#'I don't believe in labels'

[jennsterjay]

Everytime someone asks what Hobie's gender is or what they're pronouns are, he answers in new and confusing ways every time

[humbuns]

For pride requests, like, Shu has something going on. Something dysphoria, maybe ace too but maybe he moves past repulsion once he figures out the gender thing, I don't know, what's your read?

oh i 100% agree, i have always seen shu being a little uncomfortable with their existence because it reminds them that they are a little too human (in his heart and in his mind) so it will probably take them a while to realize anything in some form without layers and layers of deflections but they're getting there (this is the sole reason why i like to see shu as a gem slowly being polished, they were always brilliant but it takes time to see it and accept it yourself)

[schneiderenjoyer]

The reason the whole age discourse is confusing is that bluepoch keeps pulling shit like THIS.

[nobodymitskigabriel]

When these season 1 lines are the season 4 thesis for both characters.

[matteoberrettini]

genuinely hilarious btw how people on twt want soo bad to make matteo a villain in jannik's story or some shit like it's a disney movie. less than a month ago he said they'd talked recently and he's never had anything but good things to say about jannik but to some people it'll never be enough because he made a decision for his career that i understand is hard to digest but it has nothing to do with his relationship with jannik, jannik himself said it doesn't bother him, they both have never indicated they weren't on good terms. like yeah we can't ever really know the truth behind what they say in public, but i think we should stick with what we can see and read, yeah? because making wild assumptions based on nothing doesn't lead to anything good, it's just speculation and i don't see what anyone gains from it?? i think maybe some people need to grow up and accept that they don't know these people. they don't know jannik and what he thinks or feels or who he talks to or who avoids him or whatever. we know what he shows and tells us and that has to be enough because otherwise we go down dangerous paths

[valiant-typhoon]

I've seen those "Kakashi takes naruto and runs from the village" AUs and I enjoy them but another character sorta did that in canon and I wish it was explored more

Tsunade and Shizune

since we don't have a lot of canon info on how/when it happened I just wonder sometimes if Shizune was the catalyst for Tsunade deciding to leave. Maybe Shizune was about to graduate the academy and they were still at war and Tsunade couldn't let the last part of Dan die and knew she couldn't protect her in the village and just. took her.

I don't recall ever seeing Shizune with a Leaf headband before Tsunade becomes Hokage and even after she doesn't wear one, just a shinobi alliance one. I could be wrong though I don't remember.

i'm just THIKING. like Shizune's fighting style seems heavily influenced by blood-phobia Tsunade because poison and senbon don't necessarily cause bleeding. She's extremely skilled second only to Tsunade (and later Sakura) in medical-jutsu, she can perform surgery with a team and analyze things in lab settings. She didn't learn those things in casinos. She and Tsunade must have stayed long enough in certain places for Shizune to develop those skills.

I guess it's also possible Shizune was already Tsunade's student before Dan died, which would be a whole other interesting thing. Her uncle's death giving her teacher a phobia that makes her unable to efficiently be what she's most famous for: a healer. And still following her out of the village anyways. Dedicating herself to Tsunade, the woman her uncle believed in. And if she was already a Konoha-ninja then maybe she left her headband behind when she left. The implications~ We know Tsunade is traumatized and has a lot of bad experiences but Shizune is around Kakashi's age it's very possible she has had her own tragedies beyond the loss of her uncle.

They always call Dan Tsunade's "lover" not her husband or anything like Shizune isn't even officially her niece and she!! still took her with her! She could have left her behind and she didn't. And Shizune follows her and is with her during her darkest years like come on~ give me more information

[doomer-soyjack]

I keep seeing people talk about how their trauma was the origin of their disorders or blame others for making them develop them, and it's strange to me because my disorders were present before people were ass to me.

In fact, it's because of my disorders that I was subjected to trauma later, strengthening my worldview that these allowed me to understand better instead of believing and coping with escapism and connection.

I wonder if SzPD and ASPD in particular are some of the few personality disorders that don't always have an origin like that and are more of an innate thing.

[helloarchivist]

hey so I'm literally starting to hate the word "radical" in its political usage.

it is not radical to think that people deserve food and clean water.

it is not radical to think that people deserve safe housing, full stop.

it is not radical to think that bodily autonomy is a human right.

it is not radical to think that queer and trans folks should be allowed to exist comfortably and happily, be allowed to marry each other, and have access to medical care, gender-affirming or otherwise.

it is not radical to think that children shouldn't be going into debt over school lunches.

it is not radical to think that education should be free.

it is not radical to think that nobody should have to die of preventable/treatable illnesses.

it is not radical to think that poverty shouldn't fucking exist.

belief in basic human rights and dignities for everyone that exists is not a radical stance, we're a cooperative species, we are LITERALLY built to care for and help each other.

attaching the term "radical" to any stance that approaches compassionate and decent is a tool of the oppressor class, and we are literally 200 years behind the curve. we HAVE to re-frame the way we talk about these things and throw the fucking shackles off.

[apostle-therock-peter]

"welcome to america" by lecrae is the closest a mainstream christian musician can get to anarchist christian/socialist christian/communist christian without people noticing because they're just grooving to lecrae's masterful flows and the epic beats and "this couldn't happen to me" etc etc etc

[inamagicalhallucination]

the day the entire bsd fandom realizes that perhaps atsushi thinks dazai’s a good guy and likes him is becuz for the most part, dazai’s been pretty good to him 

[lovetommyactually]

did the general guidelines for when to take someone with a fever to the hospital change? genuine question. because i just googled and the general consensus seems to be “past 103F in adults, hospital immediately”, and as a first responder (and just in general) i genuinely cannot imagine buck seeing someone he really cares about with a temperature of 105.4F and going “yeah, we’ll see where this goes”. there are some points at which the patient’s desire not to go to the hospital is no longer realistic, and that feels like one of them.

it's a fic... fictional, not real, imagination... since when do we need accuracy in fics?

and you watch 911, as a first responder maybe go ask them about things instead of me since it's bothering you too much 😅😭

but since you are "genuinely" asking

i'll answer you as a former first responder (EMT) and a healthcare worker who covers the ER 😅

1- Tommy was walking/moving, responding... despite doing all of those hardly he was still doing them

2- Tommy didn't take any medication at the point

3- You said it... buck is a first responder, he could assess the situation quickly if it got too dangerous, if tommy was seizing, or wasn't responding to anything then he'll take him to the hospital (stated clearly that he was planning to)

4- Why should buck force Tommy if he's still responding and cooperative? is Tommy a baby? genuine question

5- guidelines are textbook, not real life (meaning you don't take them as a 100% fact).. people tolerate and respond to fever differently, i myself reach 42/107.5, and i'll still be fully coherent/independent.. while i saw patients who are less than 39/102 and fully unconscious

6- is the first thing I will think about is the hospital? yes, and that's exactly what I will advise anyone to do starting from 39/102... did i still change that to add Drama? maybe you know since it's a fic 😭

7- again... it's a fic

[new-austin]

i go onto TikTok and immediately see bad ace discourse straight from 2014 Tumblr and I delete the app

[bhaalblessed]

mjv is SEVERELY overrated and i am so tired of seeing it in every jayvik fandom space <3

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

Confession #92

"I don't buy some people's headcanon that Boimler has a big dick. Besides, Mariner has seen Boimler naked so she would've commented on its size if it were a big one."

[whetstonefires]

Fanfic meme: questions 1 & 11, for a fic of your choice.

Oh no vikings, it's so much harder when I have to pick which one! 😭 What if I praise myself for a fic nobody likes or something?

I'll roll dice. I will...okay online rng rolled a 165 sided 'die' and came up 69. Which is not at all a sexy fic I regret(?) to tell you. 69 fics back is and amber is ageless, the Earth-3 Ultraman pov fic where he adopts a kitten.

1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?

Hah! Well, for one thing, my actual kitten that I found in a bush. Provided me with a lot of detailed inspiration about the minutiae of taking in and settling down a diseased little feline who'd been through the wringer, made that part basically effortless. I'd already decided Ultraman kept a cat in the Fortress, because he is so isolated and despite it all he's a version of Clark Kent and doesn't like too much alone, but drawing on recent personal experience made that part fun and easy to write.

The other 'this way' is 'from Kal's pov with only a dim self-awareness wrt how much he sucks' and that's harder to pin down. Lotta factors.

It's the second Ultraman pov fic I did, but the first one was only a little for the sake of his perspective and mostly to get outside pov on a Jokester & Alex Luthor interaction and showcase the hammer I'd lifted from the Countdown to Final Crisis earth-3 Jokester design. And I'd done his backstory as Lois breaking down her research for Alex. Because this setting is deliberately structured to focus on its own heroes, since canon mirrorverses get hung up on the evil version of their protagonists.

So part of it was I wanted a place to really dig into what makes him tick. The way Ultraman is a product of his upbringing in the opposite direction from Superman, but also the alignment flip I gave the world left him predisposed to dickishness in a way Superman is predisposed toward being considerate. Superman is always choosing to be good, largely as a result of the person the Kents raised him to be and the bedrock emotional security associated with that self-identity.

Ultraman is the opposite and I wanted to really get on the page how much insecurity in all senses plays into that.

Because I'd done Owlman and he is extremely uh. Strange person. Weird priorities. Possibly compelled by a variety of monomanias he believes to be purely rational. Sincerely convinced of his own supremacy, although also just vulnerable enough to doubt on this subject that his need to validate his own ego is still an exploitable weakness, in the way of supervillains.

(Superwoman can be baited this way only by the prospect of losing a head-to-head physical fight, but is much more easily distracted than Owlman because she cares about enjoying herself more than increasing or showing off her naturally enormous power.)

And the thing with Kal is that he's not. Not really strange. Does not really qualify for any kind of personality disorder. Psychologically he's mostly a pretty standard product of trauma and bad life decisions, the kind of guy who resents everything because he's so unhappy but can't conceive of a way to change his life to make him happier beyond hollow external models of 'success' like getting the girl. Who just so happens to have godlike power.

Of course it's not just so happens, because he was tough and strong from early childhood and accidentally killed his parents in a fairly normal grade-school tantrum, ruining his own life.

Which like. Definitely inspired by the old superbaby comics where Jonathan Kent is constantly stressing about the baby giving away his secret identity and it's like. Your life is in danger this toddler does not know how to not kill you.

Anyway he came up through the Kansas foster system having a bad time, and not having a much worse one only because of powers he kind of hated and felt freakish for because again he accidentally killed his own parents and only got away with it because no one knew he had super strength so lying about a 'big monster' smooshing his parents with the dining room table was more plausible. A huge part of his personality is based around the inadequate coping mechanisms he developed to cope with this formative trauma.

The idea that he was a Superior Existence (who was alone in the universe for reasons that were not his fault) was delivered to him when he went back to the old farmhouse, recovered the Jor-el materials, found out he was an alien, and set up the Fortress, and for him supervillainy is very much compensating for his underlying lack of self-worth and repressed guilt and vague sense of dysphoria, because when you feel like A Very Normal Guy who is also A Freak that's what happens. I think finding out he was an alien helped a lot with hating his own body, his body which was also himself and his chief asset considering he's an orphan who got a shit education.

Kal is both the one of the Big Three villains in this setting who is the most normal and whose behavior can be most accurately attributed to 'mental illness' as such, which I think is a neat dichotomy.

11: What do you like best about this fic?

I think I might have already covered this, whoops! Lmao it's definitely the effect I got where Kal is Just Some Guy who like, feels entitled to the girl he likes and thinks shitty misogynistic things when resenting other people's happiness. And whose gruesome fantasies of violence in reaction to minor inconveniences hit the beats of the average person's sense of aggravation but are backed by the fact that he really could put his hand through someone's face on a whim and has been known to do so.

But who also just. Is capable of being charmed by the attitude of a stray cat and wearing a leather glove to protect it from his skin when it keeps biting.

I think the technical element I'm most satisfied with is how I linked his reaction to Matchbox's defiance with his complicated Thing for Lois. I feel like I built up to it and showed it happening in a natural way, rather than just being like 'the kitten reminded him of Lois Lane.'

[viric-dreams]

Whoops, more thoughts triggered.

Jones is fairly self-aware that there's something up with him. He knows about the compulsions. He knows why he responds in certain ways to different triggers. But he doesn't like to think about it, because that only makes them stronger in his mind. Instead, he tries to manage himself as best he can, to redirect into relatively harmless rituals, to extract himself from situations where some sort of an episode, and interpersonal consequences, seem inevitable.

Roberts isn't naïve, he's always known he was wired differently from most, and he was never particularly good at being able to hide nor compensate for it. Internally, there's very little denial happening in regards to either his mental or physical health. But what he can admit out loud is another matter. In the New Sequence, any sort of infirmity could've be seen as a weakness, or grounds to push him out of his position, so he was exceptionally careful to keep as much as he could out of public knowledge. Since leaving the navy, a lot of those anxieties are no longer as relevant, and Roberts feels more able to be open about it with trusted people. Roberts has recently found a therapist, and is also independently working through some things.

Ockham fully believes that there is absolutely nothing wrong with himherthem. Anyone who tries to bring up any of hishertheir behaviours as unusual or concerning is going to be shut down by virtue of being too English or too human or too overly-sensitive to know what they're talking about. Because Ockham does not see anything unusual or concerning about anything heshethey thinks or does, Ockham does not believe that heshethey needs to talk about it, and any sort of "help" would be seen as intrusive and unwelcome.