#i know radical concept

[ganondoodle]

the idea of playable zelda in itself is really cool, but then i think of how her 'type' of character typically gets animated/sounds/treated and i just shrivel up inside

the only way id accept if it was like fromsofts way of doing it, which is there is literally little to no difference no matter who you play as, but we all know nintendo would never lol

[weirderscience]

i hate the idea of "social contagion" so fucking much... if people were so easily fucking influenced i would have been a cisgender neurotypical woman in response to the first attempts from my parents to make me "normal"

[adaptations-polls]

Which version of this do you prefer?

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[patchodraws]

me seeing something vaguely TERF-y in a fandom subreddit: i wonder if OP is a terf

me after seeing plenty of SWERF and TERF posts on their account and having a very minor panic attack because i’m reminded of how demeaning their viewpoints are: idk what i was expecting

[yeommijeong]

I’ll be home late tonight. I’m having a drink with my sister.

Mr. Gu & Yeom Mi Jeong Episode 6, My Liberation Notes (2022)

[marinsawakening]

The problem with BOTW is that it's obnoxiously popular in the LOZ fandom to the detriment of other games but also unfortunately it's genuinely really really fun to write fanfic for.

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

since nonbinary has had its claws and teeth and wings clipped by people who've turned it into the third gender of whats now a trinary, i think we should expand its definition; what if nonbinary means you dont subscribe to any binary

[one-half-guy]

I don't know how well you know SA1, but consider: Twinkle Park's rule of "cute couples get in free" with Silver and Espio plus Blaze and Gold👀 (they ended up on a double date and none of them know how that happened lmao)

I had to look up to see what Twinkle Park is like because I legit didn't remember gosh, I am so rusty

At first glance, bomb-throwing robots and spiky balls aside, Twinkle Park is pretty much like a real life amusement park: there's a rollercoaster, a hall of mirrors, bumper cars, a carousel, etc... Buuuut then you realize they are a little... Hmmmmm... Deadly radical. They're a little deadly radical: the bumper cars descent slide will surely be with the car a meter above the floor, the access to the rollercoaster is a bit complicated, the hall of mirrors is full of traps, KAKAKAKAAK, plus, there are badniks and spiky balls in almost every corner of that park AKAKAKAKAKAKA

I mean, that does seem the standart judging by the fact it is just there amid Station Square and by the other carnival stages, like in Sonic Rush and Advance (although it's hard to say if those were or weren't created by Eggman)

That taken into account, Espio, Silver and Blaze probably would be very chill and enjoy the park, I bet Silver would be even the most excited with the presence of badniks as the challenge in destroying them, but poor Gold would panick for sure, the regret for falling to the bait until they get her to the only calm ride, the carousel... Which is also surrounded by big spiky balls 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 the girl can't take a break, she is never falling for this bait again 🤣🤣 In a second thought Blaze's not chill as her girlfriend is not chill, she's full focused in protec her

For how it happened though, for Espilver case I imagine it's possible that a day, after they finish a case around Station Square, they come around the entrance to the park and Espio considers it could be a nice activity to do with his lover, especially if it's free to cute couples, aka them, Silver just shrugged and agreed with a "why not?" CUT to him have fun galore destroying some bomb-throwing robots

For Goldaze it's harder... Maybe Gold heard of the place through Amy and managed to convince Blaze in a free day (She then swears the next time she's gonna put more thought before take Amy's suggestions... She doesn't, no shenanigan is enough) or maybe it was one of that one in a million cases and Gold was lucky to meet Blaze exactly there... Anyway, if that's their very first date, or one of their first dates, bet Espio and Silver are gonna make help them to find a ride they both can enjoy nothing less than their main goal (what is a hard mission... Even harder with badniks and spiky balls almost everywhere).

[zero-a]

people will go all "just be yourself and love yourself! :)" and then go "if you don't act the way i want, you gotta reprogram your entire way of thinking then reach into the very core of who you are and what makes you you, discard it, and replace it with this better, friendlier, more empathetic version that's coincidentally far more convenient for me to deal with than any other possible compromise we can make that you can do for me but doesn't stretch your mind to nothing but thin bands of what you'd consider 'You' :))))))"

[toytulini]

i made an oc thats at least nicknamed "Stupid" and im constantly thinking about what a power move that is tbh

[astralazuli]

So there's that D&D class quiz going around, & I took it & was so deeply offended I got Paladin.

& so I have had conversations with both Bestie & Birdfriend about this grave insult & they both were like, "Well... They have a point?" & informed me that my desire to absorb hits meant for others & deep drive to help whenever I actually can & strong convictions make me a bit Paladin-coded.

& I am just so... Idk. It's just interesting to get glimpses of yourself from other people's POVs. To be told that my defining characteristics are protecting & healing others & being incredibly fighty about the things I care about... Especially as someone whose brain specifically fixates on whether I care enough, do enough, give enough... Yeah. It's just kinda wild.

Anyway, I'm now adjusting my self-perception to include the fact that if I were a D&D character, I would be an Oath of the Ancients Paladin & not a wizard & that actually that's okay.

[lettucedloophole]

thinking about this first post, particularly in relation to the second. the first is, i presume, mostly referring to the unwillingness in feminist spaces to see trans women or any amab person's socialization as fluid and also informed by patriarchal forces (misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, gender nonconformity, intersexuality, etc.) and she is so right. the only context upon which birth sex is necessary to mention is reproductive issues and health conditions (& medical misogyny pertaining to) people born typically female, but afab+amab is often used as "people who experience misogyny and people who don't," respectively. a dedicated erasure to transmisogyny

the mra-ass post on the right really hinges upon this idea that there is a unity of experience for amab people, so, an erasure of cis male violence and a negation of the differences in cis male and trans female socialization. i think, in that way, the criticism of the first post also applies.

women fear men for good reason. cis autistic men are not exempt from perpetuating gendered violence. acknowledging the farce of chivalry as if it's a legitimate show of the social order (a social order of "female privilege") is about as ridiculous as terfs claiming trans people have systemic power. like, saying outing yourself as trans led to Better treatment is just an absurd statement no matter how you look at it. people take men's words about their knightly code of behaviour with more weight than they do the inescapable material violence against women.

it's basic misogyny, but i also wonder if this rhetoric in the trans community could've been avoided if the complexity of trans female socialization was addressed, and transmisogynyistic conflations of trans women and cis men were not made. probably not much, as the left is still so apologetic to men and their misogyny. if you can't escape allegations of being a man despite your material conditions being incredibly far removed from cis men's, the only natural conclusion is to absolve men. but, as trans women are women, this inability to criticize men is equally, if not more, damaging to them than it is to cis women.

[katranga]

idk how to tell this guy at work to stop talking ab his diet and "goal weight". like i simply Will Not engage in that kind of conversation and idk how to be any more polite ab stopping it than literally saying that the weight you are is not a personal failing

[hipsofsteel]

shout out to that time i was using my OCs in a screenwriting class and had a character that, in his lore outside of this screenplay, was gay, living with a woman who was ace, but because i didn't have time to address that they were living together simply because they are just that close as friends, everyone was like "why are they denying they're a couple? clearly they are!"

and i was sitting there internally like "sometimes you are a pair of lonely best friends who decide to be roommates in a community of like 300 people, so you just pretend you're together bc that's easier than explaining anything"

anyhow, since i was trying to do a narrative about something other than queerness, i was just threw in a line like "they're the sort of people who are like 'well i guess if we're not married by 35 maybe we'll marry each other'" and that stopped the many, many questions i was getting

[aeide-thea]

disjointed thoughts abt like. various anti-'normalization' takes i've seen and how actually i think like. expanding the range of things people are aware of & comfortable with is in fact often a helpful step towards becoming less dependent on the concept of normality to determine acceptability, because once you understand that normal isn't in fact a narrowly fixed range but is subjective and can be widened, it becomes a much softer yardstick & less of a bludgeon

[altschmerzes]

radical face lyric prompt meme

is this still a thing people do? no? we’ll go retro then. put this together to celebrate having crossed 1,000,000 words posted on ao3 - send me a number + some characters + a trope or episode of canon or whatever other bonus wishes/details/ideas come to mind and i’ll write a oneshot based on the prompt! feel free to reblog and join in.

and i am always reminded of lies / that we told but never meant / and at night i can still hear you grin like an echo / sounding for my sins (echoes)

there ain’t no fixing this but i like that you tried / sometimes the hardest part is being right / there ain’t no helping me but i like that you lied / sometimes it’s worth the burn marks to feel the light (dead ends)

i fall asleep in the backseat of your old car (under the same sun)

i was there when you grew restless / left in the dead of night / and i was there when three months later / you were standing in the door all beat and tired / and i stepped aside (always gold)

when the water was warm / walked in over my head / but you pulled me out by the collar of my shirt (summer skeletons)

sometimes sleep becomes your enemy / it feels better to dream when the sun is accounted for (sunn)

you held me up when i was drowning / and wrapped me in your spare blankets / and you held my head while i lay broken / and told me i would sleep soundly / and that life goes on (personal giants)

and you’re always laughing / but you always look afraid (haunted)

maybe this time we will get it right / every step’s just a step until the one where you stop / they say the third time’s the charm / yeah well how about the ninth (the river with no name)

i am not the one you wanted here / but i will fill in my post (rivers in the dust)

i got a picture on the mantle piece / of the way that i thought that we’d end up / but this bears no resemblance to that (sleepwalking)

i feel you breathing / i hear you curse my name / i hope that you’ll forgive me one of these days (winter is coming)

i can’t fix what was done to you / but i’ll shield you from the rain (small hands)

there’s only so much good a man can take / when he ain’t so good himself / you remind me of what i could’ve been / but the reminder ain’t much help (reminders)

i’m glad you were my friend / though i may never see you again (chains)

once you see what lies behind a mask / that mask will never look the same / and once the pattern shows itself / you can’t pretend that nothing’s changed (guilt)

you don’t owe me a thing / i have always been lost it’s a comfortable place / i don’t owe you a thing / you were always just something that i could never save (reveries)

took a river of bad blood / but now i see where i came from / can’t grow a proper branch when half the trunk is rotten (bad blood)

i said i’d fix this / that i’d set things straight / you begged me not to / but i couldn’t stay couldn’t wait (all is well (it’s only blood))

i won’t bend and i won’t move / don’t have a lot left just anger and something to prove (the strangest things)