#its gotta be outright

[i-spilled-my-soup]

i miss the olden days when the greeks didn’t have labels for sexuality they just had affairs and orgies

[prolibytherium]

There's a LOT of things people do wrong when constructing fantasy beliefs in pantheons of gods, but one of the more specific is having only one god related to fertility and it kind of being just a horny sex thing.

Like you'll have one in the entire bunch whose sphere is listed as fertility and it's basically like Yeah this is the sex one. She's always depicted naked (but not TOO naked because censorship and/or the writer's own skittishness). She's going to have the exact body type epitomized in contemporary western beauty standards and there's usually no chance in hell that she's gonna be fat (unless MAYBE they're referencing 'venus' figurines). Her thing is fertility, which means having sex and making babies. Might be a goddess of beauty or love or marriage too, because these are kinda sex things, but that's probably it. And yeah that sort of thing is virtually nonexistent in real life.

Like the concept of fertility is so fundamentally important to the function of most societies in human history in ways that it is just Not in industrialized imperial core countries. Most people are getting food from stores, and not having to worry about harvesting crops or breeding livestock or foraging for food or having enough animals to hunt, so fertility only really comes up as a concern if you're trying to have kids (and there is certainly societal pressure to have children, but your wellbeing and survival is rarely going to Depend on it). And I think writing only from that perspective and not even trying to learn about WHY fertility is so conceptually important is why you see this trend.

There's no absolute universal statement about how people believe in gods but it's broadly accurate that systems with many deities will Usually have more than one deity associated with fertility, and these associations will certainly include human reproduction but also the fertility of livestock/hunted animals, plants, the land itself.

Some fertility deities may also be heavily associated with seasonal changes or environmental factors that agriculture or foraging is dependent on (spring/summer/fall, seasonal rains, seasonal flooding, rain itself, sunlight, good soil, rivers, wetlands, etc). Some certainly might be related to love, marriage, sex, and beauty, but that's VERY RARELY going to be the sole way the concept of fertility is embodied. And they'll often will have other associations not directly about fertility, or related to fertility in culturally specific ways.

[quietwingsinthesky]

stealing from the tv movie i think all time lords when not inside tardises or possessing another lifeform should look like little goo snakes. you force a fourth-dimensional time being to be flattened into the material plane, they become a little snake.

[peri]

people's interpretation of what "canon" is these days is extremely rigid, i think. like, it's gotta be said by the creator in order for it to be canon in most people's opinion. they gotta say it explicitly and even in the show/book/whatever they gotta make sure a character goes "yeah i'm transgender" for example.

imo, something is canon when it's portrayed. no one has to say "yeah hes gay," you just... pick up on that from flagging or subtext or something. thats what we did before gay/trans/autistic creators were "allowed" to explicitly state either in-show or outside of it that said character is x and y.

a huge one is autistic headcanons- a character will display many signs of autism and no one will think of it as canon unless its stated in-show or by the creator. thats definitely not how all representation has to work. ofc its cool if they say its true, or mention it in-show, but i feel like a lot of ppl forget things can be canon without being named... ykwim?

[letsrevince]

girl hold me, leftists are being wrong about signalis because of its east german aesthetics online again (and being INCREDIBLY racist about germans whilst at it) 😭

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[empyreansentinel]

its alr guys you should totally look at my blog im just an angel poster (hiding three essays about borderlands' treatment of women behind my back) haha yeah dont you like my au.

[aroacesigma]

ive had a savings account opened for me since i was a baby and rn my number one fear is that my dad is gonna make me buy a car with the money even though all i wanna do is pay to get my boobs chopped off

[perenlop]

augh all the hints that mk knows exactly who this is… :(

[docktowndame]

Sometimes i still think about deleting that joke post about fenris and his insane post nut clarity. people got so weird about it

[todayisafridaynight]

[ almost ] seasonal question; what do you think the arakawa family does for the holidays?

jo bbg answered that for us three seconds into y7 now didnt he

[capaldiera]

the thing about being forced to marry someone (she's the queen) (you proposed bc you thought she was a shapeshifting alien. long story) is that if you fly away in a magic box you can just not go back. this apparently did not cross the mind of our friend "so much for the virgin queen" the doctor

[risottofan7]

obviously its not our business as fans so i dont Actually want it to happen but id be really curious to see what percentage of mcyters/mc streamers have adhd or some other flavor of nd that has overlapping symptoms

[doctorguilty]

fucks me up it's been 3 months since ghostface's tome came out and revealed he is a sad pathetic absolutely sopping wet beast with problems coming out the wazoo but the fanfics people write about him are still almost exclusively "danny doms you like christian grey and calls you his little kitten" babygirl I just know you wouldn't tolerate being in a room with mask-off ghostie for 10 minutes. you're gonna open up the netflix home page hoping to chill and he's going to get so fucking angry at the trending tab he punches the wall hard enough your mirror falls off and shatters and then when you yell at him he locks himself in the bathroom and tries to cry too quietly for you to hear him. accept that or you can't have him. don't adopt an animal from a shelter if you can't be a responsible owner.

[theflamboyantstranger]

Dudeeeee, it just hit me in the face like a truck;

Imagine pining and lowkey highkey following this angel around for 6000 years and stopping the end of the world, which leads to both you and the angel losing your jobs. However, while your angel has a side hustle, you are kicked out of your apartment and rendered homeless, now living in your car perhaps patiently waiting for your angel to ask you to stay over.

And then you have your angel's former boss, Gabriel Jim, show up and get a guest room even though he quite literally threatened your angel's life and actually tried to end in the most apathetic way possible.

so if aziraphale helped crowley move the plants back into the bentley, he must have known crowley was living in his car and yet he didn’t ask him to stay with him… the lesbians were so right these idiots have never really talked

[perenlop]

i love kirby super star fanfic or comic adaptations where marx and kirby are actually best friends during the course of the entire game and marx blindsides kirby, to the point where i want to do something soooort of similar with my kirbyverse, but i also just kinda love how in canon marx was just like “im gonna very specifically ruin this guys week”