space trash loves garbage boy

#reference #i have written 'no really that is not going to fit' at least twice

I've been posting the standalone flashbacks from Lies in a separate series called Lies Recanted to make them more accessible for people who see a 300k word count and cannot make the commitment. Which is me. If I were not me, I would not read a fanfic as long as mine. It is what it is! But my 1000-6000 word self-indulgent flashbacks should be shared!

Literally, anytime I want to write about all the kids again I can just be like "okay, how do I contextualize this present chapter?" and I get to write whenever in the timeline I want. But it's a 300k word fic, and the flashbacks are non-chronological!

So I had to make a spreadsheet!

(I have a lot of spreadsheets like this, it's a complicated fanfic...)

I always say the 30s and 40s are the sweet spot of the series, the perfect status quo where you can write anything and play with everything the world has to offer. The spreadsheet certainly bears that out, with a big gap there in 97 and 98, where the series is really getting going. Breaking and Entering is set directly before book 40, then shit hits the fan and Marco is homeless after 45. (So in the fanfic timeline, Peter and Nora thought Ax was a Normal Human Boy for about 5 months, and that's how long it took for Nora to adopt Ax, and he's spent the next 5 years simmering in resentment that Marco doesn't understand or care that he stole her from both Peter and Ax. He's a patient Andalite.)

I think a lot of people write off the 30s and 40s because that's where all the wtf filler books are. I just looked up what happened between 38 (Estrid) and 40 (Gaf and Mertil) and it was Buffahuman... No wonder I just kind of slotted Breaking and Entering in there like 39 never happened...

happybunnykat

What if I start a trend called "No one nuts November" where everyone writes about their favorite characters having bad sex that sucks and isn't fun.

happybunnykat

Okay so I made a list of 30 (well, 29 actually) prompts I am releasing into the wild. The point of this is that at least one of the participants are not having a good time.

It has 30 prompts for November but feel free to write and post whenever, but please add the tag #No one nuts November or #NoonenutsNovember wherever you post. You do not have to @ or credit this blog if you use any of these prompts.

(Text version under the cut)

alexanderwales

Games don't often deal with a sense of scale, because travel is boring and not engaging, but I do think there's something of the experience of moving through a vast place that games end up missing out on. We're certainly capable of making games with vast worlds where it takes hours to get from one place to another, and I don't know, it might be nice to have a game where taking a train ride takes a half hour where you pass through different towns and villages, where a country feels like an actual country that's filled with people and farmlands instead of just a city with twenty guys in it, and a single farm that's apparently keeping those twenty guys fed.

I was thinking about this because I was playing Minecraft with my son, and while Minecraft has "mountains" I kept thinking about how tiny everything is when compared to the real world, and whether there might be something to a game that had actual mountains, where you used carts on tracks and automation because to not do so would waste literal hours of your life.

It would be of very limited appeal, there's a reason that people don't make games like this, but I think I'd appreciate it as a one-time thing.

#you can choose not to fast travel in cyberpunk 2077 and have a pretty robust traveling experience #especially out in the badlands #it's an incredible world to just explore and poke around in #and depending on your hardware can sometimes actually be crowded like a real city should be #BUT the real reason I'm tagging this #you can take the realistic metro #where you get on the train. and sit on it. until you get to the next train stop.#realistic public transit system simulator #not the fastest or the most efficient but i love that it's there #it's cool world flavor more than anything

it’s actually wild how terrified of the general public most usamericans are. like you don’t realize it if you’re someone who mostly walks and takes transit and spends a lot of time in populous public spaces but then you talk to one of the thousands of people that seemingly never set foot in any public space besides a parking garage or a starbucks and you suddenly understand why it’s so easy for fascist rhetoric about the dangerous alien to take root. this country’s median voter pretty much never interacts with strangers who aren’t their coworkers or people they met on dating apps

saw a post on instagram that was literally someone citing statistics saying public transit is one of the safest travel options out there and the comments were literally just “ummmmm op this is so ableist and misogynistic of you :) don’t you know the average public transit user is a dangerous violent criminal who wants to set you on fire :)))”

it must be so terrifying and sad to go through life convinced if you set foot outside your car in public or interact with people outside your nuclear family you’ll instantly be raped and robbed by the Evil Poors no wonder so many of these people are reactionary tar pits

important points which I did not address but should be appended ☝️☝️☝️☝️

ITT:

- people giving their life story to explain why they have a special secret valid trauma reason to be a reactionary tar pit

- white true crime women assuming I don’t know what it’s like to fear rape

- fascists calling me a euroslave

- cybersmith, for some reason

#books #true crime #everything is rotting

This is one of the reasons I largely stopped consuming non-historical true crime content. I realized I was using it as a maladaptive coping mechanism to manage my OCD. It's very common for people with OCD and other high-anxiety disorders to seek out controlled fear experiences, see also, horror movies.

I cut down dramatically when a creator I watched (Stephanie Harlowe) accidentally got unmasked as a Trump supporter. This was after it came to light how utterly fucking vile Sword & Scale is. I hate to say that it wasn't concern for the impact that the exploitation of victims has on their families that got me to reevaluate my consumption, but it was actually the rampant copaganda and constant reiteration of the utility of law enforcement and faith in the criminal justice system.

It's just fash propaganda, like everything else. This is a hugely profitable genre that also just so happens to reinforce constant fear and distrust of others, and condition your brain to feel unsafe when you should be working on distress reduction.

Instead, I've replaced true crime with natural disasters, medical mysteries, survival stories. Sure, plenty of these stories have death and gore and tragedy and cannibalism, but they also have the incredible force of human goodness. The unbelievable self-sacrifice and unstoppable force of humans working together to save each other.

I reblogged this post with all the nonfiction books I've enjoyed in the last 5 years or so of my true crime detox.

I...I'm not sure I can explain why this hit me so hard but.

Yuri Gagarin was the first human to Orbit the Earth in 1961. In 1967, the Soyuz 1 crashed on reentry, killing cosmonaut Vladamir Komarov, when the parachute lines tangled. Gagarin had been the back up pilot, and was banned from future space flight after since the USSR didn't want their national hero to also die in a fiery crash.

Less than a year later, he died in a plane crash. (A test flight for a new fighter jet.)

A year after that, the Apollo 11 astronauts set foot on the moon.

They brought with them a little satchel to leave as a memorial. In it were medals to honor Gagarin and Koramov, along with patches for Apollo 1 and the three astronauts who died on that mission.

And something about that just...

Buzz Aldrin talking about leaving the memorials (He almost forgot to leave them! 🤣🤣🤣)

Happy Moon Landing Day!

mollybeenoel

ursulakats

Happy Moon Day!

misscrazyfangirl321

Being an adult will have you unironically craving a vegetable

misscrazyfangirl321

Being an adult will have you unironically sad about a parasite outbreak in fresh vegetables.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Being an adult will have you throw away a whole bag of fresh local farmer's market cucumbers because they got put in the same bag as the store bought...

walerihq

gpedia

hang ten indeed friend

That's too many types of blade to be good at throwing

#cyberpunk 2077 character who put all his stat points in Cool

dykeferatu

i’m not even that much of a pervert i can just find the eroticism in anything. doesn’t get me bricked up necessarily i just like to appreciate it.

#i'm sorry does 'bricked up' not mean 'constipated' anymore?#is this like how in the 90s kids would hook up after school at the food court

pangur-and-grim

Grim is acting unbothered by the antics behind her, but her backward ears give away her annoyance

derinthescarletpescatarian

Why does your cat think he is a chimpanzee

keepthedelta

actually can't get over how terribly christopher nolan treated the black women in the odyssey

keepthedelta

like. i don't think any of the women in the odyssey are treated well by nolan (penelope and circe in particular have their characters ruined to make odysseus seem smarter and more honourable) but there's something so nasty about casting a black woman as athena, goddess of wisdom, war, and handicraft, the character who arguably drives most of the post ogygia plot in the poem, and choosing to ignore all of that in favour of a mute hallucination of a girl who was raped and murdered whose only function in the film is to add to the guilt the white male lead feels over the atrocities he committed. or casting a dark skinned black woman as the most beautiful woman in the world, and then having her husband carve up her face to disfigure her as punishment for being so beautiful that she was kidnapped

#excuse me??#there's hot garbage and then there's that

drawingden

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#reference

#acab #i was born hating cops and i'll die hating cops

Happy moon day!

allcops

“The police spend very little of their time dealing with violent criminals—indeed, police sociologists report that only about 10% of the average police officer’s time is devoted to criminal matters of any kind. Most of the remaining 90% is spent dealing with infractions of various administrative codes and regulations: all those rules about how and where one can eat, drink, smoke, sell, sit, walk, and drive. If two people punch each other, or even draw a knife on each other, police are unlikely to get involved. Drive down the street in a car without license plates, on the other hand, and the authorities will show up instantly, threatening all sorts of dire consequences if you don’t do exactly what they tell you. The police, then, are essentially just bureaucrats with weapons. Their main role in society is to bring the threat of physical force—even, death—into situations where it would never have been otherwise invoked, such as the enforcement of civic ordinances about the sale of untaxed cigarettes.”

— An excerpt from Ferguson & the Criminalization of American Life by David Graeber (via actjustly)

noneedtofearorhope

since i think many will have had the memory slip with just how many other atrocities have occured in the past 11 years, or are simply too young to remember, the last bit about the sale of untaxed cigarettes isn’t just some hypothetical, it’s a reference to the killing of eric garner

this is the origin of the slogan “i cant breathe”, which was revived in the wake of the killing of george floyd.

alanshemper

On this day, 17 July 2014, Eric Garner was murdered by police enforcing a civic ordinance.

You live in the dark, boy, I cannot pretend MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) - Lil Nas X

#animorphs #my art #this is the last high effort thing i drew #i've actually been doing a lot of low effort indulgent sketches for my friend's novel the last couple years that i haven't shared #but i should put some effort into something again #this just sucked a lot out of me and didn't actually get as much feedback for the amount of work #it's been a lot of hard work learning to make things for myself or my friends or a mostly silent audience #i feel so whiny when i reblog those 'why no comments' posts #but i won't even make dinner for myself you think i do this for me?#shut up and have a snack cavatica

Just realized I drew Lies Marco’s tattoo in this pic and never did a detail shot of it

pick up that non-fiction book

not all of us can live in fantasy 100% the time like i see some people on here do and it's refreshing to learn something new. its been philosophy, essays, and history for me and i feel much more at home on planet Earth for it knowing that people have been struggling and wishing similarly for millenia.

its not that fiction doesnt have its place, its important and healthy to exercise the imagination, but non-fiction can do so much to boost and supplement that. if not for yourself, for your art or for the people you're around

"representation matters!" but you wont read or engage with non-fiction works about any demographic outside your own

this version of the post doesnt seem to be getting much traction but this is arguably the most important reason why we should be reading nonfiction in addition to fiction