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Gem wrote this one so no Lou infodump this time, I did have fun composing around the little tune Gem sang for it though...

For those who are wondering: yes, this is an actual phrase. Yes, I've been thinking of exactly this happening the first moment I have heard it as a kid. Yes, it does work. IDC if you are gonna tell me it's just "superstition", I have seen the data and it does not lie.

Regular Couple

this ended homophobia

happy pride month

[ID: The original “I see no difference” meme. Each of the four squares features an anime couple with an Impact font caption. First is a boy and a girl cuddling captioned “Regular couple.” Second is two boys kissing, captioned “Yaoi couple.” Third is two girls looking into each other’s eyes captioned “Yuri couple.” Finally, Edward Elric from FMA gives a thumbs-up anf grins with the top and bottom text: “I see no difference / Love is love.” End ID]

Time for Lou to nerd out! - Tanja's performance in this was amazing. Obviously when I want to cast an immortal Serbian fae, Tanja is the person I immediately think of because of her range, but the grief she managed to get across in these lines. Wow. (Gem is great too obvs, love you sib) - The music is inspired by the Serbian folk song "Врбице, врбо зелена" (Willow, Green Willow). It involves waiting up for a shepherd boy on the Eve of St George so is undoubtedly about sex in some way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aFKjbPHdWo - And to answer the question before it happens again, yes, the vila is the kind you recognise from that transphobic woman's books. Unlike her, I am capable of reading more sources than Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fucking Fable and talking to actual Serbians, so our Vila, instead of being a misogynist caricature actually resembles the myth - a powerful fae warrior woman, often capricious and quick to anger, something like a valkyrie, guardian of or associated with a location who often forms attachments to local heroes - these don't have to be romantic. Sometimes they may become blood-bound comrades or "sworn sisters" (посе́стрима), such as the vila Ravijojla in The Ballad of Marko Kraljević who is chased down on a [checks notes] psychic horse and defeated in battle by the titular character after shooting his friend the voivod Miloš for [checks notes] singing too loud. Anyway I fucking love folklore.

what a nerd

the human brain is so cool, if you're tired and stressed enough, your brain will go, "don't worry, I got you" and shadows will start moving

and what's the genital situation on the shadows

oh this is my post

time to make a post on tumblr. surely no one will interpret it to be as offensive and bad intentioned as possible.

I think it's insane that even in the most leftist and "progressive" spaces the idea of equating morality with looks is alive and present and no one fucking bats an eye at it. like racists and mysoginysts are always portrayed as fat and hairy and generally unkept, as a contrast to the morally good and attractive leftists of course; people will have no problem being genuinely fucking awful about someone's appearance if they're deemed to be a "bad person". and the worst part is you point all of this out and people act like you're reading too much into things like no dude you gotta start using your brain more