bad ass bi: explicitly wears leather jackets, doesn’t give a singular fuck, low key maybe a softie on the inside, is actually really smart, wears combat boots, big mood, basically rosa diaz
useless bisexual: can’t flirt to save their life, not that smart but still thriving, hella clumsy, can’t understand what is happening, embarrasses self all the time, will stare at their crush and not know how to talk to them, awkward but adorable
bisexual mess: kind of close to the useless bisexual, makes terrible life decisions/can’t make decisions, never has their shit together, gets into shit all the time without trying, exudes lazyness and is high key lazy, still manages to pull it together at the end of the day, peak of pining over crushes, finger guns and thumbs up
art bi: that art hoe, reads, drinks coffee, aesthetic, enjoys long walks and deep conversations, low key an artist in their spare time, actually really cool but probably shy
I’m sure everyone’s exhausted this topic already, but part of what fascinates me with the difference in Fjord and Caleb’s leadership styles is how Caleb, beneath everything, never really hesitates or questions his decisions, not until after the act is done. He is Caleb of the executive decisions, Caleb of the calculated risks, and he needs to be occasionally browbeat into like, checking in with the rest of the group before doing The Thing He Knows Is Right. This guy said he was confident when he was younger, but in a way he remains a very confident person.
Fjord, on the other hand, often seems incapable of taking a step unless it’s approved by the majority. He hedges his bets constantly, and often waffles in his decisions. In an uncertain situation (think Fluffernutter) he relies not just on his authority, but asks for a vote. With Captain Avantika, he asks for everyone’s input constantly, he follows the group-approved plan even when he’s uncomfortable with it. In the temple with Uk’atoa’s seal he allows himself to be delayed so that he can listen to Caleb’s advice. Were their roles reversed, I have no doubt Caleb would have brushed straight past and dived into the well, Fjord’s advice be damned.
There’s no doubt a lot of their history that plays into that–Caleb was raised with strict hierarchies, with tyrannical and dictatorial people in charge of him. Fjord was a sailor, working on ships that are by nature reliant on community cohesion–everyone has a role to play, and everyone must work together and be heard or everyone dies. This is also, funnily enough, why it’s pretty ideal to have Fjord lead the Mighty Nein with Caleb as a second in command. Fjord’s leadership will prioritize the needs and feelings of the group, will build group cohesion. Caleb is a more controversial figure, and would introduce a great deal of friction and factionalism in normal situations. But in a crisis, the kind of martial law leadership that Caleb is best suited for is a good thing, a necessary thing to have on your side.
Needless to say, I’m also interested in the possibilities–some of them already playing out–of these two rubbing off on each other. Fjord being pushed to take risks, to act only on his own initiative, Caleb having room to soften up, to become an emotional touchstone for the others. I just have a lot of feelings for these two making it work.
why do they always show cranberries in thos big pits n its implied its wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. wh
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EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD
This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it’s how cranberries grow. Once they’re ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.
Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water.
thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming “BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY”, but i appreciate the education,
okay, most of what i do re: harry potter is criticism, and hp is flawed in such a number of ways, but sometimes i just sit here and
i mean, you all have a comprehension of just how drastically harry potter changed literature, yeah? like. it revitalized it. it blew the literary scene apart. the new york times had to create a separate bestseller’s list for children’s lit just because harry potter existed. harry potter changed reading.
so many people on tumblr were born in the ‘90s. when the first book came out, most of us couldn’t read. but we grew up in a world where everyone, everyone, everyone was reading harry potter, no matter how old they were; we grew up in a world where the most popular story in the entire world was a fantasy children’s book.
it’s sort of difficult to grasp, sometimes, the extent to which harry potter is not just a book. the extent to which what is basically a series of fun, interesting, and fairly good novels is such an enormous, enormous part of our lives, a cultural touchstone, a truly universal reference point, something so many people have shaped their lives around, a foundation for all of the stories we would read and watch for the rest of our lives– for so many of us, the first books we ever loved
the extent to which so many of us can’t call ourselves “fans” of harry potter, because it would like being a “fan” of, like, having lungs.
it’s not even about liking it or disliking it. it’s just a part of us.
This reminds me an awful lot about Starbucks.
No, seriously. Before Starbucks, America was a coffee wasteland. Coffee was a thing you got at diners and drivethroughs. It was a cheap hot thing you put made palatable with tons of cream and sugar, and most people (but waning!) had a coffee machine at home.
Starbucks told us that we could like coffee. That coffee could be an enjoyable thing, that it could be a status symbol and a ritual. That there could be a place where you go for coffee, and you enjoy it.
As a coffee snob, I think Starbucks’ coffee is awful. But Starbucks is why we have better coffee. Starbucks created the market space for third wave coffee shops and artisanal roasters. They reintroduced “espresso”, “latte” and “cappuccino” to the American lexicon.
We need stuff that’s heinously popular. That’s how culture works.
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