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sleepanonymous · 1 year

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sugarcoatednightshade · 10 months

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thinking about how Humans Are Space Orcs stories always talk about how indestructible humans are, our endurance, our ability to withstand common poisons, etc. and thats all well and good, its really fun to read, but it gets repetitive after a while because we aren't all like that.

And that got me thinking about why this trope is so common in the first place, and the conclusion I came to is actually kind of obvious if you think about it. Not everyone is allowed to go into space. This is true now, with the number of physical restrictions placed on astronauts (including height limits), but I imagine it's just as strict in some imaginary future where humans are first coming into contact with alien species. Because in that case there will definitely be military personnel alongside any possible diplomatic parties.

And I imagine that all interactions aliens have ever had up until this point have been with trained personnel. Even basic military troops conform to this standard, to some degree. So aliens meet us and they're shocked and horrified to discover that we have no obvious weaknesses, we're all either crazy smart or crazy strong (still always a little crazy, academia and war will do that to you), and not only that but we like, literally all the same height so there's no way to tell any of us apart.

And Humans Are Death Worlders stories spread throughout the galaxy. Years or decades or centuries of interspecies suspicion and hostilities preventing any alien from setting foot/claw/limb/appendage/etc. on Earth until slowly more beings are allowed to come through. And not just diplomats who keep to government buildings, but tourists. Exchange students. Temporary visitors granted permission to go wherever they please, so they go out in search of 'real terran culture' and what do they find?

Humans with innate heart defects that prevent them from drinking caffeine. Humans with chronic pain and chronic fatigue who lack the boundless endurance humans are supposedly famous for. Humans too tall or too short or too fat to be allowed into space. Humans who are so scared of the world they need to take pills just to function. Humans with IBS who can't stand spicy foods, capsaicin really is poison to them. Lactose intolerance and celiac disease, my god all the autoimmune disorders out there, humans who struggle to function because their own bodies fight them. Humans who bruise easily and take too long to heal. Humans who sustained one too many concussions and now struggle to talk and read and write. Humans who've had strokes. Humans who were born unable to talk or hear or speak, and humans who through some accident lost that ability later.

Aliens visit Earth, and do you know what they find? Humanity, in all its wholeness.

#humans are space orcs #humans in space #earth is a deathworld #earth is space australia #tagging this so that ppl can find it even though the space shit i write about always feels like its in direct opposition to all the pop tag #also my biggest pet peeve in all of writing - all writing. everywhere. not just in fanfic but books and tv and movies too - is when people #write off an injury by saying something like 'oh nothing bad just a couple of scratches some bruising and a minor concussion' like girl WHA #MiNOr ConCuSSioN is such an oxymoron and I hate it so fucking much. like i dont care how minor it was thats still brain damage.#especially when the same character does this more than once. like im sorry ms. but uh. you can no longer read. or talk eloquently. sorry #evidence: my brother has had two 'minor' concussions and now cannot read write or speak without tremendous effort. And like its totally #ruined my ability to watch action shows/movies because now i just sit there and count how many concussions there characters are getting #after a certain point it becomes totally impossible to believe that these guys are able to function. (still fun to watch tho im not a hater

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officialspec · 11 months

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ill be honest as much as i love to criticise the use of fatphobia for comedy ill never be able to hold the fatphobic jokes in kung fu panda against it

like yea those movies are guilty of dipping into The Usual Tropes for a cheap laugh but not only is the character writing for the fat characters the strongest and most sympathetic ive Ever seen literally just the character designs of the pandas in the 3rd movie get me choked up sometimes. theyre all so appealing and clearly treated with the same care and attention as everyone else without copping out and making them Barely Fat. po is already a size that doesnt exist in film protags and hes still the thinnest person in that whole village and that meant a lot to me

#i havent seen the movies in ages but the design of the ribbon dancer is sooo . AUGH #like not just to have that many fat characters but have them be REALLY fat without being treated as ugly or nasty #OR THEIR FATNESS BEING TEMPORARY !!! its their natural state thats how theyre meant to look!!!!#its easy to get caught in the thinking of like. having fat characters be a minority in a lineup to reflect 'real life'#EVEN THO that isnt always true but regardless #having a cast where the nonfat characters are so few and far between theyre hardly present at all. so fucking enriching 2 me #imo writing-wise the third one is by far the weakest but it still is just so important to me that they designed the pandas like that #can i kfp post on main is that allowed #idk i watched a video essay im emotional abt this again

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saint-end · 13 days

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"Lala, are you crying?" (D.Gray-Man chapter 13 redraw)

#d gray man #dgm #fanart #art #digital art #illustration #lala #still one of my favorite arcs in dgm it always makes me break down and cryyyyyyyyyyyyyy #been wanting to draw more minor characters that are often forgotten and lala felt like the best first choice #her and guzols story is simple but so so tragic and heartbreaking </3 so genuine and a true act of love #storywise its the arc that becomes the first true foundation to everything dgm is today #DO NOT PLAY LALAS LULLABY I WILLLL CRYYYY

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deoidesign · 6 months

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Hm... I'm feeling benevolent...

#every time i use the word 'benevolent' i remember that guy who called me 'sensei'???#because he asked me for a crit and i was basically like 'i really dont like your comic' but obviously constructively #and then he kept messaging me asking for more critique and i had to tell him to stop #and then he made a video review of my last comic and the whole review was like #'yeah so i havent really read this comic. looks pretty sick though. i basically harassed her and she had to say to stop lol'#anyways. that was weird. he used the word benevolent a lot so i always think of him. sending good vibes hope hes still making comics #oh yeah also this is kind of spoilers but not really #sorta like afterword stuff #gotta sketch gotta get into the mindset...#im not sure if that counts as spoilers at all lmfao its just minor design changes #anyways.#time and time again #spoilers #what the hell i typed 'spoilers' and '911 spoilers' was the first option??????#uh #adam and steve #ttawebcomic #sketches #sketch dump #these used to be patreon posts but its been like 5 months so. theyre free noe #the word 'benevolent' is literally an inside joke with myself now LOL

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solargeist · 2 months

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am i the only one who finds it super weird that dsmp fans feel it’s fine to now sexualize the teenage characters bc the stories over 😭 ?

#‘’characters not creators !’’ yess buuut the character Is still 16/17… in that arc he is a child… it’s fairly important to the story too #i think i worded myself weirdly. *its always weird to sexualize tommy/tubbo/ranboo bc during the story they were all minors #-their characters are teenagers within the story #i mean you can find the real people attractive since theyre all adults now ? i think they're all in their 20s now ?#but seeing people sexualize them during that era is so odd lol #it reminds me of when people say they miss the old quackity (the teenager)#**i dont watch any of these people anymore and havent for a few years

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kidfur · 2 months

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sapphie and sango picmixes :3 i finally got sapphie to save properly

#wishy speaks #flashing #minor but still always wanna be safe #jewelpet #picmix #my art #omfg it messed up my sapphie one xD i deleted the cinna bouncing gif and yet its still there half the time..

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tacogoats · 10 months

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Thinking about a Durge who has rejected Bhaal, and whatever person they used to be, but still secretly longs for their lost memories. A Durge that, despite the answers the man could give them, would never re-ignite that strange passion they were shown they once had for Gortash. A Durge that has, for all purposes to the others in their party, moved on. A Durge that, six months after that day atop the Netherbrain, at a party celebrating their new life, receives a strange letter with an even stranger gadget hidden inside.

The meeting at the inauguration was a strange one. Despite Gortash's very obvious elation at seeing what he'd called his 'dearest friend', the man had no hesitation very proudly detailing the Dark Urge's grand scheme; their grand design for the world to be.

In front of all their friends and 'new' lover, of course.

They were furious, and rightly so. Gortash must have known what he was doing. To isolate them, to bring them back to him. The person who accepted them for all they were, all they are, and all they could be - together.

It wasn't enough to win the Dark Urge back to him, and although they'd tentatively teamed up in the end - he had died. Not by the Urge's hand, but in some ways, his own. The group had left Gortash's body within the Prism, and simply moved on. There were bigger problems, and no one really was sad to see him go. Right?

The Urge remembers a letter found in Moonrise Towers. Gortash liked gadgets, according to Ketheric. Evidence was abundant enough with the Steel Watchers, among other things. The item is strangely shaped, entirely too small, and with a simple touch, comes to life.

It reminds them of the strange picture they had seen at the Iron Throne. Gortash's visage shone through a glass, moving, talking - warning them to leave. Answering them, praising them for listening.

What a strange contraption, they'd thought all those months ago.

And then, now, there he was again. A picture, in their hand. A moving picture. Speaking with his voice, wearing his weary face - so, so weary - but not the same as before.

This had passed already. The voice did not answer them this time. It was simply impossible - the man was dead, but not quite gone in this moment.

He speaks of the inauguration like it had just happened. His joy at seeing his favourite 'assassin' again, which he says with a sad smile and a moment of silence. A heavy sigh follows, rubbing at his eyes - which they can see are so much darker than they last remember.

He is tired.

Gortash speaks of their time together, before Orin - and how Orin torments him day and night now that they had both confirmed the Urge's return. She appears with their face, taunting him some days. Other days she sends assassins that wear the same, and he simply cannot let his guard down anymore. But he knew it was them that day.

They can see the exhaustion that pulls down his features, makes his words heavier. This is not the Archduke speaking to him in this moment - it is a tired, broken down man that has just seen a ghost.

Yet they cling to every word anyway, because even though this is a broken down man who is terrified of the ghost - the man still hopes the ghost will remember him, too.

They don't. But he doesn't know that, not this little picture of him, anyway.

The picture says that if they are seeing this recording, it means he is already dead - and although he had planned to sway them back to his side, he may not have been given the chance, and refuses to allow the opportunity to share what the two of them once had slip away.

He would gift unto them the memories that he could, even beyond death. The bloody ones, the happy ones, the painful ones.

And he talks, he smiles, he even cries.

And so do they.

#durgetash #dark urge x gortash #i dont usually write gushy things but i am trying to write fic of this i need to yell a bit #this has been sitting in my drafts i release it to the world now #dont look at me im cringe #i just think that my own dark urge would always long for their memories despite withers's warnings and #knows that gortash is the only person who could give it to them and selfishly sides with him because of it #and when gortash dies he knows all is lost. and accepts it. he has a new life now. its okay. (its not okay)#and when they see that funky lil thing in the letter They Know. They KNOW it's from That man #and there's a moment of hesitation as those words from withers flash in their mind again but nope fuck it. selfishness wins.#and even though the man was a monster - they were once eachother's monsters and - there are his answers. some of them anyway.#and he can finally let go of that : )#i dont have a writing tag nor do i want one rn this is a rarity for me #bg3 epilogue spoilers #minor spoilers but still

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nabaath-areng · 2 months

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It's been so long since the last time I hallucinated that I forget how jumpy and skittish I get afterwards guhhhh

#im okay the hallucinations werent bad in what i saw and felt but #struggling with sleep and perceiving reality can individually trigger me a loy #so combining them made for a combo that wouldve been devastating hadnt i come this far in recovery #and it helped that friend was there to help me talk through it #but man i still notice how affected i get by it #every little noise every little shadow im jumping and freaking out by reflex over the most minor things #even my sibling walking up without me realizing terrified me in a way it doesnt normally #and again what i saw and perceived during the hallucinations wasnt even bad!!!#i just cant seem to shake off the awful feelings afterwards even when i dont panic about it #i was told by doctor who helped me getting on meds back in the day that like #id likely always be prone to various degrees of relapse during stress #which i noticed a lot #but its been 2 years of relative peace and 1 year since i shook off the last remnants affecting me daily #and even in just that year i somehow forgot just how easy it is to fall back into those fears #but im calm rn and able to sit outside in the dark without feeling even a smidge of fear #so jumping from noises is fine all things considered #the fact that i even got to this point is proof enough #anyway sorry for venting #silvi talks

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lupins-hehim-pussy · 4 months

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i want top neuvillette who's still femme and a crybaby my god is that so hard

#/lh #my tastes. masc bottoms femme tops #to be fair my dynamic with them is neuv gets pregnant but neuv also tops. so generally speaking. solid switches. but wrio bottoms #he's the king of the underworld after all.#i do think its hilarious tho if you look at the trends across wrlt vs nvwr interpretations #the tops always gets broadened...... masculinized.... aged #and the bottom becomes this waifish wet noodle..........#like ive seen bottom wrio with a baby face. paired with a neuv who's somehow broader than him #and alternatively ive seen the. meatiest. manliest middle-aged man wriothesley with a neuvillette who's back is perpetually arched #and im like the dimorphism is crazy /j this isnt just a strictly wrlt thing tho this is real across. every ship. that has ever existed lol #tho on a more serious note i have a big squick when it comes to bottom wrio interps where an emphasis on their dynamic is........#the fact that he's younger. or that they first met when he was a minor. im like weird thing to emphasize but ok.#disclaimer tho when i say crybaby hes not a Childish Man mind you. hes Sensitive and Awkward but he's still got that weird ancient stalenes #his voice just wobbles sometimes. he often sound like hes at the verge of tears even if his face is perfectly flat #hes autistic like that #and the sole reason why wrio doesnt top That Much is because hes fuckin tired man. eepy. hes like my god neuv if you still wanna go at it #ur gonna have to take the reins. baby im tired.#something something freakish dragon strength and stamina #personally. my hcs are as such. neuvillette is very lean. almost uncannily long if i exaggerate it for funsies. hes slenderman coded. skinn #but you find no texture underneath his skin. you can't feel bones or muscles shift when he moves when you touch him #there's this exceptional discomfort when you see him lift something that looks much heavier than he should be able to manage #almost like his long fingers might impale it. like you are balancing something soft and fleshy on a nail. it doesn't feel secure #like if wriothesley held you. his arms would feel warm and solid. thick and supportive. whereas neuv's feels like it might dig into you #i could yap all day.

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sonknuxadow · 3 months

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ive joked about it before but man i really am the only person on earth who remembers the gun commander is a character that exists arent i . because the other day when the shadow panel was happening and the voice actors were talking about their characters and how they were eachothers only friend and maria was completely isolated from other people i was like What about the gun commander . and i havent seen anyone else point the contradiction out . lmao

#okay well i cant find a video of the full panel so i cant recheck that they said those things but i swear they did i remember hearing it #for people who never played shadow the hedgehog and dont know what im talking about #its shown that one of the guys whos currently in charge at gun lived on the ark as a kid and was close friends with maria #but he hated shadow because he witnessed his creation and it scared him and he always blamed him for marias death #and its NOT one of those extremely minor details only hardcore fans would notice either . its shown in the main story #to be clear i dont even care about the gun commander as a character. hes one of the sonic characters i care about the least #i just cant help but notice people always forget about him when talking about stuff related to the ark #(like saying that maria didnt have any friends aside from shadow or that her and shadow were the only kids who lived there around that time #or that shadow was the only person who lived on the ark thats still alive)#i mean hes one of those things that wasnt in sa2/sonic x and was added in later so i guess its fair a lot of people forget. but lmao #now im wondering if sega forgot he existed or if the current voice actors just didnt know he existed in the first place #i think the second option is probably more likely because from the way they talked #it seemed like they dont really know muhc about the sonic lore aside from what theyre told about for upcoming projects #so maybe the gun commander just isnt relevant right now so they werent told about him?

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dragoncarrion · 5 months

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changing my life plans after a single 5 minute conversation

#shortext #OKAY its not a definitive or HUGE plan #but its an alternative. because my mom tells me about how it was when she lived in the coast (where i was born in actually) in her 20s #and goddd i need out i need a change of pace. i hate this city #i could study bio > marine bio > and minor in ornithology #because NO WAY IN HELL im not studying those stupid birds #but i could work at an aquarium or like. the actual sea.. i always liked the ocean #IDK THERES STILL TIME...

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aroaceacacia · 10 months

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a game i like to play with fics that are tagged with multiple disparate romantic pairings is called "control+f" and its where i hit the "entire work" button and then i control+f the name of each character in the ship im looking for fics of. because some of you will tag a pairing as both / and & for one sentence in a 20k word fic and only say their names 3 times each

#the minor or background relationships tag exists #and you can always clarify in the fic notes #disclaimer i know its also nice to be able to filter stuff out & there r ways to search ao3 to remedy stuff like this #but. its still kind of annoying. bless #bearvocalizations

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megumi-fm · 4 months

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#the secret to making friends is to let yourself annoy them #this is a joke but im also being completely serious #all my life I've been too apprehensive to make the first move because im always afraid of being bothersome #but looking back at the friendships through the past 4years at uni... im so lucky that a lot of people didn't worry about bothering me #and decided to come up and initiate conversation anyway #and also. whenever anyone has 'bothered me' by asking about me or wanting to know more... I have only felt loved and special...#so i guess what im trying to say is that #cringe culture is dead and theres nothing cool about prioritizing how you appear over the potential of a real bond #and I was born to be persistent and curious #so yeah. now that my graduate program will start in a couple months and there are opportunities to get acquainted with my classmates #I reach out to people with no attempt to hide my enthusiasm in getting to know them.#I double/triple text a lot and annoy them (affectionate) like i do my bffs and its incredible how 9/10 reciprocate that energy so quick #and despite the cultural differences and minor mistranslations/miscommunications we still manage to find common interests to discuss about #and it's like '!!!!!!! we're besties now'#yeah sure sometimes people might get a bit uncomfy and by the second message if i feel like I'm disturbing them I back off #but i won't know that until i reach out in the first place. so all in all this has worked really well for me and i love itttt #megumi in the tags

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lwcina · 5 months

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the fact that the us government can continue funding and arming a genocide despite massive public opposition really highlights how inherently non-democratic the united states is

#almost like the idea of a representative demcracy is both historically undemocratic and inherently is incapable of being so #by historically i mean that representative democracies have always meant the creation of a category of ‘citizen’ that is above ‘non-citizen #even the civilization where the term democracy comes from was patriarchal and had fucking slavery #not chattel slavery but (hot take) non chattel slavery is still bad.#also fundamentally one person can literally not represent the wishes of a large collection of people who have only geography in common.#theyre going to want different things!!!#now the idea of if democracy is inherently a virtue is like. another topic. but i will say that like seeing the history of like the #popular sovreignty movement wrt to slavery really made me question it. just because a lot of people want something to happen doesnt #actually mean it should happen. white people voted to legalize slavery #kind of where the old ‘minority’ terminology comes in. just by numbers alone in the states that had these votes it wasnt like in the south #where in the south because of plantations the actual population majority in some places was black.#but in those midwestern new states even if everyone person there could have voted. white people would still be the vasy majority.#honestly to a degree pointing out that none of the societies that have claimed to be democracies have truly been democratic is…#i guess the primary value in it is to challenge people who take state mythologies at face level #a very large population that i often forget exists.#the ‘they cant do that its illegal’ types.#anyways. if we consider that every society in documented history has had some type of violence and oppression #and if we believe that people are NOT inherently selfish/violent #it follows that what we need to do is something different than what we have been doing.#not just different from what we are doing right now. but different from what we have been doing for the past centuries #but also i can imagine that societies and ways of living that aren’t legible to the status quo or just went undocumented for other reasons #may have been more egalitarian. and we dont know due to erasure (either intentional or non-intentional)#both erasure and a fundamental inability of historians to comprehend it. similar to how cishet historians who cant fathom the idea of #transness or lesbianism talk about things.

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saltynsassy31 · 1 year

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My friend told me

This is....

WHATS THE POINT!?!?!? What's the point of even trying if every splatfest it's the same thing!?!?!?

You people in shivers team don't get how hopeless it feels because you guys keep winning, how soul crushing it is that no matter how hard you try you know your labour will be fruitless

It's awful, I don't even know why I keep coming back, maybe cuz I'm delulu and think something will change when it won't

The biggest trouble is the votes, how do they keep getting so uneven!?!? This isn't fair at all! We had no chance to begin with

I love shiver, she's not my favourite character but I love her a lot like I do with the rest, shiver isn't who I have beef with, its the people representing her

What's the point of splatfest if it doesn't matter what team you pick? This isn't fair!

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