Why Does Everything Need a Title?

[newsom]

contender for the funniest bit of supernatural dialogue

[vitiligo-is-not-a-trend]

Some of the repetitive questions here made me think "Do y'all need a visual guide?" So I did it.

If I did any mistakes in interpreting your many answers, please say! I will edit anything I need to for it to be actually respectful & accurate.

OH MY GOD THANK YOU THATS PERFECT

Do you mind if I add it to the FAQ (with credit of course <3)

[wukodork]

I want to add in: for fantasy colors both of those cats are actual cat colors BUT with how humanoid they are the sandy tabby reads as a white person rather than a cat color to most people. Cats 2019 has a TON of examples of this, the worst being Idris Elba's character who, while clearly being a seal sepia (or seal burmese if you want a breed) ends up looking like a black Ken doll with a tail.

[osanzo]

me when anything even remotely inconvenient happens

[omegastation]

it's one thing to have preferences and explaining them but telling people they shouldn't like a character because they're "bad" or have done bad things feels like fandom policing and i don't like it. and i've seen some posts especially in our fandom about javik and they never sit right with me because the argument is somehow linked to the idea that he should have been good but he's not, and we can't like a character who's that bad if we're good ourselves

but javik not being "good" as people see it is why he's so interesting. he's from a different time with different rules, and that's the entire point! he's there so we can see how it was done before, and why this current cycle has a chance.

we wouldn't understand the importance of uniting very different and unique people if javik wasn't there to say that the prothean empire failed by forcing people under one people, one rule. and this epic failure happened despite the prothean believing themselves so superior to others!

we also get this lesson about idolizing previous civilizations and cultures as liara has to come to terms with the fact that the protheans aren't as wise and/or as benevolent as she wanted them to be. surely it's not that distant from irl where people tend to idolize empires from before, and learn almost nothing from history.

and it's not just on a larger scale that javik has a purpose in the story. he's also a character who believes there is no honor in war and who has lost everything. symbolically, he can be seen as a ghost, but also a great warning for shepard and their future.

so i find him genuinely important to the story. but even if he wasn't useful, why would we want all characters to be good? it would be boring. there's also a difference between liking a character, appreciating their presence in the story and approving what they do. They're three different things!

[omegastation]

I really have to thank you all for reblogging my stuff and adding your thoughts, either in reblogs, replies or tags, because it leads to moments of epiphany for me.

Want to mention @xoshepard's tags:

#i wish people would be normal about javik#i always get that paranoid tingling that it's because his va uses a very clear nigerian accent#there's no mistaking that theres a black person voicing him and i cant help but wonder if that colors how fans react to him#if he sounded like garrus would people cape for him on that level and start getting mad as soon as anyone critiques him?

Truly galaxy brain opening. It's so obvious now.

And Solas was mentioned in the tags as well as someone who is quite liked by fandom despite, well, everything.

And me, I'm a big fan of Sloane from Mass Effect Andromeda. Back when it launched, talking about her was such an exercice in caution. I had to add so MANY disclaimers to all my posts, saying I was not condoning her actions, replying to messages acknowledging the bad things she did.... Just being so careful all the time! Because yes, she did bad things, she is bad! BUT I NEVER had to use disclaimers when talking about someone like Aria. Despite, again, everything.

So I think I was so focused on the "bad" character that some people don't want us to like that I missed the very real issue here. Sorry, and happy that at least I can learn from those discussions.

[skopostheorie]

[fatal-blow]

god i wish more sources talked about "sex" hormones like this

ironically its in a book about female sex anatomy that ive come across it (Vagina Obscura by Rachel E. Gross). everyone only wants to focus on the secondary sex characteristics and not the bazillion other functions of estrogen, testosterone, and co.

every body uses both of them!! for a million reasons!!!!! aaaaaa!!!!!!!

[the-haiku-bot]

every body

uses both of them!! for a

million reasons!!!!! aaaaaa!!!!!!!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[redstonedust]

tragic when a thing gets hate for being 'woke trash' and you look into it and its not even that woke. like cmon man i was promised monacle popping gay commie propaganda. this is just a video game with a woman in it.

[doyouknowwhatimeme]

[serenity-bitty]

reminds me of

the shellfish allergy NO NO FUCKING S HRIMP OR HE D IE post

[p1netre3s]

reminded me of this

[konetainkarr]

Justice.

[vigilskept]

on the one hand encountering a character in fiction that reminds you of some people you have had unpleasant experiences with in real life is extremely regular. on the other hand it is vital to understand when this is colouring your takes on a character rather than actual analysis of the text before you

[hunter-rodrigez]

So I do 3D modeling and printing as a hobby, and a few weeks ago I designed wheel guards meant to prevent office chairs from running over cables and clothes... or your pet's tail.

I got the idea from cowcatchers old locomotives used to have.

Anyways, yesterday I uploaded the model to Thingiverse, and just hours after uploading it, the Community Relationship Manager of the whole website left a comment suggesting I enter the model into a competition that's currently being held on the site.

So I did... and now it's in third place not even a day later. First place is $500, but the competition still has a month to go.

Then the Community Manager contacted me again, telling me they want to feature my model in an upcoming design promotion.

Just, what is happening? I mostly made this thing for myself in, like, an hour, and now it's suddenly super popular? This is all a little bit overwhelming 😵‍💫

Other models I worked on for weeks didn't get nearly as popular. I swear, it's impossible to predict what people will like.

Anyways, if you want to print the wheel guards yourself, you can get the model here or here.

I also made a quiet version you can stick furniture felt pads on.

[chekhovs-raygun]

@bonyfish

[bleedthebeat]

brown eyes dorian mod 🤝 brown eyes kerry mod 🤝 brown eyes steve mod

[notanupstandingcitizen]

people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW

[cavegirlpoems]

tumblr users baffled by the concept of engaing with things that aren't YA fiction and fandom.

[escabye-deactivated20190922]

when ur mutuals are mutual with each other 

pro: squad con: i saw this post like 18 times today

[skingrad]

[escabye-deactivated20190922]

when ur mutuals are mutual with each other 

pro: squad con: i saw this post like 18 times today

[skingrad]

[covid-safer-hotties]

The Invisible Climate Change Effect That Is Most Likely to Kill You

Air pollution is less dramatic than floods or storms, less inconvenient, and much harder to politicize. It’s also much more deadly.

Also preserved in our archive

There are hundreds of good reasons to mask up beyond covid. Why not protect yourself from multiple threats? Why choose not to adapt to change we've known is coming? Clean air is a necessity for happy human life. We have to fight to keep our air healthy to breathe.

[olloollo]

👆 Nadi posted that 11 months ago. These are AQIs from today:

[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit: