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Age gap discourse about a human/dragon relationship because the human is thirty-five years old and the dragon is eighty, but dragons are like cats and sleep twenty hours a day compared to a typical human's eight, so technically the dragon only has half as much lived experience.

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In a big pot of soup.

I will never make fun of artists for starting with a kink and working backwards to invent an OC who would have that kink because I have on multiple occasions started with a stupid dice trick and worked backwards to invent the tabletop RPG that uses it, and the second one is, if anything, the less respectable of the two.

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Hold up – how long have we been able to like replies?

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Structurally, Heathcliff in its present form is just shitty referential meme humour where 90% of the time the punchline is "laugh because you recognise this reference", except the memes it's referencing exist only in the author's head, which explains basically everything about why Tumblr is into it.

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It's in my pinned post, but sure:

I will never make fun of artists for starting with a kink and working backwards to invent an OC who would have that kink because I have on multiple occasions started with a stupid dice trick and worked backwards to invent the tabletop RPG that uses it, and the second one is, if anything, the less respectable of the two.

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#I’m sure heathcliff is exceptionally funny to the guy writing heathcliff (via @brawnie)

Structurally, Heathcliff in its present form is just shitty referential meme humour where 90% of the time the punchline is "laugh because you recognise this reference", except the memes it's referencing exist only in the author's head, which explains basically everything about why Tumblr is into it.

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@ideal-optimist replied:

Wait, the heathcliff tumblr shitposts I've been seeing are actual heathcliff comics? Not edited? Like, written and drawn by the author? The hell?

Written and drawn by the author and syndicated in over a thousand newspapers worldwide.

Structurally, Heathcliff in its present form is just shitty referential meme humour where 90% of the time the punchline is "laugh because you recognise this reference", except the memes it's referencing exist only in the author's head, which explains basically everything about why Tumblr is into it.

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Structurally, Heathcliff in its present form is just shitty referential meme humour where 90% of the time the punchline is "laugh because you recognise this reference", except the memes it's referencing exist only in the author's head, which explains basically everything about why Tumblr is into it.

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Both target numbers are independently variable, and the roll-under and roll-over ranges can potentially overlap.

I will never make fun of artists for starting with a kink and working backwards to invent an OC who would have that kink because I have on multiple occasions started with a stupid dice trick and worked backwards to invent the tabletop RPG that uses it, and the second one is, if anything, the less respectable of the two.

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A game I'm working on right now uses d12 dice pools which are read against two different variable target numbers simultaneously, one a blackjack roll-under (i.e., take the highest single die that doesn't go over) and one a hit-counting roll-over (i.e., count how many dice rolled over). This is a core mechanic only a dice pervert would come up with.

I will never make fun of artists for starting with a kink and working backwards to invent an OC who would have that kink because I have on multiple occasions started with a stupid dice trick and worked backwards to invent the tabletop RPG that uses it, and the second one is, if anything, the less respectable of the two.

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I will never make fun of artists for starting with a kink and working backwards to invent an OC who would have that kink because I have on multiple occasions started with a stupid dice trick and worked backwards to invent the tabletop RPG that uses it, and the second one is, if anything, the less respectable of the two.

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#i usually find the opposite to be true #most people are just HWBM posting when there are way wilder ways to do mech fighting as sex (via @double-dealing-danger)

In my experience, there's a big cohort of the mechsploitation hornyposter crowd who are just sort of peripherally in the Armored Core VI fandom, probably altogether outnumbering the folks who've ever played a visual novel of any description.

(And yeah, of course there are wilder ways to do mech-fighting-as-sex – Heaven Will Be Mine is explictly being framed as the entry-level option here. When you're talking to folks for whom sticking wires in your brain as a sex thing is a novel idea, you're not exactly gonna drop Porpentine Charity Heartscape on them right off the jump; you've gotta work your way up to it!)

If I have one criticism of mechsploitation hornyposting on this site, it's the narrowness of its reference pool. There are folks here banging on about construing the giant robot fight as a sex act per se who've clearly never even heard of Heaven Will Be Mine.

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If I have one criticism of mechsploitation hornyposting on this site, it's the narrowness of its reference pool. There are folks here banging on about construing the giant robot fight as a sex act per se who've clearly never even heard of Heaven Will Be Mine.

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Sure, but most of the unusual reactions happen before Kris has had a chance to learn any of that. I feel like there's a tendency in the fandom to analyse Kris' relationship with Spamton with the unexamined – and perhaps unintended – assumption that Kris is fully aware of Spamton's whole deal right from the start, and I don't think the text bears that out.

Replaying Deltarune from the start knowing what we now know about the relationship between Kris and the soul and paying close attention to unprompted reactions, it's striking how clear it is that Kris finds Spamton uniquely disturbing. Like, even the Titan doesn't freak them out half as badly as this muppety little fuck.

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Replaying Deltarune from the start knowing what we now know about the relationship between Kris and the soul and paying close attention to unprompted reactions, it's striking how clear it is that Kris finds Spamton uniquely disturbing. Like, even the Titan doesn't freak them out half as badly as this muppety little fuck.