Welcome to my twisted ass

Zora "Morph" Morphimus [she/her] (Age: adult) Artist, Musician (sometimes), tokiponist, did Balloon SMP, always on my Homestuck

[courtesycalling]

[bun0nthemoon]

Rainbow centipede brain rot,,,

[mothtowers]

breaking something by stepping on it is lowkey so embarassing, like damn here comes the deviantart giantess

[butch-witches-deactivated202412]

what doesnt kill you is still valuable data points for a graph im working on titled "how to kill you"

[rosie-dear-rosie]

[wanhyutji]

Actually I DO think twelve year olds should get hrt. That’s the normal age to start puberty, so why does it have to be different for trans kids?

[starsharts-blog]

If you think trans kids don’t deserve the right to a timely and correct puberty – the same way cis kids already get – you are transphobic.

[wre7ch]

if trans kids are too young to start puberty so are cis kids

[neilcicierega]

If someone beats you up for being "cishet white male" and nothing else, is this okay? Did you deserve it?

what if the world was made of pudding

[txttletale]

or to be a little less pithy, groundedness means a sense of internal consistency, the idea that events and traits of a story or world are grounded in a coherent set of logics.

while realism means--exactly that, adherence to the specific logics of actual reality and its physics, logistics, etc.

there is of course nothing wrong with wanting realism in a story, but 99% of the people who say they do really want groundedness. like the vast majority of dumb arguments about asoiaf/got are its fans saying "its realistic" when they mean "its grounded" and people ridiculing them because it is in fact not very realistic (and not just because of the overt fantasy elements)

[prokopetz]

In my experience, another big part of the problem with talking about "realism" in fictional milieux is the product of a specific Type of Guy employing the term as a sort of semantic bait and switch, sometimes without consciously realising that this is what they're doing.

There's a particular recurring discussion of "realism" in media that goes something like this: "okay, but realistically the heroes would always win because they'd just shoot the villain while they're monologuing" – while refusing to acknowledge the obvious follow-up question: "wait, but if monologuing reliably gets you shot, where do all the monologuing villains come from?"

i.e., what we're really discussing is not a milieu which has adhered to some notional model of "realism" ab initio, but one which was apparently governed by the conventional tropes of its genre right up until the moment the character the person framing the scenario wants to win walks into the room, whereupon "realism" asserts itself.

Heck, there were folks doing this song and dance in the notes of the post this one is following up on, trotting out hypotheticals like "in a realistic fantasy setting the twelve-year-old chosen one would always lose because experience trumps skill and the power of friendship isn't real", implicitly taking it as given that in a milieu where this is true, people would still be handing out magic swords to twelve-year-olds.

It's basically treating those silly "How [Media] Really Should Have Ended" YouTube videos as a legitimate critical lens, and in circles where this song and dance is common, it leads to a lot of people reflexively shutting down the moment they hear the word "realism" because they assume (often quite reasonably!) that oh great, it's That Guy again.

[elliespectacular]

Yep, I'm a city slicker. Wake up one morning and your city's all slick? That was me.

[jame7t]

Oh I’m so sleepy… won’t you use !tuck to tuck me into bed?

[cryptotheism]

!cursedoak

[jame7t]

did anyone else have terrible dreams about a gnarled, twisted forest with one tree more terrible and hateful than all the rest

[jaypilled]

are those my only options

[lindleland]

disco elysium dialogue tree

[amaranthine-paws]

you have to be nicer to nonbinary transfems and that's literally the bare minimum

[amaranthine-paws]

maybe just like. consider us at all please

[dragongirlsweetie]

it is still genuinely so crazy to me that tumblr has special scorched earth instant kill moderation tools that are used almost exclusively against victims of harassment campaigns

[gay--dog]

you are hopelessly addicted to toys. get help

i can stop playing any time i want

[charl0ttan]

Meow

not what deers say.........not even a little bit..

[japanese-movie-god-at-yahoo]

[mugiwarayoshi]

Moments before death.

[oswednesday]

discord has turned people into wild animals

[oswednesday]