Mm.. cozy..

obviously there’s nothing morally wrong with the projectionist lens through which a large portion of fandom operates but it does get kind of tiring to constantly feel like. hey guys what if we stopped talking about ourselves and instead talked about the character

and of course a degree of projectionism can be a very useful lens in certain circumstances, such as having unique insight into a character who shares certain aspects of your own experiences. but at the end of the day you still gotta recognize that there are going to be aspects of them that diverge from yourself

Not to be like "OP this is just [popular thing that doesn't actually match the description]," but Dredge is a cosmic horror game about fishing while stealthily evading The Horrors and solving puzzles, where if you decide to be a completionist, it does end up being "cozy" in the same way that Webfishing is cozy, because the monsters are actually remarkably easy to avoid.

On the one hand, i’m amused at the joke. On the other hand, I’m a librarian and this shelving is horrifying.

Well, no shelving system is without fault.

stfu

does anyone have the faggot crisis in the grocery store tweet i need it for my health and wellness

“But North Korea has a cult of personality” and we depict our founding fathers as angel-like beings blessed with the divine vision of a great nation built on earth that will spread its light to all corners. Like literally. We painted that on the ceiling of our capital building.

Everclear is what we have instead of universal healthcare.

straight playing gay shouldn't really be controversial because really 90% of gay men want nothing more than to see a straight actor fake get fucked in the ass. So who started this this discourse

Writing by an unrealized trans woman is hilarious because all the female characters get these hyper-detailed descriptions with sophisticated terminology and then the inexplicably male main character walks onto the scene with a sentence like, “He had brown hair and was wearing a t-shirt. He leaned against the wall with his arms crossed.”

important inversion of the first: praxis without theory is disconnected from reality and from the masses

what doesnt kill you makes you go out walking on sunny days until you end up on a tree-lined street where you can look up at the gaps of sunlight and realise you miss them more than anything

Pro Publica followed up on this by contacting Joseph Mercola, one of the major shithead snake oil guys who previously told people to avoid the vitamin K shot, and this situation has gotten so bad that Mercola actually released a statement walking back his previous anti-vitamin K position and telling his followers to please get the shot. which is great, maybe hes growing as a person, and it will save lives, but jesus christ things have to have gotten dire for MERCOLA to be changing course on this