Big talk calling Ranboo a wet square when you’re the wettest square out there
Dear Patron I may be wet but no one looks at me and thinks “square.” You are delusional.
I am Curved, I am Squiggly, I am Elusive, I am Beyond Simple Shapes (and certainly Square ones)
I am a Cat
I am no Square
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on episode 31 and obsessed with cecil, tho still completely enamoured, getting comfortable enough that there is a very domestic complaining about carlos here and there
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Right so should I split my Shaperaverse Christmas fic into two chapters and post the first tomorrow morning and have it up while I write the rest, or should I just keep it as a oneshot and have it out on like. Christmas eve when no one has time to read.
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I don’t know what kind of relationship Thiya would have with Guiera & Mies post-cannon and it’s driving me NUTS!
Like, I’ve seen SO many interpretations of G&M when it comes to interacting with Galo & Burning Rescue. It basically ranges from them telling BR to f**k off & never really trusting them at all to them being damn near buddy-buddy right from the get-go.
There’re also variations I’ve seen where they trust Galo, but not the rest of BR.
Some fics I’ve read address the whole ‘Burning Rescue was a key (although not as much as Freeze Force) part of Burnish oppression’ while others skip over that entirely (not that I really care one way or the other--I’m not gonna tell other writers how to write).
What I DO know is that Thiya will have a much, much harder time gaining their trust / respect since she played a bigger role in their persecution.
But I ALSO wanna stress that had Thiya met G&M under different circumstances (mainly, before the Blaze & becoming the Freezish), there would’ve been a good chance she might have actually gotten along with them. There are certain aspects of their personalities that would just...click.
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i do think there is a degree to which certain kinds of Instagram activists have convinced themselves that traumatising themselves in solidarity is a useful form of activism. "I'm having nightmares and crying so much I want to be sick because of all these videos of dying children but I can't look away while people are getting hurt" I mean don't you think you'd be able to help more if you weren't having nightmares and crying all the time?? don't you think this is a one-way trip to burnout? don't you think maybe increasing the amount of trauma going around is counterproductive? I dunno bro there's something to be said for bearing witness but there comes a point where you gotta look hard at yourself and go "am I helping, or am I just making myself suffer so I don't feel guilty for not suffering while somebody else is experiencing bad shit"
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Parents get sooooooo mad when anyone even remotely implies that if we know it negatively impacts adults then it’s probably quite detrimental to the health and development of a young mind to stick an iPad in front of a child any time they show signs of Behaviors. “Are you calling me a bad parent?” Yeah. I am.
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The people against bows becoming a trendy fashion accessory has annoyed me sooo much lately. Saw a tiktok that was like “if you get uncomfortable with us saying wearing bows infantilizes women and supports the patriarchy, it just means you’re uncomfortable with us pointing out you’ve been engaging in a harmful trend/behavior 😌” aaaaaAAAAAAH people online are allergic to nuance
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The thing is that the portrayal of Neanderthals as having been inherently grotesque and alien to H. sapiens is something we will never have proof of. But we do have proof that, in different locations and in different populations across time, we all found eachother desirable. We saw eachother and wanted to touch. And the offspring were held by their mothers and raised and had their own offspring in turn.
When you look for the first proof that H. sapiens found Neanderthals repulsive, you have to wait until the Victorian era, when the white masters of empires were busy portraying Neanderthals as stupid, brutish, and (of course) dark-skinned.
In more modern times, we’ve had people arguing that instead of seeing Neanderthals as Benighted Savages, they should instead be seen as Noble Savages, (allegedly) cruelly destroyed and driven from their lands by H. sapiens. Which one of their two you believe says more about your modern political views than it does about ancient H. sapiens.
And, whether we construct Neanderthals as Savage or Noble Savage, the fundamental assumption we project into the unfathomably distant past is still that H. sapiens saw Neanderthals as an Other, with the language we use being almost explicitly that of modern racial dynamics.
But we have no proof of any of that. We have no proof of hostilities. We know we co-existed and we had sex. That’s it.
Humans obviously have sex with some humans and kill others. We also know that, when small groups of humans occupy vast spaces with infrequent contact with others, unique cultures will always form, some more hospitable, some more neophobic/xenophobic. But many cultures of small settlements placed among huge unpeopled landscapes place supreme emphasis on hospitality to strangers. Plus, we fucking love other social animals, as evidenced by how we befriended wolves.
I’m a humourless weirdo and a wet blanket about popular constructions of Neanderthals as “monstrous”, and I freely admit it. But that’s because it’s tied up in legacies of imperialism. Not only that, but it also privileges one culture (yours, mine, modernity’s) as being most human by implicitly assuming we can project it onto people in the past. Since you don’t pretend that all global cultures share exact same values as you do, it doesn’t take more than a few moments’ reflection to realise you can’t do that to the past.
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