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[fastepp]

Every time I see an author promoting their debut Greek mythology retelling on twitter I mourn the loss of like. To put in ineloquently. Just using these stories as inspiration for your own. Your story does not need to force itself to fit the shape of Orpheus and Eurydice it’s fine you can just allude to their story!! You can use their themes!! Nobody is going to arrest you for being allegorical instead of literal!! I might eat them alive at this point. It’s the only way.

[marzipanandminutiae]

"selling gorgeous Victorian fireplace mantle!"

that house had better have been literally falling down around it or gutted a long time ago, or I'm filling your shoes with thumbtacks in the night

[triona-tribblescore]

AHSHAHAHDHD I ALREADY LOVE THIS NEW AU

but my one question is: what exactly are each of the brothers? mikey is clearly some kind of wanderer and raph a stone giant, donnie some kind of scholar/inventor, but leo is the one im most confused about. is he a nymph? a witch?

ty also @cococakeyum for the ask :D <3

(AND SPECIAL MENTION TO @scatterbrainedbot BECAUSE ILY YOUR TAGS ARE KILLING ME, GETTING ME SO HYPED FR :'D <3333)

[transsexula]

Anyways when are we gonna stop pretending this isn't about "getting back at" an imagined trans guy. Good job! You both finally recognized trans men as men, AND ignored that they are punished for being men in one sentence. Really special work happening here.

The controversy is in only considering trans men as "men" in a way to hurt them. While also in a way misgendering:

"You're only a man because I know implying you act like a cis man in all the bad ways hurts you. In reality I see you all as hysterical bitches out to hurt the rest of the trans community" isn't progressive. It's just being nasty to be nasty.

Imagine hating trans people so much you joke about wishing they all died, then make posts like this, and assume that people will still think you actually care about the trans community.

[grandwitchbird]

Excerpt:

“The death of the author means we do not seek to “resolve” art through its creators. At the end of the day, the death of the author is about the consumer of the art. It’s about the consumption of art without ever stopping to ask the author what they want or what they wanted, at least not directly. The reader can ask themselves what they think the author may have intended, but such a reading or interpretation is still rigorously based on the art itself.”

—

The death of the author isn’t about ‘headcanon’. It’s not about eradicating authorial craft and labor. It’s about interrogating a text for what it is. It’s about resisting the parasocial drive to seek validation from artists. It’s about thwarting censorship and moralization. It’s about interrogating our own interpretive role. It’s meant to get us closer to the text itself while recognizing all the impediments in the way of any kind of ‘pure’ reading.

In a way, the death of the author leads inevitably to the death of the audience. We are not entitled to a position of authority just because we’ve dethroned the author. This is about centering the art itself and asking more intelligent and creative questions about that art.

[iamthepulta]

There is scientific evidence through slag analysis that Mesoamerican metallurgists may have used a unique pre-Columbian technology to smelt copper!

[art-on-legs]

Wanted to capture the feeling of an old 90s anime bumper... I'd say I'm like 85% of the way there

[thesecondsanctuary]

Hi I'm a few days late on this but re: your post about uty swaps just making the Ceroba swap Japanese(tm) and nothing else; you're so right for saying it. The amount of swap Starlos in Ceroba's role that just make him Japanese (???) and don't delve any deeper into it are truly appalling. Like you don't want to explore how Starlo might react to facing the unimaginable grief and loss that Ceroba did? How he, someone is who proven to not really be capable of hurting others unless he's at his worst self, might feel having to fulfill this near impossible ask for someone he loves? Putting any of the characters in Ceroba's role and seeing how their grief might differ and manifest in other ways from hers is what makes Swap AUs so interesting to me and yet very few people even bother. Well this character is the Ceroba one, so they gotta be Japanese because that's all there is to it for Ceroba's character.

LITERALLY I think star is the most natural swap into cerobas role given they share a strong devotion to their loved ones but no swap I’ve ever seen captures that well. I do of course prefer swaps that at least try to explore that instead of just hitting him with the Japanese beam????

AND it’s so interesting for star bc the thing about the one time he was clouded in his judgement enough to be capable of killing clover is that it wasn’t really in servitude of someone else in the same way cerobas fight is. He could tell you it was (to bring them back to his side of course), but it was really more about him. On the flip side he doesn’t attack clover after they kill ceroba, bc it would “only spell more trouble” for him. He isn’t set on retribution or “justice”, he just wants to mourn her in peace and lament what he could’ve done. Like that’s interesting isn’t it!!!!!!!! To think about whether star could be pushed to hurt or kill someone out of devotion in a different circumstance!!!!!!!!! Whether he COULD fire that last bullet for someone. You’re telling me you put the guy whose goal in life is to help others into the role of the woman whose “help” requires her to do awful, “unforgivable” things and you’re just sticking him in a samurai outfit and leaving it at that?????

[tinyangrynerd]

Picked up the game again to finally dip my toes into the recent dlc. And i forget how much of a cluster fuck my 1st savefile is. Not that it's in a bad state, but it's just too much happening, too much everywhere. And i got nowhere to put new stuff. And it made me very stressed and angy.

Also pls..... the Bars....

[loader-bot]

doodling an idea for a loader plush. insp by youtooz's ror2 stone golem

[favouritefi]

im always surprised when anyone lists jopsons promotion as a happy scene because when my friend and i were watching it they were like "papa's paying attention to you but he's not really Listening" cause like, a promotion isnt really what jopson wants and it doesnt benefit crozier to show this level of favouritism when the chances of mutiny are at an all time high and it wouldnt hold up if they returned to england anyway. so crozier giving jopson this promotion is akin to him admitting to himself "we won't make it" and more specifically "my best boy won't make it" and trying to give jopson some amount of recognition / daddylove before its too late. he does a shit job at it because it isnt the kinda love jopson truly wants, but crozier thinking he knows best for everyone else is pretty par for the course.

[skeletonlesbian]

nothing turning out but oh well. warm up arthur

[etirabys]

I started writing out advice for my college self who didn't know how to party (50% because she wasn't drinking enough), sighed, and clicked out of the draft because I'm going to get canceled for promoting alcoholism

[wordsandrobots]

Tags from @average-transdalorian that I am pulling out to discuss the EW Wing Zero some more.

#I want so badly to like Wing Zero EW Version but I can’t#because the wings are too damn skinny#and I simply do not buy feathered wings that skinny!#solid wings like Wing Zero show version? yeah that works!#but feathered wings? no! those have to be as tall as the section from nape to thigh!

I realised, looking at them off the back of this rewatch, it isn't the wings for me that are the problem. Those are a gimmick and I don't think I'd like them on an actual model, but they're cool enough.

No, it's the physicality of the Gundam itself. If you place them side by side, the EW version is noticeably more slender and elegant. It has thinner thighs and a narrower, sleeker chest structure. And that's not *bad*, but the thing about Wing Zero is that it is introduced utterly demolishing everything in its path, including entire colonies.

And the TV version sells that more clearly. It's bulky because it's carrying around twice the firepower of the Wing Gundam. It's a brute, simply for being able to tank the recoil from the twin buster rifles.

And yeah, the EW version is ripped apart by that same recoil once it's sufficiently damage. But I still think the TV version sells better the idea that it could take it while fully intact.

[nanalineni]

There's a way people talk in English I see more and more that feels like two steps removed from being a human person. What is "self actualization" why are your sentences in English built the way Sophocles did his plays. I would dissociate if I started talking about myself like this.

[jensownzoo]

Okay. It was like pulling teeth, but I finally got all the back, sides, and top of the long raised bed in the back covered in hardware cloth. Yeehaw.

Thanks to a 12 foot long 2x4 I picked up by the dumpster yesterday (someone had obviously used to to level a newly poured concrete pad or driveway), I came up with a new idea on how to do the front which will be easier. Theoretically.

I'm going to put a new crossbeam halfway up down the length of the bed and attach hardware cloth to the upper portion. Then I'll do two doors for each section (four sections) on the lower half. This way the doors are (a) much lighter and (b) will use shorter lengths of scrap lumber, which I have much more of.

This plan has mostly resolved that feeling of project dread so hopefully it won't be so slow going?