the ideal Riven play experience is actually brainstorming puzzle solutions with your buddy on the bus to middle school while you draw fanart of your Myst OCs on the back of your math homework, I don't make the rules

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

A drawing of a sort of lumpy stick figure. Text reads: "I'm a beautiful and unique woman".

:)

a soft looking and somewhat worn felt swan with a big beak and trailing feathers

thinking about this 1500 year old plush swan made of reindeer wool

...Anyway. *happily flips through photo album of all her brothers and husband and dad snuggling each other's babies*

The more ASL and Deaf culture I learn, the more I appreciate the curb-cut effect of signing for so many different contexts (which should obviously not overwrite or replace their primary value to Deaf people)

I'm gonna become amish but for 1999

I heard that.

What is impressive about writing your wizardslop in a café owned by your family as you sit around all day drinking free espresso eating free scones and then going back to an apartment the government pays for that you never clean?

Like it sounds NICE yeah, but not impressive.

youtu.be/NeFUqCrmPC0

(Spoilers, but why is anyone reading this if that's not okay, but spoilers)

As far as I've ever been able to feel out in myself, within the narrative as set up from the beginning, the right thing to have happen was one of the following: 1) Prim lives, or 2) Nothing else is a happy ending.

A mannequin is dismantled ‘neath a sign reading “looks we love” near the entrance of a Macy’s

Looks we love

Wow this LONG GOODBYE poster’s rad

Too many young autistic TikTokers are buying into this “profound autism” propaganda, who can’t remember how things were when we had two separate diagnoses & think they’re speaking in support of those with high care needs..

..when they’re actually supporting groups we have been fighting for decades.

This Is How You Lose The Hundred Years' War

I was enthralled by his masterful sketches of mythic beings, anthropomorphic animals and turn-of-the-century tech depicted with a wicked sense of humor.

Left: "Mephit Imp" from the AD&D Planescape Monstrous Compendium, 1994.

Right: "What a Stench!", Heinrich Kley, 1909. His devils are the best!

Does anybody remember when teen pregnancy was a huge boogeyman of the right? They had all these purity dances and whatnot?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY: OH, DEAR - - I BETTER GET STARTED ON MY HOMEWORK P2- NANCY IS LISTENING TO THE RADIO AS SHE BEGINS OF DO HER HOMEWORK RADIO ANNOUNCER: ... SCIENTISTS ARE NOW WORKING ON A NEW SUPER-ATOM BOMB 2000 TIMES MORE DESTRUCTIVE - - P3- NANCY IMAGINES AN ATOM BOMB HURDLING TOWARDS THE EARTH P4- NANCY CRINGES AS SHE IMAGINES THE EARTH EXPLODING P5-NANCY : SOMEHOW THAT HOMEWORK DOESN'T SEEM VERY IMPORTANT NANCY THROWS HER HOMEWORK ON THE FLOOR…

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 15,1946

Just like me frfr

I went to visit Quantic Dream in Paris in the nadir of the David Cage era, when they were making that terrible Beyond game. I swear to you: the word EMOTION was written on the studio wall in big black lettering

Not everyone uses the word political in the “all art is political” way that people on the internet are very invested in. Many basically mean “partisan” and I think: it’s fine

I don't care about this--the man spits on Christ in public and private every day of his life and we know it already--but WHAT ARE THOSE THINGS IN THE SKY

lowkey do want all to love me and despair

Tightly cropped photo of a menu item at Dishoom that reads “Hot Doodh”

when your spouse is on the menu at Dishoom

They’re not wrong, though.

*breaks down the door five days later*

Narfpoitation fic

But there is just so much of it, and I'm tired. Because I write about this, I get told a lot of stuff in private, so I carry that too. I'm so tired of rapists. I'm so tired of rape culture. I'm so tired of the dehumanization of girls and women.

Weird to me that this is the thing everyone cites, because there's so much that's so much worse. In 1974 the first laws against marital rape were passed, but all 50 states did not classify it as a crime/remove the exemption until 1993.

Consider this:

I love the 90s WB cartoon approach of writing material for no imaginable demographic. There's a Pinky and the Brain that's an episode-long parody of Billy Jack. Animaniacs did a simultaneous takeoff of Apocalypse Now and the suppressed Jerry Lewis Holocaust movie The Day the Clown Cried.