#solid 80%

[morgan-the-lonely-brick]

That's it. I don't like my book anymore. I'm rewriting it. All 200 pages of it.

[unlimitedbutchworks]

does anyone else generally find it funny that when tme trans ppl talk about their experience being “former” terfs or getting “sucked into the pipeline” other tme ppl get down on all fours to suck them off for their bravery in the face of bigotry and their gracious and selfless will to change but when a trans woman jokes about having used 4chan she’s viewed with suspicion and marked as a pedophilic racist indefinitely

[souldagger]

you know how old scifi is. [quote that will haunt me for years and years] [quote that will haunt me for years and years] [quote t

[zaddyazula]

happy 80th birthday to the cunt king!!!

[bisclavaret]

Never leave your tummy vulnerable to attack

[oreganocactus]

one thing about yoo joonghyuk is that hes like fundamentally a slice-of-life travel adventure food manga protagonist forced into a midsekai powerscale fantasy. like you knowwwww he would love to be traveling through a vaguely european medieval fantasy setting learning how to cook different meals with new ingredients and solving small community issues but instead hes in the most miserable apocalyptic level-up bullshit ever. and thats the core of his issue.

[aroaceleovaldez]

yknow i joke about pjo fandom being "ableism fandom" cause of how ironically the fandom behaves about disability themes in the franchise (and within the community) but the notes on that one post are apparently indicating the majority of the fandom legitimately did not process any disability themes in the entirety of the series besides being explicitly told in direct terms that demigods have adhd/dyslexia and that actually explains a lot

[sorrelpaws]

GOTTA KEEP THOSE RECEIPTS, DAWG

[meirimerens]

one of my pieces for @otasunefanzine 🫶 it was an honor and a joy to be invited to participate, and an even greater joy to see everyone's fantastic works come to fruition ☮️🕊️

[willowcrowned]

if you have an idea in the shower do not listen to the voice that tells you you’ll remember it when you get out that is the devil talking

[waffowo]

Need everyone to get into the Metal Gear Solid series (personal rankings 2 = 5 > 3 > 4 > 1) because at its core it’s about a group of gay autistic men who are unable to sustain a healthy heterosexual relationship with the most insane gay drama between 80% of them.

[heavenpierceher]

i think discourse on this site would rapidly become significantly less annoying if we replaced “fandom purity culture policing” or whatever the fuck it is people call it with “moral scrupulosity” which is the actual term for that behavior

[hello-eeveev]

Okay hold, when Fearne was messing with Essek while he was asleep (? not quite asleep?), she rolled a 9 sleight of hand, and Matt said that Essek just barely noticed it.

Can someone who understands D&D mechanics better than me help me figure out Essek’s wisdom score might be? Is his passive perception 10? Or was he asleep and so Matt was ruling him at disadvantage (and do you think Matt was using a -5 for that like the sources say? or halved like he was ruling last episode?) I also don’t know how one calculates passive perception from the base wisdom score, so I have no chance or reverse engineering that.

But I really want to know if Essek is as high int, low wis as we’ve all been joking he is.

[thislovintime]

Photo 1 courtesy of Disc & Music Echo, January 1968. "When they shot them down at Kent State, that was the end of the flower-power era. That was it. You throw your flowers and rocks at us, man, and we'll just pull the guns on you. Essentially, the revolution, which was sort of tolerated as long as it wasn't a significant material threat, was not tolerated anymore. And everybody went 'Ooops' and scurried for cover and licked their wounds. They became isolated – which was the point of it all. 'Togetherness isn't going to get it' was the moral they tried to lay on us, because the less togetherness there is, the more room there is for exploitation. Kent State was an attempt. Let's try this and see what happens. And what happened was the shooting and vast inflation and a swing to the right — the moral majority. The whole thing was inherent in the situation. A certain amount of loosening up, a certain amount of extra leisure, and people are going to try to improve their lot instead of just barely hanging on. If you had a little extra you're going to try to make everything better. And if you see that your own happiness, or the lack of it, is tied in with the sadness of your neighbor, you're going to start feeling communal. And that's going to expand until the crunch comes. As long as people are educated to believe that isolated self-interest is the only way to go, when the crunch comes they'll withdraw from each other. And only now, in the faintest glimmerings, do I see any sense that people are realizing that togetherness and flower power alone won't get it. It's got to be togetherness, flower power, plus a willingness to do something pretty stern from time to time. If you're not willing to behave sternly, people who won't stop short of stern behavior are going to keep on going. It's taken a while for that message to sink in." - Peter, When The Music Mattered (1984)

“I personally find the idea that we (as a country) never did anything bad to anybody else, and that the only reason anyone would do anything to us is their unbridled inhuman evil, to be very far wide of the truth. The number of times I have been accosted in one way or another where I had nothing to do with it is maybe in the 3-5% range, if that. I’m not excusing anyone from blame. But the more we think we’re all good and certain others are all evil, the worse things get, not the better they get. Only the humility to realize my part in the events of my life allows me to walk in relative peace. The other attitude is called pride, in the seven-deadly-sins sense of the word, and the Bible is dead right when it says it goes before a fall.” - Peter, Ask Peter Tork

Q (from a 15-year-old): “[W]hat do you think young-ish people can do to help the world 'situation’?” Peter: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and there’s no getting over that. The job for the rest of us is simply not to demonize anyone, and to fight as hard as needed for what we are sure is right. As to what the ‘young-ish’ can do, I propose what I propose the old-timers do: do what’s in front of you to do with gusto (you’ll never find out how things are if you do them half-assedly), and remember that everyone’s doing his or her best, no matter how awful that may be. Thanks for asking. Keep up the good fight.” - Ask Peter Tork

“Those of us who were truly interested in liberty, fraternity and equality, however, knew we were onto something good and real. What had been called democracy was, and to some extent still is, a pretext for wrapping the will of the greedy and aggressive in a mantle of public acquiescence. Now, the business of wresting power away from those who make a specialty of wielding it will be a long and protracted struggle, with a lot of setbacks along the way. The outlines of the new style of governance are only dimly perceivable, and won’t become clear for a long time to come. In the meantime, our job is to practice the principles of fairness and service to the extent possible. One thing is clear: there is a much higher joy in service than there is in acquisition of wealth. (Remember that it isn’t money that’s the root of all evil, it’s the love of money.) Hanging together in brother — and sisterhood is so happy-making you want to sing right out loud. Yeah, I feel the same about those ideas as I did then…in case you couldn’t tell. heheheh” - Peter, Ask Peter Tork

“I believe very much in all that I believed in back in the 60’s. I hope I’m more aware of the practicalities than I was then, but I am positive that the values and principles I held then are critical to the well-being of the planet, or at the very least, critical to growth and contentment in the population. As to the practicalities: the chance of no more war in our lifetimes is so close to zero that I don’t imagine it possible, tho’ there well may be progress along these lines. May be. Sometimes I see the world as an eternal horse race between salvation and dissolution, now one, and now the other gaining the lead. But to the extent that we can learn, each and all of us, that the cooperative good is good for the greatest individual good (with safeguards, to be sure), that forgiveness is the route to true inner peace, and that not everything we deem wrong or bad may be so, to that extent hassles of all shapes, sizes and colors will diminish. I am so sure of all this that I would, I hope, be willing to bet my life on these principles.” - Peter Tork, Ask Peter Tork

[thornswoggled]

the thing is that ancient magus bride belongs up there in popularity with current fantasy favs like witch hat atelier and dungeon meshi but it completely torpedoes itself into smithereens for a western audience within the first two pages of chapter one. truly a "hear me out" hall of famer

[stellato-17]

One of my favorite moments 😅