#harbor's rambles

[harbor-main]

love how they could've just done the bare minimum with queer rep in the new Tomodachi Life (which many of us expected them to do, either that or for them to do nothing at all), but instead they knocked it out of the fucking park

gay miis, bi miis, pan miis, aromantic miis, NONBINARY miis (they didn't even say "other" or some shit they flat out used the word "nonbinary" which is huge)

allonormativity's been absolutely shattered, and heteronormativity is likely gonna be less prevalent as well

this is better than I could've imagined

[harbor-the-martian]

I keep being reminded of the fact that like. over half of my oc fics that I wrote as a preteen are just completely gone.

I wrote them on an old laptop and it eventually stopped working, but I never backed up any of the fics, so a lot of them are gone forever.

I know they were cringey and bad and kinda embarrassing, but I still grieve the disappearance of those fics sometimes, and feel bad for my younger self who put in all that time and effort into writing fics that made them happy.

and I love looking back on my old work, as bad as it might be, because

it's a good laugh if it really is that bad

it's a way of reminding myself of how far I've come whenever the imposter syndrome kicks in

I'm still attached to the characters I wrote back then, especially ones that still exist today. their awkward phase is strangely endearing to me and it feels like looking through old family albums in a sense.

moral of the story ig is just like. back up and preserve your work, if you can 👍

even if it's bad, and even if you cringe at it, both your future and your past self will thank you for keeping that part of them alive.

[harbor-main]

I hope Etho always remains a mystery. I hope he remains an anomaly who we're always finding the most random stuff out about. I hope we never know everything about him, and that many things are still hidden from us many years in the future.

[harbor-main]

you think RTGame & Joel Smallishbeans would encounter each other in space with their cars or whatever

[harbor-main]

I genuinely love just how well Minecraft Story Mode manages to encapsulate the Minecraft community during that point in time, and while there are obviously various characters who are implied to be "better" at Minecraft than the average player, a ton of the charm comes from Minecraft Story Mode's understanding of the experience of just. the average Minecraft player who's likely just playing on a world and doing silly stuff with their friends.

there are so many small things in this game that really remind me of my younger self when I'd play with my friends at the time.

yk having a silly little base together, keeping random items and labeling them as treasures even if they likely wouldn't seem like it to outsiders, building competitions, building random shit just for fun & bc it looks cool, and even a lot of the story elements feel highly reminiscent of what somebody might've conjured up back then in their own world (including me).

Minecraft Story Mode understands the media it's based in far more than people seem to realize. while there might be a few minor inaccuracies regarding how some of the features work, imo it makes up for that in really understanding the overall experience of Minecraft and the smaller details that make it special for so many people.

it's one of the main reasons I still love it so dearly today, and as far as I'm concerned it'll remain that way for a long while.

[harbor-main]

the children trying to watch things they shouldn't are probably gonna be the LEAST affected by this new Youtube policy

the vast majority of people affected are going to be adults who just happen to watch things that are childish, or whatever the AI decides is childish even if it isn't inherently so.

many of which (myself included) being autistic adults who find comfort and intrigue in childish media.

this isn't going to go well for Youtube in the slightest. they didn't think this through at all. not to mention that AI really isn't ready for this sort of thing, I don't even remotely trust it to be able to identify what's for adults and what's for kids with 100% accuracy.

long story short, I fucking hate this.

[harbor-main]

first off I love that they're just straight up giving us Yoomian Island content now, they know their audience.

secondly, MORE CRYSTAL CONTENT YAYAYAYAYAY

[harbor-main]

reblogged a post about being sex repulsed and immediately started getting posts about people's graphic sexual fantasies what the fuck is happening what did I do