#Pot of Desires

[yugiohcardsdaily]

The real reason "Pot of Greed" was excluded is because there's 11 "Pot of" Spell Cards and I figured that one would have the advantage, anyway.

Top Row: "Generosity", "Avarice", "Riches", "Benevolence", "Acquisitiveness" 2nd Row: "Prosperity", "Duality", "Desires", "Dichotomy", "Extravagance" Bottom Image: "Greed"

[fyeahygocardart]

Sales Pitch

[daisywords]

idk. the majority of people do have children in their lifetime. If you are upset and insist it's "out of character" every single time a fictional character is portrayed as having children after the conclusion of their story, maybe you are the one projecting and being weird about it

*this is not a vaguepost abt something/someone in particular; I'm just commenting on a general trend I've noticed

[miodiodavinci]

what reading dungeon meshi will do to a man

[fooltofancy]

is there anything worse than making food that u don't wanna eat

[morgenlich]

i have a bialetti one cup moka pot, and a french press so i am technically covered for coffee makers. but williams sonoma has the 6 cup bialetti moka pot for $60 and i am tempted…..

[chronicallydragons]

Heating pad isn’t enough. I need to be vaporized

[caffetato-the-caffeinated-potato]

Why is it infinitely easier to sit and come up with fun headcanons and interactions I want to include in Ninja-monium than it is to actually write Ninja-monium?? I just wanna get this first chapter done already so I can share itttt

[keeps-ache]

little soup cans are some of the neatest things we have, wish there were more soup-can-like things in this world

[grey29]

I love trans men so fuckin much fuckin gorgeous dudes. I think it’s easy to fall into a state of not being able to see yourself as desirable but that is so far from true. You deserve to have people look into your soul and see your body and be so deeply in love with both.

[hauntedbythenarrative]

Beau Taplin//William Holman Hunt (1827–1910)

[mundycide]

i will tell you rn. buldak yakisoba is where its at.

[onewomancitadel]

Expanding my aside from this post here about coding.

The cinematic weight (and consequentially cultural weight) of 'coding' comes as a consequence of the Hayes Code (although there are arguably other contexts applicable beyond the scope of this post e.g. in antiquity). It was considered indecent and immoral to depict gay characters, or at the very least without giving them a summarily unhappy ending, and this is where the Bury Your Gays trope has its home. Films such as Lawrence of Arabia were seriously considered to be borderline pushing the envelope on how much to 'code' for with Lawrence (and if you have any interest in Dune, I really recommend Lawrence of Arabia to get a better picture of the inspiration on the books and the later film adaptation(s)), where it was known he was portrayed as gay without it explicitly being said. But as a consequence, for anybody who is familiar with this topic, coding was often alright to be associated with villains either to condemn those villains, or tacitly portray LGBT+ characters.

I'm skipping over a lot of history here, but the usage of 'coding' now effectively refers to interpretive work on part of the viewer or actual subliminal character work. When it comes to something like R/WBY, do you think they would have to (with great intentions) skirt around coding I/ronwood as autistic? Sure, we can start talking about implicit characterisation, but calling it intentional 'coding' from the get-go is dangerous (and imo, if they did actually do such, achieving such through transparently borderline offensive 'coding' e.g. associating autism with ideology, either on part of the fandom or the writers is a disaster). Really it is a product of desire.

But given that I see 'coding' used in outright bizarro homophobic ways in fandom I guess this is no surprise (no, posing male characters near fruit does not make them, quote, 'fruit', a notable gay slur; yes this was a real post I read in a major shipping fandom) that this sort of applicable, useful parlance is used for self-involved ends. Be it well-meaning or not.

If something is coded, is that substantial character work? If it's not read into, is it really there? Those are actually interesting questions to me, because any neurodivergent coding with I/ronwood that's supposedly there doesn't coherently hold up as calling it, equally, weighted representation. If you sympathise with I/ronwood because you feel like it's similar to your experience of neurodivergence, sure, that's not the point I'm taking issue with; I'm taking issue with headcanons, and 'coding', as disputed textual weight.

In addition to that I don't really thinking 'coding' (in the sense originally used) is actually something that's really necessary or perhaps even... acceptable. 'Coding' was a way to express ideas without the opportunity to do so. So what are the present things stopping that now if the Hayes Code is out? When it comes to I/ronwood himself, why am I disputing headcanons as opposed to disputing the acceptability of his ideology within the R/WBYworld and storytelling? I know why, because his character has very specific ends about the way Salem is supposed to be dealt with and what the resolution of the story is. That is not entering the conversation.

As a final remark, yes, linguistic drift happens. This is a feature of all language, and sometimes jargon migrates. But in the case of 'coding', it comes with a specific set of assumptions about a storyteller's intentions and the climate of that storytelling, and the requisite work to understand what the character is truly saying; if coding is used as argument for why a story's conclusions are inappropriate, I need to take it very seriously indeed. So even if I might ordinarily agree that you can't help the way terms are applied, I still have to take it on the terms that it's applied in this case. What makes coding 'coding' hasn't fundamentally altered, just its application and context has.

[parasitoidism]

like pot of greed? the most iconic card? the effect of "draw two cards" is so game-shatteringly good that there is no timeline or format where it will ever be unbanned. it would ruin the game

[lucysweatslove]

Me: gets a few houseplants and keeps them alive for one (1) day

Me: you know what would be really cool? If I could have my own garden and a greenhouse and orchards! We could have a berry patch with strawberries and blueberries and grow tomatoes to make our own marinara sauces and potatoes and onions and keep chickens for eggs…

[glacialheart]

i know you need recipes to cook but i laugh in the face of recipes