Inkfeathernest

I have no clue on what I'm doing anymore. I'm near exclusively using this to keep track of tumblr hosted webcomics.

[a-s-fischer]

One thing I wish more gentiles understood is that modern Judaism is post-apocalyptic, and every Jew they've ever met is living after the apocalypse.

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

[productofaritual]

Love character relationships that can only be described as "whatever the fuck these two have going on"

[ellis-deigh-blog]

This guy raised an abandoned moose calf with his Horses, and believe it or not, he has trained it for lumber removal and other hauling tasks. Given the 2,000 pounds of robust muscle, and the splayed, grippy hooves, he claims it is the best work animal he has. He says the secret to keeping the moose around is a sweet salt lick, although, during the rut he disappears for a couple of weeks, but always comes home…. Impressive !! MINNESOTA CLYDESDALE

[durendoll]

why are moose so terrifyingly large

[totallynotagentphilcoulson]

Because they’re pretty much legit surviving Ice Age megafauna and almost everything was bigger back then

[henstomper]

his moose leaves for a few weeks to Fuck

[lyricwritesprose]

And comes back because he figures he has a pretty sweet deal.  Oats, salt, probably some treats and scratches, for the price of some basic pulling and advanced not murdering fools?

Sometimes I think people give themselves too much credit for animal domestication.  Sometimes the main character of the domestication story is some terrifying beast who reasons, “But salt though.”

[chasingqueerdreams]

You think of The Illiad and The Odyssey when you hear the name Helen.

I think of the queen of Eddis, Helen, master of war, from the Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner.

We are not the same.

[princess-of-the-corner]

Do you think Dionysus claimed all of his kids purely out of "if this unclaimed kid finds out I'm their dad and they spent 2 years at camp without me claiming them then they are gonna complain everyday." So he just always claimed his kids to prevent any awkwardness? Like there's always a non-zero chance that a random power of his pops up. So he always just claims his kids to make sure he doesn't have to deal with any whining? (Also because he likely had a heavy hand in getting his kids to camp because he doesn't want his kids dead. He knows how that feels.)

I think it's also-

Look I said that the Demigods get their adhd from the Gods and a thing about adhd is out of sight out of mind and then also "I meant to do that so my brain will check it off the list like I did it then three hours later realize I didnt"

So yeah Dionysus sees these kids show up and pretty quickly remembers "oh right I should tell them they're mine" and even if he forgets for a day or two he'll remember when he sees them hanging with the Hermes Cabin instead of the rest of his kids.

[princess-of-the-corner]

Season 5 funny idea: before Adrien and Marinette got together, Chat convinced Ladybug to auction a date with themselves off for charity... And not only the auction happens AFTER they got together in their legal identities, the one to win Ladybug is Lila by paying twenty million€.

She isn't even trying to mess with Ladybug right now, she's just been fired and decided the best way to screw with the guy she now knows is Hawk Moth is to use his money to donate to charity in a way that makes Ladybug look better so she's paying using a slush fund of his. Though Ladybug trying to find out what her plan is IS funny...

As for Chat, Chloé won the date. She isn't paying with her money or her relatives, she's using ADRIEN'S slush fund and spends the night complaining at him how everyone dumped her for the sister out of nowhere and he realizes he played a large role in her recent character worsening. Also, what does she mean with "And my half of a sister is rebounding from Marinette to my best friend and I have no idea what to do!"

Beautiful

[sea-wolf-coast-to-coast]

That's right!

FFxivWrite2026 is less than 1 month away!!

And I've got a big question for y'all. I'm told that, due to timezone differences, our friends in the Europe struggle with the usual 12:00 pm PST prompt drop.

In order to accommodate...

Should the prompt drop time change to 9:00 am PST?

Sure!

No, thank you - keep it 12:00 pm PST

Voting ended on13h

The 24-hour time limit for prize eligibility would still apply. So, as an example, for PST folks, the 24-hour window would shift to 9:00 am 9/1 - 8:59 9/2 on prompt #1, and so on.

9:00 am PST is the only option on the table for a potential prompt drop time adjustment. Please understand that there is no prompt drop time of day that will work perfectly for everyone. Adjusting to a 9:00 am PST start would allow a fair range of writing times for a broader majority.

So, please vote! Share this post with your FFxivWrite participating friends so that they can vote as well.

In 1 week I'll check back on the poll, and I'll take the results into serious consideration as I prep for September 1st, 2026! The final prompt drop time will be announced in the official rules post that will go out roughly 2 weeks before the challenge begins.

I'm so excited!

[uprincipled]

the most unexpected of places

+ bonus wolffe under the cut

[uinre]

FINAL FANTASY X (2001)

[e-rose]

[wayfire-official]

Sex should have a secondary gameplay loop where you build bases, manage resources, and expand your territory

[dee-the-red-witch]

That's literally just having kids.

[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[authortobenamedlater]

Tolkien literally wrote The Hobbit as a bedtime story for his son Christopher.

Also my dad read it to me when I was seven. I read it on my own when I was about 10.

[moniquill]

[mikkeneko]

PSA to fan creators who don't have a lot of regular contact with children: They are almost always bigger than you think. A 1-year-old baby may already be walking. A toddler is likely already hip-high. A 10-year-old may already be taller than at least one of their parents. A 14/15 year old may already have reached their adult height.

[amarguerite]

Via @watertightvines

[wildjuniperjones]

Here's the link. It was actually not immediately easy to find, so I thought this might help.

[nat-20s]

extremely funny to me that Kermit the Frog is the only main overlap character between Sesame Street and The Muppets. imagine your day job is hanging out in a community of lovely people that genuinely just want to help kids learn and care about everyone so so much and then your night job is the reason that you have to stay up to date on your rabies AND tetanus vaccine

[nat-20s]

at noon the giant you're hanging out with is Big Bird! a wonderful fellow who likes reading stories and singing and telling fun facts! at midnight there's a giant named Sweetums who makes you feel like you're being hunted for sport

[nat-20s]

Ernie, trying to maybe come out to Kermit: well you know Kermit, me and Bert-

Bert: Bert and I

Ernie: Bert and I, we've been best friends forever, but we're also something else too!

Kermit, who every goddamn night has to tell Beaker and Bunsen to keep it professional, deal with Statler and Waldorf's bullshit, AND update his organizational chart on Dr. Teeth and the Electric Polycule: that's really great to hear fellas, happy for you two! :)

[airplanned]

We all agree, right?

AI to write your novel is wrong

A bargain with a demon to write your novel is okay

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Only if you specify in the contract that the demon can't use chat-GPT

[athenadark]

I've been thinking about this - and why asking the demon is also a bad idea

Tartini was a composer and violin teacher and no one respected him, he was generally broke, and he started having weird dreams in which the devil asked him to teach him violin

despite being catholic tartini agreed - although everything told him this was a bad idea

so he taught the devil violin in his dreams and when he had taught him everything he knew the devil offered him payment, he played an original composition in his dream

Tartini woke up weeping and struggled to write it down

we have a historical version of "couldn't remember the greatest song in the world, this is just its tribute", and the song he wrote down made him "Sonata in G Minor, aka the devil's trill" it's usually played by 2 violinists because it's evil difficult,

now imagine you make a deal with the devil to write your novel, he writes it but only lets you read it in a dream and you have to transcribe it from memory the next day.... 150k of the best prose and plot you've ever seen in your life and you have to remember it

chatgpt is evil, but that's just mean

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

That's every novel. That happens to me any time I manage to get more than four hours' sleep at once.

[tpwrtrmnky]

"Trans women are actually women for real, not in a metaphorical sense, not in a "anyone can be anything" sense, but genuinely actually make more taxonomic sense to classify in the category of women than any other group you could classify them in" is a position you'll find is pretty radical even in queer spaces

[taliabhattwrites]

I recently posed a question to my cis followers on Bsky about whether they could defend the idea that trans women are in fact women.

The overwhelming response was, while well-meaning, sorely disappointing and along the lines of "of course trans women are women, 'woman' is ultimately a meaningless category, you can be whatever you like".

It was such a profoundly sobering experience because I realized that most people have framed their conception of trans rights around owning bigots and dunking on them in arguments instead of an affirmative understanding of trans marginalization, a comprehension of the struggles we face in a cissexist, patriarchal society, or even a basic familiarity with how we are seen and regarded and treated institutionally.

'Woman' is not a meaningless category in a patriarchy. It is a positionality, one that trans women undoubtedly occupy, and most cis people--even allies, even the ones who believe they want to do right by us--do not fundamentally accept the premise that we actually inhabit this position and navigate society as women.

It's an epistemic chasm I don't quite know how to cross, which is unfortunate as I've inadvertently dedicated my life to doing so. Ascertaining just how wide that gap in understanding is was alarming, if necessary.

To cis readers, all I can say is that if you only think trans women can be women in a world where the word 'woman' holds no meaning, you're more aligned with the Gender-Conservative position on us than you think. You might want to unpack that.

[philosopherking1887]

Stop me if you've heard this one -- and you're very well read in feminist scholarship, so you might very well have -- but my favorite account of what it means to be a woman is the one put forward by Alison Stone in her 2004 paper "Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Philosophy," in which she proposes that woman is a concept that should be regarded as having not a definition, but a genealogy (in the Nietzschean sense), and that women are unified as a class in virtue of inheriting and participating in that history. She seems to have published a shorter version of the same argument as a chapter called (appropriately enough) "On the Genealogy of Women."

I would like that argument, naturally, because I'm a Nietzsche scholar; but part of the reason I like it is because it is trans-inclusive, and it can account for why both trans women and trans men face misogyny in different respects and contexts, due to their different connections to the history of womanhood. It might be unsatisfying to some people because it doesn't provide necessary and sufficient conditions that enable us to sort people into or out of the class woman. But I like to pair it with Talia Mae Bettcher's account of gender identity as a matter of ethical first-person authority (i.e., that people's avowals of their gender identity should generally be treated as incorrigible in the same way as avowals about feelings, desires, and other mental states, because contesting them fails to respect their agency over what they disclose about themselves), as presented in "Trans Identity and First-Person Authority" (it was published in 2009, so some of the terminology and spelling are outdated). So you use avowed gender identity to 'sort' people, but then the external account of what it means for someone to belong to the class woman or man (or non-binary, genderqueer, two-spirit, or what have you) is determined by an understanding of the historical development of those classes and the implications of participating in them (so you avoid any circular definition of gender classes in terms of self-identification).

Nietzsche says in On the Genealogy of Morality that nothing that has a history can have a definition -- which might be overstating the point, but he's talking about concepts and institutions like morality, punishment, religion, philosophy, art, which are too complex, multifaceted, and often internally contradictory to have a definition in the philosopher's sense of necessary and sufficient conditions. But they are anything but meaningless; they are so oversaturated with meaning that it spills over the edges of any attempt at a definition. I think it makes sense to regard gender and gender classes in a similar way.