#obvious the latter

[benevolenterrancy]

@little-meowyao They're swords, they tend to be rather literal about this sort of thing u.u

Nothing like a fifteen hundred foot trust exercise between two people who absolutely do not trust each other, one of which has very good reason to fear long falls!!

[juney-blues]

when a cis person gets medical surgery and treatment to allign closer with their coercively assigned gender at birth, that is in fact, different, to when a transgender person does it.

yes, even if they're the same surgeries! and yes, even if the cis person is intersex!

that does not make a cisgender person meaningfully "trans" in any way what are you people talking about?

being transgender is kinda, fundamentally about being a different gender than you were assigned at birth! and the societal pressures that come with being that are always going to be different than someone who has the same gender that society assigns them!

like this line of thought implies that, being transgender is just a process of surgeries and hormones and medicalization? which, i shouldn't have to tell you that's transphobic but it kinda fuckin is !

i'm sorry but this is just a nonsensical concept and following it to any of its logical conclusions implies really weird things about transgender people and intersex people.

[amethyst-halo]

some bottle era floyds i doodled to test some stuff

[mensmommymilkers]

Had to draw the trio from from my fave book by @sarahreesbrennan as I reread for the millionth time 😮‍💨 They’re so fun

[havinganidentitycrisis]

☆ | SOUL EATER ◇ PROJECT ARCANA | ☆

1. Lord Death as Death

- Meaning: End of cycles, new beginnings, new life.

- Reversed: A reversal of the Death card suggests one is resisting change or a significant transformation. Holding on to old perspectives or beliefs from the past could hinder progress and leave you feeling stagnant.

• Interpretation: The effect Death has on the world and everything in it, his place as not only as a god but existing in nature as well, his legacy as the first guardian and passing it on to the next, the passing of the torch, and knowing that while his time is running short, he trusts those who will lead after him.

[thepringlesofblood]

what's billford about "We Both Reached For The Gun"?

if you saw the reference on thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com and listened to the song, having not seen Chicago (the musical it's from), and went 'huh, this doesn't sound all that billford and/or gravity falls related to me, maybe it's about the memory gun?' that makes sense. you really have to see it performed to get the connection.

the scene: Roxie, a criminal on trial, attends a press conference with her lawyer, Billy Flynn, and is questioned by reporters. The song is performed so that it looks like Roxie is a ventriloquist puppet that Billy Flynn is controlling. He's the main singer, doing an impression of Roxie, who moves and acts like a puppet. The gist is that Flynn is tightly controlling what Roxie is allowed to say.

also important: the title and the much-repeated chorus, "We Both Reached For The Gun' is a lie. They did not both reach for the gun - Roxie shot and killed Fred Casely, who she was cheating on her husband Amos with - that's the crime she's being tried for. Billy Flynn, her lawyer, is convincing the press of an alternate version of events to help their case.

the scene I linked is from the movie, which switches between the actual press conference and the pantomime of puppetry. On stage it's a bit different, depending on the show, but the puppetry is consistent, and is definitely a major link between the song and Bill & Ford's relationship.

In case it wasn't obvious - Bill sees Ford as a puppet, and the whole possession thing heavily lends itself to that kind of theming. Roxie = Ford, Billy Flynn = Bill. interesting that this puts Bill in a sort of protective role of Ford, but only for a price - Billy Flynn wouldn't give a shit about Roxie if he wasn't paid to.

admittedly I haven't seen the full musical Chicago, and am not equipped to make any big analyses on it, but any of y'all feel free to put anything else interesting you notice in tags/rbs/replies!

URLs below the cut in case the links break, but it's all first-stuff-that-comes-up-on-google material.

[kyliafanfiction]

One thing that I observed in early Worm was that Taylor's likelihood of knowing a detail (esp. about capes and cape life, etc) seems to increase the further away Tattletale was.

Maybe that's her real power. A shaker effect that erases knowledge from people so she seems more knowledgeable.

(Actually, that would be a cool power, someone who makes people around them momentarily stupider, or have trouble accessing information they know or whatever. Effect wearing off to varying degrees once you're away from the person.)

[muaka-safari]

May I ask, did you get around to writing that essay about ga-matoran in Metru Nui and their connection to the Great Temple? Not expecting anything! Just curious!

Oh, I think I wrote a bullet-pointed list on ga-matoran and their connection to the Great Temple, specifically looking at how it affects their concept of gender here, but I never wrote anything long-hand.

If a quick rundown is what you're looking for, follow that link. If you do enjoy long(ish), rambling essays from someone making far too extensive headcanons for fictional worlds, read on.

So. Ga-Metru. The metru of the ga, the metru specifically for the ga, that metru. Now, I could launch straight into the impact of Ga-Metru being Mata Nui-favoured... but this is my essay, so I'm gonna roll this a bit further back and delve into a possible reason of why Ga-Metru is favoured.

Because I have a personal headcanon that Ga-Metru's favoured status was very much a byproduct of the natural resources.

Look at it this way: You need to build a protodermis purification facility on Metru Nui. You've already built the forges and furnaces; now you need to be able to source the building material for these smithies. So you need somewhere with a lot of liquid protodermis readily at hand - somewhere, for example, like Ga-Metru.

And then, because you probably shouldn't put all your important masks in a place full of burny, melty fire, you store your kanohi mask here (instead of Ta-Metru) as the other major building in this budding metru.

So, ta-da, you now have your second major site in Metru Nui, and over time that becomes Ga-Metru, home to the Ga-Matoran. Second-eldest metru, not out of any holy significance, but because it provided an important resource.

Time passes, and your purification/storage facility becomes a place of spiritual importance. I mean, it makes sense. It's an old, vital building, storing items of power, and isn't the hot, noisy space of Ta-Metru, plus the act of purifying carries a kind of holiness to it.

So, the next logical train of thought: if Ga-Metru is home to the temple of your god, then - obviously - god must like this metru best.

Next, next logical train of thought: if Ga-Metru is the favoured metru, then those who live there must be Mata Nui's favoured matorans. Or, at least, they are spiritually closer to Mata Nui, living basically on the doorstep of your connection to him.

By this point, matoran have certainly been granted sentience, and with that comes all the messy irrationality of thinking for yourself. What a lot of religions like to do is recognise those singled out, spiritually, with a title. Father. Reverend. Back in the medieval era, catholic priests were called "Sir" the same way a knight was.

Regardless, the point is: you need a name or a title to recognise that Ga-Matoran are different. And (headcanon going strong here) because Matoran weren't programmed with a sense of gender, they only really have "he/him" for daily use, with "brother" as a title of respect.

So language does what it always does in these circumstances - it adapts. Except, well, the Matoran may not have a concept of gender, but the Great Beings who created them did. So, somewhere in that pesky programming and superfluous data, there's a not-memory of "sister" being an equivalent title to "brother" - they don't understand how it relates to gender, they just know it feels right. And with "sister" comes the pronouns "she/her" so suddenly you have a whole metru with their own special pronouns and titles.

And, ta-da! Matorans have now accidentally ungendered gendered pronouns.

I also think it adds an interesting sense of irony for any (head)canons that Ga-Matorans consider themselves above or better than other Matorans (because then their importance is built on a coincidence, rather than actual Mata Nui favour) but that's for another day - or for other people to take a crack at, if they'd like. (I know I've certainly seen some interesting posts about Ga-Matoran self-importance!)

I personally was just fascinated by the fact that the "female" Matoran are the "holy" Matoran, despite gender being nonexistant, and examining one possible reason for Ga-Metru gaining its favoured reputation. (What can I say? I love clawing my way into the cracks of existing world-building.) Feel free to agree, disagree, whatever, but these are my personal headcanons and I hope people enjoyed reading about them!

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Sometimes do you ever remember the soupçon of misogyny in the press during the early (and latter) days of Joever and want to bust kneecaps lmao

[gristlegrinder]

started typing another long post about icebrood saga but i’m gonna save that bad boy in my drafts because i have to go on a road trip in a couple of hours

but i will get this off my chest: i go feral over the implications that ryland was absolutely void-corrupted by the end of it from his connection with jormag

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Back in 1826, a New York court convicted 21 year old Joseph Smith for being a disorderly person and con artist who tricked folks out of their money by claiming to find lost treasures with his magic seer stones…

And, less than a year later, he founded Mormonism by discovering some gold tablets that only he could read with his magic seer stones…

In a hat…"

Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum.

[mr-aftons-rotting-pussy]

ALSO im not too familiar w the latter half of forces english translation so idk if its similar r not but its SO wild how badly their implying that eggman straight up like. MADE made infinite in the english localization ver?????? to me like. ???????????????????? its so fascinating.

[1800duckhotline]

wearing my hearing aids in public is kind of funny bc im not self conscious abt them, but they are so small and nigh-imperceptible... theyre bluetooth so i use them to listen to music while commuting and (i dont know how to label myself so i dont think im explicitly stimming as much as like idk i cant contain myself) i always bop my head or tap rhythms with my fingers and foot and im fairly sure people who look at me all weird dont know right away its bc i have hearing aids

[imaginaryberries]

Wish I could be hyperfixated on something useful but unfortunately all my brain wants is Scrabble and facts about thyroid disease

[autisticburnham]

My interpretation of Ash's whole situation with L'Rell has always been that the memories of sex he had with her were memories of consensual sex that Voq had with her, and the trauma and the belief that he was Ash Tyler, human man and Starfleet officer, made him interpret those memories as rape. Which is an interpretation that pisses me off, but it's also the only reading that I can reconcile with L'Rell later becoming an ally and Tyler having a relationship with her- something that would be very complicated, but that I can wrap my head around with this interpretation.

But it occurred to me that for Mudd to know about L'Rell's "having taken a liking to him," it would have to continue after Ash Tyler, the Klingon-Human hybrid we know, was constituted. And without his Voq memories activated, that would be just straight up rape. So I in fact very much do hate L'Rell becoming and ally and having a relationship with him if that's the intended reading.

[real-hws-confessions]

I think people in this fandom have to come to terms with the fact that one's nationality, ethnicity and or personal background will influence how they engage with the series and certain characters;

some people won't like character x or ship y for personal reasons that might be influenced by how they interpret said nation's history and politics; and that is okay.

not everyone is going to like your faves and that is okay, you shouldn't take it as a personal attack.

okay real actually