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Storyteller without a Story

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mapsontheweb

The most popular browsers in different countries in 2012 and 2022.

Nope! When Chrome first came to popularity, people switched over to it cause it was “faster” (turns out, it just eats through your device’s CPU) but since then Firefox has upped its game in a major way. Chrome just doesn’t measure up anymore. Plus, nowadays Chrome is just a data harvester designed to show hyper targeted ads - so even if Firefox ain’t for you, it’s still worth ditching Google for a different browser.

Legit though I switched to Firefox and it’s so so so much better

i’m gonna keep reblogging this ad infinitum so yall might as well convert now

remember that all chrome based browsers will no longer allow adblockers starting this june

the modern internet is literally unusable without one, so switch to firefox

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Folks have got to understand that they probably aren't messed up by some Secret Big Trauma that they just can't remember; but rather by a million tiny microtraumas that they do mostly remember but don't even register as traumatic because nobody actually understood that these things would cause trauma, much less stack on each other over the years.

Whether you're carrying one big rock or a big ol' bucket of sand, it's going to weigh on you just as much.

This is why psychologists have started taking more of an interest in CPTSD in the last 10-15 years. What most people know as PTSD is a response to a single, intensely traumatic event (or even a series of events). However, CPTSD (chronic post-traumatic stress disorder) is caused by living for years in a situation where your nervous system cannot catch a break. Even if nothing huge ever happened to you, you always had to be on guard for a thousand little things that could and did happen.

After years and years of this, your nervous system gets "stuck" in an activated threat response. It never really lets you rest, and if this started when you were a kid, you may not develop a lot of neural pathways that you should have, because your brain was too focused on keeping you safe to bother with little things like "genuine human connection" and "interpersonal attachment."

No lie, Complex PTSD/CPTSD is HUGE.

If you are disabled, if you are queer, if you are chronically ill, if you are the survivor of a toxic but not abusive relationship, if you grew up or lived under the threat of harm but no "actual" harm (or "very little" harm) was done, you may have CPTSD that isn't getting caught because CPTSD looks different from PTSD.

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bearie

i know my ass is up too late because i’m losing my fucking mind over accidentally typing george of the gungle

y'all hear one funny word and you just smash that reblog huh

i made it

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prokopetz

Though the proverbial "showdown at high noon" is largely a media invention, many famous gunslingers of the American Old West did engage in formal duels at least occasionally. The main differences from the popular media version are twofold:

  1. Formal duels were rare; most famous gunslingers duelled only once or twice in their entire careers, and a gunslinger with three or more duels under their belt would have been considered extraordinarily prolific (and also extraordinarily stupid – see below);
  2. Those gunslingers who did duel typically made a point of accepting challenges only from opponents of demonstrably inferior skill; there was something of an unspoken agreement among prolific duellists to avoid duelling each other by any means necessary, as they knew the surest way to cut short one's career was to duel someone who actually knew what they were doing!

Anyway, the reason I bring this up is because some day I want to write a semi-competitive tabletop RPG where the player characters are all rival gunslingers living the high life on manufactured drama and exaggerated tales of their legendary prowess while going to elaborate lengths to avoid having to actually fight each other.

(The mechanics for the social side of play would involve a blackjack variant with light deck-building elements and a heavy emphasis on bluffing and concealed information. The combat/duelling mechanics would just be "both sides flip a coin, and if your coin comes up tails you die", with duels where both parties eat dirt explicitly permitted.)

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petterwass

I could also see very elaborate kayfabe with fake injuries being a thing

Throwing away your shot allows your opponent to forego their coin flip, but you have no particular means of obliging them to do the same for you – get a little Prisoner's Dilemma action going. If you're trying to conceal the fact that you deliberately missed, the blackjack minigame is used to determine how well you sell it to any onlookers.

One may ask, if the gunslingers in this game have the goal of avoiding any actual gunslinging, how do they support themselves financially? Well, based on the history of the period, several possibilities naturally offer themselves (presented as a d6 table for your convenience):

  1. You're employed in law enforcement, likely as a sheriff or bounty hunter. Complication: one of the other player characters is your current target; the others don't initially know which of them it is.
  2. You're employed in some other skilled profession – for example, as a lawyer, or perhaps as a dentist. Complication: you need to spend a significant portion of your downtime actually doing your job.
  3. You're the leader of a criminal gang. Complication: your boys are also in town, and you're liable to be dragged into the fallout of their various drunken misdeeds.
  4. You subsist on publisher's fees from selling purple-prosed – and largely fabricated – stories of your adventures. Complication: your reputation is vulnerable to debunking.
  5. You perform trick-shooting exhibitions as part of a travelling show. Complication: you're unable to keep a low profile; the other player characters always know where you are and what you're doing.
  6. You rely on the patronage of well-heeled widows or other women of means; in modern terms, you're supported by one or more wealthy sugar mommies. Complication: hoo, boy.

(The last option would of course be available regardless of the gender of the player character in question. I'm not personally aware of any female gunslingers who historically enjoyed that particular arrangement, but certain liberties must be taken for the sake of play.)

I thought this was a fun idea so I threw together a document for playing this, linked here. I decided to base the social side of the game on poker instead of blackjack, with a bit of inspiration from Balatro. The structure of the game itself is roughly inspired by Shinobigami. Hasn't been play tested yet, but I'd love any feedback, especially regarding GM resources that would be helpful and balancing suggestions regarding the deck-building aspects of the game.

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catwalkvivi

turns out they were on their way to a triple date!

just something I wanted to draw after these that I posted a few days ago:

drawing lesbians is good for the soul <3

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I am genuinely so worried for all the young horny dykes going into adulthood thinking there’s something “problematic” / “wrong” with them for being horny because fucking tiktok lesbians think any horny dyke content is “male gaze fetishitic”

exactly. exactly.

good addition, thank you. I love being kinky and having fetishes and being an icky yucky nasty dyke. stay horny!

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uwanosorade

“this movie fetishizes muscular lesbians!”

me, a lesbian who drove all the way out to the local cinemark at 9:30 pm for the express purpose of seeing hot women fuck each other while being in a toxic relationship:

ALT

@cheeziswin cooking in the tags

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kestrel-tree

Well someone displeased the sky gods didn’t they

My first thought was someone pleased the sky gods, because this is a SHOW. 

That’s the problem with gods; their pleasure and their wrath often look the same.

That’s the problem with gods; their pleasure and their wrath often look the same.

why is this fire quote from a tumblr post

Because tumblr is the real world equivalent of infinite monkeys using typewriters eventually producing Shakespeare.

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