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I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains

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Do i drag everyone into hell and make a Zhuge Liang as a homestuck sprite fanart is my moral quandary of the day

#homestuck #romance of the three kingdoms #san guo

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Tumblr flagged this post as sexually explicit and it's literally just a trans dude in high fantasy art.

Make it make sense.

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I hate waiting for things to stop being popular so i can enjoy them

#FUCK

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Ya Boi Kongming is Zhuge Liang's Rebellion movie actually

By Jove, your honor, a connection in unexpected places!

#puella magi madoka magica #romance of the three kingdoms #kinda #triss hawkeye's toxic romance of the three kingdoms #triss tag

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By Jove, your honor, a connection in unexpected places!

#puella magi madoka magica #romance of the three kingdoms #kinda #triss hawkeye's toxic romance of the three kingdoms #triss tag

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#FUCK #rat tag

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site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition 

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

site that gives you synonyms and antonyms

#resource tag #writing tag

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reblog to give the person you reblogged from the strength to complete The Task™

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Arknights dares to ask the question "what if professor x was a 14 year old bunny girl with attachment issues, but instead of a school she runs doctors without borders with guns and magic, 80% of the employees being homoerotically written women" and I love it dearly for that

#arknights #x men #kinda

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Local mage doesn't believe the woman(?) she's Extremely Into is interested in her in more than in passing thanks to the woman(?)'s status as a literal god. More at 11.

#lava #nian #arknights #sample tag #my fic #writing tag

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I've been seeing a weirdly high level of Dungeon Meshi discourse that just. Completely misses the point lately and I'm honestly kinda frustrated about it. So.

First point of address. Laios isn't canonically autistic. He is written in a way that lends itself to the reading of him being neuro divergent, and I think if he was a real person he would be on the spectrum, but the world of Dunmeshi itself does not have the concept of autism (yet). If it did you can bet the human enthusiast Kabru would have immediately pegged Laios as such. As for Falin, she'd also likely be ND but closer to ADHD judging by the relatively small amount we get to actually see her existing as a character.

NOW THAT THAT'S OUT OF THE WAY. Toshiro isn't being ableist with his expectations of Laios picking up on social queues and being angry that he doesn't get it! Laios is legitimately rude to him! In terms of micro-aggressions, he does it constantly and unintentionally. He straight up calls Toshiro strange looking and fucks up his name! But the thing is, Toshiro's biggest flaw is that he applies his cultural norms to his interactions with everyone, regardless of culture. Chilchuck and Mick have a small talk about how Toshiro, with zero indication of feelings beforehand or any romantic involvement, just asks Falin to marry him and expects it to go well, all because she looked at a bug and he thought she was the most unique and different woman he had ever met (small aside, almost all the women he had met at this point are either family, his dad's mistress that is more of a mom to him than his own mom, his retainers, and his uhhh indentured servants/Literal Slaves)(Itsuzumi is a whole ass other conversation that I'm not even remotely qualified to talk about). He's a man of high social status that's never had to think about that fact before, never had to examine the power and privilege he has at his disposal. As a result, his expectations of people to learn his cultural norms, something he's been used to in his homeland, go unmet and are a source of friction.

Here's a real life example. In the US Midwest, if a person slaps their knees and/or stands up, sometimes saying some combination of "Welp/it's getting late..." They're politely telling their guests "get the fuck out of my house." It's impolite to ask people to leave, even politely. This is absolutely arcane and insane, why would anyone do this? Society!

Toshiro has grown up in a place where he's had to be hyper-aware of these things, where he can't verbally state what he literally wants or means. And he's conformed! He's decided to do what's expected of him. Laios, on the other hand, instead chafed against the expectations put on him as the child of the village elder and against the way people treated Falin for being different. He gave up his privilege (assured house, home, fiancee, position and responsibility within their town) in order to pursue a freedom beyond the society he saw as wrong. Laios is fundamentally uninterested in people (as opposed to monsters and demi-humans which is why he's uniquely suited to dealing with the multicultural aftermath of The Whole Thing), but he values his loved ones and personal code of honor enough to do what he needs to protect those things, even if it means going against society.

Anyways this is a long winded way of saying Toshiro and Laios are complex characters and narrative foils of each other in the early narrative and shouldn't be turned into one dimensional parodies of themselves for the purpose of Hot Takes. Thanks.

#i saw so many people calling Toshiro ableist and still calling him Shuro Despite Everything #and other people saying Laios is a terrible near irredeemable person due to micro-aggressions #that i got fed up and word vomited #discourse is stupid!!! there are discussions to be had and points to be made but these are Fictional Characters #written by a Japanese woman with an extremely nuanced view of the world #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon

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LESS THAN TWO HOURS AGO: four cornell students have been suspended (and at least the one reporting was evicted, unknown about the others) for their involvement with their campus's gaza solidarity encampment. during a school year centering freedom of expression no less!

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The Dungeon Meshi anime fandom right now.

#dungeon meshi #slay the princess #triss tag

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Instructions for how to download a Youtube video using VLC on Reddit

Instructions for how to navigate the underworld on an Orphic gold tablet