Anonymous: A Shadowgast Rec List

This week, we have eight incredible fics posted Anonymously! Check them out below the cut, and don't forget to comment or leave kudos if you liked them!

kids these days who are fans of fall out boy and can just read the lyrics on spotify or whatever. do you know how lucky you are. when i was a lad you listened to an illegally burnt cd, heard a nonsensical string of syllables, and listened to it 100 times until you thought you know what was said. and then you got ahold of an album sleeve with lyrics and read the lyrics. and realise you were absolutely nowhere close.

this barbie got out of Plato's cave and she wasn't happy with the result

As we approach the start of the episode, there is a clear winner:

her sense of smell is so strong she can detect the whiff of the cast on their new characters.

and she's coming.

Why don't you darken your clothes and strike a violent pose and maybe you'll calm down

Source

So the CONTEXT is that Xbox is releasing Diablo IV and they changed their logo to match that, BUT I'm CACKLING over the idea that Xbox decided 4 days of pride was enough and that the gays should burn in hell now

Speaking of fanfiction.net, did you know that while it was seven years ago and therefore obviously well out of date (though given the declining traffic over the past few years, that's not the biggest issue), some insane person (positive) on archive.org managed to do the unthinkable and archive a full snapshot of the site despite its infamous unarchivability; I didn't until I went looking for if anyone had good tips on downloading from there easily and found a reddit thread from 2016. It's here. So while I continue to fret about how goddamn difficult archiving the website in full will ever be when it inevitably collapses on us randomly, at the very least we have a snapshot of it as of 2016, in fact.

in case you were wondering why we haven't just done this again, the original re-pack is described as follows:

the self, ideal

So, Dove soap and Lizzo are endorsing KOSA, in the name of "social media is bad for teens' self-esteem" (even though that's bullshit) and I am mad.

If you don't know, long story short KOSA is a bill that's ostensibly one of those "Protect the Children" bills, but what it's actually going to do is more or less require you to scan your fucking face every time you want to go on a website; or give away similarly privacy-violating information like your drivers' license or credit card info.

Either that or force them to censor anything that could even remotely be considered not "kid friendly." Not to mention fundies are openly saying they're gonna use this to hurt trans kids. Which is, uh, real fucking bad.

Given that in terms of their actual products they don't have a direct stake in it, it might be possible to get Dove to rescind this (can't find contact info for Lizzo sadly), if you want to contact Dove about this, here's their contact page.

And, as per usual, I urge you to contact your congresscritters, especially given that as of now (Thursday, 4/13/2023) they plan to re-introduce the bill this Monday, and we're going to need a flood of people saying this is awful to kill it.

Reblogging to mention, along with the other Stop KOSA stuff, Fight for the Future has started a petition to tell Lizzo to rescind her support for KOSA.

So, if you want something to sign...

Just thinking about how essek would have broken the world with time travel for caleb

So, what is the OGL and why are DnD creators thoroughly screwed?

Tumblr has not been doing a great job at talking about this, but:

With OneDnD, Wizards of the Coast has decided to update the Open Game License (OGL). Said license is what allowed people to create homebrew DnD content and sell it, and even larger companies to use certain sorts of content. Pathfinder, for example, is built on said OGL. This also allows streamers and artists to exist and benefit from said content.

With OneDnD (sometimes called “dnd 6e”), WOTC wants to create a much more restrictive OGL, which will, amongst other things:

It’s important to note that OGLs are supposedly irrevocable. They were planning to use it for OneDnD initially, but they want to apply it retroactively to 5e, somehow. Which is illegal, but lawyers have mentioned there’s a chance they may get away with it given the wording.

This means that anything you make based on DnD (A homebrew item? A character drawing? Even music, according to them?), can get taken and used as they deem appropiate.

These news come from a leak of the OGL, which have been confirmed by multiple reputable sources (including Kickstarter, which has confirmed that WOTC already talked with them about this), and was planned to be released next week.

Speak against it. Share the word. Reblog this post. Let people know. Tumblr hasn’t been talking much about this matter, but it’s VERY important to let people know about what is WOTC bringing. 

Boycott them. Do not buy their products. Do not buy games with their IP. Do not watch their movie. CANCEL your DnD Beyond subscription. (Btw, they ARE planning to release more subscription services too!). They do not care about the community, but they care about the money. Make sure to speak through it. 

And maybe consider other TTRPG systems for the time being, Pathfinder’s Paizo has been much nicer to the community, their workers are unionized and are far more healthy overall

“Biquette the goat, sold to an abattoir after she stopped producing milk but was rescued by punks and then spent 10 years watching grindcore bands. Se could come and go as she pleased and, in the words of her rescuers, “escaped death, lived punk”. Absolute legend.”

a detail about Glass Onion

okay so i just finished Glass Onion and I am obsessed

but, as someone who is familiar with Greek islands, something stood out to me

when Lionel calls the police and begs them to come to the island, the police tell him that they can’t come because they can only land at Miles’ “piece of shit” dock at low tide, which won’t be until the morning.  Lionel accepts this excuse and reports the bad news back to the rest of the party, to their collective dismay

here’s the thing, though:

The Aegean has no tide to speak of.

Thanks to Europe and Africa nearly touching at Gibraltar and essentially trapping the Mediterranean Sea in its basin, the water has nowhere to move to even if the moon’s gravity is pulling on it.  At least, the tide is so small it’s completely negligible and certainly would not affect any dock, whether or not said dock was set to lift/lower.

now, this could of course just be an oversight on the writer’s part and may just be a factual error.  BUT i think it’s much funnier that this is a group of characters who simply wouldn’t know that there’s no tide in the Aegean, and the local Greek police just went “fuck those rich Americans, let’em wait until after breakfast”

someone said in my notes that derol (the guy smoking a joint in glass onion) was supposed to represent grimes and I am floored by the implication that he’s miles weird husband

an underrated glass onion detail is miles saying his mother took him to the louvre when he was six- a subtle implication about how like, he CLEARLY had money to start with. he didnt conveniently have all those connections that helped everyone early on, or that helped him start alpha with andi. 

like most rich people, he started with money and gained more and more.

One little thing in Glass Onion that kills me is the red solo cup. The one Miles hands to Peg. Like, if you think about it: even Blanc, who is a surprise, the completely unexpected guest gets a glass. Everything in this fucking place is glass, not a piece of plastic in sight. Everyone has specifically personalized drinking glasses with their names embossed on it in gold. Even Andi/Cassandra gets one with Andi on it (which considering the history, the mistery and what Miles knows is saying something). And Peg, who Miles KNOWS exists but didn't even bother to learn the name of gets a shitty little plastic red solo cup like they are at a frat house and not a billionaire's glass onion. She even writes her name on it in sharpie in a later scene. The entitlement and shittyness of anyone considered "staff" oozes out of Miles at every moment and Peg is truly long suffering in so many ways the poor soul. That moment among the many other little things in both this movie and Knives Out really shows that Johnson knows how rich fucks treat the working class. It's really a moment that hit my brain just right.

I think my favourite detail in Glass Onion that I haven't seen anyone discuss yet is the fact that Benoit is acting out of character in the first act and then it gets revealed that he's acting out of character because he's trying to seem oblivious/dumbfounded in his plan with Helen but he just sucks so hard at being an actor