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I'm usually weirded out or disappointed when a strong female character is benched to have a baby or something like that, sometimes feels patriarchy. But I like how Matt did it with Katia in this book. Felt... I don't know. Earned? For lack of a better word. I'm still kind of disappointed because I adore Katia as a character and wish she would still be here but I don't hate it.
I've thought a lot about this! The vast majority of the time, child loss and having a baby are ways for people to pretend their female characters are more complex than they are. It feels like pasted on trauma.
I think the reason it feels so different with Katia is because she's a complex character outside of this part of her. It also feels genuine in a way it usually doesnt. Katia's desire to be a mother reminds me a lot of my own mom, who wanted to be a mother from childhood. She figured she'd never get married, but she had planned to have children anyway. I can see my mom deciding to adopt a medically fragile baby on her own. I can see her, as she was back then, choosing pregnancy over other (equally terrible) options, especially if it put her in a place to help MORE children in need.
Katia doesn't feel like "idk, here's a woman and since she's a woman, give her a baby and get rid of her." She feels like someone who was loved by her creator, someone who had a lot of thought put into her actions.
It also doesn't feel like Matt was just writing her out of the story. I'm 100% sure we'll see her again, and that she will have been doing something wild in the background.
Mordecai has gained extra grey feathers dealing with this shit.
Carl: does anything.
Mordecai:
sometimes there are lines in the dungeon crawler carl book series that hit me like, “how can we make it to heaven if god doesn’t recognize us?” from a person who’s been transformed both physically and mentally by the dungeon or “sometimes parents can cast a shadow so thick, you can drown in it,” from a character who recognizes he was a shitty father to his fucking kid who died and it lands like a sucker punch
and then you remember there’s also a talking cat eating cherries from dirty Shirleys while a guy has to run around in boxers bc the AI thinks it’s funny. whiplash, dude lol
Book 8: Chapter 92
Carl: Now you tell me. I just pierced a pig’s nipple.
Mordecai: I don’t know how to respond to that, Carl.
- Dungeon Crawler Carl: A Parade of Horribles, Matt Dinniman
I feel as though that would have been Mordecai's response to pretty much all of the shenanigans that have been going on
these are getting weird
me when i cant comprehend that different continents have different animals
the rest of the paragraph that was cut out in that screenshot literally explains the reasons behind the easter bilby and bluntly theyre minimising the impact that wild rabbits have had as an introduced species in our ecosystem.
the easter bibly was an ingenious campaign that builds in social awareness and change to an ongoing annual tradition without detracting from what that tradition represents. the choice behind it was intentional
title of this is just ‘lesbian sex’
lot of terfs have been reblogging this so I may as well publicly state that the woman on the right is modeled with permission after my transfemme friend. if you relate to it as strongly as many of you claim in the tags I urge you to reflect upon that with empathy and compassion about the depth of experiences you truly do share with trans women.
otherwise fuck off I guess. my art is not fuel for your hatred.
I view reading fantasy/sci-fi stuff as "this work of fiction is being translated into english so that I can understand it, meaning some phrases should not be taken literally" lord of the rings style, and then I meet people who nitpick every word or phrase that "shouldn't exist in this story" and I'm like wow you guys are truly miserable and unimaginative. and also you tend to assume that english words all popped up in the 19th century and you never bother to check the etymology of the words you're claiming "shouldn't exist in this universe"
like sorry but in an apocalyptic alternate-universe earth, the phrase "train of thought" is plausible even in a world without locomotives, because the word "train" comes from the 14th century, and it meant "to drag"
that's why we call dress trains "trains". because they drag. the word wasn't invented for locomotives.
y'all say shit so definitively like idk man I think it depends. the english language is OLD AS FUCK. a lot of words you believe are modern just aren't
Catch me being a modern-day cyberpirate screaming up alongside you on the 405 in my mad max car with half a bitcoin farm's worth of RAM in the backseat as I hack your Bitchless Towyota™ device and steal the boat you're towing right off the back bumper of the tesla your dad bought you
As i roar into the sunset you have to swerve* to avoid the small flotilla of hacked Towyota devices trailing behind me
(*in fact you do not swerve because you're on hands-free driving to go along with your hitch-free towing so you can only watch helplessly as your tesla mistakes your stolen booty for a small child and accelerates crashing into it and killing you instantly)
Could you draw Heather Chandler in a suit???😳😳😳
I mean I could...
HEATHER C. IN A SUIT AAAOCGOMHTOBIHHHNOHNOTGROMORVRPYHYPEPRTO5OYYNB5IOTGJIJOITOIJYOINLKPUPTY
love how heathers was like you cannot fix him. you cannot save his sorry ass. he’s going to blow himself up on the football field and you’re just going to have to live with that, babe!
name something sadder than a new fan who binged 20+ years of One Piece in 3-9 months and is now trolling around tumblr for new content like an addict haha
I used to block people who called Pangur ugly, until she reached about 8 years old, and then I was like yeah okay I see it now
Years ago back when I worked in cubicle land, we were hiring junior software developers. They didn’t have to have a ton of experience, just a willingness to learn, and some demonstration of their software skills. Like: show me a program you wrote (any language) or a web site you designed. Anything.
And there was this one guy I talked with who seemed super sharp, but had virtually zero experience writing software. When it came time to do the show-n-tell part of the interview he whips out his laptop, brings up a website, and spins it around to show me what he made.
A website of tiny ceramic frogs.
Not for sale. Just… all these ceramic frogs, organized into categories. Frogs on bicycles, frogs with hats, frogs sitting on lily pads. It was a virtual museum of ceramic frogs in web form.
I scrolled through his online collection of frogs, slightly baffled.
“This is your website?” I asked finally.
“Yep!”
“You coded this yourself?” I popped into view-source mode and poked around some incredibly well-formatted, well-commented html. I nodded slowly. This guy was meticulous.
“Yep!”
“So… where’d all the frogs come from?”
“I made those too,” he says, beaming.
And while I’m processing this he rummages in his bag and pulls out a little ceramic frog working at a computer terminal. He places it on the table before us, next to the laptop.
“And THIS one,” he says, “I made for you! As a thank you for the interview.”
It was adorable. I hired him on the spot. I mean, why not? Worst case he’d wash out in 90 days and we’d hire somebody else. He turned out to be one of the best developers on our team.
And yes, his cubicle was loaded with ceramic frogs.