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Dreamt of a tall husky butch that cuddled, kissed and sweet-talked me while I was having nightmares and said "this will help you" before grabbing my head by both sides and forcefully waking me up. I think that might've been a guardian angel or perhaps god
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Given how wizards are themed around higher education, with their universities and ivory towers, I wanna see more fiction that goes into their published papers.
Like, there should be massive drama in the Wizarding world about how Fantasy Wikipedia says "There's no consensus about the origins of skydoves" when in fact, there very much is, everyone knows they were created in the first or second dragon wars, and that's uncontroversial. One single wizard at the University of Towers who thinks they're an offshoot of mermaids DOES NOT MEAN IT'S AN OPEN ISSUE.
Papers that are rebuttals to other magical discoveries. Like, look, that spell just won't work, and you can't call it a "theoretical exercise" just to cover up the fact that you've not been able to cast it. You can't combine Ichthyomancy with completely unrelated elemental summonings, that's just not how magic works, in all due respect.
Thesis defense would be significantly scarier when all your reviewers can cast Everburning Fireball on your ass.
Learning Theoretical Evocation from a hungover lizardman TA at 8am, because the professor for this course has been off on the Elemental Plane of Circles for half the semester trying to finish her paper on how Centaurs predate horses rather than the other way around.
Speaking of which, the life of a wizard graduate student... You keep getting called to go on "quests" which are just overgrown research expeditions to help out some professor's project. You spent nearly a month in that damp castle capturing all the spinfrogs you could find, all to help your professor's project on the possibilities of concentrated soul essences. To this day, you still get dizzy whenever you see battlements, let alone a donjon.
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It's occurred to me that although many Locked Tomb characters have died and still managed to hold on to their positions as major onscreen characters (or gained a new position as a major onscreen character after death, e.g. Ortus) it's not really a "death is cheap" universe like Homestuck was for example, where every single character has died at least once and it was all no big deal. But it's clearly also not a "death is final" universe. So I want to propose a new category for the Locked Tomb: "death is expensive". That is, if your blorbo dies, there is still a solid chance that they will reappear onscreen at a later date, but you will have to pay a hefty fee of body horror and/or self-destructive codependent body-sharing or equivalent value for that privilege
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The thing about media literacy is that it isn't a rule or a secret or a trick. You can't learn one soundbite and be free and immune. That is, in fact, kind of the opposite of what media literacy is.
It's a skill, and more importantly, a practice-- as in, something you actively do. Like any skill, you can get better at it, but again, there's no moment when you can declare yourself Media Literate and never have to worry again. It's something you actively have to do when engaging with a text ("text" here not being limited to print or written language-- a photo, an advertisement, a movie, pretty much anything can be a text in this context). This is not particularly conducive to social media simplifications or memes, because not simplifying it is kind of the point. If you're just putting together "this work portrays a bad thing"+"authors don't always endorse what they portray"="the author is not endorsing this", you're not practicing media literacy any more than the person who puts together "this work portrays a bad thing"+"what you say and hear affects your thoughts, so never sully your mental purity with Bad Things"="the author is endorsing this"-- you're just using a different worldview as a shortcut for critical thinking. (shortcuts for critical thinking are very natural to humans! we all have them! however, using the Correct shortcut based on the Correct worldview is no more reliable than the alternative) tldr: there's not shortcut or rule that will make you Media Literate. It requires thought, effort, and engagement with the individual text, not just a set of cookie-cutter rules and soundbites.
I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."
I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.
Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.
Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.
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So this poll from @pollsnatural asked if Supernatural was the most toxic fandom people have been in, and the vast majority of folks said no, so now - based on some fandoms in the replies of that post - I'm curious...
Runners up from the linked poll include Teen Wolf, MCU, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Once Upon a Time, sports RPF, Minecraft YouTube, Dragon Age, Mo Dao Zu Shi, One Direction, a bunch of others, and a few abbreviations I'm not familiar with lmao.
I'm guessing "other" will win this poll - tell me which in the tags! I'm curious if there's any Really Big One I should have included (probably MCU...it was hard to juggle "size/popularity of fandom" with "relative toxicity" like if a fandom is huge it's usually just more toxic in general cause there are the same number of weirdos per capita but way more people overall, ya know?)
anyway. yes. poll. do the thing.
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If you had a ghost GF, do you think it would be easier to tell your friends if you had been together before she died, so people are like “oh, well, at least he’s just sticking with someone he met while she was alive, and isn’t a creepy necrophile ghost-chaser?” Or would it be better if you met when she was already a ghost, so that people are like “okay, so he’s just open-minded about whether his partners need to still be alive or not and likes the ectoplussy. At least he’s not unhealthily clinging to a relationship after a partner’s death in a way that’s probably unhealthy for him and probably keeping her from Moving On to the true afterlife?”
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i feel like no one really wants to hear that sleep/exercise/nutrition/hydration are major factors in treating mental health issues bc we’ve all talked to that person who thinks your depression would be cured by one good session of goat yoga or whatever but unfortunately they do help and i’m chronically annoyed about it
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The Monster Manual but it's blatantly written by the monsters
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It IS true that being on here gives you a tumblr accent. This morning my mother asked me something and i replied "i don't know i've never heard these words in that order" and she nearly choked laughing. It wasn't even that funny
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all i wanna do is lie in the sun!!!! read my books!!!! daydream about fictional scenarios!!!!! love without fear of abandonment!!!!!! smell like vanilla!!!!!!! cry over great poetry!!!!! sit on the grass for hours on end!!!!! not care about how others perceive me!!!!!! find god in the smallest of things!!!!! be free of guilt and shame!!!!
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can’t stop thinking about my friend’s cishet partner who said last night that he doesn’t think anyone is the same gender. god-tier take.
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people on here are always saying “we NEED a story where the art of storytelling is abandoned” like ugh literary devices are soo annoying like that wouldn’t happen in real life that only happened to further the story (why is there story in my story) why would orpheus turn around when he was explicitly told not to why would icarus fly so close to the sun romeo&juliet catcher in the rye why are they so earnest why pour your heart and soul into anything why bother why cant all art be quippy logical monotony like my marvel movies there’s a void in my heart bc i refused to fill it and the curtains were blue
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I love you all, you’ve done nothing wrong. But I’m begging you. The “kiri” in Kiriona is not pronounced like Siri on your phone. Kiriona is legit just how someone speaking te reo Māori would pronounce “Gideon”. You roll the R a little bit and it should sound a lot more like “Kee-dee-oh-nah” sorry idk how to properly write out phonetics but you get it
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