Hey, I'm Birdie.
Things you can expect here include: tabletop and video games, comics and books, history and dead things, animals and folklore, chronic illness and disability.
most important thing to remember about being a woman is if youre married you have to go under the covers with your husband and laugh cutely and play wrestle so when you die to progress the narrative he can remember it in slow motion montages
Randomly thinking about how one time I went to a summer college course while I was in high school and the big gossip was about how this one girl who didn’t shave her pits was gross and slutty because… get this… she and her boyfriend had come back to this summer college course for three years just so they could see each other because they lived in different places… and she didn’t shave her armpits.
Even at the time (I was like… 14) I remember being like “…I don’t even know these people and this doesn’t make sense so I don’t care”.
Now, as an adult? It’s legitimately both so funny and so fucked up that all a girl had to do to be labeled as a slut was… excel academically to be able to attend this summer program so she could see her boyfriend of SEVERAL YEARS, who she met in this summer program. And also she doesn’t shave her armpits, which is gross and weird and somehow deviant.
I passed out during that summer program bc I wasn’t eating enough, and I remember in the ER, just barely having returned to consciousness, I apologized to the doctor because I hadn’t shaved my legs.
It’s insane to me that I tested positive for one tree and like two weeds that I’m allergic to but every time I step outside right now I have an instant pressure headache and feel like shit.
My beloved is even worse, they had like three or four each of trees and grass pollens they’re positive for. It’s awful. Pollen is off the fucking charts, my car in entombed in the slutty tree dust every day and there’s no end in sight.
most of the talk on this website about Game Changer is how Sam Reich psychologically tortures his contestants, but I want to make it clear to the uninitiated that he's actually extremely ethical about it
He sends out a company wide email and asks them to choose episodes based on a chili pepper rating system
meaning he doesn't put 🌶️🌶️ people into 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ episodes
they're also big on consent ie cast and crew have to be okay with it before they'll do nudity or something like that in an episode
it's like the bdsm of psychological torture. safe, sane, and consensual.
the contestants know what they're getting into, and they're full down
yknow i never noticed the sheer rareness of images having ids or alt text on this website until i started adding alt text to my art (and trying to remember to add it to any images i post in general, especially text screenshots) and that makes me kinda sad
MCYT raised over a million dollars to make video games - normalcy and comfort and distraction and joy - available to hospitalized children with their gaming carts. The Hermitcraft community push for this was organized by a disabled man who regularly has to be hospitalized, and cares so much for making life better for hospitalized children.
If there's anything more good, constructive and wholesome, I don't know what to tell you.
this is an actually incredible dogshit take im obsessed