#like. WHAT?

[robotpussy]

can somebody stop this man

[youngerfrankenstein]

“You know I’ve seen… less nonsense in 3H stuff here. Maybe tempers are finally cooling.”

*Looks up Rhea art while not being logged in* “All Rhea fans are Tradcaths and probably fascists.”

“…Oh right. This fandom has not had a normal day in its life and I probably just have most of the egregious people blocked.”

[macchiatosdumptruck]

Man the military recruitment ads have been going absolutely wild lately

[madfoxx]

Errr. Excuse me but i feel like we should talk more about the fact that IZZY LOSES HIS MOTHERFUCKING LEG SOMEHOW!!!!?????????

[hssprimefan]

Pixelberry. I’m so confused. You’re telling me you wrote dialogue for the possibility that Autumn and Koh were dating. But 3 of the 4 moments happen before the tv dinner scene?! (The other soon after) And after Roomies, this never comes up again?

Most of the friendship dialogue is better anyway! If players ship them together wouldn’t it start during or after this quest? Shouldn’t you have given them couple dialogue later in the story instead?

[aliaoftheknives]

some of you will just start saying anything is tankie. saw a tag on a post that was like yeah imperialism is bad but then people will be like to learn more about anti imperialism read lenin! and it's like i have some bad news about where a sizeable amount of anti-imperialist scholars attribute their line of anti-imperialist thought to

[bookwyrminspiration]

adding on to that previous ask. sorry i had to go do something in the middle of typing 😭

i understand that its not the focus of the books, but i think for how much the two secret societies are tied to the government its a little strange the gov. isnt very reliably elaborated on.

It's almost like the Lost Cities' government is a formality, not an actual governing force. Since its formed under the assumption that elves are good and things like crime and corruption are below them, a problem of other species, and since the Lost Cities are prospering, the point of the government...kind of disappears.

The council enforces and punished broken laws, but since people don't break the laws (or at least so they thought) they're not needed for that. The allocation of resources becomes redundant when they're in constant abundance and never wanting for everything. Resources don't need to be controlled because everyone has access, and all those people can be trusted to be wise and fair because, again, elves are good.

There's just a few things that can't be left to the entire population, like meeting with foreign ruling powers. You need an appointed person. And it's entirely possible that part of having a specific group of people to refer to is for the sake of appearances to the others. It makes them appear more structured and put together, like a cohesive world instead of just a bunch of people left to their own devices, who could be vulnerable to attack.

So I think perhaps the reason we don't see the government elaborated on a lot is because there's nothing to elaborate on. A lot of the typical roles we associate with government aren't necessary here (in precedented times. the current time period is a bit fucked up but this is a temporary blip). It really is a basic and unbalanced as it seems.

It is unusual for a series with non-insignificant secret societies rebellion against and trying to fix the system to not go into more detail or have more detail, but I think it's all connected back to the fact that elves aren't supposed to need that. But these are just my reflections, who knows how accurate they are :)

[aropride]

Professors love to drop you from classes without notifying you in any way

[expandoducks]

Among all the absolutely bizarre mythology takes in pjo/hoo (most of which, to be clear, I actually enjoy and find amusing or interesting/creative) the fact that it's implied that the Romans slut shame athena is absolutely insane to me

[amerasdreams]

it's thr people who are most vulnerable and hurt the most who need the most empathy

I mean, this should go without saying

[subjectitute]

hey, tumblr won’t let me view the replies to at least one of my posts. does anyone know how to fix it? it just shows the bs about “some replies are blocked/hidden/removed”

[ryanthedemiboy]

Everyone I knew in elementary school started having periods in fourth or fifth grade (except for one poor kid who started in 3rd) — including myself.

“So if little girls experience their menstrual cycle in 5th grade or 4th grade, will that prohibit conversations from them since they are in the grade lower than sixth grade?” asked state Rep. Ashley Gantt, a Democrat who taught in public schools and noted that girls as young as 10 can begin having periods.

“It would,” McClain responded.

Unbelievable. Link to article.

[koobiie]

shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]