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Upon later reflection I'm kind of obsessed with the melancholy of this. Oddly sweet? I'm charmed.

mom called me a fag yesterday by accident

she was going to call me a bitch (playful) and i saw her gears turning like no but he's trans i need to call him the male equivalent. and then say fag and look so so surprised at the word that came out of her own mouth. it was like watching someone fail a disco elysium skill check irl

AUTHORITY - One of your sons is being annoying to the other. Make it clear that you think this is unfair.

YOU - "Stop being a b--"

REACTION SPEED [Challenging: Success] - Wait a minute.

DRAMA - Sire, the word you're about to use is historically feminine! Applying it to your transgender child is tantamount to misgendering him.

1. [Suggestion - Legendary 14] Think of a masculine equivalent to "bitch."

just woke up from a dream in which “having a two year old alter” was such a common identity facet among the general public that you could buy like mugs and gift bags etc related to this at any walmart or target

bumper sticker reading “watch out: i’m letting this fucker drive!” alongside the universally understood symbol for two year old alter

cuno doesn't give a fuck for your cat, pig. cuno's got a great big fucking slice of gruyere to eat, pig

PIGS ASKIN FOR IDEALOGICALLY DUBIOUS PASTORALISM LIKE ITS NO BIG DEAL

My name is Casey Jones. I'm just an American in a land overrun by roaming monsters called The Terrorists. This land is protected by rulers called Presidents, each descended from a noble Founder House.

One time, during a blood test, the results showed that I was one of them. I was an Elite. I was a President.

Now forced to attend the Presidential Academy of Defense, I am taught by instructors Patton and McArt, as I learn to harness my Presidential Power. Will I be able to survive with.... The Blood of Washington?

Featuring: Enemies to lovers, villain relationships, 🌶️🌶️🌶️, Eaglecore aesthetics, Deadly War Academy, morally grey sigma heroes, and an intriguing new feminist take on American Mythology.

pre-9/11 depictions of terrorism in media are so funny to me. like, the action-movie 'terrorist' lineage of counter-strike is such a rich vein of hilarious imagery. these guys are generally completely disconnected from any political motives or even sources of funding and are seemingly just what happens when you get posessed by a balaclava

it's great. these guys are like a naturally occuring species endemic to the 1990s

every 20c. action movie where generic terrorists hijack a plane or a skyscraper or something so they can blow it up for the sake of terrorism is like a nature documentary to me. its their lifecycle

aside from being done for the purposes of goofy generic villains it's like. very emblematic of the whole 'end of history' era where it was kinda assumed the only conflict thereonout would be unmotivated malcontents causing chaos in paradise, which is also very funny. I propose this species be named Terroristi fukuyama.

guy who scrolls through tf2 fanart and silently shakes his head in disapproval every time he sees a drawing of poor gun safety

Strict Adherents of Gun Safety: Engineer, Spy, Sniper. If one of those three mercs is seen dropping their gun or even holding it weird, the other two will ruthlessly mock him for weeks.

Perfectly In-Character For: Scout, Pyro, Medic. Pyro and Medic are untrained with firearms and Scout’s mother thought a high shelf was a safe enough place to keep loaded guns.

Secret Third Category: Heavy and Demoman refuse to believe their weapons, in their hands, could do *anything* accidentally. They will absentmindedly muzzle-flag you and give you a look if you get upset.

Super-Secret Fourth Category: The Soldier read a book on forklift safety and got it confused for gun safety. If he has to cross railroad tracks while holding a gun, he will do so at a slight diagonal angle.

Uniquely for superhero deconstructions, The Power Fantasy is largely in conversation first-and-foremost with X-Men rather than bog-standard targets of critique such as Superman and Batman; this is apparent both in the centrality of a millions-strong demographic of post-atomic-bomb superhumans as well as the interpersonal and ideological conflict between Ray "Heavy" Harris (analogous to Magneto) and Etienne Lux (analogous to Professor X.)

One underdiscussed element of how The Power Fantasy approaches the X-Men canon is that in addition to the mutant analogues of The Atomics and The Nuclear Family, the setting's worldbuilding also incorporates religious cosmology and functional magic; three of the six Superpowers in the main cast derive their power from divine intervention or accrued wizardly power, rather than whatever capepunk-standard unified power schema governs the Atomics. This reflects a truth of the X-men canon largely suppressed within the Fox Film canon- namely the absurd amount of time that the X-Men spend having to sideline the mutant metaphor in order to slap down Dracula or space aliens or wizards or Literal Demons from Hell or some such similar out of pocket bullshit

Here's all of the reader questions I responded to for Runaway to the Stars Chapter 3. This Saturday, the first page of Chapter 4 is going up! (Chapter 6 just wrapped up on Patreon, also, if you were curious).

I want a Santa movie where he’s actually Saint Nicholaos of Myra. Three kids run away from home and find a portal to the Council Of Nicaea in 325 AD. Then the kids watch him debate the promulgation of canon law. In the end they return home and tell their parents that presents aren’t important so long as Pentecost is counted 50 days after Easter on the Roman solar calendar and not the Jewish lunar calendar.

And the kids tell their parents the whole story and the dad is like “those kids and their imaginations.” But then he sees a piece of paper in the dog’s mouth and goes “whatcha got there boy? Is that…orders from the Holy See that the schismatic bishop Meletius is to remain in Lycopolis and keep his episcopal title but the ecclesiastics ordained by him must again receive the laying of hands? But…how?” And then he gazes off to the sky and you hear a light jingling of bells and then a voice over goes “Ho ho ho! The baptisms performed by the Paulian heretics are invalid! Merry Christmas!”

[Gets sent through a time portal to the ancient world] Alright I'm boiling every ounce of water I drink [Realizes how much wood I'll have to chop] Dysentery is just weakness leaving the body

Pastel Garden Ralsei

Team Fortress Two: Parahumans Edition

Like eight different people asked about the specific powers I had in mind for the wormverse iteration of Team Fortress. Here’s the reddit write-up, updated and expanded, now with additional Ms. Pauling and Administrator.

(Read more under the cut; this absolutely got the hell away from me. This is so so long)

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