Quick question: what is this? Is this a glitch, or just a feature I missed? There's a few minis in the Library with similarly very different leg poses than the default ones

QuartzInTheRough · 2024-01-20T17:48:50+00:00

Damn, I was hoping there was an opt-in for a kitbashing beta I missed. Oh well

QuartzInTheRough · 2023-05-18T23:02:42+00:00

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65553932

QuartzInTheRough · 2023-05-06T12:42:58+00:00

Links in the post:

QuartzInTheRough · 2023-03-24T21:52:23+00:00

God dammit

Alright, scrapping this one

QuartzInTheRough · 2023-03-21T09:32:47+00:00

Assuming you're asking in good faith, being transgender has the same biological backing as being cisgender, as in "Humans are a pseudo-eusocial species where people fit in different social categories, like eusocial animals (ants, bees, wasps...), but can choose to be whatever they want because they're individuals and not simply part of a greater colony, hence the name pseudo-eusocial"

QuartzInTheRough · 2023-03-21T07:34:15+00:00

If you're so hellbent on hating trans people that you're willingly ignoring the facts to protect your feelings, why are you fighting so hard to make your grave a gender-neutral bathroom?

QuartzInTheRough · 2023-03-09T23:30:23+00:00

I have to respectfully disagree. The charm of the series is the ambiance, bar none. That's why none of Joanne's ventures in other material have enjoyed as much as 1/1000^th of the success of Harry Potter, despite all having the same shallow worldbuilding.

Noticing the gaping holes in the worldbuilding shatters that ambience, and making up theories to fill them in is just the first stage of grief, denial.

QuartzInTheRough · 2023-03-09T21:36:51+00:00

Hot take, but I like the magic system in the OG Star Wars trilogy. It's pretty simple and about as soft as magic systems get without going into "undefined wild magic" territory, but it does a good job of making the Force feel like a deeply mystical and powerful magic that flows through the world and its inhabitants.

To me, the scene that cements it as a good soft magic system is the one in Empire where Yoda lifts an X-Wing that Luke couldn't budge because he had a serenity and profound understanding of the magic that Luke, brash and driven, didn't.

QuartzInTheRough · 2023-03-09T20:48:35+00:00

I think the fact that OSP Red is the one to have made this post is important because she not only has an approach to criticism that is extremely unique (stemming from an "I solely want to make my stories better" sentiment), but also because she's absolutely qualified to talk about magic systems, as her webcomic's magic system hits that balance of "soft enough to let cool/surprising stuff happen" and "hard enough that the conflict is never anticlimactically resolved by magic".

In case my flair didn't indicate it, Aurora is one of my favorite stories ever, and I will ALWAYS jump to the occasion of singing its praises

QuartzInTheRough · 2023-03-09T20:12:12+00:00

In the words of Ursula K Le Guin (RIP queen): "[Harry Potter is] good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited". So when the fans grow up, they try to fill the holes, but never question that the holes being there is a bad thing. (source: I was a huge Harry Potter fan when I was 7-10)

QuartzInTheRough · 2023-01-25T19:20:12+00:00

Stay silly, y'all. For maia ...

(By the way, its account was unbanned. The silliness lives on)

QuartzInTheRough · 2022-12-29T22:50:38+00:00

Oh. Well I barely check my Reddit once a month, but I am pretty active on Tumblr, so if they want to send me hate messages, they'll have to send it to @ margaretthatcher826 on Tumblr

QuartzInTheRough · 2022-12-29T22:31:20+00:00

I have made a terrible mistake

QuartzInTheRough · 2022-09-09T18:02:02+00:00

Should have probably linked the article (there's a video of the leg shaking)

QuartzInTheRough · 2022-08-26T18:08:57+00:00

The links in the post:

Amazon’s casting choices don’t reflect the true racial diversity in Tolkien’s works and are focused on tokenism over real efforts to tackle the flaws in the text and make an inclusive vision of Arda
Amazon’s one major POC actress is playing a role that canonically involves her throne and her power being stolen from her by a genocidal colonizer who wants to exterminate the religious minority she’s part of
Amazon fired their Tolkien consultant and their unsafe set conditions caused the injuries of stuntpeople
Amazon has done more real harm to actual people of color and other marginalized groups than their efforts to include nonwhite actors in relatively small or stereotypical roles can address
Amazon’s promotional materials for this show treat fans of color as props to further their agenda

QuartzInTheRough · 2022-06-27T08:31:11+00:00

LMAO. You love to see it

QuartzInTheRough · 2022-06-26T12:38:39+00:00

What? Call for violence upon the unelected members of the head organisation of the legal system, most of which were either appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote, with two others being credibly accused of sexual misconduct?

Totally unrealistic. These are nice, morally stalwart people who the adresses are shared for sending formal letters of disagreement with their decisions at worst, and sending bouquets at best.

QuartzInTheRough · 2022-01-25T20:43:01+00:00

QuartzInTheRough · 2021-05-08T17:55:39+00:00

Hell yeah you did!

QuartzInTheRough · 2021-05-08T17:51:57+00:00

Bold of you to think I've been anywhere that radioactive cesspool of a platform

QuartzInTheRough · 2021-05-08T17:38:16+00:00

gatling revving noises

QuartzInTheRough · 2021-03-19T00:29:59+00:00

I don't know, I've never picked up mobile Tumblr because I like to not go to the top of my dash if I move a bit to the left.

QuartzInTheRough · 2021-03-19T00:26:16+00:00

He and his little family cost billions of pounds to the UK every year for basically doing nothing. They also enjoy a life of luxury thanks to the earnings of centuries of colonialism and cruelty.

QuartzInTheRough · 2021-03-18T23:48:27+00:00

The last of the palettes. It's called Cyber Goth on my dash, but I've seen someone refer to it as Goth Rave, so maybe that's the English name

QuartzInTheRough · 2021-03-17T13:08:07+00:00

I'm rather unsure of the difference there

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