#best posts

Perfect way of putting it

For a new 10 followers I bring out the fire crackers (be nice to people)

For a new 50 I bring out the sledge hammer (Pro choice, anti terf, fuck if I give a shit)

January: Space Patrol (119 notes) Created by a woman and pre-dating Thunderbirds.

February: Frac! (187 notes) From the world of DOS freeware and shareware.

March: Tottoko Hamutaro Anime Dechu! (186 notes) The far-lesser-known first Hamtaro anime adaptation.

April (tie): Once Upon a Forest (40 notes) The game of the environmentally-aware animated film.

April (tie): The Three Stooges (40 notes) The chowderhead simulator for up to three simultaneous players.

April (tie): Yamuna (40 notes) In which a river is given a voice.

April (special case): My post about a record company lawsuit petition (943 notes) The post about a now-settled lawsuit that included this video:

May: Zeta Minor (67 notes) Artifacts of pre-web sci-fi fandom.

June: Emora Kart (87 notes) The entirely mouse-movement-controlled kart game.

July: Bits and Bytes/The Academy (73 notes) Canadian computing TV from the 80's.

August: Cherry Coke Presents: The Lost Island of Alanna (229 notes) Myst-likes meet marketing.

September: Fantasy Language Creator (122 notes) A conlang machine.

October: The Bear That Wasn’t (46 notes) A cartoon about dysphoria.

November: Complete Dancing Baby Screensaver (55 notes) The child from the dawn of memes.

December: Venetian Deer (203 notes): The kind of disc people used to get lost in.

guy who treated my friend like complete dogshit

guys who enabled the guy treating my friend like complete dogshit

guy who scammed me

10 pedophiles

30 pedophile enablers

two guys who are really good at extracting game assets and are very nice to me

5 artists who posted a lot of shit ten years ago

3 guys who are lowkey fans but the second you mention their fave they go rabid

guy who shares my exact hcs and is someone i know i would get along with like a house on fire but is only on twitter and only speaks japanese

15 guys who are still pretending that they didnt get scammed by the crypto game

I would kill to see the end of ep. 8 from Barnes's POV. I mean, think about it. He's up to his ears in work, dealing with the panic from the false alarm at the Fittes ball plus the news of some kind of disturbance at Winkman's (an agent is dead. That's not good.), when hears that someone called in a report of a bunch of Visitors from the graveyard where he knows that BOTH of "his" teams are.

He drops everything and goes to the cemetery (obviously he's the first one there, they are his responsibility, after all), finds the place swarming with ghosts, there's a few dead and injured thugs from the relic smuggling ring he's been trying to take down for ages (well, that's one of tonight's messes dealt with), and Kipps and all of Lockwood's team are missing. Kat tells him what she knows, which isn't much but is certainly concerning. (Including the nonzero chance of having heard a gunshot.)

Also, consider the fact that the catafalque needs to be operated from above. Meaning that George, Lucy, and Kipps would have needed to call up for help. I'm imagining that Barnes is up in the chapel, wrangling agents to send them down to the crypt to look for Kipps and the Lockwood team when he hears: Lucy: "Hello? Is someone up there? We need help!" Barnes: "Carlyle, is that you? What's going on down there? Is Kipps with you?" Lucy: "Barnes, it's us! Raise the catafalque!" Barnes: "The what?" George: "It's a lift for caskets! Takes them down to the crypt!" Lucy, aside: "Not now, George!" To Barnes: "Just pull the bloody lever. It's over there!" Barnes: "We unlocked the door, you can come up the stairs. It'll be faster that way." Lucy: "No, no we really need the lift. Lockwood's been-- he's been shot."

And like, of course Barnes's reaction would probably be a mix of like "oh god, not another one." and also "it [Lockwood's recklessness and death wish] finally caught up to him."

And like, externally he's unflappable as always, but inside he's remembering what he said to them: Don't let this be the last time I see the three of you alive.

I was tagged THREE TIMES in this, by @dragon-swords-prophecies , @space-writes , and @savvyminnow. So I needed to find something REALLY GOOD for this one. And I feel like this snippet from something I prepared ahead of time to read aloud in Rook's game fits the bill. :3

TW for gore/body horror in the snippet and context

They reach for him, one with shattered fingers, the other with a charred stump of an arm, and say in unison, “good-for-nothing”. As they do, he hears a third voice layered over the other two: his father. But he doesn’t have time to think on this, because in that moment their outstretched arms reach him, and everything goes black.