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team rocket bisexual power couple

#also they're t4t i adore them both #don't get me started on how many of their 'nefarious schemes' involve kinky roleplay #Goals. #< previous tags #TRUE #SO TRUE

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Binders are hand wash only and I've STRUGGLED and i cannot recommend enough: get your ass an antique washboard! Get one with a textured glass board! Rub soap onto the textured part of the glass and then rub your binder against it and all sweat and soil fucking disappears! This washboard must have been a huge game changer for our ancestors who used to have to lay shit on a rock and beat it with a stick. The textured glass washboard makes hand washing so fucking easy! Trans man lifehack, wash your tit holster like a Victorian lady!!

#willow bookmarks #given I've accepted I'm like??? most likely trans in some way or something is happening with the gender #this is handy

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the horror I had when I realized I missed the coffee talk Neil/Silver fan week. I've been so swamped with school and work and everything that I completely forgot I was supposed to PARTICIPATE AAAAA. I wanted to at least :( oh well, we'll live laugh love regardless! I'll just look through the tags and enjoy the works of others and replay hibiscus and butterfly once again.

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is anyone else feeling stuck and waiting for something that will never come in order to start living or is it just me?

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i watched My Neighbor Totoro for the first time, here's my chronological viewing experience:

woo-hoo! dusty old japanese house with japanese architectural details aplenty

these kids got some ENERGY my goodness

family dynamic's adorable. peak quality dad humor

kids: our house is haunted. parents: that's so cool!

hell yeah, wrinkled old lady rep. we need more friendly old women with potato faces and warts like storybook witches. the backbone of society, these ladies

Plot Summary: Small Child Bothers Local Wildlife

sacred tree sacred tree sacred tree

Introducing Totoro! nobody said this fucker's got TEETH???

Uh-Oh! Inadequate Parental Supervision Detected

(you misplaced your four year old! you're not supposed to do that)

4-year-old: i met a magic forest spirit. dad: oh shit fr?

4-year-old: *angrily hugs sister* missed u bitch

this small child has a smile like a toad. like a really really cute toad. like the cutest toad in all existence. i love her she's perfection please just let this child be happy

rice paddies are so pretty....so back breaking....rice is such a prissy crop

*my crush is stranded in a rainstorm* takethisumbrellait'syoursnowBYE *runs away in panic im so good at flirting*

Giant Chinchilla Learns To Hold Umbrella, Is Fucking Delighted By Experience

take this, it will help you on your quest! *hands u trail mix wrapped in a leaf*

LO-FI HIP HOP STUDY LIST!

crouching down to peer at dirt--A++ top notch foundational childhood experience

mom has a big ass forehead

honey! the chinchillas are performing Rituals in the backyard again

help yeah let's jack and the bean stalk this shit

huh so we're all just climbing aboard the giant chinchilla's tiddies now ok

class trip!

the pure adrenaline of Vegetable Gardening

no! the small child is crying! she is bawling her eyes out. no no no. i can't cope with this. emotionally i cannot cope 🥺🥺🥺

i've only had Mei one hour but if anything happens to her i will raze this earth and everyone on it

please someone make this small child smile again

oh no the tall child is crying too

i can't take this. my heart can't take this.

i need a drink

small child running determined to deliver magic veggies to the hospital. this kid is my hero

she is also unsupervised. so, so unsupervised

babe you are FOUR

godDAMMIT ghibli, you cannot give me watercolor sunsets while a small child is missing. u are killing me. my heart is giving out. this is me, experiencing heart failure.

Totoro to the rescue!

no wait CATBUS to the rescue!

i admit i initially thought the cat was a creep. alice in wonderland prejudiced me. i have revised my notions of smiling cats

i've decided the cat is a metaphor for the magic of a robust public transport system

MEI'S OKAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and so is mom. she's a lovely lady im sorry for what i said about her forehead. it's a noble forehead.

happy ending YES bitch!!!!!!

ok. ok ok ok. that was magical.

(as a first-time adult viewer i was worried i wouldn't be able to Access the Magic. but i could and i did and it was incredible. that was culture. that was ART. joy distilled into animated form. holy rites of childhood. i understand now. how glorious, this world we grow out of. how full of marvels. i'm going outside to smell grass and sun and get dirt under my fingernails. miraculous.)

#my neighbor totoro #spoilers #YESSSSSS OMG MY FAVOURITE MOVIE #I am so glad that you watched and enjoyed it!!! #it is such a timeless piece of art my god

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something about substances so strong they can only be cut by that same substance (like diamond) gets to me. the self-fulfilling prophecy of it. you can armor yourself against any and all outside threats, but you're still beholden to your own nature.

#tiavdjsbdkdhajdjd #RAHHHH THIS MAKES ME INSANE ACTUALLY #man.

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could today be the perfect day for you to read a chapter of my visual novel, soul of sovereignty? it could be.

"what's it about?" two unlikely companions seek out the power to recreate their dying world in the all-pervading shadow of the capitalist church state

"that sounds heavy" it's about a mild-mannered wizard dad getting his shit rocked by a sexy clown

"ok, but i've never played a visual novel before. i'm scared." that is o.k. my friend. it's just like reading a regular novel, except it has pretty pictures and also music by my dear friend toby fox.

soulsov could be real... life could be dream...

what say you, traveler...?

#Soul of Sovereignty #oohhh???? interesting

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Milky Way Week: A Neil & Silver Fanweek

Our next event, Milky Way Week, will take place from March 4-8! Feel free to combine prompts or use them on any day you wish. The color palettes are another option which can be used however you'd like: art, edits, moodboards, general inspiration, etc. Any type of creative work involving either iteration of the character is welcome 💫

If you post your works under the tag #Milky Way Week 2024 and @ this blog, I'll reblog your work!

AO3 Collection | General Event Info

Further guidelines and plain text prompts below the cut:

All types of fanwork & all languages are welcome.

There are no content restrictions, but please tag ships and any necessary content warnings.

Use of generative AI is strictly prohibited.

There are no minimum or maximum word counts or other requirements.

Please be kind to your fellow creators. This is meant to celebrate a game we all love, and if you don't like someone's work, you don't have to engage with it.

Works may contain spoilers for in-game events-- use your own discretion if you haven't finished both episodes.

Prompts

March 4th: future | first date March 5th: identity | Earth customs March 6th: protect | S.A.V.E March 7th: family | Milky Way March 8th: free brew (free day)

Color Palettes

Earth

#395e66

#32936f

#84bcda

#f5bb00

#7a6263

Saturn

#66c5c4

#c3aa8a

#af7595

#424a54

#cbdbdf

Neptune

#111430

#3e5ee2

#6cb4fa

#3c47a9

#fffaff

Mars

#241715

#721121

#b75d69

#d48827

#fcd667

Uranus

#137547

#5efc8d

#14b8cd

#f4b266

#8377d1

#tomorrow!! I'm exciteddddd

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Announcing the Amare Games Festival 2024

Amare Games Festival 2024

Join us in April for the 2024 Amare Games Festival, a celebration of love and diversity in story-focused games!

For this festival we invite you to create or update a game that you believe falls under the Amare Genre tag!

What is Amare?

Why a festival?

Jams are an awesome way to get the creative juices flowing and challenge yourself to create a game in a short amount of time. However, there are already a lot of amazing projects in progress, so it's important to celebrate those and give people the opportunity to focus on setting and achieving goals with their existing projects as well.

Examples of Submissions

A new game.

A new demo or Vertical slice.

A new chapter update to an existing game.

Adding new features or content to an existing game.

The festival has fairly relaxed rules, but in general, we would like all participants to keep these in mind:

Rules:

You must Release or Update during the festival period. Work can be commenced before the start of the festival.

Please clearly label demos or first episodes as such. - This is to help us organise the entries

Please clearly state the exact update or new content that was added during the festival.

Submissions can be Free or Commercial.

NSFW must be properly labelled, but is fine as long as it adheres to Itch.io's TOS

No hate speech, (i.e. speech that promotes hatred, violence or discrimination against groups of people based on ethnicity, religion, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation.) or content that is patently offensive or intended to shock or disgust viewers.

Content Warnings are needed (Here is a link to help you with those if you need it!)

We currently do not support AI-generated games or games that make use of generative AI writing and art. Until legislation is put in place to ensure ethical training models that respect artist and creator copyright and regulate transparency on the use of AI in creative content, we will not allow the submission of games that utilise generative AI.

We kindly ask that you tag your game with the 'Amare' tag here on itch.io. This will ensure people who are watching the tag instead of just the jam page will see your game.

Join the discord to find others who are looking for festival partners, and to talk with other Amare Devs!

Sign up for the Festival on the Amare Games Festival Itch Page.

#Amare Games festival #Amare Game #Visual Novel #interactive fiction #Game Jam #Amare #definitely will be checking this out!!! not participating given I don't have the time but definitely checking it out

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God I fucking hate Olaf the snowman so fucking much holy shit. Holy shit, every frame he's in, every scene, every gif, every jpeg, he's got this painfully vacant, stupid as shit, fuckass look on his stupid lumpy face. Absolutely no part of his ugly as sin piece of shit character design is endearing. His stupid fucking legs? Who the hell makes a snowman with legs. His dumb flaily fucking twig arms? His shitty, lumpy bastard head? The three thousand percent unnecessary dumbass shitass fucking SNOW BUCK TOOTH that no snowman has EVER FUCKING HAD IN tHE HISTORY OF GOD'S GREEN FUCKING EARTH? God, I hate him. I hate him so much. So FUCKING much. Every time I see a stuffed toy Olaf or an Olaf gif or a shitty goddamn commercial, it ignites my primal rage response and I'm overcome by the need to punt this shitty little homunculus into the fucking sun. "Bhurr blur, I'm Olaf the fuckshit snow fucker, I like warm hugs". Fuck you. Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you. You look like Tow Mater summoned a patronus. Your dumb fucking twig hair makes your whole shitty head look like a hairy skin tag. I hate your dumb fucking lumpy carrot nose and your stupid, empty googly eyes and your over-the-top goofy ass upbeat asshole personality. Any scene he's sad it invokes all the wrath and fury of a spoiled child having a meltdown over a chocolate bar in a w*lmart checkout line. And I know its irrational. That's the worst part. I know he's just a shitty fucking side character in a stupid fucking children's movie, I know it doesn't matter, I know I shouldn't care. But that's part of the problem. The part where no matter the might and fury of my hatred, the locus of my homicidal intent is alltogether inconsequential. I find myself laying awake in the dark in the early hours of the morning consumed by the spirit of Wrath itself, all the force and might of a flaming hurricane directed at a bottle of piss in a ditch by the highway. The absurdity of it all burns me to my core. What better things could this energy be directed towards? And yet my disdain for this stupid, useless, insubstantial failure of endearing character design utterly eclipses the intrigue of all other pursuits. I hate him. I hate him on a level of my mind reserved for the worst of the world's array of sinners, and I can't even begin to justify it. Shitstick the snow dick is, for all intents and purposes, the animated corpse of all of humanity's saccharine pretenses- every condescending, passive-aggressive statement of meaningless upper middle class suburban drama distilled into a single, hateable form. The fucking. Fuck. I have no words. There is no cuss or epithet in any language that can encapsulate the height of the emotions I am experiencing. God, I hate him so much. I hate him so, so fucking much. I want to light his ugly little dumpster body on fire. I want to graphically beat him to death with his own stupid fucking nose. I want to punch him to death. You know that weird feeling you get, when you see a picture of something so cute you find yourself overcome with the bizarre, inexplicable urge to squeeze it? It's EXACTLY like that, except instead of cuteness it's disgust. The wordless knowledge that his existence as a fictional work is evidence of all the failures of mankind. I find myself possessed by the will of a Holy Angel gone rogue with the belief that God has made a mistake, and I alone must correct it. This is the trial by which Samael himself fell from grace. This wild, meaningless rage. A thousand blades of shining steel cast with inhuman force in the direction of a plastic grocery bag floating on a breeze. What horrors must I have committed in a past life to be plagued by this torment now? I must Unmake this fictional snowman

#Sorry this is SO FUCKING FUNNY #I did not know this existed but this is SO FUNNY AKDBAJBFDJJDJD #my god I adore this

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Avavav always has the most interesting concepts

#honestly this is so cool man

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hello please can I sleep in a studio ghibli bed it’s urgent

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cutest thing about human biology is how they get sleepy after eating. sorry brain is offline due to digestion, check back later

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sometimes I think about how brussel sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, collard greens, savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan are all the same species, and i understand why biologists are constantly furious about taxonomy

#willow bookmarks #look at this!!! knowledge!!! my god #horrifying but y'know it's actually super cool to me either way

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been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

#oohh??? #willow bookmarks

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kitten

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so. bad news. we have to keep going tomorrow. good news is that I’ll keep going with you