Knick Knacks

I just came here to follow artists, but discourse caught me in its claws.

[self-loving-vampire]

You love thick dragon tails.

[self-loving-vampire]

Arknights is the Senran Kagura of tail thickness and is giving you all unrealistic expectations.

[self-loving-vampire]

You love thick dragon tails.

[atamascolily]

My premiere for @worldwideslash 2026! This is a fan trailer for Thunderbolt Fantasy season 4 using the Bryce Miller and Alloy Tracks remix of "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" by Journey, which is fitting for an arc that pulls the cast in so many different directions. "How do I tell a coherent story using half a dozen lines of canon dialogue while showcasing my favorite moments?" was a fun vidding challenge.

Content warnings: Quick cuts, flashing, lights, blood, puppet violence, S3 spoilers.

For some reason, YouTube tends to obscure the embedded subtitles in thumbnail mode so I recommend full screen for this if possible.

[toskarin]

wizards of the coast is really innovating if you're into apocalyptically incestuous cultural sludge, digested and regurgitated to only barest recognisability for viable producteering

[toskarin]

finally, product for people who enjoy a recognisable trace of a bit of ghibli key animation to convey the idea of studying to non-intrusive homogenous music passively

[jjs-sweet-brain-eating-parasite]

[xenomutt]

Poor Dara never gets any respect for the right things. She wants to do things properly and be creepy!

[iero]

T-shirt that says "I'M SORRY FOR THE PERSON I BECOME WHEN I'M OVERHEATED"

[st-just]

We hold all Earth to plunder -    All Time and Space as well - Too wonder-stale to wonder    At each new miracle; Till in the mid-illusion    Of Godhood ‘neath our hand, Falls multiple confusion    On all we did or planned -        The mighty works we planned.

We only in Creation    (How much luckier bridge and rail!) Abide the twin-damnation -    To fail and know we fail. Yet we - by which sole token    We know we once were Gods - Take shame in being broken    However great the odds -        The Burden or the Odds.

Oh, veiled and secret Power    Whose paths we seek in vain, Be with us in our hour    Of overthrow and pain; That we - by which sure token    We know Thy ways are true - In spite of being broken,    Because of being broken,        May rise and build anew.        Stand up and build anew!

[jjs-sweet-brain-eating-parasite]

[jjs-sweet-brain-eating-parasite]

[moiyablochki]

[strawberry-crocodile]

Pokemon has never had a generation where all three starter pokemon are mammals. Two generations- gens 1 and 3- have had zero mammals, and from gens 5-8 there've been two mammals to pick from, but none have had three mammals. I think this is an important part of the franchise's brand.

[strawberry-crocodile]

Back when gen 8 got leaked someone pointed out that you can generally tell a real GameFreak Pokedex from a fakemon dex by the amount of "ugly" pokemon and the number of invertebrates and inanimate objects, and I think there's a similar thing going on here- Pokemon genuinely makes an effort to make its monsters varied.

The last 15ish years have seen so much ink spilled on the Vanillish line, on gen 1 designs, etc etc, but I think it bears repeating how easy it is for a Mons game to stick to charismatic animals like mammals and birds and dinosaurs and pets. And pokemon does have that (we have, what, six cat lines? more if you count regional meowths) but it also makes sure to add, like. A crinoid. A bagworm. A bell. Creepy humanoid mushrooms, a sand castle, a big iceberg.

Something would be lost if every single pokemon was as cool as Haxorus or as cute as Snom or as furrybait as Goodra. Pokemon succeeds because it lets you be best friends with shit that's just weird.

[strawberry-crocodile]

"ohhh op is telling on herself for calling goodra furrybait" idk maybe you're telling on yourself for how you have no furry friends. do better.

[goldcanillust]

Luggage PC

[a-tiddy-ninja]

「キメラ」 by 熊野プラン | Twitter

๑ Reposted with permission from the artist ✔.

[xenomutt]

Very cute insect girls by this artist, also.

[the-professional-despiser]

[xenomutt]

Absolutely shocked that this was not made for planefuckers.

[miiilowo]

having feelings that contradict your morals is soooo fucking annnoooooyyyiiingggggg. can the emotions and logic department get on the same page im tired of having to like strangle myself into being a tolerable person

[trans4trains]

[prudencepaccard]

since I can’t immediately find anyone saying this in the notes, the term is “homo duplex”

[ntrider]

girl convincing me to do "hero play" in bed where she is in some kind of mortal danger and I step in to save her, except I'm not sure why but she gets really mad when it's my time to leave her even though she is already safe from harm and I have other people to help

[ntrider]

finally understood what she meant by "play" but the problem is her roommate keeps whispering "help!" from the other side of the apartment and I can't just ignore that in character or otherwise

[flakmaniak]

Then there was the time she was tied to the railroad tracks but, well... Five people were tied to the other track! What were you to do?

[ivanaskye]

guys what video game should I play nexxxxtt

current considerations are:

Subnautica Below Zero - pros include that I greatly enjoyed the first game. cons include that the first game glitched in a way that completely locked my save out of finishing the plot, and I'm wary the second game might have similar issues.

Pathologic 2 - after some degree of research determined that this is a more natural place to start the series than 1, because video game numbering is an exercise in insanity. otoh, I think... a challenging game, right? and I'm like kind of a little bit in burnout. so maybe the wrong time.

Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild???? I've somehow never played this but 50% of games released since are based on it, right? does it still hold up. this is the one I most want to crowdsource opinions on. could be a good burnout game? does it hold up? I have never played a singular zelda in my life.

uh also feel free to recommend other stuff

[xenomutt]

In (sorta) defense of Below Zero, the story kept getting reworked, and the final narrative that shipped does not hang together very well. Each bit of writing may as well be independent of the rest, and the player invents themes and motifs to fill in the gaps. For example, while the replies mention the "horror at having a cool alien bro in your brain" element, I did not perceive that. I got "anthropologist turns out to be a human supremacist when confronted with aliens," that somehow becomes "two best friends against the world" without any development.

Mechanically, it is a wonderful extra serving of Subnautica gameplay. The creature and environment design is amazing. There are many pleasant quality of life tweaks, also.