I'm the angel, I'm the devil, I'm the joke

I'm out my mind, but look who's laughing now | (they/them)

[domidextrus]

Obligatory introduction, just so you know what you're signing up for when you choose to follow this blog

Here's an inexhaustive list of stuff I regularly reblog or post about, in no particular order:

QUILTBAG (aka LGBTQIA+, I'm nonbinary)

Neurodivergence (mainly autism because that's what I have)

Lupin III (for more of that, check out my side-blog @monkeyfaced-trickster)

Markiplier

VRChat

Indie games

Animation in general

Philosophy

Mental health & self-care

(This list is not definitive. I might start posting about a new hyperfixation that isn't on it, and topics could be added or removed from the list depending on whether I grow committed to them or end up falling out of love.)

Browsing my blog for the first time? These are my tastes:

Stuff that's funny to me (this is where you'll find the shitposts)

Stuff that's funny to me and most likely others

Stuff that I find beautiful

Stuff that I find wholesome

Stuff that I find cute

Me talking about videogames I've played recently

Music that I just so happen to like (from the 70s / 80s / 90s / 00s)

Blorbo from my shows

If there's an original post on this blog you think is so awesome that you want to blaze, don't hesitate to DM me for permission and I'll enable it.

I am VIRULENTLY anti-GenAI. If you try to get me to share AI slop or posts that promote GenAI, or you come at me with a defense of it, you will be blocked instantly. This is your warning.

This blog is 100% trans-supportive! (I'm nonbinary so it's pretty much a given. Gatekeeping is for cowards.) If Shinigami Eyes has marked me as anti-trans, then it has been fully compromised by bad-faith actors and you must stop using it!

[shrapnelstars]

@domidextrus NEW RAYMAN AT STATE OF PLAY

[domidextrus]

(Granted, it's an upgraded remake of a pre-existing entry, and I'm frankly a bit worried about the dialogue feeling a little Marvel-esque, but I'll take this as a win.)

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[reading-writing-revolution]

[leighlew3]

[sunshineofthe-night]

🩷💜💙

[bill-blake-fans-anonymous]

I think strange horrible things should stop befalling my friends

[catastrophespouse]

I think strange wonderful things should start befalling my friends

[domidextrus]

Happy Pride Month to my American followers!

[domidextrus]

probably LUSH's board room when designing the officially-licensed Yoshi bath bomb and deciding on one of the four surprise colors inside: Red has more positive connotations than negative. It's associated with love and passion. That's a little thing called "color theory"! Ever heard of it!?

[dduane]

If you don't want LinkTree putting your imagery into AI... get out now

Just canceled my account (not that I used it that much). But I won’t permit this. Via @unaminh.bsky.social:

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI.

…Just so you know.

[domidextrus]

I'm not a shipper, I just wanted to drop this for the goofs

[eddyneedssleep]

I find it so funny that people are shocked and freaking out that Mark knows about the bloodymary ship as if he wasn't saying shit like this on this very site back in 2015

[domidextrus]

Oh hell yeah, they made it into a full-fledged song at last! And it's even frickin' better!

[thedgeofsleep]

IRON LUNG (2026) dir. Markiplier

[domidextrus]

I have a slight few problems with the video's message, but there are a lot of things I do agree with:

The globalization of anime is a double-edged sword: Yes, more people can be exposed to it, but in trying to appeal to as many sensibilities as possible, it also dilutes the medium of the things that make it truly unique. The reason it became a niche in the first place is because it did things that Western mainstream animation wouldn't think of experimenting with for various reasons. This ends up filtering out people who don't fully appreciate the medium, while those who choose to stick with it grow a more refined palate.

A lot of criticism that anime tends to get from the people who don't want to admit they've filtered themselves out seem to be rooted in a form of ethnocentrism. There seems to be this inherent culture shock that people try to frame as justified because it directly challenges the standards they've grown up with. In a more general context, the animation age ghetto can be seen as a product of that same clashing of standards as well.

There does seem to be a dividing barrier between the otaku who consume what's current and/or popular and the otaku who prefer to dig into the older/eclectic stuff. The increased prevalence of media consumption as a purely social activity, as well as the exploitation of shortened attention spans by TikTok culture, also seems to have made that divide much worse.

While I do agree that posers trying to overtake the conversation is a legit issue that we should be attentive about, I feel trepidation towards assuming a young fan's poser status based on them only recognizing well-worn iconic tropes from fairly recent reference points. Yes, I'd also lament the true origin points becoming forgotten, but I'd rather forego that immediate judgement call and sincerely invite them to engage with the media that codified the tropes, then gauge whether leading them down the rabbit hole will filter them out or not. The people who never truly cared about the medium to begin with and only interacted for the sake of social status will usually filter themselves out pretty quick.

I'm free to admit that I was filtered out of the medium for a while when I was exposed to the moe and ecchi subspheres long ago, but I am slowly but surely coming around on that. Even if I have only one specific anime I can call myself a fan of these days, I've become a lot more open-minded about the medium in the years since. In the end, no matter how you judge it, anime is, like all animation, an art form that cannot (and should not) be confined to what's safe and easy to consume.

[kokica1]

Let's be real, his job is to be online...

[cerastes]

I don’t think we ought to normalize or justify bullying as a means to keep people from being annoying — a sentiment that in and of itself could make for a whole article’s worth of conversation — but I do think we should make a habit of politely but directly telling people “hey I didn’t like that”, “that wasn’t funny”, “you are mistaken”, and the like if it’s called for, and more importantly, you should be able to take a “that wasn’t funny” for instance without taking it personally, because protecting a polite harmony where no one can criticize each other, not even politely, is also really, really bad.

[void-of-existence]

HE KNOWS OH MY GODS

I SCREAMED ALOUD