Trans men and trans women are not opposites. Hope this helps!

What the sneef? I'm snorfin' here!

We locked a child in a basement for 30 years to read what ideas it came up with ex nihilo & tabula rasa and it only made derivative slop

I raised a child in a lightless cave, then at age 13 I gave them a lamp, pen, and paper, and they just instinctively drew a "cool S" and amateur Kim Possible hentai

WAIT

I JUST REMEMBERED HEARING AN ELON MUSK QUOTE WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT HOW HE BELIEVES CHESS IS "TOO SIMPLE" OR WHATEVER AND HE SAID HIS FAVORITE GAME WAS A GAME CALLED "POLYTOPIA"

I JUST REMEMBERED THAT IVE PLAYED POLYTOPIA

It being Elon's favorite game (or at least one so important to him that his biographer dedicates a lot of time to it) is.....really really funny.

Basically, imagine Civilization, but as a mobile game. So like if Civilization Revolution was even more dumbed down (that's a Civilization insult. That's devastating. It's devastated right now). For what it's worth, it's not a bad game. On the contrary, from what I could tell in the little bit of time I played it, it's a perfectly competent game with good design. But it's not a deep game by any means. I played through it once, won easily on my first go, then saw that the other playable characters had barely any differences between them.

Like, not to imply you can judge a book by its cover, but here's what it looks like

I came across an article by Dave Karpf discussing this exact thing, and I think it describes it wonderfully

If trench warfare were made-up, it would be the most on-the-nose anti-war satire ever created. Bunch of young men shooting at each other from inside open graves, slowly rotting even as they fight to stay alive. Every so often, they get to move a few hundred metres to dig a new grave for themselves somewhere else and this is called a victory.

did you know that you can draw whatever you want

I can behave normally around books

I can be trusted in bookstores and libraries and you should take me to those locations

i hope everyone is ready to celebrate International Down With Cis day on April 4th.

happy 9 years to the Down With Cis bus!

happy 10 years to the Down With Cis bus!

stop saying degenerate you look like a nazi

slightly more serious less flippant version of my post from yesterday: whether you ar doing so from a point of pro- or anti- nintendo or video games it is so silly to talk about whether 'video games are more expensive now' 'video games have always been this expensive' when what you're talking about is exclusively big-money titles that you're buying on release day at full price. that's not "video games". that's "video games made for current-gen hardware by activision/nintendo/EA/etc". its like saying "Movies nowadays all have Iron Man in them"

many of the best video games of all time are made by one weird trans girl and available for free Free on itch.io. many more are made by two autistic finnish guys and available on steam for like $10. the "video gamse used to be even more expensive adjusting for inflation" thing is only true about usamerican kids who were playing the new nintendos at the time, to me as a kid "video games" were like ~$8 from a guy with a cd burner or when i was slightly older like $20 for three from the second-hand ps2 games bin. like get some fuckin perspective on the medium god damn

reblog if you're a sick individual who's attracted to women over 30

Why does nobody's 'Ghibli-inspired' TTRPG ever look like this?

people like the aesthetic of ghibli and don't like to think about the anger behind it. You see this when people do ghibli mash ups of things like zelda too.

For Nausicaä, Miyazaki very deliberately made the insects unmarketable, ugly, coarse, inhuman, and scary as opposed to something cute that sings and dances that you could get cute plushies and toys of (I'm sure that exists, but not to the extent of say, totoro). By the end of the movie, you realize the monsters are merely animals that serve the ecosystem, and they do more good for the world than the people who think they're doing good by eradicating them.

In the US there was a huge push to hunt wolves. Aside from their pelts which could be sold, they're also killing monsters. They'll eat you, and your children, and they're competition for those sweet innocent deer that you also want to hunt for leather and food. Hunt the monsters down.

Except getting rid of them had horrible consequences. The deer population exploded which resulted in starvation and mass migration of wildlife.

We started putting them back into the wild, and the deer population leveled. More deer started to die from wolves and far less animals died from starvation. Vegetation came back. The monsters, it turned out, were more akin to gardeners, tending to the field and keeping nature in balance.

The thing is wolves don't have morals. They don't lie, steal, cheat, or ponder the consequences of sin. They have feelings and empathy, but they don't bare ill will to their next meal. They don't twist the knife in their victim to make sure they feel it. They simply need to eat to live, and that involves killing, and so they kill, and because their lives depend on it, they kill as efficiently as possible, and the deaths, while violent, are quick as opposed to starvation. They don't have the convenience of going to mcdonalds to remain blissfully unaware about the murder they're consuming. They kill because they have to kill when they have to kill.

And that's more or less what Nausicaä is about. It's not about a princess saving the world and watering her plants and studying while lofi music plays. It's anger directed at man's indifference and unwillingness to understand nature, and I cannot stand the anger being wallpapered over for aesthetic.

You don't really love a field of flowers if you think the insects that inhabit them need to exterminated, and you don't really love a forest if you're not livid that people only see value in them once they're chopped down.

laios- "im alienation from manhood and from my body"

falin- "im womanhood thats simultaneously eroticized and condemned as monstrous"

THE TRANSFEM APPLICABILITY SISTERS

Northernlion Voice: Maybe I'm insane for this one but; one week of good sleep with three meals a day and moderate exercise. Shit kinda goes crazy.

"average cat owner spends 3 years in prison" factoid actualy just statistical error. average owner spends 0 years in prison. Miette's mother, who kicked her body like the football and went to jail for One Thousand Years is an outlier adn should not have been counted

I love how every single Georg post observes the original's typo

i like that you said "observe" instead of "preserve," implying this has religious importance.