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blue prince day 1: get to room 46 blue prince when you get to room 46: congratulations, you win! unless… blue prince when you get across the water: congratulations! you win! unless… blue prince when you unlock all the permanent upgrades: congratulations! uh. you, uh, you win! unless…? blue prince when you sit on the throne wracked with a curse: congratulations? you win? you can definitely stop now? …unless…

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Gamers young and gamers old

Gamers shy and gamers bold

Gamers mean and gamers nice

All of us must roll the dice*

*ᴅᴏᴇs ɴᴏᴛ ᴀᴘᴘʟʏ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴀɴʏ ɢᴀᴍᴇs, ɪɴᴄʟᴜᴅɪɴɢ ʙᴜᴛ ɴᴏᴛ ʟɪᴍɪᴛᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ: ᴅʀᴇᴀᴍ ᴀᴘᴀʀᴛ/ᴅʀᴇᴀᴍ ᴀsᴋᴇᴡ, ᴛʜᴇ ǫᴜɪᴇᴛ ʏᴇᴀʀ, ɢᴏᴏᴅ sᴏᴄɪᴇᴛʏ, ᴡᴀɴᴅᴇʀʜᴏᴍᴇ, ɢᴏʟᴅᴇɴ sᴋʏ sᴛᴏʀɪᴇs, ᴋɪɴɢᴅᴏᴍ, ᴘʀɪᴍᴇᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴀᴅᴠᴇɴᴛᴜʀᴇs, ɴᴏʙɪʟɪs, ᴅʀᴇᴀᴅ, Aʟɪᴄᴇ ɪs ᴍɪssɪɴɢ, ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴛʜᴇ ʙʀᴇᴀᴄʜ....ʏᴏᴜ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴡʜᴀᴛ I'ᴍ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɴɴᴀ ʟɪsᴛ ᴀɴʏᴍᴏʀᴇ, ʏᴏᴜ ɢᴇᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ɪᴅᴇᴀ

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I actually do feel like the "unemployed friend on a Tuesday" meme actually helps de-stigmatize unemployment because it frequently affirms that when you don't have a job you're more likely to be getting up to some weird shit rather than just lazing around. But I also feel like the unemployed friend is frequently up to some random shit because there's a whole pile of miscellaneous life tasks that full-time employment keeps people from. The unemployed friend is helping their cousin move, or babysitting, or checking in with a neighbor with mobility issues. The unemployed friend is a walking thesis on the inflexibility of our current labor landscape and just how much work exists outside of work.

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1000xRESIST

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There is a nearness and its gravity is echoing.

1000xRESIST - sunset visitor

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It's about grief. It's about letting go. It's about fighting on. It's about family. It's about the existential horror of mimes.

It's about escapism. It's about surviving despite it all. It's about the wonder of the world even in darkness. It's about mimes beating the shit out of you.

It's about love. It's about heartbreak. It's about who the fuck put all those mimes here

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good afternoon friends. if you wanna know where ive been this time, well. this has been my mental state for the past month

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credit to u/h_gizzy!

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only thing that comes to mind today.

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my brother got covid because he's a college professor and there's not much he can do to mitigate exposure when he has 200+ students per lecture. he's got a baby at home, so he does his best, but.

the governmental website for covid information is now propaganda. not a joke, not hyperbole, not an exaggeration: it's genuinely the definition of propaganda. this is biased misinformation determined to push a political stance. it is being hosted on a government server. it looks like something you'd find in a "top 10 weird internet conspiracy stories (and their origins)" youtube video.

my brother called me when he saw it. he had me type it into google. for a second i legitimately thought that i had typed something wrong. we have both taught college: we have both said "a .gov site is usually a reliable resource." i just stared at my phone for a long, long time.

i thought about how when i was a kid, conspiracy theories were mostly fun and a little spooky. unserious. i remember reading some long, complicated website about how avril lavigne is dead. how bigfoot is real. it used to be funny-and-a-joke.

over seven million people (globally) have died from covid. america has the highest death rate with over 1.2 million people.

the thing is - every time a person dies from something like a mass shooting or poverty or treatable illness - we are told don't make it political. we are told it's just something that can happen. we are told it's sad but what can you do!

the president of the united states is using a government website to try to erase the very-real deaths that he personally caused due to a complete mismanagement of the pandemic. the president of the united states is using a government server to host propaganda, undermine science and medicine, and encourage distrust amongst his followers.

nothing is going to happen. nobody's gonna, like, do anything about it. it's a thursday today, and we are just going to move on from this like we have been moving on from everything else.

yesterday my brother was outside walking his dog, mask included. a guy in a truck pulls up and shouts something about covid and whatever the fuck else. my brother has a good sense of humor, described it to me as enthusiastic! i hadn't ever been catcalled before, this was new and therefore thrilling! i do see why you hate it, though. like. i have actual covid, does he want me to cough on him?

my brother doesn't get extra time off work anymore, because the cdc practically doesn't exist. my brother said i'm not exposing 200 students to covid. his boss shrugged and said: who cares? they're going to get it eventually anyway. like it isn't a pandemic.

like it's just a fucking thursday, and who cares about it.

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Blue Prince is cool because you get to watch yourself develop a psychosis and turn into a real life version of this meme

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love the blue prince tag on tumblr for two reasons. one is that there's like no spoilers, just people cursing out certain rooms and occassionally calling one a red room, despite the fact ive yet to see two people hating on the same room. the other is that its Instantly clear to see how far along someone is into the game. mostly dependent on how much they still believe the premise is just "reach the 46th room in this roguelike house builder game to inherit it from your late great-uncle"

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I saw this and I thought Tumblr might enjoy it

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I’m somewhere in Act 2 of Clair Obsur: Expedition 33 and this is the music on the world map when I’m just faffing about. It’s so gorge. What a beautiful game.

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I was at the liberty museum in Philadelphia and saw this next to a stairwell

Official ominous sign

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always remember, friend,

now go in peace

This meme was inspired by the piece "Lucky 10,000" by Randall Monroe.