#As a small caveat

[autogeneratedkahootnickname]

Hey Tumblr how are we doing tonight

[francesderwent]

when you send out your wedding invitations, they say to expect a twenty percent attrition rate.

what they don’t tell you is it’s not the twenty percent you think it will be. not the cousins you haven’t spoken to since you were both thirteen, not the old roommate living in a new country. it’s the friends who took long drives with you, who heard your most humiliating secrets, who shaped your music taste and your fashion sense and for fragile and overlapping periods of life were the closest friends you had in the world. the same girls whose weddings you attended not quite a decade ago, whose weddings you were in, whose weddings you made speeches at.

you would’ve moved heaven and earth to be there for them when they got married. you did. you took train after train to get to the bridal shower and then got back on a train that same day because you couldn’t afford to take the weekend off. you rubbed elbows with groomsmen, ghosts from your college days you’d never wanted to see again. you took your life into your hands carpooling with a Milanese priest; he told you the whole plot of Arrival on the highway. you bought pastel dresses as instructed and paid to have them tailored. you missed school and missed out on your own short vacations and never, ever got a plus one. but the curse of being the last single friend is they just didn’t have the opportunity to show up for you the way you showed up for them. you knew they would do the same for you, and when it’s your turn, they will.

except when your wedding does come around, seven years later, it’s still not quite your turn. because you can move heaven and earth to show up for your friends when you’re single and they’re the loves of your life. but by the time you’re ready to go to the altar their lives are already full of other loves—they have husbands and toddlers and babies, responsibilities and difficulties and balancing acts that you still can’t understand. they can’t drop everything to show up for you, because what they’d be dropping is infinitely more worthwhile than all the things you dropped.

you keep getting told to ignore the feeling that you’re falling behind, told there’s no mandatory timeline for when you should hit milestones. there might not be a timeline, but it feels like there is a time limit. once you pass the time limit you can still achieve things. but people won’t care the same way. they send you a sweet text congratulating you. then they send you their regrets, and say you’ll have to catch up when it all blows over.

in the end, your attrition rate is higher than twenty percent.

are you finding out who your friends are? you hope not.

[electronicgalah]

A second fan region has officially hit the sketchbook guys.

Transcript: Bone Factory (I wont transcribe the diagram ehhhhh). Platform Spiders transport blocks to nearby facilities, and the train station as well after the transport rail (take a shot every time I say transport) collapses due to poor ground stability.

Approximate layout.

The area around the factory is filled with pollution and sinkholes, and shrouded in darkness due to being in the iterator’s shadow. There are a few inactive rooms (in the factory) due to lowered demand for bone.

Mechanics are hostile to all creatures in the factory regardless of reputation, but become neutral after Time Traveller’s drone is fixed by An Iris of Hues. The same can’t be said for the sentries.

A coloured pearl in the factory contains some old production records. Iris will go on 16 tangents.

(Transcript end)

So basically there are three sub-areas, firstly, a section with firmer ground where a few sentries patrol, creatures that call down Miros Vultures when they spot the player, or any other creature excluding Mechanics. Secondly, an area flooded with acid and marked by sinkholes, if one doesn’t feel like parkouring through wreckage platform spiders can be ridden like raindeer if they are walking in the right direction (will not turn around no matter what). Thirdly, there is the factory itself, partially lit and filled with aging but still active machinery and Mechanics that will kindly escort you out of the premise via electrocution to death.

I did a coloured concept drawing of this area at school but i uh. Don’t have it. BYE

[throughpatchesofviolet]

Getting excited to start reading, again, since it's almost time for the summer reading program, and a friend is interested in reading the Limbus books (including those for our self inserts) together ...!

[pancakeke]

in the era of internet where forums reigned supreme in terms of socializing, it was not uncommon for trolls to do rickroll-style misleading links that actually directed to explicit porn or shock images. there were even sites that masked obviously undesirable urls with generated urls containing domains/text that looked totally innocuous. this way the troll's targets couldn't hover their cursors over a link and know what type of page they would actually walk into.

I think this scared a lot of young people into not clicking links and instead immediately distrusting any users trying to direct them offsite. also people made sure links actually contained what was claimed before sharing them.

I'm saying this because I think those trolls inadvertantly did the internet huge service by making people question the intent of anyone supposedly providing information (though not exactly question the legitimacy of info when a link actually directed to info, that's a whole other can of worms). since no one wanted to see a guy's entire open asshole all the time, they checked account creation dates, inspected urls, went out and looked for the same info on their own, etc. before believing someone's intent was genuine.

while the trolls' behavior was obviously super inappropriate, anecdotally it seemed to improve the critical thought in online idiots who only learn and change their behavior when an issue affects them personally lol

[captainshyguy]

[pacing] no but actually what did they put in close wars maul to make him so hot like what was that

[earthmixsclowderofcats]

Now that marriage equality is in Thailand I hope one guy from Cutie Pie will propose to his boyfriend 👀

I mean, I think I saw a blind item that hinted at something along those lines 👀

Obviously, that's to be taken with a grain of salt, but let's just say if Zee popped the question I would not be surprised.

Actually, I would not be surprised if Nunew got tired of waiting and took it into his own hands lol.

[giddleford]

You know something that really annoys me from the Maquis conflict in Star Trek is that the Cardassians from both the Federation side and the Maquis side are assumed to be a monolith. Granted, Star Trek as a whole has this problem with nearly all the races in its universe and it's not exactly new criticism. But the real reason while I could not support the Maquis at any moment is because they were quick to demonize civilians that by all means were in the same situation they were.

[janederscore]

*voice of the complainer* not to be that bitch but its exceptionally hard not to feel alienated constantly by internet-centric trans culture, in particular bc the loudest voices in the room typically have the easiest access to life-changing medical care. like i dunno its just all pretty bleak and depressing when you're getting close to the two decade mark of being out and only having been able to scrape together hrt for a couple of short periods ever

[gailynovelry]

Two things can be true at once. Firstly, it's not "cringe" or shallow of you to like popular media properties. Secondly, deriving all of your media intake from well-known mega franchises will cause you to miss a wealth of excellent stories from the indie scene.

[gayrob0t]

Sometimes I find myself mourning the people my family could have been

[aintitfierce]

squints so the original fic does not end Happily for vanya since he's in the role of antagonist for it and it seemed to fit to have him foiled in his plans, especially since he kinda tricks haru and the bureau into helping him in the first place hhfiihaeye

but for the story proper, i'm thinking about making it so that he actually succeeds at the tasks and gets what he's been working toward all this time. considering all he does to obtain it, with him as the protagonist of the story now (albeit still pretty Grey in the moral categories lmao) it might be more Satisfying to give him a win in the end

[frobby]

how would yall feel if I said corpse party tortured souls was the first anime I watched?

[runawaymun]

Hey guys, quick question about the Wednesday gaming stream!

I have a class I am trying to get to on Wednesday nights so is there a better time out of these for those of you who are watching it? (Or would like to?)

[queencardigan]

IMPORTANT: if you love wolf 359 you need to also listen to their other show UNSEEN which was a one season anthology show with fifteen episodes total and every one of them made me cry at work. Every single one. Even the lighthearted gay Bertie Wooster pastiche episode. I would be like GOD DAMN IT NOT AGAIN and then I would listen to the next episode at work too and, guess what,

People sick of therapyspeak in indie stories should listen to Wolf 359 because everyone has so much wrong with them and refuses to admit it. The comparatively straight laced by the book commanding officer gassed her crewmates so she'd get a week of peace and she's not even a little bit sorry about it.

[ace-malarky]

holy shit someone like. actually bought a copy of Expect to Fly? Man listen I self published that thing for the bit

and now I have to fill out late tax forms because I simply did not notice

anyway hey whoever you are. hope you enjoyed it! Leave a review <3