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reading about the participation of children in rituals as a form of play in ancient greece and came across an incredibly charming story from julius pollux's onomasticon where a flood prevented the adults from reaching a sanctuary to sacrifice a ram to heracles, and the children solved the problem by....sticking a bunch of sticks in an apple to give it "legs" and "horns" and offering it as a sacrifice instead. it's such a charming thought and i can perfectly picture kids these days also pretending at sacrificing an apple "goat" at recess

A wretched little horse is washed away.😈

crazy how i find myself thinking i've got a handle on it all finally and then i see the ways that other people tangle their lives together so easily and live so easily together with their friends and i feel like that girl at the top of the stairs painting by norman rockwell

You'd think "don't use a fictional creature as an allegory for oppressed minorities and as a horde of vile automatons that it's always okay to kill in the same work at the same time" would be a no brainer, but roughly 70% of all works featuring goblins and/or robots demonstrate otherwise.

Star Wars using this exact formula with droids blows my mind to this day. Like, they really can’t decide whether they’re actually an oppressed group or genuinely mindless automatons whose inner lives we don’t need to worry about.

Given that Solo: A Star Wars Story features a droid liberation activist who's very obviously characterised as a mean-spirited parody of a women's rights activist and whose concerns are consistently treated as misguided and laughable (before they blow her up and use her brain to repair a spaceship), I'm not sure it's that the writers can't decide so much as it that they don't want to say what they really think out loud.

can i be honest for a sec. if you see one of those things where they draw male comic book characters in female characters’ poses or use female video game characters’ animations with male models or whatever and your response is “haha yay i love it when men are sluts” you should strongly consider shutting up forever.

seeing a certain post go around again. i don’t know how to tell you guys this but the reason it’s funny to watch ganon run around like zelda is because the edit exposes the inherent lack of dignity in that kind of hyperfemininity. the humor comes from the juxtaposition between a “strong” and “serious” character and the visual signifiers of womanhood. they were crucifying anita sarkeesian in the mainstream for this surface level feminist analysis over a decade ago.

The cleanomorph

the enemy drank water today. did you?

i drank water three days ago. im several steps ahead of the enemy. this is what it takes to win