#will be cited in the paper

[fuck-julian]

I am writing a research paper for a Women Gender Studies class at the University of Tennessee. I am writing on the relationship between the LGBTQ+ community and fanfiction. If you read fanfiction at all please take this quiz. I understand that because there is queer and lgbtq in the title there will be sample bias but I do not plan on comparing between non-queer and queer readers.

[antivancathedral]

I don't even know how to word this in a way that makes sense and I think in an overall world building sense this is a major case of "Man I think it depends" but I actually don't think Spite is a "demon".

Spirits and Demons are essentially the same, yes, and I think there's much to be said about this in in parallel to a healthy person vs a deeply traumatized person, but to quote Neve, "one is more likely to manipulate you, or kill you," etc etc.

A demon is a spirit whose purpose has been twisted. And I don't think Spite's purpose has been twisted much at all.

Determination's purpose is "accomplish my goal (whatever that may be)". Spite (the emotion)'s purpose is exactly the same, with the added benefit of "especially against the wishes of others".

I think the demonic version of Determination would be "Ruthlessness", not Spite.

Spite (the guy) is not wholly consumed by his purpose like other "demons" are. He doesn't pursue his goals at the expense of his companions. He has several other interests even if they seem a little silly (learning what tastes good, or even new forms of combat like fire). And he tells us his purpose several times...it's his promise with Lucanis! Escape, kill, and live! This goal is one of determination and it has not changed by his becoming Spite. The goal is not warped in any way even with his joining to Lucanis.

Bellara speculates as to why Spite doesn't just take Lucanis over or turn him into a nasty mound of flesh. I want to argue that this is because Spite is a named spirit, not a demon.

What's more spiteful than not allowing your captors to change you? What says fuck you to people who would use you as a tool than self-determination? What's more spiteful than being determined to be free, to fight who would enslave you, to live?

My working theory is that Spite is not a demon in the same sense as, say, Wisdom being corrupted into Pride, which twists a desire to guide, teach, or navigate situations with care into a desire to be right and unchallenged.

I think Spite is to Determination as Eulogy is to Compassion.

[rawrsatthetree]

I’ve seen people compare Julian Devorak to Astarion, and honestly I think you’re all embarrassing wrong.

Gale Dekarios is Julian Devorak.

Astarion is Count Lucio

[luguangs]

@animangacreators challenge ⟡ mother's day

↳ YOR FORGER

"I know that this family is just for appearances. But… I still feel like… I want to be a better mother to that girl… Maybe I'll never be like a normal mother, but I'll do my best with what I've got!"

[insp/ref: ★☆★☆★]

[swordscleric]

I'm only halfway through the second phase of Predathos (which, to be clear is an incredible vibe for a bossfight, love a good head & hands/multitarget-same-entity boss) but I cannot shake the feeling of disappointment and just dissatisfaction I have had with this campaign that definitely started with Dusk/Yu, got followed up handily with the first Delilah/Sun Tree fight and then has been unfortunately reinforced with every discussion surrounding the Prime Deities since Hearthdell. This campaign is fascinating to pick apart, I have been really enjoying pulling apart why it isn't working compared to C1 or C2. But as much as I'm having fun dissecting where the worldbuilding has led to the current weaknesses in the gods' argument or reading other people's incisive commentary on the lack of personalities on the Ruby Vanguard's end, the "girlfailure" nonsense, etc etc, man do I wish this campaign was better than it is.

There are so many avenues of improvement -

Matt telling everyone to prep and write characters for this campaign instead of a C2-esque character-focused campaign.

Matt working religious organisations into the world properly.

The cast engaging with Marquet as a genuine location rather than set-dressing.

Otohan, Ozo and the rest of the Vanguard having more than "*insert snappy line here*" for their personalities.

No Delilah.

Bell's Hells having an iota of curiosity for anything outside of their own selves, including but not limited to: the gods, religious worship, the Elemental Titans and why they were sundered, how the people of Exandria feel about the gods, Vasselheim and its role in suppressing information about Predathos, Ludinus Da'Leth's plan and how it would still break the world if they did it in his place

I don't know why all of this fell into place in the way that it did, but it did. We can endlessly speculate why - the cast resting on their laurels after C2, not having enough time between the animated shows and Daggerheart and Candela Obscura and, and, and - but at the end of the day I really do hope that whatever form the final campaign wrap-up takes, they burn the damn questions asking the cast "what if the world was made of pudding and this character and this character kissed?" and instead pick questions that get them to introspect for a potential Campaign 4. Otherwise I don't know what will happen, but it sure as hell won't be Mighty Nein part 2: Issylra Boogaloo.

[bookwyrminspiration]

it's incredible how every single time you write a paper you miraculously find a resource no citation style guide has ever even heard of before

[roseworth]

FUCK mla format im an apa groupie

[elbiotipo]

I also remember when that deactivatecivilization blog told me "Wikipedia says that disease and plague started with the domestication of animals, checkmate" and I went looking for the source and it was a fanatical vegan tract that considered domestication, sorry, "domesacration" a moral evil and said that humans started to hunt only 19.000 years ago (WHAT) and that began violence, patriarchy and the oppression of women. The only mention of zoonosis on the cited page was in a throwaway phrase listing the many, many evils of having domesticated animals.

So you should be also be wary even if someone says "but it's sourced!"

[lipstickboyboy]

Billy-Ray Belcourt from, A History of my Brief Body

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

what's your dissertation about? you mentioned it in the siltcord and i'm really interested

oh my god hey I'm so happy you're interested! broad strokes because I've only been working on it for a few weeks but: the current theme is 'resistant landscapes' (both man-made and natural) in the later writing of Shirley Jackson!

Essentially, my main thread is that Jackson had two parallel strands to her work, which as far as I can tell began kind of interrelated but then diverged quite significantly? She's probably best known now for The Haunting of Hill House and to a lesser extent We Have Always Lived In The Castle, which are these. weird surreal psychological horror novels, engaging explicitly or implicitly with the supernatural, and centred around introspective, strange and sometimes deeply misanthropic female characters from isolated social units with dysfunctional, possessive relationships to each other.

Aaaaand then on the other hand she was known for being a 'happy housewife' who wrote these whimsical, quasi-autobiographical stories about all her children and how hopeless her husband was. These were popular too. Betty Friedan called her out in landmark 1963 feminist manifesto The Feminine Mystique for essentially spreading patriarchal propaganda.

The interrelation between the two is really jarring, because in one family is a source of horror and tragedy and in the other it's a source of, like... laundry. And Jackson's home life wasn't everything those stories made it out to be-- her marriage was unfaithful, her mother could probably be fairly called emotionally abusive, and as I talked about on the siltcord, she developed severe agoraphobia which often left her housebound.

So, yeah. My plan is to explore the depiction of families as constructed social units in dialogue with the environments they are constructed in in that work. Obviously a lot of that is relation of house to family, in the context of which Hill House is especially rewarding to consider, but I also want to look at relationships with nature and urban environments (especially in the context of settler colonialism and how that has had an enduring legacy in Jackson's particular part of New England), xenophobia (largely in regard to class, though racism and anti-Semitism are presences in her writing), domesticity and the idea of the housewife, and how horror relates to All Of This. The ideal of making a home within a hostile environment and of that environment turning on you, essentially.

I don't yet have particular areas of focus within that broad umbrella, but I might update with bits and pieces about it as I work? I don't really talk about academic stuff on here but I am very much Critical Literary Analysis Guy and I do also post relentlessly about haunted houses as a concept so if people would be interested in it maybe I will

anyway if you've read this far I recommend Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition (2024) by Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing which is a book about how horror movie tropes can be mirrored in built environments! I'm reading it right now and it's conceptually fascinating plus fairlyyy comprehensible by academic standards (if a little dense) if you, like me, are a Fool who knows nothing of architecture. very good also for getting to look at pictures of some of the most Fucked Up Buildings (affectionate) you've ever seen.

[acheronist]

so as far as i can tell, he got hit with a moment of Existential Panic And Misery and then wrote down his account of his entire sailing career to add in next to his issued ID papers in the wallet. so if the wallet survived then we would know who he was. thanks bestie the clues did help.

[dhmis-autism]

The only time I can tolerate inaccurate flapper fashion is when Duck is the one wearing said fashion and specifically when You 🫵🏼 are the one drawing him.

Thank you! That's very sweet of you to say!!

However, will NOT stand for the slander here, both b/c I love 1920s fashion and bc a LOT of the outfits I gave him are directly ripped from comics/illustrations from the 20s >:P

[kissycat]

Always so stupid when you're writing the very beginning of an intro and you suddenly have to find sources to cite for things that your entire life is based on and you learned 15 years ago. "Global warming is caused largely by greenhouse gases" you know this we know this

[stari-hun]

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT EVGENIIIIIIII THATS LITERALLY A SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS. SHE HAS SO MUCH EVIDENCE FROM THE CREATURES SURROUNDING THE ARSA THAT SOMETHING IS IN THE AREA

Literally creatures that ONLY go out of their natural migration path in order to eat raw materials full of energy going into a mine that they thought was dry points to the fact that something is still there. It’s not a breeding season and even if it was a creature like that esp in a snowy climate wouldn’t just set up a new habitat in a place without a food source. Why would a ton of animals go to a place all of a sudden without any food? And on top of it said animals are suddenly MORE active?? Where would they be getting that energy from without food Evgeni, be so for real.

“Maybe their presence there is some kind of proof, but they themselves are a danger.��� But now that they’ve found such a good food source they’re ALREADY attacking Rayashki a lot because they’re defending new territory. Animals aren’t stupid but they don’t do things for the same reasons humans do. They wouldn’t just BE there for leisure and they don’t need whatever shelter or warmth would be that deep in the caves. They’ve lived in that area for ages and Kikituk are a species that actively hunt underwater creatures but go on land like Hoituk if there’s minerals they can eat. There’s no reason for them to be out of their natural biome and habitat without good incentive.

[thelemonsnek]

visuals i made for a real actual paper i wrote for my sociology class that my professor will be reading

[image ids: the first image is a black and white drawing of Ingo and Emmet, from some time after Ingo disappeared. They both look neutrally forwards. Ingo is bedraggled per usual in Hisui, and Emmet looks tired. To either side of them are triangles emphasizing what shape their goatee is.

The second image is a photo of a salt and pepper shaker. The Submas Sideburns are drawn on top of them.

The third image is an edit of Shrek. He gestures at Donkey, saying, "submas fandom is like onions. submas fandom has layers, onions have layers... you get it? we both have layers."

The final image is an edit of the Marge potato meme. She holds Ingo and Emmet up, saying "I just think they're neat!" End id]

[annebrontesrequiem]

Dickens Dashboard Simulator

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Hat fell into the street and I gotta get it back, hope the carriage drivers don't mind :)

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hopital

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artfulurchin-deactivated18390105

Everyone's always like 'Oh child gangs are bad' and 'Crime is rampant in London.' No one ever asks 'How was the business today? The business seemed like a lot of fun.'

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I hope everyone who reblogged this stupid post gets shipped off to Australia just like OP

#oh it's just a bit of fun! it's just a joke!! #get back to me when people are filching the handkerchiefs from YOUR patrons #you're all losers

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insearchoflostlove Follow

To commemorate my dear father and I...

numberonemadelinestan Follow

I hauve consumption

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alordbyanyothername-deactivated18391130

We all know you got your ass handed to you by that child lmaoooo

mulberry-bush Follow

Say that to my face so I can slap it with a glove

alordbyanyothername-deactivated18391130

We all know you'd fire right into the sky

pikefish Follow

Guys, I think op killed him

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mrmalthus Follow

Christmas celebrators die challenge

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manofbusiness Follow

AITA for using my niece (young? I forgot her birth date) to try and reel in some rich business associates of mine? Yeah they're a little creepy, but like, money is money. But at the end of the night she left my house crying - just like my brother's child to do that - and I almost felt, bad??

numberonemadelinestan Follow

I'll track you down to the ends of the Earth to rectify the evil you have visited upon my sister and our family. You took in your only nieces and nephews in order to destroy and ruin them to benefit yourself. I hope you never sleep again at night. I curse your name and turn from you. If you were begging in the street I should be revolted by you and not give a single crust, I, in my infinite mercy should walk past you as you vanish into the shadows of obscurity.

urchinno1 Follow

Anyone in this thread smoke opium?

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whereislove Follow

Finally arrived in London! Anyone want to meet up?

artfulurchin-deactivated18390105

Sure! Address is:

Bill Sykes Lair Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel London, England

Me and my friend would love to show you around!

whereislove Follow

Yay!

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