Avarice's Nest

29 - genderfluid - they/them (Icon by @sm-baby)

[kalichnikov]

i wanna talk about this shot

[kalichnikov]

if forum signatures still existed this would be mine

[un-javi]

[karvina]

[teslaswife]

[shitposting-hobbits-to-gallifrey]

God fucking damn it

[bored-dromaeosaur]

[the-color-orange-offical]

[bo0zey]

 i tried to be funny and it backfired miserably

[bo0zey]

it’s 2014 it’s time we moved on as a nation and stop reblogging this

[bo0zey]

every person who reblogs this in 2015 is gonna get their ass kicked by yours truly

[manicpixiedckgirl]

[theaudientvoid]

There are multiple chapters that are set in hospitals where the characters are attempting to recover from injuries that never fully heal. I must once again stress that my experience in WWI was perfectly normal.

[aro-ace-from-outer-space22]

There is a giant horrible mudplain full of unrecoverable and perfectly preserved dead bodies that the characters have to walk through in a land where the air is poisoned gas, and on a compLETELY UNRELATED NOTE: WWI WAS TOTALLY FINE AND NORMAL!!

[hamletthedane]

And why are you all saying lotr was also a way for me to process the trauma and horror I experienced watching my own sons and students fight in WWII. Just because one of my characters longs to fight alongside her loved ones to save her country instead of being told to stay put, keep calm, and carry on while the world around her completely falls apart and all hope seems lost…..made to silently bear witness to the death and destruction of her people and the lands she is unable to protect….

Yes, I began writing these books during WWII while my sons were actively on the front lines, but my experience watching the young people I loved and taught dying to save me and my country from invasion in WWII bc my generation did not in fact end all wars WAS TOTALLY FINE AND NORMAL!!

[edgar-allan-possum]

I don't think Tolkien ever denied that his experiences of war shaped his books. What he said was that his books are not an allegory for specific wars, which is different.

[celestial-naiad]

Tolkien did say he hates allegory, but in later interviews he admits that he unconciously allowed some in the original work and decided to keep them in the revision of LOTR.

I think his real problem with allegory probably lay in the fact that other people who knew superficial things about him would project their own ideas of what the allegories represented to Tolkien and present them as fact. This isnt even just a problem Tolkien faced, its something every author deals with.

We see it in fandom discussions everyday. Readers will find a supposed allegory or something they personally think resembkes one and twist it according to their own bias and then act like it was the authors intention the whole time. Tolkien himself had literal nazis writing to him because they thought LOTR was proof Tolkien was anti-jew just like them (he wasn't and very impolitely told them to fuck off)

So in my mind, it wasnt that he disliked allegory specifically, he disliked readers projecting their personal interpretations onto him.

But this is just my opinion. I could be wrong.

[avaricesstuff]

The correct version of this post would be more like:

Here's a whole forest full of giant spiders and also a giant spider monster that almost kills our hero and there's also a minor deity who is a giant spider monster but I swear you guys I don't have crippling arachnophobia from that one time I got bit as a child you have to believe me.

[nariarts]

Longtime readers may be aware of how much I relish an excuse to bully a company, so I'm sharing the wealth;

Clothing company Patagonia is currently sueing drag queen Pattie Gonia for "irreparable” harm to their brand.

To be clear; Pattie named herself after the region in South America.

So Pattie is asking people to politely ask Patagonia to drop the lawsuit.

I'm extending the invitation to all of you, because sueing a drag queen for 'infringement' in the current political cultural landscape is vile. Especially a drag queen who has raised millions of dollars for non-profits, uses her platform to raise awareness for climate activism, and fully aligns with Patagonia's apparent climate-conscious mission statement.

They're claiming they're sueing for $1. They're actually asking her to stop using her name, and pay over $1 million in legal fees. They're straight up harassing her.

In contrast, drag queen Jan Sport has a Jansport bag line. It's that easy to just... work with a queen.

Anyway. Be respectful(ish), but feel free to be annoying on Patagnoia's socials, asking them to 'DROP THE LAWSUIT'

I think they have a twitter and tiktok too!

[shadow-manor]

This is being discussed heavily on Bluesky, such as here.

Patagonia is suing specifically for trademark infringement, and they're suing for the sum of $1. If they don't sue, then that means they could lose the trademark. They aren't trying to "silence" them or prevent them from using the name, they're specifically protecting their company trademark. They'd have to sue *anyone* who was using such an obvious knockoff of their logo; in this case it happens to be a drag queen.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

you'll have to forgive me for not weeping for a billion dollar company's trademark being violated

[shadow-manor]

Go nuts. The point is that this isn't a company trying to dogpile on a drag queen, it's a company following a standard legal practice to protect its trademark. Disney does it all the time.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

... yes, and I also hate Disney? I don't understand what you think you're selling me on here

[shadow-manor]

If you get a soda out of a vending machine and it has a Coca-Cola label but it's actually a knockoff made with ditchwater, that's obviously okay because Coca-Cola is a huge corporation and it's thus fine for someone to violate their trademark.

You can hate Patagonia all you want, but the lawsuit is about anodyne trademark law, not specifically that a drag queen is involved.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

and what part of Miss Gonia's schtick is doing the harm equivalent of tricking someone into drinking ditchwater exactly?

[avaricesstuff]

She's being sued for $1. The ability to Pick your Battles is a very important skill.

A dog that barks only occasionally draws attention. A dog that barks at everything becomes part of the background noise. A Drag Queen getting sued for a single dollar because she deliberately copied the branding of a pre-established company is not a hill worth dying on.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I hope she kills the CEO

[avaricesstuff]

Ah. Cool..so you just immediately call for violence. You're an asshole. Shut the fuck up.

[oogaboogaspookyman]

So Gameoverse basically grabs games and makes them into fully fledged, lively planets, and the game mechanics are translated into natural things, such as the Flappers planet being a game placed underwater so breathing is needless, because it's a game all about fish and other aquatic creatures.

What if the game world in question is based on games that break the fourth wall?

Like. I'm gonna grab my favorite child, IMSCARED, for this example. IMSCARED is a horror game in which the entire gimmick is the fact that it acts like a virus, a REAL ghost in the machine situation. The game is self aware, it knows it's a game and it knows that you're out there playing it and it knows where it is and it knows who you are and it knows how to make your blood run cold. IMSCARED knows.

So how would THAT translate to the Gameoverse? Would IMSCARED just KNOW its whole situation? Would it know that it's a planet stuck in a cruel, self cannibalistic universe? Would it know? Or is the entire gimmick of breaking the fourth wall, limited to basically playing pretend, genuinely believing the premise it's placed in?

I wonder this mostly because i LOVE games that push the boundaries and make you get SEVERELY immersed and i love Gameoverse now so what if my two favorite things got mashed together? What if Kit and Kaboodle get put in a game world based on these types of games, like IMSCARED? Doesn't the idea just sound interesting?

Also what if, when IMSCARED is finished, the whole game begins to fall apart and turn into float and they grab Whiteface to save him and now he gets to explore outside the boundaries of his game and he's alive and- (gets dragged out of the building by the scruff)

[avaricesstuff]

Spoilers for One shot but like

The premise of that game is that the entire world you explore is explicitly a computer simulation full of NPCs with only a handful of characters who are actually Real People. It's canon to the game that the simulation is actively running, at least in part, on the player's actual real life computer and that Niko is an actual Real Life person who gets brought into the simulation. So like, when you add in the outside context of the Gamoverse, just, How?

[yogg-saron]

my little brother came into my room and told me that there was water all over the bathroom floor so i got up and grabbed a towel and ran into the bathroom to find all of my water energy pokemon cards sprawled out on the floor this kid is 5 fucking years old and he got me

[yogg-saron]

do you think this is a fucking game (because he does)

[yogg-saron]

THIS POST IS TWO YEARS OLD NOW. MAX IS 7. IT DIES DOWN FOR LIKE HALF A YEAR AND THEN SUDDENLY IT KICKS BACK UP AGAIN I HATE THIS POST 

[wizardshark]

this post is now 5 years old. Max is 10 and i hope he’s still schemin’

[explorerrowan]

There’s so much potential in this genre of joke. “There’s a fire in the kitchen!” etc.

[yogg-saron]

#max is thirteen now :(

i find it so genuinely hilarious that my little brothers age is measurable on tumblr specifically by people who have seen this post. i moved out a while ago but i know that he would love how often his dorky ass joke gets passed around on here. thank you all very much.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Max is an adult now

[demonicsymphony]

The passage of time is relentless.

[nariarts]

Longtime readers may be aware of how much I relish an excuse to bully a company, so I'm sharing the wealth;

Clothing company Patagonia is currently sueing drag queen Pattie Gonia for "irreparable” harm to their brand.

To be clear; Pattie named herself after the region in South America.

So Pattie is asking people to politely ask Patagonia to drop the lawsuit.

I'm extending the invitation to all of you, because sueing a drag queen for 'infringement' in the current political cultural landscape is vile. Especially a drag queen who has raised millions of dollars for non-profits, uses her platform to raise awareness for climate activism, and fully aligns with Patagonia's apparent climate-conscious mission statement.

They're claiming they're sueing for $1. They're actually asking her to stop using her name, and pay over $1 million in legal fees. They're straight up harassing her.

In contrast, drag queen Jan Sport has a Jansport bag line. It's that easy to just... work with a queen.

Anyway. Be respectful(ish), but feel free to be annoying on Patagnoia's socials, asking them to 'DROP THE LAWSUIT'

I think they have a twitter and tiktok too!

[shadow-manor]

This is being discussed heavily on Bluesky, such as here.

Patagonia is suing specifically for trademark infringement, and they're suing for the sum of $1. If they don't sue, then that means they could lose the trademark. They aren't trying to "silence" them or prevent them from using the name, they're specifically protecting their company trademark. They'd have to sue *anyone* who was using such an obvious knockoff of their logo; in this case it happens to be a drag queen.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

you'll have to forgive me for not weeping for a billion dollar company's trademark being violated

[shadow-manor]

Go nuts. The point is that this isn't a company trying to dogpile on a drag queen, it's a company following a standard legal practice to protect its trademark. Disney does it all the time.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

... yes, and I also hate Disney? I don't understand what you think you're selling me on here

[shadow-manor]

If you get a soda out of a vending machine and it has a Coca-Cola label but it's actually a knockoff made with ditchwater, that's obviously okay because Coca-Cola is a huge corporation and it's thus fine for someone to violate their trademark.

You can hate Patagonia all you want, but the lawsuit is about anodyne trademark law, not specifically that a drag queen is involved.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

and what part of Miss Gonia's schtick is doing the harm equivalent of tricking someone into drinking ditchwater exactly?

[avaricesstuff]

She's being sued for $1. The ability to Pick your Battles is a very important skill.

A dog that barks only occasionally draws attention. A dog that barks at everything becomes part of the background noise. A Drag Queen getting sued for a single dollar because she deliberately copied the branding of a pre-established company is not a hill worth dying on.

[omghotmemes]

No, no it isn’t.

[moonlit-aura]

this gif is perfectly timed because it gives you enough time to read it, comprehend it, and still have this too-long-for-comfort moment of suspense before being punched square in the solar plexus

[alexandraisyes]

It's not normal to send people death threats over fiction 👍

If you're so bothered by a piece of fiction maybe you should go to a therapist and talk about why it bothers you

Not send death threats

Authors and artists are real people, not machines for you to abuse

[demonicsymphony]

*taps the sign*

Every time something like this passes by, I will talk about this kind of person. The ‘think of the children’ type of person, who fed my abusive partner my every move while I was trying to get out because I was on ‘the wrong side’ of some shit that went down in a huge fandom explosion of ‘omg you people are sick, you can’t write that!’ (It was actually a whole ass group of people and they also harassed the fuck out of a bunch of others too. Some of it was in person at a convention.)

But like- I was trying to get out with my child. Not some hypothetical child- a living, breathing human being.

I still wake up screaming because of that time in my life. And said child is still, over a decade later, affected by what they went through because of those people.

[alexandraisyes]

I love whenever people add on their experiences in fandom to this post so much because every time it just hammers in something I heard recently that I believe very strongly to be true

Moral purists for fictional content are just as bad as radical extremist conservatives and TERFs. If you're harassing people and policing people over fictional

Hear me again

FICTIONAL

content then you are just as bad as transphobes, homophobes, and racists in my eyes and I'm going to start pushing that HEAVILY on this blog that you are JUST AS BAD as transphobes, homophobes, and racists if you are doing this shit.

It’s the SAME DAMN TACTIC with a different color slapped on.

Radical conservatives use “the children” as their moral shield — “think of the children, protect the children from the gays.”

Purity police in fandom use the exact same moral shield — “think of the children, protect the children from the bad ships/kinks/fanfic.”

TERFs and most transphobes say “we’re just protecting women” while dehumanizing trans people. Purity culture says “we’re just protecting survivors” while dehumanizing anyone who writes/draws/ships the “wrong” thing, INCLUDING victims of abuse and survivors of CSA/incest/SA/etc

It’s the same cycle of weaponizing morality to justify harassment, ostracism, and censorship. They just change the buzzwords depending on the group they’re targeting.

And once you accept the premise that “fictional content = real harm,” you’ve already swallowed the same logic conservatives use to ban queer books in schools. If you think a FICTIONAL ship is dangerous because it’s “problematic,” you’re no different than the school board banning a book for being “morally dangerous.” It’s the same fascist impulse.

Purity culture isn’t progressivism — it’s authoritarianism in a rainbow jacket. Once more!!!

PURITY CULTURE ISN'T PROTECTING ANYONE

[trippiest]

what a beautiful day to not be in high school

[gayofthefae]

This is the like those “remember to be grateful you don’t have a sore throat right now” posts. It IS a beautiful day to not be in high school! Thank you!

[pawberri]

If youre a closeted person somewhere out there thinking "I want to transition but it would be less progressive/unique/countercultural for me to be that gender instead of this one" please know that you are a real person not a character in a narrative and cant live your life based on what is good media representation. You are real you can only be yourself and theres no moral weight to any identity over another

[thelaurenshippen]

it's always "did you really need to burn down your workplace to prove a point" and never "how was the revenge arson? did you have fun doing revenge arson? were the flames pretty?"

[thelaurenshippen]

um.

[partasah]

🔥🔥🔥

Context for other users:

On the morning of April 7, 2026, a fire was started at the Kimberly-Clark Distribution Center in Ontario, California. It escalated to a six-alarm fire and took nearly twelve hours to extinguish. The facility was completely destroyed and declared a "total loss". There were no injuries or deaths. An employee who was working in the warehouse is accused of arson.

Authorities stated that the employee had shared videos of himself starting the fire on Facebook, saying "all you had to do was pay us enough to live" and "there goes your inventory" while lighting pallets of toilet paper ablaze.

ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS PAY US ENOUGH TO LIVE

No injuries. No deaths. This was a protest fire. This is why unions are important, to prevent frustrations like these, to ensure people are paid enough to live.

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[isaacsapphire]

Dumb question, but (taking the motive at face value) how would a union specifically have prevented this as opposed to warehouse just paying workers more?

[brazenautomaton]

"Anything destructive is good if you sound like a communist."

Do you think the heroic impoverished proletariat is doing better or worse now that their workplace has burned down and they can no longer perform labor in exchange for wages? Was this an effective action to empower the heroic impoverished proletariat, or was it destructive and helped nobody except as it provided masturbation material to communists?

Do you actually and literally know what they were actually paid in the actual real life world or are you just assuming that because the concept of money makes you upset, any violence and destruction was justified?

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

So interestingly enough the original incident actually happened in Canada. Where the laws are generally more socialistic than they are in most countries. Incidentally however, there were still people inside at the time of the fire but the fire alarm got everyone out.

The issue isn't the blatant arson which is a huge problem. The issue is the fact that this individual took it upon themselves to make it so that hundreds of workers now no longer have a place to work. Meaning they no longer have a way to make money unless the warehouse sends them to places significantly further away from their homes in order for them to work.

This type of destruction is never okay and it's never necessary. This person easily could have just gone to find a different job that paid him more if he was really that upset about it. We don't even know if this individual ever actually asked for a raise. But I should expect nothing less from people who are pro-communist. Destruction and and murder and violence are means to an end for you to get your whiny toddler demands regardless of whether those demands are functional or even possible. That warehouse was a hub for paper towels baby wipes and other varying things of that nature.

And now due to some toddler throwing a literal temper tantrum because he was high off his own farts, several stores will now go without products that they use on an everyday basis. And it will take a decent amount of time for the market and the supply chain, to catch up. And what's more what do you think that fire does to the climate? Since most of you are all climate alarmists anyway? Burning chemicals and an entire warehouse that is filled with a lot of plastic etc?

Truly you people are the dumbest people alive. And you're frankly a bunch of greedy little children.

[brazenautomaton]

It did not happen in Canada it happened in a city in California with the same name as a Canadian province

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[nekoning]

the use of AI lately has made me feel so hopeless, i translated pages of an unfinished fanzine of mine so i can remember why i love art...i hope it can resonate with anyone feeling the same way

[afterword]

[biglawbear]

This is really funny on dark mode

[transfeminine-anarcho-post-egg]

On dark mode this is like a clown trying to hide behind a light pole.

[apricops]

that post about “you get bandits when you cut soldiers loose without pay” reminds me of the Thirty Years War, because one could say that beneath all the religious schisms and diplomatic jockeying, the heart of the thirty years war was “what happens when you have a state with just enough capacity to raise massive armies but without enough financial capacity to actually pay those armies” and the answer is that the line between professional armies and roving gangs of bandits disappears and every time you try to raise an army it just becomes another independently acting wildfire devouring the countryside. No matter how bad things get, every day I wake up and thank my lucky stars that I do not live in 17th century Europe. Or 17th century China. Or the 17th century Americas. Or basically anywhere in the 17th century.

[probabilitydirigible]

One of my favorite little anecdotes about ancient mercenaries is that it was tradition for most of history to give your mercenaries two wages- "Bread" and "Gravy." Both were set at a daily value, but where "Bread" was intended to cover regular maintenance and life stuff and therefore paid out frequently (Here's your week's meal and gear repair budget!) the "Gravy" wage was paid out exclusively at the end of the contract as one lump sum. So like, your gravy wage and bread wage might be one silver coin per day each, so you're getting a handful of coins every week to cover food, and then at the end of an 800 day campaign, you get a wheelbarrow with 800 coins.

Employers liked offering this structure because then they didn't have to like, try to guess how long the invasion of spain will take and then carry 800 coins per soldier around the battlefield where it could be captured. It also gives them the chance to budget around the assumption that they take an enemy city and *find* vast sums of treasure even if they don't have the full value at the beginning of the war.

The main flaw of this system is that it's very easy to end up in a scenario where if you have, say, 50,000 guys that have been fighting for 800 days, you now owe 40 million silver to your army, and if the budget has not worked out to a 40 million surplus, you literally can't afford to end the war, but you can probably afford to pay them for a couple more weeks. So then you have to start thinking creatively.

Anyway across all time and history a lot of generals were ultimately beaten to death by men chanting gravy.

[glassshine]

so i went to buy shoes

[milkshakebehemoth]

@funnier-when-objectum