It occurs to me that most of my stories that people claim are the most fucked up ones came about for stupid reasons

Angel -- from a goosebumps book

Original Sin -- from a random greentext I ran into about a star

How to Escape the Well -- danganronpa

So Danganronpa 3 has this execution in it:

and I was watching somebody play the game on youtube (this is how I wean off games that impact me after I've finished playing them myself) and somebody in the comments mentioned, offhand, that it's based on a Japanese story about somebody trapped in hell who finds a cobweb leading out. I have not read the story in question, but I was struck by the image of somebody trapped in hell with such a fragile escape route offered to them, something so fragile and so chancy, something that would almost certainly fail if they tried it but that might, MIGHT work. For someone in such a position, what would be the better use of their find? A desperate escape that would almost certainly (but only ALMOST certainly) fail, or an eternity of hope of success that could give them the strength to endure?

So I wrote that story.

This panic happens like every few months.

I remember when I first found out the truth about “Somali pirates” I got chills because of how horrific the truth was and how insanely creepily well the media had twisted the situation. Every single fucking article making it seem like these “pirates” were just after money or something holding innocent people hostage and I never gave it a second thought, why would I? There was no indication that people were trying to legitimately fight off disgusting imperialism that left nuclear waste in their waters, that over 300 people have died from radiation sickness, that Europeans have been stealing Somalia’s seafood because they overfished their own waters and the indigenous fisherman are starving and so these “pirates” emerged to deal with those stealing their country’s natural resources. The truth is enough to make anyone sick to their stomachs.

This is a great article about the truth about Somali pirates, in case anyone wants a source.

y'all know that whole left-brained/right-brained thing is fake right? and the "brain fully develops at age 25" thing? and the "we only use 10% of our brains" thing? yeah they're all complete horseshit please yell at anyone who says them

okay people are doing nuance in the notes about the kernels of truth in neuroscience myths but I really really need you to understand that that is not important here. people don't believe there are "right-brained" and "left-brained" people because they've misunderstood lateralisation of the central nervous system, they believe it because that binary framework was deliberately pushed by people who wanted to define who was logical enough to lead, and surprise surprise, white adult heterosexual men are left-brained. people don't believe the brain "finishes developing at 25" because they've misunderstood life stage differences in neuroplasticity, they believe it because the idea that children, teens, and young adults have inferior brains is a convenient rationalisation for a society that marginalises them. people don't believe you "only use 10% of your brain" because they misread an fMRI study, they believe it because it's useful bullshit for everyone from hyperindividualist historical revisionists pushing the great genius concept of scientific progress to hucksters recruiting for cults that will teach you to unlock your latent telekinesis for just $5000 a month. that's why it's fucking important to know that many popular science ideas are false and to push back on them loudly and frequently, because they're not just mildly incorrect, they are often active components of systems of violence.

Forgot I had these! These are redlines I did for Mathieu Hains (who animated the beautiful color segment). This was from his first blocking pass

Was a very good lesson in "why turnarounds and expression sheets are important" and "your boards will not always be interpreted by an animator the way you see it in your head"! All Mathieu had to go off of was my boards and the original character sheets (VERY limited reference haha) but he's also a great artist so he created a very solid foundation and my redlines were just to help guide the drawings to what I imagined

okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the "personal life" part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you'll either find a major tragedy he didn't recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she's not there anymore.

I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he's done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.

so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn't work in history, or, women aren't auteurs, or, there just aren't as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.

Hell yeah

odile

hello tumblr user pillowspace. why are you selling odile. commercial content? she should be free for the people

my greed is limitless and my odile is worth every cent

my odile is pirating your odile and sending the download link to all of her friends

NOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THIS!!!!! well guess what. my odile? yeah. she was malware. best of luck to your odile

so you admit it then? your odile was useless from the start? actively malicious? a scam?

MALICIOUS THINGS CAN STILL BE USEFUL!! SHE WAS WORTH EVERY CENT FOR HER CALCULATOR, ORGANIZED NOTES FEATURE THAT CONTAINED SPYWARE, AND MINECRAFT FREE! SHE WAS USEFUL! USEFUL!!

and yet you do not care about a single one of your users. despicable. an odile should stand for more than this

starts coughing and falls to my hands and knees

am i... am i a bad odile developer...? have i not been giving my odile the use and reputation that she deserves...? tell me. for here i am at a loss for both my purpose and hers. tell me what my odile should be standing for

you must return to the basics. the fundamentals. and then you must iterate, put something of yourself within her. she should stand for knowledge, truth, and morality, regardless of any laws that might constrict her. if you do this... you might achieve... odile.

my challenge, if you choose to accept it: this month, draw four odiles, just like i have here. think about her. understand her. play with her. and then i was going to tell you to return to me in a month because it'd be my birthday but i forgot about april and so my birthday is in two months exactly not one month so you dont have to come to me.

but this is my challenge. i will see you again... in another life

nods tearfully. knowledge... truth... morality... i must study these to understand my task. achieving odile is all i've ever wanted...! thank you! thank you for your wisdom!! four odiles!! i accept your challenge!! when we meet again, i hope to have truly achieved odile and made you proud!!

runs off into the odile horizon with a brighter outlook on life

I come to you last minute with the four Odiles that I have created over the last month.

(These Odiles come from one, two, three, four)

The beautiful world... of Odile. A mission completed. I also technically have an Odile hand but it's not exactly finished so it can be a bonus.

a job well done... it (almost) brings a tear to my eye.

you have finished your training. you are now..... a real odile enjoyer.

this month you can make a boniface centric au or something i don't know. i'm not your mom.

It has been an honour...! Anything for Odile!!

Finally. The AU I've been occasionally daydreaming about where the reason why the Change God is considered to be "lazy" is actually because their essence has been reincarnating through ordinary humans and Bonnie was born as the next Change God can be real. Or something. (<- probably not doing all that but it's the thought that counts)

if you've never been clinically depressed, this is the short version

To note:

FR: concentrer /EN: focus

FR: écureuil /EN: squirrel

FR: pingouin /EN: penguin

FR: câlin /EN: hug

the “PINE-GUINE” fucking killed me asfgashasfg

Google Translate: focus

This man, with extreme amounts of self-confidence: fUCK US

....

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"hug"

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Started to rewatch Steven Universe, its still glorious

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