Sara Valestein Enthusiast

I really recommend the Táin Bó Cúailnge to anyone looking to get into medieval literature because it's a great story, brilliant poetry (I read the Carson translation, and the way he translates the roscada sections are beautiful) and the backbone of the Ulster Cycle, but it's also just really fucking funny. It has a very slapstick yet dry sense of humor that provides just enough comic relief to make the dramatic moments of the story even more impactful. Genuinely I laugh out loud every few pages. Go read it.

tumblr friendships can be the purest form of friendship bc it's like. hey i like you based on your shitty vibe and concerning ventposts and that weird sex thing we're both into. raw dogging friendship

I've long felt ambivalent about trans girl Shinji Ikari headcanons because of the above. I get it, because child is told to man up and become a weapon and wants to escape that role but is trapped in it by authority figures is self-evidently a transfeminine narrative (David Martinez from Edgerunners is a woman), as is the worst possible fate that can befall our protagonist is becoming just like their father (both Anakin and Luke Skywalker are women), and the way that Shinji rapturously idolizes the women and girls in his life yet feels impassably distant from them can easily be interpreted as dysphoria/gender envy (Denji is a woman). However, Shinji's attitudes towards the women and girls he knows are- as explained by Thariz- just as readily explicable as softboy misogyny on his part that escalates into abuse and attempted femicide once he realizes that playing lost puppy around them won't mold them into idealized caregivers or lovers. I think it was @frostops who pointed out how weird it is that one of the only Deltarune transfem headcanons to gain traction with the fandom at large is Berdly when Berdly is a nerdcore misogynist, and while I don't think tgirl Shinji is an identical situation, or even an incorrect reading, I do have conflicted feelings about it that mirror my outright dislike of transfem readings of Berdly. Honestly, I'm more interested in the transfeminine subtext in how Gendo treats Rei as an object of desire and a utility that he can violently discard at any time, and in how Ritsuko attacks Rei due to her anxiety about her own standing with Gendo.

(me on a first date) and what do you think of the inherent intimacy of surgery? have you considered the love someone must have to put their hands under your skin and hold the most grotesque parts of you and put them back together nicely? is anyone really closer to you than that? we all get uh a little enamored on the surgery table don't we haha. wait come back

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whatever we are on rn is not the internet. It's ads