TheUniverseIsWithYou

mish mash of all my interests since 2014

[lesbianroselandry]

au where prior to the tuna melt debacle ilya goes "i like you. not as a person obviously haha" (<- lying) "but you have a good mouth, so."

but this time around shane, autistic king, is like. "you know, i actually appreciate that you're up front about not really liking me or caring about me outside of sex. i hate it when people pretend they like me when they actually don't, and i can never tell until it's way too late and it's super fucking embarrassing. so, like, thanks for being honest. :)"

and ilya gets faced with a video game dialogue selection prompt.

> [COWARD] Confirm that yes, you do not like Hollander as a person, and you only like him for sex, and none of this matters, and it never has, and it never will. > [LOVERBOY] Be brave and confess that you lied when you said that. And you thought he knew you were lying. Because you do like him. A lot. [!] This choice will have consequences.

[phantomrose96]

I think it's funny world-building how like, so at the center of Life we've got Water. Arguably The most important resource. Colorless transparent substance that molds to any container and we die without it and quickly. And all organic functions of society hinge on its availability. Could fight a ton of wars over this thing.

And well beyond organic life, modern society's great human invention is the Electronic Magic. Our greatest minds invented the Electronic Magic and it sends information around the world instantly. Our infrastructure our economy our modern life, minute by minute by minute, hinges on utilizing the great Lighting Technology.

BUT ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️ DO NOT. DO NOT EVER. get the magical Elixir Substance of Life and Living and Healing, Water, IN the Electronic Device. The water keeps you alive critically but it KILLS the Electronic Device instantly and catastrophically. This Says something.

[infertilityidol]

[gh0stienj0yer]

i need to get off tumblr i’m at the aquarium admiring the fish and my brain goes “posts that make you want to get in the water” what are you talking about. these are live fish in the room with you. what post.

[gh0stienj0yer]

posts that make you want to get in the water

[byjove]

Donald Trump desperately trying to initiate the Red Scare 2 but no one giving a fuck is hilarious to me. The GOP has already villainized and fearmongered about immigrants, transgender people, DEI hires, ANTIFA, etc. and introducing a new supervillain hiding amongst us just isn’t working. I wish there was a communism WAS the greatest threat to America.

[byjove]

During yesterday’s speech he said something to the tune of “The communists want to seize your house and give it to your neighbor.” which shows how out of touch he is, how advanced his dementia is and how the Red Scare tactics of the 1950s are not applicable to the 2020s because no one owns their house anymore and most of us would prefer our house being owned by our neighbor instead of our landlord.

[byjove]

The Red Scare tactics of the 1950s are sooooooooo outdated in today’s world. Saying shit like “Under communism, the government will assign you a job and you will not get to pick!” would make 85% of my generation be like “That sounds awesome, I’m so sick of AI job interviews, just got rejected for the job I applied for shoveling elephant shit at the zoo.”

[thecryptkeeper]

[frownyalfred]

watching a tiktok about reverse tropes in fics and i laughed so hard at this comment i rolled off my bed

[asha-mage]

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.

[artechouse]

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.

[considermycat]

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.)

[kyraneko]

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.

[walkingeverywhere]

[fairycosmos]

i always forget you're in your late 20s and then you bring up shows like teen wolf. not you watching mtv

what youve just done to me here mate is pour 100 pans of boiling water over my skin

[ouroborosorder]

the problem with writing fantasy is that i have to constantly stop myself from having people say "jesus fucking christ." jesus didn't exist here dammit. i need a fake swear that means the same thing i think

[lesbianroselandry]

random psa but 9 times out of 10 what people are thinking of when they say "magical realism" is actually urban fantasy. these are not the same thing! if you're explaining it, if you're coming up with a system for how it works, if it's explicitly not in the real world but instead an analogue of the real world where magic is real (because it isn't in the real world), if anything about the magic is really out of the ordinary, that's urban fantasy. magical realism is a genre made of critique of the real world using fantastic elements presented as part of the reality we live in, and has strong ties to anti-colonial literature in latin america! i am maybe not explaining this well bc i have taken meds that make me sooo sleepy but here read wikipedia you'll see what i mean.

[hmmbarkbark]

you know Ilya is clutching his chest from the cuteness aggression

[twirlingfreckles]

Bella Harris walked into biology class the locker room and Edward Troy smelled his blood apple scented shampoo and was like damn I cant decide if I’m hungry or horny rn but either way I’m clearly a monster who needs to be kept far away from you

[mutantrenegade]

You know Jones soda cap, as a tumblr user i can actually say i think I have.

[nextlevelsmp3]

been thinking about this tweet for a month straight

[vinceaddams]

It had never occurred to me that bus upholstery fabric is something that an ordinary person can just buy, but I was watching a video that included a trip to a huge fabric store and they just had a whole section of it??!

Including the exact same one my city buses have!!

The fabric store in the video isn't even in the same country as me, but I sat on that very same pattern on the way to work yesterday!