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Accusing anime fans of being misandrist because all of their waifus are female

the biggest questions detective pikachu answered

no one but professional trainers has a full team of 6 in the pokemon universe because it would be a fucking gigantic hassle to deal with 6 animals, let alone different types that need different things

some people don’t evolve their pokemon because imagine having a fucking cat and then you can choose to make the cat five times as big and strong. would you do this if you weren’t battling.

Technically if your cat isn’t battling it doesn’t evolve.

That does however give cat owners a strong incentive to not let their cat outside, because realistically any cat that is allowed to roam free is gonna rack up exp until it evolves.

I let my litten out one day and a week later incineroar rips my door off and demands wet food only

Caring for this incineroar for three days before my litten shows up. Who the fuck is this then?

this is the funniest addition anyone’s ever made to this post

So me3 Ashley Williams is really... something, huh

I hadn't seen it before bc she wasn't the surviving ME1 human in my first playthrough. In case anyone thought that Progress in video game sexism was a straight line

is that tactical lipgloss

is that blowout regulation

space racist to tradwife girlfluencer pipeline

They got a bunch of extra graphic fidelity between 1 and 2, and they used it to make the women as sexy as they can. Williams isn't even the worst here, Miranda is one of the textbook cases of male gaze in video games.

I mean, sure, and there's also a lot to be said about the Asari in general.

But my biggest problem with this kind of character design is always the extent to which it interferes with believability and characterisation.

So Miranda? Well, personally I think there's a version the character they've written that would absolutely avoid dressing like that, but as for the one they wrote: while she is uneasy about the providence of her many natural talents (hurr hurr), she's comfortable flaunting their existence, and I guess I can sorta-kinda buy that translating to a choice to dress like that (minus the heels during combat runs), in the context of skintight plasticy-looking-attire generally being fashionable in the galactic community for civilians at the time. (Which is its own Choice, but one at a time i guess) Maybe her gene mods even make her immune to the long-term health consequences of wearing heels every day to work and prevent her hair getting in her eyes or overly mussed during active situations, I don't know

Ash, on the other hand, is a bare-faced hair-in-bun career marine who has no in-character reason whatsoever to suddenly start reapplying lipgloss during every lull in the shooting and spending half an hour every morning straightening and then ever-so-slightly curling her hair. During an all-out war for the very existence of life in the galaxy.

I really want a mod that changes her appearance for all scenes but one, in which she storms in grumpily from the photo-op around her appointment as the second human SPECTRE complaining that the hair and makeup people Udina hired made her look like Alliance Barbie

for the record im normally skeptical about this approximate genre of feminist takes because it's a bit too convenient, but I do think there's an element of fear going on when they do things like this.

If it was just a matter of preference then there absolutely are characters that serve that preference and you could just like them. But no... Somebody needed for this particular woman to get turned into a blow-up doll and there's something very psychosexual about that

Strap yourselves in, I’m gonna make the jump to Tramspace.

Night is coming by Unita-N

I bought this as a print almost four feet wide (devaintart used to let you do that like a redbubble sort of thing) and it’s the first thing you see going downstairs in my house.

I love it.

DRAGONS LOCATED

Conservatives say you can change gender, but only in one direction

1.

vision of a world where spending enough time navigating the legal, medical and insurance bureaucracy to secure access to HRT allows you to transcend to an enlightened state and derive estrogen directly from the process

2.

the repetition of "studies have shown this" gives it a very mantric character which one is greatly tempted to elaborate.

Vetsema’s Voice

I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know

I think...you might be right

what the fuck

much like the way "Gary" owes much of its popularity to actor Gary Cooper, born Frank James Cooper, who took the name on the advice of his agent who got it from the town of Gary, Indiana, which was named after American industrialist Elbert Henry Gary, who also gave his named to Gary, West Virginia.

In the 1700s, writer James McPherson discovered a work of ancient Scottish epic poetry by a bard named Ossian. Ossian's work became incredibly popular across Europe; he was hailed as an equal to Homer. In particular, Napoleon was major admirer of Ossian's, and named his godson Oscar after a character from the poem. This Oscar eventually became King Oscar I of Sweden, which popularized the name Oscar overnight. It remains a common name to this day in many countries, despite the fact that it is now broadly known Ossian was a hoax and that James McPherson wrote the supposed ancient epics himself.

you wake up one day and every single person in the world is in some frantic rush to end a time loop apparently, but you haven't been in a time loop and it's your first day so you don't know what to do you just go to work while wondering if you're gonna get stuck in the time loop with everyone else tomorrow. then the next day comes and everyone's celebrating cuz they finally fixed the time loop apparently. you always wanted to be in a time loop.

"amab genitalia" doesn't mean anything. There are intersex amabs with genitalia different from most perisex cis men's. there are transfeminine amabs who've gotten surgery which makes their genitalia different from most cis men's. if you mean "having a dick", or perisex cis male genitalia, then say that

Edit: and even "perisex cis male" doesn't narrow it down! It's rare, but they can also have genitalia that doesn't conform to your expectations. Penis, scrotum, vagina, vulva and etc. are not bad words!

People keep deciding that now we've invented trans people they need new words to talk about the difference between men and women more accurately. The problem is they then talk with great accuracy about something different from what they mean.

The genitals of people who were assigned male at birth is a coherent concept which I guess maybe someone might want to talk about for some reason??? And it's very similar to the concept of dicks which lots of people want to talk about for very good and understandable reasons. But you went to the trouble of using very exact language to specify that you don't mean dicks.

Something Doctor Who misses out on is how none of the companions are extremely interested with any one thing. All the companions are all “idk, I have a few ideas of stuff that’d be cool to see, but I’m up for whatever! All of space and time, woohoo! :)”

And that’s great for them and I know it makes for a better show overall but I think it would be more realistic for someone to say “I want to see every historically significant moment for my special interest, and then I want to double back for mundane bits too.”

I, for example, would be an insufferable companion.

I’d be like, “okay now take me to the place and time where they first used stirrups for the whole ride instead of just using them as a foothold to mount the horse. Then I want to watch Ray Hunt put a first ride on a colt. After that we’ll take a nap, and then let’s sneak onto set of the Return of the King to be extras in the Ride of the Rohirrim”

The Doctor would be all “please. This is the twentieth horse-centric stop in a row. We have all of space available to us. Can we leave Earth this time I’m begging you”

And my annoying ass would go “not unless there’s horses in space” roll credits

@noodles-07 @april-december @emkini @cataclitsmicdisaster @watchful-heart @yatima @atm0spherere

Okay what I’m getting from all this is horse girls agree we would make awful companions but we have numbers so I propose we steal the TARDIS and go on a merry group adventure of our own

“Eohippus,” I say to the Doctor.

The Doctor is an ageless, genderless, timeless being: an unstoppable force. I have unlimited amounts of horsegirlness and am something of an immovable object. They look incredibly shifty.

“Eohippus,” I say again, menacingly.

“Merychippus?” They’re a man at the moment, and he tries this with a placating smile.

I know what he’s up to. He thinks there’s significantly more chance of human-related bullshit, and alien fuckery, and all the other bullshit he actually likes if we go see Merychippus, the first of the grazing horses. It’s basically just a horse, though. You can see those anywhere. And I know that the minute we step off the TARDIS it’s going to be a series of bullshit escalations leading up to the Doctor saving something in front of an adoring audience. I distinctly recall not fucking stuttering and I said I wanted Eohippus. I want the ancestral form. Strange, elusive, tiny; poised like a dancer on hard little many-toed paws.

You’ll never meet a unicorn in your life, but if you crack spacetime in just the right way, you could meet something better: the strange alien wild seed of something your species has chased for all of history. Before you were you and they were horses. Who’d want to waste spacetime on anything else?

why does my mother suddenly fail kindergarten whenever she tries to do anything on the computer

I know she doesn't know what "the maximise button" is so I told her "click the square at the top right" and she clicked...the printer icon...in the middle of the toolbar. and I'm just like okay. this isn't a technology thing you are flunking basic shapes and directions. I'm turning off your computer and getting you a block puzzle. you have a master's degree

There's a similar phenomenon with maths actually. Lots of people know deep down that they cant do maths, and so as soon as they become conciously aware they're doing a maths thing suddenly the stress and panic causes even things they could do trivially in another context to become impossible.

The problem isn't inteligence, it's the fear bad teachers left them with.

Yeah I chose the original over the hotter clone and it was awkward; turns out the original was trying to break up with me and wanted to leave me better off (original wasn't huge on body modifications but the clone was made to be fine with their changes)

Anyways once we had a conversation about it we broke up pretty amicably. But when I went to the clone it turns out they found the Big Speech I gave about loving someone for who they are in and of themselves and not for any particular quality resonated with them pretty well and they decided it would be wrong to date me. Which was awkward

Anyways that's why I don't date mad scientists anymore. You said you were majoring in pure maths, right, no applications? Good, what got you into that

Okay. Say you ask a small child to draw you a house, and they come up with something like this:

For the purposes of this analogy the child is shit at colouring in, because I only wanted to give the general idea.

So, we can all agree that the child who draws a house probably isn't trying to communicate anything in particular other than “look at this cool house I drew”, right?

Cool.

So… Why is it seemingly in the middle of nowhere, when most children live in houses with neighbours?

Why is the main body a square and the roof a solid triangle when that doesn't look like any house that has ever been built anywhere?

Why does it have a wood-burning stove with smoke actively coming out of the chimney, even though the sun indicates warm weather?

Why is the sun smiling? Why is it yellow?

Answer: because the child has seen picture books, and films, and the drawings of other children, and has on some level absorbed that this is what a house is meant to look like.

Face to face, the child almost certainly wouldn't know where to begin communicating “yellow is a colour culturally associated with happiness and warmth, and two dots accompanied by a curved line symbolically represent a smiling human face, so I have combined these attributes with the sun to convey that it is a very warm and pleasant day”.

Or “historically most houses in my country used fire for heat and cooking, and even though this is no longer the case for the majority of households, most media portrayals of houses are inspired by other, older, media portrayals and therefore include the chimney. I have chosen to follow this trend.”

Or even, “I have poor motor control because of my age, and large, 2 dimensional shapes are easier to draw than anything involving detail and perspective”.

Yet this is all information that you can pick up from detailed study of the house drawing.

Ultimately, it's not about what the writer intended. That's what the whole death of the author thing means.

If you think of literature like as a conversation, then think of all the analysis stuff that your English teacher keeps trying to get you to look at as like body language. It's the stuff that the other person doesn't even necessarily mean to communicate, but that can tell you a hell of a lot about what they mean.

Also, a poem written by a poet who got high is still a poem written by a poet.

People love to say dismissive bullshit like, "oh, that's just the drugs talking" but actually, drugs can't fucking talk! It is always the human being doing the talking regardless of how intoxicated they are. The drugs are not creating the poetry. The poet's mind is creating the poetry. A person doesn't stop being a person just because they took something.

Gonna nitpick a wording:

"Yet this is all information that you can pick up from detailed study of the house drawing."

Mmmmm no, these are all interpretations you can draw out of it, and parallels and potentials that you can gather from detailed study of the house drawing.

It isn't knowledge, and this is where "death of the author" gets used in a shitty way: if the author is dead, the author is really dead, and you get to stop speculating on whether or not that's the reason that the child drew the house like that.

You don't know. The house might actually be a very specific portrait of a house that they saw, or even a reproduction of a piece of art they saw, which they drew purely because they wanted to reproduce the art or the image. If the author is dead you cannot know that, and you must accept that it is unknown.

What you can do is note what you see in the piece; you can engage with the fact that it exists within a tradition of art that is all the things you say, and that thus one can interpret it in these ways as well, and that it exists within this tradition which is obviously a tradition because of all these other factors.

You don't get (you really, really don't get) to decide you know what the author meant really, and then claim that this interpretation stands up against anything that the author says, and then say that what the author says doesn't matter because the author is dead.

If the author is dead, they are dead. Their reasons for creating are no longer part of the conversation; only the work as it exists and as you relate to it are relevant.

Now you can argue that there are hidden influences on an author without arguing that the author is dead; however at that point you do also have to take into account what the author actually says, because now the author is not dead. You may not accept or believe what the author says, but if the author is dead then nothing about the author's inspiration or background or anything else actually matters or can be referred to; and if all of that can be referred to, then the author is not dead, and their input matters.

You don't get to silence the artist and then use your understanding of the art to dictate to the artist (and the world) who they are.

What they don’t tell you about speaking multiple languages is that your brain does not in fact have a box labeled Spanish and another one labeled German. Instead it has a box labeled “Not English” and sometimes when you’re talking or writing in one of the languages you speak it will just start pulling random words from that box.