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@sluttyquarantinetheory
What random non-human thing would you most like to magically turn into?
A beloved painting on a museum wall
A giant jellyfish
A locket with a picture of a cat in it
Light blue sea glass
A ripe strawberry that's still growing
Neptune
A book someone diligently took notes in the margins of
A mourning dove
Yarn that is currently being knitted into a sweater
A tree DEEP in the woods that no human has ever seen
Hyperspecific poll but it's all common things that are just rare on Tumblr
cishet and neurotypical
have an active sex life
gym at least once a week
consider yourself completely untraumatised
not interested in creating any form of art/storytelling
none of the above
multiple of the above
it bothers me that you often don't really hear about people having a "favorite album" the way they might have a favorite movie or favorite video game
fuck it. reblog this and tell me in the tags what your favorite album is
Dragon Age Dwarven politics are so good. Just such a juicy mess and the games do barely fuckall with them. The gender politics. The castes. The ruins of the former palace becoming the slums. I would die to play a game that is just negotiating trade deals between Kal Sharok and Orzammar.
ah doing ma thing just like god int- (remembers im atheist) just like the universe intend- (remembers i don't believe in determinism) just like noone and nothing intended ever. doin ma thang fucking unpredictable style
Everyone go look up the song nasa banned from space
Don't forget to play it loud as fuck
please….listen to the whole thing. And imagine that you are IN SPACE in 1973 and you JUST woke up. Every time you adjust…it escalates somehow.
This song had to be designed in a lab for the sole purpose of fucking with astronauts. whoever added it to the NASA playlist was a genius.
theres a lot of hootin and tootin
[Image is text from Wikipedia reading,
In 1973, NASA used the song to wake up members of its space crew. The crew was allegedly so distracted from the shock over the course of the day that NASA forbade the use of the song for that purpose ever again, effectively banning the song from space.
Video shows a still image of a man wearing a ten gallon hat, kerchief, and buckskin jacket, along with his name: "The Legendary Stardust Cowboy". He's in front of a white background filled with stars.
His most famous song, "Paralysed", plays. His lyrics are frenetic, and so slurred that most can't be deciphered. Drums and acoustic guitar play in the background, along with a short bugle solo 2/3rds of the way through. It all feels pressurized and out of control - The Ledge was a pioneer of Psychobilly, which combined rockabilly with punk, sped it up, and added horror and scifi visuals.
End ID.]
Rewatching the original "The Little Mermaid" animated movie while working on something else... I can't quite recall at the moment (early into it atm) if this movie ever establishes Eric as the heir of the throne of his kingdom.
I think it'd be really funny if Eric was actually a younger brother. So, like, maybe he's a duke, actually, but he still gets the title of Prince. Travels the sea a lot, unlike a more landlocked heir. Hanging out at this summer seaside palace while the rest of the family is elsewhere for some reason.
Like, imagine Eric's parents and older brother and maybe sister-in-law and niblings getting that letter at the end of this movie. Nearly drowned. Miraculously washed ashore. Fell in love with a mysterious voice and then a mute girl. Got enchanted by a shape-shifting sea witch and nearly married her. Killed the sea witch after she turned into a giant. Married the aforementioned girl who turned out to be the beloved youngest daughter of the mythical King Triton instead and have now established a strong alliance with the merpeople. Wild summer! Wish you were here!
(via @owl-librarian)
hot take in a roundabout way i think that's also why so many of us opt out of becoming parents ourselves
Does anybody know how to fix it
Start disappointing people and not backing out of it when they are upset, reject feeling ashamed of everything including of yourself, start saying No to things you do not want to do not just things you're scared of, do more of those things you're scared of but wish you could do, make your own plans and execute them, decide to do or not do something without basing it on who will Dislike it.
Free Will takes practice, and the chance of making someone somewhere Slightly or even Very Disappointed In You. But you're an adult and you can't be made to stand in a corner anymore.
I like how cats enjoy sitting on the backs of other creatures. They’ll do it to humans if you’re lying on your stomach or crouched down. They’ll do it to horses. They’ll do it to sheep. They’ll do it to big dogs. They just like doing it.
I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.
Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.
The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.
I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.
(this scene is why I watch this movie on Valentine's Day every year)
The Birdcage (1996)
"There's only one place in the world I call home and it's because you're there."
9/11
not even joking this is one of the worst possible changes that i could've reasonably conceived of to happen to video games.
having thought about it this is a generationally anti-consumer announcement that will have a profoundly detrimental impact on consumers and retail markets. this will price out new consumers even more than a $600 PS5 and $80 games will. this will make games less accessible and more nickel-and-dimed. this will make games impossible to share irl without giving your console up, and will stop institutions like libraries from being able to loan copies of modern games. and most importantly, it will be for a minimal profit, as most of the sales in video games are already digital.
this is such a staggeringly catastrophic piece of news that i'm shocked it wasn't said by nintendo. congrats to sony for one-upping them in anti-consumer practices.
Brother Genetivi meeting people who don't care to hear about his religion:
What are you reading rn, why are you reading it, and what format are you reading it in (physical book, ereader, on your phone etc)
I think the thing that annoys me the most about Veilguard is that there's not really a natural way for you to fail or misstep. You either succeed or you don't complete huge swaths of the games/deliberately make terrible choices for the final battle. There isn't a messiness to it.
Minrathous or Treviso is the most harrowing thing that you can influence in the game and you don't even get to let any of that truly be your fault. It's a decent enough no win scenario but it doesn't let you mishandle it in anyway. If the game simply let you choose to send everyone to one city or split your forces, even if the result is the same, it gives you a certain sway in the situation that actually leaves you with a guilty comtemplation of what if i chose differently.
If there was an actual consequence to letting the Mayor at the beginning go free or even just witness some veiljumper justice. If even one side questline felt like an oh i fucked up fucked up. It would set the stakes for the entire game in a way that makes it seem as daunting as fighting the gods for the future of Thedas should be.
The most infuriating thing about all this is that there is the set up for these things. It's right there glaringly obvious as narrative possibilities. At every corner there is the chance for a meaningful and harrowing moment, but the game just refuses to let you be messy.
