#I just think it’s funny to assign them stupid experiences

[macksartblock]

I’ve made a kiddads post assigning them things that I did/happened to me growing up. Now I’m doing that with the dads and my father’s experiences.

Darryl: In high school, he snuck out to attend a party - at a barn, in the middle of nowhere - with the rest of his football buddies. He did not have a good time and left not even two hours in. Frank didn’t even question him on his whereabouts, he woke up his parents and flat out confessed upon returning home.

Glenn: He was out at a bar with the GCT the night before his wedding. He’d only had one drink and walked outside to call a cab when he fainted and hit his nose off the edge of the curb. No one could figure out why he fainted and, sporadically, he still does. His nose is broken in all of his wedding pictures.

(Bonus: he once fainted in front of a cop after there was a noise complaint. Morgan came down to see Glenn flat on the ground and a mortified cop at their door. Glenn does not remember this at all.)

Ron: Early on in his relationship with Samantha, he took Terry Jr out on a “stepfather-son bonding day”. All they did was sit in a cafe, staring at each other in silence as Terry Jr had a milkshake and Ron had coffee. Ron did not like it and started stealing some of Terry’s milkshake with a spoon. This was the closest they’d ever been before the Forgotten Realms.

Henry: My father is simply too put together. He’s never had an experience like Henry in his life.

[waterlilyvioletfog]

Rating Scum Villain Characters By How Much I Cheer When I See Them Depicted With Grey Hair

It goes without saying that this list is highly subjective. But it makes me happy! I have not actually seen all these characters with grey hair, i don’t think. Listed ages reflect end of book except where stated otherwise.

Mobei-jun: 2/10. Age: fuck if I know. We’ll say he’s like 39. I understand the whole ice prince aesthetic makes silver/white haired Mobei-jun attractive to some people but I personally think it’s really funny if he just looks absurdly young forever. Assigned youngest child.

Shang Qinghua: 6/10. Age: like 40 or 80 if you count his first life. Shang Qinghua’s perpetual state of total stress is one of his most defining characteristics so grey hair for this character makes sense. Also jives well with his whole sleazy uncle kind of vibe. When paired with above, it can make MBJ look like SQH’s inappropriately younger boyfriend, which is deeply funny to me. Unfortunately, the twinkification of this character in fandom limits my opportunities to experience this kind of joy.

Luo Binghe: 0/10. Age: like 25. It just feels wrong.

Shen Jiu: 8/10. Age: depends, we’ll say 40. If Shen Jiu had grey hair he would dye that shit so fucking fast. Yue Qingyuan would try to re-assure him that oh, shidi, grey hair is nothing to be ashamed about!! And Shen Jiu would be like you stupid fuck it’s clearly caused by my terrible shitty cultivation GET OFF MY FUCKING MOUNTAIN!!!!!!!! But fun fact! It is actually caused by his constant hyper-vigilance, PTSD, and meteoric stress levels. 🙏💚

Ning Yingying: 1/10. Age: also like 25. Gets 1 point for the hilarity of a character named baby ending up prematurely grey.

Ming Fan: 5/10. Age: 27-ish. This kid is so fucking stressed. Obviously this more applies post-jump, not to volume 1!Ming Fan. There is excellent potential here though for every time something happens to Shen Qingqiu, Ming Fan shows up looking greyer and more haggard.

Liu Mingyan: 0/10. Age: like 25. Idk it just doesn’t inspire me.

Sha Hualing: 1/10. Age: also like 25. I was gonna say 0/10 and then i thought about Luo Binghe-wrangling giving her grey hair and her furiously dyeing it black again and I thought it was funny. Sue me.

Gongyi Xiao: 2/10 Age: ??? Dead anyways. See, if the depiction of GYX gives him grey hair, that means he lived long enough to have grey hair 🥺

Yang Yixuan: -10/10 Age: Baby. Reason: Baby.

Tianlang-jun: 10/10. Age: I don’t fucking know, man. Lots of great reasons to give TLJ some greys. # 1, it helps distinguish him visually from Binghe. # 2, appropriate since he is an evil DILF. # 3: my guy got crushed under a mountain for like twenty years I think that entitles him to some grey hair. # 4: I think he’d be completely ridiculous about it. I am imagining him frantically denying he looks his age and demanding Zhuzhi-lang tell him he still looks pretty.

Zhuzhi-lang: 3/10. Age: ?????? On the one hand, ZZL is probably old enough and stressed enough to have grey hair. On the other other hand, his hair is typically depicted as mostly green, partially snakes, so, like, ymmv.

Su Xiyan: 6/10. Age: dead, would probably be in her 40s/50s if she were alive. Look, I cannot deny the appeal of giving some grey hair to the dead dilf mother of all time. Tianlang-jun would also, unfortunately, be staggeringly horny about it.

Mu Qingfang: 7/10. Age: 40s-ish. *Nods approvingly*

Liu Qingge: 4/10. Age: 30-45. Liu Qingge is the assigned baby of the peak lords, so giving him grey hair always feels weird to me. He would look pretty with like a cool silver streak tho. I do also see some appeal to him acquiring grey hair during the five year time skip due to the *hand waves*.

Qi Qingqi: 7/10. Age: 40s-ish. MILF.

Yue Qingyuan: 16/10. Age: 40s-ish. Makes absolutely perfect sense. This is one of the most stressed men alive. He’s very literally the assigned da-ge by the narrative. His cultivation is a total mess because of Xuan Su! Frankly, I’m surprised his hair isn’t totally white by the end of this book! because it would make sense!! within its literary and cultural context from what I know!! Also, it would work with his wardrobe.

Shen Qingqiu: 10/10. Age: 27-ish, technically, except also in his 40s, except also immortal so who really knows. Similar to YQY and TLJ, this makes sense. Shen Qingqiu’s abysmal physical health and terrible mental health are persistent throughout the text, and things like Without A Cure and the widow arc are perfect excuses for SQQ to have grey hair. It makes him look older, which is fun in SQQ’s context for a variety of reasons, including the fact that LBH would find it hot. Elegant, Beautiful, Graceful, Scholarly Qing Jing Peak Lord Shen having grey hair is a beautiful thing indeed 💚

[pixxyofice]

🏰 cursinguponcastles

of course i manage to grab everything EXCEPT for my anxiety medications. they're still stuck there!! in the House!!! every night I worry my friends are going to leave me for asking them to come along and some part of my brain is like "you wouldn't be worrying if you had taken your meds" and I have to then tell my brain the meds. ARE NOT WITH ME!!!

(this post is unrebloggable.)

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(anon) asked:

plum? how have you been running this blog without anxiety meds?

🏰 cursinguponcastles replied:

Um! How did you know I didn't have my anxiety meds??

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(anon) asked:

Don't the Houses keep stuff, like, forever? I'm sure if you go back to that House you'll be able to get your meds back. Unless it's like, frozen or something?

🏰 cursinguponcastles replied:

Oh. Ohhhh. Well, um! I am going back to get them! They're back in Dormont! I just won't be focused on getting my meds when I'm there, you know??

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🎗 ribbpeat reblogged from 🍑 yetanotherfinepeach

🍑 yetanotherfinepeach

so was anyone going to tell me the savior of vaugarde runs a horror blog account or was I supposed to just find that out from her APPARENTLY LEAVING HER MEDS IN THE CENTER FREEZING POINT

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🍙 chateau-riceballs reblogged from 🧦 socks-to-be

🍯 lovelyhoney-truths

and just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, the savior of vaugarde turns out to be a tumblr user

🛴 offowchmy-nkee

and this is bad... how?

🍯 lovelyhoney-truths

How is this not obvious to you people? She's on tumblr. She's been ACTIVE. Instead of doing her job of saving us she's been giggling about her little vaugarde boys getting eaten. I'm sitting here typing with one arm waiting for vaugarde to be saved, and she's wasting time reading. Boo-hoo she left her anxiety meds in the House where the King is freezing all of us from. Actually, wait! Why didn't she just turn around and take him out? If she's supposed to save vaugarde, assigned to, and she was close to its starting point, why the hell did she walk the other direction and faff about?! Some Savior she is! Most of the country is frozen because of her! And instead of just shutting up and doing her job she went on a funny little pilgrimage. I'm not calling her a Savior anymore. 

🐱 ChangeGirlClaws

do you know about the existence of paragraph breaks. Like at all.

🎀 darts-chatting-blogg

Instead of looking at... all of that, apparently not everybody knows this so look at this.

THE DOORS OF DORMONT GOT LOCKED BY THE KING AND THE SAVIORS HAVE TO FIND FIVE ORBS TO BE ABLE TO EVEN TRY TO SAVE US. And in case you don't know, Vaugarde is huge! The saviors passed by my place a week ago and they only had four Orbs then.

I think Plum and her friends are making good progress, actually! I think she's allowed to relieve stress by reading about guts and gore, actually.

🍙 chateau-riceballs

she's what

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🐝 finalgirl-standing reblogged from 🐮 The-Cointry-of-Voigarde

🍯 lovelyhoney-truths

Not only does that orb bullshit sound made up and stupid, but apparently Plum also runs a guts and gore blog??? what the fuck is wrong with her. Has she Changed to be so disgusting when she should be Changing herself to be able to save the country?? Do you guys really believe that shit? I haven't heard of a House where Orbs lock the gates, that's clearly her making up excuses for why she can't just go there and beat him. How can her friends stand to be with her when she's this irresponsible?

🎀 darts-chatting-blogg

One. The King warped the place (see image here!) and Dormont was known for experimenting with locks. People just be saying crab, I guess.

Two. Defenders. Get their asses. I'll start.

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⚓️ insertcreativebloghere reblogged from 🦴 justanotherchange-blog

🦴 justanotherchange-blog

if I was on a journey to save the country and I forgot my focusing meds at home I would just forget everything. Honestly, Plum's doing much better than I am???

⚓️ insertcreativebloghere

If i had to save the country without my meds i would've thrown myself into the sea

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🐮 The-Cointry-of-Voigarde

(a picture of the countryside. Half of it is frozen, and the other half isn't)

Well. It was an honor, everyone. I'm glad to have contributed to the crab pow.

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🏰 cursinguponcastles reblogged 🐧 penguin-do-be-writing

🐧 penguin-do-be-writing

hi everyone, sorry for the silence! My family has been loudly debating what to do about the freezing country, I think i touched something weird and my feet have stopped working for me, so it's hard to get to my writing desk. whoops! it's been a struggle to get words written down. Don't worry, though! I've got a chapter for everyone! This time, things get INTENSE. That internal organs being not internal warning was for a reason!

🏰 cursinguponcastles

CHANGE, THIS WAS SO GOOD!! I'm really sorry you're close to being frozen, but I could see how it affected how you wrote Dembélé struggling to get away! It felt too real, haha!!

I'll miss your fics! I, well, hopefully, will see you in a few months!!

[gemharvest]

Okay hear me out (and I will forget I sent an ask in again 2 seconds later) RGB as crystal gems

PREFACING THIS ART WITH AN "I'm sorry I didn't lean more into the SU side of things" I am being so fr I don't wanna mess with trying to figure out more gem-like outfits for them so they're basically the same except with limited palettes and also gems. I don't think it's actually gonna matter to anyone but ANSJKNKDGJ if I don't open with that my brain will Explode. /lh

GO CRAZY GO STUPID AHHHHHH. GEMS. I'm going to have to put my bullet points under a read more just cuz I know I am about to fucking Go Off. grins

Girlfriend is a red diamond. Boyfriend is a peridot. Pico is a green spinel.

GIRLFRIEND:

Went with a diamond cuz of the status thing. I am almost worried it feels like too easy of a pull but I doonnn't care I think it'd be fun if she was a diamond. :) Red obviously because it's her color.

Playing off the status thing; ofc her parents would also be diamonds and so you can have the reasoning of "oh this isn't a high-rank gem" for them not liking Boyf. I mean if you need any reasoning aside from them just being unreasonable LOL but that's always there.

Placement on her chest because !! love !!!! That's also why it's a heart-shaped cut instead of a. Diamond shape.

My backup assignment for her would be a jasper because I think it'd suit her well to be any quartz, and with jasper you can get close to her reds !! The status thing is really what made me decide on a diamond tho.

As I type this I realize there are some vaaaguee similarities to Pink I could pull as extra reasoning but shruuuugs my brain is NOT in an analytical mood rn so I'll just let others chew on that for me.

This isn't really relevant to RGB but I wanna mention it: I think it'd be funny if the demon henchmen were rubies.

BOYFRIEND:

The biggest factor for me going peridot with him is the fact that a common headcanon for canon Peridot is that she's autistic and while I mostly work with ADHD Boyf myself (since that's the experience I can pull from personally)... I am a sucker for a good autistic/AuDHD read with him.

This man is short and Era 2 peridots are short. If I drew him SU style this guy would need limb enhancers. lol

Instead of a prohibition symbol his shirt has the outline of a star. I just find that neat. :)

He would sooooooo suck at a peridot's role but also iirc in canon he's a college drop out anyways so it cancels out. He's got that Greg Universe in him.

Honestly, I put his gem placement on the back of his hand bc I had no clue where else to put it. My secondary placement for it would be on his forehead bc it'd make me giggle with him being Dumb but canon Peridot already has the forehead placement so I didn't go ahead with that.

HE STOLE PICO'S GREEN SPOT. spritzing him with water like a naughty dog BAD BOYFRIEND.

PICO:

This is my little indulgent one I really. I really love canon Spinel. This is tangential but like I literally have 4 spinel OCs and then another 4 furry OCs with designs based on canon Spinel. The urge to make One Of Them a spinel was going to be there.

The juxtaposition of him being a gem with an entertainer role and also a hard-ass hitman makes me giggle. Idk I feel like if you already know canon Spinel then you can probably connect the dots as to why I'd imagine him as a spinel as well.

Heart cut because I find it cute and it matches GF. I think a spade shape could be fun too but idk I prefer just going with a heart. Placement on his upper back because. :) Because he can't easily shield it from damage that way. He has to be constantly aware of his surroundings, unless he wants to give someone the chance for an easy hit on him if they sneak up from behind. Little paranoia thing to fuck with him. I'm so nice to Pico !! :D

Bringing back the status thing with GF's parents; I can't help but giggle thinking abt them hiring him. Imagine you get recommended this really good hitman and you meet up and it's a fucking court jester. Fucking ego hit but DD needs the job done so he hires him anyways. AND THEN PICO DOESN'T EVEN CARRY OUT THE FUCKING HIT. Never hiring a clown off of Craigslist again. /JOKING

hits play on this and sits down with my head in my hands

OKAY BEFORE I'M DONE I WANNA MENTION: I made myself give them all gem assignments BUT I do think it would be fun if one of them was not a gem a la Greg and Rose. So I give you: regular canon demon GF and her two gem boyfriends. Takes a bow. (<- honestly might do something further with that for my own fun. teehee)

[deepamuthukrishnan]

The Science of it All

High school Luke Hughes and OC

Summary: Divya (the oc) has to help Luke catch up with assignments that he missed from his AP Environmental Science class.

Warnings: cursing

Author’s Note: This is loosely inspired by me and my experiences in APES and it’s one of my favorite classes. If you’re American, in high school, and your school offers it, take it. I’m trying to get this to be a series if I can. But I tried to make this like normal but also enjoyable. So enjoy!!

Chapter 1:

Divya’s POV

“Morning Miss. Renaldi.” I greet as I walk into her room. I walk over to my desk, looking at the board to see the agenda for the day.

Finish Tragedy of the Commons Notes

Start Impacts of Overfishing Notes

MAYBE: Start Fishing Silent Debate.

It doesn’t look so bad and I love a notes day in APES. They’re therapeutic and I love this class.

I sit down and I’m greeted by Eesha, a family friend and her friend Sasha. Eesha’s family owns a few restaurants and my dad is close with her dad. We’re not that close but we’re nice.

I take my phone out and I send a few snaps on Snapchat and go through my friend’s stories before opening instagram and going through my feed.

About 2 minutes go by and some boy sits right next to me. He’s kinda cute, tall with light brown curly hair that reaches the nape of his neck.

I wonder if he’s a new kid or transferred to this class because I’ve never seen him before.

The bell rings and Miss. Renaldi, like clockwork, walks into the room and stands behind her computer that’s on the massive lab table in the front of the room, putting in attendance. After finishing that, she fixes the HDMI cord that’s connected to her laptop.

“Good morning guys! How are we?” She asks and gets the same answesr: a few grumbles and a few goods, with Andrew Paulichi yelling amazing.

It’s funny because apart from me and Jacob Anatoli, we’re the only juniors taking the class, I think?

I don’t know about Mystery Boy sitting next to me.

“We’re gonna finish up our tragedy of the commons notes and start our impacts of overfishing notes and if we have time, we’re gonna go a fishing silent debate. If we don’t get to it, we will do that next class. Just a reminder that quiz corrections are due Friday morning and that Tragedy of the Commons edpuzzle is due tomorrow.” Renaldi says and pulls up the slideshow with the notes and people pulling out their notebooks and pens, some taking their chromebooks out.

I take my binder and pencil case out when I feel a tap on my shoulder and I turn to look at Mystery Boy and try not to get lost in his muted blue eyes.

“This is gonna sound stupid but can I borrow a sheet of paper and a pen or a pencil?” He asks.

I try not to let my face show an expression of judgement before I opened my binder and give him two sheets of loose leaf paper and a mechanical pencil from Walmart.

“Thanks.” He says. I turn back to my unfinished Tragedy of the Commons notes, listening to Renaldi go on about how to stop a Commons problem when Mystery Boy taps my shoulder again.

“Oh my god what?” I whisper.

“Sorry for uh, disturbing you, but can I take a picture of your notes?” He asks.

I roll my eyes before showing him my binder. He takes his phone out and I catch a glimpse of his lock screen. It’s a picture of him and what looks like his two brothers. They look oddly recognizable but I can’t put my finger on them.

He unlocks his phone and opens his camera app, quickly snapping pictures of my notes.

“Anything else?” I whisper.

“Nothing, thank you.” He whispers back before giving me my binder.

The period goes by slowly and the bell rings and everyone begins to pack up.

“Just a reminder that your quiz corrections are due Friday and your TOC edpuzzle is due tomorrow!” She yells over the commotion of students saying their byes and have a good days.

“Have a good day Miss. Renaldi.” I say but she stops me.

“Oh Divya, I need to talk to you.” She says. “And you’re not in trouble.”

“Oh, okay.” I tentatively say. I walk back inside and I see Mystery Boy also in the room, standing at the front of the room. She closes the door and shuts her computer.

“Divya,” she points to Mystery Boy, “This is Luke.”

Oh so that’s what his name is and god damn he’s tall!

“Hey.” I say awkwardly.

“And Luke,” she points at me, “This is Divya.”

“Hey.” He also says awkwardly.

“Luke is supposed to be in this class.” Miss. Renaldi explains. “However, because of his, situation for the past few months, he hasn’t been here. And after some consideration, I’ve decided that you should help him catch up.”

“But I’m busy with school and extracurriculars and stuff.” I protest. “I am flattered but like I can’t.”

“Divya I know you can.” She says. “You consistently do well in this class, you know the material like the back of your hand. I’ll give you extra credit for doing this. And he’s also a junior like you too.”

So he is a junior.

I think about it for a moment. “Fine.” I relent. “I’ll do it, but not because I know Luke.”

He gives me a boyish grin and Renaldi beams.

“I knew I could count on you.” She says.

I give her an awkward smile before grabbing my bag and walking out.

“Yeah so then that’s what fucking happened.” I explained with a mouthful of chola batura in my mouth in the choir room during lunch.

“Wait wait wait, so you know have to tutor some kid who’s in your APES class who has been awol for months.” Bella, one of my friends, asks.

“Yeah and now I feel like a dumbass because there’s no way I’m juggling this with like winter guard and my arangetram practice.” I say, furiously biting into my chola batura wrap.

“Okay, do you know his name?” Claire, another one of my friends ask as she takes her phone out and open instagram.

“Uh, his name is Luke.” I reply.

She immediately searches him up and after about 5 minutes, Claire cleared her throat before showing her his instagram profile.

“Okay so his full name is Luke Hughes. He’s 16 years old, youngest of three. He had two older brothers named Quinn and Jack. Quinn’s a defenseman for the Vancouver Canucks while jack’s a center for the New Jersey devils.”

“How did you-“

“It wasn’t that fucking hard. I basically found a post where each of the brothers were tagged in and it took me to their profiles. But anyways, Luke is on the Team USA U17 hockey team. They recently came back from Worlds.” Claire adds.

So that’s why he was gone.

“But why take a fucking college level science course?” I ask.

“I don’t even know. But that’s basically who Tutor Boy is.”

I nod and throw away the aluminum foil before opening my cinnamon bun flavored puffcorns and eating them.

I’m in my head when my phone vibrates and I get a notification from instagram.

Holy. Fucking. Hell.

[seenbyeveryone]

Hey so - I know this is a strange ask but I am curious!!

If you're comfy with answering, why did you originally use 4Chan? Is Tumblr better than it? Is there any funny stories you remember about it?

4Chan is very, very interesting to me but I dare not step foot in the land of acid - I like learning about how/why people use/used it and the general mental toll it takes!

I first used 4chan in 2011. Like many internet set pieces, I was there for the memes. The lulz. The lols. The hahas. The whimsical chaos and insanity of 4chan in unmatched. Is Tumblr better than 4chan, though? Can I get back to that question in a second? There are so many funny stories about 4chan experiences I have had, that I could never fit them all in here. That said, I assign much more value to other things that haven't been neccesarily funny. There have been multiple births of internet memes that I was accidentally present for, which was nice. More importantly, I have chatted with people from completely different walks of life than I, and for me personally, that always will hold value. I like variety. There have been individual things that anons on 4chan have told me that became parts of my worldview. For example, one time I saw an anon say...

"Try not to write individuals off as being 'useless'. This is intellectual violence and this will plant the seeds of darkness in your soul. There are no useless humans. Please remember this." That changed my worldview permanently. And yes, it was a 4chan user who said it. Think about that. For how freaking bad the reputation of that site is, there are some beautiful minds that inhabit it. What made me stop using 4chan was going to EMT school last year. I was flipping through my textbook a few days before classes began and my book said something like "Medical professionals must be oceans of empathy. Do not cast judgements of any kind onto your patients." Something tells me I don't need to elaborate, but I am going to, anyway. After reading that I knew I had to axe 4chan. This was immediate. To be honest, quitting 4chan had been on the to-do list for 7 years. (The mood of the site changed a ton when Trump entered the political stage.) I know I just said NICE things about the site, but yeah, as you may have heard, for every beautiful mind there is on 4chan, there seems to be two troubled minds. I try my very best to resist succumbing to internet hive minds, but sometimes, things fall through the cracks. There were hateful thoughts I would think about other humans, and I knew the crack that these thoughts were leaking in from. It was 4chan. For one example, when you're constantly bombarded with anti-trans content, by sheer osmosis, these opinions can leak into your mind without you knowing about it. Who wants that? Who WANTS to be a hater? Sure, like anybody else, I still think my hater stuff sometimes. But hey, I'm trying out here. Also, it's been getting harder and harder to see funny/interesting stuff on 4chan. Look, I like laughing at stupid shit on the internet. That's originally why I started using the site. It's become increasingly common for threads to devolve into political rambling and conservative rhetoric. It gets boring after a while. If you tell me there will be shitposting at your party, it better be there.

I think what kept me from quitting for so long was the lack of viable alternatives 4chan (or so I thought). I had tried to quit 4chan numerous times and I would usually try to get my meme/shitpost fix on reddit. Just yuck. Have you ever tried to use reddit? I don't know how YOU feel about reddit, but I sure do know how I feel about it. That site is just the worst and it is SO. NOT. a viable alternative. I would use reddit for like a minute or two and think "Oh yeah, now I remember why I never come here.", and back to 4chan I would go. So after I read what I read in my textbook, I quit 4chan cold turkey. I experienced what felt like meme withdrawals, but I was resolute in not going back. I refuse to be a medical professional that uses 4chan. It just feels off to me. I also knew that I didn't want to use reddit, either. Then I recalled what I have been shown of Tumblr in the past. This was a lightbulb moment. Most of the content I have seen on tumblr I have thoroughly enjoyed, but I simply never used the website all that often. There have been some blogs I check out regularly, but as for daily use? No. I had tried in that past, but it never stuck. I'm not 100% sure why. Was it because 4chan users are told that Tumblr is an awful website? Maybe that was a big part of it. Anyways, I just sort of made a rule with myself that if I wanted to look at stupid shit on the internet, it must be through Tumblr. This decision also coincided with my desire to focus on mental health/become more mentalls stable. I feel happier after not using 4chan anymore, to boot.

And you know what? It did become my favorite site. Not only is the quality of content just as good than the quality of content on 4chan, the quality is more consistent. The content is also more innocent, good-natured, positive, polite, and...FUN. Every day, I see stuff on this site that KILLS ME. None of the whimsical weirdness of 4chan that I was attracted to is lost, either. People on this site are so goofy and the users here have an excellent grasp of comedy and shitposting. I love Tumblr, and I never imagined that I would love Tumblr. Wanna know the best part? Tumblr is curated! I used to think Tumblr is a hive mind website that molds its users into thinking a certain way. It really isn't. I was wrong.

Did you know that Tumblr and 4chan are two different sides of the same coin? I am serious. Both sites highly value original content, weirdness, authenticity, and not being a normie. For how much hate 4chan users feel toward Tumblr, it's amusing how right up their alley the content on Tumblr actually is. It's difficult to describe.

My time spent on 4chan was not useless. Writing people off as useless is intellectual violence. That site molded me into who I am today, for better and for worse, but it was simply time to stop. I don't want that kind of negativity knocking around in my head all day. Medical profesionals should avoid being haters at any and all costs.

I am so glad you asked, by the way. Thank you, and sorry if I rambled.

[clementine-thedestroyer]

Ranking Call of Duty characters by how likely they are to be on The Great British Baking Show:

1. Simon

Out of the possible hobbies you could say Simon is likely to engage in, I’d say baking is pretty darn high up there. Not going to lie, it was a toss for who’d get 1st. It was either Kyle or Simon, but I settled on Simon because frankly, the tent just really fits his vibe. Slow, calm (maybe not calm- they actually seem pretty stressed), and just generally a happy place. Everyone is nice to everyone, and I think he really could flourish in that kind of environment. I think he’d stay pretty quiet, especially in front of a camera, but as time went on, he’d get a bit more comfortable. Frankly, I think he’d have a decent chance at winning too. And by the end of the first week, he’d easily become a fan favorite for his stupid jokes and guarded soft side.

2- Kyle

Definitely a baker, also definitely learned from his mom and wears a funny little apron when he does it. I don’t think you could necessarily say he’d win, but he’d put up a good fight. Winning wouldn’t be out of the question, but I think that some time around the middle or late middle of the competition, he’d end up biting off more than he could chew for one of his show stoppers or have an issue with baking time that would cost him the chance to move forward.

3- Kate

Aside from her being American, I’m going to lie, I couldn’t see her baking. To me, Laswell strikes me as the kind of person who can make a mean white wine reduction and cook you the best meal you’ve ever eaten, while also refusing to bake anything whatsoever. I like to head cannon that her wife can bake and Kate can cook- and neither of them is particularly interested in learning how to do the other. You know, if we were going to assign her a cooking show, I would say the non-professional version of Chopped. She’d dominate, period.

4- John

While I could see how you’d disagree with me on this point, I think Price’s attitude towards baking is minimal, at best. Somewhat similar to Kate, where he can definitely cook- just not bake. Although for John, it’s more out of a simple lack of interest. I also couldn’t see John on any sort of cooking competition show, even if it wasn’t one about baking. While I could see Kate somewhat enjoying the competitiveness and the spirit of the whole thing, I think John would just get annoyed. He probably hates to be rushed- any time he is cooking from scratch, he prefers to do so with plenty of time before the food needs to be ready. It’s just more of a leisurely experience for him, and being timed and judged for what he made would take any enjoyment he could’ve found right out.

5- Johnny

Johnny? No. No, he wouldn’t be on The Great British Baking Show- or anything like it. He’d be on Nailed It.

He’d be on Nailed It, and his performance on the show would single handedly be enough to spawn multiple memes and viral clips of the show, but also about half a dozen new rules that have to be put in place in the wake of his participation.

[tilthedayidice]

Hey welcome back to my BG3 Hot Takes

While I have your attention, here's a cool site to help Palestine, all you gotta do is click it daily.

This session was inspired by @lipsie, gettin me ttalkin way too much. Yes I am aware that the tadpole changes things, and they have to make it balanced for the game blah blah blah- let a bitch complain.

Screenshots sourced from the Baldur's Gate 3 Wiki

Gale is the only character I feel is spec'd correctly, He's smart but fiuckin stupid, he has autism rizz, mam could not lift any box you asked him to, the only reason his constitution is 13 is because he's been dealing with the Orb and he's used to it by now.

Karlach should start with 20 strength and you CANNOT convince me otherwise, her charisma should be higher also, she's a ball of sunshine and could put the fear of god into anyone, and the line "Gods I wanna ride you til you see stars" will never leave my brain. Give this bitch a 15. She do be a little dumb I'll give you that.

Shadowheart is just funny to me, How can her wisdom be a 17 when she's been cloistered away for so long? Her wisdom is only a 17 in ONE SPECIFIC SUBJECT, a subject where she's forced to give up her memories. Memories are where we get our wisdom. Wisdom is gained through lived experiences, I'd give you the 17 for endgame Shart, but not start of game Shart. I'll take the 8 CHA cause she's a bitch (said with love, me too babe) but she knows enough to get what and where she wants so I think we should nudge it up to like 10.

Lae'zel.... I think it's unfair to put Lae'zel's intelligence at 10. Her wisdom being low, yeah i get that she's been cloistered away in a society that believes its the only way, it's all she knows. But intelligence? No. She might know much about Faeruns culture and people, but she knows EVERYTHING about the stars. And there's far more of that than there will ever be of Faerun. She's the funniest person we know, give her 9 CHA.

Wyll my beloved, do you airbrush those abs on? Do you wake up every morning and contour them? I DON'T BELIEVE YOU DO!!!!!!!!! SO WHO'S THE ASS WHO DECIDED YOUR STRENGHT WAS A FUCKIN 8??????? THE BLADE OF FRONTIERS SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST A 13. He deserve a 15 but I know they won't give it to him. Lipsie and I were talking about him and they're right, WHEN WE DUMP THE BITCH HE SHOULD RESPEC INTO BARD.

Astarion..... oh Astarion.... you're such a disaster. Such a wet cat of a man. Such a pathetic little mew mew. I shit on him a lot, but I do really love his character and development lol. LESS STR MAKE HIM WEAK, he has been starved and living off rats and shame, he can have his measly 8 AFTER he drinks... uh "Thinking" Blood. His CHA being 10 is perfect actually no notes. I personally think his actual INT should be lower, not too much lower, maybe 11/12, I knooooow he was a magistrate, but you can't tell me he's not giving himbo... no what was that word on the meme graph? Himbim? Himbim.

Halsin.......... 10 STR? 10?!?!?!?! You built him LIKE THAT and give him 10 STR?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!? What in the nine hells...... Weaker than Karlach of course, but 10????? Give that man 15 at least 8 INT???????????? 8???????? LARIAN WHY DO YOU HATE HIM???? Is it because he isn't Gale? Mans has been studying the mindflayers on his own, he's been studying the shadow curse... on his own. HE'S A MASTER HEALER?!?!?! AN ARCHDRUID?!?!?!?!?!?!? That takes time, study, and dedication. You wanna assign him himbo so bad. He's just a whole well rounded man with autism,. (Not a dig on himbos, quite literally my favorite genre of Man). This is just 'cause he fucks isn't it.

Minthara she's so much smarter than Larian gives her credit for. While I agree with the WIS, that's more a product of being so closed off, Her INT is much higher. I'd give her a 14? She cunning, just because it's used for Evil deeds doesn't mean she hasn't been she hasn't put a lot of thought into her work. She lived in Menzoberranzan for Gods' sake. She had to be smart or be killed?!? She's said so on multiple occasions! Just because she's Evil aligned doesn't mean she not smart. (She's just as smart as our average Bear according to Larian)

Minsc...... First off let me say that I love that they chose this image. A Bad Bitch. Anyways, anyone who doesn't find that dumb happy face charming is either lying or literally has a stick up their ass.... 12 CHA. Also why is he so weak? I know he isn't like actually weak... but mans chunked that mimic? Let him have 14.

Jaheira I'll give you the 10 STR, she's complained about her knees like three times in my most recent session. 8 INT? So what I'm getting here.... is anyone not an origin character is just baseline 8? Lazy. Especially considering she was ALREADY GIVEN STATS IN TWO PREVIOUS GAMES. In both BG1 and BG2 she has an intelligence of 10, and if anything she's only gotten smarter over time. I wasn't gonna do this... but left is 1 right is 2.

15, 14, 17, 10, 14, 15, and 15, 17, 17, 10, 14, 15

Make it make sense. I know she's old at this point, but in my game she killed Sarevok again so idk man.

Rip me apart in the notes ;)

But do it nicely...

[luvo27]

ok here's the dealio because i don't think i'm ever going to write a fic about it: My cass cain sexuality hc is that she's aroallo. she and stephanie ARE in love and they DO have sex but they're not girlfriends to me. partners, possibly. they are in a romantic platonic relationship but if asked they are each others best friend and this is because the title of best friend holds an incredible and unique weight to them. prior to cass, steph's main relationships with peers are with tim (romantic) her ex (romantic) and those girls that we see very briefly (not really friends) and prior to stephanie cass had no friends and so being each others best friend is the most important thing. of course, being best friends and romantic partners are not mutually exclusive, but i think they prefer labeling as best friends. on steph's side, her most significant friendship with tim was complicated as a result of the romantic nature of their relationship, and in terms of cass:

aroallo cass is very near and dear to my heart and i think that this is what would most closely resemble her experiences for the exact same reason that i think she would never actually use the label in a way that i think ties into her relationship with language in a fun way. one of the biggest questions aro/ace people have is what exactly constitutes romantic/sexual attraction and it's a stupid kind of confusion over the precise meaning of a word and the line between this love and that love and what's the difference and its just a meaningless collection of phonemes that had meaning assigned to it so at the end of the day does it really matter and this is very cass to me. you understand. allo because i think cass enjoys sex i think its really fun for her. in theory my agenda could be sex positive asexual cass butttttt it just doesn't make as much sense to me. i think she's sexually attracted to people and that's something that she understands in a way that she doesn't romantic attraction

so cass and steph are in love and have sex and are best friends but NOT romantic partners AND i think their relationship is an open one and NO of course they have NOT had an explicit and open conversation about their feelings because NEITHER of them are smart enough for that but they DO understand that they're best friends and that takes precedence above all else so for them it works out

if you throw in a steph and tim sometimes have sex and are not in love but do love each other and they're friends then there's something funny that stephanie could do that i haven't quite figured out yet but it probably involves annoying tim does this makes sense do you understand my vision i think at some point i lost the plot but yeah.

[amnesiaskulls]

My silly drv3 experience so far (by someone who has yet to finish the game)(only prologue)

this post details me and my friends drv3 prologue experience. We are currently almost done with chapter 5, keep in mind that THERE MAY BE GAME SPOILERS FOR ANYTHING BEFORE DRV3 CHAPTER 6, last thing i wanna do is spoil a game for someone

before i get into the funny stuff (bear with me please) i just gotta give a little insight as to why my experience is so funny to me, skip to the green if you just wanna hear the stuff leading up to the actual experience, and to the pink just to quick skip to the prologue

my friends who I ran through with: @h3r0b0y and @rexecutioner, go take a look at their stuff, both of them are incredible artists who have content other than drv3 (this is also an excuse to tag them so they can fact check me)

pre-game experience (not required to understand, but recommended if you want backround info)

when i consume a new piece of media, usually its because ive seen things about it that i find cool or funny, or ive been told good things about it. In all honesty damn gone grandpa was never i game i thought i would ever get into or care about, because my only experience with it was some of the immature fans and one kid in middle school who liked it. I had only heard about the negative parts of the fandom from like 2018 (peak people misunderstanding character territory) even until like a year ago (wow so great of me to judge a game based on like 3 negative experiences wooww). during middle school, i also met my best friend (this is important later).

Another thing about our silly friend group is that Hero is great at improv (like really good, hes seriously one of the funniest people on earth) and Rex, my twin, is really good at making silly voices and VAing different characters with unique voices (they both are good at these things, but i wanna give them each individual credit). Im pretty amateur at both, but I can hold onto my voice a bit longer without having to take a break

The actual drv3 prologue experience

what we do with our amazing great and cool talents is dub over various pieces of media that we like or find funny, such as mystreet or mcsm. My best friend, Hero, is someone with impeccable taste in outfits and clothes in general, and owns a checkered bandana and was wearing it when me and Rex were over at his house, and kept talking about how “he would be compared to the twink from daganronpa” if he wore it out. The same day that Hero brought up the checkered bandana thing, we finished dubbing the last interesting piece of mystreet media, and now had nothing left to do. Being in the damn gone grandpa headspace with the whole kokichi thing, Hero suggested that we voice over it. The only things i knew about it was monokuma and kokichi because of the one banger fan song and the bandana kokichi wears. Im not exaggerating, I personally had no clue that there was more then one game, and at the time i still didn't care much about the game and didn’t think that we would get too far into it to care (we’re going through a 43 hour playthrough), i personally thought we would get bored after seeing kokichi and then quit (i was so wrong).

Our plan was that there was no plan except that we would mute the game and do all of the voices ourselves, not much thinking went into it. Also, no assigned characters other than kokichi, who went to Hero because it was his idea in the first place, just take whoever you want before someone else gets them

PROLOGUE

I actually have all of the prologue on video, as i like to look back on things to remember stupid details like jokes and predictions for the rest of the game so I can see how close we got. I will not be posting it anywhere for privacy reasons, so please respect that. Its also the only one i videoed for some reason, so its the only one I remember that well due to large time frames between sittings.

it started with the black nothingness and a voice, whom Rex claimed immediately, and used a slightly deeper voice for them thinking that it was a man. Its was infact not a man (there is a video clip of all three of us exclaiming “ITS A GIRL??” After kaede steps out of the locker) after we see the banging on the other locker, a boy falls out. I immediately decide that i get to be the pathetic emo, and while the voice tends to fluctuate a bit for a while, the voice i settle on is something akin to the snapcube silver the hedgehog voice. We run through the rest of the room stuff and get chased by exisals to the gym. (Another fun fact, due to a reading mistake i made, we have since called the exisals “exsials” like ex-ee-uls and i only noticed during chapter 5. Over 3/4s of the way through.)(im not going to pronounce it correctly ever)

Because we have the game muted, we have no clue whos talking because everyone is labeled ??? until the second half of the prologue, and after rantaro introduces himself i think. We each claim a couple characters, Rex claims noticeably less because they have the main character, kaede. The only other interesting thing in the first half is all of us shitting on ryoma for being short. the second half is when we meet all of the characters and get all roles assigned unequally because that would mean a plan, and plans are lame (this is a joke i love plans) some notable meets were with Maki, where after learning about her ultimate, Hero comments “so thats where your soul went”, and originally had a pick me girl voice, Rantaro, where I called him the ultimate empath and Hero used a stoner-surfer voice combo for him, Ryoma, whos voice at this point in time was the highest pitch british youve ever heard without a voice changer (it eventually changed to something a lot more like the official english voice), and finally poor Shuichi. During the entire beginning after they get their first memory we make fun of Shuichi a lot, call him the ultimate dork, ultimate wuss, and other funny things like that. The most notable however is when he stated something incredibly obvious, so Hero said “wow how did you figure that out, what are you, the ultimate detective?” And we laugh it off and skip around a bit because we were honestly not that enthusiastic about doing the exact same thing again. We skip to when kaede meets tsumugi and learn her talent. We realized we skipped over shuichis talent but didnt want to go back, so Rex looked it up bravely facing spoilers for us. Something something ultimate detective and we were FLABBERGASTED.

there were more funny things but im not going to rewatch it to find them

The current character distributions were:

REX: Kaede, Keebo, Maki, Monokuma, Monokid and Monosuke

HERO: Rantaro, Ryoma, Tenko, Angie, Kiyo, Kokichi, Tsumugi, and Monotaro

AMNESIA: Shuichi, Kirumi, Gonta, Miu, Kaito, Himiko, Monophanie and Monodam

some notable silly bits were also: comparing kaito to the vocaloid, predicting kirumis murder, cheering the moment gonta mentioned entomology, Hero leaving during Mius intro and coming back to her saying shes going to drug herself to get high, Hero predicting them all being in space, the Tenko Tussle where Hero had her originally, i tried to take her but Hero took her back for some reason despite not wanting to voice her, tsumugi being immediately hated by all of us and being dubbed the ultimate nerd, both me and Hero constantly telling Rex that rantaro was giving off death flags, rantaros many names- ultimate idk, ultimate beats me, ultimate bogus, ultimate empath, ultimate weed, and ultimate boyfriend eventually, us screaming at ryoma being in the game room, us saying “i dont think we should have gotten a friendship fragment for that” after talking to kiyo, Hero calling kirumi super nanny, us cheering when angie said she was an artist, calling gonta the alpha because he was raised by wolves, the cage wall getting a “what is this, mcsm?” Someone said rehab amami??? When Rex checked for Shuichis ultimate, I wanted to avoid spoilers so i said “oh yea and he killed 8 people”reffering to us knowing nothing about the game, with Hero saying “also he killed 17 people in 1905”

its not letting me write more without glitching so ill probably make a separate post about the other chapters eventually lmao, might link it when im done, or if you have a specific one you wanna hear about PRE CHAPTER 6, send me an ask!

[potpuorri]

omg i finished serial experiments lain !!!

this one has been on my watchlist ever since one of the youtubers i like put out a video on the game (i will play that one at some point). and i did watch it, all 13 episodes, but for a stupid english assignment ??? like way to go, rush the weird 90s mental illness anime for school. it's okay though, i am fully intending to do a rewatch without academic pressures later.

the very first thing i liked about lain is the intro, literally everyone likes duvet, and uh how funny the animation is. i love how bug-eyed lain is almost every episode, and how skrunkly she moves sometimes. it's something that i liked in madoka too. i also love how blinding and yellow it is sometimes. like computer screens and the light coming through a window just turns so white that it hurts my eyes. and with how yellow things are sometimes, it really feels like summer, like the kind of summer that has you sweating in bed, unable to move, and you only have a single ceiling fan that is definitely way too dusty, but it's literally 40 degrees outside so you can't get up to clean. idk it's just something (that might not even be there) that i picked up on.

i also love every shot of the power lines and the boon.aiff that accompanies it. i am just such a sucker for physical evidence of technology, and man i love wires !!!! i love how menacing they look, so big and with a literal red sky behind them, it's soo good.

spoiler territory !!!!

i'm going to be really honest, the plot just wasn't for me. my tastes are for the grounded kinds of shows but also i like big nonsensical plots, and lain just wasn't grounded or big and stupid enough and that's okay. the plot is just not that important to me anyways, like i think it's cool that lain is both human and non-human, but like, i don't really care ? lain is lain to me, and lain is a deeply troubled person who, even if she was the wired itself or something, i strongly relate to. on the whole, lain (the show)'s mysteries is not something i am too interested in, the deep sci-fi bits (omg kids have psychic abilities ??) is not something i really cared about. which is why the game is probably a better fit for me.

also something i've been thinking about is, uh alice and lain. i am all for yuri, even very codependent and toxic yuri, but alice and lain is just not for me. i'm sorry ! i think their friendship is so much more than platonic but doesn't go into romantic at all !! i think lain just wants friends :((

but yeah lain is so cool !! it feels like my brain in a 1998 anime, i love the technology parts and also the parts about being human. it's really just a show that i feel like i should've gotten into a long time ago.

oh and uh, just so you know, lain walks into her room (which is flooded with cooling fluid) with socks on :)

[hyperspecific-iterator-oc-polls]

You know, I think it’s about time that I did one of these for

twenty eight stab wounds

Created by a mourning ancient as a totally normal coping mechanism

adopts the youngest member of the group as his daughter (on accident)

Current name is not his original assigned name

This character started off as a joke, but I got too attached

Super fucked up guy in the off string au

actual cannibal. Local windex muncher

joined a murder cult (on accident)

Can mimic voices of other iterators

is in roughly 75 sliverist group chats despite not being a sliverist and finding the entire movement stupid af

thank u

Everybody observe it is our funny cannibal fellow Had to chop part of poll item 9 off. sorry poll character limit got me anyway handshake emoji on 5 (hi Fox Submerged In Jewels), 4(a whole bunch of guys actually. i forgor most but two notable ones include Zero Full of Paper(who accidentally proceeded to make me generate a wholeass local group), Kaleidoscopic Catastrophe, Fucked-Up Cascade, Broken Can, Narrowing Inversion Executed Right and Molten Karma (mostly Broken Can), Inevitable Skill Issues and Examining Leaves), 3 (a LOT of people here. best example i have is Fucked-Up Cascade(Descent of Water)) and 9 (Parti lurks in many groupchats, sliverist ones included despite her not being a sliverist at all, solely to observe and sometimes for free information on random shit. NIER is also here for observation and. actually a lot of people here are in sliverist groupchats solely for the observation and or "yay free people to harass!" experience lmfao. theres way too many for me to list (blinks in 90 something iterator ocs) but just know a lot of them fit into this one)

[coolfire333]

Oh! Did you have any thoughts you'd like to share on TLHOD?

Yeah, it's been a few years since I've read it but yes I have so many thoughts!!! Major spoilers ahead (this book is very old but warning just in case)

Ok so a little bit of backstory: it was 2019 or 2020, sophomore year of college and I was around 19-20 years old (can't remember if it was spring or fall). I was in the honors program and had to take this mandatory honors class called "great works" where we attempted (key word: attempted) to read what the professor considered classic or otherwise noteworthy pieces of literature

Only problems being my professor was as dull as all get out during lectures and we also had to read an obscene amount of books in a short period of time (my adhd struggles hadn't quite hit that year yet so it was a stupid amount of books in a short timeframe even for me to read) so overall despite the interest I had for literature it was an agonizing experience to be in that class

I skimmed through most of our assigned books because it was the only way to be able to comprehend enough about the plot of things to be able to participate and follow along in lecture

However with The Left Hand of Darkness I soon found myself enraptured by the worldbuilding and premise. A scifi book from the 60s, one written by a woman, at that? Color me intrigued. I love scifi and have an interest for older books, that and the 60s are one of my favorite time periods in history so I was immediately interested in actually sitting down to read this book instead of skimming through it

By god I wasted so much time that I probably should have used for doing other homework reading every square inch of this novel. I really need to read it more carefully again if I can because I did rush a bit and it has been like 5 years since I've read it but holy mackerel what a story

The Left Hand of Darkness is so important to me for several reasons, the first being that I think it's a good story, but also and perhaps most importantly because it expanded my knowledge of gender. I wasn't the most open minded about gender and nonbinary identity when I first started reading and I genuinely feel like I came out of the other end of the story with not only an appreciation for gender diversity that I didn't have before but also a better understanding of it.

Considering I'm bigender and genderqueer now, coming to terms with this book was probably my first step in starting to unravel my own gender identity, even if I didn't know it at the time. Funny sidenote but I'm pretty sure I was also grappling with my bisexuality (thanks to also being demiaroace and not knowing it, figuring yourself out orientation-wise is a lot harder) at the time and I had a bit of a crush on Estraven (and Genly for that matter although I already knew I liked men) and a deep fascination with the "gay but not exactly gay" relationship that Genly and Estraven have but I kinda went "don't have time to unpack what that means for my own sexuality" and shelved that part of myself for later analysis lol

Anyways, onto the story. It's been a while but Genly and Estraven's weird nebulous relationship throughout the story had me in a chokehold the entire time. What if I was in heat and we were both starving and freezing to death in a tent together and forced to share body heat to stay alive (and your telepathic voice is the same as the telepathic voice of my dead brother who killed himself after we were prohibited from continuing our incestuous relationship as a life bond)....surely this doesn't mean anything about how I feel about you...haha, jk....unless.......

Like for real the two of them hate and misunderstand each other at the start of the book and by the end of it there's this weird unspoken bond they have that clearly teeters on the romantic (which is interesting for both of them since Estraven sees Genly as obscenely sexual for his male-only gender and meanwhile Genly is confused by Estraven's lack of gender)

But then Estraven literally sacrifices himself to allow Genly to live...he dies in his arms and his last thought is just telepathically shouting his dead brother's name as if professing some kind of love for Genly while also being reminiscent of an "I'm going to join my dead former partner in the afterlife" type thing. Good lird...

Literally the last passage in the book (iirc) is Genly being like "well ok this sucks so bad but mission technically accomplished, time to go back to earth I guess" and then he is confronted with Estraven and Arek's son who's just like "was my dad (referring to Estraven) a hero? Did he die nobly?" and the book just ends there with the faint implication that Genly is going to tell him all about Estraven...like oh my goddddddddd the pain is eternal

I could go on and on about the interesting way Le Guin explores gender throughout the book but one thing that stood out to me was that the king had to have birthed a son himself (versus being the father of someone else's son) for that son to be considered a true heir. Idk it just was a really interesting take on gender and heritage imo, you'd expect it to be the other way around (like the birthed son doesn't count towards the king's lineage because patriarchal commentary) so seeing the opposite imo emphasized the alienness of their society really well in contrast to our own preconceptions of human gender roles

Also I see the critique of he/him and male terms being used for Estraven throughout the story but also the book is from Genly's perspective and iirc he has a touch of Earth Sexism so using he/him for everyone regardless of their genderlessness is actually a good choice in explaining Genly's perspective I think. I will say I'm partial to the idea that Estraven and others use they/them normally and then she/her or he/him if in heat depending on if they're feminine or masculine during but idk I think using he/him for everyone throughout is fine too because it's just one of those "this doesn't translate well to human society" moments

Another interesting point of conversation that was actually brought up by my professor at the time was that Genly is a black human from future earth and yet his race and relationship with racial identity as a black human specifically is never fully explored like his gender is in relation to the inhabitants of Gethen. I have no idea what to do with this information but it certainly is interesting considering the book was written in 1969

I get that Le Guin was white and probably didn't feel like she should comment on race (and maybe she just didn't have many thoughts on it) but she also made a clear choice to make Genly, the protagonist and pov character, a black intergalactic ambassador of Earth in a book written during the civil rights era...yeah I would certainly have liked to also see how Genly's race (as a black man not as a human because his humanity is clearly detailed) factored into the plot but idk it's just something I think about sometimes

[thosearentcrimes]

Read Jane Eyre by Currer BeCharlotte Brontë. It's, uh, interesting. Worth reading, for sure? I'm happy I read it, which I can't always say about the classics. Some of them try my patience, while Jane Eyre was a quick and fun read. Whether you think it is good obviously depends on how you assign aesthetic value, though. I mean I know a lot of people are less preoccupied with politics in art, and for them, go ahead, but I think only some of the political problems are separable from the basic content of the book?

Like ok the racism is almost entirely unnecessary, though obviously predictable given the time period. It really starts ramping up towards the end of the book, too? I say almost, because it's obviously connected with the recurring phrenological theme which in turn relates to the main couple of the story not being very physically attractive. Which, to be clear, is a very nice thing for a novel to include, though perhaps less so when it is related explicitly to phrenology. Whatever.

So the thing about phrenology, and racism too, of course, is that obviously Victorians overwhelmingly understood those to be significant material, biological phenomena, right. And they're super not any of those, except insofar as they have the ability to impose themselves onto the material world, and even then not very much. So when you examine reality, including historical reality, from an enlightened point of view, you can see all of that is nonsense. However, assuming we accept the construct of a fictional world, in the fictional world of Jane Eyre, racism and phrenology are super real and material biological features of persons, rather than a pile of nonsense supported by confirmation bias. It's like if you were reading a comic or watching a TV show and it turned out everyone's personalities were actually determined by their blood ty-

ANYWAY, it's funny how gay Jane Eyre looks from a modern perspective, and I'm not just projecting I swear. Like, half the time Jane meets a woman, she becomes instantly obsessed with her, forms a codependent or dependent attachment to her, starts talking about how insanely perfect and good and beautiful she is and how much her male love interest isn't good enough for her, also one time she's given a description of a pretty lady and she starts drawing the most beautiful woman she can think of to imagine what she looks like. She develops what is barely deniably a gay crush on at least three women over the course of the book. Which is two more women than men. But it's important to recognize that this was a different, substantially more homosocial time, and that the way friendship and romance are expressed has changed significantly since the differentiation of homosexuality as its own identity. Why, even quite recently people wouldn't bat an eye over this kind of female friendship. Like, it feels like every other time my mom sees another woman, she'll start talking about how beautiful and talented and great she is and how her husband isn't good enough for her, and my mom isn-

ANYWAY, one of the real strengths of the book is simply in portraying Jane Eyre thinking and responding emotionally to stuff? It feels like such a basic thing, but it turns out a lot of writing novels is about doing the basics really well. If you make your main character emotionally and intellectually comprehensible to the audience, that'll help establish the stakes and sell the narrative. You feel like you know Jane and you can see why she makes all the stupid decisions she makes, you get a sense of why such an independent and proud woman would nonetheless be instinctively submissive the way Jane is. And the narration of an adult looking back over their childhood experiences is really well done I think. Comparing to Dickens is a bit absurd, because Dickens was quite frankly a slop merchant so you have to apply a different standard, but it is crazy how bad Dickens is at pulling that narrative voice off considering it was his whole deal.

Uh, the main couple is fucked up or whatever. She's a teenager and he could be her father, and is also literally her employer. Comes with the territory, obviously, he's a werewolf or whatever, that's the point. The part where he has his wife locked up in the attic probably a bit more of a problem, though it is hilarious how everyone is worried about the whole bigamy thing, and not about the wife being locked in an attic thing. Also he's like a massive misogynist, crazy (read: normal for Victorians) levels of hating women. I'm pretty sure the reason he gets crippled and blinded in the end is so that it's remotely plausible that he doesn't start beating Jane like six months into the marriage. Given all of this, it's a wonder that Brontë genuinely manages to sell the relationship, even with the added difficulty of me shipping Jane with half the female characters in the book. A testament to her skill and my sentimentality.

Who should read this book? I dunno, I think most of you have probably read it already or something. If you want to know the classics, the literary canon, this is one that is good to read, you'll probably have fun. Be aware that there's Surprise Racism and that the main couple is Problematique. If you want to modernize it, just pretend every time they talk about phrenology they're actually talking about astrological signs.

[saintadeline]

thoughts on how adeline adjusts to her varying levels of disability throughout her time at the research hall? (mobility aids, etc)

This is kind of a funny question because on one hand i want to have a real answer. On the other hand the research hall has such a videogamey layout it is composed entirely of very steep rotating stairs with no railings or barely functioning elevators. Do you guys think the nightmare twisted it to make it stupider or did someone have to be assigned to be in the rafters all day to rotate the stairs every hour or so because otherwise half the floors are impossible to access. Imagine getting enlisted by the healing church research team just to do that for a living. I quite love it. ANYWAY my personal hc is that she was already chronically ill and bloodsainthood did not help that in the slightest (support group for girls who faint when they try to walk more than 10 minutes) and especially not the research hall experiments which would leave her even weaker. Im no expert on the victorian era and its not something you see talked about regarding that era but i think i can safely assume that period of time was not. Particularly great for physically (and generally tbqh) disabled people LOL and yharnam would be no exception Especially when the city is so cartoonishly twisted and fucked up. The amount of stairs and irregular paving you see in central yharnam alone (not to even mention old yharnam) is a lot. I got lost again sorry but anyway i see her as using a cane for a while, i feel shes the sort to try and pretend shes fine and push herself to her limit way too often so she would only ever really start doing it when it got bad after becoming a blood saint. I could definitely see her using crutches in the early research hall era after she started experiments and would end up using wheelchairs more than just occasionally as her state deteriorated as a mix of whatever the fuck they were doing, severe anemia from that + her role as blood saint + everything making her chronic illnesses worse when she was already prone to them. She most likely wasnt able to really move too much by herself by the time the experiments advanced enough to warrant The Bag. Also shes on the ground floor which would seem surprising given most of the rest of the rh is up a few floors however thats also where the balcony is and i always saw it as her asking to be brought there so theres a chance maria mightve negociated that spot for her for ease of access

[lazy-dog24601]

I really am a fucking moron, I feel like I should have said all of this stuff before 4chan died.

Like, I should have been vocal about how shit 4chan was, even if it was super fucking obvious.

But, I don't know. I say it was like, a shitpost or what not, but when people said "You're here forever" in regards to 4chan I took that shit to heart. I shouldn't have, but I did.

It really did feel like I was bound to 4chan. Like a piece of myself was chained to it. I knew so much about it that I couldn't stop going back.

"Don't forget: You're here forever" is the de-motivational poster Mr. Burns puts up in Homers office after he had to literally crawl back to his old job. It was a joke.

Maybe it only applied to me, as stupid as that sounds. Maybe I am indeed the only person who took that to heart.

Whatever. The only reason I ever went back to that website was to jack off, check what /v/ and /co/ were talking about, the gunpla threads on /m/, or watch rekt threads on /gif/.

I stopped trying to talk to people on that since back in like, 2021. And even then it was only about Type-Moon games. Once I got into Homestuck, that became my only reason to return to 4chan.

I don't know what to make of this, because it seems like most people didn't go to 4chan and it doesn't seem like most 4chan posters took the website serious enough to go on Tumblr and wax poetic about their homoerotic experiences like I am currently doing.

This is stupid. Everyone who went to 4chan are stupid. Why would anyone want to read this shit. Do other 4chan posters find this shit entertaining even. Do they take solace in my funny words. Do they find it romantic. Erotic even. A man airing out his regret, reflecting on a boyhood wasting by frotting with nazis. I'm not gay but I think about homosexuality a lot. Sometimes I think gay things and have gay thoughts about my male coworkers. Stuff like, what if I kissed this guy. Could I kiss this guy. Am I attracted to this guy. Am I comfortable enough hugging another guy. What is it about men stops me from being gay. Like I think about kissing fictional men but do I have it in me to kiss an actual man. Are real men as attractive as fictional men. I always saw everyone on 4chan as a man because they were all incel transphobes. Would I go gay for fellow 4chan posters. Sometimes I think about crossdressing. If I crossdressed I would most definitely start kissing men. Like at that point its not even about being attracted to men, it's just about getting intimate with them. Does that make me trans, because I'm not trans. I may have been assigned male at birth but it is by conscious choice that I identify as male today. Is crossdressing vaild. Is it okay for a man to sometimes dress as a woman and then have sex with other men and still consider themself a cis-gender heterosexual male. Because I often wonder if other cishets think about all this queer stuff a lot because personally I think being cis-het involves a lot of queer thoughts because, in truth, all of these terms and states of being are constructs that aren't real, and are only considered real because it's part of society to construct ideas and archetypes that everyone agrees upon lest we all stop talking to each other. Like things like sexuality and gender exist to help humans interact with humans. All of this serves to aid in the interaction with humans. All that matters in life is whether or not you can properly interact with fellow humans, and that will including thinking about a lot of "gay" shit.

This has nothing to do with anything, but there are two things about 4chan I vividly remember- nobody thinks about trans people more than 4chan posters, and that 4chan is a website that turns people gay.