#you know like in olden days...

[lazylittledragon]

i'm going to scream i got accused of being a transmisogynist by someone on twitter because of this specific part of my t4t steddie art

#ramble #the thing is 99.9% of people thought it was VERY funny #i've had 1 person genuinely have a problem with it and it was because i kept eddie transmasc #basically they were upset because i didn't make them both transfemme bc i just. didn't want to #twitter hasn't learned that not everything is for you and if you don't like something you don't have to interact with it #and just because you don't like something that doesn't mean it's Bad #and also sometimes queer things aren't made to be understood by everyone #it was specifically because they thought it made them into 'just another straight couple' #as if that isn't a MASSIVE erasure of trans people's queerness #trans people in m/f relationships doesn't make them any less queer or somehow inferior to gay relationships #it boiled down to 'but you could've made them lesbians :((' YEAH BUT I DIDN'T #idk it was just absolutely infuriating trying to defend myself without saying 'idk what the fuck you want from me at this point' #anyway transfemme stevie is very big on twt but i didn't know whether to post it here or not #but i might if people want to see it because i love it a lot #twitter would die if they saw the olden days when we called them genderbends and there wasn't any trans content at all

[whaliiwatching]

hm. them. also ding ding

#spider man: across the spider verse #spider punk #spider noir #hobie brown #noirpunk #spiderdykes #new tag for the lesbians!!! #ough writing is so hard. but it is happening kind of #drawing kisses are so hard but i am going to get better FoR THEM #in this house we love and appreciate fat bodies and soft parts!!!!!!! #theyre ace4ace and t4t in every timeline of mine. by the way. if you didnt know #yes including the PURPLE drawing #im lowkey addicted to drawing butch peter but i also have almost no drawings /of/ her bc they have to be pERFECT #trying to get out more sketches than failing to complete less larger ones #like the olden days… #ding ding is an INSANE cat. meows like a chainsmoker in heat. tries to eat everything. does not know her left from right #ugh im just so love them much. ughgghhh

[nostalgia-tblr]

thanks to the sort of gossipy history i tend to read i know entirely too much about the grounds on which i could get out of the unhappy medieval european marriage that i am not and never will be part of.

#just found out that pre-1215 there were more degrees of consangunity than there are of kevin bacon! :O #1215 must have been WILD - magna carta AND endless discourse over whether your liege lord's current marriage is still incestuous! #tho tbh am tempted by just murdering my shitty husband it's not like they have forensics in those days they'd never prove anything #it MIGHT have been a genuine hunting accident this time. who's to say really? WHO BUT THE LORD DOEST KNOWETH??? #(no i don't know how to correctly conjugate the verbs in Ye Olden. if that bothers u then GETTETH THEE UNTO FUCK) #btw u notice modern observers do NOT just un-count those marriages that get annulled on whatever grounds? #like nobody ACTUALLY thinks both tudor queens were illegitimate do they? #and eleanor of aquitaine def gets to have been married to two kings right? #this is another way in which history has said “fuck you” to henry 8th which obviously i am all in favour of (because fuck him)

[odessastone]

I feel like we need a giant ao3 divider for Fics Written During the OW1 Era and Fics Written During the OW2 Era

#it's like an entirely different series now #and yet sorting by top hits/kudos/etc will give you pretty much exclusively fics from Ye Olden Days- #-where everybody just made up their own canon #obv you can search by recently updated ... but will people know to do that ...

[waywardsalt]

in post-ph specifically a really old idea ive had is that linebeck is extremely, extremely possessive of his coat, but if in a situation where he fears he might actually die, he gives it to the person he trusts to save him, or he gives it to someone he cares about that seems to be on the brink of death

#its not permanent unless he dies. which he doesnt in any of the cases of this happening #at the end of the day its like a symbol of his immense trust and respect for the person and a sign that he really thinks hes not making it #bc otherwise you cannot touch that thing. rn i really only have one scenario with this with link damien and bellum each #link’s is the one where hes afraid the other person will die but hes also afraid hes going to die at that moment its a whole thing #other cases are if he thinks he wont be able to get out of smth without it being damaged or if he just wants it to be safe #theres a bit where he has to be separated from the crew for a bit so he preemptively gives it to damien for safekeeping #generally if linebeck hands his coat to someone its a Bad Sign. something is very wrong #bellum is the only one who understands the gravity of it when he first sees it bc like. hes been in linebecks mind he knows the abstract #idea of how protective linebeck is of it. and he has no idea how to feel the first time linebeck gives it to him. its a warm feeling #with damien its a mixture of terrified and dutiful he understands it as being trusted with it and makes sure to keep it safe #he understands what the coat means to linebeck just not on the same visceral level as bellum. link also has a good idea of how much #linebeck cares about his coat but its filtered through being a slightly mischievous kid whos tried getting to it before. when hes actually #given it or sees linebeck hand it off the first (few) times hes really scared and a bit confused until the idea clicks for him #this is an ooooold idea i think its from back when post ph was mostly going to be a 50 chapter thing using a 50 word challenge list #if anyone remembers those. this shit originates from middle school. the olden days. before damien existed #i like linebecks coat being an item tied to his identity its what he wants its something he finds comfort in its something he made himself #salty talks #post-ph #this might carry over a little to some other aus but these situations dont really happen the same was as they might in post ph

[starrycat123-blog]

oksies hi starting a new thread of get to know you

haii I'm moth and also thea you may call me any nickname as well <3

I love musicals so so much (niche and popular!! basic-shaming is lame)

I am superhero obsessed (augh pied piper)

doctor who is my autism (yay river sonf!!!!)

good omens heoughhhhhhhh

super excited to meet you <3333333

Hi moth!! You can call me tetra. Don't worry that's not my real name or anything tho. I took it from the concept of tetrachords in music.

If we're generous about what we call superheroes, then maybe most of the things I like are superhero based. I mean obviously there's marvel and dc, but then there's stuff like dpxdc, sonic the hedgehog (idk if I've ever heard him called a superhero but he kinda is), if we count magical girls then like. Sailor moon and madoka magica

I haven't seen any episodes of good omens, but I read a really good fanfic of Crowley going to therapy a while back, and a couple funny ones with like yelp reviews of Aziraphale's bookstore. Plus I love the good omens analysis posts on here. I feel like maybe I half know some of what's happened in the show but also probably haven't scratched the surface. I'm kinda bad at watching TV shows, so there's a lot of stuff that I know from fandom but haven't seen. For another example of that, I've only watched one or two episodes of Sonic Prime. I reblog posts for it and it sounds good but idk. Just bad at it.

I'm a much more casual fan of musicals, I think for the same thing as above where I just struggle to sit and watch something on purpose. But I listen to the music from them sometimes, I've read transcripts online of a couple, and i swoon whenever I see a post analyzing the meaning of a musical song, especially when they go beyond lyrics and start going into the music theory in the tune. I don't have the skills or knowledge to do that myself but I love it so much

(when the singer changes their technique to enhance the meaning,, when this or that chord is a step outside the key to symbolize change or isolation or anything,,, using instruments as symbols for this or that character,,, tbh it doesn't have to be a musical even shout out to that youtube video by Scruffy on how fnaf's audio and sound effects make it scarier)

Lately I've been bouncing back and forth between Sonic and DPxDC. With hints of Slay The Princess in there bc I saw part of a playthrough of that awhile ago and loved the concept. I reblog madoka magica stuff whenever I see it (except magia record bc I know next to nothing about it) because that stuff makes me lose my mind. The love the pain the hope the despair!! Homura is probably like my ultimate blorbo but I love all the five girls they're so cool. I actually read the manga instead of watching the show though so I'm not as familiar with all the music. Plus I think the show had some extra scenes. Although it's a little confusing bc I think some of the extra scenes I see are magia record so idk.

Also I'm a fan of arts and crafts and will reblog that kind of thing once in a while, along with cute cat stuff.

Super excited to meet you too!

#sorry about the late response. got nervous and then put it off for awhile #hopefully it's a good one though? #it's unedited bc if i think stop and think harder/worry more now i'll never escape the think stage and i will post nothing #and i don't wanna do that #if there's anything you wanna know just ask #actually maybe i should think of some questions for you #oh like who's pied piper? i haven't heard of a superhero with that name just the child-stealing legend #unless you consider that guy a hero which like. i guess you could interpret it like that? teaching the value of not exploiting your workers #and i've read at least one story based on the legend where he takes the children somewhere nice #i feel like stealing children is not the ideal solution to that issue but it is a bit iconic if you think about it right #maybe he couldve taken some crops instead tho like thats the village income. it'd be more similar to money than kids. #i mean i guess in those days kids were also workers. and somewhat exploited generally. #so i guess i could see it as the guy getting exploited and then grabbing all the other exploited workers in town #i'm not really a history buff am i off base with this theory completely #i know kids used to have to work to help their families and that there are child labor laws for a reason #but also. not like there was a ton of free entertainment in the olden times. #i mean the parents almost definitely didnt pay kids money but chores aren't exploitation #maybe i should leave this up to interpretation #or just say it depends on situation and some kids probably were exploited while others weren't #hmm. this whole thing is probably just bs. i don't know what i'm talking about #oh well i hope you didn't mind it

[borgeslabyrinth]

I know I'm like. Deeply sleep deprived. But I wasn't expecting Jenny Nicholson's video essay on the final brony con to make me tear up, especially since I was never a brony and only had negative impressions of the fandom, but here we are.

#YES brony's were cringy and mean a lot of the time but that video really is a time capsule to the death of fandom #like fandom is so drastically different now than it was in 2011/2012 we're so disconnected now #when in ye olden days you were mainly in a fandom to make friends #and there was so much fanwork and everyone excitedly interacting with those fanworks #and nowadays you're lucky to get 7 comments on ao3 on your fics and 30 reblogs of your fanart on tumblr #everyone used to be so passionate and excited to share their interests and make friends where now it's like. reblogging gifs to your blog #but not engaging with the creator or the other fans #fandom is quietly isolating in a way it never used to be #and that's really sad #it's why i don't really interact with fandom these days because it's boring and not as fun #it feels like less of a community these days and fandom simply isn't as fun if you're not sharing it #maybe it has to do with the rise of seeing passionate interests as cringy or it has to do with how much content we get on streaming service #maybe it has to do with seeing writers and fanartists as being content creators instead of community members #so you don't engage because you think that they should just churn out product without you investing in it #it's hard to know #but i miss the excitement and love and sense of community that used to exist in fandom #and sure it still exists in some fandoms #but most of them are so solitary #i just miss it #oscar talks to himself

[alethiaii]

Every time I see illiterate, dumb peasants in a medieval fantasy story:

#nina is rambling #pls for ffs look...if common people weren't able to read write and do basic math everyone would have collectively been fucked okay??? #you can't just write the 'hero(ine) is from peasantry but they are not like other dumb peasants who can't read and write' #if they didn't know the basic stuff of ya know...what was relevant to their work they would not know how much of what to plant... #when to plant...how many animals they can feed...what is needed #it is literally a matter of what being literate means...and in ye olden days that meant 'being able to read and write in latin' which means #people were very literate in their own languages....just please...commoners were not dumb as bricks human beings

[starpros-sunshine]

If I loved Wataei less I might be able to talk about them more....

#You know what I also like. Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice (knows that's a quote from Emma) #Gosh I really need to read Emma #Been meaning to but I've just been chipping away at mansfield park because it is so long #and personally I find it rather tedious to read because...Well let's just say I'm not very partial to people marrying their cousins #I am aware it was not strange in ye olden days but it's one of those modern biases I can't really shake off #but I can live with it it's just something that makes me do a little displeased frown because honestly #that's the best match the poor girl could've gotten in that book there were no better options at least the guy wasn't a complete moron #as far as I can gage at least #but I guess that's my fault for starting with Pride and Prejudice I found my Austen otp in Elizabeth and Darcy I just think they're really #really neat #I originally got into Jane Austen because I have a classmate or well I guess friend would be a fitting term too although we don't really #talk outside of a school setting or outside of the group but I don't really talk to anyone outside of the group or school anyways so #might as well just call her a friend #but yes she is very into Jane Austen she's such an anglophile in the best way possible it's very endearing she can tell you a lot about tea #and such #but back to topic I got into the books because she liked them and we share an english class where we're the only ones from our little bubbl #so naturally that sparks conversation and what to talk about when two people who are into english novels if not english novels #I got her to read Sherlock Holmes and she still like Agatha Christie better #but I was very happy about that because I really like Sherlock Holmes #she's much more patient than some of my other friends if that's the right word so that makes talking easier #it's not fun when you can tell your conversation partner doesn't really care #so now I'm still trying to get through all the Auste novels I'm doing a terribly poor job at it #been at it since January how many have I managed to finish? two. #I'm listening to the audiobooks and listening to engllish can be very tiring and the lady that narrates has a very nice voice so sometimes #I fall asleep and lose the point where I was so then I have to start the entire chapter again and it's a whole thing really #but where were we ah yes Wataei #I love them I really do it's such a shame I wish I could articulate it and put it into words #but instead I have this feelings soup #oh for shame what a horrible horrible world to live in #I missed rambling in my tags I think if I'm too scared to post something I'll just put it aaaaaalll in my tags again

[gallifreyborn]

@xiidoctor liked for a starter!

It was always imprisonment, Romana thought as she tentatively tugged at her shackles. They didn't budge. Romana sighed somewhat dramatically and sagged.

She understood why ignorance of the law wasn't an acceptable defence. Really, she did, but could more civilisations not include an alien clause? It would save her so much trouble. Now she was going to have to work out how to free herself, and it would really just end up being a waste of time for everyone involved.

Romana heard footsteps echo down the corridor outside her cell, and her ears perked. It was probably just a prison guard, but even if she couldn't win her freedom from them, they could possibly provide her with a source of entertainment.

"Hello?" She called out, her voice light and pleasant. "These restraints are really quite uncomfortable. Are you sure that they can't be loosened even a little bit? I would appreciate it oh-so much!"

#xiidoctor #verse : prime #incarnation : iii #timeline : survivor #( i felt like using romana iii so if you dont know #her fc is juliet landau :) #i just. dont remember if i put it on my pages yet rip #but also hi!! #i was excited to see you bc i recognise you from the olden days of dw tumblr rp! #glad to see youre still alive! )

[thornsnvultures]

I hate updating masterlists. I'd make a separate page and link it on my desktop page but I feel like most people use the app, especially for reading fics (and you wouldn't be able to see links on the app anyway because tumblr hates them and likes to break mine)

#i miss customizing the html like i used to in the olden days lol #how many people even know that's a thing you can do? like make custom pages #idk i sound like an old fart lol #remember when there were whole blogs dedicated to making and sourcing customizable themes??? #good times #when people would have music play when you opened their blog like it was MySpace lol

[frostedmelone]

as a practical effects nerd I fucking LOVE the like.. first 4/5 puppet master films for their use of stop motion/pyrotechnics so much. it is just so charming to me the time and thought put into making the puppets move and act. really gives them life the newer movies just doesn’t have IN MY OPINION

#talking #i think stop motion slash practical effects should be used MORE in films like this #like yeah i KNOW cgi can be used good if its done right but i miss puppets in general #not even just from these movies #how a majority of monster movies made in ye olden days were made using PUPPETS!!!!!!!!! #the deadly spawn is one of my favorite monster movies because of that reason #little shop too.......... #anyways im just rambling now sorry #hit me up in my inbox if you want to talk about puppets ever btw im insane about them #i just never make posts about it

[unproduciblesmackdown]

interestingly the only mention i can find of a monastery loquarium is (rendered "loquorium") in "the california padres and their mission" by charles francis saunders and joseph smeaton chase, a book in the public domain:

The Mission relics at Santa Inés are many and interesting. Besides those used in the present-day church services, and the beautiful old vestments that are in the sacristy, there is a considerable collection arranged for interested visitors in an interior room of the convento — a room formerly used as the loquorium, where daily, after dinner and after supper, the friars were at liberty to come to rest for an hour from their laboring and praying, and relax in human chat.

the next paragraph also mentions this room now housing relics "patiently got together from all sorts of places," including "from the earth of the surrounding fields as the plough turns it up"

#originally the search yielded archive.org's text version which seems to have been like that autogenerated version from (their own) scan #where it clearly results in a lot of typos as it's ''misread'' like ''inés'' becoming ''in6s'' #so it made it difficult to cross reference w/the pdf scan lol...''convento'' had become ''comento'' like i figured that was wrong but had t #actually see the original text to know what had gone wrong there #speaking of limited information recorded in specific places.... #how that santa inés is i believe from saint agnes; the portuguese form being inez #akd's character in ''the outside story'' being called ''inez'' in some articles but in the movie they're only called/credited as ''izzy'' #a potential nickname; i could believe that this jumped off from them being named inez but thus far it remains apocrypha lol.... #pentiment #it's also ofc like; how many resources on olden monastery rooms that aren't scanned / converted to text / public domain available thusly... #but you can somewhat expect Monastic Trivia to potentially show up in other sites or even via like online dictionaries.... #checked as much by looking up another [term for Special Room in a monastery] and getting various results defining it #oh now i'm remembering some fun research moment learning that some like Christian Order was defined by standing during prayers instead of #kneeling...and the definition is available and they're all exactly the same b/c they all come from One Resource offering that definition #this came from that ''i'm drawing winston's Standing Posture a certain way'' moment where i read the wikipedia page for [standing] lol #which stemmed from reading the wikipedia page for contrapposto in an effort to learn other Artistic Terms For Standing Certain Ways #orthostasis....yep there it is in the ''see also'' section of the wikipedia Standing article: agonoclita / the agonoclites #7th century christian sect who Never Kneeled...name from greek for like ''i do not bend the knee''...One Citation = everyone's sole citatio #oh also noticing that a loquarium was probably all the more relevant when piero seems to note The Rule frowns on too much conversing for fu #like i've been to Dinner With Benedictines In Their Monastery multiple times lol no such pressure modern day to not chitchat #but that when Rule manifestations were thusly; a room that was like ''exempt'' from that would be unsurprising....fun chitchat hq #monasteries of w/e various orders having zones dedicated to being more chill than is supposedly required outside it.... #hmm wikipedia's saying benedictines maintain silence As Much As Possible outside bonus silent hrs / social convos are Limited #news to me. also says ''but such details'' abt the day to day life is technically left by The Rule up to whatever Superior of an abbey #evidently the way of doing things at the one i was familiar with / around were not so pressed about silence / rare/limited socializing

[floorpancakes]

as much as i dream of a perfect sciencesaru reboot of xxxholic (as long as they don't get too crazy w hima, I saw early devilman crybaby) i do think that ppl should stop avoiding janky 2000s low budget-looking anime for its looks cause 1. half my favourite shows are this and 2. it's funny. you all love goofy frames of your favs for funny memes and sillies right??? you all love a silly little joke right??? what if i told you there's EXCELLENT AND BEAUTIFUL AND AESTHETIC CHARACTERS with EXCELLENT WRITING and ARCS and you get to enjoy them both as really cool pretty fashion models AND as goofy silly fucking react images

#need to make one of those let me do it for you videos #but instead of borzoi nose its just silly watanuki spaghetti limbs compilation #also its funny cause ppl usually point the height out as the problem but it actually adds to the vibes in the manga #theyre spaghetti people....cool spaghetti people... #they put limb elongating yass pills in the water supply dont believe modern era clamp normal height propaganda #yuuko is the tallest woman alive and my wife #i subscribe to doumeki jotaro height theory and that makes watanuki roughly 184 cm tall #anyway watch xxxholic #idk why im posting this here the like 5 ppl i interact with all like holic already #anime #cool anime #anime recs #idk im reaching #dont even joke about gohands #ii actually made a height chart ages ago to figure out watanukis height it was pretty funny #dedication to the bit #i feel like only science saru could get the vibes right for holic tone wise and animation style wise #i used to say shaft in the olden days b4 i started watching madhouse masaaki yuasa n scisaru content it changed my mind #if you've seen any of the tatamiverse or devilman or whatever u know what's up #also its not like they shy away from gay stuff so #wish i had infinity money to commission it myself #with an alternative ending lol #keep the anime original content it can stay its very good

[rubberbandballqueen]

had one of them "quarterly work meetings" just now and what i have learned is that i am severely lacking in the genre of social script that dictates how to behave when first joining a group of people you will be working with regularly from that point on

#i think mostly my coworkers are all people who are fairly neurotypical and so they like. Know how to do this stuff i guess #n so i'm kinda just standing there. like a vampire. needing to be invited in for lack of practice w/these scripts #n like i briefly mentioned this in the tags of a post on my other blog yesterday but like i notice smth similar in my chem lab #it's like i'm missing the first scene of a script to a play but have the rest of it memorized blocked n ready to go #as Soon as i know that my entrance isn't like a disruption of the expected flow i'm fine!!! i can do that shit!!!! #and more recently i've been learning n mastering the opening scenes to the play of 'making online friends' #which is different from real life bc online friendship is asynchronous. realizing now that's why online/irl friendships differ sometimes #n this is also why i tend to be more actively inviting at the start of smth new like a class or semester #bc those are the periods when the ~flow~ is setting itself n if i can manage to integrate into *that* i'm good i can do this #but i don't know how to *slip in* to an existing current as an active participant. i just know how to observe n absorb #bc it's ~personal sharing time~ (lol) but like obviously being Neurodivergent(tm) i misread a lot of cues growing up #n so now the goal feels like 'transition seamlessly into thing so that you're not a despised disruption' #which is why i've become so grateful to the kinds of people who make active efforts to include new people #like. thank you communications majors. i love you communications majors. i owe you my life communications majors. #bc it's so!! 'i promise i'm not snubbing you it's just that my direct instructions were to work Here so even though you are three feet away #'literally on the other side of this wall i'm not gonna come out n initiate conversation w/you bc those are Implicit Instructions' #'/Individual Expectations that i'm too afraid of reading incorrectly but if you come talk to me i will be normal abt it i promise' #the worm speaks #like pretty frequently these days i find myself thinking abt that one post that's like #'yeah back in the olden days being a good host was a learned skill n it involved these sorts of specific things' #'like matching up n introducing guests to each other by saying 'this is x this is y you both like turtles :)' #like i feel like that's the Spirit of icebreakers these days but even if you have interests in common w/someone across the circle #it can be kind of awkward to cross the room afterwards to talk to them so you just end up talking w/whoever's nearest or no one at all

[b4kuch1n]

yo quick question why is your hpyu tag Drift Compatible

oh that's because that's not their ship tag! I've kept the custom of using ship tags for character/character stuff and my own tags for character+character stuff. if you're asking about the meaning of it, it's because I think of hop and gloria specifically as 'one person spanning two', they know each other so well asking one of their opinion on something's practically asking both and they can command each other's pokemon team without needing any preambles. there's also that joke I gave them of them acting like they look exactly the same and someone can only tell them apart by really obscure minute details, I am very fond of that one still :]

#ask #bakuspeech #if you check back you can see I tag raihan/milo which is applinshipping #and sonia/nessa which is aquaheartshipping #and gloria/marnie which is. gothgfshipping. gods I can Not get over that one #I like! old school shipnames like those tho. they stick to my brain #but otherwise with what they call 'brOTP' in ye olden days I use my own tags lol #it's of course more complicated than that. ao3 uses a system with similar distinction and boy oh boy. do I have a headache abt it #due to writing almost exclusively qpr/non-romantic love shit #inevitably folks who walk into a ship tag carry with them expectations! which is what I'm not super into like. caring about lol #so I just line my own floor and lay in here. it's cozy it's warm. it's my floor I scribble on it #but yeah you can see the same logic with my leon+raihan+sonia tag #which is ''three parts of a whole idiot'' #tho in their case I don't even know their ship tag lmao I've been here probably since before it..... #but yeah. if you ask about an organizational tag's meaning uhhh dw abt it. dw abt it!! its fine #it's just gonna be what I can remember lmao every time I make up a name I have to offer it to the brain like a tithe #and if the brain doesn't care for it it just won't stick #such is. the life of the baku. sad! well there are other frogs #but yeah fjksdhf hope this. answers your question!