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arabhoneey

be careful who you give your sunsets and midnights to

minecraftstim

Nonbinary Bee

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popsunner

Was just informed by my mom that I do in fact have ADHD and the reason I thought I didn’t was because ever since I was seven whenever I got super energetic my mom would have me go chop wood so now when I’m feeling The ADHD I go chop wood and I thought it was just some sort of routine I started when I was little and wanted to blow off steam

popsunner

I’d also like to point out that my sister has a really hard time staying present (I can’t remember the term because we’ve always called it Tethered at my house) and whenever she’s feeling Untethered my mom has her knead bread and make syrup because they’re repetitive and easy things to do that ground her

popsunner

Now that I’m thinking about it- my brother has days where he doesn’t talk and doesn’t eat unless he’s prompted, and on those days my mom sits him down in the fish pond in the backyard and plays Mozart and because he’s so used to that being his wake up he always comes back in after like an hour rambling about random things

popsunner

Oh yeah and when it rains my mom has a required hour where we all have to go outside and run around and whoever finds the most worms for the garden wins and then we go inside and my mom makes us tea and we watch Studio Ghibli movies

popsunner

Wait!!! When one of us has a bad day at school we make a fire in the backyard and roast homemade sausages and my mom tells us stories until we laugh and then she tucks is in bed like we’re five again and sings us songs

popsunner

Uh.... wait guys is my mom a witch raising a bunch of fae kids hold on-

saint-batrick

your mom is very definitely a witch raising a bunch of fae kids, please tell her i love her in the abstract way one can love a complete stranger.

rayskates

to my black followers,

i love you, you are important, your life matters. and i’m so sorry for how america, and the world treats you.

writing-challenges-and-prompts

Writing Prompt: Dialogue

“We were all young men once. Arrogant beyond measure, stupidly brave and just plain stupid.” “Yeah, those were some good times.”

alexxdz

GO WATCH A MOVIE

guitarbeard

Next up on Worth Reading: The other team should just fucking let me win when I play baseball.

maxofs2d

well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.

optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.

sinbadism

what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??

as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode

lesbianmooncolony-deactivated20

i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat

dropkicks

honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?” the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements. not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether

glitterpill

Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE.

Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.

theheroheart

Mass Effect 3 has this:

[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]

‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)

The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.

Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.

enigmaticagentalice

Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.

Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!

I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.

Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??

mikkeneko

The comparison to a football game upthread is very telling that they only consider competitive/pvp games to be Real Games.

As it is: if you want games to be considered art (and I agree with the comment that the interactivity lends more to the experience than simply watching it as a video) then you can’t really tell people “you must devote sixty hours of practice before you can view the Art”

angelofthequeers

This is why I love the Sims so much and it’s the one game I consistently come back and play. I hear so much shit towards Sims 4 - and it’s not unjustified, it’s a pretty bland game without a tonne of expansions and mods - but TS4 has so many ways to cheat and ease things that are annoying you or if you just don’t want to complete that one aspiration for the 50th time but want the reward trait, or if you’re about to tear your hair out because you need this one specific crystal that you just can’t find, or even if you want to set up a NPC family with established skills for storytelling purposes. And mods make the game so much more controllable if you’re like me and want god levels of control over minute details. It doesn’t shame you for wanting to use cheats to make your gameplay more enjoyable for you and, well, who else is watching you play unless you’re recording it? It’s a game for you. And if all games had this level of customisation for the experience you want out of it, I’d probably play a lot more games than just TS4.

knivblad

valtsv

why is eye imagery so fucking sexy. like. just slapping a bunch of extra eyes on something, the more the better. why does that fuck so hard.

valtsv

^ people with taste be like

valtsv

dragons-suck

@rhystique

welcomedtonewyork-deactivated20

I’ve been trying this out and it’s been quite helpful 🤗

glumshoe

You can change your mind about transition.

It’s okay. I promise. You’re not doing something bad or unethical by not sticking with a decision. If you start transitioning and later decide it’s not for you, that’s... fine. It’s fine. You can stop. Not every chance can be reversed, but some can—and if you decide you want to put things on hold and reassess your feelings, it’s okay. You can always decide to go forward with it later if you’re not sure about it now. There’s not a Great Trans God up in the sky judging the moral value of your gender. You may face new challenges no matter what you decide, but that’s life. We’re only here for a little while and our flesh is imperfectly ours... just try to be as comfortable in it as you can, whatever that means for you.

stuck-in-jelly

You know when pitbulls do that expression?

You know the really tender soft “I am in love and am so happy” expression where their eyes shine and they smile so gently and can’t stop looking at their object of affection as they wag their tail and fall in love more?

I’ve been thinking about it for days and am brought to tears with how tender and sweet they are oh my god

hellobambi

the-doctor-9-10

Honestly, my favorite thing at the moment is all the marvel headcanons where Hela wasn’t cray-cray homicidal, and she’s an overprotective bitchy sister.

babyanimalgifs

The Black Footed cat is the smallest wild cat in Africa and one of the smallest wild cats in the world.

peachychip85000

Here’s an adult kitty for size comparison:

kakaphoe

too smoll

geekwithsandwich

OK but you can’t mention my all-time favorite cat without also mentioning that these little motherfuckers are legendary for being 1000% ready to throw down with anyone at any time, they’ve literally been seen trying to fight a giraffe and are known to successfully bring down sheep by getting underneath them and ripping their bellies open like what the fuck, chill

Their name in Afrikaans means “anthill tiger” because they’ll hide inside a hollowed out anthill and then jump out and try to rip your face off

They are perfect and I love them

bead-bead-deactivated20190901

Aw, look at these little murder muffins.

ayellowbirds

smallest and deadliest wild cat. Observed at a 60% success rate in hunting, and averaging a kill every fifty minutes—a lion might succeed in hunting twenty, twenty-five percent of the time. Their small, energetic bodies require a rate of a-murder-per-hour in order to sustain their metabolisms.

(“miershoop” can also mean “termite mound”, which is one of their preferred places to sleep)

libertarirynn-deactivated202006

Smol handsome murderbaby

geekybibliophile

@zombeesknees @nursemz87

xiaoguiwang

Boyfriend by Tegan & Sara (2016) // Jenny by Studio Killers (2015) // Curious by Hayley Kiyoko (2018) // I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend by Girl in Red (2018)