Prairie Paradox

Top: Nintendo has been proven to use the fan website The Spriters Resource to access sprites from their own games, instead of taking the sprites from their own archives. A sprite in Super Mario Maker (later even reused in Super Mario Maker 2) contains a pixel underneath Mario's mustache with a color that does not actually appear in Super Mario World. However, that exact color appeared in a sheet submitted to that site that was up in 2013-2015, at the time of the game's development.

Since the only way we know Nintendo used fanmade rips of their content was because they forgot to remove the pixel in this instance, it stands to reason that many more instances exist that are unknowable due to Nintendo successfully scrubbing out any traces of the original sheets.

Bottom: for everyone who is interested in sprites or is already a fan or user of The Spriters Resource, you may find it interesting to tune in to a livestream that is currently occurring whereby a new design for the site is being showcased. All feedback from the viewers is appreciated and will be considered for changes and future updates!

Until it slips.

Until she’s buried deep inside me, hips snapping forward, and it just falls out of my mouth in a desperate, breathless moan.

"Mommy."

She freezes. Her whole body tenses, eyes wide, breath hitching in her throat. And then, as if something inside her snaps—

She ruins me.

Gone is the hesitant, bashful girl who once denied it. Now she’s gripping my hips like she owns me, pounding into me like she’s lost all sense of self, like the only thing that matters is hearing me sob that word over and over again. Mommy, mommy, mommy.

And now? Now, I don’t get to call her anything else.

Not babe. Not princess. Not even her name.

Just Mommy.

i grew up in a household raised by a conservative father who was born in the mid 40s. he voted Republican every election for 60+ years, listened to talk radio - Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, etc. in the throes of 9/11, he parroted every racist, xenophobic, nationalistic Fox News talking point he heard. he softened quite a bit in the last few years of his life but was more or less the same person.

the way that i see and hear the average American talk about the Middle East today - down to the most tuned in, Trump hating, Kamala Harris worshiping Democrat voters who spend all day on reddit - is indistinguishable from my dad. the only thing missing is the occasional outright slur peppered in and honestly you get that every once in a while. everything else is, without embellishment, identical. i feel like it got better for a brief moment but it didn't last.

Me, thinking: oh fuck I messed something up didn't I

My boss: a personal question

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