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[homolobotomized]

ARE WE STILL FRIENDS?

[sketchy-tour]

✨DANDY COMMISSION APPRECIATION POST✨

Of course, being commissions I bought, none of these lovely beautiful pieces are by me. Credits (in order) @frillsand @weevmo @lanlishiba @parrotparfait @kandavers

I am!! GONNA attempt to gush about all these pieces without devolving into keysmashes or screams but like. A. AA. AAA. I was gonna say "yall have no idea how annoying I am about Dandy" but honestly you do. You all do because I shake my silly puppet oc around CONSTANTLY.

ANYWAY I JUST!!! AUGH! ALL OF THEM MAKE ME SO HAPPY!!! The fact I get to see Dandy in art styles I love and adore around the fandom fills me with a joy I cannot even DESCRIBE to you!! OOH I JUST!!! I love them. I love these pieces. I stare at them all the time and now I'm rattling them all around at you guys!!!!! LOOK!!! LOOK AT THESE LOVELY LOVELY PIECES RN AND CHECK OUT THE ARTISTS!!!!!

[bunabi]

the orthopedic specialist I was referred to doesn't take my insurance omegaluls in the chat I will live with this pain forever

[spamlets-blog]

sure gacha is predatory and targets those vulnerable to gambling addictions, but can we also please talk about how business models focused on FOMO are genuinely evil and prey on your anxiety and fear responses to make you impulsively spend money in order to not lose out on something you feel like you need

[thatswhatsushesaid]

sometimes the thing you think you have written is way less interesting than the thing you have actually written.

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

I feel like Alexandra Bligh really couldn't have picked a worse week to mess with Parker's family

[prismaticpichu]

Angeal: Can you talk to Zack for me?

Genesis: Ew

Angeal: C’mon, he’s a nice kid

Genesis: Then why don’t you do it?

Angeal: I gotta go train another faceless, nameless, unruly SOLDIER

Genesis: Can’t Sephiroth do—

Sephiroth: P a p e r w o r k

Genesis: FINE… I’ll text him—

Angeal: Sorry, you can’t; Zack’s PHS was swallowed by a Hedgehog Pie

Genesis: Gaia damnit….. FINE, alright? Fine fine fine fine fine fine….

*he walks out the door, spotting Zack squatting to the beat of bubblegum pop music*

Genesis: Yeah no

[ofswordsandpens]

are you also worried about how luke's betrayal in the show is gonna go? I definitely don't think we've seen enough of him for it to be as impactful in the show as it should be. and there's only 3 episodes left? 😬

yeah I solidly maintain that we should have spent some more time at camp in the show before leaving for the quest to help better establish Luke's dynamic with everyone and make his consequent betrayal more impactful.

Here's some very rough math that no one will care about lol but in the book, we spend about 30% of our time at chb before the quest, in the show we spend about 15% so literally half of the book time. I don't think they should have cut out Luke and Percy's solo lessons and I think they should have had Annabeth interact with Luke for longer than two seconds... even though the show has told me that Luke and Annabeth are family, the one interaction they had read more like, two people who are familiar with each other because they go to the same camp lol. At bare MINIMUM, I would have had Luke send them off on the hill, hug annabeth, encourage them all, gift Percy the shoes, all the jazz. Hell, when show Percy was expressing derision at Thalia's fate it may have even been interesting if Luke had been there, and then agreed with him.

I think next episode we're supposed to get them Iris Messaging so there may be more Luke there. And maybe when the kids return to camp they'll show a bit more Luke before his betrayal? One can hope at least. But that doesn't change the fact that imo they've already dropped the ball a bit on Luke and building up his relationship with the trio, some of them more so than others.

[serpentface]

What's the Wardi cultural take on Akoshos sleeping with/partnering with/marrying other Akoshos?

It's not highly regulated to a degree that there are overwhelming cultural norms about it. There's a lot of societal focus on akoshos being theoretically suitable sexual partners for both men and women due to being dual-gendered, but not to an extent that relationships with One Another are stigmatized.

They also largely get to escape from the most severe concerns about penetrator/penetrated power dynamics because they're not regarded as Men (they're regarded as dual-gendered, and they're a female social class on every practical level), there's no status of manhood to Lose by receiving sexual penetration. The only real thing you see in that department is people assuming that one acts as 'the man' and one acts as 'the woman', but this is largely due to preoccupation with a notion of sex being Penetration With A Penis (and that Penetration With A Penis means that one person is in a Man's Role and one person is in a Woman's Role). But this will not be regarded as unnatural as in same-gender male relations, akoshos will Have to take up a position in this sexual dichotomy if they want to have Real Sex (Penetration With A Penis) with each other, and this is not unnatural and doesn't involve gaining or losing status since they are simultaneously male and female, not men.

So like you might see individual culture critics finding stuff to nitpick about it as their annoyance of the week or a singular Guy here or there who thinks it's weird, but this isn't a widespread norm. The vast majority of people don't give a shit about akoshos having sex with each other. The worst thing you're likely to experience Solely by virtue of being in an akoshos-akoshos relationship is someone asking you (probably with genuine curiosity) which one does the man stuff and which one does the woman stuff.

Akoshos also don't experience Hard expectations for marriage (though there are societal pressures that make marriage an attractive safety net all the same, ESPECIALLY marriage to a man) so unofficial life-partnerships between akoshos are pretty much the Only same gender partnerships between unwed people that are going to go unquestioned. ((Sworn brotherhood is technically a same gender life partnership for men that is Functionally similar to marriage (in that it's a kin-making practice between unrelated adults), but the tradition is Built upon the assumption that both parties will be married to women and that a primary goal of this kinship is to provide security for both parties' wives and children)). Marriage obligations in general are more lax in the economically secure but not Wealthy lower mercantile classes (as obligations to support and perpetuate one's family are universal, but these obligations can be filled simply by having at least One son who can get hitched, and marriages in the lower classes have no political functions and therefore there's less reason to ensure All your children are wed (there's still incentives like dowry, but this is not desperately needed when a family is economically secure)). So akoshos in this class group tend to have a Lot more freedom in terms of their life arrangements and chosen partners (though still experience the limiting frameworks of structural misogyny in other capacities).

The only thing that is out of the picture is akoshos/akoshos marriage. Marriage in this society has a predominantly reproductive function, the concept of reproductively non-viable marriages is generally considered absurd. This is not JUST this culture's form of homophobia, as marriage is a very practical arrangement at its core - both in a reproductive capacity and as bedrock for the patriarchal blood-kinship family system that forms the core social unit. The idea of same gender marriage isn't just absurd because 'ewwww weird' it's like, that Cannot work within this system, it Cannot fill core functions of what a marriage intends to do here, the ways on which marriage and kinship are BUILT makes same gender marriage practically (rather than just socially) untenable.

The sole exception to the 'marriage = reproductively viable" rule is that akoshos can be married to men (which in practice is almost always as a remarriage after a man has secured At Least an heir). This has a Little bit of internal logic here in that they perform predominantly female social roles (thus are suited to being a wife, even if they can't bear children) (and also on practical levels of them having the same legal status as women) but it's really more of a 'this is just how it's always been' kind of thing. A lot of the older pre-Wardi identity dual-gender roles that got mashed together under the 'akoshos' name would have involved marriage to a man as a second wife/concubine, in addition to his primary wife who would bear his children. Men potentially having multiple spouses has not been retained as a cultural practice, but the notion that an akoshos Can be a wife to a man has survived into modern day legal and doctrinal practices around marriage.

So like this being said, marriage as it is legally defined is only between a man and a woman, a man and an akoshos, or a woman and an akoshos. In practice the latter two are comparatively VERY rare- a man/akoshos marriage cannot provide children (though an akoshos can practically fulfill all other obligations and duties of a wife), a woman/akoshos marriage Can provide children (and while akoshos cannot function as a male heir, these children Will take their akoshos-parent's family name (though the wife retains her father's family name)), but akoshos are legally grouped with women in terms of rights and privileges (including being permanently under legal domain of their father unless they have been legally handed off to a male husband) and Cannot provide hard power patriarchal support that this family system is built upon and therefore depends upon, which makes these marriages socio-economically insecure. They can obviously still be a good partner and parent, but this is not the same as having the Legal hard power of a patriarch.

Akoshos marrying each other would be reproductively and socially nonviable, and is treated as a similarly absurd concept to a man marrying a man or a woman marrying a woman. It's just not a part of the marriage and kinship framework, it's not a thing that you can Do.

[baeshijima]

if i had a nickle for every time an important leading figure died after meeting a corrupt/just generally bad politician i would have two nickles, which isn't a lot but it is strange it happened twice

(queen elizabetth ii died two days after meeting liz truss; the pope died ~12 hours after meeting jd vance)

[saltyfilmmajor]

Brb will be playing this on repeat forever

[akkivee]

aight so mine are:

manga: i usually lump dts and manga together but if i had to separate them, me as of rn lol would put manga higher than dts bc i like the additional relevant content that doesn’t get voiced in the tracks. the manga does leave some stuff from the tracks out, but it is the best for the collective story

dts: but with the tracks you get the voices, you get insert raps that shift in composition to reflect the plot/bonds, you hear the seiyuu grow with their characters, you get 30-40 minutes of plot to pick apart and piece together for months afterwards whereas the manga takes years getting to, it’s the medium hypmic was founded on alongside its music like don’t sleep on the tracks y’all lol

games: i’m including games bc my middle name is nerd lmao but arb gave us character content before we ever got it in canon (eg jyushi calling hitoya ‘my god��� when he’s in vkei mode; dice’s hidden side was teased frame one) and hypdream making their characters face a different version of themselves, yet still reflect who they are (eg kuukou wants to guide others to be able to face the difficulties life will not stop throwing at you whereas ghost kuukou guides others to hide away from the world bc life will not stop throwing difficulties at you and it’s two different stances but still rooted in buddhist principles while also showing the core conflict kuukou faces and—) is a great way to reward ppl who’re obsessed with hypmic’s characters LOL

stage: a lot of facets that make up canon are simplified in the stage making it easier to get the gist and stage has the benefit of treating the characters and the situations they’re in with a fuckton of gravitas lol. character writing is a hit or miss for a handful of canon characters but everyone knows the stage is a side character dispense mechanism that worldbuilds and serves as foils for the characters better than most of the side characters in canon LOL

anime: the music bangs!!!! yeah!!!! like they’ve got some damn good bangers!!!! bullets hell yeah!!!!

[000marie198]

The image of Sonic and the others trying to chase a passed-out-but-stuck-within-the-psychokinesis Silver like kids try to catch a runaway kite is too damn funny

[miharuhebinata]

when they reveal shauna thinks about jackie when melissa is touching her 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

[letters-to-rosie]

I'm still reading Afropessimism so it's time for me to make my media studies degree do some exercise with my favorite boy

and someday I will write that proper Silco essay on why his politics make me sad lol but for now I will just say I stopped trusting that man when the word nation came out of his mouth

the whole idea of a nation state (as opposed to other governmental/social arrangements that precede it) is that the political entity of the state is something individuals who are citizens of the state are supposed to identify with. the nation state is supposed to represent them and protect them in some manner. typically, this is established by means of trampling on someone else who lives within state borders but doesn't (at the time of the state's formation) fit into the community of the state. (for more, there's this really good interview with Mahmood Mamdani where he articulates this and connects it to the current situation in Palestine)

for Mamdani, the idea of the nation state crystalizes with Spain's reconquista, which created an Iberian state that trampled over Jewish and Muslim people. from there, the idea that people's homelands might not take the form of states becomes foreclosed as the model of the nation state expands and subsumes every other political formation out there

and this (told y'all I was gonna put that degree to work) is what happens in the show. Silco, working on his nationalist project, envisions a future in which the people of his homeland have a political entity to represent them. but in the course of establishing it, he tramples over resistance to his very sketchy means of accomplishing this goal

what I want to think about more is how not to close out potential alternatives. I think the character who presents the best place to start with that from is Ekko (my boy). Ekko and the Firelights' political motives beyond 1) stop the expansion of shimmer 2) care for addicts and 3) beat up cops is left pretty unclear. I think the reason he sometimes get looked over is this lack of clarity, a lack of coherence, and that gives the feeling of not being able to judge him. while Silco's methods are bad, his narrative arc makes sense. his solution also makes sense. but is making sense the end-all-be-all of liberatory possibility? especially when one is up against violence that is senseless itself and in its gratuity?

here's where Afropessimism is so interesting to me. the theory is about anti-blackness and argues that humanity is able to define itself against blackness as a metaphorical ruler (I have some historical examples that are interesting, but then we'd be here all day; if you're really interested go dive into Matthew Perry and Japan). because this antagonism is pre-logical, it doesn't make sense. it challenges the very idea that suffering and redress for that suffering can be made sense of. the solution to it isn't in sight. but the challenge is to sit with that. it is to know that the answer doesn't have to be right in front of you for the fight to still be worth it.

a big part of why I don't vibe with the whole concept of nation states is that I've always been like "why am I supposed to identify with the country that enslaved a bunch of my ancestors? like what good does that do me?" and I frankly have decided that it does me no good to do that. as a descendant of enslaved people, I also have no nation to go back to and join. what do I wanna do instead? don't know. the longer and longer I live, the idea that I have to feels like an unfair imposition. I've read multiple commentaries that read the Firelights as anarchists. anarchists get asked that same question a lot.

what do we do with a form of redress that doesn't make narrative sense? what kind of restoration could be meaningfully taken out of the situation in the show? in a way, it's interesting, because the show has source material that's very public. we know, ultimately, no matter what questions characters like Ekko pose the idea of Zaun as a nation, that's what happens anyway. it's like a psychic wall of impossibility prevents anything else. it has to become a nation because in a world of nations there is no other choice. so I don't fault Silco for thinking it would be a good idea. I wish he had more of an imagination, though.