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Stuff I find interesting or funny or though-provoking. She/her

[pangur-and-grim]

I was worried last weekend, because I thought the dog might stress Belphie out. turns out.......I had it the wrong way around.

[murdershegoat]

i’d like to draw everyone’s attention to this portrait of a dog that’s in bella swans bedroom

[kvitoya-deactivated20210415]

i’d like to remind everyone that this dog portrait also appears in the music video for chandelier

[twilightisgaynow]

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

This is an art piece by Rick Gibson, and yes, it works.

It was placed in different nightclubs for a total of three days, and over 1,200 people decided to pay to use it

[hollowedskin]

Me trying to say something to my partner about some cool fanart I just saw on my dash.

Him: back up back up, what the FUCK is Mouse Effect.

[lizardsexposed]

[hollowedskin]

Lizardsex I love you...

The burning question of course is whether everyone is mice, or just the humans. Like are the salarians little frogs or is it Mice and Mice With Blue Tentacles???

[lizardsexposed]

sorry im absolutely too floored by the fact you just called me 'lizardsex' to give you an answer

[hollowedskin]

... I see now your name is probably Lizards Exposed and not in fact Lizard Sex Posed.

[dwarf-scum]

This exact phenomenon is why there’s now a hyphen in my url.

[hoodiesnightmares]

“You’re so quiet” thanks every time I’ve tried to enter this conversation you’ve just flat out fucking ignored me

[hoodiesnightmares]

People in the notes are mentioning not knowing when breaks in the conversation are and I get that (god do I get that) but this post was specifically inspired by the evil ass phenomenon of “I was not interrupted, I added something and no one acknowledged it in any way, be it by the conversation completely stopping there or by them picking it up where they left off like I didn’t say shit.” Like okay what did I do wrong can someone tell me I didn’t mean to kill the vibe here

[lostxanadu]

the thing about being bullied for being weird as a kid is that even if you've always embraced being weird your brain is still always looking for the line where it's too much. you can be as proudly and intentionally weird as you want and you can love being weird but your mind is still convinced there's a point where you get too weird and people start treating you like a weird looking bug again. also it feels like you reach that point 500 times a day even if everyone you've spoken to today found you pleasant and likable and even if you're completely alone in your house with nobody looking at you at all.

[skrytch]

@demilypyro

[charlesoberonn]

We need more scary infinite variants of manmade environments like the Infinite IKEA or the Backrooms.

May I suggest, The Lot:

[charlesoberonn]

I'm sorry to disappoint you but this is a real parking lot. I didn't edit it.

[charlesoberonn]

Check out the lot-to-building ratio in any large American sports stadium

[toawk]

Some lots are so big they have bus services specifially inside it. The lots are broken into sections and buses go around to their sections at a set amount of times before the start of something and drive people to the main building.

[charlesoberonn]

The societies of lost people inside The Lot would probably operate something like that to locate and pick up new arrivals and bring them over to one of the major settlements.

[charlesoberonn]

In the Infinite Ikea or Backrooms you can convince yourself there's gonna be a door round the next corner or behind that wall.

But despite it being completely open, there is no hope of escape from The Lot. Whereever you look it's just more cars from horizon to horizon.

[bonediggercharleston]

Sheesh, man, that's

a lot

[kawareo]

Shoutout to my favorite shot of the whole game

just the straight cut to him making the most evil face he possibly could in that moment god what a guy

[bonemanprovisionco]

Wyll often falls into a pattern of black and white thinking where the sentient beings of Faerun can be sorted into one of two basic categories: monster (bad) and person (good). Monsters are acceptable to kill and in some cases, their death is morally necessary. People on the other hand, may be flawed but are ultimately valuable beings worth protecting at all costs (at least, at all cost to Very Heroic Wyll). This is a theme bg3 plays with more generally. We see it in the discourse around Astarion (“Can a vampire demonstrate empathy?” “Can a vampire love?”) as well as Minsc (“if minsc can be evil, and Nine Fingers Keene can be good… what then?”). Many more such examples!

Ulder Ravengard thinks in a similar way, and we have to imagine that Wyll learned much of this thought patterning from him. What’s so interesting about Wyll’s story in particular is that he must bear the repercussions of his father’s moral categorizing. When Wyll takes Mizora’s deal, he gets shunted straight into his father’s Bad Category. In Wyll’s own words, “He thought I was a fool or a traitor, and Duke Ravengard suffers neither.” Notice it’s “Duke Ravengard” and not “My Father”, but I can’t explore that rn.

Though Wyll gets redeemed in his father’s eyes depending on the players choices, we fall short of seeing Ulder acknowledge that his way of looking at the world is fundamentally cruel. Instead of fully confronting that the world is complex, Ulder simply shifts Wyll back into the Good Category. Wyll is reframed as Good, and thus worthy of love again. Nothing has really ontologically changed for Ulder Ravengard. Love from Ulder Ravengard was conditional and remains conditional.

What I find compelling and relatable in Wyll is that he wants to be Good. And not only that, he wants the people he loves to think he is Good, too. Though Wyll can read as very confident and generally happy on the surface, there’s an undercurrent that doesn’t get totally probed in the writing: if I am not Good, then what is left?

[aliny-ssuu]

[okthisway]

as you say, Blade of Frontiers

[ztudiolaire]

Do you think vampires yawn like lions

[mistercrowbar]

I see all the cute hellspawn art with Astarion cuddling on top of Karlach but consider: she deserves to cuddle on top sometimes too

[ujustlostthegame]

i’d probably be more sympathetic to Cazador and understand the people who are like “he was a victim too!!!” if it weren’t for the fact that forcing the spawn to have sex with his victims is a completely unnecessary step in the plan.

like, i can understand he wants the power of the ritual, i can understand that the spawn are pawns that he’s using to gather victims because it’s faster than luring people in on his own, i understand Vellioth abused him, Vellioth’s master abused Vellioth, going back generations. i even sort of can kind of understand Cazador wanting to hurt the spawn because they remind him of himself or whatever. i can understand all of that. (understand from a psychological viewpoint and the cycle of abuse, i do not at all believe that his actions and the choices he repeatedly made were condonable or excusable)

but the levels of sexual torture that the spawn underwent was completely unnecessary.

he could have even had them lure his victims back to the palace under the guise of having sex, and then just taken them before that happened.

but he didn’t do that. he forced the spawn to objectify and humiliate themselves for absolutely no reason, other than cruelty.

like, when you are exploring the palace, Astarion points out the room where he would “entertain the guests”. meaning, they’re already there, in the palace, able to be taken at any time. there’s absolutely no reason that the spawn siblings need to be involved beyond “get them into this room”. but that’s not how it went.

as boo hoo poor me womp womp sad Cazador’s thoughts are when you use Detect Thoughts on him are, he still very much chose to force the spawn to have sex with people they did not want to have sex with, nearly every night, for centuries.

that alone is why i will never be sympathetic towards him. the ritual could 100% have been completed without that aspect, and he chose do do that anyway.

fuck cazador, you’ll never convince me that he’s a sympathetic villain, you’ll never convince me to feel bad for him, i’ll always relish in watching Astarion, his most hated spawn, stab him to death while he grovels on his knees.

[fangs4faggots]

i think we should start openly mocking male creatives who can't figure out how to write women. like actually i think it's embarrassing that it took elliot page transitioning for christopher nolan to give him a good role. why did it take like ten years to get the first female lead in a marvel movie? why is it a Known Fact that stephen king can't write women? why is 50% of the population omitted from large ensemble works? i asked my friend to name a movie directed by a man with a majority female cast and he said ghostbusters 2016. ghostbusters. ghostbusters. g

[amarits]

Elliot Page also starred in Inception before transitioning, and from what I’ve heard is in The Odyssey for less than five minutes, so that’s a really weird example to use. Like, I don’t disagree with the overall point, but why is that the first example? Kind of feels more like criticizing Nolan for hiring a trans actor than actually being about men not able to write women.

[fvckw4d]

Elliot Page is such a good example of how when trans men transition people automatically read privilege into their experiences—them specfically, in a way that singles them out among the sea of cis men they are surrounded with living their lives uncontroversially—when all evidence suggests they are actually experiencing the exact opposite of that. Elliot Page has gotten nothing but hate and scrutinity from the general public and the media and his career has taken some serious damage since coming out.

[skipppppy]

Astarion eye colour debates doing the rounds again on twitter

[thesummoningdark]

The last week has been so ridiculous even the satirists can’t take it any more

[the-stray-liger]

the fucking timestamp

[thesummoningdark]

Happy tenth birthday to this post which will apparently haunt my notifications for all eternity.

It’s about Brexit, by the way. The timestamp is a week post-referendum. Newsthump is UK-based and I myself am scottish. And yes, things have 100% got worse since then, but personally I regard the referendum as the point at which we entered the Clownshoes Timeline.