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Me waiting for the fanfics about him

Me waiting for apocalypse, so I could date ghoul boyfriend.

the people demand walton goggins puts on a full body prosthetic and shows ghoul hole next season of fallout

I’m so glad y’all want to fuck The Ghoul as much as I do. Ghoul Fuckers 4 Life 🖤

I love how all of the Batman villains are like “ah he’s not at the manor, it’s defenseless! and then alfred just racks an AK-47 and is like pull up bitch

Tumblr feels so different without the boops

ideas for tumblr staff

dont remove the boop button

stop banning trans women for no reason

I've been thinking a lot about Splatoon sponges today and how their large rectanguloidal shape actually kind of sucks because of how much it hinders the fluid movement that's supposed to make these games feel so good.

Also, this last bit is specifically to fix this really bad pet peeve I have with sponges. When they're just barely not fully inked, they're ever so slightly misaligned with the main map geometry, which ruins the flow of movement. Making certain sponges able to always remain at their full size on one or multiple axes (set thoughtfully for each individual sponge placed on the map by the designers) serves to solve or mitigate this

I don’t care if I know you bc we’re mutuals or I follow you or you follow me or if you’re just randomly on my dash/notes but if I see your url and I see that boop button you’re getting fucking booped

RIP op, the decline in media literacy killed them.

some sort of love poem

I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.

Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”.  The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.

And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA. 

The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.

There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.

Printing this and hanging it up in the laundry room ☺

I was in line at Aldi and this girl with two toddlers in front of me had her card declined and she looked so fucking sad and said “let me call my husband real quick” and it was only 18 dollars, so I just paid for it, and she was very sweet and then as she walked off, the lady behind me said `”You know that was probably a scam, right?” and like, even if it was, like what a sad fucking scam, right? 18 dollars at the Aldi. If you’re “scamming” me for some Tyson chicken and apple juice and cauliflower, then just take my fucking money. 

“A scam” people are fucking wild.  

Can we appreciate how GAY Side Order is?

And I’m not just talking about the cute interactions between Pearl and Marina…

I’m talking about the overarching theme of the game.

How this oppressive entity is trying to grayscale everything into a bland, colorless world. Of “order.” Like how these oppressive governments and institutions in our lives are constantly trying to strip away all uniqueness from the world to keep everything bland and boring and staying the same because they can’t deal with change and difference.

And you defeat it… with color. Specifically a rainbow!

Time and time again you beat this oppressive entity into changing its mind and by the end they’re even happy to see you!

I can’t think of another Nintendo game that has such queer coded vibes than Side Order does thematically.

Like I know it’s not original. Other stories have done “fight back against the oppressor” and “black and white world experiences color” before. But for some reason it feels uniquely queer coded here and even just them using Pearl and Marina as the vehicles to tell the story seems very intentional.

Am I just thinking too deeply again? Please tell me I’m not the only one who felt this while playing…

Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

Launching my first art blogs with a small comic based on the amazing words of Ursula K. Le Guin!

when hayao miyazaki said that true love was two people inspiring each other to live…recognizing just how hard living is, putting one foot in front of the other every day, how easy it is to lose our passion for it…… that’s the real shit