What a terraformed Venus with realistic climates would look like
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MrCactus04
crying because I’ll never get to live on terraformed venus with realistic climates
Monday, 25 April 2022
If gender is a social construct, then we who are society are free to construct gender as we see fit.
forgot the best part of death note, the american names written by someone who was just kind of guessing what american names sounded like. anyways rip to raye penber, arire weekwood, and lian zapack, average american men
Same energy
Ok I know many foreign names in manga/anime do sound this dumb out of cluelessness and it's funny to point and laugh, but in the case of Death Note in particular, this was not a "haha japanese man doesn't know american names" thing. The weird names were a deliberate choice.
I don't have my copy with me right now to directly quote the passage, but on the Death Note vol. 13 tankoubon—which consists of extras and behind-the-scenes content—, the author says that all the names in the series (including the japanese ones) were chosen to not be similar to real names, to avoid creating awkwardness/fear/superstition due to someone's real name being in the fictional Death Note.
For the japanese names, this was achieved by using names that sound like normal japanese names, but are written with unusual kanji (such as the surname Ide being spelled 伊出 rather than 井手, or Takahashi spelled 鷹橋 rather than 高橋). Light's whole name, Yagami Light spelled 夜神月, is very unique and unusual, to avoid creating unwanted association between him and any real person.
Since names in english don't have kanji, the author just invented names that sound vaguely american/british but are not real names in those countries.
Those mods that replace female characters with male characters in games but keep the female animations really highlight how fucking insane and ridiculous the animations for women in video games usually are
Serious spine injury someone take that thing to the vet!
White boy off the shits!!
It looks perfectly normal on Link because he's just like that
movie vs book (i adore them both)
How could you leave this in the notes, excellent addition
I suppose we have known for some time, but now it is official, the talented music maker and actor Janelle Monáe has told the world that they are nonbinary.
This was on the April 20 episode of “Red Table Talk” (via NBC News), where Monáe said:
“I’m nonbinary, so I just don’t see myself as a woman, solely. I feel all of my energy. I feel like God is so much bigger than the ‘he’ or the ‘she.’ And if I am from God, I am everything. I am everything. But I will always, always stand with women. I will always stand with Black women. But I just see everything that I am. Beyond the binary.”
Heads up regarding her pronouns! While it’s totally understandable to see people using they/them pronouns after hearing this news, I think it’s important to recognize that nonbinary people aren’t required to use they/them pronouns (or any other set for that matter) and to respect Janelle’s wishes for how she’s stated she wants to be referred to
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to all the people who may be coming back here from twitter in light of elon’s purchase:
