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I like the kind of fantasy worldbuilding where cultural things like marriage customs and family ties are so wildly different between peoples that even the characters themselves have a hard time explaining them to each other. In that one story that I'll probably never go back to, the fisher folk are polygamous, with a rather distinct tradition of "inherited" husbands.

While one man having several wives and one woman having several husbands are both fairly common, the fishers are still matrilinear and somewhat matriarchal. Men are the ones who move from their own clan/family/household to their new wife's house, and when a woman dies, one of her daughters, nieces or other female next-of-kin "inherits" her husbands. In their own language, the word for inheriting property is a completely different one from the one for this tradition, as are the words for one's own husband(s) and the Elder Husbands, but this distinction becomes lost in translation.

This basically means that in practice, once your mother/aunt/etc has passed, your father, uncles, and/or other widowers move in to live with you, becoming a part of your household and either caring for it as they did for their old home, or being cared for once they're elderly. Their status is above the inheriting woman's own husbands, but still aknowledging the woman who runs the house as the final authority of the household.

None of the major cultures of the Empire practice polygamy, and while they are completely chill with having slaves and both owning and inheriting people as property, the idea of legally owning one's own family, or potentially being married to your own father, horrifies them. The fisher folk do not keep slaves, and are sick of trying to explain that despite of using the same words (because the common tongue doesn't have the terminology for the intricacies of fisher folk family roles), it's absolutely not the same thing.

Golf is an extremely effeminate game. Its a non-contact low-exertion activity played on a perfectly manicured little picnic lawn and between individual actions you sit in a dainty car and get driven to the next spot so you arent blemished by the act of walking under the sun. If elderly men ever realized this it would be cataclysmic

You dont even have to drive the little cart or handle the clubs yourself you can go to the front desk hire one of their eunuchs to do it all for you

Are .... are the caddies normally eunuchs?

Are... Are yours not?

dispensary worker: yeah man sorry we dont take card here... its cash only, and i dont think theres a bank called "Dillywigs"

british childrens author from 1945 who lived through world war 2: A bit of silliness never hurt anyone.. I find it makes the world far brigher than it was before. *starts walking away with the eighth*

TERFs might say they hate men but they’d don’t. TERFs aren’t even misandrists. When they say men, or males, they specifically are dogwhistling about transgender women. They’re completely fine with men using their ideology as an excuse for violence towards transgender women. They’re completely fine with supporting and working with horrifically misogynistic right wing men as long as they express extreme transmisogyny. They’re perfectly fine with recruiting trans men and working with anti-feminist transmedicalists. They’re completely fine with working with transphobic cis gay men who say vile shit about trans men that they should consider violently misogynistic according to their ideology. TERF ideology is centered against transgender women and transgender women are the primary victims of their ideology.

These are people mostly have no political ideology other than obsessively, constantly, and exclusively posting about transgender women online. Literally everything they say is either a dogswhistle about transgender women or an excuse to to talk about transgender women. Most TERFs are not marxists, socialists, anarchists, or any other kind of radical. Even if they say they are, literally all they ever fucking post about and write about is transgender women.

This is a way to listen to changes to wikipedia. You are literally listening to knowledge being added to the world.

Pluck sounds are an addition, strings are subtractions, and the pitch says how how big the edit is. My heart shudders at this I love it so much.

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This is so relaxing. 

I COULD LISTEN TO THIS FOR HOURS THANKS

Overstimulating: turn on all languages

Hyperaware: turn on wikidata, English, and anything else

Upbeat calm: turn on English, German, Hindu, Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, Telegu

Calm: English, Chinese, Hindu, German

Distant calm: Arabic, Telegu, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Hindu

Unsettling quiet: Punjabi, Serbian, Western Mari, Macedonian, Farsi, Tamil, Kannada, Gujarati

The Distant Cry: only Western Mari

a lot of the hypocricy of tumblr's "love" of weird things vs the backlash against actually weird people is actually pretty easy to understand. people care more about the aesthetic of "weird" in whatever form it takes more than "weird" in practice. it's cool to make posts about quirky weird girls who aren't actually real, but the second someone has an odd fetish likevore or inflation, or, like stuff i can't even think of, it breaks that fantasy and forces it into reality

You know we only ever really "learn" how to bathe in our youth as it is taught to us by our parents and from then on most people kinda just bathe the same way right. And like barring actively deciding to do it the only way most people change their bathing habits is if they bathe with a loved one and get convinced to do somethi g different in the bath bc its cleaner/faster/whatever bc of them. Ok heres the thesis statement. The lack of communal bathing in society is holding us back from discovering The Ultimate Bathing

Oh boy! i sure hope the ppl commenting will remember that these are all fictional characters written by a team of writers and moviemakers and that OP is criticizing how those writers decided to use/portray fatness in their writing once they made those characters fat, rather than bothering with the in-universe examinations of those characters and why they gained weight

Oh, look at that, they decided to be stupid abt it. Oh well

How many times do we have to explain this: when someone is being critical of media and how writers treated a character who got fat or is fat, u don't need to give us some in-universe reason for why the character is fat. We're going after the WRITERS. The real-life flesh and blood humans who created the thing we're criticizing. U don't have to go into white knight mode to defend ur pet character from us. We're focusing on the message the writers are sending abt fat ppl and fatness, not trying to cAnCeL ur blorbo. Ffs.

I thing it's also important to acknowledge that the trope of the character 'letting themselves go' and gaining weight is in itself problematic. It casts fat people as lazy/depressed/umotivated. You can gain weight for many many reasons and being depressed is one of them (you can also lose weight then but no one seems to care about that one) but far from the major one.

The depictions showed above also cast those characters as pathetic and worth poking fun at because they are fat

EXACTLY!!! SEE ITS NOT DIFFICULT

It's not "what happened to this character in the story," it's "what were the writers saying when they made them fat, and what messages do audiences typically take away from portrayals like that?"

Jadzia: If a beautiful woman disagrees with me I will immediately change my views. I have no principles.

Kira: Well, maybe you should have principles.

Jadzia: You're right maybe I should.

comedies that turn into tragedies when the fucked up stuff played for jokes suddenly gets treated with the severity and realness that it would get in real life are genuinely my weakness and hit so much harder than tragedies that start off with the sad stuff.

like not only is the audience caught in the whole "boiling the frog" thing with the comedy slowly become a tragedy but it reveals that the characters are as well; that the previous comedy was only perceived as a comedy because the characters had no clue that what they were going through was not normal and just lighthearted fun. the audience realizes it as the characters do, making them both more sympathetic and their arcs all the more tragic as you look back on what previously happened.

this is called “the strider effect”