it’s kind of wild how being alone is actually less lonely than being in a group of people who purposely misunderstand you

Reminder that if you want to crochet your own tiny nug buddy, I have published a free pattern of my own making on my ko-fi! Add a key ring or hook & you've got yourself a keychain or tree ornament! Double up the yarn, or use blanket yarn, and you've got a snuggly buddy instead of a smol creature!

Now THIS is a christmas present

entering a vegetative state when the annual "is a hot dog a sandwich" holiday office party conversation is finally ending and someone extends it saying a hot dog is a taco

Being an adult means decades of people asking each other every year if die hard is a xmas movie and if pineapple belongs on pizza until you die

Someone has to save the film and TV that studios won't: defector.com/someone-has-...

Sums up my feelings accurately tbh

yay he's done 🖤 He'll be added to my amis for sale thread tomorrow when I can take better pics.

This is the only fic project I finished this year ("Could," I'll try to return to you soon, my poor seemingly-forever fic WIP), & I'm still really proud of it & happy with how it came out. Looking forward to participating in more fic prompts next year (pls can we have more DA fic prompts next year?)

If you post on here more than 20 times in one day the app should display a health bar showing how close you are to snapping

literally the entire world right now: “ha, jake paul lost last night. nice”

I’m sure nostalgia is part of it, but aesthetically this era/early 2000s is the best to me in tech, design and architecture. I think some stuff is going back to this time tho. Minimalism isn’t as popular and I don’t think the return to physical media is just a current trend.

For the final installment of The Backlog (!!), I wrote about Cyberpunk 2077. It was always going to end with Cyberpunk 2077: defector.com/cyberpunk-20...

I played ME2 for 12 hours and finished it but messed up the end because I didn't save like at all so I immediately started a replay I have 3 concurrent playthroughs going My mental health is great why do you ask

Someone asked me the other day why I am always more upset with Democrats than with Republicans...it's because Republicans announce they want to fight me and then climb into the ring facing me head on. Democrats pretend to be my corner man then punch me in the back of my head when I least expect it

A colloquial German word about someone viewed as low on intellect, especially popular in the 1990s, was Teletubbyzurückwinker. It means “one who waves back at the Teletubbies.”

Having zombies move quickly takes something away from the overall horror of them. The slow inevitable shamble of death brings an existential terror that just isn't there with running zombies.

Most of my Dragon Age art is crochet and fics! Crochet 🧵: bsky.app/profile/blac... Fics 🧵: bsky.app/profile/blac...

Took the day off and I've been incredibly productive: Had a cappuccino Played ME2 Napped Hopefully can keep the productivity train a'runnin

is it your suggestion that the drug people drove ... wait for it... the methamphetamine FROM Mexico is that what you would like me to believe

This is true, so the key is to get your football armor now

Star Wars set off a space frenzy in the late 70s. 'Buck Rogers', with its affable star Gil Girard, was destination TV. Gil Girard's final message makes me appreciate the man more than I ever I did Buck Rogers. "Don’t waste your time on anything that doesn’t thrill you or bring you love." RIP

For those newer to Fallout or unsure of the timeline, this may help: • Great War - 2077 • Fallout 76 - 2102-5 • Fallout 1 - 2161 • Fallout 2 - 2241 • Fallout 3 - 2277 • Fallout: New Vegas - 2281 • Fallout 4 - 2287 • Fallout TV show - 2296

alas, it will have to remain a mystery defector.com/who-can-imag...

This is what actual Antisemitism looks like not being pro Palestine

This story Carl Nassib told on RC's pod about coming out in the NFL cracked me up. His delivery is so good!

This is actual anti-semitism, and whether he knows the origin of “covetous Jew” or not he needs to apologize and put in the work to realize just how harmful something like that stereotype is

*watches white men complain about ‘meritocracy’ while watching incompetent white men burn the US to the ground*

Hoping someone who likes wrestling will start writing about it for Defector

“Why is it my lord is silent while I wag my tail and run about like a dog?” I’ve been left on read too many times. A man named Ashur-resiwa is begging a superior to answer his previous 3 letters, and we can maybe all relate to both sides of this particular coin.

Ordered doordash last night and the driver ended up stuck in a ditch and asked me what I wanted to do with my order and I told them to just keep it and eat it since it was paid for and they had enough to deal with

👉 larian.com/contact Don't stop complaining friends

PUT. IT. IN. THE. LOUVRE.

I write dragon age fanfic sometimes ⬇️ archiveofourown.org/users/cullyw...

It's okay to suck at making something. It's okay to make it anyway. It's okay if it takes a long time to make, or if you spend forever working to get it perfect, or if you share it knowing it's *not* perfect and never will be, or if you never share it at all. Just make it yourself.

Things I make, as a person who makes things, using my brain and my hands and my creativity and sometimes spite and rage and love and desire. Things I made and am proud of; things I made and wish were better. Things I made, because I wanted to make them, and did. A thread. 🧵

it's so easy to stick to your principles, which doesn't mean it's always painless. if you have principles, they remain even if you may want something else very much. the problem w/principles isn't that they're hard to stand by, it's that so few people seem to have them as opposed to having *ideals*.

Got invited to spend Xmas with a friend's family, which I've done before and spent most of the holidays with the past couple years. Think I'm gonna skip it and pretend the day is just a day. Feeling like spending holidays with someone else's family is just a reminder of what I don't have anymore.

Ach, my heart. It breaks. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

Now it looks like we lost Gil Gerard. He was 82.

Idk “holy fuck guys” doesn’t seem like a polite way to address your (understandably) angry and concerned player base.

I wrote about Rob Reiner's shockingly good performance in The Wolf Of Wall Street in this, but it's striking how many different films and parts Defector staffers wanted to write about. He was a mensch, but he was also just everywhere in the culture for 50 years. defector.com/defectors-fa...

My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it. The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?" "An obituary." "Obituaries aren't on the front page." "This one will be."

I don’t know man if capitalism has just resulted in a small network of pedophiles destroying all life on earth then perhaps we should consider that it is a complete and utter failure as a system

Get loud. Be mad. Don't compromise on what you know is right.

very important to lift up and support real artists, human artists, the ones with backbones and morals who pour their heart into everything from concept to finished piece. now and always, but especially now. and to give no support to those who choose to abandon that for ease or convenience etc

My closet isn't clean enough to be judging people like Mick Foley and thinking he should've done more of this and that and sooner. I'll just say good for Mick. 🤼

what drives me mad is this "oh it's just a tool for concept art". have you ever looked at game concept art. it's the most interesting thing to look at!!! you can see what the art direction wanted to create, what inspired them. the sketches, the roughness of it, the ideas. it's life, it's art.