#Weighing System

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

Local idiot absolutely destroys his twin brother

⚠️ Do not try this at home❗️⁉️

[morethanwonderful]

Sweeping away his competition with a constant lead and a final victory by 22%, Shen (Yuan) Qingqiu has officially beaten Qi Rong and been crowned the MXTX character that was/would be most insufferable if given access to the internet!

In the end, it turns out that this whole elaborate tournament was for naught. Even Qi Rong, the man voted more annoying that 63 other characters, cannot hold a candle to the sheer degree of insufferable that we know our dear Peerless Cucumber was and would be. Absolutely nobody can compare to Shen Yuan's canon keyboard warrior antics.

Thank you all for joining me on this journey! I hope everyone had fun voting in this tournament, as I know I had a lot of fun running things and watching everyone's hot takes. Shen Yuan may have rendered all but the very final round of voting moot with his sheer loveable obnoxiousness, but maybe the real most insufferable people online are the friends we made along the way :).

[bixels]

I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.

[al-luviec]

fuck yeah manitoba

[dont-offend-the-bees]

Hi there! I have a UK specific question for Dead Boy Detectives. Something I see a lot in fic is the hc that Charles is working class and Edwin is rich. Do their different accents (like in the post you just reblogged) support this hc or is there other cultural context that I’m missing? I thought their differences in presentation were just down to era, but I’d be interested to hear what you think!

Yes! Charles' accent is far more commonly associated with working classes and Edwin's is much more common in the upper/middle classes (and Edwin's accent is more the type of accent you're taught to emulate if you have a regional/working class accent and want to be taken seriously in your career etc.). It's not the only indicator, Charles' involvement in the ska/rudeboy/skinhead subcultures would also make more sense for a working class lad, but it's a very strong indicator.

I'm afraid I'm personally not an accent buff (I just live here etc) so I couldn't tell you *exactly* what variation of working class London accent Charles has but yes, it's quite a major hint. Not to say someone middle/upper class COULDN'T have that accent but it's definitely not the norm — and any working class kid who talks like Edwin is liable to get picked on in school for being posh (speaking from experience — I wasn't posh but my parents sure talked like they were and I absorbed it like a sponge lmao. My mum actually ditched her working class Manchester accent when she moved to London and became an opera critic among other things, to this day she talks more like a posh southerner, sounds Completely different to her brothers who never left Manc).

In the comic I *think* the school basically takes in the kids of people in active military service, so Charles or anyone being there isn't necessarily a sign of being rich, idk if show Paul Rowland is meant to be military but if not it seems likely to me that Charles' family lived in the school's catchment area so he got in as a day boy (non-boarder) by virtue of it being his closest school.

[fandomfluffandfuck]

You ever think about the raw, unfiltered political unrest, near rage, that must come out in Steve's art sometimes, the shit that he's sure no one else will ever lay eyes on, deep in his sketchbook? Because I do.

[shiftperception]

Look up median system and mono consciousness on pluralpedia, if you want. There’s a lot of ways to experience multiplicity, and not many of them are covered in easy-to-find resources

Sounds interesting! I don’t expect myself to meet the criteria in a way that matters, but the convergent evolution of plurality and the mental dialogue/daydream stuff I get up to does fascinate me anyway.

[wisecrackingeric-2]

I am so so sorry for very quickly venting on here I’ll keep all my rambles in the tags HFNEJDJDJ but my birthdays in exactly a week and m a n I am S O anxious about it aoaoaughhh

[angeltannis]

So Wyll has literally NO agency with the final and biggest decision of his character arc?? About what happens to his OWN SOUL?? Yikes Larian

[min0uet]

and what if i wanted to be like. two different guys.

[birdsareblooming]

I know it will be hard to forget, but whichever outcome I need everyone to remember, to write down, to talk about what is currently happening. when American schools talk about Martin Luther King Jr. or slaves or women, who was oppressing them and trying to stop their rights, who was hosing them, who was shooting them, who was suppressing their voice is a mysterious "they" and never expanded upon.

Women won the right to vote, black people won the right to humanity, but not easily, the American government and police force did everything to stop them.

They don't teach that. they still don't teach the truths of American settlers. They still don't teach the truth of puritans and why they even came to America.

In however many years, they'll teach of this conflict. A mysterious "they" will have suppressed the riots, arrested brown people, attacked protesting Jews, and provided aid to Israel. as always, America will do it's best to rewrite history to where it was neutral at best. To where the police force wasn't involved, to where they weren't secretly giving Israel billions of dollars or weapons for ethnic cleansing and oil.

Don't let them.

Write. Speak. Anything. Even if it's telling your children or anyone close enough first hand.

Tell them who threatened to arrest you, what news outlets wouldn't report, who's countries' soldiers were killing Palestinians, who's president still calls the state of Israel a "dear friend"

Because if we let them or not, in 10 years schools will erase history.

Don't let them.

[iaus]

iaus i need ur thoughts on this. i know you said that you hc porter as only level 2 paladin and i def see that. however. i forgot that he was the one who revivified buddy which is a 3rd level spell that paladins only get at 9th level. how do we reconcile this

somewhere.... in the back of my mind i knew it was always going to come back to revivify... porter you tool.

so off the top of my head i can think of like. 3 ways to reconcile this one of them just flies in the face of RAW and says fuck you let's start with that one.

1. most likely? canon explanation besides an 11-9? it could be ankarna just gave him those spells for no reason other than him being her only prophet at the time. which could be interesting, but is in no real way supported by RAW. this might be the most likely. gods have been known for saying fuck this shit and giving powers to people so... rage god ankarna being tricked by her, at the time, only worshiper who insists he needs more healing magic. (fun fact, i kind of did this in my game but with a warlock. but. they're now taking levels in warlock and are in no way close to level 20)

2. he lies about his process in the revivification of ankarna's followers. which... suits him and the General Plot but makes things really weird and complicated because then the revivification is ALL ankarna and would make the shatterstars themselves kind of null and void because then there's no real logical sense that porter should be able to control them so.

3. he really does have to be a 11-9 barb/paladin split. which i find. complicated. i'd have to consult my oath lists again to even begin theorizing where to go with him there (i think i remember selecting oath of glory on a previous sheet i generated simply because it was funny). i also think an 11-9 split is funny because. why are you the barb teacher only with only 11 levels in barbarian huh? your audacity.

4. secret option four (truth): once again, bleem did not expect us to get this far with this man so there was never really a reason to justify why porter has revivify/raise dead. it just is. or porter's just level 30 and is like a 20-10 barb/paladin LMAO-

wait. i need to make a character sheet when i get back from my walk.

[halinski]

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[badolmen]

I feel that there’s a world of difference between “fandomizing real world politics and tragedies” (in my understanding - applying ‘fandom’ to, well, real world politics and tragedies eg. shipping war criminals or writing rpf for victims of traumatic events) and “making fandom art which acknowledges real world politics and tragedies” (in my understanding - political cartoons/art with a particular flag/etc.).

I’m not saying that the latter can’t be insensitive or in poor taste depending on execution but also…idk it’s weird to see tumblr activists freaking the fuck out over art of dunmesh senshi bringing food to Gaza. I can’t believe that’s the hill you want to kill (your own allies nonetheless!) on. We have people writing smut for about specific IOF soldiers or shipping Palestinian journalists, like, is the comic imagining a fictional character showing up to help people in a horrific situation really what you want to call tone deaf and insensitive?

[tennessoui]

I gotta say, if I were the Jedi Council, I would be sticking Obi-Wan (and accompanying death shadow) on a planet with really, really, REALLY good health care. Like, the second Obi-Wan dies Eldritch Remains Anakin is going to be backing a dump truck full of corpses up to the Night Sisters. You want that little sadness muffin getting monthly physicals, staying hydrated, and eating lots of fruits and veg.

In my original thrown together outline, segment 4 involves obi-wan and anakin having a conversation about what anakin would do if obi-wan were to die and anakin is like you won’t :)

and there was a version of eldritch anakin who could like sort of sense the future/what will happen because he was once a part of the Force and the force is everything, past and future and present so when he comes back into his body he still has memories of the future which is disconcerting

especially because he doesn’t particularly care about changing any of the future events he’s seen, so obi-wan was going to find out about Order 66 via his little holonews bites and anakin will have known the entire time and done nothing so that obi-wan could be his and all his and only his

and obi-wan is furious with him because he knows he knew the entire time and he never said anything

but even then he doesn’t leave

Lol I know this hardly relates to this ask but in the original planned version of the story the council and the temple was just doomed from the second anakin came back and there’s nothing they could have done

fruits and veggies aside—just caring about obi-wan and obi-wan caring about them in return is enough for their fate to be sealed

[trans-axolotl2]

In my last residential treatment stay, I did have one psychiatrist who I trusted and had a positive relationship with. Her name was Dr. R, and when I came in on the first day of treatment and told her that I would not take any psych meds and that I had a lot of past psych trauma, she validated me and told me that she would not bring up meds unless I did. Throughout my stay there, she was empathetic, listened to my concerns, helped advocate for me, and generally made me feel heard. At the same time, when management took away our doors-she did nothing. When I needed to get a feeding tube--she lied to me about how long it would be in, and what I needed to do to get it out. She enforced policies about restricting outside breaks, restrictions on items, and contributed to treatment plans that my friends felt were unfair and damaging.

She was a good person and I liked her, but she was choosing to work within a system where she could not control the dozens of things happening there that harmed us every single day. This is what I mean when I say there is no such thing as a good psychiatrist in inpatient units--she was a progressive, validating, nice person --but her very job description made it impossible for a “good provider” to exist. To be a provider who wasn’t a part of the harm that was occurring on that unit, she would have had to quit, because the very requirements of her job required committing ethical violations, restricting peoples autonomy, and perpetrating iatrogenic harm. If she had stopped enforcing harmful policies and challenged her coworkers publically, she probably would have gotten fired. And that really is the problem--causing iatrogenic harm has essentially become a job requirement on inpatient units, and being a “good provider” by the metrics of the system require you to participate in that harm. 

I think Dr. R did a better job than most inpatient psychs in mitigating the harms she participated in, and finding ways to resist shitty systems when possible. I was glad she was there and I think she made my treatment better, but the two of us had a lot of conversations together where she acknowledged the fucked up things happening in the treatment center, acknowledged her role in them, and also stated that she did not have any power to change them. She could not fix the system by working within the system. 

I get a lot of questions by people who are interested in careers in the mental health system, and asking me on whether I think it’s okay for them to work there. My first response is usually if you’re asking because you’re feeling guilty after seeing what psych survivors say, I’m not someone who’s going to give you permission to ignore that guilt. The second thing I usually say is this: you need to go into this job aware with the fact that you will cause people harm, you will get into ethical dilemmas, and there will be times where you will either have to betray your personal values or quit. There isn’t one right answer on how to engage with mental healthcare as a provider, with the reality that until we build up alternative systems of care, the current structures still exist and have people who need support inside of them.  If that’s something that you think you can navigate in a way that lets you create the least harm possible, then that’s something you need to decide for yourself, and to think really deeply about if the reality of the psych system matches up with your goals.