The life and times of a legal adult

Multifandom but mainly RWBY, some writing, some essays pretty pictures, lots of love, and the occasional fanfic. She/her, username is the same on dreamwidth and discord. Will tag anything if you ask. Enjoy!

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

The people of Omelas: No you don't understand, we've decided the child represents the bourgeoisie.

[catboybiologist]

Angry Gamers (capitol G) will look at a new trailer, invent a way cooler and more epic version of it, and then think that cooler and more epic version is Bad, somehow

[catboybiologist]

New female GTA protagonist is being described as "looking like a tranny and fat"

As in

This character:

She literally is not. Would be way cooler if she was though

[catboybiologist]

Ciri is "too masculine" in the new Witcher trailer.

Ciri.

In this trailer:

This is literally just a cis woman. Would be based as fuck if they fucked with that a bit.

[catboybiologist]

Man imagine a GTA where you play as a trans woman sex worker forced into increasingly dangerous situations, surviving and slowly thriving through crimes and heists of escalating stakes, slowly overcoming and eventually overthrowing those who wronged you in both the justice system and the criminal underworld

[catboybiologist]

Maybe game studios should have one of these Gamers on their team to torture. The angrier this Gamer gets the further the rest of the team pushes. If this Gamer is violent with rage by the end of a brainstorming session it's considered successful.

[catboybiologist]

They could keep him in a little terrarium

[catboybiologist]

Not letting you hide this in the tags

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

I think my final disillusionment with the Glorious Violent Revolution (not that I was ever fond of it to begin with) was when the right wing tried it on January 6th and failed miserably, only to switch tactics to boring old electoralism and succeed.

[tearlessrain]

so much of the french revolution is just various people going "surely committing THIS act of violence/murder will end all the suffering and bloodshed and usher in peace!" followed by a summary of how everything immediately escalated and got even worse afterward. and somehow this website's takeaway is "clearly acts of violence and murder are the only way to end suffering and usher in peace!"

I don't know guys I think we might actually have to actually put in effort and not conflate working toward a better society with seeking personal catharsis.

[whumpster-fire]

Just one more mass purge bro just one more mass purge the utopia will totally work if we just indiscriminately kill a few thousand more random people just one more purge

[dogpuppy]

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

It should be illegal to take a nap and then wake up with a headache. Bitch you gave me the sleep signal, I slept, what do you want from me????

[homunculus-argument]

I've been fed, walked and watered and I've slept enough and been out of the internet and I'm doing crafts.

Why am I still angry.

[homunculus-argument]

I walked right into this one like a blind horse into a revolving door.

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

my actual vampire hot take is that if you're going to be a 'vegetarian' vampire (a vampire that only drinks the blood of animals) you MUST have hunter education. i'm so sick of people being like oh well predator animals are mean and scary because they kill cute 'harmless' animals like NO they're crucial for the environment and if you're going to hunt animals for blood you still need to stick to regular people hunting guidelines and only hunt things that are in season and abide by your areas bag limits

[moral-autism]

vampire that did a detailed study about whether vampires can get prion diseases and concluded they can't and preferentially hunts animals with chronic wasting disease. and then incinerates the corpses.

[aksemmi]

vampire who is a woke predation abolitionist and so exclusively hunts predators, leaving primarily herbivorous and scavenging animals alone

[yaldabaothadeez]

"For miles around the foul creature's lair is nothing but barren wastes"

"because of The Curse?"

"Because of the deer and rabbits, fucking thing ate all the wolves"

[dizzyghoast]

every so often i remember how awesome the modern interconnected multicultural world is. i grew up getting to hear fairy tales from all over the world. africa, asia, europe, america. everywhere in between. i can have bagels for breakfast, curry for lunch, and ramen for dinner without even leaving the city limits. music and art and philosophy and technology that originated thousands of miles and years apart from eachother have come together and interwoven into something greater than the sum of its parts. its hard not fall into despair when thinking about the horrors but god. god the wonders.

[dizzyghoast]

you can have friends on the other side of the planet! neither of you even has to travel!!!!! you can just talk to them whenever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[themaninyourcomputer]

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Open question cause I think this is a discussion worth having in good faith: At what point do you find sexual assault in a story gratuitous?

Personally my criteria is that it comes out of nowhere and doesn’t make sense in the story. A city getting sacked is going to have rapes. A relationship with an unstable person could result in rape. A woman riding the train when a gang of rapists just bursts into her compartment is gratuitous.

[sharkgirldick]

Having a baby to prove your love with your partner is ridiculous. "Ohh, let's bring a whole third person into our relationship and, get this, we have to teach it how to be alive." Nonsense. My girlfriend and I could do the same thing with another tgirl, and she'll start out way better at Magic the Gathering than a baby.

[dainesanddaffodils]

One of my favorite phrases my Creative Writing professor had for when you’re writing fantasy is ‘giving your story a Flux Capacitor’.

Because it’s not real, it doesn’t exist. But the way it’s thrown into Back to the Future, at no point does it throw the audience off or suspend any more disbelief than time travel would. You believe Doc when he says he created the Flux Capacitor - the thing that makes time travel possible, because the universe never questions him. 

So it essentially means like, there are going to be elements to your universe that are just not gonna make any sense, even if you set up a whole system based on it. And the only way to make it work is completely own it. You cannot second-guess your system or else the reader will too. You can give it the strangest explanation, but write it like you own it.  

[vicholas]

not really a fan of the amount of people here who now hear “war crime” and immediately think “fun meme term”

[vicholas]

A good part of the tumblr userbase understands that rape jokes are bad, they understand that using “rape” and “rapist” as “funny quirky meme words” is fucked up and bad.

But at the same time we’ve reached a weird paradigm where a lot of people who understand that consider “war crime” and “war criminal” to be Funny Quirky Meme Words without realizing that war crimes very much includes rape!! It very much includes rape of all kinds in all kinds of scales!

It includes doing the most heinous things against children, it includes a wide range of the most heinous things. Just read the definition of war crime.

Why is it that you think that rape jokes are unacceptable but war crimes jokes are funny and cute and harmless?

Isn’t it trivializing of actual war crimes the amount of people in this site who now have the immediate reaction on their brain to thing of “war crime” as Funny Meme like a Pavlovian response?

Is it too weird that I think that this is fucked up?

[vicholas]

Man.

[vicholas]

I just wanna say, when I originally wrote this post I remember wondering if maybe the reason why people have different reactions to rape jokes and war crimes jokes had to do with people being largely ignorant about what war crimes entail.

Now it has gotten increasingly clear to me that it has less to do with ignorance and everything to do with people not thinking of war crimes as something “real” the same way they think of rape. Rape is something that can happen to them, within their communities. War crimes on the other hand are something that happens to other people, to other countries, therefore they don’t even register it as “real”. People treat it as some sort of imaginary concept because the victims don’t even register as real to them.

[argumate]

it's funny how all the movies from the '70s and '80s (and even some from the '90s!) just assumed that smog would get worse and worse until the earth (or at least LA) was perpetually shrouded in smoke, then the government banned smog and it went away; incredible really.

[argumate]

The bittersweet story of how we stopped acid rain

Acid rain went from being a pollution disaster to an environmental success story. How did scientists manage to prove that acid rain existed,

similarly "acid rain" was a genuinely devastating problem that was solved, eventually, by banning it! turns out you can just do things.

[illusoryfem]

[lyraeon]

if you actually want to improve, you need to be able to take good-faith criticism from those close to you without making it a chore for them.

[lyraeon]

it's hard, especially if most the "criticism" you've had in your life was actually excuses to demean you or otherwise acts of anger

but if you really think you have room to improve on things (and everyone does!) then you've got to be able to take a complaint from a friend without treating it as a declaration that person hates you or without wallowing in your self-hatred in a way that makes them feel guilty for ever bringing it up

if those close to you bring a problem to your attention respectfully, it's because they care enough about the relationship and you to want to see you change that behavior instead of, say, just cutting you out of their life. you don't have to change just because they asked you to, you still shouldn't make them regret asking.