as far as i'm concerned, there's good in every day

I like when someone invents a new and disturbing way to Decorate Wrong

Reading the dev notes for Mina the Hollower has been a pretty stark reminder to consider the practical reasons for creative decisions. I was all "okay, but what are we really saying by making the protagonist a mouse", and then the devs are like "yeah, the main reason she's a mouse is because GBC-style sprites are tiny and her bigass ears make it easy for the player to tell which direction she's facing".

(To be 100% clear, I'm not saying that there's no symbolism in play there. The initial episode in which Mina breaks Thorne's siege on Lionel's manor is blatantly playing with both Androcles and the Lion and The Lion and the Mouse, which are frequently conflated in popular culture into a single composite tale in which a mouse pulls a thorn from a lion's law – the characters' names alone make that much obvious! It's just very funny that the decision to make her a mouse came first for completely unrelated reasons.)

every time i see this image it makes me happy

Honestly its funnier to me that shes even asking, we can only imagine that Calvin's dad is doing this type of stuff to her as well.

I'm losing it now, it never occurred to me that she might genuinely be unsure if Calvin did it or her husband this is incredible

do nuns have pockets

I follow the "leave nothing but footprints take nothing but photos" rule of state/national parks yeah because conservation. But also because when I was 11 i read a short story about a girl who went to a museum and stole a bandage flake off a mummy on display with the mentality of "im just one person one piece won't be missed" then at night she was visited by the mummy and it plucked a single hair from her head and then the next night a different mummy took another hair and she realized that there were only so many pieces to her before there would be nothing left and that story was forever wedged in my brain. Anyways leave cool rocks where you find them or the mummies will get you