Lady @Lady@cat.family

i need a ghostwriter

plymouth rock is so silly why is that a thing

i stand by the take that zelda's mom in breath of the wild is royal-born and thus must also be named zelda

naming Zelda’s mom Genevieve sure is a choice

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