DemonicDem

joycesully: arsenicjade: writertobridge: Saw this on Twitter...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:52:52 -0400

arsenicjade:

writertobridge:

Saw this on Twitter and wanted to share.

Honestly, religions shouldn’t function as such. I’m not sure there’s ANYTHING that SHOULD.

With the added corollary that if the bits you don’t love are different from the bits someone else doesn’t love, this doesn’t make either of you monsters who need to be driven from polite society.

scribblehooves:Missed ya, buddy :’) In the initial picture, I...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:01:33 -0400

scribblehooves:

Missed ya, buddy :’)

In the initial picture, I thought the punchline was going to be that Snake slapped a C4 to Mario’s back.

ashestoashesjc: me, a sensible boy, feeling a tickle: just your leg hair, calm down caveman brain:...

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:25:01 -0400

ashestoashesjc:

me, a sensible boy, feeling a tickle: just your leg hair, calm down

caveman brain: it is so many spiders

I wish.

splatoonus:Orange you glad it’s almost time for another...

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 14:50:33 -0400

splatoonus:

Orange you glad it’s almost time for another Splatfest? Give your opponent something to chew on with Team Pulp, or keep your path to victory silky smooth with Team No Pulp! Pick a side and getting splatting this Friday at 9:00pm PT!

dizorthegnome: togaydemaru: eevee-nicks: Actual line from the...

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 15:27:24 -0400

dizorthegnome:

togaydemaru:

eevee-nicks:

Actual line from the players guide. Samus is canonically not afraid of looking silly.

I don’t know why but that just made my day even better than it already is.

sowwysap: i think theyd make a good pair! I ship it.

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 13:42:18 -0400

sowwysap:

i think theyd make a good pair!

I ship it.

mister-saturn-draws-things: Was having a conversation about...

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:58:16 -0400

mister-saturn-draws-things:

Was having a conversation about Metroid Prime 4 with a friend and my phone autocorrected to Prom
So it read Metroid Prom

@drjoshfoxpersonal thankyou for this conversation

gaelic-galpal-rosalina: electricduck: 💖 Reblog if you think the...

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 14:43:08 -0400

gaelic-galpal-rosalina:

electricduck:

💖 Reblog if you think the girl on the left is just as beautiful as the girl on the right 💖

ridley and bayonetta fucked and this is their child

deddorain:Hope they’re actually playable this time! Crossing my...

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 17:51:56 -0400

deddorain:

Hope they’re actually playable this time! Crossing my fingers.

beekirby: These characters are all voiced by the same person in...

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 13:07:03 -0400

beekirby:

These characters are all voiced by the same person in Japan

envariant: Smash Bros Series director expands on why Brawl was...

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:16:13 -0400

envariant:

Smash Bros Series director expands on why Brawl was designed differently to Melee. What he says makes a lot of sense.

I’m surprised that a lot of people think this interview is real lol

thotkumi: He’s deciding which one of the challengers to pair up.

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:06:11 -0400

thotkumi:

He’s deciding which one of the challengers to pair up.

RIDLEY JUST FUCKING KILLS YOU

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:45:02 -0400

wikihow-illustrations:From the beautiful ‘How to deal with an...

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 07:41:38 -0400

wikihow-illustrations:

From the beautiful ‘How to deal with an Anime addiction’ article.

rockaholicana-blog:Wii Fit Trainer’s family reunion

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 13:21:32 -0400

rockaholicana-blog:

Wii Fit Trainer’s family reunion

trilllizard666: sindri42: videogamesincolor: niambi: batzendr...

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 08:05:47 -0400

trilllizard666:

sindri42:

videogamesincolor:

niambi:

batzendrick:

I feel like this deserves to be shared.

this is hilarious because…Bayonetta is a fictional character who therefore cannot consent to anything you geeks…she “owns” her sexuality because she’s written that way??…like…yall are really so comical.

I crack up every time folk try to use Bayonetta as a counter-argument against critiques of hyper-sexualized female characters in video games. Like stop, fam.

Bayonetta is literally just the power fantasy OC of the female character designer. The director wrote the original script for a “traditional” witch, elderly, crook nose, pointy hat, shapeless robes, etc. Then Mari Shimaazaki, this lady:

stepped up and basically said ‘okay but what if instead of that dumb thing we used this awesome bitch I just drew’. Bayonetta was not designed by a man. She was directly contrary to the intentions of the men in charge. But once they saw how awesome she was, being a sexy badass totally on her own terms whilst not giving a shit what they thought, they submitted.

Today it’s generally agreed throughout the company and much of the industry that it couldn’t have happened any other way, that only a woman could have made a female action hero as successful as Bayonetta. If she’d been designed to appeal to the audience, that would have been fundamentally contrary to who she is and probably nowhere near as successful. But since she originated as a personal power fantasy, as this woman’s idealized self, that feeling of existing for her own goals and her own pleasure and not giving a flying fuck about how anybody else saw her shone through and Bayonetta became more popular than she ever could have been if she was just trying to please others.

Additional fun fact: all the frankly ridiculous dance moves she uses? Those are the result of giving the mocap actress an open stage and telling her to do whatever she felt like.

the earliest drafts were even shot down for being too overtly sexual for the director’s tastes

the MALE director, Hideki Kamiya

a few random fantasy novels not set in medieval Europe (absolutely not exhaustive)

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 09:42:26 -0400

literaryreference:

teal-deer:

China

The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox

Dragon of the Lost Sea (etc) (Lawrence Yep) (YA)

Under Heaven — Guy Gavriel Kay

Ou Lu Ken & the Beautiful Madwoman — Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Jin Wong / Yong’s Wuxia novels (English translations may not be so great)

Crane Iron Series by Wang Dulu (includes Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

Japan

Tales of the Otori

Tomoe Gozen Trilogy by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Brave Story, the Book of Heroes

Mesoamerica

Obsidian and Blood Trilogy (Pre-columbian Mexico)

Two Serpents Rise (mayincatec mashup)

Middle East

Throne of the Crescent Moon

Desert of Souls by Howard Andrew Jones

The Lion of Al-Rassan (Iberia)

The Painted Man

Africa

Jousters (Mercedes Lackey) (Ancient Egypt)

Zoo City (South Africa) http://www.robottradingcompany.com/zoo-city-lauren-beukes.html

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm (YA, kinda cyberpunk, south africa)

Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe (Egypt; however main character is Roman)

Imaro by Charles Saunders (East Africa)

Doussouye by Charles Saunders (West Africa) (female protagonist!)

Somewhere, But Not Medieval Europe

The Earthsea Cycle (inspired by Polynesia & the Caribbean but not really analogous to anything) (you wanna get mad about white washing get mad about the sci-fi channel)

The Knights of Breton Court (urban Arthurian in Indianapolis with black version of King Arthur)

Inda — Sherwood Smith (might be Mongolian)

10 Billion Days and 100 Billion Nights

Twelve Kingdoms (Asia mashup thingy)

Three Parts Dead (prequel to Two Serpents Rise)

Tales of Neveryon (no real world analogue but everyone’s dark skinned & pale people are considered weirdo barbarians from the south)

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (no real analogue)

Edge Cases

Daughter of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist (part of the Riftwar series, some of which are fantasy medieval europe; but this one is sort of fantasy Japan by way of Dungeons & Dragons)

Malazan Book of the Fallen (kind of an edge case; not really well analogized to any Earth cultures, but occasionally has a kind of Middle Eastern vibe)

Myst: the Book of Atrus and Myst: the Book of Ti’ana (video game tie-ins; D’ni culture is based somewhat on various Semitic cultures and is the center of the series; books also notable for having a LOT to say on the evils of colonialism)

Ico (also based on a video game, but Ico feels sort of Mesopotamian)

Three Parts Dead and Two Serpents Rise are part of Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence. The third book is set in pseudo-Hawaii, the fourth in the same pseudo-Mesoamerican city as Two Serpents Rise, and the fifth in the setting of Three Parts Dead, which personally I’ve always read as pseudo-New York, but idk if that was what was intended. Haven’t read the sixth one yet.

Rise of the Rain Queen by Fiona Zedde is lesbian historical fantasy set in southern Africa. (Incidentally, the title character in the above-mentioned Tomoe Gozen books is also a lesbian. Having only read the first book, I didn’t like the apparently-endgame love interest as much as the not-endgame love interest, but it was kind of great that Tomoe’s reaction to basically every woman she meets is “she’s so beautiful *_*”)

Also in the Somewhere, But Not Medieval Europe category is N. K. Jemisin’s other series, the Broken Earth trilogy, but that’s had so much buzz I don’t know if anyone actually needs me to recommend it.

Lian Hearn, author of the Tales of the Otori, has a second Japan-set historical fantasy series as well, Tale of Shikanoko.

The Fated Blades series is urban fantasy set in modern Japan, though honestly if I weren’t so starved for urban fantasy with a female protagonist that’s not romance-focused I don’t know that I would have found it particularly memorable.

Jade City by Fonda Lee has a pseudo-China/Hong Kong setting. I… strongly disliked it, but a lot of people love it, so YMMV.

I could probably dig up more, but ten pages back in my Goodreads history is as far as I’m willing to go right now.

I highly recommend the Stormlight Archive, where the most prominent culture has a more Asian theme to it.

telltalegames: azvee: I had to look up what ‘glass him’ was,...

Tue, 05 Jun 2018 07:46:56 -0400

telltalegames:

azvee:

I had to look up what ‘glass him’ was, and I was not disappointed.

GUYS.

This is like the opposite of [Comfort Her]

largepiratebooty: Forget the N64 there’s only one skipped...

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 05:32:28 -0400

largepiratebooty:

Forget the N64 there’s only one skipped generation for Metroid I really regret

I don’t understand myself, either.

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 18:25:06 -0400

I don’t understand myself, either.