Stop comparing yourself to other authors. Start collaborating with other authors. Start celebrating other authors. Start taking community seriously.

Almost to new Metroid game day and with it comes the realization that by the time I get up tomorrow they'll have already figured out how to skip 21% of the game by crashing the bike through a single janky pixel between walls

Every member of ICE will be held to account for their actions. Prev: I say that whenever I talk about ICE as I fully believe they are a criminal enterprise and those responsible for it will one day be hunted down in similar fashion from how Wiesenthal brought nazi fugitives to face justice.

Tbh, one of the many reasons I tend to write the articles on my site in a way that praises/elevates the media being discussed via analysis is because you honestly have no idea how incredibly sick I am of just seeing everything under the sun get bitched about 25/8. (1/3)

There’s a point when planning a book where the story takes on a life of its own and new scenes and plot developments start popping into your head at random moments during the day.

Remembering during the peak Supernatural era when I was in class and used the word 'ganked' to describe a death in a Shakespeare play, and the professor was deadass "Did you just say 'ganked'?"

Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.

I would like to come upon an actual name for the hyperspecific feeling of deep-rooted disappointment you get when that friend who dug dystopian narratives all throughout high school, V, Orwell etc, is now all in on MAGA/antiwoke type stuff. Motherfucker you are not V's buddy in this allegory

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've been to: Iron Maiden 2005/6/8/10/10/12 Avantasia 2015 Wacken 2010 Judas Priest/Heaven & Hell/Motorhead 2008 Blind Guardian 2015 Bonus: had my first beer in Avril Lavigne & Sum 41's limo (back when they shared a local driver)

Re: Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown, in practice the sand prison's just kind of a big desert with crystals but "a massive desert within a cavern where every grain of sand is in fact an entire unborn universe destroyed before it could come into being" is still one of the coolest goddamn setpieces.

should've hired me

Finding out a buddy is going through Breaking Bad for the first time and the level of secondhand excitement I feel for him right now is bordering on contact high

Tonight's vibes are old Supernatural episodes, Noora's twisty-turny vocal hooks on the new Battle Beast album, various Aviators songs, and picking away at bits and pieces of lines in two separate WIPS (it still counts as progress)

idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see

If you're wondering how oligarch-owned media is framing the act of stating, objectively, that soldiers don't have to obey illegal orders. The framing of literal facts as 'controversial' plays right into the endgame of making a population so gaslit that baseline reality is whatever Trump says it is.

The statement "Donna Noble is the Mae Borowski of Doctor Who companions in all the most beautifully aggravatingly human ways" is taking up too much real estate in my mind palace so here, it's public domain now, it's yours, take it

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

This character design is so cool and Alec's art does it so much justice. *shoves it in your face* LOOK HOW COOL SHE IS

So weird when you see closed-down decaying urbex-ass malls that still have a fully functional anchor store open. Like in a game when you go past the happy merchant, the game janks as you hit a load zone and you are immediately in The Blighted Lands

Insane thing about the Hazbin Hotel S2 soundtrack is that, okay, lots of cast recordings have THAT SONG, maybe even a handful of THAT SONGs if we're blessed, but with the HH Season 2 soundtrack, a good 2/3rds (at least) of the OST is THAT SONG and man, people aren't talking enough about how it hits

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? As much as I love the holy trinity of Land through Powerplant, this album hitting at just the right time in my life created a one of a kind nostalgia storm. That fall/winter was a special time for me and this was a perfect album for that period.

I feel Bouie has run across the destined nemesis of the guy I saw in jury duty who had a single huge carrot, thrust through his briefcase as one would set an umbrella, and he would occasionally take it out, take a loud, decisive bite, then put it back in.

Y'all need to have the same kind of smoke for AI Music as you have for AI Art. Okay? Music is an extremely important part of artistic human expression, and we must not allow it to rot away because 'it sounds just like the real thing' or whatever. Musicians are going through it too. Fuck AI.

Cannot get over how Activision cancelled a Crash Bandicoot: It's About Time sequel that crossed Spyro back in & instead sent the team to the Call Of Duty mines, & now CoD is an AI-slathered slopjob instead of those artists actually getting to make art

Genuinely wondering if the people dooming over the Metroid Prime 4 federation trooper presence would be relieved if you told them dialogue can be turned down/off and that other footage implies this is mostly an early-game thing, or really REALLY mad that you gave their doom parade a reality bath.

Happy "I've been locked out of my main email because my work site also uses the same email client as a login portal and it thinks I logged in too many times because the work site keeps logging you out so now I guess I just wait or something" day to all who celebrate

Adverts in 1995 were like "Milton's premium cheese. IT'S UDDERLY INSANE" and there are some cows glaring murderously at you from inside a padded cell

Man. Silenced is such S-tier Hellaverse, right up there with Mastermind for me. #HazbinHotel #Hazbinhotelseason2

I used more secure coding when I was in high school classes writing story notes for fanfics because I didn't want the people around me to know I was doing that, than this fucking IRL Game Of Thrones villain used when chatting in retrievable mediums about his sex slave trafficking operation

Being completely serious that the Super Smash Bros Melee orchestral concert CD included with Nintendo Power's December 2002 issue came at just the right time to have an absolutely immeasurable impact on my musical development.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Never got over those AI bros offering "adopts" that are clearly just copyrighted characters but in a slightly tweaked outfit. No you can't actually own that, that's just Loona. You...you can't own that one either in any real sense, that is also just Loona. No you can't own that one, that's also just

Don't worry about perfection when you capture an idea! One thing that helped me work faster & with confidence is getting ideas on the canvas fast and having fun with it. I scribble roughs for comics without worrying about perfection. The sooner I visualise an idea, the more it can grow in my mind.

Just a reminder that writing a book, being creative, in the current state of the world is heroic. Keep creating. 💜

Elon Musk is one of our world's greatest living evils and deserves the universal contempt, and the punishments, reserved for history's worst monsters. And those dumbasses at the car board just used their made-up stock options crap to technically make him the world's first trillionfuckingaire.

My question is whether it was the drug use, Nazi salutes, election interference, racist and antisemitic tweets, creepy pronatalism, chilling sociopathy, puzzling inarticulateness, allegations of IP theft or persistent flouting of US law that pushed Tesla bros over the top on gifting Elon $1 trillion

Tentatively pulling out some early-days Supernatural episodes to watch tonight, knowing full well the last time I pulled out "just a couple episodes" I ended up soft-marathonning the entire series again

On the note of Hazbin Hotel, here's the smol piece I did after S1 (before I more recently went hyperfixinsane & did the biggest article of my life about Helluva) where I talked about hiding the most pivotal character of the season behind a comic-relief foil. (1/2) thegamerslookingglass.com?p=906

Just a few notes on today's Hazbin Hotel drop, in the next post for mild spoilers (1/2)

Looking forward to when Ice Nine Kills' new album gets officially announced so we can play Guess Which Media Each Song Is About Based Entirely On Their Dad-Joke Song Titles

Marching Milde in Yoshi's Island is amazing because they were like "it's the 90s and we're making an absolutely adorable tribble squishmallow into a boss. kill her"

Be honest, how many of you also say "Pizza time!" like that scene in Spider-Man 2 every single time you bring home a pizza

I like how God Of War: Ragnarok and Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning have the same riddle in them and Mimir (wOrLD's SmArTeSt MaN) takes many many hours upon days to solve it in heartwrenching fashion, while Luthor solves it in one second or less

Here's the thing though, you can just...still keep watching horror movies now

Under The Giant Skelleton 💀Happy Halloween💀 #furry #anthro #art

It's raining here all day so pouring one out for the kids who are now going trick or treating as Bruce Willis in Unbreakable whether they like it or not

Q: what do you call a found footage horror movie you've turned up the volume all the way on? A: The Blare Witch Project

Oh no...again, if they were "just" "deported" they'd have access to a phone/consulate to talk to their families. There are only two other, more likely possibilities: death or concentration camps SOMEWHERE. And how many thousands more are vanishing off the face of the earth that we aren't hearing of?

What the hell let's do a #HazbinHotel new premiere watch thread because it's not like I have to get to work soonish, I make responsible choices (thread and manifold spoilers)

Sometimes a piece of media speaks to you, and sometimes your next blorbo reaches through the screen and says "come with me if you want to vibe"