#For example

[sandersstudies]

Choose a different profession or group to receive a standard discount instead of the military — you only get one

[aspharah]

hey bro can we like adopt paralleling themes and symbolize opposites but in a two sides of the same coin kind of way? it doesn’t have to be weird. wait what do you mean thats gay

[cleolinda]

It is my wish for you and all of us that the bullshit stops soon. You know. Whatever unnecessary horrors that happens to be for you

[heartless-aro]

People when a character is aromantic or aromantic coded: Wowie! They’re aroACE! Because they aren’t interested in romance! Look at how aroace they are!

People when a character is aroace or aroace coded: Isn’t it cool that this character is asexual? Asexual icon! They’re such great asexual representation :)

[artbyblastweave]

I have a soft-spot for the original Age of Apocalypse maxiseries from the 90s. One beat that's stuck with me is that after the X-Men in the bad timeline learn that their current apocalyptically-bad situation is the result of time travelers fucking everything up, they belatedly realize that this explains Apocalypse's regime's apparent unspoken policy of murdering any mutant who exhibits time travel powers- he's fully aware of how he himself was able to come to power, and he's pulling up the ladder behind him. News to us, but for the X-Men it's a known pattern about their world abruptly being contextualized.

This, in turn, reminds me of the noted-in-universe quirks of Worm's power system- no kitchen-sink psychics in the classic mold, no healing that isn't the byproduct of something else, everything having some combat application no matter what- and the creeping reveal that although none of the speculation as to why all of these limits on the impossible exist is totally accurate, absolutely none of it is an accident and none of it means anything good. And to an extent I'm thinking about something I still enjoy about the Mistborn series all these years later, where a significant chunk of the unrevealed magic system feels at least somewhat predictable as an inverse or mirror of what's shown to exist from the word go- suppresed by the powers that be for the sake of keeping the wheels on the tyranny wagon.

Overall I'm thinking about the use of quietly absent powersets to characterize a setting, and I guess an interesting follow-up question to that is how aggressively you can draw attention to what's considered "absent" in-universe. If you telegraph too hard that something is thought impossible, then yeah, you're telegraphing that it probably is possible and we're gonna find out about it later. In AoA there's no build-up to the reveal that all the time-travelling characters have been eliminated even though that's somewhat known already in-universe- It's just something mentioned in the course of planning, closing off a fast way to resolve the entire plot with ease. I'm wondering if you could run a kitchen-sink pastiche setting for just long enough for it to become clear that some obvious expected element of the genre arbitrarily doesn't seem to be there, or if that kind of thing would simply take too much runtime to establish purely through negation.

[oriorchids]

and now

odile

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Beauties in 1986 chinese drama Journey to the West西游记

yutujing玉兔精 jade rabbit spirit

zhizhujing蜘蛛精 spider spirit

chang'e嫦娥 moon goddess

jin bi bai mao shu jing金鼻白毛鼠精 Golden nosed white haired mouse spirit

nv er guo guo wang女儿国国王 The Queen of Women's Kingdom 

[imgoingtofreakoutnow]

Rewatching Dept. Q is such a blast cause I can now focus on the small expressions of every character without having to follow the plot and I'm discovering so many hilarious little gems!

[stiwfssr]

[pickapea]

the patient needs camp 80s horror films to live

[oifaaa]

Realising that my idea of what it means to be in a fandom might be a little skewed so help me out here what is your baseline qualification for being part of a fandom

[jojaxcola]

I just wanted to say i love your stardew art and as a someone who is also smitten with sam you have my favourite portrayal of him i think ive ever seen! Hes so annoying! and yet SO charming!! i love your work!!!!

Thank you!!!

I might’ve also this in a previous ask, but my portrayal of Sam (in both appearance and personality) is largely inspired by my real-life boyfriend :) my favorite tall blond cheerful silly man who introduced me to Stardew in the first place and taught me how to play

So whenever people say nice things about my Sam I get so happy, like “now everyone knows how wonderful my boyfriend is 🥺”

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

I'm going to complain about a specific academic thing:

Nothing makes you aware of the way national categories are the default in history like trying to work outside of or across them.

It's such a trend for people now to say that they want to see more transnational, global, or transatlantic history. But the infrastructure of the discipline is still built around geographically designed categories.

As someone who works across two different geographic contexts and whose argument hinges on taking both equally seriously, there are questions that are hard to answer. Which Conferences should I apply to? What do I call my specialization? Which working groups do I join? Which journals (either geographically defined or methodologically defined) should I send my articles to? When I try to turn my dissertation into a book, what do I tell publishers it is? Which shelf does it go on? The two contexts I work on are shelved on different floors at my home university's library.

If we truly want the discipline to get better about moving beyond national contexts, the way it's categorized needs some introspection.

[miss-americanbi]

making something your roman empire?? nah. i’m out here making things my romulan empire.