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its 2026 i cannot handle any more fucking "author A obviously ripped off author B" discourse by people Who Have Only Seen the work of author B and admit themselves that they have no further knowledge of the literary landscape they are moving in. like.
Folks really need to reacquaint themselves with this concept
anticipating an exponential increase in murderbot misgendering so I drew something about it
Ragebaiting Rocky by introducing him to Kelvin
Ranking the tf2 mercs based on their manipulative-ness. (?) Bear with me here: Level 200 Manipulators: Spy - OBVIOUSLY. It's part of his job, he is trained at picking people apart for mimicry purposes. Can get in your head so easy because he has to play you, has to be you. You never really know what's real and what isn't. Probably has a personal dossier on everybody that he keeps updated. Medic - Listen, it's not entirely on purpose (yes it is), and he's super cute about it and very honest with his intentions, he makes cracking your ribs open sound like a great way to spend the evening. It's for science, Liebe. Just relax and let me get my hands on this sternal saw right here aaaaand... Decently Manipulative: Engineer - It comes with the territory, I really do believe he has good intentions (most of the time.) It's just that, when you're a genius, don't you get a little bit curious? Don't you just wanna go ape shit? Only uses his powers for good though, you gotta know how to wrangle the crazies when you work with them. Pyro - They aren't completely childish, they know how to get what they want, and people being afraid of them makes that super easy! Yay! They like keeping matchbooks on hand as easy threats and reminders of what they can do. Leans back, stares at you silently, perfectly lights a match while keeping their mask's goggles trained on you.
Heavy - Well educated, built like a beast, and a face to make you feel really queasy when he gets silent. Being that big all your life makes you very aware of the presence you take up in a room. He does make good on a lot of his threats, so you know not to fuck around. But most of the time, he doesn't wanna put in all that effort.
Tries, and fails: Sniper - He people watches a lot, so it makes him pick up on things others wouldn't usually, but his social skills are so piss poor his options are 1. Get really mad and throw petty insults. 2. Skulk away and spend the evening sulking. He thinks about his blunders too much to get into peoples heads like that. Also he smells. Demo - OH SCRUMPY, YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO TRULY LOVES ME. <- He sobs to himself in his room, in a puddle of his own throw-up. You get a lot of scenes like this and you just have to take a broom and gently caress his back with it because you don't wanna get too close to him while he's all... Soggy like that. Couldn't manipulate their way out of a fucking shoe: Scout - LETS GOOOO he's so fucking stupid, okay, that's mean, but no, really, his roundabouts are so obvious you just go "If you want something from me, just say it." And he's all "Whaaaat??? Yo what are you talking about, I was literally jus-" and whinges and whines that you would even accuse him of something like that. Soldier - DOES NOT BELIEVE IN MANIPULATION! That is for SPIES who are COWARDLY and WEAK, and a REAL AMERICAN MAN pulls himself up by his bootstraps, walks down to the factory, and says, GIVE ME A JOB, and gets the cops called on him for being a PUBLIC DISTURBANCE.
like many people have said this better than me but no it IS odd that we've come to think of potatoes as so quintessentially european that their presence in historical fantasy where they're anachronistic doesn't jar. and yes people are trying to have the trappings of post-colonial europe without engaging w the icky colonialism part and yes people are neglecting to imagine what a european cuisine without potatoes would be like.
im fully in favour of 'let people have fun w their fantasy world' but is considering how the potatoes got there in the absence of colonialism not a fun exercise? maybe every year the dragon riders go on a great transatlantic potato pilgrimage
perhaps a good way to sum up the issue here is:
if you put potatoes in your medieval european style fantasy world people will by and large not find it jarring and accept it as a normal fantasy trope
if you put, say, black people in your medieval european style fantasy world a whole demographic of people will get very angry and accuse you of breaking their immersion
this is in spite of the fact that black people were a lot more common in medieval europe than potatoes.
So apparently someone found the lost episode of KTMA, K03, Star Force. It was found at a garage sale around Minneapolis and has been fully digitized. :)
you can read more about all this here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MST3K/s/WBQQPowmms
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You know honestly Wyll did not go through enough of an arc in bg3 not to offer himself up as a potential mind flayer. Like obviously it shouldnt be an actual option bc too many players would sacrifice him in a heartbeat.
BUT you can’t tell me Mr “gave up his soul for his city, his humanity for Karlach, and already resigned to going to the hells” wouldn’t do it all again in a heartbeat. At least it’s a form that he can choose this time.
The man is passively suicidal and doesn’t value his own safety. You cannot convince me any of that changed over the course of the game. All of Wyll’s big reveals (finding out he can be sent after people who weren’t evil on a technicality, that Balduran wasn’t a hero, that everything his father was training him for built up to a pile of bones who doesn’t see his worthiness or even acknowledge him properly then tries to kill him, that the cost of his freedom is his father’s life and soon he will have no powers with which to help others OR his only friends reaffirm that his happiness comes secondary, plus his “friend” potentially sleeping with his ABUSER!!!) would only stir his resolve, pushing him to be the hero who will make up for these shortcomings whether his or others. The Blade of Frontiers isn’t just a title, it’s a coping mechanism for the little boy that got abandoned at 17 for doing the right thing, who had to justify his father’s decision because the alternative is that his hero wasn’t perfect. Wyll has spent 7 years trying to make up for well, being him.
Maybe the big heroic act will this time fix the hurt and make him enough.
i liked doing the independent run because it meant i could walk into caesar’s tent with a missile launcher and atomize him and yes man didn’t even give a fuck that i did that. mr house wouldve been all
forgot to add a caption.to mr house
i think we should bring this back (with some amendments ofc) if we ever needed an "internet etiquette" for the younger generations, now is the moment to remind them. purity culture kills fandom
as well as the three laws of fandom:
Don't Like, Don't Read (DL;DR), Your Kink is not My Kink And That's OK (YKINMKATO) and Ship and Let Ship
📣 Purity culture kills fandom! 📣
NO ONE LIVING hasn't been squicked out by something. There's over 7 billion of us, my delights and disgusts aren't universal. So I move on. Don't like the ship? Move on. Don't like____? Move on.
I am not an exception. Neither are you. I don't like it I move on and shut my gob about it because everyone everywhere is squicked out by something and they need to put the thing down and just…motor.
This but also:
Frames this entire post and hangs it over the fireplace.
the other day a friend of a friend referred to "busting out of your abdomen like the alien from the Predator films" and I was completely caught off guard. like I guess that's - that's not wrong. the alien was. okay she was in the Predator films. well some of them. but like. she had her own. she's the alien from the Alien films. like. they have her name on them. he's not "King Kong from the Godzilla films"
there's also a reason it's not called an "abdomenburster" but one issue at a time
it's like when headlines refer to a famous woman via her husband. that's not "Predator's wife" she's got her own franchise!!
tags from the crew of the Nostromo
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ok so I looked it up, and it turns out they made a track out of PVC pipes, down a hill. The owner didn't realise PVC expanded in the heat, so on a turn the track just fell apart and the dude inside went over a fucking free way and into a swamp.
The funniest part is that the inspector was watching the whole time, and once the ball stopped he left without saying anything. Park management just shut it down then and there.
"The ball cleared a small hill, briefly going airborne, then zipped right across Route 94, the two-lane road splitting the park. Cars honked and slammed on their brakes. If there had been opposing traffic, Frank would have become part of a real-life game of Pong, volleying from one bumper to another.
Still in pursuit, we followed the ball toward a small lake in Motor World that had been earmarked for a fleet of tiny bumper boats for children. The area wasn’t open yet, but the empty boats were being tested and floated on the surface. The ball soared over the grass and smashed into several of them, scattering the others with rippling waves from the impact, which launched some of the boats several feet in the air.
Charlie and Ken waded into the water looking for the hatch. After some difficulty, they got it open. Charlie pulled Frank out by grabbing him under his armpits like a baby. Frank crawled up the bank, coughing and sputtering. He splayed across the grass as we all stared at the ball, which bobbed in the water like it was attached to a fishing lure.
We did not ask for the inspector’s report, nor did we ever hear of one being filed. Ken Bailey returned to Canada. The snow-makers cleared away the PVC. Told to dispose of the Bailey Ball, they rolled it into the woods, where it remained for many years."
I don't know that this beats the teeth story, but it's pretty great.
terrifying when you watch a movie or a show or whatever & youre like that was fun but it felt a little redundant they didnt need to hammer the point home that much & then you go online & theres thousands of people going that was so weird i did not get it what did that mean google.com ending explained please?
I know that I have an issue with overexplaining myself in books. I know it can get repetitive, and I cut so much more than makes it into the final draft.
And I do this because I have grown up in a world where I can say dinner is my magic onion secret surprise (the surprise is onions) eight times, and still have someone sit down, take a bite, and then ask me if there are onions in there.
i love you archival work. i love you alphabetizing. i love you sorting. i love you reshelving. i love you document restoration. i love you shelf reading. i love you inventorying. i love you analysis. i love you archival work.
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Tinglepost 401: The Physical Manifestation Of My Slowly Looming Dread That The Whole World Is Falling Apart Eats Ass
It's always a treat when the vibe of the horror Tingleverse really overtly comes out in a tingler. Much like one of Dr. Tingle's horror novels- albeit in a much smaller package- this story has layers to its conflict. The plot involves a cataclysmic event, the underlying issue of a stressed populace too beaten down by the state of the world to care about it, and the implied compounding small horrors that have lead so many people to such a profound point of burnout where something literally earth-shattering just doesn't seem like a big deal anymore.
This is categorized as a current events tingler, but no specific current event is mentioned. The event is more of a general mood among those who care about the state of the world. It doesn't need specifics. We all feel what it's talking about without them, even though every reader's specific fuel to the mood might be a little different. It's about a shared sense of dread that's been building for years and I don't think we're at anything like a culmination of it yet. Years in the future, if I were to go back and read this tingler, if I wasn't looking at the publication date I doubt that I would be able to pin it to June of 2026. (Perhaps, in addition to the sex, that's a part of the wish fulfillment fantasy of this tingler; a concrete physical sign that all of the bullshit has reached a high point.)
Unfortunately, I suspect that this tingler is going to remain Current for a lot longer than, for example, "Bisexually Pounded By The Mysterious New Jersey Drones". Fortunately, the hopeful resolution will remain equally relevant.
i know everyone is tired of hearing it from me but i'll never be free from how people think you can only ship a het ship WOKELY if the man is a pathetic useless idiot and the girl babysits and pegs him and has the personality of a door. i promise you won't get your woke card revoked if you spend five minutes of your time to consider the girl has a personality and the guy might be a competent person. and maybe she likes getting dicked down and is a little pathetic too. have you considered also liking the girl and maybe wanting her to be a spoiled baby too? also I'll Kill You
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