#Deep Repair

[uncanny-tranny]

I think so many people are so deeply alienated from themselves that they have no clue how to exercise their free will and autonomy. For some, this alienation runs so deep that they are afraid of their own autonomy and humanity. It is completely understandable why one would have those feelings, but it can be worrisome.

I want to help others who feel this way, so here are small things I have done to exercise my free will:

Add "guilty pleasure" songs to playlists and actually listen to them (I have a ton of late 1990s-early 2000s music I listen to now proudly that I never listened to in the past out of shame)

Getting the décor item, bath set, bed spread, ect. in the patterns you like, even if it's "childish" (I got a dinosaur-themed wastebasket from the kids' décor section and I adore it)

Taking a new route to get to a place you go to often

Eat dessert first

Celebrate well, and often

Collect things that are "odd" or don't seem like an "acceptable" thing to collect (somebody on my "for you" page collects dandelion crayola crayons and it was so cool!!!!!!)

Incorporate one new piece in an outfit you wear frequently (e.g., a new chain, a necklace, ribbons, bracelets, ect.). Challenge yourself to add onto the outfits if you feel up for it.

Sing along to songs without worrying that you sound "good" or your intonation is completely accurate

Read a book from a genre you weren't allowed to read as a kid (comics, thrillers, mysteries, anything!)

Walk without having a specific destination or goal

Pick up a new craft without expecting yourself to master it or to ever be "good" enough. Get your hands messy.

I don't want to shame anybody for not feeling as though they have free will or that they are exempt from exercising it. However, I wanted to give ideas so that you might read this list and find your own ways to express your intrinsic autonomy and will. You deserve to be a person, to feel alive, not just living. That is what our lives are for.

[lilynaik]

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[perlelas]

One thing (translation of "Une chose")

The world changes with time. Things evolve over time. It's a natural cycle.

And yet... some things insist on nothing changing, while demanding change.

In 1920, women had a life of submission. We are in 2023, things have changed without having really changed... because some narrow minds still see women as a weaker sex. A tempting sex, an object of desire. An object that society encourages to have a superficial body in order to please to the male gender...

How many of us have suffered from seeing our bodies idealized by society ?

And how many girls, young girls, young women and women have been, and still are, victims ?

Between bodies deemed not quite this, not quite that, "banal", "ugly", "undesirable" or "beautiful", girls are the first victims of these judgments, mockery and violence... And often... from victims, they become aggressors, rather than protectors and guardians of other sensitive girls.

How many young girls commit suicide ?

How many girls, or young girls or young women, or even women don't like to look in the mirror or see themselves in photos ?

Who acts for them ?

I'm one of these women victims...

From my pre-teen years to adulthood, I have been victim of moral and physical violence from my classmates, but also at home.

I was "the fat one", "the good-for-nothing who'll end up a nun" of the house, the "oddity that didn't think, or didn't like, or didn't want, to be like everyone else" at school. I was the one who made no effort to fit in, who didn't dress in the same fashion, who didn't listen to the same popular music.

I was the one to whom the label "scapegoat" had been applied. Then with time, only the label "oddity", then... "object to appropriate before discarding".

I admired these feminists who were fighting for women to stop being seen as mere sex objects, to be proud of their bodies, and to be free.

But with time... I came to realize one thing.

Too many women are still victims of men's violence in their hearts and souls. And most of these women have adopted these men's point of view, whom they hate or despise for many reasons.

These women began to despise, envy and hate free, natural, sensitive women.

From victims, they have become aggressors in the very image of their male aggressors, or even worse than them.

I'm sad and sorry for these women who despise, harass, slander or even aggress other women. That means, from my point of view, that they despise, harass, slander and aggress themselves. As if they hated being women.

I’m sad and sorry for these young girls, young women and women who commit suicide...

Victims of jealousy or other malice on the part of men and women.

Today I see two groups in the world of women and feminists :

The sensitive women's group, who love love, who want peace, understanding, compassion, mutual respect, balance and equity between women and men.

And the one where I see men in women's bodies who are no better than narrow-minded men.

So what do we do ?

Today, the sensitivity of women and men is in difficulty, because even if women are the first victims, men are the second victims of patriarchal dogma.

It's not easy for anyone today, women as men, to look in the mirror, to look at this reflection that is theirs, who faces them. To look at it, with all those violent words, received and accumulated over time in the heart and mind, accompanied by an ego that only confirms the hurtful remarks...

To look it in the depths of eyes, and say to that reflection : I Am Magnificent.

It's not easy for anyone to make peace with oneself. To stop thinking we're useless, that we're worthless, or that we're alone because we annoy everyone.

It's not easy for anyone. Myself who am still broken today, I spend every day repairing myself. This repair isn't as quick and easy as my broken fairy and unicorn figurines. This deep repair takes time and patience. But a long and difficult path to the best and healing is better than the contrary. No ?

We are not and never will be better or worse than others.

We were, we are, and will always remain ourselves deep inside us.

So let's find our “me”, and make peace with ourselves, even if the path is long and difficult.

[fanaticalthings]

Jason only resorts to his emergency signal when he's 0.1 seconds away from death and only when he's 100% reaching raw desperation levels of survival

BUT he also uses it when he's faced with the most mild of inconveniences, so the batfam are always stressed when they get his panic signal because is he about to fucking die or was he just locked out of the family Netflix account?

And obviously they can't take ANY chances, so it's always a 50/50 on whether the night ends with the fam huddled in the medbay of the cave, or whether all of them are fully costumed, weapons sharpened and ready to throw hands in Jason's apartment and Jason's just casually lounging on his couch like "Oh hey guys, I'm out of flour, can one of you run to get some?" with the most annoying shit-eating grin you've ever seen.

[mothmothwoth]

I must remind people that I am a Lizzie Ldshadowlady fan so have some doodles of her in the new SOS series

[silkysong]

holy shit

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

You ever think about how in spite of knowing their exact locations, the game never gives any indication that templar Carver has reported his mage sibling, Merril (a blood mage) or Anders (an abomination) to his superiors?

I do think about that a lot, even though I tend to ignore the Templar Carver route because I know Warden Carver to be true in my heart and soul... but I totally get the appeal of Templar Carver within DA2's narrative, y'know?

It's so fascinating, really. I've never played a run with Templar Carver, I just can't bring myself to do it, so I know I'm missing out on smaller details of it. From what I do know, this drives me crazy in the best way possible.

Deciding whether to bring him or not to the Deep Roads is such an important choice, not only because it affects his fate, but how it affects his relationship to Hawke. He tells you that he wants to go, he makes it very clear that it's important to him that he goes, too... and Hawke can just leave him behind and it hurts him. I don't think that registers enough with some people just because of how Carver is, like it doesn't matter what Hawke's motivations are [staying behind for his safety, not wanting to bring him, thinking someone should stay with Leandra, etc] it still hurts him because it tells him that Hawke doesn't need him, and Carver wants to be needed.

And yes, there are other contributing factors to why he joins the templars, but it doesn't matter what your relationship is to him, it doesn't change the fact that he doesn't turn Hawke or his companions in.

Sure, the meta reason is it's a video game and you're playing the main character. You're never in any actual danger of being captured by templars, and you're not going to lose your companions to them that easy.

But if we look at it through the narrative and Carver's character, that's when it gets interesting. You can max out his rivalry and be an utter asshole to him [there's a point where you can call him a brat and mock him for being stuck in your shadow, like Hawke can be real cruel about it] but it doesn't matter, you're still his sibling. He even makes a remark about how you might not know what that means [referring to leaving him behind] but he does. He refuses to kill Hawke in the end when Meredith makes the order, too.

Which can I just point out that Hawke has the option to let Bethany die in the end if she's with the circle and they side with the templars? Just saying, Carver NEVER does that no matter what, but Hawke has the option to betray Bethany like that and it's fucked and interesting and it makes me want to eat my chair-

As for Merrill and Anders, I think he knows that if he turns either of them in, then the chances of Hawke being brought in as well skyrocket. They're all friends, they're in the same group... bring one in, and you'll probably get the other two.

I also think Carver just genuinely likes Merrill. Yes, I'm a Carver/Merrill shipper, so I have a bias, but even if you remove anything romantic from their dynamic I believe that's true. Of all the companions, Merrill is the only one who doesn't make fun of him, or find him annoying, in party banters. He never snaps back at her, like he's never defensive with her, he's just a little awkward and nice.

Like, HE'S SO NICE TO HER! He tries to find common ground with her! She asks him about "swording" and he's taken aback by her saying he's good at it, but you KNOW that if someone like Anders asked him the same question, he's be all, "shut up, you're stupid, stop talking to me >:["

Think back to that banter Carver can have with Aveline post-act 1 where they're talking about how the guard wasn't the right place for him [hard disagree with you there, Aveline] and Carver says he was a bit of a tit, wasn't he.... and every companion will agree except Merrill. She doesn't say anything, whereas other companions like Anders will be like "ugh maker YES" and if you have a purple Hawke, they'll go on to other ways Carver was a tit like?? I think Carver and Merrill got along and he doesn't want to turn her in because she was nice to him! And she's a blood mage! He knows what will happen to her if the templars get ahold of her! He doesn't want to see her made tranquil or killed!

At that point, he's witnessed what bad blood mages can do, assuming you've brought him along for those quests, but even so. He knows Merrill isn't like that and he likes her, so of course he's not going to turn her in despite that being his literal duty.

Then there's Anders who Carver doesn't like. If you're in a romance with him, Carver will tell him that's why he doesn't turn him in but c'mon Carver, you know that's not the only reason. My theory is Carver may not like Anders and he knows the man's got a spirit of justice inside of him... but Anders also runs a free clinic. If he's ever taken in by templars, then so many people [including a LOT of Fereldan refugees] will be without free health care and will suffer for it. I think in Carver's eyes, Anders might be irritating but he doesn't more good than harm. Carver knows first hand how shitty refugees and poorer people are treated in Kirkwall. Anders' clinic is the one place they can go for help and actually get it, and he's not going to be the one to take that away because the templars say "magic bad."

So yeah, I'm not as informed about the Templar Carver route, but I do think about how if I did do that route, he wouldn't betray Hawke or their companions no matter what and what that says about him.

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

My great-uncle runs grocery stores and he told me about having to close down the one by the university because the students never bought fresh perishable foods there and (though I haven't been a college student these 6 years) I still am very proud of myself whenever my grocery list is just perishables

[emptygoldstudio]

Okay-okay, listen. This is still a draft but

This is how it goes: after the Weirdmageddon ended henchmaniacs were sucked back into the Nightmare Realm, where they got straight into the hands of the Time police. Due to the rift the whole Nightmare Realm got damaged and many wormholes opened. The worlds on the other sides were in the risk of either being devoured by Nightmare Realm, or vice versa, so this place was considered a mass security violation, which brought all the officials in one place.

Most of the henchmaniacs were locked up in jail, except for Kryptos - who was extremely lucky to get on parol - and Pyronica - who was the only one of Bill's sidekicks who escaped into the wormhole.

The main focus falls on Kryptos, who, while being on parol, works at spacecraft repair shop(and being pretty good at it actually!);

Bill Cipher, who gets ■■■■ ■■■■■ ■■ ■■■■■■■■■■. (Wont tell for now 🤫);

Both sets of Pines twins;

And some other characters

Couple of arts are almost ready for smth that feels like an AU. Will call it Kryptos & Bill Repair Shop AU for now. Just KryptosBill AU in tags.

[tangerina24]

Made my way through the 90’s in all sorts of states of “repair and disrepair”… this man!!

[casualscribbler]

tess & vicki brainrot is intense

[camgoloud]

you ever just. become overwhelmed by a sudden out-of-nowhere wave of tenderness and affection and longing for reconnection directed towards someone to whom you no longer speak for Very Good Reasons

[jojo-schmo]

Who, me? I’m no one of importance. Just a plain, simple traveler.

[quotelr]

It's easier to build strong children then repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass

[red-flagging]

26, what would you describe as ooc? For... Lewis, if you need a specific blorbo

(fic ask game!)

in every fandom for every character it's ALWAYS therapyspeak lmao. He Would Not Have The Emotional Intelligence To Say That is basically a universal truth but also i think even for characters who i would describe as relatively self-aware (your alex albons of the world, for instance) - just because you're aware of a feeling doesn't mean that you can articulate it to yourself, much less out loud to anyone else. so more than it even feeling OOC i think it annoys me because i think the way that people try to rationalize/explain away their feelings, or subliminate them into a different thing, or talk around them, is so much more interesting and reveals so much more about their character than saying (even in internal narration) "he felt X"

for lewis specifically: i think that we (collectively, myself included) need to write him bitchier and more insufferable lol. this is something that i get annoyed by for any driver (love and light to anyone who loves grid dad seb but.) but i think it's especially prevalent sometimes w lewis for many reasons, including the live laugh love public persona that he has actively cultivated in recent years lol. and i think: as w any person. putting someone on a pedestal can be as dehumanizing as the opposite! like. the universal human condition is to be so annoying and to bitch during video shoots about how everything is taking so long and and to be kind of toxic about how everyone else on the grid couldn't take the heat during qatar 2023 etc etc. and i think that fics that actively engage w him being whiny and stubborn and petty and a little immature are actually much more compassionate and nuanced and more interesting for it.

(this is also actually the number one thing that will make me back out of brocedes fic is like. if it's too sympathetic to lewis lmao/paints the toxicity in that relationship as purely one-sided. you cannot be like "this place is a freak show i don't respect either of you people" and then make one half of the pairing NOT an annoying freak. u know)

[inkliinng]

Had to go on an exhausting road trip this weekend and this book was the highlight of the entire experience. 😅 I’m so glad I decided to bring it with me at the last moment.