#pick and choose based on what i like

[casualavocados]

Learn from who? Learn from you?

Chen Bowen as CHEN YI & Chiang Tien as AI DI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)

[abirddogmoment]

I love offering Rory the choice between high-value snacks because she really does pick the one she wants in the moment. I rotate between three main snack types and the one she snubbed yesterday is often the one she wants today or vice versa. It's cool to see how the hierarchy of snacks changes in her heart day to day.

[no-more-rqs]

reminder: it actually does not matter if you have a friend whos a poc who tells you that "race transitioning" is fine. it doesnt matter if youre a poc yourself and you think its fine. guess what? people can be wrong!

even outside of this, people can be wrong.

if a scientist with a phd tells you the earth is flat, do you just immediately believe that with no question? you may think "someone with a phd would never believe that", but there are several scientists who do! there are modern scientists with phds and careers who believe in shit like phrenology or ancient astronaut theory or other bullshit like that.

there are poc who are nazis, who believe in white supremacy and believe that poc are inferior or subhuman. if a poc like myself tells you that all poc are inferior to white people, do you just automatically believe that? there are very famous poc who hold these ideals, such as kanye west.

you are seeking out specific people in your community who agree with all of your ideals. you are finding one or two or ten or however many people who agree with you and ignoring the tens of thousands of people who dont agree. you are doing exactly what conspiracy theorists and racists do: finding one professional or seemingly trustworthy source and basing your entire logic around that one source.

racists will find one scientist who believes in phrenology and use that one scientist to say "look! a real scientist with a phd agrees with me! you shouldnt listen to the wider scientific community, theyre all biased and wrong and this guy is the only one whos correct!"

radqueers will find one poc who supports "race transitioning" and use that one person to say "look! a real poc agrees with me! you shouldnt listen to the wider poc community, theyre all biased and wrong and this guy is the only one whos correct!"

do you understand what im saying here? you cant pick and choose who to believe based on whether or not you agree with them. listen to as many poc as you can, outside of radqueer communities. listen to ones who dont even know what radqueer means. the vast majority of poc say that "transitioning races" is inherently racist (and impossible, considering you cant just transition to have been born somewhere else or have different biological ancestors, which is what determines race because race and ethnicity are inherited unlike gender), dont just choose 20 poc who say its good and ignore the 20000 who say it isnt.

[mutalune]

my clone culture headcanon is that they have almost no traditional mandalorian ties, they picked up almost nothing culturally/linguistically from the mandalorian trainers, but the one thing they DID get were endearments/affectionate and-or comforting words/etc.

b/c 1) that was the only way the trainers could somewhat express affection for their favorites without getting dinged for being too attached to them since no one there actually spoke mando’a 2) kaminoans would be Unhappy if the clones expressed affection openly so secret language words were the only way to safely verbalize caring and loving, so they picked up on those few kind words VERY quickly

(The way I see it working is that the trainers had favorites, would occasionally say something like “chin up, hang in there, good job kiddo,” and said favorites picked up those terms without actually ever getting Direct Translations of what they mean. So they get the words and some context but have to jumble it together themselves and pronunciation and meaning change the further away it spreads from the original favorites - because all of this is spread in private, quietly, until it grows its own legs in different iterations with different battalions imho

like they know adding -‘ika to a name is affectionate and feels like a diminutive but they don’t know what it means exactly and sometimes plug it into names in grammatically odd ways, so instead of “Trap’ika” you get “Trapper’ika” which sounds more like “Trapperka” when you’re talking fast.)

(i’m just a fan of gentle soft pet names and showing affection quietly and how love finds a way and how the clones can take what little scraps they were given and make it their own)

[deepseawave]

obsessed w the tags on ur last reblog

Omgg, thank you haha, it was a quality post so I just had to appreciate it in full force 😂❤️

Can‘t believe someone would actually enjoy my yapping :,D

[theflyingfeeling]

yes it's just me whining about the same thing for the billionth time, pls just scroll past nothing new to see here 👋

[lesbiansanemi]

Google how to make peace with the fact that you will always be vaguely to extremely uncomfortable (depending on the day) with your body and how others perceive it until the day you die and nothing you do will ever change that

[nectaric]

@seaprofound asked: renee, would your gods rather eat a full-course meal cooked by zeus—or get in a car that has po behind the wheel? :3 ( SADISTIC CHOICE TIME )

anyone who has only watched zeus cook is picking po. anyone who has only been in the car with po is picking zeus' cooking. anyone who has endured both is choosing to throw themselves into tartarus instead.

team po: hermes, hades, probably hera, ares, artemis

team zeus: athena (barely.. just barely), demeter, heph...

[habizuh-studios]

okay so i've been hearing a whole bunch of things about the revised edition:

-> additional hualian scenes -> heavily changed lang qianqiu/fangxin guoshi flashback arc -> looking into the memories of other characters in order to understand them, like ling wen and the brocade immortal -> more "sanitized" -> characters (mostly xie lian from what i've heard) lack a lot of mistakes and flaws, making the story less interesting, apparently? -> like the book 4 (cnnovel) flashback was a lot less messily emotional? -> better flow -> (haven't seen, but talk of) jian lan and feng xin story being expanded upon?

mxtx has left the original edition up and we only have the english translation of the full story in english.

what's canon to you? when you consume fan content and the like, or when you're making up scenarios in your head, what content do you pick and choose from each edition? or do you throw yourself into one or the other?

[cringelordofchaos]

Sees an overly sarcastic, monochrome, aloof fictional character with no fucks to give, maybe a soft spot and a monotone voice: wow I want to be like them

Sees an extremely excitable, energetic, chaotic and quirky character who's extremely expressive of themselves, but probably suppresses negative emotions under a positive attitude: wow I want to be like them

Sees a calm, kind, chill, polite, respectful and genuinely compassionate and sincere character that's like an older sibling or parent figure to everyone: wow I want to be like them

Sees a shy, awkward, reserved and soft character with a love for floriography/floriculture: wow I want to be like them

Sees a robot-like/literal robot character with eloquent, formal and rich vocabulary, with no understanding of human norms or cues (such as sarcasm), but one that still experiences emotions in their own way: wow I want to be like them

Sees a literal (non-human) animal, existing: wow I want to b

[saessenach]

I'm sorry, what the fuck is this? WHERE IS YENNEFER BRINGING DOWN THUNDER AND LIGHTNING ON THE WILD HUNT TO SAVE CIRI FROM THEM????? THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THEIR REUNION - ALL THREE OF THEM?? One of THEE moments in this entire series??? But no actually, the Wild Hunt can be chased off with two Aards from Geralt, while Yennefer is uhh somewhere, 'selling her soul'. Good god, fuck that.

[blondiest]

With the way you write Mello's perspective more than Near, I bet on 1890$ that you are a variation of his female version.

being attacked in my own goddamn home rn. can't have shit in [LOCATION REDACTED]

[theflyingfeeling]

oh for fuck's saaaaaaake 😐

[sighdbh]

josh not being able to survive the violent revolution is absolute bullshit that makes me mad to this day, but what even is death in an android world? if you gave him enough blue blood and had spare body parts on hand, would be able to come back?

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

it’s really hard for me to get mad at internet drama because so many people are just. bad at arguing.