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Ethy "I'm a hater, not a fighter" Media and Anything Overanalyst//age: adult af//Probably more autistic than I realize//aroace//Fave-Worshipper

[primoresplendens]

Ethy’s Lord of Heroes Master Post (To be expanded)

- I’m on the global server, and no spoilers please, as much as possible

- My favorite character is f!Lord, who has effectively replaced, uh, my husbando of 13 years

- Zaira/Rouin/Alev/Rashad/Bianca (My next 5 faves), except I love every character in this game so far

- Solphi and Rashad are my spirit characters 👀👀

- Multi-shipper. Although I very much prefer f!Lord being married to her work (like Astrid implies in one of her hero lines) that is also subject to my multishipping tendency. Ha.

[f!Lord x Avillon]

[f!Lord x almost any of her knights]

[m!Lord x Anyone]

[Zaira x Krom]

[Charles x Krom]

[Aslan x Helga x Walther]

[Olivia x Vanessa]

[Lumie x Lucilicca]

[Bianca x Alev]

[Solphi x Alev]

[Lairei x Dhurahan]

[Lairei x Lord] Idon’tknowwhysdfghjk

[Fram x Astrid]

[Fram x f!Lord x Astrid]

[Kartis x Joshua]

[Johan x Joshua] is my main ship for both of them (aside from L!Johan)

[Kartis x Johan] ...I actually prefer L!Johan to D!Johan for this (Post-Extreme). My ideal polyamory situation being Kartis and Lord sharing husbands infact

And nearly anything else you may come up with... Convince me

- If I see you talking about either Kartis x f!Lord or Ondal x f!Lord in either my TL or in the tags, I WILL block you and move on. (I have both of them tag-filtered and content-filtered left and right, so the only way I will see them is if you don't tag them as such.) Hope we may meet again in a better place where neither of those ships exist. ✌

- I otherwise love and enjoy both Kartis and Ondal. I also love any other non-shippy portrayals of them with f!Lord.

- I'm good with m!Lord anything.

- You might notice that I treat f!Lord and m!Lord as separate characters/entities, and HEAVILY favor f!Lord over m!Lord. This might have to do with my years spent in Pokemon, where alternate protagonists are usually seen as separate characters (Kellyn, my “husbando”, is also one of those protagonists). Plus I can’t really control that I fell for f!Lord to begin with x’D I will try to use they/them to refer to Lord as much as I can (Besides, did you notice Canon refers to their plushies as “long-haired Lord” and “short-haired Lord” instead?)

- I heard of nb Lord once. And it was good.

• 여로드에 인생베팅. 인성도 베팅

• 최애캐 >>왼<< 기반으로 깔고 공수보다 캐해석 중시

• 트위터 출신이신가요? 트위터 문화는 잊으시는 것을 추천드립니다. 여기는 텀블러입니다.

• 황제로드(여로드) 극혐핵지뢰입니다. 조합으로는 좋아함. 저도 알아서 피하고 있으니 알아서 피해가세요. 피차 시간 낭비하지 맙시다.

• 온달로드(여로드)도 지뢰입니다. 온달이 나쁜남자 타입인 것도 싫고 로드가 존대하는 것도 기분 나빠요. 컾링 얘깁니다. 역시 조합은 좋아함.

• 남로드는 지뢰 없음 (얜 기본 른으로 팜)

Something that might be of interest:

I fully support your expression of negative opinion on my favorite characters or ships.

I might disagree on your reasoning, but I can disagree nicely. It would be nice if you can express it civilly, but I will support the very act of your expressing it in front of me.

[godlessondheimite]

A YA romantasy writer filed suit against another writer for copyright infringement, and as is always the case with these things, she padded her claims with delusionally spurious examples. The judge issued a 160-page ruling against the plaintiff where you can tell from the start how resentful they (or whatever clerk actually did the work) are to have been forced by duty to have read the works in question.

[headspace-hotel]

"Alaska is a place known to the public, so setting a novel in a Alaska is not copyrightable."

[irispurpurea]

“hot, sexy, dangerous boys — central to virtually all young adult romance novels — cannot be copyrighted”

[luna-azzurra]

Growing up feeling like you didn't quite belong anywhere is actually incredible training for writing characters. because you spent years watching how groups work from the outside. how people perform for each other. what the room looks like when you're not entirely in it. you thought you were missing something. you were actually just taking notes from a very uncomfortable angle for a very long time. the belonging thing still stings a little. the writing is very good though.

[dinovelvet]

[sharkinablanket]

[thefoolishkat]

and they are the bestest of friends

[dalchini-gola]

@animals-with-fan-art

[epicsause-official]

d*mn!

[patientno7]

my humor 2016

[patientno7]

10 years

[nocturnal-stims]

Flexible feather armor

🪽 Miscreations_us on IG

[thickness-protection-program]

Alright girlies we can't let the executive dysfunction win today

[thickness-protection-program]

I mean alright girlies we can't let the executive dysfunction win tomorrow

[yellydany]

<<Quaquaval redesign>> More of a reinterpretation drawn for fun, added El Zorro-like details to it!🦆🤺💙

[noelle-ism]

That's Not What Unc Means

You’d never know the meaning of unc or its origins in black culture if you looked to mainstream media.

Really good write-up on the origin of "Unc" as a term used in AAVE, and how it's been turned into a generic disparaging term when it didn't even have negative connotations to begin with.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

More broadly, I’ve also seen this happen to words and phrases like “chopped,” “clocked it,” “the tea,” “no cap,” and “it’s giving.” All of these are slang terms that originate from African American Vernacular English—“clocked it,” “the tea” and “it’s giving” come from black queer culture in specific—but have now been categorized as “gen Z slang.” I have heard some people start to refer to the habitual be, as in “it really do be like that,” as a “meme” and it makes me want to tear my fucking hair out. We been saying that! That one’s ours!

[blightowl]

[maykitz]

read an article that the philippines may be close to legalising divorce despite the catholic church fighting tooth and nail to prevent it, it's amazing how around the whole world you can find them in the trenches of the war on human misery on the side of the misery. they interviewed a nun who does counseling for abused wives and 'still' speaks out against divorce and like, well, any savvy business will do whatever it can to create conditions that drive people to its product plus it's not like your stooges have any skin in the game if you do religious celibacy. not that surprising

[cawfeeann]

'I just want to be free': Some Filipinos see potential relief as country readies to legalise divorce

Currently the only country apart from the Vatican where divorce is illegal, the Philippines could allow couples to part ways with the passin

Today I learned that divorce is still illegal in the Philippines?????

[lesbianchemicalplant]

“Divorce is against the teachings of Christ,” Father Jerome Secillano, the spokesman of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, told CNA. “Why not make the annulment process less tedious, less expensive and shorter?” The priest believes that allowing divorce will not solve the issue of domestic abuse, infidelity or abandonment saying that instead that the Church should be allowed to play a bigger role in keeping families together. “You do not treat violence through divorce. You just allow them to separate. And now you allow this violent guy to again marry another woman and that woman will turn into a punching bag later on,” Father Secillano said. “You do not treat the problematic spouse. The Church should be proactive. If there are problematic unions, why shouldn't we, the Church, intervene ... so that we can help these couples survive the difficulties that they experience in their married life?”

the catholic church must be destroyed

[chryza]

also shoutout to my really tired old white guy gynecologist who when i said "i want a hysterectomy" did not push back at all and instead sighed, and without looking up at me from his tablet went "We'll have to do a bunch of stuff for insurance because it's a scam and otherwise they won't approve it" and then after laying out the plan walked me out and i dont know if we made eye contact once after shaking hands, which is exactly the kind of medical care i want in this day and age.

[ganethandsome]

14/4/2026

[drfelici]

So we made Pokémon TC with our 'sonas as Pokémon. Meet Batterow :D

[demonprincex]

We Can't Keep Making "Adulthood" a Narrower and Narrower Category

Your personhood isn't determined by an MRI scan.

By now many of you have probably seen the news reports of a scientific study in Nature supposedly showing that people actually become neurologically ‘adult’ at the age of 32 years old — not 25, as fans of the frontal lobe myleination theory of adulthood would have it, or 18, as the purely legalistic definition of adulthood would, or even 13 or 15, as many cultural rites of passage have variously held it to be.

No, now that some entirely exploratory research has discovered that the average, non-developmentally-disabled brain tends to enter a new phase of functioning and connectivity around the early 30s, we have a new random spot on the ground for pop scientists and those seeking to limit the rights of marginalized young people to draw a target around, and act like they were aiming for it the entire time.

In sum, researchers Alexa Mousley, Richard Bethlehem, Fang-Cheng Yeh, and Duncan Astle reviewed a large pool of nearly 4,000 MRI brain scan results, filtered exclusively for neurotypical participants, and found that, consistent with prior research on the subject, the density of neural connections tends to peak around age 30 for most people, as does topological efficiency (in essence, how long a distance neural information needs to travel across the brain, with shorter distances being more efficient).

Less reported on have been the study’s numerous other findings on neural changes that tend to occur with age, in particular the findings that neural modularity (how clearly neural nodes can be grouped into sub-sections) and efficiency between nearby nodes (also called local efficiency) peaks at around age 90.

Why having a brain that is hyper-connected and generally efficient is the marker of adulthood, but having a brain with highly specialized organization and really efficient individual connections is not is, of course, completely arbitrary. The only reason the news media isn’t treating brain modularity and local efficiency as hallmarks of maturity is because it would make too obviously a specious headline to claim that adulthood begins at 90.

Once you have allowed that certain people cannot be trusted to make their own decisions because of how their brains are structured, you open the door to limit any freedoms you dislike. All you have to do is pluck one random developmental trend from the sea of published neuroscientific data, and claim that anyone whose brain deviates from this milestone is a neurological ‘child’ who needs protection from their own autonomy.

But as any honest neuroscientist will tell you, the brain never finishes developing. Adulthood is a socially constructed category, not a biologically observable reality, and we all exist at some point along a continuum of development that is highly personal to us. Our endocrinology, ability to grow muscle, hormone production, metabolism, circadian rhythm, neural organization, neural efficiency, the presence of brain tumors or cysts — all of these things are changing within us at all times, and remain beautifully inconsistent over the course of our life span. We are not static. And we are all growing more disabled on a long enough timeline.

There is no single moment at which we can be said to be at our most adult — not without creating a definition of adulthood that is at once completely fleeting and ableist. Is it more adult to think quickly, or to make fewer errors than others? And if so, at what point do we start cutting off large swathes of people from the possibility of ever being a true adult, not just our elders and younger comrades, but every single person with a cognitive disability, brain fog, temporary injury, low blood sugar, or who just happens to live on the low end of the bell curve?

What’s the use in packaging a diverse collection of rights, social responsibilities, and modes of interacting under the single banner of ‘adulthood,’ anyway? Is an adult a person who can operate a vehicle? Take on a loan? Join the military? Understand every possible outcome of having sex or getting a medical procedure? Someone who has done an estimable deed for their community?

I can think of a lot of adults who have never done any of that. And I know a great many people who have taken on immense social responsibility when they were in a state of cognitive disability, or while they were children: they raised younger siblings, got drunken parents washed up and headed to work, drove a car full of their family members through a mud slide in the mountains, reported a predator sliding into their inbox, and registered dozens of adults to vote when they weren’t allowed to vote themselves.

I wrote all about the shoddy brain science on "adulthood" and why it's damaging to youth, elders, disabled people, and anyone who believes in liberation. You can read the full thing for free on my Substack.

[demonprincex]

We Can't Keep Making "Adulthood" a Narrower and Narrower Category

Your personhood isn't determined by an MRI scan.

By now many of you have probably seen the news reports of a scientific study in Nature supposedly showing that people actually become neurologically ‘adult’ at the age of 32 years old — not 25, as fans of the frontal lobe myleination theory of adulthood would have it, or 18, as the purely legalistic definition of adulthood would, or even 13 or 15, as many cultural rites of passage have variously held it to be.

No, now that some entirely exploratory research has discovered that the average, non-developmentally-disabled brain tends to enter a new phase of functioning and connectivity around the early 30s, we have a new random spot on the ground for pop scientists and those seeking to limit the rights of marginalized young people to draw a target around, and act like they were aiming for it the entire time.

In sum, researchers Alexa Mousley, Richard Bethlehem, Fang-Cheng Yeh, and Duncan Astle reviewed a large pool of nearly 4,000 MRI brain scan results, filtered exclusively for neurotypical participants, and found that, consistent with prior research on the subject, the density of neural connections tends to peak around age 30 for most people, as does topological efficiency (in essence, how long a distance neural information needs to travel across the brain, with shorter distances being more efficient).

Less reported on have been the study’s numerous other findings on neural changes that tend to occur with age, in particular the findings that neural modularity (how clearly neural nodes can be grouped into sub-sections) and efficiency between nearby nodes (also called local efficiency) peaks at around age 90.

Why having a brain that is hyper-connected and generally efficient is the marker of adulthood, but having a brain with highly specialized organization and really efficient individual connections is not is, of course, completely arbitrary. The only reason the news media isn’t treating brain modularity and local efficiency as hallmarks of maturity is because it would make too obviously a specious headline to claim that adulthood begins at 90.

Once you have allowed that certain people cannot be trusted to make their own decisions because of how their brains are structured, you open the door to limit any freedoms you dislike. All you have to do is pluck one random developmental trend from the sea of published neuroscientific data, and claim that anyone whose brain deviates from this milestone is a neurological ‘child’ who needs protection from their own autonomy.

But as any honest neuroscientist will tell you, the brain never finishes developing. Adulthood is a socially constructed category, not a biologically observable reality, and we all exist at some point along a continuum of development that is highly personal to us. Our endocrinology, ability to grow muscle, hormone production, metabolism, circadian rhythm, neural organization, neural efficiency, the presence of brain tumors or cysts — all of these things are changing within us at all times, and remain beautifully inconsistent over the course of our life span. We are not static. And we are all growing more disabled on a long enough timeline.

There is no single moment at which we can be said to be at our most adult — not without creating a definition of adulthood that is at once completely fleeting and ableist. Is it more adult to think quickly, or to make fewer errors than others? And if so, at what point do we start cutting off large swathes of people from the possibility of ever being a true adult, not just our elders and younger comrades, but every single person with a cognitive disability, brain fog, temporary injury, low blood sugar, or who just happens to live on the low end of the bell curve?

What’s the use in packaging a diverse collection of rights, social responsibilities, and modes of interacting under the single banner of ‘adulthood,’ anyway? Is an adult a person who can operate a vehicle? Take on a loan? Join the military? Understand every possible outcome of having sex or getting a medical procedure? Someone who has done an estimable deed for their community?

I can think of a lot of adults who have never done any of that. And I know a great many people who have taken on immense social responsibility when they were in a state of cognitive disability, or while they were children: they raised younger siblings, got drunken parents washed up and headed to work, drove a car full of their family members through a mud slide in the mountains, reported a predator sliding into their inbox, and registered dozens of adults to vote when they weren’t allowed to vote themselves.

I wrote all about the shoddy brain science on "adulthood" and why it's damaging to youth, elders, disabled people, and anyone who believes in liberation. You can read the full thing for free on my Substack.