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Scene from the beginning of The color of magic

I'm going to do it, I'll out all the brilliant, profound notes on my half-assed, tired and pretentious ramble.

But first, a much-needed bit of context. I was vaguely aware of some of these, and I am guilty of focusing more on the voices myself. This is because I can do a bad drawing of an aspect of an amorphous bird man and it looks a lot better than if I mess up drawing a woman. I don't draw humans well.

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Some extra things in other reblogs, I can see them all and others should too, these perspectives have shaped my own:

By the way, I like the Shifting Mound more than any other character in the game. Have done for a while, I hadn't considered misogyny being a problem before this post.

Oh, for sure. That route is why I assign colours to the voices in my art. It's fun to imagine them with unique designs.

I shan't say directly what I think they'd look like properly, though, because I want to imply it.

Absolutely bizarre to me that the Princess doesn't get more love; she's amazing and charming in pretty much every iteration, and I wish I could shut those voices up half the time because they make things worse or take ages.

Do you guys think the reason so much fanart exists for the voices is not because of them being great characters (all the characters in STP are), but instead because we spend more time in our own heads than we ever will with a version of the princess?

I get it. They're inherently relatable because they reflect our previous actions through any route and set the tone of each chapter. They bicker with us and are able to see every option we take.

But, maybe the princesses are underrated. As in, she's always an outsider. How quickly would she be more beloved if the voices would shut up and let us do our stuff, or if they were seperate from us?

How then would we judge the impulsive contrarian, the weak-willed hero or the depressed cold? Would we appreciate paranoid were he more than a life support?

Ask yourself that, and ponder it awhile. Don't say it to anyone. Just an hour of your independent thoughts, clear of little voices.

I knew it was at least highly probable this stuff would be happening from an outside point of view but that's beyond gross, revolting or any other such word.

Some people are downright horrifying, I hope things get better for women in STEM.

things that happened to me when i was a woman in STEM:

an advisor humiliated me in front of an entire lab group because of a call I made in his place when he wouldn't reply to my e-mails for months

he later delegated part of my master's thesis work to a 19-year old male undergrad without my approval

a male scientist at a NASA conference looked me up and down and asked when i was graduating and if i was open to a job at his company. right before inquiring what my ethnicity was because i "looked exotic"

a random male member of the public began talking over me and my female advisor, an oceanographer with a pHD and decades of experience, saying he knew more about oceanography than us

things that have happened to me since becoming a man in STEM:

being asked consistently for advice on projects despite being completely new to a position

male colleagues approaching me to drop candid information regarding our partners / higher ups that I was not privy to before

lenience toward my work in a way I haven't experienced before. incredible understanding when I need to take time off to care for my family.

conference rooms go silent when I start talking. no side chatter. I get a baseline level of attention and focus from people that's very unfamiliar and genuinely difficult for me to wrap my head around.

like. yes some PI's will still be assholes regardless of the gender of their subordinates but, I've lived this transition. misogyny in STEM is killing women's careers, and trans men can and do experience male privilege.

Let's get you in the box, fish. It might be a squeeze but I'm sure you can manage.

put me in the 1 inch x 1 inch x 1 inch box coach!!! I'm all fired up, I'm ready!!!!!

Never knowingly survived a Meet the Team video.

TF2 Blu Soldier Kenny Mccormick

"empowering women by sending katy perry to space for 2 minutes" shut the fuck up. samantha cristoforetti was the first female commander of the international space station and she became an astronaut because of star trek. and there is a real chance she is a kirk/spock shipper

I do hate kids. I hated them when I was one and I hate them now.

I'm a dedicated hater because so many of them are sociopathic and they need to learn some damn empathy. I once thought adults were too worried to be cruel, turns out growing up means you have to learn how to care.

You make some excellent points, I hate some of those things also. I just don't like unpredictable goblins in my general vicinity. Individuals are fine, but not the group.

you don't "hate kids," you hate being forced into a caretaking role.

you don't "hate kids," you hate censorship passed off as family values.

you don't "hate kids," you hate the constrictiveness of the nuclear family.

you don't "hate kids," you're just not used to occupying fully age diverse spaces so you're not used to the noise or the many different kinds of needs.

you don't "hate kids," most public spaces just aren't built for kids, and so the few kids you see are always uncomfortable and distressed.

you don't "hate kids," you hate the intense social rules assigned to kids and anyone who interacts with kids.

You don't "hate kids," you hate how society reproduces its most restrictive elements and how kids are powerless to resist it.

Internet Archive accessed with a university account is a pathway to dark power and Samuel Peypes.

honestly internet libraries fucking suck. what do you MEAN someone's already got it so i cant read it. its not even real. im trying to study, i do not have time for your made up nonsense rules. show me the words.

that being said piracy is tooootally wrong. reblog this post with sites people pirate textbooks from so i can avoid them.

Thanks.

what abled ppl think is a massive problem for disabled folks: 13 year old on the internet faking something

what is actually a massive problem for disabled folks: "well you don't LOOK disabled, are you sure you're not faking? I'm not giving you accommodations until you PROVE you're not faking. Please give me, a stranger, your medical info and explain your condition to me in detail so I know you're not faking and only then will I respect or take you seriously"

No copypasta has ever ruined my life as comprehensively as Hell Fuck Castle. I write tabletop RPGs, and now every time I read a lore blurb about an ancient ruined kingdom where everything was cool until the last ruler fucked it up, my brain whispers "King Big Sad Guy, who did the Flame Thing".

Wishing all New Series Daleks a happy 20th birthday for the design.

Please reblog with your own for maximum solidarity. It could be the Dalek Invasion of Tumblr (2025 AD)

The TARDIS is sick of the Doctor forming toxic relationships with companions and she is not relinquishing control of the jukebox.

obsessed with the Doctor making a promise he can’t keep, kissing Belinda’s hands, and then Toxic by Britney Spears immediately blasting over the TARDIS radio.

yes TARDIS. you have accurately assessed the dynamic there for sure

Zero Cat meets the rest of the gang.

Is Karmit Catholic, though? That's quite a significant factor.

I was trying to find out if Kermit was eligible to be pope and I found a blog that says he's the perfect example of a catholic priest

Solar power is not renewable because the Sun is dead in prolly billions of years, so what do we do at that point, huh?? checkmate, infinite fracking is the solution

If you have an international accent, you can more easily adopt the stronger versions of insults. This has to happen naturally because otherwise you come across as a muppet, and not the felt kind.

bastard sounds great in an irish accent. if an irish person calls you a 'daft bastard' it just feels right

the welsh have the monopoly on things ending in hell. fuckin hell and bloody hell hit different in a welsh accent. its like music to my ears

the scots have piss and shite for sure. "its pishin it doon out there" "this is a load of shite" absolute poetry

if i may speak for the english i think we do penis related words very well. dickhead, knobhead, bellend, etc.

and for all the shit we give them, you gotta admit that no one can deliver a 'goddamn' quite like an american. theres a certain weight to it that you just cant achieve in other accents. when an american says goddamn you know shit just got real

EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP SCIENTISTS AT THE SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE HAVE FOOTAGE OF A LIVE COLOSSAL SQUID FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Daleks aren't all that different. They just happened to become mutants in dustbin-shaped tanks instead of replacing their bodies with prosthetics.

Either way, it's an otherwise incapable life form trapped inside a cold metal life support unit that suppresses every desire that might obstruct the will to dominate and expand, engineered to survive any environmental hazard and most ballistic weapons.

The Master seems to like cybermen in New Who. Genuinely, I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't responsible for Mondas at this point.

New Who absolutely committed to the bit that if you leave a humanoid civilization long enough, they will eventually reinvent the cybermen

Removing 2 inches from the island would be the least weird thing in the latter half of Lost.

My sister and I were watching Lost but not paying a ton of attention and then suddenly the TV is like "Okay so we're going to have to remove two inches from the width of the island" and we both like snap our heads up like woah we were literally just dealing with a time travel problem why do we need to make the island a little smaller now? But it turns out the dog had laid down on the remote and turned it to Property Brothers so like bad news for whoever's kitchen they're designing but good news i guess for the Lost people for not having to shrink the island

I'd probably say something dumb like, "It killed more than one of my kind and, as I have killed many of yours, I suppose it's a fair cop if you end my life. Just one question, have you killed two or more humans? I want to know in case," this is where I get up with a groan, picking up my pole arm and shield, "I have the chance to defend myself."

You're a dragon slayer—but only kill dragons that attack humans. One day, a black dragon corners you and angrily asks, "Why did you kill my brother?"

If I ever die and the Discworld version of Death specifically isn’t there I’m coming back

I preordered Return to Monkey Island for a personal joke. Turns out I was the joke.

As for Todd Howard, I still don't believe that TES: VI is going to come out before the 10th console generation unless it actually does. Even then, I expect little more than Daggerfall with modern graphics and a 3D game engine.

Still waiting for Elder Scrolls Castles to be compatible with a modern Android device.

GAMING RULE 1: NEVER PREORDER

GAMING RULE 2:

I feel like I'm doing Tumblr and other social mediums wrong.

My most used account is a gimmick account on Discord, my Tumblr is half-crazed rambling that only friends should be subject to and the person who channels the dead for me is now reduced to an artefact that I can use directly.

The only thing I feel like I'm doing right is the private stuff and the postal service, and the latter only because I don't.

This is it, the best news story (from BBC news):

If I could turn back time, I'd be more responsible. Then I'd make a family of Gollum.

Sorry to anyone this happened to (I would be fuming) but I am howling at EA incompetently creating cursed jewellery by mistake.

your edible is never going to kick in because you're a bad person