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🔞 ✡️ 🇵🇸 some-stars on bluesky AO3 // buy me a coffee

[pics-that-make-you-go-hmm]

[some-stars]

Euripides’ Bacchae, 405 BC (colorized)

[fluentisonus]

remember in p.e. when they'd take a bunch of insecure teenagers & be like "today we're going to play basketball" and then not teach you how to play basketball. and then put you in a group with guys who were obsessed with basketball and would get mad at you for not knowing how to play basketball. why did they do that

[despazito]

It never occurred to me that group therapy could be considered a strange american trope

[justgaming365]

[feralpumpkincatgirl]

some good tags on this one fellas

[enron-intern-1998]

Thank god I get to visit Pelican Town

[yanguang]

[yanguang]

the position of the mischevious pig marks the hours

[wizardarchetypes]

Hello!

I've entered the final phase of my graduate degree program in Folklore and Ethnology. My coursework and fieldwork/data collection complete, I am now in the process of writing my thesis during this summer trimester.

As planned, the support so many of you so generously provided, in addition to an education stipend I earned through environmental work, enabled me to enroll in and attend courses in my program, afford housing, and generally live everyday as a student for the duration of my course modules.

The funds lasted exactly as long as planned (literally to the day, I couldn't believe it lol!), and I could not be more grateful for every cent and word of support I received over this last year and a half.

In the final leg of my program, I must ask for support of one final need: There are quite a few books I need which I cannot access through my university, from friends and classmates, my professors, online archives & epublications, or any other means. Some are difficult to find in the first place to be able to purchase at all.

Put simply: I need some help buying books!

Many of them have Ebook editions for as little as €15,00! Others I have to actually email the authors and ask for personal PDFs, but they still aren't too expensive.

I began a new job recently and am on my way, but I won't have the couple hundred euro it will ultimately cost to purchase all of these books this month in order to have them while I work on my thesis.

If anyone has a few bucks to throw at me, I'd be very grateful for the support! Thank you, so much, for all you've already done! MY KOFI: https://ko-fi.com/slorglvr1000

[victusinveritas]

God, can you imagine someone from Finland (or wherever) heading to a Midwestern state fair and eating every variety of fried thing imaginable?

[lumiklovstad]

I can, and arguably I must.

[babystarbeam]

I always think that sport events, especially international ones, are primarily about fun and cultural exchange and hanging out together; it gets lost sometimes when people pay too much attention to keeping scores, but joy and building bridges should be more important. So glad this seems to be happening right now!

[stevesaint-eve]

Oooh, they introduced Scotland and Haiti to tailgating in Foxboro!! You just TRY and stop a New England sports fan from tailgating at Gillette!!

Kilts at Red Sox games!! While they did not understand the game of baseball they had a whale of a time anyway and did soccer chants the whole time! 🤭

[bebx]

shoutout to rain, fog and moss

[kiisaes]

everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we're all on the buddy system. I'll start: bok choy

[lipstickchainsaw]

When you're unable to solve an IT problem at work, there really is nothing quite like having it escalated all the way up the ladder. With every step, there is a degree of smugness about how real my problem is, and that yes, I was right to have trouble with this.

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

You can get a minor version of this if one IT person solves it but they spend a bunch of time repeating things you’ve already tried and when they eventually solve it it’s by doing something you wanted to try but didn’t have the requisite permissions to do

[coral-skeleton]

Was in a situation where neither I, nor my boss knew what was causing the problem, so we ended up calling one of the head engineers, and ive never experienced anything quite as validating as the moment where said head engineer, after spending several minutes just staring at the problem, quietly said "what the fuck"

[crawfishcomic]

Mappa Mundi

[some-stars]

Back at you: truth spell/truth serum! Also (as a separate trope) sex pollen.

so, the thing about truth s[*] is that when it's done well it hits perhaps my biggest and most beloved button for tropes to hit, which is "forced vulnerability (but forced by circumstance, not by either A or B's choice)". and by done well i mean i need there to be a real emotional intensity, whether it creates a bigger conflict (as you discussed in your answer) or whether because the character being spelled/serumed is a major Clam and has never been honest about a feeling ever in their entire life, or because the truth is forced out of them in an especially difficult setting (like in front of people they would rather die than be vulnerable around). i'm fine if the emotional arc really is just "A is magically forced to express their feelings to B and it ends well for both of them", but i need to really feel the force of the emotional dam exploding and the raw bleeding (emotional) wreckage left in its wake. if it's just "oh gosh i don't want to confess this crush, aaaah i'm so embarrassed, oh they immediately said they love me too, yaaaay" it really does nothing for me. i want to bathe in the cathartic misery and anxiety and despair and TENSION before being hit with the tidal wave of relief.

sex pollen: one of my most cancellable opinions is that sex pollen was better when people understood and embraced the fact that it's an inherently dubcon fantasy. if the person affected by the pollen remains in full control of their actions and scrupulously pauses to double check for consent, then you are no longer writing sex pollen, you're writing realistic vanilla sex but slightly sweatier. which is FINE but please stop tagging it "sex pollen" and getting my hopes up. the whole point of sex pollen, and fuck or die tropes in general, is pushing past all the stuff that stands in the way in real life and asking, "but what if they literally had to fuck?" when you make it an option for them to not fuck, you drain all the juice out of it and are left with just a dry husk.

...which is to say, A for the first trope and B for the second, which used to be an A until I was burned too many times.

ask me another!

[filmphotofranz]

[yesornopolls]

as a minor, did you choose to only engage with media designed for or targeted at kids/teens of your age?

(ex: chose to not watch anything pg13 until turning 13, no adult content until you were 18)

As a minor, did you choose to only engage with media designed for or targeted at kids/teens of your age?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 4 days 21 hours

[dotty-literati]

the big mamdani

[dotty-literati]

[isuggestforceyum]

THE BIG MAMDANI

[liquidstar]

yknow its interesting how something can impact one demographic in a completely different way than everyone else. in the exorcist when the demon starts speaking in greek, to most people its creepy. but if youre greek and you suddenly start hearing the demon speak perfect fucking greek its genuinely the biggest scare of the movie. you just do not expect to ever hear your language in american movies so it catches you so badly off guard, it feels like the movie is talking directly to you

[liquidstar]

the first time my dad saw it, it was with his american friends. and when she started speaking greek he turned to one of them and was like "re malaka did you hear that in english?"

[succumbing-song]