they get paid in scrip??

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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theriverbeyond

so I started rereading GtN (as one does) and was struck by this passage where from the very beginning of the book, Gideon positions herself as more important to Harrow than the Locked Tomb:

“So, here’s the thing, your Lady would set the Locked Tomb on fire if it meant I’d never see another sky,” Gideon said, looking up. “Your Lady would stone cold eat a baby if it meant she got to lock me up infinitely. Your Lady would slather burning turds on the great-aunts if she thought it would ruin my day. Your Lady is the nastiest b—”ALT

cut to the pool scene and Gideon learns that not only does Harrow love the corpse of the Locked Tomb, but that the corpse of the Locked Tomb was, in all her silent sleep, able to convince Harrow to live in a way Gideon's (loud, active, constant) existance in her life was never able to

“Nav, when I saw her face I decided I wanted to live. I decided to live forever just in case she ever woke up.” Her voice had the quality of someone in a long dream. She stared through Gideon without looking at her, and Gideon gently took her hands away from Harrow’s jaw.ALT
Gideon’s brain moved and broke against itself like the tiny wavelets they had left, the water lurching restlessly from side to side, until it came to a final conclusion.ALT

and I think that is really, like, when Gideon truly starts her sort of... backslide wrt her perception of her relationship with Harrow -- like, at this point in the story in the pool, she's already well along in her corruption arc into the "Perfect Cavalier". BUT like, we know from being inside Harrow's head that Harrow would break herself and her duty in order to hold onto Gideon. she would & she did!!!! which is!!! something that Gideon KNOWS at the beginning of GtN but then forgets/is convinced out of, entierly unintentionally, but to the point where by the time she comes back in HtN she has a totally reversed perception of how Harrow feels. leading to, of course, this:

said. “She’s in love with the refrigerated museum piece in the Locked Tomb. You should’ve seen the look she had on when she told me about this ice-lolly bimbo. I knew the moment I saw it. I never made her look like that … She can’t love me, even if I’d wanted her to. She can’t love you. She can’t even try.”ALT

anyway.

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tlt oh interesting observation
missblackmrblue

To people who use “þ” as an aesthetic “p”

notquiteapolyglot

þink again.

tharook

getting thorny in the linguistics fandom

tkdancer

þorny*

solarine

That also goes for using ß as an aesthetic B. 

On my old server, there was a character named ßillyßadass.

This never failed to make me laugh, because that letter is not pronounced like B. It is a sharp S. 

That guy named himself SsillySsadass. 

miss-serket

Also to people who you Σ as an aesthetic E

that’s an S too, Σo maybe check next time

v1als

oh boy

Д as an aesthetic A? Дon’t be a дumbass.

И as an aesthetic N? don’t be sillи.

П as another aesthetic N? stoп it.

У as an aesthetic Y? ty bad.

Ш or Щ as an aesthetic W? nope. it’s “sh” and “shch”!

Я as an aesthetic R? surprise! it’s “ya”.

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ah yes, that classic horror film SNYEYAPOVUL DIAYAIES

silvysartfulness

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This is pronounced Stargoat.

dovewithscales

Reblogging for Stargoat.

justabrowncoatedwench

STARGOAT

niuniente

I saw in Japan a bag of marshmallows named SCANDINAVIAN MÅRSHMÅLLOW and I still have not recovered from that. It reads as SCANDINAVIAN MORSHMOLLOW 

wambold

I used say I’m off to shop at Toys Ya Us (Toys Я Us).

I worked at a now-defunct computer company called Nuasis, whose logo looked like NUɅSIS, which we often read as Nul-sis. (No known link to the Brazilian sex shop.)

Fun with alphabets.

prismatic-bell

Not a W, but a s/sh: ש

Not an X, but a silent vowel: א

Not a Y, but a different silent vowel: ע

Not an N, but an H: ה

Not an N, but the ch sound nobody can make: ח

Not an O, but an S: ס

ghoul-misadventures
lunarlegend

y'know, one thing i don't see get talked about much in regards to asexuality is how it feels to never be 'sexually motivated' by anything

and not just when it comes to advertisements using 'sexy' models to try and sell you stuff, but like. in general

sex as a favor, sex as a bribe, sex in exchange for whatever

casual sex, 'friends with benefits' situations, even simple flirting

it all looks a whole lot different from the perspective of someone who's immune to manipulation via sex appeal, who has virtually no understanding as to why sex would motivate someone to cheat on their partner, etc. etc.

sex is worthless to me

i mean, it's useful as a story element in fiction, but it genuinely perplexes me that sex is such a driving force behind so many aspects of irl society & of people's individual lives, for better or for worse

and that it's so deeply ingrained into how the average person views the world & various situations, because the average person feels sexual attraction, whereas i do not

i think the barrier between aces & allos is actually even deeper than it seems on the surface at times, because it's more than just the grating expectation that everyone must want to 'settle down' and have kids, it's also the fact that the majority of the world is sort of 'in' on a joke that aces will never truly be a part of

teaboot

Posts that validate my identity

Sex as a form of intimacy? Understand. Intimacy as enjoyable? Understand. Intimacy as vital? Understand. Sex as vital? Does not compute

amertsi
studentofetherium

CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions

studentofetherium

if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators

rifleweeb

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unculture

THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORS' UNION RECOGNIZED

clustxr

this petition is from IATSE (union), btw! it actually has credibility, unlike most change.org/etc petitions! please sign it!!

dearlybelovedemilyko
starbearings

Okay so like the house is built for the system in place like each of the shadow's rooms has a servants room below it. Obviously a lot of the tech and stuff is new but like unless the entire children's wing was built after the takeover the house was already built to support a system where the aristocrats rule over their servants in much the way it continues to function

starbearings

Lady Katherine may have been a lot nicer than the shadows but she was still an aristocrat ruling over her servants. Did Emily have to sleep in a tiny room beneath hers?

starbearings

KATE!!! KATE ITS NOT ENOUGH TO TAKE BACK THE SHADOWS HOUSE!!!! YOU NEED TO DESTROY IT!!!! YOU CANT REFORM FEUDALISM YOU NEED TO BURN DOWN THE ENTIRE SYSTEM!!!! OVERTHROWING THE SHADOW LORDS MEANS NOTHING IF THE SYSTEM OF POWER AND SERVITUDE ITSELF DOESNT CHANGE!!!!!!!

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shadow house good observation kate we have to dissolve the aristocracy!!
ghoul-misadventures
lastoneout

People don't like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn't be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they're basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.

Like it's just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like "we're using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can" and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.

lastoneout

Actually, I realized my real point here: we all need to make our art weirder. Please make weird art. I want more stuff like Prequel Adventure and 17776 and MyHouse.wad and I want it now. Capitalism thrives on conformity. We must be weird at all costs.

muchymozzarella

Nothing about homestuck appealed to me personally but everything about its existence makes me so happy in terms of the level of artistry that can exist in this world