Sentient Trees

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[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

oh! the space needle is a cute mascot base for seattle’s MLB team! i wonder how they managed to communicate that in a big foam costume?

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[redstonedust]

"i know this show was made for children but i enjoy it too." > awesome and cool. watch whatever you want forever.

"i know it LOOKS like it was made for children but its SECRETLY for us. calling it a kids show is an insult cause kids could never understand these THEMES and EMOTIONS. we're the TRUE fans." > i dont think i trust your opinions. you seem lame as fuck.

[flowercrownsylveon]

That one guy when I worked at Buildabear who was fanatically driven to convince me Twilight Sparkle was Worst Pony and responding "awww but the kids seem to love her best!" sent him into a frothing rage

[7777777awawawa7777777]

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[7777777awawawa7777777]

when that shawarma hit

[desinteresse]

Men who talk shit about gold diggers underestimate the grit it takes to put up with an insufferable man, even when money is involved. We should be thanking them for their service like they are veterans.

[little-trash-ghost]

Can't leave this in the tags..

[captain-price-returns]

[kaomojiloser]

after the whole gravity incident…

[sharkgirldick]

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.

[swimmingblue]

and this shit's important. Media from the past tells us how people from the past acted and thought and behaved.

Plus, a lot of these media pieces were socially acceptable and/or progressive for their time. For example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while it contains a lot of words and ideas that are offensive now, was very progressive for its time. The book is a statement piece for how a young man who's grown up in a racist environment, with no words to explain himself other than racist and bigoted ones, decides that the whole system is shit and he's not going to follow those rules any more. So not reading or engaging with it because it uses the n-word a lot really misses the point.

[woodrider]

ma'am, I'm going to place you on a brief hold while I look for a reaction image

[unheardoracle]

I love characters who are like "I'm a terrible person" but when you look closer it's more like

"I adapted to survive something and now I don't know how to stop being that version of myself."

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah I saw the lovecraftian horrors and didn’t succumb to madness. What- no I’m not a cultist, James. For Christ’s sake. What you’re forgetting my friend is that HP Lovecraft wasn’t a flexible man. His brain simply wasn’t stretchy enough to take it all in. I however, have short term memory issues. Flexibility is the name of the game when you can’t remember if you ate lunch or not. What’s the size of the universe? Big. You knew that already, James. Come on now. You don’t need to witness the terrifying ocean at the base of the entirety of reality itself to know that. Pass the brandy.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You must imagine the character I’ve created here wearing a suit and a monocle, by the way.

[thesilvertophat]

During a Eldritch Horrors based tabletop RPG my character was a young dandy who wasn't particularly interested in all this monster mystery stuff but his father (my brother's character) was a researcher who WAS very into it, so Bertie went along to make sure the old man didn't get into too much trouble. It was your average Eldritch Horrors RPG in that you don't make your characters with the expectation that they will survive for very long, both the game itself and the genre are very intent on turning your characters inside out, driving them insane, and blowing them up in no particular order.

The thing was, everything in this nightmare hellscape just seemed to keep coming up Bertie because the man was too stupid to realize what genre he was in. Every time he had to roll for a sanity check whenever he saw something crazy, the dice treated him so well that he just... didn't get it. Gee that sure is a funny costume. There's something wrong with that dog. These mean guys in stupid hats are trying to hurt that young lady, we can't have that! I had not built him this way, his intelligence stats weren't even that bad, random chance just made it so that this man was living a scooby doo adventure while everyone else was being consumed by The Horrors. The final straw was at the end of an adventure when Bertie escaped from the cultist headquarters by breaking out through the mansion's front window on a motorcycle with a hot rescued sacrificial maiden clinging to his back and leading the cultists on a merry chase through the hedge maze while the other adventurers escaped. His sanity score? HIGHER than when the adventure had begun. He had found the whole experience quite thrilling and felt very good about life in general! Bertie retired from adventuring to marry the maiden he rescued and care for his aging father and delight and bemuse his friends at the gentleman's club with stories of his 'wacky' adventures. I didn't want to risk breaking his ridiculous lucky streak.

[deluske]

This is a great example of what people mean when they talk about emergent gameplay in ttrpgs. It's very cool when the interactions between rules and dice actually drive the plot and create a story you probably wouldn't have planned.

[adamtotscomix]

[asidewalksymphony]

[eymurn]

do you ever get secondhand happiness? like someone is happy so you're happy because they're happy

[titsybitsyspider]

i so enjoy the format of the phm movie. we begin the movie as grace does, with no context or understanding. i remember when i saw it for the first time, the beginning felt so jarring and i literally thought “so they’re just throwing us right into it, huh?” but ofc they are. this is how grace felt, with no memory and no knowledge. and as grace regains his memories, we see correlating flashbacks. the movie is structured so that in a way, we are grace. we learn as he does, gaining context as he remembers. it conveys such a depth of understanding and empathy to grace’s mental state and i love it. while there are flashbacks, this is very much a linear narrative and it is portrayed wonderfully.

[lumishells]

believe in the hail mary

[aroace-ryland-grace]

did you guys know ryland grace is the aroace of all time. the aroace ever. the most aroace to ever do it. fun fact. ryland grace is aroace. did you know ryland grace is aroace

[parasiticstars]

I was getting ready for work, pulling my blonde hair into a messy bun, throwing on some converse and a flannel because I’m not like other girls. As I look at my sky azure crystalline ocean sapphire bird of paradise blue eyes (that aren’t really blue because they turn stormy rain cloud slate when it’s dark or when I’m angry), Eva Stratt came in.

“I sold you to pay our debts,” she said. “Come meet your new masters.”

A single dainty tear trails down my face. I went downstairs and there they were— Rocky and Adrian.