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major themes are: philosophy, communication, society, queers, weirdos, autism, communism, and software.

hi! i have the best opinions and great taste and anxiety!

i’m basically unable to socialize over text, and i’m giving very little personal information.

i approach everything very analytically. i will always consider what you say, but i have very strong foundations for what i believe. i think adversarial/confrontational talking basically never convinces anyone (except me) (but sometimes i reblog it because i’m not ready to re-write it).

(@subject-to) has: reblogs of other people’s things with occasionally a small comment. a ton of jokes, a good amount of analysis, some information, and some aesthetics.

(second blog, coming soon) will have: significant original thoughts written up. analysis and almost nothing else. a personality if you look closely. a very slow rate of posts.

i’m working on an actually good tagging system. until then, my standard tags are:

(#important posts)

(#very important posts)

(#very very important posts)

(#maybe repeat)

(#repeat) [very rare]

(#(whatever) spoilers) [inconsistent]

(#cw (whatever)) [inconsistent]

(#ooooo)

(#hmmmm) [when i’m not sure if i agree, but i definitely think you should see it and think about it]

(#if true) [when i haven’t verified the factual information, but i still think you should see it]

[gothgaymoth]

my new years resolution is 480x640. Gettig smaller

[luxlightly]

So canonically the game's low poly style is what v1 actually sees because it doesn't render its surroundings in high quality to save energy or whatever.

And I'm imagining a situation in which Gabriel learns this and is like "wait, so things look totally different to you? What do you see when you look at me? Not that it's important. I'm above such concerns as how others veiw my physical form, of course"

And V1 spits out a Polaroid style picture and hands it to him and he's like

"....oh my god I look so fucking ugly "

"Are you shitting me? This is what I look like to you? I'm like five polygons oh my God I look like a doom enemy"

And he has to be consoled for ten minutes.

(to be clear I think Gabriel is very handsome and I think actually in canon Gabriel actually wouldn't really care what he looks like to V1 very much, I just find this idea hilarious)

[codfetti]

Had to draw this the second my friend sent it to me. Apolocheese if Gabriel looks funny I drew from memory

[akantorrr]

[wizardarchetypes]

like the way so many people talk about the ‘problems with poly relationships’ makes me feel bad for not only their monogamous partners but even their close friends and their damn kids, bc they’ll just be listing shit that comes down to emotional maturity and compassion everyone should be growing and exercising in EVERY relationship

[wizardarchetypes]

like ‘i could never be poly because i’m such a jealous person lol! if my partner even looks at someone on the street i get pissed off!’

cool, that sounds like a nightmare for your monogamous relationship also!

[wizardarchetypes]

’imagine having to prioritize multiple people at once 🙄’ and they have 2 kids

[slime-gender-selkie]

[veesjan]

I had to get my favorite moment from the new Defunctland video on its own

[what-even-is-thiss]

Another funny thing about playing a dark urge in bg3 is that your guy yells stuff like “A FINE DAY FOR MURDER” and “AHAHAHAHAHA” and “PAVE MY PATH WITH CORPSES! BUILD MY CASTLE WITH BONES!” And nobody thinks this is weird.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Me: I have this violent urge that overtakes me sometimes

My companions, presumably forgetting the moment earlier that day when I was screaming about murder for the murder god: I’m sure it’s fine

[what-even-is-thiss]

Me: ALL WILL BECOME ASH AND BONE

Karlach: I desire you carnally

[sillayangel]

gwen stacy vlc media player tshirt

[sillayangel]

glad we're all on the same page

[kenpendoodles]

high class lesbians

[unstrungbones]

there are many things tumblr as a whole has to learn but one of them is “someone can reblog a post without them endorsing every action the op has ever taken, we are not beholden to do background checks on the producers of every shitpost on the internet”

[kryptoncat]

[fictionadventurer]

I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.

Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”.  The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.

And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA. 

The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.

There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.

[datasnake]

Other examples of “blamed for things their copycats did” include Watchmen (blamed for the gritty antihero comics of the 90s) and Madoka Magica (blamed for excessively edgy and grimdark magical girl shows).

[un-monstre]

In hindsight being a “gifted kid” is so funny. You have substantial difficulties with socializing and fine motor skills, but we’re going to ignore that because you’re really good at reading chapter books

[miamaimania]

Upcycled Keyboard Handbag - recycled keys form a textured, tech-inspired fashion statement.

[bacontoktok]

[cellarspider]

May I present to you Wheel Running In the Wild, a published research paper that delights me to no end:

This paper intended to test whether would mice would run on a wheel if they found one, to try and determine if this was a natural behavior or a stress response in captivity. They put a wheel in a protected little box with a camera that took pictures any time the wheel turned, and tallied up how often it was used by what.

Mice were, happily, the most common users of the wheel, and their patterns of use indicated they were doing so voluntarily once they figured it out.

But the second most common users.

Those were slugs.

[sisyphusshrugged]

Dan Hays Colorado Snow Effect 4 (with detail) 2007, oil on canvas

[side-streets-of-the-surreal]

Windows updates: MG30573010599462957.exe: essential patch for the H:GJ32P:T23OM driver

Linux updates: box of gnomes for the demon core

[inkscape-official]

Windows updates: We can't tell you how much free space we need to make this update happen but it sure as hell won't be zero.

Linux updates: Here's a complete list of the total space on disc and how much it's changing for every utility along with a handy sum at the bottom, also sometimes the number is negative.