Mr. Magus Jester

I'm a 20-something guy who's a fan of all things sci-fi, horror, and fantasy, here to share my interests and talk about fiction I like. The antidote to hate is love 💛

[mrmagusjester]

Hi all! I'm Mr. Magus Jester, but you can call me Magus or Jester... Or Mister. I made this page to share my takes on fiction I read, as well as to just generally discuss things I'm interested in.

I'll try to be proactive with tagging stuff for categorization, so let's do: #discussion for my thoughts on fiction #in jest for jokes, memes, & lighthearted stuff

Tags I often use:

[mercymornsproxy]

For a little I felt like we missed Clark’s spiral and that’s why the change felt so sudden but in the same scene that Clark shows this “sudden” violent part of himself he says ‘I don’t want to change’.

Clark has always been like this. We saw his extreme anger at the start of the movie. His disregard for those around him with how he speaks to and about them. The implied breaking of the glass was that he threw it, not knocked it over.

I was expecting a spiral but he didn’t need one. He was already there.

[mrmagusjester]

Absolutely. I feel like it's easy for people to interpret his breakdown as simply "person trapped in an eldritch space goes insane", but it's really not like that. It's not that the backrooms made Clark go crazy, rather it simply led him to decide to stop trying to change that part of himself.

Also, and I'm sure this has been said before, but I like the idea that Clark's still-life was aggressive because Clark was a rageful person. Maybe the copies imitate the emotions/behaviours that most define the person they're based on?

[cranity]

it doesn't make sense

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

WE'RE JUST LOOKING

by Alex Andreev

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Untitled, painting by ABeardedArtist

[mrmagusjester]

This is your reminder to back up your files. You don't want to have everything important stored on a single device. Dropbox accounts are free.

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[thisisalovestry]

file -> phrases that are going to shift something in me forever

[insomniparty]

[prokopetz]

I guess the big reason the sunk-cost argument for playing nothing but Dungeons & Dragons rings false to me is that, in my experience, most groups that hack D&D for non-sword-and-sorcery genres never actually get to a functional place. The GM is in permanent scrambling-to-make-just-in-time-fixes mode, and the only reason this flies under the radar is that D&D's culture of play insists this is normal.

[dorothylarouge]

Superman says no gacha

[yesornopolls]

Do you want/hope for some sort of afterlife (something after death) whether you actually believe in one or not?

Yes

No

Kinda/Complicated

Results

Do you want/hope for some sort of afterlife (something after death) whether you actually believe in one or not?

Yes

No

Kinda/Complicated

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Voting ended onMay 29

[mrmagusjester]

Nah, one finite life is good enough. It's not that I dislike life — far from it. I'm just at peace with mortality. I'm not attached to the individual animal that I perceive the Universe from.

And besides, the Universe will continue to exist, probably forever, with our matter/energy constantly recycling into new forms, so reincarnation is pretty much an objective fact anyway (not that you remember other lives).

Plus, it doesn't really make sense for a mind to exist without a brain.

[vixensdungeon]

The dungeontubers are reaching for enlightenment

This is specifically about DMs not tracking hit points and just having monsters die based on vibes instead

[helpful-writing-tips]

if you're trying to get into the head of your story's antagonist, try writing an "Am I the Asshole" reddit post from their perspective, explaining their problems and their plans for solving them. Let the voice and logic come through.

[soulren]

“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do

[arvalis]

Gem dragon design updates I did for D&D The Book of Dragons last year. Prints of them available here

[beautifulbizarremagazine]

WOW! I feel both discomfort and awe looking at this nightmarish sculpture by Hiroaki Nakanishi.

[anim-ttrpgs]

It still really sucks that the past 20 or so years of mainstream published TTRPG adventure modules have been so bad that to the average TTRPG player today "adventure module" is almost synonymous with "bad." Like, the entire CONCEPT of a non-bespoke TTRPG adventure/dungeon/whatever has been tainted.

If anyone is thinking "well i avoid adventure modules because they're all just linear railroading scripts and take more work from the GM to fix them than it would take to prep new material" - the fact that you think that is the case IS the phenomenon I'm talking about.