hey! I’m Zanreo (she/they/ze) and I’m mostly just vibing here on this site, reblogging and posting whatever I like but mostly the former tbh
might add more later…?
Someone once brought up that valid point in the tags when reblogging that post one day and I felt like being a butt about it, I hope you’ll forgive me
(…But also to add on this: I’m not even asking for general audiences media, any mainstream media where sex is present and OK (GOD KNOWS there’s a ton of those too) would do to begin with, ohwull)
You are going to be turned into something distinctly non-human. Please select your transformation.
Mind uploaded into a computer with no humanoid traits
Turned into a chimera (random body parts replaced with those of various animals)
Upgraded into an immortal super soldier using the blood of a dead god
Given to the Faries to become one of their playthings
Twisted into a demonic form that reflects your sins as a mortal
Body completely obliterated to turn you into a wraithlike spirit
Killed and raised as a revenant
Turned into a werewolf whose wolf side slowly takes over more and more
Allowed to fully fuse with an alien parasite
Converted into a telekinetic vampire that lacks any sex characteristics
Upgraded into a cyborg that cannot pass for human at all
Cursed into being a small animal
The fact that they named it the “Streisand Effect”, prompting everyone who doesn’t know to look up why it’s called that, is appropriately the be-all end-all ultimate example of the effect.
good news for weird little critter enthusiasts
(me included)
GOLDEN MOLE POST SPOTTED
I hate when an artist gets exposed for being a bad person and people start the narrative “why would you even want to listen to their shitty music” when are we going to be freed from the idea that only good people create good art and bad people create bad art. It just makes it harder for these types of people to be exposed because now you got people thinking “how is this possible, his music is so good!”
more controversial (for tumblr at least) addition to this - the argument that “people should have known based on the subject matter of the songs” is also extremely unhelpful. Songs can be fictional and cathartic depictions of bad emotions or thoughts and I don’t think they should be used as evidence that someone is bad. If that subject matter makes you uncomfortable especially given hindsight that’s one thing, but I don’t think that should be confused with “evidence” or a sign “people should have known”. I think this line of thinking just ensures artists are going to make much more boring music
filterable picrew database!
hey pals!! i’m working on a filterable, tagged collection of picrew i like. right now there’s about 60 picrew (and other such makers such as those from neka or meiker) in there with tags for things like fashion, hair options, skin colors, specific features like horns or headscarves, and body types. you can search for multiple tags at a time and filter out tags you don’t want. the whole thing is organized in a big grid of sample results from the picrew in question, so you can see the style at a glance and click it for more images and the url, but you can change the view and organization system however you like.
the link is here!!! feel free to share this wherever. i’m still going through my folders and adding more makers, so expect lots of updates real soon.
i’m hoping this makes it easier for people to find picrew that suit them and their characters, especially in cases where it’s unfortunately harder to find certain features like dark skin options and fat bodies.
have fun!!!! i hope this is helpful for people!!!
For those unaware, Super Mario Maker for the Wii U disabled uploading levels in March of 2021, and is shutting down its servers entirely in April of this year. I don’t know if there’s a good estimate on how many levels have been created in SMM’s lifetime, but in 2016 Nintendo reported about 7.5 million levels created by players, so the number is High.
In the meantime there is a community dedicated to taking every level that has yet to be cleared for the first time, and clearing it. Some of these levels take 6-10 hours of attempts to beat, and some of them use obscure glitches that no one else has discovered. Nevertheless, as of a few months ago there were less than 20,000 uncleared levels and currently there are less than 1,000.
Nothing remains but the most difficult platform experiences you can imagine. The community is confident they can “beat Super Mario Maker” but the deadline is fast approaching. It will be a tight race, and this is shaping up to be a potentially historic moment.
As of yesterday, all levels uploaded in 2016 have been cleared.
There are now 10 levels left.
We’re looking at a full clear by Friday.
It is Thursday, Ides of March Eve, and there are 3 levels left before every single level in Super Mario Maker has been beaten by someone.
Imagine being the person that made a level so hard that literally every level ever made in this engine has been beaten except yours and 2 others.
Additional update, March 15th. There is now 1 level remaining.
This image is the entire level. The end goal is at the red door at the right, which is connected to the red door at the top left. Meaning if you follow that little zig-zag upward to that door, you beat the level.
The level takes 17 seconds to beat. Or it would, if anyone but the level creator had ever beaten it.
At the exact time of writing this post there have been 92,333 attempts at beating this level across 1,115 players. That means on average each person has made 83 attempts at this 17-second level. According to youtuber/Mario player Grand POOBear, yesterday it had somewhere around 50,000 attempts, which means that over the course of about 24 hours Mario has died 40,000 times to this one level.
toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account:
hey since it’s coming up again: no it’s not a good thing that the government wants to ban tiktok. no you should not be glad that the government might ban tiktok. no you should not respond to this with “good riddance” or “hurry up I hate that app”. I should not have to explain this to you but the government banning a social media app is still a bad thing even if you don’t like the UI or booktok or having to say “unalive” or how you think it’s killing the very notion of attention spans. It’s still bad. It’s bad.
The Chinese govt is genuinely pretty awful (they really do not get enough flak for how they handled early covid, they were actively suppressing information about it, they might have been able to strangle it in the crib if they weren’t so institutionally dysfunctional) but also American concerns about China are like 95% the most idiotic xenophobic bullshit. I guess a big part of it is that the Chinese govt is mostly bad because of what it does to Chinese people and your average American doesn’t give a shit about Chinese people, theyre worried about what it will do to *them*, but like. It’s not gonna do anything to them
once you stop automatically accepting it as the default and start to notice how like 99.99% of feminine characters in anything, art, movies, games, etc. are literally skinnier than the average irl woman it’s gonna make you go fucking insane.
putting a gun to the head of every character designer. make some fat women. make some muscular women. make femboys with chub. make femme nonbinary people with some damn meat on them. unlearn your misogynistic association between femininity and skinniness as inherently linked or perish from this world.
Wishing all undiagnosed/partially diagnosed people a very doctors listening to you and providing you with more testing than a blood draw and even possibly providing treatment 2024