Yahaha to you as well

Laurel. she/they/he

[pollsforadults]

Spin the wheel. Now, imagine you're on a first date with someone who says they`re a [result]. How does this affect the odds of a second date?

100% guarantee I'll want a second date

It's significantly more likely

The odds don't change

It's significantly less likely

There wont be a second date. Absolutely not

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Picker Wheel - Spin the Wheel to Decide a Random Choice

Picker Wheel is a wheel spinner for a random picker. Various functions & customization. Enter choices or names, spin the wheel to decide a r

(anon submission)

[trying-trying2lyk]

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

[justatiredlittlesnail]

[autistic-parker]

I still think redesign/rewrite videos are creatively dishonest and rub me the wrong way

[autistic-parker]

The thing that Kikuo and Stomach Book have in common, to me, is the sensation that everything is a little off-kilter, a bit wrong, a sort of artificial feeling, but also organic in a way.

They both give off the sensation of walking through a wood made of cardboard trees but then you snap a branch off the cardboard and the tree starts bleeding. The lighting clearly isn't natural but you don't notice because you're too in it, the landscape is tilted, you can't see quite far enough.

[autistic-parker]

as a person who likes fantasy romance (admittedly mostly manga and manwha as opposed to novels) i loathe the phrase "romantasy"

it sounds really gross and annoying and stupid and weird

[autistic-parker]

screenshot because I do not want to start shit, but

in most cases they clearly aren't actually different species

in dungeons and dragons and pathfinder all of these groups can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. if they are genetically similar enough to produce fertile offspring they are the same species

ryoko kui with dungeon meshi is the only writer around who actually had the guts to make all of these creatures literally different species. the fact that half elves are sterile because tall men and elves are different species is an important plot point.

[gospozha-dafina]

[autistic-parker]

went to barnes and noble the other day and actually got a look at physical copies of Aurora, and I was right that the author commentary is distractingly obnoxious. i wish there was a way to get a print copy without it.

one of the important things about dvd directors commentary is that it's optional. i can even ignore the commentary text on the website easily. you can't do that with a physical book.

[astrocipicorvidae]

I’m curious what exactly you mean by that. By author commentaries, do you mean the pages with extra notes/sketches/content at the end of the chapters? What exactly do you find distractingly obnoxious about extra content at the end of a chapter, and how is that any harder to ignore than the alt-text and page notes on the website, genuine question?

[autistic-parker]

The stuff at the back is literally fine. I said that in the tags.

THIS

is an unclose-able pop-up that completely kills the tension of the scene. I can't ignore it because it's literally covering the art. It's intruding on me actually being able to read the comic by covering the art. It's intruding on the pacing. It's intruding on the tension of the scene by distracting from what's actually happening.

The tension of this scene requires that I, the audience, be able to see and process the fact that I know what's coming and the characters don't. This requires that I see the image without anything interrupting Alinua's dialogue or trying to break me out of looking at the sentinel's hand.

Also one of the appeals of buying a physical copy would be getting a closer look at the art. I can't do that if it's covered by pop-ups.

My problem is the pop-ups wreck the diegesis of the comic and kill the tension by making it impossible for me to actually look at and concentrate on what's going on. It's easy to ignore the author's comments (safely under the comic page in its own little window) and alt-text (only viewable if one intentionally hovers over a page, which i can just not do) on the site because they're separate from the page itself and I can therefore ignore them. I cannot ignore a pop-up ad covering the art.

[autistic-parker]

went to barnes and noble the other day and actually got a look at physical copies of Aurora, and I was right that the author commentary is distractingly obnoxious. i wish there was a way to get a print copy without it.

one of the important things about dvd directors commentary is that it's optional. i can even ignore the commentary text on the website easily. you can't do that with a physical book.

[autistic-parker]

what is with people not understanding what a summary for a story should be (who are the main characters and what do they want) and instead just, like, presenting a list of AO3 tags but less helpful?

you need to actually be pitching me on the dang thing

[clock]

You cant be goth or punk and use ai you stupid brainless fucks

[tr-shb-g]

*this meeting could have been an email voice* this cgi could have been a puppet

[autistic-parker]

I hate fantasy worldbuilding that has shallow interpretations and, like, clear delineations of "religion" vs. "magic" vs. "science" because that is not how any of those things work. That is not how people work.

Religion is magic is science, all of them interconnected, especially historically, and they should not be so clearly separated. The nebulousness of it is inherent.

I also have some issue with stories that make gods literal in the way that they completely undermine or misunderstand the concept of faith, and so many writers seem to think that people would not have faith without some kind of really definitive, like, "proof", which is (again) not how people work. And also isn't what faith is.

Genuinely the best story that actively confronts and understands this is Fullmetal Alchemist (I've only seem Brotherhood, I would like to read the manga). The Truth is Alchemy (read: magic) is Chemistry and Physics (read: science) is God (read: religion). These things are all tied together and cannot be separated cleanly, they are demonstrated to be cultural as well as practical through the alchemic practices and religions of Xing and Xerxes and Ishval.

[autistic-parker]

The floor council has been bought off by big lice.

[is-that-sand-in-my-waffles]

to celebrate may the 4th, reblog with your top three favorite star wars projects in the tags (books, shows, movies, games, legends or canon - anything is fair game!)

[bloodraven55]

it never fails to surprise me how some people will simply take every single thing in a story at face value and assume that what the characters are saying or doing or thinking must always be true even when all of the context clues are screaming the opposite

[bloodraven55]

[autistic-parker]

too many new books