the snackpilled gavvmaxxer...

currently conspiring with the court eunuchs and concubines to make the emperor lose the mandate of heaven likes karate bugmen, the good fire emblem games (the ones I like), competitive pokemon, cooking and anthropology (len, he/him, 23,♾️🕎, free 🇵🇸)

[gravityjunior]

Starting a collection

[gravityjunior]

Starting a collection

[egophiliac]

watch out, there's a new zany cat-n-mouse duo about to drop 🧀

[knucklecurve]

filthy, filthy read

[fallout-lou-begas]

something that i find interesting about independent animation nowadays is that if you don't have studio/streamer backing, you have to release your work yourself on the internet, but you have to do it for free on the internet because virtually nobody is going to be willing to accept a paywall just for one original show, so what you have to do in order to make any money off of it is make all of your money from merchandising, but then this means that you show must be merchandisable and have very toyetic character designs that translate easily to plushies and whatnot, but then you also need to cater your show to people who are disproportionately inclined to buy merchandise like that in the first place so that your sales can be enough to sustain you, which means that even if you want to communicate complex or difficult ideas in your work, your independent animation project must attract (at least on a first impression) and retain viewers who are both very consumerist and very capable of rabid passion, which unfortunately has a single-circle shaped venn diagram with a lot of the most toxic fandom tendencies known to man, and this explains a lot of things about independent animation and its fandoms nowadays I think

[fallout-lou-begas]

why, i haven't the foggiest notion of what you're talking about

[fallout-lou-begas]

As some others have pointed out, what i'm describing here is that the order of operations has somewhat reversed here -- instead of making a cartoon as an intentional advertisement to sell toys (G.I. Joe and Masters of the Universe were literally owned by toy companies Hasbro and Mattrel), independent animators have to rely on merchandise sales in order to sustainably fund their cartoon at all. This has observable effects on how shows that may want to convey mature themes and serious subject matter have to kneecap themselves conceptually by still appealing to people predisposed to buy merchandise (children and the most consumerist parts of fandom), otherwise the project just isn't financially viable. It also results, at least in my view, in jarring tonal clashes between either character design and subject matter or between the show itself and the aggressive merchandising of it -- people have repeatedly brought up Knights of Guinevere talking out of both sides of its mouth on consumerism for example, and also grieved the somber, breathtaking sci-fi show Scavenger's Reign which is just not a merchandisable product in terms of tone or character design. Some stories, especially ones that aren't trying to be light-hearted or wacky in any way, just aren't toyetic in concept or execution, but that means those stories are going to be borderline impossible to get in front of an audience large enough to sustain its creation if you don't have studio backing (like Scavenger's Reign did when its original short was originally created with [adult swim] backing and then spun into a full series for HBO Max -- and that still wasn't enough to get them the second season that they had planned!!)

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

For anybody not caught up: Tennessee just passed a new map that pretty much makes it so black neighborhoods have no power in local votes. Two things about this. While protestors were chanting "No Jim Crow", white Tennessee lawmakers were caught laughing on video. On top of this, Representative Justin Pearson and his brother KeShaun Pearson were arrested for trying to give their takes on the matter (which is not only their legal right but literally his job). If you give a shit about black people, help fight this. We can't allow a return to Jim Crow.

[loreleywrites]

im always saying this

[curioscurio]

little german boy revisits the cave of blüntsmoken! Happy 4/20 ;)

[victusinveritas]

Peter Brookes, London Times.

[naradreamscape]

Tonight on “YouTube Poop scenes that have lived in my head for a decade”

[gooeykit]

Merry jizz on the wall Wednesday

[wizarde-van]

i have a friend who keeps sending me this fuckass image of an ai-generated sudowoodo with human feet and the most disconcerting expression i've ever seen where does he find this shit dawg

[wizarde-van]

i deleted all my other socials ages ago and now i'm completely out of touch. who is this man why is he everywhere

[merchantarthurn]

happy april foold everyone did you know about………………… bofa

[merchantarthurn]

haha… bofa them 

[june-egbert-official]

it's almost the mira bellweather national "buy a trans woman a pizza" day! march 31st!!

if you want to buy me a pizza, here's my info!

paypal.me/classypay

$junedelphox for cashapp.

posting this early so tme people who want to help have a chance to consider how they can/will help

context: mira bellweather is the author of fucking trans women, and an activist for transfeminism and sex education for and about trans women. she passed away tragically in 2022 from lung cancer. and as dour as it is to say, many of us are not afforded the luxury of growing to see 40 OR dying of something other than violence (including homelessness and such as violence, of course)

march 31st is her birthday, and has been declared by her friends, family, and supporters as "buy a trans woman a pizza" day. she was a disabled trans woman who did so much for this community and it would mean a lot if allies of all stripes and walks of life would participate and buy us a pizza.

you wanna reblog "love every trans woman before it's too late"? this is your genuine opportunity. many of us don't get to die of old age or illness. we're killed by much crueler circumstances, so take this opportunity to find a trans woman to give some money to so she can buy herself a pizza, and let her know you love her. especially lately, with so many of us getting run off this website, some tangible support would be much appreciated.

[pjackk]

I jerked loads to you

[warpstaffs]

pjackk got banned because he was caught operating a mustard gravy puppygirl kill shelter #truth

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

[kimyoonmiauthor]

US Book ban on LGBTQIA books

The Nationwide Book Ban Bill Moves to the House: How to Take Action Now

The nationwide book ban bill, HR 7661, has progressed out of committee and into the House. Here's what you need to know to take action.

At least hit the shiny repost button if you're going to do nothing else. This should not stand.

Stop the bill dead in its tracks. LGBTQIA people have a right to be represented in books.