I want to express my gratefulness for those who comment, or debate, or correct, or provide context on my posts. Something like this has to be a sort of collaborative effort, after all-- since I have not been in this fandom for too long, much of fanon history itself is something I haven't lived through and am less familiar with-- so I really do need help learning where all these things come from to make my posts more informative.

Furthermore, sometimes I can word things in ways where my meaning isn't entirely clear, but I can't tell this until I get a comment on my post debating something, when I can realize that "oh this didn't come across the way I intended," whether it's in agreement with a debate or even just a slightly different interpretation, after which I can go back to edit and make it more clear for readers.

I'm really just doing this sort of thing for fun, but I do want it to be an accurate resource-- so I'm always thankful for those that will help me to make it more accurate！

the girlbossification of ruth bader ginsburg has to be one of the most just plain annoying aspects of white liberal feminism. like it's not as actively harmful as a lot of other shit obviously. but it is soooooo annoying. if I never see another notorious rbg tote bag as long as I live it will be too soon

Please save me, I'm reading a reddit thread about Seb vs Max(bcs Tost said he thought Seb would win out), and none of these people know how good Seb was in his prime

(slaps the roof of my roomies zombie apocalypse au) there are so many political nuances in this bad boy

An update about Maaren lore

Currently working on expanding on general Maaren lore and their gods are currently being put through the wringers (and also adding fortresses, named after georgian gods/myhtology).

Why, oh why, does Georgian Mythology have so many gods that basically stand for the same thing?? I have seen at least three different gods who stand for some kind of fertility and two who stand for agruculture! Two others for cattle! Cattle!

I have atleast fused two gods with the same spirit now. There are gods and goddesses with no description at all!

Argh! This is so frustrating! I'm dying, send help!

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finally reading dance of days (thank you ohiolink and oberlin college <3) but my most consistent takeaway thus far. is oh my god. people who think punk is primarily ideological and not subcultural/musical. are so out of touch.

I'm definitely not the only queer person who's kinda wary of Christian ppl they encounter online right?

Like I see a profile that clearly states they're Christian and they post like Bible verses and shit and I'm just. Hoping they're not queerphobic. Or saying some dumbass shit like "hate the sin love the sinner" or whatever while pretending that's not queerphobic

If they're interacting with me first it's pretty safe to assume they're not gonna be like that bc I'm very obviously queer (🏳️‍🌈 + pronouns in bio) but if it's someone who hasn't interacted with me at all I kind of instinctively avoid interacting with them out of fear of them being that way. Y'know

having some Thoughts N Feelings abt elrond & elros + the historical practice of rulers taking children from the families of their tributaries or even their (nominal) allies as hostages

primarily that (1) the Politics of the Fëanorions having the heirs of Fingolfin AND Thingol AND All Three of the Three Houses as their hostages is like… soooo overlooked and underutilized in the fanworks I’ve seen

and (2) i think it would be rlly funny and also fucked-up if most elves are Totally Scandalized And Horrified by this Weird Human Behavior of “hostage-taking” if/when they see it happening in the second & third ages as human settlements & societies in M-E grow & develop, while Elrond is just like, “this is Normal, what are you Talking about”

Mom went to Starset with me and when we got home we showed dad someone else's video where they recorded their whole show so he could experience the Whole Ass Movie they were playing in-between songs so even though they already knew there was a story now they actually wanna know what the story is so now I gotta figure out a way to explain the entire plot of The PROX Transmissions in a concise manner.

maybe paint 3d???

okay so putting my tin foil hat on, knowing that vampires are real and really do exist (in the dl universe), then how will that intertwine with Greek mythology, or Norse mythology, or literally any folktales or fairy tales concerning the supernatural? Like the easy and simple answer is to say that they don’t exist, and that it’s just silly human creation, but is it though?

If vampires are immortal and existed for ions, then could there have been a time where vampires and humans co-existed? Are these folktales and fairytales that we see in everyday life were actually based in reality, but over time was heavily exaggerated and blown out of proportion, that its no longer reminiscent to the original source material?

was listening to the long version of the Walpurgisnacht scene from the Gounod Faust on the way in to work this morning and it always makes me a little sad when productions don't do it that way (although it does require dropping the ballet. But the McVicar ROH version did such a good ballet it's hard to imagine a version that is as good in a way that doesn't just rip it off)

hi! I was scrolling down your DC tag and found this post (www(.)tumblr(.)com/cleromancy/735420182202368001/fucking-no?source=share) -I hope the link doesn't vanish but just in case it's one where you talk about approaches to writing DC and you cite waid, grayson and morrison. I know a bit more about morrison's, but (if you don't mind), would you care to elaborate on each style?

speaking very very broadly here, and therefore making generalizations that won't apply to every single thing each writer has ever written, but rather their general reputation or what i personally have found reading their work

waid is famously well-read and generally tries to reconcile as much canon as he can while still 1) telling the story he wants to tell and 2) fitting with modern style/genre/etc conventions. if he does make a departure you generally assume he knew he was doing it and did it on purpose while still mostly adhering to that former goal. im thinking of the donna/garth situationship in worlds finest teen titans here, which to me read like he was like "wait, why *wouldnt* they have ever had a thing, they have so much in common" and an exploration of that, and it does actually mesh with stuff that came before imo. but i picked waid as an example of someone who is extremely well read and puts a lot of effort into yes and-ing what came before. but at the same time he Builds a lot off of it, he's not just parroting.

devins approach to my reading is more like... she's character driven in a way where like. 1) she probably has a solid understanding of the history of her mains and has probably read at least the recent stuff but definitely hasnt sat down and read their Whole History, and 2) if her character concept differs from what came before she's comfortable stepping away from it. so by contrast to waid as an example, you generally won't see her playing with minor elements from teen titans 1966 or new teen titans, or if you do it's a surprise and she might have just taken a concept and turned it on its head, if that makes sense. shes more likely to bring in her own stuff. but at the same time you usually don't expect anything of hers to be a sharp departure from anything recent or any of her contemporaries. devin is someone who can read catwoman comics and then be like "i actually think catwoman should be more like xyz, because when i boil her down to what i see as her essential/core elements, this is what feels honest and compelling to me," and then that's how she'll write her.

morrison is pretty infamous for their "everything is canon" approach by which i mean. they may not have read anything recent scrimblo scringus was in, but they *did* read the elseworlds comic from 1989 where they originated that bears little to no resemblance to their current iteration, and they think it would be fun to randomly bring in some shit from that story into scrimblo's mainline continuity. so you get things like new earth jason being a redhead but also entirely unlike either pre-crisis jason or post-crisis jason in any discernable way, or they'll import batcow from tiny titans to the main continuity. because actually why Shouldn't we have batcow too. so morrisons something of a wildcard in terms of both what they might have read and in what they'll use and what they'll ignore, its a total free for all. every comic ever written is their playground, pretty much.

hopefully that makes sense lol. and i am oversimplifying a lot but that was my logic in name-dropping those three

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me after i for years am very determinded that i dont have ocd until i fucking realise that wait. just bcs i dont do that stuff about "real dangers" doesnt mean i couldnt have it. and realise that my deep paranoia and having to obsessively check to make sure there arent like. entities in the dark stalking me n trying to hurt me despite KNOWING there cant be i still have to constantly check and then it will go away for a bit and come back worse and. i only realise this could be ocd after i started to take a med that makes me NOT have that