Pharmacist-in-training Pia departs from her home town, determined to cure a disease striking the town of Port Fina. Upon arrival, she can’t help but notice a giant landmass floating in the sky above the town: the Faraway Continent. To her surprise, the townspeople think little of the continent, though many rumors exist about what might be there. What begins with Pia running a little item shop on the hill ends up as a story spanning many faraway places and times… Faraway Story is an action RPG made by Fantasy Factory in Wolf RPG Editor. It’s a long game with a long plot and quite a lot of side-content. The long-awaited version 0.75 adds new chapters to the “Part 2” scenario, which I dare not say anything about here. (As you can tell from the number, though, it’s not yet complete.) If you lost your save or the like, you can skip to the start of Part 2 by choosing New Game and holding down Cancel and Sub-Key (default X and C on keyboard). This is not recommended if you never actually beat Part 1, or want to have items and stuff beyond the bare minimum. If you’ve never played Faraway Story before… play Faraway Story! It’s a very charming, in-depth, story-rich game about alchemy and item collecting, starring a cheerful pharmacist girl who rapidly attains incredible power. Part 1 might as well be a complete game in some senses, and Part 2 its sequel.

The thing about Discworld, you see, is that it’s a very hopeful form of cynicism. It doesn’t just tell you that the world is crap, it says, well, yes, of course the world is crap, but that’s why you should be hopeful, and helpful, and kind, and why you have to be good, because maybe you can make it a little less crap.

Reason #33573743742 why I love the Discworld books.

I would go a step further and say that the books reassure you that you don’t have to be good. Sam Vimes knows that he isn’t much better than the criminals he hunts. Tiffany Aching knows she’s selfish. Moist von Lipwig knows he’s a scoundrel. Granny Weatherwax knows she’d have preferred to be a wicked witch. But the heroes of Pratchett’s books look at themselves critically, see that they are not nice people, and go “Well, so what?” and go out and save the world anyway. You don’t have to be a good person. The choice to do good is open to everyone.

enjin-chan doodle

#when your brother doesn’t realize you’ve f*cked the grandmaster

Pros of being a Fandom Old: - never have to worry about my mom finding out about my porn fic - have seen it all before and give few if any fucks

Cons of being a Fandom Old: - forced to work at actual job instead of writing fic all day - have seen it all before and get regular “ugh not again” moments

this page is a national treasure

(scans from inaisekai)

in honor of the cfv anime reboot i’m bringing this back

also apparently it’s a full adaptation of the manga so with any luck we’ll get this animated too

roger that

I need serious help.

It was supposed to be happy but I accidentally made myself sad while drawing this remembering the line “I’ll never forget you, Naosuke”…… I fluctuate wildly between being happy with Yoshinobu’s character arc and being a weak person who needs a sequel where Naosuke crawls his way back out of hell

control your own consumption of content

Sarah is allergic to strawberries. As soon as she puts them in her mouth, her face swells up and she gets hives. It’s non-life-threatening but uncomfortable for her.  

Sally is also allergic to strawberries, and has the same symptoms. 

Sarah informs her friends she is allergic to strawberries so they can stop using them in shared food. Some of them even stop eating strawberries too (or, at least, stop eating them around her), so she is more comfortable. Sarah researches places she can eat out that will take care with her allergy, and chooses restaurants who agree they can accommodate her, or who do not use strawberries in any of their cooking. 

Sally, on the other hand, goes into restaurants specifically advertising only strawberry desserts, orders a dessert, and makes a huge fuss when she gets sick. She takes to social media, the local newspapers, everywhere, to tell people how terrible this restaurant is for not specifically accommodating her personal allergy. She goes back frequently to insult and harass specific staff. Some staff have even quit because of her. Sally says it is her personal right to have her allergy accommodated in every single place she feels like eating! She posts pictures of herself all swollen and ill everywhere and blames the restaurant and the staff for her discomfort. 

Be like Sarah, not like Sally. 

Control your own consumption of content, don’t enter tags you don’t like, and don’t harass creators that make things you don’t like because you’ve decided you have to have the entire internet cater to your personal likes and comforts. 

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

the daily life of sandal-kun the barista and his pining for local “angel”