#take that spellcheck

[ozzyfromscotland]

google docs grammar suggestions actually be grammatically correct challenge

[comicbookhyperfixationtime]

*being dragged away in a straight-jacket* No you don’t understand, Thor has to be kind of ugly he CANNOT be styled conventionally hot because otherwise how else are you going to get the euphoria of falling for his beautiful soul and you finally understand what all the fictional women are on about, after issues upon issues of looking at this wideass man with his wackass pageboy cut and being just so so confused??? And that’s why Chris Hemsworth’s eyebrows HAD to be dye- *lobotomy sounds*

[handhelld]

I couldn't find a single DBD themed prompt list so I made my own

There are absolutely zero rules and I intentionally didn't tie the list to any specific month! Go wild and go crazy <3

Written out prompts below

No one escapes death

Invocation: Weaving Spiders

Dominance

Bite the Bullet

Hex: Devour Hope

Borrowed time

Trail Of Torment

Fogwise

Cruel Limits

Made For This

Scourge Hook: Pain resonance

Boon: Circle of Healing

Languid touch

Object of obsession

Grim Embrace

Sole Survivor

Forced hesitation

Decisive Strike

Hex: Face the Darkness

Champion of light

All Shaking Thunder

Shoulder the burden

Blood Warden

Any means necessary

Deathbound

Hope

Dying Light

Moment of Glory

Make Your Choice

We’re Gonna Live Forever

[unofskylanderspages]

Seen above: Eggsellent Weeruptor's toy figure

[kijosakka]

an early birthed day gived to myself

[butchlifeguard]

vital part of the Kids Cant Read discourse thats KILLING ME is that the only opinions we see are from english teachers. this is fine when the discussion is ostensibly about literacy but i think we should pass the phone to math teachers and computer science teachers. because im a little suspicious that the focus on stem for the past 20+ years could be a contributing factor

[tavyliasin]

Don't Trust Google Docs Suggestions

Those squiggly blue lines can be helpful, loves, but sometimes? Sometimes those suggestions are utter nonsense and should be ignored. G Docs has no respect for my style, often trying to tell me to swap out words and sentences that use a more old-fashioned or formal grammar that suits a character voice better, and other times I realised it was making suggestions like this! Sorry, darling, Haarlep is doing what now? Pulling out a fucking blender? No, no, they are whispering something utterly debauched to Tav, not making her a bloody salsa. So, please loves, especially those of you who are writing with English as a secondary language, do not always trust the system. It can and will betray you. Apparently with powered kitchen appliances. Honestly I was laughing at this for several minutes when I realised what it was trying to suggest! Oh, and the Fiendish Festive Feast Fic is still being written, I'm over 4k words but it isn't ready yet. I will have it out as soon as it's done, and 2 of my Winter Exchange Event pieces will be going live on AO3 in the next few days when the collections release, so there will be new works of mine soon enough~ Happy writing, darlings! I love each and every one of you~ thank you for reading this far, for sharing a few laughs, and for generally dropping by my feed. I adore having you here, this community makes me so very happy to be a part of it. <3

[brainrotzora]

these things are always happening to the ones i like :////////

anyways the lighting in this dungeon is so nice

didn't get any good pics bc i was too busy dungeoning but so pretty...best dungeon music so far goes to snowcloak though btw

[tomasens]

Your thoughts on Fanfik the movie make me wonder what exactly is going on in the book(s?), lol sadly I don't speak polish. I've read some reviews saying the plot was rushed and simplified, but none quite so negative

Hi!! The English post about Fanfik was a jokey parody of a Will Wood post (I assume that's the post you saw!!) haha, my thoughts are still negative but not that... Dramatic ahahah, thank you for asking though and I'll try to explain my biggest gripes with the movie in a (hopefully) comprehensive way since it's 1 am here and I am Big Tired (finals season is starting this week and I am struggling ahhh)

I will discuss only the first book since the movie is only based on it btw‼️

I wanted to like this movie so bad, especially that Fanfik was a book that made me realize that I am not cis myself. I had very high hopes for the movie, especially that they hired a trans actor to play Tosiek! Like! Woah! But of course it couldn't have been good because FUCK YOU JULEK, YOU'RE DOOMED TO NEVER GET GOOD ADAPTATIONS OF YOUR FAVORITE BOOKS!

My biggest issue is that the movie GREATLY oversimplified the social commentary of the book. It involves a regular, dingy polish highschool that is basically a symbolic miniature of the polish public and its largely homophobic and otherwise generally xenophobic tendencies. The movie takes that idea and throws it out the window completely, making the school a lovely, clean and shiny private school (i don't remember if it's stated it's a private school but you can definitely TELL. No polish public highschool is like this. Trust me. And even if there are public schools like that, they're well funded and still don't deal with the same problems as regular schools do). Not only that, but the story's setting (for some unknown reason?? Genuinely I don't understand this choice) is changed from Poznań to the capital, Warszawa and I really hate that since Poznań is a symbol of the more progressive parts of Poland and using it as the setting furthered the ideas about how even the progressive parts of our (polish) society still need work. It could be me looking to deeply into the symbolism though - even then, I don't understand the change. Also, Leon lives in an extremely nice place - in the book his place was, again, dingy, cramped, he was barely getting by in general. These weird choices destroy the mature social commentary the book has to offer and it sucks! :/

Another big issue are the HORRIBLE writing choices and the oversimplification of every. Fucking. Character. I do not have the energy to discuss everyone, so I'll just focus on Tosiek and Leon, plus their relationship.

Tosiek. Oh god. He is not complicated and interesting like in the book, he's a douche. His drug habits are mentioned but quickly forgotten, the fanfic writing aspect is generally abandoned for most of the movie, his character is mean and dicky but because the movie refuses to give him actual problems he looks like a spoiled, whining rich kid. His only problem seems to be his relationship with his father but it isn't explored well enough for the audience to sympathize or at least understand Tosiek's stance. His transness is also flattened, like, to the point that it's comedic to me. I know some people did just. Put on boy clothes once and were like "oh I'm a guy cool" but if we're adapting a story of a character who is definitely NOT like that... Maybe we shouldn't present his trans journey as that simple.

Leon. Oh GOD. Leon is also a douche and that HURTS. He doesn't really face any meaningful consequences for wanting to use Tosiek as a beard when the dude was still girlmoding without telling him (asshole move btw. Like bro had no actual reason to do that he was just being a dick), he generally doesn't face any consequences, his character is boring, and when it's not boring it's rage inducing because like. Tosiek is a fucking asshole but I don't think movie Leon deserves even that guy. He's not a flawed person, he's one dimensional with a bunch of holes in him. Also please stop teaching ur boyfriend how to burp i am eating /j

Their relationship becomes the core of the story which is awful - the book focuses on Tosiek slowly coming to terms with his gender identity, on him trying to find new ways to cope, with him discovering things about his past (shown to him not by his father like in the movie but by the greatest character of all, his aunt, who was cut for... Time's sake I guess? Which is such a big fucking loss), with him learning to love himself. His relationship with Leon is slow, they're friends at first, they slowly, gradually develop feelings for each other, but Tosiek's feelings for Leon are only an excuse for the narrative to study his relationship with gender even more. Their attraction is shown at first by touches, by brushes of hands, not by KISSING. 20 MINUTES INTO THE MOVIE. Sorry I cannot get over it, 20 MINUTES INTO THE MOVIE. and 25 minutes into the movie Tosiek is sure of his gender identity completely and never questions it ever again because it would get in the way of The Cute Gay Romance. Like, the movie could be about Tosiek being a cis gay dude and experiencing homophobia and it would still make sense without changing barley anything - that's not a good trans story in general, but especially if you have such great, introspective source material ffs!

In conclusion, the movie got Netflix'd and Americanized - everything about it is devoid of the inherent polish...ness that was present in the book, the movie truly could've been written about some guy in Connecticut and it would be THE EXACT SAME, which sucks since polish queers are awesome and should have our stories properly shown. And also it feels like it was written for cis people, while the book definitely knows that it's target audience is trans people and shows love to them in many ways.

Keep in mind that I haven't read the book in a while and I might be mixing details up - I was already planning to reread the book carefully and make a post explaining how the movie fucked it up big time after my finals, I'll make sure to translate it into English so keep an eye out for that in the summer!

Thanks again for asking and reading anon! Cheers<33

(Also Tosiek is a nerd and it's a CRIME there wasn't at least one Hamilton reference because OH BOY do I remember being excited reading a Hamilton reference in one of the books when I was younger and still in my theatre kid who cannot sing act or dance era.)

[partiallithopseffect]

I finished The Quin Dilemma today, and really enjoyed it for the most part! It reminded me how much I adore Six's companions, especially because Peri, Flip and Constance haven't have any new stories in a while. As for the individual stories:

I enjoyed episodes 1 and 6 quite a bit. It was lovely hearing Carrie Quinlan in Big Finish, and her character was sweet. Jac Raynor's dialogue is as breezy and fun as ever, but I did want a lot more time with the quartet Sixth Doctors and all four (five?) companions at the end

Escape from Holy Island was a bit too action-packed for my liking, but it was great hearing a fiery Peri take command of the monastery. The central two-parter was pretty fun, with the highlight again being the companions–I've really missed Flip and Constance so it was a joy hearing them again. That reunion hug was so heartwarming!

My favourite of the set, though, was absolutely The Thousand Year Thaw. As the whole boxset is the forty-year anniversary of the Twin Dilemma as well as Colin's Doctor, it was a great idea for Big Finish to take the opportunity to explore the emotional impact of that story, and on Peri specifically. She's had such a good run on audio it's easy to forget how hard she took it on TV, but she's a serious contender for Most Trauma received as a companion that was caused by the Doctor specifically. Her explanation as to why she stuck by him through the worst of times–"because my friend was sick"–was only half-convincing, but Nicola Bryant pulled it off with a stunning but of performance. Loved that episode. If anything, I wish the personal conflict of the episode was more closely tied to the conflict of the plot, which felt bolted on if anything, but it was still a lovely bit of drama.

Overall: very fun story! Definitely an 8/10 overall I think. Nothing blew me away but it was all very cosy and a warm celebration of 6. Looking forward to his next boxset too–apparently Paul Magrs (my favourite DW author) is set to write for it!

[starpens]

not to be controversial because i’m also against ai generated fics / art BUT if you copy + paste someone’s work from THEIR account, without their permission, into ai detectors or whatever, it’s stealing. your suspicion doesn’t give you the right to be a thief.

[a-ramblinrose]

“Susie, have all the fun wh’ you possibly can – and laugh as often and sing, for tears are plentier than smiles in this little world of our’s. . .”

― Emily Dickinson, The Letters of Emily Dickinson

[onehundredgar]

The term "oppression olympics" is so confusing to me. First of all, it's used as a derogatory term as far as I'm aware— but what the term dismisses is reality. Some people are more oppressed than others. Significantly so. Those sufferings can be compared, and one will come out worse.

You can say this isn't the case for localised situations; e.g. Person A, a white immigrant kid in a predominantly POC country, is seen as an outsider, just like Person B, a POC immigrant kid in a predominantly white country. But oppression must never be evaluated through a localised lens— Person A is not affected in any way to same degree as Person B. They are idealised and infantilised, whereas Person B is demeaned and adultified. Their experiences are comparable and Person B's is quantifiably more harmful.

The oppression olympics aren't a real competition and people are not winning/losing. The people who are "winning" do not have the time or energy to be seeing it that way. They are busy surviving.

Those who do see it that way are people who have enough privilege to feel threatened by their perceived "loss" of the olympics.

TL;DR: "Oppression olympics" was an unusable term from the start because it implies the people who undeniably are more oppressed are somehow benefiting from their suffering.

[theinfinitedivides]

if it's one thing Fox News will do it is perfect microaggressions to the T. what part of Dominica is not the DR do you not fucking understand

[theothermina]

Gave myself a mini heart attack

I opened my story I’ve been on a roll with, which I had just finished removing the 2010ish fanfic roots literally two hours before, and every all 8 new pages and every edit was gone.

A month or two of work just gone.

I started clt-z like crazy and that doesn’t work. This story is trapped on a 14 year old laptop that I’m locked out of the admin on so can’t get to the internet so it hasn’t been backed up on a third location in…ever

So I opened the folder with all the spy stories in it and pull up the file that has the same name as the one that’s already open

And when I tell you THAT WORKED

There where just two files with the same name *somehow*

So I took pictures of the fic so I’d have something to rewrite from if I ever did lose it and emailed them to myself

[stellacendia]

Y'know, sometimes I really wish I could enjoy being feminine the way that femme trans women do. I wish I got excited about doing my hair in a different style every day and coordinating cute outfits and picking out just the right accessories to go with everything. And the thing is, it's not even that I'm doing these things (+ makeup) and hating it, it's that I don't do any of it at all, because it takes so much work and effort and time, and it just makes me so tired, that it's not worth it to me. I don't get enough joy out of doing it to do it. I'd rather get more sleep than wake up earlier to spend time on my appearance.

And I know, I know, that I don't have to do any of this, that I'm in no way obligated to do it. I don't feel any guilt or shame about not doing it. But I like my body (most of the time), I actually love my natural hair, and instead of being apathetic about my appearance I want to enjoy it! I want to have fun with it! And I just- I don't. Because I don't have the energy for it. Sometimes, I just want to find enough joy in it to actually do it.