Plegethorn's Space

Gamer | Role-Player | Writer | They/Them | 35 | Posts about Final Fantasy, Devil May Cry, Breath of Fire, Astarion, and more. I post stuff that makes me happy. Takes breaks due to health. NB Grey-Ace. On a cosmic scale, our lives flash by in the blink of an eye, as fleeting as foam on water. Discord available on request.

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tag the oc you never get an excuse to talk about

[plegethornspace]

Nina @bloodiedwallsandrosiedwindows is my sassy salty bitch of a garlean and I love her for it, and is the literal incarnation of the "Then suffer" meme. Is willing to drink tea and talk politics, religion or anything else if she can get a slice of cake with it.

When in the Devil May Cry fandom, Nina takes on her Naja form, becoming the demon grandma for the sparda twins. I’m also willing to do countless AU’s for her depending on if you feel comftable with oc’s knowing your charecters! If that sounds more like your thing, feel free to hit me up and plan! She’s very oc friendly, so please, feel free to interact with her!

Koko @onwickedwingandficklefeather is a little shit, but has a golden heart and will try to help everyone, but will still cut you because she's a proud qalli woman. She's my actual baby and I will gladly fite for her.

Feel free to ask about them, or even interact with them on their blogs!

[kittyknowsthings]

[cilantroodon]

[ID: Despicable Me meme with Gru presenting a plan on posterboards. First step: That’s a neat idea! Second step: Someone should write it! Third step: I’m that someone. Gru stops and looks back at step three with concern/disappointment/sadness. End ID.]

[oneheadtoanother]

[lengthy-artery]

discord letting you have custom emoji has really ruined my ability to communicate effectively on other apps. what do you mean i cant send jalute. what about givehand. cryingpat. torment. sittinghere. tvek. cant even send my wonderful beloved frogheart. whats the bloody point

[hexhive]

you can add me on discord and never say a word because i love you

[hexhive]

you can add me on discord and text me everyday because i love you

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[fictionadventurer]

One of my biggest literary pet peeves is when historical or history-inspired fiction pretends that "courting" is a synonym for "dating". Usually it's just a one-to-one word swap--in a modern context, these characters would be dating, but this is olden times, so they call it courting instead. Sometimes they'll pretend there's a shade of difference, and that courting is a more serious exploration of marriage or something. But I read a lot of fiction that was actually written during these historical eras, and the word "courting" is never used like that.

Two people do not decide that they are "courting". One person decides to "court" someone else. It's an action, not a stage in the relationship. A man decides to court a woman because he wants to encourage her to have romantic interest in him. He's trying to win her favor. It's not an exclusive relationship--a woman could be courted by multiple men at once. She'll spend time getting to know the guy who's interested in her, but they won't officially define their relationship as one where they only show romantic interest in each other. If they reach a point where they want it to be exclusive, that's when you propose.

There's no middle ground--either you're getting to know each other, or you're committed to marrying each other. This idea of a period where you kind of commit to each other until you decide you definitely want to get married is a modern one, and it occurs in eras where they use the word "dating" to describe it. The closest equivalent I can think of are times and places where they'd talk about a couple "stepping out together", but they're still not calling it "courting". Words have meaning, and the word "courting" has never meant that, so stop using it that way!

[starfieldcanvas]

the other mild historical disjoint i run into is when people talk about dating in the fifties like it automatically meant exclusivity. the whole reason we have the expression "going steady" is because the default was to or "go around with" or "go out with" multiple people. not in the sense of being in a stable polyamorous vee, but in the sense that archie is actively "seeing" both betty and veronica during the entire time the two girls are competing for his attention and they're both seeing other guys to make him jealous, and nobody involved considers this "cheating."

bizarrely, America has in many ways gotten more conservative about dating since World War II.

[penrosesun]

I ran into a truly wild cultural misunderstanding with my father some years ago, when I had to explain to him what “hookup culture” actually was, and that the thing he assumed it was was actually what we call “cruising culture”. His response was “how is that different from dating?” and when I explained how it was different, he said, and please note that this a direct quote: “That’s ridiculous! You can’t expect a woman to stop fooling around with other guys for anything less than a marriage proposal. I mean, she’s not a prostitute, you can’t buy her.” Now obviously there’s like… a lot to unpack there, but I think it’s pretty darn illustrative of a substantive cultural shift around the assumption of monogamy!

Also, following this, I asked my mom what her thoughts were on the matter, and she said that while she “wouldn’t put it in those terms” she broadly agreed, and thought that anyone expecting any sort of exclusivity when a marriage proposal wasn’t at least on the very immanent horizon was “nuts, honestly.” I hesitantly asked if she was including relationships with premarital sexual activity in that, and her response was “Of course. I mean, gosh, you know your Aunt Terri used to have a guy for every day of the week before she finally settled down.”

And this was when I learned, to my shock, that the oft-repeated story of how “Aunt Terri used to have a guy for every day of the week” didn’t just mean “Aunt Terri had a full dance card” but rather meant that Aunt Terri had a period of her life where she literally dated exactly seven guys at once, all of whom she was sleeping with (or, my mom was quick to disclaim, “well, fooling around with, I don’t know how far she actually went with any of them, but they were definitely all fooling around behind closed doors”), on a literal weekly rotation. Like, they had a schedule. A schedule that all seven of the guys knew.

America has gotten a lot more conservative about dating, actually.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

multiples of 5 are honorary even numbers to me. does anyone else feel this

[druidshollow]

i thimk trans women and trans men and nonbinary people and everyone whos not cis should all love eachother forever and embrace eachother and listen to eachother and protect eachother. we should all be eachothers' shield

[druidshollow]

yes definitely. thank u oldmanyaoi-jpeg

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[cinder-rellish181]

It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me!

[pinche-aquarius]

Keep up the great work, lads

[mayax81]

[snakebites-and-ink]

I love how this addition would be absolutely incomprehensible almost anywhere else but we know exactly what it means

[mysteriesoftheunknown]

Sightings - S3E04 - “Crop Circle Math Mystery” - October 2nd, 1994

“Gerald Hawkins drew worldwide attention when he proved mathematically that Stonehenge is a giant celestial calendar. Now, Dr. Hawkins has turned his attention to Crop Circles. He believes that some crop circles display geometric patterns so advanced they could only be created by the greatest mathematical minds on this planet…”

Last season we met Gerald Hawkins briefly during a larger crop circle segment. This time they devote a whole segment to the guy, and his theory that crop circles are encoded with musical and mathematical messages. Now, last season's post includes context on the guy - his supposed discovery of Stonehenge - so let's see what's new.

We open with...Tim White explaining geometry to us over smooth jazz? Sure, why not

Gerald Hawkins has identified fourteen potential crop circles...

...and UC San Diego music professor F. Richard Moore has developed a computer program that can "play" these supposed messages. As he says, “perhaps, in trying to communicate things between different species or different types of intelligent beings, we have to rely on things that are very fundamental...because we have no conventional way of discussing things when we don’t know even the size of someone or what temperatures they like to live at…”

Behold: the sounds alien life traveled the cosmos to share with us

Meanwhile, the Sci-Fi Channel has a message for us:

THE INVISIBLE MAN DISAPPEARING (haha!) EVERY MONDAY THIS JANUARY

(this show was Good)

[lizardsfromspace]

This post contains VIDEO of REAL MUSIC decoded from CROP CIRCLES to teach MANKIND uh. Uhhhhhhh. Uh

[voidsentprinces]

Some crafting items would make a good metal band/album name.

[voidsentprinces]

Gosetsu implies Stopsetsu.

[thekidsarentalright]

when a songs lyrics use repetition to signify growing desperation and emotion that additional words wouldnt be able to convey

[rars]

well-written women who narratively suck are like crack cocaine to me. hello shitty little woman do you need some crumbs of love that you've clearly never been given? lol