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bixels · 2 months

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Jesus man, relax.

#this was in response to me saying “lunar new year” on the rarity art #personal #delete later #what in insane nonproblem to get this angry about #i asked my parents (taiwanese immigrants) about this and they said we use either but prefer lunar new year #because it's inclusive to koreans and vietnamese people who celebrate on the same day #lunar new year is an umbrella term same as “happy holidays.” this person is basically getting mad i said happy holidays instead of #merry christmas.#my family and i identify more as taiwanese than chinese so. we're not gonna say chinese new year much anyways #i sent this to my mom btw and she replied with basically “die mad i guess.” love you ma #this literally doesn't matter anyways i could have said “chinese new year” to caption that post and it wouldn't have mattered #the only reason i didn't is because i plan on drawing another art including carol (coco pommel) who's korean and celebrates the same day #like. most people in china/taiwan don't care they just say “happy new year” cuz it's the fuckin new year. someone saying lunar new year is #not erasure it's not flattening asian identities into a monolith. it's just an umbrella term.#anyways happy lunar new year happy chinese new year happy tet happy spring festival happy seollal #like i cannot stress enough to you guys that these holidays are on the exact same day and celebrate basically the same exact thing.#this is not an issue.

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victarin · 8 months

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done for the weekly prompt in Dca enjoyers discord :) sun and moon watching The Last Unicorn (their first movie outside the pizzaplex) bc i kept thinking abt it

#not happy with how some parts of this turned out but ahwhahjw at least im drawing #fnaf dca #y/n tag #my art #id in alt #blood #this was just going to be a ‘haha they get emotional over how pretty the movie is’ comic and then I thought abt it some more #and how much moon would regret #as someone who isn’t necessarily supposed to be sentient #and as someone who had the vanny virus and can’t fully recover from what it made them do #because they lost some part of their identity as a caretaker #and the identity of someone near human #they live in their new home and away from their own Haggards castle #but they’ll always feel the regret they weren’t supposed to feel #which in its own way makes them more human

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undead-potatoes · 7 months

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Friendly reminder to all my queer peeps to be as weird and undefinable about your identity as your heart desires, the world is a better and more colorful place because of you and you make being queer such a joy, love you very much okay mwah mwah

#Sunny Life #every time I see a ''weird'' identity I'm so happy someone has the words to express their queer joy #bc at the end of the day that's what it is; joy in being able to express yourself so freely even if it seems #contrary or weird to other people bc fuck that #if you treat queer identity as allocishet 2: electric boogaloo by forcing everyone into tight little boxes #I'm coming into your house and filling all your shoes with shaving cream and saw dust

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altschmerzes · 2 months

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every time a post/poll goes around about being aspec and fandom shipping enjoyment/engagement/whatever im like. NOW can we stop acting like being an aromantic person who enjoys shipping is some kind of Weird Outlier Situation? can we stop acting like this is an Unpopular Opinion or even Persecuted Outcast Take rather than idk, the default standard, just like everywhere else? idk romance repulsed aromantics Yes Including Fiction aren’t the default or even a significant majority and it really drives me nuts when people act like aros who enjoy shipping are somehow Not exactly that.

#gav gab #aro blogging #like gdspeed bud enjoy what you enjoy #glad you’re happy #but can we fucking knock it off with the ‘but am i VALID to be an aro who likes shipping?????’ stuff #like yeah dog you and fucking Everybody Else in fandom #a small handful of ‘im too aro for this’ from the handful of Yes Including Fiction Yes All Of It romance repulsed aros #are not persecuting you or taking away your aro card #anyways that goes along with my general opinion that #going around asking people Is It Valid To Be X Identity And Have Y Experience Or Opinion #is a fundamentally useless and unhelpful thing to do #and is unfair to yourself and to the person you're asking #bc you're placing your like #ability to Have An Identity in someone else's hands #which they did not ask for #and is not theirs to give or not give anyway #this one just super extra annoys me lmao #'am i valid if i'm an aro who still likes shipping?????' well if you weren't #most aros wouldn't be ValidTM #because that is not unusual at all #you know what IS unusual?#being the big mean aro in the corner who DOESN'T like shipping #no none of it yes including that one I Do Mean All

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commsroom · 6 months

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Hello. It occurred to me recently that Hera is the only character of the main cast who is not named for an engineer/physicist/mathematician. Do u think this has any significance regarding her role on the team and her character, or not really?

(Also, the wiki says she's probably named for the Greek goddess Hera which has interesting connotations if it's true. There was also a NASA probe called Hera at some point I'm pretty sure, but I don't know which is the more likely namesake. I just enjoy the names in W359 because I am a physics student and it's fun to hear character names in all my classes.)

hi! i think the answer is kind of... yes and no? like, gabriel urbina has said his process of naming characters is first to choose a category to pick surnames from, to narrow down the options (so, in this case, famous scientists), and then to find given names that he thinks sound good with those surnames. so i don't think symbolism is the purpose, and i don't think it needs to be. but hera, obviously... doesn't have a last name. and so the way she was named (both in and out of universe) is different, and i think that does represent something.

first: hera is the mother program of the hephaestus. the hera of greek mythology is the mother of hephaestus and cast him out of the sky. the allusions are obviously intentional. (as are other mythology names in the show, but that's another topic.) second: a lot of real world things relating to space are named for mythology, and clearly cutter agrees that's how it should be done. but also: goddard's AIs share the same naming scheme with their spacecrafts. hera, rhea, eris, enlil, perseus, hyperion vs. hephaestus, hermes, tiamat, urania, valkyrie, sol. in one sense, this marks them as company property, people who are treated as equivalent to technology.

but, third: from a writing perspective, gabriel urbina has also said he only started getting a sense of who hera was when he started writing for michaela swee in the second episode; there's such a difference in how she's written just between those first two scripts. you can even see in the first recording script that her name was stylized HERA, as if it stood for something, like a much more standard AI character might have been named. which goes so far against what her name actually ended up representing that it retroactively becomes an in-universe microaggression.

and so, fourth: despite all of that, the real thing that makes hera's name stand apart is that it's a chosen name. it's offered to her, but not the way a name is given - it's a bribe, with the understanding it can be taken away from her. rachel says she can see what else is available if hera "has a problem with the etymology or any of the allusions," which is kind of interesting. but hera chooses to be hera. i don't think it's a stretch to say she has a deadname and a chosen name: that she has to introduce herself every time in a way that amounts to "i prefer to be called hera" and that her name is treated as optional and conditional, a reward for good behavior. if hera wanted to take a middle or last name, she would be choosing those, too.

i think ultimately names in wolf 359 are less about categorization and/or symbolism and more about identity. names are symbols that represent and contain the people who claim them. how people are referred to, when, and by whom - as well as how people refer to themselves by name as an act of self-determination, a reclamation of identity, or in defiance - is all central to the themes of the show. and, from that perspective, i think how hera is named (and what her name means to her, how she has had to construct and fight for parts of her identity that others are given as a default assumption) is significant, but i don't think it really sets her apart from the others when their names are treated in similar ways thematically.

#hi!! always happy to hear from you #sorry i always think i'm going to keep it short and then i. don't. i don't know if this even answers your question.#but i can imagine it's funny to hear these names in that context and. be thinking about wolf 359 characters.#also obviously minkowski is also. in some ways denied her name. but it represents a different experience and a different aspect of identity #anyway. it feels like such a no-brainer but i kind of love the way urbina says he names characters because like.#yeah i guess that is how most people are named. they have a last name and then someone decides what first name would go with it.#that is true.#wolf 359 #w359 #hera wolf 359 #asks

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trickstersaint · 1 year

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i don't want it queerplatonic either // april 12 2023

#thinking about that post from the aroaceconfessions page. the way people use qprs to justify pairing aro people off with a partner again...#it's the same shit. maybe i'm happy being alone :)#my perfect life is me... happy... and by myself...#i would kill myself if i had to share a bed with someone though for real haha #bitches will look for the main themes of my work and pick up 'i Never want to share a bed with someone ever'#poetry #napowrimo #escapril #poems about aromanticism #poems about identity #poets on tumblr #poems and poetry #poem #poems #aromantic poet #aromantic poetry #aro poet #aro poetry #aromantic

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velvetjune · 2 months

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is there a reason or theory to why Tom Zane in Alan Wake 1 (who presumably is someone Alan manifested to be a bright presence guide) introduced Scratch and, later in the DLCs, stopped answering Alan after he questioned Zane for writing a page about his childhood

#alan wake #thomas zane #for the second one: could be that diver Zane is fake/Alan and therefore couldn’t answer #or Zane *did* have a role in influencing Alan’s existence and therefore doesn’t want to make Alan have a crisis #for the first: If that Zane is fully Brightness/Alan influenced by Tom the Poets legacy—#then maybe it’s an acknowledgment of Scratch’s inevitable existence #since technically Alan himself + the dark presence + his legacy (at least in AWAN) helped make Scratch like That #maybe that Zane never considered Scratch to be this big Evil™️#see but this is also presuming that Tom the Poet is also THE foundation of all the other Zanes and truly got a happy end somewhere w Barbara #Because on the more suspicious side: there’s also the Tom the Poet movie poster in aw1 and Zane the film maker #which of the film maker came first then who knows. AWAN scratch is similar so he could be a byproduct of that. or literally Mr Scratch.#OR that Scratch was influenced by the film maker + that’s why he’s similar #ughhhhh idk. Also don’t think all of this will ever be 100% answered #bc the questioning of identity and what makes someone ‘real’ or ‘original’ is #kind of the whole thing with these games #alan wake 2 #my notes are so long lol. I haven’t even finished AWAN yet

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deduction-substitute · 1 day

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I wish I could draw because I have this very specific view of Lucky Guy in a weirdly specific au but i dont know if its too weirdly specific for the masses to deem acceptable

Anyways. Lucky Guy being from the future means he's also the only one who knows how to use certain appliances in the manor that come from his time

No one paid much mind to it, except for the ones who were more curious of how such technology worked. Lucky had to stop Luca and Tracy from dismantling a lot of things. He knew how to make them work, not how to assemble them again.

But there is one piece of technology thats caught everyone's attention: Lucky's phone.

He's the only person in the manor with a phone and he's oddly protective of it. Mike snatched it once only to find out that there was a password. Luca and Tracy went ballistic over the information

Lucky takes pictures with it too, and if he's in a good enough mood, he lets people look through his gallery.

Emma scrolled a bit too far and ended up on a picture of Lucky taking a selfie with 3 other survivors she's never seen before. Lucky grabbed his phone away and didnt let anyone even look at it for a week.

#someone manages to snatch it with the phone unlocked and gets to look at all the videos and photos lucky's got saved #u think he has a video of him w tutorial in simpler times....b4 the manor...#theyre surprised by how different he is in the videos #more carefree. more happy.#where is tutorial now?#identity v lucky guy #identity v #idv lucky guy #idv #identity 5 #lucky guy #idv lucky #my ideas!

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bluegekk0 · 5 months

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still thinking about that "what emotion do you create from" quiz result

"to cope with an unhospitable reality, you create more welcoming worlds to consume your work and your waking hours". "such vivid fantasies are the dream of one who considers reality a prison".

what if i ugly cried

#this hits so hard as someone who struggles with my own identity and the fear of not belonging anywhere #i guess it makes sense though #i've always found comfort in my work #especially the au #it's a nice escape and seeing my favorite characters find happiness is especially comforting #especially fpk #who's fat and struggles with his confidence #to see him find hope and love despite all that happened #and to see him be accepted even if he may not be conventionally attractive #gives me some hope for myself #i actually picked hope as the emotion i expected to be the result #the actual result was more of a gut punch but i think those two are still connected #mm #yeah lots of emotions #thank you random art quiz #gekko.txt

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rouge-the-bat · 2 years

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REPEAT AFTER ME:

GETTING UNCOMFORTABLE FROM SOMEONE SIMPLY EXISTING AS THEMSELVES IS YOUR PROBLEM, NOT THEIRS.

IT DOESNT AUTOMATICALLY MEAN YOU ARE WRONG TO FEEL THE WAY YOU DO.

BUT IT DOESNT MEAN THEY HAVE TO CHANGE TO CONFORM TO YOUR COMFORT, OR THAT THEYRE DOING SOMETHING WRONG.

IT SIMPLY MEANS ITS SOMETHING FOR YOU TO WORK THROUGH, NOT FORCE ONTO OTHERS TO CHANGE WHO THEY ARE INNATELY.

#''something something seeing other trans ppl being gnc is dysphoria inducing''#sorry about that buddy but thats something for you to work through. not try to make everyone shape to your comforts #this doesnt only apply to that. this is a general statement for a lot of things #someones identity is theirs and theirs alone. if it bothers you then i mean this in the most genuine way possible: thats a you problem #sometimes things will make us uncomfortable. but that doesnt mean the thing making us feel that way is automatically bad #please learn to properly deal with your feelings rather than trying to force others out of what makes THEM comfortable and happy #its immature frankly. and i dont mean that as a jab. but its something yall need to realize and reflect on and work to get better about #if u think these tags should be spread too feel free to share them with the post if u want #sometimes i add additional thoughts when i start talking in my tags and am like.#well this adds to the post tbh but i dont feel like moving them into the post itself lol. so do whatev u want #queer #mogai #lgbt+#probably applies to other stuff too

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