Whatever comes into my head, really...

[mockramblings]

Look...

...if I'm going to carry the seeds of my own destruction within me, you can't expect me NOT to rip one out and throw it at somebody every now and again. It's just not realistic. Nope, that's your seed now, buddy.

[dailyflicks]

KATHARINE ISABELLE as GINGER FITZGERALD GINGER SNAPS (2000), dir. by John Fawcett

[mockramblings]

I will never not reblog Ginger Snaps content.

[mackdaddyofthecravate]

Please return us to a world where Notp and squick are used for a ship you don’t like instead of just making up a load of bullshit about how immoral it is or w/e lol 

[sazandorable]

a short selection of concepts and phrases that used to be commonplace in fandom and we’d really benefit from making that a thing again:

NOTP: the opposite of an OTP (One True Pairing). It is a ship a fan strongly dislikes. The word is a portmanteau of ‘no’ and ‘OTP’ and thus is not a contraction of any particular phrase.

Squick: anything that is a deep-seated, visceral turn-off. Squicks may be shared by many fans or be specific to one; one person’s kink may be another person’s squick.

YKINMKATO, or kink-tomato: Your Kink Is Not My Kink, And That’s Okay: used to indicate support for fannish diversity and to distinguish between disapproval or kink shaming and simply having different taste.

DLDR: Don’t Like, Don’t Read: a phrase used to warn against complaints about an aspect of fic or meta. A “live and let live” philosophy of fandom, which places the responsability for avoiding content one doesn’t want to see on the side of the fanwork consumer, rather that on the creator’s.

SALS: Ship And Let Ship: similar to the above specifically about shipping tastes.

YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary: a phrase used to acknowledge that any given individual’s personal opinion on the topic at hand may differ due to their own tastes, standards, values, experiences, etc.

As the OP points out, all of these crucially imply no moral judgment of what they’re designing.

(definitions lifted more or less wholesale from fanlore’s relevant pages)

[shatterpath]

bring the healthy fun back to fandom!

[mockramblings]

...Misread the first entry on this post and now I'm wondering if there's a fanfic called My Immoral.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydx34kzlvo

[runcibility]

"Vanderhorst had been under the influence of MDMA and three litres of vodka she had consumed on the night of the offence last September, her lawyer Michael Hill told the court."

three. liters.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

i support women's wrongs

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[glasshomewrecker]

Everyone should be aware of nitter.net

for any address to twitter you can replace the “x.com” with “nitter.net” and you will be able to browse as if you have an account. Lifesaver.

Similarly, imginn.com works for most Instagram addresses. I still haven’t found one for Facebook.

[slipping-into-madness]

[mockramblings]

Odysseus

Walks into his house, pulls out a gun, casually shoots a bunch of guys who've been harassing his wife, and says, "Honey, you won't believe what happened to me on the way home from work tonight."

[oneheadtoanother]

[aardvarkingmad]

It's the gas station you stop at on your way to The Cabin In The Woods (tm).

[dankxsinatra]

Ace Combat is right... massive battleships should also be massive tanks.

[mexicain-sans-frontiers-v2]

Metal slug also saw the vision

[mockramblings]

Me driving to work in Dallas traffic.

[vintagerpg]

If there is a single 2E D&D product that transcend editions, it’s the four-volume Encyclopedia Magica (Vol 1 - 1994, Vol 2-4 - 1995), compiled by Dale “Slade” Henson and illustrated by Arnie Swekel. Over 1500 pages, it collects every magic item created for the game in official sources, including RPGA products, the various TSR magazines and the slightly different Basic game items. All the items include their abilities and the original descriptive text. No attempt has been made to revise, rebalance or otherwise monkey about with them. Some items are ridiculously overpowered and remain so. Some are very stupid or silly. The book makes no judgments.

It’s a titanic work. It’s hard to express the importance of magic items to the game; you could maybe boil the game down to its essence by calling it system of rules that are broken by magic items interacting with monsters. Magic items are the prime mechanical method characters distinguish themselves from each other. The same is true, to perhaps a lesser extent, of the campaign worlds themselves — what magic items are lying around and why implies much about the nature of a given world. These books give you the keys to all of it — the mightiest characters, the lore-iest worlds, the Macguffin-est quests. 

There’s not much more to say. Useful to every player of any edition. The Encyclopedia Magica is one of the greatest D&D publications of all time.

[justme--48]

27

[mockramblings]

30, I think.

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[toast-potent]

i don’t need to say it

[bingomann]

don’t say anything. just reblog this if you’re thinking of exactly that thing when you see this picture

[important-cat-pics]

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You've been turned into a mythical creature, spin the wheel to see which one!

Are you happy with it?

^^^^^^

https://wheelofnames.com/5k9-xsu

Are you happy with it?

yes!! I love it

yes!

It's okay I guess

no

NO.

results/other

Voting ended onJul 14

(if you don't consider some of these mythical creatures please don't come for me)

[mockramblings]

I got "vampire" the first time and man, I have no idea how to rate that. Could be horrible, could be awesome. Spun again and got "dragon" and now I'm completely jazzed about my fate.

[podcastwizard]

LIKES TO CHARGE REBLOGS TO CAST

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

you people aren't CASTING

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

NO

[mockramblings]

Let it die. Let it die and be forgotten.

[silvermoon424]

Bro absolutely COOKED with this.

[ohnoitstbskyen]

If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.

This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.

[lilithsaintcrow]

"But of course, Smith has to turn up a written text: how could he produce an oral record? An ancient lost cassette tape? (I wouldn’t put it past him)."

A Third Novel That Proves "Secret Mark" Is A Forgery

The Mystery of Mar Saba + Anglo-Saxon Attitudes + King Jesus = Secret Mark. The literary trail behind one of modern scholarship's most notor