#Also let's be real

[prokopetz]

Do you think more games should include playable characters with unconventional body types like centaurs and Naga's ?

I understand that you're fishing for a particular answer here, and I don't blame you for thinking that I might be the one to give it to you, but given that you're talking to a guy whose most recently published game features player characters who are ontologically indescribable, and whose current project involves a character creation method in which each character's gross morphology is randomly generated, I'm afraid you've rather overshot the mark.

Like, centaurs? Buddy, my idea of what constitutes an unconventional body type for a player character in a tabletop RPG starts with sapient geography and just gets more esoteric from there. Who gives a shit about centaurs – talk to me when your game can offer me the prospect of playing as an intelligent shade of blue!

[flurry-of-beaus-pop-pop]

Listen, I'm about to say something controversial...

When Grey's Anatomy first aired Alex Karev's exit storyline, I was pissed. The decision to leave Jo to go back to Izzie, even with the addition of him having kids, was dumb and ruined all of the character progression he had made since Izzie's ultimate departure.

That being said, while I do believe that the decision set Karev's character development back to square one, I honestly feel like there was no other option.

While Alex and Jo definitely had their fair share of relationship issues up until the end, sometimes to the point where their relationship was rather toxic, it was very much something that was portrayed as a "ride or die" relationship.

Because of this, anything short of Alex leaving Jo, and doing so for a reason that you can't really object to (i.e. going to be with his kids and giving his kuds a family) wouldn't have worked.

If Alex had gone to take care of his mother, brother, or sister... some of the more popupar storylines people has wished they utilized, it wouldn't have been enough to break up Alex and Jo. Even if Alex attempted to leave Jo in this circumstance, it wouldn't have been belivable for Jo (the character still on the show), to move on/not fight for him, and that wasn't something that could have veen done with Justin leaving the show.

It reminds me a lot of Derek and Meredith's storyline... they had plenty of avenues for Derek's departure that didn't need to include his death... divorce, moving to Washington D.C. permanently, going somewhere else, etc., all of which could have worked in a period where Derek and Meredith did have relationship difficulties as well. But simply the idea of believing a world exists where Meredith and Derek wouldn't be together if they're both still alive is impossible. And so the only option was to make the exit permanent.

Like I said, I still think that it set Karev's character back quite a bit, but sometimes, when an actor/actress chooses to unexpectedly exit a show, you focus moreso on maintaining the integrity of the character on the show than of the one leaving

[dynamo-deepblue]

Reignited and N. Sane (Crash n' Spyro) Pins + Pin Banners! Preorders open Friday, August 23 @ 3 PM EST! 🧡💜

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N. Sane and Reignited Enamel Pins

Chibi Spyro and Crash are on their way to their next adventure - with you! These will be hard enamel pins with black nickel plating, and two rubber clutches (the plating was gold in my previous post). Crash measures 1.5 in. and Spyro measures 1.75 in. because he's a bit longer and would be too small otherwise, but they'll both be the same price.

Price: $15 USD each, or both for $25.

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N. Sane and Reignited Pin Banners

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[wesavegotham]

I find it a bit weird when people act like Morrison's bullshit writing for the al Ghuls can't be retconned "because then Damian's history wouldn't make sense anymore"

Damian existing and being raised by the al Ghuls clashes very badly with all of their stories pre Morrison, like none of them make sense with the all the retcons Morrison made to fit their idea for Damian's backstory in there. Morrison had no respect for established al Ghul lore so why should writers who care about the al Ghuls give a fuck about Morrison's crap take on them?

And with DC being DC they already messed up a lot of Damian's history anyway. How was Damian conceived? How many years has he actually lived? How was his upbringing? Did Talia raise him or not? Did Damian know Ra's or not? How did Damian join Bruce's household? How did he become Robin? Did Bruce love him right from the start or not? Did Bruce take a paternity test or not?

All things DC managed to give us very different answers to over the years and I'm sure I forgot a lot of big contradictions they have made over the years.

Damian's history is already pretty messy anyway and acting like clinging to racist writing for Talia is somehow justified to keep Morrison's original vision is jut wrong.

[alwaysspeakshermind]

VARCHIE APPRECIATION WEEK, DAY 3: favorite physical touches

“true love needs no words.” ~kristian goldmund aumann

(i maintain that this category is an unfair one as physical touch is varchie’s love language, like how do you expect me to narrow this down)

[kensatou]

(✿◕‿◕) die (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿)

[medjedrphub]

Anyway, sorry to get all discoursey there for a second. Gatekeeping is just one of those things that ticks me the hell off.

[whump-it-like-its-hot]

So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?

“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”

And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.

[thenot-so-polite-canadian]

#it's just really not helpful to tell people their emotional responses 'aren't worth it'#do you think they sat down and chose them for maximal efficiency?

I just saw the track and field Olympics uniforms I keep hearing about and holy FUCK

Apparently there's a "shorts" option as well but wtf was Nike & the team officials ever thinking with this design???????

[notherpuppet]

Ball is (after)life *badum tsk* 🥁

[venussmilk]

ik they dont have phones but u cant tell me chilchuck wouldnt go crazy on facebook reels

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael Afton knows the FNAF Mimic’s secret..

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[hoaxghost]

The designer for Waluigi released some unused concept art for a 'warupeach' on ig and she looks like such a lil rascal I had to draw her..

[hinamie]

alongside someone like you

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still deep in the episode 7 brainrot. because OH BOY AM I

(also one more extremely, obnoxiously self-referential thing, I'm -- I'm so sorry)