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literally my dad

As summer is approaching, I’d like to remind everyone that you are not entitled to ask someone to cover up their scars, self inflicted or not. I don’t care if they’re big, I don’t care if they’re noticeable, or purple, or all over their body, or what. You can’t police people’s bodies.

asexual-amanita

This also goes for my friends with feeding tubes, ostomy bags, central lines and urinary catheters. People are allowed exist in bodies that stray from the expected norm.

fuzzy-oooze

There's this really obscure forgotten DC hero named the Heckler, who's basically buggs bunny as a superhero, not having any powers or physically strong, but just really good at pissing people off until they accidentally deal with themselves.

Now they're interesting, but the REAL star of the show is one of his villains, John Doe the Generic Man, who's this guy in a stark white suit with flat pink unshaded, untextured skin with no features or anything who talks like chatGPT and has black text over his face that explains what he's feeling at the moment. That guy is fucking fascinating.

havingapoemwithyou

lies about sea creatures by ada limón

villapaitahinttari

that "wait so RUPAUL would be TME??!?!?!" post is so hilarious to me and really exposes how people will try to engage with this terminology without actually understanding it at all, because RuPaul is maybe one of the best examples of transmisogyny exemptedness I could think of 'cause he plays the part of a queen publically but crucially, at the end of the day, he gets to stop playing that part. transfems don't! we're just transfeminized for realsies 24/7! that's the difference!

bransonreese

creating comics

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santapau

Master post, June 2026

I'm Juan Santapau (he/him), and I make THE SECRET KNOTS, which is a series of short stories in comic form. I live in Chile. Hola.

If you've been on Tumblr for some time maybe you've seen some of these comics: the one about a city of secret names; the one with a misunderstood cryptid; the one about enshittification.

The full web archive is here: The Secret Knots.

If you'd like to support me with a few dollars every month (which helps me enormously to pay bills and keep making art), you can subscribe to my Patreon, where I post updates about every comic in progress and different extras. You can also follow for free and get notifications for new things.

Here’s the Newsletter, where I send reminders about new stories, and miscellaneous art.

I’m on Bsky and Reddit.

Here’s the PDF store, with some E-comics. Finally, here’s an invitation to the Secret Knots Discord, a community server that always brings nice recommendations, and regular sightings of the weird in the world. Feel free to drop by and say hello.

prokopetz

It's actually a bit surprising to me that we haven't seen contemporary meta brainfuck indie games do more than they have with 1990s point and click adventure games' penchant for developer-intended softlocks. That feels like something you could very easily spin as Saying Something.

prokopetz

Honestly, having grown up with this bullshit is probably a big part of the reason I'm fascinated with player-hostile game design. Giving a puzzle three different solutions with fully voiced and animated reactions to each, except two of those solutions render the game unwinnable in ways that won't become apparent until hours later is a level of "fuck you" that most modern games with pretensions of player-hostility can only dream of!

prokopetz

@lunchm34t replied:

what adventure games softlock you like that?

I'm usually loathe to suggest TV Tropes as a resource, but given that only a person who's entirely unacquainted with the genre would be asking that question, a primer is probably warranted. Check out the Unwinnable By Design article and read the preamble for context on the types of softlocks we're discussing, then hit either the "Sierra" or "Infocom" links (yes, those two publishers each have their own dedicated sections!), pop open the "Cruel" tab, and get ready to read some stuff that makes you mad.

sd-d0-l1y

There really is only one correct way to play some of these games huh.

prokopetz

A critical piece of context that a lot of modern gamers completely miss is that Douglas Adams' adventure games are works of parody not only in terms of their narratives, but also in the sense that they're rather vicious parodies of adventure games as a genre. Each of their absurdly obtuse puzzles is lampooning some puzzle design trope or set of tropes that was legitimately commonplace at the time they were made, and many of the really nasty bits are crafted specifically to piss off experienced adventure game fans who otherwise wouldn't get caught out by that sort of thing. They're outliers in the genre only in the sense that they're putting forth extra effort to be annoying about it – most games of the type pull the exact same shit entirely without remark!

prokopetz

(Honestly, the player-hostility of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tends to be tremendously overstated owing to a combination of effective marketing and the fact that it's the only adventure game from that era that any significant number of current-gen gamers have ever actually played. In terms of sheer fuckery it's considerably friendlier than stuff like, say, Codename: ICEMAN.)

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Does anything mean anything any more

tittyinfinity

cpericardium

happy pride

electricheart

a little reminder! by annalaura_art

cryptotheism

I sit alone in an unfurnished room for several hours, locked in meditation. After several days of silence, my eyes snap open.

"I just passed the Bechdel Test"

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snarp

One time I did that thing where you try to commune with your ancestors by getting insanely sleep-deprived and doing a shitload of drugs at a place that was sacred to them, which in my case was the parking lot where they used to dump the frogs after they injected them with piss. And obviously I was hoping to get given a revenge quest, like a relatively-recent one that I could conceivably still track down and kill somebody's descendent over?

But I guess I should have used different drugs because the wronged ancestor I got was this I think neanderthal who was around when they invented bags. Like, to carry shit in. Before bags they just carried everything like, in their hands and arms and stuff.

And she was still mad about the bags! Like, absolutely furious that some other biped had done that. Total disrespect to the craft of carrying items, in her opinion; ruined a whole generation's balance and arm strength. And she personally had been *so* good at balancing fruits and dead animals in her arms stably and over lengthy walks. Which she demonstrated to me.

And she was like "you know why you have back pain. It's those fucking bags." And I went, "oh yeah I know my doctor told me my fucking high school backpack did permanent damage." Then I had to tell her about backpacks, and you have never SEEN a neanderthal or whatever she was that fucking mad. She asked if I could find a descendent of whoever was responsible for *those* to kill, and I had to say no, I'm sorry, but the backpacks were also a really long time ago, I cannot trace guilt in blood on that one either.

So she was really pissed off and went like "I don't think you really even want an ancestral revenge quest." And I was feeling kind of defensive at this point and asked her why she didn't kill the bag lady herself with a spear when she wasn't looking. And then I had to explain spears, too. I guess the bags came first?

But anyway, apparently one of my ancestors died trying to drown the inventor of the bag, and as a result I agreed to kill the dean of my high school (a compromise). I wrote to Ursula K. Le Guin about this but she never responded.

snarp

Stop tagging this "unreality," it happened