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[sophiesplushies]

Some photos of another Midna plush I made. Had to try a few poses! ✨️

I forgot to measure her again, but she stands between 12"-13" to the top of her helmet. She's posable with wires inside, and her helmet is removable.

[existennialmemes]

Nothing has aged me into a decomposing wreck quite like witnessing the enshittification of google. I feel like an ancient blathering relic when I hear "what did you do before chatgpt?"

Bitch I had google. I could summon the vast expanse of human knowledge with a few choice keystrokes. I could find recipes made by real human beings, written on unknown blogs because their recipe so closely matched my search terms. I could find entire research papers based off of barely remembered tidbits of them.

But now. The search engine that taught me basic particle physics & niche baking techniques & exposed me to brilliant comic artists & bloggers and more, is now a glorified chat bot.

A thing that hallucinates when its programming indicates that inventing is more efficient than copying. A thing that will amalgamate that vast expanse of human knowledge, which it alone can access, into its ever churning soup, but will no longer take me to the sources directly.

The gateway that used to bring me knowledge is now just a fire hose that sprays bullshit. Feels like watching the Library of Alexandria burn.

[ponett]

i keep hearing people throw the term "mcu dialogue" around for stuff for even mildly sardonic, wry or tongue in cheek humor that doesn't land for them, to where as a term it's basically lost its meaning to me. in your opinion, what qualifies as "mcu dialogue" and what is it that makes it uniquely bad?

I assume this is in reference to some posts I made on Bluesky about overused critical buzzwords and/or the post where I said the new Rayman Legends remake adds "MCU dialogue." The phrase has absolutely been overused to the point that it's often thrown around where it doesn't apply—people will use it to complain about anything they don't like that has jokes in the script—but I do think it's at least sometimes a useful point of critical reference. It's referring to an identifiable style of writing used in a massively popular and influential franchise that spans dozens of movies, after all.

One of the defining traits of "MCU dialogue" or "Whedonesque dialogue" is having lots of quippy banter and one-liners. And this can of course be done well, but it's often done very poorly. I think to me bad "MCU dialogue" is quippy and gives off the air of comedy without actually having actual jokes. (Again, it is crucially important to me that there is a difference between this stuff and the concept of comic relief as a whole.) At its worst you get the stock "he's right behind me isn't he?" "sooooo that just happened" "they fly now? they fly now" type dialogue that gives off a slightly flippant, sarcastic, joke-adjacent tone without actually being funny. You see this a lot in genre fiction that's afraid it'll lose the lowest common denominator audience if it takes itself too seriously, so it undercuts itself with a vague air of humor. The MCU did not invent this style of dialogue, and there are definitely some MCU movies that pull off comic relief better than their imitators, but given they've been so dominant in pop culture for almost 20 years they're just an easy face to attach to a style people are getting tired of in genre fiction.

The Rayman Legends Retold trailer gives us a good example of this with the bit where Rayman's like "It's four against one! You don't stand a chance!" and then it cuts to a roaring monster and then he's like "Maybe he stands a LITTLE bit of a chance." This is just total screenwriting 101 filler joke stuff, just having the characters say a cliche for the sake of saying something even though it's not actually funny. The scene gains nothing compared to if it was a completely silent exchange—which it WAS in the original version of the game! But the data says quips make a story go down easier, so now there's a quip.

For further reading I'll just refer to Austin Walker's post on the subject of "MCU dialogue" from back when Forspoken was the example people were talking about. That gets into more of the issue of genre stories using this type of smirking dialogue in an attempt to prove they're "in on the joke" to broader audiences and undercutting their own storytelling in the process.

[fuchsia-neko]

Quick sketch in between other things... Pride month for the Rubber Grebe crew

[thesparrow1996]

it’s funny how quickly you get desensitized to comic book nonsense like mister sinister is an insane name for a fictional character it’s so goofy but when i read his name i’m like this is not a laughing matter. we’re talking about cyclops’ traumatic secret laser beam eyeball orphanage surgery backstory. stop laughing.

[wrenstep]

the only other thing that i know of that captures similar nonsense is metal gear solid franchise.

small snippet of mgs: psychic ghost has to have god-aka-creator-of-series and the russian psychic ghost dad of the gay russian-american-raised-in-russia-by-the-illuminati-who-stole-him-from-his-mother-when-she-gave-birth-to-him-on-the-beaches-of-normandy-on-fucking-d-day cowboy called in to kill him. (metal gear solid 4, guns of the patriots)

[captainlinguini]

Snake vs. the wasp man dressed like a wasp who is full of wasps so that when he talks he spits wasps at you.

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

If a trans girl tells you that she wants to start dressing more femme and your response is "but you're conforming to gender stereotypes" then she is entitled to punch you in the face as hard as she wants

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

Also, if a trans girl says she wants to go on hormones and your response is "but you're still valid if you don't get hrt" then she is also entitled to punch your face as hard as she wants

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

reblog this version you fucking cowards

[veryluckyclovers]

[starfoxassault]

OST CD/booklet scans for Star Fox (1993)

source, source

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

As a trans woman I can confirm that they indeed found an ancient forest inside a 630ft deep sinkhole in China

[gayweeddaddy69]

cis people can reblog this but keep it on subject, please

[senshibignaturals]

Happy pride month everyone always remember that the sinkhole has an ecosystem large enough to house not only insects but likely several species of small birds or mammals

[enbye]

Ancient Forest Discovered in Chinese Sinkhole

Researchers say the forest may contain small animal species unknown to scientists

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

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[captainlinguini]

[shubbabang]

[dark-wizard-guy-fieri]

context (via @mellorocket)

[chimthecappy]

doubly funny that I saw a compilation of all the corporate accounts like "aw thanks elmo, we're doing well" meanwhile all the flesh and blood real human people are extremely not okay

[artistefish]

Okay but Elmo had actually the best and sweetest response to all this trauma dumping:

And then all the other Sesame Street character accounts joined in:

And now I’m thinking maybe we’re gonna be okay… 💗

(Comment compilation from this Twitter)

[aqueerkettleofish]

I kinda feel for the poor person running Elmo's Twitter.

"So, boss... I may have messed up."

"What did you do, Ray?"

"Well, I made a post for Elmo saying 'Hi, how's everybody doing?'"

"I mean, that's kind of what we pay you for."

"Yeah, but.... <sigh> it turns out pretty much everyone is hanging on by a thread, badly enough that they needed to tell Elmo."

"Oh."

"God help me, boss, I think Elmo needs to be there for them."

"Get the others."

[shu-of-the-wind]

this is the energy that jim henson would be proud of.

[anna-neko]

and important addition

Source: instagram

[the-semicolonoscopy]

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Time for the annual Pride Month reblog of Freddie Mercury and his fabulous cats!

[bloody-monstrous-wolf]

[electronicosmos15]

[earhartsease]

love that she's playing Careless Whisper all the while that old biddie is experiencing harp rage

[captainlinguini]

They have a whole COUNCIL of Karens!?

[ravenlynclemens]

people who like cartoons

[fawnpalmer]

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog