Nazis rape less than Islamists, hate a lot fewer groups, and don’t use the women of their targeted groups in mass-scale captive breeding (a race-purity ideology has a silver lining).

looks familiar huh?

Sad in the individual case but hilarious on a macroscopic level, apparently making the female avatars look less feminine in Pokemon Go has been triggering dysphoria in transwomen. Who were ironically probably who that was intended to please.

But hey what do I know? I’m not getting massive amounts of money that I spend on sexual assault lawsuits and don’t file the correct nonprofit paperwork for, unlike the consultants Niantic listened to, Gaymer X.

Save yourself a lot of rewriting: Google every name or epithet you come up with, in double quotes, along with the single word ‘Warhammer’.

Making up god names and epithet titles is so weird cause you're repeating the same things over and over like:

Mmmm too many Rs in this one

Wait fuck this one's a Forgotten Realms God

No I've already used ____lord...

This is one's a Queen but this one's a Father..... hmph.

To alliterate or not to alliterate.

Wait fuck this one's a Critical Role God

And it just goes on and on and onnnnn

Fandom Problem #4585:

I wished we could go back to liking things without worrying about the politics and problematic stuff surrounding it. It feels like you're automatically expected to drop something you love like a hot potato the very moment something about it becomes remotely problematic or you're scum. That is hard for some of us to do. Maybe I'm alone, but I just want to be able to enjoy things again without worrying that I'll be hated tomorrow for liking something out of the blue... the state fandoms are in at the moment is becoming depressing.

I mean…other than that “said in a whisper” is redundant with “whispered”, and that one single solitary exception, no that is still correct and you are out of your fucking mind.

Say what you will about writers using too many synonyms for "said" but have you ever seen writers who only use "said" regardless of tone? They're out there man and it is brutal

Please research cultures that actually do the thing you are describing, though, because funerary cannibalism is an actual extensively researched subject. (And given how many humans have genetic resistance to kuru—“mad human disease”—it is likely that funerary cannibalism was once almost universal, possibly due to limited burial-space or fuel for cremation, in the Ice Age refugia.)

A worldbuilding tip for making your fictional nation interesting: choose a crime, taboo, etc. and make it legal, perhaps even engraved in the culture.

For example, cannibalism. It could be tradition to hold a feast in the honor of the recently deceased, devouring them as a way to signify their sacrifice will not be wasted. That could be not only the main way of holding a funeral, but it could be embedded in the culture. Perhaps it arose from the early days of the nation, when the founders resorted to cannibalism to survive.

Did OP turn down a date with a Greek god and get the reading comprehension version of Cassandra’s curse?

all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

On this basis how long does it take Vash’s brother to do dishes?

they call me… 7 Knives. because that’s how many knives it takes me to cook things because I keep puttin em in the fuckin sink without thinking about it

You can prove like 90% of the shit people say about history (“Islam spread peacefully”) and ethnicity (“Jews aren’t white…but Greeks are”) is propaganda that would make Nazis blush. Much as I’d like there to be legal penalties for that, it would just be hijacked by the exact people spreading the propaganda, to punish people pointing out that it is propaganda.

The only way to keep false ideas from stamping out true ones is to make it unacceptable to stamp out any ideas. The people spreading false ideas don’t care they’re false, so “only true ideas can stamp out other ones” is obviously not going to prevent anything.

Even free speech is easily abused by bad actors to manipulate public opinion against truth: “This writer may have provided mountains of evidence Moorish Spain was a genocidal nightmare, but the consensus of academics whose departments receive millions from the Saudi government is he’s a crank.” But coercive media controls just let those “experts” silence people directly, because who is the government going to ask about what is or is not misinformation?

Flooflers

Some of that is because of yōkai being mistranslated “demon” (it means, roughly, “jinni”). Except for oni, which are often called demons because oni are identified with rakshasas in Japanese Buddhism, and rakshasas torment the sinners in Naraka, like devils in Dante. (The actual title of Kimetsu no Yaiba is Trollkiller Blade. Which does run into the complication that its oni are less trolls than they are vampires that have horns.)

But yeah if they are going to be based on traditional Western demonic motifs, horns and batwings and tails with stingers, they have to be evil or at least so dangerously alien as to be innately inimical. Otherwise they’re actually gargoyles: things that look like demons, but aren’t.

im ngl I love people's creature concepts but i wish they would stop naming them "demons" because we are not rebranding demons as some cute and quirky or even cool and mysterious fantasy race

You know how I would start a Transformers movie?

You start with some extremely odd rubble, someone says “it’s like giants had a fistfight here, with the occasional air-to-air missile or antitank grenade also involved”. There are pieces of vehicles everywhere.

Cut to lab techs examining the debris, noticing that the vehicle pieces only superficially resemble those we know, like they are made of very freaky alloys that almost seem to have grown into their current configurations. And they have veins. Circulating through them is a strange liquid battery, roughly comparable to a metal-air system…but it clots on contact with air.

And then they bump a strange circuit running through the metal, with something electric…and a piece of car chassis unfolds into an arm 8 feet long, with a clawed hand on the end.

Rowling found history boring too and therefore so do her characters.

And therefore her fictional world’s history is also boring.

In my opinion one of the main worldbuilding issues with Harry Potter is the absolute lack of effort to establish any kind of history of the wizarding world or how it affected history as we know it.

This is driven home in an annoying way with how history of magic is portrayed as an unbearably boring class that no one likes or cares about. What’s up with that?

“A country in the fucking Balkans found me intolerably sleazy, but I will still comment on the rest of society.”

in the hour or so it took me to draw this op turned reblogs off

Solstheim

World building and landscaping examples

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim -Dragonborn DLC

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TikTok is Chinese spyware, you fucking idiot.

hey since it's coming up again: no it's not a good thing that the government wants to ban tiktok. no you should not be glad that the government might ban tiktok. no you should not respond to this with "good riddance" or "hurry up I hate that app". I should not have to explain this to you but the government banning a social media app is still a bad thing even if you don't like the UI or booktok or having to say "unalive" or how you think it's killing the very notion of attention spans. It's still bad. It's bad.