#simpler times i tell you

[wanderer-clarisse]

cousin bonding time (I like to imagine that Maedhros is the one who tied baby Finrod's hair!)

sorry for being suddenly inactive here lately, Things Happened and I haven't really had the time to sit down and draw until this week ;-; hope this little sketch can make up for it!

[frostbite-the-bat]

society if literally 80% of rw fandom and especially rw analysis youtubers (who are great, EXCEPT) stopped calling gourmand heckin' chonker chubby diabetic ginormous whatever and paid more mind to their whole character and not just the fact that they're fat

[silbeni]

More stuff for class

[whitesunlars]

ngl........ miss being in pre-school at my synagogue and thinking everyone in the world was jewish

[ashtcnirwin]

if each 5sos album was some sort of food, be it a singular item like a vegetable or a loaf of bread, or a wholeass dish, or anything in between, what do you think it would it be?

[rowenabean]

So I have been really actually doing better this last week, which is absolutely lovely, and two things that I have noticed:

It's much simpler now. It's really nice to have a phone call with a friend and just be like "nice phone call that we can both enjoy" instead of being like "does she actually like talking to me is she just doing this because I'm asking for it is she just pitying me". That's an exhausting way to be!

And then the corollary to that is that it actually is easier for me to be interesting! Because I'm not stressing about three levels of anxiety about the conversation I can relax into just chatting and it's much less of an effort! It's a terrible catch-22 but I actually am a less boring person now!

[scriptdeviant]

...

She suddenly remembered the sweaty guy who took her to the arcade and watched her eat dumpster spaghetti.

Is... Is he still alive? Because mortal lifespans went by waaay faster than she thought.

Things to check up on later.

[evilmagician430]

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top ten DIABOLICAL women of science and medicine. number 1: the mad(die) scientist A.K.A. ""Dr. Friend""*

*she isnt a real doctor, not yet atleast

maddiefriend will become real in 5 seconds

[therealjammy]

Working on more angsty canon-divergence

[blood-teeth]

just played From This Mouth That Bleeds and damn???? top notch, can't wait for more

What were your inspirations??💕

(omg i just realized i forgot to message you back i'm so sorry!!)

i'm so glad you enjoyed the few words I have up right now!! I can't wait to release the first four chapters, I'm hoping they'll be super fun : )

as for inspiration... i have to be honest and tell you that mostly the weird shit i think about comes from dreams. I had a dream where I was inside a shark watching old reels of an earth from long ago, when the oceans were still blue and pink and gold. and I knew this shark somehow, we were friends and he loved me and i loved him.

but i'm a huge shark fan - i wish i could show you my room the amount of shark paraphernalia i have up right now should mark me as a marine biology student.

[vinkumakkara]

does anyone else have a hard time telling just from the audiovisual cues how damaged your vehicle is in srr? for example i was doing the Chalupacabra deliveries and thought my van was almost at full health because nothing seems to be indicating it’s actually damaged, but then i got bodyslammed once and it immediately lit up

i know they added a separate health bar for this but i’m so used to the vehicle itself telling me when it’s time to bail and all the billowing dust is making it even harder to tell if the car’s smoking. i’m basically coming straight from the Stilwater games to this and having to rely on hud elements so heavily rather than just looking at the game itself feels really unnatural, it’s like the balance is askew one way or another with basically everything that has to do with relaying this kinda information to the player

[phoenixwrites]

WOMAN. I haven't thought about Smallville in years. I own the whole series on DVD. I can see it on my shelf right now. It's staring back at me. DON'T DO THIS TO ME. DON'T YOU DO IT.

WHOA WHOA WHOA. I DID NOT KNOW THIS OF YOUR LIFE.

HEY. HEY. YOU GET BACK HERE. I WANT ANSWERS. I AM DRAGGING YOU ALONG WITH ME I WANNA KNOW SHIPS, HEADCANONS, AND LIKE A COUPLE OF RARE PAIRS, YOU KNOW I LOVE THAT SHIT.

LOOK I AM ON A JOURNEY AND YOU CAN COME WITH ME OR I CAN DRAG YOU ALONG IN THE TRUNK OF MY CAR, SO YOU CAN PICK LADY.

[devotedlystrangewizard]

me?? juggling two hyperfixations and two special interests?? its more likely than you think

[quil12]

I'm writing a fic taking place in the 90's and I just had to remember that house phones were like a common thing that people had and used regularly

[pinkfey]

messed up at work again bc no one left me instructions. feel like ending it all 😩

[leefsnakesnake]

There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for. EDIT: There are also some things people outside the EU can do, as well as additional things some people in specific EU countries like Germany and France can do that aim to solve this same issue as well. You can find that here. (https://www.stopkillinggames.com/)

(Note: There was a petition for UK people but the recent politics stuff there means it's on hold and has to be resubmitted and that may take some time.)

Additionally if you want to keep up with this you can check out Ross Scott (Accursed Farms on youtube or his website) who has been posting monthly about this and deserves a lot of credit for all this work.

(I hope that's all the stuff I missed)

EDIT 2: I changed the link to go directly to the form instead, this SHOULD work!