i will never complain about a book seeming like a fanfic with the serial numbers filed off because that means the author had the invaluable ability to tell when their au had diverged enough that these were just straight-up different characters now
even as we speak there is probably someone out there writing a delightful 100k+ word gay romance novel about a genderqueer bisexual single parent who lives in a beach town and fixes classic cars and falls in love with the sexy tentacle monster mermaid that saved their life, and that writer could probably make pretty good money self-publishing it, but they won’t because that would mean admitting that they aren’t really writing destiel anymore
Imagine being brought to the kingdom when you were in the middle of stealing stuff and thinking “all right you know what I think I’m going to play along. what’s the worst that could happen?”
Now the world is on the verge of destruction and if it wasn’t for the Ancients Awakening, the world as we know it would have been cooked.
i love love love when artists put a bunch of effort into like human anatomy and facial features and light rendering and drawing fabric folds and shadows and texture and then when they draw a gun they do this
The number of people on here being like ‘meeee I don’t care about stupid guns lol.’ You are a bad artist.
do I still think this is a normal and good thing to say or r u embarrassed yet
god dammit, just battled an ancient evil too powerful to defeat alongside my heroic allies and now they’re all talking about “locking it away” and “binding it in a vessel” we are soooooo fucked
the party mage just brought up the idea of each one of us taking a part of the sealing artifact to prevent them from being reunited again and releasing the evil, no way these dumb assholes aren’t getting corrupted 🤦
okay so after a little time bonding with my shard of the blackstar, I’ve decided that 1) this was actually a pretty good idea and 2) all the armies of the earth must tremble before me
We were having a conversation at work the other day about Mario and my boss was fondly recalling playing Mario and sonic at the Olympic Games with his grandkids and he was saying things like ‘it was always beneficial to have some of the hedgehogs on your team’ and ‘tails was great at fowling and that creepy old guy with the long legs was good at footy in general’ and ‘the crocodile was great at javelin must be his natural upper body strength’. I know Mario and sonic at the Olympic Games has existed for a long long time but the imagery was just fantastic here. There’s also just something great about hearing people who don’t typically play video games talking about video game characters
Scrolled down the MF DOOM tag trying to find the mac and cheese image and I couldn’t so anyway here it is literally one of my favourite images of all time
very important that you include MF DOOM’s Villainous Mac and Cheese Recipe alongside this image
It really is insane how many people engage with art on a pure enjoyment level. Theyll go to a movie and the only deciding factor on whether or not they liked it is “was i bored or confused during that 90-120 minutes?” Youll talk to people about a book or show or film you both enjoyed and theyll have absolutely nothing to say about how it made them feel, or what they think it was trying to impart to them. It begins and ends at “it was fun to watch/read” it drives me nuts
“All I can say is that the past 10 or 15 years in California really have been a poster child of what we expect to see more of in the future, which are these really wide swings between wet and dry. We will see more whiplash in California. Not every winter will bring extreme winter fires. But it’s not a question of what does the average year look like, it’s what do the bad years look like? And the bad fire years are clearly getting worse. The driest years are clearly getting drier and hotter.”
“The deal, coming after weeks of painstaking negotiations in the Qatari capital, promises the release of dozens of hostages held by Hamas in phases, the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israel and would allow hundreds of thousands of people displaced in Gaza to return to what remains of their homes. It also would flood badly needed humanitarian aid into a territory ravaged by 15 months of war.”
i do get why ppl are kind of visceral about the idea that all art is political but like. It Is
people say this and someone goes “oh so even my [niche / absurd fetish porn ] is political ? and it’s like yeah man that’s pretty much one of the best examples of that actually
i do get why ppl are kind of visceral about the idea that all art is political but like. It Is
people say this and someone goes “oh so even my [niche / absurd fetish porn ] is political ? and it’s like yeah man that’s pretty much one of the best examples of that actually
If safety in your ideal society is entirely based on care by networks of affinity, and does not provide care for people who are not liked by anybody, then your society is actually even worse than the situation we are in now.
Pissing off people close to you or over-exhausting your social network or isolating yourself is often an inherent part of many mental health problems, addictions, etc. By the time people need care the most, they have often lost all their networks of affinity, and with some bad luck, any of us could find ourselves in that situation.
There has to be unconditional care available for the more unlikable of us, or there isn’t really a safety net for any of us.
Assistance and support depending on how much social currency you have isn’t any better than it depending on how much money you have. Switching the currency solves nothing.
If safety in your ideal society is entirely based on care by networks of affinity, and does not provide care for people who are not liked by anybody, then your society is actually even worse than the situation we are in now.
Pissing off people close to you or over-exhausting your social network or isolating yourself is often an inherent part of many mental health problems, addictions, etc. By the time people need care the most, they have often lost all their networks of affinity, and with some bad luck, any of us could find ourselves in that situation.
There has to be unconditional care available for the more unlikable of us, or there isn’t really a safety net for any of us.
Assistance and support depending on how much social currency you have isn’t any better than it depending on how much money you have. Switching the currency solves nothing.
if you have no hope for humanity that sucks for you i guess. but i was buying melatonin at the corner store and the stranger behind me in line said everyone they knew had been having trouble sleeping recently and maybe it was the cold weather. and the cashier swore he was a chronic insomniac before he met his wife but he hadn’t tossed and turned in 10 years. and when i left we told each other to sleep well tonight. and that’s enough hope to sustain me for at least a few months.
Thats a potion whose effect is “teleport straight to hospital”
i found out that chewing on glo sticks is a fun sensory experience bc of the cronch but i did not maintain this habit for long bc inevitably one of them broke in my mouth and it was bitter and gross and i spit it out immediately, but it happened to be a red one so a random guy walking past my car that day got to witness me open my door, lean out, and vomit neon glowing blood onto the pavement. it wasnt even night time. i was that much of a freak about chewing glo sticks.
I’ve seen a decent number of comments on social media lately that boil down to “I can’t get into a show where the main character is kind of problematic, and I feel morally superior about it,” and I’m starting to think some of you missed the part in English class where we learned “Main character≠Protagonist≠Good guy.”
I’m not just talking about character flaws either, some main characters are straight up meant to be bad people. Sometimes it’s about them going through a redemption arc, but sometimes they’re just as shitty as the antagonist, and that’s the point.
My fav American word is actually Fuggedabbouit, it means to move on with your life without looking back at your regrets. I think it is a beautiful word.
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