Reposted by tydides🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is part of what I'm referring to with many people demanding stories that reassure them they're a good person. They want the moral instruction because otherwise, rather than processing the reading experience, there's a thrum of "am I bad? am I bad? what if someone finds out I'm bad?" 161294511
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I wonder a lot about this phenomenon (trend?) of needing to center oneself when reading rather than, you know, reading. why are stories expected to be self-affirming? why are people so much less willing to be provoked, uncomfortable, or uncertain when they read? 071
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 14/09/2026so shencomix is just like. overt transmisogyny now huh. I guess that's a choice you could make 470
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 08/09/2026the BBC is a collaborator and if they aren't stopped they will accidentally-on-purpose normalize more fascist terror until it takes over the government. I know because this literally just happened! I was there!! 010
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 08/09/2026boy it is nnnnnoooot comforting to see the UK exactly where the US was in 2021 110
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 26/08/2026we know these things. we all know these things. the real shock is somebody daring to say it aloud 020
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 26/08/2026three types of people who read this article: people who read it and move on with their day, people who read it in tremendous pain but struggle through, and people who take enough psychic damage to derail their weekaeon.coA hungry woman is easier to dismiss than a well-fed woman | Aeon EssaysFrom childhood, women are trained to restrict their appetite. And there’s a huge, hidden, cognitive price to pay for it 220
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 24/08/2026christ, I wish. I'm two event contracts and four digits deep into this thing 010
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"will your parents be coming? I'd love to see them" my MIL says, as if I would ever in a million years invite my parents to my husband's birthday. his parents are inevitably going to want to spend the weekend with him and fight over who gets when. the birthday gift of enormous psychic damage 120
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 24/08/2026MIL insisted on a surprise birthday party for my husband this year. I acceded, but am now navigating the tricky issue of his parent's divorce, the presence of his parent's spouses (neither of whom my husband particularly likes), and the extra pressure this will put on him to entertain them. shoot me 120
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 16/08/2026"Nojima has later lamented that the focus was on what the male staff thought was cute for Rinoa...he has also said that they should have had more female staff in the mix for the romance parts of the story." to be fair, "men will tolerate anything if you're pretty enough" is a valid lesson to learn 010
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 16/08/2026cannot describe how vindicating it was to learn that Rinoa Heartilly was designed and scripted entirely by men 110
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 09/08/2026late to this stuff but THE DRAMA was a fantastic movie. I might have gotten there faster if you told me Zoe Winters was in it 010
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 05/08/2026the Ceuta fiasco is so dispiriting. an organized disinformation campaign that ends in dozens of deaths, thousands of photos (the real goal) that were instantly used to stoke tensions and help bolster the world's worst fascist trash, and all of Europe's governments go "hmm yeah they've got a point" 010
Reposted by tydidesOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors 292205352
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 29/07/2026the obsession with "plot holes" and "worldbuilding" has been so poisonous for art. if you need stories to be wholly literal and the prospect of uncertainties or inconsistencies is that daunting, you're not ready for adult literature 040
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 29/07/2026this is why I have such a viscerally negative reaction to "lore." knowing what questions not to answer is a necessary part of writing. the contemporary trend of answering every conceivable question is part of the ongoing infantilization of audiences and we should resist it at all costs 14313
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 25/07/2026have just received more fic fanart from a different artist and by now know I drastically underestimated the size of the fandom. someone is translating the fic into Russian. I have gotten DMs in Spanish and Polish 150
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Yes! There's also an aspect of nuance, I think---mothers in particular are so good at all kinds of more subtle communication and layered meaning. Maybe that's why they're so good at close reading. 030
Reposted by tydidesGlenn Tranzig @wheredidjasongo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026The upcoming reactionary movement is going to be chock full of internet kids who do not understand history, do not understand art, do not understand how to parse meaning out of anything they read, and are aggressively allergic to thinking for themselves 415521
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 20/07/2026not saying moms have cognitive superpowers but all of the most incisive editors, readers, and commenters I've ever had are moms 131
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 19/07/2026housed some sumatriptan and tylenol and while I feel faintly out-of-body and want to barf it's a hell of a lot better than a migraine so we'll call it a W 030
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 19/07/2026love to discover new things about myself, like "thunderstorms are a migraine trigger" 230
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 16/07/2026hate AO3 constantly being like "Don't forget you've muted users! You won't see their works in this list! Don't you want to check your muted users page and give them a second chance???" no, bitch, they're on that list for a reason 040
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 14/07/2026if you have Occhipinti and Cornelissen you have my interest (and probably my money) 110
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I have a theory that it's loosely correlated with age but also a more worrying trend of solipsism in which people are incapable of engaging with fictional perspectives. like they cannot imagine something they aren't a part of or isn't happening to them 010
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I have to admit this is a phenomenon I don't understand at all. I'm not here for me, I'm here to give these (fictional) people (fictional) problems 120
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tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I tend to look for importers---if I trust the importer I will usually like their wine. MFW Wine, Selection Massale, Super Glou, and Vom Boden are some importers whose selections I tend to enjoy. 020
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 13/07/2026most of my favorite producers are small, like Frantz Saumon and Ariane Lesné, pretty much the entire Tissot family, Les Bottes Rouges, American producers like and Iruai and Cathy Corison and Martha Stoumen, basically anybody who can do a good listan negro, this could be ages, and... 120
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 13/07/2026how much time do ya got? I usually like to see a good selection from the Loire, Sicily and other Mediterranean islands, eastern Europe, and South America. 130
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 13/07/2026as a Person with Professional Opinons on Saudi Arabia I can guarantee you SNK did not anticipate this response at all and that's beautiful to me 020
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 13/07/2026they're not instantly hitting you in the face with propaganda. the goal is for you to look around, realize everything you love and enjoy is now owned by KSA, go "huh, well, what are you gonna do?" 120
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 13/07/2026people are missing that many of these KSA acquisitions are meant to be subtle. they don't want you to notice! yes, more due diligence is always good, but stuff like this is completely forgettable and especially with very old franchises. GDQ deserves a lot of grace here 120
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 12/07/2026getting older is great tbh. marriage rules when you love the person you're married to. today my husband is out of town so I spent the day reading books and watching/donating to SGDQ. also being older means you need one (1) drink to get solidly buzzed and can call it quits at 10 PM 050
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 04/07/2026LRP no matter how bad it is in the place you are, you have an obligation to make it better. we've all felt "fuck it, hope it burns" but that doesn't solve problems or help anyone. whatever future you long for can't exist unless you start building it 020
Reposted by tydidesBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 04/07/2026I’m gonna be real with you all, I think that anyone who thinks America’s a shithole that isn’t worth saving isn’t worth listening to. The idea of a purifying revolution-to-come is a fantasy, a terminating piece of cope that keeps you from believing it’s worth putting in the work now. 12814116
Reposted by tydidesfangy @jeannesfangs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing 114303727822
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 28/06/2026deltarune ch5 is the best soundtrack of all of them and it's not close. petal dance, pirate dojo, and flower castle are instant classics 010
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 23/06/2026what do you mean I have two weeks of a "wound healing drink". D&D-ass shit 140
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 23/06/2026apparently insufficient calories and protein (common for veg*ns) inhibits your body's ability to heal itself. so now in addition to extra medicine I have this bullshitjuven.comJuven® Orange | Therapeutic Nutrition PowderEach packet of Juven® Orange contains arginine, glutamine, collagen protein, HMB, and micronutrients to support wound healing. Learn more. 140
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 23/06/2026had a very minor surgery recently and went to the follow-up only to discover I needed additional medication. "it's not a huge deal, you're just a slow healer," she said. somehow this is the worst insult I've ever heard in my entire life 250
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 22/06/2026it's never been easier, and yet there are so many people bragging about their inability to understand the opening paragraph of a roughly 7-page essay I'm getting concerned 010
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 22/06/2026people joke about media literacy but I think we need to worry about actual for-real literacy, like, what basic words mean 110
tydides @tydides.bsky.social · 22/06/2026get online and see entire crowds of people hypnotizing themselves into deciding "death of the author" means something it very straightforwardly does not. are we sure this isn't tumblr 130