Not using this platform to its full potential

She/They | Trans Woman | Queer | 40-something | Working in academia

[adjunctwitch]

Hehe I'm a hottie

[adjunctwitch]

I should have known something would happen when I heard, "what's the password to your phone?"

[adjunctwitch]

Hehe I'm a hottie

[adjunctwitch]

I fought a long war in order to post these pics... Adjunctwitch let me steal her phone in the end mwahahahaha

[apolladay]

Have you ever seen a movie in a completely empty screening?

Yes

No

Voting ended onFeb 22

Empty as in not a single stranger in the screening. If you came with friends/a group of your own, but otherwise there's nobody else present, count the screening as empty.

Comment which movie(s)!

[shencomix]

THAT IS NOT "✨💖BABYGIRL💖✨"

THAT IS AN

EXTREMELY

and I want to be clear on this

EXTREMELY TRAUMATIZED

42 YEAR OLD MAN

[stonefemmesiren]

death to weaboos

[parakeet]

Used to be able to have fun on the internet now all the websites are after my identity like the devil is after my soul

[toskarin]

your 20s are about elves, your 30s are about continued meditations on the elf

[toskarin]

once you hit your 40s it's time to find an elf

[celestialsqyd]

i wouldnt date any elf that would want me. i feel like to a near immortal being, a 40 year old is kinda like a baby in comparison.. you know?

like, i dont think id wanna date a guy who could be my great great great great great great great grand parent, especially if theyre attracted to my 40year old jailbait ass

[toskarin]

that's cool but respectfully I am getting with the elf

[cannedmonster]

the art of the listicle was both created and perfected by sei shonagon circa 1000 CE

[letterful]

[freebroccoli]

Me, accumulating worldly possessions: this is awesome!

Me, moving worldly possessions: this blows!

[reddeckwinner]

Hello childe, welcome to vampiric society, since you were embraced by a Tremere I am obligated to give you your uniform:

[indigosfindings]

heartbreaking! a pretty solid standalone horror story has gotten a continuation that recontextualizes all of its self-contained events as part of a massive & banal "epic" mythos

[redstonedust]

if vampires existed in real life i think there would be shady companies advertising "organic blood" sourced from "willing donors" who are coincidentally all poor people being paid like $5 per blood donation. and like haughty vegan vampires who only drink a synthetic blood drink thats brewed in a way thats actively worse for the enviroment. and radical traditionalist vampires who go on tiktok and claim that true alpha chads have to drain and kill people and anyone who leaves their victims alive is a liberal cuck. enter the world of hypothetical insufferable vampire politics with me.

[mythratica]

if you're going to make a ttrpg that emulates genre tropes- particularly if it advertises itself as 'creating [genre] stories'- it behooves you to have at least a passing familiarity with the most important entries in the genre

[mythratica]

as in: if you make a magical girl ttrpg and you dont have the most influential work in the genre listed in your inspirations im not going to take your work very seriously

[mythratica]

thats just the thing: this is about almost every single english language magical girl game i have ever encountered. this is about princess: the hopeful, this is about girl by moonlight, this is about starlight burnout, etc etc etc. just look at these inspiration lists:

there are seven listed inspirations here. of them, two are magical girl shows, in a game purporting to replicate the dynamics of the genre.

nine listed inspirations; two magical girl shows, one magical girl 'deconstruction' fic.

nine inspirations, three magical girl shows. noticing a pattern with which two shows get featured every time?

glitter hearts is the first to finally list a season of precure as an inspiration, so congratulations are i suppose in order. and no madoka, shockingly! anyway, you see the pattern- its very hard to take these games' claims of genre emulation very seriously when the level of engagement with the genre is so shallow. its kind of impossible not to link this with a general contempt amongst a lot of western audiences for magical girls. there's a sort of arrogance at play here, an assumption that there's really nothing to investigate- what's to understand? they're just stupid girl shows (except, of course, madoka magica, which is a Real show). you can do it much better than they can. and of course, you can just fall back on your own favourite (often western) media to fill any gaps. everyone wants what magical girls have, no one wants to watch magical girls!

[silentgarfield]

[nollthere]

if you know you know