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#pinned post #i'll add to this but!! Thought it would be best consolidated here

sceptixfakemon

this heatwave fucking sucks how am I going to serve my liege like this

sceptixfakemon

im never leaving this hellsite

#[zac oyama voice] but enough about that-

ratsquinks

miso loves pea fishing!

ratsquinks

i think it's very important for you all to know it looked like this behind the camera

ryanthedemiguy

This is why animal photographers are more incredible than we ever give them credit for

creatingblackcharacters

The way that 5000 Trump supporters and Klan members got drowned out during a really bad storm when they were gonna march in DC... and they had to seek shelter in the- wait for it-

The African American Smithsonian.

The writing hasn't been this good and pro-Black since Charlie got Kirked 🤣 But seriously, like... Imagine! Imagine marching in your hatred and fearmongering, having to seek shelter bc even nature rebuked your presence, AND you had to seek aid in a place where the people you hate... STILL gave you shelter. It couldn't be more obvious.

creatingblackcharacters

muddypolitics

[OC] SOMEDAY A MORTICIAN GETS TO SUPERGLUE HIS LIPS SHUT, Seen in Cleveland

datadegroove-deactivated2026042

penis isn't real. pussy isn't even real. the only thing that is real, is the pleasure of combat

bebsi-cola

someone's height is a neutral feature of their body. it is not a reflection of their age, cognitive ability, or right to respect (even though you need to respect the personhood of others regardless of age or cognitive ability anyway). being short shouldn't mean anything more than a factor you take into account to make an accessible world. short people aren't children, aren't automatically cute or funny or harmless - they're just people. it's honestly absurd the way people immediately lose any sense of maturity when it comes to discussion about height

#eyes the ‘nari and skrael are child-coded’ crowd

Listen I don’t trust the published version of the character heights based on the Toei model sheets because Toei thinks Vegeta is taller than Bulma Toriyama’s final DB project featured Bulma yelling that Krillin was practically the same height as his child self and Goku firing shots at Vegeta for not getting much out of his growth spurt except 5’5” wouldn’t be that weird when 5’7” is the average height in Japan. But 5’3” would.

#He’ll always be 5’3” to me and Krillin will never be 5’ in my heart #4’11” at MOST.#Let boys be short #Goku will also always be 5’7” and Gohan is 5’9”. he deserves to be taller than his dad he’s half Oxblood.#i have a lot of hills worth dying on

I’ve seen one post that said that Saiyan men would have treated their women a bit better than we do, and I really wanted to know what your thoughts are on that.

I’m very much of that opinion, yeah! For one thing Saiyans don’t operate under patriarchal religious pretense, but for the other they’re a Might Makes Right culture, so what’s between your legs does not guarantee your right to anything — especially when the entire population can go Kaiju mode to settle a dispute.

The fact that Saiyans canonically have an issue with keeping their population up while also maintaining the luxury of sorting their offspring into potential battle tiers suggests to me that Saiyan women were not assigned birthers at birth. I imagine (most) breeding pairs probably got together with more of Nappa’s mentality of hoping to create powerful offspring, rather than just carrying on a bloodline or being born for the sake of having more assets. Toriyama even noted once that bloodlines only matter to the elites, as well. Presumably for both the purposes of legacy and optimized breeding. Considering King V launched his baby boy, they seem like a quality over quantity society to me.

Saiyans, even low ranking warriors, are very prized fighters in that universe. Vegeta claims that it does not matter how many fighters are sent, one Saiyan elite is plenty to handle it — and considering he’d never retreated before and Cui tells us they have a reputation of being invincible, he’s probably being honest based on his personal experience. I genuinely imagine that whether or not a Saiyan is expected to have kids is probably more based on whether or not the potential parents believe the potential offspring is worth spending the resources and time pregnancy takes — especially if it’s going to remove someone from their job in a society with a low population — not because someone was born with a uterus.

So between that and Saiyans not really caring about romance, the foundations of misogyny are pretty much eliminated. But also, Saiyans are interstellar in their conquest and business practice, and are capable of hybridization, so they likely don’t base their value on a gender binary! Especially considering Freeza and King Cold, the strongest fighters the Saiyans have ever come across, are of a race that reproduces asexually.

#I’ve said it before and I love saying it again — the only time (Tori’s) Vegeta’s been sexist was when he was trolling 18 #And he trolls almost all of his opponents #the person who assumes he’s mad he lost to a woman is piccolo #when vegeta’s talking to himself he’s mad he lost to (what he perceives as) a robot #dbtag #headcanon #the only time he refers to Bulma as that/the woman in the manga is when he literally does not know her name #I think women are treated like people! I think the people who suffer in Saiyan society are the elderly and disabled. 😬

abigailspinach

apropos of absolutely nothing i was thinking about how vegeta hates magic but has a bunch of transformations and the little vegeta in my head went ‘that’s not magic that’s science, that’s biology, that can be measured and controlled’ and i was like lol man vegeta’s a nerd and the little vegeta in my head went ‘yeah that’s why i married Girl Nye the Science Bi’ and i thought you guys would enjoy that

#dbtag #i didn’t have the energy to make it into character dialogue but it deserves to be written down regardless fjdjsk