#just talking recreationally

[estbela]

Obsessed with the concept of nations having different human names over the years. Like, whether they're picked out by the nations themselves, or by other nations, they can have so much meaning.

#just talking recreationally #hetalia #aph #hws #Nationhood #I actually do kinda have a HC for what name Ro was given at birth #Kinda. It changes and stuff

[maudlin-scribbler]

I need to get better at drawing this instant. Yes i know thats not how it works but I need to.

#just talking recreationally #I am going insane and not in the fun way yall #I have so much art I wanna do but girl i really dont like my art atm #“Art is my life!” I say as I continue to draw horribly #If my art doesnt improve drastically by the time I turn 18 im gonna cry #Vent ish? i guess #Im okay just doing what I know best. Which is feeling sorry for myself

[castielcommunism]

kripke is like the state is like your family. and the state is bad. but its existence is necessary so that real men may live outside of it. but you’re still dominated by the ultimate authority (your dad). and dads are bad but they’re men and being a man is good. but being a macho man is bad so you have to fight with your dad to be better than him. but that means you’re a freak. and freaks are not real men but that means you’re not like everyone else which is good because conformity means you’re submitting to social forces. what was I talking about again

#spn.txt #libertariannatural #this isn’t a serious post I’m not endorsing it just talking recreationally

[thedickcavettshow]

Why is “I” the only pronoun we always capitalize? Like if you’re referring to yourself with a capital I then why aren’t you also referring to yourself with a capital M in Me? I think if You’re supposed to always capitalize I then We should be capitalizing all pronouns. If I said My pronouns are He/Him with capital letters is that allowed or will I get arrested by Big Grammar

#I’m sure theres a completely normal grammar reason for this but I don’t know anything about grammar so idk #My pronouns are not actually He/Him with capital letters btw I’m just talking recreationally basically

[vigilskeep]

what if i choose to believe that one of the reasons alistair has the job of handling the new recruits and their questions is that he knows several languages, including trade tongue, dwarven, orlesian, etc. from his good chantry education, and also his native fereldan (the redcliffe version anyway) and at least one city elf dialect from growing up with the servants. this is how the warden translates at first if they have an alternate native language and also how they cope in places like orzammar if they don’t speak the language

#alistair theirin #i think most fereldan nobles speak orlesian fluently but nobody likes it so theyre switching to trade tongue as their lingua franca #but it’s an awkward process and some of their unfortunate orlesian connections (read: arlessa isolde) arent helping #some want to revert to their own dialects but they’re varied and it’s not helpful for communication #disclaimer i do not know anything abt languages except loose historical understanding i am just talking recreationally

[pillowprincessvarric]

saw the post about dwarven tax/inheritance fraud where you list friends etc as nephews. would like to know more about how that works. does it only work within the context of orzammar's legal system or has it spread outwards to be used by surface dwarves etc and is varric listing hawke and co as his nephews? how does it tangle things up if anders gets listed by both brosca and varric? also when/how did oghren die? bc i feel like it was implied he was dead.

It's really more of an Orzammar thing because on the surface, it's not considered as taboo or unusual to have someone who isn't directly related to you in your will, at least not among lower-class and Ascendant families. It still happens in Kalna families though, but less often and at a much smaller scale than it does in Orzammar, because the Merchant's Guild is less likely than the Shaperate to let you get away with having A Lot Of Nephews.

anyways, there's a couple of reasons you might do this. Inheritance-wise, the reason this is done is mostly just to ensure that someone actually gets what you leave them. The contesting of wills is extremely common, especially in noble families, but it's so extremely much harder to successfully contest someone's right to what was left to them if they were a direct family member* of the deceased that most won't even try, so making someone your nephew is functionally as close as you'll get to a guarantee that that specific part of your will will go through as written.

*I'm still nailing down details on this but to be clear nephews, and more specifically your sister's sons, occupy a weird niche culturally and legally for dwarves, where in some cases a nephew is functionally the same as a brother or a son. A very direct and intimate family relation. Part of the reason that nephews are used for this kind of thing is because you can have the benefit of direct relation without having to explain why the person in question doesn't really look like you (your sister might already have a different mother or father than you and look very different, so it's easier to suspend disbelief)

Another reason, of course, is that being brought into your House may be a step up, caste-wise, for the "nephew" in question. This and the last thing are both often done in exchange for some other shady deal being done, much like adult adoption fraud in the real world. Like you pay me x amount and I'll move you up to the noble caste. You render x service and i'll guarantee you get y after my death. that sort of thing.

Another reason for adding a lot of "nephews" would be to increase the number of people in your House, which is a form of status symbol in Orzammar. Not really a thing on the surface though.

The Shaperate and the Merchant's Guild already don't cross reference very much, and a lot of Guild families are already not acknowledged at all in Orzammer, so getting listed by both House Brosca and House Tethras probably would never even come up. It's actually not fully unheard of to be acknowledged as a relation in both a surface and Orzammarian family simultaneously, though it does imply you're a skeevy person who does skeevy things lol.

Oghren being dead has been a thing in my canon for a while but unfortunately, I keep changing my mind about when that happened. He definitely died while fighting darkspawn, and it was either at the Keep in the battle at the end of Awakening (like in his one lower-affinity ending slide), or at some point during what is late act 1 in dragon age 2. Can't be more specific than that at this time.

#these are all. loose thoughts. im just talking recreationally. idk shit about legal systems i just think the term 'tax fraud' is funny. etc.

[kqluckity]

"quackity is team wilbur he even wanted to keep that photo the whole stream" yeah he wanted to keep the photo you're right, but he also barked while watching that video edit of luzu so his ass is not making a choice any time soon

#honestly good for him #he knows how to make both his english and spanish fans happy #anyways tilín should choose charlie and they should raise tilín and juana together as their loving parents welcome to my ted talk #im saying words recreationally again btw #THIS POST WAS INSPIRED BY A FUCKING TWEET COMPARING THIS SITUATION TO TWILIGHT BTW #WHICH IS FUNNY BECAUSE I'M A FIRM BELIEVER THAT TWILGHT WOULD'VE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER IF THEY HAD JUST BEEN A POLYCUE #(ORIFBELLAANDALICEENDEDUPTOGETHERIGUESS) #WHICH IS /EXACTLY/ MY STANCE ON THIS WHOLE THING TOO BTW BOTH OR SOMEONE ELSE (CHARLIEINTHISCASE) #sorry for yelling the spirit of karkat vantas takes over my body every once in a while #qsmp #mcyt tag

[pink-carnelian]

Forever thinking about my high school boyfriend who told me I’m built “like an anime milf”. I know he meant it as a compliment in his own twisted way, but all I heard as a seventeen year old is “you look like you already had kids” like can you fucking imagine. I know I have stretch marks but this is ridiculous

#cj #personal #he told me I have a ‘sleeper build’ #bc I ‘have a good body but don’t show it off’ #dude was just talking recreationally

[the-no-seatbelt-song]

Autistic people's love to sort things into arbitrary dichotomies something something the increasing number of meaningless microidentity labels something something queer discourse something something Goku versus Superman power level debates

#I'm just saying things recreationally #talking tag

[new-lorien-artist]

When you were too passionate in the tags (and hit tag limit) that Tumblr starts breaking around you

#ernest talks #continuing where i was #i have so little time recreationally and everyone around me is busier and I've gotten more anxious and nervous over the years #and that goes for everyone else i talk to or want to talk to #and i try creating these community events like hangouts or celebrations or anything to get people coming in #or try to host stuff and we're mostly busy #I'm super super grateful when we have those hangouts work!!! I'm always so happy when people can join or make time for them #i kinda just... mourn that this too will go away and people will dissipate and the fandom goes inactive again #so i really cherish the time we make to ask each other about our day when it comes to mind #<- pointing to me saying this because I've gotten more edged in recent years and stop talking to others so i can reflect #feel like I've been too salty on fandom lately (lately like the last two years) #i also have tons of posts about like the LL fandom not being dead and I'd like that to be true #but ahhhh busy busy busyyyyyyy #I'm also generally favorable to communicating on discord instead of tumblr #which not everyone uses casually #so that's also a huge factor #asks are fun but tbh i don't get a lot of conversations continued that way #it ends up a one and done thing #either there's significant pressure in the reply to make it good that isn't usual in other text form convos #or some other reason i don't know of #conversations end quicker on tumblr so i end up relying on discord convos more

[estbela]

Hws Romania would have a tumblr blog. Thats it thats the post

#just talking recreationally #hetalia #romania #aph #hws

[maudlin-scribbler]

I think if I would figure out a way to focus enough to plan and outline and do research for my stories, and actually write the stories I want I could be a good writer.

#just talking recreationally

[gideonisms]

It's so funny whenever someone discovers that people like to have emotions about fictional characters recreationally and like loses their mind. what, people are actually lusting for the undescribed tits of ianthe tridentarius on the internet?? that's so weird no one has ever been horny on the internet before!

#that's the emotion that first came to mind because i am who i am but insert whatever emotion you want about whatever character you want here #people have feelings about things that don't exist and then they talk about those feelings?? omg #like. come on man. i know you've cared about a sport or the outcome of a movie before #it's like hitting me as i'm typing this that some people just don't have strong emotions recreationally #like they save those for exclusively circumstances in their real lives but only certain ones #someone should do a study on that actually. not sure it's healthy #help #this post brought to you by h*mestuck made this world podcast a podcast i enjoy but sometimes it is like #come on man. come on #the media studies commentary is insightful but the overall vibe of treating a fandom as a zoo exhibit is like #i know we've all read hobby drama threads but i didn't spend days of my life staying updated on them ggjklll #but then they read the vr*ska obama post and it is all worth it

[fandomunsexyman]

One of the worst experiences is opening the Ao3 pages for a character you like and then the top results all have a tag that is their name combined with some variation of the word mother and immediately learning everything you need to know about how the fandom perceives them.

#speck speaks #talking recreationally #being bitter #bonus points if the variation is “mama” #because outside of often being out of character those fics don't really dive deeply into HOW a character would be a parent #or like the nuances of parenthood for that parent and critically address whether or not they would be a good one #or even want that #its just the fanon version of that character that is some how an Ideal Parent #and their flaws are DRASTICALLY reduced or are almost non-existent when they do show up #its worse if its that and a popular ship w that character #because then its that character Would Not Fucking Put Up With That on repeat #idk my experiences probably aren't universal

[mantisgodsdomain]

The thing about us when it comes to shipping is that we are... terminally aroace. If we like a character dynamic, forty-nine times out of fifty, we'll prefer it platonic- hell, five times out of ten, we won't even see the appeal of shipping the pair in the first place.

We'll toy around with a ship, but we won't commit to it, and on the rare occasion that we do something for a ship, it's almost always because one particular facet struck us as the sort of thing we wanted to explore. We tend to use romance and such as a joke, not an actual, serious Plot Element, and if there are any major ships in the fandom they tend to wear through fast, especially if it's difficult to find content without the ship.

There are exceptions, of course, but almost all of our interactions with shipping as a whole are through this lens. It's a joke, not a serious plot element, not something that can be singularily focused on, and definitely not something we particularly care to dedicate too much time to.

With this in mind, you have to understand that one-off nonsense crackships are hilarious to us, we spent a good chunk of our early writing years using a quadrant pairing generator to make Utter Nonsense, and we still think that shipping the Zommoth with anything that breathes is fucking hilarious.

#we speak #writing #if youre shipping one person with one other person and never do almost anything else thats boring #if youre shipping one person with Literally Whoever thats fun and can come up with some real fun things just w the luck of the draw #also palerom writing is a staple of permanantly queering your writing for the rest of your career #this is the writing advice u come here for at mantisgodsdomain dot tumblr dot com #we have also always been the kind of person to have a generator turn up “glb'golyb<>john's dad” and just run with it #we will construct a narrative around this but it will be whatever we want and it probably wont focus much on the romance by the end #because we are Terminally Aroace as previously mentioned #and thats kind of what you get when you ask someone who has literally never experienced A Romance to write romance #we do it recreationally but none of these ships will last a week and all our characters default to aroace anyways #this has been: late night rambling #leifs request spoilers #also uhh #shipping #in case u wanna block that #we dont talk abt it often bc we Do Not Care

[crykea]

Man I don't wanna dnf this book bc it is good and has important stuff or we but holy crow it is grim and gruesome and hard to read

#im not even talking about the parts with french in the new residential school by grim and gruesome either and that says something #i just sont know how much i can read abt ppl stepping in bear traps? and stuff? #like i Get it i get why its like this but also oh boy reading this recreationally is nigh impossible #hunting by stars by cherie dimaline btw