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[moldy-mold]

Sayla ↔ Char

[moldy-mold]

i have more but unfinished

[redstonedust]

as much as we joke about scaring off twitter refugees around these parts im like. genuinely sorry to all of ya'll moving over. losing your main platform (especially as an artist/creator) to the incompetence of one of the worst human beings alive sucks major ass

[mindblownie]

btw something that really hit me regarding video game violence and how we barely register it was during my playthroughs of disco elysium.

so the first time I played, for various reasons I didn’t have any weapons, because all of them are optional. so when a shootout happened, the only thing I could do was try to talk the enemies down, which didn’t go over great, and a bunch of people died. when afterwards I commented on how badly it went, my companion agreed, saying that regrettably a such and such number of people died - I don’t remember how many it was rn, but a specific number was given.

because of that, on a replay, I was determined to do better, and got myself a weapon. the confrontation still happened and there were still casualties, but I was able to save a few characters by killing or distracting their attackers. however, when I got to that follow-up conversation with the tallying up of the dead, the number I was given was almost as high, and that gave me a pause. I was like, wait! but this and this and this person is still alive, why is that number so high?! and it actually took me a few seconds to realise that the number is so high because of the enemies we killed to protect our allies, but the game made no distinction; it was still “regrettably, eight people died”. and the thing is, I didn’t even for a second consider that; in fact, a video game treating the (arguably justified) death of an “enemy” npc as a tragic loss equal to the death of a “friendly” npc was so unheard of and surprising to me that I had to take a considerable amount of time to process it and realise what was actually happening with that dialogue. and I still think about it sometimes.

[wlwellbutrin]

real power is going outside knowing you look ugly and also knowing that if you chose to perform femininity in accordance with patriarchal standards you could look attractive, but genuinely prefering to look ugly and not feeling bad about it. feels good feels organic

[anarchohellenism]

True, honest, genuine power is going outside knowing you look gorgeous bc you don’t need to perform hyper femininity the way men want you to and that you can be stunning despite patriarchal ideals

[wlwellbutrin]

i appreciate the intent but i actually made this post in direct response to the liberal feminist tendency to widen the parameters of “beauty” rather than challenging the concept itself and specifically the notion that women must be beautiful to be valuable, and as such my choice of words was very deliberate—i have no interest in being assured i am beautiful and a great deal of interest in existing without being told i must be such. this post is not self-deprecating and does not call for bathroom-stall platitudes. ugliness in women is threatening and i embrace that.

[jervae]

“I have no interest in being assured I am beautiful and a great deal of interest in existing without being told I must be such.”

POWERFUL

[dragonsateyourtoast]

Absolutely fucking incensed by this ad. I can get unlimited months of unlimited reading and listening through Libby on my phone you dumb sack of shit Amazon I will not let you kill libraries I will not let you kill libraries I will not let you kill libraries

[dragonsateyourtoast]

Listen to me. You can read any library's digital collection via Libby in America and apparently in uh 78 other countries. If that doesn't do it for you, the internet archive has two million digitized books you can access for free. The only thing I can't help you access is books self-published through Amazon but even then sometimes they're ALSO published through separate websites. Do not fucking give in to this amazon bullshit. Amazon has a vested interest in destroying libraries and replacing them with for-profit bookstores or book rentals. Do not fucking let them do that. It's up to us to support libraries and keep literature free and accessible and we have to do everything in our power to act in that vein

Amazon can afford to throw money from exploited workers towards random shit like making an MMO and trying to destroy libraries. Libraries cannot fight that kind of financial might. It's our job to see amazon, tell it no, and choose libraries instead. As often as we can.

If anyone has info on other ways to ethically access self-published books on amazon feel free to add it

[mrsmarymorstan]

Project Gutenberg is also a really useful source for free ethical eBooks! They're volunteer run, and have free PDFs and eBooks for any out of Copyright book-- both fiction and non fiction! So if you're after a copy of Pride & Prejudice, or The Great Gatsby or The Communist Manifesto, that you want to download and keep -- check them out!

[legsdemandias]

no one writes love stories better than aromantics send 

[careful-knives]

The amount of care and detail aroaces put into writing steamy romances is unreal.

[legsdemandias]

The thing is we can’t rely on “love at first sight” or “it just is” logic because we don’t have that button, so instead we build relationships up and up and up, realistically, the only way we could imagine love happening 

[holybikinisbatman]

us 👏 aro 👏 aces 👏 make 👏 it 👏 happen 👏

[sailsofsalt]

Aroaces writing romance:

[mikkeneko]

listen asexuals have written some of THE kinkiest hot shit and i can testify that that is because they do not find the mechanics of sex interesting in and of itself, so they look at the scene and say “how can I make this spicy”

[emyrys]

THIS MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE NOW!!!!

(looks @dsudiswith new eyes)

[dsudis]

…You know, it just occurred to me now that one of the pieces of advice I absorbed early on for writing sex scenes was that it’s a bit tricky to write your own deepest kinks, because it will seem hot to you no matter what, because it’s Your Thing, and you will not be able to accurately gauge how well it will work for anyone else.

And, uh, I guess by that light, yeah. If an ace writes a sex scene of any kind that seems sufficiently sexy to them, it must be fucking sexy. 

[westiec]

tags by dsudis:

#i’m not saying allos can’t write good porn #i’m just saying they’re working at a disadvantage

[ashstfu]

“they tried to kill each other” yes and? do you have a problem with true love

[awesometrollingman10]

Reciprocal murder attempts are fine. One-sided murder is problematic in a relationship, though

[forestwater87]

They do say that a relationship is doomed to fail unless both parties are putting the same amount of effort in.

[moldy-mold]

Important conversation during Zeta.

original comic by MrLovenstein

[on-friday-afternoon]

an enemy’s embrace…you will see the tears of time

[kolyanovich-moved-deactivated20]

char and sayla’s dad’s unsolved murder and their mysterious disappearance off the face of the earth is the subject of many a conspiracy theory and true crime podcast and it drives sayla insane. char thinks it’s hilarious

[kolyanovich-moved-deactivated20]

amuro, sighing: kai had a conspiracy theory phase a couple years ago. he was obsessed with the zeon zum daikun case, i dunno if you’ve ever heard about it?

sayla, gritting her teeth: oh ive heard about it

amuro: yeah there was this theory going around that his son was the red comet and kai really latched onto it and now he’s convinced he cracked the code. it doesn’t make much sense to me though, i mean i’m pretty sure the zabi family murdered him, right, so why would his son fight for them? it would make much more sense if the kids were secret federation soldiers or something

sayla: haha yeah *snaps her pencil in half*

[notanewtype]

bright has a hard job. 

[charaznable]

bitch 

[official-kircheis]

this motherfucker is wearing sunglasses, not only indoors, but inside his goddamn spacesuit

[official-kircheis]

I just want to appreciate the tags I got on this post

[kaiba-cave]

Seto Kaiba + hands in action

requested by the-lone-sky

[pions]

I love my job ⚛❤

[inoshikachozine]

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[arielseaworth]

“Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he’ll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you. And when he has one, his great-grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman—” He flung up his hands in mock ignorance. “If he ever knew, he has forgotten. ‘Move on!’ you tell us. ‘Move on! Forget what we’ve done to you. Tomorrow’s another day!’ But it isn’t, Mr. Brue.” He still had Brue’s hand. “Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That is the point I was making to you. And by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.”

- A Most Wanted Man, John le Carré