"The magic system is never fully explained" yeah that's how life works. Imagine having a story set in modern day America and the characters have several pages of exposition on combustion engines and telecommunication networks before we get to the plot

i think this is absolutely correct and good writing advice but also victor hugo would like to have a word with you about the parisian sewer system circa 1832

my friends have a cat who self identifies as a "boy" and uses he/him pronouns

we know this because he is owned by two lesbians who don't have very many he/him friends, so when they say "he" or "him" or "boy" they're usually referring to their cat, so their cat has started responding whenever somebody says "boy" or "he" by running up and looking at them expectantly. so he's a cat that has pronouns

This is the boy. By the way

Meanwhile, on Twitter:

Brain farts, a thread

Antique shops

a lot of the time it’s more enjoyable to watch something that’s a bit campy a bit gauche a bit cringey a bit low budget where you can tell that the people who made it are passionate about it and enjoying themselves and connecting to the characters than watching something that’s high budget and ultra-professional but ultimately soulless because it’s pursuing perfectionism over heart and warmth

The CW continues to be trash

g*na carano most likely being able to keep her role in the mandalorian after liking tweets in support of domestic terrorism, while john boyega and kelly marie tran were relentlessly harassed to the point kelly deleted all her social media is a blatant display of the fact that disney has never changed. no amount of diversity they have in their movies will change the fact that they don’t give a shit about their poc actors.

girls only want one thing and it is to decompose 

The AAA videogame industry just arbitrarily deciding that videogames should cost 70 bucks now when they’re not only still abusing employees(and normalizing it more and more) but churning out increasingly samey bug riddled garbage at lower and lower quality levels then having the nuts to ask for microtransaction money after that is just a little bit infuriating frankly.

Generational spin-off media is like “okay, what would be the most in-character way for the previous show’s protagonist to comprehensively fail as a parent?”

I fucking HATE the good hearted loving protagonist becomes a shitty absent parent trope.

It comes up way too often

It’s the fundamental tension between the desire to build continuity and the fact that your writer’s room consists exclusively of people who hate their dads.

https://twitter.com/molleindustria/status/1299480703755792387

Yeah so this is so pro-fascist fucking bullshit. A lot of these video games are really right-leaning super-not-good when you examine the philosophy style adventures…. but this just straight up plays into fascist militia power-fantasy propaganda by using BLM iconography.

[lest anyone say any shit, I’ve been steeped in video games since the Atari 2600 came out, so miss me with any noise about this being a non-informed take]

At first I was like “hmm, this looks like a SPECTRE-like threat re-tooled for 2020, blabla terrorists working discreetly blabla planetary threat blabla”… and then the alt-right talking points came up.

It’s really *that* blatant. This game looks like a power fantasy written by a “citizen militia” vigilante wannabe.

I saw this post and spontaneously had the idea of a pond nymph falling in love with an old garden statue

this entered my head and i felt it deep in my soul