#Steering for Better

[ryllen]

color coded affection

[thought-begone]

The thing that bugged me about season 2 was how isolated each character seemed. Caitlyn's rampage on the chem barons was all well and good, but gassed up a whole street and innocents are bound to get caught in the crossfire - and vi helping her would at least get the attention of the firelights and in extension, ekko.

I want him to fight with his older sister, because so far for 5+ years he did all the cleaning in the undercity and nobody (that we know of) gotten hurt. And what about the councilwomen's daughter preaching about 'breaking the cycle of violence' but so easily used chemical warfare? In this case the end definitely does NOT justify the means

[screamingblogger]

yadda yadda first dnd character is a reflection of the player yadda yadda

only murph could ever play riz and riz could only ever be Murphs character. watching the wheels spin in this mans mind every time any kind of investigation or information gathering comes in to play is insane

the other bad kids stalling conversations until riz gets there because murph already has a full game set match interrogation prepared for Brennan is top notch, sometimes the lines between Brian Murphy and riz gugak disappear completely and baby im here for it

[sherlockig]

[sequentialprophet]

This was made for me personally 🥰

[witheredoffherwitch]

These asks lurking in Ewan and TGC's hashtags are so fucking bizzare 😭

[rorydrawsandwrites]

Imagine Gangle leaves (either through abstraction or being locked away or whatever) Jax would probably have so much ptsd afterward. Bro does NOT like to be touched, and hugs are a fucking NIGHTMARE.

Oh yeah PTSD galore

[formulakracing]

at this point max is doing this shit himself

[oddberryshortcake]

Jamil Viper and his Inferiority/Superiority Complex

Chapter 6 provided a deep dive into Jamil’s psyche with an outsider’s perspective on it (being Leona’s) and there’s so much I can say about it, because now that Jamil’s issues are being seen outside of his internal dialogue, there’s a lot of deep-seated complexes and trauma that makes him act the way he does, and all the while Leona is losing his patience while also trying to give him good advice and tough love.

Jamil switches between having an inferiority and superiority complex once he’s put in a life-threatening situation with someone stronger and smarter than him. 

All throughout Jamil’s life, since childhood, since he was born, he was meant to be the capable one. He was the smartest, he was the most skilled, he was meant to protect Kalim. 

The adults in his life trusted him to protect and die for Kalim, and despite being miserable in his situation, he got satisfaction from being a more capable magician than Kalim. Somewhere, deep inside, he enjoyed the fact that he was viewed as intelligent, strong, and talented, even if it was always overshadowed.

 He was so used to being the most capable person that when he tried to do his ‘protecting important person’ act to Leona, he was blindsided by the fact that Leona is incredibly capable and even stronger than him.

Leona didn’t need him for protection, Leona didn’t need him for anything. It was Leona who was covering for Jamil, who protected him when Jamil was injured and being pursued by phantoms, Leona was the one who lifted and used the thunder spear. 

Jamil’s perceptions of himself were shattered. What gave him worth in the eyes of the adults in his life no longer mattered. What gave him confidence in his abilities and a feeling of misunderstood talent and superiority didn’t matter. 

Jamil doesn’t know how to be the one who is protected, who is weaker, who is not the ‘smartest person in the room’ that he usually believes he is. He feels like he rather risk his life alone than be a burden, his repression starts showing itself more obviously, and his self-esteem drops down hard.

So as they traveled through Styx, Jamil flip-flopped between being deeply insecure and still thinking he knows best. Leona trying to redirect him into accepting help, taking a rest, not looking down on people who utilize their skills, and acknowledging the skills Kalim has that he doesn’t end up eventually pushing Jamil to allow Leona to help him, but it isn’t without Jamil wanting to endanger his life because that’s all he knew. 

Leona pointing out his superiority complex unraveled the inferiority complex underneath. If he isn’t the strongest and smartest, then who is he? He wants to be separated from Kalim, but who is he if he’s next to someone who is more skilled than him? Who is he if he isn’t the strong one, walking into danger to protect someone else, utilizing his unrecognized talents to the fullest? 

At the end of the day, Jamil finally allows Kalim to help him with something. It isn’t a lot, just grabbing some tableware, but it’s infinitely better than him doing everything by himself, stressing but relishing in being the only person he can rely on. 

His arrogance is a clutch, something he developed and clung to that kept him mentally separated from his peers. Leona poked holes through that perception of Jamil’s self, now he’s faced with knowing that he isn’t some misunderstood genius, that he’s smart but he still has a long way to go, and he’s holding himself back by not accepting his faults or any help. 

His childhood of being a bodyguard, of being expected to give all of his well-deserved victories away, of being expected to risk his life and die to protect someone else formed this perception of himself being the only person he can rely on in him. 

Having it shattered unearthed just how much of himself was reliant on the conditions he grew up in, and how he has so much more room to grow and change if he’d allow himself to.

[jentlemahae]

the left’s obsession with moral perfection is one of the reasons why the right has been able to rise everywhere during the past decade or so

[seagreenstardust]

Live and let ship people. I don’t care what you like, go nuts, but please don’t flood my ship tag with reasons why yours is better. I have my own reasons and you raining on my parade isn’t going to change my mind.

Anyway bkdk are soulmates, canon supports bkdk more than any other ship, and I do not have to flood the other tags with this message to enjoy it. Thank you.

[stardestroyer81]

Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like if we got an 8-Bit Animaniacs game...

[pixlime]

Mr. Geller please I already have so many games I need to play have mercy

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[thebookworm0001]

"#I have to assume this inspo came from scrolling on social media#and seeing posts about the news interspersed with thirst edits of president snow from abosas" I have seen a few people say that Sunrise feels like a punishment, like Suzanne is mad at us and you know what, that's totally valid because if I wrote one of the most despicable, monstrous villains of all time and I saw people posting thirst trap edits about his younger self on tiktok and calling him and Lucy Gray "the original star-crossed lovers from District 12, I would pick up my pen again and be like, "I guess I have to show you even more of the awful things he has done so you understand that he is not some misunderstood woobie".

She wrote a book telling us that some people actively choose to be awful, horrible pieces of shit and that they are just as human as you, so take care that you don’t uphold or become like that and everyone went ‘but actor hot’ and I.

I would also write a book where the not-subtle-American-dictator went on a murder spree because he felt insulted by someone daring to hold him to account if people missed the plot that bad.

Way to miss the point about the charismatic dictator because he’s hot and charismatic.

[huntersselfshipocean]

Slight vent-ish ig

My F/Os would probably barely tolerate me, let alone love me. Why would they? I'm really sad a lot of the time, I can barely function in. my day-to-day life, and just. LOOK AT ME. I doubt Arthur, or Tempest, or Banhammer, or Medkit, or any of my F/Os could love me, dude, I'm having a rough fucking night.

[carmen-berzattos]

I keep seeing posts of people saying that not using words like growled, boomed etc as dialogue tags is bad writing advice and that these words are not meant to be taken literally, but poetically. That is all fine and good and true. But! The reason that you're often discouraged from relying on such descriptors isn't because the readers will take it literally, but to encourage writers to find more interesting ways of conveying emotions without these tags. The idea here is that you use precise description of external environemnt to convery mood, use internality as a way of hinting and hightening said mood, and, MOST IMPORTANTLY, have your dialogue stand on its own that its tone and function in the character interaction is self-evident. Basically, you want to reach the point where adding the word "growled" feels like an overkill because the text already conveys the tone. And even then, I wouldn't necessarily say never use these descriptors, but I will say make them so sparse that the reader stands at attention when they're used. Because they know you mean business