What if gem gender is the type of gem? Like Pearl is a gender, Ruby is a gender… If gem is a species, then type, or “cut” is the biggest difference between them. If this is the case, then the disgust at fusions of different types can be explained as heterophobia. Gems only accept gay relationships, hetero sex is disgusting to them.

In 1937, it was 40 hours a week per household. Now it’s 80 hours a week per household. The amount of work done by the average person has doubled for the same or less pay.

The greatest work of art ever created was made by writers who think subtext is for cowards. It’s called Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. It’s about a cyborg ninja who turns fascists into human confetti. It tackles fundamental themes of human agency from the point of view of nature, nurture, culture, and identity. It deconstructs and then reconstructs the concept of free will while criticizing the military industrial complex and entire entirety of conservative ideology. The final boss of the game is a United States senator who wants to “make America great again” and you rip out his fucking heart after spending an hour debating political philosophy with him.

Radical, illogical levels of misogyny are not an altered state of consciousness. Evil is mundane.

If you’re the kind of person who thinks feminism is annoying, then you deserve to be annoyed. It wouldn’t upset you if you were cooler.

The good part is that it offers an analysis of where actual power within a monarchy comes from, and how American agents destroy regimes.

Blade will become an MCU movie when its canon is referenced in another canon MCU property. Until then, it isn’t. And even if Blade becomes an MCU movie due to a crossover, it won’t have been the first to fit into the canon.

Black Panther was seemingly made for the sake of being the MCU’s first black-lead movie. And it’s great. Drag can’t think of any other movies made for the sake of being woke, so we’ll just have to rely on this sample size of 1 which says woke movies are awesome.

No shields. They’ll attract Shai-Hulud.

Getting some Boss Baby vibes from this comment

Congratulations, you’ve solved racism

Zat’niketel?

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I don’t like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the fricking frogs trans

The problem is that modlogs form a permanent record on Lemmy. Drag didn’t encourage suicide. The c/trans people don’t believe drag encouraged suicide. That issue was cleared up. But there’s still a permanent note saying drag encouraged suicide. It’s a lie. They could take back the lie by unbanning drag, and they could even ban drag again with the true reason. But the true reason is a secret, so they’re choosing to keep lying. It’s messed up.

When drag was growing up, all of the siblings had assigned controllers. Drag made sure of that. The little ones got to touch their own greasy filth, and drag’s was nice and clean. If drag had to touch a sibling’s controller, drag needed to wash drag’s claws or it wouldn’t feel right.

There’s a great scene in Harry Potter and the Natural 20 where they find the Mirror of Erised, and Milo the Human Wizard gets to use his ranks in Code Breaker, which he’s never used before. He busts out the pen and paper, ready for a difficult d20 check that will test the limits of his stats. And then he realises it’s just backwards. He’s so disappointed.

Because people like Catoblepas keep saying they’re good mods.

There was a card game where the elements of the periodic table were monsters and you had to ionic bond them to win. It had a tie in book series.

Another really interesting mythological figure is Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, from Journey To The West. He’s kind of on the border between mythology and fiction. Like Superman. Sun Wukong is a leader and he is a tyrant, but he’s a very unusual case of both.

The monkeys of Flower Fruit Mountain decided to make Sun Wukong their kong because he was the bravest monkey. They all collectively decided on a challenge that whoever did it would be king, and Sun Wukong did it. Being the Monkey King is a ceremonial title for the most part. Sun Wukong does try to teach the monkeys warfare a few times, and it never goes well, because the monkeys are inherently chaotic and therefore bad at following orders. They’re not actually a society in the way that humans are, they’re just pretending to be a kingdom for fun.

When Sun Wukong gets bored of being the Monkey King, he decides to go to heaven and demand a fancy royal title from the Jade Emperor. This does not go well, and Monkey ends up beating up all the gods until the Buddha finally puts him in his place. Monkey is explicitly doing violence on people with the goal of dominating them into granting him a royal title. But the thing is, Monkey is shallow and he only cares about getting a fancy name. He doesn’t want any responsibility and the only power he wants is to be immortal and good at martial arts. (This is where most of Goku’s personality comes from).

Sun Wukong is tyrannical and he is technically a leader, but calling him an authoritarian tyrant is completely misleading. He’s chaotic neutral. He only really wants to be the Monkey King so he can call himself the Monkey King. He doesn’t want to oppress anybody. He’s very different to characters like Zeus or Odin. He has a lot more in common with Loki or Dionysus, though with a focus on physical power as opposed to trickery or magic.