the little gay people in my head

it/its - 20s - filled with many scampering creatures - please share ur cat pics if you're reading this!! - nsfw sometimes

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[djinnkala]

Happy pride month, statement!! 🏳️‍🌈

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[gondorrevealparty]

they're saying I'm a reverse alcoholic. they're saying I got backwards liver damage, it's too powerful. the doctor's telling me to start knocking back a quart of whiskey every day. she said it's gotta be the good stuff, too.

[despair-the-zero]

if a person refers to themself as a “silly little guy” they are usually filled with a deep evil

[gondorrevealparty]

[femboy-c-cups]

One thing I really like about Cy_Borg is how refreshing and contemporary I find its depiction of the dystopian future. 80-00s era cyberpunk is very locked in place. Blade Runner's LA is permanently covered in black clouds and menacing skyscrapers. But you get the idea that this is the world forever. Any change for the better is too far out of reach, but simultaneously, this is as bad as it could get. That's kind of the point right? work that never ends, nothing better in store for you but everyone keeps going because... it could be worse right?

If I could describe Cy_Borg in one word, it would be Nuclear. it's themes are not set in drudgery and misery, it's apocalyptic, pulling from Mad Max as much as cyberpunk. The people of Cy are not well. It's a city of war boys and pop stars. Where the punks, nano-infected, wage slaves, doom cultists and the bourgeois are all pretty much on the same page for what's in store for them. Everyone is trying to milk this world of any last joy that can be found before it all goes out.

Both thematically and mechanically, the game encourages you to play as a live wire who is living every day like it's their last. Because it is. If it isn't this heist that kills you, it could be the nuke, the sun dying out. maybe tomorrow someone will just turn the simulation off. Part of character creation is rolling your debt, and the fact that you are rolling is kind of the joke, because your result is always going to be a number you couldn't possibly get out from under. It's in the back of your mind that eventually, that unless I keep killing and stealing for money and get super lucky, my debtors are gonna come for my limbs and organs.

^ this bit always hits in character creation. Running the players thru one by one, you get to debt section each time and ask the player to roll to see how badly their debtors want the money. Regardless what they roll, you say the same: "They want it back very badly." It will take a few characters before players start realising the joke but it perfectly sets up the expectations of playing this game

It asks you not to get attached to your punk, which is good because the chances are they'll die stupidly and unceremoniously. You can press a button on a website that will roll you another in less than a second because it wants you to be able to jump back into the game without rolling a bunch more dice. I've given random people at the table who weren't even playing control of NPCs and told them to go nuts, do whatever you want and don't think too hard, it's genuinely so fun how fast and loose it is.

[gondorrevealparty]

I feel like it's refreshing to see cyberpunk that isn't retro-futurism. A lot of the genre, including stuff like 2077, isn't actually depicting the fears of today. It's rehashing a depiction of the fears of a few decades ago. The sexualized advertisements of 2077 aren't dystopian now, what's dystopian is the sanitization of the image of the body. The "big scary japanese tech company" isn't dystopian anymore, Google is dystopian. Playing the greatest hits of older cyberpunk is always going to feel stale, because it's a genre based on what technology people are afraid of now.

The big irony of the genre is that forty years ago someone screamed out in terror about what companies were doing, and today you can see companies saying "remember how awesome that scream of terror was? Now you can hear it in higher definition for only $60 on steam!" It's no coincidence that a small project like Cy_Borg captures the technology fears of the era it came out in, while major studios can only churn out Neuromancer clones over and over.

[gondorrevealparty]

one of the best things a batter can do in baseball is to launch that thing 107mph directly into the crowd

[gondorrevealparty]

if you see a trans girl being proficient with manual tools and call her "butch" I'm stealing all the copper out of your house

[gondorrevealparty]

we all know women can wear pants and be strong and have practical skills right? they don't have to be performing a specific type of retro american masculinity to do it? remember competent women? you used to love competent women

[gondorrevealparty]

your fursona doesn't have to be a dog, cat, or bunny, okay?

you could be a beautiful Seal

or you could be a noble Giraffe

you could be a wise Alligator

or a clever Ape

or a mighty Ape

or a rambunctious Ape

or a mysterious Ape

or a whimsical Ape

or an adventurous Ape

or a nimble Ape

or an enchanted Ape

or a heroic Ape

or a luminous Ape

or a bald Ape

or a forbidden Ape

or an ancient Ape

or a nautical Ape

or a badly injured Ape

or a devious Ape

or a powerful Ape

or a noble Ape

or a clever Ape

or a nuanced Ape

or a bad Ape

or a clever Ape

or a interesting Ape

or a peaceful Ape

or a quaint Ape

or a wealthy Ape

or a valiant Ape

or a happy Porcupine

or a happy Ape

[gondorrevealparty]

me: *holding hands with a snakegirl*

snakegirl: how are yuou doing that :(

[gondorrevealparty]

watched a sheep-shearing demo yesterday and the sheep do this thing. where they kick and struggle and bleat as the farmer drags them into place for clipping and wrestles them onto their back. the sheep hate it so much because they don't know what's happening.

and then the farmer gets two or three clips in, and the sheep just sort of chills out, and realizes it feels kind of nice. and their coat comes off and five minutes later they're released, shorn and naked, and they go run around with the other freshly-shorn sheep. they rub their skin against the hay and the barn walls and each other, and get startled by the new textures. sometimes they get cold, so they huddle up together or get a under a blanket.

and they will get sheared this time again, next year, and they will kick and struggle and bleat again, because they won't remember how it felt. they will remember a year of being an animal that everything wants to kill, and they won't be ready for someone to try to help them.

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[trashpandaartblog]

You'll have a sandwich

By Rémich

[myfavoritedemons]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GO LOOK AT MORE OF THE ARTIST'S WORK ON HER INSTAGRAM, IT'S AMAZING

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A birthday gift for Hybridair c: