Horror Fiend

Jack - He/him - Thirties I'm a Saw franchise scholar, Golden Age of Sail history enthusiast, Valve game lore master, and soda connoisseur. If you like horror, you should check out my tabletop RPG, Snare.

[jackalxhearts]

Snare is a tabletop role-playing game based on the slasher genre of horror films. Snare is about archetypal slasher film heroes who escape death, outsmart villains, and forge relationships with both each other and the killer. Characters are locked in one-shot high-pressure situations where they must make tough choices, change (sometimes for the worse) to survive, and most importantly: go out with a BANG! I just released a slasher horror tabletop RPG book! Snare uses the PbtA framework, and is based around the idea of playing out a brand new horror film of your creation each session with your friends. If you’re a fan of narrative-first, rules-lite games, then Snare is for you. Buy it Here!

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This has been Star Trek

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Happy Captain Picard Day! (June 16)

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perfect boy .

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[felinefractious]

Showing you my funny son Luciel . Hes just some sort of mold spore

Can confirm that this is some kind of mold spore. He might be more suited to a mycology blog but I appreciate him nonetheless!

10/10 would let grow on leftovers in the fridge.

[pinniposting]

can i stare at u like this

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[grawly]

every time I think about Dilbert I think about this comic and how the question being asked is Not Stupid and its answer is genuinely interesting and arguably very important information anyone using a computer should know

[officecyborg]

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[anusgeorg]

My ancestors died because they were born a long time ago

[bunjywunjy]

we noticed the position its actual limbs were in and spent a few minutes aggressively squatting at each other with our arms out

[395nm]

that's goddess pose

[bunjywunjy]

holy shit it sure is

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[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

567.918 and 613.7046

pterosaurs and yoga

[carvingclown]

stop that its bad for you

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[carvingclown]

Powerless to stop me

[what-even-is-thiss]

I hate I when I get an idea for a novel. Like oh no here starts the slow sad slip n’ slide to dissapointment again.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You ever been 30,000 words and hundreds of research hours into a project when you realize hey wait a minute. I don’t like this. This is bad.

[fassina]

Ok adding to this though that even though it is extremely relatable, this is a KNOWN thing with professional writing. 10k is often referred to as "having a pot boiling" or "having a stew" - it's the point where you often see an idea coming together and it's exciting! But THEN... 30k-50k is the point where that fun has to start coming together. In theatre, it's usually week 3 of a 5 week rehearsal period where you have to stop talking about the play and really get it all up on its feet and cohesive. In art, it's committing to what are going to be the final visible layers of colour and texture, in sculpture the moment where you're truly at the point of no return with carving out the shape.

It usually feels really bad. Because this is the point it becomes real craft. It's so, so difficult to really be able to identify if it's truly not going to be anything or you're just in the hardest part of the process, and really the only way to know is to... write through it. Write it badly. Or, if you really can't, put it in a drawer and come back to it after a few months of breathing space. Remember, you can fix so much in the edit, but you can't fix nothing!

(I say, fully looking at my latest draft of my book and considering throwing it in the bin. But my editor said exactly this to me, so I'm passing it along.)

[tjalexandernyc]

this is 100% true. I've written 6 complete novels at this point and every single time around the 40k mark I feel lost in the woods. Nothing seems to be working. I feel awful; I can't sleep. I keep going even though I'm convinced I'm going to fail. And then... It's like leaving a tunnel and getting back out in the sunshine. Stuff starts coalescing. Things that weren't working have obvious fixes. I "can write" again, except I was writing the whole time. It just felt hopeless in the moment. It's not. You just gotta get out of the woods.

[ariaste]

Ah yes the Slough of Desponds. Professional author with 13 books, and this is normal for me as well. (Checking for tension issues usually helps!)

[sainamoonshine]

Lmao I literally wrote a whole blog post abt it once.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/writing-advice-1-82451675

Writing Advice #1: The 90% project completion Dark Night of the Soul | Marie Blanchet

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[prismatic-bell]

Crocheter here and I feel this way every time I get about 40% and 60% through a blanket. At 40% you're like "wow this looks like shit" because it hasn't quite taken form (this is even worse if you're using a multirow stitch pattern), and at 60% you're like "it's fine but this is taking FOREVER I suck this is so bad" while forgetting that blankets take 100-200 hours because they're big.

This is A Thing.

[beatrice-otter]

Lois McMaster Bujold calls it "the miserable middle"

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[insert destiel breaking news meme here]

[yaoiblackmold]

Every vampire is all "oh drinking blood is better than any food, drugs, even sex" but I don't even believe them because all of them were literally made before the invention of really good drugs and before we got all the nice foods from the new world, so I don't trust any of their opinions. Lestat has never ate a potato and Armand hasn't ever even tasted tomaotes. The only guy I trust is Daniel Molloy who has probably tried every drug on earth, has definitely ate nice food and would be a valid judge on how good drinking blood really is.

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yeah

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[mapsontheweb]

US climate with equivalent cities from around the world.

Keep reading

[shabbytigers]

This is the greatest map I have ever seen. I want an interactive version where you can click on any city in the world and get a pop-up list of all the climate-equivalent cities.

[shabbytigers]

so it turns out this exists and it makes a fine rabbit hole for passing the time during a conference call

[queenbookwench]

OK, this is super neat and also a great tool for writers’

[doublism]

they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.

[servicebunny]

It just shifted to spanking your puppy’s ass, to make them take that thick knot. Like the good little play thing they are.

[doublism]

i don't really think it's like that at all

[hyenaswine]

i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.

[hyenaswine]

this is true, but it is not bioessentialist. both cis & trans men WILL see a mouse & eat it. this is because it is in their best interest to eat mice. they benefit from eating mice. this is essential to their class position, not their biological makeup.

[bluehairedspidey]

mgs stands for mullet gay sex