Icon by Tomostars. Header by LadyTakhissis. Eh Canadian. Bisexual. Wanderer of many, many fandoms. Library searcher extraordinaire. Student of steampunk. Proud plushie collector. Procurer of Puns. Admiral of a ship armada. Uni student. Pinkaholic. Fangirl. Magical Girl advocate.
Even though the audience did figure out Cardan’s riddle, what hurts is a motive behind why Cardan exiled Jude.
He was fucking trying to impress her.
Like dude. My man. There are so many OTHER ways you could have impressed her.
“When I came here, pretending to be Taryn, you said you’d sent me messages,” I say. “You seemed surprised I hadn’t gotten any. What was in them?”
Cardan turns to me, hands clasped behind his back. “Pleading, mostly. Beseeching you to come back. Several indiscreet promises.” He’s wearing that mocking smile, the one he says comes from nervousness.
I close my eyes against frustration great enough to make me scream. “Stop playing games,” I say. “You sent me into exile.”
“Yes,” he says. “That. I can’t stop thinking about what you said to me, before Madoc took you. About it being a trick. You meant marrying you, making you queen, sending you to the mortal world, all of it, didn’t you?”
I fold my arms across my chest protectively. “Of course it was a trick. Wasn’t that what you said in return?”
“But that’s what you do,” Cardan says. “You trick people. Nicasia, Madoc, Balekin, Orlagh. Me. I thought you’d admire me a little for it, that I could trick you. I thought you’d be angry, of course, but not quite like this.”
I stare at him, openmouthed. “What?”
“Let me remind you that I didn’t know you’d murdered my brother, the ambassador to the Undersea, until that very morning,” he says. “My plans were made in haste. And perhaps I was a little annoyed. I thought it would pacify Queen Orlagh, at least until all promises were finalized in the treaty. By the time you guessed the answer, the negotiations would be over. Think of it: I exile Jude Duarte to the mortal world. Until and unless she is pardoned by the crown.” He pauses. “Pardoned by the crown. Meaning by the King of Faerie. Or its queen. You could have returned anytime you wanted.”
Oh.
Oh.
Like I get it. You wanted to impress her with something you picked up from her on being sneaky and thought she would love it.
It’s like Cardan is this dopey doggo who went to fetch someone’s bumper instead of the stick that was thrown but drags it all the way back to their owner, almost sideswiping them with said bumper, drops it on their foot but looks insanely proud of it when all is said and done.
It doesn’t change the fact that a) someone is missing a bumper and b) Jude’s foot would be swollen.
Every time I reread this passage I’m either a little sad, in love, or completely frustrated. It’s a mix of wholesome, two idiots in love, and did not think this through that I can’t even.
it’s always a good day to complain about English speakers
Important addition: Maria Skłodowska-Curie was born during partitions, which means Poland didn’t exist, which means her insistence that she was Polish was a significant act of defiance against the occupation, which means that you should respect that instead of arguing that ‘well she had French citizenship’. She couldn’t have Polish citizenship despite being Polish, that’s kinda the point she was making by keeping her maiden name and naming a chemical element she discovered ‘Polonium’ .
HOW TO PRONOUNCE: Skłodowska
L with a dash through it (ł) makes a “W” sound. and W makes a “V” sound.
A few years ago I went to pick up a woman I met on OKCupid for a date, and a friend of hers was there. They kind of over-explained “Oh, she just showed up to say hi” and there was a vague nervousness in the air that even my autistic ass was picking up on. Her friend was playing conspicuously with her phone. I went “Ah, the safety. Need to get a picture?”
Dead silence for about a second and a half, then the friend took a picture, looked at my date, and said “Have fun” and walked out the door.
(I would ordinarily have been clueless, but I’d just been asked to be the safety the previous night.)
My advice to male-presenting folks: recognize that this not your problem. By which I mean, this sort of security check isn’t a problem for you. It doesn’t hurt you. You aren’t being insulted or disrespected. And if you treat it like what it is– a reasonable adaptation to an unreasonable situation– and just roll with it, your dates will be more comfortable, and you will have a better time as a result.
The same applies to phone calls mid-date. Let them answer the damn phone without drama.
They aren’t accusing you of being a dangerous person. The very fact that they are willing to go on a goddamn date with you means that they have extended a certain level of trust. But the fact remains that there isn’t really a way to distinguish between “a man who isn’t dangerous” and “a man who knows how to behave like he’s not dangerous.”
there isn’t really a way to distinguish between “a man who isn’t dangerous” and “a man who knows how to behave like he’s not dangerous.”
“The entire British museum is an active crime scene” - John Oliver
[image description: two pictures, one above the other. The first image shows a statue originally from the Acropolis in Athens, now in the British Museum. The statue is a column shaped like a woman. It is labelled London. The bottom image is from the Acropolis Museum in Athens, showing the other five matching column/statues, with a space for the missing statue pointedly left open. This picture is shot from above and is labelled Athens.
image in savvysergeant’s reblog: screencap of tags from two people. Feeblekazoo’s tags read: the degree to which the Acropolis museum is designed to shame the British Museum is spectactular. butherlipsarenotmoving’s tags read: the acropolis museum is the most passive aggressive museum i’ve ever been to and i love it
/end id]
For those of you who don’t know museum drama, one of the largest and most famous parts of the British Museum’s collection is the so-called Elgin Marbles, which were looted from the Acropolis by Lord Elgin in the 18th Century. (The Acropolis is the hill in Athens, Greece which has some of the most amazing Greek ruins anywhere, the most famous of which is the Parthenon.) Elgin had (or at least claims to have had) permission from the Ottoman Empire to take stuff home with him, but a) this is one empire asking another empire if they can loot stuff from the other empire’s subjugated people, so, not exactly any moral high ground there Elgin, and b) he took a lot more stuff than the Ottomans said he could have.
Greece has been asking for those statues and sculptures to be returned since they won independence in 1832. That’s right, 1832, 190 years ago. The British Museum has had a number of excuses over the years, one of the biggies of the late 20th Century being “we couldn’t possibly give them back because Athens doesn’t have a nice enough museum to display them” and ignoring Greece’s response of “we will BUILD a museum just for them if you will just give us our damn stuff back!“
Finally, Greece said “fuck you” and built a museum at the bottom of the Acropolis called the Acropolis museum. It is huge, it is gorgeous, the collection of objects is amazing and the educational bits (“this is what it is and why it matters”) are really well done. It’s probably one of the best archaeological museums in the world; it definitely is the best collection of ancient Greek artifacts in the world, both for the size of the collection and the way it’s displayed.
Oh. And it is amazingly passive-aggressive. Every single piece of the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum has an empty spot on display waiting for the piece to be returned to Greece. For example, there are a lot of pieces where Elgin took, say, the nicest (or easiest to remove) one of a set. The column/statue in the OP’s image is one of these. Friezes from the roof of the Parthenon are another example. The Acropolis Museum displays each one of these sets with space for the stolen pieces, along with a picture of what the stolen piece looks like and where it is. It is a giant middle finger at the British Museum, disguised as helpful information.
There’s no chance that the British Museum will return any of this in the next generation. It’s not up to the curators at the British Museum; they don’t get any say in this. The board of governors of the British Museum is made up of old posh English people who genuinely believe that the Empire was awesome and England has a perfect right to everything in the British Museum. They have set policies about what can and can’t be removed from the collection, and according to those policies nothing of any historical or monetary value can be given away or sold. And they actively promote the idea that their predecessors had a perfect right to loot the cultural heritage of the world, and that the museum has a perfect right to keep it forever. The only way to get anything out of the British Museum and back to its rightful place would be to completely replace the entire board of the museum with new people who think completely differently. And that’s not happening any time soon, alas.
By the way, the British argument that Greeks wouldn’t know how to care for the antiquities……. Greece has 206 archaeological museums. It’s not only incredibly demeaning as an argument, it’s also straight out false and misleading.
One thing (and with the massive caveat of I don’t disagree with the above in the slightest): the Board of Trustees isn’t like that. They’re not all white, they’re not all rich, and they’re not all English. By and large they’re academics. I was speaking to them the other week with regards to repatriation when I visited and they’re actually very much all for it (bar one or two exceptions…looking at you George) and are working on things. A group of 5 of them I can confirm actively loathe Elgin and the marbles room. The problem lies with the British Museum Act of 1968 (hereafter referred to as BMA68) which was a law created by the government to prevent anything within the BM, which the government owns but wants very little do to with unless you’re trying to repatriate fyi, being removed in the “national interest”. Repatriation is, annoyingly, illegal in the case of the contents of the BM. So the Board have been trying to change this by putting pressure in various areas to get the laws changed, and the government screws them by enforcing term limits for serving on the board and then trying to stack the board in their favour to prevent further action. It’s a game of politics and the government do not want to give up BMA68 at all.
I know we like to categorise everyone we’re up against in the fight for repatriation as “old, white, rich guys” but it’s not helpful when it is decidedly not the case. We need to be mad at the right people and focusing on efforts to change this ridiculous law. At this time, supporting projects like the International Training Partnership, which is the BM’s way of building a network of curators and training them so organisations like the British Government can’t say “hurr durr they can’t look after their artefacts” because actually they can, we trained them ourselves. The network of curators also allows them to build mounting international pressure. It’s not going to happen overnight, but the pressure is building now, I promise you.
When I return a library book, I make sure to walk there holding it in my hands instead of in my bag. This is enrichment before it gets returned to the cold limbo of the stacks
Perhaps the funniest thing that could have happened lately was that this anticapitalist cafe and community space near my place was shutting down near the end of May - but because so many Texas and Florida conservatives celebrated it online, the place got a huge donation to keep operating
It’s a great place. It functions mostly like a regular cafe but it has this free/pay what you want drip coffee for anyone who wants it, free bathroom use, and it stocks indie merch and books on antifascist, queer, leftist, socialist, indigenous topics. I’ve met a lot of awesome people there.
Its very existence enrages conservatives, and anarchocapitalists who tried to claim it only to be shown the middle finger by its anticapitalist owner, who is an all around nice dude (and a fellow Elden Ring fan)
If you can toss a coin to its continued operation, please do! Upon request from their followers on insta they opened a Gofundme. Even just a few dollars will be a huge help.
“You can’t be a lurker on tumblr.” Yes, you absolutely can. I’ve been quietly reblogging things since 2014 and I haven’t interacted with anyone in years.
For those of you who want to lock all of your works with all the silly AI scraping of AO3 (which AO3 is recommending you lock your works, as stated in this post)
Here is a quick and easy guide of how to edit ALL of your works at once.
From your Dashboard click on “edit works” on the far right. This will bring up all of your works that you can select.
Select all the works you want to edit, then hit “Edit” at the bottom right.
Scroll to nearly the bottom of the page where you find “Visibility” and select “only show to registered users” and then update at the bottom.
That’s it, all of your works have now been locked without having to go in and edit each fic individually.
Steven Universe: Eh, I don’t really feel like saying “girlfriend” or “wife”. Maybe they’re together. They have a special connection…
(gets violently shoved aside)
The Loud House/Craig of the Creek/The Owl House: Pfft, amateur. “My GIRLFRIEND Sam and I…” “I’m texting my GIRLFRIEND, mind your business.” “Luz’s new GF showed her…”
Can we not do this thing? Do you realize that Rebecca had to fight for what we got with Rupphire and literally risked her job? and Pearl and Rose. Like, there is no need to knock other shows down because of Lumity.
These kids today, I tell you what. In my day you had to bury your girlfriends under subtext and then end the series when the truth was revealed.
Risked her job, hell, it’s an open secret now that the Rupphire wedding (which, may I remind folks, was the first queer wedding in a kids’ cartoon, which is a BIG DEAL) is why everything about the rest of the series felt rushed. They had to scramble to tell the rest of the story because they took a gamble and the network retaliated by shortening their production time.
Rebecca Sugar and the crewniverse risked the entire show getting flat-out cancelled in order to show that wedding, only for people to say it “wasn’t progressive enough” and was “giving in to stereotypes” to put Ruby in a wedding dress. Never mind that Ruby kept getting dubbed over as a guy in localization, Sapphire was unmistakably feminine in every version, and putting Ruby in the dress was a flagrant way to say, “fuck you, you can’t pretend this is a straight couple; this is a queer couple and a queer wedding.”
Dana Terrace has said that The Owl House only exists with its intended queerness because of what Rebecca Sugar and her team accomplished with Steven Universe. Hell, there are multiple members of the Steven Universe team who went on to work on the other shows mentioned in the OP–Steven Sugar, for example, who is Rebecca Sugar’s brother and inspiration for SU in the first place (as well a background artist on the show), is currently an artist on The Owl House. There are people who got their start on Steven Universe who now only have the opportunity to tell more queer stories because of Steven Universe’s success.
I’m not even 30 years old yet and I’m still old enough to remember when being gay was fully illegal in the United States. Not gay marriage, but literally just BEING GAY. It wasn’t that long ago, and the fact that today in 2021 I can turn on the TV and watch gay cartoons intended for children? I never thought I’d see it. Fucking ever.
So let’s stop pitting queer creators and media against each other, shall we?
So often older shows that seem pitifully lackluster by today’s audience’s standards were hard-fought, BIG-ASS DEALS in their contemporary context. (And for the record, calling SU or something like Korra ‘older’ to me feels bizarre af, I’m 28, this is all new to me in some ways. This is all extraordinary and the opposite of lackluster.) What you’re seeing is an extraordinary amount of progress over the last mere ten years. Don’t knock it.
Literally saw a bumper on Nickelodeon celebrating Pride Month last year and had my mind blown. This would’ve been UNHEARD OF when I was a kid. No one ever talked about queerness AT ALL in kids’ cartoons, gay people were a JOKE in the 90s. Zoomers don’t know how good they have it.
language is literally so beautiful like in english “i miss you” comes from being unable to locate someone in the field after battle, it’s “i look for you but i can’t find you” but the french “tu me manques” is also about absence but it’s not something i do, it’s something that happens to me, as in “you are something essential lacking inside me”, in portuguese it’s either “sinto a tua falta” as in “i feel your absence” or, from solitude you get “saudade de você” as in “i am lonely [of] you”, and in spanish the word comes from stranger and it’s something one does, “te extraño” as in “i am making a stranger out of you”, and, and, and
#in algeria we say twahachtek which is basically you made me lonely #or like you said i am lonely of you :) #in arabic it’s pretty straightforward like there’s a word specifically for that #and to my knowledge the only other use for any derivatives (or roots for that matter) is when expressing excitement #so you get something that means like. i’m excited for you #in the most innocent sense lol
in thai the phrase for 'miss you’ is 'khit theung’ with /khit = to think, thoughts/ and /theung = to reach, to arrive at/, so literally in english it translates like 'my thoughts have arrived at you’ or 'i think to reach you’
the verb we use in Latin is excellent too because of its many meanings. “desiderare” translates to “to miss [something],” but also means “to long for, to wish for, to call for, to require, and to desire.” There’s a sense of desperation and longing embedded in the word, and while that sense might not always be intended in the word’s actual use in, say, Caesar’s work on his military campaigns or something, I think it’s really beautiful anyway
In Hindi it’s “mujhe tumhari yaad aati hain”. Yaad means memory and aati means to come. Basically the literal translation is “Memories of you come to me”.
In my mother tongue Malayalam, while we have a lot of words that indicate loss or separation (like viraaha vedana is the pain of separation or nashtam means loss), we don’t use them to indicate missing someone. Usually I remember people saying “kore naalayallo kandittu” (it’s been long since I’ve seen you) or a phrase indicating there is an emptiness since the person has left (neeyillathathinte vishamam thonunnu - I feel the sadness of your absence, or neeyillathathinte koravundu - there has been a gap since you left). There’s also asking the person when they’ll return 😄 Of course since we Malayalis use a lot of English loanwords I know people who will just use the word “miss” in the sentence as is.
#it’s 'du fehlst mir’ in german which is 'you are missing (to me)’ #but it’s more about a lack #a familiar place someone’s inhabited that’s vacated now #keeping a space open for your return
#in both german and swedish the expression used could best be translated as 'you are missing from me’ #as in a part that is missing from the whole and something that was neither done by or to someone but simply is a state of being #in german u can use not only that expression (du fehlst mir/jag saknar dig) but also another (ich vermisse dich) #vermissen as a verb is sth u actively do and id say it is more??? painful??? idk. or like. direct??? idk how to describe it #(its also a question of register) #but it basically means 'i make myself lack u’ as in i am making u be missing from me if that makes sense.
#in swedish u usually say jag saknar sig which translates to i miss you #but u can also say du saknas mig which kind of translates to youre missing from me. almost as in a piece of me is missing
in lithuanian we say 'pasiilgau tavęs’ and the root of the word ’-ilgau’ refers to the word 'ilgas’ - long. it doesn’t matter how for how long you haven’t actually seen the person - time stretches out without them. you may also say 'ilgėtis’ - miss, or more directly the meaning translates into 'it gets longer without you’.
in somali / af maay the phrase for “i miss u” respectively “waan ku xiisay” / “athi ke hiloowy” interestingly enough the word for vacation is “dalxiis” and the word for love is “hiloow” so i found that says a lot about how the culture /dialect in that the lack of something is viewed somewhat synonymously with the longing/admiration of said person/thing if it make sense the culture is spread out over east africa and was largely pastoral/gatherers for centuries so i feel like that has a lot to do w the idea of travel over some distance being very natural, estrangement being a second nature. love at a distance is the only way of love its a very poetic concept and speaks to how estrangement/distance is so natural to others and alien to some
