call me a relic, call me what you will

Random writings and shitposts from my occasionally haywire mind. Michelle, 42, female, Steel City. Fandoms: MST3K, Sailor Moon, Xenogears, Rune Factory, Harvest Moon, Final Fantasy, Pittsburgh Penguins, and other Hockey RPF.

[beatlesweatles]

Evil Shakespeare be like: MacDeath

[beatlesweatles]

[mutantrenegade]

You know Jones soda cap, as a tumblr user i can actually say i think I have.

[hurricanenoelle]

[ayellowbirds]

On the one hand, i’m amused at the joke. On the other hand, I’m a librarian and this shelving is horrifying.

[tharook]

Well, no shelving system is without fault.

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #11,076:

No. Not all art is political. Art CAN be political, but not every artist is aiming to make a statement. Sometimes we just wanna make something beautiful or write a compelling story.

[yetanotherdayofdrudgery]

[cookingwithroxy]

[manda-kat]

Did you know that races and nations in fantasy stories aren't always representative of real life people? Sometimes a race of evil creatures who are born wicked is NOT a stand-in for whichever race the writer hates.

An evil nation can represent things like corruption, despair, sin, sickness, hatred, self-doubt, trauma- anything that poses a threat and must be overcome by good can be represented by an army of evil. Often an evil race represents evil itself and the hero defeating them is good triumphing over evil. Call it cliche, but it's rarely racist. Would it be less problematic if the good guys killed good people rather than evil monsters? If the heroes represent pure good, then their villains being evil isn't racist. It's normal.

Not to mention that even in the scenario where the evil army in a story represents a real group, it still might not be racist. Great example: Fantasy Nazis. Is it fair to say that every person in Nazi Germany was pure evil? Absolutely not. Do we need to address that nuance in a fantasy story about their victims? No!

Some people don't read stories in good faith. They make a checklist of forbidden tropes and use them as proof that a story is problematic. Instead of policing the words creatives are allowed to use, we should focus on what they use those words to say.

[fillyreports]

Also I think if you see a fantasy race and immediately think "well they're terrible! They must represent X race!" Perhaps. The problem is you.

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge!

Source

[syekick-powers]

extremely underrated subgenre of tumblr post: when someone makes a general statement about something, and another person offers a counter-statement that's just completely nonsensical, and the OP just agrees instantly even if it makes no sense at all

examples:

[ajarofham]

[feliza-navidad]

[gay-mormon-wizard]

[cheesenames]

personally i do not prefer when stories engaging with complicated topics attempt to make themselves good educational resources on said complicated topics

[cheesenames]

and i understand that sometimes it's a very thin line between giving a realistic depiction of a serious topic and ending up in after-school special mode, but i also notice that no one is doing this when a character gets the flu (which kills many people every year) and PERSONALLY i don't love the patterns i'm vaguely sensing about which experiences can be depicted normally and which experiences must always be a learning opportunity

[agentofdeterioration]

The Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad is, to a modern audiences, what classicists have called “boring as hell,” but I can’t help but think that if you were watching Homer recite it it would have been more like when comedians go, “anybody here tonight from Chicago?” and the Chicagoans in the back start cheering

Homer’s like, “and there were forty black ships from… LOCRIS” and the Locrians in the crowd start going absolutely nuts

[runby2]

the skyrim modding comumintiy fucking sucks

[hugintheraven]

the skyrim modding comumintiy is fucking glorious

[sceptixfakemon]

WHAT IS SEXIER:

set of sexy lingerie whose entire purpose is to be sexy

15th century suit of armour

Voting ended onFeb 17

[knightclubbing]

we don't have to fight.......

[crochethub]

My first finished project! by AffectionateWeb8042

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, stiff neck edition.

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[ryebreadgf]

yayyyy

[jomiddlemarch]

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Perhaps I am a slow writer. Perhaps I do suffer from writer's block sometimes. Perhaps I try to write too many stories at once. Or perhaps I don't write at all right now. Perhaps... what was my point again?

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, Chinese auntie way.

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[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid