I think everyone has both "hard" headcanons (things that are so integral to your understanding of a story that you can't enjoy content that contradicts them), and "soft" headcanons (things that are mutable, where you aren't strongly attached or you're open to alternate interpretations) and if you aren't sure if something is one or the other you can just read a fic where the author disagrees with you and see whether you react with "Huh, that's interesting" or "I have been overcome with a creeping sense of existential wrongness."

antipsychiatry does not mean the same thing as anti medication. i firmly believe in antipsychiatry and part of the reason is because I’ve seen how hard it is for people to get the meds they actually want. the amount of friends I’ve had who’s doctors refuse to prescribe them meds for their ADHD even though they can prove that it’s helping them, the amount of people I know who want to get psych meds but can’t because psychiatrists refuse to prescribe them meds once they learn that they use criminalized drugs, the amount of people I know who can’t get psychs to prescribe them meds for the symptoms that are actually distressing them unless they agree to be on other meds that don’t help them—easy access to psych meds is a right that goes hand in hand with the right to not be medicated against your will. it comes back to autonomy and how psychiatry gets in the way of autonomy in so so many ways. psychiatry operates in a paradigm where the most convenient justification for the psychiatrists view of cure becomes the one they cling to in the moment. Which means that mad/mentally ill/neurodivergent people who have to interact with the psych system are constantly at risk both for being drugged against our will and for being prevented from taking medication.

mad/mentally ill / neurodivergent people deserve authentic, informed consent that allows us to make the choices about what risks we are willing to take, what symptoms are liveable, and what side effects are intolerable. The psychiatric system has a million barriers that get in the way of this type of decision making, and fucks over all mad/mentally ill/ neurodivergent people, no matter our personal relationship to medication.

And for the record, a good psychiatrist should be doing what is described in the last paragraph. If you feel they are not, get a new one as soon as possible.

I'm not saying the problem isn't systemic, but I am saying that there are enough psychiatrists out there that fit the last paragraph that it's worth trying a few before giving up.

y'all are absolutely free to use tumblr however you please but I want redditors to know that they could, hypothetically, start a sideblog about a particular topic, add moderators to it, turn on submissions (and asks), make an "about" page laying out rules and such, and create a good tagging system. If you want it to be a bit more familiar.

[photo id: tags that say #enrichment in their new enclosure as to keep them healthy and ready if they need to be re-released back to their natural habitat]

Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized

Hubris to think you COULD abuse bees

I think that if you see a balrog in an unlocked kitty kennel then you can assume that it wants to be there

Actually, beekeepers take many precautions to keep their bees from leaving.

many clip the wings of the queen, destroy new queen cells, cull queens they don’t like and use bee pheromones to prevent a hive from naturally swarming or absconding. They also try and prevent mating with the African honey bee, which makes them less docile among other things. During artificial insemination of queens, drones are crushed and „spare“ queens are killed.

and commercial beekeepers even cull their hives during winter, or when they are not producing well.

Coupled with the fact that there is evidence that insects do feel pain, this is not great.

(Not to mention that honeybees are an invasive species in most places, competing with native pollinators and spreading disease)

It is so fucking bold of you to link the exact same paywalled book thirteen times in your reblog to throw people off the fact that you’re using one source from 1859.

I'm convinced some people did not bother to read the botw diaries at all with what they think about Zelda and her relationship to Link so here:

Zelda's Diary:

Urbosa's Diary:

Later, after the champion inauguration (I am running out of image allowance here):

Daruk's Diary:

Mipha's diary, at risk of starting controversy:

Update: Oh man, y'all really didn't read them... Nintendo really needs to stop hiding information that is vital to understanding a character's mindset behind furniture in DLC. I recommend watching a youtube video of all of them being read, or on the wiki, because there is so many interesting bits of information.

I pretty much only put the parts here that are most relevant to Zelda's character and the development of her bond with Link, but there's much more!

For example, I didn't put Revali's here at all, which talks about his struggles to master his gale, and shows he originally wanted to be Link's friend, but just like Zelda, ended up projecting his own insecurities onto Link's silence. It also showed how he cared about Zelda as a friend (albeit worded in his tsundere birb way), appreciating the scarf she made for him and wishing the goddess would finally show her some mercy. It makes him at least slightly less of a jerk overall when you know that it was basically a defense mechanism or a front.

P.S Paya is a zelink shipper

For anyone who wants to read these but doesn't have the patience to get them all in-game, you can read them here:

Also of note, basically all the notes for quest lines and stuff are written in first person in Japanese instead of third person like they are in English, so you can consider those Link's diary.

Zelda Mononoke

I just realized what the Depths remind me of!!!

The Toxic Jungle from Nausicaa

Our friend Jonathan Harker is unfortunately in the toils at the moment. He will not be free of them anytime soon.

character playlists aren’t for songs a character would listen to they are for songs that remind me of the character

“x wouldn’t listen to this” yeah no shit this is for when i want to listen to my shitty songs and think about my favorite little characters

[Image Description: A close-up frontal shot of The Light Dragon from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Above it is text reading: Let Me Do it For You." End Image Description.]

lovin the dichotomy here

anyway tumblr número 1 campeão do mundo staff stop changing the mobile layout and get rid of tumblr live

I feel like the difference between twitter and redit is twitter went "our house is falling to bits let's move into that total abandoned house next door (it was not abandoned)"

where as redit went "ok while the house is being renovated here let's see if we can go stay at a friends"

The first of these two isn't exactly true, and I do think the point is worth clarifying even if the end result is still "feeding fanfics into AI without the author's permission is indeed quite rude."

AI does not "regurgitate" information fed to it; it's not a collage machine. Something like Chat GPT does not create plagiarized content. If it was, our existing plagiarism laws would be able to cover it.

But AI is creating something new, that's the whole point. That's why we don't have proper laws for it yet, this wasn't a thing before. Information you feed into an AI like Chat GPT goes into a dataset that the AI is trained off of. Some have compared this to how humans are inspired by material they see in their lifetime.

However, there's an issue with that comparison. While AI can create, it cannot be "inspired." Machine learning and human learning are fundamentally different at the process level, they're not comparable. Machine learning is a statistic-driven process, it's a complex synthesis of information based on a bunch of different factors. But it still needs a dataset to complete that task, and the information you feed it will add on to that data set.

TL;DR: AI will not steal the words to create plagiarized work, but it will use the words as part of its training data set.

And I really, really hope that we can all agree that having your data collected is something that should be consent-based. So don't feed fanfic in there without the author's explicit permission.

Also this is not true. You do in fact have the copyright to the specific writing you did in a fic, because that's not how copyright law works. Like this is not a grey area.

People who write IP content for corporations give up their copyright on a contractual basis--the company wants writing they can sell about characters/settings they own without getting entangled in royalty obligations etc, so they hire people. Who sign contracts saying they don't own what they write as part of that job.

That's why you don't own Star Wars stuff you wrote for Disney; you specifically agreed not to own it.

Writing for IP you don't own leaves you in a position where you can't legally monetize it (without taking out the Owned parts ad rebranding), but it absolutely does not automatically cede or void copyright. That is super not a thing.

SUPER not a thing, I cannot say this enough.

I can't sell my Batman fic, but neither can DC Comics without my duly authorized consent. Because they own Batman, but not the prose I composed about him.

Do not perform that kind of massive corporate overreach for them. Holy shit. Do they not own enough.

It’s fascinating that this misconception of copyright still exists. Haven’t we all seen the posts on here where authors beg fans to please not send them fanfic of their works? They’re not doing that because they feel like it, they do that because fans legally own their words and ideas, and an author who takes them even unintentionally can in fact end up in real legal trouble for taking something that’s not theirs. It doesn’t matter whether they own the canon.

This.

Copyright is the most basic of protections for all writers. If there’s anything professional/career writers want spread around, it’s the knowledge that all writers have the same protections that copyright confers on us.

Astonishing indeed that anon would attempt to upbraid somebody on copyright issues when, themselves, they understand them so poorly.

The idea that because you don’t own Batman, your Batman fanfic is public domain is one the DC-Warner Bros’ lawyers would take exception to as well. They know they don’t own the fanfic, but they own the hell out of Batman. Public domain? Not hardly!

The whole point of writing fascist characters as human beings is that real fascists are also human beings. If you think of fascists as somehow less than human you are falling into the trap of letting their mentality frame your worldview, thus legitimizing their course of action!

When you start looking at fascists as subhuman the debate becomes 'which group is actually subhuman and which is being unfairly maligned?' And personally I'm not fucking comfortable with that question being on the table ever.

#ADDITIONALLY #it makes recognizing fascist ideology in the people around you so much harder #bc if you know someone as a person #and a fascist isn't a person #then clearly this person can't be a fascist #or have fascist views #they're your colleague or your neighbor or your family member #they are way too human to be fascist

DING DING DING ✅

Watching the difference between the Twitter migration mentality vs. the Reddit migration mentality is fucking hilarious.

Like, when Twitter users started moving over here everyone was pulling out all the stops and bringing back old fandoms that they were into and basically firing rent lowering shots by being super cringey.

And then all of the sudden when the Reddit refugees start showing up we're like, "ah yes, pull up a log and gather around the dumpster fire. We'll teach you how to not get killed by people hunting down bots and carve out a little area for you guys to relax and get used to the site before we throw you into the deep end of this hellsite that we call home. Tomorrow is Let Papyrus say Fuck day so you can prepare for that if you want. You want some hot coco and a blanket?"

she really went through every stage of grief, huh?

I think she invented new stages of grief

all i'm saying is when this happened onscreen i made a noise

so like

aita????

someone was actively berating a fellow zelda fan for not knowing lore and being excited at learning something new

"there's no excuse for ignorance" blah blah blah

When, like, there are a shit ton of games and not everyone had access to them and doing insane research really should not be ma dated in orderto be a part of a fandom

But they were being rly rude about it and when I was like "Hey, it's chill that not everyone knows everything" I got accused of tone policing and langauge policing bc they were "just being blunt"

idk

I get accused of lecturing and being an asshole when I just plainly correct people or even politely do it but someone else goes off and actively i sults someone and its okay?????

idk, its bothering me

I think that person needs the term "tone policing" taken away from them until they understand what it means.

You weren't criticizing their tone, you were criticizing the content of what they were saying.

But to answer your question, no, defintely not the asshole. That other person was being one though. There is literally never an excuse to be a jerk about someone not knowing lore, even if there was only one game. Especially if you're getting on someone's case for just being excited to learn something new??

I could not get enough of these two in TotK 🥺💕