and darkness sweeps in like a hand

Max & Vi • she/her/he/him, not they • Arknights, FFXIV, Hermitcraft/Life SMP, assorted bullshit • Elder Zoomer • main @max-gillespie • [Video Essay Recs] • [Horror Movie Recs] • My banner is from Chainmail Chasers you should watch it

[medievaljournalist]

ever since i was a little girl i always dreamed of becoming a provincial warlord

[chryza]

shes literally cool and hot. don't worry about the disorders.

[aomitois]

rb and tag your favorite song that's not in english, japanese or korean

[chryza]

I’m like actually in love with him I think

[chryza]

I have to kill myself my dad was cleaning out my new room and I had already moved some stuff into the nightstand drawer INCLUDING my sex toys and he definitely saw those. Fuck. I have to kill myself RIGHT now.

[chryza]

I think the thing that gets me about The Situation is like. It would have been very easy to go “oops I forgot bisexuals existed sorry!” Which is shitty but like when you exist in your own myopic fandom bubble is understandable yknow!

But instead he in true annoying fashion started posting about how he is the victim of a homophobic hate campaign and started posting donation links. lmfao.

[chryza]

GOT APPROVED FOR FULL MEDICAID COVERAGE

[corrucyst]

dude, this is really scary, and liminal as well. It's like the bathrooms

[chryza]

Fih

[chryza]

I have so much controversy I have to suppress every day. Every day I’m like. Ohh I could start fights. I COULD. I could do a quarter of a backflip and wreck my shit right here on the sidewalk.

[ebolagranola]

Take my terrible quiz of anguish and torment. Tell me your results and what you answered to the mass extinction question.

What ChainmailChasers Character are You?

What character from the online horror project ChainmailChasers are you!

[chryza]

>Hell yeah. I am going to fucking beat the creepypasta jpeg

>actually dies epically like a boss

[chryza]

If I start taking ozempic will you guys still like me. I know we are pretty anti ozempic here but it’s FOR A GOOD CAUSE (ie not getting diabetes lmfao).

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[36363636log]

break the cycle

[dragoncarrion]

They're adding' outdoor cat owner" and "off leash dog owner" to the DSM

[chryza]

People asking questions about a post generally isn’t harassment however a lot of people have discovered they can frame a question as harassment and then hide behind the excuse of “just asking for clarification.”

See also: white people asking completely unrelated and emotionally laborious questions and/or incredibly basic racism 101 stuff (all of which centers their own whiteness) on the posts of random black people and then when the black person rightfully is like can you people fuck off the white people go whoa hey I was just aksing a quastion

[vicholas]

Why are people now saying "LARP" when they mean "poser". It's confusing.

[vicholas]

Everyone is always parroting The Buzzword Of The Month without actually knowing what it means or where it comes from, make it stop

[gunsandfireandshit]

Kinda like how "POV" went from "(implied first person) Point Of View" to "there is a video"

[chryza]

I also don’t like this usage of the word larp however it does make sense if u break down the vernacular I guess. Roleplay is a word which has become common place, and being a poser is “roleplaying” as a fan without actually being a fan. LARP is a pretty natural offshoot of that I suppose and it’s catchier. Tourist was the word du jour to describe it before this but I am generally of the opinion we just need to bring back the word poser

RE POV I have no idea about that one. I suspect it’s because originally the video was supposed to be from the POV of the person recording the video, not the person watching, and somewhere it got lost in ironic translation. Like people do know what it’s supposed to mean but it has taken on a vernacular meaning on TikTok specifically to mean “a setting”