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elaemae · 3 months

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The premium version of human is here to wreak house, mfs.

[Twst x Obey Me!AFAB!reader]

CHP. 4

PREVIOUS CHP.: PROLOGUE 3

Thank you guys for the likes, reblogs and comments.

Also, to the people who became my followers, I'll be forever grateful for that😊

CW: When MC gets mistaken as a guy, they get referred to as he/him, but the problem is that there's too many males around the MC.

So, I've decided to color the pronouns blue when it's MC that's being addressed. Just to avoid confusion.

CLARIFICATION: The headmaster, and MC knows that Yuu is from another world, so MC decided to play along and pretend that they're from the same world as Yuu. (The human world where MC came from is mostly similar to the human world that Yuu describes. i.e. landmarks, cultural, knowledge, current trends, anime and manga are all mostly the same.)

REMEMBER: Read this before the chapter.

Experience changes people.

If you see MC doing something you think you won't do and you decide to complain about it, remember this:

• You act the way you do because of the things that you've gone through in your life.

• MC is the same.

• They experienced a lot of traumatic events and almost lost their lives a fuck-ton of times.

• Because of that, they've changed. They've diverged from being you into the MC that they are now.

• The life you're living now shall be treated as the MC's canonical past.

• Also, because The Obey Me!cast feels bad from all the times you suffered and almost died because of them, they tend to overcompensate you.

• You get dressed in the finest of fabrics, most luxurious jewels, as well as housed and fed with the best things that the three realms have to offer.

• You don't take them for granted, but years of living with that lifestyle had raised your standards to new heights and changed the way that you act towards certain things.

• You're free to make up your own head canons if you don't like mine, also y'all can give me feedback if you want so I can improve my work.

• This story will be set a few years after the canon of the Obey Me games.

• • • • •

Who would've thought that it would be a bad idea to try to trick someone who literally reeks of luxury to live in an old, bout-to-fall-apart dormitory?

Well, certainly not Crowley.

That fact became known when 'The shady looking dorm leader™' and also, the tablet decided to tag along with you, Yuu and Crowley, but then had to help Yuu in holding you back so that you wouldn't beat the ever living crap out of the headmaster the moment he dared to bring y'all in front of this rustic establishment and say "It had charm". (Too many You's)

Oh really? really?? Oh you'll see real charm when I beat you straight into the afterlife you greasy son of a bitc–

*Ehem*

It did not end well.

So instead of that, the headmaster had to temporarily put you and your fellow stranded-in-dis-school-human into the infirmary as your temporary abode and promised to fix the shoddy dorm so that it can safely house people in it. (Grim will appear in the future, dw)

*Que Azul tryna make you stay in Octavinelle and you vehemently declining that offer.*

Also, you're starting to get creeped-out by the floating tablet that keeps following you around and won't stop with taking pictures. there's also the small maniacal giggles coming out of the device.

• • • • • •

So there you two are, two people that've been kidnapped by this school's fuckin carriage are now bonding in the infirmary and distracting each other by venting about problems back home. (You two are too wary to be able to sleep properly.)

Like, yes Yuu, I'm in a polyamorous with more than a dozen problematic individuals.

Yes, it works out. somehow

Damn, three assignments due tomorrow all from the same subject? Have you ever tried cheating off of your classmates?

Oh— wait what?! a classmate from biology was caught fucking with a professor in a classroom!? Seriously??

No, I unfortunately no longer have a grasp on the concept of private space and poverty.

Yes, maintaining a relationship with a lot of people at the same time can be hard.

A lot of them are rich.

Wait, a seatmate of yours really gave two free expensive sketch pads just because you asked?? Where can I find that person??

Yes they all act like my sugar daddies and my man-children in one way or another.

No, don't you dare pimp yourself out, okay? There may be a lot of people in my life but the important thing is that we all love each other.

We support, comfort, protect, and guide each other to the best we can.

No— that didn't happen in a day, I had to bend over backwards and almost die a shit-ton of times before I managed to wiggle myself firmly into the hearts of those fuckers.

...Q- Questions about our sex life will be automatically ignored.

Just.. be nice to others, even if it's seemingly stupid.

Unless they are absolute scum then just maintain distance.

You just gotta eyeball it to figure out when to stop being nice to someone.

Never and I mean NEVER treat anyone badly unless they did something unforgivable to you.

Don't call me kind. It's easier to have a grasp on other people if you're nice.

Pft— You once saw a book called "How to be a sugar baby 101" in the school library?! And you saw your principal reading it?!

Sure-sure, I'll help you with your math homework— wait a second.. Seriously?? We've been kidnapped, I ain't allowing you to do math. Where the hell did you even hide that thick-as-fuck test sheet anyways?? Up your ass?!

• • • •

You sigh for the third time this hour, looking at Yuu who's making a "Mom.. I threw up in the carpet... I'm sowwy🥺" expression as they stand beside your bed.

"What happened?"

Yuu winced, feeling embarrassed as they hear you talk to them like a disappointed parent, they had failed to appeal to Crowley about becoming a temporary student of this school and now had to be a janitor/errand kid.

"The headmaster said that I'll be the handy-man of the campus while he searches for a way to get us home..."

You feel a vein in your head throb and your eye start to twitch by of the sheer audacity being shown in front of your face.

You are now feeling the immense urge to hex that bird-bitch.

Satan sat straight in his seat, speaking out to the others in the meeting table.

"I can feel irritation and the urge to curse someone again." He said.

It would've been funny if this was another situation.

"That's definitely from MC, isn't it? You mentioned being half-asleep and feeling MC get agitated through your pact mark, right?" Diavolo asked.

"Yes, at least our pacts are still intact..." Satan nodded.

"Great, we can use this to monitor MC even if they're far away." Lucifer stated.

Countless search-parties and interrogations have already been conducted, but they're still clueless on where you can be or who could've taken you.

Even Barbatos couldn't see what had happened.

They're starting to get agitated, MC..

• • • • •

Jade watched as Azul frantically drafts and redrafts a new plan of his.

It seems that something caught the eye of their housewarden in the ceremony today.

"What could be so eye-catching that you're in such a hurry to obtain it, Azul?" Jade couldn't contain his curiosity and asked.

"It's a new student, Jade." Azul started.

"He possesses such a large amount of magical artifacts in his hands, It's unbelievable! They were all high quality too!"

Jade blinks.

"Don't you have enough magical artifacts around?"

Jade is confusion.

"You don't know it because you weren't there." Azul narrowed his eyes at Jade.

"I first thought those jewelry of his were similar to the ones that you can buy with enough money in annual auctions, but then I realized that it's very likely that those jewelry are customized."

"...How so?"

"So I decided to try and take a closer look, but when I actually got closer and almost touched one of them, I felt a strong thrum of magic that I haven't felt before!"

Oh?

Now that got Jade's attention.

Azul has been exposed to a lot of strong, powerful people and magical artifacts over the years that he and his twin were following this dormleader of theirs and yet there was actually an artifact so strong that he can feel strong waves of magic by just almost touching it?

How curious..... If the magic of the artifact was so strong, why didn't Azul sense it up until he literally almost held it in his hands?

Seems like this year won't be boring, after all..

• • • • •

BONUS: Someone has a crush.

"Brother, Your package has arrived— What are you... Are you making fan art of Mr. [L/n]...?"

Idia screams like a dumb girl in a horror movie as he tries to block the screen with his body.

"O-ORTHO?! WH-WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT KNOCKING FIRST??!"

"And... what's with the pose?"

Ortho tilts head innocently, confused on why his brother is drawing a new student in a pose that can often be seen on videos that are called "Thirst traps". he's still confused about why they're called that way.

Idia: "O- ORTHO THIS ISN'T ANYTHING BAD I SWEARAHGJSI—"

*Starts to fuckin steam*

"brOTHER YOU'RE BURNING THE CHAIR!"

"AH CRAP!"

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aikoiya · 11 months

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LoZ: Wild - An Examination of Gerudo Societal Pressures

You know what I don't understand? Why I haven't seen a lot of fans exploring the amount of societal pressure that the Gerudo Culture would absolutely visit upon its vai to find voe to settle down with.

Like, think about it. The continued existence of their race relies on as many of their vai as possible leaving town to go out & find voe to marry & have as many daughters as they can with.

Like, if as many of them as possible don't do this, their race could feasibly die out. Now, in the IRL modern era, there's a lot of focus on gender equality, 'women need to be in more positions of power,' acceptance & even celebration of others' sexualities, of child-free lifestyles, of 'transwomen & transmen are the same as women & men & if you're not attracted to them then you're a bigot,' & 'strong, independent woman don't need no man.'

But here's a race where positions of power are ALL occupied by women because their race only gets 1 man per century. And there's a very real & present consequence to this being the case.

Such as having to leave their homes & desperately search out men from other races in order to keep their people & culture alive. Also, the very obvious sexual, even misandristic, segregation present in their culture & the fact that daughters are purposefully separated from their fathers, & sometimes even mothers as showcased by Rhondson & Maddison, as early as age 5 & are not allowed to see each other until the vai are old enough to go out & find voe of their own & I just don't think that that's very healthy for them. Studies show that children who grow up without a father figure of some sort tend to have far more problems psychologically later down the line. So, unless the Gerudo's brains develop in a wholy different way to how humans do, this tradition of their's could just be creating generation after generation of possibly developmentally stunted individuals. Which shows that just because their culture is run by women rather than men, that doesn't automatically make everything rosy & perfect.

Which is actually a very realistic outlook in this situation. In this way, you could say that men are both coveted & in some ways paradoxically looked down upon in a similar way to how women used to be IRL, at least in Gerudo society. I've even seen a comment about how Gerudo are made to be so entirely divorced from men that said men are in a lot of ways viewed as an entirely different species from themselves. Which makes a certain degree of sense.

And I saw someone complain about how the Gerudo are a race of warrior women, yet they are forced to abandon their homes in order to find husbands & pop out babies & that all the Gerudo they meet outside of the desert all seem to only talk about romance & there was some obvious indications of them having a feminist perspective. Of course, they were wrong; not all of the Gerudo outside of the desert only talk about romance & finding voe, but admittedly, most of them do. Though, the thing is, this is actually extremely realistic given their biological situation.

The amount of social pressure in the Gerudo Culture, just from their biological circumstances, to be straight, leave home, find a man, get married to him, & have as many kids as possible must be absolutely insane.

Like, let's be real here. In a predicament where you either reproduce or you could be contributing to your race's extinction, you fucking reproduce! Keep in mind, the Gerudo are never really shown to be very prolific, so that might also contribute. Logically speaking, if more Gerudo had a larger number of offspring, then perhaps there wouldn't be such a subliminal need for each & every one to go out & seek men. Which alone would take some pressure off & might allow for more Gerudo to feel free to pursue other interests.

I mean, you really only see a handful of young vai in town & only really Maddison outside of it. Which, for me, would raise some alarms. Like, this is such a huge cultural thing, yet you only see 1 family with a Gerudo daughter outside of town?? Why aren't there more?? Like, not all of them need to have side quests! Just have a couple random Gerudo women living in Hyrule with a husband, a few with young daughters & even some with baby vai in bassinets! Maybe have a couple Gerudo obviously pregnant.

Which, BTW! There are no pregnant women in BotW or TotK! And that is extremely alarming!

Like, as modern women, we can say that we're independent & don't need men & we don't need children because our population is very high right now. Therefore it isn't as outrageously important for us to pop out kids. The Gerudo, however, don't have that option.

All things considered, there really aren't that many of them as they almost exclusively live in the Gerudo Desert unless they're out around Hyrule looking for men or married to one & living there, at least as far as we know & that really isn't a very large place compared to the rest of Hyrule. Then again, the desert does just cut off there, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are actually more Gerudo settlements that aren't as close to Hyrule & thus aren't really considered thematically important to the plots of the games.

I admit that I do also wish that they talked more about other things, but it just shows how important this is.

Honestly, let's be real here. Gerudo Culture most likely wouldn't be very kind to homosexuals or transpeople. Even spinsters are likely looked down upon as failures to a degree. I'm just being realistic here.

If a Gerudo were to discover she was gay, I guarantee that it'd be a death sentence if anyone found out.

And transman foreigners that try to talk up Gerudo? Probably considered deceivers & wicked liars. Especially if the Gerudo had to find this out on their own rather than being told. Like, not only is something like that horribly manipulative IRL, for a Gerudo who thought she'd found her true love who she could live happily ever after with & have daughters with to make her ancestors proud. This would be like a slap in the face.

Like, obviously most of these people would likely just be trying to live their lives as who they believe themselves to be or something, but from the perspective of a Gerudo, it would feel very targeted. It would just make sense that the Gerudo's culture would subconsciously teach them to react in such a way.

Like, keep in mind the cultures that the Gerudo are based off of: Egypt/Middle Eastern cultures. Such cultures are mostly Muslim in religion & they generally don't treat homosexuality very well either. In fact, if 2 men have sex, it is very possible for them to be sentenced to death. Even in situations where a man is raped by another man, the victim is still liable to be executed unless he lies & says he's trans.

But even that is simply from a religious perspective. The Gerudo are forced to look at it through a "my entire race is relying on me to have babies or we could go extinct" perspective. Which should arguably make them even more biased against such things.

Keep in mind that Nintendo doesn't seem to be afraid of making the Gerudo go extinct as exactly this seemed to take place in Wind Waker.

Which, BTW, I'm still trying to nail down how the Gerudo came back from if the Wild Series really is a convergence of all 3 timelines. I mean, I always suspected that Telma was at least part Gerudo, but who knows, maybe I was right?? Perhaps the ancestors of the Gerudo returned to the desert for whatever reason & something about that caused something to happen?? I dunno... I do theorize that the whole only women thing might've been a result of some sort of curse, so maybe another aspect of that is that returning to the Gerudo Region allows their Gerudo blood to resurface??

Though... now that I think about it. Maybe they wouldn't be so outright opposed to Vai being genderfluid. They'd likely see it as strange & childish, but ultimately harmless.

Voe, though? No.

This isn't meant to be hateful, just a realistic look at the Gerudo culture based on logic & evidence. An examination of how a society like this would actually work given their situation.

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#loz #legend of zelda #botw #breath of the wild #totk #tears of the kingdom #gerudo #gerudo desert #gerudo culture #getudo societal pressures #analysis

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simpforsix · 4 months

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my mom is a dietitian. she's the reason i avoided diet culture, while my health classes basically promoted eating disorders. here's some important things i learned from her. TW: discussion of diets, food, and eating disorders.

you probably don't need to keep a scale in your house. unless you have health problems that require you to monitor your weight and it is recommended by your doctor, most people don't need to know what their weight is constantly. easy access to a scale promotes anxiety about your weight. i only get weighed at visits to the doctor, so i know my weight bracket. you don't need to know every tiny fluctuation. this is especially important for kids. growing up, i had no idea of how much weight i was gaining, so i was never able to associate my weight on the scale to my value. kids can't understand weight, and since they're growing they have to grapple with the societal notion that weight gain is bad alongside gaining weight because of their growth.

eating unhealthy food is better than not eating. i have arfid and a lot of my safe foods are unhealthy, but my mom keeps them stocked in the house while also offering to buy more healthy food to try. you need calories to live, and if the only way you'll get them is from "junk food" then eat the junk food. it's easier to add in healthy foods as opposed to forcing yourself not to eat anything outside of that.

sugar is not the devil that it's been made out to be. things like fruit contain sugar, but that does not make them bad. there is a difference between processed sugar found in candy and sugar found in fruits and veggies. you don't need to cut out sugar to be healthy.

fat is also not evil. things like avocados are considered "good fats". you need fat to live. it gives you energy and energy stores. also, being fat is not inherently unhealthy in the same way that being skinny is not inherently healthy.

carbs are good. complex carbs, like bread, give you energy for longer periods of time. by energy, i don't just mean physical energy. i mean the energy that keeps your bodily functions going.

calorie counting isn't helpful. unless you have health issues that require you to keep track of calories as advised by a doctor, you should not count your calories. calories are too simple to account for a good diet, and calorie counting often leads to disordered eating. you should focus on getting enough nutrients, and fuelling your body.

listen to your body. eat when you're hungry, whether that means meals or snacks. some people have issues with hunger cues, and if you have trouble listening to your body when it comes to diet i recommend seeing a dietitian. your diet is personal. some people need to eat more due to genetics, health issues, lifestyle, etc. you can't follow diets you see online and expect to see the same results as the person promoting them.

most fad diets do more harm than good. cutting out necessary nutrients messes up bodily functions, and most are done without medical supervision. they all claim similar things, but no diet will do the same for everyone. things like fasting often increase weight gain after a short period of weight loss. they also promote orthorexia.

nutritionists are not the same as dietitians. they don't require the same certification, they don't require the same education, and nutritionists aren't as regulated. dietitians are healthcare professionals, meaning they have to go through schooling and training and exams. people can't just call themselves dietitians. the same cannot be said for nutritionists. it's different depending on location, but most places don't require people to go through much regulation to call themselves nutritionists. they also don't face the same consequences. nutritionists can peddle fad diets and make outrageous claims without issue, but dietitians often work in hospitals and must follow the rules. dietitians also don't tend to run their own businesses like some nutritionists, which is an issue because it means nutritionists may have a financial incentive to support incorrect information. basically, if you need diet advice, go to a dietitian. nutritionist is a title that does not actually mean someone knows what they're talking about.

#disclaimer: i am not a dietitian #i am paraphrasing what i've learnt from her #diet culture #ed #tw eating issues #eating #diet #dietitian #eating disoder recovery

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seraphtrevs · 1 year

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Could you expand on the similarities/parallels between Lalo and Gus? (or link me to a post if you’ve already talked about it) I think it’s fascinating & I’d love to read more

OKAY I'm finally here - every time I've sat down to write it I've been sidetracked

First, let's talk about how they're different. They are polar opposites - orderly/chaotic, serious/playful, cold/hot, cartel outsider/cartel insider, born to poverty/born to wealth. I've kind of convinced myself that Lalo was designed specifically to be Gus's foil.

But like all good foils, they also have a lot in common. Such as:

They're all business. Neither of these men have anything remotely resembling a personal life. I've seen articles on several random pop culture websites that incorrectly say that Gus had Lalo's family killed at his home, but those people were not his family! He' paid them to be there! Because real, honest attachments would be a distraction - and a liability, as Gus learned from personal experience. (And who knows - maybe Lalo learned that lesson, too.) The only thing they have going on in their lives is the Game. When all you do is play a game, you tend to get pretty good at it. Which leads me to #2

They're on the same level. The cartel is not a brain trust. Gus and Lalo are usually the smartest people involved in whatever their latest scheme is, so when they encounter each other, there's a weird moment of recognition - oh hey, this guy is a serious opponent

And since they're both experts in the game they're playing, their trains of thought generally end up at the same destination. I'm sure the way they arrive at their conclusions is very different, which is something I think deeply annoys both of them - like, it's a very specific kind of annoying to have someone you despise come up with the same answer but in the wrong way. It's why they're able to anticipate and interpret each other's actions based only off vibes

They're ruthless. They both have zero qualms about doing whatever it takes to achieve their ends, with seeming little regret. We see Mike, Jesse, and Walt struggle with all the violence and the death, but Gus and Lalo never show regret. They know that sometimes you have to sacrifice pawns to win games, and so that's what they do

They're loners. Neither of them have a single real friend. If you buy my headcanon that Lalo is also gay, it kind of makes sense why he's also kept people at a distance. Neither of them can risk the kind of exposure being truly intimate with someone entails...and honestly, they're both just kind of weird and don't fit in, the way exceptional people don't sometimes.

They don't care much about material things. Neither of them seem particularly interested in a lavish lifestyle, outside of having a nice house and getting the occasional outrageously expensive bottle of alcohol. They don't wear expensive clothes. They don't drive especially flashy cars (compare Lalo's car with Nacho's). They don't throw parties to show off their wealth. Jimmy uses his money to the fullest extent - because what's the point of having it otherwise? But Lalo and Gus don't seem to care about that. Money is just one of your scores when you're playing to win

They're loyal - Gus was fiercely loyal to Max, and Lalo is fiercely loyal to Hector. I think this is related to their loner tendencies - it's rare to find anyone who truly understands them. It's like they take every last scrap of their humanity and invest it in one single person. This is how Lalo figures out that Gus is up to something - he knows that there's no way in hell Gus would ever save Hector's life unless he had an ulterior motive, so he started to look around for other things that didn't make any sense

#i'm sure I'll think of something else the moment I hit post #gustavo fring #lalo salamanca #better call saul #asks

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yourdyingwish · 7 months

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genuine question: what’s the difference between masc, butch, and stud? also how do you determine if you’re a femme or just like. generally girly idk

The answer to the first question is, like many labels, that it depends on who you ask and why! Generally, though, if someone uses one word over the other they're probably doing so for a reason. Here's my answer, though your mileage may vary.

Butch–Term that has had many lifetimes over the history of lesbian culture. How specific it is to a role or not has changed over the years, and gone back and forth. Butch-femme lifestyles are part of this, and butch can be either a label, a gender, an all-inclusive sexual role, or none of those things depending on the butch you ask. Transmasc and transfem people can and have identified as butch, nonbinary people can be butch, but many butches identify as cis women or simply as lesbians. Not all butches are tops, and not all of them have an interest in butch-femme dating, but many are and many do.

Masc– From what I've seen, this is often used as a broader catch-all for dykes and people who aren't dyke-identified but are generally queer and tend towards dyke culture who are masculine. Different than transmasc, but sometimes catches people who are nonbinary, transmasc, masculine, etc who for some reason or another don't care to use "butch". I've seen it popular with younger generations, though not exclusively, and some butches identify as masc lesbians as well. I would say out of the three, this is the most general term and probably one that's tied the least to a history of sexual or social roles. It's also used in gay and trans culture in different ways, sometimes it can literally just mean "masculine."

Stud–This is used pretty exclusively by dykes/GNC women/transmasc people of color, particularly black folks in the US. I'm not an expert on stud culture, so the first thing to do is not take my word for it and read up. On a personal level my history of befriending and/or hooking up with studs felt very similar to befriending and/or hooking up with butches; many do the same kind of stuff butches do re: stud being a mix of a gender identity and a sexual role. But there's also other stuff at play and if you're a white/nonblack femme dating into that pool it's best to just roll with it and assume some of what you consider to be signifiers of masculinity/femininity in other lesbian contexts will differ. That's true of all like, intercultural/interracial relationships obviously LOL but for example I have absolutely been with studs who get their nails and lashes done and shit and did not question it at all, whereas I have also met (white) internet-y dykes who are like "I can be butch and still get my nails done!!" and I & everyone else take that to mean that they probably do not know what butch means. I also know black dykes who identify as butch but not as studs, though again there's often people who do both or neither etc etc. I also feel like there are some black lesbians who see stud as an insult or something that you wouldn't use as a casual descriptor unless they say it first. Basically this one is like...if you're a nonblack lesbian just have a normal one and respect the fact that black lesbian culture is indeed its own culture. Also if you want to enrich your instagram feed I suggest following Stud Model Project LOL.

Anyways the second question you asked is "how do you know if you're a femme or just girly" and that's a great question. Femme is also a label that has a ton of different meanings and your mileage may vary but for me, I see femme as a gender identity and part of my sexuality, am in a butch-femme relationship, etc. I am actually not particularly girly or feminine day to day, and use they/them pronouns, have had short hair, etc. To me femme is something different, it's almost an excessive femininity designed to entice and appeal to butches/mascs/studs/etc. Sometimes I also feel solidarity with gay men who identify as fem. But to other dykes femme really does mean that they're just quite girly and feminine, and while some people are very protective about the label, I've realized over the years that it doesn't matter as much, because I know when someone's using it in a way that makes sense to me VS their own unique way. I will say that I consider "femme" to be a lesbian label and I think sometimes feminine bisexual or even just generally "queer" cis women use it to just mean that they're like, a gender conforming cis woman, and that bothers me a bit. To me femme is not about gender conformity, even though it's often one of the side effects. But I know it doesn't bother some people, so who knows.

Anyways that's the best answer I can give, if people have other thoughts by all means I welcome them.

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faeboybug · 23 days

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I guess I need a pinned post!

Hi, I'm Bug. I'm 24, autistic, and nonbinary.

This is my main blog, but I have many side blogs. So I may like and follow from here and reblog from elsewhere.

This blog is dedicated to my love of plants, bugs, animals, and nature in general.

More below the cut, including a mini rant disparaging cottagecore as a concept ;p

Some interests and covered topics include:

● solarpunk

● companion planting crops

● native plant yards (this blog hates grass lawns)

● foraging

● mushrooms (as food & art not recreation)

● wild and native edible plants

● vulture culture, animal specimens, etc

● climate change activism (mostly I try to keep political stuff on a separate blog but politics and loving and protecting the earth are intrinsically linked)

● indigenous & native people's rights (including hunting rights, and land back / sovereignty)

● bugs!!!

● debunking myths and fear mongering around 'scary' animals and insects (this is a pro-sharks, snakes, and spiders blog!)

● animal rights? (I'm not sure how much this'll come up. But fuck factory farming.)

DNI: terfs, tradwives, white supremacists, militant evangelical vegans

I will block you ^-^

Some more about me unrelated to the blog

I'm AuDHD, vegan, disabled, otherkin, I play videogames, I have 5 cats, a small garden and a few indoor plants. I'm currently indulging in my crochet special interest.

And lastly a rant about cottagecore

Cottagecore aesthetics are based on a colonialist escapist fantasy of 'untamed' land. We cannot escape what we owe others and the earth by ~disappearing into the woods~ and running away from the responsibility we have to eachother. Politically cottagecore and similar ideas are distasteful at best and outright racist at worst. I acknowledge my blog often runs adjacent to or directly in line with cottagecore blogs. Cottagecore accounts are free to interact with my blog but you will probably find yourself uncomfortable with my more political posts. I invite you to sit with that discomfort. If your aesthetic posts, your comfort fantasy, never once involve a disabled person or person of color? That's a really uncomfortable place to find yourself if you don't consider yourself a racist, or ableist. We all carry the prejudices of our societies inside ourselves, it's your responsibility to do the work to unpack that and become better and kinder. Your escapist fantasies should in no way mirror white supremacist & eugenics fantasies if you yourself are not one. Do better and be kinder ❤️

Related but not as serious, but the romanticization of hard manual labor is pretty funny. Obviously you can romanticize your real life if you so wish. But people who have never worked on a farm, tended crops, or maintained a home fawning over a glamorized version of that lifestyle is silly to see. Farming is hard work, caring for land is hard work. I'm not trying to gatekeep, God knows I can't be a farmer. Just think about how much work goes into those homes and the food and plants you see in these aesthetic pictures. You'll come to appreciate them a lot more I think.

#earthcore #dirtcore #bug aesthetic #insectcore #bugcore #mushroomcore #mushrooms #wild plants #plants #bugs #solarpunk #about me #land back

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s-b-party · 1 year

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Noctua: Diluc and the Owl

****Possible spoilers ahead!

So who is Diluc? We know him as the owner of Dawn Winery, one of the richest characters in the game, the Darknight Hero, one of the characters who helps us w/ Dvalin, someone from the Ragnvindr clan (one of the prominent families in mondstadt’s history), etc.

Clearly we know him for many various things, but let’s see what else his constellation can tell us about him that might not be so obvious/apparent in the game & how it relates to Diluc, personality, and his lore overall

Let’s start w/ what Noctua is; in Latin, it means “owl” which is very straightforward but that’s not the “complete” meaning. In actuality, there are a couple of ways to say “owl”, if you search up different owls & their full names in Latin, you will find that not every one of them has noctua in their names, some have strix (i.e. tawny owl), others may have bubo (i.e. great horned owl), another may have tyto (i.e. barn owl) instead; so I suppose “owl” is the more generic meaning; Noctua specifically refers to “night owl” which you can see based on how the name looks similar to the word “nocturnal” (being more active at night) and we sometimes use the term “night owl” to refer to someone who is usually up very late when many others are asleep at night, so technically the title of this thread should be something more along the lines of "Noctua: Diluc and the Night Owl"

So how is the night owl related to Diluc? You can actually see some of the similarities in his personality and lifestyle

Quiet, aloof, quick to the point, he is up late at night for the sake of Mondstadt & its safety, very loyal & dedicated to protecting his home; like an owl hunting at night, he comes in quick to accomplish what he needs to do & can disappear just as quickly so that people don’t easily figure out that he is the Darknight Hero of Mondstadt (owls can be terrifying hunters bc their wings are very quiet & their prey usually don’t hear them coming until it’s too late)

Something to point out is how his elemental burst takes the form of a phoenix rather than an owl. Initially this confused me when I started playing the game, but in terms of connections to the constellation, the night owl does make more sense to me since the European phoenix tends to symbolize immortality, resurrection/reincarnation, etc, which doesn’t seem to fit a lot into his lore based on what I’ve seen except for perhaps the part of his life when he was able to accept his trauma and move forward from it. That is one form of rebirth that you could consider, but overall, Noctua seems more relatable to Diluc and his lore & as I’ve said, you can see parts of the night owl play into his personality and lifestyle

It’s also possible that they chose to use a phoenix as opposed to a burning owl to represent his strong resolve or maybe they just thought that a phoenix would be more aesthetically pleasing lol

I don't really know the reason, but I do think that the owl is very fitting for Diluc

So let’s move onto what owls can represent. Usually we think of them as symbols of wisdom and even vigilance (probably bc of their alertness at night); in some cultures, they can represent omens (both good and bad); w/ negative connotations, they can even be signs of death

So does Diluc exhibit any of these traits? One thing to distinguish first is the difference between intelligence and wisdom before we think about whether he does display wisdom because those two traits are not the same. Intelligence is the ability to think logically whereas wisdom is understanding the complexities of life and human nature, which is normally full of contradictions and paradoxes, meaning that it can change all the time.

Diluc is undoubtedly an intelligent man. We see various instances of this. For example, he is one of the few people who are aware of Venti's true identity when he hasn't bluntly stated it in the story. He also found out that Kaeya wasn't really blinded by him bc of all the mentions of “eyes” in his letters (which also did not say that they were written by Kaeya himself).

He is also part of an underground intelligence network and no, I'm not saying that he's intelligent based on the fact that the word “intelligence” is in the name 😂 It is because of what it requires him to do. With a large network, there is bound to be a large amount of information, both useless and useful, passing through. So it would require good judgement on his part to discern what pieces of information may actually mean something.

Basically Diluc can put things together & figure out the truth, so he is intelligent for sure, but is he also wise?

He might not be considered the “wisest” per se, BUT he does have the aura of someone who has his own wisdom and passes advice onto others. I think that we can consider him wise if we think more about how he has changed from his past self when he was lost after the death of his father. He is the type of person who would give good advice because he has learned from his experiences; he KNOWS it is difficult to move on from hard things. He mentions in one of his letters to Kaeya that self-preservation is easy, it’s heading to your goals that is hard

He understands life is rough, he gets how hardships can change ppl (if you’ve seen/read the parts of the manga where Diluc’s history is involved, you’ll know that he was a lot more expressive in the happy department than he is now)

After facing trauma, he struggled but w/ encouragement from Alice & Kaeya & also w/ some time, Diluc learned to move away bit by bit from the painful experience (not forget but to move in spite of it).

His vision story attests to him having learned on his journey & once he grew more mature, he took up his vision again

Going back to the symbolism of the owl, it is easy to see how Diluc is related to vigilance so I don’t think I’ll have to explain my thought for that. Connections to death though is a bit interesting. At first, I hadn’t thought of him as being related to death, but I thought about it again & I can see it now. He can be seen as a sign of death for his enemies (even if not a symbol of death, he’s still bad news/a bad omen for his enemies & “unwanted guests”).

Overall, I think Diluc exhibits the concepts that owls can represent pretty well. The next thing I want to talk about is the theme of dawn which we often see associated with him & how Noctua relates to it.

First impression might be to say that owls & dawn are opposite of each other or contradictory, which is true, but I also think that the two complement each other when we look at Diluc overall.

He is someone who does most of his non-winery duties at night, he wishes to be the light in the night that breaks through the darkness meant to be representing evil & enemies, he’s the owl protecting Mondstadt when people aren’t alert/vigilant at night.

Dawn is defined as the first light that we see in the sky BEFORE the actual sunrise. The day represents the citizens & Mondstadt and he makes it his duty to protect those two up to the point when they both come into full light. He won’t let down his guard in daytime per se, but he knows more people will be awake to protect during that time (although he is still iffy about the Knights of Favonius, which is understandable, but he also knows that overall they do wish to help and not every one of them is incompetent)

I also noticed how Diluc’s outfits fit him so well, his default skin blends very well w/ the night & his Red Dead of Night skin are much like flames that will burn away the darkness

Diluc is a “creature of the night” that remains ever vigilant, striving to protect Mondstadt & the people during the times when they aren’t awake. He is the one who makes sure that he and Mondstadt will make it to see the dawn of another day.

#genshin impact #genshin spoilers #genshin lore #genshin diluc #genshin constellations

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wine-dark-soup · 11 months

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ooh can you talk a bit more about the story of eos growing alienated from steppe culture and eventually being exiled?

ANON ANON THANK YOU. I already wrote a short bit about it here. Honestly this is something that was clear in my mind rather early on, and it barely evolved since. BUT ANYWAY HERE'S THE FULL VERSION. YOU NEED THE FULL BACKSTORY. DISCLAIMER:

As you may have noticed, her full name (eos rhododaktulos) isn't xaela. There's a reason for this. And strangely enough it's NOT a negative thing originally, it's even rooted in respect. Let me explain.

Eos was born to unknown parents and left on the steppe's ground after a skirmish between her tribe and another - she miraculously survived the ordeal but was completely forgotten. Maybe her parents died that day. Maybe not. Who knows. Anyway. The Qestir pass by the ruined camp and see her. They take her in and go back to the Reunion camp.

Roughly at the same time, an outsider came to the steppe and stopped in Reunion. He says he is a student of baldesion (he's voluntarily left unnamed, but i strongly like to think it was galuf baldesion himself) and that he's come here driven by curiosity and want to learn how the xaela view life. The Xaela are rather secluded and rarely welcome strangers but the Qestir - neutral tribe - let him stay and he befriends them because he's very nice and respectful (especially towards their law of silence). One evening he's having dinner with the khan and expresses his curiosity about the wailing baby that he just saw joining the tribe, because a lot of people are currently tending to her. The khan's oronir guard explains that the baby was just found and needed care and a name. Which prompts the question: why do you cling to these false deities? how do you name a baby if you Do Not Talk, Like Ever? Silence and intense stares from the khan, of course, and the oronir guard says nothing either.

Then the khan seems to have an idea for a name - he points at the sky. Now, by this point, the student of baldesion was aware of the basics of xaela mythology. it's the evening, it's dusk, the night is coming, the night is nhaama's domain, she's the moon. the student theorizes: the baby probably can't be named after the goddess; maybe the khan is trying to say her name needs to honor nhaama? that it needs to evoke the sky, sun or moon? then he exclaims "ah! if her name can't be dusk, if it is too similar to nhaama, why not dawn? where i come from, we would say 'eos' for this. 'eos rhododaktulos', the rosy-fingered dawn." the khan nods with a smile. he seems very pleased. the baby's name is officially eos.

Time passes; the student leaves, eos grows up. She has a normal, joyful childhood, and follows the steppe's lifestyle, i.e learn to hunt, tend to cattle, to trade, to travel according to a semi-nomadic (i think the qestir are still nomads but only leave Reunion at some point during the year) lifestyle, etc. fastforward to her 23th year on Etheirys: she loves her tribe, she's a placid young woman, with a passion for coursing the steppe - or at least, not being confined to reunion. with others, she's often in charge of tending to the qestir's cattle while the others are busy trading, or to scout areas during the tribe's migrations.

A stranger shows himself in reunion. His outfit is similar to the one the student of baldesion was wearing two decades earlier, so he's welcomed warmly - the qestir old enough to remember their previous visitor from sharlayan think that his kind can be trusted. So, this guy's an elezen called Scéléraud Gardemaloi. He's come to the steppe with a team of gleaners. Something is off almost immediately: he's rude, hot and bad tempered, and doesn't care much for qestiri laws. The tribe decides to ignore those bad signs for now: people have bad days, bad temperaments, and who are they to judge, after all, the xaela ARE hot tempered and never say no to a good fight.

scéléraud presents himself as an "associate" of the students of baldesion and says he's here to conduct a field study of the steppe. He mostly wishes to learn more about azim and nhaama and thus would love to visit sites where they are worshipped/said to reside in. but for this, he needs a guide. the qestir choose eos for the role: she's young, capable, she knows the steppe's every corner, and, interestingly, always immediately understood the rare strangers that visited reunion when they talked (the echo...). even if she can't answer, it would still facilitate communication once they'd be on their own on the steppe. besides, she's a qestir: in case they'd meet a tribe more hostile to strangers, she'd use the qestir's neutrality to show the man is their guest and must not be harmed.

anyway. eos is thrilled. but once they're off, the trip quickly becomes a living hell. scéléraud is verbally abusive towards his gleaners and eos. She's supposed to take care of everyday tasks on top of guiding the group, but if she doesn't complete them fast enough (according to scéléraud standards), she gets yelled at and insulted. On top of that, the gleaners are acting weird - they seem to collect samples from the soil? but eos never catches them in the act. she knows something is wrong but can't bring herself to complain: the laws of hospitality prevails. Besides, she only ever heard good things about sharlayan - maybe scéléraud's attitude is normal or will pass?

spoilers: it doesn't pass. he makes no effort in trying to adapt to the local culture - mostly, everyday, he wishes he had access to "the last stand's finest dishes" and refuses to eat steppe food (dairy products, cream stew, sheep meat, hunted animals, foraged goods, etc.) before actually stealing it behind eos' back.

eos is completely at a loss; the only thing that apparently appeases scéléraud is to indulge him and listen to his scientific rambling - though if you don't listen "well enough", you get scorned. but it's still better to listen to him for 15 minutes before he decides you suck than hear him scream for two hours. anyway, the steppe tour goes on; scéléraud is visibly disappointed by everything he sees and blames it on eos, who, on the other hand, is always very happy to point every detail on every building or mountain or bush or water stream - before she is ordered to stop gesticulating like a savage, that is.

one morning, when she wakes up in her small scouting yurt, her clothes are just... gone, including her qestiri mask, as well as her small sword. she desperately looks around camp while still in her night clothes, ashamed. this is of course scéléraud's doing. he pretends to be sorry and supplies her with strange clothes and a weirdly shaped sword (a rapier, but she never saw one before). the clothes don't seem to be sharlayan. They are uncomfortable, too tight, not warm enough, the wind just hits eos' skin with the same strength it would was she naked. she doesn't get a new mask.

she has no choice but complete her tasks in this outfit and with the sword scéléraud gave her. but she feels strangely tired, or worse, sick, whenever she tries to use it. scéléraud is displeased and forces her to listen to "the story of the lost magic art of gyr abania", "lessons on white and black magic", and thus on the "history of eorzea".

[nota: she doesn't understand what it is at all, but it's of course red magic. scéléraud is using her as a test subject in his experiment - he's trying to recreate red magic ex nihilo, since by this point all the red mages are presumed dead. except he barely understands how it works himself and on top of that, makes eos use the rapier without a magical focus. rather, he tried to put a semblance of magical focus directly into the sword's handle, which. doesn't allow for proper aether balance, hence why eos feels sick when she draws the weapon.]

of course she's not enough of a good student - her scattered thoughts (because of the aether imbalance) probably don't help - and gets called name at any given opportunity, especially now that, even if she says nothing, her facial expressions are visible: her discomfort is plain for all to see, which scéléraud sees as a weakness. she is now convinced she should react, but doesn't dare, for fear of consequences. in any case after two weeks of this treatment she doesn't have it in her anymore: all she can think about is to finish the trip and go back to reunion and her sheep and never ever interact with this man again. she follows scéléraud's orders because it's more bearable than contradicting him. consequently she's less and less authorized to act "the steppe way" even to provide sustenance for the group - she has to hunt with a RAPIER [i told you this guy knew nothing about survival, swordsmanship and red magic], for example - because if she did, she would NOT be able to comprehend "the lost art".

the breaking point is their arrival at the house of the crooked coin. scéléraud is suddenly extatic, even forgets about eos and the gleaners. he runs towards the crystalline structure. eos, who is now convinced enough this guy is a bad guy, gathers enough strength of will to go after him: she is exhausted and broken, but her love for the steppe takes over, and she knows scéléraud is up to no good. he can do what he wants with her, but not with nhaama's physical tie to this world.

when she gets into the house of the crooked coin, scéléraud is speaking to himself, congratulating himself, and says out loud he found what he wanted.

[nota: eos never knew what it was that he wanted. was he working on reincarnation? on crystalline monuments that were not aetherytes? was it part of his research on red magic?]

he sees eos entering the cave. she looks at him with barely contained rage, grinding her teeth, and tears in her eyes. she points the rapier at him. she gives him a chance: stop what he's doing now and no one will hear about all this. of course, he ignores her, laughing with contempt. and out of nowhere starts using a pickaxe on the crystals.

eos is so shocked she freezes for a few seconds. everything she has endured flashes before her eyes - was it all for this? by trying to play nice - thus doing good actions according to qestiri customs - did she really allow him to commit a sacrilege? but this questioning is brief: she sees him hurt the very steppe itself, and she can't bear it.

she runs towards him, and to the last, he kept hitting the crystal, laughing at eos. here she commits the unthinkable: she speaks. One single word, but it's too late: an insult, one she learned from him. In an instant scéléraud is dead.

this post is getting too long so i'll try to make this part brief. eos is horrified: she killed someone in a fit of rage, and she broke the prime qestiri law, and to yell an insult on top of that. the gleaners' presence kinda forces her to focus again. they apologize, and all of them decide to visit the dotharl - who share a special bond with the house of the crooked coin - to explain the situation. the gleaners do the explaining while eos is sullen in a corner. she's definitely a strange sight, dressed in outsider's clothes, covered in blood. in short, the dotharl understand that the gleaners were forced to work for scéléraud, and let them go with the promise they'll give back the samples they gathered to the land. the dotharl also understand eos did try to stop him, and thus propose to ask the qestir not to be too harsh with her.

but what's done is done: eos crawls at the qestir khan's feet, but nothing can change his mind. the problem is less that scéléraud desacrated the site - it's more of a problem for the dotharl - and more than she spoke, and spoke in a foreign tongue. this is an unseen level of falsehood for the qestir (according to their beliefs, an action is superior to words, that are lies; so words in a foreign tongue ring even less true): eos isn't eos anymore, she drifted away too much, can she even be sure she's still a xaela, and so on. she thankfully avoid just getting executed for the desecration of the site and the breaking of qestiri laws. it's a mercy: the new khan (now iturgen) always liked her. but she is immediately exiled from the steppe.

This happens right after the calamity that hit eorzea, so it means she has been on the road for roughly five years when ARR starts. she longs for the steppe, but feels too much guilt to feel like she still belongs to it. she is a nomad, but travels alone, which makes the ordeal more unpleasant than it already is. on the other hand she constantly needs to adapt to new cultures. except she's seen as a stranger. at the same time, she knows full well she is one, she hates their garbs, she fights with their weapons, she looks like them, and it just feel... strange. she feels out of place. she doesn't know how to act, how to feel, she's just a confused exile. Her world views were shattered: what were lies, what were truths? Wherein did they lie? In words? In actions? she is wandering aimlessly - which is the antithesis of being a nomad. This gets a resolution, but not before endwalker - she finds a new home, a new focal point, the twelveswood, around which she organizes her travels. as of now she's starting to be comfortable with her xaela identity again. but i reiterate. it took time.

#THANK YOU FOR READING ALL THIS IF YOU HAVE #SORRY IM NOT A NATIVE SPEAKER SORRY IF ITS A MESS #anyway is it the moment to say i am mixed race and that i have opinions about it #eos #SORRY FOR THE DELAY AS WELL #Precision: the alienation gets stronger between arr and endwalker but i still need to work on it before saying anything

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holocene-sims · 2 years

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⭐🍀🎧 for Colm and Shannon :)

thank you for the ask!! ❤️

⭐ - what's their star sign? does it fit their personality?

coincidentally, they're both capricorns! and tbh they probably have a similar birth chart overall, given they were born like two weeks apart and not very far away geographically either. but as far as sun sign goes: i think they fit and break the stereotype in a few ways.

shannon is super hard-working and ambitious when it comes to her research, and she's a total perfectionist about her published writings. outside of her work, she's kind of a hot mess with her head in the clouds, and disorganized, and she has never and will never be a serious or practical person. she can be extremely detail-oriented, though! it's just a matter of her valuing the information, like in her interests or with family and friend matters. i've also read that capricorns are like a "traditionally-minded" sign and i think that checks out for shannon, given that her expertise lies in gaelic literature and that she cares a lot for maintaining the culture and family values she was raised in.

colm is hard-working also in the sense that he cares a lot about the bar that he owns and he wants it to be at least successful in a way that makes him fulfilled, even if that success isn't financial. he doesn't care for status. but other than that and family/friend matters, i would say he tends more towards being lazy and sort of lacking ambition. he's just vibing and doing his own thing. but he is very stubborn like a capricorn and also pessimistic. he is NOT down for the 9-5 lifestyle or anything where people tell him what to do all day long, and he thinks it's better to be pleasantly surprised than disappointed.

also they're both romantics, which i know isn't a stereotypical capricorn trait! romance isn't dead after all ❤️

🍀 - are they superstitious? if yes, describe how.

tbh i would say shannon is not. she just does not think about that stuff LMAO. it's out of sight, out of mind. besides, i think she's too soft-hearted and optimistic in a way for superstitions or conspiracies. like for example the black cats are bad luck thing. she's like, "but why? they're so cute, what did they do to you?"

on the other hand, colm is 100% superstitious and into conspiracies. he's naturally very curious, so that does make sense. and it goes from the basic "knock on wood to avoid a jinx" to "lea michele can't read" to "what do we not know about MKUltra?" although, the lea michele one might be his favorite one just because he can passionately argue for it on the point that, "i can barely fucking read, and i made it to adulthood mostly okay! if i can, she can!"

🎧 - what are their favorite music genres?

shannon definitely prefers stuff in the realms of singer-songwriter, indie, oldies, folk/traditional, or even a bit of either indie or old country. she's also a musician as one of her hobbies, and those are the genres she likes to sing or play as well! she's a hozier, fleet foxes, and fiona apple kind of girl, and that's great.

okay, i think colm would be one of those people who looks like he'd be pretentious about his music taste and would be the "pfft i listen to the strokes, i bet you don't even know who they are" kind of guy, but in reality, his favorite genres are like hip-hop, rap, every now and then punk, and good country. unironically one of his favorite songs has to be a competition between "take me home, country roads" and the "man's not hot" song jddsjfkdsfkds

#asks #man's not hot IS unironically an incredible song #hlcn: oc info #hlcn: story extras #hlcn: shannon #hlcn: colm

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anarchistettin · 1 year

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Yours is a perspective I've never encountered before now. I'm interested in hearing your take on groups (I would call them cults as a neutral descriptor but I'm asking in good faith here and idk if that would come off badly) like Heavens Gate, The Peoples Temple, NXIVM, Aum Shinrikyo, etc.

Not surprising that it's new for you! If you let on that you don't hate the out-group, people hate you & assume all the worst. That doesn't change. Nobody wants you to find out they don't hate the people they're supposed to hate.

Heaven's Gate, the Jim Jones tragedy, & Branch Davidians come to most people's minds, because the term CULT CULT CULT was hammered in at those times. Before that it was Manson, but the door was opened before that by scary-lookin people spanging for Hare Krishna temples in the airports, and ISKCON.

By that time, in the 1960s, it was no longer okay to keep saying BLACK BLACK BLACK. You had to find a new enemy.

I'd love to talk about my experiences in communicating with CoG members fleeing the implosion of their scene, but it would muddy the waters I guess. Some folks in those days were very upset with me for not being cruel to the CoGs. Oh well! One of the things about hate-buzz like CULT CULT CULT is how it muddies the waters. Fortunately for me, I don't give a shit how y'all "see" me, & don't have anything to gain from you. I don't even think you'll agree, so I might tend to leave off trying to be persuasive.

I've already judged, is the thing ^_^ harshly it's not permanent or specific - I just don't believe in the quality of mind. Really smart seeming people are still in the grip of this sexy allowed-to-hate-them vibe and there's no talking anyone out of it. I know.

But the vast majority of cults are people you haven't heard of, mainly because they're not exciting, but also because they've worked to keep it that way. They don't want other people coming around; that's why they culted up.

They were cults! Heaven's Gate & all'em. And I don't get riled when people are using the terminology in good faith. It's just that they never are. They always (always) mean the Bad Kind of People. What baffles me about that, still, is that so many of you have now seen how that's a tactic, and how it threatens your violent horrible death.

Maybe say "good cult" every now and then, if you're interested in earning my respect (or overturning my judgement. good luck)

The fuck of it for me is that I've had to see the death. I made a post about it somewhere, that deaths by violence outnumbered deaths by AIDS in my life. Stunning to realize. Cops #1, jilted exes #2, and Random Awful Bullshit #3. Watching traumatized loved ones get hauled off to jail for the crime of not having been murdered was a defining moment in my feelings about this particular habit.

Cults are no different than other groups of people except for being natural. The other models for not killing each other are built on the skeleton of the cult (& that other similar natural model y'all love to hate: the tribe) because that's how culture is made, that's how ways of life come into being.

& that's why you've been conditioned to think Heaven's Gate or Aum Shinrikyo instead of Homegrown Veggies or A Healthful Indigenous Lifestyle. Simply refraining from slandering people you don't know fails to serve your true master, your true charismatic leader & spiritual center: God's White Father.

One unsupportable belief that life in a cult has given me: they're better than you. I'm not - I'm like y'all, basically - but they, the others in that family, are so much better. Unlike me they aren't willing to engage & don't believe there's any point to trying to get people to stop being murdering assholes in the service of their various churches & state officials. But they'd never think about you the way I do - they'd never be angry or hurt by it. They're better than that.

#except for Dev he's a bitch #it is really hard for me not to be angry #but I thank you #fwiw

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10 years later

In 2014, I wrote a post about an interaction with a friend who was talking to me about his dilemma around moving to US for his masters or not.

Weirdly, the blog blew up (relatively). I even had Tinder matches coming up to me mentioning that post. I quite enjoyed my brief stay in the spotlight.

It is 2024 now. The said friend and many many others in my batch and in my circle of people have hence moved to the US and are settled there. And an equal number of my friends have stayed back in India, including me.

The blog post basically called for people to introspect on what they wanted to do with their lives, what do they like doing, and not just commit to doing things just because everyone else around them was doing it. It resonated with a lot of people, even when I posted about it regularly over the course of the last 10 years.

But, I have wondered multiple times in the last 10 years if me choosing to take the route less taken, has worked out or not in my favour. And where would I be, if I had also moved to the US via a masters degree.

10 years is a good time to now share what I think about what 23yo Phalgun decided to do. Am I happy with? Would I change anything over this period. And would my advice still stay the same, 10 years later.

This is a great time to write about this as I just came back from visiting the US where I spent a good time with many of my friends, staying at their houses, helping them with chores, hanging out at their workplaces, or places they frequent. This helped me get a good sense of what typical life in the US would be, for someone who has moved there.

To be honest - there have been times I saw a real tangible difference to what it would have done to my career. Startups in the US are a different beast, and some of the problems they work on are, as cliche as it might sound, futuristic. The work culture in US startups has plenty of positives. Whereas startups in India, tend to have their own dynamics and I'm not a fan of certain aspects of it. I strongly believe US startups > Indian startups.

After 30 years of living in the same city, I have now built an excellent ecosystem of friends & family around me that I'm really grateful for. But that is also my handicap - would I be able to build something similar in a new city, from scratch? It is a challenge, I'm curious to know if I would have cracked it enough to have a similar lifestyle and ecosystem around me in a new country.

I moved out of my parents home after 30 years. And within 3 years, it has taught me a ton. I went from not knowing what a tadka is to being able to cook food for myself and adult in other areas. This character development could have helped loads if I had put myself in it 10 years ago.

US tech salaries are out of the park. It has the highest savings rate across all geographies (I have done the math). This would mean I could potentially retire MANY years early.

Being in India, around my family & friends - the familiarity of the surroundings, the acceptance of the society, and the briliant brilliant food that is Indian food has its benefits that you recognise only when you are away from it. But most importantly, the quality of life that a high paying tech job offers in India is definitely superior to the average India. I wish more Indian techies are mindful of the privilege and quality of life that our careers have afforded us. I grew up urban middle class and I now live an urban upper class lifestyle, bringing upward mobility in my quality of life. India is a great country to live, if you are rich.

But more importantly, being in India also allowed me the freedom of mobility & flexibility in my career. I switched tracks to product management from engineering in these years, without an MBA. It would have been unlikely I got to do something like this being in the US where your visa inhibits easy career or company switches.

This meant that I also got to take sabbaticals at regular periods of time. I am currently on my 3rd sabbatical, and it comes from multiple things working out in my favour. Something that I find very hard to happen, elsewhere. Also random side note, living in the same city as your family meant vacations were for going away from home, than going home.

Overall, there are multiple ways my life could have gone if I had taken a different path. And some of them would have been great and some worse.

But I think once you know what you want your life to be, working towards it is the harder part of the puzzle. The drive to make it happen is bigger and more important than the choices you make. If you are a person with the drive, you would make it irrespective of being in India or elsewhere. I think I would have carved out a niche for myself if I was in the US. Or, I would have had built a family around me. Whatever the path, I would have made the most of it while working on being happy.

That's how I look back at it, 10 years henceforth. Maybe, I might have a differing opinion in 2024, but for now - I'm happy with how things turned out.

Work towards knowing what you want + achieving the same is more fundamental than what your life turns out because of the choices you made. The drive to live life the way you want is independent of the choices, and shouldn't deter you from getting to where you want to be.

To summarise, choices are just driving functions into your journey. What you feel and do during this journey is what matters, and what you should pay attention to. Everything else will fall in place.

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Happy WBW!

What are the top 3 most important countries in your WIP and what's a fun fact about each?

Hi again, and thanks for the ask!

For reasons explained in the footnote*, I'll be sticking to countries that actually appear in my WIP rather than considering the whole world. Luckily, there's precisely three relevant countries, so this question actually works out great!

Amkarean Dauria (just Dauria to the locals) :

Amkarean Dauria is a Dauric colony in Amkarea, as the name would imply. It is large, covering the western third of the continent, but sparsely populated, and mostly filled with shepherds and hill-dwellers. What makes Amkarean Dauria different from other Dauric colonies is that most of its people aren't actually Daurian. When Alador splintered, smaller kingdoms pled for the country to adopt them, trusting that no one would dare attack the holy country, and now, Aladorians far outnumber the green-haired priests.

Fun Fact: Dauria is known for their sheep-hoof stew. No one knows what the locals do to make it palatable, but the stuff tastes good and is even better for the bones.

Amkarean Ivradia (again, just Ivradia to the locals):

Amkarean Ivradia is a colony of Esuaudar's other major religious faction, Ivrad. It takes up the eastern third of the continent. Most Sons of Ivrad find that monastic or paladinic lifestyles are superior to priestly ones, and so they tend to keep to themselves unless aggravated. However, at about the time the story begins, squabbling between some Aladorian kings and Ivradian border nobles has caused rumors of war to spread, and tensions run high.

Fun Fact: The most populated part of Ivradia is the far north, as despite their innate resistance to heatstroke, Ivradians love the cold. Some speculate this is because the Ivradian homeland was a mountain range before The Rift, but most attribute it to cultural factors.

Alador:

Though several other secular kingdoms take up the central third of the continent, the kingdoms of the Aladorian League are by far the most prominent. It is said that the kingdoms were originally founded by twelve Great Lords who bore seals of Order's power, the only ones Amkarea has seen since the War of the Rift. The League broke apart after a brutal civil war generations later, and only after a millennium were they amenable to reuniting. Though the region had been known as Alador, only in the last generation have the kingdoms been subjected under the king of High Alador.

Fun Fact (but not the real fun fact, more of a disclaimer): I swear I invented this before I read Sanderson, similarities to Alethkar notwithstanding.

Real Fun Fact: According to legend, all of Alador's Great Lords were left-handed, and the land's nobility has always displayed that trait, as well as considering it almost a requirement for commoners marrying into their ranks. Funnily enough, left-handedness is actually a disadvantage here; most Aladorians are ambidextrous.

Footnotes:

*My WIP is set in a massive world, where continents are separated by huge, ring-shaped storms called galebands. Some galebands are massive, holding pangeas larger than all of earth's landmass, whereas others, like Amkarea, the galeband of my WIP, are about the size of Australia. In general, the larger galebands hold the most influential countries due to sheer size, population, and access to resources. They are, however, irrelevant to the conversation due to how separated the continents are from one another, and only one of them is even mentioned.

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yuna-writes · 10 months

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Is the grass greener on the other side?

Lately, I’ve been having thoughts about moving somewhere else and “starting over.” I’m unsure whether that’s a good idea or not. I currently don’t have strong feelings to move but I’m not exactly thrilled at the current area I’m living in. I thought about moving somewhere with more nature and wildlife but I also think I won’t be able to relate to anyone there and there won’t be anything to do but just look at nature. It’s going to get boring after a while. Peaceful, but not what I usually enjoy most of my time. Unless you like concerts, cowboy culture, southern food, and vintage lifestyle then it would be an ideal place to live in.

Ideally, I think the best city that fits my personality and interests is probably Tokyo. The land of anime, video games, technology and convenient living which pretty much fits into my interests. The country is small enough for you to drive somewhere with a lot of nature, but the city is nearby and there are tons of things to do. I’m unsure whether life would be better there because Japanese culture is different. It’s a very competitive and a workaholic culture. I saw foreigners who decide to move to Japan only to move out shortly after because of the culture shock. There’s a saying, the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. The only way you know is to actually cross over and experience it.

Currently, I don’t have strong desires to move to Japan. I live near NYC and they do have something similar but it’s not as technologically advanced or as interesting compared to Tokyo. NYC has a vast culture which I like, but sometimes I feel like the city is kind of dirty, expensive, overcrowded and loud. Tokyo is overcrowded but the city is much cleaner. I’m not sure what their noise level is, but I doubt it would be as loud compared to NYC. It’s just on my bucket list of places I might want to reside in, but I have no plans currently to move anywhere anytime soon.

It’s not really so much I’m happy or unhappy in my current location but I realize I can’t really relate with the residence here and the events surrounding them don’t interest me as much. I can see how someone who likes concerts, sports, partying and likes to ride on boats would love it here. It’s really a place to raise a family. It’s just not exactly the right fit in terms of my interests and what I enjoy. I really spend my time in NYC going to anime conventions, gaming conventions, art exhibitions and tech meetups. I think I realize I tend to gravitate to cities that have more intellectual and cerebral type of events. Which a typical person around my age would find it strange and weird because normal people like to just go to concerts, meet their favorite celebrity, play a sport, or party.

I’m still looking into places but I’m also trying to find content in my current location. I’ll never know maybe moving might have been a mistake, and I was far better off when I was in my previous place. I don’t think I would move countries, because that requires a lot more planning and I need to learn the language of a country to assimilate properly into their culture. I think NYC would be perfect if they took the advance technology from Japan and displace their current infrastructure. NYC does have events pertaining to Japanese culture, but it’s occasional and not really the norm.

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The Glimmering Spires of Visente

Cobrin’Seil is a place with culture, a place with languages, a place where people make books and exchange culture and share popular media just like in the real world. Places have their styles and preferences and they absolutely have their own trash. Trash novels, for example, cheaply made on pulpable paper, are traded around in bulk between different cities, and a surprising number of them, the really cheap ones about sleazy sex and dangerous romance? Chances are they deal in the stereotype of the glitzy and hedonistic lifestyles people imagine is common in one of the glimmering cities of Visente (pronounced vy-zent).

Art by Adam Paquette

This is going to be a nation write-up! If you want to read the structure, and how it’s to be used, here’s the link to the structure. I did use some resources to help me build this and get over the things I find the most difficult. Particularly, I punched ‘random city name generator’ into duckduckgo and got this link, and the art that informed the concept is from the Streets of New Capenna set from Magic: The Gathering.

Visente

Semi-coastal Urbanised Independent Nation, the Land of Three Cities

Cultures

Most people in Visente live in the Three Cities (Araduin, Duinsiva, and Viduinta) which encourage a lot of travel to central locations along the canals. There’s plenty of work in the cities for a variety of different skillsets, and services for people with specialised needs. These cities, being large urban centres, have a huge variety of people, meaning that almost anyone of any heritage shows up in the cities. Outside of the three cities of Visente, things become more pastoral and communities are more likely to be composed of similar groupings of people, and out in the woods and other dangerous spaces, there are smaller communities of isolationists.

Common: Abilen, Goblins, Half-Elves, Half-Orcs, Halflings, Humans Uncommon: Eladrin, Elves, Kobolds, Orcs,Tieflings Rare: Dio Baragh, Drow, Shadar-Kai

Art by Olga Tereshchenko

Reputation

The cities of Visente are its most well-known features, so much so that most people with any awareness of the country probably knows them by name. The way those cities are distinct in their archaeological styles and the way that they’re important to the country at large plays into this national reputation.

Visente is known for its cities so much so that people often think of the countryside villages and towns on the network of canals as being full of people living near Visente, rather than being part of the territory that makes up Visente itself. These towns are often extremely provincial in their cultural identity, and think of themselves in terms of their primary contributions to the nearest city, or cities, including the towns who are just distribution centres, warehouses and dockhouses, or the towns that are primarily residential housing for people who work in those cities.

Common Rumours

Most people have heard one of these basic ideas expressed about Visente:

“Visente are allergic to horses.”

“Visente are romantic idealists.”

“Visente druids are powerful.”

“Visente people are ambidextrous.”

Locals

The most common cultural experience of the locals of Visente is living in a society where everything is indirect. In the city, everyone has jobs or roles that require them to deliver things from one place to another, often things that you don’t necessarily even see or deal with. Dock workers move goods in crates they don’t see to be warehoused by merchants they don’t know for the purchase by businesses they don’t frequent. Even the rural farm life of Visente tends towards this, where people who grow their own food still send the majority of it ‘up’ the canals, towards the cities, and tend to rely on things sent from the same. Even the exchanges between adventurers and druids tend to be two other people’s business.

This tends to produce a profound feeling of cooperative interconnectedness in some and a feeling of profound alienation in others. The national character tends towards being extremely romantic, in the sense that Visente people are prone to assuming that feelings are the most important things, and that feeling very hard is enough of a reason to get to do something — a society of dreamers and ambitious hopefuls, all convinced they can make it big in the cities. This can often run headlong into problems of a lack of resources to make those dreams come true, meaning that everyone knows someone whose story ends in a complete downer, but maybe it won’t for me.

This is also why almost everyone who lives in one of the cities knows someone who is probably a criminal, or failing that definitely a criminal.

Visente City Character Concepts

Here are some common ideas for the kinds of characters that you might be able to make from Visente’s cities:

A dashing, dual-wielding swashbuckler

A chancy swindler with a dream

A criminal syndicate heavy hitter

A scholarly mage from one of the city’s universities

A detail-oriented clerk or fixer for a business

Outside of the cities, there is the rural and forested area of Visent. These forests are primarily evergreen, hardy and handle the snow and rain very well. Across the land there are small villages and townships, usually dedicated to a particular form of industry that they then deliver to the cities. This can mean a town where a shocking number of people bake bread, make shoes, grow a particular type of fruit, nut, or herb, and these villages are often extremely pastoral if not a little quaint in their reliance on the city industries.

Another element of the rural life is the importance of druidic culture. Growth of crops, maintenance of the canals and the calming of the weather is all done by druidic ritual, which also means that almost every town has some dedicated behaviour or local belief which is for the benefit of a local druid, who typically negotiate some long-term plan that they hope will make the area better for nature and to maintain balance with the city over time.

Visente Rural Character Concepts

Here are some common ideas for the kinds of characters that you might be able to make from Visente’s wilderness areas:

A village’s guardian ranger

A druid pursuing some obscure ends

A scholar seeking to understand ancient druidic traditions

Art by Matteo Bassini

Faith is important to the people of Visente but it’s much like a local sport team, where the more local an area is, the more specific their interest, and the more likely you are to be very invested in that specificity. Broadly speaking, there are three categories of faiths of Visente, presenting the City Gods, the Druidic Circle Gods, and the internationally represented Great Faiths.

Great Faiths are the churches represented worldwide that have some relationship to the society of Visente. The gods most represented in this category in a public, clearly known way are Palescai, Mror, Gwynnym and the Briarhorn, who each have representation enough in the society that people recognise their names and businesses or community groups that relate to them. Evil gods are most known by how people swear about them, which is how most people of Visente know the Fortuneseeker: Some common swears include ‘fortune’s teeth’ and ‘red hand take you,’ referencing that god.

The Druidic Circle Gods range from other internationally known gods like Acydea and the Briarhorn as typical divine fonts of nature worship, but the complicated druidic traditions of Visente mean that there is a veritable daily calendar of increasingly specific gods of different scopes that the this tradition ostensibly worships all equally; in any given day, there’s a single small deity’s festival, but also gods of larger scope are honored in that week, of a larger scope still that month, then with four nation-wide gods of seasons, and the years being marked as belonging to specific internationally-known nature Gods. This level of detail is in part assisted by the work of the Great Henge, which has enough room and detail on it to account for a sprawling ecosystem of gods, and the Druidic tradition’s vision of an interconnected nature means that if you worship this tradition, you probably know, or can intuit from week to week, where in that complex calendar you lie and who is being honoured by that week’s deeds.

Finally, there are the three gods of the cities, Aphaethen, Ciltroen, and Ettris. Myths about these gods present three generally recognised common origins for them:

They are the divinely exalted spirits of the city’s founders, hence their names

They are sibling deities who each adopted a city when Visente proved itself worthy

They are three aspects of one god that blessed the union of the cities and doesn’t know it’s known by three identities

Whatever your flavour of those beliefs you have, the actual presentation of them is highly flexible within the city: usually, cities represent them as individuals, with each one having something about their depiction that shows two identical things to represent the other two cities. This also plays into a coincidental historical note that a large number of Visente’s more known heroes tend towards wielding two weapons or sword-and-shield styles, making it something of an iconic image of the Visente cultural character.

Travellers

The three cities are extremely open to travellers. They have services available for travellers, short-term lodgings for money, and even workplaces where you can stay that pay for your rest. Work is freely available, if at rates that exploit people’s lack of established roots. If you’re travelling on from the cities, you’ll usually be able to get jobs transporting, selling, or guarding canal boats, letting you move up the system. There’s also a lot of demand for entertainers in the cities, on the higher echelons of the cities — there’s almost always a masquerade or a ball happening every week, and there’s always work for people who know how to take orders. Of course, these can often introduce travellers to the kinds of security measures that these cities use to maintain their idyllic lifestyle.

A thing most travellers will notice is that Visente is a nation completely untouched by the typical norm of proximity to the Eresh Protectorate and its highway. It’s one of the only states which does not recognise legal authority of church knights, and does not have any element of the King’s Highway present in the borders. Travel across the country and throughout the cities is overwhelmingly done by canal boat, and the cities are designed to be largely about foot traffic. This is also the root of the rumour that Visente people are allergic to horses: The cities do not permit horses or wagons in travel routes, though there are horses pulling canal boats, powering walking pulleys, and doing other transport jobs down in the lower levels of the city.

Rivalries

Dal Raeda and the Eresh Protectorates do not have a particular position on Visente and its cities; some military types may believe the city lacks for a seriously powerful military force and therefore, it’s a non-factor in military engagements. By comparison, it’s pretty common for the Visente to take a ‘wait and see’ position there – there’s even been some claims about the idea that we can do war wholesale, but none of these ideas have been contested. The unknown factor in all of this is how the druidic circles of the country consider themselves and whether they care about defending the cities or not.

Art by Marc Simonetti

Trade

Trade is the blood that flows along those canals. Almost every major settlement in Visente is built around some form of trade, and even the criminal syndicates that operate in the city stylise themselves as business-oriented, not turf-oriented.

Note that there are some things that Visente doesn’t export, but do sell to exporters. This is a distinction without much difference – people bring transport to the city, buy huge quantities of a product at a marked up rate, then travel away with it and sell it on at other locations. This is usually tied to the rules of some druidic pact: A lot of the food that Visente produces is to be used for the people’s advantage, and this practice is maintained so that the businesspeople can claim to the druids that they’re keeping true to the deal.

This also plays into your normal everyday life: Poor and working class people in Visente have definitely had fresh fruit and vegetables, but only the things that are grown within the country, and almost no goods that are – for one reason or another – not permitted for production in the country. This means that chefs and food prep in the cities tend to consider things in terms of their methods, more than their ingredients.

Makes and Sells: Visente grows huge amounts of fruit and vegetables, but also lots of books, musical compositions, and also manufacture some of the best glass in the world. They also export fine weaponry and magical scholarship. Wants and Buys: Almost all fine goods that other cultures can make in bulk; refined materials like oil, and steel. Small-level consumable foodstuffs like cases of wine for an individual party rather than commercial import scale quantities. Also, to many people’s surprise, they tend to buy boats from the shipyards of Amenti, rather than build their own.

Important Sites

Araduin

At the end of the Sendu river, Araduin is positioned between the clefts of two coastal cliffs, where the clouds famously tumble down the mountains and leave only the tops of the city’s skyscraper towers jut free from the mists. It’s coastal, and renowned for its high arch vaulted lifts that support the city over a vast dock that lets the canal boats and oceangoing vessels do trade with one another.

Duinsiva

High up in the mountains at the headwaters of the Sendu river, Duinsiva is a cold city, renowned for its snowy landscapes and the beautiful architecture used to direct wind away from the wealthiest places. This has the effect of making the poorer districts colder and windier, while vast glass windows look out on swirling snowflakes in well-heated apartments.

Viduinta

Midway along the Sendu river, the city of Viduinta is renowned for its adventurers guild, who are famous for their recruiters and an organisation program that finds adventurers outside of the city to try and do the many tasks needed to best please the druids of Visente.

The Endless Henge

Druids do not necessarily view money as an inherent good. This means that there’s a real challenge in finding ways that the businesses of Visente can ‘pay’ for the services of the druids. One of the things that has happened, over the course of many years, is that the Visente business leaders have been spending money renovating and expanding and developing and contributing to the development of a henge in the middle of the woods. The endless henge is now over a kilometer across, with elaborately crafted reliefs and carefully cultivated plants and the finest development that money can buy. The result is that the henge is a very important site, visited by adventurers protecting travellers and tourists, and occasionally, the druids it was made for even show up.

The Endless Henge is still being built.

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nathanshoup12 · 2 years

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