Basically chapter 1 of Junebug

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everybodys gotta get back into the practice of using pseudonyms online... i remember the time of screen names where u never ever told anyone ur real name and that was just understood as basic internet safety. plus having a screen name is fun because sometimes it sticks so well that it becomes part of ur identity that u can use in whatever facet of ur life you choose. it rocks to pick your own name

s2 + golbetty centric episode prayer circle 🍎💝

If you could go into a chrysalis, dissolve and come out as anything you wanted, what would you come out of the chrysalis as?

EVERYDAY I'M LOSIN' MY MIND. (FEELS LIKE THEY'RE WATCHIN' ME.)

alternate versions

once again focusing in on dragon-surgeons with laserlike aim. we have several thoughts on this passage, which are as follows:

one: how does one dissect a dragon. what are they doing it with. are there attendants here with those massive two-person saws for this purpose, with the doctors spectating and directing? are the surgeons the guys with the massive saws? the dragons are So big compared to the people, are they crawling around in there? do they have students in attendance as they might at a human dissection?

two: 'dissection' is such a particular choice of word here. if you are taking apart your Coworker after their death that is an Autopsy. if you are taking apart an animal for food after their death that is Butchering, and if you are taking it apart for science that is a Necropsy. it is, what, 1806? dissection is scientific and not really for people you are regarding as People right about now. this is such a Way of pointing out the Strange Social Position of dragons in temeraireverse.

three: again I ask. how does one Become a dragon-surgeon. keynes seems to be equally adept at human medicine, and on his various adventures up to this point laurence hasn't been provided with an additional surgeon for his crew as well as for his dragon. what kind of medical school operations are going on in england and scotland to allow this guy Training. are medical students from edinburgh being funneled out to the covert at (iirc fictional) loch laggan to study dragons? what is the Draconic opinion on post-mortem disassembly for scientific purposes?

Will we find out what happened to Shadow’s eye, tail, and (I think) arm? This is probably a dumb question, but I’m SO intrigued!!!

[All in good time, but some behind-the-scenes stuff will have to do for the moment!]

BTW. TO ALL NISHIKI FANS (AND ANYONE INTERESTED REALLY), PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT IF U HAVENT ALREADY.

it's the transcript of an interview with Nakaya Kazuhiro, nishiki's voice actor, held on March 20th,2023!!

THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD ANALYSIS BY NAKAYA HIMSELF. LIKE.

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CHECK IT OUT, THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD STUFF

I feel like people who say that Mizu wants to be a man and enjoys being one are forgetting the fact that Mizu did not choose to dress or act the way they do and was forced to do so as a child because people were looking for a girl, so their maid mom had her behave like a boy for her own safety. This was not his own choice.

And the reason why she gets upset when others insinuate that he's a woman is because women aren't allowed to do pretty much anything in their day and age, as we see when a woman is denied entrance into a town to sell goods to feed herself and her child because a man was not accompanying them.

Being a man provides them with so much more freedom and power to accomplish her goals, and if others discover he's a woman, she'll lose that freedom.

If you view him as trans, then that's fine, but you don't have the authority to say that's canon, and shouldn't get mad when others think about her as a woman or use she/her and they/them pronouns for them. If your argument is that everyone in the show uses he/him pronouns, then know that the creators of the show use she/her. All pronouns and headcanons are valid for Mizu.

fellas, y'all know i'm a wwx stan and all, so because of that it's kind of an important thing i remind everyone that sunshot wwx did steal the bodies of people's grandma's. like, it's a whole thing how he did steal people's grandmas. he doesn't deny it!! he's actually quite ashamed of it!! it wasn't just wen soldiers, he specifically digged up the graves of innocent wen ancestors and made them fight their own descendants for the pure horror of it

like... the point of the story isn't that wwx didn't do messed up shit during the war. the point is that no one batted an eye when he did it back then, and even celebrated him for it. but after he defected to save innocent war prisioners, suddenly all those things he was admired for were used to demonize him.

mdzs is an elaborate commentary on mob mentality and hipocrisy that spans even beyond the protagonist. to cheapen it to some disney channel movie level of shallowness is insulting at best

(ExR and Simplified CN; chapter 66 of the webnovel)

some things about consent

~ it must be given, fully. a clear and concise “yes” is giving consent, “i want you to take me/have me” is giving consent. there shouldn’t be a fraction of doubt in your mind whether or not this person wants to have sex or kiss or touch their body.

~ consent cannot and is not given when a person says “no”. it is also not given if you have to “convince” them first, pressure them into a yes, or guilt them for not wishing to engage sexually with you. consent cannot be taken, cannot be forced, otherwise it is just rape.

~ consent is fun, it’s cool and makes the experience more pleasurable. consent is sexy, it lets someone know you respect not only their body, but their mind, their soul, and their spirit. you never know what has happened in someone’s past, and what may cause an episode of panic or meltdown.

~ consent is everything. this includes but is not limited to: creating a safeword, acknowledging the safeword, making sure both parties know the safeword like the back of their hand, stopping anything when the safeword is used. consent is checking in on your partner during a rough scene of play, listening to their voice and their body language.

~ unless you have a laid out and firm understanding with your sexual partner(s), consent must always be given before engaging in CNC - ‘consensual non-consent’. do not coerce someone into cnc if you have never spoken to them about it, engaged in it with them before, and don’t have a clear and defined safeword for the activity. if you are nervous or unsure how to know consent is given without verbally saying so, choose an article of clothing such as a special pair of panties, a necklace, socks etc that have the sole purpose of being given, unspoken consent. if they are wearing that special article of clothing and it had been previously discussed as the consent piece, then be safe and have fun.

~ be a sexy and cool person, get consent, give consent. practice safe sex, consent consent consent!

reminder that if you're not watching Crayon Shin-chan then you are living a hollow and empty life. this is not edited. this ripped straight from the movie (Movie 8: Jungle That Invites the Storm, highly recommend for fellow Masaaki Yuasa lovers)

if you need further convincing: these monkeys run an animation sweatshop

I shouldn't have stayed up and watched some YouTube all night

I swear I just tried looking into a random spoopy video for the festive month and I come face to face with this goddamn thing

This mf brought back so many memories of irrational nightmares where a similar scenario happened but I love it so much yet this guy's definitely my new sleep paralysis demon, help-

A POLITE BUT DESPERATE REQUEST FOR PRIME TO DROP ANOTHER CLIP

another semi prominent twitter artist has weighed in on hazbin and i gotta say my least favorite hazbin take ever is "angel dust is the only salvageable character but i only like him when hes not saying swears and sex jokes" because its like. oh you mean the sex jokes he specifically uses as a litmus test for judgy assholes that you wouldve just failed?