I wish the bad blood could end. I wish I’d never lit the match that ignites the fuel.

But I’m not going to live inside that guilt. I can’t change the past. God knows I’ve done stupid shit before that, and I’ll probably be guilty of more stupid shit before I die.

Why was this four-year-old drama being dug up again? For entertainment, maybe. Or maybe as a warning to new members. “WE are good, THEY are evil. Make sure not to associate with THOSE people, you might catch the evil too.”

I hadn’t thought about that shit for years until my wife learned this week that a bunch of folks had blocked her for what seemed like no reason, and learned that the story of that awful time was being rehashed again in the Discord we used to frequent.

I was drunk and angry. I was so depressed that I ended up hospitalized for a month afterward. These are not excuses, I’m just explaining my mental state at the time. It was wrong and stupid, and I apologized. And I’ll apologize again: I am sincerely sorry for what I said.

Ah, you’re right, I misread the beginning of the review. My mistake!

I think it really shook him, and I hope it stays with him for a long time. He wanted a VN from a guy’s viewpoint paying for a bunch of shallow female archetypes to objectify, and instead he got actual complex characters who broke his misogyny bubble and made him uncomfortable. I love it.

To me, it’s obvious the reviewer was “sick” because of the trans content more than anything else. Frankly, his *review* made me sick, and demonstrates toxic masculine ideas of women being either “promiscuous and loose” or “pristine and wholesome”, and god *forbid* the two ever meet.

Related: Bluesky’s character limit is waaaaay too limiting. I’ve been spoiled by Mastodon’s much wordier allowances.

We didn’t die, but you’re right, this is hell

Counterpoint: direct action in the face of darkness is the most punk thing ever

And for those wondering what "Batman's Aff His Nut" sounds like in a proper Glaswegian accent, here's Robert Florence, who penned it, reciting it over a Batman teaser...

And this, by Robert Florence, will never not be my favourite poem about Batman…

I’m glad to have found you here. “Opportunity” was an incredible story with brilliant writing and fantastic art; I knew the moment it made me laugh out loud that it was something special!

Oh, and if you don’t know (I didn’t at first), a “kinetic novel” means a visual novel that’s basically just a linear story with art, no real choices other than tiny ones that don’t really affect the storyline. So is it a “game”? It’s a matter of opinion. I’d call it fiction within a certain medium.

I wanted to remark on this because it is refreshing to see actual sex-positive media in a space so often dominated by crude stereotypes, fetishization, and chauvinism. I’m sure it isn’t perfect — I can only evaluate it from a cis male viewpoint, after all — but it *felt* right, you know?

The reason for this is simple: some people post basically non-stop, and others post infrequently. Without categorization, the former drowns out the latter. Seeing at a glance whose writing you need to catch up on is extremely useful. But it doesn’t lend itself well to algorithmic tampering. #ux