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Shoutout to the pink doggy in Grise Fiord, Nunavut (population 144) who might hold the title of "world's northernmost furry"
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My name is Kali (or nona, for those who know me well), and we are facing eviction from our current hom… Kali Poteet needs your support for K
hi, this is my roommate's fund for us being able to get a new house. we're a group of multiple trans people facing eviction due to high rent and a multiperson struggle with sudden illness. we're trying our best to move to a new place
more info in the gofundme itself. sorry
please, if you can send in anything, please do.
we are basically fucked and homeless if we don't reach a goal here by the end of the month. i don't really know what to do about it. im just gonna hope that i can keep reblogging this and eventually a miracle will happen and this gets in front of the eyes of a ton of people willing to slap down money. but i know times are hard for everyone.
thank you so much to the person who got it to $1k
i hear the woke left is trying to rename it to the "xnis". reblog if you are a TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT who wants to keep the PEE in PENIS
alright i give up where the FUCK am i on this triangle
brutalistlittlecaesars
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I have seen so many beginner writers choke themselves out by getting their ego wrapped up in their craft. You gotta excise that fucker like a tumour straight away.
hi! I hope you haven’t gotten too many of these kinds of asks, but I would love for you to explain your “all childhood is trauma” view in more detail. I feel as though I didn’t grow up with a traumatic childhood, and so I would love to know what you mean by “childhood is traumatizing”. This obviously isn’t forced or anything! I hope you have a good day <3
well yknow as a child you are completely bereft of any autonomy, you are not in control of where you go or what (or whether!) you eat or what you wear, your social circle is tightly controlled, you have no right to privacy, it is expressly legal in much of the world to physically assault you, your desires are considered irrelevant, your distress is for the most part considered comical--when you strip these of the normalizing ideology of 'childhood' i think it becomes very clear that this is an inhumane way to be treated!
Frankly, the biggest reason nobody can figure out how to make a Duke Nukem reboot work is because they think the 90s edgelord bullshit is the main reason that Duke Nukem 3D was such a breakout hit, when the truth of the matter is that it succeeded at least partly in spite of that. Duke Nukem 3D legitimately pushed the envelope in terms of what it was possible for a first-person shooter to be – in many ways it's just as foundational to the genre in its modern form as Wolfenstein 3D or Doom. You can't recapture that with dick jokes, and if you're not willing to take risks in terms of basic game design, dick jokes are all you have.
Ultimately, what the franchise really needs to shake off its creative rust is to stop trying to iterate on its established formula and shift genres entirely. To this end, I have a proposal: make the next Duke Nukem game a side-scrolling metroidvania. In this essay
It is true DN3D has its importances in both gameplay and engine developments (Which can be said about a lot of games and i even see part of why Forever went into development Hell), but let's not forget that Duke as a character and the setting were still appealing to people. Even with the parodies and humor, the game was still technically made by people that loved the media they were referencing since a lot of classic FPS games were built on being inspired by media the devs enjoyed. Whereas something like Doom is not in the same level/direction but everyone accepts it as a "story doesn't matter much" kind of series even before that Carmack quote (But there's also people still thinking the premise is cool in general and the ways people interpret it etc). The fact that Duke 3D even references H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds or The Simpsons also adds to the pop culture reference nature not just being tied to action movies.
The game in general has a certain level of effort and quality that at a certain point, it's clear the devs liked some of the stuff they added (And in turn, so did fans). We've still had way more Duke games between 3D and Forever, so they kept the series going in that image. Shadow Warrior is a more specific case because of the politically incorrect/racist humor but i'm sure at the mindset of the devs, they just thought that kinda stuff was funny without intending to do any malice.
But SW reboot games are obviously a different direction for very obvious reasons (Even if one can say "at least don't do MCU style quipping").
Forever has its issues but we also gotta be careful understanding exactly why that game is a trash fire. Because it's one thing to say "Duke Nukem is a product of its time" but so are the recent prespectives people are having on it. When DNF came out, you had the expected game journalists and media saying you-know-what at the time.
Can't help but think posts like these are written in the modern "media literate" mentallity that almost wants everything to be some sort of Starship Troopers style subversion (As in, what has already been happenging with Neon Genesis Evangelion for years) because it includes elements that otherwise would seem out of place in certain demographics and a modern take on fandom culture. Or maybe people are looking way into the parody/joke aspect of Duke Nukem, similar to how people make Daisy's death in Doom 1 a bit more dramatic than it actually is. Or just a side effect of irony poison from 2010's and so on, maybe.
One good look at fans and content from other eras might even show someone using "badass" unironically before everyone agreed Randy Pitchford ruined that word.
If anything, i expect a Duke reboot to suffer from the devs playing it safe with the crude humor and mix that up with even more boring pop culture references than DNF did.
At least as far as AAA goes, since whatever attitude 90's devs had could more likely reappear among indie devs not concerned with shareholders and the masses.
Even nowadays, DN3D doesn't seem that "edgy".
About a year ago I realized I might be trans. I'm hesitant to admit it, because I know what my reputation is and I don't want to feed into stereotypes of trans women. The thing is that I can't transition. I'd explain why, but I don't see a point. I'll still get transfems acting like I'm Owen in I Saw The TV Glow and try to "save" me by pushing me to take the leap, out of a mistaken belief that taking hrt and manmoding is fully reversible with few risks. If you're about to "hun" me or call me a girl, don't, because I consider it misgendering. I'm a guy and I need to learn to live with that. I just don't know how. Trans communities are full of people who by definition couldn't live with it. If you're successfully managing your dysphoria, you're not going to be frequenting trans spaces. They also don't want to scare off anyone from transitioning. So no one has any advice besides "coping is impossible, just transition" (again: if this is your advice, keep it to yourself) and maybe vague suggestions to go to therapy. Most of my friends are trans (giving me false hope that all this is just social contagion), and seeing them get to live as themselves makes me feel heartbroken, like I'm watching them play outside from the window of a jail cell. At the same time, I know what their real lives are like and what they have to put up with; I'm making the right decision. I just wish the right decision didn't hurt so badly. I feel alone.
i wish nobody had attempted to egg crack me. i wish someone i trusted had just lied and told me, to my face, that transitioning is impossible, chromosomes are all that matters and ywnbaw. because there's a small part of me that's pushing me to transition and as long as that part exists, that little bit of doubt, i'll never be able to accept that i'm stuck being a man and learn how to make peace with it
— Peter Mullen
Dark Tower
About a year ago I realized I might be trans. I'm hesitant to admit it, because I know what my reputation is and I don't want to feed into stereotypes of trans women. The thing is that I can't transition. I'd explain why, but I don't see a point. I'll still get transfems acting like I'm Owen in I Saw The TV Glow and try to "save" me by pushing me to take the leap, out of a mistaken belief that taking hrt and manmoding is fully reversible with few risks. If you're about to "hun" me or call me a girl, don't, because I consider it misgendering. I'm a guy and I need to learn to live with that. I just don't know how. Trans communities are full of people who by definition couldn't live with it. If you're successfully managing your dysphoria and consider yourself cis, you're not going to be frequenting trans spaces. There's also a culture of not wanting to trans people to "repress", and a fear that any attempt to find alternatives to transitioning will be hijacked by transphobes.. So no one has any advice besides "coping is impossible, just transition" (again: if this is your advice, keep it to yourself) and maybe vague suggestions to go to therapy. Most of my friends are trans (giving me false hope that all this is just social contagion), and seeing them get to live as themselves makes me feel heartbroken, like I'm watching them play outside from the window of a jail cell. At the same time, I know what their real lives are like and what they have to put up with; I'm making the right decision. I just wish the right decision didn't hurt so badly. I feel alone.
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One time I got a callout post for being pro-palestine. The author wanted to call me a tumblrina. They also wanted to respect my nonbinary identity, and conjugated the word as "Tumblrine."
lil guys of the Ediacaran
the Ediacaran period was around ~635 million years ago, happening before the Cambrian. This time saw the rise of the first group of animals and the oldest multicellular life. The fossil record is sparse due to the fact that the creatures did not have hard shells, which are the thing most easily fossilised.
the Ediacaran biota appeared ~570 million years ago, and are very taxonomically ambiguous, they may relate to some groups, like cnidaria and protozoans, but some have suggested completely new phylums that we do not have today.
the majority of Ediacaran biota were sessile (lacking the ability to move by themselves) and were soft-bodied. many also lacked mouths and a gut.
here are some lil guys!
These frondose fossils are very controversial, considering they appear to be leafy plants, but may very well be anything from animal or protist, to stem fungi (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1099727)
this is an Erniettamorph and we know basically nothing about these! The fossils were found in places where photosynthesis would not have been possible, and one type of these fossils has been found with the tubes completely covered and filled with sand, which makes the possibility of osmotic feeding from the surrounding water difficult as it would reduce the metabolically active volume. (https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0904836106)
Dickinsonia is a more studied animal. and it probably was an animal, due to cholesterol molecules found in fossils. Fossils range from millimetres to ~1.4 metres, and have near bilateral symmetry and rib-like segments. They were a mobile creature and ate microbial mats (trace fossils have been found which are most likely impressions from feeding) (https://doi.org/10.1017/S175569102300004X) A study from 2022 has suggested that they temporarily stuck themselves to substrate with mucus, which suggests a life in shallow waters (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756821000194)
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It's nothing that hasn't been said before but now it's my turn to say
if you are a cis boy who is following me and a dozen other transfem blogs and are attracted to us in a weird way that you can't exactly quantify and have a weird everpresent guilt that doesn't seem to go away but also doesn't seem to actually have a source every time you interrogate it
maybe you should try estrogen. Just for a month or two. It doesn't have to be committal. Just see how it feels. Who knows, you might discover that you really enjoy being a girl
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