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Quill Scratch

@quillscratch-fic

smol nerd | fanfic fanatic | genderless

File under: even more blatant proof cis people can joke about trans people without it being at their expense

[ID: a screenshot of a tweet by @/GianmarcoSoresi that reads: Ran into someone from my high school who told me they had recently transitioned and I was over the moon bc I had forgotten their name. /end of ID]

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The big discourse on twitter right now is that writers going on strike or cancelling their own series are breaking an invisible “contract” they made with their fans and all creators owe their fans a satisfying conclusion to their stories. Actually all fans owe all creators for entertaining them and if a creator says “I don’t want to perform this labor anymore,” then regardless of the cliffhanger that leaves you with, your only response should be “take care! Thank you for all your hard work!!!” :)

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Like it or not… this.

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me and my girlfriend were talking abt the funniest possible ladynoir reveal scenario. we agreed unanimously on “wedding day”

Making a shitty one-page RPG called Oh Shit It’s the Killer. The premise is simple: you’re a high schooler spending the weekend in the woods with your besties. The Killer is there also. He is trying to the Kill you

I say shitty not to demean the quality of my work but because it’s less an exercise in good game design and more an attempt to induce paranoid internal conflict that turns into murder (in game of course). It has like three mechanics and one of them actively encourages you to murder the other PCs

Great news!

It’s done

I put like three braincells into this, so if there’s anything about it that outright sucks, uh. Sorry not sorry, L + ratio + let’s use the 1-page restriction as an excuse for any unfun mechanics

“What if there was a game about being a genre-savvy slasher protagonist murdering their way to the role of Final Girl?”

“Sounds cool when exactly does the PvP start”

“character creation”

Misogyny is not an inherent biological feature in men. It’s a societal ill that men are taught and socially rewarded for perpetuating. Spreading the idea that misogyny is biological is a really defeatist way of looking at things because leads to people thinking that women being harassed and attacked and murdered is just the natural order of things and not something that we can push back against and change and eradicate. 

If you have bodily autonomy, then there is always a chance that you will do something to your body that you will regret. This is not an argument for taking that autonomy away.

There is a much, much higher chance that someone who is not you will do something to your body that you regret.

i love pokemon swsh because I get what its about but they just didnt commit to it nearly enough.

its a game about generational responsibility, dreams, and the way adults have to take responsibility (eg. Leon handling a lot of the trouble so the protag could focus on their journey) but also how we need to let the next generation of kids take over (the protag, leon ans rivals all taking up ‘next in line’ roles by the end of their journey’s).

its so poetic in a way they used the european inspired reigon to do this in because galar shows so much in even its regional variants...how pokemon have to survive in climate change and loss of territory...industrialization...and even how the fossils are a result of mishandling. Then there’s the post game where they touch on historical fallacies and how colonization really resulted in the retelling of history to create meaningless and goofy dynasties... I knew all these things were in the message of the games but Pokemon let it be so vague and cartoonishly messy that its easy to say SwSh was a bad game with no plot or consistency...but everything was VERY intentional and I just wish it was more blatant to everyone else

I feel like this is, like, THE problem with Pokemons writing. Like, even as far back to Diamond and Pearl, when they really started to care about plot. It never pushes itself as far as it can go. Maybe they're afraid that younger players won't get it? It's a double edged sword: detractors can call it lazy, but for others it leaves room to form and grow their own ideas.

This was a really nice take on Sword and Shields plot, OP, thank you.

With the announcement of the Harry Potter TV series, you will be made aware of the people in your social circle who are excited about it.

Now is a good time to stop knowing them.

The play here is fairly blatant.

  1. Hire new 12 year olds that haven’t condemned JK Rowling’s horrendous views
  2. Aggressively condemn the inevitable people who say shit about said 12 year olds online to take the moral high ground
  3. Turn it into a show that people hate watch for maximum revenue
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Friendly reminder that JK Rowling is the executive producer for this show. So in addition to benefiting monetarily from its very existence, she will be an active participant in creating its narrative. I won't be watching it and I encourage everyone else to ignore its existence as well.

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Don’t hate watch it. Don’t even pirate it. Let this shit drop off the face of the earth.

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No eyeballs on this at all, people. We've taken 75% of her profit. Let's come for her castle too.