for each like this gets I’ll post one (1) controversial take on substantive ethics

you don’t need to keep promises actually

Note from Anon:

“Please say your opinion in the tags! I’m asking cuz I have two oc ships and I’m afraid that the age differences might be a problem, the first is a 28 year old x a 31 year old the other is a 41 year old x a 46 year old.”

I love how Warframe treats some of the wildest elements of its premise as completely unremarkable. A lesser game would never shut the fuck up about how badass it is that you're a space ninja. Warframe is like "yeah yeah yeah we know you're a space ninja, what's important right now is restoring the local wetlands."

Warframe is fundamentally a game about ecological conservation in which you happen to play a biomechanical space killerfreak.

Child of a brutal debt colony whose brain is legally owned by a hypercapitalist cult: "Do you wanna go ride hoverboards with us?"

Member of an ancient mercenary culture, wearing the cloned skin of a legendary historical warrior held together by psychic generational trauma: "Hell yes I do."

Like 30% of the major story beats were caused by a Category 5 Old Man Yaoi Event.

And, of course, the ancient grim reaper figure who hunts you down as revenge for killing bosses living with/inside(?) the still-conscious corpse of a malevolent AI King, with the nature of the relationship between the two being ambiguous (but I choose to interpret it as romantic)

thinking about steven universe. however you may feel about that show, about the "su critical" backlash and the backlash to the backlash, about the scheduling bullshit, about how it handled certain characters and plot beats (politically or just narratively), one thing remains objectively true:

garnet was fucking awesome. character of all time.

stronger than you was the single hypest thing to happen between January 1st, 2015 and the release of toby fox's "undertale." it shall always be so.

One of my FAVOURITE ship dynamics to write or read in fics is when two characters are basically already a couple but they just haven’t realised it yet. They call each other up at like 3am, they cuddle, they sleep in the same bed, they fall asleep in each other’s arms, they hold hands, they practically live together, they talk about having a ~ special connection ~, they just haven’t actually kissed or done the do or talked about their feelings yet so they’re still both like “but I just don’t know if they like me in that way!!”

Less slow burn and more two idiots standing around literally on fire from page one but not noticing until page two hundred.

Explain your reasoning plzzz

Everybody do the wenis!

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i learned about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden (x)

Sometimes, people are really great.

This is also an example of picking One Thing and putting most of your Better The World efforts there. We have so many different important issues to care about and act toward, and it’s tempting to try and do a Little for Many Things - and I’m not saying that little bits of effort don’t add up! They do. But often you’ll make a bigger impact (and possibly have less compassion/activist fatigue) if you direct the majority of your efforts toward one or two things.

you're going about your normal day when, suddenly, surprise! you've been pokémon mystery dungeon'd!

unfortunately, due to budget cuts, the pokémon assigning quiz has been canceled. instead, you must spin THE WHEEL, assigning you a random, unevolved, non-legendary and non-mythical pokémon. you must now go on some sort of world-saving adventure as this pokémon. good luck!

tell me in the tags what you rolled, and how you feel about it - for bonus points, you can spin the wheel again for (or just take your pick of) a pokémon to be your partner.

bonus rules:

tumblr users when you present the concept of a tradeoff

artists on tumblr stop fukcing lying to yourselves you never draw those sticks and circles when you sketch stuff out you just die and you know it

artists tag yourselves

every autistic person watching this episode of dungeon meshi:

I hope the kids growing up on today's internet are still getting to share that experience of finding some out-of-context AMV featuring an implied narrative of characters they know nothing about and having it become a keystone of their brain forever

op is posting from tamriel. or perhaps the lands between