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"why couldn't shuro have just been honest about what he felt with laios and falin it's not that hard" are you. are you White
#dungeon meshi#shuro#toshiro nakamoto#look you can hate him for other things but this is very clearly a case of cultures (& personalities influenced by these cultures) clashing#shuro is japanese/east asian-coded and laios is european white boy#i am not japanese but i also come from a collectivistic society#pakikisama is a filipino value both prized and abhorred#it relies heavily on being able to read social cues and prior knowledge of societal norms#shuro being from a different country/culture is important to his character#his repressed nature is meant to contrast with laios' open one like that's the point#they both had similar upbringings but different coping mechanisms#shuro explicitly admits that he's jealous of laios being able to live life sincerely#anyway the point is they were operating on different expectations entirely and neither had healthy enough communication skills#to hash things out before they got too bad#re his attraction to falin i personally believe he unfortunately mpdg-ed her#she represented something new & different. a fresh drink of water for his parched repressed self#alas not meant to be#i'll be honest the way ryoko kui handles both fantasy & regular racism in dm is more miss than hit for me#i don't doubt that a lot of the shuro hate is based off of marcille's pov of him#marcille famously racist 😭#characters' racist views don't often get (too) challenged#practically everyone is casually racist at some point#anyway. again if you're gonna hate shuro at least hate him for being complicit in human trafficking & slavery#he couldn't help falling for the wrong woman goddamn 😭#calemonsito notes#edit: upon further reflection i take back what i said about toshiro mpdg-ing falin!#i'm sorry toshiro 😭
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non-exhaustive list of canon powers Nico di Angelo either has shown or is heavily implied to have:
Shadow-travel
Manipulation of shadows/darkness (also possibly use of shadows as a pocket-dimension a la Magicians using the Duat in The Kane Chronicles)
Becoming intangible/shadows
Complete control over skeletons/bones (dead or alive, including summoning, reanimation, and/or changing shape of them) and being able to sense their presence
Summoning, reanimating, commanding, and dispelling the dead/undead (Skeletons, zombies, ghosts, etc & varieties) and being able to sense their presence
Ability to understand/communicate with the dead/undead and potentially other beings of the Underworld
Inherent complete comprehension of Latin
Ability to perceive the usually unperceivable/possibly look upon a deity’s true form without repercussion (at least moreso than the average demigod, though possibly is restricted to chthonic beings) (ex: Tartarus, potentially also interacting with his parents, etc)
Interacting tangibly with ghosts (implied to be a Ghost King thing rather than a Hades/Pluto thing)
Partial or complete immunity to different effects of the Underworld/things within (can consume food/drink of or in the Underworld without repercussions, effects from the Lethe wear off over time instead of being permanent like usual for mortals, etc)
Astral projection/”Walking in dreams”
Dream manipulation and projection (Sending dreams to others, etc.) (presumably includes sharing/projecting dreams with others) alongside inflicting sleep upon others even from a distance.
Illusions
Manipulation of emotions/aura that inflicts specific emotions on others (ex.: radiating fear/death onto enemies)
Projection of emotions and memories onto others (can be so forceful it causes physical damage like a shockwave)
Geokinesis (all forms but also specifically generating black marble) (presumably also specialized control over precious gemstones & non-paper currency)
Temperature manipulation (seemingly only lowering temperature)/creating frost)
Control/manipulation of souls, including living beings (ex: ripping out Bryce Lawrence’s soul)
Perceiving/reading/judging of souls (most likely also a Ghost King thing over Hades/Pluto thing, but possibly both)
Converting living into dead/undead, aka instakill (ex: disintegrating monsters to bone with one touch)
Lowering or manipulation of own vitals (breathing, heart rate, etc)
Death Trance/pseudo-hibernation (possibly also general control over states of consciousness at least for self, in combo with control over vitals & dreams)
Sensing death (impending or when it occurs, sometimes receiving dreams/visions of it occurring)
Able to sense other children of Hades/Pluto (potentially also other chthonic beings in general/able to identify based on sense alone) and also just living beings in general, such as mortals (possibly via souls).
Improved navigation underground/in the Underworld and ability to traverse restricted or normally unnavigable parts of the Underworld
Enhanced strength/abilities when in the Underworld
Inherently unnaturally quiet (possibly able to silence sound on a designated target)
Hiding/shielding self from being perceived (seemingly related to shadows/silence)
#pjo#riordanverse#nico di angelo#long post //#MY BOY IS OP AS FUCK and i love this about him#so many of these are so underutilized#when will Nico get to use his geokinesis again#we only see him make marble once in BoTL and then never again#based on that he should theoretically be able to do everything Hazel can do. which also implies Hazel can do everything he can do#let Hazel summon a skeleton for once and Nico hits somebody with a rock cmon#also i still firmly believe Nico should get to turn invisible#we've seen him become intangible. his dad's notable item is a helm that makes you invisible. let him turn invisible.#but yeah big 3 kids are op. look at nico go. and this is just physical abilities not including stuff like Annabeth being smart#or cabin 7 kids being good at music or whatever#presumably for Nico/Hazel it'd be like a penchant for diplomacy and legality-related things presumably#and i like to hc he has a personal inherent knowledge bank of everyone who has ever died in his lifetime - just details about their deaths#mostly anyways and then like basic facts about who they were/next of kin/etc#so they can tap into that at any time and be like ''hold on lemme look this person/their relatives up real quick''#i usually like to write that as how Nico confirmed what was up with Jason when they first met#he just kind of squinted at Jason and went ''okay. hm. who are you next of kin of? Beryl - OH YOU'RE THALIA'S BROTHER''
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still mad about this post lol so let me also say: “they taught us critical thinking in english class” is extra funny to me because there’s a genuine debate among Ed Heads about whether “critical thinking” as a discrete and decontextualized skillset can actually be taught :) so it’s pretty silly to go around confidently branding yourself as a critical thinker while simultaneously revealing that you’re extremely comfortable making assumptions about the relative simplicity of complex ideas which remain contested in their respective fields :) personally i would be pretty embarrassed to call myself a critical thinker if i also couldn’t stop myself from revealing i was totally lacking in the intellectual humility that would enable me to understand that we have yet to reach consensus on unbelievably complicated issues like how best to educate an entire population :) but i guess i was absent the day that tenth grade english covered running your mouth like an asshole on social media :)
#for someone so convinced english class made you smart you’re saying some pretty stupid shit!#i’m also genuinely curious about this person’s english class bc i went to a fancy high school and my english teachers were mostly fine#and i would not connect literally anything we ever did there to the concepts of media literacy or misinformation spotting#i would also be shocked if a majority of current high school english teachers are good at those things themselves. lol.#remember: teachers are being taught that learning styles are real and most of them never question it!#btw i’m inclined to go with the ‘critical thinking is discipline specific and can’t be taught as a Thing crowd’#my unsubstantiated hunch is that like#being exposed to critical thinking processes in a variety of different fields#can build the kind of intellectual humility that is the most important prerequisite for critical thinking#like because i know how much goes into ‘knowing’ something historically#i know that i can’t really meaningfully critically think about high level debates in biology because the knowledge base isn’t there#and knowing that is IMO its own form of critical thinking#but that’s me spitballing based on vibes
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was recently party to a Terrible Plumbing Incident, so here are some shame-free tips for people whose parents never taught them how not to wreck a toilet:
never flush anything other than toilet paper or like,, a single paper towel (this excludes tiny things like bugs and chewed gum)
this ^ does NOT exclude things like pads, tampons, diapers. tragically, sometimes bio waste has to be thrown away. just bag it up.
if you’re taking a huge shit, flush halfway through so there’s less risk of it clogging the pipes
additionally, flush before you wipe for the same reason, and if you’re using a ton of tp, you can flush in the middle of that too. remember- no matter what they taught you about water conservation when you were a kid, it’s always better to be the guy who flushed a weird number of times than the guy who blocked up the toilet
relatedly, you do not need mummy hand when you wipe. 4-5 squares should do it when you pee, and if it’s messier (poop, period, etc), use that amount and just repeat until clean instead of using one huge wad
bonus:
if you go to the bathroom and leave any visible residue, you have to clean it up. if it’s on the seat, wipe it off. if it’s in the bowl, look around for one of those gross little brushes and see if you can scrub it away.
similarly, you should clean your toilet with a brush and actual toilet cleaner every few weeks if not every week, because it holds all the gross stuff and also is wet, so mold loves it in there
if you’re having a huge shit, turn on the fan lol
also, if you were neglected as a kid and you have questions about “basic” stuff like hygiene, chores, etc. because no one ever taught you, and you’re too nervous/embarrassed to ask anyone irl, you are more than welcome to send me a dm or an ask and I will do my best to help 💜
#I have been in multiple close relationships with ppl who were neglected by their parents#and while my parents were awful they at least weren’t awful Like That#so I have a good knowledge base and I also understand not to blame or mock peoples ignorance#so anyway. my anons and messages are open ❤️#personal#unsanitary
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Love being able to write. I can do whatever i want. I can make Ryuji interact w Lala-chan and u literally cant stop me.
#chattin#i feel like shinjuku and crossroads doesnt get enough love#ohya and lala dont get enough love 😭#if they had an option to work there as a parttimer some how my akira wouldve absolutely taken it#u never see the place packed or w customers at all; it just feels cozy every time u go there#akira doesnt have a lot of places free from prying eyes; so id imagine he goes there often to just hang and study#catch up w ohya and get a bit of knowledge and validation from lala#like shes so sweet. i love her. she comes across as wise without being unapproachable#she makes comments she shouldnt (talking about ohyas job and history) bc she just forgot that she shouldnt lol#adamant about not letting him drink while hes there. its like. a safe space for him.#and i think hed like to invite his friends into his safe space; esp ryuji#gets to a point where even ryuji stops by on his own sometimes.#hes got questions but hes always in his head; never says it out loud#but it leads him in the right direction almost all the time#im thinkin of him having like. the most base level internalized homophobia and transphobia#like the kind of shit you just pick up as a child and teen and never question#and u kinda make fun of it bc everyone else is. but akira stumbles into his life and makes it so confusing#like. i dont think hed be trans. but akira would make him second guess alot about himself#about what he likes. what hes into. what hes okay w doing w someone like akira#and lala is like. u got that look in ur eyes kid. come sit.#doesnt entirely get it. but he feels a little lighter. not on labels but on his feelings#‘kid. u think of the ideal person and u think of him. at that point; it dont matter what bits he got.’#and its blunt and MAYBE it gets him a little flustered. but hes always responded well to blunt words. no beating around the bush#makes his brain confront shit head on without the second guessing hed suffer through when left on his own#WAA. rambling.#gonna see if i can draft this up at some point
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hi! just to clarify, are we able to check sources (field guides, birding apps, etc) to help us ID the species, or are we supposed to guess without looking anything up? so far ive just been guessing 😅
Howdy!
You can't cheat on a quiz that isn't graded.
That being said, the vision has always been to treat it like you're out birding. However you handle it out there is how you'd ideally play it here.
Ultimately, play this in a way that would be the most fun to you. The only prize is learning a bit more about bird identification.
🧡🦆
#if you'd like to guess with your base knowledge then go for it#that's how id personally play it#wtbguide#ask
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Is it normal to ask a question at work via email to multiple professionals who have more expertise in the particular area, get a response from one of those individuals, find out you might have sent some of the wrong people your question email, and then spend the rest of the day panicking because if you think you look stupid? Even though one of the people you emailed was in fact the correct person to email, and that person helped you figure out what actually was going on because you didn't know what it was because you were not the specialist in that area, which is why you emailed three people because you knew one of those three would be the specialist that could help you? And one person was the specialist, who came and was able to help you figure out the next steps to work through the situation?
This can't be normal. I feel like normal people don't focus on whether or not they look stupid when they first of all got the answer to their question, and second of all did indeed find one of the people out of their email who could help them answer the question.
#why am I focusing on the fact that it made me feel stupid?#the reason that I ask for help is because this is a special situation that I am not familiar with#I asked two students on this particular student's team and another person who is my friend who has a different specialized skill#everybody on the email is relevant to the situation based on my knowledge at the time#and the one person who I was on the fence about is my friend so its even less weird to email them#but why am I stuck on the fact that I added a few wrong people to the email#especially considering the fact that I noted that it was one of two for both of the major disabling conditions that I am not the expert in#why the hell do I feel stupid this is ridiculous#in which sara is a teacher
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essentially, any urge that I have ever had to have sex with someone as an ace person, even before I knew I was ace, has been an urge to fulfill a sexual role.
we live in an allonormative society. our society is built on the premise that two people will form exclusive sexual pairs. sex is incentivized under an allonormative society because it produces material benefits for those who abide by its rules. a man benefits from allonormativity in that sexuality is an act of conquest, and further, a means to produce children which serve as stores of wealth. a woman benefits less from allonormativity, but her value as a sex object for men grants her conditional, limited access to a man's resources by occupying the role of mother to his children.
a tranny, on the other hand does not have access to this role. a tranny's worth is derived solely from her ability to act as a sex object. she can be discarded at a moment's notice when she ceases to be useful.
because we live in an allonormative society, this holds true in queer culture as well, even in the absence of cisheteropatriarchal dynamics.
so what is a tranny that doesn't want to have sex, then?
worthless. why would you even waste your time thinking about it? it doesn't deserve the time of day. love? you think a tranny that you can't fuck deserves love? are you an idiot?
I fantasize about having sex with people from time to time because at least then I can imagine that I'm worth something in this allonormative society. any attempt I have ever made to seek out sex has been met with immediate disinterest because I make no attempt to hide the fact that I'm ace. I don't mean rejection; I mean my very existence is outright ignored.
worst of all, it feels impossible to discuss this. the idea of asexual people suffering from compulsory sexuality upsets allosexuals' sensibilities. clearly, they insist, my urge to have sex just proves that I'm faking it, that I'm not asexual, that I just want to feel special, that I'm just pretending to be oppressed.
what they don't understand is that my urge to have sex is essentially a form of self-harm. I could not even begin to explain the toll it has taken on my psyche and the damage it has done to my self-esteem. I would compare it to the urge to detransition; I know that if I detransitioned, I would gain access to privileges that are unavailable to me as a tranny. however, forcing myself to be something I'm not, something which is a massive contradiction to my very existence, is a march toward suicide. the urge to force myself to be allosexual is much the same.
there is no freedom to be found for me in indulging this urge. the greatest freedom I have found is in embracing my asexuality, in seeking out relationships with other asexuals, where there is no pressure to have sex, and where I can truly be myself.
#please do not take this as formal theory I have done no reading on the subject of asexuality (although I want to)#this is entirely a personal post based on my present knowledge and reflections on the matter#personal
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not even gonna tag this properly bc i don't wanna get Involved but i do have some Thoughts i need to get out into the void so here we go
(aaa quick edit: CW for mention/discussion of Boothill leaks)
#today's gone Badly and i'm upset but instead of venting abt it i'm gonna channel that energy into doing a bit of tag rambling abt Boothill#well. less abt Him and more abt uh. self-analyzing my anxiety surrounding contributing to fandoms. he's just today's catalyst#like. i know it's mostly a me thing. i'm hypersensitive to criticism and very conflict avoidant + socially anxious + perfectionistic etc.#so I'm the one that keeps myself from posting more stuff out of fear of being criticized or called-out for what i've made#bc inevitably Someone's gonna see it and think its OOC or a problematic take or they'll misread my intent. etc etc what have you#but like. that's inevitable. there's no way to communicate every single thing with all of the nuance required to avoid misunderstandings#and other times it's not a misunderstanding it's just a difference of opinions and that's Fine!! there's no accounting for personal taste#there's no accounting for several things actually. taste‚ bias‚ lore-knowledge‚ differing levels of chronic-online-ness‚ etc#so this isn't me complaining abt the state of fandom culture (although i do think. sometimes. ppl take shit a bit too seriously)#but anyways all of this is mostly just anxiety-fueled. it's not like i very often actually even receive negative feedback or anything#if anything ppl tend to tell me that i'm overthinking it and killing my own fun and worried that my stuff is more OOC than it is#which like. yeah. Yeah u right :) but that's just the way that i am! always losing the idgaf war i suppose#anyways what's Boothill got to do w this ur wondering. well. i've been thinking abt the quickly emerging concept that he's illiterate.#and it just. has me feeling a lot of ways. and watching ppl disagree over it has me feeling some Bad ways. bc it's def a loaded topic!#if you'll pardon the pun there. and i don't rlly have anything new to add other than that i'm conflicted abt it.#like yeah i saw the leaks days ago. of him mentioning 'not hitting the books' much as a child when we ask him why he sends voice messages#or voice Transcriptions ig. ykwim. and like. *braces for impact* ...i liked it? like. it doesn't feel right to call it endearing#i'm not trying to infantilize him. ok that's not the right word either but ugh. you know? what i mean?? who am i kidding even i don't know#it's not quite right to say that it feels like Representation either. but it's something close i guess#as a southern person myself who didn't receive a 'complete' education due to factors that weren't to do with my intelligence#the concept of seeing him as a capable force to be reckoned with and respected who also happens to have not received much formal education#i like that. i do. but there's so many issues w it at the same time. like. as i said‚ being southern myself has me Wary of the way Hoyo is-#writing him. as well as of the way that the fandom is taking the bits of his lore and running away w them. and i'm Very aware of how ppl-#will see a southern character and be All Too Eager to agree that they're lacking intelligence based on our Redneck™ stereotype#sigh. and before we even go too far with this. it's not even confirmed that hes completely illiterate. which is a valid criticism i've seen#there's Multiple reasons that could make him prefer voice to text. but regardless. i'm just worried that ppl will misconstrue my intentions#like. example: that edit i made the other day of him saying 'no thanks i can't read'. wasn't me playing into the stereotype of-#'haha dumb country boy can't read!' it was. in my eyes. something he'd say as a joke to make light of a potential insecurity#like. i think there's far more depth to Boothill's character if ppl could look past the surface. and i dont wanna contribute to the problem#but sometimes ppl Will have stereotypical traits and i wish the same could apply to characters as long as it's done Thoughtfully.
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oomf was talking about this combi and I remembered the season 25 episode where they interact for like 30 seconds. and then i got progressively more invested
#quirinahdraws#WHATEVERRRR *exploding*#nintama#nintama rantarou#忍たま乱太郎#rkrn#nanamatsu koheita#tachibana senzou#i don’t know if i actually do ship them romantically but it’s a very fun idea to think about#Listen Listen Listen. Can anyone hear me. i just think koheita is way smarter than he looks (crazy person)#BUT REALLY. he’s quite knowledgeable and he’s very sincere and good and reading people but he’s also super intuitive#and makes most of his decisions on the spot based on how he reads a situation and how he feels so he’s difficult to keep up with#it would just be fun to see senzou whos also really smart! but likes being in control and looking unflappable and perfect#falling for a guy who he can’t read but who’s super sincere and encouraging nevertheless… (forlorn)#HE SAW THROUGH SABUROU’S DISGUISE OF SENZOU IN THE 5TH YEARS VS 6TH YEARS ARC CAN ANYONE HEAR MEEEEE (is dragged offstage)#こへ仙#kohesen#but i think they would be a fun duo nevertheless! I can’t write dialogue but i saw someone way long ago talking about how it would be fun t#see senzou as the planner/espionage kind of strategist and koheita as the guy who gets in and gets stuff done…#OR PLANNING TOGETHER I can’t write dialogue but I like to think about koheita already having assessed the circumstance and just#cooking up a plan on the fly…#I do think senzou is kind of like monjirou where he’s a little bit of a softie at heart but he isn’t around koheita all the time like monji#so it might be fun to see him more flustered/being unable to read kohe….i want to see them get along too…. (crazy person)#digital
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Just making a general post real quick in response to an ask.
When I say I'm anti-ai I mean I'm against any sort of AI that steals from others or would otherwise be used to put people out of a job. I don't feel like having an elaborate conversation about the positives and negatives of AI and all that, so I'll state this as plainly as possible.
I don't like AI art. I don't like AI voice impersonations. I don't like any sort of AI that has to steal stuff from people without their consent in order to function. That is literally it.
I'm not against ALL AI. I don't think people that are okay with AI in general should be burned at the stake or something. I'm just an artist and writer that doesn't like AI being used in CREATIVE SPACES. That's it.
I didn't think I would have to clarify this but, here you go, for anyone that was bothered.
#to the person who sent the ask#hopefully this clears things up#I answered you in this general post#because I didn't want to risk people getting upset at you#if they didn't like what you said. Think of this as me keeping you anonymous#I'm sorry if you see me as a “guilt-tripper” but you made that assumption based on minimal knowledge of my character#like. VERY minimal knowledge#you know nothing about who I am as a person or what the depth of my opinion was#you just saw me putting “fuck ai” in my tags and assumed that I meant ALL AI#which isn't an unreasonable assumption. it's a vague statement. But the ONLY reason I use vague tags is because it reaches more people#plus if you ACTUALLY look in the fuck ai tag it's mainly about AI art and such#so to just automatically label me as a guilt-tripper instead of trying to express that you respectfully disagree with my opinion#or what you THOUGHT was my opinion anyway#was something I really didn't appreciate#that being said#I'm not interested in turning this into some sort of conversation.#please don't respond to this directly#I've voiced my opinion on the matter. That's where this ends.#anyway extra tags that you can ignore//#artists on tumblr#small artist#oc artist#anti ai art#anti ai writing#anti ai voices#support human artists#human artist#fuck ai art#fuck ai writing#anti ai
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Does anybody else feel like mental health awareness has done very little to help them in material reality
#i was gonna say done nothing to help but that seemed too harsh#like there definitely is more knowledge about it now. maybe more people feel comfortable speaking about it which is good#but personally i don't feel that. like idk. workplaces will post about mental health awareness and then do nothing to help employees#the same w universities. my uni cut back the already meager mental health support#and then the government is doing absolutely fuck all as well#like idk im just back in a place i thought id gotten out of long ago and i still don't feel comfortable talking about it with people#maybe that's a me problem or maybe it's cultural or something idk. but in the 10 years ive been depressed (🫠) i don't think it's gotten a#whole lot better. teenagers are still dealing with the same shit i did and they're still not being taken seriously#women's mental health is not even spoken about.....anxiety depression sh eds etc are still ignored or seen as hysterical behaviour in women#or just normal esp with disordered eating. society hasn't changed people still want women to be stick thin and weak#like i know 10 years is a short time and there has been massive improvements in mh awareness if we look back over the past 50+ years#but idk i just think that it hasn't gotten better for a lot of people#i think specifically of belfast and like god. the amount of trauma there is the amount of homelessness the amount of substance abuse#drug abuse in particular that has gotten visibly worse over the past decade or so*#and i connect the dots n see the 2008 recession + a tory gov defunding the nhs + dehumanisation of homeless people & addicts + the troubles#+ ptsd + generational trauma + a negative peace + classism + paramilitary drug dealers + parties linked to those paramilitaries#and its like hmmmm i think we live in a society. and a mental health approach based on individual actions like journaling and meditation#isn't the way to go. or at least is not the be all and end all which is what a lot of mental health awareness raising seems to promote#*visibly worse on the streets. it was always a problem ofc but even a decade ago my parents never imagined it would be as bad as it is now#and it's become so normalised. i do think there's less individualism here than there seems to be elsewhere which can be good and can be bad#but i think we are becoming more and more individualistic. slowly. there's still a sense of community here but i do think it's changing#and callousness towards homeless people is one of the most obvious examples of this.#love when i put a wee asterisk in the tags of a post. like i have A Lot To Say lol
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Teehee, teehee, I finally finished my YHS fic!! It is extremely horrible and depressing to be prepared for that
It takes place after the halloween episode and focuses on James, Coolment, Sam and Nova!
#Yhs reboot#yhs#samgladiator#coolment#fic#I had a few ideas for it that I didnt get to fully explore but Im happy with it anyway#One of the important things I wanted to get across more than I did was James' obssesion with Nova#Which you get glimpses of but I wanted to have more#Like being a ghost his brain is literally melting. His personality is deteriorating. Everything about him is flaying#And the only thing he has to hold onto is *Nova* the last person he saw. the last person to comfort him. to even care about him#James would be absolutely horrified by the knowledge that she cannibalized him#but in his melting mind he cant bring himself to cope with the conflicting images so he just doesn't#despite his morals despite everything#BTW this is based on my own lore about how ghosts work#Which you might be able to tell I am obsessed with LOL
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“I think I will write a self-indulgent fanfic,” I said. “I could even publish it anonymously, so it can be bad. I will just look up this minor detail in canon. And also this real-life system since they’d use a different one than I do. And also this particular set of customs. And also the lunar calendar. And also—”
#TOP OBSTACLES TO ME EVER WRITING ANYTHING TO COMPLETION:#1.) lack of focus#2.) my own nitpickiness#the average reader will not give a shit but I doooooo#regrettably my knowledge base is not in line with my personal standards and I am very aware of this
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I'm rereading the Snowkit parts from the first arc and... There are several warrior cats plotlines where you can tell they have no idea what they're talking about when it comes to a certain condition or disability and this is definitely one of them.
"If Speckletail realizes for herself that Snowkit can’t learn, it might help her accept that he’ll never be a warrior." I don't know how to break this to you but Deaf and HoH people are actually definitely able to learn things, and the idea that they can't has a long and ableist history.
The whole idea that Snowkit got taken by the hawk because he couldn't hear the hawk or the warnings from his Clanmates relies on the stereotype that Deaf people are oblivious to everything around them, too. Snowkit isn't blind. If they wrote him as a person (and not as an object for Fireheart to pity) he would have hidden from the hawk like everyone else did because he would have seen them panicking, smelled their fear... used any of the other senses he has that tell him things about the world. The fact that they wrote him the way they did says a lot about their priorities when it came to writing a Deaf character imo: he's a plot device and an object for Fireheart to be sad about, so they didn't bother doing research.
#i'm not Deaf or HoH and my knowledge about this is based on research so please correct me if I've accidentally fucked up here#this post isn't even getting into the scene where Fireheart learns Snowkit's deaf but the way he's described there also sucks imo#Snowkit just kinda stares blankly until somebody gestures to convey meaning#but actual audible sounds are nowhere near everything going on when you communicate verbally with someone#you're telling me Snowkit didn't see Fireheart looking directly at him and repeating the same word over and over#and intuitively think ''he's trying to get my attention and wants something from me. I should go over to him.''#that's not something specific to Deaf people. i do that all the time when I'm listening to music and someone's trying to get my attention.#again i don't have personal life experience with this#but an important character in Old Stains is Deaf and I'm doing my damndest to research and make sure I'm writing her accurately#this is me revisiting Snowkit after doing a lot of that research and going. jesus Christ.#ableism /#fireheart's narration also describes Snowkit as ''slow and unresponsive'' relative to Bramble and Tawny at one point. christ alive.
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Alright uninformed rant time. It kind of bugs me that, when studying the Middle Ages, specifically in western Europe, it doesn’t seem to be a pre-requisite that you have to take some kind of “Basics of Mediaeval Catholic Doctrine in Everyday Practise” class.
Obviously you can’t cover everything- we don’t necessarily need to understand the ins and outs of obscure theological arguments (just as your average mediaeval churchgoer probably didn’t need to), or the inner workings of the Great Schism(s), nor how apparently simple theological disputes could be influenced by political and social factors, and of course the Official Line From The Vatican has changed over the centuries (which is why I’ve seen even modern Catholics getting mixed up about something that happened eight centuries ago). And naturally there are going to be misconceptions no matter how much you try to clarify things for people, and regional/class/temporal variations on how people’s actual everyday beliefs were influenced by the church’s rules.
But it would help if historians studying the Middle Ages, especially western Christendom, were all given a broadly similar training in a) what the official doctrine was at various points on certain important issues and b) how this might translate to what the average layman believed. Because it feels like you’re supposed to pick that up as you go along and even where there are books on the subject they’re not always entirely reliable either (for example, people citing books about how things worked specifically in England to apply to the whole of Europe) and you can’t ask a book a question if you’re confused about any particular point.
I mean I don’t expect to be spoonfed but somehow I don’t think that I’m supposed to accumulate a half-assed religious education from, say, a 15th century nobleman who was probably more interested in translating chivalric romances and rebelling against the Crown than religion; an angry 16th century Protestant; a 12th century nun from some forgotten valley in the Alps; some footnotes spread out over half a dozen modern political histories of Scotland; and an episode of ‘In Our Time’ from 2009.
But equally if you’re not a specialist in church history or theology, I’m not sure that it’s necessary to probe the murky depths of every minor theological point ever, and once you’ve started where does it end?
Anyway this entirely uninformed rant brought to you by my encounter with a sixteenth century bishop who was supposedly writing a completely orthodox book to re-evangelise his flock and tempt them away from Protestantism, but who described the baptismal rite in a way that sounds decidedly sketchy, if not heretical. And rather than being able to engage with the text properly and get what I needed from it, I was instead left sitting there like:
And frankly I didn’t have the time to go down the rabbit hole that would inevitably open up if I tried to find out
#This is a problem which is magnified in Britain I think as we also have to deal with the Hangover from Protestantism#As seen even in some folk who were raised Catholic but still imbibed certain ideas about the Middle Ages from culturally Protestant schools#And it isn't helped when we're hit with all these popular history tv documentaries#If I have to see one more person whose speciality is writing sensational paperbacks about Henry VIII's court#Being asked to explain for the British public What The Pope Thought I shall scream#Which is not even getting into some of England's super special common law get out clauses#Though having recently listened to some stuff in French I'm beginning to think misconceptions are not limited to Great Britain#Anyway I did take some realy interesting classes at uni on things like marriage and religious orders and so on#But it was definitely patchy and I definitely do not have a good handle on how it all basically hung together#As evidenced by the fact that I've probably made a tonne of mistakes in this post#Books aren't entirely helpful though because you can't ask them questions and sometimes the author is just plain wrong#I mean I will take book recommendations but they are not entirely helpful; and we also haven't all read the same stuff#So one person's idea of what the basics of being baptised involved are going to radically differ from another's based on what they read#Which if you are primarily a political historian interested in the Hundred Years' War doesn't seem important eonugh to quibble over#But it would help if everyone was given some kind of similar introductory training and then they could probe further if needed/wanted#So that one historian's elementary mistake about baptism doesn't affect generations of specialists in the Hundred Years' War#Because they have enough basic knowledge to know that they can just discount that tiny irrelevant bit#This is why seminars are important folks you get to ASK QUESTIONS AND FIGURE OUT BITS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND#And as I say there is a bit of a habit in this country of producing books about say religion in mediaeval England#And then you're expected to work out for yourself which bits you can extrapolate and assume were true outwith England#Or France or Scotland or wherever it may be though the English and the French are particularly bad for assuming#that whatever was true for them was obviously true for everyone else so why should they specify that they're only talking about France#Alright rant over#Beginning to come to the conclusion that nobody knows how Christianity works but would like certain historians to stop pretending they do#Edit: I sort of made up the examples of the historical people who gave me my religious education above#But I'm now enamoured with the idea of who actually did give me my weird ideas about mediaeval Catholicism#Who were my historical godparents so to speak#Do I have an idea of mediaeval religion that was jointly shaped by some professor from the 1970s and a 6th century saint?#Does Cardinal Campeggio know he's responsible for some much later human being's catechism?#Fake examples again but I'm going to be thinking about that today
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