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[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

after looking at that orc in 16th century clothes painting I realized just how much I fucking hate medieval fantasy clothing. looks like absolute shit compared to real historical clothes. yes even you lord of the rings.

[vinceaddams]

Yeah. I love historical fantasy clothes in theory, but in practice people almost always fuck up the proportions and ruin it.

[qthewhatever]

some of you are really missing the whole "fantasy" aspect of fantasy.

[vinceaddams]

We are not missing that it's fantasy, we are simply fantasizing about better and more interesting clothing, according to our own personal opinions on what's better and more interesting.

[marzipanandminutiae]

yeah people don't realize that "medieval" fantasy clothing actually owes a lot more to Pre-Raphaelite artwork than actual medieval fashions. which is Vaguely Medieval Filtered through A Massive Dose of Victorian

which is a Look in its own right! but when you filter it AGAIN through modern beauty standards...it gets very muddied

[thecosmonautical]

Sometimes you get this. What even is this neckline

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I do really like her red and black/deep blue dress but yeah all the dresses in lotr are so boring and all look the same. that one is especially boring.

even preraphaelite dresses SOMETIMES had features and variations even if they all had the same cut and silhouette

[simplysnaps]

Sapphic Dynamic where the popular queen bee type is hopelessly in love with the weirdo girl that runs Anime Club. She's so down on herself, writing in her diary "Erin is so cool. She can beat Super Mario Brothers in under five minutes, she learned Japanese to read imported manga, and she runs an Anime Club even though nobody shows up. She's committed to that club longer than I've committed to a hair style. I just know about clothes and makeup, she'd be so bored by me. Oh what would I do for her attention?"

Her cheerleader friends are supportive, like "Are you kidding, girl? You played Sonic on your iPhone once! She's not out of your league!" but she still doubts if she'd be enough to keep up with Erin's zest for life.

"I went to Paris over Summer break, like some normie loser. Erin spent the entire Summer decompiling an abandonware point-and-click Nancy Drew game so she could port it to her Android phone. It's hopeless, she'd get bored of me in a week!"

[heedra]

"I'm just going to pop in to the big used bookstore to see if they have this one thing I'm after, and if they don't, I will leave emptyhanded." 👆This is the most seditious, deceitful statement in the universe. The vizier in your head is betraying you. .

[heedra]

(two unrelated books now sitting on passenger seat) "Well let me just pop in to the other big used bookstore to see if they have the one thing I'm after, and this time I'll really commit to leaving emptyhanded if they don't."

👆Your kingdom is being divided up among internal conspirators at this very moment, and you are none the wiser.

[weepylucifer]

You know how we call things "pseudoscience"... the media analysis that's being done on twitter and tumblr should be pseudohumanities

[blujayonthewing]

[muttsandmustelidae]

“hey this dog looks to be struggling to perform very basic functions and that is very worrying” “well ACTUALLY if you STUDIED THE BREED STANDARD you’d see that this dog is actually the IDEAL ______” YEAH. THIS TOO IS THE PROBLEM. WHAT ARE YOU NOT GETTING.

[muttsandmustelidae]

“you can’t blame breeders for breeding to standard :/“ i actually find it very easy to blame them. they are the ones creating the dogs on purpose, you see

[teethwreath]

[napoleononthebellerophon]

the amount of lawsuits these exploited children are going to be filing 20 years from now is going to be crazy and im all for it

[kiruyeen]

found family should be "we come from different backgrounds yet share the same hurt, the same stories, youve become an irreplaceable part of my life. I dont have the words for our connection but we have no one if not eachother and you are my one place I safely call home."

not "ok Im the child and youre the parent and that guys the little sibling"

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

devastated to find out that fae romantasy isn’t just the porny version of rath roiben rye

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

like wtf is the erotic appeal of The Fae™️ if it’s not weird rules and contracts and alien expectations and bizarre magical power exchanges and curses? you take that out and you just have sparkling aristocracy

[thefiresontheheight]

I’ve been told that they’re very well endowed with such equipment as certain women find desirable, my liege. At least in theory.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

yeah well who isn’t these days

[thefiresontheheight]

*my eunuch-ass nodding sadly and jingling away*

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

there there my sweet. we’ll show them. we’ll show them all.

[herpsandbirds]

This is easily one of the CRAZIEST videos I've ever gotten. I was rafting down a river when a Yellow Jacket came, landed on my bright pink waterproof phone pouch, and started drinking from the water droplets that had gathered there.

The most amazing part is how the water droplet magnifies the Hornet's mouth parts, so you get to see them up-close!!!! It was FASCINATING to witness!

Here's some of my favorite still shots from that video:

What do you think? 🥰

[westformiles]

@onenicebugperday

!!!

[stonelionhearts]

sometimes i wonder if we have forgotten that sharing creative work is, fundamentally, a bid for human connection. like I'm not posting art or fic for 'engagement' i'm posting it looking for other sickos to play with! i'd be making it anyway for my own gratification because there's something wrong with me, i'm sharing it hoping we can have something wrong with us together <3

[aevios]

Having ADHD is so fun because sometimes youre looking for something that you use regularly and definitely put away in a smart and reasonable place and you have absolutely 0 hope of remembering where and finding it. And then other times ur like "hmm I need a some kind of small pointed object. I feel like i remember seeing a paperclip under the left couch cushion a month ago, i wonder if its still there" and it is

[aevios]

"wait but if u saw the paperclip why would u just leave it there?" its the adhd. Also if i had put it away then i wouldnt have been able to find it a month later when i needed it. So. Checkmate neurotypicals.

[oakenroots]

Problem is when the ADHD catalogue is out of date, when you go to check under the couch cushion for that paperclip and it ISNT there, sometimes your brain will just give you a montage of false memories of everywhere you've ever seen a paper clip, like this

[aniseandspearmint]

yeah yeah the paperclip montage, we've all seen it

[smileytiger28]

[ID: a montage of a paper clip in a bunch of different locations around a house. end ID]

[gordons-moved]

Please, please, have a seat.

I’m here to debate Steven Universe with you

[roboco-san]

sometimes I see posts like this and wonder what this post must be like for people who don’t play mtg. this joke must have an entirely different texture if you don’t know who this man is and what he has done to me personally

[bunniope]

i can only assume he debated steven universe with you

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the thing that drives me up the wall about “anti/proship” discourse is that it frames grooming as like, primarily an ideological practice in which the threat is that kids will “think adult/minor relationships are morally ok”. which sure maybe that happens idfk but the thing is that grooming is in practical almost entirely divorced from ideology and is so much more about individual exceptionalism… which I think is especially true for fandom-aged demographics! these aren’t kids who are just freshly learning the basics of right and wrong, most of them probably already generally know what pedophilia is and think it’s bad, it’s just that they’re also particularly susceptible to individualized attention that makes them feel uniquely special and mature.

like. I don’t know. it’s just incredibly frustrating to see people continually talking about CSA like it only happens because the perpetrators and victims believe pedophilia is morally permissible rather than because they think that their own personal circumstances exonerate them and make it uniquely acceptable and not harmful.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

it is overwhelmingly my experience that kids and teens who met and then “dated” adult partners struggle to think of themselves as victims of CSA because for whatever reason it just didn’t count—not when it was them. they were too precocious, they had too much agency, their abuser didn’t mean any harm, and what would have been a terrible criminal travesty if it had happened to anyone else was just a weird but understandable fluke situation that they brought upon themselves.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

sort of related—lots of kids do not actually see themselves as children. a child who sees themself as mature, different, and sensitive to condescension is not going to Identify As A Child™️ and will hold themself to (what they think is) an adult standard. any effort to protect them that relies upon their seeing themself as A Child™️ and accepting their status as a being of lesser agency is doomed to fail. and I think that’s true whether they’re punished or rewarded for their apparent maturity because any kid who perceives being a child as a bad thing is… well. they’re right. to be a child is to be a second-class citizen with very limited rights who is, functionally, private property. any child who becomes consciously aware of this will be traumatized by it and I don’t think that Good Parenting will ever fully prevent that. so of course they’re not going to conceptualize themselves as victims of CSA because CSA can, by definition, only happen to real children.

[bogleech]

Why are there just blobs of fake rubber meat that a bunch of unrelated microbes can build in the dirt but they've only ever been found in china and can't be classified any further than "biological objects"

[bogleech]

[valtsv]

recurring dead wife flashback where it becomes increasingly apparent that the person remembering her has dishonestly claimed a romantic dynamic to their relationship that never actually existed and erased any conflict that ever existed between them now that she's no longer able to say no to them

[valtsv]

dead wife flashback where each time we see her she looks more confused and upset by how she's remembered, then desperate and furious, until she's hammering on the glass screaming to be let out

[autism-thoughts]

The anti-vax and anti-science propaganda is very real - and also, frankly I think doctors and nurses would've had an easier time getting people not to fall for it if they spent less time treating people like fucking shit

[autism-thoughts]

This post is about a lot of things but it is especially about racism, medical abuse, and eugenics