what gibbering madness may look like

OMG LETS GO V10!!!!

sellf insert protagonists are a blight upon all games. make them a girl and give them an actual personality

I've noticed in recent years that, at least within mainstream usamerican culture, the sympathetic petty criminal archetype has largely fallen out of favor. you still have plenty of stories of noble nights, benevolent aristocrats, sympathetic mercenaries, but the idea of a thief with a heart of gold is increasingly rare. often petty criminals are just used as uncomplicated cannon fodder, so the protagonist has something human-shaped that they can kill or mutilate without remorse. you see this with dnd players often. the wicked king or the cruel dragon can be reasoned with, but a highway bandit robbing caravans to eat is perfectly fine to torture to death with sorcery

this is no less common outside of fantasy, either. god knows how many books, films, games, about sympathetic soldiers, police, even mercenaries. sometimes they try to reckon with the inherent violence and cruelty of these careers, but they rarely have the fangs for a message sharper than "sometimes good people have to do bad things." but a thief? a mugger? god forbid, a drug dealer? uncomplicatedly evil vermin, all. again, just used as cannon fodder, purely to provide something human-shaped to hate and brutalize without conscience

there is an obvious racial angle to this, as people grow more leery towards "those people are evil and inhuman because they look different," the message shifts to "those people are evil and inhuman because they are criminals," paired with heavily biased (and significantly more publicized) criminalization of racial minorities to achieve the same goal of publicly condoned repression and violence

this fourth of july think of the indigenous people of america who had their country and land stolen from them with little to no reparations or apologies. land is still being taken. sacred grounds are still being ripped away. there is no “independence” for the people who were here first.

There's something kinda funny about how RWBY just absolutely refuses to die despite a constant stream of adversity. The first season was objectively hot garbage but it still got a second season. The creator of the series whose passion project the whole thing was passed away in a freak accident after the second season but they just kept going without him and somehow a significant portion of the fanbase went along for it. The budget got slashed in Season 5 because of gross mismanagement but no worries! The fans stuck with it and they got it back for Season 6. Then a few seasons later the entire company that's been producing it went completely tits up and we all assumed THAT would be the end but nope!!! They got bought by Viz. RWBY has now outlived both the man who dreamt it up and the company that produced it. In an era where numerous streaming shows get axed after one or two seasons despite being critical successes with large fanbases it is completely baffling that a show that is so consistently troubled and infamously has an extremely mixed reception cannot be fucking ended despite all indications to the contrary. It truly is femslash Supernatural

"You are transphobic" as an argument by itself is a lot weaker than "You are demonstrably, unambiguously wrong about this issue. You have reached an incorrect conclusion despite having all the information needed to be correct, because you'd rather be transphobic than right."

I think the main obstacle to this approach is that nobody on the right even pretends to give a shit about facts, logic, the truth or material reality anymore. They all seem to have collectively agreed they lost on that front years ago. You can prove them wrong on the issue all you want, their response is to stick their fingers in their ears and go "lalalalala I can't here you men can't be women men can't be women men can't be women lalalalalala." And the thought leaders who push this stuff to them for personal gain are all fully aware that they're just lying, it's 100% grifters all the way down.

The right is a deeply unpopular minority that would be irrelevant if it wasn't constantly getting concessions from liberals who've been propagandized into believing that doing so is "pragmatic" and "realistic."

This is why we'd be better off shooting all the right wingers and purging the world of their filth.

i swear if this is the second stupid sword picture post i make that gets to 10k i'll just go kill someone

I saw some cishet romance the other day where a man told a woman that the diamond bracelet he got her was "a downpayment on the stars", and my god that was one of those romantic lines I've ever heard. I want a statuesque creme to say that me.