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Stephen • 20s • they/them • aroace • italian

[stephen9260]

Oversharing on the internet

Hi everyone, here's a couple of things about me:

name's Stephen, Steve for short (internet nickname based on a fandom I haven't interacted with in years my beloved)

in my 20s, nonbinary (they/them) (lui/ləi in italian), aromantic asexual, italian (dalla magica regione della bestemmia)

languages: English, Italian, minorly Spanish, someone please install Polish inside my head I need it

And about this blog:

DNI: racists, islamophobes, antisemites (and any other type of religious and/or ethnic discrimination), ableists, homophobes, misogynists, terfs, nsfw blogs

There's some of my writing thrown in here under #my writing, you can find me @/stephen9260 on ao3

I know you want to see photos of my cat. Go at #cesare tag. She is everything

More personal things under #stephen stuff

Side blogs:

@le-ultime-lettere-daily (dracula daily ma su tumblr e per italiani depressi/le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis giorno per giorno)

@queerwashingmedia (meta analysis but just about queerness) (inactive)

Other stuff:

The RGU/LVES parallels series

Also there's this old ass survey about the concept of romance I made if you have a couple minutes to waste thanks

[husbanddaughter]

they literally deleted all existing reblogs of that post from existence btw<3

[freelance-fiend]

and theyre tryin to delete it all again

[dark-spirit-tamamoland]

they're still terming random transfems as i type this i see which does make quite a statement doing this today specifically

[puppetstuffing]

watched three girls who reblogged its new blog mutual aidpost (made literally 15 minutes ago) already disappear from its notifs. transfems are not included in their pride :/

[puppetedlove]

:)

[puppetvictim]

:)

[tamamowand]

QUITE the statement to be nuking transfems at the current accelerated pace right at the start of pride month like this, isn't it

[girldante]

gentili sigg. della acheron books ho una laurea in lingue e letterature straniere delle certificazioni di inglese e una malsana ossessione per la vostra saga di eternal war x favore potete farmi tradurre gli altri tre libri vi prwgo dai potete anche sottopagarmi perchè tanto mi divertirei lo stesso a lavorare sul mio libro preferito di sempre vi scongiurp

[hermesacacesius]

Una mia compagna (@parallel-hearted) mi ha appena detto che Eternal War se lo immagina così (non ha mai letto EW)

[girldante]

sometimes I wish Dante was still alive so I can kiss him on the cheek :(

well hello there giovanni boccaccio

[homunculus-argument]

in Finland, it is illegal to kill a bear when it’s hibernating. If you ask a hunter why that is, a number of them will tell you it’s wrong simply because it is the law, and they don’t make a distinction between what is right, and what is legal. Most people like that are perfectly normal, decent and respectable people, just like the rest of us.

 But if you ask people who think about things, the answer is vague. Killing a hibernating bear would just feel… impolite? You can’t fucking shoot a man when he’s sleeping, that’s just fucking rude. It’s just not the right thing to do.

 Long before hunting laws were established in Finland, you couldn’t kill a sleeping bear, and what commands you is something older than law: tradition. Even at a time when hunting was a matter of life and death, and a bear fighting for its life is mainly a matter of death, you just didn’t kill a hibernating bear, you have to wake it up first. Hunters risked their lives, the lives of their brothers and everyone in the hunting party, who were friends, family and men that they loved, to give the bear a fighting chance.

 In the modern time, the hunting season of bears is in the summer, for the warmest summer months. There are many reasons for why they are allowed to tread safely in autumn and to sleep in peace through the cold months, almost all of which are rational and scientific, and do not touch the old traditions.

 Old faith says a living thing has many souls - henki, luonto, itse. Plants only have one - the one that wills them to grow. Animals have two, both the spark of life and nature that enables them to act. A human being also has the third, one that makes them a person, personality, itse, literally “self”. But the soul that travels in your dreams is not the soul that defines a human - animals have that one as well. When your dog runs in her sleep, her soul is elsewhere, where a dog is needed.

 One’s waking soul is elsewhere when they sleep and dream. A bear’s soul is somewhere else when they are hibernating - there are two words for “hibernation” in finnish, one of which is talviuni, “winter sleep”, and that is the one that bears have - and if you kill a sleeping bear, their soul is not in the body, it is still out there, and it can find you, and as a revenge for killing its body, Ghost Bear will kill your entire fucking family.

[omtai]

genuinely how i feel every time

[crabanarchy]

They say ooooh be a good boy for daddy and you'll get a reward. But then the reward is just gay sex. This is bullshit. I wanted a skateboard

[crabanarchy]

Then they say if you're a bad boy daddy will punish you. But what's the punishment? More gay sex! You can't escape it. This whole damn place is in the pocket of Big Sex

[stephen9260]

If you think about it Qifrey is doing to Oruggio what Anthy did to Mikage as Mamiya. Both need to use Oruggio/Mikage's affection against them in order to literally survive, and yes Anthy may not give a single fuck about Mikage but she used a face he loved to manipulate his broken memories towards her (read: Akio's) goals. She and Qifrey lie and smile and convince the people around them that they are exactly who they want them to be, who they remember, because their lives depend on it.

[eresia-catara]

I keep thinking of this dialogue so, naturally, I put silly comments to it

[girldante]

there is such a discrepancy between how i write and how i speak, which is why i definitely express myself a lot better in written form, where i get to think stuff through ten times before i say it, to take the time to pick the most fitting words, to rearrange sentences, to meticulously transpose my train of thought, while irl I don't get to find a way to deal with my brain running faster than my mouth so i end up giving off this

[stephen9260]

I'm rewatching utena and I noticed one thing in episode 9. While Utena and Saionji are arguing towards the beginning of the episode, Saionji saying that next time they duel he will beat her and win Anthy back, Chu-chu is seen fighting with a frog. Now, Chu-chu is supposed to be a monkey I believe, though due to his size one could argue he looks a tiny bit like a mouse. And this is important because of an epic that was written, supposedly, as a parody of the Iliad during the classical period. This parody, the Batrachomyomachia, is the tale of a one-day war between mice and frogs, and the term is used nowadays to refer to "a useless, trivial fight". And what's more trivial, useless, hopeless, than fighting for the Rose Bride? What fight is more devoid of consequence and meaning, than one that exists within a cycle of abuse in which everyone, whether loser or winner, is harmed?

[girldante]

this has nothing to do with guido and yet i cannot stop thinking about guido here

[milly-dew]

I failed to save people when I was ten and put in a situation where I really shouldn't have been in the first place so I will now devote my entire life and I will do absolutely anything to protect my stupid best friend who walks into water and steals maps from me so he can sneak off alone what the fuck is wrong with Olruggio

[achamocha]

english is not my first language please have mercy

[professional-rat-eater]

I truly don’t understand how there are people who don’t see anything remotely wrong with the narrative in the fandom that Lestat is inherently more honest than Louis, Claudia and Armand.

Firstly, that’s boring. That’s not a good show. That’s flat and uninteresting. You want the show to be rid of the very thing that made it special in the first place.

Secondly, you really don’t see anything wrong with being so willing to blindly believe the guy who we have actually spent zero time with, over two people we have seen in person and the other whose words we have heard when she thought she was only talking to herself? Before you’ve even watched the new season?

You don’t notice anything different about Lestat from the other three? Anything that might cause you to treat them differently based on biases you may not even consciously be aware that you have? That perhaps are causing you to be more lenient and forgiving when it comes to Lestat? Nothing at all?

Louis lies. Claudia lies. Armand lies. But Lestat also lies, even unconsciously. He’s not automatically a more reliable source. This isn’t the grand reveal that the first two seasons were a waste of time. That’s not what the show is. What an insult that would be to Louis and to Jacob.

There’s this vibe from certain fans that this is where the ‘real’ show begins, that everything before was a facade or was less important. A prelude to the more important show. If you don’t see anything strange about that way of thinking, what it implies, I need you to reflect on yourself. I need you to question why you think the things that you do and why you are inclined to believe or not believe certain things, because it’s about something a whole lot bigger than a show about vampires.