oh okay they just randomly changed the app’s layout for no reason. this is fine. im okay with this. im sending the vipers.
On November 7, 2024, Denmark used a racist, culturally biased "parenting competency" test to remove a 2 hour old baby, Zammi, from her loving indigenous Greenlandic Inuit mother, Keira, because her native language, which uses minute facial expressions to communicate, will not be able to "[prepare] the child for the social expectations and codes that are necessary to navigate in Danish society." This test had been recommended not to be used at the federal level before this happened but certain municipalities, including the one this happened in, chose to continue to use it regardless. Not only is this blatantly racist but also violates multiple declarations and conventions that Denmark has signed that protect the rights of indigenous people.
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Rosemary? You mean spicy pine needles?
Are you insinuating that regular pine needles aren’t spicy???
Regular pine needles are regular
Not by rosemary standards
…Have you eaten pine needles?
We’ve been friends for like four years, do you seriously have to ask if I’ve eaten pine needles or not
I mean I’m pretty sure you have but I don’t want to assume
Of course I’ve eaten pine needles. Various kinds. Singleleaf pinyon is weirdly the best
Are they…
You know, I’d love to tell you but I’m pretty unclear about what marks the difference between “spice” and “strong-tasting plant that isn’t considered a spice”
I’ll have to eat some pine needles myself then to find out
Ok but it only counts if they’re PINE needles and not just any old needle-like leaf off a tree
I’m going to eat every needle-like leaf I see
Please Don’t Do That
Needle-Like Leaf Roulette
…I’ll accept this plan as long as you promise not to eat any yew leaves.
I can try very hard not to
Pine needles are distinguished by the presence of a sheath-like structure at the base of the leaf, almost always holding bundles of two or more leaves. Yews don’t have the sheath thing
It’s time for me to go out into the woods and stare at needle leaves
Finally you can gain real insight into my average daily life
this conversation reads like two shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief and then are never heard from again
god fucking dammit gimme a minute
Enter AERUH and MALUS SYL-VESTRIS, a pair of JESTERS.
AERUH I tell thee, rosemary is like a pine but with a spicy taste.
MALUS Art thou to claim that needles base of pine have not a spice?
AERUH A needle base of pine is merely base.
MALUS ‘Tis not when held, comparing, to anthos.
AERUH My dearest Malus, needles thou'st eaten?
MALUS How many moons have we as friends seen rise? How many suns have we as friends seen set? Thou sixteen seasons in my heart I’ve held, and hope that I in thine hast been the same. With brotherhood as rich and old as this, thou needst not ask me such frivolities.
AERUH I know thou likely has, to tell the truth, but I would not assume.
MALUS Well, yes, I have. A multitude of types I’ve eaten too. I’ll tell thee now: the best (though it is strange) is single-leaf pinyon.
AERUH And it has spice?
MALUS I truly wish that I could tell thee this, but now, i'faith, I cannot fully tell, the difference in classifying thus: to say “has spice” or merely “herbal strength”.
AERUH To tell this tale most clearly it would seem that eating needles from a pine’s required.
MALUS Aye, it would seem that that’s the task at hand, but caution tells that this is what’s to do: eat only needles of the honest pine, and none of lying leaf with pinelike shape.
AERUH I’ll eat them all.
MALUS I prithee, stay thyself.
AERUH Roulette with leaves.
MALUS At least restrain from yew.
AERUH I’ll do my best.
MALUS That is all can we do. The scholars tell that needles true of pine can be distinguished from the lying yew by sheathlike clothing all along the base; the yew has no such guard.
AERUH With this new truth I now will venture out into the wood and seek the pines and pinelike fakes alike to stare them down and learn their secret truths.
MALUS With this thou canst at long and weary last Discover for thyself my life’s own path.
Exeunt.
Enter MACDUFF.
MACDUFF. Yo dudes that king there’s dead. Like dead as FUCK.
get this shit in angsty emotional moodboards NOW
aye aye capn
PLEASE THIS ROCKS
STELLAR post everyone, hit da showers
i think in the end furries will always win. in whatever time it takes i think people are going to realize anthropomorphism is so deeply ingrained in us as creatures that to even invent a hatred of the concept to begin with is like hating the concept of telling stories or singing or dancing
Everybody always so bold when dunking from the other parallel dimension 😔
"Redraw tumblr post" time of the year again, based on this one specifically that i found weeks ago but I needed to do something with it hfgjdh (with the original post being on tiktok). I just love canon Blaze being absolutely ass at cooking💜
When I was in my teens, I used to make an entire magic system with 360+ unique spells, ordered in magic schools and categories, and it boggles my mind that I basically reinvented DnD mechanics, even down to metamagic.
I wanted to make a wiki about it but I don't have time for it.
The point was to try to encompass every "superpower" I could think of into a magic system.
I even got lore related to it all, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna simply reuse it all for OC worldbuilding. Ngl the fun part was naming all the spells, symbols and coming up with the logic of it all.
This is amazing I fucking love the style
i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.
there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.
anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.
- A Better World - create an alternate history timeline
- Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game
- Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet
- Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games
- Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones
- Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy
- ZenGM - simulate sports
- Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi
- IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)
- Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface
- The Cafe & Diner - mystery game
- The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game
- Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions
- Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game
- Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game
- Miniconomy - player driven economy game
- Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes
- BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators
- Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil
- Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.
if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.
since this post blew up, i've been wanting to do an addition with all of the recommendations from the comments and tags. but there's a lot of them. some people might be crazy enough to sit down and seriously put them all in one post with descriptions. those people are honestly sick in the head.
anyway, here's all of the recommendations from the reblogs. not all of them are text-based, but it's a great mixture of styles. also don't forget the links in the second paragraph of the OP which will take you to FMHY where there are a bunch more games listed.
Games
- A Dark Room - text-based science fiction role-playing game.
- corru.observer - science fiction adventure web game.
- Improbable Island - old-school text adventure game.
- Candy Box 2 - incremental clicker game that evolves into RPG.
- Arcanum - open source wizard clicker game.
- sandspiel, Powder Game, Powder Game 2, The Powder Toy - more sand physics games.
- Orb.Farm - fishtank simulator.
- Façade - experimental game with a real-time interactive narrative where you try to fix a failing marriage.
- The Catacombs of Solaris - trippy art game.
- Yume Nikki Online - online version of the surreal classic plus fangames.
- The Barncle Goose Experiment - combine element/alchemy game based on antique theories of abiogenesis.
- Fallen London - free-to-play text-based open world RPG.
- Nested - very unique text-based universe expanding game. described as possibly @orteil42's favorite thing he's ever made.
- The Process of Elimination - interactive web novel (by @hypertextdog)
- Discworld MUD - multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books.
- Horse Master - surreal text game about training a horse.
- EYEZMAZE - flash (RIP) or HTML5-based puzzle games.
- You Are Jeff Bezos - text game. spend Jeff Bezos' fortune.
- The Password Game - challenging puzzle game where you have to meet password requirements (by neal)
- Universal Paperclips - incremental paperclip making game.
- Half-Earth - planetary disaster planning game where you try to save the world using socialism.
- ChooseYourStory - community-driven website centered on CYOA style story games.
- PhD Simulator - random event based text game. make your choice each month and see if you can graduate on time.
- Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - open source roguelike.
- Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - turn-based survival roguelike set in the modern day.
- Nethack - open source roguelike originally released in 1987.
- FarmRPG - simple, mobile-friendly, text-based farming RPG.
- Kingdom of Loathing - browser-based community MMORPG.
- PokeRogue - browser-based Pokemon roguelike
Tools
- Text Game Builder - works in your browser, with just a little bit of Python (by @grumpygandalf)
- Twine - great (free!) tool for making text-based games quickly.
- Ink - scripting language for interactive fiction (also free)
- Flashpoint Archive - a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.
- PICO-8 - fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.
Non-Games
- Library of Babel - interactive illustration which attempts to simulate what it might be like to browse The Library of Babel.
- Superbad - technically not a game, sprawling website full of secrets.
- 17776 - serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative about football in the far-future. beautiful, creative, legendary. created by Jon Bois, a legend and one of my favorite writers of all time.
- Choice of Games - text-based, choose-your-own-adventure games (interactive fiction). some free-to-play, others can be bought like an ebook.
- The Deep Sea - scroll to the bottom of the ocean. encounter the humble squid and his friends (by neal)
- Space Elevator - like The Deep Sea, but up instead of down. you can equip your avatar with a scarf (by neal)
- Internet Artifacts - an interactive history of the early internet (by neal)
- If The Moon Were Only One Pixel - scroll through an accurately scaled model of the universe.
- r/incremental_games - reddit community for incremental games.
- r/WebGames - reddit community for web games in general.
thank you to everyone who contributed and the creators. please be sure to show them some love where possible.
I spent a good chunk of my weekend scrambling to finish this comic. I hope you like it. I was really trying to push myself with the colours.
You know what’s wild? This comic still gets reblogged every single day. I made it so long ago it doesn’t even feel like my own work haha. Anyways, I guess I’m glad people still like it but it’s very weird to have One Piece of Art that Doesn’t Fade.
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Years ago, you blocked me because I made a silly joke that you did not care for. Ever since I've felt a glib sense of pride every time I saw your blog be taken down and anger each time I saw your blog back up.
I'm just realizing that... That mindset is incredibly pointless. I don't like you. But I don't even know you. You're a stranger I'll never meet, yet you've occupied so much of my thoughts. That's incredibly sad.
So, I guess I'll just block you. I'll block you, and I'll move on with my life. I'll move beyond you. I'll live the entirety of my finite human life with you not occupying even an iota of my thoughts, and I hope you'll do the same for anyone that gives you grief or trouble.
I am finding peace in this. In a way, I should thank you, but mostly I should apologize. I'm sorry I made you the unwilling catalyst for my own growth as a person. I'm sorry for all the ill will I've held on against you. You're just another person having to live in this fucked up world. You're not a cartoon villain whose dartardly plans I have to foil by reporting. That's so incredibly pointless and destructive. I am genuinely, truly sorry.
I sincerely wish you the best. Goodbye.
hey anon i wish you the best in your journey to no longer being the person that you apparently are. can you send me one more anon so i can block you too? if you need inspiration feel free to just answer the question "did you just admit you've been spam reporting me in bad faith for years?"
for onlookers, i feel the need to emphasize that if this started "years ago" that's.... when i joined tumblr. like. do not get it twisted. this didn't happen because i'm a "big blog" or whatever, because this apparently predates that. this is, in fact, just how some people get about trans women they don't like. can you understand that?
treat black queers kindly and love us. that's all.
and don't add any stupid shit derailing this, this is about black queers only. make your own damn post.
please if you're going to reblog this, please reblog this addition so people get the memo along with:
listen to our voices and make us feel safe and comforted.
dont expect anything particularly funny in this post, im just bathing in nostalgia a bit
I’ve always wanted to make a cartoon with the same vibes as the kind of shows i watched as a kiddo. Ignoring the fact that I watched a wide collection of different stuff, i mean semi-obscure kids shows from the late 1990s to mid 2000s. no i did not grow up in that time period, i just watched a very strange collection of media. episodic stuff with some kinds wacky twist, the MC having magic powers or a fantastical location. I think all my OCs have inadvertently been kinda converging on fitting into this kind of world
if i had to point out some notable influences, stuff like Wow Wow Wubbzy, Justin Time, Mixels (especially Mixels), would be the general Vibe but the animation would be more like The Amazing World of Gumball, Wander Over Yonder, or. Mixels. I really like Mixels
this post doesnt have a punchline or ending statement i just wanted to put it out there