i think a lot of the handwringing about venat is like. cus the core thing of ew was “you have to find an answer to meteion and the lost worlds in order to solve the problem at its root”/this is what the entire hearthinkfeel shit was about & a lot of fans are really attached to the ancients as a faction and believe their destruction to be pure senseless cruelty when it’s part of a more symbolic storyline and the sundered are meant to be a direct continuation of them and not a lol great replacement. i see a lot of counterpoints being like “well they should have imprisoned/executed/manipulated hermes to keep him in the dark while everyone else was in the know so that he could help kill meteion” (dont know where to even start impossible anyways because ancients cant easily lie to each other once suspicion exists), “well they should have created another mega entelechy being that can only feel joy can only obey the command of the ancients and could kill meteion” (most insane fucking suggestion by far for multiple reasons that would shit entirely on ew’s themes far more than the sundering), “they should have only sundered a voluntary faction only to give them the mechanical ability to fight and kill meteion” “they should have just made a Stronger Zodiark that could have killed meteion with raw aetherical force”. LIKE DO YOU SEE THE. METEION IS NOT supposed to be a single invididual villain entity, like the head of a beast you have to cut off. she’s a representation of something that has existed far before her and far beyond her. the fact that every other alternate solution revolves around “how can we kill meteion instead of answer to her” (on the basis that she’s an irredeemable individual with volition and autonomy who’s just morally corrupt and/or nothing but a completely literal apocalypse bringer, like maybe a plague, so simply just too big of an issue to exist so she should just be killed and offered no compassion). i guess the line here is blurred because all characters in a story represent something but some people dont see that meteion is more metaphor than not and think she is just another “representation of a person” like most fictional person shaped characters. the very question “why didn’t venat just help kill meteion” is so like. i dont know hideously ugly way to parse the story to me which sets me so far from the line where ppl are like It’s hideously ugly that venat “gave up” on her people and genocided them or whatever

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

I was hanging out at the karaoke bar, chatting with a beautiful woman, and we were really hitting it off. I threw a couple of flirtatious comments her way. She giggled nervously, but abruptly stopped and looked at the floor.

She told me that she was too nervous to hit on people because she's trans and worries that people will view her as a predator and that she might get hurt.

My heart sank. I let her know that she could hit on me in whatever way she wanted and I would LOVE it. We spent the rest of the night hanging out and flirting. We ended up making out. It was great.

But I can't stop thinking about how that wasn't the first time a trans woman has said that to me. About how unsafe it is for some women that they feel the need to give out fucking disclaimers to have normal interactions with people.

We have GOT to make the world a safer place for trans women. It pisses me off that there are men at the bar who are openly predatory towards me without fear of consequence, yet a trans woman is too scared to even fucking call me pretty. And that's because she IS more likely to face worse consequences for lesser things! Like what the fuck!

You need to always check on your internalized biases. Being queer yourself doesn't absolve you of transmisogynistic thoughts and behaviors. Being bi/pansexual doesn't mean you don't hold those biases either! If you feel differently about a trans woman hitting on you than you feel about a cis woman or a man hitting on you, you need to evaluate that.

Trans women, I love you so fucking much. You should be able to express attraction and love as freely as everyone else. I hope you can always feel safe around me. And I'll never stop fighting until you can feel safe period.

been replaying the Portal series I think this is where its heading

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(happy eclipse day yesterday🎆🎆🎆)

sadie hawkman’s dance when?!

five guardian yakshas vs one huge rat

bonus:

huge rat:

As much as i love Dungeon Meshi, i do think that given Ryoko Kui's attention to realistic worldbuilding there ought to be a companion series called Dishes Meshi where they spend 2hrs washing and drying and packing away. Alll the goddamnfuck dishes they just made

Birds of a Feather previous / next

ao3 is down. what am i supposed to do?? continue writing my own fic??? HA you almost got me!! absolutely not. u can't fool me ao3. i'm not falling for that trick.

He's just a dude, a birthday dude

Yeah I was right and there was no way I was getting the rest of this done without making you all wait another month or two, so I just went to the next good break point. We're officially past the halfway point with Astarion though, so not too much longer before you actually get to see Rolan again!

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De-Aged Danny, gesturing to a dazed Bruce inside Wayne Manor: And this is Bruce! Otherwise known as the Himbo! Reporters: Hmm, yes, interesting... Bruce: What the- Danny: I'm not sure what that word means. I heard it from Dick, but no one will give me my answer, not even Jason, who is easily bribed. Bruce: Why are there reporters in my house!? Danny, innocent and childlike: They asked to come inside, Bruce! They seemed like really nice people, so I thought it'd be polite to give them a tour. Bruce, filled with infinite patience: I really wish you had asked me before you did that, chum. Danny: But why? We don't have anything to hide... do we, Bruce?

Or, in order to rise to the Ghost Throne, Danny has to complete a series of trials to prove he is capable of ruling (or any other reason, Danny just needs to do trials to prove himself).

The last trial, issued by Clockwork, is thus: discover the Wayne Family secret in two weeks without the use of any of his powers.

He has one shapeshift to pick a form that could endere him to the Waynes, but only one before he starts and he has to get close to the family by his own wits. Danny, after studying the family and reading of one sentence summary of each Wayne, picks the body of a six-year-old little boy that looked like a child Jason Todd.

Bruce: That child is up to something. Dick, third favorite: I don't know, Bruce; he acts like a normal kid. Jason, #1 favorite: I doubt the old man's ever met a normal kid. Tim, least favorite: Bruce is right, but can you please not talk like the villains from Chicken Run.

-give me coffee-

crowley: *angrily stirring his coffee*

aziraphale, arms folded: *looking away from crowley*

jesus, sitting between them, awkward: um, did crowley mention-

aziraphale: oh, it's first name terms, is it?

crowley: I don't have a surname, you idiot. what's he supposed to call me?

aziraphale: well, it doesn't matter to me. do what you please

crowley: don't worry. I will

jesus, fed up: oh for my sake, don't you see what's going on here?

crowley & aziraphale: ...

jesus: in case you haven't noticed, there's going to be a war. and this *gestures* is just going to have to wait. I didn't come back just to be your marriage counsellor

aziraphale, scoffs: we're not married

crowley, scowling: yeah and if we were, which we're not, I'd want a divorce

jesus to nina: yeah, could I have a glass of water? I'm gonna need something stronger than coffee

crowley starts a journal to deal with the grief.