"Jax is an abuser" is so funny to me, not only did he die (what more consequence for actions do you want to see?), there was this whole Alien Entity that tortured the entire crew the whole show that doesn't get mentioned because he didn't come out of no closet

TADC fanfic idea for you: whoever Jax becomes shows up in the circus again *after* everything has gone down, but this time out and happier, only to sink into misery again because being trapped after finding yourself with a bunch of strangers who remember you as a pre-out asshole is a type of hell

I think we need more media literacy mostly so that when we see a take made in bad faith made by bad actora we know it's in bad faith and can safely mock and/or ignore it

Genuinely MTG I say this with all respects, close the omenpaths again. You can't handle them, you're not telling good stories with them, and no one wants a set of hats again.

If we're going to yell at Barthes about anything in Death of the Author, we should be yelling at him for his weird ass invocation of Brecht's Alienation as the theatrical equivalent to what he is arguing, which no, Alienation is an entirely different type of guy

JK Rowling isn't transgender, she's just a misogynist. Get it right

This just means if the money people perceive a productivity increase of 59%, true or not, you're about to see more slop than you've ever seen before

wanna build an angels deck (serra angel was the reason I wanted to play magic) and I sigh every time I see a Giada deck that runs her and then 30 plains and nothing else for mana

Doing this today in honor of the heroes

Like I get the impulse to need Canon Confirmation From The Author on everything but like one, the people being contrary are not arguing in good faith. You don't have to defeat people who are not talking with you in good faith. two, we are flattening all relationships to a small set of signifiers

If you understand "how to watch a show" the trans thing isn't a surprise. What's real is girl crushing on both her girl friends and confusing that for something

Oh my god they're trying NFTs again actual brainless industry off your local CEO

a) using AI to write emails is lazy b) people love being lazy c) people don't want to be rude conclusion: if you don't want people to be b) because of a), emphasize to them strongly that they are being c) if they write you a clearly AI-generated email. Because it is. Deeply, unfathomably rude.

so much of the current horrible cultural moment is this simple I think

it's been here for a while now, to the point it was used in an oral history of lesbians in 1988. We don't actually know the etymological origin

Based Bro'ing your way into the worst treaty since Versailles because you lost a war you started

Today was Icelandic Independence Day. The most popular song we sing on Icelandic Independence Day is a song about how boring Icelandic Independence Day is

This would be the best remake/retelling ever I think

I started on projects with the intent to continue them if people showed interest and then cancelled them. Years later, some people step forward wondering why I didn't continue, and I tell them the same thing every time: no one showed a lick of interest or gave me any indication I was being read.

Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

One of the best moments for me was finding a forum via itch.io traffic, introducing myself, and someone telling me one of my stories lives in their head rent free It's incredibly rare though for me to hear anything!

i wish i could come at you with some deeper insight but there is nothing that deep about a bunch of executives with no imagination who finally have a Yes Sir machine. a concept artist surprising them with something they hadn't thought of is like kryptonite to their ego

The problem is that we don't see these things the far right says as the horrifying violent attacks that they are, because violence against queer people is still normal in the minds of society, but retribution for this violence *does* register as violence to the polite masses.

Looked into cEDH and what do you mean they don't have slowplay warnings, chess clocks or any type of tournament timer and allow straight up yapping over someone else's turn as "diplomacy"? Fake ass format. A bad joke. Try again

You know it's good when you're still thinking of it

I hear spock's brain was written under an assumed name. I wish I could have seen it under an assumed name, now

The Labyrinth of Minos and the Minotaur springs to mind.

When someone swallows your bullshit just a little too fast

suddenly wondering what having a portal to hell open in 1099 does to Icelandic adoption of christianity, which is only 99 years old at that point. Thanks, Trench Crusade

This is horror. This is scarier than all horror I have ever read or watched combined

reading about the neighbourhood organizations, mutual aid, almshouse et al in Kowloon Walled City once again, in awe at the wonder of human cooperation

A reason so many people don't read ttrpgs isn't just that reading is something a lot of people simply don't do anymore, it's also that it's usually easy to pick up a board game without reading the instructions yourself and we treat them as board games

I've been here for a while, on this realization, and it sucks, but it's true and what we can do about it is "make things for people who want to enjoy them" and that's about it

tech and tech-believing people tend to be uniquely positioned to fall for scams and into addictions because they're immersed in a culture that tells them they are logical and rational and immune to propaganda, scams and even becoming addicted

Zettamall is about a supermarket worker who gets abducted by a giant space mall and trapped in a cycle of loot box grinding. It asks important questions like "how many esoteric Australian references can Ettin make before someone says something" and "what if goblins were paid to knife you"

Haven't posted it in a while so here's a reminder that I'm writing a comedy sci-fi LitRPG webnovel, and you should check it out, and also make a Royal Road account and tell me how cool I am (very)

seeing D&D people complain they don't want artificer cat people in their medieval fantasy and a) wow the kids are growing into their own grognard era, *sniff* and b) this is what we used to have different published campaign settings for and what they could be for again

in Iceland, if you're working on a farm, drinking "raw" milk is pretty normal and I've never personally heard of someone get sick. This is not an endorsement for doing it: this is me asking, "what the hell conditions are on these filthy-ass farms that are causing people to get sick and die"

I could travel to the united states, get arrested without cause, be detained without access to medicine or even food and forced to work for someone else's profit. I would ask Americans what they would think if any country on earth did this to them.

my modern mtg commander pod: value engine precons and complex game plans my wife: my command zone is sigarda. she is a 5/5 flying you can't kill

Proposing that my partner put up a wall of buttons so I can press them and say things like "pets" and "mad" and they immediately suggest "vacuum cleaner" because they understand me so well

low poly games, high poly life

prepping myself for attempts at blanchitsu style painting, and my main takeaway so far is "pretend you are painting something that is under a red sky, in red spaces, reflecting red on everything on people who have never been nor will ever be outside in a healthy environment"

Reykjavik has the backrooms and they are right next to the theater where we saw Backrooms

If I designed a magic card it would be an enchantment that reads "All tokens are legendary."

people should hold ACTUALLY unpopular opinions, like blood moon/mass land destruction being perfectly okay and even necessary to curb Green in EDH