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I need everyone to see this ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE

A comic based on this poem

A request for Cal to wear High Republic Jedi robes and his love for ponchos <3

I made these as a way to compile all the geographical vocabulary that I thought was useful and interesting for writers. Some descriptors share categories, and some are simplified, but for the most part everything is in its proper place. Not all the words are as useable as others, and some might take tricky wording to pull off, but I hope these prove useful to all you writers out there!

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Oh, that’s very helpful indeed!

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so @stealingpotatoes drew Trilla with a bogling and I couldn't resist

It’s wild to me to see transvestigator conspiracy theories online that could be so easily explained by natural human variation. That woman has a deep voice? Yeah, sometimes they do. A woman has broad shoulders?? Maybe she plays rugby or hits the gym a fuckton. There’s a “bulge” in her tight pants?? Maybe her vulva is just fat. All the “markers” of trans woman that transvestigators use to harass any woman aren’t even things unique to trans women.

Transphobes talk about women like they’re Barbies. Have you forgotten the existence of cameltoe? Tiny boobs? Narrow hips? Broad shoulders? Why do you think choirs have altos and not just sopranos? What do you think female athletes look like? Do you think a woman that lifts weights and plays contact sports will look like a 90s supermodel? At what point in history did we collectively forget that human bodies have natural variability???

official anti terf post

Anyone who's ever done anything creative needs to fucking see this.

I think the funniest part about the migration from tiktok to rednote is how americans are like "oh my gosh, our government lied to us, you guys are the same as us!" and chinese are like "holy shit, our government didn't lie to us, you really do live like this, i'm so sorry"

Any setting where the elves have weaker booze than the dwarves isn't committing to the bit

I mean, we're talking about people whose lifespan is Yes.

"Oh, the weak wine? That is for children. I am two thousand years old, and I daresay one sip from this highball would knock you on your ass for a week."

Look, there's this weird thing people do with high fantasy where they want elves to be immortal/extremely long-lived snooty aristocrats and also somehow incapacitated by imagining the taste of salt too hard. "Orcs and dwarves have the hardest booze" no they don't, they have work in the morning! In any of these settings, elves would pregame harder than hobbits party and everyone else has shit to do tomorrow.

The average high elf builds up the drug tolerance of a mid-70s Hollywood producer and then spends three centuries studying alchemy. While humans seek immortality, the Immortals seek the elusive "philosopher's cocaine."

Elf Fentanyl works exactly the way cops think human fentanyl does

you gotta be as gay as possible on the computer otherwise alan turing died for nothing

this comment fucking destroys me. I can’t think about Alan Turing for too long or I start crying. 

Someone has probably made this post already, cause I’m late to this fandom.  But every time I see people be like “oh no, Luca betrayed Alberto” I just kinda roll my eyes cause it’s really not that simple at all.

Alberto’s behavior in this scene was manipulative.  He was trying to force Luca into a situation to choose between him and Giulia.  

He specifically rises from the water in an ominous, threatening display, because he wants Giulia to react negatively so he can tell Luca he knew this would happen.

He is taking away Luca’s ability to choose to reveal this on his own terms.  It is not cool.  Luca’s response isn’t great, but it is understandable for him to try and protect his secret given the risk it puts him at, and that he was forced into this situation by Alberto.  He is reacting, and his reaction is a self defense.

Neither of them are terrible for what they did cause they are kids with messy emotional responses they’re still learning to handle, but painting it black and white is not a good read on the situation.

I’ve tried to write up things like this before when people are all like “How dare Luca do that?” when Alberto has put him in a Situation. And also the coding of the “forced outing” trope.

Alberto put Luca in a compromising position, how else could Luca have reacted that wouldn’t have just led to both of them getting hurt? His choice was reasonable.

Regardless, my heart breaks for Alberto. He and Luca were a team. They were going somewhere, he was finally cared about.

And then they met Giulia.

Not for the first time in his life, Alberto feels he’s getting cast aside and forgotten about.

He’s a kid with a lot of hurt. He doesn’t know how to deal with this. He makes himself the monster he’s spent the entire movie proving to the human town he’s not.

@lukebeartoe The forced outing, yes! This is exactly what this scene is to me. Feeling the hurt of being the only one who’s “out” while the other keeps their identity hidden and moves forward without you. Or something like that.

Yeah, this whole scene — to me — has always been under the “forced outing” umbrella. Had this been a romance (it still totally was, people are just too blind to see it), the scene would have gone more like this:

Blah blah blah, “does your school take all kinds of people?”, Alberto somehow reveals that he’s queer — maybe antagonizing and trying to fight Giulia to make her reaction negative, no matter what her feelings are towards queer people — and “I told you so”s Luca, Luca stands his ground and fends off Alberto, maybe resorts to telling him to leave her alone or go away, and Alberto feels shocked and horrified.

So… basically the same scene. If it had been marketed as a realistic-fiction romance, that’s how I’d imagine it going.

That scene was 100% a forced outing. Luca even — subconsciously — tries to escape before Giulia can lift Alberto out of the water and find out, but he sticks around because (imo) he cares about Alberto, and doesn’t want to leave him behind.

I’m just going to leave this here

i wanna talk about this shot

if forum signatures still existed this would be mine

God fucking damn it