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The email from Wattpad is so condescending imagine pressuring writers to update and work while they are doing it for free and fun. Also the discovery? Algorithm? Of Wattpad looks like a stressful popularity contest 😑
I'm sure they're trying to be helpful. However "This is how you interact with the pain nexus :)" has the side effect of informing you that it's the pain nexus.
After having gone up for vote, the pins are up for pre-order! However, there's just one stipulation:
Due to the cost of bulk shipping, I've got to make at least 50 sales of each. These can be bought individually or together, but each design must meet the minimum requirement. If not, though, then everybody simply gets refunded and we'll try again in September.
Per usual, they're U.S. shipping only and you can find them in my ko-fi shop here! Thanks!
Also, asking yet again! If you like these enough to like them, please reblog too! Any and all profits from my ko-fi shop sales are going straight into medical care, so I appreciate these posts getting spread as much as possible.
found a twitter tweet that was like "oh yeah content warning hatoful boyfriend has a lot of gore and violence" and every single person in the notes/retweets/qrts/whatever the fuck terms twitter has was going "WHAT THE FUCK IT HAS WHAT" and i find that hilarious because. large amounts of gore and violence is a tremendous understatement about the amount of stuff that goes down in hatoful boyfriend
my full trigger list for hatoful boyfriend (and its sequel), for anyone curious is:
just on the off chance anyone reading this doesn’t know what Hatoful Boyfriend is
this clip from make some noise s1e8 with oscar montoya and brennan lee mulligan is the only super mario bros content i care about personally
brennan lee mulligan has the greatest superpower: the unlimited ability to make an absolutely off-the-cuff monologue and then follow it up with the ultimate turnaround. he can share the power with others
but credit also needs to be firmly planted in the hands of oscar for hearing the prompt say "dramatic video game cutscene" and then going "got it, mario and luigi."
Yeah my name is Tim, short for OpTIMus Prime
[id: tags saying "wait wait i wanna know where they plan on using their full name, why'd you cut it off"]
answer: THEIR WEDDING.
I can't describe to you the emotion I would feel if I was hanging out with my friend Tim and he was like "hey we've been friends for a while now I want to show you something," and he hands me his driver's license, upon which I read "Optimus Prime Jones"
We have underestimated the comedic genius of the elderly when presented with technology
grossly underestimated
I FUCKING LOST MY SHIT AT WORK
"Maybe the reason trans women's posts are getting marked as 18+ even after getting reviewed is because the review process is getting outsourced to other countries where they're poorly trained and have different standards" yeah sure. I suppose you think Disney doesn't make movies with gay people to appease markets in China too. Get fucking real.
Why is it so hard for people to acknowledge the possibility that staff might just have a bigotry problem
Thinking about 13 Latvias again
I genuinely belive this is the funniest fucking thing we will ever get from reddit
I need you all to know that I think about 13 Latvias so much that now every time I meet someone from Latvia I have to resist the urge to ask "which one"
In the Latviaverse this is just a normal map
[ID: A reddit post on r/mapporncirclejerk by user morelebaks. The header reads "this red line divides the world population in half (I had to balance it out with 13 Latvias, cause my math didn't add up)". Attached is a photo of a map, with one red line drawn through eastern Africa, and including China, Japan, and all of Australia. On the other side of the map are 13 copy-and-pasted maps of Latvia, with most in the Pacific ocean and two in the Atlantic ocean. The post has 20k upvotes and 144 comments. /End ID]
not joking I would kind of like to brutally murder whoever thought it was a good idea to take away clicking on a person’s name to see their reblog and make it borderline impossible to get to the original version of a post without spending ten minutes scrolling with ctrl f
Helpful tip:
If you have the post date option turned on you can click the date and it will take it to the original post like before. It's annoying, unintuitive, and harder to click but it should work on mobile or desktop
this is the most ridiculous possible workaround thank you SO much tumblr user suffusionofyellow for sharing
This tweet is just... Odd. Very odd.
Like... You live like this? You write like this? You think like this??
I want to be absolutely clear that, when I write an alcoholic character, it's because I think that alcohol addiction and drinking to excess are cool. Just like when I write a criminal, I'm trying to persuade you, the reader, to take up a life of larceny and murder. Just so long as that's understood.
Oh good, because that's 100% the message I take from fictional media. For instance, I watched Hannibal for recipes and relationship advice.
My favourite type of movie is “period piece romance but fantasy-horror hijinks happen and now everyone has to adapt to the new genre or die,” ala Curse of the Black Pearl, Anastasia, The Mummy (1999)
"everybody has to adapt to the new genre" is really criminally underutilized in general
I didn’t realise this until adulthood but handmade birthday piñatas are the apex of parental devotion. I spent the week cooking for my ravenous teenage cousins and felt a bit crestfallen at times that I was spending so long making something that was going to disappear within minutes—but with piñatas it’s so much worse, they exist to be savagely maimed. Year after year my father asked his kids what shape they wanted this year’s piñatas to be and he spent weeks painstakingly making them in the basement after work, only to watch a bunch of oversugared bat-wielding kids gleefully destroy them in less than 10 minutes.
I mentioned this to him and he said he remembered researching tarantula anatomy for the giant spider piñata I asked for when I was 4, trying to make the fangs the right shape and to cut the crepe paper into very thin ribbons so the thing would look appropriately fuzzy, and I was like “and I don’t even remember it because I was four!! spending so long building a beautiful object only so your kids will have fun destroying it, knowing they won’t even remember it, is such a selfless endeavour” and he said “my other motivation was that you said you wanted the spider to look real & scary so the kids at your birthday party would be terrified of it and you’d get to scoop up all the candy and I wanted to support your slyness & ambition”
Meiji period fashion was some of the best in the world, speaking purely from an aesthetic standpoint you can really see the collision of European and Japanese standards of beauty and how their broad agreement even in particulars (the similarity between Japanese and Gibson girl bouffants, the obi vs the corset, the obi knot vs the bustle, the mutual covetousness for exotic textiles, the feverish swapping of both art styles and subjects) combined and produced some of the most interesting cultural exchange we have this level of documentation for. Europeans were wearing kimono or adapting them into tea gowns, japanese were pairing lacy Edwardian blouses with skirt hakama and little button up boots. haori jackets with bowler hats and European style lapels. if steampunk was any good as an aesthetic it would steal wholesale from the copious records we have in both graphic arts and photography of how people were dressing in this milieu.
«The botany professor,» from Kkokei Shimbun, October 20, 1908. she's wearing a kimono blouse or haori, edwardian skirt or hakama, gibson girl bouffant, a lacy high-collar blouse with cravat and brooch, and a pocket watch with chain
1910-1930 (Taishō era, right after Meiji, which I should have included in my OP) men's haori with western lapels
I have a love for both kimonos and bustle dresses, so I love seeing how the two fashions influenced each other over this period. And thanks to Pinterest, I have pictures!
Victorian tea gown that clearly started as a kimono. It still has the long furisode sleeves, but now they’re gathered at the shoulder and turned around so that the long open side is facing the front instead of the back. Similarly the back is taken in with curved seams to fit the torso and pleated below that for the skirt.
Woodblock of a woman in a a bustle dress made with colorful patterned fabrics and examples of how a woman could style her hair with it.
More prints to showcase hairstyles, two women wearing western wear and two women wearing kimonos.
This next one’s modern, but it involves hoopskirts so I’ll add it in because it makes me so happy. There’s been different styles of wedding fashion that take kimonos and give them a more modern look. Often this involves taking a kimono and then cutting and resewing it into a new dress. Very pretty, but it can’t ever be worn like a traditional kimono again. But now there’s another trend where the bride wears a hoopskirt with a white skirt, then you take the kimono and drape it on. The back of the kimono covers the front of the dress, the long sleeves fall across the sides or the back, and you still wear an obi with it. The result is pretty and the kimono itself doesn’t have to be altered at all.
And because you mentioned steampunk, I have to add in these two:
Personally I’m a big fan of Taisho Meisen kimono, which are what happen when the Japanese textile industry abruptly gets access to aniline dyes, new spinning and weaving technology, and the concept of Art Deco:
Awesome worldbuilding. There's nothing quite like an alternate-history Meiji era-samurai wearing a bowler hat and a Tasho with lapels, possibly paired with two six-shooters on top of his katana and wakisashi.
I know that none of the above is fictitious, but it really makes my Steampunk mind-goblin cackle with glee.
man I was thinking about bioshock the other day too because the original story actually knows what its point is. Rapture doesn’t fail and turn into what it is when you find it because scientists went too far in developing plasmids. It failed before that on an ideological level because Ryan, who is an idiot, gives luxury to the individuals he deems ‘brilliant’ and nothing to the working class responsible for maintaining his underwater city.
Rapture is a hollow idea. It’s not that man couldn’t build a habitable city at the bottom of the ocean. He can, he does. Physically, logistically, it is accomplished. But Ryan handpicks people he think will create a utopia and takes businessmen, entertainers he likes, scientists, researchers, and then a few workmen who he treats terribly. He had the technical ability to accomplish the greatest feat of engineering aside from space travel and it was the limitation of his imagination that re-created class struggle and a downtrodden underclass in a snapshot of the surface anyway.
I’ve read ‘Rapture’, the tie-in novel, whose central character is Bill McDonagh because his viewpoint is essential to why Rapture is the way that it is. Ryan handpicks him to join his star-studded ocean paradise because he admires Bill’s work ethic, which seems great, but ingame Bill’s audio diaries show him to be a sane man who sees the basic flaws in Ryan’s approach to governing in a devolving world of corporate anarchy.
You don’t heat the pipes, the pipes freeze. Pipes freeze, pipes burst. Then Rapture leaks. Now, I realize you’re a posh sort of geezer, and, frankly, I don’t give a toss if you piss or go fishing. But once Rapture starts leaking, the old girl’s never gonna stop.
He knows plumbing. He takes pride in his craft, and an absolutely essential craft it is, never mind being in a sealed underwater metropolis one faulty rivet away from drowning. While Ryan and Fontaine get lost in their egotistical power stuggle, Bill is making diaries about the necessary repairs to keep everyone alive, noting Fontaine’s deft manipulation of the forgotten working class of Rapture, and correctly surmising that the place will fragment into civil war.
All fantasy aside, Rapture has exactly the same problems as every state on earth, because Ryan’s vision did nothing to address them. Unregulated businesses grow corrupt (the Fisheries show you Ryan considered murdering your economic competitor was fair play), science produces weaponry at horrific immoral cost, the rich employ every advantage to protect their assets, the government swings openly hypocritical and through all this, the people at the bottom of that chain, the workers, the ones picking up rubbish and keeping the toilets flushing, are pushed into slums until they hit breaking point and resort to violence.
You could see it as an indictment of society, human nature, or of politics, but as Ryan makes sure we know Rapture is his to make, share and destroy, I say it’s his overblown libertarianism and infantile grasp of human worth. His radical self-serving agenda played out exactly how Bill predicted, humbling the autocrat beneath the plain sight of the maintenance guy.
You can find an audio log early in the game where a guy who owns a theatre complains to the bar owner next door that the wall’s come down between the auditorium and the connecting toilet and the smell is distracting the patrons. It encapsulates the conflict you wade through; socialites complain that their brand new architectural marvel is falling to bits, and the only part that bothers them is the embarrassment of keeping up appearances. The most vitally important thing in Rapture was keeping it structurally sound at the bottom of the sea, but this got dismissed as grunt work by up-and-comers striving to climb the social ladder who forgot to check their proconceived notions of snobbery at the bathysphere. All the problems of the surface followed them down there to echo unexamined in the depths, and then: plasmids. Exaggerating the power imbalance that was already entrenched in Rapture and had dragged it into an unsustainable state even before someone lit the match or threw bees out of their arm.
