A Quiet Corner

[annabelle--cane]

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation with the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

[queendomcum]

QueenDomCum's Posture Harness Design

Got shitty posture? Back pain? Arm pain? Your spine didn't read an anatomy textbook? Fibromyalgia, and constantly dislocating your shoulders?

Bruh, me too. Let's get Pain Managemented.

Pages under the cut. PDF download linked in the comments.

And remember: A BRACE WILL DO THE WORK FOR YOU AND MAKE ALL THAT DAMAGE WORSE. THIS HARNESS IS DIFFERENT FROM A BRACE.

[marutianistic]

Need to try this when I have time!

[alda-rana]

And the very last drawing of Alda's 2025 Discworld Reread, after a long (mostly Silksong-induced) break, is the Band with Rocks In!

I'm hoping to continue this series into 2026 since I only made it to Soul Music and still have many books to reread. We'll see...

Bonus: Buddy & Cliff are on a mission from Glod :)

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[avhira]

I could use some luck

[inkskinned]

you know what? fuck it, man. the world is held in the fists of people who like to break things. at this point i’m saying who gives a shit. wear that victorian dress you don’t have an excuse for. dress up like a witch, pointed hat and all. who cares anymore. why worry about it when there’s bigger stuff to worry on. i’m saying. yeah, this lipstick is too dark, wanna share? i’m saying go talk to her, tell her that you like her hair. i’m saying she’s out of my league but i’m still swinging, i’m saying yeah i’m in a ballgown and it’s a pta meeting. what about it. eat the extra brownie, tell her your feelings. i’m saying if nothing matters than we might as well give nothing meaning.

[inkskinned]

#i’m saying if existence is a void at least i’m going down screaming.

it’s been 9 years since i wrote this. i was experiencing 24/7 anxiety so badly that i needed serious medication. these days in the back of my car is an “emergency party box.” when people admit they no longer really celebrate their birthday; i tell them to put the sash on and queue up kesha, we’re going bowling or something. these days i can’t spin around without finding something i am enamored with. these days i list 3 things i’m grateful for before i fall asleep. you’re probably one of them, just by virtue of you existing.

at the time i wrote this, i was suffering through a severe panic attack literally every night. i tortured my brother with constant 2 AM calls just to hear someone else breathing, because i couldn’t be alone in the silence.

i rarely wish i was still 23 even though ironically i had more hope back then. what i can tell you is this: i love the same way, but bigger now. i’ve worn the velvet cape to several business meetings. i spent thursday in a crop top without caring what my stomach looked like.

i told her i like her; i often dress as a witch. i still got glass in my foot this morning. i’ve kissed maybe a thousand people since then and met a million more than that; passing like the shadow of a hammerhead in trains and planes and buses.

i saw you, beloved, there, maybe, on platform in south station. you didn’t speak, but you said: i struggle to give the nothing meaning. the nothing fills up everything. it is just loud and yellowed panicked silence. i can’t stop shaking.

on the roof, birds curl together against the chilled spring wind. the sky outside of the craft store was an iridescent pink. the nothing already had meaning; you are giving it meaning by witnessing.

the act of living, beloved: it’s just decoding how to translate it.

[tobiasdrake]

One thing I will always appreciate Fullmetal Alchemist for is the fact that they let Roy Mustang be complicit in genocide.

Mustang is an Atoner figure. Something that plagues Atoner figures is when writers are too precious about the characters we're meant to like to actually let them be guilty of something serious.

The Atoner might be trying to make amends for their involvement in the Great '87 Hotel Massacre, and then three seasons in you find out what happened. And it's like, "I drove a taxi to the hotel, and the KILLER was in it! I ferried the killer to the hotel! That makes me responsible, and now I must atone for being nearby while the killings took place! And also vanquish the real killer who is the villain for this season."

Or maybe the Atoner did do the killings but they were under mind control the whole time and would never, ever have done it in their right mind.

But FMA said no. Mustang, Hawkeye, Hughes, even Armstrong to an extent though he suffered a breakdown and fled during it. They did that shit. They followed their orders and they did that shit. And it haunts them.

Roy did that shit. And his atonement, his grand ambition, is to see everyone responsible for that shit brought to justice for their crimes. Including himself.

That is how you write an atonement plot.

[pissvortex]

[larasarty]

[ultrafacts]

Source

Video of Tama

Follow Ultrafacts for more facts

[majikkant-deactivated20180504]

The picture in the background of the second one

[pizzaismylifepizzaisking]

Tama is boss

[ultrafacts]

[cat-fandom]

THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM

[ultrafacts]

Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]

[retro-geek-deactivated20220412]

For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.

[karinanotcinerina]

Beautiful.

[system-fail-ure-deactivated2021]

Now I’m crying thanks

[sapphic-matriarchy]

and a new cat was hired right?

[clarenecessities]

yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy

she works very hard

[beasti]

Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.

[lafayettelabaguette]

Law

[tooiconic]

I’m crying at 11pm over train cats

[sighinastorm]

Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016).  There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

[linkislost]

a legacy

[bemusedlybespectacled]

okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back

[kindaoffkilter]

“Sun-tama-tama” (a pun off of “Santama”, lit. “third Tama”) was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tama’s successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up writing, “I will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.” [25]

As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tama’s Twitter account.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better

[northeastartist]

You are only allowed to scroll pass this after you pay tribute to the great Tama Station masters.

[redchrominance]

The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.

Nitama presenting her yearly offerings to Tama Daimyōjin on the anniversary of Tama’s Death, June 23 (The offerings are presented by the company president, as Nitama is a cat and thus can’t hold the offerings herself) (Not pictured, but also present, Yontama)

[twimmythebabywitch]

you cannot pass without reblogging guys. i’m sorry, i don’t make the rules.

[dduane]

You can’t not reblog a goddess. It’s just what’s so. :)

[fandomsandfeminism]

So, fun fact- the manga Noragami has an arc where the main character, Yato (a minor kami/God that is down on his luck but trying to make it big time) goes to a council/conference for all the Gods in Japan.

And they are announcing the winner of the “up and coming god” award, and of course, Yato thinks it’s him.

But no-

ITS TAMA!

[darker-than-darkstorm]

Just to update… yes, there is a Gotama (“Fifth Tama”) now, introduced in January of this year.

Gotama Joins Wakayama Railway's Feline Stationmaster Legacy

Wakayama Electric Railway’s tradition of feline stationmasters has a new face: Gotama, who joined the team as stationmaster in January 2025.

Nitama and Yontama are still alive and still working. Gotama is Nitama’s second assistant.

Also, there’s not enough pictures of Sun-Tama-Tama in this thread, so have this one:

[darker-than-darkstorm]

Sadly, Nitama died last December, so today Yontama stepped up as full stationmaster. Rokutama (“Sixth Tama”) was also introduced as a new trainee.

Japan railway names third cat stationmaster

The Kishigawa Line drew attention after it named cat Tama its first feline stationmaster in 2007. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more a

[eviliens]

So had a little Idea that I had to share.

In short, GF x Wreck-It Ralph fusion. Or Wreck-It Stan as the role goes.

So Stan (I'm imagining Mullet version, but actually his Mystery Man persona works too) is a antagonist in the arcade game where you play as "Fix-It Soos" who goes from level to level fixing stuff that his "Brute Stupid Boss" breaks (going from small house stuff to cars and even lab equipment as the game progresses). Behind the scenes Stan and Soos are actually going along, planning some ways of how more effectively breaking stuff and how to fix it later and generally just spending time together.

There are rumors that Stan was originally from another game, that he broke and had to leave.

Eventually Stan overhears some NPCs about how he's totally jealous, stupid and "just treats Hero as a slave", breaks some things of Soos (outside their played roles) and leaves their game.

Cue Stan going from game to game searching for some place where he could belong and Soos chasing after him.

Featuring: other pair of twins Dipper and Mabel in cartoonish racing game where you compete to win a favor from a Golden King (ominous wink);

Mentions of deleted game of Euclidya, some mashup of tetris and platformer;

some steampunk RPG with glitched disfigured shape as the badass protagonist that is searching for his lost relative... That he doesn't remember;

lumberjack simulator with female protagonist that ditches her game for a break and adventures;

fishing game where there is that crazy hillbilly npc that just randomly enters the game and starts adding robots to the background.

Something something the King is the Bill that took over racing game.

Something something Stan really broke "Twins Adventure Time", (thinking some Uncharted thing where you had to switch between him and Stanford to progress).

Something something after destruction of "TAT" Stanford met Fiddleford, the hero of "build-a-robot" game and joined him... And accidentally summoned Bill who destroyed Fidds' game.

Wreck-It Stan, who just wrecks every game but somehow makes a perfect speedrun in accidentally finding a family.

[shanklin]

S-snek.

[eviliens]

^ very important addition!

[marutianistic]

ok, my comments are getting too long, but this is a really fun idea!

The story kicks off w/ Stan running away, and Soos following after (he needs his dad boss back, dude!)

However, Stan's been in the arcade for a long time now, and quickly Soos gets lost, stumbling into different games blindly and eventually hitting Mystery Racers!

Dipper and Mabel (referred to as Star Nine and Pinewood Derby or other car puns, but off the track, Dipper and Mabel) are low power racers(not full glitches, but not respected or taken seriously by the others.) always ready to mess around with adventures.

So when Fixit Soos shows up on an epic quest to find his Boss Monster, Dipper and Mabel are exceedingly down to help-it's not like anyone will notice they're gone!

(The Gilded King Notices. The Gilded King begins to plan for retrieval, as well as a few unexpected opportunities- Fixit Soos is very difficult to beat in his own game, and Boss Monster has been hiding there for far too long. Sixer and Specs are both trapped in their own hideyholes, but this is the perfect opportunity to take multiple birds w/ a single stone.)

[marutianistic]

My idea for Soos' game: Fixin'-It!

Fixit Soos (Soos)

Player Character- looks like Soos.

Works at the Shoddy Shack as the handyman under the terrifying Boss Monster

Need to keep his job, but that isn't easy against Boss Monster's natural bull-in-a-china-shop-tendancies

Genuinly likes and appreciates Stan

When Fixin' It was first installed, it wasn't very popular, and Soos was concerned. Then Stan, wandering the arcade, dropped in and got very angry at a cukoo clock-and the player laughed. The rest (plus an encouraging speech or two) is history

Boss Monster(Stan)

The owner of the Shoddy Shack; litterally appears as a bungling monster

level starts w/ a quick cutsene of him moving around, and the whole place falling apart. He gets madder and madder, til finally shouting, "Soos! FIXIT!" and storming offscreen, the door falling to pieces as he slams it.

From there, the player has a limited amount of time to fix the room until the Boss gets back-if the door is fixed (final piece of the room), they get a time bonus for the next level. If less than 75% of the level is complete, Soos gets fired and GAME OVER.

The final level is Soos fighting Boss to be able to quit on his own terms-credits show Soos much happier at a new job and Boss screaming in the ruins of the Shack.

stan thinking to himself-'finally, a place where I can break stuff and be safe!'

The customers-'Loudly Judging'

[eviliens]

I can imagine now all different levels that have some new theme, like:

* Boss bought a new kitchen furniture and tried to install it by himself

* Boss had a marathon of his favourite period drama, but broke the TV set after a finale ... And for some reason the entire level is gray and grainy and player has option to dress Soos into coachman.

* Boss For Some Reason decided to build underground basement filled with complicated schemes.... Is there an AI running rampant, messing with Soos efforts?

[marutianistic]

Adding on another game idea: Where has Ford been? In a highly corrupted version of his and Stans game that longtime arcade goers treat as an ARG/creepypasta!

$%&|^#_) and the Lost !*^#&(

First Person Adventure game where the player is fighting through a series of worlds for pages of a journal (labeled 'Memories'), with the indicator that if you can beat all the levels, they will get back their self. However, the 25th level (the 'final' level) ends in an 'AND THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES' that fans of the game hate.

Unnamed Protagonist (Ford)

When Soos and the kids meet him, Ford looks like a bundle of human shaped static dressed in adventuring clothes, with a ? where his face should be. idea note-characters can change appearances based on their current game, and both Stan and Ford are very good at this

He seems kinda delusional, in that he's very capable and willing to help out the kids, but keeps saying he's 'finally found the twenty-sixth level'

Things start getting weird when the objects around them start supporting that statement, with journal pages found in other games and outside the games entirely-clearly something weird is going on

(Stan took the journal, but what he truly feels awful about is that he couldn't destroy it like his brother asked-he knows full well those are Ford's memories, and Stan can't do that to his brother. Instead, he took it apart and hid it in some very difficult to find places.)

[eviliens]

This makes me wonder: maybe Ford should be Game Hopping as well, searching what he thinks should be the final, 26th level?

Maybe going through games he's corrupting them, and lucky games manage to chase him away, while not so lucky get corrupted/glitching and in need of reboot?

Basically what happened to Fidds' game, only Ford dragged Glitching Fidds out of the game before it was restored?

It would be a nice parallel to Stan's own streak of damaging games.

[marutianistic]

I like that-both of the twins are plagues, but Stan got the help he needed to settle down as part of the community, whereas Ford inadvertantly corrupted the person who ws trying to help him.

I was thinking the fishing game wasn't Fidd's origional game either, he's from a mad science simulator that ford fit into far too well and spent several years in after he and Stan split. Then, Bill triggered Ford's thing and everything spiraled out of control

[eviliens]

Yep yep if I still remember correctly, the initial idea of a timeline was of follow (now amended to new ideas):

* Stan and Ford game. Breaks because of smth Stan caused. Both twins had to leave the game

* Stan wanders till he lands in Soos Game.

* Ford lands in Fidds' "science/mechanically orientated" game. It breaks because of Ford's actions (which should be connected to Bill. If he's a virus - Ford did smth to catch his attention)

* not only the game is destroyed, but Ford and Fidds are damaged as well, having to find other games to settle. That's how Fidds lands in a fishing game. And Ford's mind gets messed enough he starts a search for a nonexistent 26th level.

....

Huh. Maybe nerds tried to use the remains of S&F game to trap Bill there? That's why Ford's mental glitch is linked to the game?

Anyway, that option gives us the following possibility: some plate where part of the memory core (and Bill) was stored was used fo Mabel&Dipper game, and that's how Bill got trapped there?

[marutianistic]

Oooh, ooh!

Fidd's original game was a sort of battle course sim- build a cart using parts (more unlocked as levels prgress), then race through courses of increasing difficulty, w/ each of the playable characters having a few special parts + a specific aesthetic. There's a little bit of physics and building in there (if you've ever played bad piggies, then that)

As you can imagine, Ford slots right in- most of the characters don't even notice he doesn't belong, except for Fidds, who gets along w/ him immediately. Ford thinks he can heal from what happened w/ his original game.

But old evils have begun to stir with the destruction of Case Closed.

Bill has been trapped in the darkness between games since Euclydia was unplugged, but now there are those who can travel between games. With the right signs, he can find his way out, and become what he was meant to be.

And Ford was originally from a detective game.

Stan sees the odd yellow things too, but he's constantly on the move, running from angry denizens under a variety of names. He doesn't have the time or energy to do more than collect a few bricks and wonder at them.

Ford, on the other hand, is settled, with plenty of gear and perhaps a bit too much time on his hands. So when he puts together enough pieces to read instructions for building a portal to a never-before-seen level, it sparks an inventing frenzy for himself and his new friend.

This does not end well.

[eviliens]

So had a little Idea that I had to share.

In short, GF x Wreck-It Ralph fusion. Or Wreck-It Stan as the role goes.

So Stan (I'm imagining Mullet version, but actually his Mystery Man persona works too) is a antagonist in the arcade game where you play as "Fix-It Soos" who goes from level to level fixing stuff that his "Brute Stupid Boss" breaks (going from small house stuff to cars and even lab equipment as the game progresses). Behind the scenes Stan and Soos are actually going along, planning some ways of how more effectively breaking stuff and how to fix it later and generally just spending time together.

There are rumors that Stan was originally from another game, that he broke and had to leave.

Eventually Stan overhears some NPCs about how he's totally jealous, stupid and "just treats Hero as a slave", breaks some things of Soos (outside their played roles) and leaves their game.

Cue Stan going from game to game searching for some place where he could belong and Soos chasing after him.

Featuring: other pair of twins Dipper and Mabel in cartoonish racing game where you compete to win a favor from a Golden King (ominous wink);

Mentions of deleted game of Euclidya, some mashup of tetris and platformer;

some steampunk RPG with glitched disfigured shape as the badass protagonist that is searching for his lost relative... That he doesn't remember;

lumberjack simulator with female protagonist that ditches her game for a break and adventures;

fishing game where there is that crazy hillbilly npc that just randomly enters the game and starts adding robots to the background.

Something something the King is the Bill that took over racing game.

Something something Stan really broke "Twins Adventure Time", (thinking some Uncharted thing where you had to switch between him and Stanford to progress).

Something something after destruction of "TAT" Stanford met Fiddleford, the hero of "build-a-robot" game and joined him... And accidentally summoned Bill who destroyed Fidds' game.

Wreck-It Stan, who just wrecks every game but somehow makes a perfect speedrun in accidentally finding a family.

[shanklin]

S-snek.

[eviliens]

^ very important addition!

[marutianistic]

ok, my comments are getting too long, but this is a really fun idea!

The story kicks off w/ Stan running away, and Soos following after (he needs his dad boss back, dude!)

However, Stan's been in the arcade for a long time now, and quickly Soos gets lost, stumbling into different games blindly and eventually hitting Mystery Racers!

Dipper and Mabel (referred to as Star Nine and Pinewood Derby or other car puns, but off the track, Dipper and Mabel) are low power racers(not full glitches, but not respected or taken seriously by the others.) always ready to mess around with adventures.

So when Fixit Soos shows up on an epic quest to find his Boss Monster, Dipper and Mabel are exceedingly down to help-it's not like anyone will notice they're gone!

(The Gilded King Notices. The Gilded King begins to plan for retrieval, as well as a few unexpected opportunities- Fixit Soos is very difficult to beat in his own game, and Boss Monster has been hiding there for far too long. Sixer and Specs are both trapped in their own hideyholes, but this is the perfect opportunity to take multiple birds w/ a single stone.)

[marutianistic]

My idea for Soos' game: Fixin'-It!

Fixit Soos (Soos)

Player Character- looks like Soos.

Works at the Shoddy Shack as the handyman under the terrifying Boss Monster

Need to keep his job, but that isn't easy against Boss Monster's natural bull-in-a-china-shop-tendancies

Genuinly likes and appreciates Stan

When Fixin' It was first installed, it wasn't very popular, and Soos was concerned. Then Stan, wandering the arcade, dropped in and got very angry at a cukoo clock-and the player laughed. The rest (plus an encouraging speech or two) is history

Boss Monster(Stan)

The owner of the Shoddy Shack; litterally appears as a bungling monster

level starts w/ a quick cutsene of him moving around, and the whole place falling apart. He gets madder and madder, til finally shouting, "Soos! FIXIT!" and storming offscreen, the door falling to pieces as he slams it.

From there, the player has a limited amount of time to fix the room until the Boss gets back-if the door is fixed (final piece of the room), they get a time bonus for the next level. If less than 75% of the level is complete, Soos gets fired and GAME OVER.

The final level is Soos fighting Boss to be able to quit on his own terms-credits show Soos much happier at a new job and Boss screaming in the ruins of the Shack.

stan thinking to himself-'finally, a place where I can break stuff and be safe!'

The customers-'Loudly Judging'

[eviliens]

I can imagine now all different levels that have some new theme, like:

* Boss bought a new kitchen furniture and tried to install it by himself

* Boss had a marathon of his favourite period drama, but broke the TV set after a finale ... And for some reason the entire level is gray and grainy and player has option to dress Soos into coachman.

* Boss For Some Reason decided to build underground basement filled with complicated schemes.... Is there an AI running rampant, messing with Soos efforts?

[marutianistic]

Adding on another game idea: Where has Ford been? In a highly corrupted version of his and Stans game that longtime arcade goers treat as an ARG/creepypasta!

$%&|^#_) and the Lost !*^#&(

First Person Adventure game where the player is fighting through a series of worlds for pages of a journal (labeled 'Memories'), with the indicator that if you can beat all the levels, they will get back their self. However, the 25th level (the 'final' level) ends in an 'AND THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES' that fans of the game hate.

Unnamed Protagonist (Ford)

When Soos and the kids meet him, Ford looks like a bundle of human shaped static dressed in adventuring clothes, with a ? where his face should be. idea note-characters can change appearances based on their current game, and both Stan and Ford are very good at this

He seems kinda delusional, in that he's very capable and willing to help out the kids, but keeps saying he's 'finally found the twenty-sixth level'

Things start getting weird when the objects around them start supporting that statement, with journal pages found in other games and outside the games entirely-clearly something weird is going on

(Stan took the journal, but what he truly feels awful about is that he couldn't destroy it like his brother asked-he knows full well those are Ford's memories, and Stan can't do that to his brother. Instead, he took it apart and hid it in some very difficult to find places.)

[eviliens]

This makes me wonder: maybe Ford should be Game Hopping as well, searching what he thinks should be the final, 26th level?

Maybe going through games he's corrupting them, and lucky games manage to chase him away, while not so lucky get corrupted/glitching and in need of reboot?

Basically what happened to Fidds' game, only Ford dragged Glitching Fidds out of the game before it was restored?

It would be a nice parallel to Stan's own streak of damaging games.

[marutianistic]

I like that-both of the twins are plagues, but Stan got the help he needed to settle down as part of the community, whereas Ford inadvertantly corrupted the person who ws trying to help him.

I was thinking the fishing game wasn't Fidd's origional game either, he's from a mad science simulator that ford fit into far too well and spent several years in after he and Stan split. Then, Bill triggered Ford's thing and everything spiraled out of control

[eviliens]

So had a little Idea that I had to share.

In short, GF x Wreck-It Ralph fusion. Or Wreck-It Stan as the role goes.

So Stan (I'm imagining Mullet version, but actually his Mystery Man persona works too) is a antagonist in the arcade game where you play as "Fix-It Soos" who goes from level to level fixing stuff that his "Brute Stupid Boss" breaks (going from small house stuff to cars and even lab equipment as the game progresses). Behind the scenes Stan and Soos are actually going along, planning some ways of how more effectively breaking stuff and how to fix it later and generally just spending time together.

There are rumors that Stan was originally from another game, that he broke and had to leave.

Eventually Stan overhears some NPCs about how he's totally jealous, stupid and "just treats Hero as a slave", breaks some things of Soos (outside their played roles) and leaves their game.

Cue Stan going from game to game searching for some place where he could belong and Soos chasing after him.

Featuring: other pair of twins Dipper and Mabel in cartoonish racing game where you compete to win a favor from a Golden King (ominous wink);

Mentions of deleted game of Euclidya, some mashup of tetris and platformer;

some steampunk RPG with glitched disfigured shape as the badass protagonist that is searching for his lost relative... That he doesn't remember;

lumberjack simulator with female protagonist that ditches her game for a break and adventures;

fishing game where there is that crazy hillbilly npc that just randomly enters the game and starts adding robots to the background.

Something something the King is the Bill that took over racing game.

Something something Stan really broke "Twins Adventure Time", (thinking some Uncharted thing where you had to switch between him and Stanford to progress).

Something something after destruction of "TAT" Stanford met Fiddleford, the hero of "build-a-robot" game and joined him... And accidentally summoned Bill who destroyed Fidds' game.

Wreck-It Stan, who just wrecks every game but somehow makes a perfect speedrun in accidentally finding a family.

[shanklin]

S-snek.

[eviliens]

^ very important addition!

[marutianistic]

ok, my comments are getting too long, but this is a really fun idea!

The story kicks off w/ Stan running away, and Soos following after (he needs his dad boss back, dude!)

However, Stan's been in the arcade for a long time now, and quickly Soos gets lost, stumbling into different games blindly and eventually hitting Mystery Racers!

Dipper and Mabel (referred to as Star Nine and Pinewood Derby or other car puns, but off the track, Dipper and Mabel) are low power racers(not full glitches, but not respected or taken seriously by the others.) always ready to mess around with adventures.

So when Fixit Soos shows up on an epic quest to find his Boss Monster, Dipper and Mabel are exceedingly down to help-it's not like anyone will notice they're gone!

(The Gilded King Notices. The Gilded King begins to plan for retrieval, as well as a few unexpected opportunities- Fixit Soos is very difficult to beat in his own game, and Boss Monster has been hiding there for far too long. Sixer and Specs are both trapped in their own hideyholes, but this is the perfect opportunity to take multiple birds w/ a single stone.)

[marutianistic]

My idea for Soos' game: Fixin'-It!

Fixit Soos (Soos)

Player Character- looks like Soos.

Works at the Shoddy Shack as the handyman under the terrifying Boss Monster

Need to keep his job, but that isn't easy against Boss Monster's natural bull-in-a-china-shop-tendancies

Genuinly likes and appreciates Stan

When Fixin' It was first installed, it wasn't very popular, and Soos was concerned. Then Stan, wandering the arcade, dropped in and got very angry at a cukoo clock-and the player laughed. The rest (plus an encouraging speech or two) is history

Boss Monster(Stan)

The owner of the Shoddy Shack; litterally appears as a bungling monster

level starts w/ a quick cutsene of him moving around, and the whole place falling apart. He gets madder and madder, til finally shouting, "Soos! FIXIT!" and storming offscreen, the door falling to pieces as he slams it.

From there, the player has a limited amount of time to fix the room until the Boss gets back-if the door is fixed (final piece of the room), they get a time bonus for the next level. If less than 75% of the level is complete, Soos gets fired and GAME OVER.

The final level is Soos fighting Boss to be able to quit on his own terms-credits show Soos much happier at a new job and Boss screaming in the ruins of the Shack.

stan thinking to himself-'finally, a place where I can break stuff and be safe!'

The customers-'Loudly Judging'

[eviliens]

I can imagine now all different levels that have some new theme, like:

* Boss bought a new kitchen furniture and tried to install it by himself

* Boss had a marathon of his favourite period drama, but broke the TV set after a finale ... And for some reason the entire level is gray and grainy and player has option to dress Soos into coachman.

* Boss For Some Reason decided to build underground basement filled with complicated schemes.... Is there an AI running rampant, messing with Soos efforts?

[marutianistic]

Adding on another game idea: Where has Ford been? In a highly corrupted version of his and Stans game that longtime arcade goers treat as an ARG/creepypasta!

$%&|^#_) and the Lost !*^#&(

First Person Adventure game where the player is fighting through a series of worlds for pages of a journal (labeled 'Memories'), with the indicator that if you can beat all the levels, they will get back their self. However, the 25th level (the 'final' level) ends in an 'AND THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES' that fans of the game hate.

Unnamed Protagonist (Ford)

When Soos and the kids meet him, Ford looks like a bundle of human shaped static dressed in adventuring clothes, with a ? where his face should be. idea note-characters can change appearances based on their current game, and both Stan and Ford are very good at this

He seems kinda delusional, in that he's very capable and willing to help out the kids, but keeps saying he's 'finally found the twenty-sixth level'

Things start getting weird when the objects around them start supporting that statement, with journal pages found in other games and outside the games entirely-clearly something weird is going on

(Stan took the journal, but what he truly feels awful about is that he couldn't destroy it like his brother asked-he knows full well those are Ford's memories, and Stan can't do that to his brother. Instead, he took it apart and hid it in some very difficult to find places.)

[eviliens]

So had a little Idea that I had to share.

In short, GF x Wreck-It Ralph fusion. Or Wreck-It Stan as the role goes.

So Stan (I'm imagining Mullet version, but actually his Mystery Man persona works too) is a antagonist in the arcade game where you play as "Fix-It Soos" who goes from level to level fixing stuff that his "Brute Stupid Boss" breaks (going from small house stuff to cars and even lab equipment as the game progresses). Behind the scenes Stan and Soos are actually going along, planning some ways of how more effectively breaking stuff and how to fix it later and generally just spending time together.

There are rumors that Stan was originally from another game, that he broke and had to leave.

Eventually Stan overhears some NPCs about how he's totally jealous, stupid and "just treats Hero as a slave", breaks some things of Soos (outside their played roles) and leaves their game.

Cue Stan going from game to game searching for some place where he could belong and Soos chasing after him.

Featuring: other pair of twins Dipper and Mabel in cartoonish racing game where you compete to win a favor from a Golden King (ominous wink);

Mentions of deleted game of Euclidya, some mashup of tetris and platformer;

some steampunk RPG with glitched disfigured shape as the badass protagonist that is searching for his lost relative... That he doesn't remember;

lumberjack simulator with female protagonist that ditches her game for a break and adventures;

fishing game where there is that crazy hillbilly npc that just randomly enters the game and starts adding robots to the background.

Something something the King is the Bill that took over racing game.

Something something Stan really broke "Twins Adventure Time", (thinking some Uncharted thing where you had to switch between him and Stanford to progress).

Something something after destruction of "TAT" Stanford met Fiddleford, the hero of "build-a-robot" game and joined him... And accidentally summoned Bill who destroyed Fidds' game.

Wreck-It Stan, who just wrecks every game but somehow makes a perfect speedrun in accidentally finding a family.

[shanklin]

S-snek.

[eviliens]

^ very important addition!

[marutianistic]

ok, my comments are getting too long, but this is a really fun idea!

The story kicks off w/ Stan running away, and Soos following after (he needs his dad boss back, dude!)

However, Stan's been in the arcade for a long time now, and quickly Soos gets lost, stumbling into different games blindly and eventually hitting Mystery Racers!

Dipper and Mabel (referred to as Star Nine and Pinewood Derby or other car puns, but off the track, Dipper and Mabel) are low power racers(not full glitches, but not respected or taken seriously by the others.) always ready to mess around with adventures.

So when Fixit Soos shows up on an epic quest to find his Boss Monster, Dipper and Mabel are exceedingly down to help-it's not like anyone will notice they're gone!

(The Gilded King Notices. The Gilded King begins to plan for retrieval, as well as a few unexpected opportunities- Fixit Soos is very difficult to beat in his own game, and Boss Monster has been hiding there for far too long. Sixer and Specs are both trapped in their own hideyholes, but this is the perfect opportunity to take multiple birds w/ a single stone.)

[marutianistic]

My idea for Soos' game: Fixin'-It!

Fixit Soos (Soos)

Player Character- looks like Soos.

Works at the Shoddy Shack as the handyman under the terrifying Boss Monster

Need to keep his job, but that isn't easy against Boss Monster's natural bull-in-a-china-shop-tendancies

Genuinly likes and appreciates Stan

When Fixin' It was first installed, it wasn't very popular, and Soos was concerned. Then Stan, wandering the arcade, dropped in and got very angry at a cukoo clock-and the player laughed. The rest (plus an encouraging speech or two) is history

Boss Monster(Stan)

The owner of the Shoddy Shack; litterally appears as a bungling monster

level starts w/ a quick cutsene of him moving around, and the whole place falling apart. He gets madder and madder, til finally shouting, "Soos! FIXIT!" and storming offscreen, the door falling to pieces as he slams it.

From there, the player has a limited amount of time to fix the room until the Boss gets back-if the door is fixed (final piece of the room), they get a time bonus for the next level. If less than 75% of the level is complete, Soos gets fired and GAME OVER.

The final level is Soos fighting Boss to be able to quit on his own terms-credits show Soos much happier at a new job and Boss screaming in the ruins of the Shack.

stan thinking to himself-'finally, a place where I can break stuff and be safe!'

The customers-'Loudly Judging'

[eviliens]

So had a little Idea that I had to share.

In short, GF x Wreck-It Ralph fusion. Or Wreck-It Stan as the role goes.

So Stan (I'm imagining Mullet version, but actually his Mystery Man persona works too) is a antagonist in the arcade game where you play as "Fix-It Soos" who goes from level to level fixing stuff that his "Brute Stupid Boss" breaks (going from small house stuff to cars and even lab equipment as the game progresses). Behind the scenes Stan and Soos are actually going along, planning some ways of how more effectively breaking stuff and how to fix it later and generally just spending time together.

There are rumors that Stan was originally from another game, that he broke and had to leave.

Eventually Stan overhears some NPCs about how he's totally jealous, stupid and "just treats Hero as a slave", breaks some things of Soos (outside their played roles) and leaves their game.

Cue Stan going from game to game searching for some place where he could belong and Soos chasing after him.

Featuring: other pair of twins Dipper and Mabel in cartoonish racing game where you compete to win a favor from a Golden King (ominous wink);

Mentions of deleted game of Euclidya, some mashup of tetris and platformer;

some steampunk RPG with glitched disfigured shape as the badass protagonist that is searching for his lost relative... That he doesn't remember;

lumberjack simulator with female protagonist that ditches her game for a break and adventures;

fishing game where there is that crazy hillbilly npc that just randomly enters the game and starts adding robots to the background.

Something something the King is the Bill that took over racing game.

Something something Stan really broke "Twins Adventure Time", (thinking some Uncharted thing where you had to switch between him and Stanford to progress).

Something something after destruction of "TAT" Stanford met Fiddleford, the hero of "build-a-robot" game and joined him... And accidentally summoned Bill who destroyed Fidds' game.

Wreck-It Stan, who just wrecks every game but somehow makes a perfect speedrun in accidentally finding a family.

[shanklin]

S-snek.

[eviliens]

^ very important addition!

[marutianistic]

ok, my comments are getting too long, but this is a really fun idea!

The story kicks off w/ Stan running away, and Soos following after (he needs his dad boss back, dude!)

However, Stan's been in the arcade for a long time now, and quickly Soos gets lost, stumbling into different games blindly and eventually hitting Mystery Racers!

Dipper and Mabel (referred to as Star Nine and Pinewood Derby or other car puns, but off the track, Dipper and Mabel) are low power racers(not full glitches, but not respected or taken seriously by the others.) always ready to mess around with adventures.

So when Fixit Soos shows up on an epic quest to find his Boss Monster, Dipper and Mabel are exceedingly down to help-it's not like anyone will notice they're gone!

(The Gilded King Notices. The Gilded King begins to plan for retrieval, as well as a few unexpected opportunities- Fixit Soos is very difficult to beat in his own game, and Boss Monster has been hiding there for far too long. Sixer and Specs are both trapped in their own hideyholes, but this is the perfect opportunity to take multiple birds w/ a single stone.)

[fox-bright]

hi any life advice for 21yo

Don't date thirty-year-olds until you are at least 25.

Having a glass of water for every glass of alcohol will give you a 50% reduction in hangover viciousness.

Bad people will use your willingness to be quiet as a weapon against you. If someone's being awful to you and trusting you'll be quiet to keep from making waves, surprise them.

There is no physical object in the world that is worth as much as your honor.

Honor is not the same as dignity. Retaining one sometimes means leaving the other aside.

Don't have any sex you don't want to have; have as much as you want of the sex that you do, whether that's a lot, a little, or none at all. Nothing you can do to your own body is immoral, unless you're doing it as an act of self-punishment.

Food is morally neutral. You do not have to earn the right to eat calories. Fat and sugar keep your brain from eating itself.

Learning to sit still and breathe--in, in, in, hold, hold, hold, out, out, out, out, out, out--can give you five feet of clear space around yourself in a maelstrom.

Find out how to make three good meals: A comfort meal you can make for just yourself relatively easily, a fancy meal you can use to wow a date, and a meal you can feed a bunch of people. All the other cooking can come later, but you can build a community on those three meals.

If you ever get to the point that things are so bleak you can see no other way forward but to die, make any other choice. If that means leaving everything you own and being a beach bum, or quitting your career, or taking up or leaving a religion, or deciding to bicycle across the country, so be it; living means more chances, dying means everything stops and you don't get to see any more interesting things. As you have not yet seen all the things that can interest you, it is better to live.

[cosmicyellow]

Not my usual post style but I WISH someone gave me this advice at 21. Now I'm nearly 30 and I'm grateful to have came across this post now rather than even later on in life.

If you're in the stage transitioning into adulthood (18-23) PLEASE take note of these, they are CRUCIAL (especially #1). People WILL take advantage of you if they see an opportunity to do so. Don't lose your whimsy, love yourself, but protect yourself also.

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[aloeverawrites]

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Humanity in War

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

[lauxesa2]

Kinds of Cyberdecks/What tf do I make?

DIY Computer: fully customizable and cheap, use instead of a bought computer for work, school, fun, whatever

E-reader: easy mode is uploaded text files to read offline, harder mode (but still pretty easy) is connecting to the internet and reading AO3 (or something else) on your own DIY kindle!

Music/audio player: DIY mp3 player or audiobook player for cheap

Writing pad: DIY freewrite, could be either typing or maybe handwritten

Drawing pad: DIY drawing tablet

Some hacker shit: maybe you want something that fucks with the wifi or bluetooth, or maybe you wanna do something else. idc just don’t get caught.

Put that shit on you clothes: DIY wearable tech so you don’t have to carry your phone everywhere

Useless but cool: why would you do this? idk but it has lots of lights and screens

Put a fucking AI in there and talk to it: I would never do this but maybe you want Bakugo in your purse i’m not here to judge

Dumb phone: do you hate all these stupid apps? make a dumb phone that doesn’t do that shit

Little robot friend: :]

Cyberdeck with a job: maybe it actually monitors or supports something, like you wanna know all about your plants so you make a deck just for keeping track of data related to your plants

Music maker: separate from music player, this is like making a keyboard or music production device to make/write music on

Alexa: idk maybe you hate bezos but want an alexa

Dvd/media player: watch movie or tv shows on your diy player

Cop detector: put a fucking laser detector in there and it’ll tell you when a cop has their scanner on

Knitting pattern maker/display: because normal spreadsheets suck

Camera: diy camera