#lucky folks

[fieriframes]

[And the lucky folks who jumped on that bandwagon and the best cure for grief is learning because now you can find them all over town.]

[curioscurio]

The worst part is that when fat people talk about their struggles with fatphobia they're expected to ALWAYS have a disclaimer saying "Body shaming of all kinds is bad uwu even skinny shaming we're all victims of the same caliber of a body shaming society!" Lest they be seen as one of those Mean Fatties who hate skinny people and thus DESERVE to be systemically seen as unhealthy and lazy by society. I shouldn't have to reassure you that, yes, if someone tells you to eat a burger they're being an asshole. because I'm too busy being told I should kill myself for looking like a whale lol

[jolynejay]

Which one is it, Malleus

Malleus & Yuu/MC: having a Gargoyle Research Club meeting (aka going on a stroll at night infodumping at each other)

Yuu/MC: That reminds me, there is something I wanted to ask you.

Malleus: What is weighing on your mind, child of man?

Yuu/MC: Do you like gargoyles because they remind you of yourself - a living relic from a bygone time whose purpose has become largely obsolete due to the advancement of technology and society, only able to watch eternally from afar as people go about their lives without ever truly belonging to that world and no perspective for the future of your own as those you call kin slowly fade away?

Yuu/MC: Or do you like them "just because"?

Malleus:

[canisalbus]

as a 16th century clergyman what does machete think of the printing press

I think by the time he was born the printing press had been around for almost a century and a half, so I'd reckon the society as a whole was largely past it's initial novelty and controversy. Machete himself is bookish and nerdy, he's very invested in gathering knowledge about various topics and trying to piece together a good picture of how the world works. Getting access to reading material would be a lot harder if every book was still copied individually by hand. His standards are pretty high though, there's a lot of poorly translated, shoddily printed and flimsily bound books around and he's prone to scrunching his nose at them.

[iooiu]

i think about him a normal amount

[trekkiemage]

[loganslowdown4]

Remus: You probably won’t be surprised nerd, but I did a bad thing. The cops will be here soon—

Logan: Do I need to say anything to them or be involved in any way?

Remus: I mean, no, but—

Logan: Oh… oh the peace and quiet! I can finally read that book! I can hear my own thoughts already!

[sophsun1]

Queer as Folk – 4.07: Preponderance of Death

[seawing-vibes]

Some images of my Tsu plush from Creep Cat Toy Co. !!! I love her lots one of my fav plushes <3 !! Her glow spots are glow-in-the-dark fabric ,, its super neat !

[aromanticofficial]

should I feel like. luckier that I’m both apothiromantic and apothisexual and not like. something else ig. bc isn’t it like harder for people with a lot more wiggly sexualities to find love n shit. idk I just feel bad hearing people go “I hate being aro/ace/aroace finding a partner is so hard” knowing I’m having the time of my life being aroace (I know this is an aro blog and I mention ace/aroace things a bit here but hopefully that fine??)

no, i don't think so - the aromantic and asexual spectrums contain a broad range of identities and experiences and each one comes with unique struggles and, oftentimes, discrimination. feeling 'lucky' for being one identity over another does nothing but ultimately create division within a community, by suggesting that it's somehow easier to be aspec in certain ways than it is in others, and quite frankly the only place i can see that leading is exclusionism.

[aro-culture-is]

aro culture is getting so fucking tired of people using the fact that there's a queer romance in something as a reason you should watch it. like haven't allos had enough of romance? queer or otherwise? I'm not saying queer representation is bad, of course, I'm just fed up with asking what a book is about and in response all I get is "oh it has queer people in it" cool! what is it about? having queer representation is not the be all end all of media can we please have ONE thing without romance in it. please.

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[finelythreadedsky]

baffling to see that most of the scholarly conversations about all my interests in ancient performance and tragic staging are happening entirely in english EXCEPT for scholarship specifically on the ekkyklema, which is evenly divided between italian, french, german, english, and modern greek

[iooiu]

mature... sure thing bud

[svartalfhild]

Anybody else get any formal requests for collaboration from a supposed concept artist on their old FF.net account recently?

I just got one from someone named Gloria Jenkins, and a quick google tells me that there is a Gloria Jenkins who's been a storyboard artist for many children's cartoons starting in the 90's, and there's a Gloria Jenkins with an Artstation account, who may or may not be the same person, but the art in that account is much more consistent with the "concept artist and fan of high fantasy literature" the person from this message claims to be. (I also can't imagine a veteran children's cartoon artist wanting to collab with me, considering the kinds of stuff I write, unless they have a more diverse portfolio that it would seem lol.)

Anyway, I've been on the internet far too long to not be suspicious of something like this. This Gloria person is messaging from an empty account made a couple of days ago, and there's a few possible innocent explanations for that, but the scam possibility is also high.

[badolmen]

hey you guys know that even if the people inside that submersible are rich billionaires, dying in that metal tube at the bottom of the ocean is a horrific way to die right. like. yeah stupid choices were made by the people in there signing off on a waiver that says the sub is not approved by anyone and they could die. but it’s the fault of OceanGate for knowingly putting people into a Home Depot DIY sub rigged up with an Xbox controller all to make a profit on people’s curiosity.

[captainpikeachu]

Every time someone posts about MCU John Walker being such an asshole, it just makes me giggle because if they thought he was an asshole, they’d never be able to handle if Marvel had gone with Comics John’s attitude because Comics John would have thrown hands the moment Bucky and Sam even had a side eye and made their lives utter hell for it 😆

Comics John at the beginning of his story would have never put up with what MCU John put up with from Sam and Bucky, he’d have never had the patience or even thought about cooperation. He would have raised hell and caused so much chaos.

MCU Sam and Bucky are frankly lucky that they got MCU John who actually wanted to try to work together and put up with their insults for a time. Comics John would have never given them a chance. If they met Comics John, they’d be running back home and be like “yeah we prefer our version better” 👀

Folks have no idea how accurate this picture is 🤣