#just go outside

[legogradstudent]

Preparing to step out of his apartment, the grad student hesitates for an uncomfortable length of time.

[strangebiology]

The Nameless Trails

Tripods stand by tourists fanned across the valley floor,  A thousand shots in color, lots of orange and grey, and more.   (That is, unless, the sky won’t bless them with a cloudless day,)  The crowds look up and try their luck, for fire falls they pray. 

Yosemite is fine to me, I’ll trek to Yellowstone,  Each park is grand, these wondrous lands are deservedly well-known.  Though swarmed by hoards of travelers, bored, we wait in miles of cars, I’m glad I know the golden glow of sunsets lighting parks. 

But have you seen the silver gleam of pools reflected light,  Dancing on a doe and fawn who never know your sight? Among the stones and fields unknown, a fluttering of quails, Have you heard the calling birds that sing on nameless trails?

Have you run in rising sun and held the rocks unturned?  This land is mine, and yours, from rhine to blackened forests burned.  The vast expanse and bold romance of the wild and free west Out there awaits, beyond cow gates, with miles are we blessed. 

Without a name or worldwide fame, alone I can meander.  No signs, no shops, vacant hilltops, a private, hidden grandeur.  Go and see the copse of trees, the unadvertised cattails,  Near you and know, the golden glow of sun on nameless trails. 

[thestraggletag]

IT'S THE YEAR OF OUR FUCKING LORD 2023, WHO THE FUCK IS STILL POSTING RUMBELLE HATE IN THE FUCKING RUMBELLE TAG.

[eastofoktober]

😂 yes of course.

[disasterhag]

I promise you this, if you say 'I play dnd' to a group of strangers you will find there are sleeper agents and you just said the activation phrase.

You say, 'I am a DM,' and they go fucking feral.

[bugmistake]

guy having a full volume phone conversation in the library right now??

[badolmen]

People against piracy fail to realize that no, I can’t just ‘buy it.’ They stopped making DVDs and Blu-Rays. They’re barely offering digital copies for download. I am not spending money I could use for food or bills to pay for a subscription service just so I can always have access to a beloved piece of media. Especially not when the service will remove media on a whim without concern for how the loss of access to that piece will make its artistic conservation nigh impossible.

For example, I recently learned that Disney+ had an original film called Crater. It’s scifi, family friendly, and seems cool - I would love to buy it as a holiday gift for my little brother! But: it’s exclusive to D+ and THEY REMOVED IT LITERALLY MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE.

The ONLY way I can directly access this film is through piracy. The ONLY available ‘copies’ of this film are hosted on piracy websites. Disney will NEVER release it in theaters, or as something to buy, and it may NEVER return to the streaming service. It will be LOST because we aren’t allowed to purchase it for personal viewing. If I can’t pay to own it, I won’t pay for the privilege of losing it when corporate decides to put it in a vault.

So yes, I’m going to pirate and support piracy.

Edit: if you are able, use $5 you would otherwise use for a streaming subscription to donate to a GazaFunds campaign.

[krysmcscience]

Did somebody say Bill shouldn't be allowed to swear? I think somebody said Bill shouldn't be allowed to swear. Thanks to that, have these retooled The Good Place jokes:

The "powers that be" can refer to either the Theraprism staff, the Axolotl, or just. Ya know. Disney in general. Or all three! Whichever you think is funniest. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The "party" Bill's referring to is Weirdmageddon, of course. He was quite the ashhole to everyone back then.

Ford has probably gotten pretty good at the 'tune out your psychopathic ex with dank memes' challenge.

It must be very cathartic to be able to make Bill shut up whenever you want with just the press of a button. I'm sure Ford doesn't abuse this ability at all.

Oh, sure, 'Not now,' he says, before he immediately backs out of the newly-made hole in the Theraprism wall. 🙄

Don't worry, Bill doesn't get far.

also yeah i know this one doesn't have an attempted swear - i just wanted to use the joke because of the massive stink-eye involved in it because it makes me laugh

⬇️ More goofs beneath the brief ramble if you wanna skip it lmao⬇️

Why is Ford even there, you might ask? Well, he either decided he preferred to watch Bill suffer in person over being distantly and repeatedly harassed with the same evil desperation book for the rest of his life, or he got roped into some kind of contrived community service for 1.) all his many counts of interdimensional thievery, and 2.) his ignoring all the very clear warnings to NOT summon Bill in the first place (which I like to imagine is also illegal). Theraprism staff were just like, 'Wait, this guy matters to Bill? Ooh, we can USE that! It might be the only thing that can help him want to get better!' It is not considered that throwing Ford at Bill so soon after Weirdmageddon could instead make them both WORSE - in new and altogether special ways! :D

Anyway, I'm calling it the Community Service AU, and I am most likely not going to do anything else with it beyond appropriating these silly Good Place jokes. So, feel free to adopt the concept if y'all wanna??? Just make sure that Bill is still not allowed to swear, no matter what, full stop. It's gotta be a real linguistic corkblork of a situation for him, is all I'm sayin'.

Finally, have these bonus Good Place jokes, but with Handyman!Bill this time:

'Opposite tortures' doesn't sound so bad...at least until it's an all-powerful chaos entity known for torture saying it.

you may think i forgot mabel's cute pink cheeks but the truth is that i did in fact forget but then immediately stopped caring which makes it okay, SHHHHHHH

And, finally:

lmao this is shit

True facts, if you cram Season 1 Eleanor Shellstrop and Michael into a singular triangle shape, they turn into Bill Cipher. This is science, look it up. Or don't, and just trust the source that is me, bro.

Anyway, I should be in bed, y'all have fun with these, I guess. Tune in after like a week or so and maybe I'll have an addendum to my comic about how Bill was drawn naked for karaoke night. Because him actually being naked was not the only thing I considered as a plausible explanation. XD

Also if you see any inconsistencies or errors in any of these comics, No You Do Not :D

Also also, reblogs are rad as hell and I appreciate every single one, just don't repost, please and thanks. Every time a repost is made, an artist somewhere cries. :,)

[chimchiri]

gideon & harrow OR rd and sf as cowboys please please please

It's the cowgirl necro and her gunslinger cav! Who is so damn extra she's got three guns: one left, one right, and one in pole position! (She swears the ladies love it!)

[oars]

[soulxsteal]

Zard vc: please don't waste food. Vegetables are hard to get..."

He is using his sword to scrape the florets off his broccoli because they are gross. "Well YEAH if you're stuck in this dump where half of the vegetables have legs and faces."

[veliseraptor]

have realized that while i am not a fan necessarily of "people meet and immediately fall in love" i am a fan of "people meet and are immediately obsessed with each other." the love can come later but the absolute fixation should be immediate

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I love tornado survival guides. "Shelter in a basement or interior room without any windows. But if you're in a mobile home, just fucking die I guess lol"

[mechaesoterica]

Please excuse this post, this is just a little vent for me, y'know, a treat :)

HOLY FUCK THE INTERNET SUCKS ASS. Sure you've got like an infinite amount of tools at your disposal, with the ability to communicate with nearly anyone within seconds and what has this wonderful invention turned in to???

It's a cesspit of people who don't go outside, constantly being fed the worst humanity has to offer and then they get confused and stuck because they don't know why they are traumatised??

The world has always been kinda shit in some way, and people in the past may never have known what was happening, they would go on with their lives in ignorance and only worry about the stuff that's immediately around them. but now we get to see every bad thing that is happening right now, we're constantly being exposed to things that WE WERE NEVER MEANT TO PROCESS

What the fuck kinda evil shit is this? constantly exposed to terrible things, almost regardless of what website you go to and then people stay on those websites to dive into their comfort media because it is a guaranteed source of easy dopamine

I'm gonna go scream in a field

[composeregg]

edit (10/23/2024) now that the poll is over: Original version, with 10 questions, from April 2023 here

And, given that the original is from April 2023, that means I can very easily say:

No, this was not an ISAT reference!

Just because I use parentheses and 2nd person pov and love the same concepts of what a time loop can do to a person doesn't mean it's ISAT

(Yes, I like ISAT, the original poll is why I was recommended the game! But if you look at the original, you can see all the origins of the options to choose from, including what spurred me on with the moss option from the replies)

If I were going to make something for ISAT, I would never be so vague, you can simply look at my ao3 for proof of that

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

...Turns out gay sex actually was the solution.

(This is basically a redraw, come read the real deal over at Tiger Tiger)