#not much of a capsule

[fishbloc]

THIRD LIFE GACHAPON ❤️💛💚 第三人生のガチャポン

i've always wanted to make this since forever, and after a lot of pondering and research, it finally went from inception to fruition!! i'm really proud of what i made here, because the process has actually been really labourious and it took me many months. but still!!! seeing it all come together has been really cathartic !!

they will be available for preorders coming this june on my shop alongside with the grumbot bags, see you there <3

[blacktabbygames]

Monday, 10 am Eastern. Scarlet Hollow returns.

The update will launch alongside a 25% discount, so make sure you have the game wishlisted to get notified!

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 2 - Bulky Vendor

[quorras]

TRONBLR IF YOU HAVE EVER THOUGHT ABOUT MAKING ANY SORT OF TRON FAN PROJECT, DO IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS YOUR SIGN TO START IT NOW SO YOU CAN SAY YOU DID IT BEFORE TR3N CAME OUT!!!!!!!!!!!

[the-amazing-digital-time-capsule]

So... there's a new fic by @thescarletnargacuga.... here's a little scene from it.

Choice

[deathandnonexistentialdread]

the way Yami switched places instantly to save Yuugi

[moneyisthebestlawyerinh3ll]

Finished my sketch book earlier today so here are some of my best drawings in there

[forsoobado137]

It must be embarrassing for nations when humans find their old stuff. Imagine being a teenaged nation filled with hormones and keeping some kind of journal. After a couple of centuries being forgotten, it's suddenly in the national museum for all the world to see. I'm sure Prussia has some entries in his diaries that he would rather keep private.

I bet England loves showing off old 18th century paintings of himself with America and Canada. He thinks fondly of the memories, but they're both like "Oh my god, England! stop showing everyone our baby pictures!"

*Elegant oil painting of France* "Oh la la, that neck ruff is so tacky! What was I thinking? Why is this portrait in the Louvre?!"

[almondcroissantsandink]

lawboy@stanford.edu studies

[saintofsacrilege]

andreil is a case study on why show-not-tell is so effective in writing relationships because no (canon) couple has EVER had this strong of a hold on me

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

MDZS x Hollow Knight Part 3: The Rebugging

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 4

[i-can-even-burn-salad]

Last night it was like 3 am, so I couldn't. Which is bad btw, because now I am dead, but I couldn't avert my eyes from this train wreck 😒 only made it to like 30% tho.

And man, I am torn. Usually, I don't leave negative comments. Recommend the ones I love, ignore the ones I hate, at most bitch in my private discord club of book connoisseurs. But this book pissed me OFF!

Obvious ableism under the cut 🙃

I was looking for a book with a protagonist with cerebral palsy. Which is hard enough already. All you usually find are children's books or books that are listed under the tag for a side char. I found one, and it's a romance. A christmas romance (gagging noise) but ok, I'm not judging that. One person's unnecessary showing and random meandering thoughts is another person's beloved prose, one (aroace 😂) person's unrealistic behavior because they're in looooove is another person's reason to read this.

So the protag is a woman with quadriplegic CP. She walks with crutches and has motor issues as well as speech issues. Sounds not too bad, right? Now I don't have CP, but I raised an eyebrow when she was mentioned to use her computer with eye tracking software. Ok ok perhaps I am wrong but that seems unnecessary complicated for someone who still does most of her own household chores and even some makeup. But whatever. The real issues.

Something something genre expectations. I am not on board with the blanket advice of never having a disabled char talk negatively about themselves or their disability, especially depending on genre (cough whump cough). But this? This is a whole other ballpark. Every few pages, she laments how unlovable she is, how broken her body is, how hard it would be for anyone to build a family with her, up to a self-proclaimed pity party in which she remarked on sometimes wishing the doctors hadn't saved her life at birth.

I've read a lot those past months. I have no doubt that there are people who think that about themselves. I am, however, not sure someone reading a fun christmas romance wants to have it thrown into their face like that. Do they really want her body to be called misshapen in the middle of a make out session?

She was aware that her speech was slurred and accented in a way that made her seem like an imbecile. How could he be happy with that?

thousand yard stare

The moment I started yelling at discord in all-caps btw was when the guy she's in love with invited her to dance, and afterwards she decided to be daring and - ran off with him LEAVING HER CRUTCHES IN THE RESTAURANT. Her only pair of forearm crutches. Without knowing whether her sister would notice and fetch them. To ride a motorcycle (which he remarked on "he couldn't fit the crutches anyway"). And then say good bye to him at the door because she didn't want him to see her having to crawl all the way through her house because SHE CANNOT WALK WITHOUT CRUTCHES. To her spare pair of underarm crutches in the bedroom, which she doesn't like. Which weren't even hers but her sister's from when she broke her leg or whatever. As if you'd need an excuse to have a second pair (she's not lacking money.)

And next day when they were out and about he just TOOK THE CRUTCHES FROM HER to put them back into his truck and helped her walk around town instead, so she doesn't have to be worried people would give her strange looks :) I AM INTERNALLY STILL YELLING. You CANNOT tell me she would just give HER MOBILITY AIDS AWAY LIKE THAT?? HELLO?? What if she needs to pee, will this guy she's been seeing for all of ONE DAY carry her ass into a public toilet?? (Yes yes it's romance toilets don't exist) How is it ROMANTIC to take her independence away because boohoo mobility aid bad let's make you look more NORMAL???

And again, it doesn't feel like I have a "right" to complain, but all of this just feels icky to me. This isn't a book for disabled people. This is a book for abled people to be like "awwwww so inspiring, writing this must have been so hard" and be on their merry way.

This has 88% 4 and 5 star reviews on goodreads, btw.

[ID: An xkcd comic turned into a meme. It shows two stick figures talking. They have been edited to say: Disability representation is second nature to us, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows not to call a char the r word and one or two mobility aids. And daredevil, of course. Of course. Bottom text: Even when theý're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field. End ID]

Would be nice if I could read a good book this year.

[the-chattering-tower]

Got these two up on the AH for 300g each. They're both (unrelated) G5s from my Pure Progen Lineage Project

[piromina]

wait are we getting more beast lore in the next update?????

[deathandnonexistentialdread]

Kuriboh is going to protect Yami with all that he's got!!

[tetzuoshimz]

UR THE COOLEST AKIRA ARTIST EVER I LOVEEEE YOUR ART STYLE SO MUCH OMG!!!