#meat is meat? lmao

[moons-rising]

ITHGULEOIR

now with stunning adopts made by stardog #158127!

ithguleoir is an ancient sea leviathan who hails from the appropriately named leviathan trench but now likes to roam the shallows just off the coast of the clan's territory~ though he occasionally becomes a problem because he often reshapes the shallows by tunneling through the sand, creating hidden hazards to ships passing through, he is mostly accepted as a friend of the clan and he'll sometimes swim with and even protect the local fishers and other water dragons when they venture into the sea! 🌊

[mirrorhouse]

Let me think... why are you really here?

[keldabekush]

Oonagh coverrrr I love her . Space kerrang should be real

[ignitesthestxrs]

there's something about the way people talk about john gaius (incl the way the author writes him) that is like. so absent of any connection to te ao māori that it's really discomforting. like even in posts that acknowledge him as not being white, they still talk about him like a white, american leftist guy in a way that makes it clear people just AREN'T perceiving him as a māori man from aotearoa.

and it's just really serves to hammer home how powerful and pervasive whiteness and american hegemony is. because TLT is probably the single most Kiwi series in years to explode on the global stage, and all the things i find fraught about it as a pākehā woman reading a series by a pākehā author are illegible to a greater fandom of americans discoursing about whether or not memes are a valid way of portraying queer love.

idk the part of my brain that lights up every time i see a capital Z printed somewhere because of the New Zealand Mentioned??? instinct will always be proud of these books and muir. but i find myself caught in this midpoint of excitement and validation over my culture finding a place on the global stage, frustration at how kiwi humour and means of conveying emotion is misinterpreted or declared facile by an international audience, frustrated also by how that international audience runs the characters in this book through a filter of american whiteness before it bothers to interpret them, and ESPECIALLY frustrated by how muir has done a pretty middling job of portraying te ao māori and the māoriness of her characters, but tht conversation doesn't circulate in the same way* because a big part of the audience doesn't even realise the conversation is there to be had.

which is not to say that muir has done a huge glaring racism that non-kiwis haven't noticed or anything, but rather that there are very definitely things that she has done well, things that she has done poorly, things that she didn't think about in the first book that she has tacked on or expanded upon in the later books, that are all worthy of discussion and critique that can't happen when the popular posts that float past my dash are about how this indigenous man is 'guy who won't shut up about having gone to oxford'

*to be clear here, i'm not saying these conversations have never happened, just that in terms of like, ambient posts that float round my very dykey dash, the discussions and meta that circulate on this the lesbian social media, are overwhelmingly stripped of any connection to aotearoa in general, let alone te ao māori in specific. and because of the nature of american internet hegemony this just,,,isn't noticed, because how does a fish know it's in the ocean u know? i have seen discussions along these lines come up, and it's there if i specifically go looking for it, but it's not present in the bulk of tlt content that has its own circulatory life and i jut find that grim and a part of why the fandom is difficult to engage with.

[graciousdragon]

everyone needs to look at this fucking tweet from chelsea rebecca that had me cackling

[disguisedcheezed]

goofy ahh corpse.

[b4kuch1n]

pre-marination doobles. dont ask me questions

[xerorao]

A story told in three parts

[faunandfloraas]

[buggachat]

say what you want about the impact of tightly-packed plot-heavy shows where every episode shakes up the narrative, but sometimes it's also nice to look back at the episode list of a tv show, say "oh yeah, i remember that episode. it made me laugh and was a lot of fun! I don't quite remember exactly where it takes place story-wise, but I could have a lot of fun rewatching this episode out of context anyway, because the episode stood on its own completely well!"

again, serialized stories that focus primarily on long-arching storylines and not mini-arcs are great! but there's nothing inherently bad about the episodic format? you know. sometimes i feel like a protein-rich meal, and sometimes i just want some ice cream

[legatouwu]

making jigsaw apprentices ponies pt 1/? MARKIEEEE💋💋

[kanbe923]

biblically accurate valentine

[coolnonsenseworld]

Samurai and Ninja in crappy pics because December here is under a constant cloud and I just want y'all to see them all golden and cute without learning how to take aesthetic pictures 🥴 💙❤️😆🥰

linktr.ee/Mezzy

[corruptedwraith]

.... I'd be insufferable if I had a dick

I wanna fuck the meat.

[lackluster-draws]

Anet I think it's time to give us necromancer minion mounts, especially with Halloween around the corner 🎃🥩🍖

[lovech1ld]

I love finding clips of the dead poets society cast doing random ass side quest movies and TV shows in the 80s and 90s. This is Dylan Kussman playing a burger joint employee ?? 😭