You can write anything you can get away with

One popular take on "deconstructions" of children's media I'll push back on is the idea that talking about how fucked up it is that a bunch of kids have to save the world is inherently pandering to adult audiences. Kids love it when kids' media is about how fucked up it is to be a kid who has to save the world – you've just gotta not be condescending about it.

Holy shit the previous game was in Cyrodiil that’s why Ataxia is a problem there

I woke up to 99+ notes and never in my life did I think the Ataxia post would circulate again.

this post makes me feel patriotic

we need to periodically remind everyone that a headline not including a person's name isn't an attempt to erase their identity from the narrative, it's just not good practice to put someone's name in a headline unless the reader can be expected to already know who they are

and the name is usually in the first 3 lines of text in an article.

Amazing moments in Dads: my friend’s dad’s critique of Frankenstein was, “I just don’t think the author had read science fiction before.”

I get that there’s a lot of annoying and/or straight up bad people that are obsessed with the Roman Empire but I’m not gonna stop my personal lifelong obsession with it because the assholes don’t get to own the concept of being interested in history

This is how I felt coming into adulthood finding out that people who like learning about World War 2 tend to be loud, annoying, and off putting about it.

Once you've learned to spot the historical signposts, it's interesting how many "generically medieval" fantasy settings manage to miss the actual medieval period on both ends. They've got the Roman Empire rubbing shoulders with the German Renaissance, skipping directly from the year 500 to the year 1500 with nothing in between!

It's always fun when an author claims their work contains no politics, because either they're blatantly lying, or they genuinely think they're telling the truth and you get a lot of insight into what assertions about human nature they regard as so obviously and self-evidently true as to lie outside the political sphere.

This is the book equivalent of "England is scary because it's old and America is scary because it's vast."

just saw a pigeon doing the puffed up courtship dance thing to another pigeon, and as he was strutting around he suddenly stopped for a split second to do a very brief preen-peck at his own side, then returned to the strutting around. and i surprised myself by instantly losing respect for the male pigeon in that moment, like come on man i appreciate you had an itch or whatever but how is she supposed to feel special when you're getting distracted by bullshit like that? which on reflection i don't endorse, i mean those are pretty harsh dating norms i'm imposing on these pigeons, from a total outsider perspective, for no reason. probably not all girl pigeons are as uptight about that sort of thing as i would apparently be if i was a girl pigeon, maybe she even found it endearing who knows, i don't know her. it's none of my business really. sorry pigeons.

When a red pilled Alpha Pigeon says on his first podcast episode

The world has stopped spinning. People wake up one day to the sun high in the sky and they sleep that day with the sun in the same position.

everyone is killed instantly by the force from being launched by the earth Break Checking us into oblivion.

You are break-checked into space, inertia your enemy as always. As you are swallowed by oblivion, you see the face of a god you never believed in.