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let us commiserate

[sayruq]

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Let's do our part to help the people of Gaza!!!!

[phasmaul]

Nightwing

[funnytwittertweets]

[thenightgaunt]

I ran an Aliens rpg years back. But the players didn't KNOW it was an Aliens game until halfway through the first session.

They thought it was a sci-fi game but they also thought the monsters were going to be zombies.

Over a period of 2 hours they then proceeded to make EVERY Aliens movie cliche "mistake" known to man. Because at the time they all made sense.

The characters in a story don't know they're in a story or what kind of story it is.

They might think their in a romcom instead of a slasher movie. And if you're not in a slasher movie, why the fuck would you search through every closet in your house just because a cup mysteriously fell off a table in the dining room?

[galaxywarp]

Social Security includes the number for a suicide hotline on the envelope they use to tell me they have decided to deny my disability

There’s a depressing ass poem hiding in here, but im too tired to put it together.

[chicagoeggwhisperer]

If King Charles dies on or before March 25th, 2024, he will technically be the shortest-reigning king in English history.

Anyway, like to charge, reblog to cast.

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

i want to coin a phrase that's the opposite of writer's block. call it the muse's fire hydrant. thirty thousand story ideas are being beamed directly into your brain and if you don't write them all at once you will die.

[its-not-a-pen]

yknow what i mean?

[write-on-world]

[hawkgirlz]

we need to have a talk about how jlu shayera ultimately lessened shayera's 'masculinity' and instead increased her feminity, which is ironic because she was capitalized in jlu as not being like other women solely because she growled and snarled.

in comics, there were only two hawkgirls who wore croptops. that was shiera & kendra.

this is comic shayera's reaction to wearing something that's only somewhat less revealing compared to a crop top.

and THIS is how jl/jlu decide to dress her up in the show.

now this doesn't seem like an issue at first but let me provide images for how shayera would dress just prior to jlu.

post crisis shayera (who jl/jlu used majorly as inspo) rarely wore crop tops, dresses, etc. she mostly wore pants & would even attend formal events in a suit. so why did jlu all of a sudden make her dress in short dresses & more revealing outfits? while simultaneously capitalizing on her being a 'foil' to wonder woman who was clearly meant to be the more 'feminine' one on the team?

it wouldn't bother me this much if the crew of the show hadn't tried to say shayera is super unique because you rarely hear women growl on TV or whatever. it's more than obvious that a show under bruce timm wouldn't be able to properly handle the topic of a woman's feminity *cough* fury *cough*, and being a love interest seemed to only increase it for shayera. it also doesn't help that jl/jlu shayera was practically man obsessed & always went out of her way to defend them against diana.

to add onto this, my actual problem is how it affected comic shayera. n52 was bad for a lot of reasons. shayera being one of them. you would have never seen pre n52 shayera wearing something like this ever. this sudden sexualization of shayera happened only after jlu had aired.

it's like ever since jlu happened, the idea of shayera being seen as more 'masculine' or whatever went completely down the drain. shayera lost what was so unique to her and ended up becoming just like the others with bruce timm. i miss seeing shayera in suits & i wish we'd get that back. the hawkwomen don't really seem to have their own unique fashion choices at all ever since jlu happened either. we need a change in that.

i also find it slightly ironic that shayera had more masculine outfits next to hawkman because you'd think being his love interest would increase the feminine outfits 1000x times lol

[write-on-world]

[ernmark]

Just learned about garden path sentences.

They’re basically a literary prank– the sentence starts out in such a way that you think you know where it’s going, but the way it ends completely changes the meaning while still being a complete and logical sentence. Usually it deals with double meanings, or with words that can be multiple parts of speech, like nouns and verbs or nouns and adjectives.

So we get gems like

The old man the boat. (The old people are manning the boat)

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families. (The apartment complex is home to both married and single soldiers, plus their families)

The prime number few. (People who are excellent are few in number.)

The cotton clothing is usually made of grows in Mississipi. (The cotton that clothing is made of)

The man who hunts ducks out on weekends. (As in he ducks out of his responsibilities)

We painted the wall with cracks. (The cracked wall is the one that was pained.)

[rlyehtaxidermist]

"you sound smart" that's because i've spent years doing academic writing to the point that it's my default cadence plus or minus the use of profanity as a tone indicator

"you sound stupid" that's because i'm dumb as fuck

[scruffylookingpiratecaptain]

I think people have truly lost any ability to be patient with storytelling.

‘I don’t understand this’ They’ll explain it if you wait.

‘I don’t like how this episode left things hanging’ There’s a continuation next week.

‘This character is flat’ Wait for them to be fleshed out.

So many of the complaints I see about shows lately are people being confused by things THAT THE SHOW WANTS YOU TO BE CONFUSED BY THATS THE FUN OF MYSTERY AND FORESHADOWING YOU ABSOLUTE GOBLINS THE MAIN CHARACTER IS ALSO CONFUSED AND THEYRE GONNA DO A BIG REVEAL AND EXPLANATION LATER IF YOU WOULD JUST FUCKING WAIT

[hooray4skeleton]

[saurons-pr-department]

2024 is the year we stop “consuming” and go back to “reading/watching/listening to/playing” things

[karrakazz]

i am NOT gaslighting you. i am lying to you. gaslighting implies a level of effort that i am simply not putting in. deceiving you does not require much

[fandomsfavoritesuperheroteam]

Who is your favorite Superhero Team? (Round 1, Part 16)

Justice League International

The Authority

Voting ended onDec 18, 2023

[heavensickness]

Magnolias are so ancient plants that almost every other plant and insect who came to being around the same time as them has gone extinct by now. They are the loneliest plants in this world. Does anybody understand how much grief it gives me that the symbolic flower of Kuras is magnolia.

[blairwitchapologist]

may i please direct your attention to the poem dinosaurs smelled magnolias by dalton day!!!!!

[a-book-of-creatures]

[everyoneisgayandtrans]

We're gonna be okay

[catchymemes]