Bro we are gaming

Name: Sophia. Nickname: Bean. Skills: Math and Puns. (She/her, mid 20s)

[sophibeans]

Clear Skies Ahead: A Novel

Hi! I wrote a book about a twentysomething burnout henshin hero using their secret identity and homemade power suit to explore their gender and pay the bills through social media! It's now completely available in its final edit! You can read it at this link!

Synopsis:

When early-20s burnout Alice tries to track down the local Portland superheroine Sky Horizon, she finds out that the heroine's true identity is none other than her old classmate Oliver, another early-20s burnout who uses the transformation to volunteer and survives off his Patreon. As he sheepishly explains, he designed the suit after his favorite tokusatsu superhero shows like Kamen Rider or Power Rangers.

When the suit's design gets leaked, however, he'll have to fight in earnest to keep his creation out of unscrupulous hands, and confront parts of himself he didn't think he was strong enough to face.

A YA-ish superhero story about shame, about responsibility, about how loving an idea enough is all you need to make it real.

[clonerightsagenda]

Literary criticism terms I use on this blog despite making them up myself, much to the chagrin of anyone who does not have my back catalog memorized:

are we the baddies: SFF subgenre focused on agents of an imperial power realizing that and grappling with what to do next, in contrast to stories focusing on the scrappy rebels resisting said imperial power

I could fix him (the empire): SFF subgenre where the colonized subject being nice and/or sexy enough Ends Colonialism, frequently tied to the John President of Racism problem

librarian bait: books centered on the transformative life-changing power of books and libraries, cousin to books focused on the transformative life-changing power of storytelling and narrative in general

college brochure fiction: stories where the protagonist has an artfully arranged group of diverse friends who are as flat as paper and whose cultural backgrounds never come up meaningfully

the Dave Strider: character the fandom fixates on to the detriment of everything else, until the weight of that attention warps fanon and sometimes even canon around them. almost always male. it's happening to Gurathin from Murderbot right now

[clonerightsagenda]

#OP tell us more about the John President of Racism problem!

It hails from an immortal tumblr post by penultimate-step, except not immortal apparently because I get 'not found' when I try to go back to the original. So here's the text:

It's always disappointing when a series makes a big deal about societal and structural problems in it's setting, making readers think it has interesting things to say about the subject, only to then resolve the problems by fighting The CEO of Racism, John Racist, so that all of society's problems would then get better because they promoted a new CEO.

[sorairoknife]

[redzombie]

the throne of leyndell

[toskarin]

morrowind npcs before sending you to resolve a succession dispute with lore implications that will be referenced for the next 20 years: I'm sick of her. I hate her. she is mean to me and I do not like her face. go do away with her. now shoo.

pathologic npcs in the middle of an entirely unrelated conversation before sending you to check if their cousin's dog has been drinking river water:

[prokopetz]

You'd expect pretending that you think of the Devil and We Know the Devil are the same game in order to annoy people on purpose would be a bit that has a hard time landing, but it turns out that these two fandoms represent a demographic Venn diagram with a very specific overlap.

[someweirdbug]

Visit Original Link

sometimes when im bored i like to listen to songs at .25 speed on youtube and i have yet to find anything better than this

[cuppydogshane]

My Name is 8 PM. and I am always arriving when you atrent Looking

[memeuplift]

[mossspores]

life if comes fucks me

[platycryptus]

time lapse of a banded sphinx moth caterpillar (Eumorpha fasciatus) devouring a water primrose leaf

(Florida, 9/18/22)

E. fasciatus caterpillars are heavily polymorphic and come in several different color morphs- those stripy rainbow ones are from the same population as the green one.

another neat thing about these guys is that most caterpillars drown easily, but since water primrose (Ludwigia) usually grows in standing water, E. fasciatus caterpillars have a propensity for swimming and are often seen wriggling their way through lakes when they need to come ashore to pupate.

[autisticplants]

The Swimmar

[leebrontide]

Younger people, one thing I want you to understand about Millenials is that, overall, our parents taught their daughters to aim for careers and employment, but they didn't teach their sons to keep house. This causes a whole lot of Situations.

[greatlordfluffernutter]

Look all I'm saying is that when a fighting game player says "I don't want to play against zoners or rushdown or grapplers I exclusively want to play against Shoto-style all-rounders" everyone universally calls them a whiny scrub who should either learn the matchup or play a different game, so I'm not sure why when Magic players say this we're supposed to say that yes actually it's morally wrong to play anything other than midrange and that any deck who wants to win faster than average or disrupt their opponents' gameplans needs to establish verbal consent and a safe word before playing.

[learn2anarchy]

Probably reading too much into it but this video has always filled me with such indescribable longing. Like the climax of a sports movie where everyone else has turned away from our hero facing impossibly long odds except for the one die hard with his fists clenched whispering, “come on you son of a bitch, you can do it.” But “it” in this case is outrunning the toxic nightmare of urban sprawl. I want him to run so fast he breaks free from the things we’ve done to this world. I want him to clear the city limits and find the forests that don’t really exist anymore. To gambol and forage and rest in primeval bliss. I want him to make it.

[fandom-trash-goblin]

we've got a life to love living.

[theatsthetic]

female-presenting vitruvian

[theatsthetic]

i appreciate the amount of people reblogging this despite me not really tagging this at all. im glad many of people feel the same anger i do.

[bruzum]

[lastvalyrian]

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

[prokopetz]

An analysis of posting trends on Tumblr suggests that the ideal form of the visual novel is a semi-linear murder mystery whose gameplay consists of solving middle-school "who lives in the blue house?" style verbal logic puzzles, except every time you guess wrong a mean bisexual MILF makes fun of you.

[aokozaki]