If You Lock In You Can Do Anything

[manymistakesweremade]

Skye Williams always dreamed of becoming a hero, but her visceral powers killed her dream before it got off the ground. So she decides to become a vigilante, with a fellow reject who can spit up anything she eats. Her unlucky first night sees her tangling with one of the world’s most dangerous supervillains and living to tell the tale, lighting the spark of wanting to be a hero on her own terms. But maybe her biggest threat isn't a supervillain, but a golden girl of the superhero world who doesn't think she belongs in the world of capes.

If you like teenage superheroes, body horror, and people fighting against a system that rejects them for things they can't control, give Fracture a read!

Currently posting it on Scribblehub, AO3, and now Royal Road.

Art by @enniriri on Instagram

[hyperbali]

The LADS situation has grown to such lengths that it might just be affecting not only the future of the game itself, but of the entire genre of otome games in China

If the insulated local fandom complaining about the wolf man self-sabotaged themselves so hard it ruins the very existence of hot pixel boys...

[kaileighblue]

[neos-champions]

Ok from what I understand they were advertising for the addition of a new romance character, Valko, but some people complained about him and the studio decided to take the nuclear solution and cancel entirely the Valko Update to focus on existing characters!

But by doing that they pissed off the players who started playing the game so they can get Valko in the first place!

Am I missing something else?

[hyperbali]

The CN fandom didn't just complain about him, they reported the game to the CCP because of supposed references to Unit 731 (that had nothing to do with the character and had been released months ago) and "women's safety concerns" (in a game where the other beloved LIs have kidnapped, stalked, and drugged the MC)

On top of sending cow feces, funeral flowers, and "cursed" letters/objects to the company over this

Shit got unhinged

[rhymewithrachel]

watching twilight and I keep making myself laugh imagining if it was just alucard or any other vampire instead of Edward. POV nausferatu goes to ur school

[segamascott]

[ovenroastedtwerkey]

another $15 million to transgenders

[depsidase]

[unicorncryptid]

"my life isn't a crime, I'm not one of those people -"

"you sure? new parameters for Those People just dropped. check again."

[lizardywizard]

And if you truly cannot imagine this, if you're convinced that it will never happen to you, consider this one thing.

Would you want scammers to know the state of your loved one's dementia?

[headspace-hotel]

Oh. Shit.

[kerizaret]

Overheard in a manga store yesterday: "we need more yuri in here. I've had at least 5 girls coming up to me last time asking for yuri. Everyone wants yuri now". The world is healing

[demilypyro]

the girls are watchin klk

[doriangraysrockcollection]

i must say, i am a huge fan of when a book is in the middle of a very exciting plot containing many interesting problems when out of nowhere for a few pages it's like, "hey by the way, real quick, here's a detailed explanation of the city's water filtration system! i'm telling you this for a reason and you should worry about it. anyway! haha okay back to the plot" and you just get to be Scared for a while

[doriangraysrockcollection]

i am kissing you on the mouth right now

you are the only person who understands me. you and the person who tagged a series of unfortunate events

[demilypyro]

they keep making games bigger and worse optimized and call it improvement. they say, no, the price is totally justified, because our game has More Space and your PC can't run it, which means it's Future. meanwhile the space is too big to cross. the games are too long and too poorly paced to even finish. and it doesn't look materially better than anything that came out on the 360. as if anything has ever done as much or gone as hard in 100 hours as Portal did in three.

[noze2222]

It'll be this way for the foreseeable future though because the average gamer actively hates art and unique experience, only playing video games for the purpose of...like...I don't know. Saying you've played it I guess??? Being able to claim you have a hobby while not having to engage with something in a meaningful way?? I refuse to believe these people that are paying $80 for the newest cookie cutter Unreal Engine PC nuker actually have more fun doing that than playing indies

[redstonedust]

its actually easy to de-enshittify your digital experience all you need to do is install this browser extension and this browser extension and this browser extension and input this custom script into the advanced box and go into your system settings and reconfigure all these options you didnt know existed and change your entire workflow and switch to this alternative operating system and this alternative web browser and this alternative chat client and this alternative word processor and this alternative- sorry that one turned out to be malware delete that one okay now double check your task manager for unwanted background processes and element block these ads and invest in a good VPN and append all your searches with AI blocking keywords and wait a few years until everything you just did becomes shitty too so you can do it all over again okay kitten. its literally that easy.

[00000000000000000001111-deactiv]

when your boy is reblogging foreskin memes but you know damn well he is a cut crusader and not a hooded hero 

[dateamonster]

you could never make me hate magitech/scifantasy settings. fantasy and scifi are two beuatiful women to me and they are kissing with tongue.

[txttletale]

people make fun of mtg players who think that adding spongebob and teenage sloptant mutant pizzas to the game diminishes it because "well its just a card game its silly anyway" which is just frankly really dumb. it is normal to value a specific tone in art and media! i wager most people wouldnt like it if they were watching a serious thriller film and halfway through a cartoon rabbit walked on screen and starting pantsing the hero every other scene--doesn't mean that they are Taking Movies Too Seriously, it means they think extreme bathetic tonal dissonance undercuts many elements of film that they enjoy. perfectly sensible thing to think innit

[kestalsblog]

Not every story is about seeing yourself in it. Sometimes it’s about learning to see other people too.

[doesnotloveyou]

@tearyeyedcat this was beautifully written, thank you for adding it!

[charlesoberonn]

Another excuse for me to post Head Writer of ATLA Aaron Ehasz’s great characters board:

[cookietastic]

I love Joey asking Yugi why he keeps losing and Yugi wanting to be helpful is like let me see/I can give you tip s but upon looking at it is like going through the 5 stages of grief

[cookietastic]

[mollyjames]

reworking an older character for my warmup this morning

[mollyjames]

[mollyjames]

thank you yes that's exactly correct

[mollyjames]

[demilypyro]

some of the questions people ask gooseworx really be like "I watched the show with my eyes closed can you explain everything to me"