LunAurea

just call me a boomerang the way I keep coming back to this hellsite | they/any (not my problem) | queer academic | 🇮🇪 in 🇬🇧 |

[beneaththegildedmoon]

[kabaks]

disco elysium is one of the best examples imo of how massive a gap can exist between a piece of media and the conversations around it. if you’ve never played it i think you’d be forgiven for thinking its some sort of fun gay buddy cop romp from how ppl present the story online

[kabaks]

i still can’t get over the choice the developers made to give harry amnesia at the start. which is par for the course for rpgs ofc but instead of building him into something from a blank slate like you would in other rpgs you have to gradually uncover what a monumentally creepy violent fascistic pathetic piece of shit he is. and at every turn you have to contend with the fact that the public sees him and knows him as he “was” instead of how you might want to play him. and the game tells you outright that what breaks harry psychologically isn’t even the violence he enacts as an arm of the state its the dissolution of his relationship (these things are not disconnected sure but the brutality of his role as a cop is not the catalyst for his breakdown). its not about guilt or remorse for what he’s done, it’s up to you whether you feel guilty or remorseful on his behalf. also its just so ballsy to make a game about never giving up fighting for a more just world for everyone and your entry point is You Are A Cop And Everyone Here Rightfully Detests You. And You Didn’t Give A Shit About That A Day Ago. and even if you choose to give a shit about it now (if) it doesn’t mean all is forgiven it doesn’t mean you get to feel good about yourself. you’re still a cop. and if you want to pretend to be a Radical Communist Cop go ahead but we’ll take the piss out of you for it. man its such a good game

[frankendykes-monster]

This is what I was alluding to when I discussed that the volume of name changes you have to make as a trans person highlights the ridiculous amount of documentation attached to you.

[bizarrelittlemew]

but above all, one must not concern oneself with the opinions of people who censor the word fuck

[werewolf-transgenderism]

this is fucking killing me bro. computah, show me more hot hockey firefighters whaling on cops

[knightanddaybae]

Ah Paretta. Never change. This dude starts fights and wins every year that he plays in the charity game. And better yet, he doesn't just pick a random cop that's playing. He specifically spends all year researching which ones have beat their spouses or are being investigated for corruption, then mocks them and eggs them on social media for like 6 months straight just to make sure they know ahead of time they're getting their ass beat.

[mugwomps]

He know how to fight, too. That kidney punch looked painful

[luna-azzurra]

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

[beneaththegildedmoon]

Beloved had one of our friends help make mash potatoes and forgot to warn him not to use the metal masher in our enamelled cast iron pan 😭

[jame7t]

Coolest thing about lord of the rings? The king of horses shows up. It appears he is no different from all other horses

[cryptotheism]

King of the eagles shows up later. He can talk. Horse king couldn't talk.

[betterbemeta]

He didn't want to talk to you.

[swaglexander-the-great]

[findingfeather]

Uh.

Point of order.

King of Horses ran 450 fucking miles at almost entirely a gallop, without more than a few minutes rest, in 4 nights and basically was like "wait why are we stopping?" when Gandalf took him into the city and he ended up in a stable.

This was not his top speed, nor did it push any limits on his endurance.

King of horses is very different from other horses, actually.

[elodieunderglass]

He just doesn’t do much about his administrative duties

[darkwizardtheorist]

But he didn't need to - his rule was stable, after all.

[singerin]

[pangur-and-grim]

I found a dog breed I'm interested in. they're born pre-stained

[pangur-and-grim]

I'm sorry but yeah, this is the one. when I get a dog, it'll be a Bolognese.

[pangur-and-grim]

what I like about them so much is that even in show-groom, where they've been conditioned and brushed and trimmed to perfection, they still look like the "before" shot of some shelter groomer video. and they're born like that. the fresh puppies in the bottom pic look like they've crawled out of a pile of used cigarettes. I honestly think this is why the breed is so uncommon: no one wants to spend big bucks on an animal genetically engineered to look your great-aunt's neglected couch ornament of indeterminate age that should probably be mercy killed but is somehow still trucking along.

[pangur-and-grim]

let it be known that I also weighing in their personalities. I probably couldn’t handle a husky or a malinois, but one of these? yeah.

[yardsards]

but i stay silly! *←said in the most world-weary voice you ever did hear*

[fizzlepop-frog]

“but I stay silly!”

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog you stay silly

[weaselle]

on it boss

[sindar-princeling]

(it's still July 29th somewhere)

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i can’t believe people ever called tumblr an echo chamber or a “hugbox”, i have never in my life been exposed to a group of people so thirsty to disagree with you. why did someone just say they wished they could crucify me bc i said i liked oat milk best. we all need to learn some lessons about friendship here

[velvetvexations]

[godaweful]

catherine might be the first game changer player who understood the assignment, immediately failed the assignment, figured out the assignment better, told everyone else the assignment, and then failed multiple times cause she truly cannot describe pictures (or name songs). player of all time. i love seeing someone who clearly gets and loves game changer and is just plain bad at games. representation for all of us.

[cute-catts]

[foldingfittedsheets]

[beneaththegildedmoon]

Been collecting toilet paper rolls for months for nebulous crafting purposes, have finally gotten around to soaking them all in boiling water to unfurl them. I think I'm going to turn them into bunting garlands for my lughnasadh party on saturday :)

[beneaththegildedmoon]

Just heard a video essayist describe Matt Haig's books as "Live Laugh Literature" and the phrase will immediately be entering my lexicon as the perfect descriptor of those vapid, faux-deep but ultimately conservative self-help treatises masquerading as novels