runephoenix6769:

prokopetz:

whatdoyoumeanitsnotawesome:

rhube:

berlynn-wohl:

prokopetz:

ruingaraf:

prokopetz:

I’ll be honest, whenever a work of speculative fiction (fanmade or otherwise) goes out of its way to describe an intelligent species with bizarre and complicated reproductive biology, the first question that invariably pops into my head is: “How do these critters masturbate?”

what if masturbation was uniquely a human experience though

Okay, I know that you meant “what if humans are the only intelligent species that’s anatomically capable of masturbating?”, but now I’m picturing a universe where humans are the only ones that ever thought to try it.

Human masturbation specialists traveling the galaxy to offer our gift, undertaking rigorous study and enormous personal risk to teach weird-ass aliens how to rub one out.

Calculating the exact harmonic frequencies to allow ancient, vacuum-dwelling crystalline intelligences to self-stimulate.

Descending into the crushing atmospheres of gas giants in specially constructed aerostats to design sex toys for the vast, jellyfish-like super-predators that prowl the hurricane slipstreams.

Wanking is our genius. Our legacy.

That last addition is possibly my favourite thing Tumblr has ever done for the world.

I’M FCUKIGN WEHEZENIG

I think my favourite thing about this post is that every time it picks up more notes, I get a wave of folks messaging me to helpfully point out that the described premise isn’t reasonable because other species on Earth masturbate. Like, I grant I didn’t spell it out in excruciating detail, but it should be clear from context that we’re talking about spacefaring species here; every time someone pings me to say “ACTUALLY, the space wank post doesn’t work because walruses also jerk off”, I want you to understand that we’re necessarily proposing a scenario in which walruses have starships.

(And, well, if that’s where you want to take it, just search-and-replace “human” with “Earthling”, and now we have a Terran pan-species alliance carrying the light of wanking to the cosmos. I won’t judge!)

I didn’t think it was possible, but the explanation post made it better.

runephoenix6769:

Hi folks, this is the first post in hopefully a series, whereby I answer questions posed by some of my faithful and trusty followers.

so .. @thoughtfuldreamercreatorduck​ posed the question, (and I’m paraphrasing)

“Why do you think Azula from ATLAB is deserving of a redemption arc and Adam from RWBY doesnt?”

Now this question threw me cause I had never considered comparing anyone from Avatar and RWBY, so thankyou @thoughtfuldreamercreatorduck​

Before we get into the the question we first have to look at the nature of redemption arcs.

And if you are interested in an indepth examination of Tropes, I recommend heading on over to Overly Sarcastic Productions on Youtube. She does an absolute fantastic series called Trope Talks,  where she covers Villains, Fallen Heroes and Redemptions. 

(It wouldnt allow me to post with the link)

So for a basis and starting point Im going to compare two characters. Zuko and Raven. One a finished redemption arc and the other a potential redemption arc.

In my opinion Zuko’s redemption arc is one of the best redemption arcs ever written in any type of media (I’ll admit I could be biased.) But in order for a redemption arc to ring true, whether a Villain turned good or a Fallen Hero returning to the fold, they have to be willing to question their values and sacrifice the thing that drives and motivates them.

The thing they care about most.

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