[ewtyrannus]

I’ve told a few people I know irl about my fart fetish but I’m always too embarrassed to call it that so I just refer to myself as a “Friend of James Joyce” instead

[prokopetz]

There are so many kinks out there that your average person would never clock as kinks in spite of being obviously sexual in nature because they sound like kind of nothing unless you have some fairly specialised terminology to work with. Like, oh, you're sexually obsessed with penises, how original – BUT. It's in a very specific way.

[heylittletomboy]

They Hacked Women

[brightereyes]

[prokopetz]

No, please, self-labelled "leftie" who thinks the political spectrum is explicable in terms of physical differences in brain structure, explain to me what's wrong with anime. I'm keen to learn.

[riflebrass]

[setalye]

i let my cat sniff dr pepper and she identified all 23 mysterious flavors with ease

[70sscifiart]

Taglines from science fiction covers

[skluug]

No war except war against the ant-masters of Venus

[prokopetz]

Speaking of medieval history, it's fun how the popular accounts are all "the peasantry disliked nobles, but typically loved the King and attributed any harmful decisions to bad advisors", and then the rare examples of surviving testimony from actual peasants are like "I hope the King literally explodes".

[prokopetz]

Popular histories: Medieval peasants understood themselves as inhabiting a cosmic order in which the King was their divinely appointed superior.

Actual medieval peasant: God, please set the King and everyone who looks like him on fire, Amen.

[waywardworldhopper]

Out of curiosity do you recall offhand any of the latter sources? I want to read medieval peasants hating on their rulers :)

[musicals-n-cartoons]

This Tumblr thread has a fun anecdote about Guillaume le Jupponnier, and links to an blog post with some more. There is also a promising source in the form of Popular protest in late-medieval Europe. Italy, France and Flanders by Samuel Cohn.

I must say that it may be more accurate to say that the medieval peasantry is not a monolith. They can hold every possible opinion. But yeah, hating the king is a time honored pastime.

[prokopetz]

Speaking of medieval history, it's fun how the popular accounts are all "the peasantry disliked nobles, but typically loved the King and attributed any harmful decisions to bad advisors", and then the rare examples of surviving testimony from actual peasants are like "I hope the King literally explodes".

[prokopetz]

Popular histories: Medieval peasants understood themselves as inhabiting a cosmic order in which the King was their divinely appointed superior.

Actual medieval peasant: God, please set the King and everyone who looks like him on fire, Amen.

[markovchaingang]

it's so cool how in an effort to own the techbros left wing gen-Zers have genuinely speedran their descent into boomerhood. "i think we need to acknowledge that our parents were right, we shouldn't have had access to phones at such a young age" actually i don't think that's true. no well i suppose in your case your parents were probably correct in their assumption that you lacked the mental capacity to be allowed on the internet unsupervised, but i don't think that generalises out to the rest of the population

[prokopetz]

Something I see getting overlooked a lot when discussing queercoding in historical media is that in many cases it's not evidence that the writers secretly shipped it; it was aimed at straight dudes specifically to freak them out. Depicting a male villain as sexually interested in a male hero reads as horror to the cishet male audience. Like, Venom didn't spend years and years being blatantly characterised as Spider-Man's creepy stalker ex because Marvel's writers were all closeted yaoi fans. That was meant to be scary – which of course doesn't mean you can't read it differently, but don't give them credit they don't deserve!

[prokopetz]

Monster dating sim with a Sierra adventure game circa 1990 ethos about bad endings where the monsters are genuinely well meaning and there are just an unbelievable number of ways for them to accidentally kill you, and – this is key – there's a fuckass narrator who has a unique stupid pun for every single one.

[prokopetz]

Ideally it should also have a 90s Sierra adventure game approach to routing, like you can make a seemingly innocuous decision in the first five minutes of play that locks you into an unavoidable bad ending. You neglect to pick up the condoms from the nightstand (which is not even visually flagged as interactable) in the very first scene, and three quarters of a route later you have a bizarre allergic reaction to your partner's bodily fluids that somehow causes your head to pop off of your shoulders and go shooting out the window like a bottle rocket. The narrator responds with a strained wordplay about the semantic distinction between "getting" head and "giving" head.

[gumbamasta]

[prokopetz]

It's always fun when an author claims their work contains no politics, because either they're blatantly lying, or they genuinely think they're telling the truth and you get a lot of insight into what assertions about human nature they regard as so obviously and self-evidently true as to lie outside the political sphere.

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[catboycommunist]

evergreen

[markovchaingang]

lol you lefties are so pathetic, you'll start calling names at anyone who isn't a part of your movement. not everyone who disagrees with you is a keynesian post-structuralist afrofuturist with chinese characteristics

[sunlight-shunlight]

i had been crying about this on discord for a little while bc it's so wild, but. here is a Veilguard Development Lore :')

[corseque]

"maybe being the lead writer of a fairly dark fantasy game is not the ideal role for someone who gets stressed out by conflict in fiction"

yeah I can't stop thinking about this either, ever since I first read it. There's so much going on. I read the first chapter of this book, and the tension that was so unbearable in it was "main character's uncle dies and main character's father talks about maybe keeping the inheritance from her" - that's the stressful plot point that couldn't be handled.

I had some people upset with me years ago about suggesting (and grimly sticking to my gut) that maybe the writers of the video game had something to do with the deeply different writing tone and scope and depth of the video game (experienced subjectively by many people). none of the many interviews since then with the head writer talking about comfort in fiction have proven me wrong at all. I cannot imagine the situation where they would willingly add a distressing conflict where it wasn't already there, or fight to include a darker tone. They said "we're going to proudly do this our way and it's not going to be the same as if Gaider was there to lead" and called it a day. And I think they genuinely still don't understand what happened because the tone genuinely pleased them.

[sandetigerrr]

If anyone needs a copy of this book, I can happily send you a PDF copy so you can make a value judgement for yourself. I will say that I read the first few chapters after seeing this post and it is literally so mild. Like. Mind-boggling levels of weenie hut jr stuff. Between posts like this, the Escapism panel and the Empires panel it's clear that there was a major disconnect between the lead writer and the actual subject matter of the series, and it's just bizarre to me that we're supposed to pretend that there isn't.

[sunlight-shunlight]

i had been crying about this on discord for a little while bc it's so wild, but. here is a Veilguard Development Lore :')

[corseque]

"maybe being the lead writer of a fairly dark fantasy game is not the ideal role for someone who gets stressed out by conflict in fiction"

yeah I can't stop thinking about this either, ever since I first read it. There's so much going on. I read the first chapter of this book, and the tension that was so unbearable in it was "main character's uncle dies and main character's father talks about maybe keeping the inheritance from her" - that's the stressful plot point that couldn't be handled.

I had some people upset with me years ago about suggesting (and grimly sticking to my gut) that maybe the writers of the video game had something to do with the deeply different writing tone and scope and depth of the video game (experienced subjectively by many people). none of the many interviews since then with the head writer talking about comfort in fiction have proven me wrong at all. I cannot imagine the situation where they would willingly add a distressing conflict where it wasn't already there, or fight to include a darker tone. They said "we're going to proudly do this our way and it's not going to be the same as if Gaider was there to lead" and called it a day. And I think they genuinely still don't understand what happened because the tone genuinely pleased them.

[sandetigerrr]

If anyone needs a copy of this book, I can happily send you a PDF copy so you can make a value judgement for yourself. I will say that I read the first few chapters after seeing this post and it is literally so mild. Like. Mind-boggling levels of weenie hut jr stuff. Between posts like this, the Escapism panel and the Empires panel it's clear that there was a major disconnect between the lead writer and the actual subject matter of the series, and it's just bizarre to me that we're supposed to pretend that there isn't.