#this would be a fantastic addition

[bonebabbles]

Hi! Sorry if this ask is quite random for you to see, but is it ok to ask you that

On a scale of 1-10, how sexist and/or misogynistic would you rate the book Watership Down being?

I’m considering checking out the book, but I’m unsure whether I should do that or not due to the possible sexism within it. Thanks!

If you can't handle sexism, I would skip Watership Down. It's pretty bad in that aspect, enough that Ursula K Le Guin uses it as a major example of how misogyny expresses in xenofiction narratives.

In spite of how doe rabbits are the ones responsible for founding new warrens, the main characters are all bucks.

Does are spoken about a lot in terms of reproduction, and mostly that.

There is a massive plot point later where the all-buck party realizes they need women, and set out to get them.

There's an evil rabbit warren, and they show that this warren is evil partially because of some implied sexual assault of the does they control.

It was also written by a White British Man Of A Certain Era. It will sometimes drop a line that we find VERY racist in today's standards, particularly near the beginning where it compares the rabbit culture to... "other primitive societies."

[csphire]

Whispers and hopes when it comes to a future BG3 DLC.

For the record, I'd love to do a playthrough romancing Karlach while playing as Dammon. One where he has got some backstory rather than making a clone of him. Another to romance him while playing as Karlach. Yet another where I could romance them both as a Tav or Durge. That's how much I adore, love and relate to both of them.

Their and our stories deserve to be told.

Some of us need more sunshine in our lives too!

Feel free to use any of these for drawing references with your player characters but please tag me because one, I can't get enough of him and Karlach, and two, I want to reblog your hard work. <3

[braisedhoney]

quietly sticks small gold star stickers on each and every one of the funny little characters i can’t stop drawing. each sticker says “special little guy” with varying levels of cartoon hearts.

[morose-marble]

He was WHAT

[mistswalker]

OKAY. NEW SOTO CHARACTER INTRO TIME.

Meet Stephan Corsello~!

Former street urchin kid turned into the most scholarly sneak-thief you've ever met. He grew up picking pockets on the streets of Garenhoff and daydreaming about what fantastic magical goodies could be sealed away up in the Wizard's Tower (and what those magical goodies might be capable of).

It had always been a dream of his to be able to properly case the place. Make off with a few trinkets or a powerful relic -- nothing too noteworthy. He didn't want to pick a fight, after all. He'd just never had the chance to properly study magic and feels that artifacts are the closest he'll be able to get.

That was, until something happened to the tower, and the elementals ran wild.

As it turns out, he's not from our Garenhoff. He's from the fractal Garenhoff that spilled out of the Mists. When everything in his life upends and suddenly goes pear-shaped, he gets the bonus crisis of his entire concept of reality being overturned added shortly thereafter.

After being helped to safety by Wayfinder Arwn, and beginning to put together bits and pieces of what's happening around him, he insists on joining her to help other refugees of the shattered fractals. Now, as a new and somewhat inadvertent recruit to the Astral Ward, he accompanies her through the events of SotO to learn more about the world he came from, the world he's now in, and hopefully help stabilize the Mists.

He's got some serious lost puppy energy, and his lifelong dreams of daring adventurous capers are helping him... postpone a bit of the existential crisis of processing the reality of his existence. He can get to that later, when there aren't demons to worry about, right? Right??

[waywardsalt]

i have planned to write a pseudo-essay or some kind of detailed look at linebeck in phantom hourglass and how he can be interpreted as autistic but thats not going very well right now so here are some autistic linebeck headcanons

He has low empathy and as such has a hard time responding very well to emotional situations, but he can take advantage of his lower empathy in situations where empathy could make things harder, like tending to wounds or rationally handling emotionally-charged situations

His coat is a comfort object and he made it specifically to act as a very slight accommodation; it’s heavy and barely lets any light through it, and he can keep all kinds of little things in pockets sewn into the inner lining, but larger objects do make it more uncomfortable to wear at times. It’s mostly good to carry around things to fidget or stim with and can be helpful in trying to recover from overwhelming sensory experiences

He doesn’t usually stim in public, but taps his fingers on tables quickly and tends to rhythmically snap his fingers when excited, and on his ship is more vocal and more willing to stim, even if around others. One of his main stims that he’ll do for no particular reason is that he’ll hold his arm or back of his wrist/hand up to his nose and mouth for the smell.

He masks frequently to please people. His default mask is that arrogant and brave front he puts up for islanders and other he may come across. Usually, if that mask doesn’t work, he tends to double-down because it usually works and, in his experience, dropping the mask has usually gone badly (non masking he’s rude and blunt but more outwardly excited about adventure and his ship and all of that, i consider it where overseas in the game is when he usually isn’t masking. this shifts his arc to be about him learning to stop masking and feel comfortable being himself)

His special interests could include stuff related to treasure hunting but it could really range from stuff about adventuring or the ocean or engineering (relating to his ship) to stuff not at all touched in the game like music. He really enjoys music, listening to it, playing it, and writing it. He also enjoys and is fascinated by shellfish.

When busy or otherwise occupied, he doesn't usually notice when he's hungry. He doesn't have as much of a problem noticing thirst or exhaustion, but feeling hunger is a problem for him, and often leads to him going a long time without eating. On the other hand, he doesn't mind eating the same thing repeatedly and is perfectly fine with blander foods, so handling food supplies for when he'll be overseas for a long time is easy for him.

He knows he's autistic, he's known for a pretty long time, and he has books on it; he also knows that Link is autistic, but doesn't say anything about it and instead waits until someone else tells him. Until (and after, I suppose) Link actually learns that he's autistic Linebeck just makes sure to keep note of what accommodations he might need and if there are any textures or tastes or smells he can't stand. He doesn't have much of a problem helping out during sensory overloads, even soon after meeting him. It's more out of understanding how it feels to not have your needs met and a sort of solidarity rather than actual friendship.

[badolmen]

Supermassive games made something that was almost perfect and then decided to make several much worse things before reeling it back to something decent that makes the same damn mistake the first game made without any of the first game’s charm and cleverness to make up for it. Like you’ve had the time to figure out this professional video game thing maybe you should start acting like it lol

[chika-nyan]

Just two more months (plus 3 days in April that I left after vacation for saying goodbye forever to coworkers plus maybe hustling for some “hey we’ve been friendly, can I use you as a reference for a future job”s) to go!!! And honestly not a moment too soon as things continue to get worse :)

[flowerflamestars]

Every Acotar fic of yours is like 'canon said this so what are the practicals consequences of it?' AND I LOVE IT!!!!! "A High Lord who’d learned to control his population so acutely he was praised like a god in his streets was a nightmare beyond scope" I am not okay!!! I am going insane over this line Flowers

!!! Okay so it must be admitted this is also the fic- timeloop crack that it is- that is the ultimate approximation of consequences.

Velaris doesn't really make sense, ever! Is it the capital? Probably not, the Hewn City, horrifically, seems to hold that place. But is it the spiritual capital? Also...probably not, because, oh yeah, no one can know it exists. No one revealed it existed, under fifty years of horror because it is THAT tightly controlled.

(And they're lightly, forcibly, mind-controlled? Rhysand literally fucked with their memory?)

And...had always been? Some ancestor of Rhysand's 'made a place for dreamers'- he chose the population?

It's a whole thriving city people can't leave, who have possibly been there for generations, whose walls haven't been breached in thousands of years. It is by definition a High Lord's playground! They love their monarchy so much they- mid war recovery, in a city still literally rebuilding- give Feyre, arguably the richest woman in their little country, a building?? As thanks?

Where are the citizens of Velaris pissed as hell Rhysand violated twelve thousand years of peace?

(I think, probably, they didn't make the original cut.)

Rhys pretty clearly inherited this control and ran wild with it- see, whatever actually happened with him uh...dismissing his father's entire government and replacing them with four people??- but I love, love, love the idea that he gets worse, post-war. See: Nesta has to DIE or fall in line because she's embarrassing them? Doesn't listen? Doesn't like Rhysand?

All his simmering trauma! Feyre to protect! A baby! He's building that foregone ending on blood and bone and it is CREEPY! He's already a weirdo tyrant, but twenty years into the future, with the perfect, living propaganda of Feyre Archeron obsessed with him? ho boy.

Lucien has a serious point, in thinking it's a nightmare.

[ghostsonthebarricade]

Let’s be honest If tumblr got ahold of The Pillowman by Martin Mcdonagh there would absolutely be Ariel and Tupolski apologists

[d4rk-x-w0lf-17]

i'm honestly so hyped about the idea of silver being in the sonic movies

like imagine being sonic and another hedgehog beats the absolute shit out of you with psychokinetic powers and claims that you're going to end the world and you're just like "?????????? bro what???????? i'm literally 15 what the fuck are you talking about?????? the worst i've done is trash the living room"

[switch]

in any case, when we look at fate’s entire roster, i’ve always considered vlad one of the relatively closer translations of his real life counterpart, if anything. at least by pure virtue of being not aged down, not genderswapped, still a dude with long hair with even a relatively similar hairstyle depending on the artist, still getting facial hair, etc. i mean, that’s a big part of why i like him, he strikes an ultimately good balance between recognizability and fate’s inevitable “just let this artist do whatever the fuck” policy, and ends up overall pleasantly unique as a result. he is very much a maeda hirotaka design but if you compare him and his original vs most other guys to their originals in fgo the latter is gonna be a lot more stark because most other dudes get hit with the smooth generic mass-appeal anime mallet badly, not even counting the ones that ended up as gals…

[manyfandomsonelog]

WYCS beach day, any thoughts?

(i think virgil might like finding cool rocks cue roman going on a hunt for the COOLEST rocks to give to him)

Virgil is extremely pale and therefore extremely easily sunburnt and he ALSO doesn’t know how to swim so I picture him in shorts and a t-shirt with sunglasses and a hat on, covered in sunscreen, reluctantly getting dragged along to the beach by the other three. Logan and Patton show Virgil cool sea-creatures and plant-life left by the tide, and Roman does increasingly dangerous stunts in the water to terrify them all. After a lot of begging Virgil does eventually get coaxed into the shallow end of the water only to very quickly get into an intense splash fight with Roman that results in Virgil forgetting that he can’t swim, getting completely swept by a wave, and having to get rescued by Roman. After that they all go get ice cream away from the water

[doggytail-duck]

ST4 asks! 8, 9, 11!

Thank you so much!! :D My brain has decided to be stuck in Hawkins, I’m very excited to ramble about it!

8.One thing you would change about the season if you could?

The prison storyline, I guess! I’m not sure how I would change it, I don’t think it was bad, but something about it dragged a little compared to everything else. I’m not sure why, either, because I don’t think it got too much screentime or anything, and it did pick up towards the end, but something about it left me a bit dissatisfied.

9. Use one word to describe your overall feelings about the season

Unhinged

It’s strange because I’ve always loved the show, but I’ve never had brainrot this intense for a month straight, I think maybe it’s got something to do with the season being cut into two releases?

11. FREE SPACE! SAY WHATEVER YOU WANT TO SAY ABOUT ST4!

Man, there were so many visually cool shots! ST has been really good with those in general, but I think it should be said anyway! The transitions between Upside Down and Hawkins scenes were amazing, the one with Max at the graveyard, the one with Steve in the lake... I could go on forever lol!

And the music was on point, of course, and I expect that to continue to vol 2!

Also, the season was much scarier than previous seasons and I was not prepared for that at all. I went in expecting somewhat spooky monster stuff that wouldn’t scare me at all, but once the scary stuff really kicked into gear I was left sitting in my dark apartment like “ummm.... really regretting watching this in the dark now” :D I mean, it wasn’t like, horrifying or anything, and I got used to it really quickly, but the jarring mood shift from expecting fun - if a bit spooky - monster hunting and getting lowkey semi-brutal horror with the psychological aspect of it all thrown in was wild

Also also, I’m really intrigued by the satanic panic storyline. It’s really interesting to see as someone who did not live through it but knows it happened. It’s honestly almost more terrifying than the monsters! And, of course, it ties seamlessly with the theme of D&D that ST has always had going on, which I’ve always loved and now love even more. As a D&D player in current times it seems so silly to me that people would get so worked up about a fantasy game, even in a small town in the 80s, but at the same time it’s kinda fascinating to watch, perhaps in a morbid curiosity kind of way?

[antikosm]

Aro/Ace Terms Masterlist

Please let me know if I forgot anything

NOTE: There is a distinct difference between someone's personal orientation versus how they feel about sexuality/romanticism as a whole. Someone who's sex/romance repulsed may be in favour of open sexual/romantic expression or even vice versa (shoutout to @sowearecleariamhere for informing me of this!)

Types of attraction

Sexual - I wanna have sex with that

Romantic - I want to date that

Sensual - I want to hug that

Platonic - I want to be friends with that

Platonic crushes do exist. They are called “squishes”. You go through the same process of having a romantic or sexual crush but instead of landing them in bed, you’re on the floor at 2am with pizza rolls, Shrek in the background, talking about eldritch monstrosities (or whatever your shared interest is)

Aesthetic - that looks so heckin’ cool/pretty I love it

Intellectual - the desire to engage with another in an intellectual manner, i.e. having a conversation, picking their brain, and finding out how they think

Terms describing degree of attraction

Aromantic - lack of romantic attraction

Asexual - lack of sexual attraction

Aplatonic - lack of platonic attraction

Aroace - lack of both sexual and romantic attraction

Demi - attraction only forms once a strong emotional bond has been formed

Grey/gray - rarely/seldom experiences attraction

Allosexual - someone who experiences sexual attraction

I think I’ve also heard/seen it referred to as ‘arosexual’ but that’s honestly a bit confusing

Alloromantic - someone who experiences romantic attraction

I personally shorten both of those to “allo” (pronounced ‘aloe’)

Apothiosexual - sex-repulsed

Apothioromantic - romance-repulsed

Apothiaroace - often shortened to just ‘apothi’. In addition to being aroace, apothis are repulsed by romantic/sexual scenes, items, displays, etc. to varying degrees

Sex-neutral and sex-positive/favourable aces exist as well

Not all of us have the same level of comfort with sexual and romantic activities so please check. I mean that applies to everyone anyway, but please check and don’t assume that just because someone is aro/ace, that doesn’t mean they are sex/romance repulsed

Queerplatonic - Queerplatonic typically refers to a relationship that bends the lines between a romantic relationship and a non-romantic relationship. A queerplatonic relationship (QPR) often goes beyond what is socially acceptable for a platonic relationship but does not fit the typical notion of a romantic relationship.

Alterous attraction - a type of emotional attraction to someone that isn’t entirely romantic or platonic.

Chastity - actively refraining from sexual activities. This is NOT part of the ace/aro spectrum, though it is a common assumption when someone says they are ace/aro. Thankfully we’re getting a bit more representation in media now so it’s not as common of an assumption as it used to be, but it’s still there, especially in those communities.

An absolute FANTASTIC addition by @heyftinally in case anyone doesn't see the repost

Gonna expand on sex favorable/neutral/repulsed, since this is a masterlist after all: - Sex favorable - regardless of your sexual orientation, you personally want to engage in sexual activity with someone (significant other, one night stand, friends with benefits, etc) - Sex neutral - if you're with someone who wants to engage in sexual activities then you may or may not, depending on a variety of factors, but you have no strong inclinations for or against engaging in sex itself as an activity. Basically it's "alright" Sex repulsed/averse - the idea of personally engaging in sexual activities makes you want to hurl/cry/claw your skin off/spontaneously combust. If someone suggested doing sexual activities together, you would probably vehemently say "No!" before they even finished the question. You would rather do anything else - Sex positive - refers to your attitudes about sex in general. Regardless of where you fall in the above three terms, you recognize that other people want to, and should have the freedom and right to, engage in consensual sexual activities, even if you personally don't like or want those activities. Essentially shorthand for "I respect the right of other adults to have gay sex, have gender-weird sex, have sex with multiple people in and out of monogamous relationships/marriages, and have weird, wild, freaky kinky sex, so long as all participants and consenting adults". You can still personally want zero sex for yourself or think a particular kink is weird/ick, but you can, in tumblr speak, be normal about consenting adults doing consenting adult stuff - Sex negative - conservative purity culture, basically. You think nobody should have sex ever, or at least not until marriage, and when they do it should only be the "right" or "good" kind, as arbitrarily decided by you/society/some collective. You think badly of, look down on, and may even treat badly anyone who doesn't have the "right" kind of sex in your opinion. You are not normal about consenting adults doing consenting adult activities (even though they don't involve you in any way)

A wonderful addition from @overlord-of-chaos Sex aversion is not the same thing as sex repulsed.

If you are sex adverse, you personally have no desire to partake in any of those actions but seeing or knowing other people partake in that doesn't bother you.

Sex repulsion is when you can't stand doing it yourself, seeing/hearing about/knowing that others partake in it, or even just the idea of it.

Microlabels/Terms describing flavour of attraction

Note: -sexual is used for many of these so we don't have to deal with duplicates confusing things. All of these prefixes can be used with -romantic, -sexual, -platonic, and I imagine -alterous as well

Abrosexual - orientation fluctuates between a variety of orientations

Aceflux - similar to abrosexual, but orientation is contained to asexual spectrum

Acespike - someone who is asexual but may experience intense, brief, and random bouts of sexual attraction

Aegosexual - disconnect between oneself and the target of arousal

Amicusromantic/sexual - only experiences romantic attraction to those who they have formed a platonic relationship with (subset of demi)

Angled aroace - the same as oriented, but for those who are demi, grey, flux, etc.

Anthrosexual - someone who is attracted to humans and alterhumans regardless of gender identity/expression

Bellussexual - has interest in the aesthetic/aspects/certain sexual actions, but does not experience sexual attraction or want a sexual relationship

Caedsexual - previously allo, but now ace due to past trauma

Cupiosexual - wanting a sexual relationship but not experiencing sexual attraction

Finsexual/gynesexual - attraction to femininity

Fraysexual - opposite of demi. Attraction dissipates once an emotional connection has been formed

Linsexual - attraction to androgyny

Lithosexual - experiencing sexual attraction but not wanting it to be reciprocated

Loveless Romantic/Lovelessromantic - those who cannot feel love or feel disconnected from love but can feel romantic attraction/don't feel disconnected from the concept of romance

Minsexual/androsexual - attraction to masculinity

Orchid - the opposite of cupio; experiences ____ attraction but has no desire for a relationship of that type

Placiosexual - not wanting to be on the receiving end of sexual activities but wishing to perform them on others

Quiosexual - unable to distinguish between sexual attraction and other forms of attraction

Qui(r)oromantic - inability to distinguish between platonic and romantic attraction

Reciprosexual - not experiencing sexual attraction towards someone until you discover they experience sexual attraction towards you

Requiessexual - similar to caedsexual, but rather than trauma, ace identity originates from a state of emotional exhaustion, usually from a past sexual experience

Oriented aroace -  an aromantic asexual (aroace) individual who experiences a form of tertiary attraction, that they feel is significant enough to warrant a place alongside their aroace orientation. (i.e. gay aroace, bi aroace)

Angled aroace - someone who is on the aroace spectrum (grey, demi, fray, etc) who experiences a type of attraction significant enough to stand alongside their aroace orientation

Examples of mixed orientations

Heteroromantic asexual biplatonic

Poly greyromantic pansexual

Apothi abroplatonic

Placiosexual aromantic finplatonic

Aroace cupioplatonic

Pan lithioromantic

Fraysexual biromantic aplatonic

You can get WAY more specific than what these cover, but just to give a general idea

Amatonormativity

Amatonormativity is the assumption that all human beings pursue love or romance, especially by means of a monogamous long-term relationship. The term was coined by Elizabeth Brake, in her book Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law (2011).

[kindgreenape]

playing pentiment (fantastic fucking game by the way) has really reminded me how crazy disco elysium is from a production standpoint. i mean who in their right mind would not only make the decision to have a game with that many branching dialogue paths, but to have it almost entirely voice acted! that’s nuts! all those additional lines, all those additional dialogue clips for something only a small fraction of players will actually see!