#I have survived thus far

[foreststarflaime]

A paranoid aroace’s guide to surviving Valentine’s Day

DO NOT LET THAT BASTARD CUPID GET YOU.

Best not to venture outside or anywhere with lots of people today. Too many potential targets for the arrow bastard to attempt to sic on you. Instead lock yourself in a defensible location

Following up on the previous, an apartment a few stories up is ideal—people have to funnel through limited number of chokepoints to get to you. Board up all your windows so he can’t shoot through them. If you live on the ground floor DO NOT go on a roof, the feathery shit can fly, try a basement instead

Give yourself lead poisoning. His gold arrows (the ones that make people fall in love, lead are the ones that sew hate) probably won’t work on you anyways depending on how much of a repulsed aro you are but better safe than sorry

On a similar note, arm yourself with a nail gun. Make sure the nails have as much lead content as possible. Don’t try to beat the little baby bitch at his own game—instead, turn his game into Splatoon and be determined to win.

Sharpened pencils are also acceptable in a pinch if you can’t find nails. Also maybe keep some on you for close range combat

You may be tempted to put up decorations such as roses dipped in blood or severed human hearts on pikes to mock his theming. This can be effective, but better is to still have your decorations up from Halloween. As an aroace that was the day your power waxed the strongest. Keep symbols of it around as a threat display

Do not touch anything gold. Just in case. Especially golden apples marked “for the most beautiful goddess.” That will get you wrapped up in the stupid love polygon squabbling called the Trojan War

Also do not trust the animals. Or suspicious otherwise inanimate objects for that matter

If all else fails, make like a tree

And now a moment of silence for our fallen comrade Daphne 🫡🕊️🍃🌳 good luck all of you out there stay strong

[anghraine]

Speaking of my TOS watch, I've noticed that the writing for Kirk in particular has gotten sharply worse overall in S3 (also for other characters, but less obtrusively), yet when it's good, it's really satisfying.

I loved both Kirk and Spock in "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", for instance. It's a good episode in general (maybe one of the least awful about women in TOS) and a really nice McCoy episode as well, but I enjoy how Kirk and Spock are kind of confused about McCoy's marriage but ultimately willing to support their friend. And it ends not only w/ McCoy's cool wife surviving and becoming even more of a leader of her people than she was before (and this framed as unambiguously Good) but Kirk and Spock iirc assuring McCoy that they'll figure out the occasional detour to her colony so McCoy can visit her without leaving his career behind. And while Spock was a flanderized dick in "That Which Survives" (if in a way that can easily be read in K/S terms), it's got one of my favorite Kirk moments:

Kirk [to Sulu]: Your report covers all vegetation? Sulu: Yes, Captain. All vegetation is inedible. Poison to us. McCoy: If the Enterprise has been destroyed, you know how long we can survive?? Kirk [grimly]: Yes. [pause] I don't see any water, but there must be some to grow the vegetation. A source of water would stretch our survival. Did you see any evidence of rainfall?

Shatner doesn't overplay the moment IMO, but there's a quiet weight to him being The Starvation Expert of the team given uhhhhh his personal history—and also the fact that this episode is one of few that (in a completely different scene) explicitly acknowledges other TOS episodes.

[lionblaze03-2]

calling warriors/cat/xenofiction roleplayers!!!

SO. Here’s the deal. I had an idea that I was originally gonna just run as a clangen but that isn’t curing my craving for a new cat story SO I was wondering if anyone would like to join it as an rp;

the concept being that all humans have suddenly vanished and a group of cats owned by humans (some indoor/outdoor, some fully indoor previously, some strays, etc) have to come together and form a colony to survive this new world without a food bowl being filled every night, and also deal with the grief of all humans disappearing

why I’m not sure of yet, it could be plague or world war or even something as heightened as all humans suddenly got alien abducted, all that matters to me abt the concept is that the cats have no idea why all the humans disappeared, just that they’re gone and don’t seem to be coming back

and even though the idea was of course formulated in my brain as warriors first I’m thinking of divorcing it from warriors and making my own system? I even have my own idea for like a two name system that is different from the one in warriors, I. Basically just have a lot of concepts and thoughts about this thing and I also really miss formulating stories with other people and writing about cat drama SO!!!

if you’re an animal rp’r, warrior cats rp’r, former warrior cats rp’r, what have you, and this idea sounds interesting to you, pls hmu!!! I need… other people to create with…

[yellowsubiesdance]

i think i’ve learned a lot when it comes to not applying my own values to the media i consume

for my script analysis class yesterday, we discussed two gentleman from verona, and nearly every classmate of mine was up in arms about how sexist the story is.

and i'm not saying it's not, or that it's not infuriating to read. but i'm also not putting my energy into getting upset about something written 500 or so years ago. and i'm not about to put my own beliefs onto these characters that are not me. i'm going to let their choices speak for themselves, and interpret it in the context of the story.

all that said, this now brings me to the point of alastor in episode 5, and how viscerally people are responding to it. those of you up in arms about the choices he’s making, and the violent threat he gave husk, you’re missing the entire point of his character, of this place they’re in, of the story being told. he’s an overlord, and he became an overlord by killing much bigger overlords and broadcasting their deaths over the radio.

HE IS NOT A GOOD PERSON.

if you started this show with the belief that every character working the hotel is a good person, you’re in the wrong place. watch the good place if you’re looking for a good wholesome story about getting dead sinners into heaven, because that’s not what this show is about.

you’re more than welcome to hate him after seeing the way he exerted power over a being whose soul he owns, but you’re doing the media you’re watching a disservice by writing it off so quickly. if you don’t like to be uncomfortable watching media, watch something else. this is an uncomfortable show, it handles uncomfortable topics, and it’s going to be an uncomfortable ride, and if you’re not up for something like that, then you should take a break from it and pick up something else. you don’t have to get online and defend your own ideals while you watch a show that goes against your ideals.

[unordinaries]

presented without comment

(chapters 280 + 344)

[kumquats-are-gay]

*immediately gravitates to the most obvious morally reprehensible character*

Nah but he’s always been a character I found fascinating throughout Ark’s lore. Interesting to see him in the animated series.

Used the Ark TSA character sheet for reference. You can tell the exact part I used lol.

[orcelito]

Thinking again about my plans for Vash and Knives in ITNL

Which I can't really get into the specifics for How I'm going to do things w/o going into spoiler territory. But I Do have Vash & Knives tagged on the fic for a reason. I set up in the first chapter that Vash is determined to try to save Knives too.

Which. That choice, as well as the entire basis for all of this, depends so much on that final fight in trimax. The one that was literally a scene away from where ITNL Vash went back in time. His mentality just a hair's width away from that...

At the end of trimax, there was reconciliation, however brief and incomplete it was. In ITNL, my question to myself was How could I induce that again? Under different circumstances, How Else could we get there? And that is the long-game in ITNL.

[thequeervampiric]

the one Big Theory I have about yellowjackets is that the ladies will return to those woods - I can't hear "no return" over and over again (no return, no return, no reason) and not think that. why would they go back? what would be the point? but of course they'll go back - how could they not?

the question is, then what? I imagine them wandering around the places they did so many years ago, and wonder whether they'll feel the same. whether they'll feel the kinship and shared spirituality in those places and think, oh, yeah. this is what it was like. this is why.

and then what? could they just leave after that? maybe this time, leaving will feel different. it will feel like their choice.

but still, surely some closure must be had. but how? their one assurance, their one absolute was death. is death. but they don't necessarily want to die. they want to embrace the wilderness. embrace each other. though death was at the center of it all, a large part of their existence in those woods had been staying alive.

but they can't stay. even if they wanted to, that part of their lives is past and gone. but it changed them permanently. they can't just go on as they have been for all these years, like it never happened, like they'll ever be normal.

I'm dying to know how they'll reconcile that.

[gontagokuhara]

hey. please stay alive. we have to all outlive trump together

this is a very kind message to send i appreciate that you did ❤️ i was a teensy bit intoxicated and did not sleep last night so Oops yeah that was a dramatic last post to leave off on. i am safe, i am okay, i am frustrated and angry and nauseous but i am channeling this into zeal and motivation to continue organizing and fighting back against what we’re buckling in for these next few years. if i need to i will survive on spite alone to dance on the graves of all of these monstrous fascists and, god willing, see through a better world on the other side of this

[positivelyapunovexponent-good]

Can’t believe I got my midterm grade back on International Lesbian Day this is homophobia

(I had to take this midterm without my extended time accommodations since I haven’t had the time to meet with disability resources at my new school yet and. Well. Let’s just say that YEP, I definitely really need those accommodations 🥲)

[arvoze]

the power i will receive in a matter of days will be astounding. watch out

[hyaciiintho]

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[keyh0use]

came back after a month off and was just informed via email at 2am i get to talk to high school students this friday about the wonderful world of corrections 🥰🥰🥰

[miodiodavinci]

writing out my to-do list for the semester and feeling an overwhelming wave of terrified nausea like ohhhhh this is going to suck so so bad huh

[jvzebel-x]

🦋

[primatechnosynthpop]

There are a few later-seasons trgb eps I wish had been made when the show was still good, but "spacebusters" has gotta be one of my top picks. I know there already was a space-themed episode in season two but I honestly think this one has a more compelling plot and it could have fucked so hard if a) the animation was done in the first few seasons' style so it could have a more legit creepy atmosphere; b) the writing was a little more competent in places; and c) we didn't have to have slimer around constantly killing the tension with his interjections. That said, I don't think even the better era of the show would have given me what I really want, which is to spend more time on the fucked up survival horror scenario winston was in for however long it was before the others got there