#and a slightly different flavor

[medi-bee]

[official-linguistics-post]

(idk if this touches upon the subfield question or the very specific question in the faq but)

do you have a topic in historical linguistics that you are enthusiastic about? like a topic that is fun to you personally, and/or that you enjoy talking about or reading tumblr posts on :0c hoping to not be the people who often ask you strange linguistic questions

this is sort of tangential to historical linguistics but definitely related: i want to know EVERYTHING about literacy practices in the ancient world. who is literate, why, to what extent, how are they trained, etc. etc. etc. ---

[palossssssand]

Got into the mood to revisit old Keroro Gunsou ocs + giroro cameo!

[rozugold]

CTOMMT!!!!!

Skrungly guyy

[mamawasatesttube]

kinda wanna write something superfam-related for mermay but i have no idea what... anyone got any ideas????

[randomidiocyncrazies]

okay since humans are viewed as 'pets' by the aliens in alien stage... I think it'd be really funny if ALNST is like the equivalent of horse racing or fancy dog shows in our world (except the contestants are culled on live TV when they lose the competition). So while there are diehard fans and a respectable amount of casual fans for it, there is also a significant amount of folks who just don't care about it at all.

(I know ALNST is a huge thing in-universe as shown in the TOP 3 video, but i just think it'd be interesting if it's not as far-reaching as the alien show-runners/sponsors want audiences to think.)

[humming-fly]

throws the 🧋 at you gimme the sweet sweet goods (either)

🧋 (Boba Tea) - Come up with a Kirby Café item themed around your OC! It can be a savoury dish, a drink, a dessert, or something else entirely. [Kirby OC ask meme]

glasses you with these

[thundersbugs]

satosugu musicposting no. 12!!!

i could post endlessly about songs i associate with gojo’s pov after geto’s defection. also dominic fike i love u

“i don’t know if that time is coming to an end

i hope the band gets back together when it’s over

don’t you go running for the hills, you can’t outrun it by yourself

and when i call you up you barely answer, you think you got it all figured out

you act like you don’t even remember you’re all by yourself”

[critical-espurr]

Every time Lily attempts to tackle human psychology, I am reminded of how little she understands other people in general.

[lazuliquetzal]

⭐️ for the latest chapter of Lie by Omission because I think I finally have time/energy to sit down and read it tonight! 🎉

HOOHOHO

After a brief pause, Atreus cleared his throat. “Mom said that fear is what keeps you alive.” The ashes weighed heavy on his belt. He imagined Faye— Laufey —on the run, hiding from the Aesir, the last of her kind. “It can.” “Then how do you know when to be afraid?” “You think. And act accordingly. We are gods, boy. Our fear will hurt more than just ourselves.” The boy fell silent. For the longest time, fear was not Kratos’s burden. He knew anger, shame, and sorrow, as intimately as he knew the scars on his arms. He knew joy, he knew love, and he knew loss, and he knew what it was like to be feared. But he did not have fear of his own until he saw his wife cradling a helpless creature in her arms, and it was only then that he understood how that emotion alone could reduce the king of the gods into a pathetic, child-killing tyrant.

God, I find writing Kratos to be embarassingly difficult. Embarassing because GOW was my actual childhood (Yes I was like six years old, yes I liked GOW before even reading PJO) and you'd think that I'd be able to get a handle on this guy having known this character for so long but haha no.

I think the hard thing is that it is so, so tempting to write Kratos as the typical repressed angry guy who doesn't know how to show affection to his son, so his arc should be about not trusting others and being vulnerable. But that's not really his story with Atreus--Kratos already had that whole plotline with Faye in the backstory for GOW 2018.

The reason why he's so awkward with his kid is because he is pants-shittingly terrified of hurting the boy. He killed his last kid; hell, he killed his entire homeland. He is so intimately aware of the damage a god can do, and the damage he, specifically can do, and Atreus is a very small and sickly boy. So his arc, to me, is less about learning to trust others, and more about learning to trust himself. Which is such a specific, subtle difference from the stock repressed character that it throws me off.

But anyway, yeah, fear! It's a theme. GOW (and by extension, my fic) is very much a fate narrative. I don't think fearing fate is a relatable problem to most of us. But the idea that the choices you make are ultimately pointless? The fear that you will never change?

Is your fear protecting you from making a mistake, or is it keeping you locked in a vicious cycle of bad decisions?

That's what LBO is about.

[violetwolfraven]

Soren from the Dragon Prince is autistic and my source is that I’m autistic and I say so.

[clipso]

ok while I really want to draw komodo and dragon going at it at some point (and I WILL once I get through my current art block) it is so important how convoluted they would be about having sex. they havent admitted to themselves they're into each other BUT if you're getting drunk or high or asleep and your best buds been kinda pent up lately well theres no reason why he shouldn't be able to use a free hole yk?? and I mean they're ALREADY doing the pain demon shit it only makes sense to leave fun little cuts and scars on each other. you know for their demon lord. both of them know they're gay and are open about it they're just freaks who dont know how to talk about anything and so they jump through the weirdest hoops to do freak shit with each other

[gay-artificer]

Man i do like Downpour but it really is no Rainworld. This isn't "downpour is bad" post just a... passive thought on how Rain world really is a kinda lightning-in-a-bottle type game with the way it feels. I don't think you can intentionally capture that. Like its got something to it that can only exist as a something that emerges naturally rather than through emulation

[orowyrm]

the allure of wanting to draw a human version of a nonhuman character as an exercise in character design and practice staying on model and translating prominent features across art styles vs the knowledge that if said character was real and knew what i was doing with them they’d want to wring my neck

[metaphoricaltigers]

Getting back to my autistic roots by taking my toys one at a time and staring intensely at them from all angles. And then lining them up so they look organized. I cannot describe to you the joy I feel when I do this.

[angelcloves]

having a hard time breathing lately. so thats also affecting sleep now