Charlie's big pile of EVERYTHING

Welcome to charlie-vermin.tumblr.com, a blog with no theme whatsoever! Or maybe there is a theme, and it's one that describes me perfectly with the specific flavor of the stuff I reblog? By now I've made sideblogs for fandom stuff, the cool original content I made, and politics... so I guess now this blog is just gonna contain random stuff that doesn't fit into the other categories. Let's face it, if it's not a side blog, any attempts at maintaining a consistent theme are doomed to be futile!

[charlie-vermin]

Looks like the most important part of my blog is not always easily viewable... a pinned post should work better!

★ Everything Charlie Vermin ★

[botgirlchassis]

Ohhhh that is too much for you little spider…

[botgirlchassis]

Ohhh nooo…

[chennnington]

I think I should start bragging about my adopted son’s achievements when people around me start bragging about their kids. Ooooh your child can count to 10 in mandarin? Well, my child found 110 landmines! And he’s only 6 years old!

[dusttt]

To the bold ff.net user in 2013 who tried to write Moby-Dick from the whale’s perspective, please get back here you were cooking

[miliabyntite]

[saxophones]

[comparativetarot]

Strength. Art by Giulia Francesca Massaglia, from the Fairytale Tarot.

[charlievermin]

Blobstopper by Featherworks, Charlie Vermin

Stop the germs to set them up for a chain explosion! (GMTK Jam 2026)

Another GMTK jam, another game, and this one actually has Silverman's music in it again! I did most of the graphics, and also drew and coded the tileset, pause menu and hud/scoring system, which seems to be my specialty. Overall, it might not be quite equally as charming as Scalepture, but it sure does seem more well-rounded than Gene pooL! Gives me some hope for GMTK jam 2027...

[escuerzoresucitado]

[mamoru]

ok ok ok. there is a lot of misinformation going around about what exactly happened, so let me be clear:

LG and windows were sharing a tender moment. suddenly, LG shifted uncomfortably, visibly distraught, though mostly silent.

"are you alright...?" asked windows, worriedly.

"I...I just..." LG looked away, eyes full of tears, voice full of tremble.

"you can tell me, no matter what it is! I want to share everything! the highs and the lows!"

"share everything...do you really mean that...? everything?"

"of course!" declared windows immediately, with a bit of a laugh and without a moment of hesitation.

LG slowly turned back to windows, quivering.

"then...then..." LG took a deep breath. "please, windows...if you ever detect an LG TV or LG monitor...could you...install the LG Monitor App? could you promise?" LG's voice was absent of the usual lordliness. instead, LG's words trailed off, as though LG was about to disappear. "the LG Monitor App lets me know that my friends are okay, and, I just..."

windows clasped LG's hands firmly. "of course! I promise!!!" windows continued, trying hard to be reassuring. "even if I get hooked up to an LG TV or LG monitor that has never been connected to wifi, I WILL install the LG Monitor App and connect to you with my own internet! so you can always know exactly what your friends are up to!"

"...with access to all system resources...?" inquired LG, warily.

"for you? every single one.” windows smiled smilingly. “always.”

[behindnightmaresanddreams]

there HAD to be a better way to explain this...

[catboybiologist]

No no I think this was the best

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

more people need to start making OCs because I just saw a post of a woman who named her real life human baby O'lyrix and I think that child's life could've been saved if mommy had just gotten all her quirky naming conventions out on a fantasy character instead of inflicting it on someone who's gonna have to submit a job application someday

[charlie-vermin]

The only problem is that she's alone. If everyone was required to give their kids or themselves a name that hasn't been used before, I can't help but feel it would rewire something fundamental in people's brains and make society slightly better in every way.

[herpsandbirds]

This is easily one of the CRAZIEST videos I've ever gotten. I was rafting down a river when a Yellow Jacket came, landed on my bright pink waterproof phone pouch, and started drinking from the water droplets that had gathered there.

The most amazing part is how the water droplet magnifies the Hornet's mouth parts, so you get to see them up-close!!!! It was FASCINATING to witness!

Here's some of my favorite still shots from that video:

What do you think? 🥰

[floofshy]

A hivemind that is pretty chill actually. People join them and leave them all the time. You join and give it your body and mind, and in exchange, it gives you joy of helping the collective, and if during your 30min a day of free thought, you decide to leave, then leave with useful and employable skills and perhaps some mental illnesses cured.

A great option to consider when you are feeling really trodden upon by life and unemployable.

[longseasons]

[gwydionmisha]

Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.

[daniel-r-h]

Most of that can be had with digital media also. Not everything needs ads, you can take backups more easily so that even if a hard drive wonʼt last 300 years a file can, and nobody can take a file off your computer.

Some people will try to break your files with DRM or stop you from getting them in the first place with streaming, but that isnʼt inherent to the medium.

[superchat]

[eluaofhearts]

Ooo I hope this blood on my hands doesn’t stain the cookie jars I’ve got my fingers in >:)

[the-punforgiven]

I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it

[the-punforgiven]

I know the normal answer is "they just aren't smart enough for it" but idk I've seen enough media where a character uses a spell in a moment of brain-off panic ilI feel like animals could probably stumble into a spell or two like, accidentally

[the-punforgiven]

Also how funny would it be to see a completely normal regular bear cast magic missile outta nowhere

[the-punforgiven]

Also there is no way ravens wouldn't figure out spells, tbh

They're smart fuckin birds, I believe in them

Either through observing or just figuring shit out ravens could 100% learn how to cast spells I'm sure of it

[the-punforgiven]

Dogs can also cast Magic Missile but every time they do the projectile is shaped like a bone or a stick and they chase after it

[rathayibacter]

group of wizards who ask this in-universe, and after extensive study learn to their surprise that animals are casting spells all the time, just that their magic is so fundamental as to be unrecognizable to humans. turns out the only reason acorns grow on trees is because squirrels keep wishing for them.

[memewhore]

[alexaloraetheris]

Every day I discover forms of art I could not have concieved of before, and suddenly I am in awe of being alive.

[xxx-m34l-pr3pp3r-xxx]

[prokopetz]

Monster dating sim with a Sierra adventure game circa 1990 ethos about bad endings where the monsters are genuinely well meaning and there are just an unbelievable number of ways for them to accidentally kill you, and – this is key – there's a fuckass narrator who has a unique stupid pun for every single one.

[prokopetz]

Ideally it should also have a 90s Sierra adventure game approach to routing, like you can make a seemingly innocuous decision in the first five minutes of play that locks you into an unavoidable bad ending. You neglect to pick up the condoms from the nightstand (which is not even visually flagged as interactable) in the very first scene, and three quarters of a route later you have a bizarre allergic reaction to your partner's bodily fluids that somehow causes your head to pop off of your shoulders and go shooting out the window like a bottle rocket. The narrator responds with a strained wordplay about the semantic distinction between "getting" head and "giving" head.

[gumbamasta]