#so a weaker culture is fine

[clanoffelidae]

Sejroe is doing it’s goddamn best

#i believe in you baby 😭 #we had to get pomona and grippo replaced but sejroe is holding on #not strongly persé #but holding on #also tbf pomona got replaced bc it was contaminated lol #since we don’t get a lot of positive sejroes it’s not hypercritical to have a lot of it #so a weaker culture is fine #whereas we get a metric ton of grippos that need titering #so when the culture started dying and we had to get a new pomona anyway #we got a new grippo too lol #grippo’s still weaker than a lot of the other serovars but is much stronger now #poor sejroe is just hobbling along lmao #it’s okay baby you’re doing amazing #one of my coworkers did the lepto incubator’s temp yesterday #and i was extremely defensive about it lol #do not TOUCH my INCUBATOR #the babies are sleeping and growing don’t open the door unless you need to #they need their warm box :’( #i was upset bc i had already done the temp earlier i just hadnt written it down yet #so the babies were disturbed unecessarily :’(

[shankss-magnificent-ass]

Imagine having deep discussions with the Whitebeard pirates

Ace: Have you ever wondered why the world government opposes people so far away from them, doing what we do?

Marco: [mutters] I wish you would just stop saying odd shit.

Whitebeard: well we're breaking the law, obviously.

You: It's a little deeper than that. It's because what many pirates do, is the same thing the world government does.

Marco: We are not similar in any way.

You: no, think about it, what does the world government do? They lay out a bunch of rules and if you don't follow them, they use violence to force most of the world into following them. And if a nation elects not to join the world government, or can't afford to join, they raid and pillage those islands and take their citizens as slaves.

Izou: On the other hand, if a nation does join the world government, they have to pay heavenly tributes, because if they don't, the Marines will raid and pillage your country. But if they pay the heavenly tributes, the marines will protect their nation from outsiders, like pirates and non-world-government-nations.

Whitebeard: However, on top of paying the heavenly tribute, the average person also pays local and national taxes, so it's a heavy burden for some countries.

Marco: Oh my gods, it's like a protection racket, that common thugs run, just on a massive scale.

Whitebeard: and, like many pirates.

You: they don't like pirates, for the same reason they don't like common thugs, because you all are muscling in on their turf.

Thatch: so most governments are just organized, and socially acceptable, thuggery.

You: Not all, look at Alabasta for instance, King Cobra has a lot of social programs for his people. Food programs and affordable housing for the poor. Medical programs that put a doctor in every village and a bunch of other stuff. The people should receive something back from their government besides 'protection'.

Ace: I know a lot of nations that are in the world government have a large lower class that they exploit labor from and bleed them dry with taxes, tolls, and fines. I can never forget what I saw at the Grey Terminal out of the Goa Kingdom's Great Gate.

Thatch: That's because in "normal society" they value wealth, and look down on and take advantage of people who don't have it. Meanwhile, in pirate culture, we value strength and look down on and take advantage of those who are weaker, like how we raid other crew's ships because we can, and they can't stop us.

Izou: [sighs] That's an oversimplification If I ever heard one.

Thatch: [steps into Izou's space bubble.] You got something to say to me?

Izou: I've been to both world-government nations and non-world-government nations, and I can tell you that they value both strength and wealth. It's just different classes value one over the other. The upper and more privileged class values wealth, and daintiness because they can hire the strong. While the less privileged value strength, because it helps them survive, because they don't have money.

Thatch: I know that, did you forget I grew up poor as shit, mister little daimyo's vassal-boy.

Izou: And I was a wandering beggar minstrel before that, also keep Oden's name out of your mouth.

Thatch: how about you fucking make me?

Marco: [hops between the two men and dramatically claps his hands together like a clapperboard.] Aaand scene, that was a brilliant performance, gentlemen.

Ace: it was almost hard to tell that you two are actually friends.

Thatch: [huffs] Alright, I'll take it back, I'm sorry Izou.

Izou: I'm sorry too

You: you all are too fighty.

Ace: bitch, you're the most stab happy out of all of us.

You: I am not

Whitebeard: Just last night, you stabbed Vista's hand with a fork because he kept reaching over your plate.

You: ... I did do that, but only after asking him to stop three times. Which is more than reasonable, he's a grown-ass adult, and he, and his fuck ass mustache, should know basic table etiquette by now.

Ace: and then you stabbed me for no reason, with the same fork!

You: that was for good measure, just in case you got any ideas!

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[ryker-writes]

Hi.. ok let me just be straight about this because I'm bad at talking tbh but hi, i love your azul and vil angst siblings thing a lot since i love angst and you write angst so beautifully, so i wish to request sibling angst for leona, riddle or idia (preferably leona but you can choose btw) thanks for reading this and if you don't want to do it thats fine bestie<33

—🃏 𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍

(a new one if someone hasn't taken 🃏 Anon yet)

Thank you so much 🃏 anon! It really warms my heart to hear that. I'll happily write more! This one is going to be for Leona since I already wrote one for Riddle and Idia's will be written soon

I can't decide if I like this one as much as some of my other ones...let me know what you guys think

Request rules and Masterlists

Broken Sibling relationships

Leona as a sibling (Broken relationship)

the third child of the Kingscholar family

that's what you are

that's what you're known as

the third, and least important child of the Kingscholar family

ever since you were a child, that became clear

your two big brothers carried much more importance

mostly the oldest, Falena

anytime gifts were given to the three of you, there would be a clear order of things

Falena always got the biggest and best gifts

Leona got the second best every time

and you got whatever was left

that is, if there was anything left

there have been many times where there would only be enough for your brothers

that or one of them took extra and you were left with nothing

since you were born last, you had to be the one left with their scraps

last...

that word alone pretty much describes your life

it was a constant theme that you were reminded of day after day

playing games with your older brothers was always fun

as long as the game didn't involve the players being first, second, or third

those games would always end the same

Falena was very talented, so wins and first place was almost always handed to him naturally

Leona would always try as hard as he could to beat Falena, but always had to settle for second

and you never had any chance trying to catch up to their abilities

they were much older, and much better at games

so you would always be deemed last place or the loser of every game

and after each game, the servants would talk

"Did you see? Prince Leona got second place again. He's no match for Prince Falena. He never wins against him."

"Yeah, well at least Leona can keep up with Falena and put up a bit of a fight."

"That's true. Last place is where the weakest belong."

they were right

in beastman culture, last place is for the weakest

and in a lions pride, weaker children can be left behind to fend for themselves

that's the last thing you want

so you tried not to let what they said get to you, and continued playing games with your brothers

as long as you were with your brothers, they wouldn't leave you behind

Falena was always super happy to involve you in whatever he was doing

Leona...was less enthusiastic

most of the time it didn't seem like he cared

if you wanted to spend time with Leona, you had to ask him and set everything up yourself just for him to put in minimal effort or fall asleep halfway through

it was hard to feel like he didn't consider it a waste of his time

you'd keep trying, but it never made much of a difference with him

eventually, Falena was crowned king and even got married and had a kid

so he had other, more important things to do than spend time with you

it was heartbreaking, but it's not like you could spend much time with him anyway since you were going to Night Raven College

but at least Leona was still at the school with you

you two were even in Savanaclaw together

you had hoped that you could still spend a little bit of time with Leona since you no longer had Falena to hang out with

but he no longer had time for you

whenever you asked about hanging out with him or playing a game of chess (which you know he loves), he would always say he was busy

and most of the time that was a complete lie

everyone in the dorm knows he spends most of his time sleeping

the only times he wasn't sleeping was when he was practicing spelldrive

you were starting to get tired of asking and getting turned down each time

so, you decided to ask one last time

it was later in the day when you found him by Savanaclaw's pool

a nice relaxing environment meant he would be in a better mood

but you knew better than to get your hopes up

you asked if he was up for a game of chess and even offered to set it up

and all you got in response was a no

of course he would turn you away again

that's all he did

you just had to ask

"Why? Why do you always say no?"

he let out a deep sigh

"Because I don't want to waste my time on weaklings."

there it was

he only sees you as a weakling, and not worth his time

somewhere along the way, he had already left you behind

and you never realized it

Leona was the only one that had time for you anymore, but he doesn't even want to spend it with you

the weakest one has been left behind to fend for themselves

you stopped trying with Leona after that

if you were being honest, the only reason you kept trying for so long was because he was the only one you had left

but that's over now and you're on your own

occasionally you would see him around Savanaclaw and pass by him, but he never even glanced your way

it was almost like you didn't even exist to him

you might as well not have been a Kingscholar anymore

but then you started seeing him around less

the spelldrive tournament was around the corner, he was most likely practicing

you used to go watch him as he played and cheer him on

...but he probably doesn't want you there anymore

actually, you could probably go to watch the other teams

Leona probably wouldn't notice if you were there anyway

Diasomnia has been playing very well these past few years, so it might be fun to watch them

so on the day of the tournament, you went to watch the games

since Diasomnia won last year, they would be up for the first game

but as the announcer started to introduce Diasomnia onto the field, the crowd around you started acting up and rushing towards the team

it was mass panic and everyone was screaming and stampeding towards the entrance of the coliseum

you got up and started to move with them, against your own will

no matter how much you tried to fight it, your body seemed to move on it's own

but you've been in Savanaclaw long enough to know who's magic this is

how Ruggie was able to control and entire stadium of people, you had no idea

but you turned to try and get back into the coliseum as soon as the spell wore off

the crowd was thick and it was hard to push through, but you had to

if the people were all being herded like sheep, something bad is happening

as you pushed through, a heavy aura of magic flooded the air

someone was certainly using a lot of magic in there

you finally made it to the entrance of the coliseum

standing in the field was Leona covering in blot and fighting many Heartslabyul students

even now, he was looking down upon everyone in front of him with such hatred and anger

not even Ruggie was spared from his attacks

but you got there just as the battle was ending, and Leona was defeated

the blot left his system and he collapsed to the ground

he was fine

for a brief moment, Ruggie saw you and stared

but Leona wouldn't want you here, even now

so you left without a word

you didn't end up going back to the tournament after that, but it went well from what you heard

Savanaclaw even made it pretty far considering everything that happened

Cheka ended up finding you after it all and you got to play with the little cub

to be honest it was a lot of fun, probably the most you've had in a while

sadly, he left you after a while to go find Leona

the days followed after that were pretty normal

...except for the fact that Ruggie was following you around more

he watched whatever you did throughout the day, and then left

but the one day he didn't follow you, you found Leona waiting for you in Savanaclaw with a chess game set up, and waiting for another player

#twisted wonderland #twst #twisted wonderland x reader #twst x reader #leona kingscholar #twst leona #twst leona x reader #leona x reader #leona kingsholar x reader #today i realized tumblr has a character limit lol #dont know how to feel about this one

[paganminiskirt]

Like Frieza and Vegeta’s relationship was absolutely abusive and exploitative from start to finish but I think people write it wrong. Well not wrong, just in a way that I personally believe removes the deeper horror in favor of an easy depiction of what a relationship like that looks like. He’s not getting strung up and whipped or locked in a cell to cry, he’s getting his chin scratched by a person who uprooted him from everything he had ever known on a whim and destroyed the culture upon which he founded his most nascent sense of identity. And that person is only keeping him alive because despite it all, he’s useful, and kind of cute, especially now that all the other Saiyans are dead. Vegeta’s a small child being made to commit atrocities for profit an amusing little novelty, still using the honorifics & regurgitating the legends of a planet that’s been obliterated. DBS is not a perfect sequel by any means but it did this part so, so well. “All hail Vegeta, prince of no one.” “I always thought you shined the brightest when you were serving as my pet.”

Sickening, yes? And the intimacy is the worst part, the realization that Frieza seems to favor him; seems to like him. Who knows, maybe Vegeta reminded him of himself at some ancient, half-forgotten stage of life. King Cold did drop him like a hot potato as soon as he was proven weaker than Trunks. Maybe that’s the whole reason he made King Vegeta give up his kid in the first place. Frieza’s relationship with his father is shallow and dependent entirely on his value as a soldier, the underlying cruelty of which they’ve both silently agreed to use superfluous affection to cover up? Fine. He’s gonna make the Saiyan king give up his own militarized child prince. He’s gonna strip away the cultural justifications for what he’s doing to his son by making him treat it like the cold, spineless profiteering that it always was. He’s gonna rub it in.

But hey, he’s not mad at the kid. It was his dad who got too big for the barrel. Vegeta is still serving his purpose, Vegeta is still being good. Why wouldn’t Frieza treat him in accordance with his “station,” even after it’s been rendered an empty title because of him. All he has to do is keep spinning the wheel on the Cold Empire, vomiting out violence into the endless vacuum of space & never getting too uppity about his dead father or dead planet or about the fact that, even when reduced to the most baseline level of childish narcissism, the state which this arrangement has emotionally stunted him into maintaining well into adulthood, he never actually wanted any of this. He didn’t want to leave Planet Vegeta! He didn’t want to grow up surrounded by strangers! He didn’t want to have no claim over anything he ever achieved! He wanted to work for himself! It wasn’t his choice!!! For all of Vegeta’s dickswinging and hierarchy and “pride,” he is so, so helpless, “like a tiny insect glowing in a jar,” as Frieza so helpfully summarized for us. Overcorrection layered on overcorrection layered on overcorrection layered on desperate, screeching fear and sadness and shame. Blow up a planet. Nuke a city. Wipe out a village. Fix It Again, Tony.

And that viciously indulgent cruelty that Vegeta used to comfort himself as he grew into a man is only emphasized by how blasé Frieza appears to be about the whole thing. He’s calm. He’s secure. He spends half the arc sitting down, just watching. He’s what Vegeta was in the first part of the Saiyan saga, and he slowly turns into what Vegeta slowly turned into in the second part of the Saiyan saga. An addled, wounded, unthinking mess, trying to put their self image back together as someone else’s superior ability causes it to crumble. Frieza was scared of the super saiyan. Under all that collected ambivalence, that whole time, he was scared.

Vegeta is Frieza’s heir. As gross as that incongruent, unwanted warmth is to witness, Frieza succeeded in establishing influence over & connection between himself and the child he orphaned. And the process of healing from that relationship involves Vegeta going back to square one and having to acquiesce to another foreign, combat oriented culture populated by vaguely hostile strangers. He gets new clothes. He gets a new place to train. He gets new tasks to perform. He gets called cute.

Like. It’s not physical torture, at least not as we usually imagine it. It’s this slow poisoning of a person’s ability to trust and connect with others, a process which is gussied up by regular assertions of fondness, so casual & consistent that you have to actively remind yourself that the guy who’s doing it sees Vegeta as a literal subhuman, and is only being good to him the way you’d be good to a valued piece of property. He tortured him to death, but he still thinks he was a good pet. Vegeta’s life was Frieza’s to end, but his feats of wanton destruction were also his to be proud of.

That’s the whole reason why Vegeta’s character development was slow, ugly and recidivist. Because it was his knowledge of how to grow, of how to exist any other way, that Frieza intentionally eroded for his own selfish, petty gain. And for a relationship between a man with a monkey tail and his pink-skinned alien overlord, the most uncomfortable part about the dynamic is that it’s realistic. Common, even.

#Frieza #Vegeta #dbz

[aha-chuu]

It really frustrates me how HSR chose to dole out information in 1.2. Ofc, mystery is important and good! I don't need to know why Luocha is here or what he's up to, and Blade's past can remain vague rn that's fine.

My issue is Dan Heng/Dan Feng and how poorly they've explained the stakes of that situation.

Like, think about this:

Do Vidyadharas remember their past lives?

If so, how much do they remember?

If not usually, do the elders get that privelage?

If not at all, why are so many characters worried about Dan Heng being a criminal in a past life?

Does Dan Heng specifically remember his past life?

If not, how did he know how to break the seals?

If yes, can he only remember some things?

If he can remember everything, why is he lying about it?

Is he lying??

How do Vidyadhara powers work?

How does Dan Heng have high elder powers if Bailu is the new high elder?

Do the powers usually get passed down through past lives (so Feng -> Heng) or are they picked fresh every hatching rebirth (Feng -> Bailu)?

How did Feng's actions make all vidyadhara weaker?

What were the actual consequences of his actions?

How did Blade stabbing Heng give him the body & powers of Feng but not the memories/personality?

I wanna make it clear: not all of these need answers. But when it's all either poorly explained or straight up unclear, I find myself struggling to care about the dynamics at play. When JY is sad that Heng isn't Feng, should I feel sympathy that he can't let his friend go? Or, like so many characters say, are Heng and Feng much, much closer than Heng ever says? When the Xianzhou characters can't see past the rebirth thing, it implies stuff about the vidyadhara culture that should flip how we see it.

When Heng distances himself from Feng, we don't know if that's a reasonable thing (like, "guy you never met who looks like you committed a crime so ofc you're not responsible"), or if he's being insensitive ("you got blackout drunk and stabbed someone, but you don't remember now so you don't believe you should be held accountable"). There can be a middle ground in there, but what is the morality here? It might be grey, but I could form completely misguided opinions if I consider JY as rude now when Hoyo actually want us to think Heng is the problem.

It's really late but like. I think the 1.2 quest really needed a moment to explain some of the vocab (all that vidyadhara stuff gd) and to outline the characters' understanding of the context. If JY knows that vidyadhara can't remember past lives and knows that Dan Heng is no different, and that he and Feng are essentially different people, then how is any of his behaviour justified? I understand Blade not getting it (he's crazy), but JY is all over the place.

And as I think about it now, Dan Heng must remember being Feng! Like, he opens the seals for one, but he also recognises the Alchemy commission (and that it borders the vidyadhara realm) even though we know he only saw the inside of a cell during his time on the xianzhou as Dan Heng. So if he can remember then he's lying, but that would mean Hoyo really wants us to think he's not and it's like!! This is the sort of thing you kind of need an answer for.

They mention that Feng's rebirth got fucked up. Here's how you deal with confusion while maintaining mystery:

"usually vidyhadara can remember their past lives, but we fucked up this one so idk" "I don't remember" "shit"

"usually vidyhadara can't remember their past lives, but we fucked up this one so idk" "I don't remember" "cool but we can't trust that"

Like, it's also totally likely that this is answered in game. But I've watched multiple playthroughs at this point and most people I've seen don't know what's going on either.

Hoyo dumped a ton of terminology on us, introduced new factions to the enemy roster (and secret behind-the-scenes alliances between pre existing ones) and then said "here's a bunch of lore that the characters will be openly confused and contractadictory about". I'm starting to miss Paimon requiring simple summaries of every lore plot point in order for any dialogue to continue.

#honkai star rail #honkai star rail spoilers #hsr 1.2 #dan heng #dan feng #imbibitor lunae #vidyhadara #some of this probably does have a pre existing concrete in game answer #but if i can't find it #or too much info is conflating #then at a certain point it's like #you don't want the audience to follow along #or you forgot that immersion is not everything when it comes to investment #i would be WAY more invested if i knew wtf was going on #and not in a #reveal the intricate backstory now!! #kinda way #just #please tell me the basic rules of this world so i can have informed opinions #because rn i I just don't know enough to comfortably even say #whether blade or dan heng are in the wrong #or if it's all Feng #or if Feng's crimes were even that bad #or how they affected everything so much!! #I'm frustrated again

[bimboficationblues]

is fight club a left or right wing movie?

part of what I like about the film is that it is politically idiosyncratic in a way that I find interesting, but I think I’d be hard-pressed to defend it as “leftist” without giant screaming caveats in a way I really wouldn’t if I wanted to make a rightist case. So take that as you will. I wrote about my feelings on it here so apologies if you read that and I repeat certain points below

Like another hotly debated Fincher movie, Gone Girl, I think that there’s a preoccupation with how we construct gendered identity and how it is shaped by class and conspicuous consumption and media systems. I find that quality really interesting, but I wouldn’t call it meaningfully leftist per se except in like an Adbusters kind of way - an interest in “authenticity” is something I’m both personally skeptical towards and also a grounding value of reactionary politics

I think it’s pretty unambiguous that Tyler Durden’s politics are a kind of nihilist, revanchist manhood, and his picture of an ideal society is a weird sort of “retvrn” take on primitivism. As far as authorial intentions go I think it’s likely that Palahniuk shares Durden’s worldview at least in part (which I personally don’t feel totally translates into the screenplay adaptation, perhaps in part due to the diminished homoeroticism) and Fincher seems at least sympathetic to it in his public comments, though he also seems to focus more on the economic aspects. But I don’t think author intent is the end-all of cinematic critique and I’m a lot more interested in how stuff is framed and structured and shot

I think what really seals the ambiguity is the lack of a meaningful alternative to Durden’s worldview even though that worldview is presented as wrong (quite literally delusional). Like, the reveal that Tyler is an idealized self looking to complete suicide and take the world with him (“liberating” it in the process), does sap the power of some of the salient critiques of consumption and advertising and alienation - the tradeoff being that it also undermines the stupid male resentment stuff. It almost becomes a kind of anti-politics. Is the idea that everything is actually fine? Is the critique unqualifiedly correct but the solution wrong - perhaps there *is* no appropriate solution and the status quo should just be accepted? Are the critiques a hodgepodge of semi-accurate complaints about modern capitalism distorted by male entitlement and fear of feminization, which leads to (or rather, justifies) bad solutions? That last one is probably closest to my personal reading, but I’m cognizant of the fact that it’s the one that most closely aligns with my own views, in that it resonates with how I understand certain reactionary modernisms. One of the most interesting details for me that supports this is how the fight club is meant to offer an alternative individualism to consumer culture’s pseudo-individualism, but the fight club is eventually subsumed into cultic, conformist behavior, the exact sort of mass manipulation that advertising and culture-industry engages in: people who dress the same, repeat rules they don't understand and had no participation in making, follow arbitrary orders, and only have identity in death.

On the flipside, there’s also a kind of interesting thread where like, the narrator is homoerotic with Tyler and views Marla as an invasive presence right up until the point where he’s reached disillusionment with Tyler and Project Mayhem, and at that point he pivots hard to a reaffirmation of his heterosexuality through desire for Marla. This might be a discomfort with M/M sexuality (note the adaptational change from the narrator meeting Tyler on a nude beach to meeting him on a plane), suggesting that the film's underlying anxiety is not Tyler's fear about emasculation and feminization creating a weaker society, but a fear of male homoeroticism and its supposedly destructive, anti-civilizational quality

These are all a lot of different, potentially mutually exclusive readings but I guess it points towards the answer of "I dunno, it depends on where you place your emphases."

[anewstartrekfan]

Finished Star Trek TAS today and I got contemplative about the science fiction genre in movies and tv

For the record, tas was fine overall. You know it’s fun to laugh at the animation errors I did plenty of that. But it’s decent 70s kids fair. I wouldn’t put it on for kids today mind you, I’d just show Star Trek prodigy, but still. It very much is a product of its time. However at the same time it demonstrates the biggest hurdle sci fi has faced throughout the ages. The obsession with scale over characters.

There’s a tendency in sci fi where when the people working on a given story get seemingly unlimited resources to make a thing look as epic and grand of scale as possible, they focus on that over making the characters interesting and worth caring about. Not always, but generally it happens a lot. You see it with the big three, Star Wars, Star Trek, and Doctor Who. To pick on Doctor who for a minute, they pour buckets of money on explosions and guest stars and having a golem Doctor show up in their season 3 grand finale but the episode that season that’s regarded as peak fiction is the one where the monsters don’t even move on screen. They’re literally just statues.

Star Wars has both the prequel and and sequel trilogies for me to point to as evidence of this. For the prequels it was look at our awesome special effects and fight scenes. Oh shit we forgot make the overarching story understandable and matter to the cast before the third movie. And the case of the sequels also have consistent character development and themes. Oops.”

And lastly Star Trek. While my favorite episode is conscience of the king, my second is the empath. The most cash strapped episode of the show. It was filmed almost entirely on a black stage ffs. And yet I felt more emotion watching Kirk, Spock, and McCoy risk their lives and be willing to die for each other than I did watching agent seven and his cat hack a spaceship in 1968 Florida while Kirk and Spock stalk them.

The reason completing tas brought on this thought process was there were many writers who jumped at the chance to work on this show because of the lack of limitations of live action. Their only limit was their imagination and the 24 minute runtime. And as a result they got so caught up in the spectacle of “look at this cool new alien threat/concept,” that most of the time they forgot or didn’t have time to give the characters anything to do besides solve the problem. Or just rehash old episode ideas. But listen, they could’ve had good character interactions within 24 minutes. Doctor who is the easy one to point at but honestly if we jump forward a couple decades, (and genres) Batman and Superman tas managed to have self contained 20ish minute episodes with heart for the recurring cast. It’s not impossible to do.

Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Star Wars, were not successful just because they had cool sci fi ideas, costumes, and special effects that could be merchandised into eternity. They have endured for so long because people are invested in these characters. And if you cannot convince people to care about the characters outside of pop culture recognizability, then you will not retain an audience through the weaker stories, regardless of how much money you sank into how nice the ship looks. Instead it is doomed to fizzle out. For a contemporary example outside of movies, look at Netflix’s Voltron.

Last example and then I’m done. Netflix’s voltron perfectly displayed how you can get an audience invested in a cast of characters and then squander it because the producers/writers didn’t care about character development. After season 2 stuff stopped being character driven and started going “well the writers wanted to tell a gritty, depressing war story.” And in the end what was once one of the most popular Netflix shows is now only ever discussed in the same vain as game of thrones. Just wasted potential and missed opportunities.

I’ll end this rambling blog by repeating that imo low budget character driven sci fi is better than high budget sci fi focused on worldbuilding and cool shit you can do because of special effects or the fact it’s a cartoon. Limitations help make some of the best stories out there because they force you to think outside the box.

And it pains me that after so long a lot of the people who write this stuff don’t get that.

#star trek #star trek tos #Star Trek tas #doctor who #Star Wars #sci fi #meta #voltron legendary defender #Star Trek meta

[go-go-devil]

The Fallen City of Yiithorn: A Relic's Reflection

You are asking much of my antediluvian mind to fully return to Yiithorn, you know.

Had you asked me for such a memory back when we first met I’d have raised Joyous to the clouds and harnessed all of her blade into my fingers as they ripped your flesh asunder. Oh how lucky you all were that I had forgotten my Lightning gesture! Ahahaha! Not that I would ever dream of harming you now, my friend. I only speak of the actions of an impulsive brute who no longer dwells in my soul anymore.

…No, I’m not stalling. I am merely texturizing my point!

Fine. Let’s start this now! So, this mechanized thing is actually recording my nostalgia? No no, I know what a recorder is! I’ve just never seen one this small. Recording technology back in my time, like everything else, was simply much bigger. So, what did the city look like, you asked?

Well, err, obviously it was big and white, or “colossal in structure and molded thoroughly with kaolin” as the younger beings say these days. Really it was but a massive tangle of skeletons from several larger species of beings before us caught in permanent battle on a large mountain plateau; ones that passed away permanently despite being made of clay like us hylics. The earliest Yiithornians sculpted over the bones and kept building upwards and inwards until a city was manifested.

That was during the very beginning of the Self-Actualizing Age, back when survival was far more fierce than even I could ever imagine! No being knew how to work the technology that scattered the landscape, so it would have made sense for the city’s structure to be as vast and confusing as can be conjured for its citizens to be able to hide from pillaging rogues and feral televisions. That was how it stood out from the more modernized platforms and towers of Amulom and Mocetul, and perhaps why it frightened many outsiders.

While the outside may have looked like a white mass of twisting chaos, the inside of the city was a haven for artists! I remember there being so many colorful sculptures decorating the shops and streets, painted murals along the walls that depicted increasingly outlandish tales the further one walked into the plazas, and the food! All you poor modern beings would quiver at the decadence of a perfectly air fried fajita! 

Makes me wish I had more time to spend amongst the commoners. Perhaps then I could have more memories of our culture to harvest from my mind before it all deteriorates…

Anyhow, if its weaker citizens were the blood of the city, then us dread knights were the antibodies! We were all trained in the very center of its skeleton walls, the Heart of Yiithorn, where we honed our skills in horrific battles amongst ferocious worms, captured invaders, and our own superior officers whilst avoiding impairment from the heart’s massive, wicked spines. No being could even join the dread knights unless they were to survive in the Heart for a solid day; that was how long my flesh and will lasted.

I do recall at one point my flimsy glove armor had been reduced to powder by all the blows I’d dealt, so I used my skull to bludgeon them all until I knocked myself into the Afterlife! Then, when I awoke on that subterranean beach, I leaped upon one of my fallen opponents and kept at it until I was reminded we were dead! Hahahahahaha! The captain had to let me join after that resourceful violence!

Ah, but this season is not to contain my personal memories as a dread knight… My soul is not yet ready to confront them all just yet. I hope you understand, my friend. Good. Let me steer this conversation back to the topic at hand.

Yiithorn’s doom was actualized the moment we declared war on Amulom. We knew the sages were too peaceful to ever harm our city if we started a war, but no dread knight could have predicted just how strategically defensive the Amulomians were. During the initial years battling it seemed as if we and our allies in Mocetul were getting close to a stalemate and begrudging truce with that saturated city, which I’m sure would have certainly occurred had Gibbulus not claimed the Hylemxylem. 

That moonmad mongrel! He certainly let his preference for Amulom be known, and the city’s chieftain had more than enough bribes and resources at the ready to help keep the tyrant in that organic palace. The war was heated up again after many decades of coldness from an actual attack from Amulom, something they’d never done to our city before. Lord Gibby had to have been the one to reignite it, just to get it over with I imagine. 

We were pushed back further and further. Even the risky move of completely annihilating their ally city of Muldul to cut down on their food manifestations barely helped us. Eventually we were the ones who had to hide in the defenses of our Great City, like in the very beginning. 

Then Mocetul's forces suddenly came to our aid unexpectedly, and no one suspected they had turned on us until after we had opened the gates...

Although I had seen the Fall of Yiithorn first-hand, I must admit that my guts still churned with horror when you first gilded my vessel back up to the mountain’s ruins. The bones, the thorns, the heart… none of that twisted splendor remained. All these new beings would ever see of my birth city were the gaudy remnants of statues, pipes, broken columns and other junk far removed from their original purpose.

……I have said all I need to say on these memories. Thank you for preserving them for me, Dedus. The sooner I can move on from that age, the better my being shall be.

Now, let’s quit dawdling and treat ourselves to the blackest coffee one can find! I’ve been dying to try that new blend!

#hylics #hylics headcanons #pongorma #my writing #no one can stop me from writing clay alien lore ficlets >:)

[rassicas]

If you were to conduct your own dev interview, what kinda questions would you ask?

fun question! i think theres a lot of stuff on my mind that the splatoon team would make an asspull answer to or had never really thought about. but reading into interviews im always surprised by how much the splatoon team does think about -more details on the inkling water weakness. from evidence we have, they drink it just fine and can stick their hands and feet in the water, but... how do inklings bathe/clean themselves? do they use ink, some non-water-based cleanser, or can they handle water on their bodies in some form (like a shower) for cleaning purposes? do they become weaker to water when more excited (raised osmotic pressure) like during a turf war? -i'd like to know more about the culture of the octarians in the domes. are they all just indoctrinated into the military at birth or what? how much of those in the domes are soldiers vs those doing other kinds of work? literally just any tidbits about their culture -agent 8 fell into the deepsea somehow after fighting agent 3, and before waking up lost their memories which were put into mem cakes, and seemingly also in that time got an ankle bracelet that read 10008. did the telephone or some employees at kamabo do something to agent 8 before they woke up? is that what the green vat of liquid that they're in is at the character select screen? -also importantly: who is that someone that pushed capn and 8 into the deepsea that is highlighted in orange and then never touched on -more about the sanitized octarians in the deepsea. there are some, like dedf1sh, that were presumably from the octarian world. were all of them taken from the domes and then sanitized, or does kamabo have their own cloning operations? -how long has kamabo/tartar been taking test subjects? decades? centuries? millenia? how long has the sanitized ink/paste been in existence? -theres a mention of a limiter on agent 3's ink tank when you fight them. is this something that regulates special use so they dont overexert themselves or...? -its probably just gameplay stuff but a question im sure everyone has thought about at least once: where do those clothes and weapons go when an inkfish goes into swim form? -inkling hair styling. they can clearly cut it and stuff but what about the length of the tentacles that dont look cut, or the placement of the tentacles on their head? do they consciously control that?

these are just some splatoon/splatoon 2 related questions off the top of my head, dont get me started on the all splatoon 3 story stuff plot holes rattling in my brain that would need explanation.

(feel free to reply to this post with stuff that you think would be interesting to ask about)

#asks #splatoon

[olderthannetfic]

You mentioned not liking present tense works, and now I'm curious (I read & write past and present tense, and as a ficcer I feel it gives a different ~vibe~ so depending on what effect I'm going for, I'll pick or or not). I know it has its lovers and its haters, and that also depend on the language, whether it's fan-or pro-fic, etc; I'm wondering about *your* take! (yes, I'm curious;-)

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I'll tolerate it in fanfic because 1. I have no choice and 2. a lot of fanfic is relatively short.

I think present tense is fine for 3k of porn, but when I'm looking for pro work, I'm typically looking for 50-100k of something with a well-structured genre fiction plot. Past tense narration is the norm for that outside of YA, which I don't read.

Present doesn't read as ~more immediate~ to me. It stands out and calls attention to itself. That's fine for literary fiction where you're supposed to savor the language but undesirable for something where you just want to download the story into your brain.

Very occasionally, I pick up a book and don't even notice it's in present tense till half way through. Kudos to those authors. That stuff I can read.

Granted, this preference for past tense is cultural and about built up conventions... but if an author does not follow these conventions, that tells me something about them... Namely, that this author does not read genre fiction for adults.

It's better than lapselock, but it gives me a weaker version of that vibe.

I have no opinion outside of English. I simply haven't read enough long genre fiction in any other language to have a sense of what's normal or which styles I like.

[mu-qingfang-stan-account]

why is there so little mobing… can we PLEASE talk about pidw binghe post bingge vs bingmei discovering how unfulfilled he feels with what he’s achieved in life, having a sexuality crisis because just a glimpse of his weaker self together with his scum shizun lit a fire in him in comparison to which what he thought was love for his wives is a pale, weak thing. and pidw mobei jun, who has learned not to expect loyalty; every other person (his uncle, original shang qinghua, his mother) he has allowed into his heart has either betrayed him or died before they got the chance — except junshang, who is a demanding and capricious ruler but has never once made a commitment to mobei jun and failed to follow through. besides, on a more meta level… why *wouldn’t* airplane’s self-insert power fantasy love airplane’s ideal man?

theres so much you could do here, though — the weird dynamic of teaching your half-demon boss about demon culture because he grew up in the human realm. loyalty on that old-timey chivalrous level that’s a half-step away from unrequited love to begin with. all the usual pidw porn scenarios where binghe loses control of xin mo or gets sex pollened or something and (unusually) there aren’t any beautiful women handy but you know who IS here, his right-hand man mobei-jun, who wouldn’t dare tell anyone because he knows he’s dead if he does —

anyway. having some mobing thoughts on this fine morning

#the trashcan speaks #diversity win: your unreliable narrator is gay #oh man this also goes well with my sy-transmigrates-into-mbj cucumberplane concept #Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together #mobing #mobei jun #luo binghe #luo bingge

[first-mistake-forever-more]

how do u get out of a hole if u have no inspiration¿ u may hav answered this before nd i justdidnt see it idk

hey gringly sorry i didnt respond to this earlier I wrote out a response like two Weeks ago & shut down my laptop without posting it this post mit b a tiny bit controversial but I;ll talk from personal experience i think having no inspiration normally actually means either being distracted(which is fine)or you not wanting to deal with the Pain that comes with creation(most of us are vry pain averse) i say this because both happen to me sometimes A lot of times I dont want 2 draw or whtvr because I dread the process of plugging everything in and starting the software just for the ideas that come in to suck a lil and just really end up not feeling very good about my abilities or creativity(this is pain) But usually the only time that actual creative ideas can flow freely is when youre actually there trying to channel them

at the moments in which ur in tune with this creative part of your mind, ideas will always come and go even when you're not creating(rfor example taking a shower is one of these moments for most ppl ), but if you don't get to these points often then you have to put in the effort to get your brain to the point in which it is thinking about these artistic solutions and concepts, and you get there by creating.. & yr first idea will probably suck so Bad Lol but then you'll be free to start channeling other ideas it's possible that no good ideas come & this can be for a lot of reasons but probbaly bc youre still finding your own specific voice & dont completely know what u want to be creating or just bc yr tired So what I'm trying to say is that you should probably try making music or art even when you're not inspired because,first of all you will most likely always learn Something, and because you'll most likely get inspired while creating also You NEED to deal with your ideas bc letting ideas fester & marinate in your mind blocks new ideas from coming in, and then you lose those original ideas because you didn't put them out anywhere, so you just feel really bad, So it's important that you try to work even when "not inspired" Art can be painful and u have to learn to deal w this pain instead of constantly escaping it I think if we constantly try to avoid this pain this can actually be detrimental to us in th long run. (tw opinion)i observeThere's a big culture of self care in this regard that I don't completely vibe with(at least not as a professional, I'm sure it has helped a lot of other people). I think it makes people weaker against struggles of the real creative process oh & I'd like to state that this is just how I deal with art personally as a professional. it might not be what's best for you if you dont actually Need to b creating art to survive(sorry) but it is good i think if yr an artist to experience this constant need to put something out into the world even if ur not interested in Like turning art into your paycheck haha ty for the ask

#ask

[owlbosom]

One thing I really hate about stan culture and the internet is that it makes it so hard to have a genuine conversation about different works. Like I am a big Taylor fan - I was a casual listener since she's come out, been fully on board since her switch to pop, gone to see her live, etc. but I really think that TTPD is like... a 5/10, maybe 6/10 work at best? Not every single thing can be an artists best work and that is ok!

If you like TTPD that is great, but I have seen multiple people who enjoy the album sit there and say that people who don't like it simply cannot understand the depth of the album because they don't understand literature/poetry or can't comprehend the music because it's so different.

Please be so real - no one can always be the most groundbreaking or cutting edge! It is absolutely fine to like something, but if someone disagrees that does not mean that they are not too dumb for the work. Sometimes the work is not as solid - and that is ok and, honestly, necessary for eventual growth.

And a final point - you can love something and also acknowledge it isn't perfect or deep or meaningful. I love Lover! It's one of my favorite TS albums because I really connected with it when it came out. But I also recognize at the end of the day, it probably is one of her weaker works overall. She made some major missteps in constructing, promoting, and releasing it - but I still love it, despite also knowing its probably pretty solidly in the weaker half of her catalogue overall.

#ttpd #ts ttpd #taylor swift #music #i just don't think it's a super quality controlled piece of work #and i think these are weaker lyrics for her #that criticism does not make me too stupid to engage with her work #stan culture

[resistanceisfeudal]

me in my feelings about trek fandom:

so, that star trek confessional blog that's been going around the last few days? and the mini discourse about possible rage-bait on it? and then the new rule that they won't post anything that feels like it's attacking a specific subgroup of fandom? That whole thing?

Cursed discourse. Rotted, rancid, stupid shit. And not even the top five worst discourses I've seen this week.

I actually kind of am mad at a lot of trek fandom and do have a lot of honest opinions that would read as an attack on people...

I guess the thing that has been rising to the top is this phenomenon where people who are clearly intelligent and thoughtful in terms of how they engage with stuff in general end up having bizarre blindspots when it comes to trek.

People who thoroughly acknowledge cultural biases and the ways in which opinons are shaped by bigotry when it comes to talking about how, say, Voyager was received at the time, will turn around and flatly deny the roles of racism, misogyny and transphobia in the reception of Discovery, insisting that "it's bad because grimdark" - which a) isn't even true and b) a cursory glance through the comments on a stream of a disco episode would prove that "grimdark" is not the thing that audiences are mad about. You might have a good faith criticism (which "grimdark" isn't because it's not accurate, but idk some other good faith criticism) but that's not why the show is less beloved than snw or picard s3.

Or people who constantly reblog posts about how episodic "filler episodes" are so great, and how they build the characters and make up the heart of the shows... and then talk about characters and their relationships in ways that only make sense if you cherry pick random disconnected moments from across seven years of television.

Or someone how can talk articulately about fandom culture, stanning, and conspiracy theories, and shows insight and cynicism into phenomena like those sherlock truthers... and then says that garashιr would have been canon if it weren't for ezri, or that it would've been canon if they'd got an eight season. Like, these are ridiculous opinions that basically rely on you not watching the actual show.

Ok technically the last two were just me bitching about a ship that's popular and therefore sometimes the fans can get obnoxious. I shouldn't complain about that... while we're here, I also find spιrk annoying at this point. This is silly, back to snw.

Fundamentally, a lot of snw's popularlity is the same as picard s3: it's nostalgia heavy and the leads are white men. Overall, taking the entire audience in mind, that is a significant part of what's going on.

Now, obviously, snw is a lot better than s3 of picard (which i will die mad about). It's not a bad show, but I do feel that s2 didn't really improve on s1 and perhaps felt weaker at times. I thought the musical episode was genuinely bad and struggle to even believe people when they say they liked it. To be clear: I love musicals, I love musical episodes, I hated this one.

It's shit like this, the insistance that it's amazing when, as a show, it's just fine, sometimes a little bad, mostly pretty good, occasionally very good - it's shit like this that makes people accuse fans of being inauthentic when they praise it. It's claims that snw is "saving nu trek", when no, no it hasn't. Discovery has been prematurely cancelled, Picard ended in disgrace, and Prodigy was cancelled, then rescued but its future past s2 is unclear. It didn't save anything.

It feels like the future of trek is going to be more naval gazing, more nostalgic pandering, more meta references and a distinct lack of new concepts... possibly even a lack of new characters at this rate.

I made this side blog to post about picard s2, because I genuinely had a lot of feelings and thoughts. I felt like, while there was some annoying shit and bad takes around, it was fun to participate and I was enjoying myself. For the last few months, really since snw s2 aired, I've been having a pretty bad time here. So much of it is petty shit that sounds bizarre to type out: small posts and variously tiny infuriating takes. This entire post is stupid and pointless, when I put it like that.

But, yeah, trek fandom has been making me pretty unhappy recently.

I'll still be here and will watch the new disco when it comes out, and hopefully feel something again. I want to be able to re-enter the headspace I was in back when S2 picard aired, and I felt free to just express my opinions without being hyper aware of everyone else's pre-conceived stuff. We all have loaded opinions and strange baggage with trek, it comes with the territory.

[nonotranslates]

2nd Anniversary - Login Story 4 (211126) ft. Cain, Shino, Heathcliff, Owen

That quiz variety show featuring Cain, Shino, Heathcliff, Owen and Sheepy! And more sheep butt! I wish that one line was voiced though because it would be such a cultural revolution......

====== 2nd Anniversary - Short Story 4 (20211126) ======

Cain: Akira! Thank you for always being by our side! 

Heathcliff: Living as a wizard can be tough at times, but you’ve been a great rescue to us. 

Shino: Don’t worry. If anything happens to you, I’ll be sure to rescue you with this scythe of mine. 

Owen: Hehe…… That peaceful lifestyle of yours is about to come to an end though. 

Owen: For as long as you’re alive, I’ll be showing you what hair-raising terror and anxiety that wears out your soul is. 

Cain: And so, we’d like to show you a variety quiz show full of our thanks to you! 

Shino, Heathcliff (smiling with ♪ ♫): Yaaay. 

Cain: Owen will be the quizmaster. I’ve treated you to that much cake, so be sure to do it properly, alright?

Owen: Hehe…… Well, I wonder about that. 

Owen: Question time. What is this sheep saying? 

Sheep: Baa. 

Owen: 1, I’m gonna haunt Blanchett Manor and make it flooded with hairballs. 

Owen: 2, I’m gonna go spread a rumour that Central Knights are weaker and more timid than a lamb. 

Owen: 3, My butt is itchy. 

Shino: 3. 

Heathcliff: 3. 

Owen: Tch…… Correct. 

Cain: Next question! 

Owen: What is this sheep saying? 

Sheep: Baa. 

Owen: 1, I’m excited because I saw Heathcliff’s embarrassing state. 

Owen: 2, I’m snickering because I saw Shino in a pitiful state. 

Owen: 3, My butt is itchy. 

Shino: 3.

Heathcliff: 3. 

Owen: Tch…… Correct. 

Shino: Just scratch its butt already. 

Owen: There’s no way I'd scratch a sheep’s butt. 

Heathcliff: Umm….. Should I do it instead? It seems so miserable…… 

Cain: That sheep’s not gonna say anything but that until we scratch it, you know. 

Owen: You’re so noisy, ugh. Fine. There, happy?  

Sheep: Baa baa baa. 

Cain: Next question! 

Owen: What is this sheep saying? 1…… 

Shino: It’s not itchy anymore. 

Heathcliff: I think it’s saying it’s not itchy anymore. 

Owen: ……

Owen: Correct. 

Cain: Shino and Heathcliff got all the questions right! 

Shino, Heathcliff (smiling with ♪ ♫): Yaaay.

Cain: How do you two feel, after getting all the questions right?

Shino: That sheep that’s feeling excited over seeing Heathcliff’s embarrassing state, I’ll let shreds of you rust on my scythe so show yourself. You’ve been showing some real disrespect there. 

Heathcliff: I think that the people at Master Sage’s world enjoy strange activities.  

Cain: Thank you! And thanks to you too, Owen, for being our quizmaster!

Cain: Akira! No, Master Sage! Not just for before, but for the days ahead as well…… 

Shino: Thank you and please continue to take care of us. 

Heathcliff: Thank you and please continue to take care of us too! 

Owen: Hehe…… This guessing quiz thing, shall I do it for you with a cat too? 

Cain: You liked that? 

Shino: You liked it? 

Heathcliff: Looks like he liked it, doesn’t he……? 

#mhyktl #mahoyaku #promise of wizard #cain knightley #shino sherwood #heathcliff blanchett #owen mhyk #mahoutsukai no yakusoku

[tyrannuspitch]

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👻 What is your wildest headcanon?

oh god. okay. so. last year i learnt the term ergi, which for the uninitiated is defined as follows: unmanly dishonour in an old norse (*inspired) context, especially being penetrated during sex (but also other things like cowardice, servility, and practicing women's magic.)

and i started trying to Extrapolate a whole hypothetical culture from this.

like, it's easy to say that that's straightforwardly "it's okay if you're on top". but if the predominate attitude is that it's always acceptable to be the top and never acceptable to be the bottom, AND honourable = masc = strong while dishonourable = fem = weak, AND m/m sex is frequently framed in terms of domination, conquest, or even punishment... then you're probably going to end up with a society with an absolutely awful attitude towards consent. a society with basically no distinction, in the common understanding, between gay sex and rape.

so. i take this framing. i take mcu thor, who embodies a lot of his society's worst ideas but always in the most noble, well-intentioned way... and we end up with a guy who thinks gay sex is wrong because it's always homophobic rape.

like. the ambient cultural attitude is. topping a guy is an act of violence, but it's fine, because if you "let" it happen you, you must deserve it.

while thor's personal attitude is. topping a guy is an act of violence, so no-one can possibly genuinely want it to happen to him, so it's always just about taking advantage of someone weaker than you, so it's always wrong.

and, vitally, the category of weakness in thor's mind includes queerness. (and he doesn't think of tops as queer!) so if anyone says some queer guys DO want it, he dismisses that as a mocking / victim-blaming myth. and if a queer guy looks him in the eye and says no i promise you i really do want it, his brain short circuits and then he goes. oh no this man is full of self-loathing or perhaps insanity :( and it would still be terribly wrong of anyone to exploit that :(

(what does he think queer guys do want? idfk. non-penetrative sex, probably, but also, being queer is a tragic misfortune and not necessarily functional, so maybe they are just all self-destructive and crazy. also don't ask his opinion on grey areas of penetrative-ness because he just has not thought that hard about it.)

(also, thor's definition of queerness-as-identity being less tied to penetration means it's more tied to generalised femininity. which also means he is not allowed to desire men, because he's not fem, so obviously he wouldn't be The Victim, so that would be evil of him. (does he like men? idfk. but if he did he'd be having a truly awful time with it!))

basically: thor is deranged <3

to be clear, i don't think thor's attitude necessarily stays here. i think this is his attitude as quite a young adult (up to ~18-20?) but eventually one way or another he is confronted with the real world and it has to crumble. but. god it's fun in its bizarre way. what's wrong with that man <3

also. not a historian. no idea if this is how anyone in the real world has ever actually thought. but i'm dealing with a hypothetical society here so their attitudes can be literally anything i find interesting.

fanfic writer ask game 💕

#space viking tag #rape mention #homophobia mention #i had to think about this weirdly long i was like 'oh i don't have any weird headcanons really :-)' and then i remembered. This. #this idea was developed in a fic i tried writing once #wherein thor accidentally walked in on loki and another guy and obviously. freaked out. like almost murderous levels of freaking out #(kind of riffing on a common wish fulfilment thing of someone doing everything they can to persuade the mc their rape rlly was rape) #(but like. What If It Really Wasn't. that would be terrifying right) #and it was the most viscerally uncomfortable thing i've ever written lmao #no idea if i'll ever return to it. it is interesting but also. [winces] #like the exploration of queerness is somewhat unique but. otherwise? #there are less Humiliating ways to explore thor being sinisterly overprotective. idk #meta #ch: thor #r: loki + thor #th: gender + sexuality #th: ergi #th: worldbuilding #s: myth + history #highlights