TURN YOUR GAYS UPON THIS WRETCHED THING

🏳️‍⚧️ (she/her) 30s, that's good game design

[prokopetz]

Pick a live-action movie. Keep one human actor; everyone else is played by muppets.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, in two variations:

1. Keep both title roles human on the grounds that they’re really a single composite character; Kermit the Frog is cast as the Player King for maximum meta fuckery.

2. The Player King stays human; cross-cast with Sesame Street and make the title roles Bert and Ernie.

[hopesterling]

no but Kermit saying “I can’t do you love and rhetoric without the blood” gives me both the heebies AND the jeebies

[prokopetz]

It’s very good, but I think Guildenstern’s final confrontation with the Player King might have it beat if you picture it delivered in Bert’s voice. Like–

BERT: Your experience? Actors. I’m talking about death! You’ve never experienced that. You die a thousand casual deaths and come back in a different hat, but nobody gets up after death. There’s no applause. Only silence and some second-hand clothes!

BERT: [stabs him]

BERT: That’s death!

PLAYER KING: [clutches his wound and falls]

BERT: [pauses] If we have a destiny then so had he, and if this is ours then that was his, and if there are no explanations for us then let there be none for him.

I want you to imagine that as exactly as you’re able.

[uberguber89]

You need to imagine Bert’s voice, but you also need too picture when his eyebrows Do The Thing for it to be complete

[shadowjackery]

And that’s all I drew.

Casting notes and character design sketches in this post: https://www.tumblr.com/shadowjackery/709802069328003073/this-post-was-brought-to-you-by-parts-of-the-body?source=share

[snoopyplushies]

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[doe-eyed-disaster]

Vampire gf demonstrating inhuman self discipline by waiting until her girlfriend's neopussy had healed *before* going down on her

[doe-eyed-disaster]

Vampire gf excitedly collaborating with her trans gf to simulate menstruation so she can earn her red wings on a tgirl

[doe-eyed-disaster]

Vampire gf who's honestly a little taken aback by how much trans gf likes biting

[doe-eyed-disaster]

Vampire gf who is constructing increasingly flimsy arguments for why she can't just make trans gf her thrall right now

[doe-eyed-disaster]

Vampire gf who understands trans gf's complicated relationship with things like "church", "mirrors", and "daylight"

[doe-eyed-disaster]

Vampire gf who sends the armies of hell after trans gf's dad

[doe-eyed-disaster]

Vampire gf who starts smoking after trans gf shows her Morticia Addams

[doe-eyed-disaster]

Vampire gf who thinks it's cute when trans gf calls her fangs "teefies"

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

Happy that people are smashing flock cameras i just hope it doesn’t stop there and people put up the same resistance when they try to regulate it into safety features

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

Fancy smart cars track you. Pings to satellites for gps. Your paired smartphone streaming music

In the usa backup cameras have been required on all new vehicles starting in 2012. More and more features require internet to work, including potentially life saving services. Can the driver call 911? Can the car alert medics to your location? If the driver needs help what should the vehicle do?

It’s easy to see how ‘always available 911 service’ or ‘automatic crash detection with location’ could be argued as mandatory safety features. Even gps could become required

So maybe bike to that meetup without a phone

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

The reason Flock cameras became a flashpoint is because they are vocal about being a third party selling your location, and they are building easy to search collections of data. Could a subpoena surface cell phone pings and a spotty web of cameras to general show where you drove? Yes, but that takes effort and a legal paper trail. This is a net catching all who pass, allowing the data to build patterns, where the patterns become the source of legal action, instead of searching for information relating an existing legal matter

Flock cameras are uniquely bad, but are just a single star in a horrible constellation of data mining

[teratocybernetics]

not just fancy cars but almost all newer models:

‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test

Mozilla’s latest edition of *Privacy Not Included reveals how 25 major car brands collect and share deeply personal data, including sexual a

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

There is going to be such an industry in ghost cars (if not already). People maintaining old beaters just for privacy. Motorcycles are going to get real popular again. Lots of exploiting loopholes (dealers driving restored classic cars for privacy not clout)

[teratocybernetics]

when i was on a reverse engineering kick for a while, i thought about getting dash computers from a parts yard to try it out on them in pursuit of this sort of thing, alas, expensive

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

A bullet etched with arbitration clauses that you automatically agree to by coming into possession of the bullet by catching it with your gut

[tlirsgender]

Everybody talking about how diy hrt is so haaaard and dangerousssss is lying btw it's literally fine. Yes even for testosterone. Do you know how many cis dudes are taking grey market steroids? Nobody gives a shit unless you're going through customs or already getting pulled over for something else

[tlirsgender]

Also the whole "taking t is dangerous for your health" thing like. It's not going to turn your blood into pudding and kill you. Do you know how much higher than the suggested max/cis male dosage you have to go for anything weird to start happening? You are not going to accidentally overdose on a sex hormone your body already naturally produces. Your body will start converting it to estrogen (which still isn't ideal, sure) Long before it reaches that point. It's Literally Fine. Do your actual research on this don't let detrans grifters scare you out of at least Reading About It as a possibility

[tlirsgender]

You can also get bitcoin via cashapp in like two seconds, yknow, if you don't want to email some dubious website your banking information. None of this is as hard as they want you to think it is

[queeranarchism]

Here's a free book about it

It's true that the risks aren't as scary as the detransers say, but some risks (like being allergic to the injection oil) do exist and getting your dosis right is better for your health. So if you can: gather information, get blood tests, transition safely on your own terms.

[h4ganah]

Fuck what a complete fucking nightmare.

A truck drove into the Berlin pride festival at Tiergarten at 22:00 tonight. They haven't caught the suspects. I just found out about it - I'm having trouble finding English news sources, just German and Swedish ones - if any of you have any I'd really appreciate it..

If any of you are in Berlin - they have not caught the suspects yet, please stay safe.

I don't know what to say. I'm so fucking devastated.

[x] [x]

[axo4027]

here is a reuters link

here is a bbc link

both in english.

this is a tragedy in what should’ve been celebration and happiness. please be kind and stay safe 🩷

[h4ganah]

[above "bbc" is cbs news]

BBC (live) - (thank you, man @gray-warden)

DW (Deutsche Welle) (eng)*

CNA (channel news asia) (thank you, buddy @the-orion-scribe)

*2 version of this post, DW is in the other one too

[iamnmbr3]

Horrible. Sending love to the German people,

[stele3]

The suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack is killed in a confrontation with police

German authorities say the suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack that killed one person and left 29 injured was shot and killed by polic

Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, was killed following a search that lasted nearly 24 hours after the attack in downtown Berlin. Prosecutors said he had previously sought to join the militant Islamic State group.

Ballout was suspected of driving a van into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride festival Saturday night before apparently stabbing others with a machete in what authorities believe was an Islamic extremist terror attack.

Whether they’re white Christian nationalists or Muslim jihadists, religious extremists always target us.

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Grandmas FTW ✨

[dunroamins]

Okay but for people who struggle with their co-ordination (me): GAME-CHANGER

[anais-ninja-bitch]

fuck it up granma

[awlwren]

[id: photograph captioned “This was how Granma showed me how to sew in a straight nine.” The photo shows someone sewing a simple running stitch parallel to the edge of the cloth. Their thumb rests parallel to both, just beyond where the needle is coming up, and two lines drawn on their thumbnail are matched to the edge of the cloth and the line of stitches respectively.]/end id.

[teomodo]

art books on the internet archive for you

morpho books

figure drawing for all it's worth (+ creative illustration)

framed ink

will eisner comics and sequential art

will eisner graphic storytelling and visual narrative

understanding comics (+ making comics)

folder of various animation production art

burne hogarth drawing dynamic hands

perspective for comic book artists

michael mattesi force drawing

the animator's survival kit

color and light james gurney

be free

[bedupolker]

I've recommended this one before, but for all the non-human vertebrate likers out there... the art of animal drawing

[unisex-muffin]

Things you can watch/do instead of YouTube, For those who may have trouble finding things to do.

1. Internet Archive. Has plenty of videos to watch, plenty of games you can play that are emulated right on the website. You can also find entire collections of roms. For emulators, check out Emulation General Wiki to find the best emulator for the system you want to emulate.

2. r/piracy has a wiki full of safe places to read comics and manga, to watch anime and cartoons, and to watch movies.

3. Virtualbox, you can set up a Windows XP virtual box and get old PC games from Internet Archive. You can also check out CD Game World if you need a no-cd patch.

4. Saltybet. A Livestream of MUGEN with thousands of characters fighting against each other, sometimes things get hilarious. Runs 24/7.

5. The Cutting Room Floor, spend hours reading up on cut content from your favorite games.

6. Lost Media Wiki, read up on lost movie, books, animation, video games, etc.

7. Neocities, learn coding and make your own website!

8. WebDSR, explore shortband radio

9. Radio Garden, listen to radio stations from around the world

10. Every Noise At Once, explore the widest archive of music genres, with samples and Spotify playlists

11. My Retro TV, pick and era and watch popular television from that time period

[findchaos]

We visited an old glass factory that was converted into a park and the photos can get very surreal.

[sourcreammachine]

[bogwatr]

Saw the most beautiful thing at Pride the other day

[r2x2]

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

[cbarc]

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

[theweirdwideweb]

Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria (1982)

[krudman]

I have a very strange link to share that a friend sent me. No, not a "'friend', eh? *wink wink nudge nudge*". A friend who's very into artbooks and archiving sent me this.

There is an unbelievable wealth of art books and educational material that is inexplicably hosted on e-hentai.

With more than a million absolutely free hentai doujinshi, manga, cosplay and CG galleries, E-Hentai Galleries is the world's largest free H

A cursory look on my part shows that almost all of this is either translated into english or has been localized. There are animation books by Tezuka. There are just artbooks you can't get anymore. This one, I am told, inspired bloodborne.

Lots of knowledge for you archived before archive.org. I hope you find it useful.

It's still a hentai site. Browse at your own risk. You might see illustrated nudity! How terrible!!!

[kradeelav]

Nhentai (a similar site) and the Internet Archive (for unrelated reasons) is facing lawsuit-related instability in the last few days, so it's good to make the time saving these kinds of priceless resources.

[power-chords]

This Dan Piraro comic always makes me cry.

[tuttle-did-it]

When I lived in London there was a murder of crows that lived near me. I fed them often, they brought me presents (shiny rubbish and cigarette butts they found on the floor to thank me.)

When I moved, I’m certain they understood I was leaving because I had all my stuff and gave them lots of food and compliments.

But, they chased down my friend who lived in the next burrough over. They had recognised that friend with me several times and followed them to their house when they couldn’t find me.

They adopted my friend and it was now my friend’s job to bring them snacks and receive the presents.

This was maybe 6-7 years ago.

I visited London last year. Went to see my friend. The crows all not only recognised me, they tracked me down. We got into my friend’s flat and not twenty minutes later there was chaos on the balcony.

We open the curtains, the entire fucking murder is there shouting because they wanted to see me.

Crows are the very best birds.

[derrickwildsun-deactivated20250]

That video of Alex Hirsch reading S&P notes for Gravity Falls conveys a few things to me:

1) the U.S. entertainment industry (especially animation) is run by older conservative types who make up offensive terms and get really mad about them.

2) the people who run Disney would be the first to fall in line with a fascist regime.

3) most of the media we consume is tailor-made and watered-down to appeal to the tastes of older, deeply religious conservative audiences.

4) conservatism, not the left, is and always has been the biggest voice of censorship in American culture.

[sci-fantasy]

J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, was before that a producer and writer for a number of cartoons in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s (The Real Ghostbusters and the original She-Ra, most notably). After a few years of dealing with the censors and their obsession with finding Satanism (or at least looking for Satanism to further political agendas) he wrote an article about the whole corrupt and bullshit system.

And published it in Penthouse, to force those same censors to buy a skin mag. The editor there asked, why Penthouse?

That one is from his autobiography, Becoming Superman. See also:

(As he goes on to say, he’s never worked in animation again–he’s effectively been blacklisted by the cartoon industry.)

[ivy-michaels]

Every time something like this comes up, I remember two stories about making media. The first is about movies, and comes from Quentin “Feet Man” Tarantino.

When he was making Pulp Fiction, he was worried that the MPAA would object to the high level of violence in the film, so he shot a bunch of extra-gory stuff that he didn’t actually want in the film, and added it in before submitting it to the MPAA. Predictibly, they asked him to cut most of it (without even commenting on some of the things that had him worried, like the bits of Marvin’s skull that lodge in Samuel L. Jackson’s hairpiece). The resultant cuts were actually more permissive than he’d expected, so he cut a little more and submitted it, and it got passed with an R.

The second story is about that artist on Morrowind whose name escapes me (I’m not a big ES fan tbh) who figured out that if he made two creature designs, one weird and what he wanted, and one even weirder, he could get Todd Howard to agree to just about anything by showing him the whopper first, then going back and “working” for another few hours on a second, “toned-down” version, and it worked every time.

The reason I bring these up is that the thing that drives censors isn’t some extant physical rubrick of what is and isn’t acceptable, it’s the idea that they can have absolute power over someone else’s creative work. It’s about the social dominance of the interaction.

There is nothing so innocent, so clean, that a censor will not find some fault with it. Because they must find something wrong with it to justify their existence, and because it makes them feel powerful.

This is true of all censorship.

[dinindourden]

Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017) dev. Arkane Studios