So the thing that bothers me about the terf wizard game isn’t so much the people who are just playing it, but the people who have this incessant need to defend playing it, proclaiming that it’s wrong to call people out for it.

Like sure, seeing people I have or have had some degree of trust or respect for playing the game does feel kinda disappointing, but there’s a degree of simple out of sight, out of mind - I can’t really have opinions about things I don’t know about, y’know?

But the people who insist that they should not only be allowed to play the game (which none of us had the ability to take away to begin with) but to play it without any feelings of guilt or awkward discomfort about it? Worse still, the people on twitch or whichever with the express purpose of making money from the latest big AAA release who argue that they shouldn’t have to grapple with the ethics of the situation?

No. At that point, you’re not just consuming a problematic piece of media - you’ve chosen to actively promote it, and actively reduce or even dismiss the ethical issues surrounding it. You’re not just squaring the round hole to fit the square block every block, you’re declaring the ethical matter a complete non-issue that isn’t worth considering.

And people are damn well in their rights to judge the fuck out of you for it.

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Me: Oh yay, an animation for The Celestial Toymaker!

*looks at it*

Me:

Actually didn't mean for like 2 excerpts and a chapter to all go up on the same night BUT HERE WE ARE

Also I'm going through my wardrobe and I've kept like every pair of jeans I've owned in the last 20 years so I'm having to try on like 15 pairs of jeans (it's all I wear aside from Snag leggings) to see which ones I can keep and which ones I can turf and which ones I can repurpose into shorts

And y'all, why is trying on jeans so hard T.T

time princess players how do y'all picture the MCs of every story

like since every set and piece of official art has a different hair colour, length, and style with every picture of them, and sometimes there's descriptions that don't match the images, which one do you go with

and do you make half of them look like your avatar or have your own designs

I know this has been said before but licherally

Something that makes reading TOA so devastating is how fucking much Apollo feels about Everything. There’s so MUCH. Like I don’t even know how to describe it to you if you haven’t read the books yourself. He has so many complicated thoughts and emotions about just about everything and he cares about everything so much and there is just SO MUCH going on in his head. And yet none of it ever reaches his mouth!!

He almost never says what he’s feeling. What little comes out of his mouth about his thoughts barely even scratches the surface of what he actually means. Like he’ll be having a long ass monologue about how incredible someone is, showing a deep understanding of them as a person and empathizing with them so hard you’d almost think it’s projection but it’s not he’s legitimately just mind melding with this random person he met like a week ago and he’s thinking the softest, kindest thoughts about them like he knows they’re fucking incredible - and what comes out of his mouth is just like, “you’re a wonderful friend :)” AND ITS LIKE. THERES SO MUCH MORE UNDER THE SURFACE. the sheer admiration and adoration he has for everyone around him……… UGHHH!!! But he never VOICES ANY OF IT!!!!!! He never tells anyone about what Zeus did to him……. He never tells anyone except the reader about his realization that Zeus is abusive…. He never even tells commodus about how much he adored him, not then and not now… he refuses to tell anyone when he’s in pain or tries to justify the things he does when he actually had Decent Reasons for why he did something… I’m. I’M. AUGH. AHHHHH

HE DOESN’T EVEN TELL US ALL OF HIS THOUGHTS IS THE THING. THERES EVEN MORE THAT HE IS NOT TELLING US!!!!! THE FUCKING OCEAN OF FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS HE HAS ABOUT EVERYTHING IS THE CLIFF NOTES VERSION. I AM IN DISTRESS.

And YET…. Even what slips out of his mouth is so fucking devastating it is SO devastating. He’s so fucking kind and gentle with Harley and Meg and and other younger Demis and his kids… he’ll act like an obstinate idiot and then turn around say something that drags the core of the person he’s talking to into the light like nail on the fucking HEAD like he reached into their soul and gave them the words to express something that they were struggling to say aloud or that they didn’t even realize about themself. Around the 2nd book he starts putting voice to some of his feelings and thoughts about others and even that tiny fucking sliver is overwhelming to the people he’s talking to bc he’s SO. AUGHHHH

oh my god ! haha . anyway a bit buzzed perhaps. anyway here's what happened on the date

Yes I know, Betty healing the wounds Armando left on her, I love it. But Betty feeling over her shoulders the daunting and heavy resentment towards every single pretty woman in the world, all at once, all of a sudden? And then healing from that too? My God

in my free time i'm typing out a little post-adventure of link story from loz 1 zelda's perspective on link bringing this OTHER princess zelda who was apparently asleep for centuries (and thank you SO much for the WARNING that he was going to be DOING this, IMPA [<-entirely sarcastic]) back to the castle and the acclimatization of everyone to the whole situation and it's genuinely so fun. loz 1 zelda's standing there like alright how do i gently break it to my relative from the distant peaceful past that she has to learn how to fight in this time period or she's going to get ripped to shreds by monsters. and then she says exactly that and when aol zelda predictably looks mildly freaked out about the subject and is just standing there internally screaming like yep! okay! sure! death and destruction is rampant in this world and it kind of makes me wish i'd never woken up at all! when do fighting lessons start! loz 1 zelda is just standing there like. hm. was that not gentle enough. i feel like that wasn't gentle enough.

I love all the different Gil-Galad theories, and would like to submit another for consideration: All of them are true at once because “Gil-Galad” is actually a group project consisting of a bunch of 4th/5th generation Finwëans all working together to play professional “dodge the Noldorin kingship.”

So sometime during the War of Wrath, Ereinion (Fingon’s son), Artanáro (Finrod’s son), Finellach (Orodreth’s son), Finduilas (very much alive and not pinned to a tree with a spear!), and a very competent Elf of no particular lineage who has nevertheless become a de facto leader by merit and has thus been given the name “Finwain” because he reminds people of a young Finwë, all wash up on Balar.

They realize that their collective existence puts the Exiles in something of a succession crisis, an over-abundance of heirs, if you will. Fortunately, they have all learned a great deal from the lessons of their parents/grandparents/relatives/House of Finwë in general, and the actual problem is that none of them really wants to be king, especially Ereinion who has already been ruling as one but who has disliked nearly every minute of it and was rather hoping that one of his cousins would come take over or at least give him a hand.  He really, really misses Idril so much, who was the real if unofficial Queen of the Noldor in Exile until she sailed.

This gives bright young Finwain an idea: kingship by committee.  They’ll name a king, but really the name is just a stand-in for the lot of them working together.  This way, the Noldor get a figurehead, they can pool their different strengths and make up for each other’s weaknesses, and no one person has to be king alone.

Thus “Gil-Galad” is born.  They decide on the name (”Star of Radiance”) as an homage to Idril (”Sparkling Brilliance”), the first Gil-Galad in spirit if not in name.

Ereinion has already been ruling as a Noldor king and he’s got the nearest claim as Fingon’s son so he’s their “face” guy.  Finwain is excellent with the day-to-day administration and dealing justice.  Artanáro has studied law and economics and politics and is quite good at the statecraft and politicking part of things.  Finellach is a marvellous diplomat.  Finduilas is the best manager in a crisis, who will decide on a course of action and get it done with ruthless determination while everyone else is still dithering, and she’s also become terrifyingly good at foreign policy to boot. 

Galadríel thinks the lot of them have gone around the bend, but that may be because she was not invited to be a Gil-Galadríel when the name practically writes itself, c’mon.  They didn’t ask Celebrimbor either, for obvious reasons but he wouldn’t have accepted anyways.  Elrond is even more adept at dodging crowns and argues very convincingly that he has exactly one Noldorin grandparent whom he never met and that if he really had to pick a lineage, he’d go Sindar first, Man (Númenorean) second, and Noldor a distant fifth or sixth.  They ask Celebrían when she comes of age, partly to irritate Galadríel and mostly because Finduilas would really like another female cousin on the team, but she has far too much common sense to accept.

Surprisingly, it all works out very well.  Finwain and Artanáro have the running of the kingdom down pat between the pair of them.  Finellach manages to make friends and build alliances with nearly everyone, and anyone he can’t charm, he just sics Elrond on them because it’s impossible not to become friends with Elrond.  Ereinion gets their defences into tip-top shape because it might be a new Age but you don’t survive the First Age and remain complacent.  Finduilas takes care of their affairs abroad as well as any crises at home, and is the first person to distrust Annatar when he shows up on their doorstep. 

Sometimes they disagree with each other.  Fortunately, there are an odd number of them so there are never any ties when they have to vote (no one is allowed to abstain).  Anything serious that they really cannot come to a consensus on, they lock themselves in an inner room decorated with a special tapestry that Finduilas had commissioned of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.  That’s usually enough of a pointed reminder about how the best-intended unions can come to ruin if they don’t manage to meet as one on the same ground.

At the end of the Second Age, they collectively agree that the Noldor in Middle-earth don’t need any more High Kings.  Anyways, it's difficult to carry on as Gil-Galad without Ereinion ever since he died nobly and publicly in the Last Alliance.  Finellach decides to sail.  Finduilas goes East on a long vacation to see all the rest of Middle-earth.  Artanáro also decides to take a long vacation and goes larking around Middle-earth in a Wandering Company.  Finwain retires to the Havens and settles down to help Círdan build ships. 

And they all lived happily ever after.  Even Ereinion, who almost beat Finrod’s record of coming back from the Halls of Mandos and who promptly became a champion sprinter when an intrigued Finarfin started asking if he thought this kingship by committee idea could work for the Noldor in Aman.

does anyone have any tips for finding voice actors with a specific accent? i wanna find voice claims for more ocs but i have no idea where to begin doing that. musicians i know can only take me so far if none of them fit ...

what i wouldn't give for alucard to reintroduce himself with his human name at the end of the series

Hey, sorry for being here so soon, but i got a little headcanon for Hard and Time man.

I just think they would be good pals to each other

Now let me explain why:

They both are probably the most "unpopular" members of this 'club' - Hard man ether too intimidating for others to get close or too quiet and shy to pick up conversation should it sometimes occur; Time on the other hand seems like the exact opposite - he's too annoying to be around and probably too closed on games in his free time to socialize normally.

So they both end up just being in same room - maybe Time man playing something and Hard man ended up watching it - and seeing that the other one doesn't go away so fast as others, they now just hanging out like this. At first this goes without much of conversations, maybe a few questions about video game itself or last mission. Then maybe they start going to other topics - how did you know this trick, did you know about something and so on and so forth. Basically, opposites attracts doing its job at its finest.

Also, just imagine how OP would Hard man be with speed boost. If this dude's one of the only weaknesses is his slow speed, then imagine if he just doesn't have it animore.

Oh my GOD this so cute?!??! Fully subscribing to this idea, this is so funny and sweet. You're right in that they're both more unpopular, Hard Man just exists half the time while Time Man is just kinda a bitter, egotistical little man who will NOT shut up unless focused on something. Time has nothing to hold against hard (unlike with some of the others), so them having a cute little friendship is genuinely sweet. The dynamic reminds me of something, but I can't remember what lmao

Also, good GOD, a speed-boosted Hard Man would be terrifying. I hadn't even considered that happening, oops. Thats another good episode idea (since I'm collecting those now, apparently)

replaying zofeia immediately after i finish this playthrough bc i’m too scared to touch mods until after, but i NEED to give her orin’s braid

I will be absolutely surprised shocked appalled horrified confused if steddie doesn't become canon but I also do not believe it has a single chance and im having a hard time juggling these two sides