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Joy | she/her | 18 | Happily taken by @donkeyklone | Rp sideblog is @merlin-caledonensis-ambrosius |
If you send me an ask I will answer it! But sometimes it will take a while | I have some unfinished posts lurking around and I don’t have the inspiration to finish them 🙃💀 | Proshippers, stay the fuck away.
Anonymous asked:

Hey so I’ve only just Recently Gotten into TOA, and then I found your Blog, and now I’m Curious: What is the DR AU? Like can you please explain with like a short summary or something?? I Can’t wait to see how Emerald Embers turns Out!!

Welcome to the fandom, friend!!!

YOU’VE MADE MY WHOLE WEEK

I got so much euphoria from this ask!

I’ve never had anybody ask what my au is before!!!!!!!

DR stands for Daylight’s Redemption, which is my au series of ToA! It current has two books, Emerald Embers (EE), the main story, and Journey by Daylight (JbD), a prequel of Merlin’s life before EE. They star this man: my version of Merlin! You can scroll through his tag and my DR tag to see more about him/the series, but there are probably ToA spoilers in there!

I have a lot of posts lol, partly because I’m trying to drum up excitement for it, and because it’s easier than writing. But I’m getting there, and it always makes me happy when people say they’re excited for its release!!

And I have some advice. PLEASE DON’T WATCH THE MOVIE. PLEASE. It’s what killed this fandom so please don’t do it unless you want to see how bad it is.

And if you want to ask any more questions about the DR series, feel free!! ;)

Thanks for the ask!

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wild how much fatphobia completely does away with so many things typically regarded as aspects of male privilege

"men's clothing sizes are simple and easy both to navigate and to find" unless they're fat

"men don't have to deal with street harassment" unless they're fat

"men don't deal with groping and nonconsensual touching from strangers" unless they're fat

"doctors take men's health problems seriously and their pain is seen as real" unless they're fat

"systemic infrastructure like medical research, crash testing, etc, is all based on men's bodies, so men get a world that's literally made for them" Unless They're Fat

That’s because one of the functions of fatphobia is de-gendering. Being fat makes you less man and less woman. Because being fat makes you less human. Like for the same reason why fat women’s clothes is always hyperfeminine because you have to be performing gender that much harder to be treated like your gender. Fat men have to as well, and there’s a clear difference between how ppl treat fat men who are hypermasculine presenting (beard, lumberjack outfit, ykwim) than like softer looking fat men.

tiktokers who say classic lit is bad because its not relatable 1. thats not the fucking point 2. you've clearly never read twelfth night as a trans bisexual

you've clearly never read Frankenstein as a student

If you're fucked up enough a lot of classic lit suddenly becomes uncomfortably relatable tbh.

This is 100% true, but also: literature is a great way to engage with people you don't actually relate to, and practice feeling empathy for them anyway. I have never been in a battle, but I have cried over the Iliad multiple times because I was suddenly made very aware that every single war has people like Hector in it, who leave their families one day and just never come home to them. Please keep looking for things you find relatable in unexpected places - but not everything has to be relatable for it to be worthwhile.

Not everything has to be about you to be worth reading

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BLAAARGH!! PUT THE COALS WITHIN MY MOUTH! ROAST YOUR FOOLISH MARSHED MALLOWS!! COLLECT THE ASHES FROM MY ASS TRAY and dispose of them responsibly, especially if they are still warm, fires are no joke. Uh. BLAARGH!!

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I have never felt so validated in never having given up on Tumblr.

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IT GETS WORSE!

"This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying. In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right. The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in. This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS. Unbelievable. It's amateur hour."

So he artificially limited the number of tweets you can see per day with a "free" account.

Once you hit your limit, it stops you from loading the page. But it also doesn't know WHY it isn't loading, so it keeps TRYING.

Twitter is literally hitting itself in the face ten times per second per user.

This is so completely amateurish it's unbelievable. It's like putting your car in neutral and slamming your foot on the gas until your engine redlines and then wondering why it's making a horrible noise and a terrible smell but not going anywhere.

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He really thought everyone would buy a membership instead of just...open one of the 17 other, free, working social media apps already on their phones 😂😂

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Literally got a BlueSky code yesterday, never left Tumblr...

It’s been years since the last time I used Twitter with any semblance of regularity. This… this is not exactly inspiring me to go back, much less actually pay to use it.

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Oh no you shouldn't. It's literally imploding.

If you’re coming here for twitter please be advised that established tumblr users are entitled to put you in the stocks and throw tomatoes at you at any time. And you have to smile and tell them that you’re grateful for it btw

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im so fucking serious when i say that no one is crueler to visibly disabled people than girlies with blue wolfcuts and sharp eyeliner wearing hundred dollar sweaters from shein.

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like. there's a weird misconception that it's old people, but i have never once had an issue with anyone over the age of, like, 55. they are fine with me muttering to myself or making weird faces or not hearing them the first five times they call my name. that's not a problem for them. when my brother goes out with a cane, they're the ones who compliment it, and tell him the spikes and ribbons are a cute addition.

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yesterday this pink haired girl in the bathroom told me that i needed to stay away from movie theaters if i was going to act like a schizo. ten minutes later an 80 year old woman complimented me on my bright red hearing aids and said she wished she had that confidence when she got hers.

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anyways to the anon who just said that maybe i shouldn't be in public spaces. thank you for proving my point

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a very important addition.

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ok this post was originally about psychosis and plurality, but this is also a really good addition.

falling in love harder does not mean that one person is more in love than the other. it means that the decent was quick and scary and harsh compared to the other who had some stairs or maybe a slide and a cushion at the bottom

YES exactly. u get it. see there are levels to it. @bloodiedpeonies