POV: You're a retainer

FFXIV is a mom game because people be asking you for shit day and night

sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

werewolf attack

If I had to choose a single thought which haunts me most, it’s this. And it has animated me for years. This thing has been growing and metastasizing for almost a decade. And every passing year we’ve grown more hoarse trying to get someone to give a shit.

Damn.

50 years from now

A kid: So the US used to be the most powerful country in the world? What happened?

That kid's teacher: OK so hold on, this is unbelievably stupid

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
-James Baldwin

The lore...

It was just 24 days between when Zuck went on Rogan and talked about how "never again" would he suppress info based on gov't demands (misrepresenting those demands) and when he texted top gov't employee Elon Musk to say "we're all set up to take down info you want removed."

I wrote about it here.

for decades as a gamer I don't think I ever saw a placeholder texture in a live game and suddenly in the space of two years there are a dozen cases of OH THAT AI WAS JUST MEANT TO BE A PLACEHOLDER

Final Fantasy Meme Balthier: Listen up fives a ten is speaking Balthier: Fran, can we talk, one ten to another Fran: I'm an eleven but go on

#ffxivart #sparkAP

julie newmar in an outrageous pink purple and green costume as the evil "ultra witch"

ultra witch cooking up a potion and count dracula is behind her

ultra witch pouting at one of her henchman. it's either "toil" or "trouble" i can't tell them apart

an end credits sequence showing "guest star julie newmar as ultra witch"

This is a legitimate screenshot

Gee, haha, we've all been heavily traumatized by decades of unwilling exposure to commercial monoculture, huh

an illustration of halmarut clutching calyx close to her chest

#ffxiv

This is for people who actually hate art and only see it as a thing to be consumed and regurgitated for clout rather than something to be savored and enjoyed

drawing of an aisha from neopets colored like an orange tabby cat

More kittycat Aisha

#art #neopets

Feliz Scrappy Doo Day for those who celebrate

Emergency aid for Gaza Help Gaza Sunbirds raise money to support Amos Trust

This is not a sponsored post. I want to share this as I believe children, regardless of race, gender or nationality deserves peace and safety, above all else.

You can send your donations to Gaza Sunbirds here: www.justgiving.com/page/savegaza

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Not that the horrors aren't exhausting but I do have to say the healthy amount of internal dismay at the US attacking Iran causes a lot less cognitive dissonance than the overwhelming culturally enforced patriotism of invading Iraq in the 2000s

At least not everything is in parallel

some romantasy discourse is valid but most of it is repackaged misogyny

Happy Sailor Moon Anniversary!