[kuttithevangu]

Type of thing a professional historian WOULD say, admittedly, but part of why I care about historical accuracy in fiction is that I think it’s kind of disrespectful to assume everyone has the same experiences you have. Which of course leads to the second part, that is, I think it’s good to practice thinking about people who do not experience the world the way you do

[kuttithevangu]

A corollary to this is that people from History cannot yell at you on bluesky for getting things wrong and it’s important to care about things for reasons other than “will it get me yelled at on bluesky”

[wolfythewitch]

Odydio and that one fleabag scene haha

[myrthena]

Sriya comic

She is my oc! Inspired by maritime southeast asian culture :)

[dinottosaurs]

An older comic from when I used to work at Build-A-Bear

[valtsv]

personal least favourite media criticism experience has got to be when people are like it's so great that the writers don't rely on sexual abuse/assault as an easy shortcut to actual character or narrative development and you're like sure i guess and then they're like i mean it's just so gratuitous and unnecessary, you'd have to be some kind of sick pervert who hates women to rely on something like that, honestly unless you're making something About sexual violence i don't think it should exist at all, it's just lazy writing, and you're like oh this never had anything to do with caring about victims for you did it

[valtsv]

in a similar vein, when people recommend a work on the basis that it contains no themes of sexual violence and there's blatant subtext that suggests otherwise but now you know if you point it out you're going to be seen as a disgusting predator and fun ruiner and expected to submit a comprehensive statement of your own personal history of abuse for review to determine whether you're "allowed" to talk about it

[charlesoberonn]

Which path should he choose?

The path of the warrior, the path of the scholar, or the path of the artist?

[moonimbued]

he should wander away and have a picnic while he thinks about what path to choose

[charlesoberonn]

Great idea! But where should he have the picnic?

Under the tree, or under the old fort?

[acatdisguisedasahuman]

By the sea, so he can enjoy the sound of the waves

[charlesoberonn]

A lovely choice!

Should he build a sandcastle to pass the time? Or perhaps go fishing?

[cynicallyaestetic]

Perhaps he could collect shells he finds interesting

[charlesoberonn]

Sounds fun!

Which shell should he pick up?

[anjing-jam]

This one

[charlesoberonn]

That's not a shell, it's a tiny earpiece.

Should he listen to music? Or to the mysterious pre-recorded message?

[sar-kalu]

He should give it back to the crab in the largest shell, they thought they had lost their wave-pod and are grateful he found it!

[charlesoberonn]

The crab wants to give a gift in return.

Should he accept the gift of power, or the gift of knowledge?

[sunw00d]

the gift of friendship :)

[charlesoberonn]

Friendship acquired!

Should they celebrate with pizza or ice cream?

[valentineish]

The crab friend cannot eat either of those! Let's split a nice seaweed salad instead. :)

[charlesoberonn]

So many options!

Should they get tossed salad, wiggly salad, or spiky salad?

[frescopino]

Seasar salad

[charlesoberonn]

Nothing beats getting it straight from the source

Should they use scissors or claws to cut the seaweed?

[somethingmissingthiswaycomes]

What about that sword in the first panel?

[charlesoberonn]

The circle is complete.

Through choices, friendship, and salad, he found his way to the path of the warrior. But he won't walk it alone.

Their path is just beginning, but this story is over.

Thank you to everyone who participated!

[lawfulgoodness]

This is all the worst and best parts of being a GM. Thanks OP. You did a great job.

[c-53]

imagine going to a house party and ask to go to the bathroom and like theres a dark souls silver knight guarding a chest in there. and like you ask him to not look but he doesn’t respond at all. He’s not like agro, or staring at you with intent, but he’s FULLY aware of your presence and watching you like you intend to steal

[c-53]

[c-53]

Really enjoying the bathroom knight rp

[halfpint-harlequin]

Incredible Stuff. Based.

[dovvvvv]

I just saw a video of “ice agents” arresting a brazilian trans woman and at one point she says “please stop, you’re hurting me” to which the agent replies “GOOD”. I pray in my lifetime we see justice, I want these demons to suffer tenfold.

anyway her name is Alice Correia Barbosa and here’s a link to a gofundme to help cover her legal fees

[illustratus]

Pericles and Aspasia by Fortunino Matania

[brainstemz]

"gender i was assigned at birth" and "gender i was raised as" and "gender i want to be seen as" and "gender i am seen as" are all different things. sometimes none of them line up with eachother. some of them change multiple times throughout life.

[brainstemz]

This post has been reblogged so much, that perisex rebloggers have lost the point. This post is—very specifically—about the fact that intersex people can, and often are, assigned one gender at birth, raised as a different gender, and then forcibly treated as a different gender again after puberty. This post is about intersex experiences.

[czl]

In American culture it is considered “bad luck” to leave the stove on when you’re not using it

[thesituation]

god it is so funny seeing radfems discover that racism spreads thru their ideology like wildfire and instead of thinking abt why that happens like clockwork they just go “guys stopppppp omg stop being racist pls it’s really ruining the appeal of being a terf who judges people’s worth based on biology/phenotype :(“

[cardassiangoodreads]

From the notes:

[princessboyclothes-deactivated2]

i loveeee me a ghetto black woman. i love black women with super long nails, i love black women that wear flashy jewelry and grillz, i love black women that are extra, i love black women that are bold, i love black women that are unapologetically loud, i love ratchet black women, i love mean black women, i love aggressive black women, i love black women that don’t give a fuck what anyone thinks of them, i love black women that don’t play into respectability politics, i love black women that cuss a lot, i love black women that don’t care about looking put together or sounding professional, i love black women who wear their bonnets and scarves out in public, i love angry black women, i love dominant black women, i love black women that love to twerk, i love black women that are outspoken about their sexuality, i love black women that look unapproachable, i love intimidating black women, i love confident black women, i love selfish black women, i love crazy black women, i love annoying black women, i love ‘hot cheeto’ black women, i love cocky black women, i love bougie black women, i love protective black women, i love black women that talk with an accent, i love black women from the east, i love black women from the west, i love black women from the south, i love black women from the north.. i love that the existence of black women and embracing of their culture pisses yall off so much. stay mad nigga.

[redstonedust]

watching sinners with an inflation calculator open in a second tab so i can understand just what kinda money the smokestack twins are throwing around. nerdiest possible movie experience i think.

[tbqtalks]

Okay coming out of lurking for this because among the many great features of Sinners is you don't actually have to go outside of the movie to understand what kind of money they're throwing around. The movie tells you itself.

In the scene where Smoke teaches the young girl how to negotiate, they're standing in front of of a cafe. The shot of them negotiating is framed so that you see a sign in the cafe window advertising a Ham and Eggs breakfast - in other words, a full meal - for 25 cents. The editing makes sure to put that sign back into frame whenever the question of the value of money arises in their discussion.

Smoke offers her 10 cents a minute and asks if that works for her. She says yes. He says no, it does not and tells her to negotiate higher. The 25 cent sign is framed in the shot when he tells her no, reminding us *why* it's not a good value.

She comes back with 50 cents - which the sign has informed us is the cost of *two* meals. Smoke tells her that's too much and counters with 20, which is just under a full meal but we now know that's a fairly respectable price because we just got the high/low contrast of 10 being too little and 50 being too much.

The negotiation ends with her getting 20 cents per minute and we now know 1) 25 cents is the cost of a filling meal in this environment 2) This girl only needs to do five minutes of work to be able to feed herself for a over day (20 cents per minute times five is a dollar, which is four meals) 3) Smoke has the kind of money to throw around that over a day's worth of food for someone can be to him - as it is to our modern eyes - mere pocket change and 4) Smoke's the kind of person who can both be a violent gangster but also care about teaching this girl how to look out for herself so that one day maybe she too can throw over a day's worth of food around like pocket change.

Combined with 5) you can now use that 25 cents = a meal to do the math every other time money gets mentioned in the movie to understand just how much cash the Smoke Stack boys are dealing with.

And that's just ONE detail which, thanks to props (Hannah Beachler), editing (Michael P Shawver), and cinematography (Autumn Durald Arkapaw), told you almost everything you needed to know about how finances work in this environment. This movie is unfair to all other films in how fucking good it is.

[sitcomwatcher]

[officialspec]

spamton on dating

[ef-1]