[beneaththemoon4]

That intimate moment between you and the book you have just read the last words of, where you sit there taking in the enormity of what you have just finished.

[whimsical-catacombs]

lol

[revvethasmythh]

I think she hated us. I think—I think when you love a version of a person that isn't real, it makes you hate the version of them that exists in the real. Their truth. We said "flower doll" not because that's how we saw you, but because it's what we knew she saw you as. An eternity to have all of your complexity, all of your possibility, all of your dreams folded into an idyllic paradise where you would be punished for the most minor infraction. Where you had to supplicate yourself and pray to have a child? Our immoral lives given to us, and in exchange, we gave up the ability to have freedom, to make our own families, our own lives, our own cities, our own stories. Everything was hers. What is that other than hate dressed in flowers, sparkling light, blossoming vines, wrapped like garlands around the body of a being that loathed what we might be without her? It feels awful to hear, but I think you're right.

[nayarazune]

Not you. Anybody but you.

[jadeandquartzes]

aranessa royce & thjazi fang + "the three laws of tragedy" (original post by tumblr user @/annabelle--cane)

[tanoraqui]

Still thinking about Azune giving Enfasen that whole speech about hating Thjazi Fang and being loyal only to the Revolutionary Guard/Arcane Marshals and whoever commands them, which now is you, sir 🫡; and then 3 hours later as mere sidebar to the evening’s intrigue & adventure, saying to Hal, “By the way, do you want me to fuck up that guy for you, the one who hurt your friend? I’ll fuck him up for you. I don’t care that he’s my colleague; but speak thy will and I shall see it done.” And Hal’s like, “Please don’t.” and Azune’s like, “Okay. 🥺🗡️🛡️🫡”

Thjazi left Hal 2 swords, actually. One of them is finely honed, powerful in deception, magical in ways we don’t yet fully understand, and utterly reliable, and the other is the Liar’s Blade.

[juniperseph]

"Can you be both?"

[atanertheartist]

💥

[targetedknowledge]

[liache]

i love that we and cats share pareidolia (seeing patterns where they dont exist), but instead of seeing faces in everyday objects like us, they see snakes

that computer cord? snake. string? small snake. cucumber? short fat straight snake

[yiffmaster]

snake pareidolia is one of the strongest things in human minds too! people report freezing mid-stride before being consciously aware of a snake in front of them, and the same happens with coiled rope, etc. in humans and other primates. it’s even been proposed that the need to detect snakes was a factor in the development of primates’ insanely good color eyesight

[ehlbee]

It’s because snakes are wonderful and we must stop and admire them at any cost

[recents]

i Love that anders’ clinic delivers babies and treats STDs. thank you for calling planned parenthood of Kirkwall. we are one guy in the sewer. they’ve been trying to catch him for Years . for birth control inquiries, press 1. for hormone therapy, press 2

[otomeisekais]

[elbiotipo]

pro-tip: don't ever use the sentence "thousands of years" in your worldbuilding unless you really know what a thousand years is like

[elbiotipo]

Quick cheat sheet:

The middle ages were one thousand years ago

I don't know if I need you to tell you this but Jesus was alive 2 thousand years ago during the Roman Empire

3 thousand years ago the Mediterranean and Middle East were recovering from the bronze age collapse. None of the philosophers of Western philosophy (or Eastern for that matter) were born yet

Earliest writing dates roughly to 5 thousand years ago.

Agriculture started roughly 10 thousand years ago

So yes, you can write whatever you like but if you're telling me that an individual dynasty has been ruling since 8000 years ago (HOLA JORGE) I have to wonder if they even had writing back then

[imsobadatnicknames2]

To be fair you can find one guy like that in the comment section of most metal bands on youtube

[duckbunny]

reading The Goblin Emperor, in which a single dynasty is supposed to have ruled for like two thousand years:

Americans: split between "this seems normal" and "this is unusual and we can determine certain things about the society based on this remarkable stability."

me, a person who lives in a monarchy: oh, so it's lies.

because here is the thing: every monarchy claims longevity and stability. every monarchy has a couple of times when a younger son or a cousin inherited the throne and we just don't talk about why. every dynasty has those two or three times when there's years of civil war between incumbents. every monarchy has a conquest or two where the incomer put the old crown on his head and everyone cheered for his legitimate accession. "I'm in charge because my soldiers beat the other guy's soldiers" makes it obvious that you are an invader and a tyrant. "I'm the king because God decreed that my family were the blessed and legitimate inheritors of this crown and it was never meant to go to the other guy (dead king's recognised successor until I showed up with an army)" is what you say instead.

So when you tell me that your fictional dynasty has been ruling for ten thousand years, I just assume it's lies. Because monarchies love to tell that lie. I live in a monarchy. We claim that the crown has an unbroken sovereign history since 1066, when we were famously and bloodily conquered. That's a thousand year continuity! We have had three civil wars, six or seven ruling families, another armed conquest and a republic during that time. Don't worry about that. That doesn't count. Thousand year dynasty, woohoo!

[ventusolariss]

Jenny Holzer, "BY YOUR RESPONSE TO DANGER"

[parkchanwoohoo]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#i think that as sides are added it gets more and more sci fi#but eventually you circle around to having so many sides its a sphere and also fantasy again

Asymptotic Fantasy

[worstgirleva]

Male socialization is such an evil rhetoric. Yeah I guess not transitioning at the age of 5 is my fault and I'm evil for it. Yeah I guess not having the childhood I wish I did means I'm a danger and I should perpetually apologize for it

[zedogica]

"The fact that socialization is a specious argument became obvious to me during an exchange I had with a trans-woman-exclusionist who insisted that my being raised male was the sole reason in her mind for me to be disqualified from entering women-only spaces. So I asked her if she was open to allowing trans women who are anatomically male but who have been socialized female — something that’s not all that uncommon for MTF children these days. She admitted to having concerns about their attending. Then, I asked how she would feel about a person who was born female yet raised male against her will, and who, after a lifetime of pretending to be male in order to survive, finally reclaimed her female identity upon reaching adulthood. After being confronted with this scenario, the woman conceded that she would be inclined to let this person enter women-only space, thus demonstrating that her argument about male socialization was really an argument about biology after all. In fact, after being pressed a bit further, she admitted that the scenario of a young girl who was forced against her will into boyhood made her realize how traumatic and dehumanizing male socialization could be for someone who was female-identified. This, of course, is exactly how many trans women experience their own childhoods."

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Julia Serano, "Whipping Girl"

pg. 184

[srdcovka]

[horde-of-impressions]

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