Evil Ian

A lot of things about me should be self-evident tbh. 24 they/them

[call-me-noa]

Shinjuku awakened something inside him I think.

[quixoticanarchy]

the author’s poorly disguised unchallenged ideas about how the world works, what is natural, what should go without saying

[girlnephew]

[fioras-resolve]

adding real-time minigames to your turn-based combat is a great way to engage the more action-y parts of our brains. it's also a great way to make combat trivial to anyone really good at those minigames.

[fioras-resolve]

pros to a parry system: players can avoid all damage if they're good enough

cons to a parry system: players can avoid ALL damage if they're good enough

[jame7t]

hhhrk. gggrrrg. *changes several core aspects of your personality when you’re not looking*

[duckdotcom]

normally this would infuriate me but I feel uncharacteristically calm and forgivibg

[bonivers]

listening and learning

[kaibacorpintern]

in the Egyptian wing of the museum and my boyfriend is like “what are all the time periods of ancient Egypt” and I’m like predynastic, early dynastic, old kingdom which is when the pyramids were built, first intermediate, middle kingdom, second intermediate, new kingdom which includes amarna period and yugioh, third intermediate, and then all the late period stuff and macedonian and roman eras. and he’s like run that by me one more time

[askaniritual]

i like when wikipedia pages for bands have that little chart at the bottom where you can see how they’ve been ritualistically cannibalizing their drummer every 3-5 years since 2007

[agnesandhilda]

shoutout to the woman from my high school martial arts class who liked to get me in joint locks and then joke about how I was easy to catch. you cannot comprehend how psychosexually formative that was for me

[agnesandhilda]

imagine, if you will, having an adolescent half-crush on someone way older than you, which is also confusingly blurred up with admiration of them as a role model. now imagine that you and that person are in a social environment where it is acceptable to (platonically, consensually) choke someone. I think I was very normal about it considering the circumstances

[agnesandhilda]

she would demonstrate takedowns on her husband (also in the class, and who was not a small man) before we got to try them and the first time I saw her twist him around and down onto the floor like it was easy my entire abdomen clenched

[agnesandhilda]

I cannot stress enough how eager this guy was to be manhandled (womanhandled?) and flipped around by his wife. he was her de facto guinea pig whenever she got to teach and I never saw him unenthusiastic about it. he'd set himself up for a joint lock fully smiling. the other adults in the class occasionally teased him about it (being so quick to let your wife put you in a submission hold tends to raise a few eyebrows), and I always kind of wanted to defend him but what would I have said? like, don't worry. I won't judge you. I also like being pinned down by your wife

[draculaisagothwizzard-deactivat]

That last sentance really hits ya like a psychosexually formative takedown

[agnesandhilda]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

So one thing about writing about societies that are really different from your own is that you're constantly having to reset your mind and filter natural ways of thinking and framing things for you, that would not be natural for your narrator. Most fantasy or scifi writers are familiar with The Cursing Problem ("how do I get across the simple energy of a good 'fuck this' or 'to hell with this' without jarring your audience, in a society that doesn't have a concept of an afterlife or heavy sexual taboos?") but it crops up everywhere.

I've got my narrator who lives in a colony ship with a heavily planned economy and little to no use of personal currency. She's explaining the differences between two types of elevators on the ship, one that just goes up a few (populated and pressurised) floors and one that has to travel to the middle of the big spinning ring they're all on, so it's a lot longer, much more difficult to maintain and upgrade, and things are much, much more dangerous if it breaks down. My automatic way to summarise the differences in difficulty between these was to call one "very expensive to maintain" and the other "much cheaper to maintain". I'm just so used to abstracting materials, labour and maintenance frequency into terms of currency.

She Would Not Say That.

Writing scifi is a fucking landmine of this stuff. Every two paragraphs I'm ambushed by some completely innocuous-seeming sentence asking me "would I, this sentence, exist in this culture? If someone here said this, what would they actually be implying? Is it the same as what someone in the real world would be implying?"

[muppet-sex]

[countably-infinite-rats]

there are two punchlines here, the first is predictable, the second really surprises you

[gsirvitor]

Man has been alive for 164.5 years.

[correctopinionhaver]

not thinking of her = the fountain of youth

[animentality]

[leafxvii]

Red line guardian based off of a water stain I saw at Porter

[toskarin]

the nature of any trend at all is that sooner or later there will be something chasing it that so wholeheartedly charges headfirst into the brick wall of its contradictions that it comes off as mean-spirited parody

there's some debate to be had over when and where genres have this moment, but despite the theoretical witch-cat-alps game bearing most of the cross for this in the public imagination, I still think cosy-wholesome games actually hit this peak when Dinkum depicted its post-apocalyptic australia as a terra nullius and then included a land acknowledgement in the credits

[toskarin]

life's like a christmas carol you either kermit or some other muppet alternatively michael caine

[toskarin]

I roll in on some christmas carol shit chasing that bag everyone else is some other muppet alternatively michael caine

[toskarin]

ten thousand wealth you're scrooged out on that christmas carol not some other muppet: you are michael caine

[toskarin]

scrooged out not like those muppets or frog no time for tree I'm on some other shit where is michael caine

[toskarin]

scrooging like a christmas carol so far beyond those muppets moving like michael caine

[toskarin]

call it a christmas carol I'm stunting on these muppets veins full of blood scrooged up have you ever heard of michael caine

[toskarin]

learned a lesson from these muppets, call it a scrooged up christmas carol built like michael caine

[toskarin]

spoiling it for you if you haven't seen, we find out there's more important things than money, learn from those muppets, scrooged up like michael caine

[toskarin]

sweets and treats a yule delight

a muppet frog and ghosts tonight

scrooging out this christmas pain

I dash and hop like michael caine

[toskarin]

three nights and ghosts assailed beguile

play host to frights, muppets' tall tale

be learned per pain, lest scrooge erstwhile

who is michael caine

[queermania]

if i’m ever brutally murdered and everyone feels like they need to do something productive in my memory, all i want is for you to pass legislation banning LED headlights in my name. regardless of how irrelevant it is to my murder. it’s relevant to my heart.

[sometiktoksarevalid]