#wood row

[dostarve]

I have seeing so many people misgendering WX-78 recently. (Most people on this platform are good, its mostly other platforms) So I decided to give actual evidence on why and how they are CANONICALLY nonbinary. This is not a head-canon. This is legit canon information.

Thanks for coming to my ted-talk

A paragraph of text on WX’s DST wiki confirming that WX is nonbinary.

They are officially stated to be nonbinary by Joe Wreggelsworth, he works at Klei Entertainment.

There is hundreds of quotes that use they/them pronouns for WX. There is no currently usable quotes that depict WX as anything but nonbinary. Here are some examples

If WX-78 is trapped on the Nightmare throne and a character inspects them, the character uses the “other character” voice line. Not the voice line for a male character on the throne.

More text on the DST wiki using they/them pronouns for WX.

And in the description of the Klei animated short “Disconnected” they/them pronouns are used for WX.

And here is a clip of Klei Entertainment developer Steven (or maybe Stephen? Idk how to spell it) using they/them pronouns for WX. This is from the Rhymes with play WX-78 refresh stream

It also isn’t correct when people use He/Him pronouns for Woodrow (WX when they were a human) First, we don’t even know if WX’s gender from when they were a human was male. Woodrow could have still used they/them pronouns. Here some text from Wagstaff’s wiki page of Woodrow being referred to as they/them.

Yes, you can argue that WX-78 was originally not supposed to be a nonbinary character. Heres u/Pingy_Junk ‘s discussion about that on reddit.

I hope this “tedtalk” had enough information/made sense. All in all, WX-78 is nonbinary and will kill you! :)

[incorrectcreepypastafam]

Jeff: I can get behind murder but I draw the line at misogyny

[ghost-bxrd]

For @pics-and-fanfics who requested Fae!Dick 💚

I got way carried away with this one lol.

Anyway, looking at other creatures too long isn’t recommended. Catching even a glimpse can be… disconcerting.

[rocknrollflames]

Izzy Stradlin.

If you're a man and you don't like Izzy, you're just not cool.

Or he banged your chick.

Or both.

Probably both.

And if you're a woman who doesn't like Izzy - thank you.

There are too many of us.

He doesn't need you.

[cubedmango]

gang selfie 📸

[fujii-draws]

OKAY! Chatot rant in tags below! Read at your own discretion.

[stromuprisahat]

Isn’t the status of Grisha much worse after TGT. How are the Righteous Gang claiming to be victors/heroes who made others lives better. From my pov, grisha are much worse off while the otkazatsya are in status quo. Also what was wrong with the grisha coming to LP to live. From the books, it seems that none of them had any connection to their parents/relatives. If so that can also mean that their family did not care enough to reach out to them after they left.

Or did the Darkling ban all communications.

I’m sure the Righteous Gang think that all the cons of their dumb decisions are in fact the Darklings fault. You know because he did this or he did that. They do bot think for a single moment that he was the only one doing anything for them. While the soldat sol (shouldn’t they have been doing some charity work in name of their Saint?) and all other grisha did not lift a single finger to elevate the position of grisha in Ravka through ANY means.

Ironically, the Gang's decision to abolish Grisha draft should serve to further alienate Ravkan commoners and destabilize Nikolai's reign.

"... His serfs will get a taste of money and education and start thinking about building lives and businesses of their own instead of praying for their master’s patronage. ... "

King of Scars- Chapter 11

Nikolai had abolished the practice of separating Grisha from their parents. There was no mandatory draft to pull children from their homes.

Rule of Wolves- Chapter 9

The fact they aren't able to offer protection to any Grisha in Ravka, therefore hardly to children scattered all over the country, AND there's no system of home education, therefore these children might either hurt someone by accident or suffer from wasting sickness, aside...

This should be a gigantic legal issue.

(Although there's plenty of questions regarding servitude in general.)

Pre-KoS Grisha automatically became serfs. Their families were compensated financially.

Let's say Grisha are no longer required to move to Little Palace, otherwise everything stays the same. Are there lists of Grisha serfs to keep track of them? And how do they serve? Why should a family that keeps the amount of pairs of working hands get any money? Does it mean that a family of free- albeit poor- peasants, suddenly include a child serf with obligations of their own? Do these "free-range" serfs get personal assignments? That sounds like a whole lot of extra bureaucracy.

The other option is much more disasterous. If Grisha are no longer serfs, there's no reason to pay their families. They should be recorded the same way other free Ravkans are, and these records don't seem to be particularly meticulous:

Another [Ravkan Grisha] had been hidden in a root cellar when the Grisha Examiners arrived to test her. “My mother told them I’d been killed by the fever that had swept through our village the previous spring,” the Tidemaker said. “The neighbors cut my hair and passed me off as their dead otkazat’sya son until I was old enough to leave.”

Siege and Storm- Chapter 7

A year here, a year there... who'll know if the missing Grisha moved away, died or got kidnapped? But don't worry, the worst is yet to come- otkazat'sya (serfs). Why are Grisha freed as soon as three of theirs start whispering their advices into young King's ear (One of them rumoured to be his mistress to boot!), while common Ravkans keep bending their backs under nobility's jeweled slippers!

This is a starving, war-torn country, through which a wave of pogroms swept only a few years back! The hatred won't disappear only because a dead Saint allegedly appointed three of Grisha to what exactly? Represent? Or rule in the puppet-King's stead?

Sure, Nikolai's (strange, innovatory) reforms lead to more food for the poor... BUT- serfs are still property of their owners, unlike Grisha. West was somehow forced to remain with the East- feeding them, losing money to them. Nobles lost some privilages and whoever's not a complete baffoon will figure out they're losing power. Church should be pissed, because their leader got deposed, religious cult with Crown-appointed head took over and Nikolai cut their incomes too! Anyone even slightly distrustful towards Grisha- and that means all through Ravkan social strata- has every reason to believe they are running the country, which no longer means one black boogeyman, but a Suli whore with the King-killer.

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Members of Second Army weren't discouraged from staying in touch with their families, quite contrary. To make it more... well, to make it more KoS-ish, we get some specific data from Zoya:

She’d written every week to her aunt and every week received a long, newsy letter back with drawings of chickens in the corners and tales of the interesting traders who came through Novokribirsk.

King of Scars- Chapter 25

Ivan doesn't mention his family in present time, but I'd like to imagine he used to visit his widowed, almost childless mother until she died of old age.

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The only reason all those barely adult Grisha are even theoretically allowed to be teenagers, is that they're safe enough, thanks to Aleksander's work.

He was thirteen, but he’d had a hundred names, a new one for every town, camp, and city ... He would have lived next door to a garbage gully if it meant a roof over his head, hot meals, waking up in the same room every morning without his heart hammering as he tried to remember where he was. ... Grisha living in camps and broken-down mines, hiding out in tunnels. ... No safe place. No haven. There will be, he promised in the darkness, new words written upon his heart. I will make one.

Demon in the Wood

If Grisha are faring better at the beginning of Shadow and Bone, it's his doing:

... though it was smaller than the Grand Palace, the “Little” Palace was still huge. It rose from the trees surrounding it like something carved from an enchanted forest, a cluster of dark wood walls and golden domes. As we drew closer, I saw that every inch of it was covered in intricate carvings of birds and flowers, twisting vines, and magical beasts. ... We passed door after door, until finally we reached a chamber where another uniformed maid stood waiting by an open doorway. Dimly, I registered a large room, heavy golden curtains, a fire burning in a beautifully tiled grate, but all I really cared about was the huge canopied bed. “Can I get you anything? Something to eat?” asked the woman.

Shadow and Bone- Chapter 5

While I can "excuse" some of the "heroes"- victim of otkazat'sya brainwashing institution, unloved privilaged kid with saviour complex, bigoted religious fanatics due to questionable parenting, universal punching bag... LB's new best girl's somehow coming out of it as the worst one.

Just the fact Zoya was saved by the very law she didn't mind abolishing, going from starving asset of her own mother to well-fed, respected soldier, who knows what do sable and silks look like... what a horrible life to lead! Such deterioration! If only the Darkling didn't bother trying, she'd be free to scrape along as she pleases!

Centuries worth of Aleksander's efforts are the reason Zoya gets to whine about her suicidal aunt instead of being maritally raped by some ancient creep, or outright dead after getting pregnant way too young.

[veryrealauthor]

I’ll never get tired of looking at this wall

[ghosts-cyphera]

I’ll be at dutch comic con this weekend !! and I’m excited !! two hours from now I’ve seen elijah wood !! fucking frodo mates I love frodo and pals

[phoenixcatch7]

Trying so hard to not start fic writing before I've even finished the game but I want so so bad to write a time travel fic where post totk wild gets sent back to pre calamity hyrule in the middle of a lynel or gleeok fight, like he's just covered in monster blood and guts with a mishmash of armour pieces (at least one barbarian piece) hair long and tangled, scars all over, wielding a ridiculously huge savage lynel spear tipped with dragon claw and dripping sizzling blood. Smoke coming off him. Arm looking half rotted.

In the middle of the throne room.

Several particularly delicate lords and ladies faint. All the guards are pointing spears. He nearly takes someone's eye out before realising where he is.

Once he realises when he is it becomes a race of time to make the right waves before zelda comes to pick him up.

[alannah-corvaine]

the odyssey of brina cross  ꜱᴛᴏʀᴍʙʟᴏᴏᴅ → ᴇɴᴅᴡᴀʟᴋᴇʀ

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1) Brina steps out of the rogues’ hideout in Kugane to get some air after a frustrating fight with Jacke, and moments later is kidnapped by pirates working for the man that had her family killed. 

2) Captive and alone, Brina is thrown aboard a ship bound back for Limsa Lominsa. A great storm arises just days into the voyage home, and the ship is sunk off the coast of Othard. Brina is the only survivor. 

3) Brina washes ashore on Onokoro, where no one will take pity on her and give her passage back to Kugane because she has nothing with which to pay the tithe, nor can she communicate verbally, making her situation even more difficult. She survives by foraging what she can from the sea and the local flora. 

4) Brina eventually gives up on obtaining passage aboard any ship on the Ruby Sea, and so makes her way on foot across Yanxia and eventually to the Azim Steppe, where she makes friendly acquaintance with a local tribe and their khatun. Moved by her plight, they book her passage home on a merchant vessel.

5) Another freak storm sinks her second ship home. Brina is sucked into a powerful whirlpool and blacks out beneath the waves. She wakes on the shores of Kholusia, a million malms away from everything she’s ever known and loved.

6) After living for two years in Eulmore’s slums, Brina by chance meets the Warrior of Light in the midst of her quest to return darkness to the First. Upon discovering her circumstances, Alannah Corvaine vows immediately to return Brina home to the Source as soon as she’s restored balance to the First.

7) Brina recuperates in Sharlayan while the Scions attempt to uncover the secrets of an uncooperative Forum. Despite her burning desire to return home now that the possibility is within her grasp, she feels she owes too great a debt to the Warrior of Light and the Scions for bringing her back to the Source, so she volunteers to stay and aid them in whatever way she can.

8) Brina joins the Scions and the contingent marching to Garlemald, where she witnesses horrors and atrocities that rival her own nightmares. 

9) During the trials of the Final Days, Brina attemps to help rescue survivors in the Vanaspati jungle, but the flames are overwhelming and they barely make it out alive.

10) Brina travels to the edge of the universe, where the Warrior of Light battles for the fate of everything they’ve ever known. Though Brina does not fight, she stands witness, changed by the things she’s seen. 

[mapsofnonexistentplaces]

i keep thinking about this scene from twin peaks

[fungi-maestro]

Lars Tunbjörk – Alien at the Office (2004)

[puppetmaster13u]

Even more of @phoenixcatch7 Possessed Doll Au because I absolutely love the Au too much lol

[running-with-kn1ves]

tempted to write something about a creature in the woods fucking up readers' crops/ shed based on real events. Some little bastard (or group of bastards) have absolutely demolished my bird feed and made a mess even after I put it under rocks and 2 pounds of soil. HOW did they manage to do it??? I have no clue but when I find them... unspeakable things will be done.

[panzershrike-pretz]

What if the wind caught up with me started to change when I did?

Would I blow out like a light or, like a kite, fly away?

What if the fear of darkness gave way to the fear of color?

Would you live in black and white or rest your eyes through the day?

And if dreams can come true

What does that saaaaaaaaay about nightmares?

I'll stay awake tonight...

Cry my name, REMIND MY BRAIN OF MY IDENTITY

I'm not gonna listen,

I'm not my volition, I'm

Shanananananana

free will!

Am I to blame for riding this train, right by my destiny?

Ah, prove I can crack,

ah, loose from the track, ah

Shanananananana, free will!

Rolling my third eye into the back

Of my head and squinting through the black

Saw no center, saw not where it lead

It's times like this that make me wish that

I wished that I were dead,

I don't wish I were dead

But somebody's got to go!

I WANNA MAKE MY MURDER LOOK LIKE A SUICIDE

But they'll all know,

They'll all know

They'll all know that the body's mine

(Turururururu)

I wanna go anonymous to identify

But they'll all know,

They'll all know

They'll all know,

They'll all know

They'll all know that the body's mine

Divide by one and find I'm one less than the one I was

So, how many people am I? Now that I keep 'em in my

Shananananana, memory, still I

Check in the mirror to see how I look

I look different in different ways

Ah, you do the math,

Ah, who's looking back, ah

Shanananananana

THAT'S NOT ME!

Carving my initials in the back

Of my hand in case of losing track

I forgot, remember to forget

It's times like this that make me wish that

I wished that I could live,

I don't wish I could live,

But somebody's got to staaaaaay!!!

I WANNA MAKE MY MURDER LOOK LIKE A SUICIDE

But they'll all know,

They'll all know

They'll all know that the body's

MINE

I WANNA GO ANONYMOUS TO IDENTIFY

But they'll all know,

They'll all know

They'll all know,

They'll all know

THEY'LL ALL KNOW

ALL KNOW IT'S

MINE

And if dreams can come true

What does that say about nightmares?

I'll stay awake toniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

I WANNA MAKE MY MURDER LOOK LIKE A SUICIDE

(Kill me)

I WANNA GO ANONYMOUS TO IDENTIFY

(Kill me)

BUT THEY'LL ALL KNOW

(kill me)

THEY'LL ALL KNOW

(Kill me)

They'll all know that the body's mine

(kill me)

I WANNA GO

anonymous✨️

TO IDENTIFY

(kill me)

But they'll all know

(kill me)

They'll all know

(kill me)

They'll all know

(kill me)

They'll all know

(kill me)

They'll all know

that the body's

MINE✨️✨️✨️✨️