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Kyle Gordon - Planet of the Bass (feat. DJ Crazy Times & Ms. Biljana Electronica)

I've been scream laughing at this for several days

the first time i ever saw this video it made me spit out my drink all over my desk which is somewhat ironic considering the content of this video

When the Arizona Iced Tea hits

Someone add a gif i'm on mobile

Atlas Technical Project Manager:

“Atlas is no longer involved [in Cop City]…because you guys are fucking nightmares and you broke all of our fucking windows”

Ahahahah, I thought this was paraphrased but that is a direct quote.

Direct action works.

:3

inspirational

we can argue about queer rep in media until the heat death of the universe (and we will!) but u gotta admit: when someone says ‘the gay pirate show’ or ‘the gay vampire show’ or ‘the cartoon with the girlfriends with magic powers’ and you have to say “which one?” it feels pretty good

i always forget obama has a brother who really fucking hates him until he does stuff like this

Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

Modern writing advice: Yes your protagonist should have flaws but ultimately we should root for them and like them from the beginning :)

Charles Dickens: Here is the worst ugliest rudest meanest nastiest bitch you’ve ever met in your life.

Modern writing advice: Make sure your POV character goes through a significant arc! Make sure they are changed by the narrative! Make sure they learn a lesson!

Narrators of every book of the 19th century: the lesson I learned is these people fucking suck, sayonara you freaks

Modern writing advice: It’s all about the character overcoming obstacles and learning! They learn their lesson so they can fix their mistakes and make good choices in the future! It’s a character arc! It’s called growth! Readers love it!

Everyone from ancient times through the 19th century: would you like to watch a Guy fuck up twenty times in a row

I've been thinking about something about the 40k universe and how the various races handle trans people.

And honestly?

I think the race to handle it the worst are the tau, the tau already canonically do a bunch of eugenics shit, controlling repopulation. So I don't think they'd allow you to transition because for the greater good you have to pop out children or something nasty like that.

I think even the imperium are better about it, like yea sure you can transition. But it's gonna take years to get anything done due to beaurocracy.

The various eldar factions would consider it art or another form of indulgence, so they'd think it's neat.

And for chaos? Both slaanesh and tzeentch are gonna be popping off if you try to transition, they're gonna duke it out to get you. They're gonna give you the sickest dick or clit in the whole galaxy, and they'll be damn proud of it. Heck they'll even let you get really fucky with your gender.

The necrons already are robots, so they've had to collectively grabble with what gender really is, so it shouldn't be an issue.

The orks obviously don't know what sex or gender is, so that's a moot point.

And the tyranids are literally just insects bred to kill and or die, I don't think they know gender either.

I don't know enough about the votann to really have an opinion of their transgender healthcare but I bet it's better than the imperium

so what you're saying is that in order to have like a cooler gender than just male or female, you gotta do a sick trick or like a warcrime?

I mean that would for sure make it so they have some real NB baddies

Star Trek is so funny. All of starfleet is so aggressively Neutral Good. Every time they're up against something they Always do the noble thing. Every one of these motherfuckers is so ready to jump on the grenade. It's so cute I love them

Starfleet officers come out of the academy with 2 things: a passion for science bordering on sexual and an incomprehensible desire for self-sacrifice

I love how this is like, acknowledged in lore, too. Like, the reason Starfleet is so full of these bozos is because it's a big non-profit where you get to Do Science and Be Noble. So only people who want to Do Science and Be Noble join up. The organization has a reputation for producing the most moralistic greater-good-loving yuppies in the galaxy. It's a straight-up hero factory. You love to see it

I bet vulcan ships gossip about how starfleet officers can't go a day without volunteering for a life-threatening mission before they start climbing the walls looking for enrichment

sending them on dangerous missions is actually a safety measure, otherwise they start tinkering with the warp drive, and you end up as salamanders

Or start tampering with subspace rifts and end becoming a galaxy-shattering vocal ensemble

It's a post scarcity society! At least, for the core Federation planets.

So what happens when your healthy, happy citizens (numbered in the trillions) runs out of things to do? You can only learn so many obscure skills, study so much art & philosophy, consume so much media before boredom sets in.

Time to explore!

Send those obnoxious grown-ass "I'm bored, mom" kiddos off to Starfleet to see the galaxy!

And the really super-intense ones end up on starships.

Penetration is a gender-neutral act. Topping is gender-neutral. Bottoming is gender-neutral. You are not more or less of a man or a woman depending on how you fuck. You are not “fake trans” for having sex a certain way. You are not any less masculine for bottoming or any less feminine for topping.

Additionally, acting like being penetrated is an act of submission is deeply rooted in misogynistic, cisheteronormative ideas of sexual intercourse, as in "penetration is something that is done to women for the sexual gratification of the man, nothing more, therefore it is inherently degrading and feminine".

A cishet man getting pegged by his cishet girlfriend is not gay, he's not less of a man or submissive by default. A cishet man getting pegged by his cishet girlfriend can be sexually dominant and simply likes to be fucked in his ass - these two can co-exist. Yet, in the eyes of cishet society, a man that likes to have his ass played with, must enjoy it because it's "degrading" , not because it simply feels good.

That's why I so heavily preach about the difference between sub/dom/switch and bottom/top/vers. Penetration can be used to increase the feeling and severity of a power dynamic, but it doesn't create one. These two things are entirely separate from eachother, unless connected willingly.

It's also! Not a personality type.

You can't "tell" who is or is not a top or bottom (or a dom or a sub) by their personality. It's not. Stop that. It's weird.

Someone being, looking, or dressing feminine? Not indicitive of their sexual preference. Someone being shy, introverted or people pleasing? Not indicitive of their sexual preference.

"They're such a bottom," is a really weird and fucking creepy phrase.

And yes, if you call someone by sexual terms without their permission that counts as sexual harassment! Stop it.

i think some people reaction's towards gale also like... has a lot to do with how fandom perceives redemption, which has increasingly become in a more negative light in recent years. there's so much talk about "x character doesn't deserve redemption because they did the bad thing" but it's like... at what point does that become too extreme?

because what gale did was shitty, yes. but his punishment was to isolate himself from society while slowly dying with a bomb in his chest. and when he's told that he needs to die to redeem himself, he readily accepts it. at no point does he blame anyone but himself for his mistake, and he accepts his impending doom pretty gracefully.

and i've been in fandom for a long time. i've seen how fans treat morally flawed characters, characters who make huge mistakes, villainous characters who try to turn their ways around. there's a very weird push back against it from a certain crowd. and what's interesting about gale is he's one of those characters who we meet AFTER he committed his big sin. he's been living in penance for it. he's accepted the punishment, he's willing to die, he even says that mystra is in the right. he makes no excuses for himself.

and yet that's still not redemptive enough for some people. he's still an asshole who deserves death. idk, i feel like sometimes i'm playing a different game lmao.

people writing gale off because they assume he's an asshole wizard who's going to betray you................. this is not dragon age, go away.

More,,,

i think the red grail would like sylvian's marriage of the flesh ritual

A collection

Honestly games that start like this are one of the genders of all time

I see this shit in my dreams fr

I've probably gushed about this before. Cultism is not a perfect game. It is difficult to get into, and in many ways it actively hinders the player's efforts to figure out how to succeed and even to understand what the point of the game is. But if the player commits to it, I think Cultsim is one of the most successful examples I've ever seen of a game truly immersing the player in their role. As you play the game you are constantly seeing little scraps of flavor text like the one in the intro above, with crazy-sounding nonsense about things with names like The Wolf Divided and The Barrowchild and how one must yearn for unholy mysteries and follow the ascent of knives and feel the flutter of the moth grip your soul etc etc.

Except that after you've stayed up all night soaking yourselves in this sort of occult nonsense and your eyes are bleary and bloodshot a sort of magic-eye picture starts to form from this cryptic gibberish, and when your character dreams of a ridged door formed from blood-streaked horn guarded by a giant golden head with a massive jaw, and the head asks you "where is the queen who was not born?" it MAKES SENSE. You know the answer to the riddle, because you have spent hours seeing bits and pieces of the Secret Histories, you have read The Book Of The Centipede, you can answer with a piece of yourself and pass on to the Painted River and travel deeper into the Mansus.

Playing the game puts you in the headspace of being a paranoid obsessive cultist combing through forgotten tomes in the darkness, hoping to find a scrap of knowledge in all the flood of cryptic fluff. When you succeed, it's because you spent too much time and loosened your own sanity enough for all these eldritch ramblings to form a connection. And in that moment you as a player grasp the occult lore and use it to your own ends. I've never played a game that blurred the line between player and character as well as Cultsim does.

This game perfect create the cosmic horror feeling of taking the first irreversible step into a world you don't and can't understand. For a character in a story it might be finding an old book, or a strange artifact, or hearing a confusing string of words. For me, it was looking up a name on the wiki. I've been obsessed with this game for years, and I still can't find a way to adequately describe it to someone else.

It's been years honestly but it's still sending me how in Cultist Simulator one of the core concepts in the setting is basically how it's a crime against reality to be straight.

Like, you can't be straight, if you're straight the dude needs to be pegged and only pegged, castration might even be necessary, because if they ever fuck the woman will get 100% pregnant which will lead to her committing "The Crime of the Sky," hence why everyone in the Mansus is gay.

Also love how you get to meet the only MILFs in the setting and they are all positively unhinged one way or the other and decided to start, like, a cult to be unhinged together and maybe help some idiot get their Messiah to ascend to Hourhood once in a while. Just because they're bored.

So true. Weather Factory genuinely decided a piece of the lore would be “two people had straight sex and then murdered their child and they ruined it for the rest of you!!!” like an elementary school teacher ending recess early because a kid pooped in the slide. I love them for it.

I'm lactose intolerant but I think I can still have these 2 pints of ice cream, 8 milkshakes, 12 chocolate puddings, 27 bowls of mac n cheese and suck the teat of this cow relatively unharmed

it hurds

Hold on, let me look something up real quick

Yeah this is funny

Part of the Nature, Crisis, Consequence exhibit at the New-York Historical Society Museum and Library. It's on until July 16th of 2023!