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[wordcubed]

Do you think in the toy story universe the sex toys are also alive? Do you think they have opinions on the matter

No, because the Toy Story universe was made by Disney, so sex toys don't exist there. For that matter, sex doesn't exist in Toy Story. Much like Pokemon, two adults stand next to each until a baby spontaneously appears.

A less Doyleist take is that, in Toy Story, only those objects subjected to children's imagination, effort, and affection (however twisted it may be, like with Sid from the first film) become alive. A sex toy wouldn't be conscious in Toy Story anymore than a crystal or wooden tchotchke in your parent's shadowbox would be.

[not-afraid-of-laplaces-demon]

Point of order: if my girlfriend spends 3 hours using her dildo shaped like Johnny Sin's cock imagining she's being railed by Hugh Jackman in a tasteful little just-too-tight sweater after I fail to please her for the 6th time that month, would that not fulfill the requirements listed above?

[wordcubed]

If an adult digs a hole with a shovel, and fantasizes about digging a great big hole while doing so, does that make the shovel a toy? I would say no. The shovel is not a "toy", it's merely an instrument to accomplish a task outside of pure play.

In the case of sex toys, the sex toy is purely instrumental for masturbation. By your reasoning, a pickup truck could be a "toy" and would be conscious in the Toy Story universe, provided whoever's driving it has strong enough fantasies.

Now, where things get interesting is if a child discovers a sex toy and (being unaware of its intended use) uses it as a tower or space ship while playing. Perhaps then the sex toy would become conscious.

[not-afraid-of-laplaces-demon]

a pickup truck could be a "toy" and would be conscious in the Toy Story universe

Bitch, have you seen Cars?

[wordcubed]

Entirely different movie franchises.

"Ugh, of course Galadriel from Lord of the Rings uses a wand. Everybody has one. Haven't you seen Harry Potter?" <- What you just said to me.

[regexkind]

We and all our works are the playthings of the gods, so it is without question that sex toys in the toy story universe would be conscious

[wordcubed]

The landfill is filled with the tormented screaming minds of millions of pet rocks.

[willabee]

observing popcorn

[thats-a-cat]

that's a cat ✅️

[allegedly-human]

nothing is more tumblr than having a tumblr sexyman wiki and then warn you to not find some of those men sexy because it's problematic

[sofiakkuma]

deku kabedon !

[andmaybegayer]

going on porn sites and suggesting that they add a "white" tag to all the videos with white people

[phaeton-flier]

[artbyblastweave]

What are some especially creative uses of 'minor' powers in cape comics and fiction that you've seen, especially the ones where it's not just the writer putting a thumb on the scale to advance/stall the plot?

My personal favorite remains Martha Sullivan from Astro City, a telekinetic who opted out of the cops and robbers game as a teenager upon realizing she had no stomach for violence and instead went into filmmaking, using her telekinesis to do the highest-fidelity-possible version of Harryhausen-style puppetery, classic-lucasfilm model spaceships and wireless wirework.

Despite his being embedded in a fundamentally hamfisted, mid-at-most-charitable comic, I've always been fond of the concept underlying Mr. Brownstone, a two-shot Spider-Man villain whose power is the ability to teleport small amounts of liquid; he uses this almost exclusively to teleport heroin into people's bloodstreams, either as a delivery method for wealthy clients who want to avoid needle marks or as an assassination technique.

Speaking of Spider-Man, and as a big fan of slapstick comedy, I'm fond of when the writers periodically remember that there's no rule that he can't use the super-adhesion power he uses to stick to walls to form a basically unbreakable grip on things other than walls, such as people's faces

The legion of superheroes has periodically been used for this, being in possession of a swarm of designated gag characters in the form of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, all of whom were introduced with powers framed as comically useless or shitty, which later writers would then retool as incredibly potent abilities when applied correctly. The LSH highlights a big recurring difficulty that I had trying to recall good examples of this, though, which is that a lot of powers that are introduced as "minor" (eat literally anything, change the color of any object in your line of sight) are in fact super useful from the word go if you aren't writing like a fucking moron; moreover, once you textually acknowledge the ways in which these would be useful, it overshadows, in the popular understanding of the character, the idea that the power was ever supposed to be minor or bad. Cypher from the X-Men was an infamous recipient of this when it was decided that "understanding all languages" included programming languages and at least a couple magic systems. He’s running a cult now. Good for him.

Ultimately that last bit of your question in particular does a lot of heavy lifting in how I assess this kind of thing; there are a lot more examples of the kind of thing you’re describing, but there aren’t many more that I actually like. Many attempts to do this kind of thing at the big two often parse as pedantic, unearned word-games, or playground-one-upmanship-style ass pulls, rather than a fair-play extrapolation from how a characters existing powers were previously shown to work; in single author works it can often feel like the author is patting themselves on the back and acting like they did something clever when what they actually did was win at shadowboxing against a power system that they set the terms of in the first place. One way in which Worm has remained in my good graces (you knew we were getting to this eventually) is that it doesn’t usually spend as much time pretending that obviously-useful powers aren’t potent on the face of it, before proceeding to come up with more niche, character-driven applications for those powers.

[artbyblastweave]

An additional element to this is that I think there's sort of an arms race with audience expectations, which I've seen you allude to a couple of times while poking around the fantasy side of things, where stuff that would have been clever when done several decades ago now comes somewhat baked into the assumptions of what a stock "minor" powerset is capable of. There was a point where a character having hydrokinesis didn't invite the question of bloodbending, but the possibility space for a hydrokinetic now pretty firmly includes bloodbending. The first time Marvel had a teleporter telefrag someone it was probably really effective but that's kind of just one of the default go-to assumptions of what teleporters can do now. The first time Sue Storm popped someones head from the inside with a forcefield it was probably really impactful, but now she does shit like that to space gods, it's just part of her tool-kit now. Ditto for intangible people phasing someone's heart out of their chest, ditto for aerokinetics pulling the air out of someone's lungs, ditto for basically every kind of whateverkinesis you can conjugate. The targets move.

[watasnak]

what the fuck are my mutuals doing

[aflo]

Settlers of catan

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Sam Handwich.

[sufficientlylargen]

If Pikiwedia says it it must be true.

[zooperdoopers]

I made Pikiwedia real. Works for any Wikipedia page. Use this wisely :)‌

[sufficientlylargen]

Oh, wary dell vone

[zooperdoopers]

Goodmorning to the Anthropic Claude AI training scraper that suddenly decided to request 660 thousand pages (exactly the number I had remaining on the starter plan) and brought Pikiwedia down. 

Sudden switch from diverse user agents like chrome, safari, messenger preview to Just Claudebot. I'm not even mad though, this is maybe the funniest thing possible, because I've inadvertently poisoned their training data with thousands of fucked up articles with normal urls. 

Pikiwedia perseveres, back up with a better robots.txt. I hope Anthropic has a gery vood time with Pikiwedia's data :))

[girlballs]

Image to send to your girlmutuals.

[girlballs]

[girlballs]

[randomminty]

My one hundred bandori sketches attack

[ahedderick]

This is the most beautiful scientific diagram I've ever seen.

Also a great example of why pink is a tint of red, but also a completely different color. Erbium? Neodymium? So beautiful.

[ms-demeanor]

FYI Neodymium glass (aka Alexandrite glass to collectors) appears different colors under different lights:

This image is from a great writeup of why that happens on the Jennii Neutron blog.

[ms-demeanor]

Oh and of course Uranium, Selenium, Manganese, and Cadmium all fluoresce under black light.

[ms-demeanor]

None of these are poisonous to drink from or meaningfully radioactive, btw, but they will leech heavy metals into things stored in them the way that leaded crystal will.

[screenshotsofdespair]

[ot3]

looking for animal references on image searches has always kind of sucked but it's much worse after AI image generation technology has begun to actually past muster, which is why i always just go straight to inaturalist. can't recommend this highly enough. you get to both find out about niche species you've never even heard of and also see some really good photographs like this one

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[parkchanwoohoo]

I saw a post on a terf blog before I blocked it from someone being like "Ummm is anybody else really concerned about the rise of antisocial kinks like pissing" and it made me laugh so hard I almost did a little antisocial kink myself

[seventytwoowls]

[bynine]

[giucomix]

Shinji Ikari in RGU: Very conflicted. Pretty likely to treat Anthy like Rei and wanting to protect her just like Utena does, but by projecting his mom on her, so closer to Miki. However since he's a boy, Akio wouldn't manipulate him as he does Utena, but as he does Touga and Saionji. His self-esteem issues would make him the perfect target, as the affirmation of the patriarchy also offers a path to accepting "It's ok for me to be here". Unlikely to break the cycle and save Anthy, most likely to end up as just another abusive Duelist (and not a particularly good one).

Utena in NGE: Although she has no connection to the EVA's soul she can still pilot it intuitively thanks to her basketball skills

[musashi]

Hey can you guys reblog Cheeseburger so he can take a sunbeam nap on lots of blogs. No other reason I just want you guys to see him.

[musashi]

So, Cheeseburger died on November 21st after an unfairly short battle with an unfairly rare cancer that is rarely seen in cats. I only got to spend a month with him after his diagnosis, and losing him has been the greatest heartbreak of my entire life so far. He was my best friend and my soul cat, and he was there for me when I was completely alone, for twelve long years.

I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.

I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.

Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.

Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.