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ALTDecided to redraw my favorite piece of official TMBD art, the Subterranean Press illustration by Tommy Arnold for Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory, shown in the bottom right for comparison. I’ve used it as inspiration for my takes on all the characters shown, which from left to right are Overse (with Arada’s legs in her lap), Murderbot, Ratthi, Bharadwaj, and Pin-Lee.
Have you ever been writing some historical fiction and wondered "hey, I wonder if my characters would have been able to pop an ibuprofen in 1977?" Well, you're in luck, because this post is all about when common medications became available:
Someone asked for this list in date order, so here it is!
I already keep track of a lot of this stuff but hey, it's useful.
ppl on ao3 should use the "this work was inspired by" option more. so many fics out there that put links to other fics in the a/n but theres a better option.....
ALT☝️ use this!!!!!!
important addition i forgot that not everyone might know. similar to how ao3 bookmarks work, you can also link to non-ao3 fanworks using this format. so, for instance, if theres some fanart on tumblr that inspired you to write the fic? you can link that fanart to your fic!
unlike putting a link in the note the other party has to approve this kind of tie, possibly depending on their account settings idr, because it creates a two-way link relationship. so people tend to hold back on it because it's asserting a relatively intimate bond between your work and someone else's when they might not even know who you are.
Slight clarification—it asks the other party to approve, but even if they disapprove, the link from your work to theirs remains. Still might be uncomfortable to ask, but it works on your end regardless of how the other person responds
retracing ur steps to remember what u were about to say/do is so funny like yeah let me go stand next to the microwave for a second i think i dropped my thought over there. & then it works
[sits bolt upright awake at 3am] what if ba'al auditioned to be on wormhole xtreme. what if he actually got to guest star and by the time the stargate program noticed it was too late
Usually when the electrician goes 'hey.... there's something you should see' it's because someone set up shoddy wiring. This time it was because he pulled two snakes out of my wall
whoa…it’s crazy, i was under the impression that the cat has been fed every day for the past 19 years. but he’s informing me right now that’s never happened? not once in his life?
ALTpov you're posting to spacetumblr after getting dm'd instructions on what to do during the rescue you didn't know was coming (1: hang on to me. 2: nothing else) purely because the uptight sanctmoon wiki mod has noticed that you're not posting new episode summary articles anymore.
I’ve been trying to put my finger on why Hades being depicted as a villain is so annoying in other media but works so well in Hadestown, and I think I’ve figured out why: Hadestown Hades isn’t the bad guy because he’s the god of the DEAD; instead, he’s the bad guy because he’s the god of WEALTH. Usually, whenever Hades appears in a movie or video game, he has some stupid motivation like “ughh I’m tired of being lord of the underworld I wanna be lord of everything” or “I’m the Greek mythology version of the western concept of Satan, fear me!!” but Hadestown really said screw that and made his motivation “I love my wife so much but we have a shitty marriage arrangement and her long absence combined with my severe self-doubt has lead me down the hellish road to corruption by all the riches under the ground.”
#okay but you could argue! that in hadestown specifically#hades being the god of wealth and the god of death are both part of him being a capitalist#unsafe practices and hazardous materials kill or disable a LOT of construction workers#labour laws are written in blood#and it’s impossible to get filthy rich like that without exploiting other human beings
Sorry @exeiguess but your tags passed peer review. This is it exactly. The two are intertwined especially when it comes to discussions of labor and worker’s rights and exploitation, and THAT’S part of what makes him work so perfectly as the antagonist in Hadestown.
rereading pierce's early tortall books as an adult is like. they're not perfect. especially as someone brown and asian lol. but you can feel like that specific era of feminism coming off the page almost as a response to the state of the genre when it was written. the amount of times an older women would take a child or teen protagonist aside and be like just so you know you don't have to marry someone you slept with. no one can force you to be pregnant. contraceptive methods are easily available. sex workers deserve respect and care. you don't have to stay silent about abuse and despite our sexist society resources do exist to protect you. a womans body is her own. just a relentless focus on reproductive health specifically in her medieval fantasy books about dealing with gender roles
Sometimes you just gotta make yourself charcuterie for dinner
