A Simple Catloaf

I am Rai, a 30-something, short, queer motherfucker. They/Them.

[princecharmingtobe]

Palworld 1.0 release date let's goooo

July 10th let's goooo! Somehow I suspect the wait's gonna be WORSE now that we have a date but we have a date let's gooooo!

[princecharmingtobe]

Every dog in the neighborhood barks viciously as I walk around the block

"I hate dogs, dogs fucking suck, noisy angry creatures, the worst..."

One dog in particular calmly approaches the edge of the yard and watches me curiously through the fence

"Except that dog, that's a nice dog, I like that dog."

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[maskysgirlfriendmoved-deactivat]

yall gotta be nicer about m/f  bc sometimes u guys like the blandest gay sutff ive ever seen in my life

[maskysgirlfriendmoved-deactivat]

gonna add onto this you all gotta stop acting like m/f is just cishet when bisexual people exist and straight trans people exist.

[maskysgirlfriendmoved-deactivat]

last add on alot of m/f ships of poc or white/poc ship are constantly downplayed for bland white m/m or f/f ships

[majorpepperidge]

#also sometimes u guys r just fuckig misogynist. abt the women in m/f ships. sorry

[sentientsky]

characters going “we were lovers once”: eh, it’s okay i guess. it’s nice enough

characters going “we were friends once”: absolutely devastating. one hit knockout i’m gone

[zoppzoop]

getting violently ill btw

[quasi-normalcy]

So...how much of the bad discourse surrounding Steven Universe is just because people were really hoping that the Gems would beat up Andy DeMayo in "Gem Harvest"?

[quasi-normalcy]

I was astonished to learn that there was controversy around this episode, because I felt like it was just kind of a normal children's cartoon about getting along with difficult relatives; and then I looked it up and learned that it had the extremely inauspicious timing of airing right after Trump's 2016 victory, and, yeah, okay, I can understand why a children's fantasy about reconciling with your obnoxious conservative relatives and getting them to accept your alternate family structure would play rather poorly at the time.

[quasi-normalcy]

I think that Rebecca Sugar probably assumed, like most of the world that wasn't my specific flavour of extremely online in 2016, that Clinton would crush Trump and that this episode would maybe help to smooth over divisions; but of course what ended up happening is that an episode about how you should be empathetic towards your bigoted relatives ended up airing just as your bigoted relatives were going around victoriously hate-criming people in the street.

[quasi-normalcy]

Watching it now, though, it ends up feeling wistful more than anything. Like, yeah, sure, it doesn't work like that, and we all know that now...But wouldn't it be nice if it did? It feels like a pleasant dream.

[livingauthorssociety]

Steven Universe is fundamentally a power fantasy—but the fantasy is being able to get through to people and heal things. The power is love instead of strength.

[lilly-kittyeyes]

"Like, yeah, sure, it doesn't work like that, and we all know that now...But wouldn't it be nice if it did?" Yeah....

[tabris-the-seventeenth-angel]

HEARTBREAKING: friends who i should be going to the movies and playing dnd and watching anime and cosplaying and going to the mall and having sleepovers and exploring the woods with live one hundred trillion miles away

[princecharmingtobe]

A game I've had in early access got its 1.0 release recently: Ova Magica! A combination farm life sim/creature battler. In this game you raise, breed, and battle creatures called Blobs on your farm. They come in many varieties, and you can breed them together to create new ones, mixing and matching different parts to get the blob of your dreams. Some blobs are good at battling, while others can help you on your farm or with other aspects of life.

On top of the blob stuff, there are also a bunch of befriend-able/romance-able characters each with a story and character arc they go through as you get to know them. The writing in this game is surprisingly good, making you hate some characters while your heart aches for others. Characters who seem one-note early on may surprise you with unexpected depth as you get to know them.

Despite its cute look the game doesn't shy away from topics like death, depression, abandonment, illness, addiction, and other mature topics, but it doesn't go so far as to ruin the cozy vibe overall (characters will generally get a happy ending).

The game is currently on sale on steam, so if you're interested I recommend checking it out now!

[ninebaalart]

Chikipi Ignis

no this isnt torchic. not even the same shape. come on.

[ninebaalart]

Chikipi Noct

A dark type chicken? Haha, okay, now I've seen everything

[ninebaalart]

Chikipi Terra

The Terra subspecies tends to overlap with another subspecies that only exists for one Pal, which is Gild, which is only used for Dumud. I don't know if I'll do Chikipi Gild, but it does throw me off a bit because gold is a prominent color in the Terra variants... so I just threw it onto the beak and eyes, and then went with a brown and quartz color scheme.

[ninebaalart]

Chikipi Aqua

imagining this guy coming up to you with a power walk and then blowing a bunch of bubbles directly into your face that do no damage

[ninebaalart]

Chikipi Lux

I always think "Lux" is supposed to be a light-based subspecies, but no, it's an electrical subspecies

[ninebaalart]

Chikipi Cryst

Chikipi has no subspecies or anything and it's a pretty basic chicken- so what if I gave it every possible subspecies? Starting with the ice-based Cryst?

[ninebaalart]

Chikipi

I like that there's just a tiny chicken on the Palworld roster, its like when Pokemon has egg or cow or just other fairly normal animal with like one stylistic quirk lol

That being said, do think they are missing out on a lot by not taking advantage of the subspecies mechanic

[hneycmb]

Kinda wild how most people generally recognize that the "too sick to go to school, too sick to watch tv/play games" mindset our parents had was bullshit but still impose essentially the exact same rules on disabled adults and scrutinize them for enjoying low-energy hobbies while being too fatigued or in pain to work a full time job (or any job at all)

[megapope-deactivated20220531]

god damn this is a QUILT ('late day shadows' by nancy messier)

[cyber-seagull404]

THIS IS A QUILT?!?!?!?