“What happened then?” asked Toad. “I had to save my life,” said Frog.

A thing for which I am always unprepared is what commonplace relics of my youth are now mystifying artifacts to those who missed that particular window. And are great curiosities but obscure even just after a generation. Last con an artist earnestly asked us to describe what sticker books were like.

dreamed I was in a horror game that was really terrifying & gripping til the antagonist reveal & it was fukjen Midvalley of all ppl & it totally broke the immersion & I yelled at him for not having the decency to even change his name & imagined a Wolfwood to go shoot him because I was so annoyed

This guy is onto something

writers artists 🤝 getting our best work 🤝 done at 2am 🤝 🤝 criminals santa claus

a gay poem from my reading tonight: “be fat, do crimes” by baruch porras hernandez

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

where my nerds at

9 whole years since finding ffxv through a video compliation of in game buttslaps. By far the best fandom I've ever been involved in and probably single handedly kept me drawing through years I would've given up in otherwise!

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

I was enjoying tales of arise a lot more when the characters were still problematic (except for Kisara who's always been nauseatingly perfect) & did not stand around having increasingly unnatural conversations about hatred and privilege while sounding like they ate six tumblr accounts for breakfast

Increasingly unimpressed by commercials using highly creative visual franchises (wicked, the grinch) to shill for some of the most boring-ass, basic bitch, bland AF merchandise. There's no who down in whoville going to want a fake coach bag from walmart.

What a great headline

It would be extremely cool if a bunch of people called payment processors over Black Friday weekend to ask why they're telling people what they can and can't buy with their own money. This holiday season, give the gift of calling payment processors over Black Friday weekend

#scribs #ffxv world of ruin my forever girl

No. The Thing is a movie about a bunch of people who all distrust and hate each other trapped in one building as the tension between them slowly builds until it reaches a breaking point. It's a Thanksgiving movie.

good morning have a woowoo

SORRY THE PLACE IS KIND OF A MESS SOMETHING CAME UP WHILE I WAS CLEANING

Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.

I'm 99% sure that this isn't what they're gonna do but what if the OG Troopers are actually the bad guys and that's why the enemy designs have been super secret Like their latent armor powers take them over after fighting it off for decades and the new team has to both defeat and save them 🤩

lrt saw those pics and instantly was like "that's sloss furnace" even though I've never been there but I sure have watched lots of bad ghost shows 😅

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there. The show must go on.

thinking about wolfwoods big hands holding so many potatoes. scrubbed damp potatoes, scrubbed damp hands. vash walks in, flings an arm over his eyes "can you please get decent" hes being scrambled "spikey, what??" vash turns around runs into wall stumbles out "obscene" he complains in panicked lust

I only complain about games I love so if you ever see me bitching more about ffxv please know I have over 400 hours of gameplay, 100,000 words of fanfic, and four cosplays in it Things will be Afoot in the next year about the anniversary, I assure you (run while you can)

If only this really had been Noct's isekai adventure, there might have been some things here he could use

FFXV Royal Edition is literally like I don't know her. That's not the game I played, the narrative I responded to with thousands of words. We said that the ending was rushed & parts of the story were weird & awkward and OOC and SE was like oh sorry here's a happy ending that respects that even less

sorry for posting about The Character. yeah it's terminal. sorry. it'll happen again

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🚬 (1/2) #trigun #vw #wv

Actually I think the conversation with @stefmasc.bsky.social about hearse-driver Wolfwood and pretending-to-be-dead-for-escape-reasons Vash meetcute AU from yesterday deserves to be shared because it's too good not to (link that started it is pics of a classic hearse doing donuts)

Typical discussion with Stef about pressing issues of the moment

You know. It's not the dumpster's fault it's on fire. The dumpster's just doing its job. But some sonuvabitch threw away gasoline rags, or tossed in a cigarette or deliberately set it on fire. I think we stop blaming the dumpster for being on fire and start looking for the asshole with the matches.

金髪ズ＆黒髪ら #trigun #trigunmaximum #finalfantasy #ff7 #fanart #crossover

If It Doesn't Exist, MAKE IT. Aka. The motivational bnuy. #originalart

One of the cruelest tricks society played on creative people was planting the idea that being proud of your work is somehow unseemly and egotistical. You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!

“The people in this book are brave,” said Toad. “They fight dragons and giants, and they are never afraid.” “I wonder if we are brave,” said Frog.

They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books. But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular. It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.

it's my birthday! the last year wasn't easy for me but I can always rely on him to cheer me up <3

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Knives newest foe: two old dudes #trigun @tricrack.bsky.social

when the ghost of you hits on ye olde xv playlist

lrt oh thank goodness a legitimate reason to hate and boycott this production besides the fact that it looks bland and awful and the entire concept of a live-action LoZ is stupid

This is Avi Arad btw, one of the producers for the Zelda movie

2018 // world where nyx escorted these two on their honeymoon #lunoct #lunyx #ffxv

Remember: don't eat the mid tier fast food chicken, don't play the wizard game, don't shop at the hobby store run by the bad guys from Indiana Jones, and don't donate to the bigot bucket.

Whenever I see someone's blocked me it just makes me laugh because it's probably for something dumb like me passively existing and bonking my dollies together in a way somebody doesn't like and I just gotta wonder how someone like that survives the open hostility of the rest of the internet

if anyone has intel about any remote jobs in art/design, would really appreciate anything you can pass along. was interviewing with a company for 2 full months and got an offer, which they then rescinded as soon as they found out i was disabled and would need accommodation. yes this is illegal