#my interests have intersected

[choilacanth]

the AU where they are neighbors in the same inn and wear beautifully tailored clothes every day and teldryn asks for some advice on writing his st jiub fanfiction

[callisteios]

I have a new uquiz for you, go on a pilgrimage with me. discover who you are.

[kmesons]

a quick doodle of donald glover as agent curt mega and danny pudi as owen carvour, inspired by this post from @sunnifer (hope you don't mind the tag!) because the concept's been stuck in my brain for a while now. spies are forever community au, anyone?

[pidgefudge]

i did it i wrote the shitty teenage poetry

[shalom-iamcominghome]

I went into my check-in with my rabbi expecting to mostly talk and I left with three book recommendations 😭

Yes, I've already ordered one of them and I'm excited to read it

[starheirxero]

BYYYYY THE WAY AGAIN. I love love LOVE and adore evil Sun's use of "you're a dead one" bc it feels like SO MUCH TO UNPACK.

It could mean Sun believes Moon to be a non-threat because he knows this means he isn't effected by the kill code anymore. It could mean that Sun has deemed him unworthy of his time because he isn't the original Moon. It could mean that Sun can target him in the future because he knows that means it'll probably be easier to get under his skin.

It also just has this inherent vibe of like... idk, being a walking corpse almost???? Like, the sort of vibe of "the old Moon used to live in this body but he's dead now and I'm here in his place." It felt like Sun viewed the Moon in front of as a grave for what used to be rather than what is there now and that, in itself, says a lot about him methinks.

Like idk if any of this makes sense but it is so fascinating to me. If a perfectly functioning Moon qualifies as a "dead one" to him, who else goes under the same category? Does he view his own Moon as a dead one? Does just wrap any Moon that isn't the "first" Moon into that category? Is this a common category?? Can other people go under the same title or is it something he made only for Moons? WHAT DOES IT MEAN BOY...... AAUAGARRAA IT'S SO COOL IDK. CHEWS ON HIS METAL ARMS

[quietwingsinthesky]

see my brain just doesn’t register the idea of anyone having a ‘one true love’ which is why the common fandom tropes of making canonical love interests terrible in order to justify why your ship is better always bugs the shit out of me. it feels like the only reason you would do that is if the idea of the characters in your ship having any other sort of romantic relationship that was important to them, even in the past, is a threat to their current one, therefore all their past relationships need to be demonized in order to make them ‘not real love’ so that they remain pure and chaste and ready for the True Love of the endgame ship.

[starflungwaddledee]

alright alright i keep learning about this wrt to mutuals and it is constantly blowing my mind so i gotta know

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[cakebatteronabrickwall]

Sam Campbell X Slow Horses continued

[Part 1] [Part 2]

[musical-chick-13]

Regarding the whole "Fandom Is An Escape, so why should I have to care this much about misogyny/racism/ableism/transphobia/etc." thing. Idk about the rest of you, but it gets kind of hard for me to "escape" when I keep seeing people say the same vile things about characters who share aspects of my identity that I hear all the time in real life.

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

The phrase 'to carry a child' is to me such an unbearably tender description. You're carrying it? Nurturing and protecting it? Freely giving it what it needs until it is ready for birth? 'Going to have a baby' speaks of the hope of promise, but 'carrying a baby' gives the same implication to me, only with an added beauty of what is happening immediately as well as the future.

[quiet-admirer]

I've been considering actually buckling down and writing a story with some of my OCs, but I'd really like it to be a "historical" fiction set in about 1979-1982, and the problem is I like to inject some amount of realism to the things I write, but I wasn't alive at that time and research will probably be difficult.

If I get really into a topic, I don't mind if the research is time-consuming, but I'm guessing that I'm only going to be able to find information scattered in fat lib type of zines or records about the Bear community, which is probably going to be a big effort to compile and sift through what is actually relevant...

There are so many little questions I have, like how hard was it to find clothes in very large sizes back then and at what size did it start getting difficult? How did fashion the time impact kink - like, if certain types of clothing that were more popular lent themselves to certain tropes or themes, like crop-tops or spandex suits etc. Maybe there are completely obsolete things that I'm not even aware of that could be or were used in kinky ways (like, if there was, I don't know, a glove stretching kink back when people had to use those glove stretching tools?). When did certain feedism and g/e terms originate? I haven't been able to find any pre-early 2000s records of feedism and g/e communities, though I've admittedly not done an aggressive search yet.

How easy was it to buy scales over certain weights? Different methods of gaining come in and out of vogue, so what were they then? Diet culture had its own flavor back then, so how did g/e or feedism or their prototypes reflect those differences?

Was it just the wild west and there weren't any of these terms and people just did this kind of kinky stuff anyway or did it fall under the names of other kinks?

Idk maybe I'm being silly or overlooking an obvious resource, but it seems like a huge undertaking and I'd really like to do this research someday once I have the bandwidth, but I'm not even sure I'll be able to find what I want!

But then maybe part of the fun will be creating an imagined feedist past for the 70s/80s! Idk but it's been living at the back of my head for years and I want it to happen someday :)

[wellzofyouth]

That one post of my mine predictably aged like fine wine. Never let somebody on comic twitter in the writer's room😭😭😭 Like imagine a 1 to 1 adaptation of literally any event?? -1b at the box office. "Who are these people???"

[incomingalbatross]

*essay voice* and thus, of One Piece's main characters, Brook the skeleton musician is almost certainly the most Chestertonian figure

[probayern]

i’m an immigrant in germany and i totally agree on the kroos situation. i didn't know about the quotes that were published without context but i did listen to the podcast and it made me extremely uncomfortable how he talked about immigrants. this is not a pointing-fingers-situation, saying he’s the epitome of all evil lol but like i wish he worded his worries differently or in a way where i didn’t feel like he was blaming, without trying too sound hysterical, me. but when one talks about immigration problems in germany (which is a needed and wanted conversation topic obvi) one also has to be very very careful, and i did not feel like he was. and in careful i mean that kroos must know that germany is getting more far right by the minute and that includes, obviously, far right thinking <- germans not wanting me in """their""" land. i think the way kroos worded this can be taken as an anchor for people with far worse intentions and thoughts about immigrants. i see his quotes being celebrated by all the wrong people and that’s really fucking scary actually. also that’s like really ironic, him talking about being scared about his daughter and making another daughter (me) scared in the progress lol. did not want to ramble this much! but i really liked your opinion on this topic, hope you don’t mind my two cents ty

yeah exactly like. this is the problem. most people aren't going to be like "i hate all immigrants" but the way anti-immigration and racist views become accepted in society is when more moderate people start equivocating and adopting far-right rhetoric rhetoric like "good/bad immigrants" or god forbid "bad immigrants" threatening (white) women. it's dangerous stuff and i think important to think about the ways you're framing these conversations. i'm not saying kroos was purposefully adopting these talking points, but the truth is you can find lots and lots of historical examples of how exactly those words were used in far more scary ways, and they filter into society slowly and get more and more normalized

[yrlocalghost]

i might finally play slay the princess because i keep hearing about it and it seems like something i would like but not something that would make me insane for months on end