What the hell, its 2022

If you are a video game character in the universe of Wreck It Ralph, once your particular cabinet is plugged in you are born with an innate knowledge of a past you share with every other version of you, but eventually as you interact with other games after hours you just become more jaded and the events you play out every day become less and less meaningful as time goes on?

In the first movie before Felix gives Calhoun the context about what “going Turbo” means, he remarks on the fact that Hero’s Duty had just been plugged in recently. So at the point he meets Calhoun, he has effectively existed for DECADES and every experience he has had with other games and character has done pretty much nothing other than make him come to terms with the fact that his game just isn’t real. Calhoun takes her game so seriously not just because it’s her personality, but because newly plugged in characters just have an innate sense of their canon responsibilities that goes away with time.

Calhoun has real PTSD and trauma of her past that never happened and is not unique to her, and I suppose that as she continues to exist in the arcade she’ll begin to realize that the EVENT never happened but still have to exist with the PERMANENT PTSD that’s been programmed into her forever.

here's the official laika's comet character quiz!

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bruh Mewtwo knows what’s up 

Parable of the Polygons - an interactive experiment that shows how tiny individual biases can collectively cause segregation on a massive scale.

To Build a Better Ballot - an interactive experiment that shows the alternatives to the voting systems we currently use and how they can be more representative and democratic, along with their faults.

Coming Out Simulator - a short interactive story/novel about coming out, based off of Case’s own experiences. Not one I’ve played myself but still one I can recommend.

Loopy - a very simple but useful tool to show how systems interact with each other and how things can self-propagate.

Yes, we do have the right to make demands on public behavior. Of course we do. Have you never heard of laws and etiquette? I’m not allowed to grocery shop naked. You can’t rummage through my purse. I can’t have a work meeting in the middle of a movie theatre.

I remember when it was taboo simply to answer your cell phone in public. The person answering would apologize and try to go to a more private area. Then public calls were normalized. Then putting people on speaker. Then listening to music without headphones. Do you know how many times I have hiked up a mountain or driven to the beach, only to be met with someone blaring shitty top 40 music from their portable speaker, because Heaven forbid you go one hour without noise?

It was obnoxious when it was youtube.

It was obnoxious when it was music.

It was obnoxious when it was the radio. 

It was obnoxious when it was dudes wanting to talk to you instead of letting you just read your freaking book.

Do you want to be this guy? Because being obnoxious in shared spaces is how you become this guy. 

most of the animation studios had their ‘thing’ to make their animation stand out, disney had fluid motion linked with quality music, warner brothers had top notch dialogue with carefully crafted facial expressions, MGM had comedic timing down to the individual frame that no live action comedian could dream of achieving, terrytoons had the budget of a ham sandwitch and a fistfull of nickels fleischer studios however had authentic jazz and heavy toned subject matter, often crossing the line of what we think of as ‘cartoon violence’ into realistic

I am a trans man. I have an h cup chest. That is not a typo, not a brag, and not an invitation to sexually harass me. This means I have about 4 pounds of breast. This means that binders do not work for me. There’s not enough structure in the compression to keep that much weight in place.

I wore a sports bra under my binder, for a time- it kept things in place, and the binder flattened. This isn’t really safe and I recommend against it. It also never actually got me looking masc- I tended to look like I had between a c or b cup. TransTape I discarded too- it’s just not sturdy enough.

Enter Enell. Specifically, the Enell Sport High Impact Bra.

I want you to look at the construction of that sports bra. It clasps in the front. This flattens the chest. And since it’s a sports bra designed for busty people, it LOCKS everything in place. When I wear my Enell sports bra, I do not bounce. It also gets me looking like I have an a cup at worst- and at best, when I layer, I actually look masc.

Admittedly, they’re not cheap. That one’s 66$. But I’ve tried even custom binders, and they don’t work as well as Enell. I was actually contemplating a custom built corset before I found Enell. Enell is also much, much safer than layering compression, since it is being used as intended (sort of). As a bonus, you can actually exercise in it- it’s a sports bra!

I will note that they use their own sizing system, so you will have to measure yourself.

Homestuck is about 4 kids who log onto a strange multiplayer video game called "Sburb." The game is godlike, much bigger than the real world, and the kids are prompted by an AI which controls the game to try to find a way to "end" it, i.e. return to the real world. In the process they learn new things about themselves and the universe, but are also bizarrely trapped within the game's mechanics.

Act 1:

The kids meet and create a cringey troll named Vriska. Vriska is unhinged and mean, but the kids befriend her anyway. As the plot goes on they learn to understand each other and she becomes less unhinged and mean, but she still manipulates people for her own ends, and she later also betrays them. Her aesthetic sense is questionable.

Act 2:

Another group of kids appear, and instead of joining together with the four main kids they form their own team, lead by a personality named Dave (not to be confused with the other Dave). This team, referred to as the "Hiveswapters," are from a parallel dimension and have their own brand of cringey humor. They learn about "Time Travel," and return to the alpha session to find that the main 4 kids have turned into their younger selves, and that time has "reset" to the beginning of the game.

The main 4 kids encounter a strange troll called "Karkat," and they agree to ally with him against Vriska and her cronies. Karkat is the leader of his people, and he is in a romantic relationship with Vriska. Vriska's ex, "Terezi," also appears, and she helps the main 4 kids attack Vriska's base. Terezi and Karkat are both important to the overall "Meenah" plotline, as is a lot of drama surrounding Karkat.

Act 3:

A new character, "Bro," is introduced. Bro's true self is a man named "Breath of God" who was imprisoned in a hollow block by a Mage of Doom named "Aranea," who also appears around this time. Aranea is everything I hate about Bro: a controlling antagonist who wants to "manage" reality to fit their own view of it.

Bro, Vriska, and Karkat are also from a group called "the Midnight Crew," and together with the Hiveswapters and the main 4 kids the Midnight Crew have formed an army to fight Aranea and her army, who are led by an evil version of Bro called "Blaze." The alliance is organized by Rose (one of the main 4 kids).

The main 4 kids meet a green cat named "Davepeta" and an orange dog named "Kurloz." They also see their "Alpha" selves, who have aged and grown up, and get into an argument with them. Kurloz and Davepeta have a cringey human "version," called "Davepetasprite," who evolves into "Davepeta2," who starts fights with other people and eventually turns into a demon called "Tavros."

Over the course of the battle with Aranea, several characters die, including Karkat, Rose, and Tavros. Rose dies saving Davepeta2, who turns into the timeline where everything is fine, and the real Davepeta appears later on.

Act 4:

(ʘ‿ʘ✿) “what you say ‘bout me”

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they caught it with a net and wheeled it out of the aquarium in a baby carriage

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