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hi!

My name is Beka (not my irl name, it’s a fandom reference)! I’m gender fluid - so any pronouns are fine, but I generally gravitate more towards She/Her

*if you call me names or are intentionally rude, I will block you*

(info about me below the cut, as well as my fanfic links!)

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Has anyone else ever thought about the political implications of the world of Sophia the First?

Because im watching it in the background while i pull a late -nighter, because 🎶it’s the end of the school year🎶, and like. My first question is what the in world explanation for a bunch of … kingdoms? Principalities? That are all cordial with each other, and also all super close together, and they all have children of the same age who go to a communal preparatory school? Is it in a no man’s land middle ground or something? I have so many questions!

Also, Sophia’s commoner mother met and married the King, was immediately accepted by the people, and is treated as her step-children’s established parent after … less than a year?

ALSO - why are Sophia’s super elitist friends ok with this commoner joining their school?

Also, basically every single episode is Sophia challenging established, problematic ideas held by the upper classes she will never truly belong to. Which, is great, for a children’s show! But also. If we analyze that for even a moment, that’s super fucked up that she’s in this position!

#do women have rights?#unclear #is there an underlying power difference in Sophia’s parents marriage?#Sophia The First #does Aurora. like exist in this universe?#do they have classes that aren’t fucking stupid?#like politics? maybe?#how does inheritance work?#are these children in arranged marriages with each other?#I have to assume their have been wars at various points in this … continents? history #what did they do??#THEY ALL GO TO THE SAME SCHOOL #why are all these girls so nice and so mean at the same time #follow up question - how fucking old are these children??#new episode just started #they actually explicitly have a line about how sudden her parent’s marriage was #I’ve got some questions.

grippysockgang-deactivated20230

You all are the coolest people I vaguely know

I was looking for a pride month playlist to listen to, because, you know. Duh!

And literally all of them have I’ll believe in anything very high up on the playlist.

#pride month #heated rivalry

itsnotevenreallyfunny

And just when you’ve hit your lowest, you want to fuck a blonde guy

itsnotevenreallyfunny

I feel like this is a recurring theme in my life

itsnotevenreallyfunny

All that lead up and the songs fuckin terrible

itsnotevenreallyfunny

I will say that Belmont Camelli does a very very good “jock with a few concussions”

#and that ending had me gagged

All that lead up and the songs fuckin terrible

#off campus #Beka watches tv

And just when you’ve hit your lowest, you want to fuck a blonde guy

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I heard they got heated rivalry for the straights now

fattypanc4kes

be gay in public so a closeted gay can see its okay to be themselves 🩷

noshamehustle

formerglory25

reblog if you too are bi and confused or support others’ right to be bi and confused

lizardho

I’m bi and confused like…ALL the time.

itsnotevenreallyfunny

ok - so there’s this moment in This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me that’s really annoying to me:

TKWNW is set in a vaguely medieval but also very liberal in specific ways (women are equal members of society and queer people are accepted and normal, people of color are not oppressed, etc), but it’s still definitely a medieval (with magic) society!

there’s this moment, where Everard is teaching Maggie to stab someone with a dagger, and he says “stab lower. Most men will be taller than you, and if you stab right there, you’ll hit them in the femoral artery”

and I’m just like - “ Oh IM SORRY! I DIDNT KNOW THIS MEDIEVAL SOCIETY HAD FUCKING MODERN MEDICINE?!?!? SO GLAD WE’VE MOVED PAST THE FUCKING HUMORS!!! WEIRD HOW THEY DONT HAVE FUCKING SCENTED SOAP, BUT THEY DO HAVE BOTH THE MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE TO KNOW WHAT ARTERYS EVEN FUCKING ARE - BUT ALSO THE ABILITY TO DISECT BODIES, AND THEN FIGURE OUT THAT THE FEMORAL ARTERY BLEEDS OUT REALLY FAST!!!!

in the real medieval period, Europeans thought that the body was maintained by a balance of three “humors”. Warriors would probably know that the inside of the upper thigh being stabbed would be Really Bad, but they were NOT FUCKING CALLING IT THE FUCKING FEMORAL ARTERY! FUCK YOU.

distracteddaintydemon

Oh I'm so sorry, I was not aware medieval Europe had healing magic that influenced their research practices and their medical knowledge!

And also I had to miss the part where Divinity in Rellas explicitly forbids section of dead human body with a blanket ban! You know, just like Church in medieval Europe did, stalling the process of verifying medical knowledge.

I also had to completely miss the part where Rellas' scientific society is straggled by thousand-years-long worship of authority of just few chosen sources – just like in medieval Europe up to 12th century every new idea had to be rephrased and contorted until it sounded like merely commenting on teachings of either Bible, Plato or Aristotle.

You are absolutely correct, there's absolutely no explanation why Rellas' anatomy knowledge should be different in any way from medieval Europe's!

Even though economy, political dynamics and beaurocracy of Rellas are not really similar to "medieval", neither early or late, and instead look much more like variation on beginnings of early modern period.

And the fact that This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me is very consciously a "historical" romantasy isekai, and genre norm is that "historical" means "mixing elements from European 8th to 19th century, with antiquity and 1910s allowed in special cases", is absolutely not a valid reason!

You are, however, unambiguously wrong about two things.

First, if you refer to Galen's theory then humours are four, not three. Blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile.

And second, soap in most of medieval Europe was used to wash clothes, not people. Soap delicate enough to be used on human skin was only developed around 12th century, so rather late in "medieval". Soap and luxury scented soap are two quite different things. Lack or unavailability of soap is popular trope in romantasy isekai; if it was meant to represent medieval state of soap usage, there would be much more weight on other methods of cleaning.

Summing it up: yes, please go on and keep insulting authors both for your lack of understanding what genre were you reading and for your interpretation of "vague medieval". With such precise definition of medieval, I suppose Quebec also qualifies? It has intact defense walls after all.

itsnotevenreallyfunny

You took my joke … really really seriously. It’s like. Pretty clearly a joke. But ok 👍

#me and my art history degree I’m getting #and my history podcast #maggie the undying #my writing #like I’m choosing not to be offended about this #but like. guys.#don’t yell at people for misunderstanding a text #if you’re not completely sure you’re in the right

depsidase

barkingbarghest

Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model. Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites. Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions. Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers. Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.” “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.