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[readwing]

One interesting part of the discourse surrounding family-coding relationships in media is when people who are against it raise the argument that two characters ‘can’t be sibling-coded because their relationship is more complicated than that.’ As if siblings relationships by nature were an uncomplicated thing

[liondrakes]

“To be wild is to be free” or anything associating the wilderness with freedom is a manmade concept when you stop and think about it.

Like, theriform animals don’t really have the same concept of freedom as our societies do (if at all). Freedom is commonly associated with independence or liberation from something besides yourself; in the case of our community, it’s associated with releasing oneself from humanity, any dependence on humans or human society, and/or the constructs therein. Theriform animals who’re wild or feral are viewed as animals who’re “born free”. Yet, that doesn’t make sense when you look at it from their point-of-view.

They are intelligent, make no mistake. That said, their perception of the world doesn’t factor the same concepts as ours. Typically, they don’t go about their existence with a concept of freedom— at least not akin to how our societies understand freedom. That’s simply their means of survival.

Some folks look to wild or feral theriform animals and think they understand themselves in the way, for example, Spirit understood himself in his titular film. But that’s a fictionalized perspective. It was depicted by human beings using a concept of freedom that they personally understand, not that of theriform mustangs.

I’m surprised not a lot of animal folk (especially therians) talk about this.

[redbootsindoriath]

More Dungeons and Dragons sketches.

It's probably a good thing for the sake of our characters' lives that we had to cancel the campaign because none of these guys were quitters. All three of us players chose intelligence or wisdom as our dump stat on the character sheets.

[iiep-wop]

Another Knights Tale edit!!!

My last one flopped so insanely hard on here but honestly oh well, 1 person fandom over here can't expect much lmaooo

[thunderboltfire]

Peoples of Isaldi, ft. the Wanderers. I've wanted to make the scheme of how fantasy races work in Isaldi, but it looked a bit bare, so I sketched faux-manuscript inspired illustrations of various Wanderer knights representing each of the peoples. I've decided I shouldn't reference everything only to my main OCs, so some of the side characters make their first proper entrance:

Persi, Oster, Shnár and Hedwinne are Kestrels, Wanderers trained in Wirjenów castle and knighted during the war. Persi and Oster were Argo's roommates in the castle. Ilveyn is one of the masters who supervised the training and "Spearhead" Manasi is a historical figure, as in the time of the events of the plot, there are no gnomes among the Wanderers.

In general, humans and elves are more biologically similar to each other than to any of the shorter people, and vice versa - dwarves and halflings are related closer to each other than to any of the taller people. The only known interspecies unions that produce offspring are humans + elves (the outcome is a half-elf) and dwarves + halflings (the outcome is a gnome).

Half-elves are very diverse - they inherit traits from both parents in a way that cannot be foreseen, the only constant is that their ears are almost always pointy, but shorter than elven. Lifespan, eye color, iris shape, bodytype, resistances to toxins, allergies and intolerances, even body hair patterns vary wildly from one half-elf to another. Oster, for example, passes for a human more easily than Igna, but sees better than her in low-light conditions (he also happens to be near-sighted, but that's an unrelated issue).

Gnomes, in contrast are a subject to hybrid speciation. They tend to be rather similar to one another in terms of physical traits - instead of forming a spectrum in between dwarvish and halfling-like apearance, they have a distinct look consisting of a similar set of dwarvish and halfing traits they often inherit from their parents. There are entire gnome settlements, and they're considered a people of their own to an extent half-elves are not.

[fluffle-writes]

Hey who wants to see my rambles about TWST age regression/classification AU world building

[tiredafel]

"The borders of a country and the borders of a language are not the same." - Ö.A.

banger line from my professor during the first lecture of the comparative language analysis class, on the topic of typological classification

[joelletwo]

WAIT i never complained abt my scheduling lol. still have not seen my actual boss more than that one five seconds and me and main coworker are supposed to work coverage out amongst ourselves bc thats more relevant fine and okay. but i ask her about what i should switch to going more part time and off of being Fulltime In Training and she says oh ill talk to [boss] about it. and then does and tells me oh [boss] wants to talk to u about that today or tomorrow.

she never does and shes never in her office so i dont hear anything by friday when i work w my second coworker. who i dont really think either of us vibes w the other lol weve been nice but im happy not to work w her. and the feeling is mutual bc she told me oh is this ur last friday i didnt think u were working [boss] told me u were going to be switching to mon-thru-thursday. OKAY? thats really funnily pointed but WHY DID SHE TELL U AND NOT MEEEEEEE. why cant i just know what im working more than two days in advance lolllllll. i am not made for this pwease.

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

Guys can I be real for a second?

In my mind they will always be Dimension 20: Fantasy High Season 1, 2 and 3.

The weird names Americans have for their different high school years just... it will not fit in my brain and I am okay with that. What is a sophomore? What is a freshman and why is he so fresh? Jr? Sr? None of those make any sense or imply any order whatsoever. It's like naming them Venti, Large, Markus and Captain. It genuinely doesn't compute.

[moodr1ng]

one super interesting thing i keep running into while gathering references of historical clothing from across the world is while you would imagine that those clothes are super different across cultures, you kinda end up running into super similar elements the world over. like, ive looked at historical dress of north africa, western europe, eastern europe, and to a lesser degree various parts of asia and africa (i do tend to mostly take inspiration from the mediterranean and the slavic - i also dont tend to pick from native american stuff too much as it is kind of the exception where i see a lot less overlap and it feels a lot more dicey to lift from those sources when the inspiration would become a lot more obvious and come w implications of coding and appropriation i dont feel equipped to tackle) and kept seeing things reappear. layered skirts and aprons, short vests over blouses, jewelry over the chest in layers of metal circles, hair coverings... in a way it makes total sense, people come up w the same thing everywhere bc people have the same bodies to accomodate everywhere so it just makes sense, but its also rly rly fun to be like "this traditional russian costume has so much in common w traditional north african costumes" yknow? it also rly helps to define general trends across geography and history when designing fictional traditional clothing bc i can mix and match the elements i like most and still end up w something that looks real and tangible. thats what i did for ajdig (that one comic i made for my grandma) - the original refs for the character designs came from all over the world but i think when you look at them you feel like these are the real clothes of a people

[breadandbees]

Snippet from hch4 ch. 10: “From Shouto to ‘Hero’”

According to the U.A. student handbook and policy, there was one loophole to Quirk use in non-designated areas: a special exception.

Exceptions were granted on a case-by-case basis but, in practice, rarely honored unless your parent or guardian was willing to put up a fight. The recent inclusion of exceptions into the handbooks and policies and procedures of Japanese schools was primarily due to health and funding concerns rather than a strict compliance with School Education Laws that the Japanese government had only adopted sometime after the United States and other countries did. Everything detailed within the exception was only valid if the student was on-campus, so school-sanctioned trips were exempt and U.A. would not be liable in case of a miscommunication.

Usually, a doctor’s note and diagnosis was part of the process, as well as a meeting with a parent or legal guardian to confirm the student’s unique situation and the necessity of Quirk use. There were other things, too, but Shouto didn’t remember what else would be relevant enough to warrant wanting to be singled-out more in a school environment.

And then there were all the addendums to that clause Mutant classifications had to adhere to.

Of course, Iida probably read through the whole thing and committed parts to memory that could be reasonably relevant. Maybe he read it because taking instructions seriously—even when it was to read through things no one should ask a student to read through and reasonably expect every single student read through everything and recite it on command—was his thing. But, after Hosu, Shouto was certain there’s more to Tensei’s younger brother than a rule-abiding student.

On the other hand, Shouto himself had read through the whole thing for two reasons: 1) to know which rules he could reasonably get away with ignoring, and 2) because Endeavor's reputation paid the price as his associates fought the battle on his behalf. It only felt right to know what that was about.

So far, U.A. had honored it. He’d been skateboarding to-and-fro without causing an incident that makes Daily Hero News and any of those other news blog sites he didn’t subscribe to.

Shouto was under the belief that it was because his father held the mantle of number two, Endeavor was an alumnus, and Endeavor’s associates—his legal and public relations teams—were the top of their respective professions in the nation. At the very least, Shouto hadn’t done anything worth fighting over, which would only tank alumni funding, further corrode faith in the future of Hero society, and jeopardize their position as best Hero school in the nation.

U.A. had survived tough times. They might not survive Todoroki Shouto.

[daisyachain]

There are works which are not [genre] but works made that have read a lot of [genre]. YJ is not an anime but it is a cartoon that has watched a lot of anime. MTMTE is not a comedy but it is a space opera that has watched a lot of sitcoms. I’d like to learn the term for a work that is deep in conversation with a genre without belonging to that genre even as a hybrid. Specifically works that address, lampshade, satirize, employ genre signposts without obeying genre conventions.

[scifigeekgirl]

Headcannon about Tech: He's the friend/partner who if he gets into a hobby with you then by next time you see him he will be am expert in that field.

[safyresky]

The FIGHT I just had with the STAFF PRINTER

[janeway-lover]

about to get into the most nonsense argument with my stepdad about whether or not Australia is a continent or not

[vogelmeister]

two people from different non us countries describing things in american terminology feels somewhat very similar to two non native english speakers from different countries using english as a common language i Will Update