#just some thoughts~

[merakiui]

thinking about a reverse isekai twst au where the cast don’t end up rescuing the afflicted character from their overblot and as a result they succumb to the fatality of overblot.

only to wake in another world, perfectly alive but without any memories of who they are, how they came to be there, and what’s going on. this world is so unfamiliar to them despite the fact that they don’t know anything and are essentially a blank slate, but they’re certain they don’t belong here. and then they meet you, and you take them in, providing them with shelter and assistance in hopes of helping them find their home. but with amnesia that doesn’t look like it’ll clear up anytime soon, you and said character eventually grow close enough to become true friends, and when they get comfortable with you the thought of going back to wherever their home may be soon feels like more of a burden than a hope. 

i just love the idea of the characters’ memories being jogged with little things from their past lives. like taking azul to the beach after he caught sight of a travel magazine and had this strange urge to visit the sea, and he’s hit with the nostalgia of turbulent waters, crashing waves, shrieking seagulls, writing on seashells, hiding away in a ceramic pot... or giving riddle a strawberry tart and he’s overwhelmed by how delicious and sweet it is and, underneath all of the sugar, there’s something bitter. or bringing leona to a family gathering and he sees how nicely you interact with your younger family members; and he’s reminded of how troublesome his family is, only for him to pause and furrow his brow because what family is he talking about? he doesn’t have any family here. not any that he remembers, at least.

or trying and failing to match outfits and makeup for a night out, and vil immediately starts playing the role of a fashion expert, and something inside him clicks when he sees how perfect you look in the attire he personally put together for your night. and he wonders if he’s always had an eye for beauty and a talent for makeup. or cooking with jamil and you end up making him his favorite meal and he brings up the time he got sick after trying poisoned curry for...someone. wait, who is he talking about? what was that about poisoned curry? or trying to convince idia to go outside with you—that he’ll never find his way home if he stays locked up in your room all day—and he does end up poking his head out. but he looks strangely giddy and amused, as if he’s just remembered something funny. and he has. sort of. he remembers someone used to hound him to act more like a housewarden. to speak up. to make proper eye contact. to stop slouching so much. wait. housewarden? what in the world is that?

[softlyapocalytpic]

WIP ...Monday?

Despite the cautious look in her eye there was a confidence to Mrs. Ishikawa's posture that he knew only came from experience. Sure, her aim wasn't marksmanship quality, but for a pre-war widow and mother she sure knew her stuff. Not battle-hardened, but smart. A good mind for strategy and the ability to pick up on details, and she wasn't naive enough to trust just anyone that walked up to her selling a promise. According to Mrs. Ishikawa's own account she'd only been out in the wastes for a few weeks tops, but something about the way she moved and talked told a more interesting story. The way she moved spoke to some sort of military training, however light, and they way she talked definitely let off more than she knew. She used military time, she talked in colder clinical terms, and she knew a hell of a lot about both the world before the bombs, and the apocalyptic wasteland that came after.

Sometimes she'd catch herself, like she knew she was giving up her own lie, but she would always prioritize the matter at hand over keeping up whatever charade she had going. The real headscratcher was figuring out the why and what of it all.

Mrs. Ishikawa was telling the truth- everything about her could be corroborated and vouched for- yet she was still hiding something big, even from the kid. He'd been willing to let sleeping dogs lie until Kellogg.

"Your kids aren't here… but you already knew that."

With everything going on at the time, Nick hadn't had the chance to follow up on that particular clue. But now they were here, three steps outside of the Memory Den with rain misting their coats, and neither one of them made a move to step inside.

"Nick- about Kellogg-" the words caught in her throat, the careful wall of ice she kept up when doing business beginning to crack. The Old Nick had watched a documentary once about the glaciers up North. There was a clip of the noises they made when the ice began to shatter. Even in the rain he could hear it now.

"If you knew, what was the point of all this? I've been in this with you for the long haul, doll, but now I have to ask: what am I walking into?"

Drops rolled down her pale cheeks, shining spectacularly in the neon lights of Goodneighbor. She shuttered. "He killed Takeshi, Nick. My best friend, the love of my life, and he and those monsters took my children from me. It was slow and it was clinical. And now- and now they're-"

Mrs. Ishikawa's teeth chattered and her whole body curled into itself, "It was revenge, and that was only the beginning."

[badolmen]

People against piracy fail to realize that no, I can’t just ‘buy it.’ They stopped making DVDs and Blu-Rays. They’re barely offering digital copies for download. I am not spending money I could use for food or bills to pay for a subscription service just so I can always have access to a beloved piece of media. Especially not when the service will remove media on a whim without concern for how the loss of access to that piece will make its artistic conservation nigh impossible.

For example, I recently learned that Disney+ had an original film called Crater. It’s scifi, family friendly, and seems cool - I would love to buy it as a holiday gift for my little brother! But: it’s exclusive to D+ and THEY REMOVED IT LITERALLY MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE.

The ONLY way I can directly access this film is through piracy. The ONLY available ‘copies’ of this film are hosted on piracy websites. Disney will NEVER release it in theaters, or as something to buy, and it may NEVER return to the streaming service. It will be LOST because we aren’t allowed to purchase it for personal viewing. If I can’t pay to own it, I won’t pay for the privilege of losing it when corporate decides to put it in a vault.

So yes, I’m going to pirate and support piracy.

Edit: if you are able, use $5 you would otherwise use for a streaming subscription to donate to a GazaFunds campaign.

[yeepof]

Local PHD student at wizard school HARRASSED!! FOR SHAME!!

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[kendyroy]

Seeing Logan in the TVA makes me laugh so hard for some reason? Like I know he’s lived to see technology evolve and stuff, but there’s something so funny about a guy from the 1800s standing in some kind of retro-futuristic timey wimey agency to me. Man is confused as hell.

like what da hell is a polar bear doin in arlington texas

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

[christadeguchi]

"we know how to move our bodies, but i didn't know how to manage my heart, so you need help for this"

hi we need to talk more about judo gold medallist christa deguchi.

[moonyistired]

kris deltarune in some outfits i thought they'd like

[officialspec]

can i say something. for years i thought the joke of the song short skirt/long jacket by cake was that he wanted a woman who was hung like a horse. like i thought when he says jacket it was a last-second fakeout because he very obviously meant to say cock. and the rest of the things in the song were just her personality and interests. which were secondary to her awesome penis

[indigo6f00ff]

need to share an experience i had 30 minutes ago

(edit: thanks to @walks-the-ages for providing and reminding me to put alt text, sorry it slips my mind alot lol)

[perfectlyripeclementine]

calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.

[chryseis]

FYI every purchase of any of The Adventure Zone music on Griffin McElroy's Bandcamp will be entirely donated to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund for the rest of 2023. His music is set at 'name your price', and the McElroys are also going to match the donations.

If you've listened to even a bit of any TAZ campaign, you surely know what a fantastic musician Griffin is, and there is no better time to purchase his music than now.

[epickiya722]

Thinking about how Suguru and Yuji has similarities again and um...

Scenes where they take control of their right limb to restrain the being possessing them while these blue eyed, long lashes having pretty boys look on with blood on their faces.

Oh my gosh, not Suguru and Yuji smiling while they're dying from serious injuries and Satoru and Megumi looking on all sad...

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