The Runekeeper's Hymnal

I am an Old (older than that, no, older than that), agender/NB set of signals and electrical impusles, and I am not interested in anyone's opinions regarding either. This is an LGBTQA+ blog. They/She/He all work, and RK is the general moniker. I am anti-censorship, and, (and I hate that I have to say this) being anti-censorship does not mean that I am a fan of everything anyone ever posts ever. If you try to frame this as "pro-shipper/anti" discourse, I will block you. If that means you feel like you need to block me, you do you. Contents: Myriad fandoms and fanwriting, general low-fantasy escapism, magic, trying to be soft when it's not easy, etc. I block who I need to. I don't post much that's NSFW, but this is an 18+ place. If you think it is acceptable to send death threats, tell people to kill themselves, or engage in harrassment campaigns, you will be blocked.  Fanmix sideblog = radio-free-runekeeper.

[nagumoanarchive-deactivated2025]

Today's working adults yearn for AMVs

[nagumoanarchive-deactivated2025]

Today's working adults yearn for AMVs

[paw--on--heart]

Weird young lady with a low husky voice and rings under her eyes hesitates for a statistically significant amount of time when faced with an "I'm a human" checkbox

[faemorrigan]

im realizing very fast that people do not in fact know that sometimes things in stories suck on purpose and it sucking is the point

[faemorrigan]

"this story is misogynistic!!"

>looks inside

>about the pressures of societal misogyny and how its bad

[murderinthemoshpit]

great way to format a deeply foolish take i saw recently:

"this story is fascist propaganda!"

>looks inside

>it's... V for Vendetta???

[vexwerewolf]

Worth noting that a primary tactic of fascism is to attack media literacy and the understanding and interpretation of art

[teaboot]

There is a reality not so far from our own in which Ratitouille (2007) was filmed as an avant-garde conceptual horror akin to Eraserhead (1977)

[teaboot]

There is a young American man in France. His mother has passed away. He has few friends, and works the thankless job of a bus boy in a prestigious restaurant, but dreams of becoming a chef despite having very little skill.

He returns one night to his humble apartment, which is known to have vermin, and comes across a rat, which he could easily kill or set loose on the street.

But the rat- it is special. It seems to speak to him. Promises him every little thing he desires- talent, fame, and fortune. Recognition and esteem like he has only ever seen from afar; fine company like the wealthy men and women whose scraps he picks at over the sink.

Put me on your head, the rat says. Put me on your head and think of nothing.

It is strange at first, yes. Strange to feel another take control of his life and live it better than he ever could. To see miraculous things created with his own two hands, to feel his feet move in graceful and fantastic ways with a confidence he has never had.

But the rat delivers as he had promised: he receives promotions, notoriety, admiration. He is noticed. Envied. Every day is a waking dream, rubbing elbows with beautiful women and handsome men and influential personalities who lavish him with praise. It is addictive, this lifestyle- never mind that he is only ever truly conscious of it as a passenger of in own brain.

It is when he has reached heights few can ever conceive, with all that the rat had ever promised- a beautiful wife in a beautiful house with all the world in his palm, in possession of all the wealth and success a man could ever want, that the rat says that it is leaving.

Leaving? The rat cannot leave. Everything he is, the rat has provided.

"I have delivered on our bargain", the rat says. "I have brought to you all that you have ever dreamed. What more could you desire? I must live my own life, now."

The man is furious. He is terrified. He destroys the rat, in all of the ways that a rat can be destroyed, until nothing is left of it but a fine smear of marinara sauce.

He returns to the restaurant the next day moving like the shell of something hollowed-out and brittle. He cooks well- his fingers remember the movements, his eyes recognize the patterns, his mouth knows without his asking what orders to speak and what platitudes make patrons smile pleasantly with their straight white teeth.

He retains the talents of the rat. The charm of the rat. All the worldly pleasures the rat had provided him.

Still, it seems, he is little more than a vessel for the talents of the rat.

But the rat is gone.

What remains of the man?

[teaboot]

You see my vision

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

You've been kidnapped but the main character of the last TV show you watched is coming to rescue you.

Who’s rescuing you?

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

getting lost in boston is fun because I turned around on a street corner three times and some guy yelled "hey stupid! the bus is that way!" very helpful interaction and accurate insult, 10/10 no notes

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

one time I walked around a building a couple times looking for a bathroom and this guy went "this bitch thinks she's on a merrygoround, where the fuck are you tryna go? bathroom? one floor down to the right behind the door that says bathroom."

[mentohol-blog]

My very first time in Boston. I was absolutely miserable, trying to drag my giant suitcase up a lengthy set of stairs in the pouring rain. This guy who had already reached the top looked back at me with the most pure expression of disgust I’ve ever seen in anyone’s eyes, marched back down the stairs, grabbed my suitcase, carried it to the top, left it there for me, and walked away without ever saying a word. I think about him often.

[just7frogsinapeoplesuit]

For the people in the notes going "why is Boston like this": a) the insults are a way to show you have no ulterior motives when helping someone (and don't need to be thanked or repaid), and b) Boston was settled by the Irish

[direhydroid]

also the Italians. mixing Irish and Italian sociocultural attitudes had the effect of multiplying the Sass Levels by the power of infinity, in the sense that you get all of the clever dry wit of the Irish and all of the bitchy gossipy condensation of the Italians rolled into one very stereotypically overly-friendly American package.

also worth noting that who you are to them doesn’t matter. they’ll talk to strangers like that and will also talk to their best friends like that. they’re just Like That.

[just7frogsinapeoplesuit]

More from the notes:

[tosety]

Oh, no, tsundere isn't the right term because we aren't trying to hide anything.

We're not about to leave you stranded but we really do think you're an idiot for getting yourself into the situation.

[just7frogsinapeoplesuit]

[alex51324]

Dang, it sounds like Bostonites are my people. Maybe I should move.

[mawofthemagnetar]

What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?

When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.

[homunculus-argument]

Idk who needs to hear this but being unwilling to follow orders, and being incapable of following instrucrions, are not the same thing. Your stupidity is not a virtue.

[thechangeling4]

It should be added that peoples' inability to give clear instructions does not mean you're stupid.

[homunculus-argument]

Sure, naturally. It's best to consider the ratio here.

If you encounter one lunatic driving the wrong way on the highway, you encountered one lunatic driving the wrong way on the highway. But if you pass five of them in a row, the problem might be you.

[homunculus-argument]

I was making a joke, specifically built on how impossible the premise is. If you're driving on the highway and cross five different cars going the opposite direction, then the most likely option of what is going on is that

-> you <-

are the one who is driving the highway into the wrong direction.

[dokidokigoblin]

I think they were pointing out that highways are rly populated so this may be accurate for you but if I passed by 5 people going the wrong direction, I’m not the issue because that’s only 5 out of the hundreds on the highway

[homunculus-argument]

Well, there was no clarification how fast it happens. You can pass five cars in a row in two seconds at highway speeds.

[monsieur-disco]

hi. adding my dumb horse to this race. For my europesn cousins.

as someone whose u.s. city has 4 interecions literally 40 meters in the air :

it is stupid, idiotically, impossibly difficult to drive on the wrong side of any major u.s. highway. there are thick concrete walls across 5 lanes and in many cases they (the opposite directions) are not even connected on the same platform.

An on ramp only connects you to the correct direction, you would have to do a full 270° U-turn at at 97k/hr. It would be jarring.

if you manage to go the wrong way, congratulations buddy that's the worst anybody has ever done it

[homunculus-argument]

People do the reading comprehension equivalent of this ^ to my posts every single day.

[runekeepershymnal]

People drive the wrong way on the highway in Massachusetts all the damn time. Seen multiple people going the wrong way in rotaries too. There’s a reason why every entrance or exit ramp on a US highway has many signs saying “WRONG WAY” facing in the opposite direction that one is supposed to travel on it. Those signs didn’t post themselves.

A lot of US America is a constant refrain of “Don’t tell me what to do!” with bridges of “why’d you let me do that?”

It’s a combo of oppositional defiance and the reading comprehension ability of a child’s flip-flop.

[animentality]

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have to dress in this style for the rest of your life!

(you do not have to follow the beliefs associated with the style if that style has associated beliefs. The wheel curse does not affect anything like that.)

Do you like it?

yes!!

it's okay I guess

no

NO.

I dress like this already

results/other/unsure

Voting ended onAug 6

[hadesisqueer]

"Tattoos are becoming unpopular", "piercings are unpopular again", "keep your hair natural never dye it again, it's the trend now" literally fuck off I know what y'all are doing

[aquatofan]

[quietwingsinthesky]

“I don’t care if men benefit from feminism, they shouldn’t have to benefit from feminism to support it” okay, but they do, though. everyone benefits from feminism. you don’t live in a hypothetical, you live in the real world where feminism has real material benefits for the men in your life. so are you gonna take that in stride and move forward, or are you gonna keep pitching a fit that feminism not being Girls Only™️ means it’s tainted.

[androdragynous]

fuck it I will make this my Disability Pride Month Request: if you are able-bodied, or just unfamiliar, look up the prices of things. Look up what life-sustaining medication costs, look up what good manual¹ and any power wheelchairs cost, look up what corrective surgery and accessible vehicles and home meal delivery services and service dog training and special dietary restriction food costs. and look up how much money is available for people who can't work.

how many months of government support does it take to afford something like a power wheelchair if you're someone who needs one to get out of bed? how much expense is incurred while saving up for that, making sure you still get food, cleaning, other appointments while you're saving up? is it enough to pay rent? is it enough to still have nice meals, streaming subscriptions, a new video game? is it enough to help family or friends cover emergencies? are there resources available to help with dating, girl's nights, family events if you can't do it all yourself? how in demand are those services, how far in advance do they have to be reserved, how much do they cost?

I've had a few posts about disability get relatively well-shared at this point, and there's always an element of surprise in it - like, what do you mean there's subscriptions, what do you mean it's that expensive, isn't there something else? - and while I understand why, it would really mean a lot if people who don't know about this stuff took the initiative to find out just how bad some of this shit is on their own time

¹ and not just the folding ones on Amazon, which are still expensive, but which I can say from experience are also really uncomfortable and not suited for full time use

[runekeepershymnal]

Just watched Saturday Night and holy shit Dylan O’Brien channeled the fuck out of Dan Aykroyd which is really hard to do when someone is still alive.

[ao3org]

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[runekeepershymnal]

If the (English) ship name for Kinji/Kirara isn’t Lucky Stars then what are we even doing?