Learning a second language is an exercise in becoming less concerned with looking like a fool.
I am constantly using "baby" language or stringing together words that have no business going together at an attempt to communicate. Many laughs are had. I cannot allow myself to care.
Shoutout to the homie @fdsignifier.bsky.social for putting this out and pointing people to advocates!
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Miniature de vidéo Youtube. On voit Maëlle de Clair Obscur Expedition 33 à l'avant, et Renoir de dos derrière. Il est écrit : "Clair Obscur, jeu de facho ?"
Salut.
Ca fait cinq ans que j'étudie comment le nationalisme et le colonialisme ont des échos dans le jeu vidéo.
J'ai rarement vu un jeu aussi misogyne, orientaliste et inconsciemment droitard qu'Expedition 33.
🥖💀 youtu.be/Z8M8q80bTKg 💀🥖
An illustration of a black wolf decorated with pink, white, and light blue flowers. Hand-lettering around the wolf reads “Defend Trans Lives, Fight for Trans Rights.
I’ve been trying to use my art to be more visible in the world as a trans person, I hope it helps others know they aren’t alone.
Aspenhearted.com if you’d like this on a shirt or sticker ❤️🏳️⚧️
I'm so sick of people not understanding that ChatGPT is not a search engine and they need to stop using it like it's one. Frankly, they could stop using it at all!!!!
I'm finally reading Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and I'm getting angrier and angrier because this should not have been a movie, it should have been a mini-series. So much of this got truncated and it took away so many brilliant and integral moments. GUH
Americans haven't won a war since Korea, they should be used to it by now. Return of the Cmo... @cmon... • 16m I don't know if Americans are prepared to see us lose a war with Iran
Not sure how else to say this other than we didn’t win the Korean War
Something about your little avatar's expression with the text in the background just makes this extra comical.
Same! And I'm so happy to hear they're already thinking about/working on the next album!! Usually every Gorillaz album has felt like it would potentially be the last so Damon and Jamie talking about a long future for Gorillaz has brought me so much joy!!!
I actually showed some of my art to someone I met at a social bar here in Korea and he mentioned that it reminded him of Gorillaz, and it had never occurred to me that maybe there were hints of their influence on my own art like that.
I'm really just so glad that a very tiny me saw the Clint Eastwood music video and immediately Gorillaz was my favorite band. Their music, creativity, and collaborations have really added something lovely through the tapestry of my life.
Happy friday! Ben and I are live with what we expect is the finale of Divinity: Original Sin! Come hang out?
twitch.tv/benjenvolio
I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it
BTW it is EXTREMELY common for academic papers to declare Lara Croft the first playable female game character (a very easy fact to debunk). As a grad student I wrote a paper that traced every appearance of this "fact" to a single paper, which is why you don't only engage with academic texts!!
atp, it actually feels like a part of the voter suppression tactic itself. writing everybody off instead of figuring out what you can do to remedy disconnects in our communities. that instinct is not serving the people.
Traditional looking digital art of Gen 1 Ghost Pokémon (Gastly, Haunter, Gengar). They have a grainy paper tone ‘feel’ with shiny spots to simulate a subtle shiny candy look. Using a mix of pencil, texture, and marker brushes provided by artist, Olga Ortiz aka olguioo on gumroad.
Gummy Ghosts!
Someone had recently described my art like gummy candy and I couldn’t resist ✨🍬✨
✦ #gengar / #art / #pokemon ✦
Like, can some of ya’ll pls get a grip and also maybe work on your insufferable personalities cuz the vibes are a public toilet that hasn’t been cleaned in months.
I have to be so honest, much of the culture online surrounding Final Fantasy is just… douchebag nonsense.
There are lessons to be learned here not only for entertainment space, but political space.
And: never forget that ultimately, all space is political space.
I’m just writing the first draft, about 14k words in so far. But I’ve been chipping away at it pretty quickly!!
If you lead with anger, if your politics is built out of grievance, then you’re always looking for a target for your anger. But the path to liberation is one built out of love, out of wanting to no longer feel hatred in your heart.
I actually do think a lot of white Americans think activism is about yelling people into submission
My biggest 2026 goal is to finish the first draft of my manuscript and then push it onto my friends as involuntary beta-readers.
Newest post is shared to my patreon.
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Like culture posts on this app simply don’t get the engagement and I think it’s because people feel it’s frivolous and actually it’s the thing we are fighting for, the freedom to make culture and cultural works
If Collins does have another book in the works for THG, I do sort of think it'd be hella cool if it was from either Asterid or Prim's POV.
guys.. GUYS!
Gorillaz has released two trailers in anticipation of their new album's only music video.
It will be an 8-minute animated film titled "The Mountain, The Moon Cave, and The Sad God" ENTIRELY HAND-DRAWN ANIMATION. I'm talking techniques from The Jungle Book!
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"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.
