#i'm not taking further questions

[reading-comp-posting]

You have inspired me to start making reading comprehension questions for a server’s political memes channel. Do you have any tips to make good questions, or pitfalls to avoid?

I did want to answer this ask but I waited a bit until I had more actual posts queued before doing so

When I'm doing my gimmick, the first question I ask myself is, "taken completely literally at face value, what is this post saying?" Then, I ask, "what does this post actually mean?" or, alternatively, "what was the reason that this post was made?"

Of course that is not necessarily the best way to do it or the only valid way, it's just the easiest way for me to start breaking a post apart.

I also try to lead a hypothetical person who is reading my questions to try and think about things in a way that would help them understand the post. For instance, on the nsfw snow post I tried to direct my hypothetical answerer into understanding that the one image that was removed was probably due to copyright issues with the photographer as opposed to some algorithm gone awry that thought the snow was porn, which can be verified by checking the notes of the post.

[hellsquills]

Sarah serving absolute cunt in OMG Is This A Joke?

Endless SFTH gifs [ 7 / ?? ]

[hopeinthebox]

tagged by the exceptional @cordiallyfuturedwight and @cosmicdreamgrl thanks ever so much my loves <33

now tagging some heroes @aprylynn @thvinyl @visionsofgideontheninth @hoseeok @btscontentenjoyer @jihopesjoint @monismochi @raplinenthusiasts <333 and everyone else

[distort-opia]

i didnt know you were collecting snake joker instances so i need to ask if you know about the teenage ninja mutant turtles batman animated movie

Ohoho of course I do. Cobra Joker is what started it all for me:

[the-busy-ghost]

Alright uninformed rant time. It kind of bugs me that, when studying the Middle Ages, specifically in western Europe, it doesn’t seem to be a pre-requisite that you have to take some kind of “Basics of Mediaeval Catholic Doctrine in Everyday Practise” class. 

Obviously you can’t cover everything- we don’t necessarily need to understand the ins and outs of obscure theological arguments (just as your average mediaeval churchgoer probably didn’t need to), or the inner workings of the Great Schism(s), nor how apparently simple theological disputes could be influenced by political and social factors, and of course the Official Line From The Vatican has changed over the centuries (which is why I’ve seen even modern Catholics getting mixed up about something that happened eight centuries ago). And naturally there are going to be misconceptions no matter how much you try to clarify things for people, and regional/class/temporal variations on how people’s actual everyday beliefs were influenced by the church’s rules. 

But it would help if historians studying the Middle Ages, especially western Christendom, were all given a broadly similar training in a) what the official doctrine was at various points on certain important issues and b) how this might translate to what the average layman believed. Because it feels like you’re supposed to pick that up as you go along and even where there are books on the subject they’re not always entirely reliable either (for example, people citing books about how things worked specifically in England to apply to the whole of Europe) and you can’t ask a book a question if you’re confused about any particular point. 

I mean I don’t expect to be spoonfed but somehow I don’t think that I’m supposed to accumulate a half-assed religious education from, say, a 15th century nobleman who was probably more interested in translating chivalric romances and rebelling against the Crown than religion; an angry 16th century Protestant; a 12th century nun from some forgotten valley in the Alps; some footnotes spread out over half a dozen modern political histories of Scotland; and an episode of ‘In Our Time’ from 2009. 

But equally if you’re not a specialist in church history or theology, I’m not sure that it’s necessary to probe the murky depths of every minor theological point ever, and once you’ve started where does it end? 

Anyway this entirely uninformed rant brought to you by my encounter with a sixteenth century bishop who was supposedly writing a completely orthodox book to re-evangelise his flock and tempt them away from Protestantism, but who described the baptismal rite in a way that sounds decidedly sketchy, if not heretical. And rather than being able to engage with the text properly and get what I needed from it, I was instead left sitting there like:

And frankly I didn’t have the time to go down the rabbit hole that would inevitably open up if I tried to find out

[invinciblerodent]

I see your "oh Astarion doesn't fully even like the PC until some ways into act 2" headcanons which are all well and great, but what if I raise you an "Astarion is far fucking gone down the deep end by as early as the party (at least if the 'relationship' started some time earlier than that), he's just so zonked out of his gourd on fear and emotional trauma that he's consciously-subconsciously suppressing any romantically-inclined feelings he might have", and a Big Gesture in act 2 (which isn't really all that big at all, I mean you mostly just either kill one thing -potentially without lifting a single finger- that was already on the way, or talk to one woman and treat him with basic respect) just knocks him over the head with a realization like a steel fucking chair

in my interpretation at least, he is pretty much fully pining from the tiefling party night on, but believes it to be perfectly rational concern over his beautiful master plan maybe not working out as intended.

like he may have to consciously hold himself back from fangs-out sneering at anyone who shows the PC any attention, and yet has not a single shred of doubt in his mind that it's because if someone else succeeds in charming them, he won't be able to secure his spot as their Number One Very Special Precious and Protected Lover Boy. (No yeah, that is both fully reasonable and a rational thing to want to be to someone you don't actually give a single shit about. Trust him, he knows. He's so profoundly normal about these things.)

what can I say, I love characters who are just emotionally fkin illiterate in one way or another, send post

[creepyscritches]

Getting an adulthood diagnosis for something that's been present since early childhood is sooooo fucking 👁️👁️ there's catharsis sure yeah but the struggle comes from trying to forgive your child self for failures you weren't really having.

Anyway shout out to my autoimmune girlies. Who else got shamed for early childhood cavities and expensive adolescent surgeries only to find out as an adult you are full of mouth-ruining antibodies lol. Girlies who else is unpacking their "chronic illness bad teeth = shameful moral failing" buuuullshit? Anyway I'm still trying to save $16,000 to fix fucked teeth I thought I brought on myself, but only discovered in 2023 were due to medical study candidate levels of sjogrens antibodies and severely medically mismanaged sle 🤪

[fightaers]

i just read a TERRIBLE sakura slander i have to actually sit down oh my god

[tardis--dreams]

Feeling homicidal at work today ♡

[julie-finlay]

Finlay Friday

13x03: "Wild Flowers", script extracts

[byanyan]

thinking about... byan making friends with all the pets of the foster families they've stayed with. them at a certain point finding more comfort in those friendships than any relationships they have with the family. ...thinking about at least one home where they were treated about as well as the dog, so when they ran away... they took the dog with them

[b-blushes]

obviously there's a billion other things but one thing that sucks about being sick/disabled is that most of the time i don't have enough energy to both get to and from somewhere, and also BE in the place. brain-wise and, like, life-fulfillment-wise, things would be way better if i could spend more time somewhere that isn't by myself in my house (although for much of the time this is the best environment to manage my various disabilities), but physical-ability-wise, often the travelling to and from a place takes all the 'spare' energy i have, so i can't actually *be* at the place without experiencing a level of various symptoms that negates the benefits of being there in the moment, or being so so ill when i get home, or the 'being at the place' leaving me unable to safely travel home in the first place. it sucks.

anyway i guess that the flipside of that is super strong appreciation for the instances that i *can* do things, the people that help me get places, and the people who're happy to meet outdoors and/or with precautions. it makes a huge difference to have some things to look forward to, even if i am greedy for more!

[bookwyrminspiration]

Since more than one person was curious, I'll explain! (these are asking about this Stellarlune survey) Short answer: I'm also not sure how it relates, which is why I asked. I'm using the answers to find out if they relate to liking Stellarlune at all or not!

Each question in the survey (which has gotten 100 responses!) is to test a potential theory; the survey as a whole is testing multiple. I wondered what made people like Stellarlune and if certain people were more likely to enjoy it, and came up with a few hypotheses. Each hypothesis is being tested by those questions.

For example, one theory is that if you ship sokeefe as they're presented in canon, you're more likely to enjoy Stellarlune. That's why I asked whether or not you ship sokeefe.

Another is that if you're closer to Sophie's age, you'll view her development and push-back more positively, and therefore be more likely to enjoy the book. I realized I now see her as younger than me, and that affected how I viewed her actions, and I thought if I had read this book when I had been her age I would've been more enthusiastic. Hence the question about age (though non-specific for internet safety reasons).

Another relates to gender and orientation, what you asked about. Since sokeefe was prominent, and sokeefe (in canon) is a very alloromantic heterosexual pairing, I thought it was possible people's identities, whether or not they can relate to that pairing, impacted whether they liked the book or not. It did for me, but I wanted more data to further explore that possibility. Hence the identity questions!

It's entirely possible that I will find no significant correlation between identity and Stellarlune enjoyment. I'm just collecting data for a potential theory, same as all the other questions. But, I won't know until I analyze it! And I can't analyze it unless I ask! That's why those questions were there and what I'm gonna do with them :)

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

https://menalez.tumblr.com/post/723831790712848384/im-in-a-server-with-macroclit-and-at-first-i

do you support macroclit now?

i saw you ask about example of lesbophobia as if there arent PLENTY of examples of it online from osa radfems. just look through your follower list, i see who you reblog from i'm just so tired of BEGGING bi women to take homophobia seriously. we've been pointing out macroclit's lesbophobia for ages but you people just choose not to listen to us (people who live with lesbophobic every day of our lives)

My views on problematic/offensive women have always been consistent - I think we should criticise their actions/behaviour, but I don't think we should criticise them using the language and/or theory of the patriarchy.

(Yes, this includes Macroclit and her comments... I still don't think she should have been hounded for needing an abortion.)

[subternia]

I'm going to blow up.

[haarute]

reading posts about people noticing things that you do being its own form of love, and then thinking that the thought of being perceived at all is actually terrifying to me because i cannot imagine a situation where that wouldn't be a criticism of my person. and the realization that this is not supposed to be the case is wild to me lmao.