#and why we can kill it now

[ikibli]

Gonosimulistic- it's a better scientific replacement for "hermaphrodite". Use it. It's better and more accurate, and the only bad part is that we haven't bothered to codify or list the derived forms.

For a while, I was resigned to using "hermaphrodite" because I'm a biologist, and we will always need some way to describe animals like slugs or clownfish that aren't gonochoric.

I have been enlightened. Thank you, @ders1tes for showing me a better path- my argument towards the use of "hermaphrodite" was never that it isn't a slur, it's that we needed something for animals in a scientific context, and "intersex" was firmly centred on humans or at most, gonochoric vertebrates.

Anyway:

Gonosimulistic: Adjective form. "Slugs are a textbook example of a gonosimulistic species."

Gonosimulist: Singular noun form. "This slug is a gonosimulist."

Gonosimulists: Plural noun form. "Many slugs are gonosimulists."

Sequential gonosimulist: A species that changes sexes over its lifespan.

Simultaneous gonosimulist: A species that produces both male and female gametes.

[sunderwight]

Scum Villain AU where Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu transmigrate by swapping lives (i.e. Shen Yuan wakes up in Shen Qingqiu's body on Qing Jing Peak, post-fever, while Shen Jiu wakes up in Shen Yuan's body in a hospital in modern China) but it doesn't quite work right.

The system glitches or something and they end up having to jointly time share their lives. Every time a certain moon phase or something (cyclical) comes around they abruptly switch back.

So they spend the entire time trying to undo everything the other one has been up to while everyone around them is just desperately attempting to figure out wtf is going on. Shen Yuan does the skinner quest and stops Luo Binghe's abuse, and Shen Jiu gets a job with a rival company and starts showing up Shen Yuan's brothers. Then they switch back and Shen Jiu is like "it's woodshed o'clock for the beast" and Shen Yuan resigns. Then they switch back again and Shen Yuan saves Liu Qingge's life and gets poisoned defending Luo Binghe, and Shen Jiu creates his own start-up and blackmails his eldest brother about the mistress he's just uncovered. Then they switch back and Shen Yuan gets his brother and his sister-in-law into couples counseling and Shen Jiu embarks on a quest to either cure himself without Liu Qingge's help or die trying.

Eventually they just start leaving bitchy messages for one another to find and doing things that won't cause lasting damage but are incredibly petty. Shen Yuan keeps trying to tell Shen Jiu to read PIDW but Shen Jiu takes one look at his merch-filled bachelor pad and immediately decides that his opinions aren't worth anything, so it takes him a while to actually do it (he is really mad about this when he finally opens the novel and it turns out to be extremely relevant information).

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

Homer!Odysseus and Epic!Odysseus would try to kill each other if they ever met

[egophiliac]

Silver is finally here...he just took the title for the most beautiful card in TWST's history...

me five years ago: wow I really hope we get to see dragon Malleus someday! that'll be so nice and wonderful. I bet he's a big silly! :)

twst: :)

GOD. it occurred to me literally three hours before the anniversary stream that they might've been saving the reveal for then to just explode us all at once. this timing was EXTREMELY deliberate. thank you Twst. I can't even focus on all the Blazing Jewel stuff because Silver wielding the physical manifestation of his Complicated Dad Issues is busy eating my entire brain. and -- oh what's that? he duos with Lilia? I'M RUINED THANK YOU ᕕ( ᐕ )ᕗ

this is your warning that I'm going to be the most annoying person on the planet come Monday morning, thank you everybody and goodniiiiiiight

[twinstxrs]

so much happened in this whole episode but i’m still on fig infiltrating ruben’s dream, making it look like the place where his friend was murdered, and then disguising herself as kipperlilly & repeatedly saying different variants of “somebody needs to take the fall for this, and it’s not going to be me. it’s going to be you.” while adaine as the elven oracle shows up next to her. can you imagine waking up from that, the idea of a horrible truth being pinned on you by your friend to save her own skin while the personification of fate and destiny stands there, almost as a promise that this is GOING to happen to you. we don’t even know if this kid is guilty. my god.

[viktorarcanedeservesbetter]

tbh I don’t think therapy would have fixed Jayce and Viktor lmao. maybe would have softened their self-destructive tendencies but there’s no fixing that co-dependent relationship. Heimerdinger Mel and Sky are told “yeah, I can help treat their individual depressions but nothing is gonna reduce their co-dependency. I’m pretty sure separating them makes it a lot worse for not only them but much worse for everyone else. for everyone’s safety I suggest they’re not allowed to be more than a buildings length away from each other and even that is pushing it.” That therapist then quits on the spot cause now they’ve literally seen everything.

It’s like that scene in Brooklyn nine nine where all the physiatrists are observing and talking with Gina but instead it’s a whole crew of therapists and neurologists and physiologists trying to find out how these two men literally mind-melded together. They go to couples therapy but it’s literally just individual therapy held together because why tf not it’s the only way to get them to go.

[im-smart-i-swear]

coming back home.

@barrenclan

[kanerallels]

I must say it is SO nice to see people on the Internet who also feel mildly outraged at what Thunderbolts did with Taskmaster

[deeplyridiculouslyinlove]

Okay wait I’m suddenly 100% bought in on Moiraine and Siuan being Birgitte-Gaidal Cain style soulmates, meaning that Siuan is right now in TAR waiting for Moiraine. The promises of “in this life or the next” and “I’ll find you/I’ll wait for you every time” are not just about the cyclical turning of the wheel, but come from the fact that Moiraine and Siuan literally do this over and over and in between they wait together in TAR. Siuan is in TAR, she knows who Moiraine is, and now she just has to wait for her to return to her. Siuan Sanche does wait for only one woman, after all!

That reconciles Rafe’s comments about us seeing Siuan again (and maybe even the angel emoji??) and his comment that you can already tell how they set up their endgame, without it being reduced to flashbacks and a brief epilogue moment which feels really trite and glib and not meeting the moment. He also calls them soulmates in that Q&A 👀

Plus we’ve already seen them in dreams together. Siuan clearly has a connection to the dream world. Even their ter’angreal hut was a world of their own creation that they visited at night. The roles that they play in the narrative are roles that we need over and over if we are to defeat the dark - they are the instigation, the inspiration. They don’t just show us a beautiful love story of dedication and sacrifice, but they are the very water that turns the wheel and thus a cornerstone of every age.

[thecityofdoors]

man you all were not kidding abt the therapyspeak in veilguard.

[violentdelightshavevioletends]

Trying to re-read to understand everything that went down in those last chapters of Onyx Storm BUT MY GODS I CANNOT READ IMOGEN AND QUINN AGAIN I just bawl my eyes out every-time BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE THING IN THAT SCENE HURTS

[3416]

rempe and the constant defending of him piss me off so bad. that guy should not be in the nhl and probably not be playing hockey period with the level of actual danger he presents for such a tiny sample size. like it is fucking absurd how every time i have to hear his name it's bc he basically mauled a guy or injured him and you have half of rangers fans acting like he's just a baby deer who doesn't know what he's doing and he WANTS to be a hockey player in the nhl based on his merit and not just his physicality 🥺👉👈. like news flash, he's not that and he's actively dangerous. holy shit

[vaguely-concerned]

just for fun this time during 'sea of blood' I counted out all the venatori corpses I think we can be pretty sure were lucanis' handiwork before we show up (not including the ones he kills in his initial cutscene, and with an assumption that he's been at work mainly up and down in the areas we move through until we find him, not behind the locked door -- I think that's mostly the work of rampaging undead and other venatori-hoisted-by-their-own-petard suchlikes). can thus happily inform you lucanis has killed at least 32 venatori before rook and company get there. at least one of them he's impaled on their own weird crystal spike things the venatori mages cast as an AOE attack and that they're trying to keep him contained with when we find him. so he's clearly been keeping busy lol. that's my boy dispensing poetic justice and claiming some enrichment in his enclosure while he's at it good for him!

[littlespoonevan]

i think the thing for me and the thing that's actually bothering me the most in general is that i don't think any show in 911's category that i've ever watched (that is: network tv shows that run on a weekly basis for most of the year with no definitive or planned ending until cancellation) has gotten better after killing off a main character

[mylordshesacactus]

Shut Up, Strahd, You Asked For This

Context: Strahd has shown up yet fucking again and forced the party to walk with him through the woods. The first time he did this he psychologically fucked us up--the party was dead silent, deathly serious, walking on eggshells, jumping at every twitch, treating every word like a minefield.

This time we outright refused to let him have that kind of power over us and spent the entire tense walk through the woods pretending he wasn't there, telling jokes, body-blocking him from getting near Ireena, and--VERY LOUDLY--having the cleric quote chapter-and-verse excerpts from the sacred texts of the Raven Queen (the monster manual) about the weaknesses and arrogance of vampires.

Please remember that through this entire resulting conversation between Atri (teenage aarakicra cleric of the Raven Queen) and Eleri (Transgender Team Mom TM tiefling paladin, lowkey courting the girl Strahd is stalking) Strahd is literally right there on his horse trying to interrupt us without admitting that we successfully annoyed him.

===

Eleri: I wonder what Strahd's favorite wine is, anyway. Like is it Cheap Wine, Asshole Wine, or Wine #3? I bet it's Wine #3.

Atri: That's true! He's an aristocrat, they always have horrible taste.

DM: I mean. I think you can guess... what Strahd's favorite 'wine' is...

Eleri, IC: NO, LISTEN, THAT PISSES ME OFF WHEN THEY DO THAT. Like that's a DIFFERENT QUESTION. You are not answering the--That's not the answer to the question we just asked, that's--like--that's not wine, that's blood. Like that's just blood, that's a different thing, you're not actually answering the--

Atri: 'My favorite wine is whiskey', like that's just a copout, that's refusing to answer the question.

Eleri: EXACTLY LIKE YOU'RE NOT DRINKING WINE. THAT'S BLOOD. You can say my favorite whatever is blood. My favorite...soup is blood, my favorite--beer is blood, it's STUPID IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE IT'S NOT A GOOD JOKE!

Atri: Like just because you put it in a wine glass. You can do that with vodka technically but it's still vodka, oh what kind of wine is this? haha a very special vintage--

Eleri: Like it's NOT. It's just blood you're just--right! Like, it's vodka--

Atri: My favorite whiskey is a loaf of pumpernickel! You sound stupid.

Eleri: AND THEY'RE ALL SOOOOO PROUD OF THEMSELVES. LIKE THEY LITERALLY ALL MAKE THAT JOKE AND THINK IT'S FUNNY AND IT'S NOT, IT'S STUPID, IT'S JUST BLOOD. Every single one of them has a little smirk and they think they're SO SMART like they're the first ones to EVER think of making that stupid joke when it's actually, like, THE derivative vampire bullshit--

Atri: It's literally a halmark example listed in the field identificaion handbook.

Eleri: IT'S LITERALLY IN THE FIELD IDENTIFICATION HANDBOOK.

Strahd:

Strahd: What a fascinating perspective.

Strahd: I'm curious--

Eleri: And they ALL act like they fucking INVENTED it--

Atri: Vampires have NO original ideas.

Eleri: Like they all think they're the first ones to EVER think of the stupid joke, oh my GOD shut UP.

Druid: [fascinated] How....many vampires have you guys fought?

Eleri: None. Atri, in unison: Oh, zero but I read about them a lot! Eleri: Wait, no, we did fight a few here a week ago-- Atri: Like, they never do anything new, so, if you've read about one, kind of thing.

Strahd: [is still fucking here]

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OOH YEAH BABY ITS THE SURGERY EPISODE BABY!!! ME AND THE HOMIES NEED SOME NEW FACES FOR OUR NEW PLAN, AND WHO BETTER TO GET THE JOB DONE THAN THE TWO MOST EVIL PEOPLE WE'VE EVER HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF HAVING OUR LIVES VIOLATED BY? I MEAN IT WOULD BE FUNNY. IT WOULD BE FUNNY.