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kelseys reblog blog (≧∇≦)/

[blackpyrefly]

after nearly 2 years of near continuous isolation from the global pandemic i can say that the guy from the shining was a bitch i could do his job and not try to kill my wife and son. i havent tried to kill my wife once and ive spent way longer going insane

[hellomrmarionette]

Do you have ghosts and demons tho?

[blackpyrefly]

being online is the same thing as being psychically attacked by ghosts and demons

[animusrox]

Good For Her™

[hardcore-gaming-101]

Chrith: Ai no Tabidachi (Japanese Video Game Obscurity)

This article is part of our Japanese Obscurities feature. We put out a whole book about them, which is available as both a full color hardcover and a Kindle ebook from Amazon! If you’d like to see more of these features, please check out the book and if you enjoyed it, leave a five star review so we can convince the publisher to do a follow up with even more interesting, offbeat, or historically important Japanese games!

There have been a number of Christian-themed video games over the years, though most of these come from the United States. Japan is pretty far from a Christian nation – it’s estimated that only one to two percent of the populace practice the religion – so it’s pretty unusual to see such any such titles coming from the country. But that’s the case for Chrith: Ai no Tabidachi (“The Journey of Love”), published by Koei and developed by Comix.

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[obscurevideogames]

(PC6001 - 1985)

[sofasofia]

[madeofwhitebone]

Greenhouse

[rippuppygoodtimes]

[bogleech]

Dorohedoro!

[bogleech]

this comment on this pokemon swsh character though

[corporationkills]

on all levels , including physical , i am this

[woble-deactivated20200720]

noo dont base your self worth on online validation from strangers youre so sexy ahaha

[cool-dad-deactivated20240526-de]

you think im sexy??

[spitblaze]

:Þ

[kedreeva]

When I say “writers don’t want your unsolicited criticism” and “leaving unsolicited criticism on fanfiction hurts writers” THIS is what I mean.

This isn’t even all of them, this is just from a FEW posts on the subject. Read through these, and then look me in the eyes and say you’re ~helping writers~ by leaving that criticizing comment on someone’s fic when they didn’t ask you to.

You’re hurting or, at best, annoying us. You’re hurting fandom.

You’re not helping us.

[raisincouncil]

Here is what good criticism looks like:

1) Start with something you loved!

You can even stop here, because positive feedback is still constructive criticism.

2) Ask questions that you wish the Author had asked themself

Was there anything that you wish had been explained or developed more? What direction do you wish the Author had taken? Let the author know if there were any places you got confused.

3) Ask the author if they had any specific concerns, then address them.

Maybe the Author stressed over a certain paragraph being too boring. Either offer suggestions, or put their fears to rest.

4) End with something else you liked!

If you are reviewing a hard copy of someone’s work, put lil hearts by the phrases that made you smile!

-Don’t correct spelling or grammar unless you are not able to understand a sentence/paragraph/the whole story because of it. Grammar and spelling will improve naturally as a reader/writer matures, and that is not your job. You are not the grammar police. Anyone who self-proclaims themselves as one needs to grow uo.

-Don’t say anything about who the author is as a person. Feedback should just be a product of the interaction between reader+work.

My life as a writer began when an English teacher decided to take my sappy teenage work seriously. Writing is a journey of constant improvement. The best feedback you can give is: “I’m proud of you.”

[kedreeva]

@theraisincouncil

Stop this. Stop it.

You’re obviously jumping into an argument with no idea of the history of it , but this is the exact behavior I’m talking about that’s damaging.

Fandom isn’t a writing class. We are not in English 101 with you. You’re not our teacher, and we’re not students that you need to correct by giving us unsolicited criticism. You’re not even my beta reader. You’re Joe Schmoe on the internet and we don’t want your unsolicited criticism on how to improve.

Listen, I know you mean well, but please take a moment and look at what you just did. You looked at a hundred comments from a hundred people saying “please stop doing this behavior, it’s hurting us” and said “okay, but here’s how to do this behavior anyway.”

No! The point is stop doing it. YOU are the one hurting us.

[greenbergsays]

“My life as a writer began when an English teacher decided to take my sappy teenage work seriously. Writing is a journey of constant improvement.“

I mean, listen.

I started writing fanfiction at eleven–and you can imagine how terrible that was–which my dad found and read.

Despite the fact that it was terrible, thinly veiled Mary Sue self-insert, my dad took it seriously. He told me that it was amazing and imaginative and he never would’ve thought to do the thing I did in that one story, etc, etc.

It was terrible writing, but he only ever encouraged me to write more. He only ever gave me compliments.

You’re right, writing is a journey of constant improvement, but nowhere is it written that that journey must be made on a road where random passersby throw rotten fruit at you under the guise of helping you.

I am the writer I am today not because my dad criticized my work or because of snotty, holier-than-thou comments on the internet. I’m the writer I am today because I’ve been practicing for over fifteen years.

Year after year, fic after fic, fandom after fandom, I have gotten consistently better at crafting stories and it’s not because of so-called “constructive criticisms” on fanfiction that I’m already done writing.

It’s because I got encouragement when I needed it and silence when I needed that.

I’m not saying that everyone’s story is mine or that people even grow the way I do and I’m not saying that criticism is never warranted.

I’m saying that constructive criticism is a beta’s job and that it useless after the fact, which is when the author gets your comment–after the story is posted, after it is done being written–and that are there enough writers out there that DO learn and grow just by practicing that perhaps you should be mindful of what you comment on a fic.

That is literally the entire argument.

How many screenshots of messages and tags have to be posted before people get that they’re hurting writers instead of helping them?

[heywriters]

“You’re ruining my fun thing by turning it into homework” is my favorite screenshot from this post.

[shellsan]

@ao3commentoftheday I recall a huge discussion on your blog about this sort of thing, and thought might be a addition to offer the masses on the subject of unsolicited criticism and why fandom etiquette is not to give it.

[owlgams]

Opening for commissions for the forseeable future, if you're interested please send me and email at [email protected]

[owlgams]

Needing to pay some bills this week and would greatly appreciate some business!

[odessryn]

Spoopy Halloween Movie List

After years of research, I have finally found the ultimate Halloween movie list and order to watch!

-Double Double Toil and Trouble (1993)

-The Vampire Academy (2014)

-Queen of the Damned (2002)

-Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

- Underworld (2003)

-The Little Vampire (2000)

-Coraline (2009)

-Corpse Bride (2005)

-The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

-Monster House (2006) 

-Hotel Transylvania (2012)

-Paranorman (2012)

-Sleepy Hollow (1999)

-Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

-Twitches (2006)

-The Haunted Mansion (2003)

-Dark Shadows (2012)

-Beetlejuice (1988)

-The Goonies (1985)

-Halloweentown (1998) (also Halloweentown II & Halloweentown High)

-The Craft (1996)

-Scooby Doo on Zombie Island (1998)

-Scooby Doo and the Witches Ghost (1999)

-Scooby Doo Ghoul School (1988)

-Scary Godmother Halloween Spooktakular (2003)

-Addams Family (1991)

-Addams Family Values (1993)

These last two must be watched on October 31st!

-Practical Magic (1998)

-Hocus Pocus (1993)

HAPPY SPOOPING!

[falldogs]

The most intense kids in class 

[owlet]

holy shit

[owlet]

transcription: “dude if he fucks up mac and che- … GARFIELD? GARFIELD!? NO! WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU? BEEL GATES? NO, wuh-WAIT, THAT’S MY GAMECUBE YOU BITCH!!!! huoAHWHO THE FUCK ARE YOU!? hWAIT NO GARFIELD IS ON FIRE… DIO! NO! WH

[starwarsnonsense]

Best Films of 2019 (So Far)

It’s that time of year again! As most of my followers probably know, I’m an avid cinema-goer beyond Star Wars. I also quite enjoy making lists, so what’s better than a combo of the two? Below, I run down my top 10 films of 2019 so far - please note that this list is based on UK cinema release dates, so some of these films were 2018 releases elsewhere.

What are your favourites so far from this year? Let me know in replies/asks!

Honourable mentions: Toy Story 4, Long Shot, Aladdin, Alita: Battle Angel & The Kid Who Would Be King

1. The Favourite, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

This completely wowed me - it features a trio of magnificently compelling female characters (played by Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone) operating at the court of Queen Anne (Colman is Anne, Weisz and Stone are courtiers), and is focused solely on the shifting sands of the power dynamics between them. The script is savage without sacrificing poignancy, witty without ceasing to be genuine. And while I’ve seen some react to this film as a comedy (and it certainly has laughs, most of which are closely tied to shock), for me it was very clearly a drama about the inscrutable and complicated relationships that exist between women. Specifically, it is about how those relationships run the gamut from sincere affinity to ruthless manipulation. This is an amazing movie, and it also has the best use of an Elton John song in 2019 (sorry, Rocketman!).

2. Midsommar, dir. Ari Aster

I went into this film with reservations, since I wasn’t a huge fan of Hereditary (by the same director), which I found to have extraordinary moments but iffy execution overall. This movie, however, wowed me, and I am still uncertain as to whether this or The Favourite is my top film of 2019 so far (fortunately, this gives me a good excuse to watch Midsommar three or four times in cinemas). While marketed as a freaky cult horror film, the director has described it as a fairy tale, which is the level on which is spoke to me. Midsommar follows Dani (an incredible Florence Pugh), a young woman who has suffered a terrible loss, as she travels with her boyfriend and his friends to a pagan festival in the Swedish countryside. Dani is painfully isolated, and her grief is hers to shoulder alone since her boyfriend is un-receptive and distinctly unprepared to help her. Over the course of the film, destruction and creation are conflated in ways that are frequently beautiful and horrific at the same time - this film spoke to me on a profound level, and the way it ended gave me a sense of incredible catharsis. This won’t be for everyone, for I found it to be a deeply special film and I can’t recommend it enough.

3. One Cut of the Dead, dir.  Shinichirou Ueda

While I went into The Favourite with high expectations given the talent involved, I went into this with no expectations whatsoever - and what a treat it was! One Cut of the Dead is easily one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in ears, taking what initially seems like a trite concept (a crew is filming a zombie movie at a desolate location … only to discover that the zombies are real!) and twisting it in a truly ingenious way. The comedy is often of the broad variety, but it is consistently delightful and always manages to avoid becoming crass - the movie even has some really sweet family dynamics at the centre of it, which gives it some real emotional heft. The success of this film is heavily reliant on a major twist that occurs part-way through, so the best advice I can give you is to stay as far away from spoilers for this one as possible - go in blind, and you will be amply rewarded for your faith.

4. The Farewell, dir. Lulu Wang

I saw this following a wave of festival hype, so while I was excited I was also a bit apprehensive (since I have been burned by the aforementioned festival hype before). Thankfully, my doubts were blown away as this turned out to be just as wonderful as the early reviews had suggested. It’s a personal story about a young Asian-American woman (Awkwafina) struggling to reconcile her heritage with her current situation and values - specifically, she is tested when her grandmother is diagnosed with terminal cancer and the wider family make the decision to hide the truth from her. The Farewell does a fantastic job of generating empathy for all the different perspectives and positions in play, but it’s truly anchored by Awkwafina’s amazingly nuanced and tender performance - basically, anyone who’s ever loved a grandparent should leave this feeling incredibly moved and inspired. The themes of The Farewell are both specific to the Asian-American experience and general to anyone who has struggled with maintaining bonds over a vast distance, whether physical or cultural.           

5. Booksmart, dir. Olivia Wilde

God, how I wish I’d had this movie as a teenager! While Booksmart has a cliched premise - two high-achieving teens decide to have one wild night before graduation - it tells the story in an incredibly charming and impressively creative way (I won’t spoil it, but let me just say this - that scene with the Barbies!). As someone who was an awkward nerd with no discernible social life in high school (as you Americans call it), I found this portrayal of that peculiar limbo period very sensitive and thoughtful - it doesn’t mock or shame its heroines for being studious, and it allows them to have limits and step back from situations that make them uncomfortable. It also serves as a beautifully honest portrait of a friendship, depicting the qualities that bring people together in friendship together in the first place, as well as the forces that can break people apart. This is a very accomplished debut from Wilde, and it makes me very excited to see where she goes next as a director.

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[serenaci]

Here’s a masterpost of my 2018 Inktober project: drawing all of the game enemies! Click on them to see them better. ^^ [Little sidenote; I put all the drawings in separate posts last year, but have just noticed that most of them had been blocked by Tumblr for somehow violating their guidelines. I hope this post won’t receive the same treatment.]