#let me just say. yikes.

[kitabasis]

Why does GTSE want the player characters to start a religion so bad??? Is it not enough for a krewe to be a group of traumatized people with ghost personas solving supernatural problems?

It seems like they slightly toned it down in 2E, thankfully (although I would prefer if they just had that be. An option rather than the default), but they’ve maintained the aspect of like….encouraging players to appropriate aspects from real-world practices? Which. Given that they seem to have had one (1) diversity consultant (Whitney “Strix” Beltrán), who has no connection I can tell to voudun (I believe that’s the correct term, please correct me if I’m wrong) or New Orleans Black culture in general, which GTSE 1E probably cribbed from the most (2E still does, but to a lesser extent)…I don’t actually remember where this sentence was going but I think you get the idea?

[halfcaffeinated]

i feel like im watching a maritime history unsolved wrecks video in real time. where they like. spell out all the design issues, the protocol errors, all the things that we now know were wrong with the vessel and the expedition. what likely caused the wreck

except that. this is current? we already knew all the issues with the sub? everything unsafe about it was known?? and it's still been allowed to dive?????

[avadmortain]

the way this is so so so much more painful in this context 😭😭😭

[cream-and-tea]

oh boy ohhhh man there nuclear-waste-facility levels of toxic family dynamics happening in my google docs rn

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

A month ago I had the passing thought that I didn't like Taylor Swift when I was younger because I was behind her eras and it was a really casual observation then but every day I find new ways it's true

[widevibratobitch]

something about being told im 'the leading person at this whole academy when it comes to interpretation and stage intelligence' by the husband of the woman im trying (not really. but i mean. who knows) to seduce... ok boy you got me. lets make it a polycule.

[supersecretnerd]

Ok so these designs are cute as hell, the Internet is just mean

I have too many thoughts about a game I still need to watch

[menlove]

just walked passed a sight that would've inspired a stephen king novel I fear

[wereshrew-admirer]

sangfielle 2 on the horizon….. have to get hustling on that sf54 animation

[ningningkittie]

so now im sure she is the one who has been sending me anon hate about me being ugly.... 💀

[asagi-red-wolf]

ok but you KNOW Monster High did something SEVERELY right when I spent last year worried about all the changes they’d make to g3 because I love g1 so much but now all I can do is worry about all the changes they’ll make to g4 (because you know it’ll happen eventually) because I love g3 so much

[mostbrilliantidiot]

🧃📚 🔪

 

🧃 ⇢ share some personal lore you never posted about before

Never posted about before??? Oof. That limits me to "rather slutty college adventures", "not entirely my story to tell", "I haven't posted because it's actually boring", or " I haven't posted because I forgot about it"

Hm.

Oh!

My language education. It's odd for an American, and interesting in that way.

Before the age of 18 I had three years of learning Japanese, three years of French, two of Spanish, as well as informal time learning Romanian, Latin, Russian, German, and Italian. Also a smattering of various other European languages.

I no longer speak or read any of it. I'm trying to dust off my French, but "use it or lose it" is REAL. All I have left are a handful of words here and there across everything I used to know. Not enough to make myself understood to a native speaker.

📚 ⇢ what's the last thing you wrote down in your notes app? 

The last thing that ISN'T a shopping list is:

"Yours is a hungry fire/ if the flames ate my soul I thought it only the consumation of love"

It's some thoughts on an OC AU involving an ugly divorce.

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

Oh hell that could be anything. When a poisonous dye was popular. Common names in 10th century France. What crushing someone's trachea sounds like (spoke with a primary source on that one). The history of a small stretch of remote American highway. The chemical composition of human saliva. Nutritional deficiency risks in obligate carnivores. Bite strength information in both humans and jaguars. When did the phrase "what the fuck" enter common parlance. Etc.

[shingogf]

I will go ahead and say this bc i dont see enough ppl saying it

Despite his outrightly cartoonish, often times ridiculous way of being helplessly evil, medic is and can be a nuanced character. Throughout my years being in and out of various fandoms i've noticed a pattern: people clinging onto a morally grey character (usually a villain but not always) then proceeding to completely ignore or straight up erase bits of their personality when producing fan content, resulting in what i personally like to call the "villainized villain syndrome". Basically, overexaggerating their in canon personality and using the "oh well he's completely off his rocker so he MUST be willing to do ANY kind of immoral act because of it!" argument that I personally do not like.

I saw this predominantly in fanfics where ppl will write the reader being straight up n*n c*ned by him and not even JUST in a sexual sense, like being experimented on without their explicit consent which idk just doesn't sit well w me esp when u market said fic as a wannabe, romance-happy reader insert.

Medic, as an ENTP, uses ti-fe which implies NOT forcing yourself on others. Instead he uses his wits and charm to get people to comply with his wishes and we have clearly seen that once he outsmarted the devil himself. Demanding and forcing your views on people is a te-fi trait. He doesn't even need to use force, he's so good at dismantling others' logic and giving arguments that he just...gets what he wants.

I think you are heavily misinterpreting medic's whole character when u write him with a SINGLE defining trait a.k.a an overwhelming senseless evilness (TOWARDS his OWN teammates even) that results from his desire to be experimenting on ppl. In my opinion it does not make sense for him to REALLY put his own teammates mindlessly in danger just bc he feels like it. Yea he's unethical and completely disregards any kind of human norm but whatever he does almost always benefits the team in the end, not to mention he experiments on them p much consensually. Heavy seemed a-ok with being cut open since that's also kinda mandatory anyway in their job. Medic isn't "the big evil" he is "means to an end" evil. For such a logical man it would make 0 sense for him to disregard his team's safety COMPLETELY, it would be taxing including for his own paycheck.

Like yes medic big medic scary medic evil but have you considered he can have nuances and shades to his fucked up character? I think ppl forget he literally bluffed in front of classic heavy when he asked him if he has any problem with going against his old teammates only to cause the classic team to go into BANKRUPCY to revive sniper who technically was his enemy at the time. Then proceeding to rejoin his old team and AGAIN bluffing so heavy could take down classic heavy. And he was visibly happy to be welcomed back into the red team.

This isn't me saying medic isn't the worst example of a human being and that i want ppl to write him "softer", no. This is me saying that a villain wouldn't commit literally ANY kind of immoral act just bc he's "evil" and that even vile and violent characters can have variations in their behavior.

[doeeyeddyke]

Snap Out of It

Desi LGBT Fest

Day 8: The Acceptance You Hoped For vs. The Acceptance You Got

@desi-lgbt-fest

TW/CW: Body Horror, Flashing Images

(I’m afraid I don’t know how to censor images so the gif is beneath the cut. For the non flashing ver, see my reblog.)

Snap Out of It

Desi LGBT Fest

Day 8: The Acceptance You Hoped For vs. The Acceptance You Got

@desi-lgbt-fest​

[welcometoteyvat]

co-op is crazy bc in the same co op session you can immediately click with someone and then find out the other rando who joined might be a racist

[dadbots]

August… time to get spooky.