#genuinely blows my mind

[messrmoonyy]

Randomly remembering Ashley Johnson telling me Annie Wersching would’ve loved my Tess cosplay always cures my problems

[vixvigil]

The United States generally gets over a thousand tornadoes annually. In addition to other weather events and considerations that the previous replier mentioned. (Also, side note, have you not stopped to consider that the people living in houses made of cheaper building materials might generally be doing so out of necessity and economic pressure rather than overt stupidity?Where I live, the ability to reside in an older brick home is considered a luxury.) Hope this helps.

i am not criticising the people buying or living in the houses. i am criticising the people building the houses, and the hyper capitalist culture that leads to profit being prioritised over quality, durability and safety. i am also not saying that this is a problem exclusive to the us (hell, google grenfell tower) it’s just that the corner cutting is incredibly transparent in usamerican houses—laughably so, hence the silly little post.

yes, the us has very extreme weather conditions, both in that it has a huge variety of them and that they can get real bad, but that is partly because it is a fuck off massive country. while there are higher occurrences of extreme weather conditions, that does not make extreme weather conditions the norm. they are not “most” weather. you do not walk outside in july surprised that for the first day of the year thus far you are not being sucked up into a tornado.

hope this helps!

[toshidou]

Your Vampire!König fic remains my favourite König fic

omg stop i'll cry rn

[blackberryjambaby]

(gay) americans are so weird about the word partner, they genuinely say things like "he kept saying partner but it turns out he has a gf :(" & then you find out he & his "girlfriend" have been together for six years & have a child. that is his fucking life partner!!!! what is your problem!!!!

[an-asuryampasya]

plastics are so sodding stupid

okay infuriating is a more accurate term here I suppose.

One of the biggest problems with plastic pollution is that plastics are very slow to degrade, and end up sticking around where they're not wanted for ages. Which is BadTM. But you'd think that hey, at least this is good for purposes where they're meant to last long, right? Like in museums!

Except no! Plastics are contrarian little fucks and go cause the exact opposite problem in museums. Because plastic objects have the potential to "to experience rapid and often spectacular disintegration with very little advance warning". And while degrading, they also often release substances that negatively affect other objects stored around them to boot.

And since there's SO MANY different kinds of plastics, from what I understand conservation of plastic objects in museums is kinda like playing whackmole as we struggle to keep up with different types of plastics and the varied ways in which they degrade. Each causing different problems and needing different solutions, of course, and why not shove multiple kinds of plastics within the same object for extra flavour? That way even treating one part of the object puts the rest of it at risk! Oh, joy.

Anyway plastics are stupid and they make it their goal to be a pain in the neck in every context they possibly can.

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Person with no whimsy: Why are you trying to trick g-d with loopholes? 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[jq37]

Gotta give Rekha Shankar all the respect in the world. I don't think even Emilly "Sexy Rat Hilda Hilda Wanda Childa" Axford has ever managed to put the fear of god into Brennan with five simple words: I have a stupid question. I am in desperate need to see the two of them in the Dome together. The chaos they would unleash beggars the imagination.

I feel like the difference between Emily and Rekha is Emily is out to Break Brennan's Game (affectionate) and Rekha is out to Break Brennan's Mind (affectionate). I want them at a table together so badly.

[theaurorasky]

Bridgerton 3x08 "Into the Light"

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 129

so was anybody going to tell me @adorkastock had their own random pose generator now or was i just supposed to find that out on my own

[zeroraiser]

I was reading through the comics where Surge has the dynamo cage (Because I am nothing if not consistent with my special interests) and I noticed something I never noticed before when reading. Something that has created what to me is now a huge currently unanswered question. We know that Dr Starline either kidnapped Surge and Kit, or they Volunteered and eventually became the characters we know. They were genetically modified, implanted with mechanical parts to enhance their new abilities, and then mentally conditioned to follow specific personality traits to follow the good Doctors plans. But did he ever try to MAKE something first?, CREATE a new being in order to fulfill his plans to usurp the Hero/Villain dynamic? And if he didn't...? Then WHAT ARE THOSE?

[djevelbl]

Also just finished watching a video that made me ACTUALLY ANNOYED at the guy who made it and like. ok if you don't want a story told through Minecraft that is made through the lens of content creation in ANY capacity then don't??? watch stories told through Minecraft????? Cuz like. they're mostly like that; even parkciv which is still good IS done through a content creation viewpoint — either as a parody on the medium it was being told through (scripted Minecraft content/Minecraft storytelling) or just as a result of telling the story and like. needing to pay the bills or whatever is a bit up in the air I guess BUT STILL. don't sing praises to a series that's GREAT in all cinematography aspects that JUST SO HAPPENS to be told through Minecraft all the while you're saying "oooh Minecraft storytelling shouldn't be scared of being called cringe just bc it's embracing roleplay to tell it's narrative, it shouldn't pretend to be non-scripted when it so clearly is" which true, JUST TO THEN critique parkciv for...

*checks notes*

... Embracing its medium AND its limitations to tell its story, JUST bc it didn't necessarily strive to be groundbreaking??? What??????

From what I understand, the series the guy was singing praises to like it was his own child at the local school's dance recital, Whitepine (which I'm currently watching so I'll just come back to this once I've finished — let's see if I'll eat my words [doubt it]) is GREAT in terms of visuals, audio and the likes — it obviously takes great care in forming its atmosphere and from the little I've seen the youtubers are genuinely being actors, not just their normal selves masquerading as characters (something that, admittedly, happens A LOT in scripted Minecraft content/Minecraft storytelling like SMPs or solo series [I'm looking at you, later half of the DSMP]). But it isn't Minecraft storytelling — in my opinion, at least.

Minecraft storytelling implies that it includes Minecraft and its mechanics in some way, shape or form that becomes impactful to the story that is being told — it isn't just a REALLY good story that just so happens to use Minecraft as its movie set. This, ultimately, is why I think the guy was wrong — not necessarily in the idea that the stories he critiqued had more room to grow (which parkciv at least does. I haven't watched ParrotX2's Unstable Universe videos and I don't really plan to; they're not my thing) but in what "Minecraft storytelling" should strive to be.

I have a vivid memory — trust me, this is related — of when I was younger (they say, like she's an octogenarian instead of not even being halfway through his lifetime. anyway) having played Minecraft Murder Mystery with my friends in the playground bc I really REALLY liked Gona89's video series on it. This is like, not really the same storytelling but they did have a sort of story — the chemistry between the youtubers felt like watching a series of characters interact with one another, and certain jokes from one video would seamlessly move into the next as well.

And y'know what? IT DIDN'T FUCKING WORK — playing the thing in the playground, that is. Because the thing wasn't made for that; stories have their medium of expression because they're tailored to it, or the medium is tailored to that story — if your Minecraft story can be told perfectly fine when divorced from its primary medium of expression (Minecraft), then it's LITERALLY not a Minecraft story: it just happens to use the game as the backdrop

... Kinda like The Lego Movie: a lot of the mechanics within the movie CANNOT be divorced from lego that easily BECAUSE it's a fucking LEGO MOVIE — partially related but not really the point of this rant: this is why A Minecraft Movie's trailer fucking FLOPPED. It showed absolutely NO POINT in being made bc it's NOT a Minecraft movie (pun accidentally stumbled upon but I shall confidently roll with it, actually), instead it JUST SO HAPPEN to use the videogame as its set.

TLDR: IF YOUR STORY DOESN'T INCLUDE MECHANICAL ELEMENTS THAT ARE INTRINSICAL TO THE GAME YOU USE TO TELL IT, THEN SAID GAME IS JUST THE FUCKING SET. IT'S NOT A MINECRAFT MOVIE JUST BC IT HAPPENS TO BE RECORDED IN MINECRAFT FOR FUCK'S SAKE

[fullscoreshenanigans]

Owange... 🧡🍑🧡🍊🧡🥭

Had to complete my heart eyes set with the ones I had for Valentine's and Norman's birthday week.

When you're Ray and this is your canonical internal monologue about your two best friends:

(Chapter 93)

[faofinn]

A question.

We're in a situation where there is no more Fao and Finn.

Shiv has left, taking Fao and Ely (epoch's, but too much to talk to both of us), and leaving all our fics frozen still.

As mentioned previously, you can find shiv on ao3, but all of my work has only ever been on here.

Would people be interested in a rewritten situation where the Daniels etc remain (but without Fao obv)? Fao left in prev works but removed from future? Leaving the blog frozen with no changes or additions? Completely new characters on a new blog that has zero to do with the boys?

If anyone has any tips etc, they'd be appreciated.

[writers-in-moominvalley]

Mythological parallels.

[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

pov: u see Deep Purple in concert, the most friendly boy ever sits next to you, a few days later you go on a date together, get along super well and your life suddenly is better that you could ever imagine...