That's right we're doing this bit again

Today's Card Is: Urza, Prince of Kroog

ghost trick rules, man.

i could tell you a billion funny lines or moments from the game out of context. i could tell you about the charmingly strange cast and stellar character design. i could tell you about the only buttons being "ghost" and "trick." i could tell you about twists that'd make your jaw drop to the floor, though that wouldn't be very fun to have spoiled.

but you know the realest draw that i rarely see people actually talk about? ghost trick has an incredible mystery!

the game starts with a question that isn't answered until the very end. but along the way, you do learn every single piece of information you'd need to figure it out yourself. the same is true of the smaller mysteries that pop up throughout the game, each of them presenting questions and then solutions that add more clues to your central mystery.

all of the game's logic is self-contained. all the information you need is said right to you - and yet, most often, people playing blind don't realize the answers until a few seconds before they're explained. the game presents you the same scenes over and over, but each time, you learn something new that completely recontextualizes what you've seen. the game will never make fun of you for not getting it, and on the other end of things, it's pretty rare (even on a replay where you know everything!) to feel like "what the hell, why aren't they realizing [x]?!" because generally, if you're able to piece something together, so are the characters, and they'll usually ask for relevant information the first chance they get.

the mystery is absurd, but as i said, perfectly self-contained. probably every single chapter gives you at least one key piece of information about the central mystery, even if you won't always realize it right away. funny throw-away lines have meaning. characters will do things that make you go "huh, i guess that was just for plot convenience" that turn out to have legitimate and relevant reasons of their own. ghost trick is a "don't look anything up before you play" game for many reasons.

play ghost trick!!!

you know what we can disability-code more of them. new timeline sissel who struggles to keep his fur clean without any sensation to cue him to when it's dirty and has to rely on help from his human family to stay well-groomed

horrible news: you have to practice to level up your skills because it's unrealistic to think you'll be good at everything first try

this applies to unlearning things like shame and creating better coping mechanisms and forming new habits

I remember when I first watched this show, I played this part at least 5 times

Narrator: “Water. Unlike other cats, long-haired Persians need regular baths to keep their luxurious coats healthy and fluffy. Reginald doesn’t care if he has a prize-winning coat. He just wants the ordeal to be over.”

Reginald: *meows in distress*

Narrator: Unfortunately for Reggie, there’s one last step. He’s about to learn that getting wet is nothing – compared to getting dry.”

♫ TRIUMPHANT FANTASY MUSIC ♪

@captioned-vines​

You will be randomly assigned a NightWing name. Spin this wheel for your prefix (first part of your name) and then spin this wheel for your suffix (second part of your name).

(I got the name Marveladvisor... It's tolerable)

thinkin about a baby of my acquaintance & how when her parents are hanging out & chatting, she’ll almost fully participate in the conversation–politely watching who’s talking, saying something approx the same length & tone of what her parents are saying, occasionally using a questioning cadence & looking at someone specific for an answer, laughing when they laugh–doing everything except actually using any recognizable language

this baby also once tipped me a granola bar at work. she’d been watching everyone in line very closely & when it was her parent’s turn, at exactly the right point in the transaction for a tip, she pickpocketed her mom’s granola bar & shoved it in the tip har

This baby has better social skills than me

This baby has better social skill than this entire antisocial media site.

this baby has better social skills than my baby good for her

i once took an uber driven by an eccentric older gentleman who told me about his young man’s travels in nepal. he said that in a town too small for any formal hospitality, he had been hosted overnight by a nepali family who spoke no english. he spoke no nepali. i asked what they did all night. with an air of matter of factness, he said they shared drinks and talked. “there we sat,” he said, “sipping i’m not sure what. it was white, and strong. and they’d tell me a story in nepali. didn’t get a word. but i could tell when they’d finished and we’d all laugh together. then i’d tell a story in english. they didn’t get a word. but when i finished, we all laughed together. lovely night. lovely, lovely people.” i think this baby gets it

me when i cant comprehend that different continents have different animals

the rest of the paragraph that was cut out in that screenshot literally explains the reasons behind the easter bilby and bluntly theyre minimising the impact that wild rabbits have had as an introduced species in our ecosystem.

the easter bibly was an ingenious campaign that builds in social awareness and change to an ongoing annual tradition without detracting from what that tradition represents. the choice behind it was intentional

saying Australians "don't like bunnies" because of ecological damage is like saying Americans "don't like rabies" because of the health risks. They're a major problem and the Easter Bilby rules.

happy tdov to people who don't pass or have no interest in passing, who can't pass because there is no culturally recognised category for the way they want to be recognised, who flip flop and fuck around, who can't hide their transness and have to plan their everyday around being visible, who can't signal their transness and have to come out over and over because the default presumption is intolerable, who don't have the resources yet or the knowhow or the willpower to change what they want to change, whose transness is warped by a hegemonic image of ideal transness that is almost as difficult to escape as the hegemonic image of cisness, who don't have a justification prepared for the assertion that they are trans but can no longer justify the assertion that they are not, who have a million justifications that are all surplus to the fundamental requirement (that society mandated one articulation of you and you chose another), et cetera and so forth across the world and universe forever. your version is right. don't concede.

Neurodivergent Things

[ID: a series of tweets by ADHD Jesse that read:

One of the most profound things I read in my original journey to ADHD diagnosis was what Dr Ned Hallowell calls “the cough drop sign” in his book, Driven to Distraction. I’d never felt more seen before reading this quote. It comes from one of Hallowell’s ADHD patients:

“Someone left [a cough drop] on the dashboard of our car. The other day I saw the cough drop and thought, I’ll have to throw that away. When I arrived at my first stop, I forgot to take the cough drop to a trash can. When I got back in the car, I saw it and thought, I’ll throw it away at the gas station. The gas station came and went and I hadn’t thrown the cough drop away. Well, the whole day went like that, the cough drop still sitting on the dashboard. When I got home, I thought, I’ll take it inside with me and throw it out. In the time it took me to open the car door, I forgot about the cough drop. It was there to greet me when I got into the car the next morning, Jeff was with me. I looked at the cough drop and burst into tears. Jeff asked me why I was crying, and I told him it was because of the cough drop. He thought I was losing my mind. ‘But you don’t understand,’ I said. ‘My whole life is like that. I see something that I mean to do and then I don’t do it. It’s not only trivial things like the cough drop; it’s big things, too.’”

/end ID]

Documenting what is quite possibly the best exchange I have ever seen on this website.

He will not be exiled again

I enjoy all parts of this post. The trans leash, the confusion, the heartfelt display of affection we give to our pets. The biography, the history lesson, and the morality of keeping cats indoors are all bonuses.

Hey thats me again.

Anyway guess whos 18 now!!!

Frank

This post has EVERYTHING...

Frank is a fashion-savvy gentleman. Pink would look superb against that coat, and he's figured that out even with his limited color vision.

"Thisshade of gray speans to me" - Frank, probably, when seeing pink

rejection sensitivity is so fucking lame. like boo hoo look at me i felt mildly ignored for 30 seconds and already started planning my own funeral liKE BITCH CHILL it was never that serious

me having a good happy yay day! with my Friend! suddenly. no reaction to a thing i said.

aghast, i fall to the floor. Am I the fool? The one who plays and pretends at inquisitive and interesting conversation, when of course, all I say is drivel that means little and less.

Perhaps, then, this is my fate. To be ignored. Nobody cares, of course, and anything said to the contrary was only to lessen the blow. On the contrary, it heightens the lingering sting ever-more.

I stare to the sky. Shall I give in? Is this where I die? Shall I collapse? Give up?

i am sent a litle pictur of a pokey mon! they were in the bathroom and did not see my message yet :)

im ok now!

And yet this is fleeting. Always fleeting. These rains cease, but more shall come, always. oh my god shaodw the hedegehog.

Lots of thoughts recently. Everything feels plastic.

I could go on and on about why all that AI "art" is bad. I could mention theft, lack of creativity, it's impact on the work field and environment, but countless people have already said all that. I wanted to touch on something that to me is the most utterly wrong about all of it.

Art is more than just something pretty to look at or listen to. It's therapeutic. It's a form of communication. A tool for human connection. It's a pure, human need.

Support real artists ☀️

Post-Covid with the boys

“Actually,” said Kinkajou, “there is one dragon’s magic that will still work on you.”

He glowered down at her. “You’re wrong.”

“I’m right,” she snapped back.

“Oh, really? Whose?”

She glared right back, and her scales were the color of burning strawberries. “Your own.”