Tardigrade (Hypsibius dujardini)

Photo by Sinclair Stammers

ARGs and analog horror series on youtube are probably one of the last bastions of creativity for creativity’s sake on the internet because by their nature they are extremely hard to monetize. you cant do sponsorships because it would break the immersion, same goes for ads. the best ive seen creators do is patreon support but even by doing a patreon theyre calling attention to the fact that theres one singular human behind every series and none of this is “real”, as in, these vhs tapes recordings were never tapes, theyre avi files created in premiere pro etc. ofc im not condemning patreons, im just saying they can break the immersion a bit. when it comes to horror series , youre never meant to see the guy behind the curtain so to speak, so all of this makes it super hard for the creators to make money off youtube. i dont think ppl pick this form of creativity to profit or to get popular , they just had an idea and put it out there for the sake of making something… and i like that : ) in the era of monetizing everything, including ur art and hobbies, analog horror and args remain very genuine and authentic.

but now that ive typed all that i think it would b extremely funny if an arg protagonist paused their scared vlog rant to do a sponsorship like ‘i think im being uhm. followed and i havent slept all week but (clears throat) but thankfully raid shadow legends has proved to be an excellent distraction during this time!! raid shadow legends is a mobile game in which’

#the monster has been following me but with nord vpn it thinks im in japan

Our Sunday best 💐🐱👒🎀

A secret rendezvous in the castle halls! 8) 

Okay i have to talk about this because it drives me fucjing INSANE every time i see it.

First off the tenderness??? Of the kings expression????? Coupled with the knights expression, eyes closed, lips parted, but with the king’s thumb on his chin thats plausible deniability right there baby. In the shadow of a doorway, too, off course theyd be that close if the knight were pulling the curtains aside for his king, nothing to see here. The hand on the kings wrist– is he trying to pull the king closer? Push him away? Hold him right there in that transient moment, that liminal space, the only place they are allowed this tender intimacy??????

me: yeah i always had this idea for a joke but i never got around to making it friend: post this EXACTLY AS IT IS

I put on the maid outfit and I make your house messier

There’s something truly exquisite about stories where the real tragedy is the price you paid to stand on top of the world

Hollow victories … sacrificing your humanity on the altar of what you perceive to be the greater good … the loneliness of godhood … regret for the person you used to be … the realisation that there is no way back … *chef’s kiss*

yeah im “transitioning” *dissolves into tiny pieces as i click to the next slide*

Is there a transfem version?!?

ask and ye shall receive

Nonbinary version?

enjoy 💛🤍💜🖤

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watch this one dog become FOUR DOGS!

i know an engineer-type dude who said fiction bored him, because fiction is mostly-formulaic and tropey, and you can generally guess what’s gonna happen next, and yada yada

so his solution for this problem was… to solely read serial web novels in languages that (1) he did not speak, and (2) for which there was no actual translation, fan or otherwise

apparently, the combined forces of “trying to figure out WTF is going on via the power of Google Translate" + “cultural differences in storytelling conventions” + “the inherent randomness of where the hell amateur authors are gonna take their plots”—those all mashed up to make stories that were unpredictable enough to keep him guessing all the time

then he described to me this totally batshit-sounding Hungarian story he’d been obsessively reading once a week for years

and god i think about him all the time.  like.  that is the most wild way to process fiction that i have ever heard of, but also, i’ve gotta admire the sheer chaos energy of it

like i tried to tell him suspense isn’t about having no fucking clue what’s going on, it’s about having expectations subverted in novel and interesting ways that nonetheless accord with one’s understanding of the story’s universe, etc

and he’s just like “no.  suspense is when i cannot guess what is happening next, full stop.  quantum physics is a suspense novel”

I don’t agree with this man but I respect his position.

I think the thing I respect about him is he has this opinion that would make him unable to enjoy most media

But instead of consuming media and complaining about it or just not consuming media at all, he’s engineered himself a batshit way of enjoying media regardless

And that’s worthy of respect even if I am baffled by his opinions.

Lesser known small mammals (or mammals whenever i bring up people have no idea what im talking about)

Quoll ..a carnivorous marsupial native to Australia that spends most of the day sleeping in its dens. there have been 111 recorded events of quolls eating human remains (x) (pictured here is a spotted-tail quoll)

Numbat..an insectivorous marsupial from Australia that is diurnal (or is primarily active during the day). unlike other mammals that primarily eat termites, they have a jaw with 50 very small teeth. they live in tree hollows and block the openings with the thick hide of their rump

Hyrax ..a small thickset herbivorous mammal that is more closely related to elephants and sea cows than pikas and marmots. theyre found in africa, and they have rubbery paw pads that help them climb up rocks (this is a rock hyrax)

Solenodon... a venomous, insectivorous little mammal that is easily provoked into a frenzy of squeaking and biting. it uses echolocation to compensate for its poor eyesight, and females have two teats almost located on its backside (above is a cuban solenodon)

Sengi (elephant shrews (or better known as the get a look at the snout species))...is another insectivore that is more closely related to elephants than true shrews. they live in southern Africa and have relatively large brains for their size (a respectable 11 inches) (this is a black and rufous sengi)

Tenrec..omnivorous little mammal that lives in land, sea, underground, and in trees. there are many different subspecies of tenrec that can look like hedgehogs, opossums, rats, and shrews (this is one is a lowland streaked tenrec from madagascar)

youtuber showing off his new redstone megabuild pistons and slime blocks and repeater lines running up and down and all around and he hasnt explained AT ALL what it does but when he powers it on your room starts shaking and the lights start flickering and he looks directly into his crap webcam with jet black eyes and just says ‘it is done.’ and the video abruptly ends and when you check twitter to see if any of his fans have had the same experience your feed is filled with the news that the pope just turned into a dirt block live on television

I can always tell when people have been misgendering me around the 4yo because she comes home, points very firmly at me and says, “[Derin], you’re a they.”

I know this buddy you don’t need to remind me.

a couple of months ago when i was 100%ing luigis mansion 3 i was doing a lot of multiplayer mansion games trying to get the rare ghosts and after one of these sessions i got a friend request from one of the people i played randomly with. anyway his name is luigi his profile pic is luigi and his library consists solely of luigi games and i’ve never seen him play anything else so i just have to assume luigi himself is my friend on switch

glad to see those spreading the truth

Rb to force new people from twitter to eat bees

Oh, hey, I was wondering when I’d get to use this again.

did you just fucking have this

I love this site.

Fellas, if your game has:

Then that's not your game, that's Homestuck

WHAT IN THE SWEET AND SOUR FUCK IS HOMESTUCK

not sure i have the energy to do all the suits but hey have a slooth