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This one really does just gain momentum with every new word, huh?

best moments in gaming journalism

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i’ve seen these quotes a hundred times but never the full article — 200k notes and i’ve never seen someone mention the guy saying “they should let kiryu smoke meth”

Comedy fucking gold I’m sorry

Somebody tell Hollywood I've found proof that a plot twist can be predictable and yet still amazing.

although they have a reputation as scavengers, hyenas are known to take down prey many times bigger than they are

I like how this implies the hyena took down the airplane.

She did.

something i really enjoy in horror movies is when the victim(s) start to hunt the killer in return in order to kill them first, both because it's an interesting parallel that (if done well) asks the audience to consider the question of when violence and killing are a justifiable means to an end in order to survive and at what point it crosses the line from acceptable to abhorrent and condemns the perpetrator, and also because it's a little bit funny. like i can do that too bitch you're not special.

Happy birthday @holioc!!!! 🥳 I drew our girls together because they're so funny to me 🍑🍋 I hope you have a great day!

HAPPY BDAY DEAR @holioc !!

Yuzuki and Enbi in a date at Mana’s bakery 💕  Yuzuki is not pleased.

I hope you have a nice day, dear, I love you!!! ❤❤

i love when a character has something terrible happen to them and as a result they see themself as, essentially if not literally, a ghost. and so that means they only can (and have to) do what ghosts do, ie get revenge and then cease to exist. easy as that. but then halfway through this ghost vengeance they realize hey actually i might still be a human person. with human needs. that’s incredibly inconvenient, considering how much i’ve invested in this whole ghost thing

you people will just. say anything

#Tbf tho the bechdel test is pretty shitty #Like dgmw this is a stupid take but it’s a lame test anyway

okay but do you understand that liz wallace made the bechdel-WALLACE test because she was a dyke who wanted to go to movies and pretend the characters were dykes and her friend alison bechdel happened to put her silly little litmus assessment into a comic strip and then the rest of everyone else decided it was a bona fide way of means testing media for Feminist Content? do you know that? it doesn’t sound like you know that

some of you are the dumbest motherfuckers alive

i am going to explain the bechdel test for people such as those in the tags

here is the original comic strip:

what the bechdel-wallace test is not:

what the bechdel-wallace test is:

it is not a way to “police what women speak about” because it does not apply to real people. it applies to fictional characters. also, the bechdel-wallace test does not stipulate that there can be no conversation about a male love interest. the women just have to talk about something other than a male love interest.

the reason the male love interest stipulation is there is because like… this test was created by a butch lesbian woman to determine whether or not she wanted to watch a movie. removing that part of the test violates the spirit of the test. it’s silly because it’s not supposed to be serious.

tl;dr stop misinterpreting the bechdel-wallace test you losers. op is right. goodbye

As a woman who is not a lesbian, I think the Bechdel-Wallace test is incredibly valuable. But not to judge individual pieces of media on. Because it says nothing about quality of that media, and there’s a lot of other ways that media could be feminist or woman-positive. For example, two female doctors talking about a male patient is still, technically “two women talking together about a man.”

I find the Bechdel-Wallace test important as a way of talking about the state of media. Because any individual work may not pass the Bechdel-Wallace test for a variety of reasons. But when you look at how many works fail it, that tells you something about the representation of women in media. It tells you two things: that there aren’t many female characters, or at least not as many as there are men, and they’re not in leading roles (and thus not getting as many conversations per piece of media), and that when they do talk it tends to be about the men in their lives, whether romantic interest or not. Whether or not any one movie or book or TV show is good or bad is irrelevant. What’s important is the overall pattern.

And talking about the Bechdel-Wallace test gives a good shorthand for starting to talk about the patterns of how women are portrayed in media.

real conversation w my mother bc of the local serial killer

look i'm not the fic police, at the end of the day you can write your fics however you like. but certain things might be making people not read your fics just because of accessibility. these things are, but aren't limited to:

Well I could swear I heard this phone ringing..

Today I spotted a Robin nest in one of the apple trees. It looked fresh and had no eggs in it so I decided to take a chance and put a Birdsy camera there. It was so cute to see the bird sing while in the nest.⁠

sometimes you see discourse ™ so mindbogglingly dumb you just have to be like, that’s the kids talking. that’s the same as when two toddlers are having an intense conversation and it’s totally detached from reality but they’re very serious about it. that’s not for me that’s for the kids

Sometimes a fanon interpretation shared by so many people will gaslight you into thinking YOU're not smart enough to understand it when, in reality, no, the collective of a fandom can indeed just be misinterpreting a character beyond parody. It's not you, it's them