Trapped in the talkative cycle

Trapped in the talkative cycle

Trapped in the talkative cycle

Trapped in the talkative cycle

Trapped in the talkative cycle

Trapped in the talkative cycle

Trapped in the talkative cycle

Isnt this how we lost the recipe for roman concrete

screaming, "WE DID NOT LOSE THE RECIPE FOR ROMAN CONCRETE WE STILL HAVE IT AND USE IT"

wizard college is going to kill me I swear to god. I just saw someone without a component satchel reach into their pocket and pull out a handful of LOOSE tapioca to use as a substitute for blood in their fell ritual. and it worked. I've never been so fucking mad.

experiencing microaggressions apparently

letd go eat parts of that guys car

puppygirls 1 second after being complimented

Harvesting my wheat

Hehehehehe

Can I fucking help you?

my senior english teacher told me that any scene with a woman in a cornfield in every piece of literature ever is about her journey to womanhood/pleasuring herself in the field and i just.... believed her

What

What

can you lie on your character sheet if it’s funny

yes hello this is my character his name is…. Farmer Peasant…. his background is he is…. a peasant…. he HATES the tyrannical boy king, the concept of nephews, and sleeping on the ground. He was forced to flee his… village… after a failed attempt to lead a… people’s uprising against the wicked king. Now he travels with his faithful… farmhand… seeking some sort of magical relic that might allow him to restore… justice… once and for all… very painful justice…

his skills include

Stop Using Effeminacy As Visual Shorthand For Decadence And Moral Decay 2025

Want to write a story about some perfumed eunuch who's actually really clever and solves crimes or something.

Listen, all of you people mentioning Hercule Poirot or Sherlock or the guy from London Spy: let me introduce you to what I'm calling "the Caracalla Threshold" after the depiction of the Roman Emperor Caracalla in the film Gladiator 2:

If he's not at least THIS effeminate, I don't want to hear about it.

This feels like a parallel to the post about how female protagonists are too masculine and we need more feminine women protagonists "to show girls that it's okay to be feminine"... and then the examples of "masculine women protagonists" were Black Widow, Rey, and Captain Marvel.

Why. Why are we doing this. Why is the bar for "gender nonconformity" on the floor.

Hercule Poirot is not an effeminate man. He is a conventionally masculine, gender-conforming man who is snobbish. Black Widow is not a masculine woman. She is a conventionally feminine, gender-conforming woman who fights. Stop this. Stop this. Stop this. Meet some actual feminine men and some actual masculine women and reset your baseline.

Commentary by my partner: "An interesting parallel here is 'a woman is masculine if she has a skill I associate with men' vs. 'a man is feminine if he has a negative personality trait I associate with women.'"

Completely bewildering to me that *Caracalla* of all emperors was chosen to be depicted this way.

Like.

Caracalla.

Whose portraiture and presentation is aggressively masculine and soldierly. Who is one of the most recognizable emperors in sculpture because of the grumpy-ass scowl that he always has making an X clear across his face.

Like there's NO reason to make this fucking guy

look fucking femmed up unless you want to use effeminancy as a visual shorthand (and excuse? I haven't seen the movie) for his tyrannical cruelty. But he was extremely masculine, it was his whole THING. If anything, they should have gone in the opposite direction, a commentary on the excesses of masculinity, if they were going to bring gender presentation into at all.

But I suppose that wouldn't serve in a movie that I have to assume was glorifying masculinity.

Yeah, Gladiator 2 was so committed to equating manliness with virtue that it literally flipped history on its head and argues that the problem with third-century Rome was that actually there weren't enough ambitious generals declaring themselves Emperor.