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talking under the olive tree

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"hmm thats a bit of a weirdly personal thing to suddenly drop in a friends dms. i should post it on my 10k follower block instead"

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I have so many people blocked. I have blocked men and women and children with wild abandon. I have blocked so many people that the borders between days have ceased to have meaning. my connection to my own humanity buckles and crumbles under the crushing weight of my infinite blocklist. I will never be forgiven, and my only hope is that, at the pearly gates, I will stand before st peter long enough to block him, too.

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you will continue to respond to "does this character eat pussy" polls incorrectly for as long as you continue to respond purely on the two factors of sexuality + respect for women. you have to pick up that character and look them in the eyes and understand how *they* would conceptualise the act of eating pussy. if a character would think of eating pussy as a sign of respect + they worship women. well why WOULDN'T they eat pussy. yes even if they're a gay man. shut up

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Can’t say I can trust any online communists who go out of their way to devalue the concept of labour.

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AU where berdly's gaming knowledge allows him to instantly recognize what's going on with kris but no one listens cause he's annoying

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love when my internet gets bad and im just scrolling the dash looking at the diagonal gradients

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Shoal’s idiot great-something grandson whose design came to me in a dream and name i got from my fish mug

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Imagine being the last owner of Hanako, that 226 year old Japanese koi that was spawned in 1751 and died in 1977. A fish that outlived 7 emperors. A fish that survived the Second World War. And she dies in your care. I would never recover.

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parents will really start lectures with "if i did that when i was your age, my mom/dad would" and continue to describe some form of child abuse

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sorry this is dumb

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in school I used to wear fake glasses while doing writing assignments so that the teachers would think I was smarter and grade my tests higher (this actually worked, for the record)

this kind of backfired in a pavlovian way because now I literally have to put on a pair of glasses and activate Smart Mode when I write anything longer than a few paragraphs

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“I don’t do math because I’m gay” “the gays can’t do math” “If I explain math on tumblr I’ll lose my gay card” all of you apologize to Alan Turing right now 

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What do you think might have happened if the Iskoort had met the Yeerks while they were still on Earth?

Hmmmmm.  As much as I love the implications of the iskoort for the yeerks, I’m not sure that anything could necessarily change.  Because the iskoort’s whole M.O. is a truly symbiotic relationship between two organisms that work together to control a body while in conversation, and the yeerks can’t have that.

I’ve said before that I just don’t think that a true fully consenting relationship could ever occur between a yeerk and a host — even a voluntary one — given what we see in canon.  I’m struck by that moment in #29 when Cassie accidentally moves Mr. Tidwell’s body while she’s inside his brain.  It occurs a few seconds after Cassie finds out Mr. Tidwell’s entire life history while actively trying to avoid knowing too much about him because a) it’s rude and b) she’s awkward about this being her teacher.  That sequence says a lot about how the yeerk-host relationship works.  If Cassie of all people cannot help but invade her host’s privacy and move his body without his permission, then the most compassionate and considerate yeerk in the world probably can’t avoid that relationship being problematic.

So I think that there are probably a ton of yeerks who would love to have what the iskoort achieve, but I’m not sure it’s achievable with their current physiology and technology level.  Like, while the actions of the Yeerk Empire are indefensible, they’re also understandable.  The yeerks benefit from using hosts, and the easiest way to acquire those benefits is to acquire hosts as forcefully as necessary.  If there was a way simply to have hosts without having to kidnap or brainwash or enslave anyone, probably the overwhelming majority of ordinary-schmoe yeerks would take that option without hesitation.

A counter-offer: what if the andalites had met the iskoort?  It’d have to be andalite scientists who aren’t caught up in their military propaganda to make sure it’s someone actually willing to listen.  But if sympathetic andalites more concerned with ending the war than winning the war got word of the way the yoort developed the isk through basically growing a new species in a vat, then I could see someone with access to andalite technology trying to make non-sentient hosts that benefit from yeerk control to replace the yeerks’ current hosts.  It might be able to work if the andalite scientists in question also got their hands on some arn tech... 

Assuming that the andalite scientists could sell the idea to their own and the yeerks’ higher-ups (no easy task, but if people like Alloran and Jake and Afran got involved it might happen) then that could be a total peaceful end to the war.  The yeerks would benefit from getting bodies that don’t fight back, the andalites would benefit through defeating their enemies by making them friends, and the host species like humans would of course benefit from no longer getting kidnapped and enslaved all the time.  Everyone could win the war, in that scenario.