#kelly things

[truetgirl]

Car Trunk vs Car Boot: A clear win for US English, trunk was already a thing in which you stored items, frequently for transport.

Crisps vs Chips: I gotta admit, the Brits have this one. They're thin slices of potato that have been made crispy. No chipping of any materials involved.

Car Park vs Parking Lot: Equally matched. What's a car park? A place to park cars. What's a parking lot? An otherwise empty lot where you can park.

Elevator vs Lift: Both equally fail to address that the damn thing also goes down.

[truetgirl]

Ordered the new physical edition of @comicaurora and it fell open to a random page. I haven't read this yet. I have zero context. I think I'm gonna like this lol.

[truetgirl]

I want stories to have characters that like. Realize they're trans and do transition stuff, like name changes and trying new looks, partway through the narrative. I want it to be a major point for their personal arc, but not the be-all end-all of their/the story's existence. Like, imagine we get a full season of a show with a particular cast, right? We get to know them decently well as characters, get kinda settled with them. Then, at some point in the next season, one of the characters realizes he's a girl, and it's a huge step for her personal development, but ultimately the main problem on everyone's minds, our newly cracked egg included, is the dark sorcerer who has bewitched the city council, or whatever else the current major conflict might be. IDK, I just wanna see more trans characters in general, of course, and I also wanna see some of them get to figure shit out bc that's such an interesting space to explore, but I also want some of those arcs to just be part of the tapestry of the lives of people with other things going on in their world. Any kind of person can be trans, and the realization can come at any point in life, and it'd be cool to see that reflected in more stuff.

[truetgirl]

Well I did one of these for lineages a while back, but let's get more specific:

Favorite Master & Padawan Pair?

Qui-Gon Jinn & Obi-Wan Kenobi

Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker

Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano

Kanan Jarrus & Ezra Bridger

Loden Greatstorm & Bell Zettifar

Sskeer & Keeve Trennis

Luminara Unduli & Barriss Offee

Kantam Sy & Lula Talisola

Ahsoka Tano & Sabine Wren

Vernestra Rwoh & Imri Cantaros

Yoda and/or Obi-Wan Kenobi & Luke Skywalker

Other (tag with who!)

Voting ended onMar 9

[truetgirl]

Holy shit they are really committing to the soldier/cop beat with cyborg supes, huh? "Home grown, American hero" as he's causing more collateral damage in two minutes than Clark's been responsible for in his entire career. "Superman should be tougher on crime" as people show concern for some random guy who snatched a purse who is now on the ground, unable to stand back up after Hank threw him like 30 feet into a steel pole head-and-spine first. The fact that he sees anyone that's broken a law as some kinda sub-human scum that it's not only acceptable but morally necessary to enact brutality upon. "Who cares what the masses think, we have the power! I can do what I want." Like god damn.

[truetgirl]

Alright girlies bear with me: the dragonborn from skyrim is (unintentionally) TMA coded.

Think about it. Early in the main story you awaken a part of yourself that has long laid dormant, you discover what you really are. It's intoxicating, but even from those who are broadly accepting of your new identity, there's a distance. They're not like you. They can't know what your new existence feels like.

Then, after stumbling through this new life largely on your own or with outsiders' advice for a while, you meet Paarthurnax. This is the first other person who understands what it's like, what it means to be you that you've had a chance to really talk to. He welcomes you and rejoices in "the pleasure of speech with one of [his] own kind." For the first time, you begin to develop a new sense of kinship and, with it, a new sense of self, unburdened by the world that does not understand.

Over the course of the story, you also work closely with the blades. They don't understand in the same way, but they seem like allies you can trust, at least. Together, you do great and heroic things.

Then, one day, the blades demand that you kill Paarthurnax. He's done awful things, they say. And besides that, he's a dragon, anyway. Not like he could ever have been truly trustworthy.

You are also a dragon.

The blades might not understand this. Might not realize that your soul is just the same as Paarthurnax's. Maybe they do. Hard to say. What's clear is that they don't trust any dragon, not really. They're all, at best, just ticking time bombs fated to do terrible things, no matter who they are or what they choose.

Oh, but not you, of course. You're a good one. You aren't like them, not really. You're helpful, agreeable, and you don't even look like them. Meanwhile, your soul goes on being that of a dragon.

It can't really be such a zero sum game, though, right? Surely these people have come to care for you as you do for them by now, and can be reasoned with? All the good times, all the things you've done for them, all your shared triumphs.

If you refuse to kill Paarthurnax, they will immediately cast you out and never speak to you again.

[truetgirl]

One time back when i was in college I just started randomly and involuntarily speaking in a perfect Boston accent for like three days and then it stopped. I do not know why this happened or why it stopped happening.

[truetgirl]

I'm so pumped for the way that each of the clans' new mechanics in this tarkir set reflect the colors they've taken back.

The Mardu have regained white, and with it their sense of community, leading to greater organization. Thus, mobilize, calling up their troops quickly when they're needed and then dismissing them in due course.

The Jeskai have regained red, and with it their passion, leading to greater frequency of impulsive and spontaneous action within their established routines. Thus, flurry, which rewards measured bursts of activity.

The Temur have regained blue, and with it the spiritual side of their connection to nature through their rituals. Thus, harmonize, which marries their power matters theme with their spellwork.

The Sultai have regained green, and with it their connection to their lands, each other as a community, and the cycle of nature itself. Thus, renew, to make the most of all that's available to them and honor the cycle even with their own dead.

The Abzan have regained black, restoring their ancestral worship, enhancing their persistence, and reintroducing some more conniving elements to their society. Thus, endure, which finds strength in death for the living and the dead alike.

It's all so well executed and thought out and I really gotta give it up to the designers and creatives that made this come together, absolutely spectacular work.