#Like I’m still into most of the stuff I was into as a kid

[sydlewie]

I want to talk about this because I was just thinking about this trend the other day.

Btw, I do agree with the sentiment that it’s harmful that people were infantilizing themselves, and that it’s inherently anti feminist. However, I haven’t seen anyone give a different perspective to this conversation.

I believe why this trend got so popular was because of the current climate of being a woman, and the juxtaposition of how society treats men. Lots of young kids raised socially as girls who get bullied/harassed by their boy classmates are brushed off or not taken seriously, with the excuse “oh he likes you, that’s why he does that” and even “oh he’s just a boy”

Meanwhile, young girls are taught very quickly they cannot get away with nearly as much stuff as boys, or even men, can. They have to be a great daughter, friend, therapist, mother… all while still being a child *cue Labour by Paris Paloma.* The gender stereotypes get even worse when you add another layer of intersectionality, such as class or racial identity.

Feminine presenting people also find themselves often not treated with the dignity and respect they deserve. They are not taken seriously. An easy and quick example that most can relate to, or have noticed, is feminine people getting their car serviced on vs masculine people. “Blinker fluid” is a prime example of the patriarchy at play. Since they deem us easy to prey on, we are taken advantage of. Meanwhile, the same stunt will not be pulled on a masculine person.

In order to cope with the reality that feminine people are held to a higher standard, and aware of the double standard, I do believe saying “I’m just a girl” is an attempt to gain back power. By making humor of the existence of womanhood, they are able to look the oppressor in the eyes and say “look how absurd this is”. Simultaneously the oppressor doesn’t take feminine presenting people seriously, while also expecting the most from them.

But no matter how much we joke about it, this ultimately won’t gain us back power, and is only a way to cope with the reality that our government doesn’t think we are deserving enough of basic human rights. But this isn’t new news for most marginalized people.

I don’t have access to tiktok anymore, but if my memory serves me correctly, this trend got popular post roe v wade getting revoked. I truly think this trend was created to help manage our feelings of no longer having the same control over our own bodies. Fighting this rhetoric is extremely important, but also coming at it from an empathetic standpoint gives more nuance to the situation, and will help us further help us understand how the political climate affects our internet culture.

But what do I know. I’m just a girl 🤷🏻‍♀️

people using the I’m just a girl song for their little videos but making them short enough to crop out the part of gwen stephani yelling that’s all you’ll let me be

[skyedancer-system]

Going into Poppy Playtime Chap. 4 I was not expecting to get halfway decent plural rep but here we are????

Spoilers for the new chapter under the cut, and also cw for all the general Poppy Playtime stuff (child death + experimentation, body horror, if you know the game you get the gist)

SO THIS GUY HUH

Doey the Doughman, the surprise character revealed just days before the chapter dropped and who finally answered the question of the red/orange/yellow hand imagery we’ve been getting teased with for so long

In the chapter himself he’s pretty important to the plot and is an ally to the player, Poppy, and Kissy for (most of) the chapter, and he’s a pretty nice guy just with a bit of a temper, and very overwhelmed by having to keep the Safe Haven together and protected in Poppy’s absence.

But his personal story? How he was created via Playtime Co.’s Bigger Bodies Initiative? Oh god it’s honestly one of the most messed up ones yet other than Yarnaby (and that’s saying something considering this is child experimentation we’re talking about, and Yarnaby lost his entire self and was treated like a straight up animal, isolated so he would love and obey Harley and only Harley)

Where most of the living toys were made from one child, Doey was made from three. Jack, a visitor to the factory that got caught in a freak accident and was taken into Playtime’s care for his medical recovery. Kevin, a problem child in the Playcare known for his anger issues. And Matthew, an extremely kind boy who tried to keep hopes up among all the orphans in the Playcare, and was a sort of leader to them.

And all three of them are still present in some form; at various points in the game you see them switch, speaking and thinking differently, with varying opinions on everything happening. And from the tape of the Jack’s parents seeing what Playtime did to their son, we see that the three have separate memories as well, at least they did when they were first put together.

And this plurality that was forced onto them isn’t played for scary points like you’d expect from a mascot horror game. Yes it is part of Doey’s monstrous design once they get upset, but them being upset is because everything they had worked to protect was destroyed by the Prototype. All of the other kids turned toys that had kept their consciousness and relied on Doey for protection, mercilessly killed. Anybody would be horrifically upset in that situation. And one of the three boys - Kevin - lashes out at the player, the other two trying to calm him down only for all of them to fall into anger and emotion.

You can clearly see the three kids; one angry, two sad, all of their emotions coming together into a grief induced rage, with physical pain only compounding it. And when you eventually have to kill them and put them out of their misery, their last words?

“I’m sorry.”

They were just kids; three kids forced into a horrible situation and having to learn to live with it. And for a long time it seems that they did, working together rather peacefully until their lives were upheaved by the arrival of the player and Poppy’s reappearance.

Kevin’s anger at everyone and the world is completely justified; I mean he and the other two were experimented on and then kept caged like animals, being practically forced to kill! He wanted to protect them; to avenge the countless others that had been killed by the Playtime scientists and the Prototype! And considering things only went to shit after the player and Poppy showed up? Well it’s no wonder that anger got directed at them

It it a super good depiction of plurality? No, not by a long shot. But it’s definitely way better than I would expect from a game like Poppy Playtime.

I was not expecting this post to get this long whoops fbsnbdns; if anyone else has anything they want to add though we’d love to hear it!

[rainyraisin]

I love incorrect quotes‼️‼️‼️🗣️🗣️🗣️💯💯🔥🔥‼️‼️

Set during Sonic 1 when Tom is still actively annoyed by this kids existence 😭😭😭 Even though I adore their dynamic when Tom is actively trying to be a father to Sonic, I also love when he’s just begrudgingly being a dad (he’s enjoying their time together he just won’t admit it yet)

(More yapping in the tags bc I’m an absolute yapper it’s what I’m built to do)

[irisinluv]

Caleb Love and deep space thoughts- SPOILERS AHEAD

Second update of brain dumping my thoughts as I play through the game… this time entirely Caleb focused

Ok so I’ve been reading Caleb’s anecdotes, dates, every scrap of info that becomes available to me…. And holy shit he’s such a simp!

Man almost fucking died, was lost in space for 2 weeks, and he’s just like “haha hey pipsqueak! Yea secret training mission, sorry, I’m back online!” As he’s in a hospital bed. Like baby boy not letting mc know he almost died???? And then the card/memory/whatever it’s called where he’s sick, and she has to basically beg him all day to let her in? Man wants to be Superman for her. Seriously, he’s out here becoming a pilot cuz it would pay well and help provide for mc, and if anything happened he could just whisk her away.

He literally worships the ground mc walks on. Obsessed with the necklace he gave him, kissing the pendant before each flight, not letting her lift a finger at the house when it comes to chore type things, using his evol to win her plushies at the claw machine… also he’s soooo obviously into the domestic life with mc! His house is bare bones before the reunion. Then MC shows up and there’s the scene where he’s surrounded by boxes, setting things up….. I picture him totally kicking himself for not having everything set up sooner, bc he got a house just so she could move in. I see him just living in an apartment that’s part of the officer barracks. There’s no reason why he has a whole ass house if not for mc. He just didn’t expect her to have infiltrated his ranks as a spy and to pop up so soon…. But hey she’s here now and so he’s totally buying everything and having a hot ikea build sesh in that slutty little tank top of his.

Oh and you know he’s a cheeky idiot about the fact that mc picked his room when deciding where to stay. Like we got that from the gameplay obviously…. But I just want to take moment to appreciate how hard that man must have been grinning on the inside. I also think it’s so cute that mc really is just making his place a second home. She’s got a little garden going at his house! She talks about the little yellow flowers she planted there in one of the text messages, and when he mentioned restocking his snacks on a community post mcs already planning on raiding it.

Also he’s been so obsessed with her since they were kids. Like he’s got some weird amnesia brain trauma shit going on after his deep space incident, and he scored poorly on the mental health portion of his exams (not him answering the “what’s the greatest challenge with flight missions?” Question with “it’s hard to get home on time”), and I’m assuming he was also an experiment by ever like MC is (but I haven’t gotten to the point where I can say that for sure), but like. That isn’t why he’s the way he is. Man was out here protecting her from bullies, the thing where he’d buy two of everything for mc, think he said something like “I wanted to grow up to be the most loyal… well you know, I could be” LOYAL HUSBAND? But from the jump he’s been doing everything for her. It’s so interesting getting this background from all the memories and whatnot. Like he’s made it such a source of pride to take care of mc in every tiny way, and so when she says stuff about not needing him, or uh, I don’t remember what thing it was part of but she fixed some electronic and was like “damn that was easier than I thought, guess I gotta stop bugging you for every tiny little thing, I can just figure it out.” and he PANICS! Like no baby- that’s his comfort thing. No matter what else is going on, at least he can feel needed and wanted when you come playfully whining to him that you can’t find your favorite mug. He’s the walking advertisement for acts of service. Also one last thing.

Yall noticed how he put his hat on mc like right after the reunion? The only thing I could think of is what it means when you put on a guys cowboy hat. Like damn Caleb. She’s still in shock that you’re not dead. But get it ig.

[texacilian89]

Once again suuuuuuper late to party, please forgive me! Thank you @fussygekko and @obsessedobsesser for tagging me!! 🥰🥰😘😘

Last song: “Waterloo” by ABBA 😂. We were discussing Aziracrow-coded ABBA songs on Bluesky and I threw in “Waterloo”. Then it made me want to listen to it, so I did.

Favorite color: Glow-in-the-dark. If I can get something in glow-in-the-dark I will 100% choose that above anything else. I’m like a little kid with light up shoes with glow-in-the-dark stuff. Aside from that, I’d say yellow or black. But really any color that’s not pink or orange. Those are no-gos.

Last book: It’s been a minute since I’ve read anything other than AO3 (thank you, fanfic writers!!), but… I’m currently going through my audiobooks on Nazi Germany and listening to a Goebbles biography. It’s as disturbing as it sounds. (Should probably state that as a History major I am firmly in the “those who don’t remember know their history are doomed to repeat it” camp. I’d shout KNOW THE SIGNS, but I fear it’s too late. But KNOW THE SIGNS!!!)

Last movie: Probably Steel Magnolias. Just rewatched it and 9 to 5. Because Dolly.

Last TV show: Not counting my true crime shows, that’d have to “Modern Family”. Binged it for the first time and it’s hilarious. I love it. If we’re counting true crime shows, then “Death by Fame”.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Big lover of sweet and savory. I don’t have a preference between the two as it depends on my mood, but spicy is not something that exists in my world. I am a total wimp when it comes to spice. Like think of the least spicy food and that’s too much for me.

Last thing I searched online: The last thing I searched online was actually all the pride flags and their meanings. Given the current political climate, I decided to make friendship bracelets in the different pride flag colors to give to people because fuck those assholes, y’all do matter. End speech. (Also hit me up if you want one.)

Current obsession: Current obsession is definitely Good Omens and the always lovely Sheenbergtennants. I wouldn’t call it an obsession necessarily, but maybe a slight hyper-fixation that’s Good Omens adjacent would be medieval marginalia and the peen tree. And I aim to make that everyone’s problem. 😆😆

Looking forward to: Right now it’s just Good Omens 3, “David Tennant Does a Podcast With…” season 3 (WAHOO!!!), and an as yet undecided vacay. And also, in the immediate future, going home to cuddle the furbabies.

People I’d like to get to know better: Honestly, all of y’all. I’m still not as active on here as I am other places (most of my clowning is on bsky, come join!). If you see this and you haven’t done it, please do it (if you want)!

Welp, that got a little dark and serious in parts. Guess that’s what I get for doing this post-inauguration. 😬😬 Promise I’m not usually such a morose person.

Ten people i’d like to know better

Thanks for the tag @hermiola

last song: one of the songs I loved most lately is 'In The Modern World' by Fontaines D.C.

favourite colour: blue

last book: that is not fanfic? 😂 The last book I've read is Persuasion (and yes, it was my first time). I'm currently reading Emma and a very Italian book written by the same awesome author who tagged me for this game (@hermiola 💜)

last movie: I can't tell you the last 'new' movie I watched at the cinema because I'm a bit ashamed (it's a Xmas movie made by two Italian youtubers, but what don't we do for our kids?). Last movie I watched on my couch, though, is Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (and yes, I don't feel fine about it 🤣)

last TV show: I'm watching THERE SHE GOES for the first time and I've just re-watched Around the world in 80 days. I'm also currently re-watching Scrubs and Staged with my husband (his first time, he's loving it 😂). Last 'new' show I've watched and finished is probably Dead Boy Detectives, though. Oh, I'm also currently re-watching Good Omens. Like constantly, always.

sweet/spicy/savoury: savoury

last thing i searched online: holiday vacation destinations for next summer (because the kids, again, you know 😃)

current obsession: Good Omens-Good Omens-Good Omens-Good Omens-Good Omens-Good Omens-Good Omens-Good Omens-Good Omens-Good Omens-Good Omens-Good Omens-Good Omens-Good Omens-Good Omens. Probably, also the whole M+D world (so, Staged too, apparently) 😂

looking forward to: those fu**ing pictures of Michael and David with dyed hair.

ten people i’d like to know better: (no pressure tags 🤩)

@anatomic-girl @ineffablerainstorm @somewhere-in-wales @captainblou @firephoenix2305 @phoen1xr0se @sunrisesinthesuburbs @bellisima-writes @yokohamama @missunderstoodlyrics

[erinwantstowrite]

Hi! Purely out of curiosity because I am always interested in people’s thoughts on the subject, how do you feel about “batcest” in au’s where the children were never adopted/didn’t meet until adulthood/etc? Any pairing with Bruce makes me genuinely nauseous, but I feel like I’m more lenient with situational stuff with the kids since they’re closer in age/didn’t grow up together in my very loose understanding of canon/not actually related/etc. (ie: I think Steph and Cass are cute together even though they’re both “batfam” members, etc etc)

please feel free to ignore this if it makes you uncomfortable! I just really love your writing and this seems to be a subject you’re passionate about, so I just wanted to know more of your thoughts. Hope you’re having a wonderful day!

anon in the nicest way possible, it's disgusting even then.

because it doesn't matter if they didn't know each other as little little kids, they are family in every sense of the word. it would be the same as two characters who are siblings having being raised in two different households as children getting into a relationship even though they knew each other later. it spits in the face of adopted families by claiming that they aren't actually family, and the people who defend batcest are hurting people who are victims of the exact dynamic that they're shipping. it's gross, like genuinely vile. knowing their canon relationship and "changing" it to fit what they want is nasty because they *had* to change it. they know it's wrong if they had to "fix" it in order to ship it. it implies that this person thinks they should be in a romantic pairing in canon, too, but they're trying to justify it to themselves.

and with Steph and Cass, Steph is a friend of theirs. she dated Tim previously and they are not related. she didn't want Bruce to adopt her, she doesn't consider them siblings. yes there is a found family dynamic but it's not the same as the others, who are not only legally family in most cases, but have considered each other family for years and years and years. they call each other their siblings. yes, even jason and tim. tim and jason are only a couple years apart, but jason is still family even if he died? tim considered himself dick's brother and his relationship with bruce was rocky sometimes but he also considered bruce like a father figure, and later on he was adopted so that was always there. they are siblings.

and in some of their dynamics, it's pedophilic dick and damian, dick and tim, jason and damian, tim and damian, even dick and jason because dick was an adult when he met jason. automatically that puts you in a spot where you deserve the deepest pit of hell. truly. i'm not religious but i hope they get their karma. i don't care if it's fictional, this reflects who they are as people in the real world and that's why i know these people are gross monsters. not to mention these people don't understand boundaries (shocker) and have and probably will again, ask me to include a batcest ship in LoF or to draw batcest for them. they have asked for peter and damian. one person claimed that peter and jason would be "cute" because of peter thinks he's cool and has "an innocence" about jason's life and what he's done. another asked for peter and dick. the blood related father and son. so it truly doesn't matter to them, i can guarantee it to you. the way i look at it, no matter which way they are shipped, you are automatically associated with the rest of them. nothing justifies it and it's wrong

and because i know someone is going to try to start an argument with me: i can't stop them from writing it. i know that. and you can scream at me until you're blue about your opinion on the matter, but i do not care and you will be wasting your breath. i am not pro cecsorship because it is a slippery slope and people will dig their claws into that. however. i can let them know that they aren't welcome on my page, i can talk about my opinion on the matter, i have every right to block them and say whatever i want. if you don't like this post, i'm telling you to block me so i don't have to take the time to do it myself 🫶

[anguesinherbalatentes]

I wud like to hear more on gary going to happy volts

Damn I have a lot to say abt that. Warning it gets heavy and serious but I gave most bully characters heavy stuff in their backstories bc I’m insane. This also isn’t a way to justify the little beast but to explain his behavior in horrid ways. (Warning for suicide ment, general abuse, forced drugging, etc)

Well to answer that we should go far back. Maybe when he was still a little boy. Ahhh the year was 1997

Gary used to be a rather normal kid. A pair of loving parents and a few good friends. Sure he was kinda kooky (would talk to himself, not stand still, write and draw in class, make a mess of plants flowers art supplies and insects all the time, would be very loud and emotional) but that mostly was waxed up to him being an imaginative child. Plus he was rather ok in school. His mom was named Tonya Borisov and his dad’s Gareth Smith. Tonya was an English teacher and Gareth a lawyer who was attempting to freelance his way out of the Smith’s family’s business because he wanted to be independent from their law firm. Quiet suburban life. He met his best friend ever in the world at the age of 5 because they lived on the same block. Aka Petey Kowalski. They’ve been getting up to no good since forever, but him and Gary’s whole thing was running away from playground bullies together and make up stories about their own little world.

Their respective families got along too. Long story short everything seemed peachy. Tonya loved Gary beyond words and tried to accommodate his quirks because they reminded her of her own. A little reckless she was but nothing out of the ordinary. Gareth didn’t understand his son very well and was frequently frustrated with his behavior but he tried because god that’s his only child. Plus Tonya helped him out since he was clearly clueless about parenting. So was she. But there was no one to watch her back, so she had to make do.reasonably this doesn’t last long.

You see. Gary’s psychological issues are inherited from his mother. She already suffered from depression and it only worsened after pregnancy, even if she tried to bottle it up to the best of her abilities because god forbid she asked for help or couldn’t keep up the facade she’d carved for herself. Gareth didn’t help matters. He likes to think he did, but he’s always been too work oriented and weaponized incompetence has always been his best friend. Their relationship strained as Tonya’s mental health deteriorated and little Gary was caught in the middle. He watched his mom grow more and more uneasy (and her patience towards him drained bit by bit) n his dad kept getting snappier and he thought he had something to do with it all.

Around the year 2000, Tonya killed herself. It was unexpected to those with not enough care to see through the cracks. It was one hell of a blow for the little man who suddenly found himself with no actual guidance, and even that had been uncomfortably fluctuating for the past few months.

Gareth was absolutely lost. It’s not that he didn’t have good intentions, it’s just that he didn’t even have the willpower to try and find out how to act without somebody telling him what to do step by step. Still, he tried. But him being kind of an unsuccessful lawyer , now widowed and with a “difficult” kid, surely did wonders for his psyche. And consequently for his patience and relationship with Gary.

Mr Smith, yes the town npc, he’s Gareth’s father. Lets just say he’s not very approving of his son’s fumbling, notably because his siblings successfully integrated in the business and he’s the only one out of place. He constantly berates him and tries to take him back into his home and under his control, and for the longest time he’s unsuccessful. Until the rest of the family begins talking badly of Gareth and his son, and Gareth’s financial situation goes even more down south. In the meantime Gary’s mental health as an unchecked 10 year old boy left to his wits kept deteriorating. He fell behind in class, stopped talking to most of his peers, answered rudely to teachers (even if he didn’t mean to), the whole shabang that frames you as a freak for the rest of your life in little towns. His father did nothing to help. He only began yelling at him more frequently because his tolerance for his hijinks was running thin.

Gary learnt from a very young age that adults couldn’t, and wouldn’t watch his back. That most of the time he was a nuisance and nothing more, no matter how hard he tried to behave he just messed it up in some way.

A turning point to him and his father’s relationship was a party held at his grandfather’s estate. All eyes were on the both of them, especially Mr.Smith’s, and Gary, bored out of his mind and irked at the incessant bickering, answered rudely to the wrong relatives who tried to persuade him into talking about his home life and made a fool of himself gobbling down too many canape’s and retching at a glass of champagne he wasn’t even supposed to have. The whispers were a bit too much to bear for Gareth, and on the way home he snapped at his son like he never did before. Both in the car and in the house.

Gareth’s outburst is however less about Gary’s behavior and more about everything Gareth has been holding inside. It’s not just Gary’s tongue or almost involuntary defiance that sets him off. it’s the mounting pressure from his family, the echoes of his own failures, and the crushing weight of trying to hold it all together in an environment like that. But he still fucks it up.

In the past he’d made it clear he was proud of him, and that his presence was cherished. His only son, his only boy, etc. but he started blaming him for Everything going wrong in his life. In a tone that can only be compared to pure and utter Despair. That he didn’t know what was Wrong with him. That he tried to help him but he just kept acting like an animal one way or another. That his mom dying was the kid’s fault as much as it was his own ( right after comparing him to her in the negative: “You’re just like her, you know? Your mother. Always making a mess of things, always dragging everyone down with you.”) That she began feeling ‘sick’ ever since he’d been around. And that he kept tearing his life apart by being a complete nuisance. That he didn’t know what to do anymore. That maybe Tonya was right back then (they got married because Tonya was pregnant, even if she wanted to abort before. This is a low blow). Overall he slurries the foulest shit under the guise of being Tired. However, Gareth’s intent doesn’t erase the impact of his words. Even if he regrets saying all of that later (which he likely does), the damage is done. And because Gareth is too emotionally stunted to apologize, Gary is left to carry the baggage. This disarms the kid ( who’s 12 at the time) in a specific way and feeds into his eventual decline even more.

Around eight grade everything is too much for the little dude. He can’t get a hold of himself, cannot keep friends for the life of him due to his instability, he’s been separated from Pete due to middle school and the kid moving lanes , and his father’s growing emotional distance and neglect aren’t exactly the most formidable recipe to mental clarity.

He tried to kill himself like his mom did, via locking himself in the janitor’s closet and chugging down drain cleaner. They found him before it could kill him. A week’s stay in the hospital later, he was mandatorily sent to happy volts. You can imagine his father’s reaction.

Even if in my personal canon happy volts isn’t designed like a literal prison, but is more so adjacent to the institution described in Girl Interrupted, with the proper accommodations and architecture and all, that’s where the Gary smith we all know and seethe over fully formed. Where his convictions on the world and people really cemented. All because of one man in particular : Dr Bambillo.

He’s head doctor of the department Gary was in, for a good while. Prided himself of being the “friendly” and “approachable” professional. Lets just say it’s the farthest thing from the truth. Things happened there that are a little too heavy to elaborate on. But atop of those, after breaking Gary’s trust (who already was wary of trusting him in the first place, but desperate enough to cave into validation, for crying out loud he was 13) he also had him heavily medicated, and because he’d resist he was put a little too often in solitary confinement. Things got so bad he tried to get out of the place via throwing himself out a window and gouging his eye out with a sharpened piece of a plastic food tray to get to the nearest hospital. It did not work. It only extended his stay. That’s where his eye scar comes from btw. If someone asks he changes the story every time.

The meds he’s given are a source of great discomfort for Gary because they dampen his conscience and act as tranquilizers more than anything else. He was never prescribed the right ones. I took this from his voice lines lmao.

Days and weeks blur in and out, and the only reason he’s let out is because he’s fully blanked out. Or at least that’s what they think.

The place made him realize and internalize no amount of honesty would’ve kept him safe, and that the adults were nothing short of useless. So he had to lie his way through being set free, tongue his pills, remain alert and vigilant because no one was to be trusted. And it got him far. But after his release, he moved onto Mr Smith’s estate with his father, and was immediately sent to Bullworth to be Straightened out.

His lying only got finer and more extensive, and his budding loathing for everything around him began turning him into what he became in sophomore/junior year. He made friends and found Pete again but he fucked that up severely due to his delusions of grandeur and his conviction that life was a simulation at That point lol. But that’s the topic of another post. Aka my personal headcanons on Bully prequel and the rest of the shitass backstories I gave others.

Hope that wasn’t boring lol

[therealitiestraveler]

GUYS, I accidentally shifted to a reality parallel to this one tonight for a couple of minutes. 

I went to sleep yesterday as usual but this time I've decided to listen to the shifting subliminals playlist I’ve put together lately because I’ve decided to listen to subliminals for shifting again. 

In a nutshell, I went to sleep and I was dreaming initially and at some point I woke up. I often recall my dreams, especially when I am on vacation. I recall waking up in my bedroom, however, when I woke up I noticed that I wasn’t in the bedroom I fell asleep on in my OR.

Initially I was confused because I was still low key sleepy and because for some reason the chandelier on the bedside table next to me wasn’t turning on, so I used the flash of my phone, and when I opened it and looked around I was confused, this because a couple of stuff in my bedroom were different. 

→ First and foremost the chandelier next to my bed wasn’t working and I also had another chandelier on the end of the bed, in the place in which I have my laundry basket with the clothes I want to wash in this reality, instead there was another bedside table with another chandelier.

→ The other thing that was different was my bookshelf, I have a bookshelf in my bedroom and the one that was in the reality I shifted to was quite different, for starters the bookshelf on my OR is white and the one on that reality was dark shade of brown and had books I don't own in this reality.

→ When this happened I was confuse and though “perhaps I’m dreaming” so instead I decided to test it out (from time to time I notice that I am dreaming when i’m dreaming and decide to test it in order to figure out if it truly is a dream or I actually shifted, in most cases I am dreaming, however this day that was not the case), so I seated on the bed and looked at my hands and I could see and feel them vividly, I looked at the sheets of the bed and touched them, I could feel them as I feel the sheets of my bed when I am awake in this reality.

→ After it got up and walked towards the window in my bedroom and opened the blinds, I looked outside and it still the middle of the night and could see the streets, it was just like the one in this reality except that the colors of the buildings were different than the one’s in this reality, as I looked outside became sure that I had shifted to another reality parallel to my OR. 

Even with the shock of “oh f*ck I shifted to another reality!” I was still sleepy from having just woken up and I am a little bit paranoid so I didn’t want to spend much time on a reality that I didn’t know well even though it was parallel to the reality we’re in, even though I enjoy exploring the unknown I prefer doing it with caution and knowing exactly where I am.

So I went back into bed with the intention of waking up in my OR because it seemed like the safest option, and I kid you not that in a matter of seconds I was back in this reality. It also reinforced the idea that I shifted and it wasn’t a dream, because I didn’t felt like I had wake up from a dream, it didn’t felt like waking up at all, if something it felt like turning around on the bed and ending up facing the other side of the room (i hope that this made sense, it was the best way I could find to explain it). 

And the funniest thing was that I sat on the bed again in this reality and looked around the room, it was like I always recalled it to be like in this reality. The blinds of the window were still closed, so I got up and headed there and it was no longer the middle of the night, it was almost 10am and the sun was shining in the sky, however I know for a matter of fact that it hasn’t passed even five minutes since I had opened the window on the other reality, the sky was fully dark in the reality I accidentally shifted to, it was the middle of the night there and in this reality we are in it was morning time already. 

Today turned out to be an interesting morning.

However, this experience was very useful to me, I haven't accidentally shifted to another reality in the middle of the night for years, the only time it happened before this was when I first got to know about shifting and years have passed ever since. I also realized that my fear of not being safe or things not going according to what I planned keeps on being one of the main obstacles on my shifting journey and something I will be working on to fix in the future. 

However, the experience motivated me and reminded me that it is real, shifting is possible, and soon I will be in my dr with the ones I love and with everything I want and desire and so will you.

This being said. GO SHIFT. GO HOME. 

[archivalofsins]

Loving this line for Kazui, "I warned them many times. Many, many, many, many, many times! You should have stopped it! You, of all people!"

This is made twenty times funnier by me always switching Kazui and Amane's numbers in my head because now I get to do this-

Hey, why the fuck is the only person torn up about what occurred the child that everyone blamed for it while the guy who's lived there for years is like,

"What went wrong, I wonder?"

Like bro I just wrote a post about all the things you knew could have gone wrong that you could have warned us about. Kazui for the love of god please sir? Please- this shouldn't be that funny accidental three D's success.

Rare win for dyscalculia.

Because bro you warned us of many things. Which one? Like specifically in his second voice drama he warned us about Mikoto and Kotoko. This could also be alluding to this conversation he had with Yuno which would be the vaguest way to warn someone ever mind you-

23/09/02 (Yuno’s Birthday)

Kazui: I heard you’ve been helping Shidou-kun out. ……er, sorry if this comes across as rude, but it’s kind of unexpected. It always seemed like you didn’t care that much about other people.

Yuno: Hmm? What’s with that all of a sudden. I mean, you’re right, I don’t care much. But if there’s someone dying in front of you anyone would do what they could to help, right? And anyway, aren’t you the same? You usually don’t care much either, right?

Kazui: ……I wonder. This old man isn’t as much of a thinker as you are. I mean, until now I’ve been in an environment where it’s all about having physical strength. So I’ve never really thought about stuff like that.

Yuno: Haha, we’re the same in that we’re both liars too. I guess the difference is the reasons we lie. You care about yourself, so lie to protect yourself. I don’t care about anyone at all, including myself.

Or this conversation with Mikoto which isn't a fucking warning either Kazui-

24/08/05 (Kazui’s Birthday)

Mikoto: ––No, it’s just…… I’m happy for the thought…… But I don’t even know myself what I’ll do next. So I can’t really hang out at the moment, y’know? But…… haha, aren’t you scared, Kazu-san?

Kazui: Hmm, I guess because of my work, I’m used to dealing with rowdy youngsters. Obviously you have your reasons. I don’t feel like prying, though. Well, whenever you feel like it, you’re always welcome. If you’re always on your own it’ll just make you feel worse. I’ll be company if you need to relieve some stress.

Mikoto: Yeah…… I’m not really, y’know, used to relying on other people. Like, I start to worry that I’m being a burden. And it’s hard for me to deal with feeling so pathetic…… If I do say so myself, I’m super Japanese, haha……

Kazui: Hm…… well, I’m fine whatever. If this is what’s easiest for you, I won’t force you. But you know, being in your 20s is still super young. It’s great that you’re so disciplined, but most people won’t worry if you’re a bit of a burden. I mean, I’m almost 40, and I feel like I’m still a kid now.

Or are you referring to these two conversations-

20/06/19

Kazui: By the way…… thanks, Shina-chan. You keep going around and talking to people to make sure the mood never gets too sour, right? It’s a big help. We’re all in here together, after all. If a fight broke out the whole group could fall apart.

Mahiru: ……eh? Huh~? Ah, no, I’m just talking to people because I personally want to talk. All the kids are so cute, so I can’t help but want to fuss over them! A fight, huh… But if that ever happened, then you’ll definitely be a big help, right~? Since you’re so big! And buff!

Kazui: Ahh, no. I mean, I’ll do what I can. Based on appearance, as long as nobody has a weapon, I think I can probably get everyone under control…… No, we should just hope that nothing like that ever happens.

Mahiru: You know, I quite like watching martial arts, actually. I don’t really get it, but it looks super cool. Hi-yah! Hi-yah!

20/06/23

Futa: Old man, don’t just laze around so carefree like that. Haven’t you thought about how to break out from here? With your physique, you can probably take out the guard and escape, right?

Kazui: Ahh…… Ok, let’s put it this way. You got caught up in a bank robbery, and the culprit has blocked off the police. From a glance, they look pretty weak, and don’t seem to be holding any weapons. Would you try to arrest them yourself?

Futa: ……if it looked like I’d be able to, then I would. You said they’re weak and don’t have any weapons, right? Everyone else in the building’s life is on the line. Those who can fight should fight.

Kazui: Haha, I wouldn’t recommend that. Even if they look weak, they might actually be a lot stronger. They might have an accomplice hiding somewhere. And they might not look like they have a weapon, but could easily be hiding a gun ……you shouldn’t act until you have absolute confidence in your assessment. So, for now I’m going to sit back and assess the situation. And on that note, I’m off for a smoke~

Given that other translations have said he's was saying you should have stopped him like I'd assume he was talking about one of the guys. At best Mikoto since he was brought up by Kazui specifically in his second voice drama. Though other translations have no mentions of gender instead saying them or you (as in Es).

Either way listing everything he really did warn a lot of people that there may not be much he could do if an attack broke out or if they kept happening. So this appears to be an honest reaction to what has happened.

[libblesdoodles]

Thanks my friend! This is gonna be fun!

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What's the origin of your blog title? So I originally went by a different username before this named, and I shit you not, ‘libbygirl007’. As I’ve grown older and stuff, I was not liking my original username anymore. During the pandemic, a few people called me ‘Libbles’ quite a bit, and the nickname stuck. And because I like to do art things, the username kinda sounded silly but also perfect at the same time. And thus, “libblesdoodles” was born.

OTP(s) + Shipname: Imodna (Imogen and Laudna from Critical Role AAA I LOVE THESE WOMEN SO MUCH LIKE YOUVE PROBABLY SEEN ME REBLOG A BUNCH OF IMODNA FANART), Beauyasha (also from Critical Role BECAUSE WOMEN-), MarcLayla (this ship hurts but also makes me feel all fuzzy inside)

Favorite color: Purple but I also love pastels

Favorite game(s): Oxenfree, What Remains of Edith Finch, Dreamlight Valley, Mario Kart, Mario Party, The Outer Worlds, Animal Crossing, Lake, and Hades

Song stuck in your head: I have a normal answer and an unhinged one. Normal answer is Strawberry Wine by Noah Kahan. Unhinged answer is Two Trucks (having sex) by Lemon Demon.

Weirdest habit/trait: uhhhh I guess chewing on erasers?

Hobbies: Gaming, painting, and playing the violin

If you work, what's your profession: Data Entry at a local insurance place.

If you could have any job you wish, what would it be? Content Creator. I wanna talk about my favorite things (and I will SOON. Hopefully. Maybe)

Something you're good at: IRL Tetris when it comes to fitting things in certain areas, simple math (especially in Trivia Murder Party where it’s stress math), and knowing which SpongeBob episode a meme comes from just based on a frame or piece of dialogue from the episode

Something you're bad at: anything and everything else lol

Something you love: my family, my online friends, and fictional characters

Something you could talk about for hours off the cuff: If it’s something from any of special interests, I’m in it.

Something you hate: Certain sounds like a metal fork scraping on a glass plate, styrofoam rubbed together, and if someone is chewing in silence. Oh and FIREWORKS! God I hate fireworks. There’s also like certain things like spiders and rollercoasters.

Something you collect: I collect all sorts of things from my hyperfixations and special interests, but what I collect the most is Monster High dolls (specifically from Gen 3)

Something you forget: My wallet and keys. Always.

What's your love language? Acts of service and receiving gifts

Favorite movie/show: Moon Knight, Werewolf by Night, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), Bluey, Howl’s Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline, Legend of Vox Machina, SpongeBob SquarePants, Monster High (the 2010 webseries), like I could go on and on but we would be here forever.

Favorite food: Chicken nuggets FTW!!!

Favorite animal: Butterflies, moths, sloths and narwhals

What were you like as a child? I was for the most part a quiet kid. I would still have meltdowns, and those would ruin my day, but as I grew up, I was like “hey, maybe it will be okay since this is just a little thing.”

Favorite subject at school? I love space, so I would say my high school space class (even though I despised the teacher that was teaching it). But I’ll say orchestra because I loved playing the violin (I’m gonna get back into it this year)

Least favorite subject: Any of my English classes. Don’t get me wrong, I loved getting to read the literature we were read before they got ‘banned’, but having to do quizzes after every few chapters made my brain melt.

What's your best character trait? I will always listen whenever you need to talk, and I can pass on the best advice I’ve gotten from media growing up.

What's your worst character trait? If I ever “ghost” any of you in a way, it’s not because I’ve ever lost interest in talking to you or hate you. I have the neurospice in me, so socializing is hard.

If you could change any detail of your right now, what would it be? I want pointy elf ears SO BAD!

If you could travel in time, who would you like to meet? Honestly I don’t know, but there are people I don’t want to be in a 10 mile radius of me.

Recommend one of your favorite fanfics (spread the love!): I’m gonna recommend a recent fanfic, so if you guys haven’t checked out Yarn from @/my-secret-shame-but-fanfiction, please do! It’s SO WHOLESOME!! I love Jake Lockley way too much man!!!

I’m letting this be a free for all. Whoever sees this, do it if you want!

Get To Know Your Moots

thanks for the tag @oscar-isaacx

What's the origin of your blog title? there's a combination of my initials somewhere in there with random letters

OTP(s) + Shipname: having just finished the star wars trilogy, i am very much a finnpoe shipper

Favorite color: purple and light grey

Favorite game: i like the last of us, fallout 4. my favorite board game is monopoly

Song stuck in your head: espresso by sabrina carpenter

Weirdest habit/trait? does obsessing over fictional men count lol?

Hobbies: I love writing (just not comfortable sharing yet), reading, taking walks

If you work, what's your profession? within the business realm. not fun, but i get paid, so i can't complain too much

If you could have any job you wish, what would it be? astronomer. i didn't want to deal with all of that schooling lol

Something you're good at: i'm always on time, never late anywhere

Something you're bad at: a lot

Something you love: my siblings

Something you could talk about for hours off the cuff: any of my hyperfixations, but definitely Oscar at the moment - specifically, episode 5 of moon knight which i rewatched last night lol

Something you hate: nothing really except the political state of the us at the moment

Something you collect: eos chapsticks

Something you forget: i can't think of it right now

What's your love language? i've never taken the test, but probably quality time

Favorite movie/show: movie right now has to be the letter room (do short films count?) and show is unbelievable

Favorite food: pasta

Favorite animal: cats, koalas, dolphins

What were you like as a child? let's not talk about it lol

Favorite subject at school? chemistry and english, i know it's weird

Least favorite subject: social studies

What's your best character trait? i will always advocate for you

What's your worst character trait? I stay stuck in my shell a lot

If you could change any detail of your right now, what would it be? to make the temperature above freezing

If you could travel in time, who would you like to meet? George washington

Recommend one of your favorite fanfics (spread the love!): i just read @eyelessfaces ahead, ahead with poe and it was so good; highly recommend all of their work

i'll tag @nowritingonthewall @my-secret-shame-but-fanfiction @have-you-seen-my-sanity

thank you again @oscar-isaacx for tagging me and getting me out of my shell lol

[ciderjacks]

that post that’s like “my interests never go away they just hibernate for awhile then return unexpectedly” is true. Hello dt17 fandom

[chloesimaginationthings]

Gregory has it best out of the new FNAF protagonists..

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

As per usual, it’s DP crossover with (probably) DC, although you could probably adjust it for other fandoms

ANYWAYS

A little kid and his mother are trick or treating in another city, perhaps at some kind of event rather than knocking on doors, and the kid is dressed as Phantom. It’s very adorable, with his little ghost-shaped bucket and clearly homemade and already stained costume—listen, white only works if you can just fly over street grime or phase it out of your clothes—and his slightly I’ll fitting wig. The kid is SO happy to be out and about dressed as his favorite, and maybe even showed it off to Phantom back in Amity Park before his family left.

The hero, insert whoever you wish here, is probably in civvies and just enjoying the event. The kid, meanwhile, is so glad when people ask who he is so he can explain, and so- the hero gets to hear ALL ABOUT the local town hero who is probably pretty small time despite the kid’s clearly exaggerated stories. The hero certainly never heard of him, but the kid’s mom confirms that Phantom really was the town hero, despite some mixed reviews of the poor guy.

“Did you manage to show him your costume?” the hero asks.

“Yeah! We went down to the cemetery to leave flowers and I got to show him my costume.”

Wait. Cemetery? Maybe it was part of theme, because Phantom had to be named that for a reason, but… it sounded like…

The kid ignores the suddenly VERY still hero and instead turns to his mom. “Momma, do you think we should bring him candy? He doesn’t get to trick or treat like we do, and I can work super hard to get him a bunch!”

The kid’s mom just smiles. “We could, but maybe we should bring him something homemade. I bet he’d like something more filling, teen boys like him have a hollow leg.”

The kid wrinkles his nose. “Like Vernie with the pizza bagels?”

“Like your cousin, yes. We can make some cinnamon rolls and take them to his memorial, maybe bring some of the apples from your grandpa’s garden…”

The hero is pretty much forgotten as the two-part family wanders off, not quite intentionally forgetting the hero is there so much as the hero somewhat accidentally ended the conversation when they just froze and didn’t ask anything further.

Not that the hero didn’t want to. But they’d learn something very serious.

One—there was a small town hero they’d never heard of. Two—that hero was apparently a teen. Third—most pressingly, the teen hero was both beloved enough to have kids dressing up as him and dead enough to have a grave.

This… might require some phone calls.

[maddie-grove]

One other thing I’ll say about the YA novel discourse is that, in terms of how easy or hard they are to read, I don’t think there’s actually that much difference between YA fiction and adult fiction on the whole. This opinion has some significant caveats; I’m talking about youth fiction aimed at teens and maybe tweens, not little kids, and I do think some adult fiction (like the denser classics and literary novels) is going to be more difficult. And I’m talking about how easy it is to comprehend what’s literally going on, not necessarily the deeper themes.

And this probably sounds like it’s leading up to some apologia re: adults reading YA, but actually the point I’m trying to make is that middle school kids should not be limited to reading YA novels in their language arts classes. And definitely high school kids shouldn’t be. If a kid’s reading a YA fantasy series or slice-of-life novel with relative ease and pleasure, there are plenty of classics that aren’t going to be a total slog for them.

[citricacidprince]

Sometimes I see the way certain people in a fandom treat a ‘tough love but well meaning and trying his best in the only way he knows how’ Dad and I can only think “You have a horrid relationship with your father, don’t you? 🫵👁️👁️”

[quibbs126]

Okay maybe this is gonna sound weird, at least from me, but shut up, I need to complain about this somewhere

So I go on Ao3 looking for Transformers One fanfics, since I’ve been reading a few as they come out and I just like seeing what premises people have. Though specifically I’m only interested in megop fanfics. Because I’m incredibly biased. Anyways, so there’s a few that have mechpreg in them, and I swear, every time, it’s Optimus having the kid

Where the heck are the Megatron being the carrier fics? I want to see that side of the premise, give it to me!