short, dark and loathsome

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[crazy-brazilian]

[pixelartpeach]

This did not brace me for the actual contents of the site

[captain-price-returns]

[transmechanicus]

Revealing the ignorance of my youth here, but who is this and what is she known for?

[boybeetles]

Anita Sarkeesian, feminist who interpreted media under a feminist lens. She did a series about video games and she was the subject of targeted harassment. That was the start of gamergate

[flurrin]

Minor correction, the start of gamergate was based around a different reporter, Zoe Quinn, but they were both absolutely violently threatened over their involvement in video game criticism and development. A hate campaign was started by Quinn's ex-boyfriend when he wrote a post falsely accusing them of dating video game journalists in order to receive positive reviews on their own game, Depression Quest, which led other bad actors to accuse all women in the industry (Zoe identified as female at the time) of perceived sexual immorality. Anita Sarkeesian's brilliant Youtube series Tropes vs Women in Video Games (which everyone should watch, right now) sparked a particular nerve for criticizing popular games of killing and/or victimizing any important female character (there is a CHILLING bit that borders on ludicrous where she describes the plots of a seemingly endless parades of games as "In [title], [male player character's] wife dies, and you then have to rescue [his] daughter."). That series did actually make a huge change in the industry, especially when touted by progressive legacy developers like Tim Schafer (Monkey Island, Psychonauts), who went on to expand hiring in his company to front women and minority voices, but the shift didn't really show for a long time and echoes of the sexism that plagues the industry at its core are still rampant.

[susiehunsecker-remade]

this is one of my favourite posts of all time

[bauliya]

things designed to become more beautiful with wear>>>>

[bauliya]

bronze. denim. tussar silk. thick leather. friendship. mahagony. rosewood. cast iron skillets. walnut. antique rifles. muscles. diaries. memory foam. mortars and pestles.

[tambourgi]

most buildings with copper roofs, sills, details, etc that have that beautiful green patina (which is called verdigris) are designed with that colour in mind--which is to say that the building and the design is not really finished until the whole project ages into itself and tarnishes to green.

how wonderful to rely on the beauty that comes with age!

[the-big-mood]

Walter White in Mario Kart Wii

https://m.youtube.com/c/TheChiptuner

[clementine-kesh]

call me terminally academia-brained but i do think a lot of the fun of character analysis is figuring out how to build a compelling argument for a particular reading using lines of evidence from canon as well as meta/intertextual support

[clementine-kesh]

and you could say that what i’m saying here is basically “a lot of the fun of doing character analysis is doing character analysis” but let’s be real a lot of fandom character analysis is pretty heavily vibes-based. and i think that’s where i really chafe up against the traditional thought-terminating fandom attitude of like, everyone’s opinions hold equal weight and any interrogation of that is inherently hostile. because i think it’s fascinating to dig into where others are coming from in terms of their views on characters or dynamics or whatever, especially when they differ significantly from more commonly expressed views, and part of that digging is asking people okay what parts of canon are you drawing from to support your opinion? what parts of canon are you disregarding or downplaying? how does this argument hold up in the light of how race, gender, class, ability, etc. operate both in the piece’s in-fiction and real world contexts?

[sasukechannel]

where's that native meme that's like "lol you worship the sun lmao" and they respond "ok. the sun is real"

[karafina]

hello i have this

[beammeupplease]

Monet

Thomas Bossard

[benjaminmcphail]

[delfinorosso1964]

[pangur-and-grim]

[joeyclaire]

i stand in front of an audience. okay so there’s this epilogue to a fantasy/sci fi series about the psychological decline of a protagonist who spent his entire life solving everyone else’s problems as fantasy protagonists often do and now he is confronted with the reality that he does not know how to solve his own and this destroys him completely. his mental health spiral is the focus of the story and is just as gradual as it is intense. no one knows what to do when the one that does all the saving needs to be saved and they all go about helping him horribly. incredibly claustrophobic in tone. most episodes end on a sour, open note. everyone is gripped. i say it is steven universe. the audience erupts into fury

[joeyclaire]

there’s a scene about that exact moment in your mid teens when your parent is talking and you realize you’ve spent all your life looking up to a person who knows nothing and is telling you things you definitely don’t need or want to hear and all you can do is zone out because you’ve never been disillusioned like this before. and it’s so good. and it’s steven universe.

[silima]

in loving memory of my favorite shirt

[silima]

turmeric kun update

[elodieunderglass]

Hmm hmm hmm. oxiclean loves her for who she is but turmeric cannot help but change her

[charlesoberonn]

Oxiclean wants her to never change from what they made her to be, but a white canvas is meant to be painted.

[t-rexseesyoursins]

Still never gonna be over the fact that it took Maes Hughes one night to figure out the truth about Amestris when it took the rest of the cast half the series

[castronomicalmistakes]

these tags lmfao

[the-overthinktank]

this pet adoption database has insane website design choices

[targetedknowledge]

[prokopetz]

Carcinisation is fun, but it's just one example of an odd recurring pattern in parallel evolution. Humans probably will not become crabs; mammals have their own patterns which incongruously recur across unrelated clades. I believe the inheritors of humanity will evolve long, sticky tongues which enable them to feed on burrowing insects.