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please do not try to "plap" fire dragon, for your own sake. it will not end well. it does not matter how "w" your "rizz" is, you cannot give a great dragon plappies. you will be melted. which will be a big L for you
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"so tell me not to fall in love with you,
and frankly my friend I think that's the sweetest thing you do"
we've been rewatching DS9 and Schitt's Creek and in the past 24 hours the episodes where David and Stevie hook up and then decide to just be friends and the episode were Lwaxana fake-marries Odo and then leaves the station because she knows she wants more from him than he can offer have come up and it would be nice if the TV could be a little less on the nose
"so tell me not to fall in love with you,
and frankly my friend I think that's the sweetest thing you do"
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Worst semantic drift in trans discourse by far is how "transmed" got butchered.
Transmedicalism used to refer to people who were fully complicit with the idea that transness should be decided by medical institutions, and that only a few true transsexuals should get to access any form of medical transition. It referred to the types who genuinely believe that, for instance, lesbian trans women in general are just fetishists.
Nowadays, "transmed" gets thrown at people who advocate for accessing care without relying on these institutions, or even just suggest that medical transition can be good for someone.
It's effectively been co-opted entirely from a criticism of people who advocate for compliance with power structures, to an accusation thrown at people directly opposed to those same structures.
Like please understand that the people encouraging medical transition also support broadening access to medical transition for everyone, and aren't attacking you for having a hard time getting it.
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The weirdest way to engage with fiction by far, in my opinion, is taking the "chronological order is strictly better always" approach to sprawling (video or tabletop) game settings and then insisting it's a good entry point. Like. You realize the creation myth of the world and the Ancient Precursor War lore aren't things people will care about unless they're already invested in the story, right?
Like I promise you, promise you, that someone whose first exposure to warhammer 40k lore is an infodump about the Old Ones and the Necrontyr is going to have a worse time than someone who just starts at page 1 of any given 40k core book, which says:
And!!!
As a bonus. This means that you're introduced to the Emperor with the important part, that he failed completely, and his empire is ass, before you get any of the Emperor glazing in the Horus Heresy.
it's funny, having only really engaged with warhammer lore through memes and posts and a few chapters of that one fanfic where the Culture smashes into the warhammer universe, it genuinely never occurred to me that the emperor had in some sense failed. I assumed he was just Like That.
>see bird creeping up and down a tree trunk >look it up >common treecreeper
can't make this shit up
i like when you meet a couple that's a fun bisexual and her nerdy boyfriend and then you check in a few years later and now they're a fun bisexual and her nerdy wife. hit with the transgenderism beam yet largely unaffected in the romance department. really living the dream.
every tgirl you know will become one of three-ish kinds of people. If she's unlucky she'll become multiple kinds of people in a really annoying and bothersome way. they are all different people but they come from the same place: this world fucking hates us and we need to become something that can weather it. she needs to survive and this is how that works
the shrinking violet, who will compress herself into any space as long as you'll have her, you won't even notice she's there. she's in the background. she walks like she's floating on air, and you can barely fucking hear her talk. she is an ant in your world, praying that today you will not notice her. when she is smothered by you, wallflower that she is, she will not cry. crying brings attention and attention means she will die. she accepts her death with dignity and grace, and you will not know her as she spoke not.
the 8itch. she will rip this world to pieces, and has thistle where a heart should be. she is either a grim survivalist who's voice died 5 years ago, or a loud punk who wants blood slicking her hands and someone's gotta pay for what happened to her. she's accepted that you don't want her, and she doesn't want you either, so don't even bother. her body is a fortress at defcon 1, ready to explode into violence whenever it seems like it'll break bad for her. you can't kill her, but only insofar that she is a kind of living corpse running on hatred rather than actually living. you will not know her, because she knows your type. she'd rather not waste her breath.
and third, the maid-knight. do you want something, sir? do you need something from someone? take it from her, sir, because she is a giver. her body is a garden ripe for the picking, and she will have you partake of its bounty. what are friends for if not this? she will never ask anything of you, sir, no sir, that would never do, not when there is more to give. please stay longer, sir, and take more of her. love what she does for you, how useful she can be, how wonderful it is to have her, to need her, feel the chill in the room when she's not there and beckon her to your side. she wants what you want. she needs, what you need. she laughs at your jokes and gasps in stunned awe of your greatness. being around her is a drug and the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh hits are free. she'll show off from time to time, but only to entertain. you'll find her an excellent conversationalist but in the quieter moments, when the wine has flowed and we talk of our younger selves, she is always the first to change the topic. when she dies of exhaustion, it is a tragedy. it was preventable. all she needed was to speak up, to take. you thought her as some kind of person beyond people, able to give from a bottomless well. you thought "how does she do it"? and the answer was she was convinced she did not deserve the bounty she grew, so she gave it to you instead. you will not know her, because she was always interested in what you had to say, what you wanted, what you were, where you were going, what excited you. you will learn later, pieced together from scattered accounts of the partygoers that also took her for granted, that she stood by your side convinced that happy endings don't get to happen to girls like her. it was easier to be happy when other people experienced joy than to hope that joy would come to her.
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My toxic trait is that I am far more interested in the socio-economic and geopolitical implications of ABO settings than the smut.
For example: I can't read any ABO AUs set in England or France because while I can suspend my disbelief far enough for a gender trinary set up, I can't suspend it enough to believe those two countries would still be distinct entities in a alternate history where Richard the Lionheart could have impregnated Philip II.
If there was a viable dynastic future with Richard, Philip would have climbed him like an oak and dragged him to the altar if he had to. It's a match that makes perfect sense from both their points of view: Philip gets Aquitaine back under French rule, the best general in Europe on his council, and a powerful check on the Angevins... then unexpectedly (after Henry the Young bites it) the entire Kingdom of England for his Capetian dynasty. Richard meanwhile gets to stick it to his father, secure Aquitaine's prosperity, and gets the leverage to start pushing for his mother's release. Then when Henry kicks the bucket Richard doesn't actually have to be King of England in anything but name: Philip can run the countries and unify the Crowns and what not while Richard runs off to go Crusading.
Plus they also like, loved each other and stuff and being able to get to be together long term instead of being torn apart by politics would have been cool. But I'm mainly obsessed with the historical and dynastic implications.
All this to say any ABO au set in England or France that doesn't have them united as a singular Anglo-Frank empire is doing it wrong.
The concept of A/B/O also introduces the question of what succession law would look like under a gender trinary. England historically used cognatic succession, where female scions and their descendants could inherit titles if there were no surviving males from the previous dynast’s line, whereas France used agnatic succession, where succession could only pass through male lines.
In this AU, it’s unlikely that an Anglo-Frank union could last due to differences in succession laws between the two realms. What would happen if an Alpha died without an heir? Would Betas be treated similarly to Alphas for succession purposes? Could succession pass through Beta or even Omega lines? Succession laws were quite difficult to change, with modifications to royal succession often resulting in civil and/or international wars.
So I see your A/B/O geopolitical hypothetical and raise you that while Philip WOULD climb Richard like an oak and bear him multiple viable heirs, the Anglo-Frankish Union wouldn’t last long due to differences in how the kingdoms would be inherited by the descendants of those multiple heirs. And with the complexities of succession laws in a gender trinary, the War of the Roses would only be more insane.
This is literally what the Schleswig-Holstein Question was about. Well, the “conflicting laws of succession” bit, anyway. Not so much the ABO stuff. (But with the Schleswig-Holstein Question, who knows? Well, Lord Palmerston and two other people. But you see my point.)
What being on this site is like: every so often one of the flaming dumpsters floating by drops a fully realized academic paper overboard, and it floats over to you and you read it and it upends your understanding and revolutionizes your appreciation of a major geopolitical underpinning of European history upon which the very shape of modern civilization rests.
It's got medieval-style illustrations of Richard the Lionheart balls deep in Philip the Second, and they're thematically relevant.
so this was never my area but I'm fairly sure France actually passed a law preventing female succession relatively soon before the 100 Years War (and the war was rooted in a subsequent English king with a claim to the French throne not recognising the validity of the law). meaning they wouldn't have had those succession laws at the time of Richard and Philip, and the kingdoms would have had a couple of centuries to unify under their heirs and develop a single proto-nationalist sentiment as opposed to two competing ones, such that if we assume this question about beta/omega succession might have arisen around the same time, both parts of the kingdom probably would have accepted it (if the law even needed to be changed - one detail i can't fully remember is if the law was passed to specifically and consciously prevent English succession to the throne).
if the Capetian-Angevin dynasty managed to have enough of an unbroken succession, things would have developed along very different lines. Just the unification of all the Angevin possessions as direct crown possessions could have really accelerated French centralisation. Would the Albigensian Crusade even have happened, for example, or would Southern France have been dominated and absorbed into a stronger French kingdom without it?
And what would the implications have been for Ireland? With the new Franco-English kings' attention drawn to the mainland, would English presence in Ireland have faded, or with the throne passing to Richard and Philip's heir, would Henry's plan to establish a cadet branch under John as Lord of Ireland have worked out? Would John's descendants have stayed loyal and English, or would they have integrated, gaelicised, and ultimately rebelled like many of their contemporaries?
A unified French-English Kingdom would have been a major threat to the Empire and the Papacy, and would inevitably have ended up in conflict with them at various times - this could have given John's descendants in Ireland an opportunity to claim kingship of Ireland as an imperial or papal vassal (I'm thinking of Roger I of Sicily mostly here).
I could be writing this from a united, independent Ireland under a (🤮) constitutional monarchy, or Ireland could have had a liberal revolution in the 19th century and chucked out our English-descended kings.
Either way I wouldn't be writing in English. Even assuming American hegemony still develops along similar lines such that the language the US speaks dominates the Internet - well, it would be French. In a unified franco-english kingdom, English would never have become the majority language, and if that kingdom colonised America, Americans would have spoken French. and my first language would be Irish, although I'd probably have learned French to use the Internet and watch American movies, if not in school.
God I miss working in an office full of medievalists I could have tortured with this.
My new favorite genre of picture is a very special thing that most animals (and humans!) do: face nuzzling as an act of greeting/comfort/intimacy. thank God that this is happening all over the world right now
Isn’t it wonderful?!
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