Rin Challenges You

Critiquing toxic geek culture since 2018 I also write and draw. I have a webcomic and post about my stories sometimes [ Please do not repost art without permission ] https://www.redbubble.com/people/geeky-llama/shop

[geekyllama]

Everyone says to kiss your homies but when will my homies offer me a kiss :[

[treecitysessions]

Why does everyone think fiction is just fantasy wish fulfillment now and not like an exploration of themes and ideas

[treecitysessions]

People will be like “this movie is evil and gross because it depicts a predatory relationship” and then you watch the movie in question and it’s about how preying on young women is bad and impacts their lives negatively

[treecitysessions]

“Why would they do this instead of just making everyone in the movie nice and normal and good” so we would have this conversation….

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[dracula61]

[rox-and-prose]

Stop Making Psychosis A Villainous Trait Challenge

[rox-and-prose]

Stop Making Scars A Sign Of Evil Challenge

[rox-and-prose]

Actually, you know what? Stop Using Disability As A Shorthand For Evil Challenge

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I'm a sucker for a good "you think you're in one horror subgenre but it's actually a different horror subgenre". character struggling to accept that maybe demons are tormenting them suddenly finds out it's actually aliens. trope of all time tbh

[prokopetz]

One of the biggest stumbling blocks when discussing the whole "Does This Media Like Women?" thing is folks thinking the answer can be measured empirically by counting how many women there are. Here's a piece of media where all of the viewpoint characters are women. Its speaking cast is 90% women. Textually explicit lesbian romance is a one of the main drivers of the plot, and half of the dramatic leads have backstories and motivations substantially informed by their relationships with their mothers. Surely, surely the answer is "yes", right? Well

[ironlily-art]

Ultimate practical solution of boob armor.

[anhedonia2]

while i think there has been good done by the normalization of vitiligo through fashion and beauty models, changing ideas of vitiligo spots as blemishes or some kind of contagious disease… it has not helped the broader public understand vitiligo, i feel? it’s not just a visual difference. it also impacts that person’s life.

my mom cannot enjoy the sun at the beach the same way people without vitiligo can. she wears a sweater and socks Everywhere, to cover her spots on her arms and feet. she also always needs to have an umbrella if we go walking. she wears shades indoors because her eyes are sensitive to the fluorescent lights, and of course she always wears them outdoors.

like, it’s not just some little quirk you can add to a character and have them be exactly like someone without vitiligo in all other ways. i’m not sure if one could call it a disability, but it definitely is a condition that requires accommodations and lifestyle changes.

[kamydrawstuffs]

In this essay, I will...

[chillestfelix]

noticed by goose again...but at what cost

[catspores]

its really a firm reminder that creators are also people with lives. they jerk off just like us

[geekyllama]

I'm normal I'm normal I'm so fucking normal I'm sjdnkakdks

[spiribia]

Creative workaround for those who haven’t seen it

[epochnexus]

au where they’re in grippy socks jail /j

[dominolemon]

[fictionalothertimebutrainystyle]

THIS IS SO GOOD AAAAAA I LOVE THIS SO MUCH THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS AND IT FITS CAINE’S DYNAMIC AND FJSJEKJWJWEN WHY IS THIS NOT MORE POPULAR I ADORE THIS AAAAAA

[runawaygecko]

The way he's holding them here makes me feel conflicted. Like, this scene is terrifying and I can't imagine what's it like to be on a receiving end of it but... just look at it.

- he's holding Zooble in a way so that their parts don't fall out

- he's not squeezing Gangle so that her fragile ribbons don't get tangled

- he's not putting too much pressure on Ragatha so that she doesn't get ripped apart

- he's only holding Pomni and Jax firmly because their bodies are solid and rubbery

And this scene is right after the torture too. You would think he would be more violent, but no. He wanted to hurt them, not break them.

Caine wanted them to listen. And because they never did, he made them feel what he felt when they poked at his biggest fears and insecurities.

I guess what I meant to say is - even when at his worst, there was still something considerate in him. Something resembling the real him and not the angry monster he'd become.

[sofiaserafine]

mom, would you wash my back?

this once, and then we can forget