“We are glad the SAVE Act died in the Senate. We are grateful to every senator who stood firm against it. To every American who called, wrote and organized to make their voice heard, thank you – your voice matters." #BlackskyNews
www.splcenter.org/presscenter/...
Eight headlines tracing Tucker Carlson’s journey from hating Trump to loving Trump to calling him the antichrist to being attacked by Trump to apologizing for helping elect him
A story in eight ineptly collaged headlines
I may or may not be frustrated with how so many web pages have elements that ruin a “print to PDF” browser function or plugin, such as a floating menu bar, or disruptive advertising viewports. It has been difficult for a while now to preserve the important part of an article on a web page (the text)
More essays and articles that aren’t about immediate current events need a download button for a .pdf or ePUB copy. We cannot let important words be trapped on the Internet and lost to time when they are inevitably taken down.
Yes, there’s the Internet Archive and the like, but they’re vulnerable.
Neon pixel art of an amazon in a sleeveless leather top and miniskirt with a Y2K-style visible midriff. She has a huge blond pony updo and a big sword.
Pixel character portrait of a woman with a mess of brown hair, big, upturned blue eyes, and pursed, pouty-looking lips.
ASCII art of a a brown-haired, blue-eyed woman stretched out while a bloody dagger hovers over her midriff. She looks displeased about this.
Pixel screenshot of a woman in tattered brown rags being held between two Centurian-style soldiers while a king on a throne condemns her.
my new zine, Shareware Made Me Trans, is now out!! ~6000 words (and lots of images) on the 90s games that shaped my gender identity, including windows 3.1 amazons, sapphic crpg romances, and my own teenage fetish games.
link in reply with excerpts and free community copies for trans readers
Cover, with an ASCII illustration of a hand with long pink nails holding a blue 3.5" floppy disc. The label on the disc is the trans flag. Title: "Shareware Made Me Trans."
Grid showing the layout of the 24-page zine, plus front and back cover.
"Gallery of shareware amazons" featuring images of four women warriors from various games.
As a pre-teen author undergoing the incorrect puberty, my own ZZT games circled the same themes again and again, at first with a layer of distancing irony that slowly eroded like the mountain being pecked away by that bird in Hell: they were fetish games. They revolved around captured princesses, with bare feet and torn dresses, chained in ASCII dungeons, punished and degraded, threatened with torture and hardship and peril. These were, in essence, all manifestations of the submissive woman, the painslut and pillow princess I would eventually become, but could not yet admit to wanting to be, could not yet admit that such a thing could be wanted.
everyone is currently obsessed with *checks notes* a 1997 game called Moon Child. but did you know other weird games came out in the 90s? you can read about some of them in my new 24-page zine, Shareware Made Me Trans, coming to itch next week!
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Can I please have help
• eating
• I have to take the cat to the vet tomorrow because she’s sick and digestive issues
• not being homeless in 10 days
Trying out a writing platform as I attempt to get a story idea off the ground. I’m open to suggestions for both alternative platforms for publishing, and for story/writing direction or addressing problems.
Anyway, here’s what I have so far if you’d like to read it!
www.wattpad.com/story/410368...
a 5-wide by 3-tall grid of game covers, entitled "how do i rotate text in ms paint hepl" from left-right, top-bottom: "Ego-Death Inducing (Positive)" - Laika: Aged Through Blood "Can't wait to cry" - Deltarune "Can't wait to scream" - Ultrakill "Sisyphean Task" - ZeroRanger "Will 100% it eventually" - Hollow Knight: Silksong "I will keep playing this" - Nuclear Throne "Why do I keep playing this" - Cursed to Golf "What a classic! (actually played)" - Yoshi's Island "What a classic! (will play some day)" - Mother 3 "Formative experience" - Sonic 3 & Knuckles "Story good, game meh" - Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines "Game good, story meh" - Drainus "Zerma Breakcore Eyesore-core (Affectionate)" - Advent Neon "I should be studied in a lab" - FranZen "Really wish I liked it" - Kitsune Tails
🐑 people are still doing these, right?
grids.fun
Something a little messed up about making my daughter the voice of this berry - only to continuously throw her to her demise.
But I just can’t stop.
Is this parenting?
#indiegame #gamedev
unironically a beautiful and effective way to keep grifters out. if you get filtered by an anime catgirl popping up for 2 seconds because it's too cringe and gay for you was your heart really in the systems programming?
Congratulations, America. You successfully bullied another immigrant into leaving because this place has become fucking absolutely untenable for us.
montana constitution stays winning
I must admit that I was stunned; “pretty” wasn’t an adjective I would have dared describe myself with over the last several months, but I think it works today.
Joni with her curly hair cut to a bob; her hair comes down to about the level of her mouth, barely covering the ears.
I like how my most recent haircut turned out. (We usually trade favors with one of my partner’s friends; he was once a professional hairdresser.)
It’s giving dance party boss battle, I love it
I’m super late to this joke, but I would like to point out that Gladden Design has made some pretty fun - or at least interesting - paper games! gladdendesign.com
ooooh someone ported DSlibris (ebook reader for the DS) to a 3DS-specific version, and it's actively being updated
github.com/RigleGit/3ds...
I miss those features when I used DeviantArt.
I think we should all start blogs again. Or online journals, even. That was a nice time. Just writing a few paragraphs about your day (don't forget to list the sad song you're listening to!) and maybe your friends will leave a comment. Then you go and read theirs and comment. It was fun.
the fact that legislators are trying to say that computers are devices that require id verification and tracking to use should put fear into EVERYONE. FIGHT AGAINST THIS.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is still my favorite of Hayao Miyazaki's works. if not the best Ghibli film, then definitely up there
I can’t tell if this one is giving a “horrifying, predatory” vibe, or just a goofy one. I certainly hope it comes across as funny, and not creepy.
I actually started laughing as I took the photo but it’s too ridiculous to not keep. I genuinely don’t know how to describe my facial expression; sorry.
I make stupid faces sometimes.
The pain is bad enough that I can’t focus and can’t bring myself to move around much
It feels like something has been stabbed into my gum where that tooth is, and I just want to yank it out
Photo of Joni’s upper set of teeth. There’s one molar (I think?) on the photo that is tremendously decayed, and it’s basically cratered in the middle of the tooth, as well as worn down to the gumline at the front.
I think the tooth got worse
Artwork of Curly Brace from Cave Story/Doukutsu Monogatari. She is a female cyborg with long, blonde hair and blue eyes, and she wears a predominantly red outfit consisting of a cropped, lined tank top, skinny jeans, combat boots and fingerless gloves. The rest of her outfit is green, consisting of a string bikini, antenna headphones, and an Iron Bond. Here, she's seen casually walking with a smile on her face. The background is reminiscent of the Outer Wall from the game - a fortress with concrete ground in front of the night sky.
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Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here
he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor
and still, they threw him out
and you know what? they did it by voting
don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter
