#rant? i guess?

[starlight-archer]

Okay so I've seen a lot of people saying that Wyll doesn't have a sex scene in the game and idk myself because I haven't got that far (still in act 1 in both plays because my PC broke)

But is it bad if I like that about his romance route? As an Asexual I was a bit sad that there was no way to play this game without having to go through the uncomfortableness of sex scenes, but knowing there's a companion without sex scenes who you can romance is kind of a relief?

Don't get me wrong I understand why people are disappointed and upset and he does have a massive lack of content in comparison to the others.

I would love if we could have more plot stuff and more romantic stuff with Wyll without a sex scene? But just give him the additional plot, character stuff that he needs and deserves!! Like Larian please the questlines, plot and character stuff I am begging you make up for the disparity.

He does not deserve to be sidelined like this, he's such a good character he deserves better.

[laugtherhyena]

Csm thoughts,,

[lesbian-disaster-academic]

i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.

as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."

NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING

[emptyjunior]

Enough random notes that have a written story on them as environmental storytelling, explore the space, get crazier with it.

You move into a house and aw cute, it has the kids height on the walls but you notice there's a three foot difference in height between measurements, you check the date, they're a month apart. The final measurement is on the ceiling. It's dated two days ago.

You're part of a recovery team that have finally found a stranded ship, they were found too late and have all passed a long time ago. They all died of starvation. You enter their storeroom, it's filled with food. In the dining hall you find the tables laden with perfectly fine looking breads, cakes, cured meats, jams, candies. Your medic says all the people sitting at the table didn't eat a Thing.

You wake up in an apocalypse. You can't find anyone at all as you wander the streets but you do hear faint music playing from somewhere. You stumble into a supermarket, to see all the aisles still full, except for the shelf that was full of ear plugs, which look to be the only thing that was looted.

Like there's light, sound, props. Having a street where every house is decimated except for One. Landing on a planet known for having No Water and a plant is growing and you don't know where it could have possibly gotten moisture from but you can't find the citizens Anywhere.

I'm sorry, I'm just kinda over the "graffiti on the wall to show the bad guy is around". That's not environmental storytelling that's just normal story. Show me I'm in the villains territory by the rain suddenly cutting out above me as I'm driving, even though it's meant to be raining all night. I park the car and step out, and realise the constellations are Wrong, until I see they're Not constellations, they're the blinking lights of a massive ship-

I Will stop now because everytime I go to write a sentence it devolves into another prompt but I'm just saying we have a Lot of senses, engage them, show me the Environment in environmental storytelling.

[sturgeonposting]

Lowkey grinds my gears when people tag me in pictures of gar

Like he is beautiful he is wonderful but he is not a sturgeon

He doesn’t even have denticles

he doesn’t even scutes

Come on guys let’s put on our thinking caps

[pangur-and-grim]

I do joke about Pangur, but she’s honestly not the worst representative of her breed!

granted, she’s pudgy and toothless, and fluffy enough with age that her fur hides her body type, but that’s not abnormal for a twelve year old Oriental Longhair. here's a younger Pangur, for reference:

there’s also a diversity of appearances even within the breed. for instance, European cats have horizontal ears and a great domed head, with a heavier coat:

moderate cats have higher-set ears and rounded eyes (photo from Balilas Balinese):

and American show types are stylized, but in a more elegant direction than the European (photo from Kattalyst Cattery):

Kattalyst features heavily in Pangur's pedigree on one side, and Balilas Balinese on the other, so she has traits from both types. but I wouldn't say she's a bad example of the breed overall - she's just an old girl, with all that entails!

[ikayblythe]

A new transliteration of the Rain World scripts

An update to this. I am the original creator of that interpretation, and to be fair I'm a little tired of not getting proper credit for it.

The entirety of this was done by comparing the 'alphabets' to our own, and assigning phonetic values from there. The logographs were interpreted similarly, but with Mandarin 'etymology' instead. I wrote...quite a bit! About it! You can read the individual interpretations for each symbol in the doc below:

[mugwot]

funnyjokespunperson

[ninjautistic]

I know everyone is obsessing over kai and Lloyd with their brother bond but what about Lloyd and Nya.. although they don't interact as much, I feel like they'd be best friends too 🥹💚

Especially when Nya was becoming a ninja and she was dealing with misogyny, when darreth was all like "but, Nya is a girl.." and Lloyd went "Nya is a NINJA" my green boy is a feminist

I want that "boy best friend and girl best friend" duo from Lloyd and Nya 🥹💚💙

[miitopia-cake]

I wish some aces would stop excluding other aces with complex sexual experiences. like I get why but you have to realize that being ace does not mean they don't enjoy sexual experiences and it's weird when you complain about allo people and boil it down to "people who have sexual experiences" and also shame people for their sex life and kinks as if your own community doesnt INCLUDE those people. because there are other aces out there who still masturbate, who feel sexually attracted to their own body, who barely experiences sexual attraction but still enjoys sex, who like consuming sexual media, who like sfw kink. being ace is so so much more complex than just "disliking sex". and also aromantic exclusionism in the same genre of posts is something i see a lot. especially aro allos. I hate hate hate seeing a community that SHOULD be inclusive boil down sexuality and exclude people.

[macskasbacsi]

knowing chilchuck is Really Fucking Tall makes this panel so much better

[bodhrancomedy]

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that child actors should have to take stage names. 

Like, I don’t think they should do interviews, I don’t think they should do red carpets, I don’t think we should bring them into celebrity culture at ALL.

I know it doesn’t avoid all of the problems with it but - as much as I dreamed of being discovered as an actor as a young child - as an adult with minor internet fame and a few roles under my belt, I am so FUCKING grateful I never was.

Having people see me and recognise me and approach me in public with my deadname and my skinny, vulnerable seven-year-old tomboy self, or that spotty, chubby, awkward teenage phase, or even the first few years of university would have destroyed me. 

I’m barely famous by any metric and it weirds me out completely now, let alone when I was stupid and sixteen. I had someone casually comment on a Live (which I don’t know why I do them, because I hate doing them) that they’d overheard me outside what they assumed to be my place of work - a place I was about to apply to work - talking about how I hated having to be watching myself constantly and be aware that sometimes people now know who I am and it was very disturbing. 

And I chose this. I didn’t go into this blind - and while I never imagined it getting to this stage - I had some idea of what this would entail. 

Some wide-eyed nine year old doesn’t. 

Fake names for child actors is the minimum. 

[measuringbliss]

People are acting so weird and possessive of Markiplier for the whole OnlyFans situation. He's an adult. He's an adult who's been a celebrity for years. He knows people thirst on him. That's why he had this idea in the first place. He's not some naive kid you must protect. He's not some innocent soul that the evil sluts of Tumblr and Twitter will corrupt. He knows the Internet, he knows his fans and he knows his job.

He's an adult and he can make his own choices.

[hoaxghost]

ive been so sick past week but seeing the new disney trailer for Wish awoke something petty inside of me. So petty I went bout redesigning the protagonists look cause I’m sorry but her outfit...? Kinda bland. Wanted to try adding lil bit more ‘oomph’ to the design.

[dreadfulratgoblin]

"Samwise is the real hero-" "Frodo alone had the power to resist the ring-"

Neither Frodo nor Sam could have made it to Mount Doom alone, and they would have been caught if Aragorn hadn't been pitching a giant futile distraction battle in the west which wouldn't have succeeded if they hadn't recruited the Ents, Rohan, and the Dead Men of Dunharrow, Lord of the Rings doesn't *have* a hero, it has many flawed, imperfect individuals all doing what they can and knowing on its own it won't be enough, and trusting other people to do the same.

"I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."

[atomic-automaton]

I miss Shady Sands.

That's it, that's the post.

I'm just tired of places and people that I like in fiction being destroyed for story reasons, first it happened to Sarah Lyons, then Shady Sands gets nuked by a divorced middle manager whose wife left him and took the kids because he didn't like civilization rebuilding on the surface. I think that was the dumbest fucking reason for a place to get nuked, and then we don't even see any sign of the NCR in their home state. We only see a flag and some raiders parading around in their armor, that's it. No Boneyard, no Vault City, no soldiers on patrol, it feels like they just turned the West Coast into the East Coast, which brings the show down from a solid 8/10 to a 5 or 6/10.

That and I'm tired of the Brotherhood being on top, fuck those guys I'm so tired of seeing them everywhere at this fucking point.