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[heronbrew]

I think it's hilarious that hands down the worst way to learn magic is the actual rulebook. Please do not read that. It's just there for reference when something weird happens

[lesbianralzarek]

posts that i know are about magic the gathering but i have to check to make sure op isn't just living in a way doper world than me

[marypsue]

I do not want my fantasy media to be realistic. I want my fantasy media to be convincing.

[femalepope]

if we want to stop the patriarchal concept of surnames being passed down the male line, we have a few options options that i'd be 100% fine with:

children get whichever surname is cooler, to eliminate uncool surnames over the generations

children get whichever surname is rarer, to achieve a utopian future in a few centuries where all surnames are more or less equally common

children's surnames are randomly generated: say, heads for parent #1's surname, tails for parent #2's surname

parents pick the first names first, and then a court decides which surname fits it better. so if a couple named mr. madison and mr. liu want to name their daughter alison, she'll get the surname liu, because alison madison sounds ridiculous

everyone stops having children right now

[lakesandquarries]

6. combine last names but not in a hyphenated way, literally mash them together like a ship name (so madison and liu could become madliu)

[botgal]

7. When people get married/have a family in some capacity they think up a new surname together that they’ll share and give to their children.

[shittycryptids]

a unicorn but it’s a zebra with a rhino horn

[spheal-a-day]

Spheal can now learn Baby-Doll Eyes in Legends: Arceus.

You cannot resist

[spheal-a-day]

Ninja Spheal

Or how about... Ninji Spheal!?

[vgadvisor]

[shittycryptids]

Haunted abandoned house next door, but it's haunted with the ghost of a chill suburban dad. Sometimes at the dead of night, you can hear him running his lawnmower, catch the faint smell steaks on a grill, hear the basketball game playing softly from inside the house.

[konkoa]

This has been a PSA.

[reapersun]

I’m trying not to reblog posts on this blog but I feel that this is important to post here.

[enigmaticagentalice]

on a related note:

[princecharmingtobe]

And for the people asking “Well if you don’t support it irl then why would you like it in fiction?!” Because when it’s happening irl real people are suffering and dying and that’s horrible and I’d never want that. But when it’s fiction, when no real people are being hurt or killed, it’s interesting to explore the experience, the effects it may have, and to an extent experience the emotions involved without actually having to experience the horrible thing. You explore scary, dangerous things from a safe distance.

[pretentioussongtitle]

It’s the same reason I love disaster movies and don’t love actual disasters. I mean, if someone can’t intuit the difference  between watching a movie like 2012 and yelling “cool!” when LA slides into the ocean and being horrified at the real life effects of global warming and the idea of millions of people dying as a result, then  *I* am not the one with the problem. 

[maybe-homestuck-now-or-something]

y'know, I just wanna say that the characters not making any new friends in HS2 makes even less sense when you consider how quickly and easily the kids became friends with the trolls, all things considered. like, it wasn't even on purpose. Karkat's whole goal was to antagonize the kids, and they ended up being friends because the trolls eventually got to explain their situation, and the kids were so ready and willing to help. it was endearing.

and all of this is to say that these characters actively display the qualities of being sociable, likable, and friendly... or at least charismatic. the idea that that part of them just turned off as soon as they arrived on Earth C is as bizarre as anything the post canon content has included. does anyone remember the fact that Jade spent a lot of her childhood asleep and dreaming on Prospit? and how that helped remedy her isolation, because she was able to befriend the Prospitians there? or Roxy... god, I just realized the wealth of parallels between Jade and Roxy in terms of how they grew up... they have the same strife specibus, Jade's pumpkins keep disappearing/Roxy disappears them, they both befriend carapacians, but Roxy's dream self is constantly asleep while she helps support the Carapacians she knows in the waking world, and Jade is constantly asleep in the waking world while the Carapacian community supports her as she dreams...

anyway, the point is that seeking companionship was always a core theme of homestuck. it's why the title of the comic is significant, and why the [S] pages are mainly named after movement, and why some of the biggest moments in the comic involve keeping up with what multiple disparate groups of people are doing at once, and the climax is the moment when the characters are finally able to reach each other in person. the comic takes time to develop each character individually at length, but seeing how they function among others is why that matters.

if the characters are starting to feel isolated because they're losing old friends and not making any new ones, then they've learned nothing. they're regressing back to how they were at the start. a bunch of isolated people, except this time they can't even open up pesterchum and message their friends about it because who is left?

[vgadvisor]

[quasi-normalcy]

What I can tell you as a transgender woman is that occasionally I will read trans woman characters written by cisgender authors. And I can pretty much always tell when the author is cis, even if the character is portrayed respectfully, because they get some details wrong or something. But I certainly don’t think that they shouldn’t be allowed to take a stab at it, and I actually appreciate any representation that isn’t egregiously harmful. And I certainly don’t think that only transgender women should be allowed to write transgender women because then it falls on me, and that’s rather tokenizing, isn’t it?

[quasi-normalcy]

Also it seems like demanding that only #OwnVoices authors should be allowed to write certain characters is an excellent way to enforce a situation where most books are about cishet white people.

[quasi-normalcy]

And no: you probably won’t get all of the specific details of someone else’s lived experience correct, in much the same way that most authors don’t get all of the specific details about how, say, nuclear reactors or space work. But so long as your character passes as realistically human and not a one-dimensional caricature of what you think that other types of people are like, then I think that that’s reasonable.

[angryinkeddrunk]

Tumblr, you need to hate the right people.

Hate bad cops not all cops. 

Hate bad men not all men.

Hate racists not a specific race.

Hate transphobic people not cis people.

Hate homophobic people not straight people.

Please, stop being hateful towards so many good people in the world. 

Stop lumping entire genders, jobs, races, sexualities, and gender identities into one hateful group because think about it: You get angry when you are lumped together hatefully so why do you do it to others? 

Treat others how you want to be treated. 

Be the bigger person.  

[matchboxmania-blog]

For the love of god, say it a little louder for the people in the back.

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #3131:

are they really mortal enemies if they don't secretly want to smooch

[fubarbarotch]

The amount of people taking this advuce to their hearts makes me a sad panda

[shittycryptids]

A literal Donkey Kong.

[mannatea]

u know exactly what i mean 

[rhythmic-idealist]

[Image: A four-panel meme made of screenshots from Despicable Me, in which Gru is giving a presentation using a giant pad of paper as a visual aid, not unlike a slideshow. The first page says “Get really into a Popular Character.” The second says “There’s TONS of content for them!” The third says “but it’s all been warped by fandom interpretation.” Gru turns to look at the page in disappointment and confusion. “but it’s all been warped by fandom interpretation.”]

[rhythmic-idealist]

Hello everyone, I’m back! Thank you so much for your support. It’s been unreal.

There’s a longer update on the GoFundMe, but if you’ve read my old pinned post, there have been a lot of twists and turns since then. Being poor is hard and unpredictable.

[Image: 30-day notice to pay rent or quit. Will transcribe in a reblog.]

As we knew was coming, O has been given 30 days’ notice to pay off part of an outstanding rent bill. This letter arrived on February 25th—30 days after that is March 27th.

I first just want to express how much this fundraiser has meant in his life so far. When expenses just kept f#%&ing growing, it kept his lights on, secured COVID-safe transportation to work when he was out of a ride (O has asthma and has had COVID once before, this is critical), and kept food in his fridge. We don’t even know how that would have been there without the fundraiser. It’s been incredible.

Whether you reblogged any of the previous posts, donated yourself, or shared the fundraiser with anyone you know/on social media, thank you.

The amount that’s still due, at this 30 day deadline, is about $3000. For March, he’s in a good enough place (I cannot thank you enough) that everything raised in these next 23 days goes to rent.

For those of you new to this story, O’s workplace shut down for two weeks. He got sick from the exposure that shut it down, and had to stay home another three weeks. When he wasn’t working—staying home to protect people, in the same workplace that required him to stay home—he wasn’t being paid.

(Since then, there’s been an additional week stuck at home with a fever.) His landlord knows the problem, but it’s no longer illegal to evict him for it, so here we are.

I’ll keep you updated. Thank you so much for reading, everyone—I am astonished and amazed at how much the community has kept him afloat so far! He’s getting back on his feet.

It’s a tall, tall ask, and nearly everyone is struggling right now. Hell, later this week you’ll see me share a fundraiser for two of my partners’ friends. We are not after money that you need—part of mutual aid is that sometimes you’re able to give it, and sometimes you’re the one who needs to receive it. Sometimes, you’re in the strange middling space, where you’re just personally barely afloat. We know this. Let me know how to support you too.

March 4th, 2021:

$190/3000

P.S.—GoFundMe fees come out to ~$177. I’m not counting that $177 into this post, because you know what, I’ll make sure we raise it, and I’ll lend it to him if I’ve gotta. That’s something I can do.

My final note to you:

Thank you very much. Take care out there. You’re doing enough.

[rhythmic-idealist]

$350/3000

March 5th, 2021, day 8 of 30. Thank you for the support.