#reading too much

[lucslee]

mlp fim: the cart before the ponies

i just realised that in the cart before the ponies, all the other foals are participating in the race with their older sister/parents whereas diamond tiara is with her butler.

whilst all the other fillies ride with a family member, diamond tiara rides with her butler.

the derby does not require the presence of a parent or an older sibling; any "older pony" would be fine. but because everypony else (i've attached an image from the Wiki for reference) seems to look like their partner, we can guess that they are all older siblings or parents.

now it doesn't look like randolph and diamond have a particularly close relationship (she shoves him aside and takes credit for his work in twilight time), and because he's the family butler, he probably ended up joining in the derby where her parents could not.

but why can't her parents join? the derby appears to be a pretty big event for ponyville. perhaps filthy rich was busy doing some business stuff but spoiled rich is the head of the school board (crusaders of the lost mark). since the school was promoting it and there are school children in the race, surely it would look good for spoiled rich to join in on this race, if not for diamond tiara's wellbeing and happiness.

so i thought it just a bit sad that diamond tiara had to race with her butler (an employee who has no real relationship with her) whereas everyone else got to race with someone that they (presumably) love.

i don't know, maybe i'm looking for too much into this... what do you guys think?

[eikaprime]

I don't write super long fics like this, I do series, but I've been repeatedly told my splatoon series (which are both over 100k) are Supremely Bingeable.

So I went in and, in the author's notes at the end of a couple fics (every 30-40k or so) I put a 'Hey! Stop reading! Go use the bathroom and get a drink! This is a health checkpoint!' notice.

I'm well aware people are *ignoring* them but at least I'm not responsible for their failures anymore.

there’s absolutely nothing better than reading a 100k word fanfic, that is until you remember you have a body that is starving, thirsty and incredibly sleep deprived and hasn’t used the bathroom since the sun set 8 hours ago

[trans-androgyne]

Genuinely, what happened to “feminism is for everyone”?

That’s the feminism I grew up with: encouraging people to recognize that fighting sexism and restrictive gender roles helps folks of every gender. We’d push back on the idea that feminists hate men, pointing to inclusive feminist literature and how many men are feminists.

Now, there are so many people insisting that the solution to patriarchy is to openly hate and ostracize men no matter what. Why? What is the benefit? It’s certainly not effective in fighting oppressive structures to exclude half the population from your cause on the basis of immutable traits. It may feel cathartic to say horrible things about men and try to punish them for your frustrations with patriarchy. But the only actual effect I see is the increasing right-wing radicalization of young men, who are being told that the left hates them for the way they were born and presented with an abundance of proof that it’s true.

Why are we going back to treating men and women as different species? It doesn’t fix things to say “well women are the good gender and men are the bad one” this time. If you sincerely want to dismantle sexism, you’re going to have to unpack and let go of all sex and gender essentialism—even that which considers women inherently pure and men inherently immoral.

[agnesandhilda]

yeah this is a self-evident biological hierarchy. that's why we have to enforce it with violence

[sobookobsessedreader]

For a long time I thought dilate meant literally the exact opposite of what it actually means (I thought it meant contracting in a circle, it actually means expanding in a circle), because I knew from context it was about that circular expansion/contraction I just got the direction wrong. So sentences I'd use it in would be fully grammatically correct and fit properly, they'd just be wrong. Same thing happened with dearth actually; I thought it meant an excess when it actually means a lack.

[podcastwizard]

because here's the thing here's the thing the question was not "would you be more surprised to run into a fairy or a walrus" the question was "would you be more surprised to find a fairy or a walrus AT YOUR DOOR" and while no, i do not believe in fairies and would be surprised to know they EXIST i would NOT be surprised to find one at my door. HOWEVER, if a WALRUS shows up at my door i have to contend with the fact that a walrus somehow made it to my apartment specifically and knocked on my door for god knows what reason. i would be more surprised to know that a fairy EXISTS, of course, but NOT that they're at my door, do you get me?

[ekko-idk]

Uhhhh

I totally didn't forget monsters turn to dust when you kill them👍

((here he tried to eat a Vegetoid, Ik you can take a bite from them but u can't eat them whole, it'll consider killing it))

Bonus:

The original post I made

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

i think "many queer people are purposefully deprived of regular IRL social interaction with other people, both queer and not, by our society" and "lots of queer discourse on the internet would be rendered irrelevant if the people engaging in it were regularly interacting with other queer people in real life rather than online" are two statements that can and shouls coexist

[sweatermuppet]

*reasonable restrictions are ones you consider fair for your own safety or wellbeing, especially for things like graphic depictions of violence in relation to your age at the time (i.e. "you can read this when you're older")

not sure if books you read were banned? here is a archive of the top 10 most banned/challenged books from 2001-2022, hosted by the American Library Association

as well as the Wikipedia page for the Most Commonly Challenged Books in the United States

Wikipedia page for Books Banned by the Government, organized by region/country

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x08 - “Killing is a Cycle” ↳ "Some people are really misunderstanding the dialogue before the scene in the cell" | (essay link)

[faeyuh]

guys. going insane.

in these scenes, his hair gets way spikier than normal, they look like knives for gods sake. this only happens when he wants to seem THREATENING

but when around people he trusts like ROSIE his hair (probably unintentionally) gets ROUNDER and SOFTER, even his coat has less spikes than usual.

GUYS HE HAS A LITERAL SOFT SIDE IM GOING INSANE

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[somewhereincairparavel]

"jason is a knockoff watered down percy" NO hear me out, jason actually parallels annabeth immensely, sharing SO many similarities with her personality, not percy, in this essay I will-

edit: my full analysis is out now! here

[roppiepop]

Who’s coming to the cookout?

[hinamie]

sympathy for cain