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[independent-fics]

Why am I just processing that the guy from “The Real Fake Car Job” is Shaggy.

[dunaldoodles]

Literally one of my most popular posts BY FAR is of this blue incognito twink. This blog is mostly bugs and maybe some lizards ever since I revived it from the dead.

Where did ya'll robot fanciers come from???

[howlsofbloodhounds]

just remembered back in 2023 when someone commented on a TikTok post saying “artists” made killermare toxic and are cosplaying the ship and then when I explained the canon of their relationship they got mad, said not everyone does canon and actually people who potray canon nightmare are the toxic ones

[hearty-an0n]

wait more news in hearty anon world. asked my coach at lunch if he could write me a reference letter finally ^0^ excited for that

[yaoifuldnp]

i don't know how to say this but it feels like phil has been in his 30s my entire, if anyone knows what i mean?

no i get u anon

[kazbrekkerfast]

ok so I was rewatching episode 4 of season 2 yesterday and my mum ended up arriving back home at the start of the whole kaz taking down pekka scene and she was so invested but because she has never watched the show she thought kaz was the bad person and had killed alby and I had to pause it right after and explain how no he's not a bad person he's just very traumatized and has a lot of anger and everything about him and his backstory and then I skipped to the wesper scene and my mum was just say there looking so happy like she has no idea who these characters are aside from my lil rundown of their first meeting and stuff but she sat there doing the "these are now my children" look and it made me so happy

I did then dump my entire hyperfixation on her and rant about the crows for a solid hour but I think I've concerted her

[averagelonelypotato]

hotd was funny because daemon was a menace to everyone

[princeloww]

FINALLY finished deadwater fell. 5/10 its ok

[curiosity-killed]

Had a fellow dancer do ???? Things to my body that felt very bizarre but also finally made my hip release so I now need to find out wtf he did

[happyheidi]

~ via mignonettetakespictures ~

[pirateprincessjess]

When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.

I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.

One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.

The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?

The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”

I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.

It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Knowledge Revenge.

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[tammog]

Ugh this is so hard to deal with tbh.

My first instinct is:

If you intentionally do something that you know or suspect is agadir the rules, you are cheating. But in my view (and tbh with my main experience of adjudication rulings which is as a yugioh judge) intentionality is a very important factor when you decide what is cheating and what is not.

So here I would describe a few categories of people:

A) people intentionally gaining advantages by picking weaker opponents and using their skill at rps to get a very high success rate. They are aware that the rps is meant to be random and are abusing the fact it is not intentionally. Cheaters.

B) people not picking weaker opponents intentionally, but still using rps strategies intentionally to improve their odds despite knowing it is not intended. Harder to say, but still cheating imo.

C) People good at rps that do not understand that it is meant to be an rng replacement, who use the tactics - maybe even choose opponents tactically sometimes, tho that puts them much closer to the first category - to gain an advantage. Not cheaters (intent is missing, imo), but people making mistakes.

So, the issue with this all is that it's very hard to tell who falls in what category sometimes, and that in the end, a lot of this has the same effect, and please don't ask me how I would handle it if I was running the hypothetical larp. In general I'd hope people would want to have fun and get along and anyone willing to cheat in a larp likely needs some long talks about why they want to fuck others over or cheat others in a fun activity so badly. But these are the archetypes of cheating/noncheating I would think of here.

Idk, with any rules - be it games, social groups etc - intention is always the most important part for me. You know the people that sometimes come into forums or discord or chat servers and don't technically break any rules, but clearly try to get as close as they possibly can to provoke others to do it in annoyance? I always took great care to ban those kinds of postpone immediately when I modded social spaces, and I take a similar approach when adjudicating games - if you make an honest mistake, that is fine. If you keep trying to get scummy advantages, even if you are not technically breaking the rules, you might get a few chances and then get kicked out of you don't improve. It really is all about the intention.

debate time: a larp has been designed using rock-paper-scissors as a resolution mechanic, because the designers thought it was entirely chance-based. It isn't, it's skill based, and some participants are much easier to beat than others.

Is playing rock-paper-scissors to win, rather than randomly selecting, cheating? Is picking your opponents to get matchups you think you can win cheating?

Explain.

[goinkgrumdy]

at work today a kid was literally vibrating he was so excited and I'm trying to bring that kind of energy into 2025

[inkskinned]

she's singing in another room and my dog is asleep at my feet. my grandma asked me why i haven't found a man yet and i laughed. oh, you know. i like my house clean.

my girlfriend is also my man is also "my partner" if i'm in a professional setting. yesterday we went to a ren faire and a man mimed at me - you're together? and at my delighted nod, his baffled, you're gay? made me laugh. a woman with rainbow hair said i love the two of you together. you're both so beautiful it's absurd.

my dad introduced my partner as my "..... friend. or whatever" the other day. he knows we're dating. in the same way, i was never able to get my sister's husband to stop saying that's gay like it's 2008. he still uses the word fa***t, and my sister's defense of him has always been well, he's just kidding.

my lover and i dance to old music in a tiny kitchen. we judge new music together and take food critique very seriously. we watch love is blind before we fall asleep and agree that if they had a queer season, it would be bloody but also make for excellent tv. of fucking course queer people would know someone for only 2 weeks and agree to get married. what are you saying.

at a bar with friends, a man puts his hand on my wrist. got a boyfriend? and yes, i do have a boyfriend, she's amazing. i am texting her while i wander around a gas station named after geese. i am visiting a swing state for a wedding. in the candy aisle i overhear: she's actually like a lesbian it's disgusting. two teenage girls with packaged sandwiches in their hands, giggling. no literally, like. i'm not, like. okay with her being there while we're all, like, naked and changing.

my girlfriend and i tailgate, drink gin and cider out of cups. from the frat group beside us, a man corrects himself with one of his friends: bro, i mean, nonbinary entity, and it makes everyone around him laugh, myself included. he razzes his friend the same way i would have killed for at 19 years old - like nothing happened, he continues: you apply sunscreen like an alien. he does a little sassy (and fairly accurate) dance interpretation of the motion. his friend is laughing so hard they're crying.

i am lucky, i live in a safe neighborhood in a safe state. my masc passenger princess comes up from DC. i drive her for an hour to where all the leaves are a violent arrangement of color. we walk along the trails, letting autumn into our blood. in this part of the state, there's a lot of pickup trucks and trump signs. when we chastely kiss before getting into the car, i accidentally make eye contact with a woman holding her child's wrist. she looks disgusted. she looks fucking pissed.

two hours later my girl and i are eating dinner on a patio, soaking in the last warmth of new england sun before the chill of winter sets in. we are giggling and trying to talk through plastic vampire teeth. at another table, i see a young woman sit up straighter. i watch her watch us. she blushes and takes her partner's hand from across the table. shy, like the taste of evening has just become something deeper.

it's worth it for this moment, i think. my lover is still humming the same song she's been singing for four days straight and i don't want to kill her for it. her guitar is beside my bed. her toothbrush is in my bathroom. in a few moments i will make us lunch. we are lucky enough to have found each other. it is lucky enough to be in love.