#this turned into a strange rant

[verdiesque]

it's so funny to me how i avoided anime like the plague when i was a teenager only for that phase to come and hit me in my 20s. like on one hand i'm able to be relatively normal about it as an adult but on the other hand what was the use of running from it then?

also the inherent shame at enjoying anything that is not a literary/cinematic masterpiece because i was brought up as a snob by a bunch of snobs

[butwhatifidothis]

I need the people who look at posts talking about Wyll's treatment in both the actual game and especially the fandom and respond with "but i don't like him and I think he's boring" to know that shutting the fuck up is 100% the better option 100% of the time. Him being the only origin character to not have at last 10 hours of content and the existence of mods that literally whitewash him and his dad - among everything else wrong with how Wyll is treated - are not suddenly okay because you, personally, as an individual, don't find him interesting, and your personal individual feelings about him are irrelevant to the issues surrounding his treatment in the bg3 community at large, so like. Stop barging in with your unwanted, unhelpful opinion

[ottosbigtop]

It is so hard to enjoy funny Minecraft YouTubers and want to look at fanart when i have to sift through pages and pages of people drawing these real irl people kissing

[resident-gay-bitch]

Let’s be honest here, if James and Sirius were girls (into eachother or not) they would be known as the “lesbians” around school.

As someone who went through highschool as a girl having a very close friendship with a girl (and let’s face it, yes I was desperately in love with her and no it didn’t end well, but that’s bedside the point because these rumours went around before I fell for her) we were Always asked if we were dating and when we denied it people didn’t believe us. And if people didn’t think we were dating they thought we wanted to date, and yeah it was primarily guys thinking that which I’m not even gonna get into because that’s a whole sexist fucking gross thing there, but still!

You can’t tell me, if you’re like gen z or in a generation where queerness is known through your highschool and like not the worse thing in the world, that you didn’t have a set of girl best friends that everyone thought were in a queer relationship.

I happened to be in like, almost all the “lesbian” rumoured relationships at my school because, after the first one, I shaved my head and became the school dyke and then any close female friend I had meant I had to be in love with them and if they seemed smiley around me back it was assumed we were dating.

But like, James and Sirius were That Close, and if they were girls, they Would be The Lesbians. If they were just best friends, everyone would assume they were lesbians. If they were secretly in love with eachother and never said anything until it was too late, everyone would assume they were lesbians. If they were dating and just didn’t tell anyone, everyone would assume they were lesbians. If they were dating and did come out and tell people, no one would be surprised.

I think there’s something special about that. And I know from personal experience being known as the lesbian couple of the school even when you’re not isn’t the greatest, but like as someone who’s experienced that and also experienced it in a more positive way (where people were just supportive and wanted us to date because they genuinely thought we’d be good together and we liked eachother) it’s just something that’s bound to happen.

Apparently you can’t have two girls that close to eachother that aren’t your typical “straight laced “normal” girls” and have them not be cast as the school lesbians.

James was a quidditch captain nerdy smartarse, and Sirius is an alternative black sheep with severe mummy issues. They’re gonna be the lesbians.

And I adore that.

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

it’s not fair that so much of my memory and cognitive function is tied up in something I cannot control or reasonably prevent

[britneyshakespeare]

This is just a map of New England (minus Connecticut the fake New England state)

[sadisticyouko]

I have this really weird nervous tick I’ve had since middle school where my thumb will mindlessly roll over one of the many rings on my fingers

I only ever notice this tick when I’m not wearing rings ;-;

[aria0fgold]

I just realized something, the Omori in MiM only saw Sunny being miserable all alone which is a scene at the beginning of the game when Sunny first woke up... Omori doesn't know about what happened to Mari.

[carpblu]

That episode was so good, I loved alternate timeline Kirk ❤️

And the character development for La'an was great as well (:

Only complaint: the romance, I didn't really feel that.

(on a side note: it seems almost like they put Spock an Kirk in all those hetero romances before they even meet to kind of no homo them before the shipping can start? 🤔

I mean, that ship has sailed (haha) but still.... especially for Spock I am a bit anoyed, I do not want to see any doomed romance with him and chapel, that has been done in tos already)

[ninas-gf]

hmmm… personally i think the problem has less to do with how often adults consume media aimed specifically towards children, and more to do with how some adults choose to interact with others who are much younger than them when in online spaces.

like if someone is in their 20s or 30s and they exclusively watch, idk, the owl house or something… i don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong or harmful with that? there are many reasons why some people tend to be more interested in these types of shows (maybe they enjoy the animation style, and dislike the amount of violence or sex often shown in adult animation)… but at the end of the day i don’t think anyone deserves to be shamed just for liking cartoons or whatever.

to me the real red flag is when adults enter these online spaces and act in a very immature way… like for example, those people who constantly get into full-blown arguments with literal children. and yes, this is something that does happen in fandoms often, but i’m also noticing it a lot on social media in general? and idk, it just kind of makes me feel glad i was never active on social media until i was 16, because the way i’ve seen how some people act in such a needlessly aggressive way towards kids has always rubbed me the wrong way… it just baffles me, because it’s not hard to treat people with basic respect. and it just comes off as really really weird (and honestly a bit embarrassing) when there are people who can’t even be bothered to extend that basic level of respect to children…

[nyankoizumi]

random bob velseb thought  that i cant put anywhere else and also trigger warning for the usual canibalism stuff with him but Canibal Animal really is a great song for him because not only is it like sorta fitting when thought of as spoken ABOUT bob but also some parts can fit in his POV too. for example i’ve been going crazy about the line “now only dogs will follow me” and the idea that bob is a dog person and somehow dogs love him because in Possibly In Michigan, the main characters are seen feeding a dog some of their stalker’s meat to the point where when they’re done with it the dog is still licking at their fingers. what im getting at is that i headcanon dogs to tend to get around bob a lot cause he always smells faintly of fresh meat and they think he could give them some and thankfully for them bob is into that

[spoonsandsporks]

Ancient Greek custom laws, you say? :D{

Ohhhhhhhhhhh you know not what you've wrought. (Long post warning)

SO. I can finally talk about this b/c the place has been and gone and my players follow my tumblr account. BUT I DM a Theros campaign for my friends every other saturday, which is a dnd 5e setting based on the mtg cards, that are inspired by ancient greek and roman mythology and history. I, a person with a degree in ancient history and a love for making more work for myself, took this as a challenge to make the setting not just more accurate to ancient greek mythology but to ancient greek society and history as well. This led to me needing to research athenian port cities as that was a location my players were going to visit. And thus I dived into the rabbit hole of ancient athenian custom laws and got very heated about it.

Which I'll now proceed to inflict on you b/c you asked about it. :))) You're welcome

So, first of all, Athens was a big port polis. Many ships stopped at Athens while on the way to other places. Which was important b/c the sea is dangerous! Ship travel was mostly via rowing with oars or maybe sail and big boats were expensive. Distance was an important risk factor to consider. Maritime trade was high risk and high stakes. Shipwrecks were very common! If you were travelling and shipping goods by boat and it was like a week's journey to your final destination port, and your options were travel for 3 days and stop at a nearby port before continuing onwards or travel the full week across the deep ocean and risk shipwreck you'd stop at as many ports as you can afford. And yeah, afford is the key word here.

e.g: 2 days travel to Port A selling at X price might be preferable than 4 days travel to Port B selling at XX price because you were more likely to arrive at Port A intact than risk the 2 extra days at sea.

Additionally, there were some goods that were considered higher quality or in higher demand than others. Such things as wine, pottery (amphora), wood (a luxury item for fuel), grain and olive oil (essential for gyms + personal hygiene) were expensive and paid well for. Grain was the big ticket item for athens, they often struggled with grain shortages. And while amphora were big you could use them to store other luxury goods, such as the aforementioned grain, olive oil and wine, saving you cargo space and money as you could sell the wine and the amphora that held it.

So, with all that set up, lets talk about athenian custom laws and how (maybe understandably) strict they were.

So, when boats arrived at port, they had to announce what goods they carried and how much you were bringing to shore. Once you announced these things, you could not change it once you declared it. If prices on shore were bad (ie not expensive enough) and you wanted to take back what you were going to sell and try and sell it at another port that may have better prices, you had to pay a very high export tax. Equally, if prices were good, you couldn't then go back to your boat and bring out the extra to sell, you had to lug those goods to the next port.

e.g: you have 100 measures of grain on your boat. you announce that you are bringing 60 measures ashore to sell in local markets or whatever. you get to the market and prices are bad, which means you're either forced to sell at a loss OR pay a tax that is worth more than double what your grain is normally worth to take it to another port that might have better prices. OR you have 100 measures of grain on your boat. you announce that you are bringing 60 measures ashore to sell in local markets or whatever. you get to the market and prices are great! you want to go get your extra 40 measures of grain to sell for profit. you are not allowed to do that. trying to is illegal and has consequences. you are forced to accept the profit you got from your 60 measures and leave port for the sea.

Remember how I mentioned grain was in high demand in Athens? Yeah, so, illegally taking grain out of athens territory was punishable by death and was considered a very serious issue. So if you didn't pay that export tax and tried to take your 60 measures of grain back onto your boat b/c prices are bad (like in the above example), that counted as illegally stealing grain from athens and you would be given the death sentence for it.

Ships were searched heavily when entering the port (in case of a trojan horse situation where men or weapons are being smuggled in to try and take the port lol) and tax was paid by any ship entering port in order to secure berth and protection in port. These checks meant that any ship entering or leaving was well tracked and any illegal activity would be noticed. Access to a port was NOT a right and could be revoked - bans were usually on a case-by-case basis so merchants were encouraged to behave themselves.

Merchants kind of had to hedge the amount of goods they'd bring ashore before knowing the state of the market and then weren't allowed to change their position upon discovery. They just had to guess and presume based on the reputation of that port and their markets. Lukily, maritime trade wasn't done in a vacuum and talking to other merchants for news wasn't illegal or anything, as long as they were willing to share their knowledge.

Any merchant funded by a specific polis - so their ship was paid for by a government official or something - had to by law sell their imports in that polis' port primarily. So that was a something merchants had to consider as well on top of the custom laws. Sometimes it benefitted to be loyal tho! Helping out a polis with a specific goods shortage could result in long term benefits or rewards. Such as favourable exceptions to future trading or a gift of land within the polis/port itself in exceptional circumstances.

The trading process was also heavily controlled by Athens in their ports. Once declared goods were unloaded, the marine merchant would head to the trading house in the harbour to negotiate sales with local retailers. The local retailers would then sell it at the marketplace to the local populace. The retailers and merchants would all be in the same room so it was very quick and easy to get an accurate picture of what a good price was. But only once you'd already declared your goods.

If there were shortages, the rules could become a little lax. A customs counter could give certain merchants a wink and a nudge if there were shortages to capitalise on, in theory (source dubious). But if there was a significant enough shortage that drove prices up prohibitively, supplies would be bought up by wealthy port officials at a fixed price and then sold in the local markets by the state at a loss. They tried hard to prevent mass starvation. These officials would oversee trade in the markets and trading house so they would know what a good price was and what was an exaggeration. The market was often so highly regulated that there wasn't much of a scope for a 'black market' of sorts without an official knowing about it (source dubious).

So yeah! Ancient greek custom laws were very strict. We of course don't know the scope of how rigidly these laws were adhered to nor the scale of possible corruption in these laws. Maritime trade was a big risk! But grain was so important and Athens had trouble growing their own to feed their people, they had to import it and export their own quality goods to fill the money deficit. Hence, while yes their laws seem a little wild, it's understandable considering the position they were in.

(but hey take all this with a pinch of salt, most of this was sourced from old uni notes and what i could remember off the top of my head. i am not an expert! i'm just a passionate blogger and researcher trying my best with limited resources. not to mention many of the og sources were written from the point of view of the higher echelons of society, so it's important to take all these biases into account. be critical of everything you read!)

Anyway thank you for the excuse to ramble about something that was TRULY WILD to me the first time i read about it. Now you can tell your friends about athenian custom laws and bore them to tears like i did my players :D

[sadlazzle]

i hate tht in the beginning of my souls adventure i was scared to use sorcery n shit bc id never rlly utilised magic in games before, n then i finally did a sorcery build n realised id been depriving myself of easy mode

[swampthing07]

"Well did you act on those plans?"

"No."

"Then your fine."

[actualgoron]

Alright i've been watching strange new worlds and it might be my favorite show in the series but i just got done with all those who wander and what a roller coaster it was good but had some weird moments. What i really want to know is what is the point of sam kirk? He has only been in the show for like three episodes and has had like four lines total and then in this episodes he blows up at spock and maybe for a good reason but why him to do that? Theres been no character arc or anything hes not a high ranking officer on the ship hes just james kirks older brother and hes just there?? Why

They killed off my favorite character too and it wasnt a bad death but dang it was a bummer. Also la'an leaving the ship too like two main characters gone right before the season finale is pretty wild

[autistic-shaiapouf]

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