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dragon age inquisition is so big i will literally never finish this game. i will be playing this game for the rest of my life. i’m gonna be eighty years old and still hopping up the sides of mountains in redcliffe. “not now, children, grandma’s gotta gather elfroot”

narkinafive

jacfletch

FUCK narratives that force a child to forgive their shitty parent out of guilt and/or obligation!!!

fat-mabari

FUCK narratives that force anyone to forgive any kind of abuser out of guilt and/or obligation or for some bullshit higher ground and perception of Goodness™

avatrashh

Remember when Zuko shot his dad with lightning and then threw him in jail? That was a good narrative

cariocake

I'm glad the Firbolg that says stuff like "you work in the ground and your name is groundsy. There is nobility in this"

Is already just, the brains of the operations

deathwarlock

As a kid i remember being invested in the lore of the goldfish commercials.

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My nephew likes to play McDonald's, which is what you'd expect it to be. He says, "Welcome to McDonald's. How may I help you?" After you order, he says, "Okay, coming right up," and pretends to give you your food. He has another game called "Silly McDonald's," which is the same thing, except no matter what you order, he says, "Here's your cold hamburger."

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I know I'm biased, but he's a comedic genius, as far as I'm concerned.

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The last time I saw him, he said, "Let's play McDonald's," so I assumed it was regular McDonald's. But then he hit me with a cold hamburger. It was Silly McDonald's the whole time. I got played.

nyctosaurid

not 2 exaggerate but the good place’s thesis of “if the modern pressures of life were removed, we would inherently seek out opportunities to learn and become better and kinder people” is a more interesting and valuable thing to say about society than anything that’s ever been said about cell phones

retrogamingblog

Seasonal Rowlets by OzoneFruit

snowysaur

rose turtle

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schinako

Day 21

Halloween rabbits

renthony

Nobody is obligated to like Travis McElroy, but it really really bothers me how often I see criticism that is grounded in nothing more than “idk, he just feels fake.”

He has openly talked on Twitter about having an undiagnosed and heavily stigmatized personality disorder. Most people who have that disorder are terrified to talk about it because it gets them labelled as inherently untrustworthy, abusive, and manipulative, based not on their actions but solely on their neurotype.

It bothers me deeply that it’s the gender nonconforming man with a stigmatized disorder who keeps getting called “fake” and “suspicious.”

systlin

Yeah this bugs me too.

selkieonthewaves

Ok, I want to share a story about Travis McElroy and how he’s a genuinely amazing human being.

So, my little sister is a huge fan of the McElroys and the Adventure Zone. So, naturally, she was really hoping to get her comic signed by them at San Diego Comic Con. But in 2018, she got appendicitis during SDCC and missed it. She was pretty upset. Then followed an entire year of her having health problem after health problem, culminating in the fact that the only open slot for surgery to finally take care of them is going to be on the first day of SDCC 2019. Basically, she had the year from hell.

The one silver lining is that it’s an outpatient surgery, so she can attend the other 3 days of the con in a wheelchair. The only things she wants to do are to attend the two McElroy panels and go to the signing to get her comic signed. These are THE ONLY THINGS.

She goes to the first panel, and it’s all good, but then she finds out that she had to go into a lottery to get the tickets for the signing, so she’s not going to be able to go. She was devasted, I mean full-on crying. It was just the straw that broke the camel’s back on the worst year of her life.

I decided fuck that, I’m going to try to make this better. So, on Sunday I ditch my panels to go to the McElroy panel with her on Sunday. It’s not all of them, just Clint and Travis. After the panel, I asked my sister to get her comics out and we can see if we can catch one of them outside. She was like no, it’s not worth it, I don’t want to have to push through the crowds, it’s ok, she’s fine.

I knew she wasn’t ok, so I said, what if I leave you against the hallway wall, and take your comic to them, so you don’t have to get pushed through the crowds. She says, ok do it.

So I sprint towards Travis McElroy, comic in hand, and as soon I get close, words are spilling out, please it’s for my sister, she just had surgery, she came all this way in a wheelchair just to see you. But honestly, I didn’t need to say anything, he was already reaching out to sign it, going oh yeah of course.

So he hands it back to me, I thank him, and think that’s the end of it, but then he goes, wait that your sister, pointing at her. I say yes, and he takes off towards her. When I catch up, he’s greeting her, telling her how good it is to meet her, and then he asks “Can I give you a hug?”

My sister’s face lights up, and she instantly says, yes. I then whipped out my phone, and asked if I could take a picture. Travis goes oh, yeah of course, and puts an arm around her shoulders, while I take it.

After that, he had to leave, and once he did, my sister started crying again, but this time happy tears, telling me that I’m the best big sister ever. It was the best moment of the entire con for me.

So yeah, despite having never seen basically any McElroy content, I will always be a massive fan of Travis because he made that happen. He went above and beyond for a kid he didn’t even know just because he could. So actually, you should like him. You don’t have to be a fan of his work, or think he’s funny, but you should like him, because he’s an amazingly kind person, and the world needs more of that.

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if you work to stop gendering strangers, it becomes much easier to gender trans people right, cause you lose the sense of “facial hair = male” and “boobs = female” and stuff. when you see someone cute at walmart and think “dang he’s cute”, correct yourself to “dang they’re cute”, it’s a small thing but correcting yourself without feedback or backlash or anything does become habit and it increases the ease in which you can change pronouns for people who ask because you aren’t entrenched in gender binaries and stuff.

gayavatarstyle

Katara: I've done as much as I can for the lightning wound, but it's gonna leave a scar, sorry Zuko

Zuko: eh, what's another scar from a family member amirite lmao

Sokka: ...what?

Zuko: the scar on my eye? did I never tell you guys my father did that?

[Later in Ozai's cell]

screaminginternallyalleternity

#zuko: [casually reveals major trauma caused by family members]

#the gaang: '..... life changing field trip time'

#the gaang: 'it's to ozai's cell and we're all bringing knives'

crinosg

Aang: I utterly refuse to kill the Fire Lord, no matter how bad he is.

Katara: He’s the one who scarred Zuko’s face.

Aang: *Pulls out gun and cocks it* Alright lets fucking do this.

pinkbat99

Had to reblog this one too

ask-a-genius-and-gang

the raw power of imagining Aang holding a gun is too much for me the boy knows he can outdo a gun in power but he’s so mad that he makes the statement with the weapon that killed world leaders

I’m intimidated

cauliflowergnocchidyke

i really hate coming out but still want my extended family to know, so my mother took it upon herself to invent the game “guess which one of my kids is gay.”

the rules are simple.

sit down with uncle so-and-so

he says something about gay people in passing

my mom says “there’s a gay person at this table right now. guess which of my kids it is!

he looks frantically between the three of us trying to figure out if she’s joking or not and trying desperately not to offend anyone but also she won’t continue with the conversation unless he makes a guess so he has to make a guess

we all enjoy his discomfort immensely

lokiago

This isnt coming out of the closet. This is coughing loudly from within the closet to scare the people outside of it, which is immensely more entertaining.