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Weren’t the sports separated because a woman competed in the men-only sport, back when it was only men and not yet women sport, and then she came in first place? Then the men were so butt hurt about it, they had to make a separate category?

crazy that in the 1970s they were like, "fine, women can play sports. but because they're innately less athletic than men, only in a special ghettoized League For The Frail And Delicate where they get paid less 😊". And not only is that still the system in 2023, but viciously lashing out at the smallest challenges to that system gets framed as Feminist Praxis

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Hetalia Pirate!Spain which I drew

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This is quite a read without context.

thinking about the sheer AMOUNT of themes/parallels that happen in the fall scene. death and rebirth. rise and fall. leadership. holding on/letting go (and not just in the literal sense). OUGH. its just SO so good

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“The Death of Eve” 🥀

Here is my final for my art class. I chose to draw a piece reflecting my feelings when it comes to transitioning and how that ties with my cultural identity. I feel like people don't talk about that sense of almost betrayal enough when youre a POC. But anyway...here's a piece that captured how I feel about past and present me.

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Reminds me of RDJ version of Sherlock Holmes. One scene where he noticed some guy tilted his head to one side = vision impairment in one eye —> tilt head to see better with better eye.

Response to wizard’s note 3: same energy as Dr. Mike expecting a high five from Molly Burke.

writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

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AU where Mostro Lounge launches it as an official sporting event, because Azul smelled the business opportunity (featuring @raven-at-the-writing-desk's Ms. Raven with Jade)

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Bonus of the nefarious opportunistic octopus:

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cosplay goal honestly

NyoEngland Pirate Lolita

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Recently discovered this! WHAT?! AHHHH! This movie makes me feel things and this detail makes it worse. *cries over break up*

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Puffin, bear, deer? , fox, moose?

“Harpy Hare

Where have you buried all your children?

Tell me so I say”

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he sits

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Happy Easter everybody

It's an Easter movie

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Just read The Strange Case of Harley and Harleen and my god I needed a little bit of positive plurality in my life this week.

The way Pam and Harl's relationship adapts to accept the Harley/Harleen split makes my heart swell.

The way Pam sees the difference between her girlfriends.

And assures her that she accepts and loves all sides of her.

And does what she can to accommodate Harleen's memory holes.

The core relationship of this book is just so sweet and positive in accepting things as they are without judgment or pushing. Just acceptance and love.

And after finding that in our own life, I know what a powerfully positive thing it can be.

But the Harley/Harleen relationship is well handled too. There's friction and denial at the start but the two develop and trust one another by the end and Harley takes a seat as my favorite kind of character, the morally ambiguous protector.

I love the way Harley's protectiveness of Harleen is depicted and how she tries so hard to keep her from interacting with the criminal underworld of Gotham.

It's just saccharine and kind.

Highly recommend the book to anyone who just wants soft and kind plurality vibes. Heaven knows the majority of the fiction involving split personalities are flooded with angst and darkness and though this book contains a few dark plot beats like DV it never feels painful or sorrow inducing.

I'm so happy I read it.

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me: drinks milk

My ancestors: She has refrigeration, food Preservation for long shelf life, and pasteurization. Not only that, she can DRINK milk! It’s fresh dairy and she’s not lactose intolerant.

I’m sure one of them is freaking out that the milk is not from a can.

My ancestors, watching me dump an entire stick of cinnamon, two cloves, an allspice berry, and a generous grating of nutmeg into my tea, sweetened with white sugar and loaded with cream, while I sit in my clean warm house surrounded by books, 25+ outfits for different occasions, and 6 pairs of shoes, in a building heated so well I have the windows open in mid-autumn:

Our daughter prospers. We are proud of her. She has never labored in a field but knows riches we could not have imagined.

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Welp I guess it spreads around if I do it like this?

[blog update] Portugal and England and

ORIGINAL

England and Portugal formed the world’s oldest living alliance with The Windsor Treaty, which is still in effect to this day.

Apparently this treaty forms the basis of cooperation for these two countries.

There were even some British parliament members who neglected their own country because they were too engrossed in Portugal!

When it came to battling against Spain, England taught or lead Portugal how to fight.

A little bit of a revision.

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I don’t think I know his personality from the fan wiki very well.

The fanon wiki as of now? All I got out of it is the stereotype of a Scotsman in every satire piece: angry, drinker, and always disagreeing (at least the fan on wiki has him toned down compared to the stereotype of “fights everybody in the room”). There is nothing much. Not even as unique as Himaruya when he should say oh yeah this one likes chocolate but hates mint chocolate. There is nothing relating to culture and history apart from the basic England and anybody else related to England (and it’s not much when it’s UK bros then America/Canada and France? The main characters… nothing on some random unlikely character like England + Liechtenstein one-time meeting random). For a fanon character, there is little to no effort put into this wiki page.

So uh, how bad was it back in the day?

The Curious Case of Hetalia's Scotland

I will never get over what I like to call "The Curious Case of Hetalia's Scotland." Not only because I find it funny, but because to me, this is something that demonstrates the pure power of fandom and fanon.

Because for the longest time, we didn't really have Scotland in the series. Like, we knew he was technically a canon character, seeing as he was mentioned by England a time or two before, but we had no design or skits of him at the time. Not to mention those comments were only made in the comics, which many fans didn't read, seeing as many of us only stuck to the anime for the longest time (which is me, I am many fans. I am still trying to find the courage to read the manga aside from little panels I find online).

And so, what did the Hetalia fandom do? Well, the fandom did what the fandom does best... Taking matters into their own hands and creating their own design for the character/country.

I'm not gonna put an actual picture of the fanon design here because I don't want to repost anyone's art without their permission, but if you look up "hetalia scotland" on google, and then click on "images", you'll get the picture of what I'm thinking of. A tall guy with pale skin, bright green eyes, fiery red hair, and wearing a cobalt-blue suit with two white sashes across the front. A man who literally just looks like a human personification of the Scottish flag.

Now, I have no idea who came up with the fanon design for Scotland. I've looked, and I genuinely cannot find out who the first person was who drew him. But regardless, this is the design that the fandom largely latched onto. So much so to the point where you had people making fanart, fanfics, and even cosplays of this character. People even collectively decided on his personality, interests, what his relationships with other the characters were like, etc. (This can all be found on the fan character wiki). It even got to a point where I, as well as many others, genuinely started to believe that this was the canon design/version of the character for the longest time. Primarily because we just didn't know any better.

In short, the fanon version of aph Scotland spread far and wide throughout the fandom, and everyone seemed to just largely accept him, even to the point of believing he was canon.

And then one day, Himaruya drops this sketch.

He posted this and said that the characters here were Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. However, he didn't say who was who, so we were left to guess which character was which at the time. We were getting closer to a canon Scotland but were still unsure which one he was. And even then, you had people who still clung to the fanon version.

And the later, Himaruya formally introduced Scotland in the comics and even released this piece of official, beautiful art.

Fully illustrated designs of all of the UK brothers. England, Northern Ireland, Wales... And Scotland.

This was it. We, as the fandom, finally had our canonical version of Scotland, as well as the rest of the UK brothers. But let's be real here, when it came to fanon-created characters, the fans largely latched onto Scotland.

And what did a large chunk of the fandom do?

That's right. I dunno about everyone else in the fandom, but in the fan spaces I was in, you had a large chunk of people who took one look at the canon design and thought to themselves, "Yeaaah no. We like our version better."

And I just... This is still so funny and wild to me.

Imagine waiting years to get a character design, and when the design finally comes out, you have since become so married to a fanon design, that when you look at the canon design, you go, "No thanks."

It seems like people have become much more accepting of the canonical design of aph Scotland over time (and I'm happy for that), but even so, the sheer reach and influence that the fanon design of Scotland had is nothing short of amazing to me.

Anyway, there you go, that's my ramble for the day.

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I like women in suits

Farja spreading her hair like that makes her look like a cobra

Farja and Ms Hades

Art: 申之川縁