Sleepless

No One Of Consequence

[cryptotheism]

if you were gonna completely reimagine wizards, what implement would you replace staves and sticks with?

Play station 2 controller

[noelle-ism]

Playstation 4 controller would be better because it's wireless and has gyro functions for rotating Wizard Things (i dont do wizard stuff)

[cryptotheism]

What's interesting is that the gyro controls represent the four watchtower spirits (north south east west) along with the spiritual dimension (outer, inner). Pitch, Yaw, and Roll represent Jachim, Boaz, and the Da'ath-Tifareth path respectively.

[book-of-forbidden-knowledge]

Triangle before me, X behind me, Circle at my right hand, Square at my left hand. For about me flames the PLAYSTATION.

[prokopetz]

I love it when media fucks up the wording of the Rasputin disclaimer and ends up with shit like "any resemblance to people or locations living or dead is coincidental". I'd love to know what committing libel against a dead location would entail.

[abalidoth]

Fuck the Fiesta Mall in Mesa, AZ. I heard it ate someone once.

[probabilitydirigible]

this sea sucks shit. it doesnt even have any scrolls im sure

[prokopetz]

#Sorry what do you mean “rasputin disclaimer” (via @big-condiments-official)

For once I'm not actually doing a bit; those "any resemblance to real persons living or dead" disclaimers genuinely exist because of Rasputin.

(In brief, the 1932 MGM Studios film Rasputin and the Empress is a dramatisation of the life and times of Grigori Rasputin which is partially adapted from the personal memoirs of Felix Yusupov, one of the principal conspirators responsible for Rasputin's assassination. The film, which was heavily marketed as being based on real events, falsely claims that Rasputin fucked Yusupov's wife, Princess Irina Alexandrovna. As both Yusupov and Princess Irina were still alive at the time, they jointly sued MGM for libel – and won. This is actually, literally the reason the practice of including those disclaimers was taken up.)

[insomniac7809]

Ra Ra Rasputin Life adapted to the screen But doing so they slandered a prince Ra Ra Rasputin Felix hatched a legal scheme And MGM was thoroughly rinsed

[artofphear]

Life with Müsnah: Creepy Crawl

A creepy spider crawl takes practice.

Luckily for Müsnah, limbo counts as training.

[rigsbywi]

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Hi everyone, Today I posted the final page of Rigsby WI chapter 4. I hope to begin Chapter 5 in January 2027. I will be spending the next s

[bbybluemochi]

[oc] redraw of an old vampire oc from 2021 🦇🩸

[bbybluemochi]

i draw her once every two years 🦇🩸

[bbybluemochi]

btw i did end up getting the same tattoo as her. you should never design cool tattoos for your ocs bc there is a high chance you'll end up getting them yourself...

[kink-tomato]

This zine, and I cannot over emphasize how funny this is, is for Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire

[getvalentined]

These people blocked me on both Twitter and Tumblr, and then someone used a burner account to go off on me on Twitter. This person insisted that I was singlehandedly responsible for the project falling.

I made one comment, and it was this:

No clue how my single comment did this. But okay.

[undeadhousewife]

[nedtheknight]

Paths of Past Lives (classes & lore)

[loonyloopylisa]

[samwolfeconnelly]

'Glint' - conte on paper - my piece for the Moleskine Project XIII with Harman Projects gallery

[moonsun2010]

29 Sep - The grim conclusion

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

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[petterwass]

It is finally done!

I finally got my Flying Circus diorama finished up!

A poor Goth ace is trying to shake the planes of the flying circus Morgenthau's Minnows by diving through one of the cursed cities and trying to use his lighter, more agile plane to lose the heavier pursuers among the buildings.

Wulf and Minna Hammerl are trying to flank the Goth as tendrils of toxic gas reach up amoeba-like after them.

Isa and Arren in the Geisterhaj being up the rear.

I deliberately didn't try to make the gas look as light as real gas would be.

In Himmelgard, the horrible city-killing evil gas was made by a melding of evil magic and technology with the help of dragons. It comes in many strains, some semi-sapient, all malevolent.

I tried to show that it normally lurks in the ruined building and comes flooding out as it senses new prey, tendrils reaching up into the sky like a octopus.

[beardedmrbean]

just some lads, being fellows

[casgirl]

The littlest things we know to be small = debut literary fiction

The dark wife: thriller, adapted into a Hulu original

The mailman’s niece = historical fiction

The mailman of Warsaw = also historical fiction but about war

The gate of wind = fantasy

The gate of wind and bones = young adult fantasy

A gathering of pelicans = mystery, part of a long running series that takes up a whole shelf at the library

The Group Project Partner Gambit = romance with a cartoon cover

Wendy Jenkins is Scared of Commitment = romance with a cartoon cover of gay people

[watcherscrown]

this is my magnum opus

[nchntd]

In the club

[vacuously-true]

I think I’m literally never gonna be sick of this masterpiece. I think watching it on a loop for eight hours could fix me. Dancing’s what clears my soul. Dancing’s what makes me whole.

[dimmadoome]

I just love that this very video is an accumulation of thousands of years worth of art made by people who have never met each other. The concept of this video was so completely unfathomable to every single artist who made the sculptures and yet they’ve all put something toward the creation of it.

[i-restuff]

ITS BACK ON MY TIMELINE

[bangtanghan]

20260621

[gnarlyghost]

Exosuit

[fipindustries]

you know, there is only so many ways you can say "it's meant to be unsatisfying" before you end up with the conclussion that "well i guess the story is unsatisfying i guess, what good is that?"

like, at a certain point you need to point out to something else that the story is doing, you cant defend a meal by saying "is supposed to feel unfulfilling to eat", like at some point you have to say something good about the story, something that was atually accomplished otherwise what even is the point. like it cant start and stop at saying "its unsatisfying on purpose!" thats a thought terminating cliche. fucking your partner climaxing before you do and immediatly falling asleep is unsatisfying, explain why thats a good thing.

[theothin]

stories can have all sorts of purposes, and only some of those purposes are getting you off. more broadly, stories exist to offer ways of thinking about something, and sometimes those things are fun to think about, but they don't have to be. "this story offers a framework for thinking about this relevant but uncomfortable thing" is plenty to offer in itself, even when that has to come with an offputting taste

[fipindustries]

youre not telling me anything i dont know. a movie could be 5 hours of a shot of of paint drying. youre telling me that movies can be anything, im asking you to tell me why should i care, what can i grab onto that i could find compelling or valuable or worth spending my time on

[theothin]

the key word is "relevant". if the unsatisfying thing facilitates the story showing a situation that a lot of people would benefit from doing more to consider and understand, that is very different from when the unsatisfying thing does not do that

[fipindustries]

i still find that uncompelling. a psa against smoking "shows a situation that a lot of people would benefit from doing more to consider and understand". you need to do more than just "teach a lesson" that "really makes you think". where the hell is the catharsis, where the hell is the payoff, the hook, the climax that thing that should be making me go "aha!". where is it. if it doesnt have it then why else am i here?

[theothin]

a PSA against smoking brings out the same thoughts people have already had enough to know what they think. stories get their power from using their narratives to show something meaningful from a new angle

you've said this is about TADC (not that it was hard to guess). TADC's finale has multiple forms of payoffs and catharsis around jax - for example, the hug to "isn't she lovely", and the look at "leeroy" in the real world. those don't constitute the kind of resolution many people hoped jax would have, but they do help to drive the messaging home. what exactly is the criteria you're using to say stories "need to" have something other than those things?

[fipindustries]

literally what is the payoff, that jax is trans? yeah we knew that. pomni spends like 20 minutes learning something we knew already and then they hug and nothing happens, we get some uplifting song and jax bursts into a ball of light and every visual and music cue is telling up "this is the moment where a big change takes place!" and then everything is still exactly the same. and i was like "ah! i see! we are going to see mateo came out of the closet then" and that doesnt happen either so then what was the point of all that if its not going to influence anything at all in a new way. "a different alternate version of jax that we dont really care about may transition some day" yeah, no shit. that is the null hypothesis, that is the default assumption. where is the twist, the reveal, the something taking place here.

"pomni learns information she didnt know" ok but how does that affect anything, does she do anything differently from what she would have done? she doesnt even use different pronouns for jax! anything could have been revealed in that mindtrip and all the events afterwards could have gone down exactly he same. its meaningless! you cant just play a cheerful song and act like that is the same as something actually happening in the story

you know what they should have done? the should have left jax abstracting as the story's climax rather than doing it unceremoniously off camera with a narrator at the beggining of the episode.

pomni should have learned about jax past some other way (maybe kinger continues hacking around and finds the mind scans and pomni goes into jax's brain scan and that is how she sees jax's memories) and then pomni tries one last ditch effort to help jax and jax abstracts. its still a tragedy! it still tells the story that its too late for some people or that some people are beyond help, but now it does it in a way that there is an actual resolution, there is an actual payoff. the story and the characters undergoe a change.

[theothin]

the payoff is engaging with the feelings of missing your chance to help someone and only seeing who they could have become once it's too late for you to meet them

the version of the story you're describing is not that. why should the "traditional" structure for this kind of story be the only one worth telling?

[insomniac7809]

I'd also say that the payoff is that Pomni, in the end, pushes through literally everything to try and reach Jax, knowing that touching an Abstracted human is agonizing, without any promise that there's even a chance it could work. Manages to push through all the deflections and false faces and see everything that Jax would, literally, rather die than let anyone else know. Sees and hears about the unforgivable things Jax has done, and all the pain Jax has experienced and has caused. Forces Jax to understand, at the very end, that she's loved and will be mourned and could have been accepted.

It comes too late to save her, and so maybe that makes it worse, that Jax realizes "I don't want to go" but not until it's too late. They both missed her chance. But they did show Jax that she could have been saved and that at least someone thought she was worth saving.