seeing through a mirror dimly

burr, she/her, artist, i like cats and disheveled men

[burr-ell]

he doesn't miss him. please don't put it in the newspaper that he misses him

[jimingyue]

"can you be a fan of a video game you havent played" discourse is stupid, because plenty of people who played the game have some of the dumbest fucking takes ive ever seen

[kiisaes]

everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we're all on the buddy system. I'll start: bok choy

[zeroperks]

Portrait commission of Adyr for @ lorewyrm on bsky!

[burr-ell]

I've been relatively quiet on Bolaire discourse, mostly because I haven't had anything new to say, but the fandom's repeated "Bolaire is just BEGGING for someone to interrogate him about his deal" "someone just NEEDS to initiate a scene with him" "oh when will someone TALK to Bolaire" is like...y'know those people who get mad when you ask them what's wrong because "a REAL friend wouldn't need to ask"? It's like that, except this is a character for whom two PCs and the DM gave a golden opportunity for an RP scene where he could, in fact, discuss his deal, and the player chose to text them a letter.

Taliesin Jaffe is almost fifty years old. He has worked with these people both personally and professionally. If he cannot use his adult words to say things with his mouth to his friends of over a decade, that is on him and him alone. No amount of staring at someone and blinking is going to substitute for actually talking to them.

[burr-ell]

"Oh so Taliesin should just ORDER people to engage with him?" No, he should probably have a polite conversation off-camera, or perhaps he should have taken advantage of the clear opportunity he was given instead of openly declining to be present in a scene. Dropping hints is not communicating. There are twelve other players and a DM at the table who actually ARE making their intentions and needs clear; there's simply too much going on for everyone else to prioritize "drop everything and follow Bolaire's every breadcrumb so someone else can facilitate his character arc".

[captain-price-returns]

A real page on the White House website

[bogleech]

In case people missed it, another real page on the white house website pretends to "reveal the truth about ALIENS" and once again means immigrants, which it calls "its."

4chan took over the country.

[headspace-hotel]

This is actually fucking insanely horrifying what the fuck

[heydocverdant]

I was talking to my brother-in-law yesterday about how the current state of the US government is a direct consequence of the Gamergate movement, and I think these examples are just more proof of that. Turns out trollocracies are a pretty shit form of government: the only thing they’ll give the masses is bread and circuses, but the bread’s all moldy and the clowns ain’t funny

[monsterbutch]

this is one of my favorite reddit posts of all time

[formlessdemi]

God forbid Chippy do anything

[randomdeinonychus]

You absolutely must unmute this video.

[luntfontanne]

dearly departed fung wah bus may she rest in POWER 🫡 obsessed with ayo's go-to bit in her last press cycle being the great molasses flood and this time around it's the fung wah bus. real bostonian representation 🙂‍↕️

now you gotta pay like $35 for a bus to new york and it STILL will probably break down and leave you stranded at an ihop in connecticut :(

[luntfontanne]

imagine this 💭: open your eyes 🫵 CLOSE 'EM 🙂‍↕️ now open your MENTAL EYE 👁️ right? you are in a BUS DEPOT 🚏🚌 in the DEPTHS of boston chinatown 🏮🌆 you get the opportunity to take a $10-15 💸 bus that will take you to new york 🗽 in UNDER four hours ⏱️ sometimes THREE 🏃💨 it's like the concorde of buses ✈️ this thing's going a hundred miles— BIG bus, too🫸↔️🫷not a small bus 🤏 BIG ol' bus 🙌💪 HUNDRED miles an hour 💯 on the speedway 🛣️ sometimes? catching fire 🔥🧯 don't sit in the back 👈 don't sit in the front 👉 you will hit things 🧳⚠️ and things will hit you 🤕🔨 the bus? might explode 💥💥💥 THAT'S NOT YOUR BUSINESS ✋ your business is GETTING TO NEW YORK 🫡 and then you do :)

[burr-ell]

I've been relatively quiet on Bolaire discourse, mostly because I haven't had anything new to say, but the fandom's repeated "Bolaire is just BEGGING for someone to interrogate him about his deal" "someone just NEEDS to initiate a scene with him" "oh when will someone TALK to Bolaire" is like...y'know those people who get mad when you ask them what's wrong because "a REAL friend wouldn't need to ask"? It's like that, except this is a character for whom two PCs and the DM gave a golden opportunity for an RP scene where he could, in fact, discuss his deal, and the player chose to text them a letter.

Taliesin Jaffe is almost fifty years old. He has worked with these people both personally and professionally. If he cannot use his adult words to say things with his mouth to his friends of over a decade, that is on him and him alone. No amount of staring at someone and blinking is going to substitute for actually talking to them.

[shanehollandered]

ok poll time because i am genuinely curious about something (and this is not a call out for anyone, that's just me being in my head)

do you answer comments on your fics or do you not (for the specific reason that it "distorts" the actual amount of comments)?

yes i answer comments

no i don't answer comments because of the above

secret third option (put it in the tags)

Remaining time: 4 days 13 hours

[neenarchive]

really hilarious and unsexy when hetero romantasy authors refer to love interests as males and females. you sound like david attenborough narrating a special documentary on two turtles humping in the mud

[neenarchive]

i don't care if he's the king of the fae. if that man called me a desirable female i'd have him gelded

[barreyva]

I decided to bring to life an AU I had in mind: the adults from FMA as children. It was a lot of fun drawing them this way, so who knows, maybe I'll bring more characters like this.

Roy and Hughes (all stripe and star patterns are in accordance with the respective characters' military uniforms)

Bradley and Greed (Bradley uses a baseball bat because children can't use sharp swords)

Lust and Envy

Scar and Kimblee

Riza and Havoc

Miles and Olivier (I already had in mind that she would use a tennis player uniform, simply for aesthetic reasons. Miles wears a hockey player's uniform because it's a sport played on ice, and Briggs is surrounded by snow)

[wuntrum]

i am nooooot locked the fuck in. im locked the fuck out. call the locksmith

[mysharona1987]

[mysharona1987]

But this is genuinely a shitty act against humanity.

[hiveswap]

you guys would actually date your favourite characters? ngl i always gag a little thinking about that as a concept

[hiveswap]

would you date your favourite character? let's say they're down.

yes

we'd have sex but not much else

i might say yes but i know it wouldn't work out long term

absolutely the fuck not lmao

Remaining time: 3 days 15 hours

[your-turn-to-role]

another point to add to the discussion we've been having about tertia, whether or not she was okay with her own sacrifice, and therefore whether or not occtis would have been okay with it if his family had accepted him from the start and told him this was his way to serve the family

i was rewatching that conversation between thaisha and occtis near the end of episode 16, and the awful thing is, i don't think that's an if

because this is how that conversation ends

and there's no amount of sarcasm or anything on that last line, it's genuine. even occtis who has been estranged from his family, and who's had the ability to grow outside them at least partially, finds a lot of comfort in knowing that this wasn't an act of emotion, it's not just because they hated him, there was a purpose to it and he had a purpose within their plan

and no, he didn't want them to kill him even if they had a reason, he's gonna be dealing with the weight of that one for a while, and he's had the time and space to find a life outside of duty to the family, so it's no longer his main priority

but it's still much easier, to think of this as the use they could never find for you, than to try and come to terms with how a family you still on some level care for could just rob you of everything and not even feel bad about it

and if occtis hadn't had the life outside of his duty, hadn't made friends with people who don't think like his father does, i think he'd rationalise it exactly the same way

[utilitycaster]

ok I know a lot of people talk about the fandom "lurk more" advice as a matter of picking up on the etiquette, but actually? I know this might be a little controversial, but it is also of value to get a sense of the pre-existing drama and sore spots. This is true in real life institutions as well, but having at least a vague sense of the history and past discourse and disputes will serve you well even and, I would argue, especially if you want to avoid the drama. In an ideal world, sure, we'd all give people benefit of the doubt every time, and even trying to get a sense of the vibe or even being an active participant will not guarantee you know everything (especially when we talk about cross-platform discussions). But a lot of the worst drama I've seen has been people blithely treading on raw nerves out of ignorance, and when they received pushback, doubling down because "I didn't know, and it's unfair for you to have this inconvenient sore spot" instead of saying "sorry, I didn't realize and I didn't mean it in that way."

[utilitycaster]

this also would help with one of my personal major pet peeves, "I don't get why people don't like this thing." Like, if the issue is you haven't looked at their posts and arguments, lurking and reading those posts would fix this! The other option of course is that you're really stupid, and I think most people would not like to claim that quality.