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“the arts and sciences are completely separate fields that should be pitted against each other” the overlap of the arts and sciences make up our entire perceivable reality they r fucking on the couch

scienceraccoon

Art vs STEM is a lie created to stop us from turning on the real enemy: business and economics

sidhewrites

Arts vs STEM is a lie, the computer that put us on the moon was a loom of woven wires, our space suits were made by hand sewing, we need chemistry to mix paint and we need biology to raise the sheep who make the wool we spin into yarn and crochet or knit or weave and the world is beautiful

spacefinch

Reblogging as a science enthusiast and an artist

jandjsalmon

Fun Story to Share.

I got my (now 18-year-old) daughter into Ao3 back in 2021. I taught her she should always comment - even if the fic looks old or abandoned or whatever. She did.

Well - she got this email this morning:

The fic was written in 2014 and essentially abandoned.

Bethy read and reviewed in 2021 (and was actually the only person who had commented at all).

Today in 2025 - the final chapter was posted by the author and this was her reply to Bethy’s comment.

———

Never question whether a fic is too old to comment on.

writing-prompt-s

magical girls are real, and you have been chosen by a magical creature to become one. The only problem is your a full grown man with 2 kids and a wife.

steampoweredwerehog

Magical girl William—I mean Strawberry Seraph 🍓✨💖

yeahokayillreblogthat

Yeah okay, I’ll reblog that!

adarkrainbow

You know when people say that the fairytale world has an inherent queerness to it? I'm not just speaking of how a lot of queer authors built the fairytales we have today, from French lesbians of the Renaissance to sad Danish gay men. I'm saying how fairytale adaptations seem to naturally flow towards the queer side of things, whether wanted or not - most famous example being the classic Disney movies who, despite being basically the epitome of heterosexualism and conservation of traditional values, still ended up fueling and feeding an entire queer feeling and imagery.

I was thinking back about this because I noticed, thanks to my previous reblogs-talks, how in France the two major/dominating fairytale movies are both queer movies.

Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast because, you know, Cocteau was openly gay, frequently used his homosexuality in his art, and the Beast/Prince is played by his boyfriend. No need to explain much there.

As for Jacques Demy's Donkey Skin, it is rather tied to the context. Jacques Demy isn't gay, and Catherine Deneuve is not lesbian, and Jacques Perrin is definitively hetero (cough cough the whole Godard scandal cough cough) - though the King is played by Jean Marais, making it his second fairytale role in cinema. But the Jacques Demy movies themselves are gay.

I posted a long time (on my other blog I think?) how the whole stereotype of "Gays love musicals" isn't actually present in France? Or rather it is but not in the way the USA popularized it, because stage musicals aren't so much of a big thing. Gays were definitively associated with musicals, but more... you know, burlesque, cabaret-style musicals and little productions in tiny theaters of gay neighborhoods of old cities. Anyway I digress. We don't have stuff like the "All gays know Wicked song" stereotype around here. BUT we do have one sub-stereotype/cliche tied to it - the "All gays love Jacques Demy musical movies". Because his musical movies of the 60s weren't just an iconic reflection of the 60s colorful, naive, optimistic, childish, hippie-like, doll-like feel of the 60s - they also earned and surrounded themselves with a strong queer aura making them basically "gay movies" or classics. In many ways you can compare them to Disney movies - two sets of colorful, musical movies all made by hetero people and all about hetero romance, but that somehow ended up gaining huge gay vibes and a solid queer audience.

This post is very poorly written, I am just thinking as I write - honestly it isn't so much a blog as a notebook at this point - but yeah, the whole thing of "Fairytale movies are so gay" isn't just an American thing. In France the two fairytale classics of cinema are also pretty gay.

maimoncat

And something similar is the case in Germany and Italy:

the most iconic of the classic czeh-german fairy tale movie collaborations, "three wishes for Cinderella" has the first dress Cinderella puts on as a hunting outfit, with which she partakes in the hunting competition. And during this whole scene, the prince seems quite smitten with crossdressing Cinderella.

In Italy one of the few succesful fairy tale "movie" productions is the "Fantaghirò" series, where the whole central premise is that of a crossdressing warrior-princess going on adventures. This element is also present in the Orlando Furioso (while not directly bound to fairy tales, it often influenced italian fairy tale and fantasy adaptations), where one of the central (and most popular) characters is the warrior princess Bradamante, who is mistaken at one point for a man by the princess Fiordispina, who falls madly in love with her. Her infatuation survives as Bradamante's identity is revealed, and she eventually also falls for Bradamante's identical twin brother Ricciardetto. Her being mistaken for Riciardetto and having women fall for her is an element picked up in certain adaptations, like Händel's Alcina, where Morgana tries to woo her.

While not all that famous outside of the South, Roberto de Simone's adaptation of Basile's "Gatta Cenerentola" also features queer elements and a lot of gender ambiguity: in it, the stepmother and stepsisters are all played by male actors; later, in the scene where Cinderella is dejected for not being able to go to the ball, four femminielli (a tipe of third gender people from Naples and Campania,) come into the courtyard, sew and perform a parody of the rosary. As the monacello, the neapolitan goblin, comes to help Cinderella by explaining how to use the fairy tree, the actress for Cinderella gestures, while the main femminiello says her lines.

There's definitely a lot more to say, but it's already late

inthesensethat

moth-grrrl-mavis

Just got turned down for two jobs so this was nice to read.

tlirsgender

Having your main anxiety response be Avoidance is crazy cause you'll think you're chillin and then one day you're like waitttt I've been paralyzed with fear this whole time. Damn

tlirsgender

Was anybody else playing dead the whole time they were teenagers or is that just a me problem. Like I'm 20 now and I'm like Oh shit I didn't do anything. Because I'm scared

mackdaddyofthecravate

Please return us to a world where Notp and squick are used for a ship you don’t like instead of just making up a load of bullshit about how immoral it is or w/e lol

sazandorable

a short selection of concepts and phrases that used to be commonplace in fandom and we’d really benefit from making that a thing again:

NOTP: the opposite of an OTP (One True Pairing). It is a ship a fan strongly dislikes. The word is a portmanteau of ‘no’ and ‘OTP’ and thus is not a contraction of any particular phrase.

Squick: anything that is a deep-seated, visceral turn-off. Squicks may be shared by many fans or be specific to one; one person’s kink may be another person’s squick.

YKINMKATO, or kink-tomato: Your Kink Is Not My Kink, And That’s Okay: used to indicate support for fannish diversity and to distinguish between disapproval or kink shaming and simply having different taste.

DLDR: Don’t Like, Don’t Read: a phrase used to warn against complaints about an aspect of fic or meta. A “live and let live” philosophy of fandom, which places the responsability for avoiding content one doesn’t want to see on the side of the fanwork consumer, rather that on the creator’s.

SALS: Ship And Let Ship: similar to the above specifically about shipping tastes.

YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary: a phrase used to acknowledge that any given individual’s personal opinion on the topic at hand may differ due to their own tastes, standards, values, experiences, etc.

As the OP points out, all of these crucially imply no moral judgment of what they’re designing.

(definitions lifted more or less wholesale from fanlore’s relevant pages)

shatterpath

bring the healthy fun back to fandom!

greenteaandtattoos

If ever a time comes when I don’t reblog this when it appears on my dash, assume I’m dead

headspace-hotel

do y'all reckon fairies would be pollinators

headspace-hotel

They don't actually produce the fairy dust, it comes from the flowers they harvest nectar from

leporellian

the marriage of figaro + the onion headlines

a sequel to this

bakwaaas

@aneid / sydney smith / unknown / @bakwaaas / @nutnoce / @dearestvita

bakwaaas

velvetys

Sorry it’s early but you really can’t use fanfiction terms in a non fanfiction context like if someone is trying to sell me a book to read and they tell me there’s an enemy to lovers I would be annoyed because why are you spoiling the story lol

azurebluuu

sorry op this is kind of a tangent but this is why i hate how booktok has not only affected how ppl talk about their fave stories, but how it's basically gnawed its way into how publishing companies promote books. it basically encourages authors to build their entire story entirely around marketable tropes so that they turn more of a profit

"it has enemies to lovers!" "it has friends to lovers!" "this is a slow burn!" WHAT IS THE PLOT??? what makes your story unique?? why should i read it??? describing your story entirely in tropes and fanfiction terms makes your story sound extremely uninteresting lmfao.

nerdgul

Fanfiction is for when you want to read familiar characters in a setting where you already know what's going to happen. I care about this coffee shop au because I already love these characters and just want to see them in fun familiar situations

Books are original content for new stories new characters in new situations. Why should I care if it takes place in a coffee shop? Give me a reason to love these characters!

thespoonisvictory

people misunderstand what ‘gifted kid’ actually means but it’s ok it’s fine it’s cool it’s good

thespoonisvictory

it’s not about actually being gifted, it’s about an initial higher scoring on standardized testing that means little to nothing or being good at learning in the way elementary and middle school wants you to, so you get marked as ‘advanced’. in reality, maybe you had faster development in certain areas, but the issue with being a gifted kid isn’t that “everyone told me I was so cool and special for reading and then I actually wasn’t :(” it’s “I wasn’t properly taught to handle things not coming easily to me, but the adults around me were counting on me not being a ‘difficult’ child in school.”

people who use it as some weird bragging method or interpret it that way are ignoring the way a lot of school systems force certain roles on students to simplify the learning process. If your kid doesn’t need to take notes to understand a science concept bc they get it naturally, well that’s good, but now you’re not teaching them how to take notes and they’re not learning that important soft skill. but because ‘gifted’ kids are easy and don’t show that they’re falling behind in learning in other categories that are harder to quantify, they eventually fall behind after that catches up to them. It’s about the failures of a one size fits all school system trying to compensate in the worst way possible.

jabberwockypie

And also the thing where ‘gifted’ kids are super likely to also be neuroatypical, which they don’t get screened for because they appear to be doing well in school. Or “You can’t be ADHD/autistic/etc, because you’re doing so well in school!”. Or being shamed for developing mental health issues/generally not being able to keep up with school work later, because you USED TO BE able to do it just fine.

Or the assumption that just because you can read well or you like math class, you’re somehow more EMOTIONALLY mature than your little kid brain is actually capable of being.

Or gifted kids whose parents and teachers put immense pressure on them to Do Great Things and Save The World and you’re like. “I’m 10 and I have no idea how to do that, but everyone is saying that’s my job?”.

swordplease

This is the best “gifted kid” post out there. I never took notes until college because I didn’t have to, snd when it got challenging I had to literally teach myself note taking at age 18. It also fucks with your perception of asking for help - you’re advanced, you’re competent, you should be able to understand every topic easily. Asking for help/going to office hours/asking for a tutor feels like failing when you were praised in your early years for not needing to do that.

jikotousuiiii

angeliicpretty

reblog to cast level 5 spell: everyone who reads this gets a full night sleep

animusrox

Baby-Doll Batman: The Animated Series

twostriptechnicolor

This is one criminally underrated Batman villain.

muchymozzarella

SERIOUSLY THOUGH SHE WAS MY FAVORITE BATMAN VILLAIN

Her physical condition didn’t allow her to age

No one took her seriously as an actress

And even when she was trying to get into a happy romantic relationship (albeit with another villain) he still couldn’t take her seriously as a consenting, sexually active and romantically interested adult

That’s a lot of blows to someone’s psyche

and Babydoll is both a sympathetic villain and a formidable one

barnabasdeimos

I remember this episode fucked me up a a kid.

darkslover

And man, do I wish we could see this Batman again: the Batman that consoles his villains, because the majority (if not all) of them are mentally ill people. And Batman knows this and wants them healthy again, not punished and GOD definitely not dead.

poppypicklesticks-blog

Baby Doll is so underrated as a Batman villain

but her episode was perfect

wolvensnothere

Batman: The Animated Series The story of one fucked up, traumatized little boy, doing his best to help other fucked up traumatized people.

absentlyabbie

#this show is the only batcanon that matters to me #dc can burn everything else down but they’ll never pry the dcau from cold dead clawed hands

albawrites-deactivated20230805

The Batman that cares about the inmates is my favorite. He doesn’t put up with their shit, but he does try to reach out here and there and he’s as human as he can be to them.

When Harley was re-institutionalized, he got her that dress she wanted.

In the comics based on B:tAS, there was a time during Christmas that there was snow and it was Mr. Freeze’s fault, and he was making it snow because Christmas was his anniversary with Nora and she LOVED it when it snowed on Christmas, so Batman let him finish mourning before calmly taking him back to Arkham.

He never, ever gives up on Harvey possibly recovering.

Sure, Batman is going to throw punches and do what it takes to take these guys down when they’re hurting or threatening people. And he’s not going be a complete bleeding heart; he has to protect the innocent. He’s going to take them down and take them back to Arkham, but it doesn’t mean he’s incapable of being a bit human to the ones who deserve it.

hoku-san

Batman needs become human again

wetwareproblem

Because it needs to be here:

lehrastar-deactivated20250708

eric-coldfire

Remember that time a young girl with near god-like psychic powers threatened to destroy reality and the only one that could stop her was Batman because he had a previous encounter with her and was tasked with killing her to restore reality.

But instead, Batman sat with her on a swing and kept her company as the girl’s psychic powers slowly killed her.

No?

chaos-heim

fuckstaffposts

Fuck you people making me emotional

thecelestialchild

The. Batman.

filbipott

This is MY Batman, not the murderous fascist they’ve made him into.

rae-redacted

It’s ridiculous to think that this isn’t what studios want from our heroes. This is dark and sad without being grim-dark. We need our heroes to be compassionate. There’s enough darkness in the world already. Give us our heroes who care and truly fight for justice.

gholateg

It’s like they forgot that batman is, at his core, a Noir character.

And what makes Noir a good style, is that the protagonist never gives up and allows themself to wallow in the darkness around them. The world is dark, and bleak, and cold hearted, yes.

But the protagonist fights against that.

Fights for their humanity.

Claws their way out of that muck, and even if the ending is as dour and bleak as the world around them, the Noir Hero shoulders that burden and carries on.

A battered lantern with a flickering light inside them. Refusing to let it burn out.

That’s what Batman should be.