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the name's Raine

they/them

This is the fandom blog btw

fic writer (kinda???) with way too many wips eating dust in my google docs

i support palestine 🍉

@idkwhatimdoing-help is my other blog on tumblr which is org posts and is not fandom related

My fics and podfics, from newest to oldest 👇👇:

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allthingswhumpyandangsty

I think ao3 is literally the only site where no censorship means no censorship. you can post the most vile things on there — things that will get taken down on any other platforms — and ao3 will protect you, your works, and your rights to create whatever you want, however you want.

and no, this isn’t me saying “write that messed up, disgusting thing” because while, yes, write it if it’s what you want (I myself enjoy writing dark fics, something I believe would be considered “vile” to a lot of people), this is me saying in a world of censorship and capitalism, ao3 really is a treasure.

everybody say thank you ao3

poetrylesbian

obviously dietary requirements aren't a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she's up to today and she said extremely seriously "ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia"

ritavonbees

this totally scans for a swear intensifier btw. what in the gluten free christ is going on here, Julia

bebx

katerinaaqu

No seriously guys...comment and share! Gives writers life!

status-quo-hater

I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.

He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense

status-quo-hater

Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.

He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM

aziscribs

Sthenelus holding the little brother he adopted while he still can before puberty hits and he gets too big and tough for cuddles or whatever

estro-boi

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

estro-boi

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

macleod

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

poetryofapollo

Oh hey! What's that? You're making a retelling? Hey, wait — don't you dare reduce that female character with wonderful nuance and morally gray actions into a morally white victim who did nothing wrong!!

ulises-aithon

I'm gonna be real with you, tumblr I dislike the trend I have seen for a while of a minority of people that do claim to do their research with stories regarding Greek mythology or ancient Greek stories and absolutely, without shame disregard the environmental aspects of it. Not just erasing some stuff like the importance of legumes, but also genuinely erasing normal flowers with exotic ones or making crap up with no reason that would be fixed with a normal googling. It makes me sad but, I prefer helping instead. This is not a post meant for people that write for writing which is A OK. No, this is for the people that claim to do their extensive research and end up painting the flat image they were trying to avoid or end up making more mistakes. Example peaches or lemons on Mykenaean Greece. I'm no authority whatsoever but a fellow research so If y'all need help here are some my tips: - iNaturalist is a really good tool for a general idea. Type location you want and a huge array of species will appear. Choose Native and it will clean your feed from exotic or invasive species. - Flora ionica is a German web in English that has the flora of the Ionian islands - My library (Ulises' library/la biblioteca de Ulises) will have stuff updated and if you really, really have a question do this. "topic you want to research" pdf. Most sources I use: Wikipedia, iNaturalist, Flora Ionica, Greek Forest Map, Köppen climate classification, It will send you to ResearchGate or any other paper you may need. Reiterating. This is not mandatory to anyone. but, if you are a writer that wants to understand a better image of our beloved stories, this aids so much in your path plus it makes a more lived on worldbuilding to: whoever says they did research without sources and passes rosemary as a strange plant or says oak is the same. (this also applies to any type of story btw, even outside Greek myth)

ulises-aithon

Exactly.

Not only just with Ancient Greek or Mediterranean areas but rather as a whole in many other takes and tales. An example would be Homer, who spends many lines describing the enviorment with direct words not like: the fragrant dark tree which's leaves look like...." no. Homer goes: this is an olk-helm, a cypress, and fragrant cedar tree. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter says the flowers Persephone was taking: rose, saffron, violets, iris, hyacinth and narcissus.

That's it.

most-sane-classicist

it is unfortunately that I feel the climates of many period pieces have been shaped not by research but by the desire to achieve a specific aesthetic... This is specifically evident with classical pieces and as you mentioned including stuff like lemon trees and other fruits that were simply not present there? It's chasing a feeling for someone to read your book and experience rather than a setting for them to be immersed in.

but really, the Homeric Mediterranean WAS beautiful without these neoclassical inventions and people need to realise that.

ulises-aithon

The Homeric Mediterrean IS beautiful. I dislike the idea that the ancient Mediterranean is not alive, it is. Not as much but it really is. The trees have not been erased they still exist as before just younger not older. Heck the mediterranean forest is pyrophile and needs wildfires to turn back (natural ones, not human made ones) But we still have forests with the same tree composition as the Homeric ones, different? sure, but still the same core species. Anyways, back to topic. What I really start to see is something and is the subliminal reitaration that there is only one type of correct Mediterranean and that is the Thyrrenian and Aegean one when no, it is not. And even then is the type of Mediterranean that is only found in touristic areas such as Liguria, Sicilia, Aegean islands, Attika, etc. And more so, an specific one of the times of Northern European/American's elite areas for Summer. Because most details that they throw in their tales roughly correspond to the XIX-XX century ideal for tourist destination. Again homegenization and touristification of the area. Again, it is regurgating an already tired idea and making it look "ancient". Which is funny in itself for they always miss the mark and end up writing stories that only work in their narrative framework, example: kissing. Kissing in the mouth, cheeks or hands was not seen as purely romantic nor cheeks, hands are. A normal retelling author would write a king kissing a king in the lips with homoerotical subtones when in reality it was just protocol and nothing special (really rough example) The enviorment they paint is so off, and I will say it, there is this strange obsession with olive trees (Olea europea) that is so distasteful. It is emblematic, it is crucial for our area for it is a bioindicator of mediterranean climate and intrisic part of our stories but, it is not in the way I've seen it done. Not everywhere is just olive tree groves, there are many many other trees such oak-helm, oaks, beeches, cypress, pine trees (P. maritima, nigra, halepessensis you decide), etc... and we are not going to talk about flowers because only just with the Asteraceae (daisy family).

So the feeling or aesthetic they try to emulate or create is based on a misinterpretation of a really concrete time that it is not even close to the multitude of realities that existed, exist and will continue to exist.

katerinaaqu

The aspect of kissing in particular has me rolling myself. I am seriously sick and tired of people seeing a text with heroes let's say Odysseus and his men embrace and as they say "attack him with kisses" and I see commens like "ha! Gay"

Bro...why?

And yes the peck on the lips among kings in medieval times was yet another form of handshake or greeting because it signified the exchange of truthful words. And no it was not a full on mouth sucking lip-locking. Just a peck. Only a few people did that in their stories. One was RR Martin's series where we see the goodbye kiss of Myrcella (and even then of course they did that with women and not to other examples from the book. Unless my greek translation was bad, John Snow says goodbye to his unconscious brother before he goes to the Wall with a peck against his lips) and we do not see that in most retellings

Or sharing beds. Sharing beds historically could be about lovemaking but it was also done for diplomacy. Medieval kings would also share a bed together to indicate mutual trust etc

And you know what the worst part is? That we do many of these to this day so it is not like it is detached from us. Yes stuff like pecks on the lips were reserved for romance only but others like hugs kisses on cheeks and such or even sharing bed during sleepovers is very darn common so I am not sure why people have allergic reaction from admitting these or even genuinely knowledgeable writers who just do not wish to spend the rest of their lives explaining their intentions to their readers I still do not encourage that. Like...show these! If you care for the past show these!

As for nature is so interesting because Greece has over 3000 species of plants so I find it even kinda "insulting" that they do not think any of them are interesting enough to show and we need "enrichment" with "exotic" stuff because yeah surely Greek flora is not interesting enough...clearly not.

cherryhatter-deactivated2015072

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

visibun

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

nova-caine99

daggers-drawn

All it means when people say “you’re speaking from a place of privilege” is that you’re likely to underestimate how bad the problem is by default because you are never personally exposed to that problem. It’s not a moral judgement of how difficult your life is.

mrloveballad

^^^^^^ read it. say it out loud. keep repeating it until you understand.

glarello

yurilangelo jumps up and down

nicothespy

here’s my contribution to day 1 of pjo pride month. pls boost (rb etc) bc i might or might not have spent 12 hours on this. i started yesterday. i did not sleep. i am so sleepy rn i might knock out

anyway yay nico di angelo [boost my tiktok post here]

nicothespy

if this gets over 1k i’ll finally finish my yuri/wlw solangelo piece ive been procrastinating on

ryan-sometimes

I’m not falling for the propaganda trying to tear apart the LGBTQ acronym, you can pry this community out of my cold dead hands. I love lesbians I love gay men I love bisexuals I love trans people I love nonbinaries and drag queens and kings I love asexuals I love the kinky people at pride I love all queerness get that divisive shit away from me I’m so serious