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(Sometimes I discover that I've done the second thing and basically hallucinated a middle third of the film that makes the transition make sense, which is always an experience.)
March 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Social media posts bemoaning the fact that you haven't written anything about your fic ideas are technically self-refuting in that they themselves constitute writing about your fic ideas, so strictly speaking the amount of writing you've done is now non-zero.
March 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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The Old Magic persists because nobody remembers how to turn it off.
March 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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A game that knows its target audience.
A screenshot of the character Coral Glasses from the game "ENA: Dream BBQ". A dialogue box reads: "My whole life is in shambles right now... I'd really like to be able to just do the work I'm paid to do."
March 31, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Concept: D&D adventure where the party stops to rest at a village inn where they seem to be the only guests. The village appears prosperous, but its inhabitants are strangely morose. Whether the party decides to investigate or attempts to move on, it quickly becomes apparent that something is terribly wrong: any effort to initiate violence or utter untruth fails as the offender is wracked with terrible pain, unkind words stick in the throat unspoken – and worst of all, anyone who attempts to leave the village finds themselves coming back the way they came. When (politely) questioned, the villagers will say only that the party must speak to the wizard whose tower lies to the east. Upon reaching the tower, the party is met by a slender, youthful-looking man with an unnaturally deep voice, who greets them with distracted courtesy, and – after making brief introductions – reveals that he knows why the party is there, and that it’s indeed all his fault. Thirty years ago, the wizard attempted to cast a blessing of peace and prosperity over the village, but the spell went awry: the enchantment proved to be much more powerful than intended, and its notion of what constitutes a breach of the peace far more expansive. Not only does it prohibit physical violence, but also insults, lies overt and of omission, and simple failures of courtesy. Even leaving the village seems to be construed as an act of abandonment, and therefore of emotional violence. Luckily, the wizard believes he’s discovered why the enchantment has become a curse. Though it was intended to ensure that people would be kind to one another, it ironically rendered its own fulfillment impossible, as the villagers began to treat each other well out of fear of reprisal rather than true good will. A sufficiently great act of genuine kindness, unalloyed by self-interest, would shatter the enchantment in an instant – but how can such a thing be brought about, in a place where all have been made strangers to love?
April 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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And then it actually makes it work, and the resulting speedrun route needs to be seen to be believed.
April 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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THEM: This group of characters is a Found Family™, which is exactly like a related-by-blood family, so only the one I've decided is the Mom and the one I've decided is the Dad are allowed to fuck, and shipping any other pairing is literally promoting incest.

ME: That's kind of hot.

THEM:
Cropped comic panels of an angry anthropomorphic fox exclaiming "Oh. My God."
April 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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