#It Was To Make You Buy Their Shit

[rukafais]

Thinking about the time I saw people getting pissy about "how dare ra salvatore claim he created the drow in forgotten realms! he's being so domineering!" and its like He did though. He literally did. Drizzt Do'urden of House Do'Urden from Menzoberranzan is the progenitor of every other drow in Forgotten Realms literally ever, because that was what they asked him to do as a result of suggesting a drow sidekick who became more popular than the actual protagonist for his novels. All drow lore in Forgotten Realms is quite literally in conversation, or opposition, to him because it's a giant group project and the novels ran alongside the gameline. You get a narrow view of drow worldbuilding from Drizzt's perspective because They Wanted You To Buy The Sourcebooks And The Peripherals. Ed Greenwood's Drow of the Underdark sourcebook explicitly references Drizzt and tells you to look at the Drizzt novels for more stuff because it's all in service to the Dungeons and Dragons brand ahhhhh

#anyway it just bothers me that drizzt is framed as either the worst of drow lore or some kind of exclusionary thing and its like #what was going on with the novels and gameline products in TSR is both far simpler and more complicated than that #It Was To Make You Buy Their Shit #they were trying to recapture the success of Dragonlance with different properties

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

got a worm nibbling my brain. can someone help me find a piece of obscure media?

webcomic/indie comic from the 2010s. basically a sci-fi short story about a young girl (with red hair?) who was being raised by scientists as part of an experiment. she receives a haircut/has her head shaved, in preparation for her annual brain scan/testing. it is revealed that while her body is human, her "brain" is artificial, made of computer implants throughout her skull and spine. at some point her biological mother (also a scientist on the same campus?) encounters her and is repulsed, viewing her as a machine who has murdered her daughter.

it was very poignant and it bruised my heart and i can NOT find it anywhere

#i thought it was made by the creator of 'O Human Star' for some reason but apparently not? #goddammit goddammit goddammit #'i don't have to write down the title of this piece of media i encountered in my formative years bc i'll always remember it' #*cut to ten years later frantic googling* #fun fact 'a.i.' is now a completely useless search term #google in general is useless #and stuff i read 3+ years ago regularly vanishes from the internet #bookmarks are not enough! if you like indie media--download that shit! buy digital/physical copies while you can #save it to the cloud back it up and organize that shit!!! #keep a list of the stuff you read (organized by date/media type and possibly with keywords if you want it to be useful longterm) #(or a spreadsheet even if you're like me and rabidly consume short stories/comics like a pack of amnesiac piranhas on a feeding frenzy) #(that stuff PILES UP over the years ok. if you wanna make sure you'll be able to find it again a decade later--curation is key) #because art WILL touch your soul and then vanish into the void leaving naught but a 404 Error in its wake #i am an old man shaking my fist at the kids on my lawn but the kids on my lawn are me and my longterm digital planning skills circa 2012

[confusedmothboy]

main party as political slogans plus izutsumi (i wanna turn these into stickers so bad)

#art #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #drawing #fanart #laios touden #chilchuck tims #marcille donato #senshi of izganda #izutsumi #dungeon meshi fanart #eat the rich #acab #i had two ideas for marcille i hope you guys appreciate the creativity #genuinely though would anyone buy these cause i made em for shits and giggles #but if i cleaned em up theyd be sticker-ifiable #do these even make sense do yall see my vision

[intotheelliwoods]

Pre-orders have arrived! <- Come get your boy!

Closing the listing on late Sunday the 19th! Shipping should start no later than December 21st, assuming theres no overseas shipping delays, and assuming they keychains dont get lost to transit hell!

#ell becomes an etsy seller arc #2al merch #a perfect buy if you want your keychain like 2 days after christmas LMAO #rottmnt #rise leo #leonardo hamato #probably going to be rbing this a few times till sunday #want to make sure everyone has a chance to get their hands on this guy since this is probably going to be the last batch #(I might keep making keychains but it would not be this design) #(looks at sprout keychain..... hmmmm maybe. if demand is high enough) #also this is going to help me so much #so I can figure out how much demand I actually have for my shit #oh my gosh #I cannot for the life of me tell how many of you are going to want to buy something so #preorders it is #at least then after the preorders I can gauge how popular my stuff would be and can plan more accordingly without preorders then

[veggiecorner]

Here's a cute thought: Zelda definitely only knows how to cook her meat and rice bowl because she kept asking Link what his favorite meal was and he insisted he likes anything but one day just goes "meat and rice i guess" and she spent weeks trying to get at least one good attempt at the dish as thanks

#yes this is gonna be in my fanfic ehehe #link: princess this is really cute and sweet of you but i had to buy 7 chunks of prime meat this isn't cheap #she kept messing up aksjdbakjsdb #but she eventually got it!! and the effort makes link cry shit and throw up #zelink #totk #botw #dont get me wrong link does 99% of the cooking btw

[bunnymothmartyr]

"dont put shit on the floor" does the rent we pay every month not include the floor too, mother? When god sings with his creations, will the floor not be a part of the choir?

#free real estate #i put my shit wherever i want #im TWENTY #“dont put yout stuff on the floor” is a ploy by big furniture to make you buy more shelves that are unstable require assembly take up space #while the floor is there #is stable #dirt will get on stuff just as much as it does on a shelf #no assembly it came with your house i hope #LET ME PUT SHIT ON MY FLOOR #this is america #i live in italy #im just a creature #the floor is the closest to the ground #my shit is in touch with nature #and its creations #and it marvels #my shit is happier on the FLOOR

[padawansuggest]

Obi-Wan wears Gucci, Luke wears Chanel, Leia wears some brand more expensive than any of them have ever seen before having been made for her directly by the designer and no brand logos cause that shit is for plebs (and sugar babies according to Obi-Wan), Padme wears every colour of the rainbow at once and massive wigs and looks like a peacock at all times (don’t ask for her designer her designer is drunk and does 7 lines of spice per dress) and Anakin wears Sprocs (Space Crocs) and whatever smells the lease like motor oil on his bedroom floor.

#don’t you DARE imply Din is Luke’s sugar daddy okay that man is a sugar baby for life fuck you #star wars #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #luke skywalker #leia organa #leia skywalker #padme naberrie #padme amidala #din isn’t a part of the family I’m just making sure you guys don’t ever ever ever imply that he would buy designer omfg #he’s on par with Leia in coutor designer fashion and handmade baby bags #he’s got sugar baby looks but ‘I earned this’ lifestyle #he’s high maintenance but he’s payin for his own shit so he’s allowed to be #cody is also a sugar baby but he’s the sugar baby to a sugar baby you know what I mean #rex and Ahsoka are just running around in dirty leggings and trying to keep everyone else in line

[arcticaquantum]

my wife (the talent) @yocholol doesn't really use tumblr so i thought i'd plug our new tapestry. been workin real hard on it. yocholol.com if you'd like one

#tapestry #fine art #how do you make professional tags lol #buy our shit pls

[cluescorner]

I cannot imagine being a Damian stan right now. You've got both Zdarsky's bullshit (where he clearly doesn't give a shit about your boy) and The Boy Wonder (where Juni Ba clearly gives so many shits about your boy) coming out on the same day. The whiplash must be insane. I hope y'all get some nice warm soup for your efforts jfc

#damian wayne #damian al ghul #damian al ghul wayne #batman #batfamily #for all of the issues that come with having Steph as your fave having too much wild shit happening at once is never one of them #btw I quite like The Boy Wonder Issue 1. wow shocker an artist and writer who I have liked everything they've ever done #has once again written something that I am enjoying with art that makes me want to be part of its world. #it's almost like Juni Ba is really freaking talented or something #like I have some problems with it but it seems like many of those are part of the point. Damian is learning that his siblings are more #three-dimensional than he realized and that is part of this 'coming of age' story merged with fairytale #so I can't be mad at the oversimplistic defining of Dick and Jason and Tim until the conclusion of the series. that might be the point. #I hope that the series will address Steph as a Robin but if not then frankly it's not an issue unique to this series. #I'll be annoyed and disappointed but ultimately roll with it like I am with Babsgirl being here. There's too much good stuff here to get #hung up on shit that seems to be almost an editorial mandate at this point. at least that's where I'm at. #I am also very sorry that Chip Zdarsky is massacring your boy. he has 'X (Tim for him) is the best Robin so everyone else must suck' diseas #where a writer really likes one specific Robin and in trying to uplift them demeans all of the other Robins. instead of like...just writing #for that one character only or alternatively not demeaning the other characters in order to make his blorbo look good #it's wild because I actually think his writing for Tim is pretty solid. but he's not writing a Tim series. he's writing a Batman series. #and if you are going to write a Batman series and include other Batfamily members you need to actually write them well. #instead of assigning them like 2 personality traits while Tim gets to be a whole character #I accept that behavior in fanfic where I have lesser standards because it's fucking free. not a comic run that wants me to pay #tens of dollars in order to understand what the fuck is going on. he's been going for a while now it's gotta be a lot of money. #I can buy Steelworks with that money. I can see John Henry and Natasha Irons in a trade. Fuck you Chip. #it's why it takes such a special person to write a good ensemble story/a good Batfamily story. you have to be good at writing a LOT #of different characters. which I don't think most people are. I sure as hell am not. I can write maybe 3 at a time confidently well. #and you also have to give all of them at least SOME love or else people will be upset that you aren't focusing on their fave #and also the writing as a whole will suffer. Chip Zdarsky is a pretty good Tim writer. I'd maybe read a Tim solo written by him. #I would not read a story focusing on multiple characters that I like written by Chip Zdarsky. because every character who isn't Tim #is at least a bit weak/inconsistent/out of character INCLUDING FUCKING BATMAN. THE NO. 1 GUY MOST ARE HERE FOR

[berrysquared]

Hotguy and Cuteguy, being silly on rooftops patrolling the city at dawn

#grian #goodtimeswithscar #hotguy the siege #hermitcraft #desertduo #hermitcraft fanart #mcyt fanart #hotguy gtws #berry art #superhero au #IM BACK BESTIES #sorry for the very long break whoops #i imagine those two like doing very early patrols together where they buy breakfast menu from mcdonalds and then goof around #its all ‘we have to make sure no crime is happening’ but be honest. no villain is doing villain shit at 5am #those two just like to be dumbasses on rooftops #yeah #i bet grian goes ‘ theres no way you can shoot that trashcan from mere’ and scar goes bET

[feroluce]

Connecting dots tonight (didn't connect shit, I've connected them, etc) because of this post about item descriptions to do with Sampo I saw a few days ago and! I feel like there are so many interesting things that could be implied from this!! Because the recipe for the High-Tech Protective Gear is given to you by Bronya (before the IPC invaded Belobog!), who says this little interesting tidbit about it:

This is an item from before the Eternal Freeze, 700 years ago. Even to the rest of the universe, it would be SORELY outdated. It cannot be made in Belobog anymore due to the loss of entire eras. It is effectively useless; this recipe had to be somewhere gathering dust, kept around solely for archival purposes. There is no reason for Sampo to know about this item or have any idea how it works and yet. AND YET. He's just running around selling knock offs!!

He shouldn't even know how to make these, but the fact that he does means Sampo either

had the blueprints from off-world before he came to Belobog (most likely but also most boring answer)

broke into Qlipoth Fort and copied down the blueprints (completely plausible - he's possibly shown doing exactly that in his splash art)

found another copy out in the ruins of the old world (also completely plausible - Sampo is astoundingly resilient against both the Fragmentum and the cold, as noted by Lynx haha)

Meanwhile, the Inferior Protective Gear recipe comes from an NPC in the underground, and when she gives it to you, she talks about building robots and the robot fighting scene sorry about the quality I didn't have screenshots for her dialogue so I had to use wiki

Which makes me feel like it's safe to say that the inferior gear is mostly being used in the underground, especially by the vagrants and their robots for fights, because...well, who else would use it? Cocolia has made it illegal to explore too far into the Snow Plains, and besides, it's way too dangerous for most civilians even WITH gear. The Silvermane Guards are funded by official sources, they have no reason to rely on Sampo for armor. So it makes sense for an underground mechanic to know the recipe; there's probably not as much market for it up in the overworld.

And if you look at the descriptions, you can see why this probably wasn't something that could be made in Belobog anymore; it requires a charging system of some sort.

We know it's not a problem with the basic materials because all three ingredients can be found right in the administrative district. But the underground only has two of them; somehow, despite being in the planet's crust, and literally crawling with robots...there is no metal down there. It isn't found anywhere, sold by anyone, or dropped by anything. And metal just so happens to be the one ingredient Sampo replaces in his knock off version.

The Inferior Gear uses trash instead, something which, going by the words of that same mechanic, is MORE than abundant in the underground- any good quality parts are extremely difficult to come by down there.

Anyway, all his shadiness aside, I love the implication that Sampo is smart enough to be able to take this item that no one else on the planet probably knows anything about, and was able to figure out what he could replace, and how, and with what, in order to make it easily accessible to the people of the underground, even without access to overworld resources. Because his version DOES work! It literally gives you the exact same amount of defense boost as the IPC one!

Someone should absolutely still knock him around for it, though, world's most slappable face fr fjkdsjfdkjafk

#hsr sampo #hsr sampo koski #sampo koski #honkai star rail #hsr #belobog #he's such a slimeball fjklsdajfkld #I feel like there is something to be said though about the fact that if anyone in the underground is buying this shit armor off Sampo like. #it's either his armor or it's nothing. the overworld isn't exactly sending them a lot of protective gear. #And I'm sure they'd rather have cheap armor they can make and afford themselves than nothing at all. #I wonder if Wildfire would be one of his customers for this stuff or not? #like I think Sampo would be a lot more upfront with them if they were- he's not stupid enough to bite the hand that feeds him. #And Natasha is probably his most important client. We already know Sampo smuggles weapons and is her arms dealer. #It's canon that he brought Seele her scythe- #-and I wonder if it's coincidence that Natasha uses a giant weapon that looks similar to the Silvermane hand canons. #I could totally see Sampo trying to sell his armor to ring fighters to fix the matches in his favor though FJKDLSJAFDKLJ #we already know he bets on the fight club from his About Luka line and his dialogue from the Cyrille the Fool quests #so I'm sure he'd be gambling on the robot fights out by Svarog's encampment too haha #do you think they have penny bets for the kids for that kind of fight #crying imagining Hook tagging along and betting single credits on the fights alongside Sampo's much heftier bets #she still wins more than he does JKLDJSKLAJDS

[communistkenobi]

now that I haven’t lived with my parents for almost two years I’m starting to come to terms with myself as a full human being. and like idk I can’t really complain about my parents too much in terms of their overall parenting of me, I feel like I’m lucky in a lot of respects just based on the horrific shit some of my friends/family have gone through, but I feel like one consequence of how much my parents fucking hated each other for my entire life is that I feel like I have no reference point for showing affection or being emotionally considerate/vulnerable, those things tend to make me deeply uncomfortable and disempower me to do nice things for the people I love. I feel like I have to really concentrate and spend time on emotional reciprocity and spontaneous gifts/gestures of love. genuinely just kind of sucks how much my parents despise one another and how their constant fighting and days-long silent treatments over the course of 25 years has made me feel inadequate to the task of showing the people I care about how much I love them

#also protestantism will do this to you which is definitely some of it #my therapy insurance renewed for this year maybe I should do a couple sessions about this lol #I feel like I’m making progress on it but it genuinely feels really difficult. It’s like I don’t know what to do with myself #also the middle class thing of just buying shit to express affection #it’s so hollow and meaningless & it’s given me a really cynical and utilitarian perspective on giving gifts #which sucks! I don’t like having that view of gifts. possibly one of the oldest human social practices in all of history #aside from maybe art

[quotidianish]

See look romantic interpretations are goated but it would be funny if they really were just friends who didn’t know the difference between romantic and platonic gestures

#starts of small. sure you can buy your pal flowers on Valentine’s Day #even if it means standing in the pouring rain for hours #but then they start making out on a bed of rose petals and caption it with shit like #‘Friday night with the boys!! Friends gotta stick together 🔥🔥💥💥’ #tf2 #art #fruit scones #boots n bombs #tf2 soldier #tf2 medic #tf2 demoman #Quotidianish

[mossytines]

"Agent Milton was just doing his job" STOP SUCKING HIS DICK OH MY LORD. I DON'T CARE IF HE WAS HONEST OR FAIR HE STILL DID THAT BULLSHIT IN LAKAY IN CHAPTER 5 WHEN HE KNEW ABOUT JACK'S PRESENCE, ACTIVELY PUTTING A CHILD IN DANGER FOR SOME RICH GUY MONEY.

HE STILL.. IS A PINKERTON. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S NOTORIOUS FOR BEING CRUEL, I WON'T REALLY RESPECT OR TRUST ANYBODY WHO'S IN SAID SOMETHING.

DOING HIS JOB OR NOT, HE DOESN'T HAVE A RESPECTABLE JOB.

#i dont know bruh its the same with cops #you cant be “one of the good ones” if youre all working to push the same cruel and unjust laws #also not to say that the gang hasnt done bad shit because its obvious they have #but bad person vs bad person doesnt make one of them better #also people supporting milton because he was “”just doing his job“” seem to ignore the major themes of morality doesnt always equal legality #okay ill stop ranting in the tags #just stop dickriding cops please #milton isnt a cop. just some guy paid buy a rich asshole #by this time the pinkertons wouldnt be able to work with the us government because of the anti pinkerton act in 1893 #big L honestly #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #arthur morgan #red dead redemption #rdr2 arthur #red dead #arthur rdr2 #red dead 2

[zooophagous]

I see some notes on that Lovecraft post all "why aren't we also willing to look past Harry Potter if we're able to for Cthulu" and I gotta say death of the author works a loooot better when the author is actually dead.

#hp lovecraft cant donate a bunch of money to politicians who want to put trans people in camps because hes dead and in hell #joanne is regrettably still here crying her piggy eyes out about being called a terf while refusing to stop being a terf #if lovecraft were still alive and making money off of his truly mediocre short stories it would behoove you not to buy cthulu merch too #as it stands now youre just giving money to a bunch of crappy media companies that sell nerd shit and may or may not be racist themselves

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

job applications: this is entry level! anyone can apply!

job applications: ...as long as you've done at least six months of highly specific work, or have this exact degree, or if you kissed a chicken during the last moon of 2012-

#im back in the trenches bois its Not Looking Great #gonna apply to this stupid thing anyway but #it looks like stockin grocery store shelves is the way im gonna go #unless i get Very lucky or manage to bullshit my way into this job #college isn't necessary but Man a lot of places want you to attend. no <3 #but noooo instead i have to like. work. till i die. and never make enough money to live comfortably. sigh #sometimes i think to myself 'i should make video essays on youtube and see if that goes anywhere' #and sometimes i think 'i should scribble up things that people would buy and make a shop' #and sometimes i think 'what if i killed someone with a stick. would that be fucked up or what' #absolutely unprompted #AGHHHHHHHH THE BOXES WE AS HUMANITY HAVE LOCKED OURSELVES INTO IM GONNA LOSE IT #i was born to be a handsome decoration / weird little artist for eccentric wealthy people #i was meant to drape myself across a beautiful philanthropist woman's lap and doodle lil animals for her #while she rambles and feeds me grapes #yk. if i did make a shop i could have an extra section for small crochet things #coasters. small hand warmers. tiny shapes. simple cat toys. that sorta thing. quick and easy stuff #i could make them w/ specific colors so that they're subtle fandom themed #i literally have a coaster in damian's robin colors... a black/red SB square... #hm. thinking #oh shit i gotta work on that new commission sheet #OH NO. I FORGOR SOMETHING I SHOULD NOT HAVE FORGOR. I HAVE MADE A LITTLE FUCKY WUCKY #excuse me everyone i have something to finish