Eternity In A Wooden Case

at some point it became a very common talking point that science fiction and fantasy ought to Represent Trans People and that exploring Weird Gender Shit without also depicting characters who are legibly transgender in Normal Ways is passé. and honestlyyyy i don't care give me a hundred more male characters possessed by female ghosts or nonbinary robots or whatever. literally what is the point of the scifi fantasy genre if you cannot connect to the fantastical

if i wanted to read about people being transgender without a wizard being involved i would open my tumblr dash. Representation will kill the reader she needs a guy who accidentally downloaded the memories of a woman on the CyberLine and can't tell them apart from his own to live

Robot offers to perform a striptease, then just stands there for several seconds emitting enigmatic whirring noises before an assembly of panels in their torso suddenly retract along previously invisible seams in a hauntingly organic sequence of geometrically precise motions to reveal some sort of Device.

My Life as a Middle Aged Robot

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it's really funny how the entire world basically just blew the fuck up six short years ago and nobody wants to admit that that may have had some lasting consequences lmao

Not to mention people are STILL DYING. Every time you catch COVID your brain takes irl psychic damage and you Get Worse Forever! People are not recovering from these damages! Put on your mask!

Mercury is the most charismatic substance in the universe. Like, there are a lot of things that historical scholars have been wrong about, but you usually understand why; flawed hypotheses, inadequate measuring tools, half-truths, secondary factors that muddy the results. But people across Eurasia saw that shit and just assumed it must be the key to immortality, despite a mercury tonic being literally the opposite of an immortality potion. And they kept trying it despite all obvious evidence. Taoists burned through emperors like lab rats. No other metal has this much rizz

one thing I’ll never regret is asking a group of friends or even my tumblr followers for recommendations that I could “easily” google. I worked in digital marketing for a long, long time. Most of that within SEO and SEM. And I know how easy and common it is to just write whatever and bury anything that resembles real, human recs. But the thing is, you cannot beat a tumblr user who has strong thoughts about their favorite curl cream. You cannot get a better recommendation on recipes to make that include habaneros than your friend who went through a gardening phase. The internet’s motivation is to get clicks and make sales (or whatever their version of a conversion is). The motivation of other people? Being right and having gone through an experience and wanting to share what they learned. I’d take the human literally any day.

Sort of related. I’ve watched more movies because I saw it tagged as “favorite movie” by a beloved mutual than I have from any sponsored ad for one. so many of them are dogshit terrible, and I’m having the time of my life. I’d rather get organically recommended garbage, than faked, ad dollar astroturf five star dining.

Betcha Grandma was writing original k/s slashfic decades before you kiddies were born.

Yes @ceruleanteacup , Grandma was

i hope everyone knows that OP wasn’t just saying this generally - she quite literally was the star trek grandma. she passed in 2018, rip to an icon

imagine if, after writing Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling had a change of heart and started decrying books about wizards as degenerate filth before she started doing all the TERF stuff. and in between all her posts about hating minorities, she would always stop to mention how much she hates Harry Potter and she regrets that she wrote it. but despite this, you still have people clinging to the books as they do now, insisting that they're so good and so important to them. and JKR keeps telling people that they're wrong, and normal people keep saying "why do you guys care so much about this?" and JKR just keeps making known her hatred of the thing that made her famous. but then, a decade or two later, after she's spent so much time trying to tell people to stop caring about Harry Potter, she decides that she needs more money, so she releases some sequel books which are obviously AI generated, and that left everyone who still cared about it unsatisfied. this post is about Varg Vikernes

witches of hemwick is for sure the most Bumpo’s House of Tricks fromsoft boss

calling witches of hemwick the most Bumpo’s Palace of Tricks boss in fromsoft history is frankly insulting when Micolash is literally in the same game as them

People always ask what a story is "about" like there's one answer. but a story is about whatever the reader needed it to be about the day they read it. you write a story about a woman leaving a house and one person reads it as a story about freedom and another reads it as a story about loss and another reads it as a story about their mother and none of them are wrong and you didn't write any of those stories on purpose. the story knows things the writer doesn't. that's not mystical. that's just how meaning works.