x6-88 occupies a very interesting and very uncomfortable space in the narrative. he doesnt think of himself as a person, and this isnt stupid, its necessary for his sanity. to admit he is a person is to admit that he has been wronged, to admit that the institute is wrong, to admit that he has been wrong to follow their directions, to admit that he has wronged others. if he lets himself think hes a person, that means hes a victim. that is unthinkable to a badass like him. if he thinks hes a slave, that means hes a slavecatcher. that means those he wants to please are slavers, just like the raiders he delights in killing. if he admits that hes scared of being reset (which he is. its why he walks on eggshells around you at first), that means its bad when he sends other synths to be reset. he has wholly bought into not being a person, because that would mean his life's work for the institute is wrong
to look himself in the mirror, he cant afford to be wrong. he cant be a person. he cant be a slave. the institute must. be. right.
I want a story about a king whose son is prophesied to kill him so the king is like “whatever what am I supposed to do, kill my own kid wtf is wrong with you” so he just raises him as normal, doesn’t even tell him about the prophecy, and instead of some convoluted twist of events that leads to the king’s murder the son grows up and when the king is very old and dying and in excruciating pain the kid is just like alright I'mma put him out of his misery.
I know where they enclave are. They had a secret wing of vault 111. They tried to kill me in my first life. Should I find them and kill them before they can get to me or join them and turn them into allies for my Slocum's Joe empire?
made a joke about "dungeon futurity" for a fic but now i'm actually thinking about. how queer theory would work in the world of dunmeshi
kobold lee edelman: because death is impermanent in dungeons for humanoids but not for monsters, they become both a place to escape death as well as a place to enact violence upon the Other, ensuring futurity by "keeping the monsters away" and delaying/denying one's own end
elf josé esteban muñoz: because the dungeon is ephemeral by design, ever-changing and ever-expanding, it flourishes as a space of possibility and queerness - a space of queer futurity
terry castle, who in this universe lives in an actual castle: the dungeon is a lesbian
Cthulhu makes Raph and Casey finally express their deepest desires to one another.
Today's aesthetic: cosmic horror tabletop RPGs from the 1980s whose creators wrote the "madness rules" by simply plagiarising a list of disorders and their descriptions from the DSM-II and turning it into a d100 lookup table, except the DSM-II still listed "homosexuality" as a mental disorder (it wasn't removed until the DSM-III), with the result that there are several published tabletop RPGs where there's a small but non-zero chance that seeing Cthulhu will make you gay.
Wait did tumblr really terminate your account for wishing ill to BTS. Thats actually so funny
They really said No one messes with kpopers.
Yes they did, it was when they had this "Cookie Game?" and it was when they could reblog ads, so I kept reblogging ads saying telling bts to off themselves.
"The Brothers Grimm were important contributors to popular cultural European literature" and "The Brothers Grimm were violently antisemitic and misogynistic" are two facts that can and should coexist with each other.