#but never owned the games myself

[jathun]

ugh my winter/christmas depression has hit so hard i like call of duty now wtf

[doesephs]

kevin day caught using slurs forced coming out trope

[somecunttookmyurl]

i'm not reblogging the whole post again but @zorilleerrant you are so real for this

[puppppppppy]

learning abt friendship decay and "not reaching out to your friends for months at a time unprompted is not neurotypical behaviour" has me feeling a certain way

[starrymothwings]

aside from dragon ball, i also have another fixation…

[beastsovrevelation]

Archangel Michael in Good Omens (2.02)

[fadetouchedsilk]

like I get the feeling the need to defend veilguard as an initial response. There’s a decent crowd of ‘critics’ who are up in arms because of Gay People In Their Videogame (which kills any other valid complaints they might have had imo)

But also I think a lot of us are just. Really disappointed that the thing we Waited 10 years for isn’t even coming close to living up to what we were told to expect? Even I knew that this game probably wouldn’t be great—tbh I didn’t go in with any expectations really—but I didn’t expect to feel so deflated by what we got either. The fact that there’s so much untouched potential mixed with what we know to be irl production problems makes it a harder pill to swallow. I think I was hoping this would be another DA2 situation, where you could see there were obvious cut corners but the story that we got was compelling enough to have lasting power & we were still able to dig our fingers into the lore. Hell, people are still talking about that game to this day in some circles. What does that tell you?

We knew this game would be flawed and have some misses (they always do) but I don’t think any of us could have anticipated how gutted the actual end product would have been. People are upset because we’re not dumb. We know budget cuts & layoffs happened. Just say the resources weren’t there and you had to prioritize. Just say certain things were left behind to meet a deadline. As frustrating as that is, it’s an infinitely more preferable explanation than acting like we’re all too stupid to pick up on any of this happening.

You’re not a bad person if you had fun or enjoyed elements of the game. I did & so did a lot of other people who are being vocally critical. I probably Will end up finding aspects I feel like giving watsonian explanations for in my own canon like I have in the past. But I also cant just ignore the problems & im not alone. It’s not ‘fake da fans’ who are mad from what I’ve seen. It’s the opposite! It sucks to see something you love decline. There’s a recurring theme of grief I keep picking up on in so many of these critical posts. Of course no one actually assumed our personal headcanons would become canon, but there was a certain standard of continuity that I think was silently expected to be present & it wasn’t there.

I’m not even sure what the point of this post is tbh. So many of us wanted to like this game so, so badly. We wanted the next part of a franchise that’s been important to us to be able to stand up with its predecessors. And for a lot of us it didn’t manage to hit that mark, no matter how much we genuinely wanted it to.

Idk. As much as I can come off as pretty flippant and irate about this whole thing, in truth it’s just something that leaves me feeling sad in a really quiet, deep sort of way.

[uncanny-tranny]

At this point, gender nonconformity is about what the person says their experience is.

If a woman with a beard or a man with lipstick and a mustache says they're gender nonconforming, then they are! If a woman with short hair or a man with long hair says they aren't, they aren't! And that's not even getting into the awesome nonbinary, abinary, genderqueer, intersex, and general genderfuckery that may both be and not be conforming.

So much of what is even considered gender conforming or gender nonconforming is based on a world of exclusion. When we start defining one's conformity with whether they fit into white cishetero perisex standards or not, we play into the idea that there's only a very narrow window of what is considered worthy of time and thought.

[ponyrepress]

I think we need to blow up the mouthwashing tag on every social media site

Solid fucking agree 🚬🐴

[copepods]

on my weekly silent constructu brainrotting fucking look at him

[veinsfullofstars]

️‍🌈 Havin' a ball with a couple of creative clay companions! 🌈

(ID: Kirby series fanart for the 10th anniversary of Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, featuring Kirby (in ball form) floating in a tie-dye void with his friends, Bandee, Elline, and Claycia. The puffball holds his little arms up in laughter and excitement, while his friends all look towards him with smiles on their faces. END ID.)

Started 01/15/25, finished 01/16/25.

[dailypokemoncrochet]

There should be little rewards for when I do certain milestones of this project. Like after I finish this next one it'll be just 365 left (one year worth of days) so I'm going to get me a cake!

[stellewriites]

thanks for the tags @dwarvenagenda & @pricegouge !! 💓

it was fun to check my stats for this year :3

funny to compare how i started my year vs how its ending (fandoms im writing for, fic length range, themes and tropes i’m preferring, etc).

i’ve found that although ive maybe written less and had less interaction in general from readers this year i’ve truly found some amazing people that i consider good friends on here now :’) and i wouldn’t swap that for anything!!

blank copy below and npt: @pricetagged @ohlawdthebirds @sentientcave @syoddeye @gloard @wraithdance @buttdumplin @luvrodite @mikichko @lewistoferrari @disgustingtwitches

[someheartsaretrue]

I honestly don’t get it. I do things.

I run. I cook. I am in community theatre. I have multiple creative outlets. I have great friends who I love and love me. I have a wonderful pet who is happy and healthy. I have hobbies. My life is full.

So why the fuck do I feel so worthless and empty because I don’t have a partner? And yeah, society pushes that on us as the ultimate goal, I get that. But I still want that for what feels like self-motivated reasoning. And yeah, it’s perfectly fine to be single, I get that too I’m not saying it isn’t. But I sure feel like shit about it.

Is it even about any of that? It feels like either I am at place, or the world is at a place where what I want is no longer available to me. I’ve hurt people. Recently. My therapist would probably tell me I haven’t hurt them as much as I think. But it still feels awful to know that I’m just one more shitty fucking guy in the world.

I always want to be better. And to recognise things in myself that can improve. It just feels like the goal posts are constantly moving and I’m two steps behind all the time.

[pjorange]

OK so I've never played Astro Bot in my life but I think the character is cute and I recently got a fat PS3 since I never had one as a kid and wanted to check it out, so I've been in a Sony mood in general... the entire Game Awards livestream I was just hyping up Astro Bot for every nomination and my friends on my call were absolutely confused like "bro you've never even played the game", and one of them was like "erm its just made up of a bunch of games Sony cancelled" (?)

So imagine the absolute pandemonium when Astro Bot won game of the year. Bro we were literally yelling and I'm like YEAH WOOOOO I KNEW IT, ASTRO BOT SWEEP!!! Just absolutely ATROCIOUS meat riding.

Anyways I bought a hopefully not bootleg but very cool regardless Astro Bot shirt off of Amazon (I needed more shirts anyways so this was actually good timing) and I signed up for a 99 cent Prime trial just to get it shipped faster, I'm hoping it'll arrive by the time we meet up on the 19th. Gonna wear a jacket over it and do some "hold on guys I gotta take this off" type reveal. I can imagine the utter shock and disbelief on their faces once they realize that their friend is an Astro Chad without even playing the game LOL

[puhpandas]

I'm watching jacksepticeyes security breach playthrough for the first time and why is his game the only working copy of security breach in the world