#perhaps exclusively

[trans-loki]

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[queerslurheritageposts]

Is there a bisexual slur I can start reclaiming I’m a he/him if that helps

may i interest you in faggot

[emoreooo]

oh wow sports

[communistkenobi]

I’m thinking about how administrative leave requests would work in starfleet and it’s gotta be a huge pain in the ass right. vulcans would probably need a special expedited leave request process for pon-farr, because they become violent/die if they don’t excuse themselves to have sex asap, but this is probably a narrow accommodation only granted to vulcans, so if they were dating a non-vulcan who had to go through normal, slower leave request procedures that would cause logistical issues cuz emergency pon farr admin leave only works if both parties can do it at the same time, so if you’re a non-vulcan dating a vulcan you would have to probably apply to get that accommodation extended to you, and because I’m assuming starfleet operates on the same punitive logics as contemporary bureaucracies do, they’d be paranoid about non-vulcans “cheating the system” by falsely claiming they were dating a vulcan to get their leave request expedited, so they’d probably require proof of marriage or long-term cohabitation with a vulcan in order for a non-vulcan to get approved for that kind of thing, meaning casual or otherwise non-normative vulcan/non-vulcan couples in starfleet would be administratively marginalised and (re)produce a culture deriding interspecies dating, especially because humans seem to be kinda default racist towards vulcans in star trek in general, so they would probably view a human dating a vulcan as getting “special privileges” for administrative leave even though it’s just a basic accommodation. this is a classic example of how administrative apparatuses operating on a liberal conception of equity can reproduce systems of racial discrimination

[croakings]

i apologize for mithrunposting incessantly but honestly if any of you expected better of me you shouldn't have

anyway i get it and some of the failguy jokes are funny. i can tell that nothing i've run into is even malicious. but also it would be really cool and awesome if there were simply less posts calling a disabled person a failure or baby or a dog or whatever for needing accommodation or extra help, especially when like. hey did you know the source material very on purpose did not do anything remotely like that. critical thinking question: could there be some reasons these phrases are not great, potentially

[tautline-hitch]

also realized while rereading Aeneid 6 that the way Horace uses Orpheus-summoning-Eurydice to address Virgil in Odes 1.24 really matches nothing in Georgics 4 so closely as it matches Aeneas's plea to the sibyl:

si potuit Manis accersere coniugis Orpheus Threicia fretus cithara fidibusque canoris (Aen. 6.119–20)

"If Orpheus availed to summon his wife's shade, strong in his Thracian lyre and tuneful strings..." (Fairclough)

quid si Threicio blandius Orpheo auditam moderere arboribus fidem num vanae redeat sanguis imagini...? (Odes 1.24.13–15)

"What if you could play more charmingly than Thracian Orpheus the lyre once heeded by the trees? Would blood return to the empty wraith...?" (Rudd)

the conditional, the epithet, fidem / fidibus, the fact that V cuts off the question (the next line moves off to Castor & Pollux) but H completes the thought (a very Horatian 'well, and?').......

thinking about what this means in light of dates (probably just that H was reading Aeneid 6 in early draft, which doesn't seem implausible at all; less likely but more interesting, V responding to H responding to V). but also thinking about Odes 4.12 again. what it means to address the dead man whom you instructed not to mourn too long for the dead. and, because This Is How Literature Works—at least if you insist on striking your head on the stars—to keep doing it after you yourself have died.

... Eurydicen vox ipsa et frigida lingua, a miseram Eurydicen! anima fugiente vocabat Eurydicen toto referebant flumine ripae. (Geo. 4.525–27)

Eurydice that voice and cold tongue called Ah poor Eurydice with dying breath Eurydice the riverbanks returned

[gorepill]

the beauty of Troll Quadrants is your characters can have all the orinetations ever*. Furnos? AroAce for Black Rom and Auspsisitiisitsiivieieieisisei (i can't spell it fuck it). Biromantic Bisexual for matespritship. Panromatic Asexual for moirailiegance. AND she's trans AND she did her own surgeries AND she's got a lot of trauma... AWESOME

[springlock-suits]

Fnaf-tober | Day 17: Weird Science

For this day I decided to draw @miiilowo's William from it's old Weird Science dtiys!

He is very fun to draw but also very much a challenge for me bdjsbdks

Fnaf-tober by miiilowo

[bloodyarn]

Following Puck's and Astarion's thread because I sippy sip my cold drink to this. As Babette is doing in her tent right now. Probably-

[cattons]

emerald fennell will get on her zoom and say [posh voice] Nooo no darling the rich people are the worrssstt. You’re supposed to side with the povvo. referring to the 130 minute film she helmed in which a family of prejudiced but loveable aristocrats are murdered and usurped by an upper middle class lunatic

[indelicateink]

in rereading Rolin Jones' quote last year where he says "there has been a story that has been told to louis, that louis told to himself, that maybe armand has told to him, too," and with the recent grim 1940s!louis-holding-a-mask-of-lestat's-face-that-has-the-pattern-of-blood-on-it from-That-Night poster,

i'm thinking about this quote today from Jacob Anderson (Variety, Nov. 13, 2022):

“For Anderson, the most intriguing question coming off the [season 1] finale is what influence Armand has had on Louis between his time with Lestat until the man we see Molloy interviewing in 2022.

“‘They’ve been in a relationship for a long time, these two,’ [Jacob Anderson] says. ‘You have to assume the way Louis is now has a lot to do with his relationship with Armand, probably even more than his relationship with Lestat.’”

the actor that Jacob Anderson is.

dubai!louis is so divorced from new orleans!louis. these are not moods and expressions and ways of expressing himself we see in the early 20th C (unless an alderman is being murdered or there's a mardi gras afterparty).

(there are of course moments during his storytelling where he breaks through and has some passion and humanity instead of this brittle detachment and dissociation, but those moments tend to be about the past.)

so yeah. curious how much "the way louis is now" is due to armand...?

[appallinnballin]

hey do you happen to know any songs that suit ruvente (or them individually). or have a playlist. for research purposes. your art of them fucking rules btw i can die in peace

I CAN GIVE YOU THREE OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD

Analyse - The Cranberries

Wicked Game - Chris Isaak

Down - Stone Temple Pilots

also thabks you so much 🥺🥺!!!!

[heckyeahponyscans]

currently on eBay, and as with all my Care Bear listings a portion of the sale goes directly to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund :)

[darkfictionjude]

I can excuse a lot of stuff in dark romance but cheating aint one of em

Id rather have dante kidnap mc and keep her locked up for eternity cuz he wants her and would kill himself if he cant

than to have carmen whos not even able to be loyal, pff

Technically it wouldn't be cheating as she doesn't want to be in a relationship...

[starleska]

just finished watching Megamind vs the Doom Syndicate and i have some thoughts!! please do take this with a grain of salt as i'm just one person; i absolutely do not want to rain on anyone's parade!! if this is your favourite movie, don't worry about the gripes of some stranger on the internet 🥰

let's start with the positive!! despite what some people are saying there are things to enjoy about the film, and i think that lies in the fun of Megamind's old crew. although Behemoth looks a little phoned-in and Pierre Pressure was an easy joke, i really enjoyed the designs for Lady Doppler and Lord Nighty-Knight. the scenes they were in with Megamind were definitely the most engaging!! but that's...about where my enjoyment of the film ends. i think the film's biggest sin is the enormous amount of exposition-dumping and telling rather than showing. there were so many times where characters just...stated things about themselves, or spoke aloud why they were feeling the way they are. they're like...character notes that a writer jots down to keep track of emotional journeys. it really breaks the immersion and makes the characters feel mechanical, clunky, and a bit of a hivemind. Megamind and Roxanne in particular feel quite stripped of their original personalities, which is such a shame. then there's drastic reduction of chemistry between Megamind and Roxanne. canonically, this movie only takes place a couple of days after the events of Megamind, but the two are barely affectionate with one another to the point that it's weird. perhaps it was written as them being comfortable with one another, but at times it almost felt like there was dislike between the two of them...especially from Roxanne's side!! Megamind is hardly recognisable compared to his lovestruck counterpart from the first movie, and Roxanne's bold, caring nature seems to have evaporated. it makes it very hard to get invested in their relationship at all 💔 speaking of Roxanne, i find it such an odd choice to make Roxanne have an existential crisis about being dissatisfied with her life just a few days after the events of the previous film...you'd think she'd want to take it easy for a while! i feel this characterisation of Roxanne does her a lot of disservice, and reduces her more to plot functionality. Roxanne doesn't strike me as the kind of woman who'd be starstruck re: some kid's online following and decide she's inadequate by comparison. again, a lot of the things we love Roxanne for were just quite...absent, from this movie. you could predict what she was going to say well ahead of time, because she was just following the beats of the plot 😓 and the time-retcon...isn't it a bit weird that Megamind is a complete Internet n00b? it's one thing for him to be a bit out-of-touch with Gen Z (as he's relatable to us neurotypicals given his alien grasp on certain concepts), but he seems completely baffled by the concept of streaming and followers at all, and this movie takes place in a post-2020 timeframe. it's odd because Megamind is already established as a tech genius in the first movie, and we know he's somewhat affiliated with Internet slang by his use of LOL : ) when texting Roxanne!! perhaps this is a small nitpick that can be explained away, but it seems like a baffling choice and an excuse to write in a trendy character for the kids to relate to 😵 then, moving onto Keiko...she wasn't terrible by any means! but i wish she was more than a social media influencer to get Megamind with the times. if she's Megamind's number 1 fan, surely she would have been his fan while he was a villain...couldn't that have made for an interesting moral dilemma along with the return of the Doom Syndicate: having a child trying to follow in his previously-villainous footsteps? what about Keiko being taken under the wing of the Doom Syndicate after Megamind became a hero? 👀 those are my thoughts for now...i do hope all those talented Megamind fans will build upon these flaws in the movie and create more compelling stories from it 🙏💖

[stardestroyer81]

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