Bless you Mary Shelley

My name is Cassilda and I love my friends! Sci Fi, film, books, art. Stuff I dig goes here. She/her

[living---dead---girl]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game), Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon/Original Character(s), Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon/Eredin Bréacc Glas, Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon & Eredin Bréacc Glas, Avallac'h | Crevan Espane aep Caomhan Macha & Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon & Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia Characters: Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, Eredin Bréacc Glas, Iorveth (The Witcher), Caranthir Ar-Feiniel, Avallac'h | Crevan Espane aep Caomhan Macha Additional Tags: Alternate Ending, Ciri Fights Eredin Instead of Geralt, OCs mentioned but not actually seen, Swordfighting, Blood, Blood and Violence, Blood and Injury, Character Death, violence as a metaphor for sex, just ciri and eredin, In Media Res, sad? kinda? also not?, Revenge, Aen Elle (The Witcher), Major Character Injury Summary:

Instead of Geralt, Ciri faces Eredin on the deck of the Naglfar in Skellige. Like years ago against Bonhart, she faces the man who's been tormenting her - this one for years. But Eredin has several centuries of experience on Leo Bonhart, let alone Ciri. Will she be able to overcome this last monster?

(featuring an OC and Iorveth in a relationship with Ciri but don't worry about it they're offscreen the whole time)

[boybeetles]

I need to stop jokingly calling people changing to be ‘normal’ as ‘detransitioning’ because I just said “did you see guy fieri detransitioned” to a friend who didn’t know about me doing that in a joke way

[katelyn-danger]

Fallout 3 power armor mechanic and his duplicitous twin brother who says the word "uncivilized" too much.

[tr1ckfuneral]

Suicide ideation is so weird. Making a lovely apple pie while thinking of bleeding out in the tub.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

there's one thing that's certain: coworkers are NOT contributing to any declining birth rates

[innerchildabortionclinic]

coworkers love getting pregnant it's a form of enrichment for them

[innerchildabortionclinic]

there's always a 50% chance he's in jail currently

[koiagain]

you like fanart of a character maybe Two times and suddenly ur tumblr page thinks u want to read them taking it up the ass

[flanbolt]

[segamascott]

[dasloddl]

op disabled reblogs but I think the point still stands

[eepyenbyfox]

reminder that the books themselves also suck ass actually. there's an entire plotline endorsing slavery. the one character who advocates to end slavery is bullied and made fun of. the one slave who doesnt like being enslaved is bullied and treated as an outcast. the bankers are the picture of racist stereotypes of jewish people. the one asian character is named fckn Cho Chang. the worldbuilding SUCKS. fuck harry potter and fuck rowling. stop giving her your money.

[in-libris-liberta-s-deactivated]

Just finished hamlet & had to share THIS

[iamnmbr3]

btw this is literally what goes down. it’s great. 

[ovenroastedtwerkey]

You just know the ye olde peasants went NUTS at that last part

[elodieunderglass]

We don’t say sblood enough we should bring it back

[stay-the-knight]

[living---dead---girl]

@medalaleafwhisper

[captain-price-returns]

The difference between "There used to be hot summers too,” and a climate crisis.

[propheticfire]

Look, we all know this is true. But there isn't a SOURCE for this, and the graph itself is basically illegible beyond "ooh colors". If we want to be good stewards of our informational resources, we need to cite our sources.

From a reverse image search, I found the website Show Your Stripes, run by the University of Reading in the UK, which is likely where the above graph originated. It provides temperature data for various regions of the world from approximately 1900-2025. For example, here are graphs for Canada, India, and Papua New Guinea:

All clearly show a sharp rise in temperature beginning around approximately the 1980s, which corresponds with the graph in OP's post. But now we know where this data came from, and we can verify its validity accordingly.

[hateusandseeifwemind]

[fluviusevos]

c

[freelyunder]

@mylittledigitalfootprint

[anchytkahcm]

New art that no one will see

[grimeclown]

This is a fucking new one

[tchaikovskaya]

[derrickwildsun-deactivated20250]

That video of Alex Hirsch reading S&P notes for Gravity Falls conveys a few things to me:

1) the U.S. entertainment industry (especially animation) is run by older conservative types who make up offensive terms and get really mad about them.

2) the people who run Disney would be the first to fall in line with a fascist regime.

3) most of the media we consume is tailor-made and watered-down to appeal to the tastes of older, deeply religious conservative audiences.

4) conservatism, not the left, is and always has been the biggest voice of censorship in American culture.

[sci-fantasy]

J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, was before that a producer and writer for a number of cartoons in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s (The Real Ghostbusters and the original She-Ra, most notably). After a few years of dealing with the censors and their obsession with finding Satanism (or at least looking for Satanism to further political agendas) he wrote an article about the whole corrupt and bullshit system.

And published it in Penthouse, to force those same censors to buy a skin mag. The editor there asked, why Penthouse?

That one is from his autobiography, Becoming Superman. See also:

(As he goes on to say, he’s never worked in animation again–he’s effectively been blacklisted by the cartoon industry.)

[ivy-michaels]

Every time something like this comes up, I remember two stories about making media. The first is about movies, and comes from Quentin “Feet Man” Tarantino.

When he was making Pulp Fiction, he was worried that the MPAA would object to the high level of violence in the film, so he shot a bunch of extra-gory stuff that he didn’t actually want in the film, and added it in before submitting it to the MPAA. Predictibly, they asked him to cut most of it (without even commenting on some of the things that had him worried, like the bits of Marvin’s skull that lodge in Samuel L. Jackson’s hairpiece). The resultant cuts were actually more permissive than he’d expected, so he cut a little more and submitted it, and it got passed with an R.

The second story is about that artist on Morrowind whose name escapes me (I’m not a big ES fan tbh) who figured out that if he made two creature designs, one weird and what he wanted, and one even weirder, he could get Todd Howard to agree to just about anything by showing him the whopper first, then going back and “working” for another few hours on a second, “toned-down” version, and it worked every time.

The reason I bring these up is that the thing that drives censors isn’t some extant physical rubrick of what is and isn’t acceptable, it’s the idea that they can have absolute power over someone else’s creative work. It’s about the social dominance of the interaction.

There is nothing so innocent, so clean, that a censor will not find some fault with it. Because they must find something wrong with it to justify their existence, and because it makes them feel powerful.

This is true of all censorship.

[nononobodyunderstands]

Jacqueline Morreau (1929–2016). She Who Spins. 1983.

[cyphir-spacerobot]

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

[koiagain]