#paradox

[st-just]

If you had to pick one niche thing you love to become inexplicably popular overnight, what would you pick?

Hmm. Grand strategy games, probably. Not like the fanbase for paradox games can get any more embarrassing, and the space being big enough to support more than one really dedicated high-budget publisher could only be good for it.

[muffinlevelchicanery]

“The paradox of conservatism is they want being normal to be punk. They want to rebel against authority while being the ones in power. They want to be rugged individuals and they think everyone should be the same as them. They want to overcome adversity while staying in the majority.” -@innuendostudios on twitter

[philosophybits]

Very often among a certain highly intelligent type of people, quite paradoxical ideas will establish themselves. But they have suffered so much in their lives for these ideas, and have paid so high a price for them that it becomes very painful, indeed almost impossible, for them to part with them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

[floofhips]

[facts-i-just-made-up]

tell me a fact you didnt make up

This is facts-i-just-made-up, not facts-i-didnt-just-make-up. Wait shit I didn't make that up. Dang.

[taplaos]

🩹🔧🤖🦖

[bigblueboo]

unspinnable cube

[orez-suke]

Ghost Paradox because my not

[favoritesticle]

[suzukiblu]

Five headcanons from the obligatory sugar daddy Tim/sugar baby Kon AU for Paradox. Decided to spend these on a bit of a “word of god” peek into Kon’s current state of mind post-museum/dinner/planetarium, haha. 

Kon is pan and has known this about himself for at least a few months now. Was his gay awakening in any way related to any weird situations involving any princely beastmen who adopted him as a pet while he was a feral amnesiac (no I’m not in romantic love with that specific story arc, why do you ask?)? No comment. Ever. He is not publicly out due to feeling like the conversation would just be too awkward. Specifically the conversation with SUPERMAN would be too awkward. “Hey Kal, so how about that whole concept of sexuality being, uh, genetic . . . ?” Nope. No. No way. That conversation is NOT happening. 

Buuuuut Kon was also not even SLIGHTLY concerned about Tim outing him when he got weird over Tim making the joke about not being able to explain him to his dad, he was just self-consciously assuming that Tim meant he didn’t WANT to explain him to his dad. “Self-esteem”?? What is this “self-esteem” of which you speak???? 

I cannot exaggerate how Not Used to being pursued Kon is. He has never been the pursued one. Ever. Flirting/dating is a contest and a chase and a test and he is ALWAYS the one who’s supposed to be proving himself to someone. That is just how it is supposed to–wait what do you mean you wanna ask HIM out, attractive person?? WIthout him even really DOING anything first?? Does not compute. Does not compute whatsoever. 

Kon is, however, still MUCH more comfortable with the idea of being pursued as a datemate than being pursued as a friend. Like, there’s a script for that he can figure out, and a transactional setup he can follow. The friend idea, though? Nooooot so much, no. Not at all. The friend idea is confusing as fuck, especially when it’s not just CASUAL as fuck. It makes much more sense to him that someone wants into his pants than just wants to hang OUT with him. Just SO much more. 

. . . wait Tim didn’t try to get them a motel room or anything for after their museum/dinner date? Like, he just planned ANOTHER activity to do together that he thought Kon would like? Like–he went to all this trouble to take him somewhere nice and then DIDN’T try to fuck him as an ingrained part of that “nice”? Like, that was just not in his plan, somehow? What the fuck?!?? THIS IS THE WRONG KIND OF TRANSACTIONAL.

[gavamont]

A wizard that exists in a paradoxical state of having never fucked and being one who fucks.

[st-just]

[kaafii]

Matthew Macfadyen in the ‘DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE’ teaser

[silvidaee]

That’s Tom btw

[0pooleart]

I made a new form of my favorite Pokemon to make it even MORE my favorite. Felt like a quality Future Paradox version of Reuniclus would give the best vibes for me lol

And of course updated an old Trainersona idea

[sagedeoxys]

Walking Wake is such a cool Paradox Pokemon