#THEY DO THIS IRL OUT LOUD

[fangswbenefits]

just a few random thoughts on The Arrangement Astarion (cw: mentions of past abuse and trauma)

The way abuse can warp someone for life is often overlooked. This isn't just a journey about him dealing with intimacy (in all its forms) but also how to do it in spite of everything he went through. Putting up walls and not letting her in, but feeling the need to resort to sarcasm and to being snarky cause the vulnerability that comes with it is just too much to handle. She has already seen the ugly yet he keeps doing it, because when you've doing it for so long it becomes second nature and it's hard to unlearn this behaviour. How can people stay when they've seen the ugly? Well, some people do stay because they have seen the ugly and their love for you surpasses that. They'd ve damned if they allowed that to change their opinion of you.

However, this doesn't have be a life sentence for him. He can learn and better himself alongside her if he so chooses. There will be good days. There will be bad days. But the constant will be her by his side. And this isn't about anyone getting fixed. There are other ways to heal. Are those healthy, though? But still, no matter how uncertain things are, he can count on her love as a constant that can help him love the parts of him that he has grown to hate.

Is it easy? Does it happen overnight? Probably not. But there's always hope. There is always a way out. Even when he dissociates. Even when he's fearful of getting more intimate with her. Even when he remembers that she chose friendship over something else - it's never easy to be shown what you need to see instead of what you want to see. Astarion falls into this constant dichotomy and I think it's worth exploring 🫂

[ballcrusher74]

yall ever just drawing and then half way through you come out of autopilot mode and realize what you're doing

[mayonnaise-sock]

I had a dream a couple nights ago that izuku had some crazy ass reality breaking quirk but he didn’t really want it so he just pretended he was quirkless (saiki k style) but at one point he was forced to use it in a bad situation so he basically gaslit everyone into thinking it was someone else and by the end everyone including the guy who he claimed did it was convinced it was that guy

[samssims]

Lil Sam Sims update ~

I have been itching to clean out my CC closet and sort through all of my CC and get rid of the stuff I never use or never will use. I did a big chunk of it tonight but left the hard folders behind (hair, furniture, clothes).

Still the progress feels good.

After this, though, I want to go and build a new base save and redo all the townies. I'll likely share my progress here because, why not? Follow along for fun sims content!

And I know this new expansion is gonna break the game in all sorts of exciting new ways. However I am going to explore the new expansion with Tiana's gen! Princess legacy will return in August!

I also hope to bring back the Farmer BC I started! The save got corrupted so I am back to square one and need to add back in all our lovely contestants. But it is on the books to come back with the new romance dynamics!

All this to say that I miss you all and love you and will be back to sharing sims with you soon! Until then ~ see you at the beach 🏖

[doriana-gray-games]

The Lestrade scene in chapter 5 single handedly made me choose him for my first play through what the fuck

Lol

[oflgtfol]

i have like a severe interest in archaeoastronomy and firsthand observations of the night sky and the techniques that humans have been using to observe for like utter millennia. and so this had led me to a weird position where even among my fellow astronomy people i'm like, too knowledgeable about certain aspects of it such that none of them know wtf i'm talking about. like yeah my one coworker will make a metaphor and say that something is like an oscilloscope, and we all nod our heads and agree because we all know what an oscilloscope is and have done experiments using one. but if i mention like, the nebra sky disc. i'm the only one who gets it

[milksnake-tea]

sighssss im blinking so hard someone legit just told me that blade x reader wouldn't work bc dan feng x blade is basically canon and i should just write that instead and i

do i look like i give a fuck

i really do not care about y'all ships LMAOO don't tell me what to write on my blog please and thank you

i don't care what's "more canon" it's called i don't give a shit im an x reader blog and as long as the characters aren't mischaracterized i don't really care guys cmon

yall have ur ships and i have my self indulgence, can we just coexist or just look away sighs

[payaso-affairs]

thinking really hard about this one but we might have another one for the collection, boys-

[blmpff]

[seventh-district]

again and again i find myself lamenting that audio roleplay isn't taken more seriously by some people. like yeah, they often have a romantic element, and by nature they usually directly involve/address the listener- and i totally get that those things aren't to everyone's taste. no art or entertainment is universally appealing, and that's okay! but.. it still makes me a lil sad that the "cringe" reputation of asmr/audio rp precedes it. there's a whole lot of talent and creativity being poured into these audios by so many people that i feel goes unrecognized and/or disrespected simply due to the medium that the stories are being told through.

[driftingballoons]

Is there any media that's left a lasting impact on you?

So I’m going to give two answers, one the obvious, and another bonus answer for variety’s sake :3

Pmd explorers has possibly had the greatest lasting impact on me that any piece of media ever has. As my introduction to pokemon, I felt like I was playing partly as Hero would’ve experienced it—with absolutely no idea what to expect, and no background knowledge of anything. But the way it quickly changed from “heehee creature adventure :3” to “what does it truly mean to live and how can you shine as brightly as you can, even in the face of oblivion?” caught me quite off guard. It really made me start to think about how I could try to make the most of my life, how people’s actions can be hugely shaped by their situations, and how you really can’t take even the most simple of things for granted. I played this at 12 y/o during an otherwise very disruptive/isolated time in my life, so I’m not sure if that’s partly why my brain latched onto this as much as it did, but I genuinely felt like it helped me get through it. Whenever I felt weak or powerless back then, I found inspiration from how strong hero, partner, and grovyle had to be to get through everything, and it felt like it made coping just a bit easier. Fast forward to a much better time in my life, and it’s helped me find a wonderful, incredibly talented online community and friends, and I have an absolute blast being able to interact with you guys and see your takes on the series!

The other piece of media that had a lasting impact was Allie Brosh’s book Hyperbole and a Half. I hadn’t known before reading it, but she actually had a blog of the same name around the early 2010s, where she’d post her funny comics and stories. The part that had the most impact on me was actually her iconic ‘poorly drawn’ MS paint kind of style. It made me realize that you don’t necessarily have to make professional quality art to make something worth seeing. This inspired me not only to start posting my own doodles and stuff online, but also changed my approach when dealing with a lot of daunting things. Whenever I feel like I’m not good enough/skilled enough to try something, I remember how popular her stuff was, despite looking ‘low quality,’ and it reminds me that doing something low quality is better than not doing it at all! 

[library-fae]

me being anxious to ask for anything vs me and my boyfriend both being autistic and needing explicit communication

[horsemage]

I think we should bring back basic etiquette lessons such as shutting the fuck up when you’re watching a movie in a group that is not exclusively your friend group 🙂

[radlegowaffle]

now that we have our own lil housing system, sky should implement a mail or letter system

[webvampzz]

shoehorning my interest into practically anything i say or do because why not