#For example

[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

[yutamayo]

[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 :)

[oriorchids]

and now

odile

[artbyblastweave]

The storytelling advantage of a zombie apocalypse that hits slowly is that the narrative can ask fun questions about how our systems and social scripts would buckle, bend and eventually snap in the face of the unprecedented. The storytelling advantage of a zombie apocalypse that hits very quickly is that that the narrative can ask fun questions like "what if you were abruptly forced into a life-and-death struggle for survival with nobody to back you up but the other jaded dipshits from your minimum wage retail outlet shift."

[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 

[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.

[rainingbaconbits]

Beatles albums are fascinating in the fact that I could hear the most beautifully haunting melody with a three person harmony that could make a dead man cry And then the next song is just "PETE THE PLUMBER HE'S REAL COOOOOOOOL"

And i love them for that

[miss-americanbi]

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

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

I know we joke about it but it is vital for something to be at least a little bit badly written and/or tragic for me to want to write fanfic for it. It's gotta have cracks for me to wedge myself into, you see, otherwise I might like reading it but my brain will not get feral about it. But you give me an unresolved/botched ending? Kernels of brilliant concepts/amazing characterization in a mangled plot? Sign me the hell up, see you in a couple of weeks with an absolutely brainrotting amount of fix-it fic

[bri-cheeses]

personally I think that all queer books should have a “special edition” with a subtle cover (and a code name if it’s necessary) for all of the people in homophobic areas