attention this is your captain speaking chag sameach pesach to all celebrating and a reminder do not open the airlock to greet elijah the vulcan rabbinic council ruled that opening the door to the room where the seder is occurring is sufficient elijah can get on a starship just fine himself he just likes to be personally invited in to your seder we dont need another incident like last year thank you
I think one of the starkest illustrations of how incoherent Hasbro's goals for Dungeons & Dragons are is that they made the writers take out all the direct references to dragon-fucking in 5E in a bid to render the IP more advertiser-friendly, but still insisted upon keeping a bunch of stuff whose narrative context strongly implies dragon-fucking front and centre in the brand identity, so now the Player's Handbook has gotta play coy about where dragon-blooded sorcerers come from.
"Perhaps one of your ancestors [MADE A BARGAIN] with a dragon, or perhaps you're the first of a new sorcerous bloodline as a result of a [BARGAIN] with a dragon". Yeah, I bet it was quite the "bargain".
Unbelievably huge dragon d[ISCOUNT]
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE l APRIL 2024
four kids play a game...
A silly goofy fact for you all<3: All of my shirt collars give or take a few shirts are chewed up like that lmao
I'm tagging (but if you want to join go ahead<3): @fvcking-stupid-666 @dawntones & @acetheidiotinacloset
<33 i love getting tagged in those i just feel so seen (couldn't find my signature eyebags but it's still pretty accurate)
Ty for the tag this was sm fun I love these 😊
No pressure at all yall 😋
Tagging (only if thou wishes it): @shazzaofdoom @lillyblogsmizu @sad-endings-suck @farintonorth
Read the !! as containing many facts that I find fun but not everyone does, like the one about mushrooms growing in the bloodstreams of still-living people.
(The guy lived, for the record)
this painting came to me in a dream
NO ONE appreciated my joke and its two revisions when i posted it so i’m posting it here
Ogtha
not to be controversial bc I know this is like…not in line with shifting opinions on fanfic comment culture but if there’s a glaring typo in my work I will NOT be offended by pointing it out. if ao3 fucks up the formatting…I will also not be offended by having this pointed out…
‘looking forward to the next update’ and ‘I hope you update soon!’ are different vibes than a demand, and should be read in good faith because a reader is finding their way to tell you how much they love it. I will not be mad at this.
‘I don’t usually like this ship but this fic made me feel something’ is also incredibly high praise. I’m not going to get mad at this.
even ‘I love this fic but I’m curious about why you made [x] choice’ is just another way a reader is engaging in and putting thought into your work.
I just feel like a lot of authors take any comment that’s not perfectly articulated glowing praise in the exact manner they’re hoping to receive it in bad faith.
fic engagement has been dropping across the board over the last several years, and yes it’s frustrating but it isn’t as though I can’t see how it happens. comment anxiety can be a real thing. the last thing anyone wants to do is offend an author they love, and that means sometimes people default to silence.
idk where I’m going with this I guess aside from saying unless a comment is outright attacking me I’m never going to get mad at it, and I think a lot of authors should feel the same way. ESPECIALLY TYPOS PLZ GOD POINT OUT MY TYPOS.
Extra points if the unwitting typo makes the fic funnier, in a wholesome way. In which case ABSOLUTELY point it out, so other's can share the laugh.
For exampled. "They flashed their identity badgers" is BOUND to improve a fic.
I absolutely agree with this, but I will say from some of my friends who are more active in commenting on fics, it is a big issue. They have over the years gotten horrible abuse and people acting like they killed their puppy in front of them and swearing to never write again, because they did something like pointing out a misspelling or grammatical mistake, even when surrounded by a review that was otherwise praise.
Whenever I see posts about how "People should comment more! (but of course not say anything but shining praise, no negativity or concrit)", I always feel like 1) they have no idea how touchy many people are about any perceived attack on their fic, and 2) of course no one likes a negative review, me included, but a culture where only glowing praise is acceptable isn't the healthiest or most trustworthy.
Imagine if you had a neighbour who keeps performing songs from Phantom of the Opera in his apartment every night, by himself but accompanied by a parrot, which he has taught to sing Christine's part. Admittedly it's kind of obnoxious but you are far too baffled to even be properly annoyed. And also you don't want to confront someone with that kind of power and determination. So every once in a while you just hear this guy dramatically bellow
I'm so sorry I had to it was haunting me
The Nazgul after getting washed down the river Bruinen, and then realizing that they are going to have to go back to their master soaking and horseless, all the while sending in a report about how they stabbed some pillows in an inn.
This was not the Dracula lore drop I was expecting today.
their ship name might as well be theseus the way there's not a single original characteristic left there
I wasn’t expecting much. Maybe Vader’s baritone with hints of melody. I was *not* expecting it to be a masterpiece, what the fuck, this is a million times better than I was expecting and it’s unironically really good. Turn on that volume button.
I mean, these are the dudes that did Stacy’s Dad, I expect nothing less than brilliance.
I really hope Mark Hamill has seen this
Lae'zel's character and her entire situation at the beginning of the game becomes so much more funny when you find out she's 22. It makes so much sense. Imagine you're 22 and you're exposed to this dangerous toxin or chemical or something - but not to worry, you learnt that this can be easily fixed, you just need to dial 911 real quick. Common knowledge. Everyone knows that. You learnt that in kindergarten, it's up there with fire alarm drills.
But the people you're stuck with have no concept of modern medicine and when you say "let's go to the hospital" they will say shit like "i think they kill people at the hospital" and "we should ask this swamp lady" or "this guy over there told me about this homoeopathic healer kind of guy but he got abducted" or "this random bard wants to help" and "I'm not going to dial 911 because I don't want the government to know my home address" or "maybe we should consider a deal with Satan". And then a bunch of them KEEP consuming the chemical because it makes them "stronger". One guy might explode for unrelated reasons. You have a few days before this situation is getting critical and suddenly they're solving crime and doing general charity for the community.
And FOR SOME REASON you still try to help these idiots and you STILL want to help them get the cure even though they all keep insisting the "doctors" at the "hospital" might try to "kill them" and they don't have insurance. And you keep telling them to just. go. to. the. hospital. before the time runs out and you all die very horribly of a very treatable condition.
And also you're 22 in a foreign country and you're responsible for shepherding this gaggle of idiots who are all ranging anywhere from 24 to 240 years old.
and then when you finally get to the hospital they do, in fact, try to kill you
Okay, so: the premise of the Final Fantasy VII remake is that the audience's demand for the remake to follow exactly the same plot as the original has manifested as a horde of evil ghosts who intervene in order to keep the story on the expected rails, with a particular emphasis on ensuring that characters in the remake die at the same times and under the same circumstances as their original counterparts. At the end of the remake's first instalment, Cloud and friends fight and defeat the king of the Evil Plot Ghosts, an act which breaks time and creates a multiverse where everybody's fanfic is real. Sephiroth subsequently merges with all the fanfic versions of himself and becomes some sort of fucked up metanarrative god. Later, Cloud simultaneously succeeds and fails in preventing Aerith's death, which partially dislocates him from the prime narrative reality, and he begins perceiving an adjacent fixit-fic universe where Zack never died. The Aerith of that universe then teams up with Cloud to fight Hyperdimensional Meta Bullshit Sephiroth, a battle that ends inconclusively when Sephiroth flees, stranding Zack-lives-universe Aerith in the prime narrative reality, though only Cloud can see her. The game closes with the revelation that, unbeknownst to everyone else, Sephiroth slipped the Black Materia into Cloud's pocket during their fight, setting in motion the events of the unpublished third instalment. Have I got all that straight?
#i don't understand why they did this #it would have been so much easier to just actually remake ff7 #if they wanted to do a weird meta sequel they shouldn't have marketed it as a remake (via @saltdust-crusader)
To the extent that Remake/Rebirth is trying to say anything at all, being misleadingly presented as a straight remake seems to be central to what it's doing. I think it's genuinely trying to frame an argument that first-party remakes are fundamentally the same species of adaptation as fanfic – which isn't exactly a novel argument if you're even passingly acquainted with contemporary media studies, but seeing it in this particular context is pretty fucking bizarre.
Honestly, my knowledge of the remake comes entirely from your posts and I wasn't sure if you were ACTUALLY summarizing the remake or just using it as a jumping off point for a joke comparing it to Homestuck. I'm still not convinced either way.
Oh, what Remake/Rebirth are doing is definitely of the same genus as the back half of Homestuck, though as far as I can tell there's no direct influence there – they just happen to be drawing on the same broader traditions of metanarrative dickfuckery.
