisallday]

Y’ALL omg okay

Per the norm when I play open world games and I'm left to my own devices, I found myself in areas I’m too under leveled to be in! But do you think I just turn around and go where I’m supposed to?

No! In typical Arisa fashion, I brute force it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So there I am. Fighting the Normal gym. I’ve got most of my team up in the lvl 30s, my Azumarill is already lvl 40 because she’s a fuckin beast (exactly why they’re in my top fave Pokemon but anyway), and after my first defeat I went and evolved my first Rockruff so I’d have at least one Rock type. I could beat the first two of the Gym Leader’s Pokemon with my Daschbun without too much difficulty, it’s that damn bird that would LITERALLY ONE SHOT MY ENTIRE TEAM.

So I get to the stupid bird. I of course wasted my tera orb already trying to use my Pikachu on it before it could kill me, like a clown. And my Lycanroc--his name is Yandere btw--was still really under leveled (lvl 27) because it already took all of last night and then tonight to get everybody even remotely where they needed to be and I’m impatient (AND NO, I WILL NOT JUST GO TO A DIFFERENT GYM!!!!!!!!). Once Pikachu’s down, everyone else is either asleep, ko’d, or paralyzed, and I can’t waste turns healing all of them, so I really have no choice but to put him out and pray.

The good news, he can take THREE HITS of the Facade!!!! The bad news: Since he’s under leveled, he’s not very strong. Good news again: He knows Howl!!!! So I start to formulate a strategy.

I made Yandere use one Rock Tomb--which also kills the bird’s Speed btw so he can stop fucking going first--and one Howl, and then when he was on his last hit, I would swap him out with one of the other ones and used their turn to heal Yandere. Then I would put Yandere back in and start the process over again.

And I think this would’ve worked flawlessly...if I had more than 2 Pokemon to do the swaps with LMAO.

So I’m down to just Yandere. He’s on his last hit. We do at least get to go first now, but with the damage he’s doing the bird has probably TWO hits left. Goddammit, I’m gonna have to level him up fully and do this battle a third fuckin time. I’ve accepted it, and I press A because we’re damn well at least going down swinging. Internally, I’m very much like, “You did good buddy, we’ll get him next time.”

BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HE FUCKIN CRITS IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE BIRD GOES DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LITERALLY SCREAMED it was literally something out of the anime omg I was so fuckin hype