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[raviposting]

SNL saw people saying we shouldn’t joke about Trump right now and said, “Noted. Here’s 10 different Trump COVID jokes,” and I truly love that for them.

[voltagegoat]

the god damn millipede gods have delivered a millipede unto me

i was looking at keeping millipedes as pets and i thought it would be really cool but i didn’t think i would be able to do it cuz... idk i didn’t want my parents asking questions i guess? regardless it’s 3:30 am and i’m pacing in my room, cuz ya know what else do you do at 3:30 am, and i see what appears to be a little inch worm on my floor. but it’s not wiggling at all? it’s just gliding across the floor. so i get down to look at it and it’s a little baby millipede! needless to say i lost my shit. i scooped it up onto a little piece of paper, grabbed some substrate from my snakes enclosure, and put it in a little tupperware container! this morning i went out and got some oak leaves to mix into the substrate for food!

and i’m just, so happy? the little millipede isn’t even an inch long but i’m pretty sure it’s a giant american millipede baby so it should get 4 inches long and a lot fatter. right now it just sorta looks like a brown inch worm lol

(if i had a working phone i would’ve taken a picture of it last night but alas soon i’ll be getting a new one)

[headspace-hotel]

It has happened.

I have purchased Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus

Will provide updates

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IT’S HERE

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I’m going to start it pretty soon. I’m for some reason locked out of my student account and email and IT was no help as usual, so what is there to do except read a parody romance novel written specifically to spite J.K. Rowling?

Chuck Tingle has more or less become a meme because of his bizarre titles and covers and because of the Hugo fiasco, but I’ve heard relatively little about what it’s like to actually read his work and I frankly have no idea what to expect or if I should go into this with expectations at all

[headspace-hotel]

This book is...surprisingly easy to take seriously as a book. I don’t know what I’m trying to say. But it’s like. A Book and not just an extended joke. Like on some level it’s not particularly terribly written nor does the plot like, completely exist in service to the...whatever humor is derived from the self-aware absurdity of the premise

[headspace-hotel]

AFSGFBCHH??

I love that he’s not even described as a humanoid dinosaur. He’s just sexy goth tattooed Severus snape and he’s also a parasaurolophus and we are left to just figure it out

[headspace-hotel]

I have to talk about what is going on with the worldbuilding. Like this is a parody. Of Harry Potter. But there’s an entirely different magic system and....everything???

In summary

there doesn’t appear to be a statute of secrecy type thing magic is just fully integrated with the modern world and modern technology

Harriet is a wizard, but that means that she creates spells by typing them out in long manuscripts, which on one level is a nod to the book publishing industry but on another level is kind of interesting in of itself

there’s a??? spellcasting industry??

there are different types of magic users other than wizards, and they appear to be based on the d&d classes

or at least, bards exist and they are distinct from wizard

the dinosaur is a bard

Bigfeet exist and they are integrated with modern society

there are sentient motorcycles and no one finds this in any way unusual

THE DINOSAUR IS A BARD?!?!?!

[headspace-hotel]

...Warlocks in this world get their powers from a pact with Chuck Tingle

[headspace-hotel]

The fourth wall break is killing me.

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The sexy dinosaur is also trans

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As much as I love skillfully crafted satire that takes deft jabs at the flaws of the thing it’s lampooning, there’s also something charming about how every character in this book has a name blatantly and hilariously derived from a Harry Potter character regardless of how most of their roles in the story barely resemble anything like characters in Harry Potter.

...You know, I’m not even sure Chuck Tingle has read Harry Potter.

[headspace-hotel]

I’m back to reading. Does chocolate milk have intoxicating effects on sentient motorcycles??

...sentences I never thought I’d write

[headspace-hotel]

um im lowkey getting feels from this like there are some genuinely emotionally resonant bits in here what the fuck

[headspace-hotel]

chuck tingle’s magic system is unironically better than jk Rowling’s I’m sorry

[headspace-hotel]

I’m so sorry to sample the sex scene but. “sexualis secondus” just killed me. I have been pronounced dead by this book. im obliterated this is indescribable

[headspace-hotel]

I.

I literally have no idea how to describe what I’m experiencing right now. Like this is a somewhat poorly edited parody adult dinosaur romance novel but. It’s genuinely?? Creative?? In a lot of ways???? And there’s a lot of heart to it, a lot of genuine powerful messages about identity and about art and creativity and the fourth-wall-breaking device is...I can’t explain it because that would spoil it but it’s actually pulled off so well?????

This is not like, a humorous joke story this guy did for Being a Little Shit and Spite reasons, it’s like actually in its themes and message a genuine “fuck you” to j.k. Rowling’s transphobia even though it’s this absolutely wild janky batshit story and I have never experienced anything like this in my LIFE

I did not expect my adhd little heart to be touched by understanding of my fears about creativity and writing and its place in my life. Not like this. What the fuck. What the fuck.

[headspace-hotel]

FGDHXWGBKVGSSHBIIDQTVJKBSZVYSTVJKJVBXSGHXHVN

[icescrabblerjerky]

Chuck Tingle is a gift to this world and when the time comes for him to call on his army I will be there with bells on.

[mariamlovesyou]

someone: hey you should be careful what you say on a game meant for and played by kids

5000 grown fucking adults in the notes: ACTUALLY if i wanna say weird sexual shit in public lobbies i should be ABLE to, it’s not on ME there are kids in EVERY game!!! i bought this game with my own MONEY i can be weird and gross if i want <3 ! CHILDREN should not be playing GAMES! i’m LITERALLY incapable of self control. it’s the PARENT’S job to stop children from witnessing me being a fucking freak :D

[thexfiles]

being a student right now is so fucking terrible is anyone coping

[bananatwinky]

[re-med-y]

sometimes reddit does good things

[plaguedoctormemes]

Also i dont know if you guys have ever seen medieval beekeeper garb, but:

Its the best!!!

[plaguedoctormemes]

Nope!

Woodcut from 1545! 😊 respect our basket faced cousins 😡

[glitchhologram-deactivated20230]

The Beekeepers, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568

[voltagegoat]

I’ve only been into blaseball for three days and I would kill for Magic

[antique-symbolism]

someone: so how ya been??

me:

[origami-trust]

the peanuts in blaseball are probably some kind of cool currency, I’ll just go look up what they do in the blaseball wiki….

[graciedart]

drew some blaseball today. we are all LOVE blaseball.

(cory’s text bubble says “Look at this strange rock, eiz!” cory still doesn’t know that cory is playing blaseball)

[roach-works]

a haphazard explanation of blaseball

SO YOU SAW PEOPLE FLIPPING OUT ABOUT NIGHTMARE SPORTS ON TWITTER and you’re like, okay, what the heck? 

what the heck is right. it doesn’t get less weird, but it does get more fun. 

disclaimer: im tired and don’t feel like digging up a lot of links so some of this could be somewhat inaccurate. 

BLASEBALL started a couple months ago, and it started out small. it was mostly of interest to statistics nerds and sports fans looking for something to poke at while regular baseball was cancelled. but then the ttrpg nerds found it, and some writers and game designers started noticing how interesting it was, and people started developing lore around the players, which attracted fanartists and ficcers, and now there’s a thriving discord community and an FAQ and a wiki and a score of twitter rp accounts, and the fandom is where the party’s really at, generating an astonishingly intricate meta/paranarrative in tandem with the core site. 

but what IS blaseball? how do you play? how do you even get started?

well, the mechanics of the game are, on the face of it, very simple and kind of boring. this is because it’s not a baseball simulator, it’s a sports fan simulator. the actual ‘players’ are randomly generated entities with deranged names like jessica telephone and boyfriend monreal, and (somewhat) random playing stats. however, like real life, there are no mechanisms for fans to directly affect the players as they play their games against each other. the blaseball servers run all the math, while you sit back and watch. 

the website is simple and mostly text-based. you, a splorts fan, bet on the outcome of games using coins, which can’t be bought with real world money (though if you run out you can beg the gods for a little more). there are 20 teams who play 99 games in a season, which runs from monday to friday, with playoffs on saturday. once you win enough coins, you can buy votes. 

we—the fans—vote on sunday, and this is where it gets fun: the blessings and decrees we vote for affects the rules of the games for the following season. each season has thus been significantly more deranged than the one before.  

decrees change the rules of play for everyone, while blessings confer singular advantages to players and teams. a decree might be ‘add a fifth base’, while a blessing could be ‘fireproof jacket that renders a player invulnerable to incineration by rogue umpires’.  

blessing votes work like raffle tickets, so factions of fans that all vote to get a blessing for their team gain a statistical—but not guaranteed—advantage over other voters. this is good, because some teams have way more fans than others. everyone’s been hating on the crabs lately because they had a good season a week or two ago and a lot of fans. 

however, heckling, trolling, and griefing fans of other teams is considered extremely against the spirit of blaseball, and is always shut down fast. everyone is here to have a good time, and the vast majority of fans enthusiastically adhere to ideals of good splortsmanship, collaboration, and mutual respect. we all desperately want to have a good time and get along with each other, and in my opinion we’re doing a darn good job of it. 

back to history: the first decree after the first week opened the book of forbidden knowledge, letting us see a partial set of rules for the game of blaseball. it also released rogue umpires that sometimes incinerate players during games with ‘solar eclipse’ weather. the second decree introduced peanuts, as something you could buy and eat on the website, as well as a mysterious and somewhat malevolent peanut god, the ‘lots of birds’ weather, and peanut allergies in some players. season three’s decree to grant the players interviews led to the ‘idols’ mechanism, where you could chose a player to idolize and gain coins when they scored, and a ranked idols leaderboard that has kicked off an epic saga of defiance against the blaseball gods. 

there’s a lot of lore. there’s been a lot of incinerations, peanuts shenanigans, human and taco sacrifices, and now we have a giant squid from some kind of nether dimension hanging around. season eight promises to be even crazier. 

in the end, blaseball is a horror game, by the developers’ own admission. there’s chaos and ominous portents and puzzles we’ve repeatedly failed and a hell of a lot of incinerated players. it invites fans’ attempts to gain control or even understanding, but it doesn’t make it easy. it’s about having fun in the middle of confusion and fear and loss, and about making whatever meaning we can out of the chaos. 

it’s blaseball. it’s pointless. it’s weird. it’s incredibly fun. 

come and play. 

[bisexualbaker]

November is both Trans Awareness Month and Manatee Awareness Month

Celebrate Bisexuality Week frequently overlaps with Sea Otter Awareness Week

Conclusion: Trans bi people are aquatic mammals

[mtsainthelens]

i just made a quiz :)

if you would like to know which unpopular archetype you are, feel free to check it out!

[bathroomcube]

if any of my mutuals dont use shingami eyes im begging you to PLEASE do so that ypu dont end up reblogging terf posts it makes things much easier i prommy

[bathroomcube]

if ur on mobile theres really not much u can do but its kinda like herd immunity, if enough desktop users use it and dont reblog terf posts then they wont spread nearly as far.

[soupwife]

*something minimally embarrassing happens on a light hearted tv show*

me to myself, covering my eyes with a blanket: “don’t worry baby it’s not real, it’s only actors. In real life embarrassing things don’t actually happen”