Aryas Zehral

I have no idea why I made this place.

[abigailspinach]

[aryas-zehral]

Uh! Not me. I haven't bookmarked anything in like a maybe a week. That i remember anyway.....

[sandumilfshous]

ive read the first 6 murderbot books in the last three days is this accurate

[that-androgynous-lightweaver]

the chart is accurate, but the most accurate thing about this post is that you read all the books in three days

[aryas-zehral]

Pleased to hear it's not just me binging all of them in (less than) a week.

[aryas-zehral]

So I just mainlined all the Murderbot books in a week and previously I've done a similar thing with the Becky Chambers books. I want to start something new (well I kinda want to start something new but I also kinda wanna reread all the Murderbot books.... anyway,) based on that information

Any recommendations?

[mythalism]

i actually need to know people's thoughts on this because at least in my experience the answer to this has drastically changed since i was on tumblr in the 2010s and its driving me fucking insane

what's the appropriate way to engage with a fandom take you disagree with on tumblr?

voice your disagreement in the replies

voice your disagreement in a reblog addition

shrug and move on

vaguepost and complain about it on your own blog but dont engage directly

send it to a trusted moot and vent about your frustrations about it in private

bald / nuance / see results

Voting ended onMay 29, 2025

*im talking about fandom takes specifically. not someone being horribly evil about a real-life issue or or blatantly factually incorrect. literally just harmless fandom disagreements or differing interpretations of a text/character/etc.

[mythalism]

i need you dorks to REBLOG this if you voted.... i already know my circle of moots and i have the same opinion i need this to spread across fandoms to get a real accurate sample of sufficient size COME ON!!!!!! and love and kisses to everyone reblogging and leaving their thoughts in the tags <3 muah muah xoxo

[rosewind2007]

Laughs

[trashmancer]

Another faux pulp sci-fi novel cover, but for the TV series this time around.

[aryas-zehral]

Cool cover.

[steviewashere]

I am spoiling the live action Lilo & Stitch. And I am doing it up front and plainly.

Do not fucking see this movie. Do not waste your money on this. Period.

They made Nani give Lilo up to the American government. They made Nani LEAVE Hawaii and pursue being a marine biologist. They made a native Hawaiian character give up her sibling to pursue a dream that she originally did not have. This is imperialist propaganda at its FINEST.

The original fucking movie is about family staying together. It's about indigenous people being able to stay with each other and stay in their home and be together! That's the whole fucking point! Nani is Lilo's last living relative on her homeland—it is jarring, it is disgusting and disturbing that Nani would not only leave her last blood relative alone, give her up to the very government that is harming native Hawaiians TODAY, but also travel to the "mainland" for her dream!

Not to mention, Nani's actress isn't fucking Hawaiian. She's much paler in photos and real life. They fucking darkened her for this movie.

Don't even get me started on the transgender subtext of Pleakley's "human" disguise from the original movie being completely erased in favor of him being played by a regular ass white man. Jumba doesn't have his accent, they made him more villainous, and his "human" disguise is a non-fat white man—which part of his original joke, I know, is that he was bigger and was more clumsy in the movie because of his size, but to have the main shape of his character completely removed is also fucking weird.

This live action movie is a desecration to the original. I encourage you to not see it, please. Don't give Disney any of your money on this one. Just watch the original. Please just watch the original.

The new message in the live action movie is disturbing and gross.

This is one of the most disrespectful live actions I've seen and heard of. I implore you to not watch it.

[shoujo-wizard]

I have not seen this movie nor will i see this movie, I was born & raised in Hawaii & was fortunate enough to grow up around native Hawaiian culture. So let me explain how casting a white actress as Nani then putting her in brown face is not the only thing they did wrong w her character, it is definitely the worst thing they did but it isn't the only thing they did

To have Nani pursue marine science... isn't necessarily a bad thing if it was what she wanted in the original but her actual dream in the original movie was to b a professional surfer. She has surfing trophies in her room in the original movie!

surfing holds an extremely important role in Hawaiian culture its not simply a sport or past time. Surfing has roots of hundreds of years in Polynesia as a whole & in Hawaii specifically. In tht tradition u don't simply buy a board: u make it. You have to find a tree tht u feel is ur board & u make ur board yourself, that's without even mentioning tht these boards were often made from a tree considered sacred in Hawaiian cosmology

It was a native Hawaiian man, Duke Kahanamoku, who brought surfing to the world & dreamed of it becoming an Olympic sport. He's the reason Australians even know what surfing is much less how to surf. Tht board tht life guards have at beaches exists because Duke once saved every man from a sinking vessel with his surf board alone when the actual life guards had no way of getting out to the wreck bc of waves. The most prestigious surfing event is an invitation only event named for & honoring another native Hawaiian man, Eddie Aikau, who was both a phenomenal surfer & legendary life guard. There's a saying in Hawaii "Eddie would go" bc he would go out in the worst & most extreme conditions in his duty as a life guard when his fellow life guards wouldn't. To remove Nani from tht heritage not just by casting a white woman in brown face but abandoning her connection to surfing compounds the disrespect native Hawaii is put thru in this remake especially when the original movie was so respectful & caring of the native Hawaiian culture

A movie abt fucking surfing penguins is more respectful of surfing than this movie, don't give this movie money by going to see it & don't give it money by streaming it

EDIT: also going to study marine science on the continent just shows how little actual research was done bc one of the most sought after marine science schools is IN HAWAII

[theaxolotlkween]

Also grew up in Hawaii, and I don’t plan to ever see this movie because everything I learned about it made me more and more angry about it, even before all this bullshit. The original movie is, to me, one of the most accurate depictions of Hawaii I’ve seen, and has very strong and important messages about family. Also there’s an autistic-coded kid!!! Who is treated with respect and as a person by the narrative!!!! From my perspective and understanding, everything relating to Hawaiian culture, both past and present, in the original was portrayed with respect and beauty.

The fact that they have apparently trashed all that makes me angry. Don’t even give the film the respect of hate-watching this.

Also where the fuck did marine bio come from? Don’t get me wrong, marine biology is one of my special interests, but like??? Nani has a poster of Duke in her room, one of her whole connections to David is that they both love surfing, she’s clearly good at it judging by the amount of trophies she has in her room, and why the hell would you go to California of all places when Hawaii has one of the most fascinating, diverse, and unique marine ecosystems AND they have some of the best marine bio and environmental programs available???? And some of the coolest conservation internships?????? AND (last I checked, at least, maybe this changed) PRIORITY AND SCHOLARSHIPS ARE OFTEN GIVEN TO NATIVE HAWAIIANS?????????

Basically, the movie’s shit. Don’t fucking watch it.

[shoujo-wizard]

^all of this thank u for this addition, reblog this version too please

[catkora]

Oklahoma is attempting to pass a bill that would ban explicit romance novels. Authors, narrators, and sellers could all face fines of up to $100,000 and up to 10 years in jail for each instance.

If you live in OK, call your representative and tell them this bill should not be allowed to pass.

This is likely a test case. Republicans will try to pass it in OK and if it passes other states will likely try to pass similar laws.

In the meantime, get physical copies of books you like. Download those pdfs. Archive your AO3 stories and keep them on a physical hard drive. (Storing those files in the cloud could be problematic in the future as the company managing the cloud service can see what your files are)

Oklahoma Sen. Dusty Deevers proposes bill to ban all pornography: What to know about SB593

A bill proposed by Oklahoma Sen. Dusty Deevers, R-Elgin, seeks to raise punishment for child pornography but also aims to ban pornography al

[suzume42]

@thebibliosphere

[thebibliosphere]

I know this doesn’t apply to any of the romance authors on here, but I really hope the Twitter/tiktok authors who cheered on the porn bans and told the rest of us we were crazy to “fear monger” that Romance would fall under fire are having a very “stub your toe for the rest of your natural lives” kind of day.

[aryas-zehral]

Seriously, is ao3 down again!?

[theconcealedweapon]

[ao3org]

We’ve received reports that some of our users are having trouble accessing AO3 and are investigating the problem. Thank you for your patience!

Posted: 15:57 UTC February 7, 2025

[aryas-zehral]

And it's gone again.

[decemberwinter]

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

[fransu]

I'm italian and there's something that people defending this shit don't fucking understand.

they think the “Roman salute” is something unrelated to nazis or fascists but the “Roman Salute” IS the fascist salute. It's not a different concept, it's the same thing!! It's not "good" because it doesn't have the word "nazi" in it, It's the same shit.

And to people saying "He is throwing out his heart to the crowd" tell me if YOU would do it at a 45 degree angle with your thumb tucked in and your fingers closed together. Personally, a throwing motion in my imagination has your palm completely open and your fingers spaced out

Regardless, This is what propaganda is, They do bad thing and then they say "no it good actually" and the population goes "Ok then it's all good" it's not all good, They're making you think it is. It sucks

Politicians gain power through the Ignorance of the people, don't trust people just because "They said it"

[aryas-zehral]

Just leaving this here

[woman-becomer]

tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

[interpolationz]

this is one of my favorite bits about tumblr

the users seem to actually prefer text posts to anything else, and treat it as a chore to play a video especially with sound

[nagusposting]

they should've kept the threshold babies :(

[sastheforestspirit]

[etherealspacejelly]

pleaseeeee use wool guys it doesnt actually hurt the sheep at all and its a really great material and doesnt break down into micro plastics when you're done with it. they need shearing anyway for their wellbeing. farmers have so much of the stuff because no one buys it any more.

just buy wool please please please

[bundibird]

Plus sheep aren't hard on the environment the way that cattle and horses are! They are way lighter; they don't damage the soil and plant root systems the way that heavier livestock do. I know a place in Victoria that had indigenous artefacts that were hundreds of years old still sitting scattered on the surface of the soil where they'd been left centuries ago that had remained completely undisturbed and undamaged even tho it was in the middle of a sheep pasture. Because the sheep ate around the artefacts, and their feet didn't churn up the soil.

Wool is SUCH a good material too. It keeps you warm even when it's wet, it's super long lasting, it's biodegradable, it easily dyes into a huge array of gorgeous natural colours, it's versatile, it's got WAY less environmental impact than synthetic materials.

Use wool!!!!! It's so good!!!

[msshadowqueen]

A Bug’s Life, 1998

[assiraphales]

you guys made luigi mangione trend for days and I need to see the same energy for brianna boston. she is a 43 year old mother of three who ended a phone call with blue cross blue shield (after being denied a claim) “delay deny depose, you people are next” and is now being held under a 100,000$ bond and could face FIFTEEN years of prison if charged. she has no weapons, her record is clean, and yet she is being held behind bars. they are afraid of the public and are trying to subdue. do not let them!!!! be outraged that our freedom of speech is being threatened!!!!! deny defend depose! free brianna boston!

[humanoidhistory]

It’s a sci-fi holiday in these Ed Emshwiller cover illustrations for Christmas issues of Galaxy magazine, 1951 to 1960. Please note that Santa Claus appears in each one, always with four arms.