there’s this term i coined in my friendgroup i call “the charizard effect” and it can apply to anything and everything, but it was born from me explaining my feelings about the pokemon charizard. the term is basically about how overexposure to something be it by corporate shilling or fandom prominence drives me away from really enjoying something bc i’m exposed to it so much against my will i become tired of it. it came to me bc i was ranting about how tpci does not, and cannot stop reinventing charizard, and how it is popular and obtusely included in almost every region, merch, etc in every way possible and it’s highly commodified.
i dont dislike the pokemon charizard, in fact i really like its X form, but i am exposed to so much charizard in my pokemon consumption that i cant be bothered to care for it in any more than in passing. this applies to a bunch of other stuff i’d otherwise be ok with, but i always just call this aversion phenomena “the charizard effect”
making this term has done numbers for me being able to concisely express how i feel abt something. like. its not charizard’s fault i feel this way, im sure i’d feel normal abt it if it was stripped of all this over commodification, but i cannot. hence the name
I've remade this post with even more magical girls. Like last time if you don't like that I added a character than just move on and don't waste you're time reblogging because I am not remaking this post just cause you're complaining.
alright gang lets get into what i made this blog for in the first place
TIMEKEEPER X BLUEBERRY PIE COOKIE!!!!!
theyre two of my favs so. i thought up a little AU (yes its toxic yuri bc idk i wanted that this is self indulgent)
timekeeper encouraging blueberry to use the forbidden powers .... see what could be achieved, show her countless futures-- and how many of them are lonely, endless silent nights waiting for the moonlight and wizards that never come back for her
maybe its even because of who she is, "blueberry pie" has never fit in with the mystic stars and moon, nothing of the power or knowledge the wizards worked for
timekeeper shows her countless futures, and with timekeeper's encouragement eventually she reads everything in the restricted section, then going on to try to attain the power of the stars for herself, during this is when she slowly at first then, experiment after experiment, she crystalizes into Star Sapphire Cookie
of course, timekeeper is there for her, helping her to not shatter and die under the strain of everything she's done and learned. she realizes she is exactly what she wanted now: a cookie based in the stars, but it came at such a cost even more, she realizes that despite the small amount of stardust in her dough now, she's a gemstone which can only be from earthbread and she got both infinitely closer and further from what she wanted
she returns to the archives from. wherever she went. and its in disarray from her unleashing the restricted section she somewhat cleans it up, but makes the archives and city of wizards even more inaccessible from the outside, and kind of "takes over" the city but she doesn't do much she just stays in the archives, trying to cope with all the knowledge and trying to find a way to make herself really one with the stars (in a way, its like dark enchantress but a lot less people die)
so blueberry pie cookie becomes star sapphire cookie!!
her design is based off the blueberry "drops" crystalizing and becoming star sapphires (sapphires with the asterism phenomena)
she'd have time-based accessories because influence from timekeeper, some gold probably as well as a lot of gold lines in her blue outfit (which are meant to represent rutile silk inclusions that can be found in sapphires)
she's not as strictly neat as before but still retains a lot of grace and precision (every inclusion has to align perfectly to create the asterism effect so like. that concept is part of it) she's not perfectly symmetrical though
elements i'm keeping from her canon design: the "drop" shapes, her tome (maybe now on her waist? maybe more than one??), she still wears a dress, "pie" like plait, and her glasses
maybe i'd add a six point star halo behind her?? idk yet
but YEAH this is my self indulgent yuri slop and i love it
Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):
“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.
“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.
“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.
“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”
“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”
“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.
I've seen a fair amount of fat liberation activists explain that they have always been fat, they're not about to stop, and that's natural and beautiful and fine. That's an incredibly important message.
What I've seen less - and what I want to remind people of - is this: if you've become fat, that's also natural and beautiful and fine.
When you're a fat person who has been thin in the past, that comes with its own brand of shaming. People take your history of thinness as proof that you don't have to be fat. You often fear the look of disappointed surprise in the eyes of someone you haven't met since you were thin. People try to determine "what happened". They don't see your fat body as just you, but as a sort of symptom that isn't part of you.
Becoming fat is not a tragedy, it's not a sign of failure, it's not a bad or shameful thing. The thin you is not the Real you. You are always real and always worthy of freedom, respect and peace. You are allowed to be fat no matter how or when you became fat.
