Alas, for I am a slow fuck

22 and only getting older | Fuck it, we NSFW | Previously a spam reblogging account, but alas: slow fuk. This is probably going to see a lot more interesting use now, occasional mini writing and very little spam. I am trans, approximating a girl but still, I dunno. I like women the bear is just cute

[get-the-dress]

Whoever you are I love you, your blog, and your determination

Get The Dress

Mission failed - our host has rescinded reblogging permission under duress from TERFs (presumably)

Thank you unequivocally, anon - I will now be posting very sparse microfiction (filthy, intricate and overly full of adjectives) and some reblogs. No further spam

[proudtoehaver]

“I was on a strict diet during Episode VIII, and she was like, ‘Kid, get into that fridge and take some chocolate bars. I have many there.’ And I did,” he recalls. “I failed my diet because Carrie Fisher told me to. And it [felt] great.”

-John Boyega on Carrie Fisher

[fuocogo]

This is the Carrie Fisher post of body positivity reblog for a chocolate bar from her fridge

[centaria-alstromeria]

You have but one life, don’t spend it groveling at the feet of the powers that be

[wolfertinger666]

niggas can be cute too

[inwardhardar]

[mediasideblog]

[exquisite-peculiarity]

In the last few years, I moved from the southern US to the northern US. People always joke that people in the south can't handle the cold, or that people in the north can't handle the heat, but I would argue that while upbringing affecting preference is a factor, the more important factor is infrastructure. In Texas, we had lighter, draftier houses that breathed. This helps with heat, but in the winter, if it got down around 15⁰ f (like it usually did up to a couple of times a year), the houses couldn't keep up. It was impossible to heat the indoors over 60⁰, even with blasting the heat. Alternatively, buildings up north don't always have air conditioning, so if it gets up over 95⁰ it is really difficult to handle, especially for prolonged stretches. Climate isn't just personal preference. We have architecture from over the past 100 yrs that is adapted to handle the temps it was before global warming. The architecture in Europe is even older. If people say the temp is untenable, believe them.

[get-the-dress]

Imagine building a house and not putting central heating or even aircon in. Who would do that???

Now imagine the giant windows let in so much light in winter, you don't always need the heaters - the windows turn into stupid versions of central heating radiators. [1] [1](I can kinda sunbathe on sunny winter days tho)

But it works! Pretty well :]. Good insulation and free heat keeps your house warmer for longer, even with an aircon your electricity bill will be down and you get a nice view of the back yard... Neat!

Then the heater breaks in winter lol

[kaxenart]

Project Hail Mary was brought up on the Fellow Traveller Games discord.

[beetleinagrid]

Literally asked to the ether and you answered

[xalatath]

SMOKED SALMON IS THE ONLY THING THAT NUMBS THE PAIN

[get-the-dress]

YEAHHHHHH

LETS GET THIS FISH

[wanderingrestlessly]

imagine your last memory of earth being violent imagine the last human touch u remember being someone pushing u to the ground imagine the last time u feel the sun on ur face or dirt under ur hands is when ur clawing at the ground desperate and terrified to stay on earth ryland grace if i think about u too long i feel physically SICK

[kitshomeforwaywardsouls]

WORSE imagine your last memory of human touch, the last time you ever feel the skin of another person on yours being the soft, thoughtful motions that go into arranging the corpses of people you knew in life and probably cared about to some extent for a final send off into the expanse of space. People you knew were going to die but you never thought you’d have to see it for yourself.

The last thing Grace did for another human was a funeral.

[get-the-dress]

google pushes Al slop over news articles because they just want to cut ads out for you. In this essay I will baselessly insinuate that-

[jburneko]

From an RPG perspective, I've been struggling for years to explain that "playing a character in a myth" and "treating a mythic world as if it were real" are two fundamentally different things. A part of this frustration is that I want a whole lot more of the former and a whole lot less of the later.

[iojg]

okay alright. can you elaborate just a bit? particularly on how specific you are about the meaning of "myth", as it throws me off

[jburneko]

So, I'm sure scholars probably have a more technical definition of "myth" than I'm using. I'm primarily talking about when elements of a story are meant to be received and processed emotionally rather than logically.

For example, we might have a character that wears jade armor and sits on a throne of ruby. Now if your mind starts thinking things like what the implications are for the culture and economy of a society that uses jade for armor and ruby for furniture design then you're thinking in the wrong direction. Same if you start thinking about the actual real world properties of jade and ruby and what you could possibly make with such a large and plentiful supply of it. No. Just. Stop. Don't do that. Instead, be *emotional*. What *feelings* does such an image/character invoke you. Disgust at their opulence? Awe at their power? Respect for their commanding presence? Fear? Now have your character react *to that feeling*. What emotion do YOU want your character to reflect back. In an RPG, your character TOO is a pile of evocative aesthetics in both image and action. Do a thing that will evoke a feeling IN ME as a fellow player at the table. You can't control WHAT feeling I have, but you can do something evocative, "logic" of the situation be damned.

[iojg]

i kinda see what you are getting at, hopefully. i think it's really mostly about being impressionistic, isn't it? my mind immediately drifts to pulp fantasy, to which such "loose" imagery seems to be very important. i personally don't get much from it mostly because i'm not that great at visualizing. i could never really get into howard because of it, for example. would you say this generally applies outside of fantasy roleplaying, though?

[jburneko]

Pulp fantasy (and actual mythology) is where you see it at its boldest. But I'm not talking *purely* about visuals it can apply to "entities" whose only "logic" is their symbolic/metaphorical place in the narrative.

You see this a lot in standalone horror novels that don't get caught up in their own "lore." My absolute favorite example of this is "The Library Policeman" by Stephen King. The creature in that book and how it "works" is wholly defined by the scope of the protagonist's personal trauma. It does not "exist" nor has "logic" independent of the protagonist's emotional journey. Sure, it all makes "sense" in that story but trying to tease out the creature as an independent entity with a consequential "existence" simply falls apart.

I would also point to something like Frank Miller's Sin City stories. The characters are BOLD archetypes with no substance behind their evocative presence. Senator Rourk is a complete tautology. He is a Senator because he's rich and powerful and is rich and powerful because he is a Senator. Things happen because Rourk wants them to happen. By what means? What's the power structure propping him up? Who are his allies? Who are enemies? What is the network composing his wealth? These things are not only unanswered, I would suggest they are UNASKED. It simply doesn't matter. Rourk might as well be Zeus.

It is that element of UNASKING, I am focusing on.

This is one of the reasons film franchises begin to lose their luster because later films are often built by asking questions the earlier films not only didn't ask, but were never designed to answer. "Fandom" may be clamoring all the time for "answers" but they're always disappointed when they get them and for good reason. The questions never should have been asked in the first place.

[anim-ttrpgs]

I'm usually a huge fan of fantasy/sci-fi logistics, groundedness, biology, etc., but this is also how you get people constantly trying to "solve" vampires by saying "well they drink blood so that means they are scientifically hematophages and there is no problem with them drinking blood of any animal because other hematophages can drink the blood of any animal" and "if it's transmissible by bite that means it's a virus or bacteria that causes a mutation."

No, this was never a legend meant to operate on a 21st century biology, the blood is blood but it's also life, and so on.

Sometimes the answer isn't "it's magic" because the author hasn't thought about it, sometimes the answer is "it's magic" because the author has thought about it.

[jburneko]

Exactly. You can pick and choose. In fact, supernatural things become MORE scary when they operate spiritually when everything else operates realistically. Yup, the world works exactly the way we believe it to, oh except this *thing*. This thing is unbounded by reality. It has uncomfortable existential implications or reaches into questions that have no answers. That's scary.

[cavegirlpoems]

see I firmly disagree with this approach.

Roleplaying games are, ultimately, games about making meaningful decisions in a fictional setting. For your players' decisions to be meaningful, their outcomes can't be arbitrary, and so when their decisions interact with some aspect of the setting, that aspect of the setting must follow consistant principles.

These principles don't need to be rational, scientific ones, of course. They can operate on magical thinking and symbolism, or associative dream-logic, but they should be something. If there's nothing but vibes, then it becomes much harder to have consistant, meaningful and satisfying interactions with anything that operates that way.

To take the example given, "How does jade armour and ruby thrones make you feel" is a fine idea until you have a player character who wants to play, say, a jewel thief. Then, suddenly, the way a culture uses jade and rubies, and where they get them from, matter a great deal. "Why would you actually wear jade armour" becomes a very important question to answer when, say, a player character puts on a suit of stolen jade armour.

I think the key thing is that the more you expect something to be interacted with in play, the more you actually need to reason out how it works. An evocative background element that's never the focus of play can be handwaved so long as the vibes are right, but the closer something becomes to the focus of play, the more consistent the principles it works by need to be.

By and large, I'd say a good rule of thumb is to think through one more layer of detail than players will ask questions about something. Anything the players won't actually interact with directly can go below the abstraction layer, but the more interaction you expect, the more thought you want to put into how it all fits together.

Basically, a good roleplaying setting is one which feels fleshed out and lived in. It's that old cliche of verisimilitude, innit?

[beetleinagrid]

Like how much condense you want an element to be? Let it be foggy and surround you during play to set tone and feeling. Let it be liquid yo let it have interaction in stricts ways, you can hold it, but never mold it. And icy and snowy elements are with what you most interact, you construct with them, you sculpt from them. All this is your setting, one should know what element of the setting can be use it for.

[get-the-dress]

Yeah, I think you have to somehow tune down the questioning or unasking with the pace of your story, moment-to-moment. The benefit of water or air is you can move, swim or even fly. It just needs to be clear (heh) when icy roads are ahead, because 'oh no the dragon is over there' is a lot more fun than 'you're dead, the dragon is invincible'.

(I think Surprises can be good, but they violate the player's agency a little?)

Foreshadowing, tone and pacing might help players get into it, but the jewel thief just HAS to at least consider stealing the ruby throne while jade is away; TLDR In all things, layers and complexity and Shrek

[prokopetz]

I've never found it unrealistic when an adventure game protagonist can hear the faint echo of stone grinding upon stone and know by the sound alone that it must be that mysterious door they passed by twenty minutes ago spontaneously opening because these are just skills you develop when you live with cats.

[get-the-dress]

My dogs just opened a door so they could snuffle at me while I read this post. I wasn't expecting any sort of canine inquisition...

[kaxenart]

Project Hail Mary was brought up on the Fellow Traveller Games discord.

[homophobla]

Twice a year in Hawaii the sun passes directly overhead and objects cast no shadow. It’s a phenomenon called “Lahaina Noon”

[phoenix-theurge]

You're full of shit, Hawaiians are just able to levitate coconut milk.

[depsidase]

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[transdicegoblin]

We smoking that Throne kush, tripping so hard I see the Shape in a puddle of piss. My ex coming back from the dead, tell her she's a sin against heaven and then fuck her through the mattress. The Worm in my bed tells me to give up, they forgot who I am. I will not forget. Aaah! The Worm!

Bearer of the word HIM, laid demiurges in the sack with my ten-inch blade. Got vaginoplasty, now I wield the Maybe Strap. I fucked them through the codpiece of God, the lock was irresolute. Pussy so stank the Glitter God backs up but I dive right in. Fucker tried to make me his envoy so I lit my pipe off Flame and called him a bitch. This shit ain't nothing to me man.

Even the Witch in Glass never heard of the strain, we smoking the world-soul. Light that shit with the chaotic black flame, I love how the devils squirm in my tummy. Flushed them down, now the sewer speaks Universal Metaconstant.

My soul is gone, the devils took it in the divorce. Can't use my Atum to light a fucking cigarette. Still walking, still talking, still putting motherfuckers in the dirt in defiance of the spirit sciences. You think I can't fight back? I'll kill you! I'll watch the Wheel turn beneath me until you recur and kill you twice!

I'm moving like Aesma, I'm too powerful to give a shit. YISUN thinks I'm pretty, call me God's perfect idiot. I take in the wisdom of a million masters and I'm still illiterate. Pump the brakes, fucker, your empires quake as I smoke my last blunt. Gotta do a grocery run, leave worlds burning in my wake. Call me the Wheel Fucking Lord because the Shape got curves. Saw the multiverse laid out before me and lord but that pussy stank, I need more.

Got an angel friend, convinced her to transition so we can fuck fleshy style. Focused my horniness to a single point, call that Ki Fuckya. Came so hard I gave Jagganoth post-nut clarity just by standing in the same room. Rattled him so bad he had to take a nap, saved the universe for 2 hours. Spent it smoking a cigarette and eating hot pot. Shit ain't nothing to me man.

[maidthings]

the thing is that the sun is 93 million miles away and if you try to get closer it'll probably kill you