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bowandbrush · 27 days

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I walked into Goodwill.

walked out with a pair of genuine Sai

#SO #I was with my mom shopping at goodwill #I’m basically there for emotional support #And #we mostly look at books and CDs #And I’m walking past a shelf #And I’m like #YOOOO #I run up to the sai sitting hooked on the shelf and eagerly picked them out #And to my even bigger surprise #These guys are HEFTY #AND REAL #And I start freaking out and stuttering trying to show my mother #I literally got so hyped that I started drooling #No joke #and my mom looks at me with huge metal things in my hands and is like #???#and I start yapping #And I put them in the cart after infodumping about these things #And there’s an older couple standing close to me #Giving me a dirty look #I guess they were also looking at them #But they didn’t make any moves sooo #Like I got them first #But they FOLLOWED US #Kind of #i was being paranoid #But if looks could kill #I’d be dead #Also I hate eye contact and these folks out here like a Wild West film

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judyalvqrez · 1 year

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there was something really jim henson-esque and campy about how some of the non-human races were portrayed in the new dnd movie that i really enjoyed. they could’ve easily gone the shitty cgi route or just not shown those races up close at all, but no, they said you want a bird man? we’re gonna get you a bird man

#i just watched the movie last night! it was great :)#i rate it as FUN and COOL the only ratings that matter <3 #dnd movie #??whats the tag lmao #dungeons and dragons honor among thieves #dnd movie spoilers #honor among thieves spoilers #i guess jic #when i heard aarakocra i was for sure expecting they would just make it a human with wings maybe #imagine my pleasant surprise when this fraggle rock looking motherfucker showed up #and the dragonborn looked like he came straight out of the dinosaurs tv show which was v cool imo #the tabaxi mother and child were my favorites though they were so cute #shame they didn't put a little bit more of that creativity into doric's design #even just some bigger horns and some cool contact lenses would've been fun #still loved her though :p

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sysig · 9 months

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I can’t stop drawing tiny Watchdogs (Patreon)

#Doodles #Wander Over Yonder #Commander Peepers #Watchdog #Newsflash: They are all tiny #They're such perfect spacefillers I swear <3 <3 <3 No hells boxes here #They're all basically just stick figures with eyes in place of the head lol what more could I ask for #Or in the case of Fist Fighters then the obvious lol #Even if I do also already have some stick figures that I enjoy lol - they keep the page on-theme! Very important! Haha #Gave a go to a regular Watchdog to go with my Fist Fighter and hmmm yes this feels attainable lol - just gotta give 'em both names #They are very cute and sweet ♥#An actual full-style(? Full WOY style? Lol) for Peepers and a regular Watchdog!#Although afterwards I looked and I'm. Hm. There's conflicting information out there and I'm not sure what to believe #On the wiki he's listed as being shorter than most other Watchdogs but I did a quick screenshot comparison in The It and he was taller??#Not just taller - his eye was bigger - and I accounted for distance! The regular Watchdog was in front of him by just a few inches!#It's inconsistent enough for me to argue either way honestly #And all that not counting what Wander does to his shoes lol so all in all he's probably Slightly taller than the Watchdogs with his shoes on #Not counting special members like Moose or the Drill Sergeant - and definitely not Westley he's super tiny haha #Honestly surprised Peepers didn't take advantage of their height difference more he's a bit of a bully ♪#Rest abound as being silly little guys :) I do love how they're so easy to draw ''in colour'' haha #Red on black on red on black ♫ I suppose I could add in a yellow but pfsh don't even talk to me about the dark purple/red combo inside lol #Maybe at some point but I like them at full lighting for ease of colours haha #Cutest lads <3 Love 'em

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rude-harmonixer · 1 year

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I was originally going to write on Twitter but character limits are too much of a bother so here I am. This will probably be very messy but I'm dealing with media that probably 10 people are familiar with, so... Whatever!

I've recently found this site: https://nervetower.neocities.org/analysis.html

It has a bunch of translations and essays on the game Baroque, originally released on the Sega Saturn.

This specific bit of info has made me OBSESSED with thinking about the game.

Sure the game was literally written in burst of inspiration by drawing tarot cards because the writers had a deadline and writer's block at the same time, and the protagonist being canonically trans was only in a draft for the prequel material, but the game is surprisingly consistent with its themes and the symbolism can still be read through a trans lens.

And because it's not confirmed and ambiguous, the protagonist can be read through multiple gender povs.

But like, why is this such a big deal? Well, Baroque and its prequel material just so happens to have one of the most incredible anti-bigotry narratives I've ever seen in a game. Specifically anti-ableism and anti-eugenics, among probably some questioning of organized religion and how corporations use it to further alienate the public into a cycle of oppression towards marginalized people. etc.

The protagonist is mass produced and manipulated by the Archangel to "purify" whatever he deems should be "purified", using guilt (the Christians/Catholics favorite thing) to do so as the protagonist is made to not remember anything besides their immense guilt over something.

For the game to progress the protag must regain their memories and find out they're a copy of who knows how many other copies, a human made into a product basically, made to feel special because they won't be distorted by their desperate delusions to escape a world destroyed by corporate greed like all the rest and have the power to "purify" things, when in reality they're just emotionally and genetically manipulated into being that.

A perfect pawn.

Now where is the trans symbolism? Well, aside from how little bodily autonomy the protagonist has, here's where things really get interesting:

In Baroque, God is presented as a woman. Before the Great Heat (aka apocalypse), God's Sense Spheres (her omnipresence, transferring data like the world is a body) assured that no great distortion would come to the reality humanity lived in, God would feel pain and know there was a wound to heal. Then the Archangel, who's really just some scientist, started fucking with the population's mental health on purpose because he wanted to kill God and create his own perfect little world. That's the short summary anyway.

At one point, with a lot of brainwashing using God's screams of pain, he created the Order of Malkuth to help him. But later the members woke up from the brainwashing and organized a desperate attempt to stop the Archangel: they would fuse Koriel number 12 (presented as a boy) with God so she could communicate in data that humans could understand. What they didn't expect however is that Koriel 12 had their own problems, and with Archangel interrupting the fusion, those problems were very amplified.

Koriel 12's guilt over being alive and God's suffering made shit hit the fan for good with the Great Heat.

And that's how the protagonist becomes mute and receives the power of God and anim- I mean, "purification".

The game begins and despite Koriel and God being now two parts of the same being, the Archangel tells Koriel to go to the bottom of the Nerve Tower, where the "Mad God" is basically imprisoned, and "purify" her with a rifle (with ammo made from the embodiment of her pain hormones).

The Archangel is literally making Koriel kill a part of themselves that's already literally buried deep into a mind tower that goes down instead of up but still has the image of a tower instead of a hole. He's basically forcing Koriel to bury the closet with them inside it because the closet isn't enough apparently.

Koriel also can't speak for themselves anymore but their thoughts can be read by the Horned Woman, which she just says out loud without explaining anything and unless you're thinking about it you won't even recognize those are "your" thoughts being spoken by another person.

Jumping ahead, when Koriel gets to the bottom of the tower, you can either do what the Archangel tells you or can just walk towards God and unite with her.

When you do this after some dying and finding out, you'll receive the true ending, in which it is made clear that while it is in a state at which it's harming everyone, the "distortion" is actually the natural way of the world, everyone needs to cope at least a little to survive, the Archangel's eugenicist campaign was the greater problem here, not the people "distorted" into representations of their suffering and coping mechanisms by his actions.

This is primarily focused on ableism and particularly the stigma around mental health.

With a trans reading, it forms a bridge so it can also just mean bigotry in general too.

Why? Well, since the 70s or something, trans people basically have to be diagnosed with a disorder to be granted legal access to transition, that's even truer for Japan, which literally puts it on paper as a disorder. And overall, transphobia and ableism go very hand in hand.

This game is now the closest I've come across to finding a game that's secretly about trans people too like The Matrix.

And this has greatly developed the brain worms 👍

#baroque game #my gaming ramblings #if you're insane enough please try the game #not the ps2 or wii versions tho they're terrible and even if you don't care about most changes you'll most likely care about-#it more than doubling the amount of floors from the psx version which already was bigger than the original and like #please don't do that to yourself the game is already not that fun don't subject yourself to those versions #spoilers i guess but really who even cares #it's not like the surprise really does anything in-game really #you'd just be very confused playing it 100% blind trust me #also there's a whole lot I didn't talk about this is just an incoherent rambling which some might decipher maybe #if you've read all this you're very based and I'm so sorry ahsbsjenzbx

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gl1tchxr · 2 months

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imitation sun

#ghost post #art #digital art #worldbuilding #goldendrake #bringing back a species i posted like once and never again #fun fact this was one of the first designs i ever made for my worldbuilding #even before any of the main characters #its 4 years old at this point omg <- guy who is surprised by the passage of time #anyway these guys are seen as divine messengers but theyre ambush predators that can and will pick fights with animals bigger than them #and theyre already really big. like bigger than peacocks #if youre reading this lmk if youve seen a peacock in person cause where i live theres a bunch in the zoo #like not in an enclosure they just wander around

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sunshineram · 3 months

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lil plant update, i got more houseplants :D

ive been looking for a n'joy pothos for a little while now and i finally found this little guy!!

look at these new little leaves!! i love this little guy so much <3

and my sister let me pick out another plant so i got this little guy aswell!

peperomia citrus twist! so very pretty, its got really thick leaves that makes seeing when its thirsty really easy! i just touch the leaves every once in awhile to see(and man this fella is thirsty)

it also has some new little leaves growin :)

#rams garden adventures #im happy they seem to be doing well #the pothos only lost three leaves(and i dont even think it was stress from being re-potted! i think they just weren't healthy leaves)#im incredibly surprised that the peperomia is doing as well as it is i was not.... very gentle getting the old dirt off its roots #(slamming it into the ground as gently as i could to loosen its root ball)#i was soo worried about it #apparently there was nothing to fear! it is fine #once they get bigger im gonna get them individual grow lights so i can have them around my room :)#like my big pothos! which really likes its light btw its exploded #also keeping an eye on the peperomia cause apparently bright light can burn their leaves

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peachcitt · 11 months

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it’s about to be june everybody :)

#ladrien #ladrienjune #ladrien june #wip wednesday #well. here we are again. i think im going to let the plot of this one be a surprise simply because i have no idea how to describe it #and i haven’t even thought of a title yet. june is (technically - it’s one in the morning here) TOMORROW😭😭😭#ive only prewritten two chapters and i have a vague outline of an incredibly complex plot. a typical peachcitt ladrien june ig #anyway. get ready for the vibe of a lifetime #been really into the idea of just writing a fuck all whatever vibe for fun lately. just really being confusing with it #and i think this fic will be a hard launch into my new era of self indulgence #also so far both prewritten chapters are around 1000 words which.#maybe they partly needed to be because of how i need to do setting building as fuck while also sticking with the prompts #but i think a big thing is i cannot physically shut the fuck up and i am worried about how that bodes for the rest of the month #but it’s been a couple years of this. the only way to survive a ladrien june is c’est la vie it the whole time and then it’s fine #im gonna post a bigger sneak peek to my kofi tomorrow (may 31) so keep an eye out if interested!!#okay anyway that’s enough rambling. goodnight everybody happy ladrien june eve eve

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writerof-thewoods · 7 months

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tfw you have so much brainrot for something you never thought you would like, but now you do 😭 13 year old me's brain would probably short-circuit if it found out what fictional works I'm into now lol. it's not that they're bad of course! it's just not something I'd immediately expect to see from myself Idk I just think it's kinda funny

#For context I'm talking about Call of Duty and Star Wars xD #I genuinely never though I would like either one of them but look at me now #I spent almost 2 hours looking at Obi-Wan fan theories/fanart comics last night #I am concerned #As for COD? Yeah I'm not gonna get into THAT #Thats an even bigger story #i'm kidding i'm kidding #It's just surprising to me because I even told myself “Star wars is dumb and it's just not my thing. I doubt it ever will be tbh”#That was a huge lie #Anyway thank you for coming to my TED talk #fandom agere #sfw agere #willowws writing #willowws rambles #my writing #agere blog #sfw regression

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merrymorningofmay · 4 months

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ofmd?... "premature end"??....... ofmd???.........

#if anything i'm surprised stopping at s2 wasn't the plan all along??? like???#the finale was all so neat and tied up in a little bow. it really doesn't need anything More why would you (as writers) even want that #idk i. i'd rather have a shorter show that tells me a concise story and knows where to leave off than a bigger faster stronger ContentTM #even if i love the characters and the style and the jokes etc #like i get why people are sad and i sympathise i really do but..... ehhhh....#mari rambles #also stylised history works best on a small scale i think. or at least limiting your scope is the safer way to go about it #like that “you imperialists are bad and we pirates are good” speech was already a bit of a strain on my suspension of disbelief personally #key words A Little Bit it was a good speech and it worked well in the context of yk A Finale and fit lovely for izzy specifically etc #but i really don't think bringing the british empire and the broader historical situation into this any more would've helped #and this was never an episodic procedural type of show with no upscaling or stakes-raising needed soo. yea

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stanley-h-oates-enthusiast · 11 months

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did a redraw of a kekkai sensen cover because apparently I'm unhinged

#my fav is zapp #surprising literally no one #ask me about my favourite characters in anything and its either some annoying shithead or someone who does not care about their job #oh or a nic addict #kekkai sensen #blood blockade battlefront #sketch #ignore the shit in the corner lmfao its a bigger drawing of zapp i might post later when i fill the whole canvas #this is like a preview #a little taste even

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lucielovekj · 29 days

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My niece is abt to do the beep test in school and it filled me with new rage that I, a severely asthmatic kid who could end up in a life threatening situation from smelling someone’s perfume or being outside on a slightly cold day, was not only expected to take part but was shamed (along with the rest of the kids, which is fucked in and of itself) for not outperforming the able-bodied athletic kids. For doing badly at something which I had an intrinsic disadvantage in and which was actively dangerous for me. Why was I supposed to risk my life in school. Why was I shamed and punished for not being completely willing to die in PE.

#one of my teachers admitted to not knowing what asthma even was #this was an adult physical education teacher #so it’s not surprising I got treated this way #the ONLY respite was the fact my best friend at the time was also not super athletic #bc she was a bigger kid. so we got tormented together at least.#but our treatment was horrific

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akkivee · 9 months

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hitoya’s canon waistline being smaller than kuukou’s, same size at best, has always made me feel some type of way lmao

#this is vee speaking #i’m being generous in the pic on hitoya’s side to account for the angle he’s in #but there wasn’t much space between the standees so i’m not taking foreshortening into account lol #and you can take a few pixels off to account for kuukou’s clothes but even then ☹️☹️☹️#i’m not complaining about kuukou’s waistline lmao in fact if i ever do know that is an imposter lmao #i reject hitoya’s canon waistline is what i’m saying LOL #he probably has a dorito shape like a stronger upper body #but hitoya in my mind is toned and kinda square and BIGGER THAN KUUKOU SINCE HES A BIGGER MAN #much like his dhbat➕ manga build actually lol #maybe in canon he’s supposed to have a dancer’s body in the traditional sense?????? like the way the more slim ddb dancers look #i wouldn’t be surprised if he’s supposed to have a middle ground body type between kuukou’s more built body and jyushi’s lankier type lol

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victorluvsalice · 2 months

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Hi folks -- we're back with the Chill Valicer Save this week, working our way through the trio's Spring Wednesday! And this one proved to be a bit busier than anticipated, so let's get straight in --

-->First things first – picked up with the gang just bumming around their house at about two in the morning, as they do. As Alice needed Fitness skill to help fulfill her Renaissance Sim aspiration (and thus her New Year's Eve resolution), I sent her off on a feral run, while Victor got to go back to bed for a little more sleep, and Smiler –

Got put on weeding duty. Because, despite cheating the glitched plants from the previous episode to be weedless, the minute I checked the greenhouse, I saw that the weeds had resprouted! I hoped that maybe now they were non-glitched weeds and would go away when vacuumed up, but nope, Smiler once again got stuck in a loop when they tried to weed them. *grumble* And when I tried resetting the weed growth state again later on, the weeds disappeared...and then just grew right back again! What the hell – what’s even the POINT of letting me get rid of the weeds if it won’t ACTUALLY let me get rid of them?? *shakehead*

-->Anyway – once I saw that Smiler was stuck in the loop, I canceled the action and instead had them go lecture Surprise about playing in a trash pile that was next to the garden sink (from when Alice repaired it last time). The cat didn’t exactly know what she was being lectured for, but at least she stopped making a bigger mess! Smiler scavenged the pile for parts, put it in their inventory, then went back to their robotics bench to make more mechanisms and computer chips for that Servo project I’d like them to start at some point (you know, to help around the house and the store). As they were doing that, Alice returned from her feral run, and I had her pick up the mail –

Which contained a giant plush bunny! Their reward for finding all those decorative eggs, I presume! :) I decided it could go next to the knitting basket and rocking chair in the séance room – only to discover the darn thing was not live draggable, unfortunately. So Alice had to go there manually and put it in the world herself. *shrug* I figured while she was up there, she could get some meditation in (helps keep the Fury at a manageable level, after all), and had her plonk her butt down on the stool for a little while (at least, until she started levitating). Not only did she end up getting Wellness level 6 during her little Zen session, she ALSO got a pop-up stating she’d thought of a hilarious joke while meditating and got Comedy level 5 out of it too! Two skills for the price of one, I love it! :D

-->While Alice was getting her chill on, Victor got up, used and Scruberooed the toilet, then popped down to the greenhouse to do some tending (and get stuck in a few weeding loops of his own on those glitched plants *sigh*) before grabbing some honey out of the bee box, picking all the grown over-sized crops (the big mushroom wasn’t QUITE ready), and super-selling everything else because, well, they don’t really need any more fruit, veggies, or flowers JUST at the moment. XD Smiler, meanwhile, got put on livestock duty – feeding the chickens, cleaning the coop, telling them some jokes, and telling Surprise that she was not to play in the chicken feed either, before moving on to clean and chat with Moory. Moory didn’t think much of their attempts to talk about the weather, but did like their joke, so Smiler was able to successfully milk her, yay. We appreciate when the cow cooperates with us!

-->We also appreciate when the Sims decide to be cute on their own – case in point, Victor, having finished in the greenhouse, promptly went over to Smiler after they’d finished milking Moory and made out with them right by the cow shed. XD I then had Victor offer his wrist to a thirsty Smiler (his plasma is their favorite, after all), while I had Alice return to normal after her meditation session and go get the eggs. Once Victor was done being drained, he went over and had a little slow dance with Alice in front of the chicken coop – seems like farm chores encourage him to be romantic. XD Shadow came over and started whining at them for a walk midway through, though, so I had Smiler go over and play with her a bit to keep her occupied. Cute family times are cute! :) Anyway, with the chores done and everyone having gotten their adorableness quotient for the day fulfilled, I tried to have Victor set up the trip to the store –

Only for him and Alice to get obsessed with playing with the clay blob, with Victor insisting on walking all the way to the living room even when I canceled the action in favor of them going traveling. *shakes head* Sims sometimes, I swear..

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advisortotheadvisor · 2 years

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most fucked up part abt the sisters Grimm is when a main character is literally like "I'm going to commit suicide. I have full intentions of killing myself as soon as my death won't negatively impact my family" and then no one ever brings it up again and ur just supposed to accept all that at eight years old

#sisters grimm #suicide tw #suicide mention tw #im genuinely not trying to be edgy but oh my god #choosing to make a main character in ur children's book suicidal is. a choice #even bigger choice to just. sweep that under the rug #i remember when i first read the series and canis is like actively trying to let the scarlet hand kill him in the 6th book #and feeling so confused when the grimms are surprised #like bestie he told you this 3 books ago #mine.#im never gonna normal abt this man huh #the og blorbo

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drummah-in-a-rocknroll-band · 1 year

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why are the biggest nerds always some form of asexual??

#this is about dead poets society #but also just my life #meeks and cameron are definitely some flavor of ace #also #i’m a huge nerd (surprise surprise i know) and i’m violently ace #and my best friend jay is aroace #they’re an even bigger nerd than me #they’re the reason i actually got into lord of the rings #dead poets society #ramblings

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thetriggeredhappy · 11 months

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have you ever been on the verge of a breakdown panic attack at your job and had a celebrity show up? turns out, works just like a factory reset

#shut up me #for the record not like a jack black or emma watson kinda situation #more like a. like a brian david gilbert #like i had to explain to my coworkers later why my hands were shaking for the next few hours #but also the person in question wasn’t super surprised about being recognized and asked for a picture and autograph #will not be explaining more because privacy reasons but. yeah jesus christ #my girlfriend is pissed because she’s the one who even introduced me to the content this creator works in #and she’s a way bigger fan. very very neurodivergently obsessed and formerly hyper fixated #the fiendship tag

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