one time i got all the way through character creation in a tabletop game with a bard who died years ago but channels the adoration from his fans as a form of prayer to retain his form and weave energy into devastating magic attacks
but then the DM noticed me writing the character name "spellvis" and i had to start over
robot/AI hot take (1)
i don't think that fully humanoid simulacra, like Replicants, will ever be either fully realized or accepted by humans. robots that need to relate to humans might eventually have animated LED screens for faces, but never rubbery masks or vat-grown flesh. a century's worth of Hard and Soft SF has poisoned that well for good, and i think that's actually okay, for two reasons.
NESert Golfing can now be played on the Famicom Disk System.
(free download)
Furry is incredibly important to my identity, because it gives me a way to define myself that isn't impacted by the real-world prejudice I deal with. Nobody is going to strip-search me at an airport because I have 'tanuki-esque features.'
This is something that gets missed when discussing furry culture, but one of the main things that attracts people to it in my experience is the chance to set your own terms for how you want to be seen and treated for people who don't otherwise get that option.
Itch.io Queer Games Bundle
All proceeds split evenly among all the makers. The min. price is $60 -- the price of one AAA game.
Over 200 games, software, and zines from over 190 queer artists.
I'm probably not the only person interested in this.
My lizard is the Lizard of Pixels
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1101008925/lizard/posts/2255928
tumblr post screencap re: kink at pride discourse
snakegay: "why does so much post apocalypse media have people wearing straight up bdsm/fetish gear like, do the kinksters watch the world ending and think 'oh boy I can wear my bondage gear in public now"
skelefolk: "thats actually exactly what happens"
broliloquy: "What I wanna know is why the spiky kink warriers are always the bad evil marauders. They might be into some weird shit and unafraid to show it but that doesn't mean they want to go around killing dudes. They're a tight-knit bunch. A lot of them are queer. They understand the importance of community.
If the government collapses and all laws come to an end, the people rampaging around killing and looting are gonna be like, frat boys and 4chan rejects. You can mistrust the bondage raiders all you like but they're definitely they ones you're going to run to for help when the neoliberal blood cultists and Nazi meme demons lay seige to your survivor enclave. There's gonna be gayboy berserkers busting up slaver gangs and burning down warboy frat houses. The assless-chaps leather daddies and weird petplay people are gonna be the accidental peacekeepers of the post-apocalyptic world just because they're the only motherfuckers who understand the importance of consent anymore."
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