#'less authentic'

[fideidefenswhore]

Catherine [of Aragon], [Princess] Mary, and Anne Boleyn are enemies of Cromwell and do not fare well at her hands. In fact, [Mantel's] focus on Cromwell seriously undermines the claim her account is more authentic than Michael Hirst['s].

Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction

[jayrockin]

what would Talita's cutie mark be

Boring answer but a screwdriver

[silvermoon424]

(from Gabi Belle's video "How Dropshipping Ruined Online Shopping")

YES OMG. I went to an anime convention a few months ago and saw SO many cheap bootlegs being sold as if they were authentic items. Being an experienced collector, I have a good eye for bootlegs so it didn't affect me, but I couldn't help but think of all the people who were duped into buying a crappy $30 bootleg that they could have gotten on Aliexpress for like $2.

[shannonsketches]

[57sfinest]

i think it's interesting how you only finally get to go into kim's room at the whirling after the tribunal (assuming you successfully warn kim). there's no reason for it, they could've left it unrendered and kept you locked out, but they made the decision to allow you to go in kim's room. which is an interesting way to highlight the shift in harry and kim's dynamic post-tribunal. the bond between them is solidified now that it's been confirmed that they really would die for each other, not in a theoretical "it's his duty" kind of way but in the very real "our blood is mixed out there on the flagstones" kind of way. they risked their lives together and both survived because of the other. so harry can go in kim's room. kim is finally letting harry in, in a small but significant way. kim *truly* trusts harry.

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

D20 season predictions dust+orrery edition:

hosts of a wacky kids' show are stuck on the spaceship

noir time loop

saloon on wheels workplace comedy

minigolf mascot horror

The Seven Galactic Girl Guides: A Starstruck Odyssey Story

steampunk space race

Cthulu v. The People of Earth, 621001 Milky Way (1922)

time-hopping catch me if you can

by day, renaissance artists and scholars. by night, mutated adolescent ronin tortoises

[beccawise7]

Sunday SideNote:

Every interaction we have with another person has an impact on their journey.

Every. Single. One.

Imagine the world we could create if we left human beings better than we found them...

Live authentically.

~beccawise7 💜🖤

[piosplayhouse]

This artfight "discourse" goes around every year and it's seriously like beating a dead (disk)horse at this point but truly if you get FREE art of your OCs that someone made you in their free time and you purposefully ignore or even worse shittalk it because it's not "quality" enough for you you are truly a miserable person! I would rather take 1 headshot done in crayon by an artist trying their best than a million professionally rendered pieces done by a popular artist drawing with no passion just because they want a ton of free art in return

[creaturefeaster]

I saw one of your reblogges with Uppsulka and TyVson (a recent one) with TyV stimming, and it's got me wondering, is TyV cannonly autistic?

#1. Stimming ≠ autism.

#2. All my characters are gonna be autistic whether I mean for them to be or not. what do you think I am?

#3. Pathologizing characters into boxes to be checkmarked is boring. doesn't matter if he's canonically whatever. he's got an 8 foot tall spiderwife to kiss. he's canonically busy is what he is.

(Read my tags for a little more explanation 🖤)

[abyssalzones]

I would love to hear more abt your college pre-egg-breaking fiddauthor thoughts if you'd be open to it

oh BOY would I

so when I think about college fiddauthor nowadays I mainly think about both my own experiences with ~navigating identity~ and how I would approach a gay FTM relationship from a semi-realistic 1970's angle, where you start to see a lot of what you'd call "milestones" I guess in LGBT history and public awareness. wait okay here's something I said to mer that can set a precedent for what I'm talking about

when it comes to me and my own journey of self discovery irt sexuality and transness, I feel like those two things are very intertwined, because the concept of identity in my eyes is very socially motivated. I've previously identified as a nonbinary lesbian and a transgender gay man respectively before getting to the point I'm at now, and don't feel like either of those things were incorrect necessarily, just how I felt at the time (and what I wanted out of a relationship, really). I think I literally got an ask ages ago questioning how I went from one to the other but Idk I don't think the gender journey is as simple or "logical" as people coming from a hetero-patriarchal perspective (that's a mouthful) seem to think.

and, And, from a Historical perspective, FTM experiences and butch lesbian experiences have Always been very intertwined, especially back in the early 70's when more people were starting to have some awareness (even in LGBT spaces) of this thing known as the Transgender Lifestyle. I'm flattening things quite a bit here and I know for a fact there's a lot of variation between experiences, especially depending on your social circles, but from what I can glean a lot of the time transgender men weren't very well known and so a lot of the time you would just ID as a butch lesbian and/or present as a man socially, sometimes for safety reasons. and there's a lot of overlap there too that continues into contemporary transmasc spaces today :]

historical justification aside I basically think college would be a major turning point for self-discovery in both of their lives, but more-so for fiddleford than ford? I've always assumed based on everything we've seen that fidds was basically the only friend ford had in college, which definitely would have influenced him in important ways, but other than that I think he invested most of his time in studying and developments in gender were an afterthought. ford's FTM identity starts from a place of "failing to be a woman" and then develops with his pride in being a huge weirdo. in my mind that can only really happen once he's in gravity falls and has basically sacrificed his connections with other people/the world to live as his truest self, whether that's researching anomalies or living as a man.

fiddleford, however, I always think of from the perspective of someone bucking to societal expectations for safety reasons. this is because of a lot of things: ford's possible feelings of abandonment in favor of Normalcy (who can forget "Go back to your doting family and a life of fear and compromise!"), his jumping into a nuclear family immediately out of college, But also packing up and driving to oregon in a matter of days after ford asks for his help... when he has a kid who could be no older than 5 or 6 at home...? I sort of see his presentation as a foil to ford's, trying to mimic cishetero ("hetero") normalcy vs. being the Lone Transsexual Freak. I've gotten horribly off topic from the college thing hang on

basically I imagine them in their uni days like two weird butch gay women that are just, totally socially unapproachable. fiddleford is the more outgoing of the two as he's been voted "most likely to actually have other friends" in my mind, so if anyone was going to gay & lesbian student association meetings it would've been him, but otherwise ford is too busy ignoring his feelings. "I don't care if I'm a man or a woman I'm too busy studying. go away." but of course they find enough solace in eachother's company and their different-but-distinctly-similar weirdness that it forms an unbreakable transgender bond. freak4freak if you will. fidds settles on a bisexual identity without thinking about it too hard because honestly the conclusion here is that it doesn't matter if his roommate is a woman or a man he just knows he needs to do terrible things to him over d&d&md (sorry) (not really that sorry though.)

it's actually funny you bring this up because I'd been workshopping a short comic set in their college era that touches on this stuff a lot. not sure when that will ever get done but I can tell you it's. uhm

yeah they're kind of weird.

[leroibobo]

the paradesi synagogue in kochi, kerala, india. the first synagogue on the site, built by the city's longstanding malabari jewish community, was destroyed by portugese who'd colonized the area in their persecution of locals. it was rebuilt in 1568 by spanish and portugese jews who fled persecution and later expulsion, hence the name "paradesi" ("foreign" in malayalam).

these sephardic jews and a community of jews of mixed african and european descent who were formerly enslaved ("meshuchrarim", "freedmen" in hebrew) joined the malabari jewish community of kochi and somewhat integrated. they were later joined by some iraqi, persian, yemenite, afghan, and dutch sephardic jews. the middle eastern and european jews were considered "white jews" and permitted malabari jews and meshuchrarim to worship in the synagogue. however, in what seems like a combination of local caste dynamics and racism, malabari jews were not allowed full membership. meshuchrarim weren't allowed in at all, but were instead made to sit outside during services and not allowed their own place of worship or other communal rights.

as the "white jews" tended to be rather wealthy from trade, this synagogue contains multiple antiquities. they include belgian glass chandeliers on its walls, hand-painted porcelain tiles from china on its floors, and an oriental rug that was gifted by ethiopian emperor haile selassie.

[beardedmrbean]

[tadpoles-and-daydreams]

Writing up the terms and such for my readings on Ko-Fi and such, and uh... "I promise, I don't bite. (My cards do, sometimes.)"

This is why no one should have let me write my own Ko-Fi intro. Or let me do readings in the first place. I'm a Loki devotee, what do you expect from me?

[navycat305]

Thinking about e!false again and how immediately compelling she is. Completely alone in a world where everyone else is so easily friendly and you’re not. Everyone seems to have an idea of what they’re doing, while you don’t. Tentatively making a life for yourself in a strange land and learning to appreciate what you have, but there’s still so many loose threads that tug at you. Only ever having one side of a story.

E!false starts as a mysterious protagonist. By the end it’s much less clear. Hc!false is supposed to be the trustworthy one in this twist of fate but somehow e!false feels no less trustworthy. You’ve seen her grow since she found herself in empires and you’re rooting for her as pretty much an entirely different person to who she apparently once was. And then she disappears before anything is there in black and white or set in stone. Before she can process, explain or justify any of the things you now know her to have done. It’s not even certain if she has the capacity to properly remember anything hc!false has referenced. There will only ever really be one side of a story that doesn’t fit the other half.

There’s just something so beautifully symbolic about the incompleteness and ambiguity of it all and it hasn’t left my brain for *checks watch* about a year now.

[ssruis]

The consequence of reading mostly tsukasa and saki interactions recently is that tsukasa is so… normal (relatively speaking. He is still a freak.) with her so going back to reading events where he’s interacting with others is a little like going “my dog is well behaved if a little rambunctious” and then coming home and finding out that it has trashed your house to an insane degree. or something.

[locamotivednp]

dug too deep into my past and "accidentally" found my old bffs new tumblr