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[bunniope]

not my labyrinth not my minotaur

[0fficelady]

Collection

[takataapui]

'the dignity of lycanthropy based risk' is a lyric game about being a werewolf on medication, wanting to reduce that medication due to the side effects, and battling a hostile medical system in order to 'get permission' to do so.

explore a world where lycanthropy is a metaphor for mental illness/disability, and where the answer to medical mistreatment could maybe be just going feral.

Purchase this game here:

the dignity of lycanthropy based risk by takataapui

a lyric game about werewolfism, healthcare, and ableism

[jesncin]

Superman and Martian Manhunter discuss alien fashion

[quasi-normalcy]

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

[quasi-normalcy]

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

[quasi-normalcy]

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

[batmanshole]

crisp glass of water moodboard

[fionaostby]

Make a terrible comic day 2026 roaring success

[hiveswap]

Everyone go look up the song nasa banned from space

[hiveswap]

Don't forget to play it loud as fuck

[hiveswap]

[hiveswap]

The thing is that this guy almost certainly has normal songs too because david bowie was apparently inspired by him a lot. But i'm scared to check it out after this

[hiveswap]

Oh GOD lmao he didn't actually like it either

[busket]

important that you never forgive ice agents, ever. even years after all this is over (and I do believe we will make it out on the other side, alive and for the better,) they live in shame and disgrace forever. no excuses, no forgiveness. they ruined their own lives when they decided that human freedom and liberty was an acceptable sacrifice for a paycheck

[brightlotusmoon]

[assumptionprime]

[randomalistic]

Your artstyle is like your gut microbiome in the way its everything you consume and like and it also has all your bacteria up in it. Thats probably how that works

[sketchbot9000]

#makeaterriblecomicday2026

[thestuffedalligator]

Hive mind that actually really hates being a hive mind and it would like to stop being a hive mind as soon as possible, please. Fifteen scientists were in the room where a space rock exploded and welded their consciousnesses together. And even though it now has access to the memories of each of its linked individuals, whenever it tries to find in its gestalt mind where that personality, that individual who made those memories exists, it only finds a stump.

[thestuffedalligator]

A girl runs up to the thing with her mother’s face.

The mind looks at this tiny face. It knows, intellectually, that this is Kim Yun, daughter of Dr. Hana Yun, knows that she is four years old, loves blueberries, can only fall asleep while being sung Lavender’s Blue. It looks for the part of its brain where Dr. Hana Yun should be, tries to summon the mind that loves this child, to summon even a flicker of affection, to bring back the mother this child desperately misses.

The numbness hurts.

(Clumsy arms hold the child anyways, and a voice unused to singing still remembers the lyrics to Lavender’s Blue. It’s possible that this is close enough.)

[octiainyourpocket]

Love is not an emotion you feel in the moment. Love is the care you express even outside of emotions. This hive mind loves, even if it doesn't realise that.

[teaboot]

On of the less intuitive things about love, I've found, of any kind, is the importance of needing things.

I didn't realize it until recently, but I've always seen love as something requiring sacrifice, selflessness, patience, and generosity- to ask for nothing is to be the best person I can be, small and quiet and never in the way, always happy and helpful, self-sufficient and present when desired.

It's only as an adult, now, that I'm beginning to see the selfishness of wanting nothing.

I cut my friend's hair in my kitchen the other day. They wanted a trim and I had the skills, so I offered, and was genuinely excited when they stopped hesitating over "bothering me" and took me up on it. It was a peaceful afternoon, and we had tea and chatted for an hour or more.

My brother and I shared popcorn at the movies a while ago. When I came time to pay, I pulled my card out like a wild western sheriff and slapped it on the machine before he could fight me for it first. The satisfaction was delightful.

Someone called me crying on the phone the other day. Kept apologizing for disturbing me at work, talking about how they were bothering me on my lunch break. I was telling the truth when I told them that really, I was flattered and honored and relieved, knowing that if they were hurting I would know, that I didn't have to worry in silence. It felt good to hear them slowly come down, and to know that they knew it would be better soon, and to hear them laugh wetly on the other end. We're getting together for a visit next week.

It's hard to need things, if you've trained yourself not to. It's hard to want things, when you don't know how to want anymore. Trusting people is difficult, and so is relying on them, but I don't know where I'd be without the people who rely on me.

I've heard a lot of people say, "Nobody will love you unless you love yourself". I've had a lot of thoughts about it. It's not right, but it's not wrong, either, I think.

"Nobody will love you unless you love yourself"... I've always taken that to mean, "You will not be lovable until you develop a positive view of yourself as a person".

Now, I think it's sort of inside-out.

"Nobody will love you unless you love yourself"... because nobody can show their love to you in a way that you can accept until you treat yourself kindly, and learn what you need, and what you want, and how to ask for it, and then give that vulnerability away.

Love, for me, is someone I ask for a ride to the airport. Whether they end up doing this or not is irrelevant.

It's not needy, or selfish, or taking up energy. It's giving the gift of being wanted, and needed, and thought of. It's giving someone the security of being part of someone's life.

[therosecrest]

[apathetic-revenant]

“oh no, my audience has begun to guess the big twists of my story and are accurately predicting what will happen!”

incorrect response: write the rest of the story to be as twisty, shocking and counter to expectations as possible, regardless of whether this is a logical or satisfying way for the plot to go

correct response:

[thebourneultimatum]

can someone elaborate on the “make hoax” and “post angry tweet about “leak”“ part. i’m stupid and don’t understand things

[apathetic-revenant]

sure!

(you’re not stupid. I posted this thinking it would amuse a handful of mutuals who all knew the context and that would be about it, so I didn’t think about providing any other explanation. I had no idea it would spread this far.)

I’ll start from the very beginning just to be thorough. so this is Alex Hirsch, creator and head writer of Gravity Falls, a show which had a big focus on mystery, conspiracies, codes and ciphers, etc. the whole plot is kicked off by one of the main characters finding a mysterious old journal in the woods, which detailed all kinds of weird and supernatural things, but then ended abruptly with the author saying they had to hide the journal because they were being watched. the central driving mystery of the show, therefore, was the question of who wrote the journal and what happened to them.

now, the thing about Gravity Falls is that, while it must be said that the writers weren’t always quite as sure of their plans as we tend to like to think they are, it is very much a fair play mystery, with legitimate clues to what was going on. but the writers were caught off guard by how quickly the show attracted a dedicated audience, including a lot of people outside the primary presumed demographic, who started solving the clues faster than expected. so some of the fans were able to correctly guess who the author was before it was revealed in the show, and the theory started spreading. this put the writers in something of a panic, because this was THE mystery that the whole story revolved around, with ¾ of the show building up to the dramatic reveal in the middle of season 2. they wanted it to be a mystery that could be figured out, sure, but they weren’t prepared for people to solve it so far in advance of when it was planned to be revealed, which would have really taken away from the big moment. they weren’t going to change the main story itself, but having been caught unaware by how much attention the fans were paying, they wanted to up the ante and make the mystery more complex to solve going forward–but first they needed to buy some time and throw the fandom off the scent for a little longer.

hence, Alex’s plan as described above. they whipped up a fake shot that appears to give away the identity of the author as being another character in the show, put it on a screen in the studio as if it was a real animation frame, took a picture of it, and ‘leaked’ it online. it was initially decided to be a hoax (albeit, I think, presumed to be a hoax originating from outside the production team), until Alex posted this tweet:

…before quickly deleting it (though not so quickly that it didn’t get seen, of course).

it worked well enough to distract most people for a while, and wasn’t revealed as a hoax until a year later, when an episode aired that definitively proved that the supposed screenshot could never have happened, at which point Alex owned up to the whole thing as seen in the tweet above. by then the episode with the real reveal wasn’t far off, and while people did still work it out ahead of time, it was more of an “OH MY GOD I KNEW IT!” moment than a “booooooring, we’ve known that for ages” moment, which of course was what the writers wanted all along.

personally I find this a fascinating approach to dealing with the problem of spoilers, because it doesn’t affect the story itself at all; if you watch Gravity Falls today–or if you were watching it when it aired without any significant contact with the fandom–you’d never know about it. ultimately, the problem the writers were facing wasn’t that some people might guess the answer to the mystery–they never wanted to make it completely impossible to predict–so much as it was that they hadn’t designed the story to stand up to so many people working on the puzzle together, which resulted in a sort of total output of puzzle-solving ability that far outstripped the capability of any one solo human being. so their solution is something that’s very much targeted toward delaying that group problem-solving, without actually affecting the experience of any individual person watching the show.

plus, it’s very in keeping with the overall tone of the show.

and now you know!

[notaplaceofhonour]

if your audience guesses the ending of your story

don’t:

change the ending

do:

gaslight them

[mythratica]

an old map i produced for Khemut. a lot of the stylings and ideas here are outdated, but i think it's still quite stylistically effective. i'm especially proud of the little icons, which are meant to represent local deities.

[mythratica]

here's the isolated icons plus the associated script. my favourite as is probably evident from my blog icon is miss Mytra with her lotus-flower.

[ijichi-nijika]

hi, i hate doing this ahead of the actual month, but things keep getting worse for me. This month my mom decided it would be really good to get addicted to a phone game and spend $1000 that we don't have on it, which used a lot of the money that i was saving from peoples help on here to eventually move out, and also to eat everyday. I feel so ashamed and I have taken steps to make sure she can't access anything I ever have again. If you can even possibly continue to help and support me, I would be eternally grateful. I have set the goal lower for july because I refuse to ask for more than I need bare minimum, but due to bills and stupid choices, it still amounts to $1,000 total for the month, which is luckily lower due to an issue with our apartment giving us a little amount gone on rent due to somehow kindness from a landlord. I dont get it either. thank you for any help or sharing you can give us. I will do everything I can to make sure your kindness isn't wasted.

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