Lady magique et Lady chance

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[gay-lien-from-space]

Hello fanfiction community,

Just wanted to bring to your attention that the term whump was actually coined by the Stargate fandom specifically to describe making this guy suffer. He is the original Mr. Whump (no that's not his actual name). That's how torturable this guy is.

Everyone say mean things about him.

Here is a non exhaustive list of what he goes through in canon btw:

His parents get crushed to death right in front of him when he is a kid

He is forced to relive the memory of his parents death countless times

He dies and gets resurrected

His wife gets possessed

He fails to save her and she dies in his arms

He dies and gets resurrected again

He gets infected by a virus that makes him act crazy and gets put in an insane asylum

He dies and gets resurrected again

His ex gets possessed

He is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation

He dies and ascends to a higher plane, then gets kicked out of the higher plane and his memory is wiped

He gets kidnapped by a princess

He gets kidnapped by a fish alien

He gets kidnapped and tortured by some terrorists

He gets kidnapped and tortured by another alien

He is driven to insanity by an alien device

He dies and gets resurrected again

He dies and gets resurrected again

[archaeo-geek]

Don’t forget:

-He’s an archaeologist and when we first meet him, he’s an outcast because nobody believes his theory that the pyramids are landing sites for aliens.

[arinrowan]

OP how could you leave out the best part

whump is from the sound his body makes when he die(s) and hits the ground

[nctinmotion]

Source: This

[brindlefern-deactivated20210619]

[xcziel]

[cellophanes-princess]

I really needed the last one

[frownyalfred]

There’s actually something so sickening about Clark crashing out when Dick takes over as Batman and wears the suit. Dude flipped out and lost it on his favorite Robin, the kid he and Bruce helped raise together. He screams in his face and fucking crashes out because he’s grieving Bruce and here is Batman standing right in front of him but it’s not him. And it should be easier to bear that transition because it’s Dick, but it isn’t.

also this reddit comment I found when looking for additional panels took me out at the knees:

[rightrobin]

This is Superman/Batman 76. I also wanna call attention to the next page

Dick: "I lost my father too"

[shizukateal]

The thing about the Witch Hat Atelier world is that the magic system sounds great until you realize it's essentially programming and that sobers you up immediately. Sure, maybe you reach the level of skill needed to draw perfect curves, straight lines, and circles without looking down, but after that you still need to be able to logic out which combination of sigils will actually give you the desired effect, and if you misplace a single line it all goes to shit. Add to that the inclusion of effect-altering inks and you start to understand why Olruggio is Like That.

[magpiesbones]

I Firmly believe that in a modern au qifrey Would have a motorcycle, and would constantly get asked ‘oh is that your husband’s?’

not because of his eyes just because nobody expects this weird man who dresses like a very young literature professor to Have a motorcycle. Olruggio has Rides A Motorcycle vibes but he drives a subaru he bought six years ago for the safety rating.

[noelle-ism]

i stopped giving a shit about "legit" purchases of digital products after i spent $80 on the entire Dark Horse collection of Trigun/Trigun Maximum ebook mangas, learning that I only got access to reading them through a proprietary website ereader function, couldn't download them, and couldn't get a refund, and then literally only a year later, getting an e-mail stating that Dark Horse was shutting down that part of their company and I wouldn't even be able to read them anymore. Fuck that

[noelle-ism]

Pirate shit. Don't feel bad for it. It's not "your fault" that artists, independent or otherwise, can't make a living. You downloading an album or ebook for free isn't the cause of the problem. The cause is capitalism, plain and simple, and pirating is a lucky loophole that companies are still trying to stomp out.

[snailchimera]

Here's a possible framework to consider, hypothetically, for ethical media piracy.

Check if there's a legit way to:

buy the thing so that you actually own it

while supporting the people who actually made it

If both are possible, get the thing legitimately.

Failing the first, look for just the second (do they actually get paid when you buy the thing, and is there a better way to give them a bigger share of your money? For instance, does the creator or team have some way to send them direct tips, or do they sell merch with the money going directly to them?), send the creators money that way, then do as you will.

Failing both, there's no moral reason to waste your money paying people who didn't make the thing just so you can not actually have access to that thing, in perpetuity, without bloatware or spyware or special hardware that is itself designed to render itself unusable eventually.

Under this framework, a good example of something you should not pirate is a DRM-free ebook that has been self-published or has a reasonable, non-predatory publishing deal behind it. (You'll note this is what OP thought they were getting when they paid for their comics. I do not blame them for giving up entirely.)

A good example of something you should pirate would be Cave Story, a game whose IP rights were functionally stolen and whose sales only benefit said predatory IP thief, if not for the fact that its creator won the legal right to distribute it for free themselves and thus snagging a free copy of it is not actually piracy.

And it is always, always ethical (under this hypothetical framework) to DRM-unlock things you fucking paid for and back them up to your personal device, external hard drives, etc.

If publishers don't like piracy, they're free to go back to actually selling things.

[morabbots]

THE THICK OF IT | 4.02

Happy Star Wars day!

[thenonesenseofladypole]

it is very important that you hear the line delivery

[lustcannibalism]

they should invent a way for me to do tasks without the mind torture

[lustcannibalism]

there is a world out there I can’t comprehend

[typecasto]

behold, context

[toweringclam]

[sario528]

Tumblr has a very odd relationship with the English language, which probably explains the terrible reading comprehension.

[flufflecat]

almost time

[prokopetz]

“Generically medieval”, by which we mean our peerage is French, our castles are German, our weapons are Italian, and everybody speaks English.

[the-venereal-bede-deactivated20]

you can have religion in one of 2 flavors: “woo hoo aesthetic garnish” and “Sinister State Control in Bad Allegory for Problems in Modern Christianity”

[prokopetz]

Also, the latter is aesthetically French Catholic, theologically German Protestant, and has the institutional structure of the Church of Scientology.

[jasmiinitee-deactivated20210610]

not to mention that this land is simultaneously inhabited by thinly modified northern vikings (Nordic pre-medieval/9th century), travelling mongols (European medieval/13th century) and a wealthy italian merchant family with a house full of oil paintings (Southern European renaissance/15th century). the dance of the day is waltz (refined German 18th century country dance).

[marietheran-archived]

But it will only actually be called inaccurate if an adaptation chooses to add a Black person.

[doomsday-dj]

There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

[kuttithevangu]

“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

[kogiopsis]

I've read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:

[shieldfoss]

[emmaubler]

In an age where more and more are getting caught using AI to generate their reports/briefs/summations, let's give it up for the judge who not only read 3000 pages of generic to painful YA fiction for their job but also let everybody know they put in the work by going into extreme detail in their decision. Up top, judge.

Also, this footnote:

A+

[dreadwedge]

One thing most people don't realize about Gazebos is how bloodthirsty they used to be until the 1930s or so. It used to be that in order to appease your average small town gazebo you had to feed it 4-5 marching bands a year, or roughly 2 dozen barbershop groups. Noawadays? Throw it a steely dan cover act every 6 months, maybe a bridal party every few years if you're actively trying to court its favor, and you're pretty much in the clear. And the crazy thing is nobody knows why they calmed down, or that their appetite for flesh won't return to its 19th century heights one day. It's actually an increasingly popular theory among modern Gazebo researchers that we're at the tail end of a period of dormancy and it's only a matter of time until they start howling for blood again. And if/when that does happen there's the question of whether our modern zeeb-keepers are really ready for the task of booking enough sacrificial acts to meet that increased demand. Guild policy has gotten lax in the century since the heyday of Dark Pavillionism and a lot of local keepers refuse to even look at newer research that threatens to upset their status quo. Kind of scary to think about

[mothmanicc]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

some people don’t deserve fanfics, much less for free.

also even if authors didn’t tag any specific warnings but they used the “creator chose not to use archive warnings” tag, then that is your warning.

“omg you should’ve —” no one forced your entitled ass to read anything. fanfic writers write for themselves and their own enjoyment. if you don’t like what you’re reading, quietly leave. ao3 is not an airport. no one cares about your departure so no need to announce it.

[a-k1tty]

Also what happened to skimming the sex scenes?! If you love the piece of writing, be it fic or a book, and you’re not into reading sex scenes, just… skim. Come back to the story after. A sex scene does not suddenly poison the entire work.

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[asty-strauss]

The real big boss of the brimhats

[myuminji]

brushbuddy fashion week

mandatory report to the watchful eye

[prokopetz]

Why weren't TTRPGs popularized centuries before video games? Large scale printing for complex rulebooks needed the printing press, but even then, it wouldn't justify taking off as late as the second half of the 20th century

A lot of it boils down to dumb luck. Hobbies resembling modern tabletop RPGs have come and gone before, but none of the ones that came before Dungeons & Dragons ever managed to blow up into a broader cultural phenomenon.

For example, tabletop American baseball simulators that use rules tech very similar to that of modern indie tabletop RPGs – complete with d66 rolls and Big Stupid Tables full of increasingly improbable random events – have been around since the 1880s, and by the mid 20th Century, dedicated players were using them to simulate entire virtual leagues in a way that would be instantly recognisable to modern indie RPG fans as a form of solo journalling RPG. Robert Coover's 1968 novel, The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop., dramatises the hobby in a way that strikingly pre-figures the later Satanic Panic's fearmongering about D&D players becoming so immersed in the game that they lose touch with reality – pre-dating D&D itself by over five years.

It never went anywhere from there. Such games still exist, but the hobby remains insular to this day; it just never stumbled into the right combination of time and place to grow beyond its roots. And it's not even the first time a niche hobby had approached something like modern tabletop RPGs and just never taken that final step. We can speculate about the whys and wherefores, but ultimately, a lot of it – ironically, given the subject matter – boils down to a cosmic roll of the dice.

(One of my favourite counterfactuals is speculating what the modern tabletop roleplaying hobby would look like in a world where it kicked off half a century early by growing out of tabletop American baseball simulators in the 1920s rather than historical wargames in the 1970s. Imagine!)

[believerindaydreams]

as an aficionado of the US Naval War College, their version is that they encouraged the 1970s version out of spite when their support apparatus in Rhode Island was shut down for, ironically, military minmaxing efficiency. Handing the general public technology that let you predict nation state developments had previously been kept under wraps

they will, obviously, deny it if you actually go to Newport and ask them, but this is old news to the town itself

[prokopetz]

I'm not saying I find any of this in any way credible, but "tabletop roleplaying games became a wider cultural phenomenon at the time and in the place that they did because the global military-industrial complex had been deliberately suppressing tabletop RPG 'technology', until the US Navy let the cat out of the bag in the 1970s due to an inter-departmental pissing contest" is a fascinating conspiracy theory.