EVERYONE BOYCOTT!!!

it is very childish and naive but i am still so shocked to see that so many people are just fucking outright mean

hey dingus! drink some water! are you feeling sad? that's no good! drink some water! will it help? maybe! who knows! drinking water is a good idea regardless! so why not have a nice refreshing sip? sounds like a plan to me! go on, go get a glass of the good stuff! I'll be here when you get back!

Im going to drink pepsi

hey chat? send this one to the pit

the pit is full

what? unacceptable. chat, add more sustainable housing to the pit

Sorry ma’am we can’t, we blew our budget and we’re way overdrawn, apologies

Christ. who was in charge of money allocation for the pit?

sowry. I bought pepsi

send this one to the pit.

the pit is full

I know they say amnesia is a bad trait in d&d/ttrpgs but in my most recent campaign I made a character who was voluntarily memory wiped for magical powers and gave my dm permission to make up a backstry that I don't even know. So we show up in this town and get intercepted by a bunch of gangsters who were like "heyyy there's our lawyer with no conscience!" and my character is like "well i still dont have a conscience, how hard can law be?" and that's how we started the ace attorney plotline

ARE YOU TODAY’S DATE?

BECAUSE YOURE 10/10

i’ve waited one year to reblog this

Draw badly. Write nonsensically. Embroider messily. Burn what you bake and cook. Get paint everywhere. Read half a book. Lose your mind for a bit. Plant things. Have faith in the process. Abandon 70 wood-carving projects. Get a kit and do some of it and never return to it. Get comfortable with sucking and losing motivation. Continue to create with reckless abandon.

little man you are straight up going nowhere

Here is my and Wil's response to Rusty Quill's statement on the "opinion piece" that we edited. It includes new information & sources, as well as some corrections & clarifications.

Considering that my previous set of posts around the Rusty Quill article attracted so much attention, I thought it only fair to give some discussion to the Editor's response to Rusty Quill. For those who may not have read my previous post (and may not know who I am or why I'm commenting here), you can find that post through this link.

First things first, it's quite gratifying to see a quote of mine in the response:

There seemed to be a lot of people trying to imply conspiracy and malice which simply wasn't warranted. As I mentioned on another ask, once a Kickstarter hits 1000%, there simply is no way you can knock a Kickstarter off course in the last week, no way at all.

Other than that pleasant surprise, I have to say that I have very little to fault in the editor's response. They have done a meticulous job in laying out the data they can lay out, providing clear context of where they're coming from, not to mention some very important discussion on journalists and journalism generally, and why "objectivity" and "balance" is a poor goal to aim for when it comes to reporting.

I certainly continue to agree with the editors that the fact that there are so many inconsistent statements of experience from Rusty Quill collaborators is probably a very clear sign of management failure. I stated before, and I continue to state, that the overall impression I get from the evidence provided is not that Rusty Quill are moustache-twirling villains who wish to suck the very life-blood of those who collaborate with them. Instead, I feel that RQ had a massive success, got a lot of money thanks to that success, had big goals about what they wanted to achieve once they had that windfall, but lacked the management skills (and perhaps the cash) to achieve those goals. In the process, that lack of management skills meant that they simply couldn't manage everyone the way they wanted.

It's such a common failure state, and it's common because the skills needed to be a creative are very different from the skills to manage a creative organisation. RQ's response doesn't even change that calculus that much - They released it within 24 hours, which is absurd - No organisation with a decent management structure would send out a response that quickly, because part of that response is actively going through your business and verifying what they've talked about. Considering the sheer number of points about law and contracts, they should have, at a minimum, engaged with their legal representative (which would have taken time), should have sent feelers out to current and former employees, and pulled up examples of contracts to provide clear understanding for everyone. Only once they knew they had the information should they have started drafting a response. At the very least, waiting a day probably would have cleared some of the sheer defensiveness that was a part of that response, and maybe would have avoided the accusations of conspiracy and sabotage.

Anyway, if people do want to discuss the editor's reply, or want to ask general questions about fiction podcasting and the fiction podcasting scene, my asks are open. Remember to engage responsibly, assume good faith, and for fuck's sake don't hurl abuse at them or anyone, frankly.

TAZ Animated is now LIVE!

This was a multi-animator project that spanned nearly 6 years from 2017 to 2023 with over 150 participants! The video covers an edited version of episode 4 of The Adventure Zone: Balance running about 34 minutes long.

Link to participant credits

The video currently lacks official subtitles. When those are added, a post will be made on this blog to announce it.

counting sheep

stayin w my bf tonight.....this is going to be us....

hiiii someone pls gimme recs for anime that are very storytelling good, not too many episodes (like, under 40 episodes), and will absolutely make me cry

bonus points if it's a romaaaaaaaance

have already seen your lie in april and ranking of kings both of which made me cry! and also a place further than the universe which is a masterpiece

tagging in sweet friends @kamoegoi @elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey and... omg... what is your url... 😂... TAGGING IN ANOTHER FRIEND IN A SEC but pls the rest of y'all help too 💖

AND @goldenretreevee how did i not remember that url IM SO SORRY BBY 😂

HI HELLO adding some suggestions!!

it isn't short necessarily and we've talked about it before but FRUITS BASKET!!!!! and ill watch it with you i love furuba

the ancient magus bride is one of my big faves, it's very witchy and set in an extremely creative, absolutely beautiful world. and i think it's getting another season soon????? im fuckin hype

anohana: the flower we lost that day: it's been a minute since i watched this one but it made me cry. childhood friends reconnecting to help one of their group pass on after dying

orange: incredible storytelling and character development. this run on sentence from a review says it best. "to compartmentalise Orange as just a tragedy or just a romance or just anything for that matter would be an injustice and a criminal simplification of what is a meticulously well-crafted masterpiece, but I feel that if you are looking for a unique story that incorporates any of the aforementioned themes, I would urge you to give Orange a go and to experience a true profoundness in conveying human beings in all its complexity and the power regret can hold"

a lull in the sea: i can't remember if i told you about this one but i love it. it's so good. kids from the sea have to move to go to school on land. the art is gorgeous, the characters are great, the world is so fun and spectacular, and there's a really fantastic twist from the first half of the show going into the second

please watch makoto shinkai's films your name and weathering with you if you haven't. i adore these movies. and im also seconding wolf children which is one of my favorites of all time.

more in the silly fun but incredibly potent storytelling veins, trigger's BNA and little witch academia are must-watch shows.

i haven't watched any of the following, but i told a couple of my more anime-knowledgeable friends your criteria and they quickly recommended these:

violet evergarden

to your eternity

kamisama kiss

maid-sama

toradora

maquia: when the promised flower blooms

Rude Birbs!

based on this photoset

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(this might as well just be actual dialogue from a rp with @the-travelers-light and @goldenvellichor)