YMMV

An idiot talking games, fandom, and many things in-between. Your mileage may vary.

[wordfather]

i have 3275 tv shows to finish and 234657 movies to watch and 5624839 books to read i should really get on that but i have no time to. beacsue i am watching sillay videos on youtube dot com forever and always

[sophiamcdougall]

As a writer who knows a lot of people in the British SFF scene I really want to push back on the "everyone knew about Neil Gaiman" narrative. I don't know anyone who knew. I don't know anyone who isn't shocked. Yes, we now know there were people who did know, people who created whisper networks, but by their very nature whisper networks can only reach a minority of people. (Which incidentally, isn't a condemnation of whisper networks at all. If you've heard a rumour you have no way of verifying, or even if you know a victim who quite rationally does not want to be outed, what else can you do but warn people privately when you can?) Obviously the victims didn't know until it was too late, so why would anyone else? Gaiman had such a celebrity status that he was "above" basically everyone in the field. He was the famous, powerful person generously dipping into their lives. I'd never met him, but even people I knew who considered him a friend were mostly seeing him on occasions where of course he'd have his charming, gregarious persona in play. There seems to be this impulse, perhaps fuelled by Gaiman's silence, to attack everyone who's not him (and especially women and NB acquaintances, it's not lost on me.) Yesterday a casual friend of his with a minor platform felt she had to apologise, humbly, for not having made a public statement before! She'd done absolutely nothing wrong and had been made to feel ashamed of something he'd done. Yes, there are conversations we can have about power structures and privilege and press organs that told a survivor her experience "wasn't enough." But ultimately Neil Gaiman did this. He made those choices. He owes accountability.

[silent-words]

Some people say making all romanceable BG3 companions pansexual was "for commercial reasons". I think there was an idea behind it:

Whoever you are, you can be loved and cherished.

It doesn't matter who the main character is in terms of gender, species and race (or race and subrace in game terms), they have a chance to be loved. A comfort for traumatized souls.

Imagine a person start playing the game where they know there is romance with companions, trying to flirt with someone they like and being rejected. It would be heartbreaking. And it is not the game easily replayed, my first playthrough took 200 hours.

What I want to say is... Thank you, Larian Studios, for this masterpiece of a game. There is nothing like it, and I doubt there will ever be.

[suiheisen]

my favourite olympics subplot is this norwegian swimmer’s public love affair with chocolate muffins and his increasingly manic tiktoks about them... romance of the summer

[lurkingjester]

Just consistently using otome games as a coping mechanism.

[pangur-and-grim]

I think another reason I love having cats is bc with people you gotta hold yourself back and not be a smothering over-affectionate creep, but with cats you can just hold them up and be like "I LOVE I LOVE I LOVE YOU" and kiss their little paws, and all they do back is meow at you

[pangur-and-grim]

I LOVE YOU! YOU ARE MY SMALL ANIMAL! I LOVE YOU!

[this-is-a-job-for-vesemir]

Arabella: You can read each other's minds??

Gale: Well, kind of.

Arabella: That’s AWESOME! Can you tell me what Karlach's thinking of?

Gale: Hm. Bouncy castle

Arabella: What’s going on in Astarion's brain?

Gale: Not child appropriate

Arabella: What about Tav?

Gale: Elevator music

[velnna]

I watched barbie

[velnna]

I've been looking for an excuse to draw this meme for ages and then BAM Shadow Dark'ness Dementia Raven Heart was right there

[mystery-salad]

Wyll and Karlach across the way

[animatingforfun]

For Christmas this year, I got a Jurassic Park Velociraptor toy, and even though it’s now a few days past Christmas, I decided to make this stopmotion video because I couldn’t stop laughing at the idea. Enjoy!

Animated with Stop Motion Studio Pro app on my iPad.

[higglety]

This is a masterpiece

[mindofthemage]

[adventures-in-poor-planning]

psychically smacking my new hire with a spoon like "no, don't work off the clock" "yes, we give you breaks" "no, we aren't nice for doing this, it's literally the law" it feels like I've adopted a shelter cat

[adventures-in-poor-planning]

*in the arms of the angels playing softly in the background* with your help, we can give just-out-of-college workers some god damn standards

[vivianandjoss]

This is why you shouldn't release any LGBT+ TV show before the Eurovision

(who am I kidding, they rock)

[shipperwolf1]

Yoshi-P: we keep the npc interactions ambiguous so the player can interpret their relationships themselves

Haurchefant: asks you to smile with his dying breath

Aymeric: has dinner with you at his house*

*Thancred canonically suggests that Aymeric is in love with you

Y'shtola: insinuates that she wants to spank/dom you

Estinien: wears leather pants and an unbuttoned shirt to visit you in the middle of the night

G'raha: literally everything he says/does

Emet Selch: spends 13,000 years committing heinous atrocities to force the scattered pieces of your soul back together so he can be with you (and your other boyfriend Hythlodaeus)

Zenos: asks you to fuck him every time he sees you

[guccixcucci]

[guccixcucci]

[jebbyfwish]

[catasters]

[zombeesknees]

#in the stocks for little cat crimes

[herssian]

the Convocation recruiting every Azem be like

be available to annoy Emet-Selch at ALL times

idk do some paperwork. maybe