Vixen's Burrow

Trans foxgirl. Cuddle enthusiast, unicorn appreciator, average anarchy enjoyer. A witch, not Wiccan. Posting whatever. Minors: do whatever you want, I’m not your mom or a cop.

[vivianvixen]

Bonnets seem to be making something of a fashion comeback in the form of oversized visors

[thydungeongal]

Devil Spire Falls may not be much to look at and the gameplay isn't all that great but I'm riding on a flying unicorn now so it's actually a pretty good game

[vivianvixen]

Does it have cloven hooves?

[theomenroom]

facts:

Kalevala meter can be approximated pretty well as trochaic tetrameter

at the end of the story, Väinämöinen sails off to other lands

Väinämöinen isn't subject to mortal rules about how long people live

therefore, if he lives long enough and picks up English in the meantime, he might have future adventures where he meets a pirate ninja robot monkey or the teenage mutant ninja turtles

[thydungeongal]

[vivianvixen]

I take off my robe and wizard hat. 🥵

[vivianvixen]

The supremacy of the Sith ideology is evident in the way they get defeated by the Jedi over and over again.

“But that’s only because they challenged the Jedi openly, they win in the end through subterfuge!”

Good point. Congrats to Darth Sidious for leading the fourth-longest* Sith reign! Only about 900 short of reaching that podium.

*not counting very localised ones like Onderon

[vivianvixen]

My life is a constant struggle not to use my powers for evil

[vivianvixen]

"Lemuria, also referred to as Mu, was a vast, ancient continent said to have existed in the Pacific Ocean"

It's reading things like this that makes it so difficult to not just go full dark side with my powers. These people are so fantastically credulous.

[vivianvixen]

In our new, innovative Scared Straight program, we lock a group of gay teens inside a haunted house for the night to cure them of their homosexuality.

Judging by all the moaning we hear through the night, those ghosts are really spooking those kids straight!

[thydungeongal]

My favorite trans woman wrestler threw a goodie bag into the crowd at pride today and I caught it so I'm sorry to say but I think I won pride, I'm simply better at being gay and trans than anyone else today

[vivianvixen]

But did the miracle happen?

[vivianvixen]

There's this really funny thing about the way little kids lie in that there are basically two different modes to it: either you caught them doing something red-handed (what the youths of today call "in 4K") and they will go to their graves denying it, or they're telling you something and make a huge exaggeration ("I ated a million candies on Halloween!") and if you play along and pretend to be really impressed they'll immediately backpedal.

[tenleaguesbeneath]

Two facts that I've long struggled to reconcile are that The Lord of the Rings is supposed to be a story about and for England, and yet it's very clearly set on a continental mainland.

I've finally figured out how to fit these facts together neatly, though: the Third Age ended before Doggerland sank. Britain was not an island until at least some time into the Fourth Age.

This would also explain where the Orcs went; the elves all sailed off to Numenor, and the Orcs had their homelands, such as Mordor, become the seabed of the North Sea.

[vivianvixen]

This isn’t really “canon” anymore, but the British Isles are the result of the whale Uin dragging Tol Eressëa across the sea, the island breaking into two major pieces when Ulmo tried to stop it. I think this all happens sometime in the 5th century AD.

But this is all very deep lore, we’re talking beyond the Silmarillion.

[vivianvixen]

Sometimes the books I see at work really sour my mood. Like the one called “Hero Boys” (translation mine) celebrating all the Finnish child soldiers who died for capitalism in 1918.

[vivianvixen]

I sometimes hear people my age and younger wonder why the characters in the film Office Space hate their cubicles so much, they would love to have their own little workspace like that!

I think the disconnect here is that while you're comparing cubicles to an open concept work environment (i.e. Hell), the characters are comparing them to having their own offices. Because the issue they have with the cubicle are basically the exact same ones you might have with an open concept office: no privacy!

[vivianvixen]

I just accidentally liked one of my own posts and felt like such a douchebag. I will now go into the Pit as penance for my crime.

[tenleaguesbeneath]

the way heroes in Kalevala shift between being these major godlike beings and being men with families and fields and stuff like that has me thinking

e.g. Ilmarinen is said to have forged the heaven and wrought the air's foundations, Väinämöinen was born from a continuous act of creation with the sun, moon, and stars, but later on, they're both very human. They're said to be brothers at one point, but later on aren't

Like, one way to play with this idea is to have explicit, like, forces of creation acting on the primordial world, but to inhabit it you have to shrink yourself, give up the things that made you able to shape it. When the work is done, you die as mortals

As primordial spirits, you were all kin to each other. As mortals, you aren't, you have new kin now, among the mortals

Another way to play with this idea is to go the other way. Huge acts of world-creation are in fact done by mortals. Mortals with secret skills and immense power within their discipline, but mortals nonetheless

[vivianvixen]

Have you gotten to Kullervo yet? That’s where things really go “wha-huh?” even without involving that element of dubious divinity, to the point that Prof. Tolkien wrote his own version of the story just so it would make sense.

[vivianvixen]

It would probably be really offensive to make a Mecca Mecha anime where that big cube turns into a big robot.

[vivianvixen]

Here I was thinking "I have Friday off because it's Midsummer Eve, I should go see He-Man!" and the cinema is just like lol nope, we're basically just not gonna show that one anymore.

[vivianvixen]

A Probably Really Bad Wrestling Promotion: WrestleTown

Everyone has a 90s-style job gimmick, like dentist or accountant, and in kayfabe they all live in a town where everyone is a wrestler.

There's a cop and a robber and the cop can only make an arrest by winning a wrestling match clean.