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consider: fintan has an average amount of ass.

no.

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you've convinced me to watch descendants. i dont even know how you did it. you just did.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I did it by constantly reblogging Descendants content onto your dash. That’s how propaganda works.

Warning: it is. bad. but they kind of went off with the aesthetic and the bisexual pirates.

Please liveblog your experience and tell me EVERYTHING.

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so we know unicrons and alicorns exist in the kotlc universe but like. are there pegasi??? i feel like logically there should be since an alicorn is a mix of a unicorn and pegasus but we never get any mention of them???? are there just no pegasi???? im losing my mind why are there no pegasi. this feels unbalanced.

victor I need you to stop being wrong it's hurting me </3

anyway there canonically are pegasi! mentioned at the very beginning of Exile in comparison to Silveny:

It wasn't a pegasus--she knew from the books she'd studied at Havenfield that those were smaller and huskier, with deep blue spots and midnight blue manes. (Exile 13)

We just haven't revisted them like ever, which is a shame. We've got Stina as the unicorn girl, Sophie as the alicorn girl. Now we need another girl whose name starts with S to complete the horse girl trifecta.

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since elves are vegetarian/vegan and (presumably) have been for at least a couple thousand years, does that mean they evolved to not have canine teeth?? do they only have incisors on their lower jaw??? what is an elf mouth like i need to know

correct! with no meat in their diet, elves never evolved to have canines--and given the breadth of vegetation they eat, they instead needed teeth good for grinding tough fibers.

something wide and flat that can move sideways, a feature seen in other herbivores too. it can be unsettling for humans at first glance, and man did it confuse sophie's pediatricians, but its a perfectly suited adaptation :)

pictured below: an elf smiling

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YOURE READING ARTEMIS FOWL????

I am! The first book, at the very least. I'm not sure exactly how it ended up on my shelf, because I certainly never bought it, but book one's been gathering dust there for a while

and i've been using some of my newly acquired free time to try and make a dent in my TBR. so, since it's quick, I figured why not!

i'll probably finish it today and let me say. Artemis has the same "i'm so super smart and always correct *pushes up glasses* *smirks*" mindset I had around his age and MAN is it funny

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(warning: this is... long. i had to put post dividers on this to make it readable. i would have put a read more but i can't in an ask, sorry.)

i think the most puzzling thing of all about this drama is that like.... i've been doing this forever. i've been posting keefe/fintan stuff (not regularly, but still!) since at least feb 2022 on the dolentsnows account. hell, i KNOW i've even talked about tam/linh specifically before then, though i can't remember if it was public or not.

and there was no problem! people just blocked each other and filtered and it was fine!

i'm frankly just. SO confused as to why that post of all things is what set it off. like guys. what.

also, re: "it normalizes pedophilia/incest/abuse/whatever" my posts get like ten notes max, most of those being likes from my dear mutuals who dont necessarily love the stuff i do but still wanna show they support me anyway.

if you'd just think for a minute, i think it's pretty easy to see that no one's gonna be converted into a sex freak any time soon.

and the fact that people are calling me a pedophile for... *checks notes* writing about characters that are the same age as i am or older in relationships with adults is. something. especially considering that:

in all the ACTUAL content i've made, excluding ONE post about alvar being keefe's gay awakening, the characters have been over the legal age in france (my country), so even the "it's illegal" argument falls apart.

why do you immediately assume i'm imagining myself to be the adult here? you don't know what's going on in my life. you don't know my reasons for doing what i do. i started shipping those kinds of ships ever since i was a pretty young kid, and i don't have to explain myself to anyone. (note: i am not a victim of csa, just want to make that clear. i've got other shit going on. but also you guys don't actually care about survivors and it's obvious.)

and fun fact: incest is legal in france as well, as long as it's between two consenting adults. i have decided, right now, effective immediately, that linh and tam are both over 18 in those drawings. since it's legal it means there's no problem right?

all this to say, let's just drop the whole "legal = moral, illegal = immoral" train of thought right here.

i do have one thing to apologize for, though: i didn't properly tag the first post. that has since been rectified and i've added community labels for good measure. i have and will apologize again for that mistake because it was entirely on me. i'm genuinely sorry to the people who saw that with no warning and i won't make that mistake again going forward.

but i also know that there are people who clicked on some of my posts even after i added the community labels and then complained (in my ask box, no less!) and to those i say: just read the tags, guys. they're still visible even with the community labels hiding the post.

sorry for the angry tone, but i am kind of miffed about all this. mostly that it turned into such a big deal when it really didn't have to be.

to conclude: stay strong out there guys, hopefully modern fandom will develop basic internet skills one day.

No worries about the length or tone, you're good.

I believe the reason that one post sparked issue is because, I don't know if you're aware, there's actually been a pretty significant surge in new fans in the past few months following info about Unraveled.

So while you have been here and posting your stuff for a while, for a good chunk of the currently active people, I think that was their first time seeing you. And also possibly one of their first times seeing art/ships like that up close, since keeper tends to be a first/earlier fandom.

Hence the stronger reaction. Though I don't think it's fair to blanket statement say they don't care about survivors. That's the sort of strawmanning/ad hominem talk that leads to shutting down/self-defense that doesn't get us anywhere. We can all rise above logicial fallacies <3

But anyway, the worst seems to have passed, unless we all feel like regressing for some reason :)

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i do not remember a single thing in legacy aside from the bronte moments. literally that's it i couldn't even tell you what the plot is. boring ass book.

It was the "I'm unmatchable I need to find my bio parents and destroy my relationship over this" book. Which. I am being a little mean, fully admit that, I'm being bitchy and unfair about it. I simply have very little patience for wading through Sophie's reaction. Sure, I understand why she reacts that way and its contributions to the story, but it's also incredibly annoying. so

I suppose we could make a comparison that Sophie has internalized amatonormativity, and we could say it's part of her personal journey and I shouldn't be so exasperated at someone who's growing and learning.

but even still, that doesn't make it fun to read through what she says about how being unmatchable is super important and going to ruin her entire life. that the council is going to kick her out of the nobility and everyone's going to chase her with pitchforks screaming "burn the unmatchable girl". sophie you are clearly catastrophizing and making this into a way bigger deal than it has to be. we've all been there, but can we come back to this once you've had your learning arc I don't feel like accompanying you on it

I think it's just that I have such different reactions than she does. she's horrified and I'm like I wouldn't have even gone to the matchmakers in the first place girl why did we take this plot detour we were doing so strong. and I think it's at least partly because I'm aro and don't give a shit about belonging through my relationship

and this doesn't even get into how sophitz was treated, which is ANOTHER thing I have several gripes with!

anyway. am i being kinda mean to her about something she's very genuinely distressed about that's important to her? yes. but she's not real and my annoyance is. and I can set this aside and acknowledge why it was done and its importance, so I think I've earned the right to be grumpy about it sometimes too

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im so sorry.

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actually maybe Jod was right I think the internet was a mistake