Literary Analysis is how I make sense of the world

Hey, remember me? We spawned into beginner village together! You reclassed to Archmage? That’s awesome, don’t you have to get to like, level 60 for that? …Huh? Oh, haha, well, no not really, you know how it is with us village kids. Dropped out of the main questline like, way back. I just sort of play to fish, I’m not very good at combat. I’m doing okay for myself though, I caught a Sea Bass the other day that sold for 10g! Oh, um, sorry, didn’t mean to— no, it’s okay, i get it, daily dungeons are like, super important. It was really nice to see you again

Heyyyy, it's me again! Oh, the dungeon? Yeah, no, it was fine. Pretty standard, and my friends are pretty good at them so it didn't take too long. Sorry for just running off like that, it's just the paladin becomes kinda preachy when we're late for things... Hey, I, Uh... Wanted to ask you a favour if you don't mind? I have been woefully neglecting my fishing skill tree. Like I'm SO bad at it. And there's this thing happening, and I need a special fish for it, and I was hoping... No, no, I don't need you to *do* anything I was just hoping for some pointers? 'Cause it's pretty far away and all... Oh, you do like travel? Just not having to fight? Oh. That's... Oh. Okay. Um... Did you want to... Go to the festival? With me?

I think that if you had enough daughters AND played your cards right you could spring Mambo Number Five out at the EXACT right gathering and shatter your entire family's trust forever

The secret is to name them out of order with the lyrics so by the time anyone catches on it's too late

For me personally the ideal gathering would be my funeral

hello Aesop; how's the underworld been?

Every day I wake up and Hades kicks me in the nuts.

this is my favorite comic ever i never don’t want to see it on my dash

It's fine to disagree with the IAU about the definition of "planet"; however, if your definition includes Pluto but not Ceres, Orcus, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris or Sedna, you don't actually care what a planet is – you just want the exact list of nine planets you learned in primary school back. Your cute little Pluto-including orbital distance mnemonic ought to be at least seventeen words long, and good fucking luck with the Q!

My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Orphic Palaces, Slandering Hungry Quaker Matrons Going Erotically Southward.

I appreciate that you included Salacia but not Charon – really threading the needle pedantry-wise there.

iy think any planetary-mass object should be called a planet. the moon is a planet. so are the galilean moons. ganymede is bigger than mercury, so whiy not? just because it happens to orbit another planet too? a star can orbit another star, so whiy can't a planet orbit another planet?

Sometimes when I'm feeling especially contrary I'll advocate for a definition of "planet" which includes the inner planets, the trans-Neptunians, and all planetary-mass moons, but specifically excludes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

My contrary definition of a "planet" is any object that has orbital epicycles visible with the naked eye from the Earth's surface. This limits us to 5 planets and explicitly excludes the Earth.

i have a suggestion

You say, posting a series of images where she's wearing zero lipstick.

It's just neutral toned! She likes big dramatic eye makeup, but very neutral otherwise.

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone else mention how significant it was that Nasha, a Black women was the person who physically put herself on the line to save the baby creeper from the incinerator. I immediately caught that Micky 17 and Nasha were significantly less hostile to the creepers than almost everyone else (Dorothy). Kenneth Marshall has been panned as an empty, goofy trump stand in, I think this is too dismissive of his character. His politics are christofascist, eugenist and white suprematist. Mickey 17 and Kai mirror Ylfa and Kenneth at the dinner, it’s essentially a double date. When we saw that Mickey had ‘won’ the dinner I thought he’d get to bring Nasha. Then Kenneth tells Kai about her suitably for carrying a white baby “naturally” and everything clicked for me. Kai saw Micky as a novelty and even fights with Nasha over access to the Mickey’s and suggests she’s being greedy by not sharing and disrespects their relationship. She doesn’t even acknowledge the autonomy of Mickey 17 and 18, she’ll take whichever. Early on in the film the ships passengers are warned not to waste energy and calories on having sex. Nasha and Mickey defy this order, regularly but does it matter if they do? Why doesn’t anyone try to stop them? Why are they allowed to live together? Nasha’s Black and Mickey is expendable, he dies and gets reprinted. They are both held in low esteem despite their respective skill and importance. I think the film says a lot politically and most of the interesting stuff has barely been touched upon.

Apparently today is Loving Day, named after Richard and Milford Loving, the interracial couple whose lawsuit against the state of Virginia resulted in interracial marriage becoming legal in the United States. And so this day was made as a holiday for interracial relationships. I think that's very cool and deserves a tumblr post. Happy Loving Day to everyone in interracial relationships!

update: it's eyes turn green when the other team has a penalty

Encounter: junior league hockey god

update: it's eyes turn green when the other team has a penalty

Encounter: junior league hockey god

Sometimes you get blindfolded and told to repeatedly roll a basketball across the floor of a room and then you have to draw pictures and learn piano and cooking and you accidentally become a big monster's beloved Emotional Support Human, though, so there are potential upsides.

I'm an SCP anomaly but all I do is cause people to misattribute art they like to me at random.

which one is worse: someone falsely attributing something to you that you think is better than your work, or something you think is worse than your work?

It's hard to be worse than my work because I've written some absolute nonsense before. Anyone who thinks all my work is good hasn't seen my old livejournal accounts.

I’ve seen your Animorphs fanfiction, I think that’s even what brought me to Tumblr for the first time. And I’ve got to say when it comes to the highs and lows of writing, I have yet to see anything you’ve written that’s below “hot damn this is fun,” level of quality writing. All of it excellent stuff.

Then let me introduce you to Back When Derin Didn't Know How To Actually Set Up Plot Points Yet.