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Will you carry my heart around When it's old and grey? Will you stay until we fade away?
#grian fanart#hermitcraft fanart#life series fanart#double life fanart#grian#hermitcraft#life series#double life smp#dlsmp#traffic series#mcyt#mcyt fanart#scarian#<- let's not lie to ourselves#trafficblr#hc#syn.art#lyrics from: Unprocessed - Glass
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In which Lucifer starts getting comfortable, forgets social boundaries, and Alastor kind of does so too. Nifty takes 1 interaction and makes it a whole plot.
#Tag yourself if youre Nifty#Lets not lie to ourselves#also ive been doing this ALL NIGHT#I couldnt just leave it. who knows if my future me would have finished it#I have to stretch my hand for...an hour. jesus#carpel tunnel here I go#my art#art post#WE STAN QUIRKY CRINGE 2013 NIFTY#She's decided she's going to be the wingman#Alastor has clowned himself#alastor#lucifer#appleradio#radioapple#doodles#comic strip#comic#hazbin hotel comic#hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel fanart#hazbin fanart#hazbin alastor#nifty#NIFTY MY GIRL GOGOGOGO!!#nifty hazbin hotel#alastor the radio demon#the radio demon#imagine having to describe your whole personality as: radio; will die if I touch a remote control#lucifer morningstar
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I love how people are going “i wish the sport loved him as much as he loved the sport” as if the main reason he got back an F1 seat wasn’t due to the fact that the sport benefited from his PR and popularity. Of course the sport loved him, he was a walking money machine in their eyes.
#the only reason he got the seat in the first place was because of his popularity#like come on lets not lie to ourselves saying he had a chance at replacing perez at rbr when he could barely beat yuki#i dont like the whole mid season driver swap thing but daniel HAD so much experience yet he’s not performing the way he should#i don’t hate daniel but ill just tag this#anti daniel ricciardo
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nessian moodboard
#anti nessian#but….#a PRO nessian failmarriage#because let’s not lie to ourselves that’s all there is anyhow#anti cassian#failmarriage
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this is somewhat of a vent post & something i said i would not do again but has been plaguing me enough that i think getting it out might feel better. so. has anydoggy else been. Baffled and upset by nora sakavic’s refusal to speak on how terribly aftg has treated its characters of color? with the author of the series coming back with a new book and starting up on her online activity again, and questions of what she’d change about aftg bubbling up, it’s particularly glaring to me that we are all playing this very long game of pretend where we ignore how badly the non-white cast has been treated & her lack of thoughts on it
and i understand not wanting to bring up nicky and thea because people pick on her for it. i’m not trying to discredit nora sakavic’s terrible history of getting harrassed online by aftg fans. but i think it is very cynical, and it is very juvenile, and most of all very cruel, that she gets to ignore the very real ways the books have set up these characters to be hated. i think it’s obvious why the characters who get the most hate are the only canonical characters of color, and i think we do not get to treat this like a deliberate decision on the fandom’s part when the books have put these same characters in degrading and embarrassing and terrible positions in the first place. aftg is not a story about nice characters with clean pasts, but there is a very specific nastiness to the only characters of color being a brown man who sexually harasses and later assaults the main character, a black woman whose only scene is her lashing out at her love interest after being ignored for the first two books, and the japanese villain who gets maybe two lines of complexity before he goes back to being a terrible person. the white cast, in comparison, while not at all free from flaws, are never shown to commit mindless evil; all of their actions are ultimately justified. the book goes out of its way to give them concession after concession. we know exactly who to side with, because aftg tells us who these people are. does nicky’s assault ever get addressed in the books? does riko’s reasoning to be the way that he is ever gets more than briefly aluded to? is thea reserved even a shred of humanity or grace in her one scene?
anyway. it’s been years of talking about this and the fandom has been constantly hostile to criticism in this regard, and more recently any criticism at all, and it’s Grating to be on the other side of this discussion. it’s exhausting to know that in ten years we do not get even an acknowledgment besides the author saying she will not answer questions about nicky and thea anymore. it’s upsetting and it’s ugly and i wish no one had to talk about this again, but we do because what i thought was common sense has been washed away by a sudden influx of no-nuance adoration for the trilogy. basically i hope we all explode
#this has been so upsetting to notice but 🥹whatever#there is a different kind of bitterness to thinking about how ten years have passed#and we are getting new content that changes and maybe even rectifies many of the ways we see and interact w aftg#and none of it not a bit of it addresses the racism#how it’s been ten years and the only thing we really get to show it is a book about a ship between two white men the fandom came up with#after seeing them be Suggested to interact in canon#i understand not wanting to hurt nora sakavics feelings by asking her about this#but imagine how tired we are. Imagine how tired we are#do you know how bad it feels to read through nicky’s worst moments in aftg#and know that he was written this way because he looks like me?#do you understand how exhausting it all is. can you imagine?#the fandom has been so quick to undo the criticism fans of colors have been making since day one#and for what. for what! my doves. for what?#have we come out of it any greater? have we done anything but lie to ourselves?#and anyway this is not some mindless pessimism#this is not me telling you that aftg is bad and you cant love it; cant have it mean anything to you#this is me saying that when we acknowledge these things it makes us better readers and better people#nora sakavic if you are reading this from whatever hellhole america you find yourself in#grabs you by the shoulders. This is not the end#this is not something to sit back and feel bad about#you have opened the floodgates of hell with tsc. kick the door in and release a revised version of aftg#there is a real material way for you to make this better. it is possible and it will not kill you#i would read a revised aftg. my mutuals would. many many many many fans would#making mistakes is not just a human right its a human inevitability#but we do not have to let ourselves get defined by them. We can do hard things#lets go of nora sakavics shoulders. anyway. where were we#aftg#txt#tsc
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Leland, flirting: Help me out with my tie?
Adrian, smiling back flirtingly: i'd love to
Adrian: *spends nearly an hour tying Leland's tie*
#you and i BOTH know leland would wait for him to finish#lets not lie to ourselves now yea#monk 2002#stottlemonk#adrian monk#leland stottlemeyer#stottlemeyer x monk#monk incorrect quotes
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something that's very interesting to me regardless of how exactly nyelv is influencing suga's research (ie whether they're the same person, whether they're active collaborators, or whatever other theories get cooked up) is that by coordinating the chief's death and pushing hanto into becoming valen, he's directly fucking over the rest of his family. like, the company is already in a bit of a tizzy since shouma's fucking with their supply chains and nyelv's synthesizing GranuteHater5000 in a lab and doubling all their problems simply for the hell of it. especially since as far as i can tell nyelv likes humans the least out of all the siblings (since we've seen him be the only one who's annoyed by having to maintain human disguises in ep 2), it's really interesting that he's (up to this point) the only one that's actually engaging with humans, even from afar. and i can't even tell why he's doing it either unless it really is just excitement/interest in the situation bc while i don't think the siblings get along Great it did seem to me like their ambitions for the company were in line with each other up until this week so i'm not seeing like a power-grab angle or anything.
all this to say that it's really funny that he's doing all of this assuredly counterintuitive shit seemingly for the love of the game. (though tbf if i had to guess he's probably going to replicate the valenbuster or steal it or smth who knows idk)
#kamen rider gavv#just my two cents though i'm really hoping that the theory that nyelv and suga are the same is not true#i'm willing to admit that it's mostly because the idea of hanto having two morally bankrupt scientists who want to ruin his life is#incredibly satisfying to me#i was gonna lie and say “for normal reasons” but lets not kid ourselves...#anyway is this even comprehensible
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No one is born knowing how to communicate
A: And that's okay...
Dr Kuseno made it look so easy. He just swanned into Saitama's apartment, proferred him a gift of beef and the hero's hostility melted away.
Fubuki felt positively foolish, and yet encouraged.
Since then, however, she's found that the only thing meat bribes pull in are dogs. Literal dogs:
And even dogs need more than meat to be loyal.
What gives? Well, it's obvious that Fubuki mistook Dr Kuseno's gift for a bribe: more on that later. Probably. And yeah, it's funny, but it's more interesting than that.
Learning how to communicate is complex. There are a ludicrous number of unspoken conventions and rules in every human society, so much so that we don't fully learn how to smile socially until we're in our forties. Dr Kuseno carefully judged his gift: he had a legitimate reason to offer Saitama a gift in the first place, out of gratitude for Saitama going out of his way to mentor Genos. Then he chose a gift Saitama would be sure to appreciate and presented it at a time when Saitama would be thinking about dinner. The worst that could have happened is that Saitama took the gift but insisted on the doctor going home (and taking Genos with him) -- it would still have left the desired positive impression. And things went really well. Kuseno made it look effortless.
Fubuki is only in her early twenties and her experience to date has been far from typical. She's learned that either she can intimidate people or she can flatter them into doing what she wants. With Saitama (and later Bang, Bomb, and Kuseno), she has to learn how to talk to more powerful people whom she cannot overpower, over whom she has no leverage, and who are unimpressed by her looks, simpering, or flattery.
Fortunately, Fubuki is nothing if not astute. She's worked out that she needs to develop complementary skills if she's to make herself useful to the S-Class heroes she wants to hang with. How to talk to them to get the help and cooperation she desires? Ah, that's a work in progress.
B: ...Unless it's not
Let's move onto another miscommunication.
Something that I hadn't before was that, unlike the webcomic version where Saitama only thinks to himself that Genos seems depressed, in the manga, Saitama out and out asks him if this is the case. He wants to know.
It mirrors King asking Saitama that very same question and getting Saitama to open up and be vulnerable for the first time (ever, in any version of the story). So it is very appropriate to see Saitama trying to do the same for Genos, particularly as he is openly fond of the guy.
However, it goes wrong. Saitama feels himself under pressure to say something wise to make it better. So he puts on his best 'confident' face and inadvertently makes everything much worse. Oh dear. What makes this particularly painful in the manga is that Saitama is much more invested in trying to reach Genos, and it's made Genos think that Saitama saying that he doesn't see what he's doing must mean that earlier times when he's praised him must have been just Saitama being nice. For sure, Genos could have pushed back and made Saitama clarify what he meant, but he's even worse at communicating: and Saitama's glib remark about being bright struck him square in the insecurities.
I'm going to come to something that I only realised once I started typing this up. Even though I've pointed out their abilities to communicate, neither King nor Kuseno have the perfect words to say. Kuseno started out by first committing a faux pas in bringing his great big outside boots into Saitama's flat, then nearly boring Saitama to death with a long-winded explanation. King started out by trying to guess what was bothering Saitama. Both, however, did the most important thing about effective communication: they picked up on their going wrong and changed tack.
It's not about saying the right thing: it's about responding to the person you're talking to.
The thing that King did that Saitama was trying to do for Genos was to ask Saitama open questions, and shut up in the interim, letting Saitama talk to fill in the silence. He'd only speak to ask more open questions when Saitama ran out of things to say, and through that, gently started to challenge Saitama's thinking.
But doing so means being comfortable with several seconds of silence. And that is excruciating. It is almost irresistible to jump in and say something, anything. And it would have been a longish wait, for Genos to slowly sit down and decide to start speaking, which might well have started being about something only tangentially related to his worry. King did that for Saitama: Saitama started out talking about what was bothering him on the surface -- being too strong -- before eventually coming to what was really bothering him, feeling lonely and profoundly isolated from everyone around him. Saitama does not yet know how to wait a person out.
It's a problem in this case because it's introduced a big barrier between those two, not an insurmountable one for sure, but one that could easily compound later.
Ah well, no one is born a communicator. We just have to wait and see if they work out a way to open up and be honest with each other. So it goes! There's more ways to introduce conflicts than to have a monster trample Tokyo, after all!
And so help me, the struggle to learn how to communicate is 1000% worthwhile.
#OPM#meta#Saitama#Genos#Dr Kuseno#Fubuki#King#communication is hard work#I love how well ONE brings across some of its subtleties#the pressure we put ourselves under to stay the 'right thing' when listening and openly receiving what we're hearing is more important#the true struggles for the characters are rarely monsters#but rather lie within themselves and between the people they want to understand#damn that's a little too IRL for comfort#ah well no one is born knowing how -- let's all struggle forward to do better!
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If you could pick a certain studio to make a Psychonauts movie who would it be?
I'll go first, I think Laika or Illumination would be able to pull the characters designs off really well, and their animation in general is just *chefs kiss*
#Listen I know illumination mostly makes bad or mid movies at best with a few goodies once every year BUT LETS NOT LIE TO OURSELVES#Their animation is phenomenal#doodles rants#psychonauts#psychonauts 2
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WARNING: FFVII spoilers + ship talk—scroll if you want to skip, because I am simply commentating my own gaming experience & not trying to start a war in the comments
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It’s the way I’m DESPERATELY trying to play FFVII with an openness to Cloud and Aerith because I know it means so much to so many people—and yet even when I go to YouTube and watch alt versions of mandatory scenes I cannot fathom how people are missing the subtext of “Aerith knows and acknowledges Tifa is so much more than Cloud’s friend even as she wants his attention because she doesn’t know if he’s really himself, has been extremely lonely since Zack left + knows somewhere she’s going to die for herself” ☠️
Like I am 3000% for FF ships that have a lot of groundwork but aren’t primary canon, because Square is notorious for building true chemistry between people who are not ever canonically romantic (hello Phoenixflare) but…it’s getting kind of absurd to see how many people are denying the subtext of Aerith as secondary to Tifa solely because they love their ship.
Perfect example: the scene where Aerith goes up on the Nebelheim water tower (a place wholly and entirely tied to Cloud and Tifa’s ongoing relatonship) and asks Cloud about his town…only for us to get this:
As someone who just consumes media generally…the whole subtext of the scene is clearly that Aerith trying to 1) pull Cloud’s actual memories up from the mind muck he’s going through (something she and Tifa both do repeatedly) and 2) remind Cloud of the side of him that inherently has always had a whole ass crush on his childhood best friend to help jog his memory.
Sure, it reads as a cute moment between them if you want that…but if you’re paying attention to the purpose of the scene itself and what’s being said (verbally and subtextually)…it’s astronomically clear this is a Cloud x Tifa recognition delivered to the audience through a Cloud/Aerith moment…and this happens repeatedly ☠️
And then…immediately after having her be upset that she doesn’t have someone the way Cloud has Tifa, and asking to be alone? I…I just. Like it’s so hard to be here in the middle of a war about “optional scenes” when shit that happens to everyone happens just like this 😭
#example of what I’m talking about under the cut#I just. LISTEN.#I fucking love Aerith#I really do#and even though some of her actions are quite curious to me re: cloud romance#I can clearly tell they are setting her up as loving him as a friend more than a romantic partner#and her still feeling so tied to Zack…while knowing she’s in for something terrible.#even with all the whispers shit that’s crystal mf clear—she’s just trying to find joy while she can#and cloud is more than willing to indulge her because he cares deeply for her too!#…and yet#we are so clearly in for a cloud x tifa romance in the long haul#Tifa and cloud love each other. cloud and Aerith LIKE each other—and even she comments DIRECTLY on ‘liking v LIKING’#I just…whew#ship your ship#but let’s not outright lie to ourselves here LMAOOOO#ffvii analysis#cloti#ffvii#ffvii spoilers#remake spoilers#final fantasy spoilers#the me tag
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Scrooge: you’re such a liar!
Goldie: what, I can’t even lie to you anymore?
Goldie: you’re so demanding
#honestly#how she puts up with?#I mean lying is so important to her#he can’t take that away#she was born to lie#she’s spent so much time perfecting her skill#it would be a shame to let such talent go unwitnessed#also let’s not lie to ourselves#a part of him likes it when she lies#like a big part#it reminds him of the old days#when he couldn’t trust her as far as he could throw her#and they both had an awfully lovely time#goldie o'gilt#scrooge mcduck#scroldie#they’re complicated#and she should be able to lie about whatever she so pleases#ducktales#it’s just how it is
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oikawa could beat sukuna but he could not survive a day in blue lock
#lets not lie to ourselves#comparing an insane bllk man to him……..how dare u wish this ill upon this poor little man….#sora.txt
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gay friend groups sure are crazy
#mystic messenger#jaehee kang#mysme zen#yoosung kim#mysme 707#jumin han#mysme v#no because? I love them#can you tell who’s route im doing#let’s not lie to ourselves V in this looks like Dave strider
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genuinely sorry for all that GO shit. i just really wanna make it clear that i dont give a shit what happens to the show honestly, as long as neil isnt profiting off of it anymore.
the victims of neil are real people. good omens is just a story.
#good way to find urls to block by going through the tag though lol..#quite a lot of fans are giving iffy takes on this..#good omens#also doing the whole genevieve cumberbatch thing in this situation isnt funny to me..#dont be a coward and say with your whole chest that neil gaiman is a horrible abuser and rapist (allegedly but. lets not lie to ourselves)
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whats ur current plan for the jojafication of the town (@ ̄□ ̄@)
"It would be for both of our benefits, as well as for the good of the community!"
#he does not gaf about the community lets not lie to ourselves#sdv#stardew valley#morris#morris sdv#ask blog#askblog
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Since we're all putting chronic conditions in our versions of Enver Gortash today...
I have this personal headcanon that the gauntlets are aids/pain relief too. Something related to having his hands smashed or fingers broken enough times that the bones and joints are permanently disfigured and cause pain/tremors without the enchantment that has been placed on the gauntlets. I also saw some fanart the other day where the golden sleeves were actually fused to his skin, but unless he's an amputee, that screams "magical enhancement" more than anything. Still something I think about a normal amount, though.
#if someone were to invent fantasy cyborgs it would be enver gortash let's not lie to ourselves#enver gortash#bg3
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