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Multi-fandom escapism. Content intended for people 21+. This blog will contain rampant, untagged spoilers, provided the show/movie/book has been released. More tagging can be done upon request. My interests primarily fall into the Fantasy and Sci-Fi catagories. My blog has been taken over by Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. You'll also find some of my older interest in various amounts.

[stormwinds]

It’s all fun and games until the raid leader calls out ‘triangle circle diamond ex tee” and you forget every shape that has ever existed

[joycomplexx]

by the way it's fine to like sexual content just for the sake of it. "we can't ban porn because other stuff will get banned" "sometimes nude art has value" "the government will classify queer people as sexual" this is all true but it's okay to just like porn. its okay to not want porn to be banned because you like it.

[ptieuca]

[headcanonthings]

[sixtiesgogobootz]

Daniel x Vala + Hugs (Stargate: SG-1)

[blitzwhore]

[azerothtravel]

Playing WoW in the housing era is amazing, because now there's decor quest rewards. You know, it used to be standard RPG, "Many thanks, warrior. Take this blade for your troubles," and you'd get a new weapon for completing your quest. And now it's like "...take this chaise lounge..."

[targetedknowledge]

[letseyx]

No matter what the future holds, no matter how far we travel, a part of us, a very important part, will always remain here...on Deep Space Nine. - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993 - 1999)

[sg1]

Stargate SG-1, 04.20 Entity

[theladyeowyn]

- Nothing motivates like complete and utter desperation. - You say that now, but you will miss me when I am gone.

[indigosfindings]

how do you pronounce the honourific "Ms." in english

"miss"

"miz"

other

unsure/see results

Voting ended onMay 21

[mortalityplays]

really good "shocking number of people are confidently objectively demonstrably completely wrong" poll

[3liza]

i am losing my fucking mind

[avocado-moon]

#we dont use honorifics in my first language so whenever i have to select options (usually for flights) im always so confused#like what is actually the difference between miss and ms#i like miss bc it sounds more historical and im a historian so

"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

"Ms." - prounounced MIZ, btw - is a third option popularized by gloria steinem in the 70s - mainly through her feminist magazine Ms. - which is meant to be a neutral term, usable for any and all women regardless of marital status (hence the soul destroying irony of the tags above). it gained wider general acceptance when geraldine ferraro, the first woman to be nominated as VP on a national major party ticket, started using it widely to avoid confusion, since she was married but used her maiden name professionally. eventually over the years it came into common use though i do think the brits are a little more critical of it than americans (as far as i'm aware lol)

[avocado-moon]

"obscure facts only a tumblr user would know" and it's one of the most influential institutions of second wave american feminism. PLEASE open the schools

[onbearfeet]

Hi. I'm an unmarried woman in her forties. I use Ms. and pronounce it "miz", though I don't correct people who accidentally use a soft S. I use Ms. because it's no one's business but my own whether I'm married, to a man or anyone else, and that's what Ms. means. It means fuck off, my marital status is irrelevant, just as it is for every man who uses Mr.

I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"

That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.

I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.

Also, I've taught English and worked as an editor for twenty years. I am quite literally the grammar police. This use of Ms. is a standard construction. If you didn't learn it in school, someone failed you.

[squeeful]

“Obscure facts” Boo boo I was taught it in elementary school. One with a state standardized curriculum.

Ms. is marriage-neutral and it’s pronounced Miz. It is deliberately different from Miss.

[avoicefromthestars]

Star Trek: Voyager Muse

Find the truth of your story and you won’t need all those tricks. I don’t know how things are done across the Eastern Sea, but here poets have become lazy.

[godwithwethands]

Stargate SG-1, 9.20 Camelot

[lizardsister]

[zinnydark]

Another thing is, textually, Buck and the Diazes are never presented as a singular unit. It's actually kind of the opposite.

Visually, narratively, thematically? Oh, that's a family.

But last season, we got 'If you're making it a choice between you and my son....' explicitly putting Buck and Chris on opposite ends of a spectrum. Because (at the time) Eddie (thought he) couldn't have both.

This season, we have Buck willing to sacrifice himself, willing to stay and be Derek, if it meant Eddie could go and get back to Chris. Because, well, if they're making it a choice....

Even the will, a sign of complete unwavering trust, only lets Buck explicitly take on the role of Chris's guardian at the expense of Eddie being there.

So of course Buck isn't looking at Chris and Eddie and remembering, oh yeah, that's my family, because he's literally been told the opposite for years.

[circular-8]

Do you ever wish a fictional character had just.... died instead of having to watch them be given a terrible "happy ending" by the writers?