#Stay Prepared

[military1st]

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[httpsoftbunni]

Before diving into this survival guide, please note that I am not a professional survivalist, nor do I have formal training. What I share here is based on personal experience, research, and a deep passion for the outdoors. Although I’ve been criticized and even attacked in the past for posting this kind of information, I believe in sharing what I know to help others. So, despite the negativity, I’ve decided to continue sharing these tips.

Preparing Yourself

Your mission in a survival situation is to stay alive. The assortment of thoughts and emotions you will experience in such a situation can work for you or against you. Fear, anxiety, anger, frustration, guilt, depression, and loneliness are all possible reactions to the many stressors common in survival. When these reactions are controlled in a healthy way, they increase your likelihood of surviving.

They prompt you to:

…Pay more attention during training …Fight back when you're scared …Take action to ensure your sustenance and security …Keep faith with your fellow team members …Strive against overwhelming odds

But if you can’t control these reactions in a healthy way, they can bring you to a standstill. Instead of rallying your internal resources, you’ll listen to your internal fears. Those fears will lead to psychological defeat long before you physically succumb.

Remember: Survival is natural to everyone. But being unexpectedly thrust into a life-or-death struggle is not. Don’t be afraid of your natural reactions to this unnatural situation. Instead, prepare yourself to rule over those reactions so that they serve your ultimate interest: staying alive with honor and dignity.

⚙️ Being Prepared

Being prepared means knowing your reactions in a survival setting are likely to be productive, not destructive if you’ve trained yourself properly.

Survival situations have produced countless examples of heroism, courage, and self-sacrifice. These are the qualities a survival situation can bring out in you if you’ve prepared yourself mentally, emotionally, and physically.

The following tips will help you prepare psychologically. Through studying these principles and practicing survival training, you can begin to develop what’s called the “survival attitude.”

🔍 Know Yourself

Take time to truly discover who you are on the inside. What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? Learn to strengthen your stronger qualities and develop the areas you know are necessary for survival.

😨 Anticipate Fears

Don’t pretend that you’ll have no fear. You will. Start thinking now about what would frighten you the most if forced to survive alone. Is it the dark? Hunger? Injury? Isolation?

Train in the areas that are most concerning to you. The goal is not to eliminate fear but to build confidence in your ability to function despite it. Fear may still be there, but it won’t control you.

🧭 Be Realistic

Don’t be afraid to make an honest appraisal of your situation. See things as they are, not as you want them to be. Keep your hopes and expectations within the estimate of the situation. When you go into survival with unrealistic expectations, you set yourself up for bitter disappointment.

Remember this old saying: “Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.” It’s much easier to adjust to pleasant surprises than to emotionally collapse from unexpected hardship.

☀️ Adopt a Positive Attitude

Learn to see the potential good in everything. This not only boosts morale, but also exercises your imagination and creativity—both of which are vital in a survival setting.

This mindset will serve you well not just in survival, but in life.

🚨 Remind Yourself of What’s at Stake

Failure to prepare yourself psychologically for survival can lead to:

…Depression …Carelessness …Inattention …Loss of confidence …Poor decision-making …Giving up before your body ever does

Your life is on the line. The lives of others who may depend on you are on the line. Let that weight ground you and sharpen your resolve.

🛠 Train

Begin today to prepare yourself for the rigors of survival. Demonstrate your skills in daily life. Show yourself that you’re capable so when a crisis comes, you already believe it.

The more realistic your training is, the less overwhelming a real survival setting will feel.

🧘 Learn Stress Management Techniques

Stress can lead to panic if you’re not trained and mentally ready to face the circumstances at hand.

You often can’t control the situation you're in. But you can control your response to that situation.

Learning stress management skills can significantly enhance your ability to stay calm, clear-headed, and focused as you fight to keep yourself and others alive. A few good techniques to start working on:

Relaxation skills – Breathing exercises, meditation, grounding

Time management skills – Efficient use of time under pressure

Assertiveness skills – The ability to act and speak with clarity

Cognitive restructuring – Reframing how you view and react to situations

Remember this:

The will to survive is often nothing more than the refusal to give up.

[fogaminghub]

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[aegisprecisionkinetics]

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[ionomycin]

necromancer's lure

[vitreouspositive]

alright guys fun quiz time!! is megatron insinuating he knows that optimus' true feelings for him! or is he stating how he knows optimus would never choose him over the autobots...

[leafwateraddict]

Couldn’t stop thinking about Dust being able to pass as Classic. So I had an idea where Dust replaces Classic in a timeline and steals(?) his partner.

He gets conflicted when he starts actually caring about you… But denial is an easy road to take when there’s seemingly no consequences to your actions.

The reveal i guess. Most normal reaction to learning your partners been replaced for god knows how long and you have no clue where he is.

Now that I think about it I might’ve gotten some inspiration from that one chapter of IJAG by @htsan (iykyk) only a lil bit tho

(Full rambling of the idea + extra sketch cuz i liked the expression) ↓↓

I originally wanted y/n to notice the differences instantly but i think it would be angstier if they didn’t and only noticed like months later >:3

[paintedcrows-caws]

Front row seat to Alex Hirsch's InMotion London Talk!! Aaaa!! (The high quality close up photos were taken by the wonderful @stupidlittlespirit! Who was sitting with me and had a far better camera, haha)

You can watch the full thing here, recorded by the brilliant Topaz Animation!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn_O7CMM67A&t=137s

[mrbrightxside]

Day 7: Gaming 🎮

( @eltingpril ) Sorry for all the text it's my stupid captions, I have WAY more ideas for them to game but those will be separate posts 🙏🏻

[lotus-pear]

soukoku shippers can NEVER come after kunizai now with the excuse of them having no angst i think they honestly win tragic yaoi of the year award WAIT UNTIL DAZAI HEARS HIS PARTNER GOT TURNED INTO A 7/11 $2.50 FROST GLACIER SLUSHIE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[httpsoftbunni]

Before diving into this survival guide, please note that I am not a professional survivalist, nor do I have formal training. What I share here is based on personal experience, research, and a deep passion for the outdoors. Although I’ve been criticized and even attacked in the past for posting this kind of information, I believe in sharing what I know to help others. So, despite the negativity, I’ve decided to continue sharing these tips.

Natural Reactions to Stressors

As we've seen, survival stressors can have a powerful impact on both your mind and body. Humans have survived countless environmental changes over the centuries because of our natural ability to adapt, both physically and mentally. These same survival mechanisms that kept our ancestors alive can work for you too—if you know how to manage them. But without that understanding, they can easily work against you.

It’s only natural for anyone to experience a variety of psychological reactions when faced with survival situations. Let’s break down some of the most common internal responses to these stressors and how they can affect you.

Fear

Fear is our instinctive response to danger, triggered when we perceive a threat to our well-being. This can be physical, mental, or emotional harm. In survival situations, fear can be helpful, as it heightens our senses and keeps us cautious when recklessness might put us in harm’s way. However, if left unchecked, fear can paralyze you, preventing essential action. Everyone feels fear when placed in unfamiliar, threatening environments, and there's no shame in that. The key is learning how to control and manage your fear through preparation and training so that it works for you instead of against you.

Anxiety

Anxiety naturally follows fear and is often an anticipatory feeling of unease. It’s what pushes us to act in the face of danger. In a survival setting, anxiety can actually drive you to complete tasks that improve your situation. But like fear, if it spirals out of control, anxiety can cloud your judgment, confuse you, and make it difficult to think clearly. Learning techniques to keep anxiety in check is vital—it should motivate action, not overwhelm you.

Anger and Frustration

Frustration comes from being unable to reach a goal, and in survival situations, that goal is simple: staying alive. When things don’t go as planned, it’s natural to feel frustration, which can easily lead to anger. While anger can cloud your thinking and make you impulsive, it can also give you the energy to push through challenges. If you can harness that intensity and focus it productively, it can be a powerful tool. But if you let it take over, anger will drain your energy and sabotage your chances of survival.

Depression

Feeling sad or down is a common reaction to the hardships of survival. But if this sadness deepens into depression, it can sap your strength and willpower. Frustration and anger feed into depression, creating a destructive cycle that can leave you feeling hopeless. However, brief moments of sadness as you reflect on loved ones or your normal life can actually motivate you to keep going. The danger lies in letting those feelings spiral into despair. It’s crucial to resist sinking into depression and keep your mind focused on the task at hand—survival.

Loneliness and Boredom

Humans are social creatures, and isolation is a common challenge in survival situations. Loneliness and boredom can lead to depression if left unchecked. However, they can also push you to discover new strengths and hidden talents within yourself. Keeping your mind occupied with productive tasks is key, and learning to rely on yourself builds self-sufficiency and resilience.

Guilt

Survival situations can be tragic, and survivors often carry a sense of guilt, especially if others were not as fortunate. This “survivor’s guilt” can be heavy, but it’s important to channel those feelings into a purpose. Survivors have the opportunity to honor those who didn’t make it by continuing on and making the most of their second chance. Allowing guilt to prevent you from surviving would be the greatest tragedy of all.

In the next post, we’ll dive into how you can prepare yourself mentally and physically for these kinds of challenges. Preparation is key to turning these natural reactions into tools for survival!

[cubbihue]

What if Peri got his tail caught in the rotors of the Au-Pair, I would imagine that would hurt.

Well, now that you've pointed it out!!! Peri won't stop thinking about it!!!!! Congrats, you've just given the Fairy more anxiety.

Fairies can lose their tails. It can also grow back, like lizard tails do. But they still feel pain and growing the tail back is a bother.

There's the loss of balance, the sudden instant sprouting when it comes back, but you don't know when it'll grow back so now suddenly your pants has a brand new hole in it because the tail decided to sprout out facing down instead of straight and, ough. Annoying!!!

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[beargregor]

wait i'm curious, what makes you say that gregor doesn't like everyone else (if i read that post right)? just curious since i've never seen anyone else say that

i don't necessarily think gregor dislikes everyone else at lcb but i do think that gregor is an incredibly petty person that isn't nearly as close to the rest of the sinners and even outright dislikes some of them cough cough rodya cough cough which a lot of people just Refuse to see because he's as much of a doormat as he is. there's several examples i could get into to try and prove my point however i'll just focus on what i personally think to be the biggest ones.

additionally, this is going to be kind of long, so i'm adding a read more. read more! read it. sorry for being so wordy. i have several diseases.

Pt1. gregor is the type to try and get along at least decently with everyone, especially if he gets a good first impression from them.

this is less a point in favor of gregor's distance w/ the rest of the sinners and more just a contributing factor to it. once again there's several examples i could point to here but i think the most in your face one happened in canto I with yuri, as several people have pointed out. even before gregor comes clean about growing attached to her as quickly as he did because she reminds him of his sister, we get this interaction.

i'll go ahead and make the disclaimer now that i don't necessarily think gregor is the most reliable of narrators, especially when it comes to his feelings and interactions with most people, but from the way he acts when the topic of yuri comes up (and the way we still see him act even all the way up to c7, nearly a whole year after yuri's death) i don't see reason to question his sentiment here. gregor immediately got that aya and yuri were close, potentially even taking note of their traded belts, and went out of his way to get something nice for yuri despite hardly knowing her.

i feel like a lot of people have forgotten as much, especially since it's been so long since c1, but gregor actually spent a good bit of season 1 doing the exact same thing with the other sinners! gregor reads a connection between him and ishmael pretty quickly despite getting off to a rocky start

mostly because gregor can tell that ishmael is pretty sardonic in a very similar way to him. there's been multiple instances where ishmael and gregor have essentially expressed the same sentiment at different moments, most notably gregor's little argument after ishmael got shot with a decay ampule in c4

and ishmael's response to pilot talking about self-sacrifice in c5

i could go ahead and pull up more examples, but in general pm has gone out of their way to show us that gregor and ishmael are pretty similar, so it makes sense for gregor to assume that they're friends, right?

this will be pushpin 1. keep note of this for Later.

ishmael's only the first sinner we see gregor trying to do this with in s1, we also see him try it out with heathcliff, sinclair, and ryoushuu

he's tried to get along with charon, being one of very few sinners that we've seen actually try to establish a connection with her at all

even rodya, despite my insistence that gregor doesn't like her nearly as much as the fandom thinks he does

all of these seem pretty fine and dandy, right? sure it frequently leans towards self-degradation, micromanaging, and commiseration, but gregor can at least be pretty chummy with most of the sinners, can't he?

Pt2. hell's chicken was more than just comic relief guys please

i'm fully aware that this is quite the hot take, but i think hell's chicken deserves a lot more credit for character writing than the fandom gives it. hell's chicken gave us foreshadowing for several events, such as the donqui bloodfiend reveal

heathcliff's distortion in c6 (as well as hong lu's highly speculated distortion at some point in the future)

and ryoushuu and sinclair's continued connection by making him the odd one out on her team

which, hey! that implies something about gregor's odd one out, don quixote, too, doesn't it? yes. yes it does. that's pushpin 2. keep note of that for later.

speaking of pushpins, hey! that's pushpin 1!

splitting into teams is one of the major events in hell's chicken, and most of the sinner's choices are either motivated by very little, backhanded, or motivated primarily by not wanting to be on the opposite leader's side. i didn't include all of the picks, just because i feel like including most of them already gets this across, but i think gregor took one major thing from this: most of the sinners, when push comes to shove, will only side with gregor when they refuse to or can't take his opponent's side.

now, don't get me wrong, i'm fully aware that this is primarily intended to be comedic relief, but when gregor is being described as having his trust broken by ishmael or nearly crying because no one on his team properly sided with him for him, i feel like it's pretty fair to read into this.

something that i think is pretty important to remember in conjunction with this is that we know that gregor is the type to hold a grudge, both from his general attitude towards the G corp soldiers in c1 as well as his continued distaste for vergilius

even beyond the splitting into teams of hell's chicken, the sinners have given gregor plenty of reasons to feel bitter. i feel like this is something people have noticed but haven't really put a finger on, but it's kind of wild just how often the rest of the sinners make gregor the butt of the joke

and sure, we could argue that a fair few of these aren't really made with any ill intent. quite a bit of it could have been meant as harmless teasing, but with gregor being more sensitive than most, it coming from nearly all sides, and as often as it does? yeah, i think he's prone to taking it a bit personally.

Pt3. yes i do still think gregor was the third most important character in canto VII you guys gotta hear me out okay

of course, all of this leads up to the bit of the story i highlighted, doesn't it? c7? i totally get why people haven't really picked up on all the gregor things i did in it, seeing as they were mostly not *directly* said about him or by him.

personally, i think that gregor's distaste for talking about himself on any serious level and thus leading to him getting sort of "sidelined" narratively (which i take issue with that claim, but still. it's effective for getting what i mean across atm) is supposed to lead players to take a deeper look at the times gregor gets held up to other characters and compare and contrast what's being said about them by the matchup. as i showed earlier with his immediate latching onto ishmael, i think this is something gregor himself is at least partially aware of too.

so, that begs the question, who was gregor compared to in canto VII that makes me think it's one of the most critical pieces in understanding his character?

really, i'd like to avoid getting too lost in the analysis of this canto specifically, since i'd like to do a proper post about this later, but i figure i can bury the lede a little before doing it properly.

c7 features several characters being made to perform in sansón's play, acting out the relevant backstory for this segment of the plot. a lot of these characters have rather direct, degrading reasons for playing the roles they do.

outis, a character with an inflated ego who wants her journey to have a purpose, is made to play an aimlessly wandering villager with a single line.

hong lu and ryoushuu, two characters for whom families and the expectations placed upon them are likely going to play a major role, are made to play bloodfiends.

rodya, a character who resents her lot in life and is constantly shown to be eager to leave her destitution behind her and become someone special, is made to play a helpless villager that's too poor to even offer any money to the hero that saves her.

heathcliff, a character that has spent most of his life getting dehumanized by comparing him to beastly animals, is made to play a literal bear whose sole purpose in the plot is to get beat up and then quickly left by the wayside.

sinclair, a character that has two opposed parties essentially treating him as a macguffin to procure for their side, is made to play the character who was arguably the catalyst for this entire canto, not to mention playing a decently major role in ruina.

our star don quixote is made to play her father, the first kindred, but there's someone by their side the entire time, isn't there? don quixote's dear, steadfastly loyal companion. a character which don quixote has tasked themself with getting to come out of their shell?

hello again, pushpin 2.

gregor has been made to play our unreachable star, sancho. someone had to, of course. you can't really tell a story without it's main character, now can you?

now, i should once again give a disclaimer. i am not trying to say that i think adapting what happens to donqui/sancho in c7 to gregor is the road pm is going to take here, not only would that toe a bit past the line of foreshadowing, but it'd also just amount to rehashing that plotline again, which i don't think would make for a particularly exciting story.

what i DO think is that we can take a lot of the things that are said to either directly be the case for sancho and use them to inform how we see gregor.

and god, does playing sancho have some fucking implications for our favorite ossan archetype.

starting off, the earliest moment we get to see of sancho is quite literally her just waiting for death to take her in a pile of ashes.

which, i should remind everyone, is actually pretty damn close to what happens to gregor's literary counterpart at the end of the metamorphosis. gregor samsa experiences one final breaking point that pushes him over the edge and makes him decide to just wait for starvation to take him.

gregor and sancho both consider themselves to no longer be human, something which sancho goes out of her way to highlight repeatedly throughout the canto and gregor is quick to get defensive on her behalf for when outis starts really tearing into her

sancho spends quite a lot of this story denying herself the joys of community and friendship, despite knowing that, even with the rest of the sinners frequently making jokes at her expense and outright insulting her, they were things that she desperately craved.

and, while this is getting into my "outis is a red herring meant to distract us from gregor's eventual betrayal" theorizing, i also think it's worth noting for this discussion that sancho's fellow kindreds, her family, all seem to be under the impression that she dislikes them and ultimately her departure was an act of betrayal

and that, despite gregor being one of LCB's resident mood makers and attempted conflict de-escalators, one of the sinners that's most prone to making appeals to the bonds they've all forged together, only him and faust remained silent during everyone's speech

so yeah, i think there's quite a lot of little details and hints building up to the reveal that gregor's not quite as fond of everyone as he presents himself to be. i do think a lot of this ultimately comes down to gregor getting in the way of his own happiness, similarly to donqui, particularly because he's been frequently portrayed as something of a self fulfilling prophecy, especially by giving him as many christ allegories as they have by way of priest and garden of thorns. gregor is convinced that the rest of the sinners don't like him because he's not convinced anyone could like him, so he convinces himself that he hates them because why should he care if someone that he hates hates him too?

a lot of this ultimately ties back to my personal interpretation of what happens in the metamorphosis as well as my own theories regarding all the times gregor has made weird callbacks and references to lobcorp and ruina, but yeah. i think about this guy and his deeper characterization a fairly normal amount, i think.

to end this off i'll highlight one of my favorite little "gregor is fucking seething and trying so hard to keep it cool" moments, in the credits CG for c7 we see rodya teasing him by drawing a little horse on his window and actively pointing and laughing at it, which gregor really doesn't seem all too pleased about.

i personally think this ties into the other cruel part of sansón forcing gregor to play rocinante, which is the more literal "he's actually just straight up playing rocinante" side of things. gregor was quite literally made to play something less than human, less than even animal really, as he was reduced to nothing more than the shoes don quixote wore as she got to play the leading role. sansón directly makes jokes about gregor being nothing more than shoes in the play twice, which adds to this reading, i think.

this, imo, really plays into the adaptation of the metamorphosis! i've seen a lot of readings for the book that posit that, despite being the protagonist, gregor samsa can't really be considered the main character due to nearly everything he experiences in it being used to further his family's character development at his expense, which i think fits nicely with limbus gregor seemingly having the most said about him through indirect means by holding him up to other characters. also it's rodya carelessly making fun of His Big Major Insecurities™ again like she did in c1 which i always find fun. rodya i love you but god you're the worst.

[frownyalfred]

Stumbled across a HOT take on TikTok this morning (not trusting ALFRED with your drink??) and opened up the comments thinking it was a joke. Nope, the comments were full of people calling him an enabler/deadbeat dad/who endangers kids.

[cinewhore]

babygirl <3

[kindaasrikal]

No because if I don’t get a scene of Jay yelling “JAY IS NO LONGER MY NAME, I AM ROGUE!!”

And all the ninja don’t drop and start laughing at his stupid ahh I’ll do it myself

They would absolutely want to make fun of him for that what do you mean ‘Rogue’ get out

Kai would have way too much ammo with that one, Nya you gotta defend your man somehow.