#important parameters

[owari--hajimari]

i don’t think rhyme’s relationship to her gender identity is particularly important to the larger picture of twewy, but i do think beat’s perception of her as a girl, as his younger sister, is very very important. cause masculinity as equal to strength is important to beat, and it explains a lot of his relationship to rhyme. rhyme protecting beat, her kindness when they were alive, succeeding at pushing him out of the way in the same way beat failed, it’s an indignity. rhyme, a young girl, his family, then his partner in the Game, like every category of ‘what a man should protect’, is stronger than beat. beat fails to protect her time and time again. and he resents that. that he’s so weak. that she had to protect him.

liiiike, what kariya says to beat after ganking rhyme, “[rhyme] isn’t gone because of us. she’s gone because of you. you failed to protect your partner. […] she protected you. gave her life for you. […] you want payback? then man up” <- thats what its all about. and ‘she’s gone because of you’ stinging twice cause he failed and that’s why she was in the Game at all. later, as a reaper, beat says to neku “you man up any yet? cause i don’t believe in hittin’ women and children” it’s cyclicalll and beat clinging to the ideal of masculinity in the face of his own powerlessness

[nicollekidman]

buffy essentially conditioning spike like an animal to never believe what she says and to act against her wishes because she doesn't mean what she says and can't say what she means, including "no" and them both having to break out of those patterns (buffy by being honest and gentle with both of them, spike by regaining his soul and therefore rebuilding a moral code outside of reactions to violence and/or proximity) in order to be together............. <33333

[hephaestuscrew]

Minkowski would be so intense about introducing Eiffel and Hera and Lovelace to any of her loved ones back on Earth. She makes the crew sit through a PowerPoint presentation on suitable topics of conversation to discuss with her mother. She gives Dominik a folder of detailed guidance about how to interact with Hera because he's never met an AI before. She asks Eiffel several days beforehand if he has decided what he's going to wear to meet her family, as though Eiffel has ever in his life put thought into an outfit more than 30 seconds before getting dressed.

She tries to control every parameter of the interaction in a way that actually makes it more uncomfortable for everyone involved. She spends the entire time sitting right on the edge of her chair, looking anxiously between each of these people she cares about, trying to tell whether they are getting on, and attempting to communicate with them individually through urgent expressions.

And of course it doesn't work. Eiffel puts his foot in his mouth. Dominik is confused and curious about all the wrong things. Minkowski dares to leave the room for a few minutes and when she comes back, her mother is showing the crew her baby photos, and Minkowski knows she'll never live this down.

[thecoolerbrother]

i think something moonage daydream was really good at doing was capturing a vibe

[bumbledd33]

Wanted to draw a lil chibi presentation of my most popular teamup! I love each and every one of the companions, but Karlach is most true and dearest to my heart so I never swap her out.

That honour goes to Shadowheart, i sometimes swap her out with Astarion

[fellhellion]

seeing miguel takes that make u say aloud HE DOES NOT KNOW HE IS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER IN A STORY WHERE THE PLOT IS CONSTRUCTED TO ILLUSTRATE A CERTAIN POINT/MEANING BRO 😭

[braceletofteeth]

Congratulations to Never Let Me Go for being the second drama to get the highest rating from me this year. Currently preparing my mind and body to be insufferable about it forever.

[ephemeral-winter]

my boss just asked me which of virginia woolf’s works is the most “important” and i sort of just sat there opening and closing my mouth at him because like when you ask that question of the token feminist historian in your employ it really quickly becomes a matter of how do you choose? important for what?

[jennaflare]

i really thought the society & sustainability class would be my fave this quarter but NAY. map city baby.

[arlathen]

one of the reasons I hate my manager is because he insists on doing everything in the fucking stupidest, messiest, least efficient way possible. one of the things he insisted on is that we wrap the holds at the circulation desk. I work at a very busy branch that gets a lot of holds and wrapping the holds is kind of a messy process involving many stacks of books and carts and sheets of paper. in short it looks bad for us to be doing it at the fucking circ desk and also it's bad customer service bc people don't want to interrupt us when we're busy. and then i brought up that it was easier and often times faster to just have one person dedicated to wrapping them in back and then shelving them. instead of whoever is on desk juggling helping patrons and wrapping holds. he said it was an Absolute Priority that we get the holds out as fast as we can. again despite this not being a faster method.

ANYWAY. I do the desk schedule so I always put him on desk at 1 like. okay you wanna do this stupid bass akwards shit? YOURE the one who gets to do it then <3 and I walk outside. and what do I see? my shithead manager ignoring a cart full of holds while he weeds dvds. and don't even get me started on the desperately slow and inefficient way he weeds. i could have weeded dvds in an hour and he's been working on it for weeks. anyway.

[foxmulderautism]

there's something so viscerally real about beau that i feel whenever i think about him like i think out of all my protagonists he's the one you could easily pluck from my brain and put into the real world and he would just be a guy

[vampatty]

me when it's 6 am on a sunday and i have to choose whether to stay in the survival horror house or go home to my psychological horror apartment

[radio-charlie]

Don’t worry guys we should never worry about being subjected to surveillance. we’re just not that important right ha ha

[jonnywaistcoat]

My partner and I are trying to settle a debate and only you can truly help. Are you actually from London?

Grew up in Bournemouth on the south coast, then lived in London for about 10 years after uni. So... not originally, but the city is well known and very important to me. I guess it depends on what parameters you want to put on the word "from".

Also, something I've noticed is a lot of my asks use the "settle a debate" formulation like it makes a question less weird (not that this ask was a particularly weird example), when actually the framing of "some people you don't know were arguing about the details of your life" is actually pretty weird in and of itself.

[avicecaro]

see. okay. this is true about chairs. and while i personally think “adult human female, female meaning of the sex which produces ova” is a very clear and comprehensive definition, not everyone agrees. and, for the sake of argument, that’s fine! but that’s not how the law works. lawmaking bodies agonize over the precise definitions of terms to ensure that the law does what they’re hoping it will do, and is not easily misused. that’s their job.

in ireland, the bread that fast food restaurants use is legally considered cake because of the sugar content. cake is regulated differently than bread. do you and i need to argue the finer points of cake and bread? how sweet do you think something has to be so we can consider it cake? does it matter? not really. but it does when you’re trying to tax staple foods and non-staple foods differently.

there have been multiple court cases in the US determining if a taco is a sandwich (as of May 2024, it is, as per the superior court of indiana, fun fact). is a taco a sandwich? i don’t know! i don’t really think so. if someone said “hey i made sandwiches” and gave me a taco, i’d be confused. and anyway, does it matter? not really. but it does when i’m trying to determine if a taco restaurant can open in a space that won’t allow sandwich shops.

is a barbershop different than a hair salon? i think so. i go to a hair salon, my brother goes to a barbershop, if we switched our appointments we’d both be unhappy. it matters for the sake of communication, but is it a super important distinction? not really. but what if i signed a non-compete agreement with the barbershop i work at that said i wouldn’t work at any nearby barbershop for six months after terminating my contract? can i work at a hair salon? now it matters.

if i needed fifty chairs for an event, and the company i contracted with sent fifty horses, or fifty tables, they could argue “but it’s something with four legs that a person can sit on!” and they’d be correct. but i would know i’d been given something different than what i asked for, and i would expect the chair supplier to know that, too. so if i want to demand a refund/return/exchange on the basis that i’ve received the wrong product, do i have a claim?

so, okay, you feel we can’t define the term “woman” perfectly. or maybe we can define it, as in we know what we’re trying to talk about, but we don’t have a good term for it. wouldn’t be the first time it happened! but if we are creating a legal category, it does in fact need to have parameters. meaningful parameters.

if i want to give some speeches promoting radical gender acceptance, i could probably get away with never outright defining the word woman. but what if i want men who kill women to have their crimes classified as hate crimes? i need to have a meaningfully defined category of what a woman is and what makes one different from a man. mexico requires that congressional candidates be split 50-50 between men and women to enforce gender parity. “woman” has to be a meaningfully defined category, or else … well, you’ll end up with the same problem they keep having to deal with.

if we want protections or resources for women, “women” have to be a meaningful legal category. if it is a category anyone can opt into, then it is a category that includes anyone, which is not a meaningful category when it is meant to include only half of people. also women aren’t chairs.