#random rambles

[sacredartist33013]

Kinda looks the caterpillars got a skull for a face... Neat!

I wonder why they're called the white witch moth/caterpillar?

THEY FOUND THE WHITE WITCH CATERPILLAR! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

For context: the white witch is one of the contenders for the largest moth in the world (biggest *wingspan*--loses to the atlas in terms of wing surface area, and loses to the regal for weight). It has a huge range, and the adult is fairly common.

But no one had ever seen a caterpillar. At all. There were only guesses as to what it might look like and what it ate. until this year. These are some of the first images ever taken of it!!

[gatoburr0]

Imagine if both artfight teams end up in a tie

[dreamlnder]

FUCKING AVATAR OF DESTINY IN MY COOKIE GAME??? FINALYL FREEED FROM GUILD BATTLE PURGATORYY???REFMGTKJNKREBHURJFG

[quinowskie]

Something SMELLS in here

[shoutmon1v1]

WDYM THE THE SILLY PIZZA GIRL NISHI KNOWS SEKI WHAT THE FUCK???

[uncxnny-starz]

TY FOR YHE TAG!!!!! <3

but my fish died three years ago…. their name was tsunami.. 💔💔💔💔

anyways @zxlofttt @kzttenz @dwollish @cirxlex +anyone else who wants to ^.^

im making a tag game!!! anyone can join, even without being tagged!!! you just put a picture or a few of your pet(s), or a picture of your favorite animal if you dont have any pets!!! heres mine

no pressure tags!!!!

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[ifriqiyyah]

"unlikable protagonist" and it's just a woman who's a regular human being with flaws

[king-dra]

Tumblr and TF2 are kindred spirits because they're both programs that have lasted far longer than they have any right to, primarily because of their communities willingness to commit to useless bits for their own amusement, and because theres a bunch of gay furries

[thecrazyalchemist]

WHY IS MY SHOWER

CREAKING MOANING SCREAMING SIGHING SCREECHING SINGING SHRIEKING CRYING

LIKE:

• A KETTLE

• CICADAS

• A GOING TRAIN

• A BLOODY VICTORIAN GHOST OF A TODDLER CRYING

• AN OLD LAWNMOWER THAT SMOKED FOR FORTY YEARS

• AN OPERA SINGER WHO'S GLORY DAYS HAVE PASSED AND HAD TURNED TO SMOKING AND HARD DRUGS

• TWO ROBOTS DOING COITUS

[margo-mania]

What's rotating in the brain microwave today

[na-na-namine]

As someone who used to play a lot of visual novels, and at the risk of generalizing too much, about half of gacha games out there are essentially serialized VNs with some gameplay tacked on.

Games like Arknights, Reverse:1999, Path to Nowhere, and Nikke are perhaps the most obvious examples of this. Higher budget gachas like Honkai Impact 3rd, ZZZ, and PGR style their cutscenes like VNs but with 3D animated character portraits. Fate Grand Order and Heaven Burns Red are both, at least partially, written by two of the most famous VN authors of all time.

What all of these gachas have in common are putting out novel length stories about gay women and men on a near monthly basis. Especially Chinese gachas where queerphobic CCP laws mean writers need to get more creative and subtle about queer subtext.

The primary demographic upon which these games glean their revenue from, the typical dudebro gacha gamer rolling for their waifus, don’t realize they’re playing a VN because they’re often skipping or blitzing through the dialogue. And if i said this is usually a gendered divide then it wouldn’t be far from the truth, especially with a casual look at gacha Youtubers, social media, forums, subreddits, etc.

It’s because of this why arguments about yuri subtext pandering to straight men or the misassumption held by some women/queer/progressive players that those chuds are in a position of good faith is giving them too much credit.

I’m not saying this is an absolute certainty, but "man who rolls for their wife and only watches character build breakdowns" is the classic gacha game demographic. It’s why mihoyo was able to get away with writing kiamei and bronseele for well over a decade - this demographic doesn’t care about reading into things too deeply.

Lately, you can tell it’s always the same demographic because it’s always queer shipping and theorycrafting SPECIFICALLY that gets their jimmies riled up. And it’s these same chuds that complain about "yuri slop tourists" even when it’s yuri fans that have been around from the start or are involved in the art/writing team. I’ve been noticing Umamusume’s been going through this right now and it’s just really visible. The same homophobic and queerphobic arguments being made again and again to quash shipping culture and literary fan analysis.

As a reminder to my fellow girls and gays, himejoshis, fujoshis, and yumejoshis : They don’t engage with the text. They don’t read between the lines. Guys like them are surface level and do not possess any complex interiority. What you think is the bare minimum is still more than they can handle.

[uncxnny-starz]

HOLY HELL???

WHA- HUH?? I LEFT FOR THREE HOURS.. THANK YOU GUYS AHH I’M GONNA SOB FROM EXCITEMENT </33 (thought sadly I’m not back yet…) I MISS YOU ALL 💔💔

[gatoburr0]

Feeling like a flipped over roach

[quinowskie]

Previews for episode 15 just dropped and DAMMNN!!! Kafka nooo ToT Kikoru and Narumi with their determined looks!

AND they changed the respirator design for No. 4??? I love the iridescent suit too! Hikari is so cool I'm gonna explode when her flashback scene comes on! (But also it means we have to see you know what because baby Kikoru is there 😭😭😭)

[shoutmon1v1]

GET MY GIRL OCTAVIA AWAY FROM THIS WOMAN AND BACK TO HER DAD PLEASEEEEE