Hellhound Maggie

Fandom old (30+). She/her. Hyperfixation go brrrr. Bigots and TERFs get away from me

[hellhoundmaggie]

Them: NOOOOOO!!! YOU CAN’T JUST MARRY SHANE STARDEW VALLEY!!!! HE’S GROSS AND MESSY!!!!!! HE STILL DRINKS SOMETIMES!!!!!!! HE’S NOT A PERFECT HUSBANDERINO NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Me: ha ha man bounce chicken

[franniegore]

i literally dont care if women are evil

[tahthetrickster]

just so we’re clear if you’ve never actually seen a cybertruck in person and have only seen photos of them i cannot stress enough how much worse they look in real life. like i honestly don’t know how it’s possible. most things look basically the same in pictures and in real life. but as stupid and ugly as cybertrucks look in photos, every person i’ve spoken to who has seen one in real life agrees that they somehow look even worse in person. and i know you’re thinking to yourself “tah they already look so bad in photos, how can they possibly look even worse in person?” I DONT KNOW. the first time i saw one on the road i was on a phone call and i literally cut myself off in the middle of a sentence just to be like “oh my GOD.” just an incredibly, laughably, unbelievably bad vehicle. i’ve never experienced anything like it. they’re just so bad

[silverstar5000]

My perspective on Scarlet Hollow before episode 5's release:

A horror visual novel with fantastic characters and truly terrifying amounts of self-expression and run variants!

My perspective on Scarlet Hollow after episode 5 part 1's release:

This is a long-term strategy game to not get you or your loved ones in a top 10 fates worse than death tier list

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

say the fucking words, guys. just say the goddamn words before i go insane!!!

[pageturner001]

One thing about Avery is they can basically be a background character in the story. Every interaction with them either optional or they aren't just a supporting character in it

I really understood this when my grandma, who basically refused to do any optional talking with characters, played. Stella, Kaneeka, Dr. Kelly, Sybil, Reese, Tabitha, Duke, Bo, and even Oscar were basically forced onto her. But by the time she got to chapter 5 she had seen Avery once. One time. And it could barely even be considered an interaction.

It is complete night and day from my playthrough where I took basically every chance to bring Avery along. There were entire scenes in my grandma's playthrough that were missing a character from mine. And yeah, some of that is explainable by my need to ask every character questions, but most of it is that I did get interested by Avery quickly. Otherwise, I could have easily not noticed them

And this isn’t a criticism of Avery as a character. You know the phrase "show don't tell." I think in video game landscapes there is a third way video games can make a point. "Play, don't tell." Video games can easily put the player themselves into the thoughts and experiences of the characters, and I think Avery works as a great example of this. They are in a town where very few people care to get to know them, and the game makes you feel this by making them an optional encounter. They blend into the background, you don't need to talk to them, they are just that waiter. Only when you go out of your way do you realize they are a fully fleshed individual. And if you don't, the only point they matter is their lowest point.

The game doesn't just tell you Avery is an outcast most people don't take time to get to know. The game doesn't just show you Avery is an outcast most people don't take time to get to know. The game makes you play that reality.

[piranesies]

they should invent putting on sunscreen that doesn't feel like putting on sunscreen

[tabithasholloweyes]

Are those… decorative sacrificial goat horns on the entryway table? Genuine antique goat’s horn cornucopias arranged to give thanks for Scarlet prosperity? It’s like a cocky serial killer leaving a murder weapon out to make it look innocuous.

[gibor-zolel]

Baby angels and goat imagery are all over the place.

Also, I've been thinking about why Tabitha has that goat in the shed, given that we assume it's involved in the ritual.

I maintain it's a reference to the Yom Kippur ritual, where two goats are scarified.

The first goat was scarified in the temple (estate?) and had other rituals accompanied with it.

The other goat was to be taken to "Azazel", which is both a reference to a demon with many attributes similar to the Entity, and also, a reference to the precipice (estate cliff?) the Israelites would throw the goat off from.

The question is, which goat is which? Given that Tabby needs us alive, we're the first one.

[hyperlexichypatia]

IDK I think if cis men are being told that being fat will lower their testosterone and make them Insufficiently Masculine, and cis women are being told that being fat will raise their testosterone and make them Excessively Masculine, and fat trans people are being denied the right to medically transition if they're fat, and thin trans people are warned against HRT because it will make them fat (and this is said about both testosterone and estrogen HRT), and androgynous-presenting people are told that only thin people count as androgynous...

Then maybe...

Maybe...

Maybe the weight loss industry is just using Gender to enforce fatphobia.

[griffinreign]

no this game keeps naming things IN north carolina and it's gagging me what do y'all know about any of this.....

[blacktabbygames]

from'd there (abby) married to from'd there but from'd new jersey, the everything state (tony)

[paranoidgemsbok]

Stardew valley is problematic because it forces you to have an outside cat in a threatened woodland environment

[what-even-is-thiss]

The threat to the woodland environment being me of course

[le-jardin-inculte]

I think getting too attached to one extremely obscure, minor character has to be a star wars rite of passage

you are not immune to the power of glup shitto

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

The thing about the "all evil fictional women from myth and legend are misunderstood and in reality their story was retold to make them evil because men were afraid of their power" trend is that it's low-key also misogynistic to assume women are incapable of being terrible people purely due to being women.

[tobedogmatic]

Sketch of CT -6922 , known as "Dogma - as a ARC Trooper

[btgtournament]

Who is your favorite?

Dustin Mom

Miles

Remaining time: 2 days 15 hours

[ankle-beez]

surprisingly forward-thinking of jim henson and co. to make a female character in the 70's that's allowed to be loud-mouthed and violent and kind of overwhelmingly romantic and even a huge bitch at times and not have a moment where any character asks her to change

[ankle-beez]

going through all the muppet movies in a row made me realize that like. miss piggy was made in the 70's. and it's so rare even today to have a character like her. she's loud, she's selfish, she's funny, she's extremely vain, she's obsessed with romance, she's violent, she's kind of annoying, and there's not a single moment in any of these films where she's asked to tone down any of these personality traits. i am not joking when i say that miss piggy might be one of the best treated female characters ever written

[banana-can-do-art]

Always remember that throughout the horrors, Isaacs is having his very own The Summer Hikaru Died experience in the background