So given Wu and Garmadon didn't KNOW where the tomb was, does this imply the FSM died alone, in a large, dark, dreary cave? Did he tell his sons one day "Alright kiddos, Im gonna go die now byeee love you have fun cleaning up all the messes I made!" and then he just noped the fuck out?
Or did he have someone haul his corpse to the tomb? Because iirc it was said the FSM made the defense systems himself so... how long was he anticipating his fucking death... Did he premeditate his death? It was all that damn meditation around the Golden Weapons! It was radiation poisoning the whole time!
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This little pumpkin has been floating around my blog for a while, but she’s never had a formal introduction. So, meet Gail VanderQuack! Despite her Granny’s ruthless training, she’s a firm pacifist who refuses to fight, believing that all problems can be solved with words! She’s a sweetheart, deeply empathetic and good at making connections with others, but also a bit of a scaredy cat, and not cut out for the hardcore adventuring the rest of her family excel at.
Beakley’s always said the two girls were twin sisters, and they’ve never had any reason to beleive otherwise. But as they uncover more of FOWL’s secrets, they catch wind of a decade old secret that’s been kept from them — one of them is Beakley’s biological granddaughter, and the other is a super soldier created by FOWL. The only question remaining, is which one is which?
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messy traditional comic I drew of a canon cotls interaction, after Narinder was revived in our cult yippee @cotls
I don’t think I’m good at comic layouts so I tried to number them lolz
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https://t.co/Q3AH2aEYxC people keep passing this video around as a “gotcha” whenever someone points out Palestine does not want to “kill all Jews”. Is there context for this video? Is it mistranslated? I’ve been trying to get help with this for a while because saying it doesn’t matter and that what Israel does isn’t justified is one thing, but when people lean on videos like this to support their colonial anxiety, it feels like they’ll use it to strengthen their movement and justify killing more people.
okay so i can understand the confusion, so let me explain
in arabic, we refer to zionists/israelis as "yahuud". that word DOES directly translate, in the literal sense, to "jews". BUT, please understand, that is an older arabic. it might mean "jews" but the way we use the word is how we refer to zionists, not jews. most palestinians say "yahuud" because that is simply what they, the zionists, were called when they came and stole the land. now, using the word "jews" to equate with zionists is old, of course, and it's not exactly right, but please understand that language evolves and language changes and sometimes language stays the same. we do NOT mean "yahuud" as in jews, we mean "yahuud" as in zionists. because zionists constantly equate themselves to jews, the language in arabic was just made to be that the word "yahuud" means zionists. every palestinian i know says "yahuud", but they don't mean jews. they mean zionists. language evolves, is what i'm saying. when we say "yahuud", we do not mean jews, because of course there is nothing wrong with being jewish. my uncle is jewish lol. my friends are jewish. there are tons of jewish palestinians. the language evolved to make "yahuud" mean "zionists". that's it. i'm not saying whether it's right or wrong to use that word to refer to zionists, i'm just saying that's how the language evolved in palestine.
because "yahuud" directly and literally translates to "jews", TECHNICALLY that video is translated correctly. but it wasn't translated in accordance to cultural and social norms that palestinians use in arabic today, so when the translation says "jews", replace it with "zionists" and THAT will be technically the socially correct translation. palestinians do NOT want to hurt jews, of course we don't. it's just our language has evolved differently, and so what used to mean "jews" now means "zionists", and that's simply what the video got wrong.
i hope this makes sense!!
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[Image ID: a low resolution screenshot of a chat message from Etho in Ark: Survival Evolved. The message reads: "what's up ladies". End ID.]
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Some of my thoughts about writing smut which I thought I'd share.
For those who don't know, I'm on the ace spectrum, and I also have disabling health issues which affect my intimate life. I am not going to go into any more detail than that, as it's private. That said, though, it proves to be a challenge when writing smut, as I'm approaching it from the perspective of an outside observer.
I think sex scenes can be used just like any other scene; like a fight scene, I enjoy writing them from the viewpoint of exploring characters, and ideally progressing their growth and/or the plot in each encounter. Not every sex scene will do this - I've written smut one-shots which don't really explore characters, and those are because it's actually a fun kind of scene for me to write from a technical standpoint, outside of storytelling.
I see very often that people reduce erotica to just being mindless porn, or indicating that writing with smut in it has inherently less substance and worth than writing without it, regardless of how carefully written the smut is. I pretty vehemently disagree with this viewpoint.
Sex scenes, in my opinion, are a writing tool, just like any other. Writing good sex is a skill of its own and it's one I'm still developing, but it's absolutely something that has worth, and I think it's a huge shame that so much of the writing community treats it with some kind of contempt, as if it's somehow inherently lesser than, when sex is an incredibly important and human topic, and suggesting it shouldn't be talked about can be an incredibly slippery slope to the kind of tight-lipped purity culture attitude which leads to shaming people for having sex within queer communities, and other such dangerous things.
I have a fic about ace-spectrum Fade upcoming where I plan to talk about this topic a fair bit, but I wanted to talk about it here, too. I'm very passionate about it. Purity cultures regarding sex, particularly between queer people, is a dangerous thing to back into that can very easily lead to conversations which frame sex (particularly LGBTQ+ sex) as some kind of perversion rather than something completely natural, and I will always defend erotica as an art form as valuable as any other.
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Only one flower
Pollux delivered the news of Arcturus' party. It will be full of delicious food and pretty flowers. But Vega refuses the party. What would he be doing in the greenhouse?
(evolved card under the cut)
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