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"Why don't people recognize Link in TOTK" bc everyone imagines the legendary swordsman to be built like Ganondorf and Link doesn't bother correcting anyone bc being hailed as a hero is like on the bottom of his priorities, which are topped by things like "Bake one of every pie"

Rando farmer: They say that once the noble hero of legend passed by this very village! Isn't that wonderful to imagine, genderfluid stranger?

Link, 5'6" with 2" heels and wearing a backless dress suspiciously stained with blood: no yeah that's wild

"Wouldn't they recognize him bc he's with Zelda" Everyone interacting with Zelda was like "Wow, the princess!! The princess who saved Hyrule is here, talking to us! Plus some guy with three sets of pronouns who's building a bomb but more importantly The Princess!! Wow!!"

Zelda keeps coming across spare genders she doesn't need and Link follows behind scooping them all up off the ground like a starving trash possum

Someone uses an unfamiliar pronoun around Zelda, and she hears the item pickup sound come from Link

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Today is 266 days, we are still alive. 🇵🇸🍉

Please don't skip! 🙏🏻🥺

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PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DONATE TO THIS FAMILY

Mahmoud is a friend of mine, i've been talking to him for a while now, and they have my utmost confidence. Additionally, they're vetted by @90-ghost.

Mahmoud is still weak after donating blood to his niece Eileen, and now his other niece suffers from the same condition.

Please, please donate. If you have a regular income, you KNOW you're gonna get paid at the end of the month. I don't know if my friend is going to be alive by tomorrow, as the bombing never stops. If you CAN'T donate, then just SHARE IT. Make the effort of talking to people, tag your mutuals, be active.

crazy how 4 hours of work will literally take up my entire 15+ hour day. who allowed this

we live in a society etc

the big takeaway from this post and the fact that so many people relate to it is that, if a shift only 4-5 hours long is already exhausting enough to require an entire day of mental recovery, we NEED to abolish the 8 hour workday, to say nothing of shifts any longer than that

no, the big takeaway from this post is that you people don't dream big enough

A Strange Sadness As Dusk Falls

WHAT

Pusheen is married?!?

PUSHEEN HAS BABIES?!?!?

Queen Of Keeping Personal And Professional Lives Seperate

SINCE WHEN IS PUSHEEN A GIRL

an absolute queen. her birthday is febuary 18th

she's Irish

Pusheen fucks

DO NOT DO THIS!!!

If a website has a paywall, like New York Times, DO NOT use the ctrl+A shortcut then the ctrl+c shortcut as fast as you can because then you may accidentally copy the entire article before the paywall comes up. And definitely don't do ctrl+v into the next google doc or whatever you open because then you will accidentally paste the entire article into a google doc or something!!!! I repeat DO NOT do this because it is piracy which is absolutely totally wrong!!!

Also do NOT append "12ft.io/" before a URL ! Typing an URL like this https://12ft.io/<URL> will redirect to a site that would break the display of the page by removing the paywall !

Honestly it's kind of prohibited to mash CTRL+P before some paywall windows can load in to get a PDF of the article. Really shouldn't be done tbh very dangerous🤷🏿‍♂️ ❌️

it is, i think, symptomatic of the way larian has built this brand: bg3 was always marketed as being mature (read: sexual), and that was one of the big draws for players - myself included! especially as media pulls more towards extremes, with mainstream video games starting to get increasingly graphically sexual, graphically violent, and the vogue for 'grey morality' becomes the norm, those boundaries get pushed, and it becomes more and more of a selling point.

larian obviously focused on this, along with the How Do You Do, Fellow Kids brand, the increased accessibility of game devs on twitter, and adopted it heavily into their marketing strategy, and are now pretty reliant on the horny gamer crowd for a lot of their audience, and more importantly, they're doing this on purpose.

which is how you end up in situations like this.

characters (white men) the players want to fuck get centred: they get updates, they get more content, they get favoured. halsin's gone from a side character in EA to a half-fledged romance option, to a full romance option: he shows up in the promotional material, is larian's poster boy for the sex scenes, he gets more content with every update.

now gortash gets more heavily implied situationship lines with the dark urge, because players are horny for him. nevermind that some people aren't playing that way, or that he was originally set up to be a lower-level antagonist; nevermind that if the durge's storyline needed expansion, it should've been with orin and sarevok and bhaal, or that it muddies the writing for the rest of gortash's arc + characterisation: people want to fuck him, so it gets put in the game. it's not even to do with karlach, whose quest so desperately needs expansion! it's specifically catering to the people who want their character to have a Relationship with the slaver, because they're either not interested in or not able to focus on strengthening the weak spots in the narrative: they're just doing things that will net the 'my favourite dating sim' people lmfao.

meanwhile, literal main character wyll gets his quest demoted to a subquest, doesn't get bugfixes, doesn't get a single unique romance greeting after 6 patches and months of requests. he's not a Horny character, so he doesn't get the focus: he's not a player favourite, so he gets nothing. it's just... so unbelievably, indisputably racist, and it's incredibly grim and disappointing to watch it happen in real-time.

[SEL] "no matter where you go, we're all connected"

[Utena] a single perpetual motion machine

WHY DOES THE FATE/EXTRA CCC PATCHER PLAY "MY HEART WILL GO ON" WHAT THE FUCK

revenge

it’s the hunger games renaissance so i just want to remind everyone that donald sutherland (who played president snow) was on a cia watchlist for anti-war activities. he fully understood the role and message of the books and in an interview literally said “he runs a totalitarian state, he’s an oligarch- we have them here” during an interview.

I need white people to stop making “where can I adopt a child” posts whenever there’s a war or tragedy in the global south. We don’t need white people, of all people, to take these children away from their countries, culture, and heritage. Go adopt children from your own country. We don’t need that white saviour complex bullshit here.

from naoki urasawa’s pluto

while this was a commentary on the american forces in iraq, this feels very relevant still. the use of an elusive mostly imaginary target gives them an excuse to exact violence upon civilian life

take my money and make this anime so that I can go to more cons and see more miraculous art in artist alley to spend more money on.