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cinnamonsikwate · 3 months
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chilchuck spends the entirety of his daughters' visit hovering suspiciously between them and a certain dwarf. when it's time for the girls to go home and no proposals have been made, he breathes a sigh of relief — awkward coworker x family member romance route narrowly avoided!
a couple weeks later meijack shows back up unannounced, backpack laden with tools and thigh-high boots looking uncharacteristically spiffy. bewildered and betrayed, chilchuck rounds on a clueless senshi, only freezing mid-swear when meijack interrupts to ask after namari's whereabouts.
the last thing he remembers thinking is, "shit, i forgot about the other dwarf!" before promptly blacking out.
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world's most annoying man is not allowed outside due to his inability to shut up
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palaceoftears · 1 year
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Mahidevran Sultan + Belief in fortune and destiny
What is this you call the Sultanate? Wealth and property, land and territory? To have power over the destinies of others? Was it worth it, Süleyman?
for my dear bday girl @mc-critical <3
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threadsun · 11 months
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It’s always the ones who claim to be antis interacting with people who post the stuff they claim to very against. Especially when they say ‘Dni proshippers’ but then interact and make dark content. It’s become very clear that they don’t have a set definition of what proship is they just slap it wherever to define people who make content they don’t like. They make fiction spaces online messy and frankly, dangerous when they decide to make callout posts and block lists and such. They’re so hypocritical:(((
Oh god I reblogged a post about the bullshit of proship/antiship discourse the other day. It's SOOO STUPID!!! Especially in a time where books about queer people and informative books for children about how to spot and report csa are being pulled from public libraries and banned in various places under the guise of them being "morally reprehensible" and "bad for the children."
There is no way to dictate what people can and can't write without opening the door to fascism and oppressive censorship. There's no way to make a line without risking people pushing that line until it hurts real marginalised people.
Like as a Jewish person I generally hate holocaust comparisons, but like... idk I always go back to the nazi book burnings at Die Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, and the targeted harassment of Magnus Hirschfeld. So much important information about sex, gender, and sexuality were lost and suppressed. So much important research. Important work into the normalisation of sex and desire.
It has lasting impacts even now into the field of sexology, which is still treated as either a joke or some sort of perverted fake field for creeps to use as an excuse to take advantage of people. When I studied sexology in university, so much of it always came back to the idea that censorship is inherently detrimental to sexual liberation. Which in turn my gender studies professors all agreed is necessary for queer and female liberation as well.
Like this goes so much further and deeper than fandoms and ships, and it's so reductive and pointless to turn it into a fandom debate. Especially in the current political climate around the world. And to turn it into fandom drama or even to morally posture about being proship or an anti does a huge disservice to the people fighting on the front lines of queer and sexual liberation. It harms trans people and people of colour who are being targeted through censorship.
Idk in a world where consensual kink is still illegal in most places, where queer theory and critical race theory are being censored, where sex workers and kinky folks are actively fighting tooth and nail for your right to watch porn without the government telling you what you can and can't jack off too... In a world where FOSTA/SESTA is being used to actively harm sex workers and the victims of trafficking they claim to be helping. It's just... idk it's almost actively, wilfully, maliciously ignorant to think ship discourse is important enough to harass people over. To think that censoring fandom content is useful and morally correct.
I'm not so fussed about call out posts and block lists personally cause I don't care if "queer is a slur" "no kink at pride" "if you're not vocally antiship then you're proship which means I can make up beliefs to assign to you and then send people to harass you for it" assholes try to bother me. The block button is fun to press, and I've got thick skin and an actual understanding of the real world.
But yeah, they can make internet spaces pointlessly and actively hostile to people, especially people whose mental health is already fragile. And I've heard so many definitions of proship that it's soooooo clear no one actually has a real definition of it, and just use it as shorthand for "this person is a freak who makes things I don't like, and I think that means they should be punished in the court of public opinion for it."
idk I've seen too many sex workers and transfem people and Jewish people accused of being paedophiles and perverts and "proship" for daring to not follow Christian ideas of sexual purity and morality. I've been the Jewish, transfem sex worker getting called those things. I watched a trans woman get harassed off tumblr entirely for having an armpit fetish and daring to talk about it on her own blog.
I've seen countless people who called out racist/queerphobic/transmisogynistic trends in fandom get the "proship" label slapped on them just to drive them out of fandom spaces so they could keep their bigoted headcanons. I've seen it put on people who ship two unrelated characters who happened to know each other as children because "that's basically incest." I've seen it slapped on someone who wrote about adults in a consensual relationship who happened to have a 10 year age gap (34 vs 44).
And yeah, I've seen it put on people who write paedophilic incest fanfics, which is something I personally would prefer no one ever wanted to write about. But I also acknowledge that if I try to make that an actual rule, it will eventually become corrupted into something used for the oppression of marginalised people.
I know that I shouldn't be trusted with the power to dictate the actions (and especially the thoughts) of others. I know that thoughtcrimes aren't real, and that the world is so much bigger and messier and more complicated than fandom. I know that the moment I allow myself to become pro-censorship in any capacity, I've already lost and fascism has already gained a new foothold in the world.
And most of all, I know that all art including fandom art is something the artist and the people interacting with it are both choosing to consent to. That this consent can be revoked at any time, and that no one has the right to decide what anyone else can and cannot consent to. That all fiction is a scene, not a new reality, and that the consent of the real people involved is more important than what's actually going on within the scene.
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albino-whumpee · 1 year
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I love my son scaramouche, but I wanna talk about how the community draws him with puppet features. 
Nothing wrong!! I absolutely adore that!
Is just that I think people knew right away he was a puppet because he looked like a puppet all those centuries ago. 
But then Dottore made him join the fatui and experimenting and the abyss exposure changed his body. 
Maybe it was a feature he already had, but I like to think the reason nobody knows Shogun is a puppet like people used to know Scara was, is because he made himself look human. 
Was it enduring the pain of the experiments and the abyss not worth it if he could get a body closer to a god? It was. 
So I like to think the Scara we know now after the Irminsul stuff doesn´t look like a puppet because of his exposure to abyss and experiments that supposedly didn´t happen. (but they did, he only forgot...and then remembered it again)
So he wouldn´t look like a puppet now, but if we go another way, we could say him “taking off” whatever it was that made him look more human in order to show himself as more puppet-like, is him making peace with his puppet status. 
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you're always eyeing pretty men. what about the men from tf2? are any of them pretty, or are they more like looney tunes to you?
great question!! honestly? i don't think i find any male character within TF2, in-game or in the comics, hot or pretty. they're just average run of the mill insane dudes. to me they're pretty sexless. i can't think of any situations they could be put into where i'd personally think otherwise.
even if we're only talking about looks, and not their canonical aspects, none of them really fall under any categories for me to be homo bisexual for them.
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flarebean · 2 years
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harbor b like you PAINTED the PRICELESS ARTIFACT???? n yoru's like. ya. get with the times. my artifact has modern drip, though i see that you prefer it traditional. bike tune-up in 15, astra has the yogurt drink disguised as motor oil to disturb brim when he checks in.
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weenhands · 5 months
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i dream about being loved just the way that i am. i think sort of an indifferent boyfriend towards my traits would be the dream
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fourteenth-seat · 6 months
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the seat of azem is less of an honor or promotion for paion as it is a way for amaurot and its government to maintain a semblance of keeping paion in check and monitoring him, as well as trying to put him in a situation where they're more confident that he'll use his powers for good. given paion's history of having accidentally created massive, powerful creatures that were similar to terminus beasts in nature (that venat and other members of the convocation at the time had to team up in order to take down) as a child + soulsinging not being very well understood or studied outside of aeolia, his powers can be inadvertantly destructive and he's very mercurial and kind of unstable at best, so you wouldn't necessarily think that he'd be the #1 candidate for any seat on the convocation, (aside from maybe altima due to his singing.) like instead of paion fucking off into the wild and doing whatever he wants, they give him a government job for the sake of having more of an excuse to monitor and control his actions.
i wonder if laha.brea specifically had mixed feelings; i feel like he might've been one of the first to speak against the notion bc as paion's adoptive father, he's seen first hand the kind of accidental mass destruction paion is capable of, though he might've also been proud to see his foundling elevated to such a status.
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todayisafridaynight · 7 months
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you say to go visit the wiki for answers to questions but some of that wiki is just... not correct. there are sections that include a lot of speculation and opinions but present them as hard facts :(
you gonna need to specify bromigo what'chu tryna find what's your complaint. if youre looking for general information and plot recall, the wiki's a p solid place to start and that's generally what i mean when i say go to the wiki for answers to questions like 'what happened the night ichiban was born'
if you're not happy with how the wiki presents answers though, there's plenty of 'game movies' and gameplays online you can skim through to look for the cutscene that has the answer to your question
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sternbilder · 1 year
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ok so today I had one of the most fascinating and enlightening discussions maybe of my life and I need to share bc it blew my MIND (warning: long)
here's the context. there is a friend I have. they are a pretty good friend of mine that I've known for many years now and I appreciate them as a person very much. lately I have noticed that they've been texting me fairly frequently. which, from my point of view, is once every couple of days. not because they had something specific to say, but just saying hello or asking how my day was.
I'm sure this was well-intentioned, but this was starting to get a tiny bit grating for me. we just met up in person literally two days ago! and you had texted me not long before that, too! nothing new has happened since then! my day has been quite boring, actually! I thought, in my mind, as I swiped away the notification—and immediately felt like an awful friend.
I knew from past experience that responding to the message would invite an immediate and not easily escapable conversation that, due to my poor multitasking skills, would distract me from work or require me to context switch away from whatever else it was I was doing at the moment—cooking, doing chores, watching TV—and worse, amount to little more than idle chit-chat about the same boring quotidian complaints as usual. I am not one of those people who thinks they're above small talk or don't see its social value, but I found myself thinking, am I the one who is being not normal here in not enjoying having this specific kind of interaction MULTIPLE times a week with the SAME person?
so recently, I've been finding myself routinely avoiding opening this particular friend's messages for fear of hurting their feelings if they saw that I had left them on read for a prolonged period of time. I had even gone so far as to avoid posting in a group chat in which we're both participants so that they don't realize that I have, in fact, been online, just not responding to them, specifically. my hope was that after enough slow responses, this friend would eventually get the hint and give up on trying to maintain a steady steam of conversation, but somehow this has not worked so far.
this was starting to weigh on my conscience. I realized that I will have to eventually fight my conflict-avoidant tendencies and just confront this friend directly, for the sake of both my sanity and our friendship. but how to do this gently? tactfully? without implying that I don't value their friendship or that I perceive them as needy or annoying? that was the tricky question. because I know that my friend isn't doing anything wrong! if anything it is probably me that is weird and antisocial and I probably just need to work on my social skills!
but not wanting to feel like a total asshole and hoping to go in with an informed and reasonable mindset (knowing full well that my understanding of social norms isn't always the keenest), I asked a different group chat for their opinion, hoping to gain some perspective on what boundaries they generally considered normal and acceptable to exercise. I phrased my question thusly:
how many friends* would you say you have where you text on a regular basis (say, multiple times a week) 1:1 just to say hi, about nothing in particular *explicitly a friend, not a family member or SO
y'all. the responses were eye-opening.
there were four people who participated in this discussion, all four of whom were in different camps and had wildly different experiences:
0, and assumed most others were the same
0, but assumed most others were not the same
multiple, and assumed most others were the same
multiple, but assumed most others were not the same
1 was me; in retrospect, I am realizing that because I had assumed that these kinds of interactions were not typical, I had interpreted my friend's gesture as something much more significant than it probably was in their mind, which is to say something that they just happen to do with everyone they know and like—which created a sort of pressure in my mind not to let them down and caused a sense of intense anxiety when I found myself struggling to reciprocate. I am absolutely floored at the revelation that it is apparently normal and common for people to have MULTIPLE friends (not even partners!!! or family!!!) that they are talking to on a constant ongoing basis at any given time, and at the possibility that I was treating my friend's feelings with kid gloves when it REALLY wasn't that hashtag deep for them.
2 clarified that they never initiate these kinds of chats, but when others initiate with them, they're fairly comfortable with simply letting these kinds of pings go unanswered, assuming the other person will just move on to someone else without taking it personally.
3 confessed to me that they once tried to do something similar with me, and eventually gave up, but had felt a bit hurt and rejected at my lack of enthusiasm, because they assumed that I was doing this with other people, just not them specifically. they sympathized very strongly with my friend.
4 also recalled that they had at one point tried something similar with me, but sort of got that I wasn't one of those people who would be receptive to this style of communication and wasn't particularly bothered by this, agreeing with 2 that the expectation is not that the recipient HAS to respond, and that my friend should probably pay closer attention to the face-saving social cues I was sending by not responding or responding slowly.
but yeah, the takeaway from this conversation is that people's preferences and experiences and expectations when it comes to digital communication are WILDLY varied, and because both communication technology and the social conventions surrounding them are changing CONSTANTLY (just a few examples: are read receipts good or bad? what about typing indicators? online status? are emoji reacts or gifs/stickers an acceptable substitute for an actual reply? group chats vs. 1:1 DMs? synchronicity and formality of various communication methods like email and chat and video? are phone calls are still socially acceptable?) there are either no agreed-on norms or different camps of people have vastly different understandings of what the norms are
among the other highlights/a-ha moments of this discussion:
Friend 4 asked another friend who is even MORE extraverted than they are what their # was and they reported somewhere in the ballpark of 20-40 people in any given week which is absolutely buckwild to me (importantly, all four of us in the original group happen to be software engineers, a class of people notorious for their lack of sociability, so I have no confidence that I have captured a representative sample size even within this particular group—the numbers both 3 and 4 gave were still both in the single digits, though they are definitely the warmest and friendliest of the bunch)
I realized that one difference between me and 3/4 was that we fulfill our social needs quite differently? specifically, I mostly connect with friends over group chats, of which I have a handful that are quite chatty and at least one or two that I'm actively posting in on any given day. I also typically have at least one, often multiple, real-life social plans every week! I am, in fact, very satisfied with my social life, to the point where it is almost maxing out my social quota (especially recently now that I've started dating someone)! but anyway—I find group chats to be my ideal form of day-to-day communication because there's less urgency and pressure for any individual person to contribute if they're not feeling up for it, and ALSO in the case of group chats where at least one member is a straight man (which is the majority of them for me, and I call out straight men only because they are the only demographic I have historically had this issue with) there is less room for platonic interactions to be undesirably misinterpreted as romantic
3/4 expressed that they prefer 1:1 conversations because they feel more personal and they can be more vulnerable about sensitive topics, which I would generally agree with—though in several of my group chats, I personally do feel comfortable enough with all the members to share things about myself with the entire group just by virtue of having known everyone for a long time and having built group camaraderie, but they seemed to not be comfortable with this without having previously established a consistent 1:1 pattern of day-to-day communication (or maybe they meant they were uncomfortable with the group forum itself, even if they were cool with sharing with everyone individually)?
they also expressed that for them, frequent unsolicited checkins and 1:1 attention from a friend would feel exciting/flattering/validating for them, whereas for me it would feel overwhelming, especially if we weren't THAT close
I do use 1:1 DMs also, but for a very different set of use cases: 1) if I haven't caught up with someone in a while (read: weeks or months), in which case we'll often just not text super long and make plans to call or meet in person instead, or 2) if I have something specific to say, like "here's this meme/song/piece of news I think you'd like to see" or "I need advice on X" or "guess what happened that made me think of you" or "I heard X happened, are you OK?"
I found that whereas I have a very clear distinction between communication preferences with a friend (someone I talk to on a regular basis but don't have a constant line of individual communication with) vs. a significant other (more or less willing to do this, unless they preferred not to), such a boundary between a platonic and romantic relationship does NOT exist for all people which boggled my mind
but yes anyway. I am learning so much about the way people view socializing in the digital age and I am so curious to know more and I kind of wish more people talked about this more openly (specifically among friends! because in my experience this is something that is fairly common to sort out explicitly in a romantic context) because I think this is probably the kind of thing that no one talks about because people are either afraid of potentially hurting feelings or everyone is just kind of assuming by default that their takes are universal without realizing that no actually, many people have strong opinions on this that are the polar opposite of theirs
but my gut feeling is that there is a lot of completely unnecessary friction that could just be resolved if only we could agree that it's cool to be more upfront about what our communication preferences are without worrying about that being taken extremely personally by the other party? bc idk, every single person I talked to about this today was like holy shit this was a whole fucking revelation actually, I can't believe I hadn't thought about this before thank you for bringing this up
#cam thoughts#I still have to talk to original friend#but am thinking maybe doing this next time I see them in person bc I find it so much easier to convey tone not when typing#bc there is an external factor that I suspect may have to do with why they're suddenly reaching out so frequently and I want to be sensitiv#but now I want to know the answer to this question for literally everyone I know. Im SO curious what is actually objectively normal/typical#but my gut tells me that this is like#inherently a delicate question to ask bc it can really make it uncomfortably clear if 2 ppl are not on the same page re:their friendship#also I realized that most of this group are specifically SWEs who have worked ON a chat application in the past.#so of COURSE we all have super strong opinions about literally all of this which is hilarious#also I didn't want to say it but have I definitely been thinking *meme voice* is this attachment theory? this whole time? lowkey mayhaps.#also also if you're reading this and I ever left you on read please do know that I do feel bad about it and I am sorry#final postscript I do not mean to suggest that I never want to be reached out to or checked in on. just. my capacity for social threads#is extremely low so please don't take it personally if I cannot prioritize your message right away or scale back chatting to a slower pace#tl;dr everyone is normal and fine and just different and the sooner we realize this the healthier our digital social lives will become.
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still foaming at the mouth with excitement over pikmin 4 finally bein announced
#pikmin#pikmin 4#they only included the three basic pikmin in the lil screenshot they provided so it makes me wonder what new pikmin there will be#cuz i personally don't think they'd avoid showin off any nonstandard types unless they wanted to keep what kinds we'll get a surprise#we should get at least two new types i imagine but that begs the question as to if the main game will omit the previous ones in story mode#cuz that's what they did between 2 n 3. they included the previous extra types in the game but didn't let u have em in the main game#i also wonder if they'll change the onion again#i kinda hope they do cuz the one they made for 3 was like. ''hey that looks neat! sure as fuck doesn't look like an onion tho''#beyond the convenience of havin all ur pikmin in one spot i didn't rly like the change#lowkey i wouldn't mind goin back to the old onions entirely#also i wonder what the objective is gonna be for the new player characters#pikmin 1 was ship parts pikmin 2 was treasure n pikmin 3 was fruit#they included a lotta old human structures n objects in the reveal clip so i wonder if we'll be playin like. a xenoarcheologist or somethin#cuz at this point pnf-404 has to be pretty well known but it's also still poorly documented#beyond the xenobiology excerpts written by a man who's job is basically a space trucker#n the catalogueing of specifically only fruit by people who were in a rush to just get the fruit at all#nothing is actually *known* about pnf-404#hocotate freight sold off a fuckload of human artefacts but didn't properly analyze like. any of em#the only real documentation on em is the highly exaggerated n largely untrue marketing done by the hocotate freight ship's ai#anyways that's my pikmin rant for today lol
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oldestking · 1 year
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@laplacemail​ said ;  hi smol. first of all: mwah mwah mwah! second: what kind of gifts/offerings gil tends to prefer?  /  𝐔𝐍𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐃
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    /  aaaAAAAOOOOOO HIIII SOMAAAA!! First of all, thank u so much for sending this in!! reading ur question really made me stop on my tracks and think back again on our dearest old friend, Gilgamesh, who although i’m not always here and he seems to be busy somewhere inside my head, he hasn’t so far considered to leave which on its own is kind or surprising considering how my writter inspiration often comes and goes and back and forth as it tends to do, regardless of that, I can at least say all the characters i’ve written hold a lil place inside my heart despite not writting them anymore or as frequent as i would like to, THAT ASIDE! enough sentimentalism and allow me to get to ur question!
Normally I would start with some context and finish with the answer at the end, but this time i’ll answer it right here for once, first a question and then follow by with my answer;
what could a man that can own everything possibly prefer? It’s like eating countless and never-ending desserts since you have memory of; in a way, despite all desserts being different from each other (in this metaphor) ; they all seem to remain desserts to you nonetheless. You are aware that you can always get them at any time and have done so in the past, yet no matter what, they are still perishable at the end of the day; bound to time.
Since all that is tangible could be his at any time so he desired, then the answer to what would be his most precious offering would be without a doubt; time. Time is intangible, something that not even the gods are able to possess, something he once has desired to be in control of in the past, (that curiously was as well, part of the root of his fear) and that not even the gods can avoid; that is the most valuable thing. Like sure; you can buy time in a way; but can you, truly?? can you control how long your reign will last?, how many days you will spend by the side of your best friend?, how many days it will take for death to knock on your door?, how many days it will take for your people to still think of you as their king? to remember you? Of course not; and although c.asgil has matured and concluded that possessing time is indeed impossible; this is as well the same reason as of why he’s learned to value and respect it so much; He is aware he can’t own it, but he can stand next to it; someone can gift him something that is truly invaluable, that no amount of riches could compare to.
So long story short (I did end up writting the conclusion at the end then rip)
Time owes no one, and spares no one and nothing, and maybe that's why it is so precious. 
Time is thus extraordinary and invaluable .
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“In the Midst of Wolves, Part 2,” Scarlet Spider (Vol. 2/2012), #14.
Writer: Christopher Yost; Penciler: Khoi Pham; Inkers: Tom Palmer, Terry Pallot, Walden Wong, and Karl Kesel; Colorist: Antonia Fabela; Letterer: Joe Caramagna
#Marvel#Marvel comics#Marvel 616#Scarlet Spider vol. 2#Scarlet Spider 2012#Scarlet Spider#Kaine#Kaine Parker#this choice and what it means for the second half of the series really Gets Me#facetiously you could joke that Mr. Yost must have thought Kaine was getting too comfortable on his path to figuring out heroism#and decided to throw in even more dire implications for Kaine’s character#(also let’s be real it does just make things more objectively ‘comic book’ fun)#but there’s so much in just these couple of pages that I really like#and that’s just very classic Kaine#the ‘I don’t care’ (actually he cared a lot)#the fact that he’s REALLY determined to kill The Other once he sees it as a reflection himself#(continuing his incredibly unfortunate tendency toward self-hatred)#the tension between Kaine feeling like he should be receiving the justice he deserves (death) yet being the type to rebel against destiny#and finally the ultimate question and commentary on the “he who fights monsters” conundrum:#what if he who fights monsters becomes a monster simply because it’s the only way to protect others? as Kaine does here for Aracely#so yeah it tastes a bit of tragedy that Kaine here ‘succumbs’ to The Other’s transformation but idk#even if it is ‘falling into destiny’ in a way Kaine typically resents at least he got to CHOOSE do so#and to do so not even for his own sake but for someone else#so it’s even a bit of a sacrifice#(if the crucifixion imagery didn’t already make that obvious hahaha)
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oschvank · 1 year
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Is Nel one of those people who cuddle, be it person or pillow/stuffed animal, in her sleep?
unprompted / anon
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It's definitely an action that occurs while she's unconscious. She will sleep with the intention to be on her own , and sleep on her own . She's one to sleep with her arms crossed but has yet to connect that notion with security and comfort. She'll sometimes wake up with a pillow in her arms, and in the rare moments she concedes to sleeping beside someone , will either awaken with her arms still crossed over her , a pillow in her arms , or with an arm draped around the other .
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astrxealis · 1 year
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anyways. in any case. fuuta's song is FIRE.
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