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now im imagining what pride events in ankh morpork are like
there will EXCLUSIVELY be kink at the ankh morpork pride parade
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Extremely correct response, leaving out the inevitable debacle over citizens declaring counterfeit genders in order to have rarer pronoun pins to sell to collectors in the underground pronoun market.
Dibbler, only mildly discouraged, eventually realizes he can sell embellishments for your pronoun pin, which he claims will upgrade your gender.
Also of note is that there are no cops present at Ankh-Morpork Pride. This is not because they aren’t welcome (everyone knows Nobby is as kinky as they come), but because the festivities include throwing bricks at the City Watch building and they are busy trying to make sure they still have a place to work the next day. The Night Watch prepares each year with a barricade, and pre-marriage Vimes always collects the good bricks so he can save for a house. Nobody is really sure where the tradition came from, but it’s good fun and usually nobody gets hurt too badly.
The bricks are provided by Vetinari, who considers it a good test of city infrastructure and training for the Watch.
- Cheery would 100% march in the parade. She’d get Nobby to go with her, but Nobby would be completely oblivious as to why (he assumed she just wants company).
- Moist von lipwig would have pride-themed stamps made; these would inevitably have some kind of issue, which would create some outrage and ultimately make the stamps more valuable as collectors’ items.
- I don’t get the impression that Ankh Morpork ever had anti-sodomy or crossdressing laws, so I don’t think the queer community’s history with the police would be the same as it is in the real world. Especially because Cheery Littlebottom literally started the Dwarf trans/feminism movement as an officer of the Watch, with the Watch’s support.
- Dibbler would totally sell pride flags with the wrong colors (and then insist it was the “new, updated version” if anyone questioned him)
- The nobility are all scandalized, meanwhile the Seamstresses Guild has a float in the parade
- Adora Belle Dearheart is deeply involved with at least one queer organization and is one of the main organizers of the Pride festival, but refuses to answer any questions about why
- Ridcully decides the wizards should be involved, and Ponder Stibbons should make a float and organize the refreshments for them to eat while riding on the float. Ridcully’s concept of allyship is loudly saying, “Well done, that man!” and pointing at anyone he thinks is exhibiting particularly queer behavior.
- Madam Sharn and Pepe release a whole new line of Pride-themed chainmail
- Bengo Macarona is embraced as a gay icon
- Reg Shoe decides the main pride event is too corporate, and organizes an alternative pride parade for the same time and place; this immediately gets subsumed by the main pride event. Some Omnians show up to Pride to protest and Reg is delighted to have someone to fight with.
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Discworld Heritage Post
I love Discworld so much. :)
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I'm totally in support of the writers in theory but I'm trying to understand more of what you're fighting for because I've seen some people on twitter claim writers make more money a week than most of us make in a month so I'm trying to understand what the issue is. Also if that info is accurate. This is a genuine question. Not trying to have a "gotcha moment". I really want to hear from a writer.
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people have always had wild misconceptions about how much a writer earns because of their lack of understanding of how the industry actually works. there’s so many posts about how “you guys make 5k a week. what more do you want?!” yeah…let’s do some math on that.
5k a week for 14 weeks
(and that’s a long room. a lot of rooms these days are 8-10 weeks. those are the dreaded mini-rooms we’re trying to kill)is $70,000. for roughly three months of work. you’d think we’re cooking with gas…BUT HOLD UP. that’s gross! let’s see everything that has to come out of that check:- 10% to our agent
- 10% to our manager
- 5% to our entertainment attorney
- 5% to our business manager (not everyone has one but a lot of us do. i do, so that’s literally 30% immediately off the top of every check)
- most of these breakdowns ive seen downplay taxes severely. someone made one that says writers pay 5% in taxes and i would like to ask them “in what universe?”. that doesn’t even cover state taxes. the way taxes work in the industry is really complicated, but the short of it is most of us have companies for tax reasons so we aren’t taxed like people on w2s/1099. if we did we’d be even more fucked. basically every production hires a writer’s company instead of the writer as an individual. so they engage our companies for our services and then at the end of the year we (the company) pay taxes as corporations or llcs (depending on what the writer chose to go with). my company is registered as a “corporation” so let’s go with those rates. california’s corporate rate is 9% and the federal corporate tax rate is 21%. there’s other expenses with running a business like fees and other shit so my business managers/accountants/bookkeepers have recommended i save between 35-40% of everything i make for when tax season comes.
you see where the math is at already??? 25-30% in commissions and then 35-40% in taxes. on the lower end you’re at THE VERY LEAST looking at 60% of that check gone. 70% worst case scenario. suddenly those $70,000 people claim we make are actually down to $28,000 as the take home pay. and that’s if you’re only losing 60%. it goes down to $21,000 if it’s 70%.
lets pretend you worked a long 14 week room
(that’s the longest room ive ever worked btw)and let’s also be generous and say you only have 60% in expenses so the take home is $28,000. average rent in los angeles is around $2,800-$3,000. if you’re paying $2,800 in rent that means you need AT LEAST $4,000 a month to have a semi decent life since you need to also cover groceries, gas, medical expenses, toiletries, phone, internet, utilities, rental and car insurances, car payments, student loan payments, etc etc etc. and again, this is los angeles. everything is more expensive so you’re living BARE BONES on 4k. and these are numbers as a single person. im not even taking having children into account. so those $28,000 you take home might cover your life for 6-7 months. 3 of which you’re in the room working. the reality is that once that room ends, you might not work in a room again for 6-9-12 months(i have friends whose last jobs were over 18 months ago)and you now only have about 3 months left of savings to hold you over. we have to make that money stretch while we do all the endless free development we do for studios and until we get our next paying job. so…3 months left of enough money to cover your expenses -> possible 9 months of not having a job. this is how writers end up on food stamps or applying to work at target.this is why we’re fighting for better rates and better residuals. residuals were a thing writers used to rely on to get them through the unemployment periods. residual checks have gone down from 20k to $0.03 cents. im not joking.
they’ve decimated our regular pay and then destroyed residuals. we have nothing left. so don’t believe it when they tell you writers are being greedy. writers are simply fighting to be able to make a middle class living. we’re not asking them to become poor for our sake. we’re asking for raises that amount to 2% of their profit. TWO PERCENT. this is a fight for writing even being a career in five years instead of something you do on the side while you work retail to pay your bills. if you think shows are bad now imagine when your writer has to do it as a hobby because they need a real job to pay their bills and support a family. (which none of us can currently afford to have btw)
support writers. stop being bootlickers for billion dollar corporations. stop caring about fictional people more than you care about the real people that write them. if we don’t win this fight it truly is game over. the industry as you know it is gone.
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My first question to someone who’s like, “You should give up writing and learn to code!” would be to ask, “Is that how you entertained yourself during the pandemic? With long videos of people coding? Or did you read books and watch TV and movies like the rest of us?”
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Hello, Nichya. My question is probably very inappropriate, so I apologize in advance. I saw some Americans claiming, that Spanish & Portuguese are colonizer languages. However, these are the most spoken languages in latin countries. Again, I don't agree with such statements, just curious what real Latinos & Latinas would say to it.
Ah, the irony of americans, who speak ENGLISH because they were colonized by ENGLAND, and who made american-english become so wide-spread in the entire world through both imperialism cultural imperialism and invading other countries and placing military basis and/or overthrowing their governments over and over, realizing “Wait, latin america speaks spanish and portuguese (as well as french and dutch in some places) because europe colonized them, that’s problematic.”
Now, obviously spanish and portuguese were brought to latin america as “colonizer languages”, aka to further erase the native languages, and cultures. However you’d be surprised at how complex a topic can become after over 500 years.
Languages are living things, and no two places have the exact same relationship to it. That’s how accents, slang, dialects, and eventually new languages, come to be. I have a much easier time understanding modern spanish, italian or french than I do understanding OLD portuguese, despite being brazilian. To me it just looks like a language Tolkien made up. It’s too different.
In the same vein, the spanish spoken in Spain today is not the same as the one spoken 500 years ago, and is also not the same as the one spoken in Mexico today - which is also not the same as the one spoken in Argentina, or Venezuela or Chile. And that happens not only due to the distance, but due to what other languages (from bordering countries, immigrants or surviving native tribes) have an influence on the “main” one. I lost count of how many times I was mindblown to discover some random word that I use everyday is NOT portuguese, but rather an old word from languages of brazilian native tribes.
That also ties into two other details that people often forget in that discussion of “you’re speaking the language of your opressor and passing on their legacy”:
1 - The native tribes were NOT all buddies with each other, and their languages also became dominant for so long because they conquered or killed all their rivals. Like any people group, they had the ones they were allied with, the ones they were neutral on, and the ones they fucking hated. There were groups that tried to isolate themselves as much as possible, others that sought out alliances without any form of merging, and some that went full “I want an empire” mode. The historical tendency of just erasing all that complexity and pretending they were one large homogenous group with a generically peaceful “culture”, instead of being as complex and messy as europe, is as racist of a generalization as “They’re all a bunch of blood thirsty savages that will kill anything in their path, including each other”
2 - Languages like european portuguese and spanish ALSO were influenced by other languages, often of groups they were at war with or even invaded by, and passed on their legacy too - portuguese has A LOT of arabic influence for exemple. The broad generalization of “Europe colonized the world” is useful in a lot of cases, but also dangerous in others, as it ignores that europe is not magically immune to being influenced by other cultures (sometimes through brutal means).
That last one is also THE main thing that this “these are colonizer languages” discourse misses: it ignores that europeans are not the only ones who can influence others, and that sometimes their tactics backfire.
Portugal conquering a place as large as Brazil, with a HUGE population was itself a power move… but as a consequence, we out-number them to a comical degree. Meaning people are far more likely to learn brazilian portuguese than european portuguese, something a lot of people in Portugal are rather salty about - and that’s without taking into consideration that they themselves consume a LOT of brazilian media, but the reverse is not true. It got to the point of there being parents in Portugal freaking the fuck out because their kids could only speak “brazilian” (and we made them even more mad with the “Let’s change Portugal’s name to Brazilian Guyana” jokes).
That’s why latinos tend to get mad at foreigners (especially americans) who assume we somehow don’t realize “Oh, we speak these languages because we were colonized.” It’s condescending and ignores how much of our cultures and identities, by necessity, are built on the basis of us going “Fuck off, this is MINE now, and I’m doing MY thing with it.” It crosses the line from a genuine conversation about colonialism to “Let me explain your situation to you since you’re too dumb to get it”
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No but to be serious guys i didnt expect that movie to be that kind of good. I expected great fights. I expected complicated morals. I did not expect that movie to say i know everything seems hopeless but you dont get a choice, you have to try. I did not expect that movie to say when we are up against an impossible, unjust threat the only way through is freely given kindness and forgiveness. I did not expext that movie to say the real way villans win is by preying on those we’ve already decided are hopeless. I did not expect that movie to say we all have to believe we can get better. Please believe me we can all get better. Oh my god.
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this fucking guy
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Furies of Calderon
“She leaned in closer to him and the boy felt her slender body mold against his, soft and flower-scented and delightful,” Someone needs to calm down Tavi definitely a teenage boy
“Crows, no I wouldn’t dream of it, academ.” pg. 4 Ok so what I’m getting is ‘crow’ is some kind of god and I’m going to have to pull up translation for Latin
“No,” Fidelias said with a grin. “I love telling that story because I know you hate it.” pg. 4 Ha
“Now, then. My first concern-“
“Question” Amara corrected.
“Question,’ he allowed, ‘is with our cover story.” pg. 4 Ha
“Don’t quote the Codez at me,” Fidelias snapped, annoyed. “I was a Cursor before your mother and father had called their furies.” pg. 6 Ok there’s a codex and a position(?) called cursor and something called furies
“My slave, good master,” pg. 9 Ew slavery
“Any furycrafter strong enough to be a Knight could command virtually what price he wished for his services.” pg. 10 Ok so a furycrafter is a person who can control furies
“To leave a pretty young girl in a camp full of soldiers.” pg. 14 shudders
“The collar around her neck, even on its smallest sizing, hung loosely.” pg. 14 Boo collar
Amara is terrible at pretending to be a slave
“The last thing she saw was the beautiful watercrafter” pg. 19
“I think this can be safely be considered a failing mark in your graduation exercise.” pg. 21 Ha
“She tried again. And again. Her wind fury never responded. “The dirt,” she said, finally, and closed her eyes. “Earth to counter air. Cirrus can’t hear me.” pg. 21 Ok learning more about the magic system. Earth counters Water
Did the rebels kill Fidelias?
“Traitor,” pg. 26 Oh Fidelias is a traitor
“You pinked me. No one’s done that since Araris Valerian .” He smiled then, wolfish show of teeth. “But you aren’t Araris Valerian.” pg. 32 Ok so Araris is was? a great swordsman
Oh you can use wind crafting to fly cool!
“You’re a fifteen-year-old boy, Tavi. There’s always a girl.” pg. 38 Ha
“It’s not as bad as you think, Tavi. Furies aren’t everything.”
“Says the man with two of them,” pg. 39 Ok so people can have more than one fury
So Tavi either doesn’t have any fury crafting, is a late bloomer, or there’s some shenanigans happening here
“I need to be back before the other Steadholders arrive.” pg. 39 What are steadholders
“He come into any furies yet, or are you finally going to admit what an unless little freak.” pg. 43 Rude
“Rape is a realm offense,” pg. 44 Good that rape is realm offense
“What have you learned this morning?”
“That woman are trouble, sir”
“Oh, lad. That’s about half of the truth.”
“What’s the other half?”
“You want them anyway,” pg. 47 Ha
“Isana looked up from her scrying bowl with a faintly irritated frown.” pg. 48 Ok watercrafters can scry
“Holly bells don’t just miraculously appear, and you know the law about harvesting them.” pg. 51 Why are holly bells important and why is there a law?
Ok so water crafters can tell if a person is lying
Thirty-seven years old, and she was alone. No suitors, naturally.” pg. 53 Thirty seven isn’t that old Isana can get whoever she wants
“All I’m saying,” Kord drawled, “is that if that little slut of yours can’t keep her legs together and men out from between them, it’s your problem, friend. Not mine.” pg. 56 Can I punch Kord
“Well, well,” he said. “What we got here? Another little hold whore standing up for whore Heddy?” pg. 58 Kord is the worst
“Your word Warner,” Isana snapped. “Or I’ll rule against you in the truthfind right here and now.” pg. 59 She wouldn’t right?
Why does Isana have a slave?
“He had a broad, strong build and a face that would have be handsome if it had been less petulant.” pg. 62 Oh time to make my favorite counter, Bi Tavi moment 1
“Bernard’s voice took on a sharp edge of anger and command that Tavi had never heard in his uncle before.” pg. 66 Oh no
Scary bird creature
“There aren’t any Marat in the Calderon Valley, Uncle. The Legions keep them out.” pg. 71 More lore
“He had tied dark feathers into his hair, here and there, and they lent him a savage aspect.” pg. 75 This feels a little xenophobic
“His eyes, Tavi saw, were precisely the same shade of gold as the herdbane’s, inhuman and bright.” pg. 75 Intresting
“Tavi ran for his life.” pg. 78 Oh no
“the river Gaul” pg. 79 I wish I had a map
“Gaius Caria, wife to Gaius Sextus, Alera’s First Lord, seemed young, hardly older than Amara herself.” pg. 81 Is this the first lords first wife?
Why doesn’t Caria want Amara to talk to the first lord?
“Please excuse the First Lady,’ Gaius murmured. “These last three years have not been kind to her.”
Three years since she married you, my lord, Amara thought” pg. 84 Ha
“An old man. An old man married to a willful and politically convenient child.” pg. 86 Ah
“What they taught at the Academy” pg. 87 Cool that the academy is gender equal
“And it was where the Marat killed your son, milord.” pg. 88 Interesting so the heir to the kingdom was killed fifteen years ago and Tavi is fifteen and it’s in the same place I’ve connected the dots! (Mostly joking)
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I think the funniest thing about Jeff Smith’s Bone graphic novel is that he introduces the Bones as the regular people, and the human characters are the weird ones in the strange land that the Bones stumbled upon.
My favorite take re: Bone is that if the story is Jeff Smith’s take on LOTR, the Bones are the story’s hobbits: they’re a physically smaller race of humanoids who are the main viewpoint characters and come from a strange land that’s closer to the modern day aesthetically & thematically along with being super far off from the story’s main plot and setting.
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Female dragonborn/drake Stormcast Eternal by WolfdawgArt
I love the idea of non-human Stormcast.
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