#Naming things is complicated really

[chocolate-milk]

this is siffrin and this is their boyfriend isabeau and this is isabeaus partner loop and this is loops gossip bestie mirabelle and this is mirabelles qpr siffrin and this is siffrins situationship loop and this is loops qpr odille and this is odilles ???? siffrin and this is all of the past mentioned peoples child; bonnie.

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Listen i don’t…. I don’t have words I just have vibes to present okay i just have vibes

[sadlynotthevoid]

Dreamed about OgCale and Rok Soo being roommates besties in a modern fantasy Earth AU—

Except the whole dream was OgCale swinging and humming in the kitchen, preparing a dessert as breakfast. Then he opened Rok Soo's door and threw a pillow at him, saying "WAKE UP, BITCH. THERE'S BREAKFAST"

Then the two of them had a quiet "Rok Soo's birthday" breakfast and fed a cat while recalling how they met.

Apparently Rok Soo was sitting in a bank outside a house/apartment complex? And OgCale came and told him no one sits there because the woman living in the store above likes to water her plants too much. Cue Rok Soo getting a whole bucket of water rain over him. OgCale then got him to come over to his apartment, which was nearby, to get him dry. I don't remember what he said exactly but we know the real reason is he's kind when he doesn't have to put an act.

Anyways, Rok Soo ended up staying for the night. Later they became roommates because OgCale's cat kinda adopted him, so OgCale decided he was fine. OgCale jokes about that a lot. So does Rok Soo, just most people don't notice he's joking. He calls the cat "Milky-nim".

[serpentface]

Hibrides and Kagnomara, who was a trainee hittlatlamii physician she briefly had an affair (in a very loose sense of the word) with.

Hittlatlamii are highly specialized midwives considered uniquely equipped to address women's medical needs, predominantly in terms of pregnancy/childbirth/postpartum care. They are distinct from the much broader practice of midwifery in general, being formally educated in medicine and recognized as a minor subdivision of the priesthood of Ganmache, representing the cult of anmir-Ganmache (God as the hearth). Teachings specific to their art pass directly from mentor to mentee in a very long training process, lasting from the age of 15 to 30.

Kagnomara was an apprentice to a hittlatlamii who was hired to oversee the latter two thirds of Hibrides' first pregnancy. She's Hibrides' type in general and immediately struck her as charismatic. Kind of liked to hear herself talk but was very friendly, and her chattiness was welcome in dispelling the discomfort of these medical visits. As an older apprentice in the last couple years of her mentoring period, she was given a lot of free reign to do the more routine work solo.

This was a particularly difficult time in Hibrides' life and getting to be alone with a friendly, attractive woman who had a vocational excuse to be massaging her with various oils was welcome. Hibrides tends to be nervous about people who show any immediate and pronounced interest in her and that applied here as well, but they struck up a genuine rapport and this became a relationship on the downlow within a couple months. This got to the point of making loose future plans- hittlatlamii provide some generalized medical care as well and have significant freedom of movement even when married, so they could probably see each other on a routine basis even after the pregnancy was over.

Unfortunately for this whole thing, Kagnomara dealt with the low pay of hittlatlamii training and funding her unwed lifestyle via a habit of stealing from the homes she visited, and Hibrides caught her in the practice of lifting a handful of silver spoons. Even more unfortunately in some respects, Kagnomara genuinely liked her and had not merely been taking advantage of her to lift easily missed valuables (in fact, had convinced herself that Hibrides probably wouldn't be That upset if she found out given it was her husband's stuff and she didn't like him all that much). This was a missed call and Hibrides did not react well to the absurdity of the situation, made the judgment call that she was being taken advantage of and felt extremely betrayed. She snitched on her to Janeys and he caught her with the contraband and reported it. Hibrides never actually saw the end result but Kagnomara would have lost her job at the very least. She hasn't seen her since.

Hibrides has had plenty of reason to question whether she made the right call there and whether Kagnomara had Really just intended to steal from behind her back and then ditch her (though would have been mad about the theft either way, frankly) and has been a little haunted by this ever since.

[bayetea]

I think that something to keep in mind about hazel is that in her first life sammy was the only person in the world who has shown her kindness. her mom was only ever nice to her when she was providing her with income. hazel is living in a society that considers her race subhuman and even members of her own community hate her because of the rumors about marie. she isn't just ostracized at school she's explicitly stated to have experienced violent bullying from other kids and yet she still protects them from being harmed by her cursed gems. she was neglected and abused by her mother and she still gives up elysium so that marie doesn't have to suffer in the afterlife. the very first time hazel retaliated against abuse was when she fought back against gaea - and her retaliation got her killed. her character is so effusively kind in a world full of hatred and injustice because she knows that she can't let herself succumb to bitterness like her mother

I think those months after her birthday when she was abducted to alaska are genuinely the absolute worst of her life specifically because she lost sammy, and his absence etched a crater-sized hole in her chest where his kindness once was. she can't get that from anyone else anymore. the alaskans don't welcome her and pluto can't reach her there and her mother is dying slowly right before her in an evil plot to destroy the world that she feels complicit in. genuinely her only option in this situation had always been to run away so that she couldn't be used as a pawn anymore, which she considered during those horrifying months but couldn't because gaea would retaliate against her mother. so hazel does what she always does: allows herself to suffer for people who have treated her poorly

and this post isn't about frank or percy but I think that this is something to contextualize as it relates to frazel and the percy&hazel dynamic. the foundation of her relationship with them is simply the mutual kindness and trust that they're able to develop in such a short time because they very quickly recognize the good inside of each other. hazel puts herself in harm's way to save frank and percy numerous times and it isn't one-sided like things were in her past life, they emphatically do the same for her as well. frank and percy show her how they care for her in ways that are so earnest and vehement (frank saying "we're not going to let you die again," percy saying "we're not letting anything happen to you", etc). as characters for whom the past is a source of conflict one way or another (hazel's blackouts and intense feelings of guilt over gaea, percy breaking down over his lost memories and getting triggered by things that conflict with his understanding of the world i.e. the evil centaurs, frank redeeming his ancestor's besmirched legacy and figuring out how to use the family gift), they readily offer kindness and understanding in the present without asking each other to suffer for it

and this is especially true of frank: by accessing hazel's blackouts and experiencing the events of her past life, he is sharing her heaviest traumas and burdens so that she doesn't have to experience them all alone. this burden-sharing is transitory; frank gives her his firewood, which is literally his life - and his life is the thing that finally grounds her. his life anchors hazel so that she doesn't get blackouts anymore (and he forfeits the weight of his heaviest burden to a person he can trust to take care of him). this thread of frank preventing hazel from being overtaken by adversaries of her past continues numerous times throughout son of neptune, most significantly when he shapeshifts for the very first time to save her from alcyoneus and when he comes up with the plan that gives hazel the chance to finally defeat her old enemy - and that's when she kisses him for the very first time. I consider this the very essence of their romance: reciprocation. it's not "you make me whole", it's "I love you and trust you to care for me as I care for you", it's "in being with you, I discover new depths within myself", it's "knowing you has given me the strength to grow"

so that's basically my favorite thing about son of neptune and I think a lot of people forget how intense the emotions in that book managed to get. it's not the most popular pjo novel but I don't think any other book in the franchise has evidenced how deeply three people who have literally just met (frank only knew her for 3 weeks pre-son) can touch each other's hearts by virtue of simply being kind to each other. like those boys LOVE hazel and think she's a wonderful person and express that repeatedly and I think that's just so sweet because she finally gets to have this in her second life. she really deserves to be cherished like that <- my longwinded way of saying that hazel was the gem all along, just like her mom finally realized in her last words before they died

[a-stars-art-blog]

🎸🦈

Sooo…KlavRyan/KlavDar/DaryKlav????

[sabotourist]

i really like target

[ganondoodle]

so im not sure if anyones interested, but, i went through quite a bunch of totk critiques by people who were also very disappointed with it and thought id share my favorite videos i found (granted, i only really wachted those that youtube recommened and its mostly .. white men... things like the orientalism problem are not mentioned at all for example, maybe ill update this post if i find any more diverse voices)

i dont agree with every single point and also dont know most of the channels (aside from the big zelda theory guys) so i judged solely by what they mentioned in those videos and the quality of it (like the audio .. bc i cant listen to bad audio)

in no particular order, also they talk about or use footage of the literal ending stuff so if you arent done with the game yet, better leave these for now

(the following one is a podcast thing by multiple zelda theory guys, there some stuff you can skip at the start thats just kidna random things, but the video is marked with chapters)

(theres some mention of some things not making sense, like the sonau only being two, and ithink thats kinda bc the english translation was weirdly vague about that, in the german version its much more directly said that they all died out and only rauru and mineru were left of them;

also mentions of how unfitting it is to call the enigma stones "secret"stones in english might come from a similar thing; in german they where called "Mysterienstein" which would be translated as mystic/mysterious/enigma- stone

just wanted to mention that since the vast majority are gonna play it in english only and the stuff online is also dominated by english)

[unitedstates0fdakota]

That small conversation about names in disco elysium has been stuck with me since I finished my first playthrough because they just put into words so perfectly the feelings I have with my own name and identity.

Harry’s comment about his name being something he “ruined” especially resonated with me. My name has been through so much since I was a kid. It’s what people yell when they’re annoyed at me, when I’ve messed up, when someone doesn’t like me, when people talk about me when they think I can’t hear them…it makes your name feel like a burden, or a reminder of your mistakes. I also feel Kim’s reaction to the same thoughts. Even though I can feel trapped by the name I’ve been given, I’m not sure if it would be an easy thing to just leave behind. I don’t hate my name, I think I just hate what I’ve done to it. And yet I still respond to it. What does that say about me?

[sysiheart]

Im not in mlp fandom but I LOVE LOVE LOVE mlp redesigns!!!

And HATE HATE HATE the comments under those redesigns!!!

[ahotknife]

at the end of the day: who cares. show some initiative. take yourself to the movies & give yourself an orgasm. if you think someone is interesting, talk to them. if you think someone is attractive, hit on them. it is not rocket science. it is just life

[the-ipre]

@stonehenge-asexual and i have been refining our dead girl detectives theses like philosophers in the forum, and i think my interpretation is this:

charlotte would be feminine, but would not identify as femme

i've got a lot of thoughts about how butch and femme arent just physical presentation but also ways of interacting with the world and relationships and the queer community as a whole, and charlotte's femininity–like charles' masculinity–is a way of fitting in. she is one of the girls, until she can't be anymore. she finds the places that punk and femininity interact and thrives there (touched on a bit in hollis' post here), but i dont think the specific femme identity would be something that she would be drawn to

part of this is because of social role, physical protector vs emotional shelter, nuance and roles and all of that, but also. it would take a Lot to get charlotte to the point where she would actually choose to take on a title that says i'm here, i'm queer, and i know what that means for myself. presenting feminine and punk and loving edwina enough to go to hell for her doesn't mean that she would be prepared to face the reality of her queerness, much less what it means for her place in the world and the greater community.

[ducktracy]

hello i just wanted to say i've been a fan of yours for a while now and i wanted to thank you for providing me with looney tunes brainworms it has actually done me so well artistically and in general (definitely better than r&s brainworms! that shit was like a spear in my head!!)

HI THERE!! OHH I'M SO HAPPY TO HEAR THIS!! thank YOU!! TRULY the LT brainworms are incredibly beneficial--i wouldn't be working my dream job without them and probably wouldn't have this sheer sense of Finding My Purpose that i do. i've always loved cartoons and definitely felt a flip switch a few years before i got into LT, but actually studying the history and figures behind them, and being able to connect that to other interests in my life such as history and anthropology... well! i'm so much more well-read and well-rounded because of it! ALSO LMAO THE REN AND STIMPY COMMENT HITS TOO CLOSE TO HOME, VERY TRUE... talking with other friends and animation historians who once drank the Spumco kool-aid really does feel like an Alcoholic's Anonymous meeting. i was never full blown as i sadly see so many people who are (and can't help think that they too will have their inevitable detox), but... yeah, if you want a golden age influence and one done correctly, go straight to the source! that's exactly what i did and it did me a world of good

[rajingdragon]

When I was 16 my psychologist made me do an exercise where I had to draw different emotions and I depicted all of them as creatures. This was my design for 'Love' and at the time I didn't understand why she remarked that my design was unusual, but looking back at it now yeah no I get it. Anyway I spruced up this ol' lad because Valentine's is coming up and it reminded me of my love monster. Some lore and bonus doodles under the cut, feel free to psychoanalyze my relationship with this specific emotion along with me

Love is a curious, communal and very affectionate species, one that is capable of forming strong bonds even with other animals. They express fondness in multiple different ways - from nuzzling, grooming and cuddling, to bringing all sorts of trinkets, food or other things their beloved might like, each individual having their own main love language. They also tend to wear their hearts on their shoulders, with such expressive body language it is hard to not be able to tell what one is feeling.

However, not all members of this species are very nice. While Love has a strong urge to give affection, it also craves that same affection back. Some animals (and sometimes even members of their own species) may prey on these instincts by tolerating these excitable critters, giving the bare minimum in return to maintain a bond, and reaping the benefits from the Love's attention and care. Some animals have even evolved a way to mimic a frill like the one of the Love species, their main way of showing their true feelings, to more effectively trap a Love in this one way relationship. Other times Loves can forget, or even willfully ignore, their sharp teeth, powerful clawed arms and rough, scaly, saggy skin, with can end up hurting someone during an intense cuddle session. It's not uncommon that they prioritize their own comfort and feelings over another's, which is why they sometimes ignore that their way of expressing affection is hurting someone, and refuse to let go if someone they're bonded to wants out.

While it is capable of forming bonds with other species, it's not exactly easy. Due to the Love's carnivorous nature and spontaneous, sudden movements, it scares other critters away, causing most Loves to be confined to their own communities.

[kindaorangey]

viren starts to use dark magic -> he devotes himself to harrow because harrow makes him feel smart + powerful for his use of dark magic -> they commit atrocities -> harrow has a crisis of conscience in the face of his own mortality -> he tells viren to get to his knees and calls him a servant -> harrow dies -> viren devotes himself to aaravos because aaravos makes him feel smart + powerful for his use of dark magic -> they commit atrocities -> viren dies -> viren is revived -> he has a crisis of conscience in the face of his own mortality and decides to sacrifice himself for harrow's former kingdom and people -> in his final moments he gets to his knees and says "i am a servant". flawless arc honestly

[inhurtandincomfort]

What do you really think of your childhood, Jowan?

△

He visibly startles at his name. It takes him a moment to process the question. "Oh, well, uh... I don't know?" He blinks, his lips pursed in thought. "It wasn't always easy. I sometimes wish..." He cuts himself off, changing course. "My Father was very strict. I admit, it was hard to meet all his demands. It sometimes felt like nothing I did was good enough. I was only in school for a few years, but I could come home with the highest achievable marks and he'd still manage to find a fault.

"It got lonely, sometimes. I remember watching other kids on the playground, quietly wishing I could join them." He laughs, like it's a joke. Just a senseless thing silly children do. "He always said it was a waste for me to not use my brain for the benefit of others. That with my gifts, he needed to be strict so that I could reach my full potential.

"There are... things he did, that I question. I wish I could talk to him again so that I could understand him, because there are some things I cannot explain. So many questions left unanswered. But ultimately, without him I wouldn't be where I am today. It wasn't easy, but it was necessary. I am grateful for what I had."

[Uncomfortable rating: 7/10. It should be more but he's still lying to himself.]

[Thank you! From this ask game]