SkyGem Speaks

we need fewer songs about falling in love and breaking up and MORE songs about famous disasters of the sea

i feel like im pretentious about repression or whatever like oh they can identify and name their repressed desires thats like the boring level one repression wheres the level of repression where they cant even begin to contemplate their own desires because contemplating them is a slippery slope to actually having desires which is a slippery slope to everything

I don’t think they are? Not sure though. I feel like the Tell clan are gentes maiores because of Tellon Blaze, mainly because of the line in Earth Flight “we gave him a majestic clan hall on Zeus” from one of the Betan newsies I think. That implied to me that there was a significant status gain from the Blaze clan to the Tell clan. Though again, I’m still not certain.

Ohh that's a good point! Also, now that I think about it the nobility of a planet is usually the families of the first colonists, and iirc zeus was one of the first planets in beta sector to be colonised. So there's no way blaze would be nobility there.

actually tbh pregnancy as a concept would not suck so much in fiction if women were allowed to be mothers and also fully fleshed out characters outside of that role. a lot of men in media get to be fully fleshed out characters even if they have children; the mentor role is infamous - but women don't particularly get to occupy the same three dimensionality men do when it comes to guiding children. which is a shame because i find stories about the interiority of mothers or women authority figures to be some of the most fascinating. but in the eyes of society, mothers are demanded to be perfect in a way fathers aren't, so having a flawed woman mentor figure is much rarer in media.

"it would be so good if it was good" will haunt you but "it's extremely good, except for the one or two parts which are so bad it's genuinely kind of insulting" will straight up drive you insane

its difficult having a favorite character who you have absolutely no attraction to but a lot of other people do. i love him. not like that. i dont even like him i hate him actually. hes just really important to me. Not like that. he lives in my brain. No not like that. hes just there and i think about him a lot. hes disgusting and i hate him. hes very fascinating to me. i understand him. hes not sexy at all though. a lot of people say that and i disagree but to each their own. hes my favorite and i want to kill him