The Lightning-Speed Waltz

Being the random posts and reblogs of a ♀ gay married older than dirt hiking-obsessed crybaby. 

[sailor-arashi]

Maximum Comfy.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP made a set of pink Transformers armor for his daughter. (cr 张帅有个女儿)

[nattousan]

"He loved her to the point of invention" 🥹

[segamascott]

[captain-price-returns]

[transmechanicus]

Revealing the ignorance of my youth here, but who is this and what is she known for?

[boybeetles]

Anita Sarkeesian, feminist who interpreted media under a feminist lens. She did a series about video games and she was the subject of targeted harassment. That was the start of gamergate

[flurrin]

Minor correction, the start of gamergate was based around a different reporter, Zoe Quinn, but they were both absolutely violently threatened over their involvement in video game criticism and development. A hate campaign was started by Quinn's ex-boyfriend when he wrote a post falsely accusing them of dating video game journalists in order to receive positive reviews on their own game, Depression Quest, which led other bad actors to accuse all women in the industry (Zoe identified as female at the time) of perceived sexual immorality. Anita Sarkeesian's brilliant Youtube series Tropes vs Women in Video Games (which everyone should watch, right now) sparked a particular nerve for criticizing popular games of killing and/or victimizing any important female character (there is a CHILLING bit that borders on ludicrous where she describes the plots of a seemingly endless parades of games as "In [title], [male player character's] wife dies, and you then have to rescue [his] daughter."). That series did actually make a huge change in the industry, especially when touted by progressive legacy developers like Tim Schafer (Monkey Island, Psychonauts), who went on to expand hiring in his company to front women and minority voices, but the shift didn't really show for a long time and echoes of the sexism that plagues the industry at its core are still rampant.

[boybeetles]

Thanks for the correction! I was like 8-10 years old when this all went down (2014-2016) so I only know vaguely about it. I’m still learning about this.

[lilu-the-horse]

when horses do the big doggie stretch and go allll the way down…

Yeag

[chestnut-horse]

can I add to this?

[lilu-the-horse]

absolutely you can

[horsefigureoftheday]

If I may add

And let's not forget about

[nero-draco]

[captain-price-returns]

driving my 6000 lb cry for help to chipotle

[mjwatson]

bucky has a disability??

he doesn’t have an arm.

[sailing-ever-west-deactivated20]

happy almost ten years to my all-time favorite disability post on this braincell forsaken website

[vigilmaker]

happy th

[vigilmaker]

happy thors

[vigilmaker]

it’s his day!!

[vigilmaker]

@sailor-arashi

[sailor-arashi]

[disterbia]

[knifenymph]

change does not come from a place of comfort

[aquareaper3]

I find pennies and nickels in my couch all the time, so I don’t know what you are talking about

[homofied]

[opalfairy]

[crabussy]

I asked my five year old cousin what he would do if there was a scary skeleton and he said "I would pour water on it and then kick it" and I've been losing my shit laughing crying about a wet skeleton for about fifteen minutes straight

[crabussy]

he was so delighted by my fits of giggles that he drew eight wet skeletons for me

[eyewishing]

IM SITTING EATING DINNER AT MY DESK AND MY CLOSED LAPTOP JUST SIGHED AT ME??? LIKE THE FANS WHIRRED FOR A SECOND IT WAS LIKE hHHHhhhh

[eyewishing]

here comes the airp;ane

[innerchildabortionclinic]

if cats don't want to be grabbed and cuddled they need to stop being such optimal size and shape for that activity

[prokopetz]

Some games on Steam use the "Female Protagonist" tag the same way live-action Disney films get promoted for gay representation. I once bumped into a game that was tagged "Female Protagonist" because there's an interactive cutscene where a female NPC is briefly controllable. You walk across a room.

[prokopetz]

The tag search doesn't look too bad if you go with "sort by relevance" because that tends to make the ones with actual female protagonists float to the top, but under literally any other sorting it's like:

First-person open world RPG that lets you pick "she/her" at chargen (note: you are never referred to in the third person)

Visual novel where the all-but-faceless viewpoint character is explicitly male, but the plot centres on the woman he's dating

Party-based game where the male lead does all the talking, but your party has girls in it

Plotless puzzle game where the game board has a picture of a woman next to it

Street Fighter 6, for some reason

[st-just]

Warhammer 40,000 is of course, uh, not unproblematic. But patterning orks specifically and incredibly blatantly off English football hooligan culture was probably simultaneously the least bigoted and most creative thing literally anyone did with the concept of 'the orc' at any point in the 1980s

[vorochi]

I’ve been idly wanting to see analysis from people smarter than me on characters like Nagash and factions like the tomb kings. I’m not strongly familiar with racist tropes, so I’m very curious what people who are think of them.

[dilftanger]

crayon

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