The Lightning-Speed Waltz

Gonna want the sound on for this one boys

One of the all-time great videos.

"He loved her to the point of invention" 🥹

Revealing the ignorance of my youth here, but who is this and what is she known for?

Anita Sarkeesian, feminist who interpreted media under a feminist lens. She did a series about video games and she was the subject of targeted harassment. That was the start of gamergate

Minor correction, the start of gamergate was based around a different reporter, Zoe Quinn, but they were both absolutely violently threatened over their involvement in video game criticism and development. A hate campaign was started by Quinn's ex-boyfriend when he wrote a post falsely accusing them of dating video game journalists in order to receive positive reviews on their own game, Depression Quest, which led other bad actors to accuse all women in the industry (Zoe identified as female at the time) of perceived sexual immorality. Anita Sarkeesian's brilliant Youtube series Tropes vs Women in Video Games (which everyone should watch, right now) sparked a particular nerve for criticizing popular games of killing and/or victimizing any important female character (there is a CHILLING bit that borders on ludicrous where she describes the plots of a seemingly endless parades of games as "In [title], [male player character's] wife dies, and you then have to rescue [his] daughter."). That series did actually make a huge change in the industry, especially when touted by progressive legacy developers like Tim Schafer (Monkey Island, Psychonauts), who went on to expand hiring in his company to front women and minority voices, but the shift didn't really show for a long time and echoes of the sexism that plagues the industry at its core are still rampant.

Thanks for the correction! I was like 8-10 years old when this all went down (2014-2016) so I only know vaguely about it. I’m still learning about this.

absolutely you can

happy almost ten years to my all-time favorite disability post on this braincell forsaken website

happy th

happy thors

it’s his day!!

@sailor-arashi

change does not come from a place of comfort

I find pennies and nickels in my couch all the time, so I don’t know what you are talking about

I asked my five year old cousin what he would do if there was a scary skeleton and he said "I would pour water on it and then kick it" and I've been losing my shit laughing crying about a wet skeleton for about fifteen minutes straight

IM SITTING EATING DINNER AT MY DESK AND MY CLOSED LAPTOP JUST SIGHED AT ME??? LIKE THE FANS WHIRRED FOR A SECOND IT WAS LIKE hHHHhhhh

if cats don't want to be grabbed and cuddled they need to stop being such optimal size and shape for that activity