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Imagine how absolutely baffled a Roman soldier from like 0 AD would be upon being transported suddenly to a very Christian rural midwestern town and seeing crosses everyfuckingwhere
He’d draw a lot of somewhat incorrect conclusions about our culture very quickly
"This town is full of very very small criminals...."
I was going to say “weird and arbitrary things are marked with the threat of execution” but yours is funnier
don’t like it when I’m about to board a plane to America and discover it just came from there not one hour ago and is getting sent straight back, like please put this girl in the stables and give her some oats, rub her coat till it shines, she’s earned a rest
Also there's the fact that having just escaped America, she has to return to America.
me: “yeah I dated a guy in high school who came out as gay. it was before i knew i was a boy so needless to say it didn’t work out”
coworker: “damn dude was preordering”
other things this coworker (who is a cis guy) has done/said:
—got confused about why I’d never been a boy scout because he forgot i was trans
—told me he was gonna get top surgery scar tattoos to match me after i get mine
—laughs at all my trans jokes, even if they’re supremely unfunny
—calls me big dog (and him little dog) even though he is about as tall as two of me
— “I can’t believe she would say that transphobic thing to you. In June? Pride month?”
Once I said "My gender is whatever's funniest at the time" and my coworker stops dead in his tracks, turns slowly and says "So are your pronouns honk/honk?" killing me instantly
I was talking to a friend I knew before I transitioned about my new relationship (my first one ever!) and I said "Yeah, I think I only indentified as aro/ace most of my life because I didn't have lesbian as an option" and he looked me dead in the eye and said "Oh? Why not? ...Ohhh"
Then he said "You know, I completely forgot you weren't always this way. Femininity really suits you" and let me tell you I started tearing up
Of course, not ten minutes later I mentioned that I had to relearn how to sing and he said "oh no, what happened?" so he might just be a little slow
Update on that friend: a bunch of people sent me "he's a little confused, but he's got the spirit" gifs in response to that story. I can tell you now with certainty that she definitely has the spirit, and she's not confused anymore
me: *laying on couch while my lunch for tomorrow is heating up*
toaster oven: *goes off*
me: ugh. i don’t wanna get up. (jokingly) Pallando, go get that
Pallando: *gets up*
Pallando: *goes to kitchen*
me: ????????
Pallando: *returns with piggy*
me: jesus christ, man
Pallando: :)🐷
^man who thinks he absolutely nailed the assignment
Hey I heard you’re giving out anxiety, can I have 1 anxiety please?
yes, here is a baby oarfish
that’s a BABY?
boy howdy are you in for a treat! introducing, the Oarfish!
MA! THERE’S A WEIRD FUCKING FISH!
Not much is known about Oarfish. Their maximum length is debatable, though there are reports of specimen up to 56 ft long. They live at great depths, and are rarely observed alive. Here’s a relatively small one:
Slightly larger one:
aaaaand, little bigger:
Yeah. these children get long. hold on a mo’, i might have a better photo
yeah. there we go. a few hundred lbs of Oarfish. like i said, length-variable. that one’s only about 28 feet though. so like, imagine that but double.
look how excited everyone is. well, everyone but the fish. oh, fun fact! they can self-amputate up to 3/4th of their body. lizard style.
Historically, Oarfish have been described as sea serpents, and are probably responsible for a fair portion of myths. In Japanese folklore, their appearance portends earthquakes. Though rarely seen, Oarfish live in every ocean. All around the world. Everywhere. No matter what coastline you’re on, they’re always there. Just a few thousand feet below water. Waiting.
Watching.
JESUS THAT WAS MORE THAN 1 ANXIETY
I AM A WHOLESALE PROVIDER
…when they self-amputate their lower bodies, do you think it just keeps wiggling around down there like a 42-foot-long dismembered lizard tail?
Die Muskete Magazine cover. SMS Sankt Georg with airships.
in a galaxy far, far away
Her best look I don’t make the rules
The “draw” of AI doesn’t work on me for the same reason that the Ring couldn’t tempt Samwise. Because I LIKE to write. I like to make things, I like the process of making things, instead of just the end result.
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Words: 1,474 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Qui-Gon Jinn & Obi-Wan Kenobi Additional Tags: Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt Obi-Wan Kenobi, Worried Qui-Gon Jinn, Post-Battle of Naboo (Star Wars), Qui-Gon Jinn Lives, Jedi June Appreciation Event 2026 Summary:
Death, yet the Force, Qui-Gon repeats to himself as he gathers his fallen Padawan into his arms. He knows it and believes it, and he will relinquish this beloved spirit into the hands of the Force if the Force wills it so. But his Padawan’s time has not come—at least, not yet—and the Force surrenders Obi-Wan and his flickering spirit to the trembling hands of Qui-Gon Jinn.
The duel with Maul on Naboo goes differently. Qui-Gon must cope with the aftermath.
hi! please feel free to ignore this question, but do you have any tips/advice/information sources for someone who wants to start submitting to them for the first time? i did a high amount of writing in uni and got into some student journals, but now i'm trying to get back into it years later i have no fucking clue what i'm doing. love your blog and good luck with the submissions!
hello yes, very happy to!
as a caveat I mostly do science fiction & fantasy submissions and the magazine sectors for different genres have different norms.
these days the easiest way to find potential markets is a submission managers such as The Grinder. Submission managers provide both search engine tools for finding markets and a tracker for logging your submissions.
& that's pretty much it!! there used to be a lot more research n stuff involved but these days it's just like. The Grinder has it for you.
some other tips:
the standard advice is to start by submitting to the highest paying/most prestigious relevant market and work your way down. if you are into SFF I can tell you what the prestige markets are. if not i am afraid i don't know BUT i can tell you that it's surprisingly easy to submit to The New Yorker.
magazines generally ask that you read an issue before submitting to get a feel for what they publish; in practice I think only uhh Extremely diligent writers are actually doing this.
most markets will ask for a cover letter. unlike with cover letters for jobs or for literary agents, there is 0 expectation that you will get creative or even really sell yourself. it is just for information.
many markets will ask for a third person bio upfront. you can get creative in your third person bio but you don't have to. this blog post has some info about what cover letters and bios should look like. this one has some more info on bios including an example with no publication credits.
another good thing to do is follow some fiction magazines you like on social media; in addition to making announcements about their own submission calls many magazines will share calls from other similar magazines so you can learn about all sorts of stuff this way.
ok that's all I can think of for now! good luck! :D
shoutout to fat nonbinary people
everyone say thank you to fat nonbinary people
There's this common conception of gender I see: man and woman are often positioned as 'opposites' on a sliding scale and gender as a gradient, and any kind of transition as transitioning 'away' from one end of the scale and 'toward' the other, with 'transfeminine' people being anybody transitioning 'away' from masculinity (which is inherently toward femininity), and 'transmasculine' people being anybody transitioning 'away' from femininity (which is inherently toward masculinity).
This is an inherently exorsexist and intersexist worldview, in my opinion.
Bigender people are almost always forced to 'pick' which gender they are 'more', or have it automatically assigned for them. Their pronouns may be conditionally respected, but people get very uncomfortable, when a bigender person challenges the concept of man and woman as opposite. Constantly, you see "male spaces" and "female spaces", discourse about which labels are for men (and therefore not for women) or vice versa, and other similar conversations, inherently leave out men who are women, and women who are men. Bigender people are ignored, or spoken over, or pushed to 'pick' a gender so they can be neatly categorized, because man and woman are conceived as two opposite mutually exclusive ends of a spectrum that cannot intersect.
Agender/genderless/transneutral people are similarly erased or forced to pick sides, often sorted into a box either based on what people assume they're 'closer' to based on their physical traits (and i hope i dont need to stress how dysphoria inducing that can be) or told they're transfem/transmasc regardless because, well, "You're still transitioning away/toward something", because people conceptualize agender/genderless individuals as being not truly genderless at all, but as being merely at the center of the man to woman spectrum.
Then there are perisex nonbinary people who identify closely with their agab, perisex nonbinary women/fems afab and perisex nonbinary men amab. Gender essentialists either try to cut these people out of trans identity entirely, fakeclaiming them, insisting they're basically cisgender, engaging in intense transmedicalist rhetoric dressed up in a slightly more 'acceptable' font now that transmedicalism is somewhat less accepted in the community..or they insist that, despite many not being at all masculine, perisex nonbinary people afab are all transmasc, and vice versa.
I consider all of these things to be misgendering! Forcing any nonbinary person toward any binary or gendered term they do not identify with is misgendering! And it's done constantly by other trans people who would rather be openly and violently exorsexist than rethink their gender essentialist simplistic reductive sliding scale framework for how extremely complex societal structures and personal identities work.
And, as with any genderessentialist/bioessentialist worldview, this type of rhetoric is also incredibly unsafe for intersex people, who, despite what perisex trans people (and the occasional intersexist intersex person they tokenize) like to insist when they scream over us in these discussions, have a much more complicated relationship with agab and sig than perisex people do, and therefore are also frequently hurt and erased by any model that tries to pose things like man/woman, masculine/feminine, androgenized/estrogenized, amab/afab, etc, as opposite and mutually exclusive. "Intersex people are still [insert agab] despite their 'disorders' and therefore fit into my model the same way any [agab] perisex person would!" is a worldview that will always always be intersexist and extremely harmful.
