#You can do whatever you want forever etc etc.

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✨COOL THINGS I PLAYED/SAW/READ THIS YEAR, 2024!!!!!!!✨

✨MOVIS✨

Knight of Fortune was such a delight. karl's wife is dead-- he has to go to the morgue. to see her one last time. SURPRISINGLY funny given the theme, and incredibly sweet. AND you can watch it in its entirety on youtube

american fiction! incredible movie that made me think. what does it mean to tell "our stories"? what does it mean to show "representation"? how authentic can you truly be about your own lived experience? funny as hell too

if you havent seen Monkey Man, quite frankly i dont want to talk to you. dev patel i will watch whatever you make for the rest of time

the rest under the cut because this list got long

playtime by jacques tati. just slapstick. oh my god this was so goddamn funny

yeah you know it. i was very strong the whole time and then the credits hit and i started sobbing uncontrollably in the theater

challengers and i saw the tv glow are tied in first place for my favorite movie this year. incredibly funny and SO WELL EDITED. highly recommend watching it with friends so you can scream "OH NO HE DIDN'T" together

✨TV SHOWS✨

SHOGUN!!!!!! oh my god there is so much to praise in this show. the costumes! the actors! the story! how they integrated both english and japanese speakers in a realistic way! so good

korean reality shows are not fucking playing around. the editing and sets are truly top notch

✨BUUKS✨

-Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah! what if black mirror was actually good. AND centered the stories of black people. highly recommend

-Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac! you probably were on twitter when The Whole Thing happened. maybe you dont know the exact details like i do. what if the details were worse i also dont read non-fiction very often, surprised at how fun this was to read!

-The Chromatic Fantasy by H.A.! I've been following their work since forever, and this was a delight to read as always! THE COLORS…………. BITES BITES BITES BITES

-sad girl space lizard. hell yeah (18+ only!)

-Gritli - The Moth Diaries by Sophie Florian und Hanako Emden! this one was just so strange and fascinating. per words of the authors: "Taking on the voices of anthropomorphic animals, the authors write about labour, companionship and crushing."

✨VIDY GAMES✨

skipping balatro, splatoon side order, fields of mistria and webfishing, because you probably know about those. uuuuh

i am too stupid for Void Stranger, but My God if you're smart this game will become your favorite game ever. 2D sokoban with so many secrets

marchen line!!! nth circle never misses. the visuals here are so fun!!! the UI! the plot! the almost-automatic-censoring when you see gore, as if your mecha body took a second to load!! hell fucking yeah

"adrienne, of the devil was this year" OH WORD? THEN EVERYONE SHOULD PLAY OF THE DEVIL'S FIRST EPISODE WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR

life after magic! magical girls are now adults, and magic is disappearing. what now? the art is so cute, and the story was very engaging. thank you for the additional episode with [spoilers]

i started nine sols and i think i might be enough of a gamer to beat it

shadow generations game of the year no contest. thank you for your time

you can also look at my massive list of stuff i played/watched/etc here. i am not posting this whole dang thing

[official-wales]

Hello, Wales. I am Welsh, born and raised, but not actually very Welsh. I don't have a Welsh accent, I don't go to cultural events, and I don't know the language. I've lived in Wales most of my life, specifically the Cardiff region.

Saying that, I've been doing more research on my roots, trying to go to language classes, etc. My only problem is, the more I delve and try to embrace the culture, the more phoney I feel?

I don't know if that makes sense. It's just my whole family always saw themselves as British rather than Welsh. I feel very alienated from my roots, no matter what I do, as if I'm just pretending to be Welsh. Like I'm appropriating a culture for mere aesthetic reasons.

Is this common? Is there anything you'd suggest?

Shwmae anon, and thank you for sharing. Coming from Cardiff myself, I relate to everything you've said. Some people feel all Welsh, some British, some from elsewhere in the UK, some from elsewhere in the world, some some bits of everything. There are people with accents from all over the world, people who have moved from England, so many different religious and ethnic communities, people who can speak Welsh, people who can't speak Welsh, people who're learning Welsh, people who never learn Welsh, and that's perfectly okay!

What I'm saying is that there's no one way of being Welsh. Just like there's no one "British accent," there's no one Welsh one, or one Welsh culture, dialect or way of life. You can do whatever you want forever, and if you enjoy learning about your history, culture and language then absolutely go for it and never worry about what others think or whether you're being "welsh enough" or "phoney."

on a non-serious note, here's a shoddily translated official permit for you. pob hwyl!

[ihavedonenothingright]

The more I see people trying to argue that the Zonai are actually the original founders of Hyrule, the more I wish TOTK never existed. Or the "oh the other games (especially OOT) are just false retellings of the "original history" which was Zonai." I genuinely can't imagine being so damn invested in the underdeveloped goat people you would rather retroactively turn your other game experiences into lies.

[faunandfloraas]

[altschmerzes]

omgggg shipping is not arophobic in the LEAST but keep making us look like whiners with no real problems by continuing to complain about it I guess

yeah that's definitely what i said in any post ever man great job

average person who has made shipping their entire identity will see a post where someone says 'hey please don't say these specific types of things that are degrading and cruel about nonromantic relationships while enjoying your ships and maybe examine the thought processes and beliefs and prejudices that led to saying them' and be like 'oh so you're a whiner with no real problems who thinks shipping is arophobic?'

telling on yourself there bud

[wildsaltair]

I’d like to thank Maximus Decimus Meridius for inventing loyalty and emotional intelligence and devotion and goodheartedness. and also sex

[crimeronan]

protective big sister vee freaking out on hunter because she saw his own bloodstains in the castle dungeons & thinks he lied to her about the isles being safer now. and him truly honest to god at first having NO idea what she's talking about. she accuses him of lying about the dungeons being empty ("i didn't??") and accuses him of more unethical torture experimentation ("i DIDN'T") and then finally she's like don't treat me like i'm STUPID. it was MY CELL. i know what my own blood looks like and it's not that!!

and hunter stares at her for a moment and then just.

starts laughing.

vee just about kills him.

she's like this is Not funny. you are Not cute. & he's like no, no, sorry, just-

and pushes up his sleeves to show her the new ropy scars wrapping around his arms, like. i didn't want to trouble luz when she can't remember me. but sure. i should've clarified.

no one's been in the dungeons since i left them.

[lucaanis]

I made a similar post before a long ass time ago for the other three da protags but now it's time for rook, this time in poll format <3

as always feel free to ramble about your ocs in the tags!! 👀

[ahalliance]

i feel like there’s this stereotype in gender studies that only women can be interested in them or only women can want to talk about female historical figures and like . i’m not a woman just because i decided to take a gender studies approach to my essay 😭

[handweavers]

i'm very used to posting & sharing my textile work and feeling confident and secure in it but i get so nervous at the thought of sharing my drawing and painting work bc it's not nearly as technically skilled and professional looking but i need to beat the gremlin in my head telling me i can't share something i've done unless it meets that standard with a spiked bat

[water-mellie-seeds]

Hornets neat time then i shut off my phone and nap

Really dont love how people in the fandom are infantilizing pomni more since ep 3. She. Explicitly stated in ep 2 she doesnt like that!!! I cant be the only one who thinks its.... Weird to do that. To a full grown woman who's depressed discomfort about being treated like a kid

Like it obviously doesn't actually matter, its fiction but..... it's making me raise my brow

[iowiymiw]

silverflint in a way is very thoroughbreds coded. sometimes you meet somebody who seems so wildly independent with so little regards to the consequences of their viewpoints vested in self-interest and you are fascinated by them just as much as they scare you and eventually you think you surpass them but really they just grew to care about about you on such a deep level they let themselves lose just to make you happy

[snekdood]

i feel weird even claiming my family used to be considered "rich" bc a lot of yall immediately jump to having summer homes, 20 yachts, and enough money to save a country

[bmpmp3]

so often i'll get that sudden and wonderful urge to make comics and stories of my OCs that I can actually show people but then just as quickly that urge is dashed by various foolish reasons, and one of the most foolish of those reasons is i get. scared. about committing to stylistic choices in a webcomic or illustration

WHICH is foolish BECAUSE

you can just. change them

really gotta stop thinking about branding and shit. some people are good with that but it always just paralyzes me LOL especially because when i think about all the comics and fiction and all that i like you can see signs of stylistic choices and characterizations shifting from the original vision at the start to how it ended up because things EVOLVE that is a Normal Aspect of storytelling IT TRULY is a foolish thing to get scared by orz

[dyingtobehim]

and whats with everything being about dogs now i like dogs and all but you guys know there are other animals you can compare yourself to right

[greyedian]

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