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rjalker · 1 year

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Dear people who aren't physically disabled who plan to write fantasy settings:

[ID: Several images taken from the Geordi La Forge yes and no meme format, with Geordi holding out a hand disapprovingly for the no section, then pointing in approval for the yes section.

The first image is the meme:

No: "Saying the existance of magic in your setting means there are no disabled people (this literally just means disabled people are killed. AKA eugenics)"

Yes: "Having disabled people who use magical mobility aids and other assistive devices. Realizing that someone is still disabled even if their prosthetic arm is made of magic instead of plastic."

This is followed by four more panels of yes section:

"Geordi la Forge is still literally disabled. His visor helping him does not erase his disability and make him magically abled."

"Toph from Avatar: The Last Airbender is still literally disabled even though her Earthbending helps her. It does not make her disability ~magically~ go away."

"Having your disability be accomodated does not mean the disability goes away. Having a prosthetic hand, even one that's made of magic, does not mean you're not disabled."

"Magical mobility aids do not mean disabled people don't exist. It just means they use magical mobility aids instead of plastic or metal ones. A limb made of magic is still a prosthetic even if it's made of the soul of the universe instead of plastic and metal."

Then another no panel: "'There's no disabled people beacuse magic'".

Then one last yes panel: "'Magic helps disabled people in a variety of ways'".

End ID.]

This also applies to science fiction; just because Luke Skywalker's prosthetic hand is super advanced doesn't mean it's no longer a prosthetic, or that he's not disabled. Same with Darth Vader - just because he has a suit that lets him breathe and walk around doesn't mean he's not disabled. (And Star Wars' propensity for making the villains visibly disabled while the heroes disabilities get covered up by super advanced prosthetics is a topic that deserves its own post, especially with how ableist some of the authors of the books are. Troy Denning is especially ableist)

Edit:

Because people keep being fucking obnoxious and ableist in the tags, yes,,, motherfuckers, if you refuse to have disabled people in your setting, that does make you fucking ableist. If you say that the magic is used to cure all disabled people and that's why they don't exist, that's fucking eugenics.

You cannot ""cure"", more like remove all disabilities without fucking eugenics. Magically automatically destroying disabled fetuses (a very fucking popular trope!) is eugenics.

The only way to fucking "cure" autism is to fucking kill all autistic people, also known as eugenics!

What about people with PTSD? Do you just fucking brainwash them so they aren't traumatized anymore?

Do you force all Deaf people to be able to hear? Do you force all blind people to be able to see? Do you force all anosmics to be able to smell?

Do you magically force everyone with a speech impediment to speak to your standards?

Do you force everyone born with bodily or facial differences to live up to your fucking standard of beauty?

You cannot fucking say "disablities don't exist in this universe because magic cures everything" without inherently saying that eugenics exists in your fucking universe.

Not all fucking disabilities need a cure. If you ""cured"" my autism I'd just be fucking dead. You'd literally just be changing me into what you think is fucking acceptable.

Stop fucking arguing in defence of ableists on my fucking post so you can pretend that eugenics has never been written about in magical settings when it is extremely fucking prevalent.

And while we're fucking at it, let your gods damned characters become disabled over the course of their story, and call them disabled within the fucking story. I don't care if they're a robot. I don't care if they have magic. Not all fucking damage can be fixed. Curses exist. Hardware can go out of fucking date and no longer be manufactured anywhere.

Let your characters become disabled and do not magically fucking cure them back to brand new every single time they get hurt. The only thing you accomplish by doing that is destroying any chance of ever having stakes.

No, "magical healing leaves scars on the mind from the memory of the injuries though!!!!" is not fucking good enough. Let your characters have scars. Let them become disabled. Stop being fucking ableist cowards.

Edit number fucking 2:

No, motherfuckers, you do not get to comment "if the disability was caused by magic it's not ableist to cure it with magic". You are the ableist this post is about. Shut the absolute fuck up, stop treating being disabled as the worst possible outcome, and just admit you're a fucking ableist. If you don't want your characters to become disabled, then don't fucking make them disabled.

[ID: The Garfield "you are not immune to propaganda" meme, now edited to read:

"If your first thought upon reading this post is, 'Oh, but it's okay to magically cure disabilities caused by magic!' Congrats…you are the exact sort of ableist jackass this post is about."

End ID.]

Edit number fucking 3:

Autistic people exist! People who are born with disabilities exist! You cannot create a setting where disabled people do not exist because we're all "cured" or "fixed" and not inherently say that you are killing disabled people as soon as they're born, or fucking aborting us as soon as you figure out we'd be born disabled! That's fucking eugenics!

There is no way to "cure" autism without eugenics! There is no way to "cure" people with body differences without eugenics! There is no way to make disabled people nonexistant in your setting without eugenics! Thinking you can and should "cure" and "fix" all disabilities IS EUGENICS!

Also:

[ID: A character shouting at the camera, now edited to read: "Shut up about Dungeons and Dragons! Shut up about Dungeons and Dragons! If the rules of Dungeons and Dragons are ableist, then fucking change them! It is your fucking personal responsability to be a better person than your bigoted society wants you to be!". End ID.]

[ID: White text on a dark brown background with white and black borders around the edges, that reads:

"I don't fucking know or care about Dungeons and Dragons.

This post is not about Dungeons and Dragons.

Do not fucking throw the rulebook of Dungeons and Dragons at me like it's some sort of 'Gotcha!'.

You will literally just be blocked like the rest of the ableist assholes who've already tried it.

If you play dungeons and dragons, it's your responsability to make your games not be ableist, even if it means breaking the rules.".

End ID.]

I do not fucking care what the ableist rules are in Dungeons of Dragons. Do not fucking throw ableist rules for a game I have never and will never play at me on a post I made so that people could learn how to make their settings less ableist. If the rules in Dungeons and Dragons are ableist, then fucking change them. If you don't want to change them, then stop fucking playing an ableist game.

Disabled people deserve to see ourselves represented in fiction just like everyone else, without any fucking requirements that we be "cured" or "fixed" before the story ends.

How the fuck would you feel if a trans and gay character's whole story revolved around going on a quest to become straight and cis, did so, and only then was allowed to live happily ever after?

Why do you fucking think suggesting people write stories about disabled people going on a quest to be cured because it's the only way they'll ever be happy is any less fucking offensive?

Also:

This post is NOT a place for you to talk about how disabled people in fiction should have the option of curing their disabilities. It's just not. That's the fucking default for this society. That is not a revolutionary concept. It's not novel. We fucking know this society wants us gone. A post about how disabled people deserve representation is not the place to talk about how "Well, actually, in fiction disabled people should be cured!" Like that's not the fucking universal default???????????

Edit #4:

Everyone needs to stop tagging this singing praise for Fullmetal Alchemist. A story that uses disability as a punishment and the characters are on a quest to cure their disabilities is not the amazing representation you're all claiming it is just because the character who is only disabled because of DIVINE PUNISHMENT uses prosthetics.

Read this post, and this one. Fullmetal Alchemist is a hell of a lot more ableist than you people are letting on.

guess what you can now find a PDF version of this post on the web archive.

Edit #5! August 23rd, 2023!

A) Everyone. Disabilities that can only exist in the magical setting are still disabilities.

Trying to cure the younger brother's magical disability of being a soul floating around in a magical suit of armour is, in fact, going on a quest to heal a disability!

It doesn't matter if the older brother doesn't want to get his limbs back when they're going on a quest to heal the younger brother's disability! Especially when they BOTH get magically healed at the end!

Magical disabilities that can only exist in that setting, but not real life, are still disabilities, and it's not okay to magically heal them either! What part of the Garfield meme on this post did you all choose to ignore?!

B) When you leave tags on a post you are reblogging, the original poster can see them! When you leave tags on this post, I can see them!

If you think this post is ""too aggressive"" then simply do not reblog it! Don't fucking tone police me on a post I've had to edit five times now due to the constant ableism people have been commenting since I made it!

I have been called the R slur by multiple people in response to this post! People have literally reblogged this post to defend eugenics abortions! You can't see these comments or replies anymore because I blocked the poster!

If you think minorities are being too aggressive by responding appropriately to bigotry, you're a bigot! And you should either not reblog the post at all, or at the very least, shut the fuck up and not tone police us!

Do not fucking put tags on this post complaining I'm being too aggressive! That's called tone policing and you're a bigot if you do it! Don't fucking do it on anyone else's posts either! They can see your tags too!

C) When I fucking say Harry Potter fans are banned from this post, yes, this means YOU!

Either stop supporting a billionaire who's literally using the profits from her bigoted shittily written books to fund REAL FUCKING GENOCIDE, or fuck off!

By continuing to support the Harry Potter series, you are literally giving JK Rowling free fucking advertising! You are encouraging more people to read the series and watch the movies, spending more money and giving her more fucking money with which to LITERALLY SHAPE A COUNTRY'S LAWS TO COMMIT GENOCIDE. She is literally fucking fighting to make being trans illegal! She is literally fucking fighting to have even more of autistic people's rights taken away!

You cannot fucking be a fan of the Harry Potter series in 2023 and call yourself an ally to all the minorities harmed by JK Rowling and the bigotry baked into her shitty series!

Read another book! The Web Archive has tons you can read for free! Literally every single book on gutenberg.org/ is free! Including audiobooks for some of them!

If you write Harry Potter fanfiction, simply fucking get rid of the names and identifiable features and start writing original fiction instead! It's literally free!

Not supporting a literal fucking genocidal billionaire costs LITERALLY NOTHING! And if you refuse to fucking stop supporting JK Rowling, which is what you are doing when you support the Harry Potter series and squeal over her OCs, you are not an ally to any fucking minority! No! Not even if you're trans yourself!

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Edit again Nobember 28th 2023 because this comment is just. such a perfect example for all of you that think this doesn't happen.

butter-whore2 said, two hours before this edit:

kind of a fan of tumblr's slightly more algorithmically elements for reminding me of the hell's other people construct for themselves but this one hits like five of the boxes. How do people do this to themselves? it's such a bizarre way to act over media I genuinely do not believe is capable of stirring an emotional response the metaphysics of disability here are unintentionally really funny but disability is not a coherent ontological framework, it's a vague descriptor for literally thousands of different things none of which lend themselves to categorizing Moralizing over fiction is incredibly lame.

Liking harry potter is also incredibly lame, it's not morally wrong nor transphobic and you do not get to decide that lol. people literally do get "cured" of their disabilities all the time, many of them have a positive experience in doing so. this is not what eugenics is.

the anti abortion stuff lol

Literally how do you live like this? you guys don't even read real books I don't get it.

Archived version of the comment for posterity.

So yeah, lofl, block this fucker.

#long post #described images #fantasy #writing #writing tips #writing advice #fantasy writing #writing fantasy #scifi #science fiction #also applies to scifi #Luke Skywalker's not magically abled because his prosthetic hands advanced #disability #disabled #physically disabled #neurodivergent #<- so more people see it #and beacuse a lot of just neurodivergent people are really fucking ableist towards physically disabled people #especially people who only have ADHD or are just Autistic #and if me saying that pissess you off guess what? You're probably the exact sort of person I'm talking about.#Newsflash: I'm autistic. I have ADHD. I'm also physically disabled.#And I constantly see people wiht ADHD and autistics being ableist as shit #to both physically disabled people and other neurodviergent people.#You are not immune to being ableist just because you're also disabled.

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darkoverord · 1 year

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Image: Meme of Geordie LaForge in the two panel "Dislike/Like" format. Top - Geordie gesturing unhappily next to text saying "Drawing hands". Bottom - Geordie pointing while looking approvingly next to text saying "Drawing wings that are functionally just hands, but long"]

Me right now

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xccentriktigress · 4 years

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dhdingo · 3 years

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#no yes meme #meme format #geordi la forge #star trek

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keyboardkat3 · 4 years

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This scene has so much meme potential I’m surprised no one has turned it into a proper format yet. So I did it myself.

#star trek #star trek the next generation #star trek generations #star trek data #star trek geordi #geordi la forge #data #potential meme format #shitpost

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eldritch-metal-squirrel · 4 years

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i don't know who is responsible for this meme but i admire them for using the correct format.

#geordi format #dank memes #star trek: tng #geordi la forge #john alfredsson #avatar metal #pikachu #death metal

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seams-unusualbc · 4 years

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#this is a good meme format #meme format #star trek: the next generation #geordi la forge #no/yes #better than drake meme #drake meme #revolt #the revolution #organize #covid 19 #quarentine #labor creates wealth #tumblr memes

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daemon-404 · 3 years

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👉 Daemon/Zephyr

👉 they/them

👉 Art blog: @daemon-doodles

👉 I don't do background checks on the people I reblog from! Please do not assume I agree with the person in question, just the post itself!

👉 DNI if TERF/radfem, MAP/NOMAP/etc, incest/pedophilia shipper, AI "art" defender, truly believe fiction doesn't affect reality, likely to say "I'm not racist/homophobic (etc) but", and anyone in that genre.

👉 Sorting Tags Under the Cut (buckle up, this is a long one)

Tagging Conventions:

- Pairings are written with each character's name and a "&" between them, with no spaces (e.g. #zelda&link, #b'elanna&tom&harry).

- Some relationship tags (ship or not) have titles attached to them (e.g. #the twilight princesses // midna&zelda, #the noceda kids // luz and vee and hunter).

- I use common acronyms/short versions for fandoms, like "tloz," "voy," etc. If a LoZ game's acronym is less than 4 letters, it'll have "tloz" in front, like "#tloz oot", "#tloz ww", etc, except for #4s.

This will all be covered in the corresponding individual sections as well, don't worry. Ok, onto specifics...

(this isn't even all of them)

Fandom & Lore Tags:

• #moimois (fandom related memes. this is what French people call memes on r/rance)

Star Trek:

• #star trek

- #best st

- #tng

- #the next gen's enterprise crew

- #the next gen boys (Worf, Riker, Data, Geordi)

- #voy

- #the voyager crew

+ other ST series tags (#tos, #aos...).

UT/DR:

• #utdr

- #undertale

- #deltarune

These tags are complimentary with #utdr for precision.

- #deltaspooks (DELTARUNE lore)

- #saltspooks (Salt Route AU lore)

- #DR friendship

- #UT friendship

... the latter are usually under #[ˈfɹɛndˌʃɪp] as well.

- #funny bigshot man

- #spamton (the more serious stuff)

- #gaster's emo band (jevil, spamton and gaster)

- #Official DELTARUNE Lore ™ (silly lore bits or theories that make sense)

Minecraft:

• #minecraft

• #Enhancement Table (formerly "Minecraft lore pun". i finally got a good name!)

The Legend of Zelda:

• #tloz

- #botw

- #botw incorrect quotes

- #best botw incorrect quotes

- #perfect botw (ideas for my ideal botw mod)

- #the hyrulean count (i fucking counted every npc- just in the settlements though- before realizing there are tons of even more compete lists online)

+ other game tags (#alttp, #hwaoc, etc). If the game's acronym that I use is shorter than 4 letters, it'll come after "tloz" (#tloz oot, #tloz tp, etc.) EXCEPT for #4s.

I have yet to go through every Zelda tag I have and put "#tloz" on each post so they're not all under this tag.

• #hyruleculture (loz lore/worldbuilding)

- #hylia's work (the best of the best in loz worldbuilding)

• #linked universe

- #lu dudes (just the LU guys in general)

• #i'm a disastor & #disastorous (anything Astor HWAoC)

Other:

• #aceattorney (I'm noting this one in particular because it's the only one I still use from back when I didn't put spaces in my tags)

• #Black Swan Archives (KotLC lore because i used to read that series when i was younger and i'm still a big fan okay? sue me)

Other fandom tags will just be the acronym or name.

AU Tags:

- #tloz au

- #modernzelda

- #botw au/#totk au

- #swap au (this one is all encompassing; could be a personality swap, a role swap, a gender swap, etc; can be any fandom)

Relationship Tags:

• #/'fæməlɪ/ (familial- including found-familial- interactions)

• #[ˈfɹɛndˌʃɪp] (quality friend interactions)

• #domestic romance best romance

• ToH:

These ones in particular have very clever little nicknames with them (I stole them from other people).

- #sworn siblings // luz and hunter

- #the twins // luz and vee

- #the noceda kids // luz and vee and hunter

- #the clawthorne kids // luz and king

There's also:

- #the owl house kids

- #the owl house parents

for group content. The pairings are all the normal format with no nicknames.

• Pairings:

Format: [name]&[name]. "[] and []" is just for general relationships, like on ao3 with the difference between "[]/[]" and "[] & []".

The following are pairings with specifics:

- #zelda&link (BotW ZeLink only)

- #post calamity

- #pre calamity

- #got the botw energy right (not entirely zelink some of it is just the botw experience, but since so many people characterize zelda and link wrong in botw, it's used to sort out the best of the best)

- #link&zelda (every other ZeLink)

- #zelink place of honor

- #link&sheik (for when Sheik is separate from Zelda. Or trans. Or both)

- #midna&zelda // the twilight princesses

- #midna&zelda&link // the tp ot3

Other pairing tags just follow the format "[]&[]".

General Tags:

Art:

• #artandartists

- #arttips

- #insp

- #style insp

- #color insp

- #lighting insp

- #ref

• #ficsandwriters

Good Feels:

• #pieces of humanity (it's about the love)

• #people being people (people never really change. it's about the necessity of getting a little silly with it)

• #hope

• #happy

"Saved":

• #saved (general posts, I usually just put this on everything)

- #super saved

- #ultra saved

- #saved as hell

- #saved. (i have an emotional reaction to these)

- #Dave (non-fandom-related memes)

- #minenow (the OG #saved)

• #sacred (important parts of the internet)

• #posts of all time

• #posts with a certain feel to them (the feeling is the one you get when faced with something bigger than you)

Other:

• #important

- #important.

• #2: electric boogaloo (an update to a post i've made or, more likely, reblogged)

• #a good laugh ™

-#lol_irl (fittingly, things that make me laugh out loud, in real life)

• #blorbo from my...

...fanon (BotW/AoC Ganondorf)

...youtube ♥️ (that's Jarvis Johnson. don't ask)

• #old & #doodles are from back when this was my presentable account

Tumblr:

• #the tumblr experience

• #certified tumblr special

- #tumblr special ™

- #tumblr history

- #tumblr ogs

- #tumblr dictionary (blorbo, eeby deeby, etc.)

- #tumblr book club (dracula daily)

- #the horse plinko sensation

- #live slug reaction (sitewide memes like goncharov and mole interest for example- and posts related to the memes and so forth- like this are just named in the tags, you can find them pretty easily)

Media Tags:

• #gif

- #gifset

• #video

Keep in mind there are probably 10 000 other tags not mentioned here. Thank you!

last edited sep 16 2023

#tag sorting <3

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dvandom · 3 years

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Some replacement memes

Some reaction memes that have gone around for years are problematic, either because the person in them has always been crap (Drake, the “change my mind” guy), or because they’re working hard to cancel themselves (Dave Chappelle). Here’s a couple of replacements taken from Star Trek Lower Decks. I did not make the first one, it involves a minor character who pops up every so often with conspiracy theory stuff:

And I just threw this one together today:

(There’s also a popular Geordi version of the Drake meme format, maybe someone should make a Boimler version?)

#reaction meme #star trek #lower decks

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vanvelding · 5 years

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Hey, I’m VanVelding. He/him/his. I’m older than you and your best friend. I’ve been on the internet since the beginning. I love diet cokes, Star Trek, vodka, and making things.

I made:

this joke about Babylon 5 that people like

that Star Trek not-meme with Geordi

this animated gif of Captain Picard that you can use to tell people how excited you are for them when they start watching Star Trek

a make-your-own format guide for Magic: the Gathering based on Brawl

this guide for your roleplaying group to stretch their roleplaying muscles

I also make The Beige and The Bold podcast, where I talk with a friend who’s never seen Star Trek before while you watch episode with us. The Beige and The Bold is here: https://anchor.fm/tbntb

We’re about to start our fifth season, but we’re in the middle of a move from private hosting to hosting on Anchor. Season five starts on Sunday, September 8th. Old episodes will be going up throughout the next few weeks.

I also make Ceci N’est Pas A Star Trek, a podcast where I watch Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville with a fellow longtime Star Trek fan. CNPaST is here: https://anchor.fm/cnpast

Both podcasts will be going up on YouTube for convenience on a channel called Stereo to Chroma, managed by me and my co-hosts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJbKioVJOSXdRKHLIDuw_XA

I also have a YouTube, where I usually play Minecraft and occasionally talk about politics and news because who doesn’t all of those things? I make a lot of videos now because I’m feeling that whole thing out, but the real flagship series is Morning Perfect Base, which houses a deeper dive while I dig through some cultural/political topic. https://www.youtube.com/user/VanVelding

Finally, I have two sub-tumblrs:

Focused by Caffeine, which is for funny stuff, celebrity stuff, and animals.

Shout the Empty Yonder, which as going to be Shout the Empty Sky, but then I realized the last letter of each word was the first letter of the next one so I changed it. More political/social progression stuff over there. That’s where all the guillotine jokes are.

Because Tumblr is awful for actual blogging, my blog is here: http://vanvelding.blogspot.com/

Also, Twitter, Instagram, SoundCloud(with pre-roll clips from the podcast), Steam (with mods I’ve made), Patreon (eyebrow waggle), Twitch, Reddit...what comes up when you google “vanvelding” is usually mine. I also have a facebook, but fuck facebook.

#VVO #VanVelding

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tildeathiwillwrite · 5 months

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Rand's increasing annoyance never fails to make me laugh.

#Lews therin being in his head doesn't help much either #wheel of time #wot #wot funny #geordi meme format #rand al'thor #lews therin telamon #ishamael #lanfear #forsaken #my reposted memes

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ecoamerica · 23 days

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Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 now: https://youtu.be/bWiW4Rp8vF0?feature=shared

The American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 broadcast recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel for viewers to be inspired by active climate leaders. Watch to find out which finalist received the $50,000 grand prize! Hosted by Vanessa Hauc and featuring Bill McKibben and Katharine Hayhoe!

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rjalker · 1 year

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Create the Wolf Quest propaganda you want to see in the world.

Check out the official Wolf Quest youtube channel!

[ID: The Geordi La Forge version of the yes/no meme format.

The "No" section reads, with Geordi holding up a hand disapprovingly:

"Buying the newest unplayably broken Pokemon game for $60 and showing game companies that they can treat their employees like shit and sell literally unplayable games and people will still throw money at them"

The "Yes" section reads, with Geordi pointing in approval:

"Buying Wolf Quest Anniversary Edition for $20 and helping to support people who actually care about making a good game and love wolves and want to educate the public to dispel myths about wolves being pests and making sure people can have fun and play a game they can enjoy over and over again

End ID.]

Buy Wolf Quest 3/Anniversary Edition, $20:

"https://eduweb.itch.io/wolfquest"

Buy the Lost River map, $12: (Just released yesterday 12/15/22!!!)

"https://eduweb.itch.io/wolfquest/purchase?sub_product_id=17"

Buy the Wolf Quest Original Soundtrack, including 84 tracks so far, for $10:

"https://eduweb.itch.io/wolfquest-music"

Or you can just donate directly to them!

"https://fundly.com/wolfquest#"

I literally cannot stress to you enough how much these people care about this game. I cannot. They apologized for making the game cost $20 instead of $15 like the original that was made in 2003 was.

Edit:

Oh also I forgot, it has multiplayer, too! You can play with your friends!

#Video games #described images #Wolf Quest #WolfQuest #Wolf Quest 3 #Wolves #Wolf #Nostalgia #Pokemon Scarlet and Violet #Pokemon #please reblog my Wolf Quest propaganda #I love this game #And I love how much these people making it love it #WolfQuestAE

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esonetwork · 4 years

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Baby Yoda in the Space Western - Rusted Robot 270

New Post has been published on https://esonetwork.com/baby-yoda-in-the-space-western-rusted-robot-270/

Baby Yoda in the Space Western - Rusted Robot 270

Star Wars, The Mandalorian, Baby Yoda, Star Trek, TMNT!

Baby Yoda is here. The memes are everywhere. Werner Herzog is in love with the Yoda puppet. The Mandalorian is a space western. The merchandise is about to invade and everyone wants a baby Yoda plushie!

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The film will be here in a few weeks. The latest teaser clip shows us flying stormtroopers. Yes, they can fly now!

Star Trek’s latest comic book is Picard Countdown. The first issue is out now and we know where Geordi Laforge has been. Section 31 has assembled its writer’s room. We talk terrible plot points in Trek movies, Josh complains about Section 31 and the ideals of the Federation. We contrast Star Trek with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

The humpback whales are making a great recovery. Thank you Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home!

A Play On Nerds podcast is changing its format. A great shout out to Steve and Jarman!

This week’s podcast promo: Cigar Nerds Podcast

#Baby Yoda #Comic Books #Comics #Earth Station One #ESO Network #fantasy #Geek #geek podcast #Geek Talk #Movies #Rusted Robot Podcast #Sci-Fi #Shawn Vanderloo #Star Trek #Star Wars #The ESO Network #the mandalorian #TMNT #TV

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ramajmedia · 5 years

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Star Trek: 10 Hidden Details About The Main Characters of DS9

Widely regarded as one of the most gritty and multi-faceted spin-offs in the Star Trek franchise, Deep Space Nine was the last Star Trek show still running when the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation took to films and Star Trek: Voyager finally reached its journeys end. It's known for departing from the traditional episodic nature of the franchise and transitioning to a serialized format, which allowed for over-arching storylines and the ramifications to be felt from previous episodes.

RELATED: Star Trek: 10 DS9 Storylines That Were Never Resolved

In this way, a series about the various inhabitants of a space station orbiting a wormhole could still be one of exploration, it just dealt with traversing interpersonal relationships rather than deep space. With the psychological analysis of so many fascinating inhabitants of Deep Space 9, came rumors that the cast of main characters was one of the most fractious. There's more to know about them than just what we saw on the screen. Below are ten of their hidden details.

10 ALEXANDER SIDDIQ TANKED BASHIR'S PERFORMANCE

If you're paying attention to Doctor Bashir in the last few seasons of the show, you may notice a change in his demeanor. This is intentional; Alexander Siddiq wasn't happy with the alterations being made to his character, particularly the decision to make Bashir an "augmented" human, illegally altered to be gifted by his parents.

Later, he disliked being turned into a possible Dominion spy. This resulted in him tanking his performance, hoping it would affect ratings and force the writing team to change his character back to its original archetype. Among Star Trek fans of Deep Space Nine, Siddiq is regarded as the problem child of the cast.

9 MICHAEL DORN ALTERED WORF'S ACTING

The cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation is well known for being chummy. The cast regularly saw each other outside of working hours, and continue to be the best of friends. Coming from that environment to DS9, where everyone was committed to a deeply professional work environment affected Michael Dorn's acting style.

Worf was always a serious character, but due to the stiff nature on the set of DS9, where he was surrounded by theatrically trained actors (in the vein of Patrick Stewart), he had to make a conscious decision not to undue all of the progress Worf's character had made while on the Enterprise (i.e., become friendlier as the series progressed).

8 MARC ALAIMO WAS BASICALLY DUKAT

If you peruse the Star Trek Deep Space Nine Companion, a hefty coffee table book dedicated to details about the series, you'll find plenty of interviews and anecdotes with the main cast about the characters they play. Everything from their perspective on the character's psychology to what it was like getting into their prosthetics and makeup is included.

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Marc Alaimo, known for playing the charming yet unscrupulous Cardassian warlord Gul Dukat, had such a hand in shaping Dukat that he became known for being as arrogant, petulant, and entitled as his character, inspiring ridicule and derision from his cast mates.

7 ODO IS BASED ON JAMES DEAN AND CLINT EASTWOOD

The lovable, grouchy constable aboard Deep Space Nine went through a few iterations before producers settled on the personality and demeanor they wanted Odo to have. They envisioned him as a combination between two loner-types, Clint Eastwood and James Dean.

Clint Eastwood because they wanted him to be reminiscent of a clench-teethed sheriff of the Old West, and James Dean because they wanted him to be moody due to an overwhelming sense of not belonging. Rene Auberjonois did his best approximation of the two, though they chose to not make him as good looking as either of those two actors.

6 SISKO INITIALLY COULDN'T SHAVE HIS HEAD

There have been many reasons why characters on Star Trek series have to look the way they do; originally Patrick Stewart was made to wear a toupee because of his hairline before TNG started filming, but that was soon scrapped for looking ridiculous and his baldness was embraced.

Meanwhile, Commander Sisko (Benjamin Brooks) wasn't allowed to shave his head for the first several seasons because the actor would look to similar to roles he'd previously played in films. By the fourth season he was permitted to do so after audiences became used to the character - he could even grow a beard.

5 JADZIA DAX WENT THROUGH SEVERAL CHANGES

The Trill species were first introduced in Star Trek: The Next Generation, but looked much different from Jadzia Dax, the main Trill host in DS9. In TNG, the Trill had ridges on their heads and no discernible "spots", but makeup artist Michael Westmore desired to streamline their appearance.

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Jadzia Dax was also intended originally to be a character that was born on a planet with little gravity, requiring her to use a wheel chair when she was aboard Deep Space Nine. She could also "fly" only in her quarters when gravity controls were adjusted. This idea was scrapped, but given to a guest character in Season 2.

4 O'BRIEN'S UNIFORM WAS DIFFERENT THAN THE REST OF THE CREW

Colm Meaney originally had some trepidation about returning to the role of Miles O'Brien on DS9. He liked the freedom he had on Star Trek: The Next Generation as a reoccurring character, but not a part of the regular cast. However, his salary upgrade made him reconsider.

When he was fitted for his uniform, he requested two key changes as a non-commissioned officer; he wanted it to be cut with the ability for him to roll up his sleeves as a working man taking care of the ship, and he wanted it to have pockets for his tool.

3 NANA VISITOR WAS ACTUALLY PREGNANT AS KIRA

Whenever female cast members get pregnant during the course of a television show, adjustments need to be made in the storyline they're involved in to account for their changing bodies. One of the ways this was accomplished when Nana Visitor became pregnant in real life was to have Major Kira become pregnant as well.

Kira isn't made to be pregnant with her own child, but rather become the surrogate for the new baby of Miles and Keiko O'Brien. Nana Visitor was actually pregnant with her and Alexander Saddiq's (who played Doctor Bashir) baby, which she gave birth to during Season 5.

2 MAJOR KIRA WAS SUPPOSED TO BE RO LAREN

Originally the character of the Bajoran militia member and terrorist turned military leader of a liberated society wasn't Major Kira. It was going to be Ro Laren, the memorably hot-tempered Bajoran introduced on Star Trek: The Next Generation. That actress didn't want to do a Star Trek series again, and so the character of Kira was created.

At first Nana Visitor was skeptical of taking the part, especially at a time when doing episodic science fiction for television wasn't a prestige assignment. But she was convinced by the script, and the fact that Major Kira wasn't a helpmate female Star Trek character assisting the male leads, like Counselor Troi, Dr. Beverly Crusher, and Lieutenant Uhura.

1 JADZIA DAX WAS PREMATURELY KILLED OFF

A favorite character on the series, Jadzia Daz's untimely demise in Season 6 came as much of a shock to fans as to actress Terry Farrell who played her. Farrell had requested more time off, and to become a recurring character to allow her an easier schedule, but producers wouldn't go for it and decided to kill Dax instead.

The Dax Trill symbiant she carried would be transferred to a new host body (Ezri), who fans weren't particularly fond of. Especially since Jadzia had so recently married Worf, a union of two favorite characters. Her death also didn't offer any way for Farrell to return to the part for guest appearances on any other Star Trek series.

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