+1 to energy weapons

somehow knowing that tumblr is being kept around mostly as a testing ground for advertisers and corporations doesn’t even make me feel that exploited, because every social media site is exploitive. but being basically lab rats to test shit on before it’s refined for use in polite society is by far the funniest possible way to be exploited.

#yeah maybe i’m a marketing lab rat but at least my dash is in fucking chronological order

this ad appeared right after i read this post.

so yeah, they’re testing something, but in true lab rat fashion we have no fucking clue what

I think FOR ME a major appeal of portal is that the characters are what move the plot, with all their interpersonal dramas, and this is something that many endeavors to replicate the specific magic of it w/ original stories and characters seem to overlook, again for me. Wheatley fumbles and wakes glados by accident BECAUSE he is wheatley. You are in the elevator successfully escaping until Wheatley changes his mind. Glados keeps egging chassis wheatley on even though she’s hardly in an advantageous position to do so because she’s just so pissed she can’t help herself, because she’s glados. Wheatley punches both of you into Old Aperture when glados calls him a moron because he’s sensitive about that because he’s wheatley. It’s engaging to hear their banter not just because it is detached witty commentary that reacts to things that are happening, but because it feels like an actively evolving situation based on all these characters’ relationships with each other, including theirs with you. The facility isn’t crumbling as some external emotionless force of conflict - it’s specifically crumbling because Wheatley is effing it up. Portal 1 spans a transition where you go from just being a routine test subject that glados can toy with into being a significant and deeply personal outlier to her, and then in Portal 2 it keeps progressing until you are so individually significant to her she can no longer conscience watching you die.

advertising strategy for Hepatior, a 1930s medicine to treat liver ailments

Uh, Prometheus seems kind of into it

Buying a general admission ticket to the airport and windowshopping gates until i see a flight i like

Filipino artist, Gregory Halili, carves intricate skulls into mother of pearl shells.

I’m actually losing it over this, this is gorgeous. I have been staring at this for ages marvelling at the inclusion of pretty accurate sutures. It’s a SKULL in a SHELL, I’m obsessed 10/10

I agree with Tumblr user judgingskeletons

to you, it's a shitty sentence. to some random bitch 500 miles away, it's a fire line that'll haunt them for the next 17 years.

you don't know how impactful your writing is because it's been in your brain for far too long now. you've stared at it for hours and repeated "this sucks" over and over again to the point that you killed your capacity to feel anything about your work.

but trust me, once you get your shit out there, someone's gonna go over that paragraph you hate and go "jesus fucking christ" and put the book down to have an existential crisis.

i see a convo w a character ai and i keep scrolling

listen im seeing tags about people agreeing that ai bots can be really inaccurate and i want to point out that this is NOT about that. the ai bot can be as accurate as you want it to be i still get mad at em.

its not about how good they do at emulating a character, its about that they aren’t a person making creative choices and i hate that. i want to enjoy my characters with other people. hold my hand and tell me all about why you think your blorbo is autistic or likes your favourite shitty band. i love you. if a bot randomly shuffles those opinions out idc if theyre even the same ones im exploding it with my mind.

What’s the point of loving content if I know there isn’t someone as obsessively fucked up as me sitting on the other side of the internet

Waiting for you

Well played, Beverly.

these count as sexy lingerie. to the enlightened mind.

i love having ocs. u can make up a guy and then ruin his fucking life forever for free. and u can gatekeep him too

It’s with great pain that I must announce you were devoured by clowns.

Turn to page 14 to climb into the clowns jaws.

Turn to page 6 to turn around and walk away.

It’s with great pain that I must announce you were devoured by clowns.

It’s with great pain that I must announce you were devoured by clowns.

Happy Resonance Cascade day everyone

Now that’s the razzle dazzle.

my brothers share special interests and my favorite thing to do is walk in a room and be like "hey guys can you tell me about the mariana trench" and then sit there for an hour while they both infodump to me about the ocean it's extremely entertaining

and my parents are always like "oh my god why would you do that" bitch. I want to learn about the ocean and these two thirteen year old boys r my most trusted source

fr

I mean, I could google questions I have about medieval weaponry and horsemanship, but on the other hand I could message my sister the simple statement “have question about historical saddles” and get both a phone call and a comprehensive 3 page google document within an hour

Seriously, if you know someone who has a special interest you’d like info about, go ask them! It costs zero money, you make them happy, and you learn way more than a basic google search would tell you.

Asking is a love language

Asking is a love language