#mazarinedrake

[prokopetz]

I'm sorry, somebody canceled their webcomic because *their readership contained too many lesbians???* *WHAT* I can't even get properly outraged about that, it just seems so ludicrous.

(With reference to this post here.)

It’s been years, so I probably don’t have the particulars right, but I believe the author’s stated rationale was they’d intended to monetise the comic, and – according to them – lesbians don’t buy merch.

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

Said during a discord chat: "The eldar created Slaanesh, but they don't worship hir. Like how Pringles don't worship humans."

[smooti]

So my friend @mazarinedrake makes and sells beautiful knitted things so I commissioned a hat and scarf in the genderfluid pride flag colors and it looks AMAZING!! Pics of the scarf soon it is so long and beautiful 🥰🥰🥰 happy pride y’all 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[gallusrostromegalus]

mazarinedrake reblogged your post and added:

This is how my cat got tagged with the nickname...

“Snowbert” is a portmanteau of “Snowy” and “Catbert” fyi.  also i love her and she needs more ridiculous nicknames.

[thingsareswinging]

Honestly I wish the Patriots had stayed a sentient meme that, as you said, "grew out of the floorboards of the White House" and Vamp was a real vampire and psychics are real and so are ghosts and sometimes people just develop photosynthesis sometimes *deep breath* I greatly prefer the "magical realism" parts of the franchise to the "N A N O M A C H I N E S" parts.

(cont.) It only just now hit me that, given the EVERYTHING about the Death Stranding trailers, Kojima probably vastly preferred the magical realism parts of Metal Gear too, which means we're probably going to get even MORE shit like Vamp and the Cobras and the Original Flavor Patriots (tm) AND I AM EVEN MORE PUMPED NOW THAN I WAS PREVIOUSLY.

In what has to be the greatest bit of serendipity I’ve ever seen, between me getting this ask and me deigning to answer, Super Bunnyhop dropped the so-anticipated-I-thought-it-would-never-happen Critical Close-Up of MGS4. Watch that, instead. He’s got production values and is cleverer than me.

Anyway, I think, in general terms, MGS4 is emblematic of a real problem with Video Game Fiction: the juvenile idea that a story is only good if you can write an exhaustive fucking wiki about it. Dark Souls, Metal Gear, Star Wars, all these stories have an exhaustive amount of pointless fucking baggage that might be fun for a certain kind of fan but really should not be taken as the point.

The story of Dark Souls isn’t improved by knowing where, geographically, Oolacile was. The themes of Metal Gear don’t become more relevant or interesting when we know that Para-Medic helped found the Illuminati. Star Wars is actively hampered when every space ship is given a vaguely arbitrary set of vital statistics, as if war can be fought like a game of top trumps.

It’s a bad way of enjoying fiction. It’s Who Would Win In A Fight being treated as the only relevant metric. It is missing the wood for the trees.

I have a theory that there’s one basic reason why the original Matrix film is extremely good, and the other two are not nearly as good. Fundamentally, the first Matrix film was about our world. It was about Baudrillardian philosophies, capitalism, and hegemony. The two Matrix films after it were much more focused on the problems of an entirely fantastical world, and that is, I think, where it starts to lose me.

[mercurialmalcontent]

I love Embriel so much, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

:3

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I take it you’ve gone through my tag? 

[smooti]

It’s finally cold out!!!!

[thingsareswinging]

I got to taste goat cheese this week. It's actually pretty good!

It doesn’t do that thing cow’s milk does when it melts, but otherwise I generally preferred it, even in the Before Times.