The Contrast Medium

In general, speaking is a free action that you can perform even when it isn't your turn

[theesteppenwolf]

Conceptualization success

[kalfyaarts]

instrument of surrender

[the-introducer]

harry + kim portraits edited to look somewhat more like their game models (in the hair department)

[basket-of-loquats]

I played disco elysium recently

[bitcoitus]

Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn’t understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), “We have never seen a completely sane adult human.” No one makes it out of this life alive. It’s not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving — these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.

[bitcoitus]

“Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being." — Robert Anton Wilson

[crow-caller]

as a child there's nothing cooler than a kid who gets subjected to evil experiments and gains special abilities. it's even cooler if these abilities also cause unfathomable suffering to use/against others. children love stories like this.

[demi-shoggoth]

The children yearn to be Mewtwo

[patema-introverted]

[swagophile]

they led me to water once and i drank a bunch. i was thristy. it was easy for me. i think horses are just lame

[pinglypurniss]

I really think there should be an even longer, extended edition of the Les Miserables musical that covers more of the book. More about Jean Valjean’s incredible strength. More Bishop of Digne. More of Marius’ backstory. More about the Thernadiers, about their kids, about how Madame abuses Cosette. More individuality of Les Amis, to the point where you can identify all of them. Longer barricade scenes where Grantaire sleeps through the first half of the battle and they all die the way they do in the book (Jehan being taken captive, etc). Scripted tension between Enjolras and Grantaire. I don’t care if it’s five hours long I’d buy tickets to go see that shit live

[not-your-average-url]

I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.

I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.

[thoodleoo]

you've heard of faithful translations now get ready for unfaithful translations where i'm constantly cheating on the text i'm translating with another text that i find more interesting

[deathtofun]

I told a guy his total was 13.21 and he said “wish it were that year, could actually get some good music on the radio”

[regularlesbian]

breaking news from the AP, our boys on the front have just sacked constantinople. take that, heretics. coming up next are the soothing lute dirges of bing crosby

[villainessbian]

*screams of a witch burning at the stake*

THOU ART CURRENTLY LISTENING TO

*Gregorian chanting*

13.21

*leper bell ringing*

HIGH MEDIAEVAL FM

*recording of John Lackland sobbing as he signs the Magna Carta*

WHENCE COMETH NAUGHT BUT LITURGIES

LITURGIES

AND MORE LITURGIES

*Templar knights praying out loud*

THIS ISN’T THY GRANDMOTHERES STATION

*Imagine Dragons - Radioactive starts playing*

[delinquentbookworm]

one time I went over to a friend's house and their housemate was making paper in the living room, and we saw this big tub full of water they were using to dissolve old scrap paper into a slurry, and everyone was immediately like "oh, you need scrap paper?" and started turning out their jacket pockets and producing expired coupons and bus tickets and crumpled receipts and old shopping lists and whatever else they'd been carrying round with them for no good reason, and passing it all to the paper-making housemate to make sure it was suitable before it got torn up and dropped into the tub, while people took turns stirring the slurry with a big wooden stick. it was strangely ritualistic, like presenting an offering to some kind of temple elder for inspection before placing it in a watery shrine to be devoured and reformed. pulp for the pulp god.

[an0neemouse]

Write whatever you want. Write that incredibly niche thing that only two other people on earth will get. Write the super indulgent cliche thing that makes you kick your feet giddily. Write the angry rage story that whumps them all and makes people cry.

Whatever it is that YOU want to write. Write it. Because only YOU can.

[oxfrnk]

don’t!!! fake!!!! your!!!! interests!!!! to!!!! make!!!! someone!!!! like!!!!! you!!!!

[the-last-d-boy]

don’t!!! bury!!!! your!!!! interests!!! to!!!!! make!!!! someone!!!! like!!!!! you!!!!

[wind-at-your-back]

don’t!!! go!!! wasting!!! your!!! emotion!!! lay!!! all!!! your!!! love!!! on!!! me!!!

[whatishowedyouinthedark]

it's so important to have your favourite couple of poems memorized. like, if you don't have a poem memorized that you can recite to yourself standing on a windy bluff overlooking the crashing sea, what even is the point

[cal3ris]

is this gonna get me fired you think

[oldschoolfrp]

The Stormlord, a UK D&D zine, issue 1, November/December 1979. This premier issue included rules for a PC class called Storm Lord, along with articles on role playing, new monsters and magic items, and a scenario.