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Twitter/X user states: Israel has wiped out over 900 bloodlines in Gaza since October 7th. As in, killed every single living member of the family, in every generation. As in, no survivors of that family name. As in -genocide. [by: @ shailjapatel]

Twitter/X user was originally responding to a post made by @ MahaGaza, who wrote: Wateen Monir Abujummeiza, the last member of the Monir's Abujummeiza's family, succumbed to her wounds today in #Gaza amid the ongoing Israeli attack.

[Image description: there is a picture of a young girl in a dark green, sleeveless dress with an attached belt into the design, and a blouse; most likely a buttoned up long-sleeved collared shirt, which is light purple. It has also fluttery sleeves. She carries a backpack, and this picture was most likely taken before school.]

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you don’t like werewolf? 🐺🌔? roo roo?

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i think i may have accidentally gotten my roommate into petplay

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I-80 highway through Wyoming. nicknamed The Sisters, for the three sets of hills that create an optical illusion of the road rising into the sky

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my last post lost traction so i’m making a new one, tl;dr i was so sick i was unable to work for 2.5 weeks, and on top of that my job (cleaning houses) is so slow that i only work 3 hours this week. sooo basically i’m unable to pay my bills that are coming up in 2-3 days

i need $227 (car payment + car & renter’s insurance) plus groceries (aiming for at least $75 because high blood pressure + high blood sugar = more expensive health food) so my goal is $300.

if every follower of mine donated $1 i’d reach my goal 6x over! thank you all so much, i’m sorry i have to keep begging but i was expecting my job to have picked up but tourism hasn’t happened nearly as fast as everyone thought so i’m fucked. i love and appreciate you guys so much 💙💙💙

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can we make a blood pact but platonically. just as friends. we haven’t been doing much bonding lately :(

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hi um my liege y-you asked me to um. report back to you when the prisoner you sent into the labyrinth had been, um, dealt with by th-the minotaur. well y-your highness t-there seems to be a bit of an, ahem, issue. no, no the prisoner is still in the labyrinth, y-yes the minotaur found them. i-it just ah, um, it appears that the. it appears that the prisoner and the minotaur are, um, they're-

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One of the many things that bothers me about the superficiality of the main story of Tears of the Kingdom is how much information is repeated almost word-for-word with no variation. During every sequence of cutscenes after Link clears a temple, for instance, each Sage will repeat the same story of the Imprisoning War. Not only is this tedious to sit through, it's also frustrating in its denial of the potential for each Sage to have a unique personality and perspective.

I understand the challenges of nonlinear storytelling, but having five different characters (and Zelda) tell the same story presents interesting opportunities. To give an example, the writers could have created a Rashomon situation in which each Sage tells a slightly different story, each of which would contradict the others.

Because there's no narrative tension or dissonance, however, there's no potential for narrative resolution. Many players will achieve the main objective of Tears of the Kingdom, "Find Zelda," fairly early after seeing the memories contained in the Dragon's Tears. Allowing gaps or contradictions to form in the narrative would have motivated the player to leave the comforting gameplay loop of shrines and sidequests in order to find and confront Ganondorf, who might have been able to put together the pieces of the puzzle.

As Ganondorf seems to be content merely to cause minor acts of mischief in Hyrule, there's no real need to fight him save for the challenge and spectacle. There's nothing wrong with assuming that players will beat a game simply because games exist to be beaten, of course, but why are we so tolerant of the assumption that a game doesn't need to have good writing?

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Relax! This Book is Just a Phase You're Going Through: Gay Comics from Christopher Street, by Charles Ortleb and Richard Fiala, 1978.

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Gonna be singing this (and this) all night.