"I taste him and realize I've been starving. I have loved before, but it didn't feel like this. I have kissed before, but it didn't burn me alive. All I know is, I have been waiting for this person forever. "

- Jodi Picoult

Source: lovelyempath
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lbpreviews

wow thats so brave

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lbpreviews

btw theres like this whole thing of just 9/11 levels on littlebigplanet and the reviews are just filled with kids lying that they were one of the jumpers LOL

little big planet has some of the absolute strangest niche communities. I played with some guy online--we’ll call him countchocula--when I was like 12 almost every single night. We spent hours and hours playing together over the course of a year or two but never actually learned anything about each other or communicated other than through emotes, and years later I often wondered what he was up to and fondly remembered all the nights my sad little 12 year old self looked forward to little big planet with this internet stranger. I hoped he was doing well.

I drifted away from the game for well over a decade, but decided to play again a year or two ago and signed on. To my surprise, he was not only online, he was still playing Little Big Planet. He almost immediately sent me a message and invited me to join a custom world he was playing in with some friends. I was thrilled he remembered me and hopped right in without question. 

Anyway that’s how I ended up diving, unassumingly, brazenly, headlong into the community that is little big planet’s Paper Mario and Kirby (combined, mind you, not separate) roleplaying community. I ended up roleplaying in a little cardboard house that countchocula was married to Mimi from Paper Mario while his friend was the emo brother of Marx, and they had a family of Waddle Dee children. There would be no platforming levels for us, no shark survival, no storymode. Nay. Rather, I watched cinematic sackbot cutscenes orchestrated by countchocula & co where a black hole opened up a portal to the CyberWorld where cardboard cutouts crudely fashioned into Paper Mario characters came to life. I had to learn “the dimento dance” with consisted of moving our arms around and putting black and white stickers on our faces. when I asked if they wanted to do some storymode levels, one of them disintegrated me with a plasma laser. they then took me to a level where Marx, devourer of worlds, went on a monologue that was so incomprehensible my brain blocked out the contents of it entirely.

They then proceeded to evaporate me with lasers again.

I haven’t played Little Big Planet since, but I think about this 87 times a day. 

every time i type five or more exclamation marks i think of this quote. it's my equivalent to that damn bbc sherlock line about scratch marks around the phone charging port. i can never escape the spectre of terry pratchett judging my punctuation habits

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c3rvida3

When I was in the hospital, they gave me a big bracelet that said ALLERGY, but like. I'm allergic to bees. Were they going to prescribe me bees in there.

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mothocean
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anapplepie

when programs fucking autocorrect <3 to ❤️ and :) to 😃,,,, do you have any idea what you’ve just done?? what you just fucking destroyed ?

A) It's irritating when systems turn lovely ascii art into crude little pictograms, and

😎 It's even more frustrating when you weren't actually trying to make an emoji.

honestly the human brain is so small that you *will* forget how much beauty there is out there to experience unless you leave your house every three days. ik its fucked up but i promise its true

my brain, trying to deceive me: there's literally nothing outside!!!!! it's the same neighborhood it's always been !!!!!

me, tying my shoes: shut up shut up!!!! by god we're gonna try to find magic in mundane today !!!!

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zegalba
I-80 highway through Wyoming. nicknamed The Sisters, for the three sets of hills that create an optical illusion of the road rising into the sky