Where To Reach The Sun

[mismedleym]

toward the sun, from the sun

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[moss-indie]

[Project Hail Mary spoilers]

Eva Stratt who insisted on being the first to be tested for the comatose gene

Eva Stratt who made sure the ship computer knew the crew's exact coffee orders, even Grace, down to the most precise measurements

Eva Stratt who illegally acquired thousands of video games for the hail mary crew, despite the fact they'd be in a coma for the majority of the trip

Eva Stratt who sent a school teacher into space because she knew he was a fundamentally good man

Eva Stratt who would betray the closest thing she had to a friend because she knew there was no other choice

Eva Stratt who would do anything to save the Earth, no matter the cost

Eva Stratt who desperately wished she could be the one to make the sacrifice instead

Eva Stratt who couldn't, no matter how much she wanted to

Eva Stratt who studied history, and had seen the way the world would become

Eva Stratt who was terrified by it

Eva Stratt who knew she would would go without credit

Eva Stratt who knew no statues would be built of her

Eva Stratt who knew she would never be a hero

Eva Stratt who did it all anyway

Eva Stratt who had to

[supermanstoddlerleash]

every time someone calls a cis man an egg because he decides to deviate even slightly from traditional masculine gender norms, an angel loses its wings

[supermanstoddlerleash]

you do realize that cishet men deciding to goof around with things that are traditionally feminine doesn't automatically mean that they're queer, right? you understand that?

the same bitches who see a man trying on candy scented perfume rather than axe body spray and go "omg you go girl!!" "see you during your transition sweetie! 😘" "which could mean nothing!" are the same bitches who decry the gender binary and say shit like "makeup has no gender!" "clothes have no gender!" "your self expression doesn't equal your gender!" it's almost like y'all see queerness as inherently feminine. hmm.

maybe this is a hot take, but goofing around with gender expression isn't restricted to queer people, nor should it be. cishet men can wear skirts and eyeliner. cishet girls can bind and cut their hair short. cishet people can get funky with presentation and still be happy as their agab. stop reinforcing gender binaries by calling every seemingly cishet person who decides to deviate from gender norms an egg

also while i'm at it and not at the tags yet, if you use this post to bash trans people in any way, i'm throwing tomatoes at you.

[mazarinedrake]

Let's make it even simpler. Calling someone who self-identifies as a man a woman is misgendering them. It doesn't matter how many trans women you know, it doesn't matter if you're a trans woman yourself, in the moment you are misgendering someone, and that's cruel. Full stop. Respect people's self-identification.

[penrosesun]

I’d also like to take a moment to point out that when, inevitably, this sort of humor leads to people accidentally calling trans men transfem eggs and trying to pressure them into being women, ie. detransitioning, the response is pretty much always, “but we didn’t know!” Which 1) yeah, you didn’t know, because you couldn’t know for sure, because trans people are not required to out themselves for your comfort, and 2) not knowing that the person you were deliberately misgendering was trans is not an excuse. If people were regularly going up to random women and calling them by he/him pronouns and telling them that they should try being men instead, and if it turned out that some of those women were accidentally trans women, I don’t think anyone alive would think that “but I didn’t know and it was just a joke!” would be a reasonable excuse. Cut that shit out.

[animentality]

[syrren]

doodle dump of kips from the past month (+ 1 his Radiancy)

[sknao3]

[sunderwight]

On a moshang kick but there's just something extremely compelling about the idea of Mobei Jun spending years expecting Shang Qinghua to betray him, getting impatient waiting for the axe to drop, deliberately creating opportunities for Shang Qinghua to betray him, still no betrayal happens, until eventually it gets to the point where Shang Qinghua has like, the fantastical demon king equivalent of Mobei Jun's credit card numbers and a joint account and free access to his bedroom and food and a great big cabinet full of poison and his detailed schedule and the exact time when he'll be bathing naked with no weapons under the moonlight at the one time every five years when all ice demons temporarily lose their powers for a full night and etc etc. Mobei Jun is doing trust falls (even though he doesn't know it) but Shang Qinghua just keeps catching him.

Until the whole lack of explicit communication and cultural differences thing explodes, and even then the big betrayal that finally happens is that Shang Qinghua saves Mobei Jun's life but then LEAVES HIM, he GOES AWAY, he doesn't even push Mobei into his own metaphorical abyss he just goes "this isn't worth putting up with anymore" and forces Mobei Jun to confront the fact that in his determination to be reassured he actually failed to prove himself to Shang Qinghua in return, which reduces Mobei Jun to a shattered wreck struggling to figure out how to fix it.

[zukli-nova]

Canon bondage btw

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[katsdom]

The above is doubly true if the content of the email is something that will be important to the person receiving - especially something that affects them negatively. They see that this thing that affected them so much didn't matter enough to you to write it yourself. I was a bystander to such a thing not long ago and it was just awful.

[fthgurdy]

RUDE!!! that is so very much it.

[dal3815]

What if AU: Extra 2

<Sub Scenario - Proof of Love>

Category: Sub

Difficulty: D

Clear Conditions: Two people who share pure and true love for each other must dance before the sacred fountain of love.

Time Limit: None

Reward: 500 coins, Item Set

Penalty for Failure: Death

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!

[schaettchen]

The worst part about reading The Hands of the Emperor is that I can’t show funny bits to friends who haven’t read it because the slow build of information is so rewarding, but it would spoil it to explain the background that got us to the, “I wrote this law and you’re trying to lie to me about what it says.” I did send the Agatha Christie references to friends. Those don’t require background.

On the bright side, it’s extremely good. I need a physical copy to annotate properly. The summary didn’t really catch my attention but it’s hard to explain the actual complete premise of the book without providing too much context.

[optimisticmiraclefest]

I got to the part where lee hakhyun is "inciting" stars to ✨explode✨

Badass.

[fanumber]

orv out of context: demon king of lust interviews the monkey king for a security job. got rejected because "protecting a buddhist monk all the way to india" doesn't qualify as experience

[lee-hakhyun]

weaponizing the fact that the everything in the world loves you to steal your opponents' weapon away from them.... dkos' a hot mess most of the time but good god was this hot

[auriyria]

Ever since I read this part for the first time, I kept replaying this meme in my head over and over again until I finally remade it

The scene in question:

Kkoma Kim Dokjas for your personal use!

[scamguy]

youre going to read the orv side story with me right? right? you won't tell me its an useless addition to an already perfect story right? you'll understand lee hakhyun's role in the story, who he really is, why he matters? you wont tell me hes boring right? you'll pull through the ≈50 chapters at the beginning that you feel arent that important, like you did for the main story, and you'll survive the awkward MTL the same way you survived the rest? you'll see it as a sequel deserving of the title, as the actually much needed, painful yet beautiful story of self reflection through the other that it is? you'll understand that it's about rebuilding yourself after being suicidal your whole life and your personality being constructed around that fact? about changing to the point of becoming other to yourself? Not knowing whose story youre living/telling anymore? Loving a story to the point of losing yourself, again and again???? Right??!!! Right !!!!