A Choice Was Made

Wash. Creative Writing Major. Current favourites: The Magnus Archives, Imperial Radch, Machineries of Empire.  Recently got back into Warriors, and I'm not even sorry.

[gamecode]

Boop last and tell them what color paw they have

Black

White

Orange

Voting ended onApr 2, 2024

[taylsthetrap]

I am Arran, god of the most important thing

EDIT: if y'all don’t wanna use your name use your username

[tams-tism-talks]

I am tam, god of the three major issues facing this country

…what are they…

[be-gentle-with-littluns]

I am Crow, God of the jar of green

ah yes, the jar of green

[theinkbunny]

I am Inky, god of the two things

IDK WHAT THINGS BUT OJAY

[be-gentle-with-littluns]

that can be interpreted as the god of pairs!

my domain is a single jar of green, whatever green is

[agentleem]

I am Liam, god of course

I run the racetracks (or I’m just confirming I’m a god)

[slimylittlemaggot]

I am Liz, god of memories

Well then.

[beloveddawn-blog]

I am Dawn, God of If You Have Any Questions

[shaniacsboogara]

I am BOOG, God of the world

[upset-to-dead]

I am [REDACTED], God of all the people I have met

[epoxyconfetti]

[evilvillain123456789]

ATTENTION!

FEUDALISM RESTARTING IN 10 SECONDS. CLASSES WILL BE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED

[gossiping-about-dead-ppl]

i got merchant

[twoblogger-deactivated20260714]

Also, here’s the assigner link for convenience

[calamitys-child]

Just rediscovered potentially the funniest thing I’ve written in recent memory

[calamitys-child]

Imagine if people wrote all their Les Mis modern aus in the style of Victor Hugo

[calamitys-child]

An excerpt

[greencheekconure27]

Okay, we've had plenty of those "popular food that you hate" polls.It's time for:

stereotypical food that "kids hate" that you really loved as a child

Broccoli

Liver

Spinach

Chicken hearts

Oatmeal/ Semolina/ other type of porridge

Really spicy foods

Brussels sprouts

Raw onion/garlic

Dark Chocolate/Black coffee

Fish

Voting ended onAug 6, 2023

[star-anise]

THINGS I NEED TO FUCKING KNOW: Why every fuckin trans man or nb person I know who binds is like “oh binders are the worst, you can’t breathe in them, I know someone who broke a rib once”,

And meanwhile over in historical costuming, we are fucking eating, sleeping, swordfighting, riding horses, and feeling great like this:

(credit: Jenny La Flamme, The Tudor Tailor, Verdaera)

Like is there NO overlap between people who want to bind and people who care about accurate 16th century clothing reconstruction techniques?

(I, okay, maybe it is kind of a niche interest, but…. REALLY? Anyone who’s made a boned binder, PLS SPEAK TO ME)

Keep reading

[badassindistress]

Omigods yes that’s what I used to make my trial binding corset for under a 1830′s gentleman’s costume! I adapted the Elizabethan Pattern Generator Corset to look more like the gentleman’s corset of the time as portrayed in satirical cartoons.

This was only the second pair of stays I made, but it already made me practically flat and was quite comfortable. I didn’t even full bone it and it looked like this:

(don’t judge me for the awful way the boning sticks out at the top, I am by no means a corsetry expert)

People who are actually good at stays will be able to make things like these with no trouble, because if something made from old sheets and recycled boning can do this, imagine what you can do with proper materials.

Just for fun, here’s me in my gentleman’s outfit:

It basically eliminates my boobs, but leaves the hips alone because at that time the hourglass silhouette was fashionable for men as well. I’m not exactly flat-chested, so I’d say for a first attempt this one is very succesful.

[dawen]

…okay, was anyone going to tell me that gentlemen’s corsets were A Thing or did I just have to learn that in a random reblog myself

[official-boob-posts]

they absolutely make corsets for men and they turn me a bit ravenous every time

[taohun]

did you guys see the poem from a couple of days ago in poetry dot org’s daily poem it was so good and a treat to read 

[taohun]

been thinking about it since i read it 

[ghostwriterofthemachine]

Oh oh oh this is Layli Long Soldier!!! She’s an Oglala Lakota poet, her work is incredible, and she does things like this a lot!!!!

She uses form as a way to destabilize English, as a direct way to respond to and critique colonialism and linguistic colonialism. A lot of her work engages with  Lakota language as well, and very much pounds on the door of all the ways English is limiting, restricting, and destructive to Native American languages, as well as being incredibly unsuited to talking about Native American issues. She feels deeply the injustice of talking about the horrors of colonialization in a colonizer’s language, and her poetry is so damn good at expressing that. 

The connection between land, language, family, and self is alive in her work, and I cannot recommend her enough. 

Her first full-length collection was published in 2017 and is called Whereas. It is, among other things, a scathing and in-depth critique of the Congressional Resolution of Apology to Native Americans, which was signed in 2009 and is essentially a sham document which never actually admits to any wrongdoings nor uses the word “apologize” in the body of the text, and was also not actually directed towards any Native person or peoples. The second half of Long Soldier’s collection just rips the whole thing to shreds. The rest of the collection is a deep exploration of language, motherhood, family, and identity. It’s so, so, so good.

Here are some poems from it!! (I’m sorry for the image quality, my camera and lighting suck).

[toskarin]

I've spent all day trying to articulate a thought on how Copyright has been elevated to a moral code, a system of magic, and an egregore utterly divorced from anything real. even beyond its material effects, the sanctity of Intellectual Property is defended at all scales in a very unnerving way

[toskarin]

in every place Western Copyright Law could reach, "fandom" wound up a maladapted lapdog, like one of those really fucked up purebreds that functions fine enough as an organism but falls into a writhing mass of snapped bones when it tries to jump off a couch

[toskarin]

you raise a good point! I should really make a post explaining why I dislike the state of intellectual property worship without mentioning piracy!

anyway, see above

[menlovingtranny]

I have OCD and with that comes quasi-hallucinations, and I grew up watching a ton of horror films so some of the worst of mine are the standard white skin/black hair demon girl type shit.

However, because a lot of them are based on horror film I have found comfort in doing things that “go against” horror films and being like “see? This could never happen.”

(It’s irrational. I know that. But shut up. This is how I cope.)

For example: I started hearing garbled whispering from beneath my table, so I started playing the muppets sound track. Because they would never play Movin’ Right Along when the protagonist is about to get attacked. That won’t happen. Disney, who owns the muppets, wouldn’t give them the rights.

And it fucking worked.

[notvaleri]

favourite underrated part of the locked tomb is how in gideon, everyone fights w swords and magic, so we the audience are just like, okay this is how things are in this universe, there are no guns, it’s all swords and magic, neat! and then in harrow, wake has a gun, but every non-lyctor who sees wake’s gun considers it a weird and ancient weapon, so we the audience are like, okay so there used to be guns in this universe. and the characters are vaguely aware of what they are, but they’ve become pretty much obsolete, which gives wake’s ghost this terrifying old-school vibe, cool!… 

and then we come to nona, and everyone and also their mother has a gun, and we the audience are like, oh. we’ve been seeing all this through the aristocratic space catholic sword-and-magic cultists who are only a small and also kind of brainwashed part of what’s going on in this universe, and there’s been a whole gritty, grounded space dystopia going on this entire time with absolutely fascinating worldbuilding, political, and urban warfare elements, neat! but the whole time nona is only interested in patting everyone’s dogs. 

[feeshies]

help me get some essentials for my new place

stuffed red octopus

stuffed nautilus

stuffed anglerfish

stuffed frilled shark

stuffed coelacanth

stuffed oarfish

Voting ended onJul 1, 2023

[dragongirlafro]

@sevengummisharks !! :3

[newrider]

[wamscoastsmoker]

IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

[notsocialphobixanymorelmao-deac]

I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E

[wamscoastsmoker]

I T I S H A L L O W E E N T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

[pwhyxco]

ok who the fuck got this on my dash it’s still june

[wamscoastsmoker]

get spooky

[tshifty]

how does this appear every june

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

happy halloween :)

[cupcakesmoothie]

J U N E

[thesmegalodon]

🎃💀🎃💀🎃💀🎃

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

💀🎃💀🎃💀🎃💀

[eviltransnecoarc-deactivated202]

We have GOT to stop being assholes to people with receding and balding hairlines. There's not a single person that it can't affect. It affects trans men, particularly on hormones, it affects trans women, particularly those not on hormones, it affects people with endocrine issues, something that's becoming more prevalent and common, and it can affect people without a particular cause, including cis women. It's a normal part of being human and we NEED to stop dehumanizing and humiliating ppl for it

[bluebeardsfinalgirl]

when internet people are like “i love gothic literature but i hate anything that discusses incest, sexual violence, oppression, misogyny, abuse, torture, gore, murder, or death”

[bluebeardsfinalgirl]

no actually me and everyone else who’s ever watched crimson peak were brainwashed by guillermo del toro into believing that incest and violence are cool and awesome. sorry

[maidenvault]

Horrifying that this pearl-clutching over horror actually being dark is unironically becoming A Thing…

[alastair-made-me-undo-it]

book one: seivarden vendaai experiences like 90% of a love story, but with a shocking twist! 

book two: the triumphant return of seivarden vendaai’s distinguished military career! unfortunately, breq is in love with her ship. it’s fine. it’s fine. it’s fine.

book three: it was not fine. 

[the-anchorless-moon]

Okay hear me out: what if post cannon Basnaaid adopts Breq into Elming as her heir, bookending Breq's offer in AS.

Breq's offer comes with social advancement but no real connection either between them (Breq states outright that she's offering because she wants to ensure that Basnaaid is taken care of, for Lieutenant Awn's sake, and would probably never have considered the possibility that Basnaaid could form any personal connection to her) or to the house (neither of them has any actual desire to be part of Mianaai). On the other hand, being adopted into Elming would be a significant social comedown that emphasizes an emotional bond of friendship and shared love of Lieutenant Awn. While also at the same time being an incredible fuck you to both Anaander Mianaai and the class structure of the house system as a whole.

Also I really want Basnaaid to send her parents a letter that's just "hi moms! Good news, I've adopted you a grandchild. She's 2000 years old and legally an alien, we'll try to come visit you soon! xoxo"