#it’s very funny in hindsight

[belle-of-a-time]

Someone (it was birdie) dropped a phone on my face (it was an accident and I still love them) and it still hurts, and then my client hit me in the face and I’ve been feeling Weird, kinda spacey and I have a bad headache so I looked up “mild concussion?” I think I’m good btw but I was a little concerned. Even if it is a very mild concussion (the phone didn’t have time to reach terminal velocity but it did land on my nose skinny long side perpendicular to my nose and it hit right where the bone meets the cartilage so I was worried abt it) I’m like good, I iced it and I’m going to take something for the pain so I think I’ll be fine.

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

Broke (2016): BBC Sherlock is a phenomenal piece of media and anything that seems like a flaw just hasn't been fully explored yet

Woke (2020): BBC Sherlock is an incredibly flawed series run by an egotistical writer, it never deserved the hype and is actively bad on so many fronts (especially representation)

Bespoke (2024): BBC Sherlock is flawed and bogged down by increasingly poor writing, which many fans refused to see while it was airing, leading to hugely misplaced expectations (particularly for the final series), AND it has the seeds of some compelling characterizations and portrayals, some genuinely solid performances, and touches--albeit imperfectly--on complexities that are still being discussed today (particularly as it relates to the relationship between Sherlock and John). The huge cultural impact of the show has created a massive pendulum effect in its public perception, leading to most people today remembering a caricature of the show (whether positive or negative) rather than appreciating its nuanced merits and failings...that being said Season 4 sucked

[hazellvsq]

headcanon that hazel had the most parasocial beef imaginable with shirley temple. 8 year old hazel was writing hate mail to the local paper with her crayons calling the also 8 year old shirley a sellout and an industry plant. in 2010 hazel's watching nick at nite on the fifth cohort rec room tv and sees the 2 minute long shirley temple box set commercial and loses her fucking mind.

[chongoblog]

Seeing so many indie games include a metanarrative about the creator and how they interact with what they have created is incredibly beautiful and I adore that, but I also think it’s very funny because one of the earliest and more iconic meta-esque moment in gaming was just killing John Romero’s severed head

[jkrockin]

Wait what guy who hadn't read Atlas Shrugged?

I was pretty sure I'd told this story here, but a cursory search suggests that I have not. Okay let's gooooo

Many moons ago, I worked in an emergency services call centre. I worked nights- I could get regular shifts, it paid well, and I am a huge freak, just like everyone else who works nights in a call centre. It is a lifestyle that attracts freaks. Some of my coworkers weren't full-time creatures of the night, but students or whoever who picked up occasional nights for the extra money, and one of them was Libertarian Shithead, who we'll call LS for short.

LS was a twentysomething white dude who wore a lot of name brand surfwear and designer sunglasses. I assume his parents were rich. LS loved nothing better than recreational arguing. Unfortunately, he wasn't very good at it; he had some of the most dogshit opinions I've ever encountered in the wild, and was terrible at defending them. He'd say some crap about how Gattaca-type eugenics is Fine, Actually, because if you let people make designer babies, the ~*Free Market will decide what traits are desirable! Racism and colourism and ableism and sexism and intersexism won't affect those choices at all! And I'd get mad, because I have principles to speak of, and we'd get into it, and WITHOUT FAIL, we'd get maybe halfway into an actual discussion about whatever horseshit garbage he was on tonight, and the second he thought he was losing, he'd say "oh, well. I'm an ~*Objectivist, so you can't really understand my perspective unless you've read Ayn Rand." Then he'd sigh, and change the subject.

At the time I had not read any Ayn Rand. Being fundamentally powered by spite, I withstood maybe three weeks of this shit before I pirated an epub of Atlas Shrugged, put it on my e-reader, and proceeded to slam through it at supersonic speed so I could finally get to finish an argument with this terrible boy.

Anon, I fucking hated Atlas Shrugged. The book is bad. It's way too long, every single character is an unbelievable douche, the prose sucks. Ayn Rand wants to fuck a train so so so badly, but the prose is so turgid I couldn't even get invested in how much she wants to fuck a train. And the core of the matter, the politics I was there to understand, are, y'know. Objectivist. Eye-bleedingly selfish and capitalistic, expressed in amazingly childish and blinkered terms. Even the bits where it seems like the shithead capitalist dudes want to fuck each other are too mired in the scunge of Rand's terrible views to be enjoyable.

But I read the fucking thing! I powered through it with only quite minimal complaining! I finished the book on the train to work, and when I saw that LS was on that night, I plonked myself in a seat by him, and metaphorically cracked my knuckles, ready to fuckin' party. In a perfect world, I would have been cool enough to have waited for the perfect mid-argument moment to drop, but I didn't. I think I lasted exactly until we were both off a call at the same time, and then leaned in as close as the desk dividers would let me, and said "So I finished Atlas Shrugged. I have some thoughts."

I cannot overstate how quickly it became obvious that LS had not read the book. For a hot second I thought maybe it had just been a while and the fine details had escaped him, but no; he didn't know who half the characters were, or key points of the plot, or even know any of the stuff in the John Galt speech, i.e. the big juggernaut of Here's How Objectivism Works near the end of the book about Objectivism that this fucking guy hypothetically based his Objectivist views on. It took me maybe five minutes, in between calls, to realise this, and another five for him to admit he hadn't actually read any Ayn Rand. He'd read her Wikipedia page.

ANYWAY I didn't speak to him for like a month after that, and I don't think either of us lost out there!

[phantombre]

Intruder Alert!

A Birdboi is on a Path in the Woods!

Jokes aside, it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that the player character is a bird-man creature (originally thought he was a lizard or dragon man). Then I saw an interview with the developers who specifically said that he's a "bird guy". Huh.

Anyway, after looking a bit more closely at the mirror segments, this is how my brain saw him. Was supposed to just be a rough sketch, but I guess I went ham with detail lines and paint. He's a little bit disproportionate, but he's like a monster dude, so...

(I also have some designs for the Narrator and the Voices. None of them are birdlike.)

[embarasseddragon234]

thinking about Naruto Clash of Ninja (the first Gamecube game) and how in it when u pit Iruka and Kakashi against each other they're like

Iruka: Show me everything you got!

Kakashi: Careful now, don't overdo it.

And how, when I was a kid I was CONVINCED that they were flirting. I didn't even know what Naruto OR flirting was! My grandparents just got it and the Gamecube in a raffle and I played it knowing nothing.

Anyway the point of this post is that my eight year old self was absolutely right they're definitely married.

(i also thought they were fake fighting as some sort of distraction or something. Not sparring but pretending to actually fight and if that ever actually happened PLEASE tell me I never got very far in the show and I NEED to see that plz)

[kradeelav]

old art, but! I was looking through my archives for my fake FEH base!zihark i did back in Q2 2020 literally right before his FE9 ninja alt got in and i ... never posted it here lol?

anyway, here's all the poses + a timelapse + a fake screenshot. :) sharp eyes will know i was riffing off of senri kita's (FE9/10 character illustrator&designer) distinctive style; this holds up okay but i've learned tricks since then and may or may not clean it up a bit.

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

I will make your weird masochist friend call you a tsundere and beg for you to hit him

[majosullivan]

So during one of my many re-reads of Castle Swimmer, there was a certain line that stuck out to me, considering the current events of the comic. Now, I don’t know if this wording choice was intentional or coincidental, but well…

Wendy…

WENDY

[lavenderjewels]

you fascinate me

[yuesya]

Shiki kinda reminds me of acheron from honkai star rail, did you draw any inspiration from her, or just a coincidence

... My friend, zenith of stars was written and posted before Honkai Star Rail was even released. xD

[sgtpeppers]

the fact I just sat through an entire work call with the most beautiful woman who was wearing a t-shirt with 'lesbian' written across the front and managed to not get flustered is a miracle

[lostwords-found]

putting my "celia is actually archivesverse jonah lol" tinfoil-and-red-string truther hat back on for a moment, just to say i cannot believe it didn't occur to me until now how incredibly fucking perfect that would make the first statement chester reads to her.

celia: *sits down at computer*

chester, immediately: I RESIGN, MY BOSS IS THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD AND I'M SO GLAD MY HORRIBLE WORKPLACE GOT BURNED DOWN. HERE IS A LIST OF ALL THE WAYS MY JOB TRAUMATIZED ME. PLEASE SEND FORMER BOSS TO GET INTERROGATED BY PYROMANIAC TRIGGER HAPPY MERCENARIES KTHXBAI NEVER SPEAK TO ME AGAIN, ALSO YOU OWE ME SO MUCH MONEY, LOSER

[b4kuch1n]

tdov was like a week ago already but I just wanna say when I came over to vacation slash help my sworn brother move flat he told me, "ever since you said you wanted to get top surgery I've been thinking about it. it's straight up number two on my bucket list"

[pipperoo]

you know it’s a terrible sign when i’ve cried to “second child, restless child” by the oh hellos far too many times over literally nothing (i have no idea what this means)

(edit: this was a draft from late august, what the hell was i going through that made me cry to this song?? like girl you good?)