do you think katara can perform top surgery. like if toph, or anyone, was just like “im sick of these thangs” do you think she could do it.

(pfp anon again hi sorry you're just so much fun to bother)

Ehehe more questions: some people depict NSH with antennae, is there any reason yours doesn't have any? Is there any AU where you'd give him some? Is he Sad because No Antennae or is he Perfectly Content?

hello again!! i'd say hes just built different like that or he did something so remotely stupid that he lost them. i could honestly see him doing something like that actually LMAO tinkering and messing around with his antennae out of pure boredom and he decided to just, keep it

he is pretty chill with it though, like he just accepted it and thought 'oh hey this isn't so bad at all!! i look good!'

now as for the AUs!! theres usually 4 of them but voided au shares the same design as this sig

so far theres just one whose got an antennae LMAO also,, disarray au sig design sneak peak 👀

have a little doodle of him with a pair of antennae !!

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“Are you sure it wasn’t intentional?” / “Do you think she might be working for the bad guys?”

Okay. As the supreme authority on all things Kevin Day I need you to give the veredict on something: is Kevin into CNC

(I feel like the AFTG fandom doesn't do a lot with consent play, which I get WHY, but it is as a matter of fact a pretty common kink for survivors)

supreme authority huh. ok lets see 🤔!

short answer: yes & i think kevin is probably somewhere in the spectrum between free use (pretending to be impassive but not unwilling) and bordering predator play (active struggle for the sake of being manhandled and forced to submit)

long answer: i was just talking about this with miss nanatsuyu but kevin’s extensive consent issues make the idea of enthusiastic consent feel embarrassing at best and confusing at worse so cnc in any capacity would be right up his alley in my opinion!!! he likes not having to say it outright and as a man canonically declared “as bratty as they come” i believe kevin would find it very hot (& cathartic! in a way) to be rightfully overpowered and told to take it :)

i had half an idea about that the other day (and excuse the poor writing i just put these things down in a hurry for later probing) for kevjean in a play wrestling sense and i think it pretty much sums up how i think kevin would like this dynamic 🏃🏽 it’s a lot about having no way out and, even knowing that he cannot take whatevers in menu for him, being told that he will anyway

you guys ever get tired of friends who only talk about themselves? how do you respectfully tell them off?

My welsh teacher told me there was no way I could read medieval welsh and every day I read medieval welsh and I feel so vindicated. “Start slow” “you can’t just jump into poetry” I’ve read Ancient Greek. I’m invincible mr. “Let me interrupt welsh class to tell you about the time I went temporarily blind on a mountain and explain five times how to nasally mutate.” There’s not even participles.

one thing about me i will never ever make you feel bad about asking for help or not understanding something i’ve got u bbgirl

updated versions of “baby it’s cold outside” are stupid but it’s also stupid to act like the original was fine “but in the context of the era!!!” yeah. it’s a different era now. and an 8 year old isn’t going to have that context

It's frustrating that no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to make social interactions work the way they're supposed to. Even when I think I'm doing well at having a conversation, I get to hear that I need to talk more, talk more about myself, ask more questions.

I'm scared to take up space and I have barely anything to talk about because my life either was too boring or too traumatic to share anything about it.

I'm giving 130% and it's still not enough. I always get told to act different. To be someone else.

- Stranger

I must send email

H E L L O jfp-eyes pen (thats your new name btw)

i know its a little late but my mind keep going back to it and i also talked about a similar issue w several other people on here since and i was wondering if you can/want elaborate on what you said about this:

"like, u want potters to be desi? it’s not just the cute clothes and good food and linguistic differences u need to keep in mind. there’s so much more where it comes from, including several practices that will be considered highly objectionable by this rigidly judgemental crowd."

((i am v v interested but no pressure to answer this, i totally get if you dont want to get into this discourse))

dani—you’re gonna pull me into the desi potters discourse one way or the other, eh?

so. i’m not sure how much sense this’ll make because it’s like…half-baked thoughts but my problem with this scenario actually stems from a more macro, general trend i’m noticing in fandom behaviour. for some reason, puritan culture & veiled conservatism is coming back in the guise of progressiveness? and that’s leading to a lack of critical thinking in these spaces & randomly attributing buzzwords to things out of context bc u don’t have more than a shallow understanding of it.

which means that that comment was directed at a very specific subset of fandom that decided that idk ignoring the Bad Things & Flaws would somehow make them cease to exist. let’s only take the most ‘exotic’, fun aspects even if it’s a completely one dimensional reading & run with it. they wouldn’t be able to tell u what desi is beyond the barebones.

so, you’ll have people vehemently arguing that the potters can’t be anything but desi and white james is gross and i’m just like—why. why are u, as a non-desi person, so attached to this headcanon that you’ll ridicule real people for it? and then their attitudes as well. the incest thing, for example. there are communities in india that marry their first cousins—if i write a story tomorrow where james marries his mother’s imaginary brother’s daughter, then depending on how i HC him, that’s perfectly culturally acceptable (and desirable). if i write a story where euphemia and fleamont use corporal punishment for him, and he takes it super lightly and jokes about it, that’s also fine. (which is a direct contrast to how the western black family & sirius’ abuse is treated). there’ a community in india where the man ‘drinks’ from his mother’s breast, publicly, at his wedding to symbolise the last time he’d be her son before he becomes someone’s husband. another where a new mother can’t feed her son until her sister-in-law washes her breast thoroughly. caste is something that’s not even touched upon. it’s so complicated. but how do u think it’ll be received by most of the desi potter crowd if i actually do write any of this? will i be praised for my ~representation or called out on twitter for being a freak?

and that’s really where i get annoyed. the attitudes most of this crowd hold does not have any space for cultural subjectivity, what is ok to them has to be universally ethical. there’s no way other cultures do things their way and if they do, it’s barbaric/backward/problematic etc etc. pseudo-colonial, like i said.

(disclaimer: i want it to be made very clear i’m not demanding people nclude this stuff in their fics. i’m well aware of how escapism works, being the premier advocate for it. im just saying it won’t hurt to be mindful of these facts, that this is a whole culture that’s ridiculously diverse that doesn’t just exist for the sake of people’s headcanons)

and this isn’t even going into the cultural nuances of how desi families work. you can’t bring in american/european individualism & have james move out at 18 & write everything transactionally & do everything the way u would for a white character but only pay lip service when saying they’re brown ykno? when u say they’re a certain identity, there’s so much that comes with that. and if u don’t include any of that, then it really just makes me wonder why u want a brown james—feels like ego appeasement and falling to peer pressure half the time tbh.

another important thing for me is that so much of this crowd intersects with the ‘fandom is activism’ crowd and i just. fundamentally disagree with those people. and find their words/actions incredibly performative. by which i mean, the way they treat real people—people from the communities they’re adopting as HCs for their beloved characters. there’s this…hypocrisy, yeah? what i mentioned above, about how if i wrote some culturally different practice, i’d probably be attacked. they don’t want desi potter, they want white-lite potters that is palatable to & tailored for their own constitution but in a form that they can pass of as ‘oh look, my characters r diverse which makes me Morally Good and i can use that to shit on others’.

i think my problem is just that i don’t like it when people use the identity headcanons to portray themselves as being inherently better because they have ~equal representation. fandom is not a government institution—lateral visibility & membership is not a prerequisite to wanting to write about x and y fucking or going on a date or hugging or having a conversation. making a marauder group where each character—functionally an OC—is from a different community (often w/o considering how intersectionality works) for the sake of saying ‘oh i have a x in my HCs’ does not make u some radical leftist, yeah? and i strongly dislike people who pretend it does.

Gotta admit, your bot rant intrigues me. I definetly agree with what you said and all but it makes curious, how you rewrite the bot plot to make it not as bad as it actually is given the choice? <:) (Also want to take this as oppurtunity to say I love your takes and art by the way!)

First Off: Omg Tysm That's So Sweet of You :]]]] 💕💕💕

Second Off: My Issue With the Bot Situation is I Feel It Squanders the Concept of Bot Being Based On Bow, a Person Who Did Exist and Also is Still Around. S3 Has Several People Who Knew Her, Her Miraculous Return From the Dead Should Raise a Couple of Eyebrows. I'm Not Crazy About Test Tube and Fan Making Her, I Feel Its a Odd They Did This When They Explicitly Learned Not to Project Their Feelings Onto Other Concious Beings Before, and Also I Simply Don't Think Either of Them are This Disrespectful. Both of Them Were on Marshmallow's Team, They (In Theory) Would Know How Much Bow Meant to Her.

S3 Keeps Gesturing At the Theme of a Show Being Dragged Out Long Past When It Should've Finished and I Think Bot Should Be a Thesis Character for This, and I Think the Weird Walkie Talkie Voice Should've Been Responsible for Her Existence. We Don't Know Anything About Walkie Talkie Because She Doesn't Do Anything, if She Did Make Bot That Would Make Sense With Her Whole Goal of Keeping ii Running and it Would Add Some Tension ans Complexity to the Series. How Did She Do This and Why? Are There Other People Involved? Isnt This Horribly Invasive? You Could Still Have Test Tube and Fan Adopt Bot or Whatever Idc But If She Was Made By a Shadowy Faceless Entity Using the Likeness of a Popular Dead Celebrity to Boost Ratings of a New TV Show That Would Say Something Right? There's a Statement Being Made Here, What's the Statement of Test Tube and Fan Making Bot Other Than "We Did Not Learn From the Egg Baby."

Hmmggggggg almost got into a full fight with Cunt coworker bc she was totally ignoring one of the kids while also actively making things worse with another

I've gotten multiple followers on Instagram asking me if I'm a self taught artist and when I say yes they seem very taken aback. I have nothing against art school, for some people being in an academic environment is what they need to succeed but it's both inaccessible to me and not something I would enjoy. I draw what I like, and some people like my art which I think is neat. Getting this question a lot lately has been bothering me because why do people find it surprising I'm decent at my art even tho I didn't go to school for it?

I also think a lot of the Instagram people who are generally more accepting of AI images (even if they hate AI "art", but will use AI portrait filters and voice audios) on a subconscious level maybe don't like the idea that I've never taken an art class beyond intro level high school photography cuz it makes them sit with the idea that like, they can do that.

Like you can just make art y'know? Just make some art! Hshkdhgfdhd

What do you mean by "the captivity" Like,, the myth of Moses or like,, a larger thing? /genq

the whole exodus, yeah. the biblical narrative is most likely based on some vague historical facts, but the idea that "the people of israel" were held in egypt for a period of time and were not allowed to leave is not historical. the whole narrative seems to have been one of two competing "founding myths" from the northern kingdom of israel (as opposed to the kingdom of judah) along with the story of jacob in the 8th century; after 720 and the fall of israel to the assyrian empire, large parts of the northern intelligentsia migrated to judah and many northern traditions were incorporated into southern religious texts, including the stories of jacob and of moses. they were then edited into a larger narrative with southern traditions (e.g. the story of abraham) during the time of King Josiah in the late 7th century. and the exodus itself took a much larger importance during the exile in babylon in the 6th century.

the best match for correspondences between the biblical text and archeology would be the expulsion of the Hyksos: in the egyptian second intermediate period (17th-16th centuries BCE), the 15th dynasty was composed of "hyksos", a generic egyptian term for "foreign rules of asiatic origin." they were conquerors from the northern Levant (think modern day syria and lebanon) and were eventually pushed out of africa by southern kings from upper egypt. it is possible that memories of these events could have been preserved orally by bedouins who lived in the negev, and would have transmitted the myth to israelites in the 8th century, when the kingdom of israel was heavily invested in the arabian trade for assyria. another theory is that there are memories from the Amarna period in the 14th century, which ended with Akhenaten trying to impose a form of monotheism in egypt before being deposed and his capital city abandoned, but that's more tenuous. in general, the bible has no memory of the bronze age: during the supposed time of moses (13th century), canaan was actually a collection of city states that were egyptian vassals, and many of the details are either anachronistic for the bronze age like the presence of dromedaries or nonsensical for egypt e.g., a child left in a basket on a river would be eaten by crocodiles immediately: that detail of moses's story is basically copied from the myth of the birth of sargon of akkad. being left in a basket on the euphrates is much safer.

for moses itself, his story seems to be based on that of Jeroboam I, the founder of the northern kingdom of israel, who is said to have fled to egypt before returning to canaan and founding tirzah (before his successor omri founded samaria). it is theorized that during Sheshonq I's (biblical Shishak) campaign into Canaan (likely to oppose the rise of a territorial entity based in Gibeon, in the hills north of Jerusalem, by the biblical king Saul), Jeroboam I would have been installed as ruler of a sort of vassal state to Egypt, though it quickly emancipated itself. the bible itself, interestingly, being written in Judah centuries later, takes a very negative view on Jeroboam I, the founder of a rival kingdom which for its whole history was more prosperous and powerful.

also: all the archeological evidence we have points to the hebrews (i.e. the inhabitants of the two hebrew kingdoms: israel and judah) being indigenous to the levant. they didn't come from anywhere. they are just the descendants of the canaanites who had formerly (and concurrently) inhabited the region