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Fortnite, are you sure about this? Did you think it through?

#atla #toph #videopelit

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Davekat Masterpost

Introduction: So I’ve been shipping this since I read Karkat’s first pesterlog. Was like “Oh maaaaan. This guy. I need this guy to talk to Dave, because that, my friends, would be an interesting conversation.” It just seemed like an interesting dynamic to observe and thus my otp became a crack ship and i cried (two characters who hadn’t even talked yet!). So I’m super happy with recent developments and I’ve been working on this here masterlist of sorts. This is gonna be an in-depth analysis starting with individual characters and ending with their relationship as a whole, plus every link for every moment they shared in-comic. Enjoy.

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#davekat #hs #aikaritari #veriritari #again i fucking NEED to change my homestuck character tags #but until i get around to doing the mass edit i'm gonna continue keeping them consistent

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Hi hello, Ace-Aro person here: please stop talking over us and infantilizing us.

If I need to see one more take about how you need to keep fandom clean because we need to protect the asexuals I'll riot. Here's the thing, some ace people are uncomfortable with nsfw. So are some alosexual people. That's why it's important to tag things accordingly so other people can manage their experience. That has nothing to do with being ace though.

I think people conflate asexual with sex repulsed and then further conflate lack of sex with being a child. I'm 26, even if sex made me uncomfortable I can voice it myself as a grown woman. You don't need to "protect me".

The protection narrative is very puritanical christian culture. I can keep myself safe thank you very much, you don't need to wage holy war on boobs in my name. In fact, I am fighting the crusade on the side of the boobs.

A lot of ace people are very pro sex so long as it doesn't involve us. Some actually do have sex, lack of attraction doesn't mean lack of libido.

When you see ace people, survivors of sa, neurodivergent people or even minors as "poor sweet things that need to be protected" instead of actual people, that's when you drank the purity culture Kool aid. If you're old enough to be on social media you're old enough to use the tools at your disposal to filter the content you see. We don't need anyone else harassing others in our name.

We should teach people how to use these tools instead of forcing everyone to act PG 13 (which is what the advertisers want you to do btw). Also, consider how it makes us feel when you speak over us saying that ace/ND/sa survivors are uncomfortable with sex when a lot os us aren't. Hell, purity culture has been proven to be very damaging for the minors it was meant to protect (lack of sex Ed, repression and feelings of guilt make you easier to groom too). Kiddifying the internet is harmful even for the minors.

So please, next time you read about how we need to make fandom "safer for ace people" I want you to remember that statistically speaking a lot of the nsfw artists your harassing are ace. Tag things, block words, keep yourself safe and let others live.

But, most of all: stop making generalizations about communities (even if you're in them) to justify your censorship.

#yeah there are some sex related things i'm uncomfortable with #but like. i read e rated fics i have a libido etc #the only protection i need is people tagging their shit so i can CHOOSE when and what i want to see #and also that people irl don't use me to fuel their exhibition kink or overshare details if i ask them not to #bc those are honestly an issue of consent #sexually explicit material should be allowed to exist on the internet and not just on websites specifically meant for it #but there also needs to be a system that allows people to choose when and if they encounter it #like marking a post as nsfw and/or tagging specifics #also kids and young teens need their own internet spaces again like they did in the 2000s #fandom #ace things

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The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.

#comics #history #I LOVE HIM #we need like an animated show of just these little skits of him doing his thing #no plot just the video version of every comic strip and maybe some new ones #everett true

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My favorite bird has got to be the short-tailed pygmy tyrant cause first of all look at it:

But second of all this lil fella is "töpökääpiötypäkkö" in Finnish and that shit is just fun to say

#animals #birds #puhumme suomea

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there's something very funny when you play the original final fantasy 7 and the final fantasy 7 remakes back to back where the way Cloud and Sephiroth interact has completely changed due to 25 years of yaoification. in the original game they barely even talk to eachother. in remake and rebirth they can't go 12 seconds without gazing deeply into eachother's eyes

#ff #ffvii #i haven't played the remake #and it's been over a decade since i played the og #but this is so funny fr

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I based a set of D&D villains around the six main stats called Virtues. (think Full Metal Alchemist sins, except Strength, Constitution, Dexterity, etc..) My favorite of the bunch was Charm. Her conceit was she could persuade, lie, cheat, change appearance, and manipulate the players pretty much however she wanted, but the second someone attacked her she would go down. I introduced her relatively early into the campaign, and I was a bit nervous because I was pretty upfront about her introduction. I didn't say it explicitly, but it was pretty obvious Charm was a Virtue from the offset. I thought "well, I like this character a lot, maybe I'll cheat it a little if I have to." Surprisingly, I never did.

In retrospect, I think the context of the Charm encounters was a huge boon. The party really only confronted her twice: the first time at a dinner party and the second at a war council, where leaders from various factions met to discuss retaking the main city for the finale of the campaign. Neither were explicitly combat scenarios, and both times it would have looked pretty bad for the party if they just up and killed Charm for apparently no reason. The end result was I had villain with only eight hit points to her name run around and torment my level 16 party unpunished for several sessions. Let me tell you, as a DM, that felt amazing.

#stories #dnd #ttrpg #this is so cool!! #esp charm bc non-combative builds are very tricky in dnd since most campaigns are quite combat heavy #like the only reason i can play an oath of redemption paladin in one of our campaigns without it becoming a huge pain in the ass #is that the campaign was designed to be very combat light #but honestly it kind of rules and i'm glad it's working out!

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Sometimes, when you play dnd, the question isn't "Is this an effective and economical use of my limited spell slots?" but rather, "Would this be really fucking funny?"

#me when i did a rly stupid and not even effective thing last session just because i thought i should use spells in battle more often #(i play an arcane trickster rogue/gloom stalker ranger multiclass and YES that nerfs your spell slots but can be worth it for other reasons) #anyway my spells are mostly optimised for outside combat and that attempt to use them to fight was a bust #but i should still try to do things like that more often #dnd #ttrpg

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Which of these magical items would you rather own? You can't sell, trade, or rent it. Also it's 100% guaranteed that the item will never get lost or break.

#went with the bag! #dishes never again was also tempting #but i'm the type of person that wants to be prepared for Anything and thus carries a Lot of stuff #but i've had to cut down on all that the last like year and a half because i've got chronic back pain now #which sucks major ass in a lot of ways but lifting or carrying stuff is the fastest way to fuck it up more #so being able to carry around all my Normal Everyday Shit AND my laptop AND get groceries on the way home #but everything combined weighing less than my phone #would actually significantly improve my quality of life #that's disability for you i guess

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Azula and the Issue of Diagnosis- an Essay Which No One Asked For

With the avatar fandom resurgence, I want to talk more in depth about something that I’m noticing an increase of with the increased interest in the show- and that is the occasionally troubling, sometimes deeply ableist, issue of diagnosing of Azula.

What I tend to see most frequently is the use of words like “psychopath” and “sociopath,” often followed by “psychotic” or “narcissist.” Occasionally I’ll see someone refer to her as “schizophrenic,” and perhaps most troubling of all are the people using ableist slurs against her like “psycho” or “lunatic.” Even words like “crazy” in this context are a bit bothersome- it’s not a word I’m going to advocate banning from the English language, but directing it towards a character who’s visibly mentally ill has an unfortunate side effect of continuing to perpetuate stigma against mental illness.

It’s not cute.

So we’re going to talk about this today. Let’s talk about Azula, diagnosis, and mental illness.

My background

Before we deep dive, however, I want to state this plainly. I have a master’s degree in clinical psychology, and I am currently a second-year doctoral student in a clinical psychology PhD program. I’ve been in school a total of five years post-bachelor’s degree specializing in this field. I work in my school’s training clinic and have active therapy cases with a wide variety of diagnoses. I have patients who were easy to diagnose and patients where it took several months to decide what the most accurate label was. Like many mental health professionals, I have also had my own struggles with my mental health which I am not going to disclose today. But I have been in out of my own therapy since I was a teenager. In short, while I am still a trainee and still operate under the license of a supervising clinician, I know what I’m talking about.

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#atla #azula #atlakanuunaa #yeah she has pretty clear cut psychosis at the end of the show but that's the only thing we can say for sure #i consider calling her (or anyone tbh) a psychopath/sociopath a major red flag #bc the person either has no idea what they're talking about or are blatantly ableist #my personal headcanon is that she's autistic bc zuko is (definitely unintentionally) very autistic coded and autism is SUPER hereditary #like. most of my own family is autistic i was just the first person to notice and get a diagnosis #and things like perfectionism and obsessiveness over things being Just So #and difficulties with empathy and social interaction etc fit rly well too #and autistic kids kind of take the 'learning acceptable conduct by observing & getting feedback' to the next level #because a lot of things are not obvious to us and we need to consciously learn them instead of them coming to us naturally #see: zuko throwing things at turtleducks. he saw azula doing it and considering it funny and didn't realise it was bad until ursa got mad #azula just considered ozai her primary role model bc he gave her the most positive reinforcement (and he started doing that Very Early On) #there's a lot more but cba to list now or probably ever anyway autistic fire siblings with a side of trauma (& for azula also psychosis)

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people have pointed out before that zuko probably didn't actually know any of the gaang's names before joining their group. according to the data i've collected, it is unclear as to whether zuko knew any of their names before "the boiling rock," in which he addresses sokka by name multiple times. at no point in the show does he refer to toph, suki, or momo by name.

i find it particularly funny that zuko only seems to refer to katara by name after sokka says her name during their conversation in his tent; the transcript for "the southern raiders" reads as follows:

Sokka: So what's on your mind?

Zuko: Your sister. She hates me! And I don't know why, but I do care what she thinks of me.

Sokka: Nah, she doesn't hate you. Katara doesn't hate anyone. Except maybe some people in the Fire Nation. No, I mean, uh, not people who are good, but used to be bad. I mean, bad people. Fire Nation people who are still bad, who've never been good and probably won't be, ever!

Zuko: Stop. Okay, listen. I know this may seem out of nowhere, but I want you to tell me what happened to your mother.

Sokka: What? Why would you want to know that?

Zuko: Katara mentioned it before when we were imprisoned together in Ba Sing Se, and again just now when she was yelling at me.

we can thus assume that zuko went into this conversation knowing katara only as "[sokka's] sister," heard sokka refer to someone named "katara," and finally connected the dots.

i think the gaang according to zuko is just "the avatar, the avatar's bison, the avatar's.... little rat thing, sokka, sokka's sister, sokka's girlfriend, and, yknow, uhhhhh, the little green one."

#atla #zuko #toph

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my favorite piece of avatar lore i’ve ever learned is that piandao apparently also deserted the Fire Nation military, but instead of going on the run he just. went back the Fire Nation. built a fucking mansion about it. and then when the army sent 100 guys to arrest him, he kicked the shit out of them so hard they just fucked off forever.

jeong jeong is out there in a hut in the woods living his most bitter life meanwhile piandao is sitting in his palatial estate sipping tea, fully daring the fire lord to fuck around and find out. bad bitch behavior

#atla #piandao #zuko #ozai #THAT'S a theory #honestly it's pretty funny to imagine ozai's life after zuko's birth being a series of attempts to indirectly orchestrate his son's death #but zuko just keeps surviving every time #like at first ozai is not serious he's like it'd be nice but no worries if he lives idc #but by the time he takes the throne he's like okay i Need this boy dead in the next 5 calendar years or else #meanwhile zuko is still like don't worry dad i'm fine i won't let you down :) #ozai is absolutely seething with rage over being eternally doomed to be the coyote to zuko's roadrunner

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my favorite piece of avatar lore i’ve ever learned is that piandao apparently also deserted the Fire Nation military, but instead of going on the run he just. went back the Fire Nation. built a fucking mansion about it. and then when the army sent 100 guys to arrest him, he kicked the shit out of them so hard they just fucked off forever.

jeong jeong is out there in a hut in the woods living his most bitter life meanwhile piandao is sitting in his palatial estate sipping tea, fully daring the fire lord to fuck around and find out. bad bitch behavior

#atla #piandao #jeong jeong #okay very true #atlakanuunaa

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#climate change

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getting new technology feels more infuriating every year. got a new computer for the first time in 8 years and everything about windows 11 and how it handles onedrive is driving me up the wall

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I don't think I ever gave Arakawa enough credit for having a running gag where her protagonist is constantly denying he's short, then having him fight the literal incarnation of the sin Pride and win against that sin in part by not flipping out for once in response to mockery over his stature but saying it gives him an advantage in this battle to know how short people fight.

He Owns that He's Short and Thus He Overcomes Pride. It's VERY funny.

#fma #ed elric #GOOD POINT

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I'm really tired of the "woman sad about her arranged marriage" trope, especially if that woman is royalty.

I am sure that many women across time were sad about their arranged marriages, but I'm sure a lot of others were excited, ambivalent, or resigned. Again, especially if you were royalty! I am sure if you were born a princess, you were trained from birth that your whole purpose in life was to marry someone important to solidify the power of the person on the throne. And honestly, it's an important job, if it wasn't, they wouldn't have tried so hard to do it.

That woman isn't just marrying another king or prince, she's going to be an ambassador of her country. She's supposed to be there promoting good relations. She isn't just a woman being sold off, she has a job! Also, if she is marrying the reigning monarch (or the heir), she may well end up running the country if the king is off at war or he dies when the heir is really young. That happened a lot throughout history! (or maybe she marries the third son and helps him find his way to the throne. Good for her)

It just feels like a modern sentiment being projected back. In Romeo and Juliet, when Juliet's mother first brings up marrying her to Paris, Juliet's basically cool with it and says she'll try to like him. She would have known this was going to happen because that is what rich women do, they marry into another family so their two families can be buddies. What else would she even be expecting?

It wouldn't bother me so much except that it's all we see! Give me a story about a woman who is like, "Cool, I shall give it my all!" Or she's like rolling up her sleeves and planning how she's going to get the court on her side and rule France, power behind the throne style (these women are mostly portrayed as villains, but who is to say the king would do a better job?). And also, have a little faith in women's fathers? You think men in the past didn't occasionally consider the happiness of their daughters? Not even a little bit?

#history #tropes #fantasy #writing