to all the leaves on all the trees

ppl are always like “no game is perfect you can’t please EVERYbody” but when was the last time you heard a motherfucker complain about portal

should have contained more portals. i was disappointed by the number of portals

z i hate to break this to you but you as the player are always in direct control of the amount of portals

My piece for the Lapidot Zine!~

TOP STORY TONIGHT

#''he blocked him!'' ''IMPOSSIBLE!'' ''it's ME who'll be going to nationals!!''

these tags must be seen

i have this writing style i like to call “uncertain.” it’s where the narrator isn’t really sure what they’re talking about either

That is so powerful and I want to write a short story in this style now thank you

“the park had been there for as long as i’d lived there, i think. i couldn’t be sure. i was never one to go to the park anyway” nobody has any clue what’s going on

self aware unreliable narrator

psyduck is probably like. the most achievable pokemon probably. like i don’t think i could teach a cabbage to grow legs and be a bulbasaur but there’s probably a certain threshold of mental torment i could subject a duck to that would make a psyduck

They are trying their hardest…

requested by pinhead-logan Zuko: “Ow! What was that for?” Toph: “That’s how I show affection.”

quarantine is just having to confront your old hyperfixations as they resurface one by one like you're scott pilgrim and they're each one of ramona's exes

Sokka: Okay, Zuko, truth or dare?

Zuko: Truth.

Sokka: What was your worst day?

Zuko: Probably when my father gave me my scar before he banished me.

Sokka: Lol, no seriously...

Zuko: I am serious.

Sokka:

The Gaang:

Zuko: You guys didn’t know this already...?

The Gaang:

Aang: Uhm, well...if you don’t want to talk about it, we don’t have t— wait, where did Katara, Sokka, and Toph just go?

Sokka, Toph, & Katara on their way to sneak into Ozai’s cell:

I truly loved Lapis’s characterization in Can’t Go Back. Just that conflicting mix of wanting to stay as far away as possible from your trauma while hating how lonely that can make you. You want to leave it behind in the past forever and forget it, but not keeping your guard up is what let it happen in the first place, and it’s like.. when your bones set wrong after being broken; you’re healed, but what it would you take to fix it is too painful to ever consider.

The episode showed it isn’t that Steven and Peridot never left any lasting impressions on Lapis, but that this is just how trauma is; it’s something you viscerally can never go back to. Anything that even remotely strays closer to your trauma is instantly blocked out as an option for you. While the aversion is born from rational fear, in itself it is not rational, and there isn’t anything you can do about that, even knowing it consciously. Lapis acknowledges in the episode that her actions are detrimental to her and she understands that she’s ending up creating a mirror-image of her trauma trying to be everything that it’s not, but it still doesn’t make it anything she’s ever capable of fighting against.

And it isn’t even the kind of thing you can ever explain to other people who haven’t gone through something like this. After she says “I’m leaving!” Lapis just bites out the line “You should be used to that by now,” because Steven can never understand, because she’s alone in this, because she isolates herself, because her trauma always hangs over her. It…just meant a lot to me to see it reflected in the show.

This was a good episode… well… it might have been uncomfortable for some but it’s very realistic, to run away from whatever it is that caused you trauma or anything triggering.

Lapis is my favorite character, we can explore trauma through her and see what it can do to someone in a fairly realistic way and there’s simply not enough of that in fiction and it’s so refreshing to see. Heartbreaking but refreshing. Especially since it’s not pretty, usually trauma we see in other fiction is softened or made to actually make a character endearing or just to earn sympathy from the audience rather than showing the uglier sides of trauma, not with Lapis.

Is she sympathetic and endearing? Of course, but not so much when she’s lashing out, taking control of others or running away, but that’s the beauty of it, it’s real, it’s not pretty but it’s real. I need to see more of that. Trauma can’t just be used as something writers use to gain sympathy from the audience, it needs to be represented and shown to build more understanding of how it really works.

Thanks for listening to my TED talk. 

#luigi after developing amnesia being interrogated by toads

i had an idea

You ever see a sentence that gets you like “Ooh, I wanna curl up in a ball and cry”?

actually this doesn’t look bad at all if you can only read the gloss. 了 doesn’t technically clash with the irrealis, but it really clashes with the irrealis

now hwy is this headline sofunnysjjajakam

I've always had a problem integrating Goliaths into my settings because their niche is already stuffed with more interesting races, like orcs, barbarian humans, mountain dwarves, true giants, and so on; we don't need another vaguely northern mountainy furs-and-leathers barbarian race.

So what if we lean into their odd designation as Lawful Neutral, and the origin of their name, and make them more like Babylonians and ancient Canaanites. There isn't really a rigidly lawful player race; Dwarves are called that, but they're more about tradition than the Law. In D&D, law can cover tradition (dwarves), rigid militant and government structures (hobgoblins), codes of stewardship (tritons), and legalism (which doesn't quite have a PC race yet).

Imagine a race of half-giants with a deep seated code akin to Hammurabi's, and shift their competitiveness and combativeness to ritualized, legalistic dueling and militant challenges. You know, like the Biblical Goliath.

Their aesthetic is the clay slab, from cyclopean architecture to tablets. Rectangular, towering, brutalist and utilitarian.

Also, they're big gamers, not just athletes, loving their big awkward mancala boards. Any form of competition, from sports to gladiation to card games to the court of law is the goliath's domain, and they're big on rigid, obeyed rules and fair play (as in canon). Despite their legalism, they desire plainness of speech and abhor sophistry; if a legal code can't be displayed in full in the public square, it will be viewed as suspicious, even potentially diabolic.