I Believe We Will All Be Past This One Day

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[clytemnestraaa]

hi this drives me crazy

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.

these are all different words with different meanings.

[justdecadentcollectiondestiny]

and a cannon is a large mounted gun, usually on wheels, that uses explosives to fire projectiles.

[memorycycle]

first thing id do as a skeleton is drink red wine from a goblet and have it spill out everywhere . second thing id do is play my ribs like a xylophone

[conquerer-of-western-chu]

You all have to give me a bit of time to gather dirt on John Hatpisser and Emperor Mercury, I have to learn how to read these ridiculous symbols first.

I'm stick on the title.

[qin-shi-huang-di]

YOU’RE HOLDING THE BOOK UPSIDE DOWN, MORON

[cowboyhatesithere]

250 years and most native tribal groups continue to not be federally recognized. Embarrassing!

[cowboyhatesithere]

Hey so a small thing that literally everyone who sees this is capable of is correcting any “used to” statements about native people in this country.

“Native people used to live in this National Park” No. They still do.

“Native people used to tell these stories-” No. They still do.

“Native people used to use this plant as a natural remedy-” No. They still do.

Better yet, familiarize yourself with the tribes local to you. Odds are, they do not yet have federal recognition. You can still read the stories they have to share, you can share their ongoing battle for recognition with others, you can sign petitions and spread the word to others to do so as well. But do something.

[the-haiku-bot]

“Native people used

to live in this National

Park” No. They still do.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[glumshoe]

obviously we know in our hearts that Jabba the Hutt is not a dragon. that’s ridiculous.

But Is Jabba A Dragon Though?

he has the body plan of a lindworm. I suppose you could argue that he is too thick to be considered “serpentine”, but he is longer than he is wide, and not entirely unlike an especially chunky gaboon viper. his upright posture distracts from the fact that he’s built like an abbreviated mole lizard, which are lindworms.

and then of course he acts like a dragon. I don’t know if Star Wars uses gold or something else but whatever it is I’m sure he hordes it. eats people sometimes. disturbing taste for princesses. knights come to kick his ass.

Is Jabba A Dragon?

[the-creep-in-the-hawaiian-shirt]

Jabba the Hut isn’t a dragon. He doesn’t fly. He’s more like a slug.

[glumshoe]

Ah, but he uses a hoversled, which is much like flying:

And not all creatures under the broad category of “dragon” fly. Lindworms don’t fly, neither do wyrms, drakes, sea serpents, or hydras. Lungs/Chinese dragons can fly but they don’t use wings to do it. Jabba should not be disqualified as a dragon simply because he uses repulsor technology to achieve airborne locomotion.

Jabba is unlike a slug in so many ways. He has jointed limbs, a hard internal skeleton, a skull with fixed spherical eyeballs, and no sensory tentacles or pneumostome. He is capable of facultative parthenogenesis--like komodo dragons and other squamates--continuously growing larger and living for hundreds of years hoarding wealth and power and preying on princesses. His resemblance to a slug is superficial, though we may describe him as such in an insulting fashion... like how a dragon may be called a “worm”.

Also he can and does eat people.

Jabba the Hutt is a dragon and I have convinced myself of this.

[goomymegpoid]

No he aint bro hes a fuckin alien. dragons have to originate from the planet earth hes from a galaxy far far away.

[glumshoe]

The dragons from both The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey and The Pit Dragon Trilogy by Jane Yolen are aliens from extraterrestrial planets called Pern and Austar IV, respectively. 

Jabba the Hutt is a dragon.

[wardenaristraith]

I think you will find that Hutts lack a backbone, commonly known as a spine, which, for the most part, dragons have either litterially or figuratively.

[glumshoe]

Jabba’s motions, limbs, and posture are clearly dependent upon the use of a hard interior support system. Lacking an exoskeleton and being unable to simply squelch out of Leia’s chokehold suggests he is not simply moving around via the hydrolics of a muscular hydrostat. Besides, there’s this art from the making of The Phantom Menace:

[direhuman]

ship this is getting dangerously close to morphological taxonomy

do you want a plucked chicken swung at you? because this is how you get a plucked chicken swung at you.

[glumshoe]

“Dragon” is like “worm”, in my opinion. It’s not a taxonomy because the variety of creatures referred to as “worms” don’t even belong to related phylums. A horsehair worm and a nightcrawler are not related but they share an innate “worminess”. A velvet worm has many legs and is still counted as a worm-thing. Like I’ve said before, “worm” isn’t a taxonomy; it’s a lifestyle.

Dragons are the same way. It’s an umbrella term, and while some irritating pedants insist that only a four-legged creature with words god can be considered a dragon, they only say that to make sure everyone in the room knows that they know what a wyvern is. Wyverns and lindworms and amphitheres are obviously all under the dragon umbrella.

If these things are dragons, then “dragon” is as fluid a category as “worm”:

Jabba has more stereotypical “dragon traits” than some dragons do. He doesn’t hit every point, but a dragon is a worm is a dragon is a worm.

[valkylander]

My general position is that the use of the word "dragon" to encompass all these disparate creatures is a bad thing and a relic of eurocentric colonialism. A Chinese Long is not the same thing as an English Dragon, nor is a wyvern or an amphithere, and calling them "dragons" belies the cultural differences in which these disparate creatures arose.

In terms of narrative purpose and lifestyle, Janba fills the role that a Dragon does in many stories, however. I would argue Jabba is a dragon in the same sense that a Tsuchigumo is.

[glumshoe]

I think enforcing a strict cultural differentiation would eliminate most dragons from fiction. Fiction, which supplies most modern dragons, does not stick to a strict historical consistency in dragon-depiction, either visually or behaviorally.

Take, for example, the dragons from The Last Airbender. They’re clearly dragons, as they breathe fire and have wings, but they’re also more like elemental spirits that visually and behaviorally resemble lungs more than they resemble, say, Smaug. Do their similarities to lungs disqualify them from dragonhood?

Also, it’s not like the medieval Welsh concept of a “dragon” evolved in a vacuum. There are mythical creatures from around the world that bear strong resemblances to That Specific Creature Which We Are Apparently Now Inisisting Is The Only True Dragon. Welsh and British folklore was surely being influenced by mythology from disparate cultures. 

I am firmly against declaring wyverns “not dragons” because even in British cultural history, the distinction only arose out of the technicalities of heraldry, not folklore or even art. 

[maulusque]

The only thing that Jabba lacks in terms of dragon qualifications: the innately obvious “dragony-ness” that makes most people take one look and go “oh yeah that’s a dragon”. But i don’t think that that’s a REQUIREMENT of dragon-hood. Like, what the fuck is that thing down there?

That thing does not have innate dragony-ness to me. It looks like a turtle with tentacles. 

But, while I think the answer to “can we consider Jabba the Hutt to be a dragon” is yes, no one has asked whether or not Jabba would consider himself to be a dragon.

there’s a whole list on wookiepedia of dragons in star wars and it turns out there’s a bunch of creatures that have “dragon” in their name and they all have quite a lot of dragony-ness but also none of them seem to reach anything beyond semi-sentience. So maybe Jabba has enough dragon-y qualities to be considered a dragon, but he himself would be insulted if you called him one.

[maulusque]

@glumshoe

i’m reading Maul: Lockdown by Joe Schreiber and

he’s a fucking dragon 

[dragons-locator]

@glumshoe

you make some good points and also I ABSOLUTELY HATE YOU FOR THIS

fine.

DRAGON LOCATED

i hate this i hate this i hate this

[officialdragonposts]

official dragon post

unfortunately

[alldragonsaregood]

Not unfortunately. This is great and awesome

This is exactly what I mean when I say "All Dragons Are Good"

You give multiple full reasons in calling him a dragon, and they all check out. Jabba's a wingless worm-like dragon, and there is nothing unfortunate about that.

[dragonheritageposts]

Dragon Heritage Post

[msboutofcontext]

[spacefinch]

This is honestly better advice than “if at first you don’t succeed, try try again.”

By all means try again. But do that after you figure out WHY you failed!

[knownqueerbaiter]

idk who needs to hear this but it’s healthier for you to just accept that you’re gonna be kinda fat than it is to live the rest of your life miserably trying to monitor yourself to maintain a skinny weight your body doesn’t want to hold onto

[knownqueerbaiter]

“nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” what feels even better is living a life where your self-worth isn’t entirely dependent on your thinness and you don’t constantly monitor and shame yourself. attaching the tweet that was worth at least five hours of therapy for me

[oars-deactivated20250629]

girl are you sure???????????????

[crescentalice]

girl with ptsd voice: hey, so something really bad is gonna happen, right? you guys are picking up on that too, yeah? The other shoe is about to drop, I just know it.

[water-activated-light]

[genderkoolaid]

its crazy seeing people on this website talk such big shit about how "androphobia isn't real everyone who talks about transandrophobia is an MRA !!!! learn basic feminism!!!!!"

but then because reproductive injustice and the centrality of controlling pregnancy to misogyny and patriarchy, perhaps the one (or at least most obvious) area where you cannot pretend that trans men have male privilege, is when it comes to the uterus. and so people are now having this reactionary backlash to the discussion of abortion rights or pregnancy or menstruation - NOT ON CIS WOMEN'S POST, mind you, only when trans men talk about it, while at the same time trans men are told they are "derailing" posts about misogyny by bringing up their experiences, trans and intersex people in general are told they are being selfish males by insisting that gender-inclusive reproductive language is vital. if you cannot see how anti-feminist this growing sentiment is, you need to work on that.

and i will not deny that some trans men absolutely do get bioessentialist about it. i have myself made posts calling out some anti-science, anti-transfeminine, intersexist posts made recently that act as though the uterus & disorders relating to it are solely and exclusively the purview of people assigned female. i am not saying there is never ever ever any bioessentialism in how trans men or nonbinary people assigned female talk about their experiences with sexual misogyny. there is and its important we are vigilant about it (although this is true for all trans people, none of us are immune to appealing to cissexist feminism at the expense of other trans people to get our suffering heard, not that these people ever wanna talk about that)

but it is VERY obvious that because of the anti-transmasculinity on this site, people have become genuinely anti-feminist in their hostility to anything that ever discusses abortion or pregnancy or anything relating to the uterus and how it ties into people's oppression. the fact that there are people on this site who call themselves transfeminists, and then insist that trans men who talk about how they are affected by attacks on abortion rights, or birth control, or forced pregnancy, are being bioessentialist and should shut up... i am sorry but THIS is anti-feminism. these are not good faith criticisms, they are soaked to the goddamn teeth in anti-transmasculinity just as much as some people's posts about how trans women who say they have endometriosis are valor-stealing liars are soaked in anti-transfemininity.

if your transfeminism cannot reckon with the reality that having a uterus has a material impact on people's lives, it is brittle and shitty transfeminism which will fail all of us. transunity or death.

[maja-paja]

[dogpuppy]

[nineteenyearoldmeblog]

im fucking crying

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

In Rimworld I was just contracted to hold onto some prisoners for someone for awhile, very normal circumstance. Except that the idiots decided to stage a prison break one day before it was time to return them and I had to violently subdue them. So my neighbours handed me three prisoners in perfect health and a week later I hand them back with shattered noses and poorly bandaged head and chest wounds like. No this wasn't my fault. We're good people we run a good prison.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I did make them sleep on sandstone slabs and eat nutrient goo but in fairness the rock slabs are to make me need to break their noses less often, and everyone here eats nutrient goo. We're good people we run a good prison.

[softness-and-shattering]

How do the rock slabs function to decrease the totally passive need for totally passive nose breaking?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Prisoners have a prison break internal timer, and when it runs out they will attempt a prison break. The timer depends on things like how many prisoners there are, how healthy they are, and how many doors lead into the cells.

The timer only ticks down while a prisoner is awake -- it is paused while they sleep. So you can increase the amount of time before a prison break (and thus the amount of time before you have to crack them over the head with a mace until they stop moving) by making them sleep longer. This is done by giving them shitty beds made out of stone that reduces their sleep quality so they have to be in bed longer to rest up. Since prisoners only really need to be awake to eat and get brainwashed (I mean, chat companionably with the warden about which faction they should be working for and what they should believe, we're all friends here), there's no reason not to make their sleep as shitty as possible.

This is the kind and gentle way to keep prisoners contained and healthy btw. Mean players will often use the more direct and reliable "nugget pawn" method.

[qillermeme]

[markovchaingang]

guy who thinks the goal of an argument is to humiliate the other person: -evil -pragmatist -regrettably correct

guy who thinks the goal of an argument is to facilitate reasoned discussion with an interlocutor: -doomed -hopelessly naïve -will be found dead in a back alley with two gunshot wounds to the back of the head but will depart straight to heaven on priority orders from the big man himself

guy who thinks the goal of an argument is to tally up your opponent's infractions in accordance with a book of empty rules you elected to bind yourself under: -a loathsome creature -never gonna make it -somehow even more doomed than the second guy

[lambieslilpasture]

btw when you follow me I do look at your page. i examine all of you.