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@tripsnek.com It would be cool to have DiscoverEU preset for that free train ticket for 18 year olds. #It-would-be-cool-but-not-really-all-that-important #still-salty-that-no-one-told-me-about-it.
January 28, 2026 at 10:05 PM
No, I'm sorry. I'm drawing the line at describing homegirls interaction with the andromedian as "interesting" In the best of all possible worlds I could call their flirtations "tedius" "Might have been a stretch to call Jaxon interesting" That "might" is doing a lot of heavy lifting I do like the idea of a Dangerous High School Senior. Like I don't know what that would look like, but every example I can think of fills me with glee I'm supposed to be super afraid of the guy who has to beg me to buy him beer? Oh my god I just realized that these are all little babies and the illusion is completely broken I'm suddenly picturing each character as a member of the muppet babies Jaxon is Gonzo, obvs. Oh god. I can hear the Gonzo voice in the shitty auto-tune. The cultest Lady is Camilla The Chicken Flint is Fozzy bear Oooooooooooh Shits about to go doooooooOOOOOOOOOOwn! That hapas dude is a fucking dragon and it's dumb as motherfuck Homegirl is Ms. Piggy, clearly Ha! Homegirl thinks the vam why isn't anyone using their sooper powers in this snowball fight, which is somehow super important? I'm actually kinda pissed off that all the super powers haven't come out yet. All I've seen is dudes who don't really need a jacket in the cold. I'm bored. Someone set something on fire! Oh, it turns out hot cousin is a fucking ninja warrior 😂 Oh, I guess the suspicious evidence of Fozzy Bear being a dragon is that he can climb trees in a way that he shouldn't be able to. That is the lamest of shit Son-of-a. Some of these dumb bitches are air benders START. A. FIRE. I want homepiggy to really struggle. I want her to have some conflict about rejecting the evidence of her senses. Not "I wonder if I could learn to climb trees like that" OR "Boy that wind came out of nowhere." Wednesday · 6:23 AM Which one of them is Kermit? I was going to say hot-cousin is Kermit, but she's clearly Dr. Teeth Check. Dr. Teeth NEVER lost his cool. She must be Janice So remember how they all climbed into trees because it would be super usefull to fight to keep your balance while you throw snowballs? And how the best thing to be in a snowball fight is a completely exposed target with absolutely no cover? Well the airbenders showed up and blew them out of the trees with their gusty powers. This is the part of twilight where um... Eric? Aaron? Todd. Todd the vampire we all remember from twilight. This is the part where he saves... Stella? Yeah. Stella's life. Or in Harry Potter where he takes a chance on the broomstick. The difference between the two is that Harry has agency, and Stella is a thing to be saved. Wolff who's own job was to teach students about things like agency, decideds to make homepiggy have none. She gets blown out of the tree and rescued by the dragon She responds to the possibility of a concussion by repeatedly smaking the patients face. But it doesn't matter because he leaps to his feet and that's not weird at all Homepiggy has al None of the characters know what's going on, they're just having a high noon standoff for no reason Homepiggy does her duty as a women and decideds it's her responsibility to diffuse the situation What the fuck does Wolff think popularity means in high school? I was pretty sure it meant you had a lot of friends. Apparently the two most popular guys in TwilightHogwarts are a guy who everyone hates, and hates everone back and a guy who everyone would shave thier heads if he came to class in a bald cap Homepiggy is the best women and leaves the standoff with one of the guys, and this makes everything better She falls 20 feet onto her shoulder and hurt her ankle Oh cripes, she gonna have to get carried Biohazard orange is not a color
March 19, 2024 at 12:14 AM
gaylordreamgirl.bsky.social
Zane Lowe interview (there’s 3 interviews, this is the one from June 2024 not behind a paywall atm)
youtu.be/jUeEM-P1Yhc

Transcripts likely not *entirely* accurate:

(also it’s midnight local time, so I am not listening to these (yet) 🎧 to wake up the peacefully sleeping)
So this beautiful album, The Secret of Us, we've got some stuff to talk about. But what I like about it is that I don't feel compelled having listened to it multiple times now to walk a line between how personal we get with some of the subject matter or not, which I always try to do really thoughtfully because I feel like there's some character work going on here and some fun stuff going on here. And it's like you've opened up the doors away from your own experience and allowed yourself to see through other people's eyes. Wow. Is that fair? Yeah, I think all of the songs are based in seeds of truth from my life and experiences and relationships and from, I would say, Audrey's, Audrey Hobart, who I wrote many of the songs with. My bestie. And also, friends of ours. But what was so much fun constantly with all of these songs was that, so I think we'd take the seed and then be like, well, what if it's the most dramatic version of this feeling? This was different and it feels like who I am today. So it's a relief. Yeah. So you kind of summed up who us was at the beginning in terms of like, if you want to talk about it from a songwriting palette, here are the colors. The colors are a little, you know, some of me, some of, you know, Audrey, right? Audrey, some of my friends. That's the us, whatever. But I think the us might be you and Audrey. Isn't that the secret of us? Isn't it kind of the two of you just kind of coming together and laying it all out on the table? I think there's like a plethora of us's that are wrapped in, which is what makes it fun for me. But yes, I mean... It's a diversionary tactic. You've created the ultimate songwriting diversionary tactic. I'm like, so let's talk about song number seven, and you're like, well, it's just one of the us's. Exactly. It's just one of the many us's. No, but it's true. I mean, this is totally a, it's an amalgamation of lots of different things. But yes, I think, I mean, we've already talked about it. But yes, she and I are deeply, deeply close in doing this together. Yeah, I mean, I guess working with Audrey is a good example of, yeah, I guess, working with someone new, just because her energy is so specific and different from mine. But in a way, we both trust entirely, and so it gave us the space, because we wrote most of these songs on our couch at home, to be as kind of outrageous about it as we want. But there is trust there. So you have this really great friendship with Audrey where the two of you have had your first stab at living together and writing together, and now she's a songwriter. It's pretty cool. I'd imagine that's something that you don't want to let go of, and we all look for new reasons to explore and experiment and grow, and nothing lasts forever. But it must be nice to think that you've got that to come home to again. It's so important to me, and our friendship is the number one priority among all of it, but the fact that we can do all of these things at once feels really lucky because it's always complicated. You know what I mean? Living with someone is complicated, then working with someone is complicated, and having a best friend is always complicated. But we just trust each other, and we've gotten good at communication, I think, through each other. Just directness, and again, all we do when we're writing is expressing our feelings. So is it important to the two of you that you go out on the road, or is it important that you have space and come back with new experiences that are separate to each other? Because otherwise you'd be writing about the same thing. Yeah, I mean, we just are different people, and we have our own lives, so I think maintaining that is also just crucial. But it doesn't feel like we're ever thinking too hard, which is what I think benefited the album.
March 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
dutholec.bsky.social
Persnakety really analyzing Alya's psyche now.
Alya shooting the gun Dr. Fara gave her without even knowing what it does. Well, it makes her look cool, that's important! Still, Dr. Fara said that Alya will win, so she'll just do what the doctor tells her.
#Hypnovember #slime #slimegirl #naga #lamia
“Of course, Belle, you know I love to be out here,” Amaru says. “That last match was absolutely fascinating, don’t you think? Alya pulled such a unique stunt out there.” “That’s one way to put it,” Persnakety says. “What do you think of it, Persnakety?” Belle asks. “I think Alya is terrifying to think about,” Persnakety says. “It sounds like she’s done this before. Doesss she have regular trysssts between herself like this? I’ve seen she flirts with almost everyone in the tournament, but she flirts with herself, too?” “Do you think this is an issue for her?” Belle asks. “I believe she has some narcissistic personality traits,” Persnakety says. “This rather adds fuel to that fire, so to speak. I would need to examine her better, determine her reasons behind some things. Does she only do this when she can’t find someone else to spend an evening with? Or does she believe she’s a gift to others, that she does them a favor through her sessions?” Amaru laughs. “Ah, I wouldn’t worry about that, ‘Snekity, when we spent an evening together she was all about feeling my spell, no, no, she’s just the sort who loves to experience all she can, and feeling herself coming and going is definitely an experience I’m sure.” “You’ve had duplicates in your exhibition, Amaru,” Belle says. “Have you ever done something alike?” “Well, you gotta understand, my duplicates are different from Alya’s,” Amaru says, “it looks like she split into two different versions of herself as their own selves, my duplicates are all connected to a central me, there were two Alyas but when I do it there’s one Amaru in several bodies.” Belle purses her lips. “That doesn’t quite answer my question,” she says. Amaru laughs. “Okay, okay, but I’m not a switch, okay? I don’t wanna be dominated by myself, I wanna pull others in, not myself, and maybe I summon constructs of others when I’m feeling bored but it’s never as good as a real person finding my pot, you know?” “I can’t say I do know,” Belle says, “but I think I understand, at least. So who do you think will win?” “Oh, Alya’s got this, definitely,” Amaru says. “She’s so versatile with that switch thing, and come on, she can steal her employer’s tools, it’s not quite as simple as me but she can surround someone with multiple selves, who wouldn’t want that?” “Well—” Belle clears her throat—“you did lose your matches.” “Oh, true, true, true, I lost to Ageul”—Amaru smacks her head—“what am I saying, anyone able to beat me must be able to carry the tournament, it’s gotta be Ageul, then.” Persnakety makes a squeak. “Persnakety,” Belle says, “who do you think will win?” “I still hold that Ageul has the better chance,” Persnakety says. “Alya could be more off-putting now, in fact, while Ageul stayed the course. She may not have broken new ground with her exhibition, but she has done very strong with her methods so far, so I’m not sure she needs to.” I announce the match to begin, and Wren runs to Ageul, while Ageul slithers to Wren. Alya smiles and cuts to the side. “You always run to one side, Wren,” Alya says. “I wonder what’ll happen if I do this.” Alya pulls a gun from her sweater and fires at Ageul. A dark blot shoots through the air and hits Ageul at her waist, knocking her back. Wren skids to a stop and looks at Alya. “You have a gun?” Wren shouts. “Cool, huh?” Alya twirls the gun in her hand. Ageul coughs and gags as the dark blot spreads in her body. Her tail darkens to a black that seems to destroy light, and her hair follows suit. Ageul screams and twists and rises and falls, and her eyes fill with a void before she goes limp. “What’s happening?” Wren screams. Alya shrugs. Ageul laughs, but in the wrong voice. Wren flashes back to a void dimension. “Dr. Fara,” they mutter. Alya smiles. “Oh, so that’s what that does.”
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
brymaes.bsky.social
Then and now
My Facebook post from October of 2023 which reads: I was made aware of some talk among folks who are no longer my ‘friends’ on this platform and didn’t really want to do this here but whatever. I have pivoted completely from religion and religious practice. If you’re interested why I’m happy to have that conversation, and if not that’s totally cool too. I also have no judgement or contention with anyone’s religious or irreligious path, and esteem every person as inherently worthy of love. Peace. My Facebook post from today which reads: It's been about two years since I made this post and I thought I'd give a little update. nOw Meditation has been an important practice to me for several years, particularly where it comes to managing the symptoms of anxiety and PTSD. But l've found it hard to be consistent on my own. I've become part of a small Buddhist sangha in the Plum Village Zen tradition as a support to silent, seated meditation. This is something Hyon Gak told me a long time ago I would need, and l've found it to be true (it only took several years and many bumps to hear it, Sunim and in light of the implosion of my marriage and my impaired relationship to my young-adult children I need all the support I can get. I see this as less of a return to religion as such, and more of the beginning of a focused path that allows me to more fully experience a practice I have made an attempt at but need to become more immersed in. May all beings be peaceful. May all beings be happy. May all beings be safe. May all beings awaken to the light of their true nature. May all beings be free.
October 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
horuho.bsky.social
i was reading Martin Luiga's posts, and this one in particular talked about Chester's and Mack's shenanigans: medium.com/@martinluiga...
mayhaps drawing a scene from those could be nice? it'd be so cool to see the iconic Torson & McLaine duo in your style
I think Torson and McLaine lived with each other and also with two other young cops, Sundance Fischer and Elfboy Williams, to cut the living costs. Elfboy’s thing was being the dexterity bro, in which he continually lost to McLaine and Sundance’s thing was having a fat ass and cleaning his guns all the time. Communal living is a thing we have done, on and off, for most of our adult lives, although at the time of playing the Torson and McLaine game we had not yet started with that. Station 41 was known as “the bloody murder station” and no one saw it as an abnormality, really. The interrogation of one of the bad guys, a morbidly obese local religious figurehead, had actual mutilation torture in it and I believe it was ultimately unsuccessful as he just retreated ‘into a happy place inside his head”, and the bullet-lobotomized officer Damien “44” Latrec was the only one to call it torture (enthusiastically). And you don’t pay it much mind. Instead, Torson thought about stuff like how to get it on with the captain’s secretary and tattooing the word ‘Jamrock’ on his body hundreds of times over and McLaine thought about stuff like ‘what the hell is going on with the armour maker or Nix Gottlieb’, put a lot of stock into being a communist memebot and loved the captain uncritically. Well anyhow, a role playing game set in a fairly realistic setting gives fairly realistic results on human behaviour. Torsson and McLaine would both abuse their power. Torsson would hold grudges. McLaine would forfeit a possibility to get new gear in order to do a favour for a new policeman. They would both participate in abuse and exploitation of Chad Tilbrook, an officer junior to even them. And they didn’t even think they were abusing their power. They were fulfilling important objectives by getting guns and drugs for the big revenge operation and they did it in a handy manner and they didn’t think that they are abusing the unconscious body of the Toothless Armataur as the racist myth said this race will regenerate from pretty much anything. McLaine was also way too stupid to concentrate on the main plot and the politics of the police station. McLaine was a sword guy — back then it was still a guns AND swords universe due to swords being cool and guns being crappy and taking a lot of time to load. Torson was an idiotic body builder and a major admirer of Lieutenant John “The Archetype” McCoy who was our Station’s resident mass murderer — “but they were all really bad” —
December 2, 2024 at 5:07 PM
ochanupdates.bsky.social
And in the rest of the interview, they talked about TikTok, and Suu and Kirara also came up with a personal tagline for each other ✨📺 (2/2)
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Kirara: I have the impression that Sumire doesn't cut corners on anything. For example, if there are three events in one day, sometimes I'll have stray hair. But Sumire always fixes her hair properly, and her lips are plump and her eyelashes are well separated, which I think is amazing. -Speaking of presentation, TikTok has been a hot topic recently. First of all, what kind of reaction has there been to the "Idol" video that you uploaded? Kirara: The response was noticeable. A lot of staff members told me they saw it, and I felt that TikTok can reach a lot of people, so I'm really grateful. Sumire: We got to see Kirara wearing that outfit in person the other day, and she was so cute, we all got really happy (laughs). -The group's TikTok account has makeup-related and "oshi-camera" videos, but did you all suggest them? Kirara: We each record videos spontaneously, and discuss them with the staff. But I'd like to upload more and make something go viral (laughs). -Is there anything you're particular about when it comes to presenting yourself on TikTok? Kirara: I try changing the color of the video itself in various ways, and think a lot about whether it would catch people's attention better, etc. If it's something like a vlog, being too formal would probably seem stiff to Gen Z, so I tried to film it in a normal mood. Sumire: I also care about color. Plus, I think the better the image quality, the better the video will look, and the distance from the camera is important. The impression is quite different whether it's vertical or horizontal; I think a close-up shot horizontally makes the subject look cuter, and vertically makes it easier to see. Kirara: A lot of popular music these days is emotional, so it's hard to decide on the music because it's not suitable for videos that show me as an idol. Even if you add popular music, it's pointless if people scrolls past it right away. -I'd like to ask you two, who have such strong analytical abilities, to come up with a personal tagline for each other! Kirara: "Cool beauty x Rapper"! As you can see, she's a cool beauty, and she's super cute. Also, her English pronunciation is beautiful, and her rapping in "Unmei CHACHACHACHA~N" is so good that it's amazing. So she's a cool beauty, but she's also a rapper. Sumire: That's cool (laughs). I've loved English and Ariana Grande since I was little, and when I auditioned, I even rapped as part of my self-introduction. So when I was given a part to rap, I practiced really hard. Sumire: Kirara is a "Sparkling, traditional idol." She can do anything, she's cute and sparkling, and even when we perform together I feel that she has a great aura. So she's sparkling and traditional, but also has her own unique personality, and I think she's the kind of idol that everyone looks up to. Kirara: I wonder if I'm the traditional type (laughs). If it were just videos of me singing and dancing, I could still give that impression, but I can't do that when I start talking because the real me comes out (laughs). -Fans have also said that you are "gyaru-ish". Sumire: In that case, she's a "sparkling, traditional 'gyaru' idol" (laughs). Kirara: If I'm going to be a gyaru, I want to go blonde! Is it possible to edit my hair color just for this photo? (laughs).
September 28, 2024 at 1:44 AM
tinatherose.bsky.social
Hello! My name is Tina Rose! I am an aspiring horror author.

Sharing writing here is tricky due to character limits so I'll have the text in the pic and the ALT

"I Found a Hacked Pokémon Game in my Room"

1/5
I’m a huge creepypasta fan. My personal favorites are The Russian Sleep Experiment, Zalgo, The Harbinger Experiment, and I’m a Guard Stationed at a Secret Government Prison. I’ve listened to hundreds of hours of creepypasta readings, creepypasta icebergs and so on. To say I am well entrenched in the fandom is an understatement. However, I also knew all of these creepypastas were fake, even if some of them had a modicum of truth behind them. They’re just stories. So the idea that I would be swept up in a real life creepypasta, yet alone a Pokemon related creepypasta, seemed ridiculous. However, that is the reality I find myself in. Now don’t get me wrong, this isn’t some haunted cartridge with the ghost of some kid in it who wants to possess me. No, this is simply nothing more or less than a hacked cartridge, totally within the realm of possibility. However, it’s what was in that hack that haunts me to this day. First for a little background, as well as being a creepypasta fan, I am also a lifelong Pokemon fan. In fact, I have been the latter much longer than the former. I’ve had at least one game from every generation up till Black and White, minus the Johto games, though I did get in on the remakes of those games later in life. Pokemon was all the craze in my school when I was really young, everyone brought their cards wrapped in rubber bands. As a card game collector in my adult years, this practice makes me cringe in hindsight. I never knew how to play, but it was cool to still have them. I even had one of those thick metal Charizard cards that came with Happy Meals. This love of the series ignited a friendship with a neighbor friend of mine. I’ll call him Craig for anonymity’s sake. He was rambunctious, and a bit of a bully now that I think about it. However, I got along with him. He would come over quite a lot, he had a link cable and we would battle and trade quite often. He had a surprisingly large collection of cards which I was jealous of to no end. I hate to admit it, but I might have stolen a couple of his cards when he wasn’t looking. Craig and I spent most of our time at the playground since my parents didn’t like company over. We would get snacks from the corner shop with our allowance and mess around with our games for hours. We both had teams with fully evolved starters, something a lot of our other friends didn’t have unless they had Yellow edition, which they couldn’t get if they had already gotten Red or Blue. That’s something Craig and I may have gloated about a bit too much. We also played Yu-Gi-Oh, but that’s not important to the story.
November 26, 2024 at 1:30 PM
maxdimo.bsky.social
(4/?) "EXTINGUISH" & "PLAYROBOT" #art #writing #DeviusExMachina #daveandbambi
White text on a black background that reads: I’m so tired. It doesn’t matter, though. I have an obligation to fulfill. Quickly. I’m gonna be late to Cici’s if I don’t hurry up and throw something decent on. I can’t believe I almost forgot about this tonight. “Are you feeling well enough to…” "Well enough?" Good god. The fact he even had to ask that about an activity so basic is… what the hell am I doing to make him think that? I’m finally getting back to some normalcy, I thought it’d be obvious. Clearly I’m worrying them. I need to convince them I’m fine before they start asking more questions. Stress isn’t good for them. Just shove the jacket over there… When’s the last time I wore a different outfit? I don’t even know. Not important right now. Ugh… maybe that’s why she asked. I wouldn’t be surprised. Just pat down the hair and get the hell out. Tristan is waiting on you. Phone, keys, wallet… phone, keys, wallet… _ “So what brings Bambi here so often these days?” Maldo asks me in a cheerful tone. “You know, I'm not actually sure!” I say precisely as rehearsed, leaning back in the booth seat to distract myself from my heart racing at the question. “I don’t really know what goes on in his head, but I'm glad he's spending more time with Tristan, ‘cus he sure is getting a kick out of it, aren'tcha?” “Mmfgkfgh!” Tristan is utterly destroying his pizza. He hurriedly swallows his bite. “Yeah!!!” “Slow down, kiddo! We're in no rush!” “I knoooww…” I couldn’t possibly ask for a better goofball of a son. I can’t help but smile. He’s so much like myself. “It’s been wonderful having him here,” Maldo says, happily closing his eyes. “I’ve always wanted to talk to him more to understand him better.” Ah. Shit. My ‘project’. I completely forgot. “Yeah… he still doesn’t seem to do that much with you, does he?” “Not yet!” (Full text cannot fit into alt text. To read the rest of it, go to the website: https://devius-ex-machina.tiddlyhost.com/ ) A short comic in grayscale except for the final panel. In the first panel, Tristan is sitting in the floor of his room digging through a cardboard box, while Bambi is poking his head in through the door. Tristan says, "Look, Mr. Bambi! I wanna show you something!" In the next panel, Tristan is holding up Playrobot in his arms saying "I want you to meet Playrobot! I haven't played with her in a whiiile... but she'd love to meet new people!!" In the next panel, he flicks a switch behind her head to the "ON" position, and she begins whirring. Bambi stares at her with a neutral expression. In the next panel, she blinks, showing her eyes. In the final panel, she is rendered in color, with Tristan sitting behind her smiling widely as he says, "Isn't she so cool??? My dads made her for me for Christmas!!" Playrobot says, "Hi! I'm Playrobot!" White text on a black background that says: “Dave and Maldo?” Bambi asked. “No, Dave and…” Tristan stopped talking to lean forward and look outside the door. Huh? He stared for a few seconds before settling back down and whispering, “Dave and Muko!” Oh, right. The pink one with the glasses. But that was a weird way for Tristan to say it. “Why you whispering?” “Well, Dad doesn’t-” “Which dad…” “Blue dad! He, uh… oh yeah, I drew a picture of her once when I was younger–um, I think I wasss…four?–‘cuz I thought it’d be cool to have a robot like Maldo who’s my age! But they surprised me next Christmas by making her real!!! They were showing me how she works and everything, and it was so cool!!! Wanna see what she can do?” Tristan’s eagerness to talk about his interests was endearing. He interrupted himself and tripped over his words much like he’s heard Dave do. Playrobot blinked and smiled idly as he talked. “Sure.” Tristan explained all the things she could do - play games, talk, describe the time and weather, and even do basic math. She had a voice recognition thing that could tell who was speaking to her if she spent enough time talking to a person. Some of it he didn’t really understand, but he was happy to let the kid ramble. As Tristan spoke, she stared at him and leaned forward, like she was interested in what he was saying. “...and apparently, they spent five months building her. Can you believe it? Five whole months, just for a Christmas present! I could tell they were doing something, ‘cus they were being all funny about working on something, and they kept trying to tell me it was just something boring that I wouldn’t be interested in, but it was driving me crazy not knowing what it was! And after a while they started making really funny stories about it too and changed it every time I asked, like how they were working on a bomb, or a really really small sock!” (To read it all, go to the site: https://devius-ex-machina.tiddlyhost.com/ ) White text on a black background that reads: “Oh! Oh, yeah, I did. Um, I didn’t mean that literally. I know she can’t actually love!! I just, uh, put person qualities on her when I talk about her. I think lots of people do that? Dad said we ‘personify’ stuff that isn’t a person.” “Why.” Bambi didn’t understand that. A brick wasn’t alive. A scarecrow wasn’t alive. Corn was…wasn’t sapient. Why pretend it was? “Ummmm…I dunno!” Tristan shrugged cheerfully. “For fun, I guess? Dad would…blue Dad would know more about that, you should ask him!” “Huh.” Bambi nodded, staring at Playrobot’s face. “Didn’t know people-robots were a thing.” “Most people don’t. That’s because Maldo’s special! She’s not like other robots. Dad says she’s a really advanced one with cutting-edge technology. I can’t imagine why anyone would ditch her! But it’s a good thing my parents didn’t, ‘cus when she woke up, they all became friends and stuck together! And not long after that, well, they found me!” The boy is smiling ear-to-ear, beaming with energy. “Did Dad tell you that story?” “Yes,” he said thoughtfully, watching Playrobot giggle and begin to spin in a slow circle. Years ago Dave and Muko explained to Bambi the situation with Tristan’s biological family in great detail. That was the first, and one of the few, times he had seen Dave angry enough to tremble. The information was shocking. Abandonment and neglect, from what they could tell. They had found the poor child wandering the street alone at night in dirty clothes, hungry, thirsty, and very quiet. He didn’t cry once. He was perfectly fine with being taken into the arms of strangers. When they tried to locate his parents, nothing came up. Bambi had felt that rage, too, just from hearing about it. He had found Dave’s strong emotions about it comforting. (To read full text, go here: https://devius-ex-machina.tiddlyhost.com/ )
November 19, 2024 at 7:30 PM
sunshot.bsky.social
A selection of some of my favorite bits of these baller fics.
"Man, nobody does it like you, Rozy," the general manager said. "Nobody does anything like me," Ilya said, giving him his most obnoxious grin. "You should probably cool it down a bit on the Twitter beef with the Philly mascot though," the GM said. "It's kind of a lot." Ilya frowned. "Is true love, sir," he said. "We are match made in heaven." "Maybe slow the pace down a bit," the GM said. "If you get pregnant you'd have to be on IR for the rest of the season." "Maybe longer," Ilya said solemnly. "I don't know what Itty is, might not be human baby." "That's a fair point," the GM said. "To be honest it's kind of weird." "I like to keep people guessing," Ilya said. The GM sighed. "Everything about this sport is weird, I guess I shouldn't be surprised by this," he said. "Which category sounds most interesting?" Ilya asked. "I don't know what these mean," Shane said. "It's English words!" Ilya said, indignant. "Guys," Shane said. "I presume this is gay porn." "Smart," Ilya said. "Multi," Shane said. "What's that?" "More than two people mostly," Ilya said. The realization struck him: "Oh God you're going to judge me." Shane laughed. "I think it's a bit late to worry about that," he said. "But yes that's kind of why people are embarrassed about this sort of stuff." "I have never had shame," Ilya said. "I do not know this feeling. Oh no! You feel this always, don't you." "Well," Shane said, "yes." "Oh no," Ilya said. "I don't care about what people think but now I care what you think. Humiliating!" "Well," Shane said, "I mean, yeah." "Were those all Russians?" Hollander asked, warm and friendly in his ear. Oh he would bite him, just a little, later. Not here, that was important for some reason. "Yes," Ilya said. "No. Well. Orlov is-- well. He's Russian but he's really. He's Latvian." And he made a face. "Oh," Hollander said, "yeah, the Olympics, I remember." "Are you all right?" Ilya asked, distracted. He felt like Hollander should have probably shoved him off by now, but Hollander was holding onto him. He looked--not well. "No," Hollander said, "I feel weird." "Weird like how?" Ilya asked, suddenly worried. "This is so bizarre," the Admiral said, too close. "I thought you guys hated each other." "It's called a job," Ilya said. "It's our job. Unlike Hettrick I don't have to be jackass off the clock." "You are, though," Hollander said musingly. "We cannot call my mom," he said thickly. "Russia isn't that far away," she said. "My mom is not in Russia," he said, with a strange bitter little laugh. "Unless-- I do not know. Is unknowable mystery how that works." "What does that mean?" she asked. "She is dead, Masha," he said. (It had taken her some time to get him to call her by her first name, but from there he had explained how Russian names worked. It was like hockey, where nobody was ever called by their formal name. She felt extremely honored that he would use an affectionate name for her, when everywhere else in his life he seemed to have stripped away a lot of the Russianness to fit in.) "Oh," she said, horrified. "Oh Ilya. I'm so sorry." "Was long time ago," he said dismissively, but he looked gutted. He was so young, it couldn't have been that long ago. Maria sat down on the couch next to him, defeated. "Well, I'm sorry I made it worse," she said. She reached out and took his hand. "No, don't touch me," he said, "you'll get sick too." But he didn't pull his hand away.
February 11, 2026 at 3:56 AM
quillifer.bsky.social
🌟 advice for online engagements & personal "best practices"

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hello ash!! just wanted to ask some personal advice, if that’s okay with you. um, i’m not really a social person and i’m not good with conversations, i’ve only really interacted with close friends, eng isn’t my first language, and i only recently started trying to interact online because of alnst. i was interested in learning more about an opinion online and wanted to ask about it, but in the process i offended them without meaning to. i’ve already apologized but i was wondering how to avoid doing it again. tl:dr; how do i get better at interacting(especially when asking) online without being offensive? i’m sorry for dumping this on you, it’s just that u’ve been really nice and i’ve started being less scared about interacting because u’ve been so friendly and welcoming to all my prev asks and reqs. that ao3 comment guide was absolutely helpful too and gave me more assurance to comment more. u’re seriously the best, i’m forever grateful that u’re in this fandom and i hope u keep having a wonderful time here. thank you. yes, it's totally cool to come to me for advice! 🥰 i'm flattered that you would ask, honestly 🫶🏾 your english is absolutely excellent and i'm so glad to hear i could encourage you to engage more in online communities! 🌟 i have fun wherever i go, hehe, i'm a simple person who enjoys simple pleasures~ ao3 comment guide on {bsky} & {dw} for anyone interested! ✮ something that's important to remember, as a first point, is that you can't please everyone. i'm not saying that your current situation with your friend is unsalvageable or that things will always go wrong! i'm just saying that you have to remember that no matter how considerate you try to be — how personable, how honest — there will be some people who won't like you and/or who will be snotty towards you no matter what. it's important to have boundaries to protect yourself. not everyone needs to stay in your life. if things go downhill and get nastier, ditch them! ✮ with that out of the way, there are a few "rules" for online interactions i tend to follow: 1) meet people where they are. if someone is not interested in discussing a topic, you can say something like, "hey, would you prefer to talk about something else? i'm really sorry if i offended you." under these circumstances, if the person says yes and/or shuts down completely, it's best to stop talking about that subject. go ahead and move on. 2) be open and honest. there are some things i have a zero tolerance for (examples: people using suicidal ideation speech in DMs/GCs, using slurs even if they mean to be friendly, etc.) you shouldn't be rude about it, but you do want let people know if something bothers you — especially if it's important to you! people who really care about you will listen and adjust.
November 5, 2024 at 12:41 PM
fakeeyes.bsky.social
Clash of the Clearance Ant-Men!

Which is the Paul Rudd and which is the Paul Dud…d?

Find out in the alt-text.
Marvel Legends Quantumania Ant-Man (L) stands next to SHFiguArts Quantumania Ant-Man (R) APPEARANCE The Legend was super cheap and it’s really nice. I couldn’t resist the SHF at like $20 so I figured he’d look cool with my Godzillas and other giants. The more premium deco on the SHF is great! The metallic red and additional silver detailing all over gives it that quality you ant when you pay for an import. Marvel Legend deco isn’t bad. The silver trim it’s missing is so thin on the actual suit that it’s barely visible. The helmet is a lovely silver plastic, but it did result in some swirling so you get that upside-down Y shape on the forehead. I think the brighter silver for the face of the mask is more accurate. Both helmets have translucent lenses with eyes behind them. It rocks. Unmasked Ant-Man figures. Legends on the left, SHF on the right. This one is baffling how the way cheaper figure destroys the other. Hasbro has gotten SO GOOD at face prints on Marvel Legends especially. Bandai is usually great but strangely seems to struggle the most with MCU characters. One is Paul Rudd and the other is his taxidermied body in a Disney Museum for Movies that Nobody Saw. Or it’s like his face was printed onto pantyhose that you can slip over your own head to rob banks as your favorite Clueless character, as long as it’s one that kissed his former step-sister. Likeness aside, look how one has a bit of life to the actual sculpt of the eyes and lips. I’m impressed! This is the size of the tip of your pinky. The other is like an N64 Golden Eye character. The likeness is technically there at some angles but it’s strange and dead. I feel like just drawing new irises that aren’t so light would at least make him less creepy. We’ll see. Paul Dudd pours THE OOZE into Paul Rudd’s mouth, so that Will will truly believe a Rick & Morty writer worked on this film! ACCESSORIES This is where things get dumb, and it’s how these collectibles often suffer from being based on these secretive, effects-heavy films. Merchandise production takes time and it’s typically got to be out during a window in which the film is fairly new. Licensees can only base their products on the reference material they were given for a film they haven’t seen. And sometimes that material is insufficient or a redesign happens. Sorry to say that when you notice a figure is inaccurate, it’s not because you are smarter than the toy maker. All of this to say that the “Juice” container used to drink part of an alien guy so that characters can suddenly understand miniature alien languages probably seemed like an important artifact in reference art, but it’s more of a gag that is positively insane to be eating up costs and packaging space here with the SHF They didn’t include an optional neck so he didn’t have skin exposed while in his suit, but the juice is there. He even has TINY bits to plug into his back to look like the mask has compressed behind his shoulders. Gotta show off that awful face! Legends just has hands, which are fists, a cool pointing hand, and one that is relaxed and open. SHF has more hands as expected, one pair to hold THE JUICE! Fists, splayed out fingers, and a cool set that hold translucent vials of PYM JUICE for his growing shtick. Pym and Pym strike a pose!! Articulation! SHF easily wins here, minus points for how poses show off that exposes neck flesh that will make him implode or explode. None of the occasional SHF joints that are odd or a failed experiments. All standard and well done. Legend articulation is also standard (for a Legend), so it’s very solid and there’s not a whole lot that the SHF can do that he can’t. I wish Hasbro would add butterfly joints to the MCU Legends.(but David! They have them on the Spider-Men!! I know, boo.)That part is starting to feel outdated even among other Hasbro lines. Overall, both are great for the $6 and $20 I spent! Was the movie good? I don’t know. I like his suit, regardless. I will tell you that when you say it had “bad CGI”, that’s meaningless and it doesn’t make you smarter than the movie. It’s got a lot of phenomenal digital effects and animation. There’s a lot of standing in front of a green screen with empty Trapper Keeper landscapes and goofy gleep glops drawn in later. I think with so much of that, the lighting and compositing doesn’t always feel natural. I mostly think that when everything is weird where your brain knows it’s not real and disengages. I don’t know that MODOK looks bad so much as it is a real guy’s face all stretched and that isn’t going to look real to anyone. It’s like “Check out how HUGE Giant-Man is compared to this pretend microscopic…city(?) that exists in a realm that I am incapable of understanding. For the suspension of disbelief to occur, maybe you need to be tethered to something real. Otherwise you run into the suspension of giving a shit. I still enjoyed it enough and can’t wait to see Kang again! What an unnecessary in depth comparison! “What was with that movie analysis? You sure insulted me a lot. Are you okay?” Not really! We both wasted time today. Thank you.
February 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
clbzines.bsky.social
2/4
Text: 3. Passing Isn’t a Solid Goal Passing is an eternally moving goalpost, and if you focus too much energy on it you’ll inevitably lose sight of your own identity as a woman, all in the name of *not looking trans*. Instead, set your own appearance goals; if they happen to align with current trends, awesome! If they don’t, that’s also cool! But trying to “look cis” isn’t going to get you very far. 4. Most Cis People Don’t Notice or Care Enough to Hate Us It’s fucking scary out there, and I get that. But the majority of cis people really can’t tell who’s trans or not. Those that can usually keep it to themselves and don’t make trouble. We’re a novelty at most. People are generally kind, but the loudest voices are usually the most hateful. Graphics: a speech bubble saying "I'm not interested in being polite or heterosexual"; a picture of a bearded femme in a swimsuit next to the words "Fuck yr fascist beauty ideals"; a bunny in a nurse outfit holding a syringe with hearts coming off her; a sunbathing devil in a speedo, with a baseball hat and sunglasses Text: 5. Use it or Lose it Hormones work fast, y’all. If you want to keep your sex drive, you want to be cranking the hog at least twice a week. You’ll still see a lot of changes downstairs, but you’ll still be able to maintain erections easier than if you don’t stimulate the area regularly. If masturbating feels dysphoric, try different ways of masturbating! Use vibes, plugs, lube; hell, try muffing if you’re feeling adventurous. (Fucking Trans Women is an excellent zine resource for all this stuff) 6. Make Local Trans Friends I can’t stress enough how important community is for us. Trans women literally live and die by the company we keep, and having local trans friends will help you feel less alone. Look for queer events to meet other trans folks, make friends with them, and even if you don’t hit it off they can often point you in the direction of discord servers and meetups Graphics: an old ad with a woman striking a confident pose, "Sure I have a big boner, what girl doesn't! Boner Billy's Famous Hot Dogs"; a meme of Yugi from Yugioh talking to Bakura, with the text changed to "Hey the rest of us are gonna do some HRT in the bathroom. Wanna join"; a meme of a girl looking off to the side with the text overlayed: "Trans Girl small talk "I just switched from pills to shots", *traumatic coming out story*, "What dose of progesterone are you on?", "What DAW do you use?", Neurodiverse Oversharing, Neurodiverse Silence Text: Poetry Hearts or Parts I was born with parts that fit the batch but inside of me it didn't match It started small, like lingering looks at the "wrong" clothing, shows, or books I pushed it down and hid this side of myself society would never abide but then my body started to change (my outsides got all rearranged) the androgyny of childhood left behind my voice, my body, but not this mind that was suddenly screaming in brand new pain as the girl in the mirror vanished again Dresses suddenly fit wrong somehow blame my broader shoulders and darkening shadow falling deeper into myself I held on tight Knowing someday I'd be more than what was in sight Now I'm older, wiser, and cooler Living my truth in a world getting crueler And when they say I'm not who I am They only look at parts If only these misguided souls could see the truest shape of my heart Page is covered in black doodles of hearts and one heart that looks stitched together from cloth Text: REVIEWS Super Lesbian Animal RPG by Ponett (2022) This game has it all. Lesbians? Check. Furries? Check. Trans women? Check. Goofy gags, new relationship struggles, heartbreaking honesty, and a VHS tape plotting to destroy the world? Best believe that’s a quadruple check. This game is about fox girl Melody as she and her longtime-crush-turned- girlfriend Allison join their friends’ adventuring guild in a magical modern setting, while navigating their own insecurities amid the most CYMK glitchpocalpyse you can imagine. SLARPG will make you laugh, cry, relate waaaay too hard, and surprise you with its poignance. 10/10 experience! She/Her/hers - She/Her/hers I’ve been listening to a lot of queer bands lately and this group really stands out! Their self-titled album is fantastic, and a few choice songs I’d recommend are Hopeful//Scared, Nvr Pass, Transitioning (To a Life Without You), and Sweaters in Summer. The music is raw, emotional, queer trans punk, and it’s easy to imagine being at a live show screaming along. Give them a listen when you get a chance! graphics: the Super Lesbian Animal RPG cover art with the 4 main characters on it: a fox girl, bunny girl, cow girl mage, and tiger girl knight a very round frog enemy from the game called a Frogball A dialogue box of the tiger girl Jodie saying "Melody, you made six different posts on two different websites just saying "I love my girlfriend" in the last week" a picture of the band She/Her/hers
June 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
minachan95.bsky.social
cw: suggestive / nsfw text
*sigh* dunno if it is for the better or not, but Kyoko has no idea what massagers are for or ever used one, but let her have some innocence left...
So, yeah, girl, you're about to learn it thanks to your feline-like curiosity.
And so, that's a quick look at incoming WIP
A few minutes later, Ioriko enters the bedroom without expecting much. “What’s with that noise, Kyoko?” Yet her eyes tracing from the buzzing massager to her partner hugging the pillow quietly whimpering makes the redhead close her eyes and tighten her lips. “Oi, don’t just stand here and make it stop!” The brunette indignantly demands her. Fixing her hair, Ioriko opens her eyes and patiently addresses her. “How did you even-? Well, whatever. It’s not important at the moment.” When she approaches the bed and climbs on it, she takes the oh-so-terrifying device into her hand and indifferently stares at it. With a simple press of the button with her thumb, she turns it off and turns her head to Kyoko. “Here. And so much panic over nothing.” After she gets close to the brunette, she narrows her gaze. “You were not supposed to see it. How did you get it?” The Kusanagi heir briefly lowers her eyes and, as she faces her, she lowers her shoulders and puts the pillow away. “I’ve found it under there.” She confesses while pointing with her gaze at the soft pillow. As she sits on her folded knees, she rests her hands on the bedsheet with an impatient look. “As if you planned to use against me. Hey, if you wanna take me down, you better do it without relying on some cheap tricks, Yagami.” Upon making a smug feline face, Kyoko teasingly adds. “What’s wrong? Unless you already know that you can’t defeat me fair and square~” Instead of giving in to her provocation, Ioriko raises her eyebrow. “Do you even know what is this?” The brunette quickly blinks a few times and is briefly confused. Nevertheless, she comes up with her answer. “Some sort of self-defense device like those tasers. But then it might be useless in the real combat, unless you already took anyone down.” Surely, Kyoko’s honest reaction and such an innocent reply make the redhead facepalm with the same hand that holds the massager and groan. Seeing her annoyed partner makes her tilt her head. “Hey, did I say something wrong?” “You are an idiot… Do you even know what massagers are and what they are for?” Ioriko patiently explains. Suddenly, the realization hits Kyoko, and she stares at her with her big eyes. “Oh.” She only rubs her nape and turns her head. “Then if you wanted to give me a back massage… Sure, I don’t mind. So, just needed to tell me earlier.” After she lies on her stomach and rests her head, she looks at the redhead while her cheeks are dyed in a lovely tone of pink. “What is it? Or would it be better if I lifted my t-shirt?” You are really that naïve… Ioriko covers her mouth and lowers her gaze. When she coughs, she closes her eyes while trying to keep her cool. “I guess it can be done from this angle, too.” Yet, Ioriko gently placing her hands on her hips, makes Kyoko let out a trilling noise. Yagami asks in a deeper voice. “Can you lift your bottom?” Of course, Kyoko doesn’t question her and does what her partner says. “I’ll return in a second. So, in the meantime, could spread your legs a bit?” The redhead adds. Surely, despite her a bit worrying, Kyoko decides to entrust herself to Yagami. After all, maybe that device requires different massage techniques. Who knows? Besides, what could go wrong? Soon enough, Ioriko returns with a small tube of lube and pours a bit of it on the rose massager until it fills the bloomed bud. But for now, Yagami asks one more last question. “You sure you’ll be fine with it? Because I don’t want to see you freaking out.” Lastly, the brunette slightly frowns and whines. “If you gonna do it, just do it! You don’t need to ask for permission for such a simple thing like that.”
December 30, 2024 at 2:42 PM
sunfleet.bsky.social
#sfmt2025
48. Severance s2
Hell is frozen over, Sisyphus grapples with the fact that his life is existentially tied to the boulder, and later on he finds himself in the shoes of Orpheus. Corporate america supplants any & all institutions, even and especially religion. What a goddamn great show
Severance falls into that sweet spot that's all at the same time: - Critic fodder (or as people my age call it, video essay bait) - Easily understandable to the average viewer - Fodder for theory crafters - Has a thumb, maybe even a Focus, on a big Societal Mood of the modern age - Sci-fi speculative fiction of the kind that is concerned with the human element first and foremost (aka the good kind) - Just a really goddamn good show Like goddamn. I've spent the last 12-some years in IT support. It's basically an office job, just busier and slightly nerdier, and they got so many things right about this bullshit space. There's always a Dylan. The guy that's a bit crude, thinks he's funny, and perhaps a bit too proud of his work. There's always the immaculately crafted corporate language used by training books and HR and such. There's always the glib humor signaling to everyone that you and your team is above this facade...spiritually, and "within reason", anyway. And there's always that mental switch you flip when you get in the office. You're someone else...not literally, but we say these days, it's your worksona. In a lot of ways, it's a bit of a nightmare, but it's just tolerable enough to make a living. I do especially like the show's consistent vibes, the sense of bring frozen, stuck in time and yet straining, teeth-grindingly scratching and gnawing of the spirit, both in and out of work, especially in the first season. Like 1000xRESIST, it feels like media borne partly out of the COVID lockdowns, of that feeling of being locked in - and for the innies, it's pretty much literally being locked in. Same thing for the outies. Even if they have freedom of movement, of socializing and such, and to even potentially protest and foster counterculture, it's made clear that Lumon even owns the infrastructure and a significant amount of jobs outside of the office. And if you're on Lumon's shitlist, the only way to get out is to get on a train and just keep going. And if you're on Lumon's shitlist, the only way to get out is to get on a train and just keep going. It's vague enough to the point where if you're like me, in Washington, this feels like the endgoal of Seattle being a city dominated by Amazon and other tech companies. Alternatively, the company towns of early capitalist America come to mind - which is maybe coming back as SpaceX is setting one up in Texas, by the way, very cool, very cool and normal and safe and worker friendly and not funded in shady ways whatsoever. Very based of the show to have a character go rogue on the company when Lumon drops them the second she stops being useful and show that she comes from a town Lumon all but abandoned, implying it was the hollowing out of the American manufacturing industry when all those jobs got outsourced. Even with all the theory crafting that can go on regarding the nature of the "mysterious and important" work and many other elements of the show's world, the show never loses focus of the human element, human questions brought on by the premise. What if your innie finds love and you don't know about it? What if your outie is part of the power structure keeping you stuck to the 9 to 5? What if your innie is finding some semblance of purpose and satisfaction in life you've never been able to find? These two seasons explore these ideas and the actor's performances breathe emotional truth into these questions, questions that aren't relevant to our everyday life, yet are the things that could happen to creatures such as ourselves, we humans. Mark in particular seems to be a little bundle of Greek myths. Sisyphus is the obvious one. Prometheus, sorta, for Lumon twisting the season one finale into Mark and co. "bringing" worker dissatisfaction to light and bringing reforms (even though it's all bullshit, naturally). And Orpheus at the season two finale, stuck between looking back for Helly, and climbing out of hell (but this time it would more or less kill him) with Gemma. That's a lot of pathos. Not necessarily because I made tenuous connections to classic myths, that's just strong emotions, thought provoking, and excellent opportunity for cinematography, world building, theme building, everything. Good shit. great shit. If Severance ended there, at the end of season two, it would be the most depressing "YAAAH HUMAN WILL TO PERSEVERE STRONG" ending. We all want to yell "Fuck you" to our jobs. We all want to run free with the ones we love, in whatever capacity we can, even if it means jumping back into a hell that's on fire, rather than face the oblivion of death. When the cards are down, we just wanna fucking live, even if the very next day is a straight up unknown. But as an observer of this story, god, it's still bleak. But of course, season three is happening...so, very much looking forward to what's to come.
May 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
thomasdixon-writer.bsky.social
We’re going to start with the Arabian. The key features are the dished (concave) face, short back, and small stature. Note the large space for the brain. These fuckers are smart, sensitive, and loyal.

#watercolor #watercolors #horses #horse #arabianhorse #transartist
Buckskin Egyptian Arabian. Egyptian refers to the line not a location. I think these are the closest to the old type. The head looks the least typey. There’s less dish, but the head is still bigger than other horses. Pay attention to where the cheek meets the neck. It’s called the throat latch . When Arabs get very typey, this is exaggerated to the confirmation flaw called the Swan Neck. Oh, within breeds of horses there are types. Same with cats. Sometimes this leads to a new breed. I think this is closest to the OG type because you can see the similarities between this head, old Thoroughbred photos, and old Quarter Horses. A buckskin horse has a yellowish body and black points. Points are ears, leggies, mane, tail and nose. Black points over reddish coat is a bay. A view of the Egyptian Arab head, the traditional Arabian head, and the very inbred head that makes a great argument for banning halter classes. Separating the inbred head and the typical head are close ups of the chest foreleg and back leg from the hock down. The hock is the pointy back joint. It’s your heel. I’ll explain with skeletons later. For now, all mammals have the same skeleton but evolution twists it around. A whale’s fin and a bat’s wing have the same bones and structure as your hand. Whales also have pelvises—so we know they lived on land and walked but then went back to the sea. Do they know something we don’t? I fear yes. Proportional to the leg the hooves are HUGE. This helps them run over loose sand. They’re known for being really sound and can go barefoot. The chest is huge. A horse’s speed isn’t controlled by the length of leg but how quickly they can whip them around. We will address this in the Thoroughbred section where we meet Secretariat and learn more about inbreeding. A bay Arabian with the typical head which is dished but not overly so. It has large brain space but roomy nasal passages as well. You could call this a blood bay as the coat is bright and orangish. If the points matched the body, it’s a chestnut. If the tail and mane were white, it’s a dark palomino. Yes a buckskin can have a white mane and tail. It is rare. When you see a flashy horse the downside is that a lot of negative characteristics might have been ignored to get that pretty color. The inbred head. Everything is too exaggerated. The head is big but the nasal passages have been reduced to make the dish better. I do not like these Arabians. It makes me sad like an American German Shepherd makes me sad. The color is a version of a blue roan. Roan is a color pattern. Solid points but the body is flecked with pale hairs so it looks weird? Unique? I think they’re very pretty. On chestnut, it’s a strawberry roan. Palomino roans exist but there’s not a cool name for them and I think they’re kinda boring. Confirmation is important in horses. It can tell you how a horse’s gait will feel and how much you’ll be paying the vet. Responsible breeding reduces vet bills and means the horse can have a longer, less painful life. There’s entire breeds I would recommend avoiding based on a prevalence of backyard breeders. I love the look of Vanners, but in the states they attract idiots with uh uneducated views on the Roma peoples. Oh and yes, Vanner is a new name. It used to be [slur] Vanner. We will address the problems later.
January 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
kimoforce.bsky.social
Today on: Kimo gets really wordy about her love for the Wacky Wahoo Pizza Man video game first thing in the morning, cause it's not just a Wacky Wahoo Pizza Man video game, but THE Wacky Wahoo Pizza Man video game.
Emma at some point asked me why I really care about Devil May Cry given the stark difference in the games we played, so after thinking about what ti say, I had a lot to share with her that I wanted to share with others as well. -------------------- So the stylish combat and being the height of technicality in this genre is a big part of it, but another is the attention to detail both in the cutscene direction and the movesets of these characters. Several of what seem like small throwaway lines have far-reaching implications and even peeks into a character's psyche. "That day, if our positions were switched, would our fates be any different? Would I have your life, and you mine?" It may seem like a small line with not a whole lot attached to it, but given its place in the context of the entire story that spans five games, it's often considered the most important line in the entire franchise. The games drop lines like these constantly. The three devil hunters' play styles are all insights into their personalities. Dante is incredibly easy-going and goes for what seem like the coolest moves to him, using all the weapons to such incredible degrees, even if not necessarily to their fullmost potential. Vergil is extremely goal-oriented towards his lust for power and conquest, so he has a very limited arsenal, but absolutely uses them to its fullest extent. Nero craves power like Vergil, but rather than for himself, he seeks it to protect the people he loves. He's reckless, his posture sucks and he constantly throws himself into dangerous situations, but he is still throwing a ton of power around and no doubt has the best versions of several core moves. And then you give those movesets extra context. For example, when Vergil gets to use Force Edge, his moveset is exactly the same as Dante's but with some very minor additions, which implies just how close the two used to be at a point before the diverging points in their lives. V's pets are all alternative versions of demons you encounter in the first game, their existence also having far-reaching implications. When Dante gets Yamato (Vergil's sword), he only uses it in minor cool ways, not just because of his play style, but he's also one who understands just how dangerous it is. Perhaps the greatest showpiece of Dante's aversion to full destructive power is that he uses his own sword, Rebellion, in place of the much more powerful Force Edge, except for the first game where he faced his dad's greatest enemy, and in DMC5 when Rebellion is smashed to pieces. You can tell Dante rubs off a lot on Nero in DMC5 as a mentor figure when Nero gets his Devil Breakers, cause it's antithetical to Nero's reckless full force approach and is more of a stylish flex like how Dante fights. Vergil's arsenal is entirely demonic in origin. Dante's arsenal is halfway demonic and halfway human, with his guns being made by a legendary human gunsmith. Nero's is a fully human arsenal, for someone who embraces his humanity the hardest despite having a demonic right arm in DMC4. Hell, even V using a cane is a pretty big deal that reflects his mental state. Even their designs reflect their personalities too. Dante's warmer approach to humans gets him the red hot coat with black seams, as someone with demonic or less-than-ideal origins yet chooses to use that power for protecting mankind. Vergil's cold motif towards everyone around him, who sees humans as nothing more than a fuel source for attaining power, sees himself above all else with an ego no one else could contain, gets the blue jacket with golden embroidery. Nero's absolute loyalty to family and friends, while also still being a hot-headed potty-mouthed punk who feels embarrassed to appear weak before others, gets a blue jacket on top of his red coat (DMC4) or sweater (DMC5). And that's still not speaking of other main characters and how their designs all factor into their stories, like Trish, Lady, Lucia, Kyrie, the whole Order of the Sword, Nico, and so on. Like, the narrative isn't just what's being given to you at face value; it's every single minute detail that goes into every little thing. It's the purest distillation of the spirit of tokusastu into a video game. ------------------ And that's why Devil May Cry is the one character action game besides maybe NieR Automata where I truly care so so much about the story in a genre when I almost usually don't. It's why the launch trailer for Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition still gives me chills nearly 4½ years later. There's still a ton of other details I'm leaving out for spoiler reasons, but one that isn't that I ran out of space for is that the lyrics for the battle themes in DMC5 all reflect the psyches of their individual characters' mental states.
June 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
maryscottoconnor.com
Walked. Different 90% humidity @ 59° than @ 43°, I must say. Starts out fine, but by the end, I am a panting, sweaty mess. Good thing I take that ALL IMPORTANT FUCKING SELFIE at the start. Oh, Mom, what hast thou wrought?

Can you imagine if she'd never insisted on those? What excuse would I USE?
The Morning Selfie. You know... I did take one at the end, in the bright, post-sunrise light. I don't look NEARLY as glowy and perfect. There appears to be something about the combination of the yellow streetlamp and the iPhone's nighttime/darkness exposure that blurs out my skin in a DELIGHTFUL way. I can barely make out the wrinkles. I could post the one that shows me basically as I REALLY look... but what would be the point of THAT? Who gives a shit how I REALLY look? It's not like any of you are ever going to MEET me. Let's indulge ourselves in the illusion that I, a 55 year old woman who's spent the past 20+ years wracked with the kind of pain that would fell most grown men, look like a dewy-skinned 35-year old. Yes. Let's do that. 😎 A nearby neighbourhood where I walk down the middle of the street... Sort of. Okay, I pretty much DANCE. And sing along to my playlist. And the lighter it gets, the more PEOPLE I encounter as I engage in this lunacy. Today... a cop drove by me. He did not stop me and ask for my ID, or try to arrest me for behaving like a crazy person. But you know... that's probably not because I'm white. Ah, daylight. And fully humid. My walk is almost at an end, I am panting and sweaty, and wondering why the streetlights stay on so long. But I guess they're on a timer. Whatever. It looks cool, standing on this curved corner, lighting the two firs and the wooden fence on the other side of the road. There's a blue house almost hidden by the tree behind the wooden fence. As I passed it, I was practically screaming the lyrics to "Give the Dog A Bone" by AC/DC, and some lady was coming out to her car and I caught her eye... She gave me that look - and I honestly wasn't sure if she was more disgusted by the lyrics or by my having the temerity to be singing out loud in broad daylight with airpods in my ears and no actual music out in the open... But whatever, Karen. It's a rockin' song. You know it, you're my age. Lighten up.
September 11, 2023 at 12:53 PM
adamthechao.bsky.social
And obviously my reasons for each of my picks:
Meloetta: In the first episode of Mega Voltage someone mentions that one of Liko's friends is studying abroad at Blueberry Academy, which would be pretty weird if it were just a throwaway line, for that reason I believe that the gang will go to Blueberry Academy at some point for whatever reason (I came up with all this before the poster for the next arc dropped and basically confirmed that they would go to B.B.A. due to Drayton and Lacey being prominently featured on it by the way.) The reason that all matters is because Meloetta can be caught there. Koraidon: In the outro for the 'Terastal Debut' arc, the 'raidons can be seen racing across the screen. Despite this, neither of them have made any sort of physical appearance in Horizons itself so far. Given that Briar will be involved in helping to find twelve other suitable pokémon, now seems like a good time to bring them in. Togekiss: I don't have much reason for this one honestly... Glimmora: Seemingly has connections to terastallization. White Zygarde: It being directly involved in helping Pagogo to destroy the laquium just makes sense really, and gives some more reason for Amethio and his allies trying to gather the cells again beyond just having a powerful legendary by their side. Bloodmoon Ursaluna: He fits with the "ancient history" theming of the Six Heroes, plus this would give reason for the gang to return to Kitakami at some point. Diancie: It's a Kalosian mythical (relevant because Z-A and all that, I'm sure they will eventually visit Kalos in the current day) and plus it's all about pink crystals so there's probably something you could do there. Volcarona: Despite not being a legendary or any other special classification, it's still treated with a level of mysticism and exclusivity (in Black & White), so I feel like it fits. Golurk: Once again, ancient history but also can you imagine if it were bigger like all the other Heroes? You gotta admit that'd be cool having this hugeass golem by their side that they can like ride on the shoulders of. Basculegion: Basically the same reasons as ursaluna, though maybe they could find it somewhere else as well. Heatran: It's just kind of a weird legendary, not having any real important role or any connections to other pokémon, so I think having it be one of the Heroes could give it more purpose in a way you know? Skeledirge/Quaquaval/Meowscarada: Having one of more of the Heroes be pre-existing team members seems like a pretty obvious thing to do, and the starters would be good candidates for this Miraidon: Same reason as Koraidon obviously. Cap: Same reason as the starters though It feels both likelier and more fitting for him, partially because electric doesn't have overlap with any of the Six Heroes and so there's no issue of being snubbed in that regard. Hoopa: Similar reason to Diancie just minus the second part obviously. Honestly couldn't really think of any other psychic-types to use... (Could also make the ancient history arguement for it too with the prison bottle and whatnot.) Mamoswine: Ancient. History. Kommo-o: It's kinda surprising that one of the heroes isn't a pseudo-legendary to begin with. Picked this one because Alola hasn't been relevant in the slightest yet, was also considering an ultra beast for one of the type because of this but none of them really fit... Baxcalibur: Also because it's a pseduo-legendary but this time due to Paldea already being prominently featured in Horizons and plus being based directly on a kaiju it would make sense to have an extra-large individual going off the same assumption as golurk. Malamar: Okay yeah I don't really have much reason for this one... I guess it'd make sense to have some Z-A mega representation in the Heroes themselves? Galarian Weezing: It's associated with purification which fits with Pagogo's whole goal and it'd be a funny twist having the signature fairy-type be one of the less cute or effeminate ones.
September 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
vamposts.co.za
remembered i posted that i would do this but didn't end up actually: doing this. so i'm adding to this thread with the reviews i've made since this first bleet. screenshots are

taylor swift - folklore
lorde - virgin
p!atd - pray for the wicked (might drop it a few points)
linkin park - from zero
taylor swift - folklore: 60/100 bored out of my mind but it's: okay. the first three tracks felt cool and "the last great american dynasty" was the most interesting track just off of the way she paints that narrative, but everything after that point had me genuinely struggling to stay awake. the sound palette is very limited and, since this isn't my type of music, that gets unspeakably tedious and makes it hard to muster the energy to pay attention to anything she's saying, let alone connect with any of it. i would probably like a lot of these tracks better in isolation without the hour long ordeal attached to them lorde - virgin: 85/100 i think this is gonna be an important album to a lot of people panic! at the disco - pray for the wicked: 59/100 i do not have any desire to re-listen to this but i don't remember it being That bad, more just mediocre. but songs like silver lining and overpass were honestly pretty memorable in a positive way, king of the clouds and high hopes were honestly not all that bad, but none of it really works as An Album. we have a duplicate of essentially the same song in tracks 3 and 4, most of the songs while passable sonically are meh to awful lyrically, and i remember songs like roaring 20s being kinda overproduced. the melody to dying in la, i remember finding uncannily similar to Another song, maybe a disney movie soundtrack or something, and the rest i have no recollection of whatsoever. so it's 11 tracks that are mostly okay/uninspired to forgettable, and like two highlights that i nonetheless don't really miss: 7 years later either. this album could simply not exist and nothing about my life or the world at large would change linkin park - from zero: 70/100 i'm not blown away by anything on here, the songs are a bit formulaic and don't sound like the band really doing anything to bring their classic sound: forward, except it doesn't work as well now as it did a decade or two ago, and lowkey bring me the horizon have already kinda nailed that in a sense. also mike's rapping is just Not it, all the lyrics are things you'd think were cool as a teenager and it's got a couple of really bland tracks (like the third track). but what it does get right more than anything is just the vibe honestly. like i could very much picture myself putting this on, just drowning everything else out and kinda giving in to: the noise of those heavy guitars, or the new vocalist's screaming delivery on a couple of songs (i loved casualty). so at that level i like this album. it's just not a thing i'm going to be thinking about very often, or thinking about very deeply whenever i do actually remember it exists and put it on. also helps that it is Quite short, so it doesn't last nearly long enough to get tedious, and that the thought of it is presently inseparable from my favourite human on planet earth, who's the reason i even listened to it
July 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
sinboy.bsky.social
He's arguing that he HAS to do exactly what he did or people would ... be upset?

Also he seems to have bought the "free speech zones" bullshit line.

What a rube.
Dave McCarty Announcements have been that statistics have been in the past. Rather you know the but the thing is, you know, as I said, you know and that's the really difficult part. OK, I am and I don't mean this difficult in and like anybody's doing anything to me. OK everything I'm doing and everything I'm saying. Just because I am on a team that I believe in, OK, this is then. Nobody's telling me what to do. You know, we, you know, the statement that we came up with isn't words that somebody fed me. This is where these are words that I worked with my Chinese counterparts to make sure were correct. As we could say to both to audiences in China and the West, which would mean the same to audiences in China and the West, which is actually a lot [more] than anybody thinks, because the cultural differences between China and the West are drastic, you know, and you know, and not always in obvious ways, because when you're interacting with a fan from China. You know, I saw myself reflected i There's lots of everything that we went through that I 100% understood when I volunteered. Because I understand the Hugos, I understand Hugo administration. I understand Worldcon. I have. You know, there are people that have better bonafides than me on this stuff, but there are not many. So, you know, I understood all of that. But what I didn't understand, because I hadn't had, you know, I hadn't become part of a Chinese. You know, that hadn't been part of my world at all, was I didn't understand how difficult it is for us to speak to each other without causing panic and offense. Like I, I spent the first six months of weekly meetings on the Hugo stuff trying to just talk about what we had to do correctly in a way that we all understood and didn't make anybody go “No, no, no, no. No.” You know, because there's things that are important about how the Hugos are handled, that are entirely new for the Chinese team, you know, and we had to make sure that we were doing everything correctly. Dave McCarty Well, there, there, there are. So I mean our our experience of China and. I'm on a team. I'm going to I'm going to repeat this. I'm on a team. With folks from China, OK, which means I'm on a China team. All right, China is China allows people to speak, you know. They have free speech zones even you know where? It's like, you know, whatever you say here is cool. And that was not something that I expected given my given the upbringing of what I thought I was learning about China, so much, stuff that I when I
February 6, 2024 at 12:43 PM
taonf.bsky.social
Case could be one of Burroughs's wild boys… in a way. I'm
deeply influenced by Burroughs… he found 'fifties science fiction
and used it like a rusty can opener on society's jugular
#Leary #Gibson
I think America is ready for a female lead who beats the crap out of everybody
#Mondo2000 #Cyberpunk
Timothy Leary: If you could put Neuromancer into one sentence, how would you describe it? William Gibson: What's most important to me is that it's about the present. It's not really about an imagined future. It's a way of trying to come to terms with the awe and terror inspired in me by the world in which we live. I'm anxious to know what they'll make of it in Japan. I'm starting to feel like Edgar Rice Burroughs or something. I mean, how did Edgar Rice Burroughs finally come to feel about Tarzan in his own heart, you know? He got real tired of it. Wound up living in Tarzana, California. TL: You'll end up living in a space colony called Neuromancer. WG: That would be okay. I don't think we're going to have this kind of future. I think this book is so much nicer than what seems to be happening. I mean, this would be a cool place to visit. I wouldn't mind going there. TL: Where? WG: To the Sprawl, to that future. TL: Going up the well? WG: Yeah. Go up the well and all of that. A lot of people think that Neuromancer is a bleak book, but I think it's optimistic. TL: I do, too. WG: I think the future is actually gonna be more boring. I think some kind of Falwellian future would probably be my idea of the worst thing that could happen. TL: Yeah. That was a wonderful scene where you have those Christians who were gonna mug those girls in the subway. WG: It's not clear whether they're going to mug them or just try to force some horrible pamphlet on them or something. Personally, I have a real phobia about guys like that coming up to me on the street… TL: That's a powerful scene! And you describe the girls as like hoofed animals wearing high heels. WG: Yeah. The office girls of the Sprawl. I like the idea of that subway. That's the state-of-the-art subway. It goes from Atlanta to Boston, real fast. TL: You've created a world. WG: What you're getting when you read that book—the impression is very compli-cated, but it's all actually one molecule thick. I've got to do a different kind of book now, because I'm already getting some reviews saying, "Well, this is good, but it's more of the same stuff." It's different for somebody like Douglas Adams, where I think that the whole thing started off as such a goof for him that it was just a stroke of good luck that he built on. TL: And they're nice. It's a nice tour. WG: Yeah. They're funny. TL: These big books… WG: I can't go for that. TL: I'm glad about that. Norman Spinrad… WG: He wrote a book called The Iron Dream. It's a science-fiction novel by Adolf Hitler, in an alternate world where Hitler became a science-fiction writer. It's a critique of the innately fascist element in a lot of traditional science fiction. Very funny. The keys to Case's personality are the estrangement from his body, the meat, which he does overcome. People have criticized Neuromancer for not bringing Case to some kind of transcendent experience. But he has it within the construct of the beach, and he has it when he has his orgasm. There's a long paragraph there where he accepts the meat as being this infinite and complex thing. TL: In some ways he reminds me of some of Burroughs's characters. WG: Case could be one of Burroughs's wild boys… in a way. I'm deeply influenced by Burroughs… he found ‘fifties science fiction and used it like a rusty can opener on society's jugular. I was like 15 when I read The Naked Lunch and it sorta splattered my head all over the walls. And I have my megalomaniac fantasy of some little kid in Indiana picking up Neuromancer and pow! TL: Well, that happens, dude. Don't worry. There's 500,000 copies already. WG: I had to teach mysell not to write too much like Burroughs. I had to weed some of that Burroughsian stuff out of it. In an interview in London, I told this guy that the difference between what Burroughs did and what I did is that Burroughs would just glue the stuff down on the page but l airbrushed it all. TL: Burroughs and I are close friends. TL: What would you say about Riviera? WG: It's like Suddenly Last Summer. Riviera is like that, a feral child. He's smart, incredibly perverse. But all the stuff that he does—the little projected hallucinations and things—are relatively low tech. He's just projecting holograms. There's this amazing German surrealist sculptor named Hans Belmer who made a piece called "The Doll." He made a doll that was more his fetish object than a work of art, this totally idealized girlchild that could be taken apart and rearranged in an infinite number of ways. So I have Riviera call his piece "The Doll." Riviera also represents the fragmentation of the body. People see things like that, sometimes, out of the corners of their eyes. TL: What about Armitage? WG: He's a synthetic personality, a character utterly lacking character: As Molly says, "This guy doesn't do anything when he's alone." This book's fraught with psychotics. TL: (Laughing) You see, there are a few of us who think it's a very positive book in spite of that. WG: Really? Well, I just try to reflect the world around me. TL: I know. You're a mirror. How about Lucas Yonderboy? WG: Lucas Yonderboy was my reaction to the spookier and more interesting side of punk. Kind of young and enigmatic. Cool to the point of inexplicability. And he's a member of the Panther Moderns. They're sorta like Marshall McLuhan's Revenge. Media monsters. It's as though the worst street gang you ever ran into were, at the same time, intense conceptual artists. You never know what they're going to do. TL: What recent book have you most enjoyed? WG: Bruce Sterling is my favorite science-fiction writer. Schismatrix is the most visionary science-fiction novel of the last 20 years or so. Humanity evolves, mutates through different forms very quickly, using genetic engineering and bio-chemistry. People will be mining that, ripping off ideas for the next 30 years. TL: Like Gravity's Rainbow. WG: Yeah. That's one of my personal favorites. TL: It's dark, so I waited 'til dawn and picked it up. And it was Gravity's Rainbow. WG: Perfect! Of all the books you could get, that'll last you a while. TL: You should only read that book under those circumstances. WG: It stopped my life cold for 3 months. My university career went to pot, I just sort of laid around and read this thing. TL: I read it all day until dark. I woke up the next morning and read it. For 3 days, I did nothing but read that book. Then I went back and I started annotating it. I did the same thing to yours. Yours is the only book I've done that with since. The film industry's never been able to do anything with Gravity's Rainbow. WG: It's got eight billion times more stuff in it than Neuromancer does. It's an encyclopedic novel. TL: But there's a tremendous relationship, as you well know, between Neuromancer and Pynchon. Because Pynchon is into psychology. But you've taken the next step, because you've done that whole thing to computers. You don't have any new drugs in Neuromancer. WG: I've got the beta-phenethylamine. TL: That's the one that makes your teeth rattle the nerves. WG: Yeah. That's actually a brain chemical. We all have a little bit, as we sit around the table. When you fall in love the level rises. I called Bruce Sterling, and I said, "This guy's been modified; so he can't do traditional stimulants. So, what can he get off on?" And Bruce said "beta-phenethylamine." It's in the book. Beta-P. About a month after I finished the book, there was an article in Esquire, "The Chemistry of Desire." And they talked about beta-phenethylamine, which is structurally similar to amphetamine. And it's also present in chocolate. TL: Ohhh! I’m a chocolate addict. WG: Japanese kids get high on big candy bars that are just sucrose and caffeine. They eat 5 or 6 of these things and go to concerts. TL: One of the things that's wonderful about Neuromancer is that there is this glorious comradeship between Molly and Case.
December 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
hugsdioro.bsky.social
I have written down the story of my entire life of playing Mario games
www.mariowiki.com/User:Flippy_...
Early Years (the 90s) Super Mario 64 I will never forget my first memories of watching my cousin play Super Mario 64 in my house. He taught me: “A Button jumps." [jumps a couple of times] "B Button punches." [punches a couple of times]” —My cousin [image of a Bob-omb Buddy, captioned: We used to call this "Amiguinha Cor-de-Rosa" (lit. the "pink little friend").] My cousin lived in my house for a while, so we would play it together a lot. He was 7 years my senior, so he was much more skilled than me (I couldn't even do a Wall Kick), but it was fun to watch him. Like the first time he found Eyerok and was so bewildered that he accidentally threw himself in the pit. I cracked up. (We then walked to his friend's house so he would tell him how to defeat them. I also recall said friend coming to check my cousin's progress, and almost instantly going: "You still haven't lowered the water yet??") Lethal Lava Land was one of my favorite levels to play. I guess it was simply cool to navigate (plus, the painting looked really cool). In Dire, Dire Docks, I liked to dive straight into the whirlpool. As for my least favorite... Well, I didn't dislike Tiny-Huge Island, but it was one of the most difficult levels for me (mostly because just seeing Bubba there was enough to make me quit instantly). I didn't even know On the right side, part of a list of Userboxes, saying: This user has Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and named his Red Yoshi, Yo-Yo. This user has cried over Scarlette's Letter. This user has beaten the Rogueport Pit of 100 Trials. Yeah, um, this user thinks being rude to the esteemed count is sort of frowned on, 'K? This user watches Mario cartoons. This user intercepted the Warp-o-gram message to Princess Toadstool as ordered. That's Mama Luigi to you, user! This user likes to eat lotsa spaghetti! This user has been here since 2009. [Image of a Pokey in Super Mario World, captioned: My neighbor called Pokeys "Yoshi's Fandangos".] I did have a next-door neighbor who had Super Mario World, but alas, he never wanted to play it. He did let me keep his instruction booklet after some time, though. Not only it was completely translated, it also had pretty illustrations, cool descriptions, and a clear picture of the Koopalings, so that was quite a treasure for me. Mario Kart 64 [icon for Rainbow Road in Mario Kart 64, captioned: I couldn't read, so I just called this track "Em Volta da Estrela" (lit. "Around the Star").] That was Mario Kart for me. It's funny to remember people who would move their controller around while playing this back then. I liked to play as Peach because her hair looked beautiful from behind. Especially when flashing with the colors of a Super Star. I didn't understand a lot about how the game worked, so I did stuff like pick engine power at random, and not worry about trophies. I did learn the word "bronze", though. I liked to believe that each character performed better in tracks themed On the right side, part of list of Userboxes saying: This user's favorite Mario Party board is Boo's Haunted Bash. This user chooses the Koopalings in Mario Kart. This user thinks Pink Gold Peach was a pointless addition to the series. This user chooses Wolf O’Donnell in Super Smash Bros. This user voted Krystal for the 2015 Smash Bros. Fighter Ballot. This user plays the Crash Bandicoot series. This user uses (Windows Live) MSN Messenger. Their email/ID is example@hotmail.com. 70 % of all people are not good at mathematics. If you are part of the other 40 %, place this on your user page. [image of Daisy in Mario Party 4, captioned: Wow, an Evil Peach.] Anyway, I told my mom about Mario Party 4, and some time afterwards, she surprised with a GameCube. In the years to come, Mario Party 4 would become the fun to be had with my brothers, and visiting friends. This game was my introduction to Waluigi and Daisy (which also led me to think Daisy was a "bad Peach" - a "Wario Peach", as opposed to a "Peach for Luigi"). Dungeon Duos and Paths of Peril were some of my favorite Minigames. However, due to having a hard time with memory cards, I only got to 100% the game for the first time in 2019. (Feb/10, to be precise. Still with the very same disc as in 2005.) Luigi's Mansion [image of Luigi in the Conservatory, captioned: I had already heard "Mario's theme" at SM64's title screen, but here is where I really learned it.] Some months after getting our GameCube, my mom asked what we would want for Christmas. My brothers asked for Sonic (so they got Sonic Heroes). I decided to ask for Luigi's Mansion - a game I had only heard the name, but had no idea what it was like. (I believe I'd seen some stickers of it in my neighbor's bedroom.) I was happy with my gift. The premise of the game was cool. It just took me a bit to get the hang of the controls. (In fact, in my first try, I died in the first room, because I didn't know the flashlight didn't really kill the ghosts.) One thing was certain, though. I would need a memory card to play it properly. It was either that, or stay the whole day trying a run, with the risk of getting a game over. Paper Mario Nope, not Thousand-Year Door. What's the matter, then? Shouldn't we be in the GameCube era? Something important happened in 2006. A classmate of mine taught me how to get emulators. (It all started with him playing Pokémon Ruby, and me saying I would like to play a Gen 1 game.) But if I could do this for the GBA, could I do it for the Nintendo 64? Could I finally appease my longing for my old Super Mario 64? (And Pokémon Snap, and others?) I could, indeed. [image of the Star Spirits in Paper Mario, captioned: Some graphics appeared broken on the emulator, so I only learned what each Star Spirit looked like as I cleared each chapter. (Also, I skipped the intro.)] And if all of this was working, why not getting to know new stuff? So I took a look at this game I only knew by name, and oh how beautiful it was. It took me one month to finish it. I tried to do it all myself, but I needed a walkthrough when I got stuck in the maze to access Rosie. (Then again later for Bowser's castle.) Mario Tennis Not much to say here. But a fun fact: I accidentally got the Japanese ROM. So not only I couldn't understand a thing of the text, I was also faced with unexpected names, such as Teresa, Kinopio, Catherine, and all. [image of Boo in Mario Tennis, captioned: "Teresa" is pretty close to my aunt's name.]
November 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM