#a performance was demanded of me...

[thecoffeelorian]

Leida: I wish you WERE drunk. Mon: #CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

[bluegrasshellbard]

Diyō and Jaques recount their totally dramatic time spent contained by the SCP foundation

[lucydoodlessometimes]

hello @asukiess you werent asking me for this but i live to deliver. tumblr is EATING my quality but whatever i guess. new ladybug and new chat noir

[flagellant]

The more I think about Wildmender the more I grow invested in it. It's a fascinating interpretation of terra nil and solarpunk since so often the genre is fundamentally rooted in settler-colonialist philosophy, and even games which are intended to be the opposite of that--terra nil comes to mind as the obvious one--just end up actually revealing a different side of the factorio problem, because terra nil is an incredible impersonal restoration of ecological systems. Terra Nil acknowledges climate destruction on a global catastrophic scale and it accepts the responsibility to fix that, but it isn't shown as a human act, nor does it really allow itself the realism of just how terrifyingly impossible the task is to try and literally fix the entire world. Its game structure is supposed to be the anti-factorio but its puzzle structures focusing on efficiency and robotic engineering patterns of rewilding end up feeling more like a dialogue than an inversion. It's trying to say that the idea of humanity as fundamentally destructive is wrong while it doesn't actually ever address the human element.

And then there's fucking Wildmender. A game where you are a single human child in a world of endless wasteland and death, where the only other things are ghosts who remember a halcyon era and the hubris that ended it, wraiths which are consumed by their own greed and destruction of the land for their cursed immortality, and a couple god statues. The entire map is just ceaseless grief, filled with the literal dessicated remains of all the biodiversity that came before the countless disasters. And it's a big fucking map.

And then...the game gives you a shovel and a sickle and a mirror that shows the wraiths what twisted reflections they've become.

And the game says, "The entire world is waiting to be better, and the only way to do that is by doing it yourself, long and hard and hopeless as it seems."

I cannot emphasize enough how overwhelming the task you're handed. There is not a single speck of life left in the world. You are given a shovel and a water bottle and just...expected to do something about it. To look at the literal endless wastes and think you can heal it.

This is what Wildmender cherishes that Terra Nil denies: This is an impossible task for you alone. But it has to be done...and you can actually do it. The way you can turn sand into soil and dig irrigation channels is beautiful. Every single scrap of land that you reclaim is something you had to do on purpose. You had to do it yourself. You had to actively choose how to do it.

And the game makes the reward of even just getting a bit more water into the sand feel like victory. Your starting oasis turns from soil into lush and beautiful meadows--sure, technically instantaneously by doing magic on a specific type of plant. But it took me 4-5 hours before I got there. You have to travel so far into the desert to learn how to grow grass again, and then you realize that this endless hostile wasteland is a fraction of the map you're given. And you look at this sudden profusion of meadowy grassland surrounding your spring and despite how sudden it feels you remember how big the world is. You made more progress in a minute than you did in 5 hours and it's not even a speck on the map. How the fuck is this gonna happen?

And the answer is by accepting that it's going to take a long fucking time and a lot of hard work.

That's how it's gonna happen. Get to work.

[elizabethrobertajones]

jump scared by the 4th Doctor saying "well" with an uncanny intonation to how 10 says it, except I thought that was just a David Tennant-ism considering he does it in everything eventually, like, that CAN'T have started with him copying this cadence and absorbing it into his being? Right?

[muses0fgracie]

@itsshcwtime sent: (At Millie) "YOU NEVER REALLY SEEM TO LIKE ANY OF THE FUNTIMES, BUT ESPECIALLY ME.. WHY? AM I TOO LOUD?"

A somewhat sad expression forms on Millie's face at the fox's words. Was that really what he thought? It was understandable, given they'd only been acquainted... what, two days and 12 hours? since they'd found him here in the theater, and likely didn't know the full picture.

"It's not that." Millie says as she takes a seat next to the edge of the loft by the animatronic fox. "It's not that I don't like you guys; i-it's the opposite, actually. Funfred and I kinda just... tend to snip at each other a lot, and I'll admit that I can get annoyed by his antics sometimes."

Now, THAT was something she and the fox could at least relate to a bit, hence Millie bringing it up while also providing some context.

"And I don't think you're THAT loud, for the record."

[bunniegloom]

really scared and nervous and quite terrified actually but i just applied for courses 🙃🍰🐻🎀

[thecoffeelorian]

i'm about to ugly cry from this next update, but curse me if these two little gals DON'T get the freaking happy reunion they deserve.

[toasted-valentine]

Holy shit, I finally understand what @pyrotechnicarus was talking about when it came to that high that comes with a performance and the punch to the face afterwards. I feel like I’m on drugs and like all my drafts are screaming at me to finish them because if I don’t everything will go to hell in a hand basket. Like just everything coming together was amazing, I want to do it a million times over and never stop.

[itsshcwtime]

Starts playing freddy’s voice in the highest volume ever right in foxy’s ear

Scream, scream, scream, screa-

OH FUCK - His ears, help him god... He's screaming alright. His speaker is at full volume.

"OH FUCK, IT HURTS AA! -"

[jumpscaregoose]

Have you ever think of writing sickfic again? Www it's so good the last time

I mean. does verdigris // velveteen count?

(no not really)

actual answer is yes frequently. all the time. specifically I want to write more trap reaction sickfic because I like fucking with all the phantometal lore

it's one of the many ideas bouncing around in my head for potential fics and there's a lot of those so. could take a bit before I revisit the idea again (seriously, some of those guys have been in there for years. nail fic my beloved I will get to you soon)

[hearts-hunger]

coming into my idgaf about sounding nice any more in work emails era 🫶🏻

[kansasjustgotgayer]

I don’t think I have ever felt so horrifically burned out

[muses0fgracie]

@itsshcwtime (cont.)

Coming here so late was a mistake. Though in her defense, how was she to know there'd be another robo-- er, ahem, animatronic in the old theater!? One who, based on how grim things looked for her currently, didn't take kindly to intruders?

His white-and-pinksey colors and his odd design can't help but remind her of someone, however. Maybe this is one of the other 'set' members that they mentioned? But they're not here now; so even if he was one of them, her chances of convincing the fox animatronic to stand down and not attack are slim. So if he makes a move to bite, scratch, or anything else of the sort, then she'll have to run for an exit or she'll be completely at his mercy.

"D-Daring to get closer, for starters." Millie says, usual snark mixed in with a spoonful of anxiety and a dash of fear, reaching into her bag for anything she could use as a weapon; all she had was some scissors. But it wasn't like she had anything else, so they'd do for now.

"L-Like I said, you really don't want to do this-- I have friends who will come after you if you try anything, a-and trust me when I say you don't want to get on their bad side!"

[machinavocis]

cursed to arrive at every point of somewhat-popular media enjoyment like fifteen fuckin years after the Internet Culture Cringe Train has already left the station.

[thecoffeelorian]

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