I mean for fucks sake, they really do think they had droves join GG1 over "five guys" and not "ethics in an industry that has a pay for rating scandal every couple years".

Like I can see an actual problem with GW price gat8ng muscle mommies, now that's a scandal.

Y’all once again proving your transphobia by getting mad that trans men don’t like to be called fujoshis. Like if you want to talk about trans men who like yaoi the word fudanshi - meaning men who like yaoi - is right there. You don’t have to call trans men women.

The problem is that the loaned word fujoshi (or even just fujo) is undergoing argotizing/jargonizing and has been for quite a few years. Its going from a very specifoc translated definition to, in essence, become something people just use to say things about a particular set of people (in this case, it's been used for the gay equivalent of chaser, hell, I've even seen it used on cis gays to cis gays. It's also got another (but fading) definition of pushy matchmaker who wants two guys, to use an old phrase, "to be their yaois".

There is a stark difference to a guy who reads yaoi for the smut and cranks one out, and somebody who internalizes it or expects that from gay men.

Or to put it another way, they're using a term borrowed into fandom spaces and filtered through social media to refer to a certain kind of person, the kind we'd call a chaser, or incel, or creep as it's now morphing into. And a person (especially AFAB, but not always) who through word or action treats gay men less as people, but as their very own dolls.

ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

Oh boy, thank goodness somebody reblogged this so I could be reminded of the 18th anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes.

Buffy the vegetarian

why yes I AM making boop gifs from screen recording

ONE BOP THIS TIME

I'm so tired of seeing transmasc's suffering downplayed

This could have been its own post about a transfem experience, there was zero need to bring in a shitty assumption of what transmascs deal with. Many parents of transmascs treat their “daughter’s” hair as part of their body and are horrified if they change it whatsoever. A haircut can get you kicked out. That “so much trouble” can be a beating too. Do not do this shit.

I've seen way too many CIS girls pinned to the ground by their parents while their head is forcibly shaved as punishment for cutting their hair, too many videos of parents going on rampages and breaking all of their kid's stuff and completely destroying the house, heard too many stories of parents beating the shit out of or disowning kids that cut their hair short, too many people get caught in lesbiphobia and butchphobia and end up actually dying due to their short hair, schools and government bodies making mandates on minimum hair lengths, and kids who have every scrap of control or privacy removed from them the very first time they come home with hair "too short" to think that screenshot OP has any actual grounding in reality.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen to trans fems. I *am* saying it happens to us too, and the idea that it doesn't is... well, pretending the problem doesn't exist hasn't really gone well for us thus far now has it.

I'm a transmasc whose mother is a hair stylist. One who has had his hair forcibly styled how his mom wanted. And when I did get it cut short? She cried. She threatened to throw out my clothing and buy me skirts and pink shirts. She got into shouting arguments with me and threw shit. One day she threw me down to the floor, held me there and started punching me. All over how I wanted my hair cut and what clothes I wanted to wear. In general my mother held a very strict hold on how I was allowed to look. But the hair in specific? The hair she got very fucking weird about. Like physically restraining me levels of very fucking weird.

My grandmother called me a dyke and threatened to throw me out of the house. She frequently waved around me being tossed out of the house if I turned out to be gay or trans. I had to constantly be hiding shit and saying things to try and mollify her lest I lose my housing. And I knew I could. Because she had thrown other family members out of the house in the past.

This, the assertion by the op that "only trans girls suffer physical violence as children for not conforming" is just so disconnected from reality to the point of being malicious

It's also painfully obvious how white of a perspective OOP has.

Young Black kids of any gender will have their forcibly cut all the time, because their natural hair is seen as unruly and inappropriate.

The expectations for how Black girls in particular (and those perceived as girls, i.e. young transmascs) are meant to present their hair is absolutely insane. To imply they don't suffer from any sort of hair trauma connected to assigned gender roles is deeply misogynoir.

Not to mention young girls & transmascs raised in certain high control religious groups where hair is moralized. Hi, this includes me! I was forced to keep my hair long at threat of punishment. The length of my hair and other aspects of my "girlhood" were heavily involved in my sexual abuse.

Idk, this take is just so removed from reality it just boggles my mine.

It's this whole thing of, instead of realizing that, "you know this shared trauma of hair stuff is kinda something we have in common" is getting caught up on what could charitably be called trauma comparison (and uncharitably just straight up oppression olympics) makes me wonder where we've gone wrong.

HAHA. shut the fuck up lmao

Oh I remember sighing Every. Single. Time. I Watched. at that line

reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

@dragonpyre any chance you could elaborate on this

I grew up learning about land formations. Seeing fictional maps that don’t follow the logic and science of them makes me upset

What are the most common sins you’ve seen relating to this? I wanna know

Mordor.

Why is the mountain range square. How did the mountain range form. Why is there one singular volcano in the center. Why does it act like a composite volcano but have magma that acts like it’s from a shield. If it’s hotspot based volcanic activity why is there only one volcano.

And then the misty mountains!!!! Why isn’t there a rain shadow!! And why is there a FOREST where the rain shadow should be!!!!!!!!

So what is a rain shadow?

Wind blows clouds in from the sea, but mountains are so tall the clouds can't get past 'em, so you get deserts on the windward side of mountain ranges because clouds can't get there to water the land, or do so only very rarely.

Oh yeah nothing is more annoying than fantasy maps that can't get mountains, rivers and rain shadows right.

May I recommend my new favorite tool: Mapgen4. You start with a random seed and then add mountains, valleys, shallow water, or oceans as you like. You can adjust the wind direction to make wind shadows off the mountains fall where you want. You can adjust overall raininess to make the rivers larger or smaller, or have more or fewer tributaries. It works best for small, isolated landmasses (think islands more than continents) but as there’s no scale bar and it’s all slightly abstracted anyway you can do whatever you want with it. I’ve only just started playing with it but it’s SO FUN.

I do think this could be useful for writers! ...Caveat, if you're going to use this for making a map for anything published (digital or paper, even if it's only in a fanfic archive or whatever), please, please credit the creator and their program as how you made that map! The more ways information like this gets out there, the more useful it'll be to other writers, roleplaying game DMs/GMs, creators, etc.

One of my favourites for mapping plates, biomes, etc is Tectonics.js. If you're familiar with how tectonics shape a planet, you can guess where the features go by toggling plates, crust thickness, etc. Between Mapgen4 and Tectonics.js, we've got some pretty sweet tools at our disposal.

More stuff!:

Also I would recommend looking into Landscape Archaeology as well! That's because Landscape archeology is basically adding the social/cultural layer on top of all that geology and geography. Environments change when communities live in them, and communities likewise adapt to various environments.

This is a short free introduction to the concept: "Notes on Landscape Archaeology." To summarize, Landscape archaeology sort of like...studies the relation of people to places/spaces (that is, landscapes) in time.

Also this paper [An Archeology of Landscapes] breaks down/introduces the key concepts that I learned which is first that you can form the "construct paradigm" of a landscape from settlement ecology, ritual landscapes, and ethnic landscapes.

And then the highlights of their summary of what constitutes defining a landscape:

Basically a "landscape" is made by a community living in an environment. Once you have a geological environment that makes sense, landscape archaeology is like... Basically how I feel confident knowing where trade routes would be on a map, where there are areas of continual high conflict, what kinds of agriculture exists where, etc. once the geological stuff is hammered out, it's like...I know how that would influence the local cultures and vice versa. At that point, it's easy to start marking the natural borders, settlements, trade/port cities, and even strategic fortresses. If you have properly put rivers on a map, then marking your port cities is effortless, basically.

Also:

If you are like me and find it helpful to have video reference for a process/activity in addition to a written guide, Artifexian is a YouTube channel that does a LOT of world building stuff and specifically he's in the process of creating a world following a lot of Worldbuilding Pasta's methodology!

This is all definitely great and if you want to do it, that's fine, but I'll remind you that Middle Earth was sung into existence by a divine being, and is round or flat, depending on the state of your soul and your species, so...plate tectonics aren't really a concern here.

The important thing is consistency. If your world is scientific, then go for it. But nobody ever complains about Discworld in this situation FOR A REASON. Middle Earth is the same, as are most fantasy worlds. Their function is to the story, not to realism. And that's perfectly fine.

And like there are things on Earth that would give realism enjoyed a heart attack, Two Oceans Creek comes to mind.

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Send me in songs and I will give you the stellar analysis I’m known for—but for music!

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I hate this comic, but I understand where it comes from because the underlying metaphor of X-Men gets messy and means different things depending on the story and character.

If being a mutant is viewed exclusively as a metaphor for race, then yeah characters like Beast, Nightcrawler, and Beak aren't human-passing and will be victims of profiling and the like. This would be a good point if that weren't the only thing being a mutant could mean.

Jean Gray, Professor X, and Emma Frost are all telepaths and telepathy in X-Men is often shown as something akin to extra sense that you have to actively keep in check. Younger versions of Jean Gray especially has been overwhelmed when out in public and unable to get her telepathy in check.

If Cyclops is separating from his glasses opening his eyes risks killing someone. Rogue can't risk the possibility of touching someone without causing serious damage.

For these characters being a mutant is a lot like an invisible disability, where they need to maintain extreme levels of control in public or risk being overwhelmed and/or harming others. (For the record, Storm is also in this category of having to be careful about not losing control)

The artist could not have picked worse 'human-passing' mutants to make this point. Except Wolverine.

Even Wolverine, like people forget that he has subtler powers than his healing factor. Why is grandpa Logan cranky? "Too many smells, bub".

Do you guys remember how kidnap fantasies were popular on wattpad because young girls and queer teens were both made to feel shame at the thought of their own sexualities, so the fantasy of being kidnapped totally against their will was a way for them to engage with a romantic or sexual fantasy without feeling morally in the wrong for doing so? Added bonus that the fantasy involved being whisked away from repressive environments like home or school, right?

Finding out that Bram Stoker was in a sexless marriage and that scholars believe that he very likely was closeted gay puts the entire book into perspective as to WHY it reads EXACTLY like a self insert wattpad Dracula kidnap fic:

"I TOTALLY love my wife and would never do anything that an upstanding Good Straight Working Man wouldn't do but oh nooo, big strong man with broad back and strong enough arms to carry me back to bed like a princess trapped me and claimed me as his, completely against my will 👉👈 But he protects me against the bad evil sexual women (who I assure you, I am TOTALLY sexually attracted to, as any straight man with a choice would be) but trust me, I do NOT want ANY of this. What's that? The Count is not capable of feeling love? Would be a shame if I had the special ability to change tha-"

This is also the fantasy behind all those old bodice-ripper romances that people today like to mock or call problematic, by the way.

"Oh, my next forty years are going to consist of nothing but washing dishes and keeping house and bearing children for the disdainful man I married right out of high school because my parents said college was for men and I had no other obvious life path open to me? What if a pirate captain thought I was worth stealing away from it all? [what if I ran away but no-one could blame me for leaving]?"

They're objectively not furries, UNLESS someone who likes catboys obstinately denies being a furry or has some other weird complex about them, in which case catboys suddenly become furries in some Schrodinger-esque taxonomic transformation.

Nyah, they're furries, but, like just barely.

I will spare the OP of that post on movies about stifling office life more of my ranting because I respect them, but I have more to say about Office Space.

Office Space does not depict a "9 to 5" job, this is a major plot point in the movie:

This is a white collar job where all the workers are constantly subjected to crunch time and seven day work weeks while, at the same time, they spend hours on utterly pointless tasks like changing the cover sheets on reports.

They are subjected to countless tiny indignities for more than half of their waking hours; Milton prefers a different brand of stapler to the one that the company uses and it gets repossessed by the boss.

I have more than one white collar, office job working mutual who has posted about how intolerable such jobs are and how they have worked to escape them.

Movies like Office Space are about the tyranny of the boss; the way that he can subject you to a million tiny little indignities while simultaneously demanding that you pretend that you are happy to work there and see yourself as part of the team that is really actually looking out for you:

What the movie is also about, (and you can definitely add Fight Club in here too, and even The Matrix to some extent) is the psychological effect of spending an enormous chunk of your life enduring these kinds of repeated small indignities and dissatisfactions because, logically and objectively, the pay you are receiving for them is more than enough compensation and the danger of attempting to respond to them and maintain your dignity is not worth it. That's objective fact, and to believe otherwise constitutes a kind of delusion.

The protagonists in both Fight Club and Office Space have simultaneously internalized this to the point where they hold themselves back from any kind of rebellion as impossible, and, at the same time, remain unable to actually believe it; the movies are about what happens when that internal contradiction can no longer be maintained and you reach a breaking point.

PS - I think it is a bit of a "theory of mind" failure to imagine that Hollywood people make movies about petty internal politics, backbiting and insincere friendliness because they like living in Hollywood so much and don't experience that kind of thing there.

No, really, Fight Club is based on a book that is pretty much this, combined with I and my friends were absolute fucking idiots.

And both of them get into how it really destroys you.

Wait, why didn't this come out earlier, like Winnie the Pooh has been Public Domain for years.