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But it’s a parody of Master and Commander’s opening title
I swear I have seen this before and I cannot for the life of me find it
This image?
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PNG'D! (i didn't know the font so this is taken directly from the image)
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what's your favorite of these sword-related actions/plot devices... 🎤
gifting someone a sword (especially as significant gesture e.g. betrothal gift)
drawing someone else's sword from the scabbard suddenly and without permission
using someone else's sword as a way to remember them after they've passed
you're not worthy of me drawing my sword/it's almost always left in the scabbard
sword with some measure of sentience e.g. ability to jostle/laugh/purr
emotionally significant "may I please borrow your sword" moment
plot-significant sword name change
there are of course one william possibilities and im sure ive left some good ones off... feel free to tell me abt some other good ones and their associated stories 👀
ohhhhh really really good ones from prev:
grabbing a blade with your bare hand to stop it
pushing yourself deeper onto a sword
mutual stabbing 🥰
This time of year can be frustrating for people in the aro/ace community.
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The beautiful art of Thomas Blackshear II
i went to his website and saw even more great art! sharing some more which i particularly appreciated
this tweet has been fucking killing me
He's such a flirt!
Holy moly they're GOOD. The music is fucking FIRE, and the outfits??? They're all so PRETTY???
Does anybody know who these are??? Do they have albums!! 🤩🤩🤩
I was so curious that I had to go find this band. They're called Fortress Dwellers and they have a website with all of their socials!
They released an album too! I don't think this song is on it but the rest of their stuff is SO GOOD !!
Step into the fantasy world of Fortress Dwellers. A fantasy Renaissance musical collective blending epic original music, immersive performan
"work in a field that interests you" okay well it pays two dollars
Formally add nonbinary options to Archive of Our Own categories
Ok hear me out: the "other" category is a. nonspecific and b. a little other-ing. I'm just gonna copy the petition language below:
Relationships on Archive of Our Own may be categorized, officially, as F/F, M/M, F/M; or the nebulous Gen, Multi, or Other. While creating space for certain queer ships, these options unfortunately contribute to the erasure of nonbinary people on one of the world's largest fanfiction websites.
Ao3 has long been a fantastic space for LGBTQIA+ authors and readers to express themselves and find stories that resonate with them. Nonbinary and other gender diverse individuals make up a massive portion of the site's userbase. According to the 2024 Unofficial Ao3 Demographics Survey, "nonbinary or enby" was given as a gender identity approximately 3,500 times, exceeding responses of "man or boy" by 1,500. Gender identities such as agender, genderqueer, gender nonconforming, or genderless were provided over 8,000 times. Nonbinary people deserve better representation than "Other."
By formalizing the inclusion of nonbinary characters in Ao3's categorization system, the Office for Transformative Works recognizes the existence of such people in their diverse userbase. They make it significantly easier for nonbinary readers to see themselves in fiction, particularly during a time when access to such content in mainstream fiction is being restricted. Searches for works involving nonbinary characters may become far more precise than the current tagging system allows. Furthermore, this would contribute to the normalization of nonbinary people in our communities, our media, and our fanfiction.
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Regardless of whether this petition gets traction, I'm planning on writing to the OTW with this proposal. If this change would be meaningful or useful to you, give a sign!
also i dont know how i havent thought about this before but the terms yaoi and yuri are super uninclusive when it comes to nonbinary people, as is the way we perceive ships in general. like society has progressed enough to the point where they/them pronouns were an option on the paperwork when i went to the doctor recently. when i was applying to colleges and it asked what gender i identified as, there was an option for nonbinary on almost every single application. almost everyone i know irl at least tries to use they/them pronouns for me. im able to exist in the real world as a nonbinary person.
and yet, on tumblr, one of the most progressive places on the internet, there is no official term for a ship between two nonbinary people. the only term ive ever seen floated has been "yaori," a hodgepodge of yaoi and yuri, which in itself makes being nonbinary seem as if it's something in between being a man and a woman. and while some people may identify like that, being nonbinary is a HUGE umbrella term that encompasses a TON of different gender identities, and simply saying being nonbinary falls in between men and women when it comes to gender completely dismisses nonbinary people who identify otherwise!!
also also, on ao3, there only really exist three main shipping labels. M/M, F/F, and M/F. there's Gen, Multi, and Other, yeah, but no categories for nonbinary ships. we deserve better than to be lumped in with M/M or F/F ships! we don't deserve to be dumped in the Other tag! we deserve to be able to be seen as nonbinary!!
also also also, nonbinary erasure is a huge and real thing!! there exist SO few nonbinary characters in mainstream media, and even those who do exist tend to be pointlessly gendered by their fandoms. prime example: a few years ago i saw a person using he/him for a character who canonically uses they/them. i went and let that person know that said character uses they/them, just in case they were unaware (because SO much of the fandom used he/they for this character for NO REASON) and a bunch of people from all over the fandom got really mad with me because i shouldn't have been policing people's headcanons.
and like. okay. sure. you are allowed to have headcanons. but when it's a FANDOM WIDE THING that a character who uses they/them pronouns is referred to with he/they instead, isn't that an issue???? doesn't that go beyond one person's headcanons?????? doesn't that suggest something about nonbinary erasure as a whole?????????????????
i dont know. unfortunately the lack of nonbinary characters in media means that rarely im in a fandom with all that many nonbinary characters (which is a problem in itself), so i can't really say how big of a problem this is in other fandoms. but people grouping nonbinary identities with male and female genders completely disregards nonbinary people and honestly in my mind kind of defeats the entire point of being nonbinary.
You made amazing points here, and one of them struck me as a fixable-looking problem, so I went and started a petition to formally add nonbinary options to Ao3 categories.
I really believe adding these options would go miles toward 1. making fic with nonbinary characters more easily searchable than the current tag system, 2. better representing the very large nonbinary, agender, and otherwise gender-diverse userbase of Ao3, and 3. normalizing the presence of nonbinary characters in shipping.
This is so silly but I'm watching a short video essay on sincerity in cinema and the creator is talking about how he watched Lord of the Rings for the first time at 17. He explains that he'd grown so used to the 'ironic' meta style commentary in the movies of the 2010's that as he was watching the opening narration of LotR, he spent the entire time waiting for the joke to come. For someone to take it all back with a zinger line. He listened to Blanchett describe and explain the backstory, and he waited for the other comedic shoe to drop.
And he kept doing it. Scene after scene.
He spent the film expecting someone to make a joke about how unserious things were or to break the fourth wall or do some other self referential type thing.
Now, maybe I'm just at that point in my cycle or maybe I'm too delicate in general, but I literally teared up hearing that. Straight up cried a bit. It is so fucking sad that sincerity and genuineness is being bred out of people.
People say all the time 'this generation can't take anything seriously!' and really, is it any wonder? Younger people have been trained out of it. You are no longer encouraged to be genuine or show emotion or be honest. You are actively punished for it. In fact, you are almost guaranteed to suffer for it.
That is so fucked up. I'm sorry to go on a bit of a random ramble rant but it's so fucking gut wrenching to see younger people lose that element of themselves. You can't express your passion without being told you're 'crashing out' or 'cringe'. You have to live in this neutral state of fear of perception, and god forbid anybody step outside of it!
You're told you should only consume and succumb and be ironic and emotionless and cool.
Listen, if you're following me and you're like.... 25 or under, let's say. Please. I beg of you. Do not fall for this rhetoric. Please, for the love of all things, feel. Feel and create and be honest with yourself. Indulge in things that make you happy. Be sincere. Wear your heart on your sleeve. Do not let this hyper-capitalistic, hyper-consumerist, self-centred, individualist culture take that from you.
Bleed yourself into the work you create. Live. Don't fucking let anyone tell you different.
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Prehistoric buddies!
A new drop just in time for my bday today, shares would be deeply appreciated <3
I have the stickers on my water bottle and the case on my phone. Every time I see my two year old godson we play the "What's that?" game where he asks me what every dinosaur is and I tell him and he tries to say "icthyosaurus" and I say "you got it buddy!!"
10000000000/10 purchase. Cannot recommend enough
Doing a social media cleanse! I'll be back May 15th, dm me your best poasts until then
Do you ever think Aang wakes and forgets he isn't a hundred years in the past...
sleepy gaang >>>> everyone else
Sorry everyone, I'm really going crazy tonight because we finally got rid of our 16 years long fascist oppressors in a democratic way. This is huge. Hungary won, the EU won, the global far right lost. 🥳🥳🥳
