#certainly be no problem!

[tardis--dreams]

I'm so obsessed with that concert that i don't even have enough brain capacity to stress about everything around it

[molinaskies]

An interesting “side effect” of the canonization of the “classic era” meaning “younger era” is that the classic era now reads as “cute fun times” before the core cast became teenagers/tweens and things got super, super complicated.

Because the characters are “younger,” there’s an air of “little rascal innocence” to everything they do now. The new releases like Mania and Superstars now feel like little throwbacks to the young heroes just learning how to work together and make a difference in the world.

I don’t think this is a bad thing at all.

[lunarneo]

Poor Neo- "Wait a Second...."

[reegis]

Hi! You put the rats on redbubble right as I got a job working with rats, I think it's a sign. I was looking to get it as a tote bag or a mug, but you don't have those available. Is there any way you can put those up? Thank you!!!

congrats on your rat job!!!!!!! (id originally had it set for only a small number of things because I hadnt saved it as transparent & it looked real wonky on most items…. so I redid it 🕺🏻)

& now you can get it as a mug or a tote or whole bunch of other things if you want 🥳

[writeouswriter]

Being visited by the 3 ghosts of Christmas but they're not trying to get me to be a better person, they're just trying to get me to work on my f*cking WIPs

[ruelpsen]

Fuck it, I'm going to go out and say it: while I often enjoy being teased on here, a fair portion of what I receive irritates me as it's misguided at best and reeks deeply of unlearned, malicious fatphobia at its worst. Yes I want to be fatter but I'm not fat. I am a 140-lbs/63.5-kg twink despite all my efforts to gain weight. I'm not stick thin, sure, but I'm sure as hell not fat either. So why are some people insistent on calling me fat/huge/big? Are actual fat people too much for you (perhaps even in spite of you being a self-professed FA)? Is your idea of fatness grounded in equating 'not even that chubby' with 'fat' while not even being attracted to people who are actually fat? Do you solely find bloated skinny guys hot while still saying you like fat people? Or are you not attracted to fat people at all and here simply to take your fatphobia out on the people closest to your image of ideal thinness, who you'd be more openly attracted to if they lost 10-20 pounds, all while still scoffing at or ignoring the fat people at the heart of these communities?

Some of y'all really need to do better. Either own up to your love of people who are actually fat (which may entail adjusting your understanding of what fatness is), clean up your nomenclature, or don't be here. Yes unlearning biases like fatphobia takes time and effort, but your choices really are more or less that simple.

[enixamyram]

I've seen a few people complain that Charlie and Vaggie's fight was too rushed and I think it's kind of funny. Because after episode 6, I very specifically said to my friend that I hoped they wouldn't drag it out too much. Like, I wanted it to be addressed, of course, but it'd just be pointless drama to have them have a prolonged angst session right before a big fight.

And in the end, I'm really happy with how it was handled. We saw Charlie sulking and dealing with her misery, she showed resentment towards Vaggie while not outright throwing her aside, vented about her feelings and situation to multiple people. And in the end she really talked about the whole problem and listened to the advice and words of wisdom from Rosie. Finally she came to the realisation that this secret didn't change anything about who Vaggie was or their relationship.

I genuinely believe it was handled perfectly! Another reason I love this series so much. Genuine talking through problems and realistic solutions between characters we want to see come out on top.

[ollylotl]

the girls ever <3

[tanadrin]

Do you think that people who invent things with very destructive consequences are blinded to the downsides of it more by money or more by scientific curiosity?

I think the downsides are not always immediately obvious. Coal-fired electricity looks a lot more attractive in 1882 when there's literally only one such power plant and the global population is like 18% its present value. TNT was invented as a yellow dye, and it's so stable its usefulness as an explosive wasn't discovered until thirty years later.

We have this collective mental image, promoted by simplifications of historical narratives, that the inventor is a lone genius who through his labor produces an artifact and all its consequences in a single moment in time, and without which the thing would never be invented. Pretty much every point in that narrative is wrong. New technologies are the culmination of many different discoveries; there are enough very smart people working at the cutting edge of these fields that if one of them did not discover the principles behind these inventions, another almost certainly would sooner or later; and the exact applications of new technologies, nevermind how they will change society when those applications are utilized, often take years or decades to discover.

Now, I think there is an extent to which, as a working scientists, you can reasonably be held to account for the work you do. If you work at the Acme National Horrible Death By Chemical Weapons Laboratory, and invent a new, horrible chemical weapon, you do not get to go "oh no!" in shock when somebody dies to your horrible chemical weapon. And sometimes scientists do have a pretty good idea of how their technology will be used--the Haber Process was originally invented to manufacture fertilizers, but its application to the manufacturing of explosives was pretty clear to Fritz Haber, and he joined the German effort to develop deadlier chemical weapons pretty enthusiastically.

Men like Haber seem historically to be motivated not by intrinsic greed, but by the things which motivate us all: the desire to provide for their loved ones, the approval of their peers and the respect of their colleagues, and their status in society. The problem with respect to scientists who know damn well what they're doing isn't that everybody working at the Acme National Horrible Death By Chemical Weapons Laboratory is greedy and the job pays too much; the problem is that society, by and large, respects you and looks up to you and fetes you at public events and talks about what a patriot and a community leader you are if you do really well at inventing new, horrible chemical weapons.

[eleneressea]

the Valar seem pretty content to primarily punish the ringleaders and let their followers go, so the Fëanorian followers probably get re-embodied well before their lords do

thus when Elrond shows up Formenos is not so much a lone fortress of exile as a bustling city where all the Fëanorians live, as most of them don't really want to swear loyalty to Finarfin and also don't tend to get along with the various other factions in Tirion

[fictionalcreator]

Finally watching Moriarty the Patriot. Camp fun, really enjoying it. Get the last episode and…goddamn…I know it’s a common joke about how anime rivalries are always inherently homoerotic, but I was not expecting “if I could be reborn, I would want to be true friends with you” and “I would want to take my time and talk at length with you” and “so you felt the same from the start, you idiot!” Like oh, okay, so we’re all on the same page about y’all being gay

[bayesiandragon]

Everything else notwithstanding, I firmly think that SJ's rage towards YQY - regardless of how you feel about the degree to which he acted out towards him - was reasonable given that he believes (with justification given the little info he has) that his one childhood friend, who knew very well the vicious abuse he was experiencing, just fucked off to live the good life he found and left him to suffer. Like completely separate from anything else, I don't see how hating someone who to your knowledge abandoned you to die, even if they're sorry/guilty once they saw you survived, is wrongheaded or misguided. I honestly saw their whole relationship as emblematic of the prominent themes of miscommunication in SVSSS, on YQY's side due to a mixture of feeling like he's sparing the other party and his own trauma. A direct parallel (and later a foil) to SY and LBH at the abyss.

[marmosetpaw]

they didn’t have to make flashnose and daisytoe related and yet

[laithraihan]

you know you can just say you ship Reigen and Minori, like, it's not that serious

Well I don't ship it. Now what?

[normalbrothers]

TOMMY: Arthur, Frances was right. Linda was here today.

[wanderingmind867]

I don't want to be neurotic or insecure or anything, but I'm worrying nobody (or next to nobody) has seen my posts. And that's upsetting, because I've probably made at least 5-6 new posts today. So for my own peace of mind, can you tell me that you've seen my posts today. At least people saw them will make me a tiny bit better. I'll probably still end up wishing my posts had more notes, leading to me futilely reposting the same thing over and over. That seems to be a trend with me.