Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

anyway cultural associations with colours are funny and it's awkward when a site like github decides to make one association universal (red ink = deletion, negative) when there are some very prominent others (red ink = addition, positive, success)

everyone knows red is hot 📈 and blue is cold 📉 (not everybody knows this)

it's fucked that one of the github colorblind modes uses red and blue but makes red old and blue new

squirrels are cute and the ecological niche they fill here is not one that exists without human intervention so they're like tiny terraforming partners in crime

if humans disappeared it would be bad for seagulls sure but where i live it would also mean the death of every single squirrel

these are not real pokémon trainer quotes but they are VERY CLOSE

Youngster Luke: “I love wearing shorts! When I run through the tall grass, it tickles!” (on defeat) “Achoo!”

Honeymooner Chris: “Battling POKéMON is a great way to build up your stamina!” (on defeat) “Couldn’t keep it up!”

Swimmer♀ Bethany: “The only problem with wearing a bikini is deciding where to keep my POKé BALLS!” (on defeat) “I would have won if i wasn’t wearing my bikini!”

you really want people to read these lines out loud huh

every single Lass would be insufferable

gamers are like “maybe they will finally give pokémon full voice acting”!!

1) do you even understand how much text is in a pokémon game

2) have you even thought five seconds about what pokémon dialogue would sound like out loud this isn't fucking dragon age

i do not want anime video games with unrealistic dialogue to be voice acted

i’ll have you know my girlfriend called my writing “a bit tiresome and pretentious” though so clearly not everybody thinks as i do

the dude over here giving an entire theogony just to tell a story about a yokai

AND ANOTHER THING

folktales never bother introducing cultural heroes or significant deities. the assumption of the folktale is that it is being told in a folk context where such cultural knowledges are already widespread. USE FOOTNOTES

if you aren't asking yourself the question “why is this story being told” throughout the entire process of putting together your folktale you are failing; it's not as simple as coming up with a cool story and sticking a folkloric wrapper on it

folktales can be cool stories!! but they're never JUST that; they're always informed by the agendas of the people telling the tale

i’m also bothered by the authorial voice thing in general like the point of a folktale is transmission of cultural knowledge it has different aims than an ordinary fanfic and it SHOULD be written differently

it just makes it feel childish to me like you can't trust the audience to figure out that this is a story without slamming them over the head with it at the beginning and end

“but how will people know it is a folktale if i don't situate it in the context of some fake imagined lore-sharing” idk have you tried switching up your authorial voice

META frame narratives are fine i’m talking about the obligatory five paragraphs at the beginning where some elder gathers a bunch of younglings around them and is like “now let me tell you a story…”

why can't fanfic authors writing folktales just be normal instead of shoehorning everything into a frame narrative

“kibi didn't you literally just publish the first chapter of a folktale collection which situates the entire thing as a frame narrative” THAT’S DIFFERENT

you ever like a thing but absolutely detest the fandom