[rozzie-bear]

It's that time again, here's your weekly episode drop! Conversations continue, and plans are plotted. Thank you Trevor F for narrating this chapter!

[rebel-sqrrl]

Post-Pale headcanon: the Kellys get Lis to rename a street near their house to Oak St. for the convenience of Finders coming to visit them

[valtsv]

if you're an adult behaving immaturely i'm not going to "treat you like a child" about it because i have a lot of respect for children as an oppressed and vulnerable class of people. i will however treat you like an embarrassment. which you are being.

[valtsv]

[weirdoughnut]

[Plaintext transcript of the screenshotted tags:

being treated like a child should be a reassuring and secure thing, and the fact that it's not ever meant that way is really sad for children, to be honest.

End transcript.]

[otherwindow]

Zombie setting where the undead are drawn towards unhygienic scents, so survivors constantly bathe to avoid being eaten.

Zombies are docile when adorned with flowers.

Settlements overgrown with herbs and flora.

Barely any banditry; everyone is focused on farming and gathering.

Different human factions and towns named after flowers like Lilies, Orchids, Roses, etc.

Instead of immediately killing an infected survivor, they’re given special funeral rites - the zombie is covered with flowers to keep them calm, and  allowed to walk out from the settlement to join the hordes.

[otherwindow]

#this makes me curiously sad #the idea of flowers covering the undead #that symbol of human love is what makes them docile

[bambitini]

me to zombies:

[otherwindow]

Thank you all for the responses!!!! I got a few more notes to share from folks asking me about this setting :D

It’s incredibly risky to attack zombies. The scent of the attacker’s aggressive intent coupled with spilled pungent rotten blood drives other zombies into a frenzy.

Zombies given funeral rites grow flowers within their bodies, eventually bursting from their chest and head area. These zombies are naturally gentle and their presence tames other zombies in the vicinity. Due to their helpfulness, it’s taboo to harm “blooming” undead:

Sweaty summers are the worst and everyone hopes they have enough dried flowers to last the winter. 

It’s a colourful apocalypse! An overabundance of flowers in the world leads to plenty of dyes and busy little honey bees!! Scented candles are a thriving export.

Survivors who help spread flowers, look after “blooming” undead, cull the hordes, and herd zombies away from safe areas are affectionately called Florists.

Regular weapons such as guns and knives are still used but everyone prefers perfumed water guns, spray bottles, and incense.

Zombies are so overwhelmed by the pleasant scent of rain that entire hordes cease movement until it’s gone.

[otherwindow]

PLEASE CHECK OUT THE FLORIST AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[tomberensonsghost]

Yeerk: I'm going to embarrass you by looking at your deepest secret desires!

Jake: what if I were good at basketball and people liked me?

Yeerk: ohmigod that is embarrassing.

[rozzie-bear]

um actually animorphs prompts

(A) In the book series Animorphs, Tobias is trapped early on as a Red Tailed Hawk and must wrestle with the violence inherent to his new existence. He's got that killer spirit though, and over the course of the series becomes known for ruthlessly ripping eyeballs from the heads of his foes, causing the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, and even killing Hitler to prevent his evil plan from changing the future.

---

(B) In the Animorphs book series, Marco sees himself as the ruthless planner, the one who can see the "bright clear line" to victory despite the horrific actions he'd have to take to achieve it, like killing his own mother. In addition to knocking her off of a cliff as a ram, he also prevented her from escaping a collapsing underwater facility and sabotaged her criminal trial to ensure she is sentenced to death by the Yeerk Council of 13.

---

(C) KA Applegate is a Star Trek fan, and she included her own godlike entity off-brand Q in the animorphs. The last of the birdlike Ketrans, his people were killed en masse by alien invaders who thought the VODcasts of their video games were real evidence of genocidal warcrimes. He keeps his given name, Ellimist, as a reminder of where he came from.

---

(D) In the Animophs series, not even the godlike Ellimist has it easy. Throughout his life, Ellimist survives the genocide of his people, crashlands on an ocean planet only to be puppeted by a tentacle monster named Father who tries to seduce him with the corpse of his crush, and tries to live a quiet life as the god of the Andalites only to have his andalite avatar killed by apostates.

--- SHINY! Though the books were written for kids and teens, the Animorphs series were surprisingly violent. For this shiny question, we'll be listing a series of events from the series; for each prompt, use your paddle to indicate if this Really Happened or if we're Making Things Up. 1) That time an innocent child is dropped down an elevator shaft to die 2) That time the animorphs trapped a teenage boy as a rat to die alone on a remote island 3) That time Rachel beat an alien to death with her own severed arm 4) That time Cassie owned a slave 5) That time Ax stole a nuke and tried to blow up southern california 6) That time the animorphs successfully blew up all of downtown LA with a train bomb 7) That time Jake killed more than 17,000 helpless POWs

[rozzie-bear]

(E) Despite being a kids series, there's a lot of death in the Animorphs! Rachel eats Tobias with bbq sauce, everyone but Jake is eaten by Visser 3 in the Amazon rainforest, Jake is shot in the head at the Crossing of the Delaware, Rachel is cannonballed in half at the Battle of Trafalgar, and in the end everyone dies to show the horrors of war.

---

(F) Despite the existential horror that pervades the Animorphs series, the books are still chock full of alien silliness. The yeerks revive a dead alien species who were driven extinct due to the profit motive of 'their melted bodies are GREAT computer coolant!' We learn that dogs are actually the artificial creations of canid androids looking to preserve their creators' essence by merging their DNA with wolves. Zucchini is an alien plant imported to Earth by crab people! We even see a species of genocidal toddlers defeated by the power of love.

[rozzie-bear]

Answers below the cut!

[victoriadallonfan]

There’s not enough Victoria Dallon content going around… I might start to sue

[tranz-regent]

can u tell wildbow to dye her hair zo i can draw her without feeling zick

[thesternest]

Why don't you just draw her as a goth?

[victoriadallonfan]

This reminds me of when Jester commented that he wanted to take care of dark, moody, depressing women and Victoria assumes Ashley

And then goes shocked pikachu face when she learns SHE is the dark moody, depressed woman!!!

Glory Goth was inside her all this time…

[woolblossom-archive]

Blue says trans rights

[the-one-and-only-overlass]

If you enjoyed Kpop Demon Hunters, especially if you enjoyed it enough to go and read fanfic, I suggest you read Seek by Wildbow.

It's got the same kind of kickass pop-star action, it's a lot more gay, and it also goes into the toxicity of idol culture a lot more.

I will warn you: the tone is a good bit darker and the pop star stuff only starts around chapter 10 or so

[st-just]

[rozzie-bear]

And Ward is longer, and Pale is longer than both combined! 💜

[the-one-and-only-overlass]

If you enjoyed Kpop Demon Hunters, especially if you enjoyed it enough to go and read fanfic, I suggest you read Seek by Wildbow.

It's got the same kind of kickass pop-star action, it's a lot more gay, and it also goes into the toxicity of idol culture a lot more.

I will warn you: the tone is a good bit darker and the pop star stuff only starts around chapter 10 or so

[stormphoenix]

[widogastswebofvibes]

Primus really said "sorry we tried to crown ourselves necrokings or whatever, but you can't really get mad cos it didn't even work. And you'd TOTALLY do the same thing if you were in my shoes, which you are so sorry, not sorry."

[maxknightley]

"it would be so good if it was good" will haunt you but "it's extremely good, except for the one or two parts which are so bad it's genuinely kind of insulting" will straight up drive you insane

[maxknightley]

one has you making posts like "okay but if the author UNDERSTOOD the POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS of the story they were telling, and leaned into it, it would actually be a really interesting exploration of..."

the other has you pacing your bedroom at one in the morning going "why. why would you ever in a million years do it like that. genuinely what possible thought process was involved. was the writer possessed by a fucking ghost or something."

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[dancinbutterfly]

Progress.

Onwards!

[onthedriftinthetardis]

I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:

While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.

[isuggestrespecttranspeople]

Always reblog I love my sisters this is big news

[charlesoberonn]

Heartwarming story: Little girl doesn’t have to do anything to fund her dad’s surgery because his expenses are covered by his country’s universal healthcare.

[charlesoberonn]

Human determination: Man bikes 18 miles to work every morning because he wants to and not because he can’t afford a car and would be fired if he’s late.

[charlesoberonn]

Spirit of Brotherhood: Neighbors host housewarming party for elderly resident who doesn’t need help in paying rent because his pension is more than enough.

[hyperlexichypatia]

SO INSPIRING: Local middle school students bake dozens of cupcakes because their home economics class is doing a baking unit. Their school is fully funded with everything they need.

[blandandtasteless]

This feels like calibrating my normal detector

[rozzie-bear]

um actually animorphs prompts

(A) In the book series Animorphs, Tobias is trapped early on as a Red Tailed Hawk and must wrestle with the violence inherent to his new existence. He's got that killer spirit though, and over the course of the series becomes known for ruthlessly ripping eyeballs from the heads of his foes, causing the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, and even killing Hitler to prevent his evil plan from changing the future.

---

(B) In the Animorphs book series, Marco sees himself as the ruthless planner, the one who can see the "bright clear line" to victory despite the horrific actions he'd have to take to achieve it, like killing his own mother. In addition to knocking her off of a cliff as a ram, he also prevented her from escaping a collapsing underwater facility and sabotaged her criminal trial to ensure she is sentenced to death by the Yeerk Council of 13.

---

(C) KA Applegate is a Star Trek fan, and she included her own godlike entity off-brand Q in the animorphs. The last of the birdlike Ketrans, his people were killed en masse by alien invaders who thought the VODcasts of their video games were real evidence of genocidal warcrimes. He keeps his given name, Ellimist, as a reminder of where he came from.

---

(D) In the Animophs series, not even the godlike Ellimist has it easy. Throughout his life, Ellimist survives the genocide of his people, crashlands on an ocean planet only to be puppeted by a tentacle monster named Father who tries to seduce him with the corpse of his crush, and tries to live a quiet life as the god of the Andalites only to have his andalite avatar killed by apostates.

--- SHINY! Though the books were written for kids and teens, the Animorphs series were surprisingly violent. For this shiny question, we'll be listing a series of events from the series; for each prompt, use your paddle to indicate if this Really Happened or if we're Making Things Up. 1) That time an innocent child is dropped down an elevator shaft to die 2) That time the animorphs trapped a teenage boy as a rat to die alone on a remote island 3) That time Rachel beat an alien to death with her own severed arm 4) That time Cassie owned a slave 5) That time Ax stole a nuke and tried to blow up southern california 6) That time the animorphs successfully blew up all of downtown LA with a train bomb 7) That time Jake killed more than 17,000 helpless POWs

[rozzie-bear]

(E) Despite being a kids series, there's a lot of death in the Animorphs! Rachel eats Tobias with bbq sauce, everyone but Jake is eaten by Visser 3 in the Amazon rainforest, Jake is shot in the head at the Crossing of the Delaware, Rachel is cannonballed in half at the Battle of Trafalgar, and in the end everyone dies to show the horrors of war.

---

(F) Despite the existential horror that pervades the Animorphs series, the books are still chock full of alien silliness. The yeerks revive a dead alien species who were driven extinct due to the profit motive of 'their melted bodies are GREAT computer coolant!' We learn that dogs are actually the artificial creations of canid androids looking to preserve their creators' essence by merging their DNA with wolves. Zucchini is an alien plant imported to Earth by crab people! We even see a species of genocidal toddlers defeated by the power of love.

[captainjonnitkessler]

Am I gonna get called a shitlib if I say that I really liked the musical Suffs and thought it did a pretty good job of portraying the tension and infighting in progressive movements without making one side or the other look like the villains, or that I left extremely sombered by the reminder of how hard women before me fought and sacrificed and died so I could have the life I live now?

I also left with the reminder that I am extremely weak for drag kings. Ms Woodrow Wilson I know your bio said you have a partner but I would do so right by you

[rozzie-bear]

um actually animorphs prompts

(A) In the book series Animorphs, Tobias is trapped early on as a Red Tailed Hawk and must wrestle with the violence inherent to his new existence. He's got that killer spirit though, and over the course of the series becomes known for ruthlessly ripping eyeballs from the heads of his foes, causing the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, and even killing Hitler to prevent his evil plan from changing the future.

---

(B) In the Animorphs book series, Marco sees himself as the ruthless planner, the one who can see the "bright clear line" to victory despite the horrific actions he'd have to take to achieve it, like killing his own mother. In addition to knocking her off of a cliff as a ram, he also prevented her from escaping a collapsing underwater facility and sabotaged her criminal trial to ensure she is sentenced to death by the Yeerk Council of 13.

---

(C) KA Applegate is a Star Trek fan, and she included her own godlike entity off-brand Q in the animorphs. The last of the birdlike Ketrans, his people were killed en masse by alien invaders who thought the VODcasts of their video games were real evidence of genocidal warcrimes. He keeps his given name, Ellimist, as a reminder of where he came from.

---

(D) In the Animophs series, not even the godlike Ellimist has it easy. Throughout his life, Ellimist survives the genocide of his people, crashlands on an ocean planet only to be puppeted by a tentacle monster named Father who tries to seduce him with the corpse of his crush, and tries to live a quiet life as the god of the Andalites only to have his andalite avatar killed by apostates.

--- SHINY! Though the books were written for kids and teens, the Animorphs series were surprisingly violent. For this shiny question, we'll be listing a series of events from the series; for each prompt, use your paddle to indicate if this Really Happened or if we're Making Things Up. 1) That time an innocent child is dropped down an elevator shaft to die 2) That time the animorphs trapped a teenage boy as a rat to die alone on a remote island 3) That time Rachel beat an alien to death with her own severed arm 4) That time Cassie owned a slave 5) That time Ax stole a nuke and tried to blow up southern california 6) That time the animorphs successfully blew up all of downtown LA with a train bomb 7) That time Jake killed more than 17,000 helpless POWs

[rozzie-bear]

(E) Despite being a kids series, there's a lot of death in the Animorphs! Rachel eats Tobias with bbq sauce, everyone but Jake is eaten by Visser 3 in the Amazon rainforest, Jake is shot in the head at the Crossing of the Delaware, Rachel is cannonballed in half at the Battle of Trafalgar, and in the end everyone dies to show the horrors of war.

---

(F) Despite the existential horror that pervades the Animorphs series, the books are still chock full of alien silliness. The yeerks revive a dead alien species who were driven extinct due to the profit motive of 'their melted bodies are GREAT computer coolant!' We learn that dogs are actually the artificial creations of canid androids looking to preserve their creators' essence by merging their DNA with wolves. Zucchini is an alien plant imported to Earth by crab people! We even see a species of genocidal toddlers defeated by the power of love.