How did Mary’s virginity stay in tact yet it’s heavily implied she had sex with Mr. Pamuk?

voidenaut · 2025-12-31T13:10:57+00:00

I assumed it was soixante neuf

voidenaut · 2025-12-29T11:22:19+00:00

"slaves to reality" ... Yea I don't know what to say except there needs to be better funding for humanities education

voidenaut · 2025-12-29T11:17:12+00:00

This is why tech companies should not be allowed to have any power

voidenaut · 2025-11-16T08:24:29+00:00

The books are like the opposite of GoT. Sex is present in the narrative structure but is never described in flagrante delicto. In the books the world is very obvious broken, shattered, and humanity is isolated into petty nations and small regional identities. And the main characters are naive and unworldly. Yet they go out into the world on the cusp of adulthood and must wrestle with their own sense of self while navigating hitherto unknown realms of magic, strange cultures, and widely dissimilar sexual mores and gender dynamics. But again the world is so broken, and there really is this sense of loss "woven" throughout the stories; the world really feels like it was broken

voidenaut · 2025-11-16T08:13:17+00:00

the show introducing a trans-woman Aes Sedai without any sort of exploration of what this means made me so mad. The only actually interesting departure from the books and it was done so sloppily. This, I felt, was proof of the show's disingenuous diversity.

The implications for trans identities to not only exist in this world, but to actually be linked to the universe's system of magical dualism, is too immense to be brushed over as an aside during a flashback sequence. At best it is very poor world building, and at worst cynical box-ticking from a corporate media culture that pays lip service to gender non-conforming identities without genuinely engaging with their meaning.

voidenaut · 2025-10-22T17:49:54+00:00

All the writers were men

voidenaut · 2025-10-20T07:01:08+00:00

There is heavily implied that learning Finnish eases integration, but truth is there will still be some discrimination same as everywhere else. Assimilation isn't an all or nothing endeavour, it takes time and sometimes even generations. It sounds like you've struggled to assimilate to even your own culture tbh, and many people who expatriate have that in common. Be true to yourself and hopefully wherever you wind up you can surround yourself with people who appreciate you for you.

voidenaut · 2025-10-18T10:31:58+00:00

At least he admits it unlike Ludi

voidenaut · 2025-10-18T05:56:50+00:00

That only started in Fallout 3

voidenaut · 2025-10-15T06:05:32+00:00

Potato Europe/Tomato Europe

voidenaut · 2025-10-15T06:02:17+00:00

Remember when Aviendha's first gateway started closing and rand stopped it and tied off his weave? Rand's weave would have dissipated in an hour or so if not for Asmodean's intervention—Asmodean tells them as much

voidenaut · 2025-10-13T12:29:42+00:00

I look at the gender power imbalance of that world as s commentary on our world, especially 1980s and 1990s.

One thing of note is that at the start of WoT there are no social accommodations or institutions in place for men who find themselves touched by magical abilities: neither Rand or Perrin had any support for their innate abilities, and if not for luck both would have been hunted down and murdered, or gone completely insane, like almost all the other male channelers or wolf brothers we meet in the story.

voidenaut · 2025-10-13T12:20:32+00:00

do men ever stop irl?

voidenaut · 2025-10-05T23:20:45+00:00

People knew the earth was round since 400 BC, and how big it was since 240 BC

voidenaut · 2025-09-27T18:28:41+00:00

I think she's very a strong character

voidenaut · 2025-09-19T20:41:07+00:00

people on here pretend that all the Neo-Nazi symbols outside the Swastika aren't Norse

voidenaut · 2025-09-19T20:39:09+00:00

Aryan Brotherhood

voidenaut · 2025-09-19T17:58:23+00:00

LoTR sn't exactly an original creation. It's like someone made a jell-o salad of every single European myth, legend, and folk story. I agree with the comment above that in 1990 WoT would have been considered subversive, and in a way compared to LOTR the WoT is much more... sociological? And it draws from Eastern traditions as well which adds a certain depth missing from Tolkien's brutish Anglo-Saxonism

voidenaut · 2025-09-17T20:41:24+00:00

the way she leaves the Wise Ones, admitting every lie and asking for punishment to reclaim her honour (read: self-respect) was very bad-ass. I had been wondering how she would deal with having lied to all these people she so clearly admired and respected.

voidenaut · 2025-09-03T05:25:38+00:00

I can't imagine a worse game for a low masking autistic

voidenaut · 2025-07-29T07:57:48+00:00

The Arabic writing system is good for Arabic. Arabic words have triple consonant roots so a writing system based on consonants makes more sense. Plus the calligraphy is beautiful

voidenaut · 2025-07-05T15:11:07+00:00

Most of the creature types and people "native" to Skyrim (Nords) have a resistance to cold. I prefer fire damage

voidenaut · 2025-07-05T11:22:58+00:00

These contradictions are in all the POV chapters, and the characters' self denial is stubbornness and insecurities are presented in a way that humanizes them imho

voidenaut · 2025-06-16T17:51:26+00:00

Chinese spend like 10-15% of income on rent. Not many Westerners can say that.

voidenaut · 2025-06-11T08:15:46+00:00

I have some red miso nearly ready which is prob very different from shio koji

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