Mind Grafitti

They’ve occasionally messed up in the game, and the backlash at the time was really embarrassing to behold. (Or sometimes they didn’t mess up at all, but they did something unpopular and the backlash was also embarrassing. Like when Molly died and everyone was accusing Matt of queerbaiting and homophobia for it??)

But it’s almost inevitable that one of them will eventually fuck up outside of the game. And do something questionable, or say something that reveals a questionable mindset no one realized, or so on. It’s going to happen someday. Not that I WANT this to happen, but they’re human beings. No human being is perfect or flawless all the time.

Literally no one who follows me is going to know what this means, but HBomberguy, a Youtuber known for Video Essays about pop culture and gaming made a promise that he would live stream himself playing Donkey Kong 64, in its entirety (including picking up every single banana) and all money would go to a UK charity for trans youth (Mermaids) and his initial goal was $3,000 and now it’s been 26 hours into the stream and he’s already over $51k. I just need people to know about this https://m.twitch.tv/hbomberguy

so the national lottery here in the uk donates a bit of their money to a few designated charities, so basically every time you buy a lottery ticket some of that £2 or £3 goes towards charity. mermaids just so happens to be one of those charities and of course, a lot of people are not happy about that. more on that later

for those who don’t know already mermaids are a brilliant bunch. it was founded by a woman with a trans daughter (she made a ted talk about it here) and it helps trans kids who are looking to transition, trans kids who have unsupportive parents or may have even been kicked out, and has resources for the parents of trans kids and places like schools on how they can support a trans student/worker

enter graham linehan. he wrote a few shows like father ted and the it crowd. he’s also notorious for being incredibly transphobic and never shutting up about his hatred for trans people on his twitter.

so, what did he do? well, with his army of mumsnet dwellers, he got them all to spam the lottery with about a fuckton of emails telling them to stop funding Mermaids. not because they want them to think of the children, but rather they want them to stop thinking about the children. and in all their can-i-speak-to-the-manager-hair glory, they got the lottery to reconsider their grant.

mr hbomberguy (you may know him as the man behind hits such as Sherlock Is Garbage (and here’s why), and Fallout 3 Is Garbage (and here’s why)) sees this, thinks “graham what the everliving fuck” and also thinks “oh yeah i never finished donkey kong 64” which is where we are now.

so his goal is to 101% donkey kong 64. which, to my knowledge, takes around 33-36 hours to do. at the time of writing this he has had one sleep break and has just started another

may i also note the 10k goal was to erase graham linehan from existence

in short, fuck graham linehan

I was beating my meat

I heard someone knock

So I pulled up the sheet.

“Santa himself!” I said right quick.

“You’ve been naughty, and I want your dick.”

I was self-conscious but I knew this was right.

They need to demonize their foes overtly and in the most cartoonish ways possible to smooth over their own casual cruelty and failure to live up to their God’s message of peace and love.

It ties into the whole “War on Christmas” which is basically PTSD from European persecutions of non-dominant religious sects which could be linked back to Nero, but more likely stems from the Protestant Reformation.

Ironically, what they really want is to bring that sort of BS here just with them as the dominant power.

“Passing into Legend”

At last, I bid a final and bittersweet farewell to my half-orc chef, giant-slayer, and Fey hunter Mathayus Saffron, who traveled the multiverse in search for the ultimate meal. Four seasons have passed since he entered the Feywild and encountered his destiny: he and his new companions would save the Prime Material Plane from utter destruction!

[Artwork by the talented Sherwinmay Bustos! PLZ SUPPORT HER WORK!]

Part 1: Countdown to Calamity

As a final meal, the gastronomist prepared mushroom risotto paired with pan-fried cockatrice breast. The rice dish was deglazed with holy wine blessed by Draken, a glamorous champion of the Platinum Dragon Bahamut, and imbued us with divine favor as well as divine flavor! For dessert, the mighty archdruid Dani provided a batch of goodberries with which Mathayus crafted a delightfully sweet and tangy sherbet. This final meal would grant them the strength needed to face down their adversary, who sought to bring ruin upon all of creation.

Part 2: The Dragon Armageddon

With stomachs filled with food and hearts steeped in courage, the party faced down the calamity known as Armageddon. Ourcumulative trials through the Feywild, Underdark, and Astral Sea led us to this final desperate confrontation with a malicious time dragon that wish to undo all life. With a sweep of its massive wings it could displace us in space and time. Its breath weapon utterly destroyed all that lay before it. And it casted reality-altering magics that relentlessly tore away at our bodies and minds. But we endured, stayed true, and fought fiercely. We raged against inevitability and impossibility, carving out hard-earned minor victories against the gargantuan foe, but our efforts were in vain. Each of the wounds we inflicted were undone swifter than we could keep up. Despair began to set in…

Part 3: The End of All Things

A ray of hope came shining through, pulling us closer to the finish line. With the power of our mortal allies, the combined might of the Timekeerers, and the full wrath of the Summer Court Archfey, we brought the beast to heel. Armageddon was bound by the most powerful of all time magics in conjunction with the highest echelon primal seals. In a fit of desperation, the creature flung itself and the party into a future that would come to pass, if we failed. The world had been torn asunder, with only ashen ruin in all directions. The world would be a lifeless husk, eventually crumpling into nothingness. On the shores of oblivion, we held our last stand against the world-eater.

Part 4: Fearless

Three times did Armageddon parlay with the party. Thrice it attempted to twist our minds into complying with its horrific agenda. And each time, we refuted and refused it with a burning fury. Bloodied but not beaten, Mathayus Saffron declared “YOU ARE A COWARD!” and allowed his blood to boil. He chanted the orcish war-chant “We rise!” as he LITERALLY WALKED ACROSS AN OPEN LAVA STREAM TOWARDS HIS FOE without taking any damage.

Part 5: Against the Dying Light

With the world collapsing all around them, the party unleashed their final reserves against the foe. In one last climatic clash, the beast was torn asunder by our unshakable will, and finally met its end under the shimmering steel of our paladin’s greatsword. Against all odds, we had stopped the end of the world. With this future now an impossibility, we were quickly warped back to the present, and were greeted by a brighter and more hopeful future.

[The above epic music playlist can be found here!]

Part 6: There and Back Again

At the end of the adventure, I barely recognize my boy. When he first hit the road, he was a brash, impulsive, and gluttonous youth who had little regard for life, including his own. He spoke only broken Orc-glish and lived in self-imposed exile. He entered the Feywild in order to hunt and devour whatever he wanted, environmental or spiritual damage be damned. But by the end, he had achieved his dream, and found some new ones along  the way. Now he was a world-traveler, master chef, titanslayer, dragonrider, a guardian of the Feywild, and a family man.

Bowser Peach/Princess Bowser/Bowsette is a concept evolved from the trailer for New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe (thats a mouthful of a title that makes no sense since its on the switch) where Toadette is a playable character.

When Toadette gets a new item called a Super Crown

She turns into Peachette, which made people speculate as to whether Peach is even human or just an evolved form of toad.

A few days later this comic appeared by twitter user @ayyk92 

The idea here being that anyone who gets the Super Crown will become a Princessified version of themselves.

This has sparked a lot of fanart of this particular version of bowser, some appearing like this and others where she has red hair and dark skin.

I need to prove a point.

Like if your definition of “Spork” is this:

Reblog if your definition of “Spork” is this:

We can’t edit posts in a meaningful way. A post is just a snapshot moment in time, unmoored from the timeline by a lack of timestamp, which can take off with reblog upon reblog, with added commentary utterly decontextualizing it. But any edits or clarifications added by the OP are left behind, unless you dig through the post notes (which most people will not). Followups are lost. 

And because of that, we don’t have any concept of time passed or the potential for growth. 

All we witness is an idea by an individual in a single moment, separated from the context of any conversation or event that idea may have been responding to, or the person’s background and character, or changes in their thoughts over time and their capacity for growth. And this all feeds right into this fucked up notion tumblr has that human beings are somehow static; that a bad take from 2008 means someone HAS to be a monster in 2018. That redemption or atonement or the ability to evolve as a person is somehow a scam. 

And that’s so fucked up. People are not static. We are not screenshots and receipts. We are not a paragraph floating around on the internet, bounced from reblog to reblog like a piece of driftwood buffeted by a storm, dredged up periodically from the depths to circulate again. We change. 

We grow. 

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