#making this a tag now

[sketchy--akechi]

New Liz fic guys!!! "people come and they go" - 5 chapters, 14k words, Shuake breaking up and making up (hurt/comfort) 🎉

-> https://archiveofourown.org/works/50444776/chapters/127457917

[maxicaiman]

not me having another tough night and making a Beach Resort humanformers au for my oc-verse (my friends and I call it Maxverse)

this definitely isn't so I can draw my Wrecker ocs in swimwear,,,, definitely not,,,,

[eebie]

had a dream with spot in it and from what i remember he just walked around and whined despondently like a dog the whole time. then i had a dream i was a duck travelling with my duck wife to find our duck son. we landed in an empty snowy field that had a lake and the water was sweet and so was the grass under the snow and we splashed each other for a while.. there was an abandoned town next to it with no snow anywhere and it was extremely freaky , everything was falling apart except for an area with boats that looked pristine And it was just dead silent. except for a creaky old lady who somehow found us and tried to give us cat food. i remember feeling really sad for her that she had to live there all alone .. And then a few nights ago i had a dream i was megamind but a version of him that kept up the charade and never got exposed for pretending to be bernard until way later. then i got depressed because my relationship with roxanne got extremely boring after the fact … becUse i would just fuck with her as megamind with my contraptions And it was really funny. thats all

[nimblermortal]

Drengr Thesis

So in saga age Iceland (possibly Scandinavia, what do I know) you've got two genders, Male and Female. You've also got two gender qualities, drengr and ergr, masculine and not-masculine.

I've seen ergr interpreted as 'gay' - it's not, though receptive (? what's the academic term for this) male homosexual acts are ergr, and things mocked as gay in the 2000s are generally ergr. Ergr is also not 'feminine,' exactly. I'll come back to this with my own interpretations.

Drengr, on the other hand, is not just masculine but very much toxic masculinity - you gotta be strong, you gotta be fast, you gotta be able to grow a beard and pick up big rocks and sail a ship and oh, you've also got to be able to do some form of art (physically creative art or poetry), and ideally you should also be versed in law.

A lot of the qualities of drengr translate directly to modern masculinity, so half the drengr thesis is "this sense of masculinity has passed directly down to modern times, largely unchanged in the last thousand years, and that's depressing."

(We did, of course, excise the interesting bits and decided that making art is ergr now. Practicing law is no longer drengr or ergr, but it is evil, in a potentially admirable way. Penetrative male homosexual acts are not drengr, they're just also not exactly ergr. Think rape culture. Uh, very much so, there's also a way to start a feud that's basically revenge porn.)

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Now for the fan theory, which is not supported by history or archaeology that I am aware of. It's also not a rosy good thing.

In this version, ergr is more closely tied with femininity - it's not that ergr means feminine, but that feminine acts are okay for women to do. Women are inferior creatures, it's okay for them to do inferior things. Drengr is a good quality, ergr is a bad one - so a woman doing drengr things is good, if she does not claim to be a woman while doing them. Trans man? Good! Drengr! Trans women? Bad! Ergr! Woman dressing in men's clothes and doing men's chores and practicing drengr while claiming to be a woman? Weird! Transsexual! Not actually any of my business unless her husband says so.

Saga example 1: Aud Broka (Breeches Aud) does exactly this. She wraps her legs like a man (sometimes translated as codpiece because we modern idiots don't have a concept of leg-wrapping), she does men's chores, she contributes to the farm. This is weird, but since her husband Thord doesn't acknowledge it, it can continue because it's not the community's job to police their household. But when someone tells him that it's happening, so that he can't have plausible deniability, then he has to denounce her for it and it becomes the community's job to enforce gender roles by granting him divorce, and it becomes morally incumbent on him to ask for that divorce or he's practicing ergr.

(Note that there is an interpretation in which Aud wasn't actually doing any of these things, Gudrun just threatened to spread a rumor that she was so that Thord would have to/could divorce her and marry Gudrun - and that when Aud then dresses in men's clothing to get her revenge on Thord, it's as a mockery/direct response to Gudrun. I just prefer the transvestite interpretation.)

Saga example 2: Uhhh I forget the guy's name. Old dude marries young woman Gudrun, she doesn't want to be married to him, so she sews him a low-cut shirt. He has to wear it because his wife made it, but as soon as he does she declares that he's cross-dressing and divorces him over it. There is no scenario in which a person born with a penis can do feminine things without being transgressive and ergr.

Archaeological example 1: The Birka warrior gets a lot of press for being buried as an esteemed male warrior - but the skeleton tests as female by modern standards. Leaving aside how unreliable skeleton sexing is, in large part because I know nothing about it or what was done, we have a feminine skeleton treated as a masculine person. My interpretation: It's a trans man. Person without a penis declares he is a man, practices drengr, is treated as a man up to and after his death.

So the other half of the drengr thesis is this partially-queer interpretation of things that I personally find fun to play around with. And because it's for fun and is fiction, the injustices are part of the point.

[the-type-a]

this is acc drunkan (drunk duncan)

No because why did I picture a man (Duncan) on top of a moving train doing this 💀

I’m positive this is not how it happened but Duncan tends to do stupid shit sooo

He would though 🤭

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[beebfreeb]

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[minjimunji]

bi 4 bi percabeth,,,,, 👉👈

[pillowspace]

GIRLY JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT CYERCE ELEGANS

If Cyerce nigricans is a butterfly, then this is a fairy... Cyerce nigricans for comparison:

[ra3kiv]

[meow--wows]

BECOME AS GODS

[sapphia]

autism screening quizzes will be like “do you take things too literally” and then ask fifty of the worst-worded questions ever dreamt up by man

[monkesupreme]

ref

a satisfactory answer for Selina

[eydilily]

would you bite the hand that feeds you?

[vulpinesaint]

pspspspsps poetry mutuals come here... new quiz... making you the patron saint of something...