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usa | i/enfj | render of man Very tired comp sci transgender man in the midwest USA that is just trying to get through this pseudo-religious capitalistic hellscape. I drink too much coffee, have opinions about ttrpgs, could talk about and compare varying cyberpunk IPs for far too long, and I play too many video games. Pfp by Gray (nsfw).

[berniesrevolution]

Chris Hedges on America entering the “Trump Phase” of late capitalism

[chibanova]

To everyone considering paying 5 billion dollars per year to play gamecube games on switch

Take my hand. I can show you a better way

[durbikins]

it's called the Switch 2 because you Switch 2 a cheaper hobby

[depsidase]

[polymorphiczooid]

Smaugust Day 26: Long

I'm sure this concept has already been done, but I have noodles on the brain rn.

[senairart]

“I'm doing this for you, too, you know. To make sure we're both safe. Forever, for good.”

[scribefindegil]

Everyone is so weird about people who cry easily. Fellas, is it evil and manipulative to *checks notes* have an involuntary stress response?

[bluishorange]

actually a coworker of mine said something interesting about this. I was saying that I truly can’t help how easily I cry, and I hate when people assume I do it on purpose.

and he paused for a second and then said, “when you’ve been taught from a young age that crying is weak and you should train yourself never to cry for any reason, you assume that everyone else has trained themselves too, so anyone who cries has to be doing it on purpose. it took me a long time to realize that wasn’t true.”

listen we’re never gonna run out of ways the patriarchy hurts all of us.

[mutualcombat]

*bites ur scruff*

[full on twitter]

[mutualcombat]

omg if this actually gets to 10k i'm gonna go nuts (full image if you dont have twitter btw)

[pustotsvit]

ancient language, speak through fingers the awful edges where you end and I begin

[cyberpunk-is-sexy]

[canthaveshitingotham-crucified]

i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

[canthaveshitingotham-crucified]

you get it. you get the themes. i dont have time to do it justice. just look at it its on the ceiling

[brenna]

[teaboot]

[wheresmyphonemp3]

[fadingponycookiedream]

[andsorrowsend]

[werefeathers]

[dimme-danger-little-stranger]

Verne's new cyberware is here, thanks to the amazing @elvenbeard who made an incredible work on it ! :D I've wanted to give Verne a significative upgrade for a while now ^^ And if you want to see a bloody version of this artwork, it's below !

Verne's hot like this, isn't it ? >:3c

[elvenbeard]

Thank you so much for commissioning me, I had a blast working on this! :D

[depsidase]

[vital-information]

I told Miyazaki I love the “gratuitous motion” in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are.

“We have a word for that in Japanese,” he said. “It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.”

Is that like the “pillow words” that separate phrases in Japanese poetry?

“I don’t think it’s like the pillow word.” He clapped his hands three or four times. “The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.”

Which helps explain why Miyazaki’s films are more absorbing and involving than the frantic cheerful action in a lot of American animation. I asked him to explain that a little more.

“The people who make the movies are scared of silence, so they want to paper and plaster it over,” he said. “They’re worried that the audience will get bored. They might go up and get some popcorn.

But just because it’s 80 percent intense all the time doesn’t mean the kids are going to bless you with their concentration. What really matters is the underlying emotions–that you never let go of those.

— Roger Ebert in conversation with Hiyao Miyazaki

[e-louise-bates]

This illustrates perfectly my issues with the “every moment in every scene in every chapter has to advance the plot” advice for story writing. If there’s never a moment that’s just there, there because the story or the characters require it, if there’s never a chance to catch your breath and simply be in the story, can the story truly live? Or is it only a patchwork of moments?

[chouettechou]

When your girlfriend drags you to the oil fields to look for scrap.

[gunshyghostss]

[stunningpicture]

My friend was preparing for shooting the lunar eclipse when a plane came by

[prospitprinceofhope]

IM GONNA CUT THE FUCKING MOON IN HALF