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  • themeadowscene

    I would love to see a fantasy novel where the lore that the reader / protagonist learns at first is not true

  • themeadowscene

    e.g. they're told that this kind of creature has some kind of psychic or pheromone-based "mate bond" that cannot be broken; but it turns out that's a popular myth that has never been scientifically substantiated, and is basically used to keep people in bad relationships (basically the equivalent of "human women are biologically submissive")

  • themeadowscene

    "lore" is imo too often treated like information that the author is giving the reader, and it just happens to be using the medium of diagetic (that is, 'in-story') exposition.

    it's so much more interesting and dynamic to treat "lore" as information that is generated and disseminated in-story. who is telling the protagonist this information? under what historical and social circumstances was this idea formed? what political motives are there for trying to get people to believe this information? which characters would disagree with it? would the protagonist believe it, or be sceptical? does the plot bear it out, or cast doubt on it?

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    #no yeah this is just Mistborn#and Chaos Walking (the book series not the godawful movie)#also Iron Widow to a lesser degree#and Love Between Fairy and Devil honestly!#but Mistborn especially because it KEEPS exploring different facets of this throughout
  • knitmeapony

    I found this article about what your body goes through when you decide to do something like Cory Booker's 25-hour protest speech really interesting. I saw more than one person tagging posts about him with stuff like when do you pee, and this has some great answers for you

    The Physiology of Cory Booker’s 25-Hour Senate Speech - The New York …
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    #not drinking water I could have guessed but not *that* far in advance. never mind the 'fasting for days prior' bit!
  • benisaiber

    Genuine question. if you were a character in a piece of media, would YOU be considered good queer rep? no need to elaborate but you can if you wish. (i think i will make a specific poll later about ONLY transness, about only Aspecs, then lesbians gays and bisexuals, cuz i think there are diff standards of hood queer rep for these, but this poll is generalist for the whole LGBT+ community)

    Yes

    No

    I personally see myself as being judged as not good queer rep, as aroace who dates, "feminine" trans, "emotionless" trope, alien/robot/outsider coded, etc.

    This poll is because i am often thinking about characters that are considered bad rep, but I know people in real life are LIKE THAT and identity is messy! In my opnion bad queer rep would be the ones that are shown or touched upon on screen. Idk, just wondering.


    Edit: lmao i wrote hood isntead of good and tumblr didnt let me edit

  • cumaeansibyl

    I'm a bi woman married to a man, absolutely not

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    #as an aroace woman who looks like Peter Pan and has unlocked Cis+ there would be sooooo much discourse#obviously as a casually GNC woman who’s not into men I’m actually a lesbian!#but also given my presentation I’m obviously nonbinary!#but also given that I prefer playing male characters when acting I’m a guy whose egg hasn’t cracked!#all three of these camps would fight each other and all would call the show problematic for saying otherwise#the aspec community is having its own set of fights bc there is no such thing as Good Aspec Rep that the aspec community has consensus on
  • dying-suffering-french-stalkers
    Wendy's Physical Collection
    How many films and TV series from my physical collection have you seen? This is a long one! You can count a TV series if you've seen a
    List Challenges

    How many films/TV series from my physical collection have you seen?

    0-24

    25-49

    50-74

    75-99

    99-124

    125-149

    150-174

    175-199

    200+ (we shall be married in the morning)

    EDIT: PRETEND THAT ONE OPTION SAYS 100-124 I GOOFED IT

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    #99!#even adjusting for scale this might be the best I’ve done on one of these
  • televisionforwhales

    Wild to think how invested I once was in captain america. They really put something in the winter soldier (2014). you had to be there

  • 5ummit

    #they fucked up so bad by making it so good #we just thought they were all gonna be like that #congrats you played yourselves (via notyourplayground)

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    #GENUINELY#one of the most charming things about CATWS to me is how they actually filmed parts in DC#and even when they used Cleveland instead they took enough care that it plausibly looked like stuff in the DMV#meanwhile the movie that came out this year had obviously green screened cherry blossoms that look like NOTHING#this is a good representation of the deterioration I think