#like a cultural pillar

[hitmeupaep]

destiel was something so serious

[autism-calzone]

🗿🗿the pillar bros! 🗿🗿

[twig---verginix]

I've been meaning to go back and watch this stretch of the anime forever but I like thinking about how (pretty sure) the Battle Frontier is technically considered a part of Kanto and under their jurisdiction instead of Hoenn's.... game-wise, that also feels kind of right to me.

Because then we have the Sevii Islands, which just feel.... very un-Kanto-like. Very off and otherworldly, very post-game, very edge of the world. I'm choosing to believe that Emerald's Battle Frontier is closer to Kanto and the Sevii Islands are closer to Hoenn. I just like the symmetry of that. Stretching to the very edge of your region, the boundaries of where you're able to go

[gothyanki]

Githyanki smiths: You've heard of assless chaps, now get ready for… ASSLESS BATTLE ARMOUR

[schumigrace]

@merenwenformulauno for some reason the hellsite won't let me edit my answer ? so anyway posting it separately

"so for Scottish people NC is mostly seen as 'the first train stop in England on the way to London' aaaaand the place we go for big birthdays and stag dos. But, I know it is actually a beautiful part of the country so what do you wish people knew about your city and/or area that they don't?"

Honestly you can't really dispute the reputation toon has for being a football loving drunk city because that's.. very true. but there's soooo much to it that isn't boozing

we have sooooo much history to begin with. I always recommend people go to see the Castle and Cathedral if they're interested in roman history (a lot of links to Hadrian naturally) and Norman history, and especially if you're an architecture nerd like me (Grey Street is also a great place for architecture). Plus we were the second city for a looong time

There's also a lot of museums and science centres people don't seem to think about much. The life centre and the great North museum are both great days out as well as Shipley art gallery (technically gateshead). Also the discovery museum!!! It has the whole British Film Institute archive and tons of maritime history

Mostly though, people don't realise how many wonderful green spaces there are near toon. Tyne Riverside and Derwenthaugh are both stunning !!! Also, I have spent sooooo much time at Jesmond Dene just sitting and watching the waterfall. Also the coastline in the summer is glorious and heading up to whitley bay when the weather is nice is just *chefs kiss*👌👌👌

Not to forget the amazing surrounding areas, you're so close to Durham which is a gorgeous city and of course Alnwick in the other direction (if anyone is ever there, try going through the Poison garden without passing out)

cant forget BYKER GROVE the best tv show ever created

[rinzdets]

pillars of eternity east slavic/finno-ugric elves when

[toesuckler]

man yall really arent making it easy for me not to despise the cultural impact of wednesday

[deadrlngers]

this is out of nowhere -and not fandom related- but I was wondering what is your favorite part of The Divine Comedy?

it's been soo long since i've read it, but i'd say that inferno is my fave part. it's the start of everything and i guess we could say i'm fond of it. plus the way dante built the layers of hell itself is sick af and fascinating and so is his journey. thematically i also really like paradiso, it's the end of the journey and he gets to take a glimpse at what really moves the entire universe and it's love, 'love that makes the sun and the stars move'. makes me need to sit down for a few minutes when i think of it

[windmill-ghost]

If you’re confused about why Cecil is winning the sexyman poll: remember that other poll asking how many consecutive years people have been using tumblr and the largest demographic was “ten years or more”?

[queen-scribbles]

TIL that with what counts as a novel vs a novella, the story I’m writing my sister is solidly in novel territory at 55k words, likely to 60k or more by the time I’m done this year’s installment.

aaaand now I freak out a little

[snekdood]

lots of ppl say night elves are based on japanese culture and i never really... saw it? idk. i always thought it was more like a fusion of celtic and greek cultures/beliefs, but ig i can see it in some superficial ways like the houses... sorta kinda have the curvy roofs or whatever... but the fact they're trees usually made me think more of celtic druids... ig one of the first items you learn to make is "spider kebab's" but ig when i was a kid "kebab" was so general it didn't apply to japan?? like my best friend at the time would have cookouts w her extended filipino family with kebabs so it was explicitly not just a japanese thing to me? then i could kinda start to see it in some of the hairstyles the men had but also. its a general thing to put your hair in a bun... then i could kinda see it in the armor the sentinels would wear- ig i could see how it might look like some sort of anime thing?? but it kinda just looks like fantasy armor to me... idk. i kinda just dont see it as much as other people seem to? it seems way more celtic to me than anything, celtic and just fantasy made-up stuff.

[carma-bis]

Maybe it's a pity party, but everyone likes to address keeping culture alive and tracing roots until your family like gets so muddled with sold off women and youngest daughters being forgotten about that like, what about those of us with no culture to trace? The last remnants of dying religious control that just melds off into pure patriarchal sexism. There's multiple texts out there that encourage women being the sole keepers of culture, that men are too worldly so thus women must be the ones who are the root, but that itself usually just ties back into the sexism of "owning" the women of your culture/race and not wanting them to leave. What does it all really even mean anyways, when everything is just a tool? To bond, to control, to set goals, to encourage comradery. This rant isn't to imply that culture is bad, it's to question what to do when one has no culture to speak on.

If culture is intangible and is just used to describe the shared traditions of a society, I really don't get the obsession over it because EVERYTHING is culture at that point. And if it's everything, it's nothing.

[genderqueerdykes]

now that my post about breaking down one's idea of what a woman looks like has circulated for a while (thank you all), i'm now going to make this post, as i do not want people to derail that specific conversation, nor this one.

we also must break down our idea of what a man looks, acts, sounds, behaves, and presents like.

men are not cis, het, allosexual or highly sexual beings, tall, muscular, strong, hairy, deep voiced, broad chested/shouldered, emotionless, mean, aggressive, unemotional, uncaring, distant, cold, stoic, heartless, standoffish, bread winners, bad/absent fathers, macho, obligated to work despite disabilities, or obligated to be "the man of the house."

men are people. first and foremost.

men are allowed to express just like anyone else. men do not have to be pillars of their communities. no obligation. men are allowed to be disabled, tired, weak, emotional, caring, compassionate, asexual, aromantic, friendly, warm, in need of support, neurodivergent, mentally ill, chronically ill,and have personality disorders. men have their own struggles and we have to stop telling them to "suck it up" and "move on" and "pull yourself up by your boot straps".

we are forcing men to do this: this is a cage of our own design.

once we dismantle this idea of how a man "should" be, once more: we will move past radfeminism, patriarchy, trans/androphobia, and fostering a culture where this is an acceptable way to treat men. it's not. we must allow men to be diverse. we must allow men to be who they are on the inside

[booksandicedmatcha]

do they have border patrol and RBT tv shows in other countries

[kohakuhibiki]

Maybe I should just acknowledge that I have to get out of the house instead of shitposting to avoid what I know will happen. 🫠

[azzayofchaos]

Since my other Nether worldbuilding post was received pretty well... I'm back on my bullshit!

This time featuring zoning and biomes of the Neath: Lore below cut

Nether (noun): the formidable hellscape straddling the boundery between the Fragments of the Overworld and Death's Realms.

Derived from Beneath -> Neath -> Neth -> Nether.

The Nether is most easily accessable through outer regions of the nether, regions that are comparatively closed-off, and lacking in biodiversity compared to the Deep Nether where most Neath civilizations are centered.

The Neth is divided into three primary zones, distinguished by altitude and general climates.

The Calfactory Zone: the largest and most iconic of the three, the Calfactory zone is blisteringly hot and bone-dry, it's most prominent features are its abundant seas and lakes of magma, and the massive Supermagmas atriums that are common above the magma. In the largest of these atriums, the ceiling may be so high above as to be completely invisible from the ground, obscured by an ever present smog of toxic vapor and minerals formed in the self-generated micro-climates that are generated from the rising heat of the lava that begins to cool at a higher altitude.  

In the Basalt Deltas and other biomes around the edges of these lakes, massive pillars of rock and crystals bulwark the more-visible ceiling. 

The most common of this zone’s biomes is the Crimson woods, home to hearty thermal-philic fungi and plants that grow on the minerals and vapors of the lakes. Many are carnivorous in their lack of access to water or sunlight, and these forests contain many sub-biomes and ecosystems of flourishing life. 

The Wastes are perhaps the most desolate regions of the Neath, irradiated deserts of red-rock, brimstone, and sharp sand. Even the vast majority of nether-folk avoid these deserts due to the leftover radiation that rots and destroys anything that waits too long. The only forms of life are particularly robust lichens and bacteria that are happy to sit by the boiling pools of sulfur and mud and toxic sludge that dot the landscape. Growing within the rocks themselves are colonies of amorphous fungus, called geocorpus molds, they get their spores into cracks in the soft netherack and slowly feed on it; the ‘rock meat’ is considered a delicacy in nether cuisine. 

The Temperate Zone: Cradled in the heights of the Neath’s atriums and sat below the roof is the temperate zones; the rising heat of the zone below begins to cool and by doing so, distinct weather patterns form within this zone, leaving it, while still sweltering, a cooler though much more humid climate.

The main biome are the luminescent warped-fungal rainforests that collect the high-rising minerals and odd moisture from the lakes. Liquid is actually present here, though, if it’s not safely filtered through the innards of the various plants and fungi, this water is usually aggressively corrosive, and it is best to shelter from the acidic precipitation to avoid chemical burns. The nether folk and ender local to these rainforests are suited to deal with these conditions and the ender especially do not have trouble with the extreme pH of the water here like they would in the overworld. The zone is lit almost exclusively by the biolumincense of the organisms there and have often been described as false-stars.

In the Deep Nether, the ceiling may give way, allowing one to pass onto the plateaus of the Nether Roof and the yawning void above. The bedrock of the nether roof is jagged and layered in huge slabs, sometimes broken up my mazes of pillar-like structures and shallow, thermal pools of crystal-clear liquid. The kind you don't want to touch of course. fogs may hang low to the ground, but when its clear, or above the fog, the entire universe seems to spill out into the sky. The nether roof was culturally significant and a source of much knowledge and inspiration in the early days, but I'll get more into that in a later post 0.0

The Rime Zone: Plunge deep enough and one might find themselves bellow the lava beds. Here, where the heat can't quite penetrate, the temperatures will drop rapidly to sub-zero.

Namely, the Rime Zone is made up of the soul valleys, flat steppes of cinder and clotted sand, you can imagine it almost with the blindness effect, a fog that pools by your feet, and a heavier darkness hanging from the sky, it feels massive and endless and claustrophobic all at once. Frost collects as crystals on the irradiated, soul-soaked barrens, and the bones of the massive nether wyrms lie fossilized, breaking up the landscape. The sands are also split with patches of crazing on the ground and vents of blue fire that spills out and sets the sand ablaze.

These same wryms can be found sometimes, ancient things that dig through sand and soft rocks and the magma lakes, far and few between and treated with both fear and reverence.

And in the deepest pits of the Neath are the glowing frozen lakes that are colloquially and rightfully called the Gates to Death, glowing blue from beneath their surfaces. Indeed, any further down and you pass into limbo, the edge of Death's Realms.

Extra Notes??:

Soul sand/soil is tread on carefully or not at all, is one form of remnants from the apocolyspe. Like the general radiated rubble present through the Nether, it's a fault of nuclear fallout. Unlike other areas of radiation, its also been infused with the souls of those who didn't survive the joining of worlds. That said, unlike soul sand, soul soil is used productively to grow certain nether crops. It’s minerally and magically dense.

This infused quality is also precent in Nether Debris, resulting in a material that takes magic particularly well.

Iron cannot be found in dense veins and crystals like gold or quartz in the nether, but it's a pretty rich mineral a lot of netherack, giving it its ruddy coloring.

Sorry for this massive rant that no one asked for. If you have questions please feel free to send an ask, I may not have an answer yet but I'll certainly come up with one if I can.

I'm also hoping to do a pass on my headcanons about history and culture in the Nether and then we might start talking about character headcanons since this is also an actual AU.

If you read this far, here's some notes on striders and ghast