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Stephen King’s Fujo

#middle aged dude from maine goes out to the woods to try and cure his writer's block#finds himself booked in the same cabin with another middle aged due from maine trying to cure HIS writer's block#when they try and sort out the error it becomes increasingly evident that something in the woods is stopping them from leaving#a shadow between the trees. a whisper in the darkness. eyes felt but not seen#the cabin has three bedrooms at the start but first one bedroom and then the other just... disappears#the walls start to close in#temperatures begin to drop#as the stress of the situation begins to break down the barriers between the two men the entity in the woods watches#and waits - tag story via @sunderwight

“Why would you stop in hell?” has changed my brain chemistry

Something I really struggle to get people to understand is that like. Sometimes there was no intentional homoerotic subtext, the author was just extremely misogynistic. Sometimes the author wasn't "secretly shipping" those two men, the author literally just hates women so much that they see them as being literally incapable of relationships with depth. Like this is kind of a big thing with misogyny actually. A lot of extremely misogynistic people truly believe that a man can only have meaningful and complex relationships with other men because they literally just think women are so inferior they only exist to birth children and clean the house. It's like when people say along the lines of "no one worships exclusively men quite like straight men do". It's just that phenomenon actually. That happens to be manifesting in a raging misogynist's writing. Writing a man character who literally only puts effort into his friendships with other men while completely ignoring his literal girlfriend or wife is actually an extremely straight thing to write. And that doesn't mean you can't ship those men or that there are no stories with actual intentional homoerotic subtext. I just think it's important to be able to recognize extreme misogyny in writing and acknowledge it without brushing it off and assuming good intentions when literally all evidence is screaming that this was a misogynistic writing choice and not a representing gay men choice.

This game uses only six-sided dice because polyhedrons are a bourgeois indulgence.

The CVS rule. Dice, Poker Chips. Playing Cards, Index Cards. and pencils. That's what you get.

Designing the most annoyingly esoteric game I possibly can using only materials that can be obtained from the local drugstore's "games" shelf for under twenty bucks total and ending up with something where basic conflict resolution involves an Uno deck, a standard 28-piece dominoes set, and an off-brand pocket size Battleship grid.

Someone misplaces a bottle of advil and you get halfway to Twilight Imperium.

Oh by the way if you use they/them for someone who has explicitly told you not to, it's still misgendering even if you think you're being woke about it

EXCUSE ME but we're too busy making water look hyper realistic and redesigning our Fan's Favorite Character, White Man with Long Whitish Blonde Hair and Edgelord Tendencies Bordering on Bigot #15373, so we're a little booked, sweetie. AND our printer ran out of ink, so we can't afford to make good dark skinned Black people, they HAVE to be gray or we can't pay our workers. You want our workers to starve?? You're making it where people won't want diversity, you're the TRUE problem!

DON’T LEAVE IT OPEN IT’S GOING TO ESCAPE!!

the fantasy lesbian adventurer is immune to the seductive evil sorceress's feminine wiles because she's butch4butch

this is exactly why any evil sorceress worth her salt keeps a towering knightgirl in gleaming black armor "on retainer"

well it's one of two reasons anyway

i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

what nobody tells you about weekends is that it’s already monday