#dominance games

[mawguai]

Four friends, four treasures.

[communistkenobi]

on a less off-the-cuff note I feel like horror is a good genre to use for critical interventions on the “cozy farming sim” style of game. like there is a baseline settler colonialism & christianity baked into a lot of the mechanics/conventions in farming sims (player character being offered a vast ‘empty’ plot of ‘undeveloped’ land, digging up “ancient artefacts” to donate to a museum, an emphasis on getting away from the city to return to more traditional/small town living, marriage and children as the natural end state of the game, etc) that are genuinely horrifying when you think about them lol. a game highlighting the horror of those conventions would be really fun to play I think

[egophiliac]

(breathing into a paper bag) FRALIO....

can't believe they gave us another guy. oh my god. so I guess Kelka is more, uhhh, more OOO then, and Fralio is Ankh? not that it matters too much, although they do seem to be doing something with the connected Riders so. who knows. anything goes! or if I may, anything gOOOes! god. of course they're the Ambition parallel. of course they are. oh my god.

fortunately there's nothing else they can throw at me right now that could possibly --

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[aardvaark]

the leverage team would have had a games night… once. everyone cheated so much and in such increasingly extreme ways that all mentions of monopoly are banned in their headquarters (this makes talking about marks who monopolize the market very confusing)

[highladyofterrasen7]

Ana huang: writes any man

Me:

[goddessalina032524]

[yaminerua]

It’s so easy for my brain to trick itself into thinking they’re about to kiss here lmao

[feedeemistress]

Your lovely piggy 😍🥰

[bonefall]

the worst parent poll made me realize just how many ppl in the fandom are willing to jump straight into abuse apologia. bc on one hand you have ppl dumbing down crow's abuse to "him just being mean" and on the other end you have ppl saying that curlfeather didnt abuse frostpaw because she sacrificed herself and frost + her siblings love her so she couldnt possibly be an abuser. truly mindboggling stuff take these serious topics away from the fandom asap.

Part of me feels like it's because many in this fandom have a feeling that if a character's actions are abusive, it means you're "not allowed" to like them. Like there's an impulse where if you liked a character, it MUST mean they weren't THAT bad, because you'd personally never like "an abuser."

As if it reflects poorly on your own morality, as a person, that you connected with An Abuser. Understood them, even. Even if it was just a character.

If it's immoral to Like Abusive Characters, of course your reaction is going to end up being abuse apologia. To enjoy something isn't logical, it's emotional, so you will get defensive about it when questioned. When you do, it's not going to be based on logic because you didn't reason yourself into that position in the first place. It's an attack on you as a person.

I feel like that's often the root of abuse apologia in this fandom, and sometimes the world at large; "If I admit that this character/person IS abusive, it means I was doing something bad by liking them, so I have to prove to everyone else that they weren't or it means I'm bad too."

And to that I say... That's a BAD impulse! Grow up and admit you resonated with a character that did a bad thing! If that's an uncomfortable thought, sit with it!

Sometimes abusers are likeable! They usually DO think they're justified in their actions, or doing it for "a good reason," or were just too preoccupied to care. MOST of the time, people who commit abusive actions are also hurt or traumatized in some way. You might even empathize with them. None of this means their actions have to be excused or downplayed.

"Abusers" aren't a type of goddamn yokai, they're people just like you and me. You don't help victims of abuse by putting the people who hurt us in an "untouchable" category.

In fact, all it does is make you less likely to recognize your own controlling behavior. You're capable of abuse. People you love are capable of it, too. People who love YOU can still hurt you.

In spite of how often people regurgitate "It's Ok To Like A Character As Long As You're Critical Of Their Actions," every day it is proven to me further and further that no one who says it actually understands what that means.

All that said; I think it's no contest which one's a worse parent, imo.

They both mistreated their children, but Curlfeather did it through manipulation without verbal or physical abuse. She politically groomed her into a position of power so that she could use her as a pawn. It can be argued if this counts as child abuse-- but it's firmly still under the broad category childhood maltreatment, which is damaging.

(though anon I'm with you 100% at seeing RED when "but she sacrificed herself" is used as an excuse. Curlfeather's death does NOT CHANGE what she did to Frostpaw in life. I think it's a valid point to bring up when comparing her to another terrible parent for judgement purposes, such as in the context of this poll, but I really hate the implication that redemption deaths "make up" for maltreatment.)

Crowfeather, meanwhile, is textually responsible for putting Breezepaw through verbal AND physical abuse, as well as child neglect. His motivations include embarrassment from a hurt ego, revenge on his ex, and being sad because of a dead girlfriend. This abuse drives Breezepelt towards radicalization in the Dark Forest.

You could argue Curlfeather is a worse person for Reedwhisker's murder, but as a parent? It's not even a question to me. Crowfeather's one of the worst dads in WC.

[pink-mask-06]

Dominic: wait you and Isabella don't fight?

Kai: nope, she tells me to stfu and I do.

Jules:

Jules: YOU SEE THAT?!

Josh: Oh pLeAsE-

[bocchidaily]

Day 139: Drawn with closed eyes and non-dominant hand

[thencomethecherryblossoms]

Are ana huang’s books literary masterpieces? No. Will I devour each one when they come out? Yes.

[crabsnpersimmons]

a little while ago @linafoxoficial challenged me to draw Sun as HUGE as i could so...

i'm taking it one step further (:<

i challenge y'all to draw Giant Sun

ALL AROUND THE WORLD!

i'll tag a few people, but there's no obligation! this is just some silly fun (:

@starriegalaxy @vacantfields @inkydoughnut @nikolliver @thatmooncake @normal-about-the-dca @oobbbear @sulfadimethoxine @cookiiemancer @cacaocheri @scribbyizback @ren-054 @endu115 @eggcromancer @ohno-the-sun @imclou @aquacomet @horrific-dunce @haruka-636 @zamjd @vodyaniks @ghosteii @strawberrytamii @cosmog-mcgee

and anyone else who wants to join!

it's okay if you're not used to drawing buildings and backgrounds, neither am i 😂

i did a little comic, but feel free to do whatever's most comfortable for you, as long as it's Giant Sun in all his anxious, big-nosed glory standing next to a landmark of some sort.

(PLUS, lina's birthday is coming up in May, so this is a like a fun little gift for lina as well!)

so here's lina's Giant Sun in... Toronto! 🇨🇦

now go! send Giant Sun across the globe!

[emmcfrxst]

you’d think that being an outlaw and having been with other women before would lessen the impact a peek of your bare skin has on arthur, but it really doesn’t. as soon as you bare yourself to him— even if it’s just a flash of a soft, bare leg, a peek between the valley of your breasts or the dip of a shoulder— arthur starts fumbling immediately, ears turning red and mouth going dry. he’ll chastise himself, embarrassed by his lack of restraint because he’s a grown man for god’s sake, he’s not a hormonal teenager anymore; but if you do it on purpose—and you always let him know when you do with a sly, wicked little smile he wishes to kiss off of your lips— he immediately feels his heart beating faster, ears ringing as he focuses on the part of you that’s exposed to his hungry eyes, cock straining against the coarse material of his riding pants— he’ll indulge you in this little cat and mouse game for a bit more, already thinking about the way your warm, wet cunt is going to feel around his cock when he finally takes you after you break the last of his (surprisingly) solid patience

[healpimp]

Becoming good at TF2 as a queer fag is amazing bc if someone homophobic starts shit w you and they are worse they will be obsessed w you throughout the whole game in a way thats so embarrassing

[damnprecious]

the dj playing cha cha cha during a break in the finland-sweden ice hockey world championships game sure makes me feel things