TitleKnown

Cest non un title.

[cerastes]

People don’t even say w00t anymore.

[cerastes]

This sux00rz…

[titleknown]

I mean, to be fair OP, there's a BBW fetish/expansion artist known as w00t who seems fairly prominent, so we know at least people are still saying it in some context!

[sunflowersosa]

Nigerian Pride 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇬

I meant to have this out yesterday. Happy belated pride. :)

[sunflowersosa]

I'm glad you all like the Nigeria Pride post!

Originally, I went in worried the opposite would happen. Growing up, I've been taught that Nigeria, the country, is homophobic. (I was born in America.) But over time, I learned that there's tons of other queer Nigerians; some are out, and some are in the closet 😭.

I'm also not used to this much attention, lol

Thank you all!

[shesgonnachangetheworld]

it's baffling to still see people be like "you can convince white conservatives to like socialism if you don't use buzzwords! and then work on racism later" in the united states. like yeah, it probably is really easy to convince people that having things is good. how are you going to convince them that the people they hate having things isn't a problem?

[persephinae]

#any analysis of class issues in the us that doesn't take anti-black racism into account is a fairy tale#if you haven't come around to the fact that republicans hate black people more than they love god i don't know what to tell you

republicans hate black/brown/poor people with the white hot intensity of 10,000 suns

we are NEVER going to advance, make any progress, or get anything nice like other countries until white people actively dismantle racism. it's just never going to happen.

[titleknown]

I feel like the reason Mega Man will never do a crossover with DC comics is that at some point Dr Wily would get in Wonder Woman's Lasso and confess he wants to be pounded in the ass by Guts Man, just absolutely ravaged, and we can't have that in the comics thanks to the Liberal Media

[rabbitkinglune777]

cool. another black child died in a hate crime

[rabbitkinglune777]

South Carolina jury finds store owner not guilty of murder in killing of Black teen | CNN

A South Carolina jury on Monday found a store owner not guilty of murder in the 2023 shooting of a Black 14-year-old.

apparently the murder happened in 2023 after doing some research but the murderer has been found not guilty.

black children get murdered and become victims of hate crimes every fucking day. this is ridiculous

[rabbitkinglune777]

im posting this here despite the website being extremely white centered, I want people to understand how in this country it's basically ok to murder and victimize black people, especially women and children in the name of "self defense" and white America will reward you for your antiblackness.

[foxgirlmindcrank]

Tour guide

[foxgirlmindcrank]

She's all kitted up even though most areas in the exclusion zone are only nominally more radioactive than the norm bg radiation for the same reason your doctor goes to a different room when you get an x ray - getting a modest dose once is fine, but multiple times a day adds up quick!

[foxgirlmindcrank]

She's also wearing a particulate mask (not a gas mask) since most harmful radiation in the zone is attached to dust and such.

[titleknown]

So, this excellent animator from Zimbabwe I follow, Kgann, is trying to get a new laptop because their old one is struggling wrt being able to actually animate stuff, and I felt I may as well use my platform to help 'em out.

You can donate money to his Patreon, given that sadly his other accounts have been hosed for various nonsense reasons, and to give you a sample of some of his work:

[plushiekush-deactivated20250830]

white ppl will steal every aesthetic from black culture and then call it something so stupid like bo derek braids instead of box braids or hasbin hotel core instead of black southern dandism. yall will bend over backwards to call my culture barbaric/scary just to drool over the aesthetic the moment no actual black people are involved (21 pilots vs actual reggae). And if ur white/nonblack reading this just reblog. I dont need any comments talking about how not racist you are + speaking up over actual black people.

[titleknown]

How My Kaijune Kaiju Would Fit in on Quazies' Version of Monster Island!

Because Kaijune's coming up (Hopefully on-time and not as Kaijuly) and hypothetical crossovers are a great way to get one's work out there and also I think @quazies' Monster Island-based shorts are very good and it's fun to imagine things.

Presumably Virgin Killer would've found her surviving child H&H and would be very protective to the point of being a bit of a hellicopter mom. This would be troublesome given that H&H is rambunctious, adventurous, and other words for "comically prone to putting themselves in potentially fatal situations." H&H's kind of a Luffy-figure (Albeit with slightly more brain cells) to the other young kaiju on the island, helped by them being slightly older.

You know those trembly little yip-yip dogs that have that vest with NERVOUS written on it as a warning? Yeah that's Baba O'Reily as a burrowing kaiju. Baragon likes him but he's terrified of Baragon.

Holy Diver would be a disciplined, thoughtful sort, usually meditating and training. They would probably eat any cigarettes they find there.

For Mr Brightside, think the Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight from The Tick but as a giant lightning dinosaur. Nobody really has any idea why he's doing his deranged lightning shenanigans, not even himself.

Neon Tyger is in an awkward spot given she's human-sized most of the time. She tries to be the voice of reason in disputes, given that she's driven to help, which half the time does work. But the other times, things tend to... escalate. She is good buddies with Jet Jaguar tho!

Lumpy Gravy IS NOT ALLOWED ON THE ISLAND. Neither is Black Hole Sun.

Space Oddity is sort of regarded as "delusional but harmless." given he still perpetually thinks he's exploring an alien planet at normal size. He's one of the few that gives Biolante the time of day, mistaking her for an astronaut companion of his who's probably dead, which leaves her with... conflicted feelings. Gigan likes to mess with him by playing up his "Evil alien" thing, which usually ends with Looney Tunes-type shenanigans and rivalry, but there was one time he went a bit too far...

Canojaharie is basically a sweet old grandpa who tells the baby kaiju stories of older days. Granted, the stories do end up a bit... dark, but kids do love that sort of thing! Oddly enough, Hedorah really likes his work, though her attempts at listening in have been... awkward.

In that monster Island, I'd imagine that Mothra would have... mostly stabilized Invisible Touch's condition via nature powers, but there'd still be some filtered mutations that "leak" creating a zone of weird and unsettling wildlife, and she's still terrified of being abandoned. Though, not enough to say yes to Destroyah's continual, unwanted advances, which she usually responds to with "Woe, angry crabwhales be upon ye" and such. Biolante is good friends with her tho.

St Anger IS NOT ALLOWED ON THE ISLAND. A later incarnation of Maria would definitely be (but that's a spoiler) but the clones The Reverend makes of her would not be allowed, and the reverend himself would definitely not be allowed. If the Reverend did go on the island they'd probably get their head bitten off, and they would deserve it.

Teo Toriatte is basically spaced out and oblivious to most events 80 percent of the time, but terrifyingly good at things when she locks the fuck in. Which multiple antagonistic kaiju like Gigan have found out via the latter stage of "Fuck Around and Find Out"

The Crimson King IS NOT ALLOWED ON THE ISLAND, for the same reason you never allow the Nazi into the bar. But if someone... well okay, if Gigan and Megalon were stupid enough to try and visit the baddest kaiju too scary for the island" they'd find him both unbearably stodgy and Judge Holden-type horrifying, same energy as just the worst dinner with your abusive hard-Racist Republican parents ever.

The Black Queen is tolerated on the island, but barely. She's somehow very good at seducing the male antagonistic kaiju with her whiles and charisma. She uses this mostly to scam them for free food and gifts.

Blind Guardian still sits Hachiko-style over the crystallized remains of her nest that somehow got transferred there, with the human professor from that story just kinda vibing. She's got a Thing going with fellow-widow/widower Rodan, tho nobody's sure what kind of Thing it is.

Subway Sue tends to be a caretaker of the kids of the island filling in for Mothra on occasion, and she's a bit of a "cool aunt" type who takes them on adventures... tho those can get kinda out of hand. She does have a friendship going with Baragon, who's helped her out on a few occasions (even though on the first meeting she did have to "persuade" him not to eat the humans under her care)

I will note that all these concepts/designs of my Kaijune kaiju (Who you can learn more about past the links!) are available under a CC-BY 4.0 license, as long as I, Thomas F Johnson, am credited as their creator, so anyone can basically use them for anything!

[pissditching]

La Sparkledog Capitolina

[lakemojave]

I'm putting a team together

[lakemojave]

Fuck how could I forget

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

Team Leader

[titleknown]

Does this count as a Sixth Ranger?

[titleknown]

Sorry about the lateness, alot of personal issues.

So there's this fandom for a game written by clueless white dudes in the 90s called Warcraft, and the fandom is still active today.

The game's trolls are blatantly coded as Afro-carribean; stereotypical Jamaicen accents performed by white people, dreadlocks, practice voodoo, live in grass skirts and are "savage cannibals".

And the lore directly has humans and elves, whom are both white, come from different continents, Northrend and Kalimdor respectively, and start killing the trolls for their land.

This is depicted as unambigously heroic and its explicitly stated that both had a kill on sight for policy and did not take troll prisoners.

Simply for very politely saying "I know the writers mean well, but this is kind of racist and comes off as glorifying european colonization and imperialism", I was attacked and labeled a racist whom thought white people are evil.

His excuse was that the humans were somehow refugees because of an ill defined threat that was never elaborated mean, which in his mind meant saying they were colonists for coming to a new land and killing caricatures of Afro-Carribean islanders was the "real racism".

Since than the community has regularly attacked and slandered me on their discord, they've also attacked me on this website too; here he is complaining about a personal friend of mine blocking him.

Note I have the entire conversation saved and haves shared it onlnie. all I said was that that he was unintentionally defending tropes racist against Afro-carribean people.

And these are posts from the guy slandeing me a racist Let me know if you want to hear more racist people slandering and attacking me as well as others who criticize the racist writing?

But seriously entitled bigoted fans make fandoms a scary place to be. They want PoC to both accept that they're the villains AND think that them being cast is the villains is politically correct.

Huh. Yeesh, Warcraft is "not my elephants, not my circus" but that does seem pretty bad!

You seem like you handled yourself reasonably, and and it sucks that people trying to handle this sort of thing calmly like yourself get pushed out of discussions like that because it means only the meanest voices remain, and that sucks for everyone, but even beyond that it's just a shitty thing they did to you.

Tho, it does make me think, I wonder what the best way to handle that as a thing with legacy narratives is.

Cause, most things that run/exist for long enough do run into that sort of problem wrt "we accidentally baked prejudice into our continuity," and it's always a difficult question to figure out how to deal with that without breaking the versmillitude that continuity-writing brings.

Like, there's people who say that versmillitude is more important than unfucking those problems, but that view sucks and should be ignored. The real question is, how extensive should the retcons be? When's it unsalvageable to a degree requiring a full reboot?

And so-on and so-forth. You can see a fair bit of this in Warhammer 40K with stuff like the recent Custodes retcon or, earlier, the whole major Necron retcon which I have... mixed feelings about.

This is to a smaller degree, but I think of my beloved Banjo-Kazooie series and how the Shamans are... not great in terms of cultural sensitivity, and how any revival would have to deal with it.

Now, I have my ideas on that one (And I'm willing to elaborate on that if anyone's wondering), and I presume you'd have your ideas on how you'd retcon your thing on the lore, so I'm curious, what would you do about it?

Granted, from what I know of Blizzard these days I'd trust them about as far as I could throw them to do that well, but then again, same goes for modern Rare, so it's a bit even there...

[demilypyro]

gameoverse seems fun enough. but the cynical feminist in me can't help herself. all the male characters are like, cartoon blobs, which is contrasted strongly by the two major female characters in this pilot, both of whom are hour-glass shaped humanoid women who spend most of their screentime in swimsuits. and like that's not an outright dealbreaker but i *am* staring into the camera with my eyebrows raised.

[demilypyro]

idk i'm getting really tired of this "connecticut clark and malfina" type shit where male characters get to be Silly Abstract Little Guys but women have to be women shaped. it's this male-as-default thing that i hate where you don't need to add anything to a character design to imply male-ness but the woman better have wide hips and booba or else yknow like idk it's not outright Offensive but it is tiring

[titleknown]

To yes-and, also like, the solution is so obvious, just make more of the silly abstract weirdos female!

Like, there's no reason the goofier designs have to be dudes, that stuff is nonspecific, and I don't really think anyone'd mind if; say; Flappers or Kaboodle or even Fold were female, just change the voice actors and they'd probably work!

And if that means most of the cast is female, so be it! That's a neat thing, no reason it can't be a Thing in a show!

[lumierebelge]

[titleknown]

How My Kaijune Kaiju Would Fit in on Quazies' Version of Monster Island!

Because Kaijune's coming up (Hopefully on-time and not as Kaijuly) and hypothetical crossovers are a great way to get one's work out there and also I think @quazies' Monster Island-based shorts are very good and it's fun to imagine things.

Presumably Virgin Killer would've found her surviving child H&H and would be very protective to the point of being a bit of a hellicopter mom. This would be troublesome given that H&H is rambunctious, adventurous, and other words for "comically prone to putting themselves in potentially fatal situations." H&H's kind of a Luffy-figure (Albeit with slightly more brain cells) to the other young kaiju on the island, helped by them being slightly older.

You know those trembly little yip-yip dogs that have that vest with NERVOUS written on it as a warning? Yeah that's Baba O'Reily as a burrowing kaiju. Baragon likes him but he's terrified of Baragon.

Holy Diver would be a disciplined, thoughtful sort, usually meditating and training. They would probably eat any cigarettes they find there.

For Mr Brightside, think the Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight from The Tick but as a giant lightning dinosaur. Nobody really has any idea why he's doing his deranged lightning shenanigans, not even himself.

Neon Tyger is in an awkward spot given she's human-sized most of the time. She tries to be the voice of reason in disputes, given that she's driven to help, which half the time does work. But the other times, things tend to... escalate. She is good buddies with Jet Jaguar tho!

Lumpy Gravy IS NOT ALLOWED ON THE ISLAND. Neither is Black Hole Sun.

Space Oddity is sort of regarded as "delusional but harmless." given he still perpetually thinks he's exploring an alien planet at normal size. He's one of the few that gives Biolante the time of day, mistaking her for an astronaut companion of his who's probably dead, which leaves her with... conflicted feelings. Gigan likes to mess with him by playing up his "Evil alien" thing, which usually ends with Looney Tunes-type shenanigans and rivalry, but there was one time he went a bit too far...

Canojaharie is basically a sweet old grandpa who tells the baby kaiju stories of older days. Granted, the stories do end up a bit... dark, but kids do love that sort of thing! Oddly enough, Hedorah really likes his work, though her attempts at listening in have been... awkward.

In that monster Island, I'd imagine that Mothra would have... mostly stabilized Invisible Touch's condition via nature powers, but there'd still be some filtered mutations that "leak" creating a zone of weird and unsettling wildlife, and she's still terrified of being abandoned. Though, not enough to say yes to Destroyah's continual, unwanted advances, which she usually responds to with "Woe, angry crabwhales be upon ye" and such. Biolante is good friends with her tho.

St Anger IS NOT ALLOWED ON THE ISLAND. A later incarnation of Maria would definitely be (but that's a spoiler) but the clones The Reverend makes of her would not be allowed, and the reverend himself would definitely not be allowed. If the Reverend did go on the island they'd probably get their head bitten off, and they would deserve it.

Teo Toriatte is basically spaced out and oblivious to most events 80 percent of the time, but terrifyingly good at things when she locks the fuck in. Which multiple antagonistic kaiju like Gigan have found out via the latter stage of "Fuck Around and Find Out"

The Crimson King IS NOT ALLOWED ON THE ISLAND, for the same reason you never allow the Nazi into the bar. But if someone... well okay, if Gigan and Megalon were stupid enough to try and visit the baddest kaiju too scary for the island" they'd find him both unbearably stodgy and Judge Holden-type horrifying, same energy as just the worst dinner with your abusive hard-Racist Republican parents ever.

The Black Queen is tolerated on the island, but barely. She's somehow very good at seducing the male antagonistic kaiju with her whiles and charisma. She uses this mostly to scam them for free food and gifts.

Blind Guardian still sits Hachiko-style over the crystallized remains of her nest that somehow got transferred there, with the human professor from that story just kinda vibing. She's got a Thing going with fellow-widow/widower Rodan, tho nobody's sure what kind of Thing it is.

Subway Sue tends to be a caretaker of the kids of the island filling in for Mothra on occasion, and she's a bit of a "cool aunt" type who takes them on adventures... tho those can get kinda out of hand. She does have a friendship going with Baragon, who's helped her out on a few occasions (even though on the first meeting she did have to "persuade" him not to eat the humans under her care)

I will note that all these concepts/designs of my Kaijune kaiju (Who you can learn more about past the links!) are available under a CC-BY 4.0 license, as long as I, Thomas F Johnson, am credited as their creator, so anyone can basically use them for anything!

[euphythefox]

King of all Nightmares

[titleknown]

Hot Take: The idea that "fiction doesn't affect reality" is just a convenient fiction because it's too difficult to explain to normies the fact that even though fiction does affect reality in aggregate, the state should not have the authority to fuck with it.

Of course, this has lead to the unfortunate problem that if you do say that fiction does, in fact, affect reality in aggregate, a fact obvious to those with eyes, you end up being called a potential tool for state (or state-like entity) censorship.

And that kinda turbo-sucks...

[titleknown]

Like, while I find that reflexive fear of acknowledging the effects of speech annoying to dangerous, I can get why people are so afraid of that.

Because every time we have people thinking about the impacts of speech, a lot of otherwise progressive people think that "Well, we'll just avoid the fuckups of all the other times the state tried to control speech"

And every time it fucking sucks, helps nothing and hurts a lot of people.

Like, Britain's currently tripping over its own spotted dick with the Online Scan-Your-Fucking-Face-To-Use-The-Internet Act, but even before that we had shit like "Video Nasties" being censored without the censors even watching them or all depictions of nunchucks being banned because one asshole had a bug up his ass about it (I am not making this up)

For a more extreme example, the Germans were so afraid of Nazi symbolism that they prohibited it in games where the whole point was to fill the Nazis with lead, and yet that didn't do shit for the current Nazi Party 2 that's apparently doing gangbusters in their elections because fear of immigrants makes white people stupid.

The state is too damn big to handle something as fiddly and low-level as speech is my point.

In fact, the more I think on this subject the more I think the matter of regulating speech is a matter of scale, and the trouble is we are terrible at figuring out rules for doing that except at the extremes.

Like, we all know we gotta defend the Video Nasties in court, and we all know we gotta throw the NAMBLA-Nazi out of the bar, but we have no fucking idea what to do about the shit in-between and this stupid polarization keeps us from doing that...