#You may blame me and you may hate me for this

[sunelloise]

I was not aware of Reyna joining the Hunters until this post. I checked out about 3 chapters into the second TOA book so if it happened after… yeah.

Thing about Reyna is, for me, that I remember well before I knew I was ace, and when I wasn’t really into shipping, that Reyna’s last(?) scene with Piper in BOO, Aphrodite’s daughter, being all sad about how she doesn’t have a boyfriend, and Piper going “you’ll find somebody eventually :)” like

What a horribly missed opportunity for the daughter of the love goddess, who already has a complicated relationship with her mother, to remind Reyna that the Greeks had 7 definitions of love, that there is more to life than just a romance, and that she’s not lesser for not having one.

Also tho

Artemis was 100% the villain in TTC, which would have actually been interesting if it was done intentionally, instead of accidentally. Artemis is the root of Nico’s modern problems. She ripped his sister away from him, and she got Bianca killed, and then let Percy take the fall for her when none of this was his fault. I kinda give Zoe a pass, in a way that she joined a cult so long ago that her agency here is very muddied.

The frustrating thing is that it’s very inconsistent when gods are meant to be seen as either helpers or obstacles based on their myths. Artemis running a cult championing virginity is seen as a good and necessary thing because the myths said so. Poseidon causing Medusa was a “we don’t talk about that beyond book 1” thing, because he has to be a ‘good’ dad eventually. Aphrodite is a nuisance but Cupid is a straight-up villain, both gods of romantic love giving horribly mixed messages about it.

Trying to distill thousands of real myths into consistent characters that we can understand and empathize with means cherry picking which myths you want to represent your arbitrarily “good” and “bad” gods… when they are all simultaneously “good” and “bad” because they’re gods!

He didn’t fail completely, and these books are beloved for a reason. I love that Hades wasn’t stereotypically evil, and I loved the complicated nature of Hermes and May Castellan’s doomed relationship.

But Artemis was a villain, he just contorted her myths to say otherwise, and even back then when I was like, 13, I knew something was up (I’m ace too OP).

Also I know these books are getting older, but “strong women means bashing men” is not what feminism means ffs. Artemis isn’t the cool aunt goddess for turning her nose up at teenage boys who are just being boys. Percy and Nico are kids! Having her resolution be “oh wow you have surpassed my cynical expectations of you because of your gender, I hate you slightly less because you saved me from a trap I fell knowingly into.”

Was really frustrating.

More so because a very strong theme throughout the series is the consequences of the gods being fickle and neglectful of their children, which causes Luke and every other bitter, lost, and heartbroken demigod to join their enemy.

So the inconsistency of “sometimes the fickle and neglectful god is teaching Percy a valuable lesson” or “the fickle and neglectful god made the series villain and should suffer for it,” makes for a very confusing message.

Everybody worrying about Nico going dark side because of Artemis would have been way more interesting than blaming Percy, because they would have been forced to confront the thing that Rick kept tiptoeing around: Do I make my message be that “we’re family and we’re stuck together even if the abuse and neglect continues?” Percy did his best to go “fuck you guys do better” and then all of that was steamrolled over in the very next series where the new prophecy and splitting personalities put a raincheck on their godly promise.

The hunters of Artemis, Reyna, and Asexuality in Riordan's writing

I kinda started thinking about this since Reyna became a hunter. I could never articulate why I hated this Choice. I was asexual after all. Shouldn't I be happy about this rep? We Ace people barely get any after all. Then I realized that it's because I just didn't like the hunters as ace representation. And I didn't need to be grateful for mediocrity.

You want to know why the hunters of Artemis suck in general? And as Ace rep specifically? Because Riordan did not write them with that mindset.

Like people are so busy hailing this man as the king of representation in literature(blegh) that they forgot how heteronormative and white(sometimes racist) the original series was. Y'all really think this man was thinking about writing asexuals in the year 2007? Get real. What Riordan was doing was a white man trying to write feminism and failing (there's a reason most of his female characterization of female characters boils down to tough "not like other girls" characters who are dicks to the boys around them yet also to the girls around them if they're jealous)

Now onto the hunters.

The hunters when first presented in TTC are not a group of asexuals but rather religious celibates. Fantasy Pegan nuns if you may. The first problem arises when their ages are brought up.

"Then the archers came from the woods. They were girls, about a dozen of them. The youngest was maybe ten. The oldest, about fourteen..."

Remember, before ToA gave us Emmie and Jo, the hunters WERE all young girls. Now why in the world are they so young? Especially when in the actual myths, the hunters could come from any age whatsoever? Well the reason is a doozy.

"Are you surprised by my age?" she asked.

"Uh… a little."

"I could appear as a grown woman, or a blazing fire, or anything else I want, but this is what I prefer. This is the average age of my Hunters, and all young maidens for whom I am patron, before they go astray."

"Go astray?" I asked.

"Grow up. Become smitten with boys. Become silly, preoccupied, insecure. Forget themselves."

Hooo boy. What a way to phrase it. Going astray. Losing themselves. This kinda confirms that the reason why Artemis goes after young girls specifically is because she only wants girls who have yet to finish puberty. Girls have yet to discover their own sexuality. Now I'm not a representative of Asexuals everywhere, but I'm pretty sure most of us don't discover our sexuality at the age of ten. Let alone have the maturity to decide to become celibates about it. And let me reiterate: celibacy is not sexuality. Sure asexual people CAN choose to be celibates but it's not the same thing at all. In fact Zoe and Thalia are big cases for this. Both of them had liked men before(herakles and luke) but joined for their own reasons. Thalia to escape the prophecy and Zoe out of heartbreak. Hell, Bianca herself is mostly swayed by the idea of having no responsibility and a new family.

Now Rick does another thing that goes against the myths. The exclusion of make hunters. Artemis frequently hung around or taught male hunters who respected her. Daphnis, Scamandrius, freaking Hippolytus whom Artemis greatly cared about. Oh but we need to come up with bullshit reasons why Nico can't just join the hunt with his sisters so the hunters of Artemis are all: Ewww men. Also note how at no point does Riordan mention people who fall in love with women.

Now the next point is the oath itself. Artemis says this:

"What oath?" I said.

"To forswear romantic love forever," Artemis said. "To never grow up, never get married. To be a maiden eternally."

When I tell you that Emmy and Joe were retcons . Rick was freaking INSISTENT on the hunters being kids. Also note the three points: to never fall in love, to never get married, to stay a maiden.

I mean I think I don't need to explain why obsessing over the virginity of young girls is creepy. Does Riordan think girls older than fourteen can't keep it in their pants? And let me be adamant here Riordan only cares about the virginity Clause here. He mentions falling in love and marriage because he sees them inherently intertwined with sex.

Now onto the wording of the oath itself:

'I pledge myself to the goddess Artemis. I turn my back on the company of men, accept eternal maidenhood, and join the Hunt.'

I mean you might be able to interpret men here as mankind and therefore excluding women as well. But I have many reasons to believe that Riordan didn't even CONSIDER women as a possibility(someone inform this man that lesbians existed smh 😞). Also note that falling in love is not mentioned in the actual oath but maidenhood is.

Now onto the next big issue. Percy Jackson's Greek gods and its chapter on Artemis. It basically confirms all of my problems.

"IT’S NOT THAT ARTEMIS HATED ALL MEN, just most of them. From the moment she was born, she knew one critical fact: Guys are kinda gross."

No mention of girls. In this chapter Percy(Rick) brings up Artemis' disdain for dudes over and over again.

“Let me be a maiden forever, Father,” Artemis said, twirling her finger in Zeus’s beard. “I never want to get married.---- But you can grant me a bunch of followers: ocean nymphs, river nymphs, wood nymphs—what the heck, how about mortal girls, too? Any girls who want to join me can become my followers, as long as they remain maidens like me. They should probably make the decision when they’re about nine years old, before they get interested in boys, because after that, they’ll be all distracted and of no use to me.”

Yikes yikes yikes. Ladies and gentlemen the age has been lowered to 9. Freaking 9. Also I guess girls older than that don't need Artemis' protection then? (the real problem is that older/married girls should be out of Artemis's jurisdiction and under the protection of other gods like Hera, Hestia, and Ares. But Hestia is barely there. Hera is terrible and the Amazons also suck)

Now when I tell you that Artemis' big point was about virginity, I mean it. This actually has mythological evidence.

The myths actually DO mention what happens when female hunters fall in love. Rhodopis and Euthynicus were two hunters who offended Aphrodite by choosing a chaste life so she had Eros make them fall in love. However note that they weren't booted out of the hunters for falling in love, but rather after having sex in a cave. THAT was what Artemis took offense to.

Another myth is the story of Aura. A huntress who offended Artemis by comparing their breasts(Greek mythology am I right?). Saying that her breast were better than Artemis' because they were smaller and hey maybe that means that Artemis isn't actually a maiden. Artemis punishes her by making her lose her VIRGINITY. She goes to nemesis for revenge. Nemesis goes to Eros who makes Dionysus fall in love with Aura and when Aura refuses his advances he ties her up and... Yeah you can guess where I'm going with this.

But hey! Those myths aren't in the Greek gods book. You know which myth is? The myth of C(K)allisto. And this one angers me so much I want to chew on the drywall.

The way Riordan writes it. Zeus turns himself into Artemis, brings Kallisto's guards down with the disguise, gets close to her and then when Kallisto REJECTS Artemis' supposed advances, forces himself on her. I need to say this again. Kallisto does not fall in love, she isn't seduced, she does not break her oath. But we still need a reason for her to be yeeted out of the hunters so her lack of maidenhood it is

“You were my favorite,” Artemis said. “If you had come to me immediately, I could have helped you. I would have found you a rich, handsome husband and let you settle into a new life in the city of your choice. I would have allowed you to retire from the Hunt with honor. You could have gone in peace. Zeus’s assault was not your fault.”

Kallisto sobbed. “But I didn’t want to lose you! I wanted to stay!”

Artemis felt like her heart was breaking, but she couldn’t show it. She had rules about her followers. She couldn’t allow those rules to be broken, not even by her best friend. “Kallisto, your crime was keeping the secret from me. You dishonored me, and your sisters of the Hunt, by not being honest. You defiled our company of maidens when you were not a maiden yourself. That I cannot forgive.”

I want to slap this man so hard he flies to the opposite side of the universe. We are not here to blame victims of assault guys! Except we are! But with extra steps. If you get attacked, it's not your fault, but If you are too scared to admit the truth then you deserve to lose your only safe space and turn into a bear. Oh nooooo Kallisto DEFILED Artemis' company by being an icky non virgin. The moment you lose your virginity even if it's not your fault you get punished. But not because I'm gross but because YOU lied. How terrible! And he expects us to feel for ARTEMIS???

But rosabell! This is how things go in the myths. What was uncle Rick (bleghhhh) supposed to do? I don't know... Choose a different version of the story? There are versions were Zeus/Hera are the ones who transform Kallisto into a bear. There are versions where Kallisto actively CHOOSES to sleep with Artemis. Granted it's still assault because she's being lied to but at least then, she'd have a degree of autonomy in the events. At least Artemis could rightfully accuse her of breaking her oath. But noooo, Riordan doesn't know lesbians exist. He actively makes Zeus into a canonical Ra*ist. Why is he on the throne again?

(the fact that this book came out AFTER HoH y'all 😭)

Once again, Riordan sees maidenhood(virginity)/love/marriage as intertwined. This is NOT what being on the aroace spectrum means. You can fall in love but not have sex. You can have sex but not fall in love. You can have sex AND still be an asexual. You can be married and still be a "maiden". Riordan doesn't get to claim to be such a progressive ally for retconning the hunters in 2017, TEN years after he first introduced the hunters because he suddenly remembered that lesbians exist.

Or more like because he doesn't know what to do with his female characters. The hunters more than anything are Riordan's heroine dumping ground. If you don't want it put them in relationships, either kill them(Bianca whose main purpose is to die) or make them eternal virgins(the hunters, Rachel). The fact that some people genuinely think that Calypso should have joined the hunters astound me. Girl suffered for years because of the gods and you all think that the best thing outside of Leo for her(not that I like Caleo) is to become a servant to the gods? Because you can't perceive a female character doing anything else if she's not in a relationship. Like with Thalia, this at least made sense on a strategic level because she didn't want to reach sixteen. Oh but we also don't know what else to do with her so she needs to want to be a hunter after the war is over so we give her a half-assed argument with Luke and now she can be all: wah wah Zoe you were totally right about boys. And the cherry on the cake is that she doesn't even get to be in the final confrontation with Luke or say goodbye to him because of a freaking STATUE. And after pjo her personality becomes Zoe 2.0 and her and Jason get ONE measly meeting.

When I first spoke of not liking Renya joining the hunters this is what I mean. Riordan had so many options with Reyna. Why did she have to leave her esteemed position which she worked so hard for? Two boys rejected her? Why couldn't she go reconnect with her sister more then? She could have joined the Amazons. But nooo Riordan was so allergic to the fans asking him wether she could be Bi or a lesbian. For the stupidest reasons too? Oh Reyna being a lesbian would come off as stereotypical because she got rejected by two guys beforehand! My dude, do you think people don't say the same thing about us who are on the aroace spectrum? That we say we are aro/ace because we got rejected before? Come up with a better excuse next time.

My brother in Christ couldn't even allow Reyna to talk about her sexuality and whatnot. It couldn't even be fully about her. No. He had to turn Reyna into his own mouthpiece admonishing the EVILLLL fans who may have shipped Thalia and Renya. He literally had her say the word "shipping". How cringe can you get? And then he had the audacity to admonish the fans by saying: Why does a strong friendship always have to progress to romance?

It's a sentiment I agree with but coming from this man, it's extremely hypocritical? I don't know Richard maybe because YOU are obsessed with shipping? No character can escape your shipping hands unless they're eternal virgins or dead. You literally turned the Argo2 into Noah's ark2. So much attention focused on shipping that the seven barely felt like friends.

Why does Reyna need to join the hunters? She can choose to not relationship without having to become a servant to female Peter pan.

This is actually a really adequate metaphor when you consider that Emmie and Jo say that they have not met Artemis in YEARS and Apollo mentions that the two of them were lucky she let them LIVE. god can you imagine joining Artemis when you are 9? At an age when you have still not finished maturimg cognitively and therefore shouldn't be trusted on taking a freaking celibacy vow(were you even given the talk yet that age) and after 70 years you decide you want to leave? If you're lucky Artemis will part with you on good terms but SIKES every person you probably knew before joining is now dead. Where is THAT angsty Bianca fic?

Speaking of Bianca. How she was handled also angers me. In another post, I've already talked about how the hunters barely gave her adequate information before letting her join.

How Zoe was the main reason for her death. Zoe KNEW that at least 2 people might die in the quest she was given and yet she decided to bring the least experienced girl to the quest and couldn't even watch her properly.

But you know what else pisses me off? The fact that THEY should have been the one to tell Nico about his sister's death. I've always hated how Chiron made Percy the CHILD tell Nico the other CHILD about his sister dying. But more than anyone, it should have been the hunters' responsibility. Bianca was THEIR responsibility. She died in a quest to save Artemis. The least they could do was tell her remaining family of her fate. The Doylist reason of course is that we need to kickstart Nico and Percy's complicated relationship and have Percy discover that Nico is a son of Hades. But in universe, the fact that they immediately fuck off from the camp upon regrouping makes them come off as extremely selfish. We don't even know if Bianca was given a funeral by them or not. We see Artemis being upset about Zoe but we never see her react to the news of losing Bianca.

[yeonmuse]

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CHAPTER 27 | bikinis and self reflection

 

You’d gone through a roller coaster of a week  that seemed to wrap up in a way you hadn’t expected, but in all honesty there was no other way you’d rather have it end other than being asked out by Niki. He still had yet to tell you where the two of you would go or when it would take place but for once you weren’t worried, you allowed yourself to be curious.

“She may be okay with it but i’m not can we tell him to movee this along already.’’ Melody complains as she, you and Chaewon are all searching throught the same rack of swimsuits.

“We’ve watcheed him struggle to even get her to say yes, he took L after L. I'm pretty sure he’s planning some dramatic over the top shit, knowing him he likes to go overboard.” Chaewon retorts, moving over to another rack to scope out new options.

“Well  honestly I think it’s sweet he wants to take his time, he’s giving the two of you more time to explore each other before the date.’’ Chloe beams, she had been the most happy to hear Niki had asked you out because she had always waited for the moment someone would come and fill you with butterflies. She was also happy because she had been right about the two of you all along which meant she won the bet between herself, Aya and Jongseob.

“I’m honestly proud of him, honestly I didn’t even know he was seriously interested in anyone until Heeseung gave me all the details.” Sakoia joins in on the conversation from the dressing room nearby as she took in her appearance in the mirror.

While all of you gathered together as cheerful as ever to be hanging out with one another there was one girl there that was feeling slightly lonely. This was new to her, you being so easily open and willing to allow others into your inner circle so easily, yes she was happy that you were being more social and finally spreading your wings, but it made her feel smaller, not because of jealousy or the anxiousness of having you stolen away as her best friend, but because you had already been distant with her lately and she hated it. She knew that she had no one to blame but herself but this was agonizing. Being around you and not being able to know how you felt or what you thought about her anymore.

It wasn’t until all of you had successfully paid for your swimsuits and left for the food court that she decided to pull you  for a talk while everyone else scattered for food. After placing your orders you both head over to the fountain and take a seat.

“I just wanted to see where your head was at…I know we haven’t really talked since we all came over that day..” Mako asks, her eyes practically pouring into your own, a sense of anxiousness behind them.

“You know I forgave you, but it doesn’t mean that I could move on from that so easily, we won’t go back to how we were before, not after a week at least. It’s hard to do that knowing you not only lied to me but you used something you know i’m insecure about against me. It put me in a hard place because you’re my best friend, the only person I've known since I was four and I wish that you had trusted me enough to come and tell me your feelings.” Mako simply nods, she doesn’t speak a word, just lets you talk and in all honesty she doesn’t really know what to say because you were right.

“Most of all Niki didn’t deserve it, even if it didn't bother him. Even if he didn’t take it to hurt it was wrong and I took all of my frustrations out on him when he was nothing but good to me Mako. I get it, I understand your feelings I do, but it will never make it right. You need to learn to control your jealousy and your attitude or it’ll only make people distance themselves from you no matter how close you are. The other girls don’t even know how they should act around you now because they think you’ll get territorial, they don’t even know if they could bring up Niki’s name without the flip of a switc making you angry.’’ She couldn’t bring herself to do anything other than sit there and reflect as you spoke.

“I love you Mako, but I need more time and you need time to sort out your thoughts and reflect on everything that could have gone wrong if Niki never reached out to me that day.’’ you finish, your conversation being interrupted by the buzzer, signaling that your food had been ready. Pushing yourself up from the fountain you go to join the others leaving Mako trailing behind you still lost to her thoughts.

She wasn't aware that even his friends felt the need to walk on eggshells around her. When she though to tell her everything she heard without knowing the full story she didn't know what the severity of her actions would be. That entire time at the table while the others chattered and talked amongst themselves she couldnt stop thinking about how badly she had fucked up. She not only hurt you but she made it seem hard for others to approach her when things had never been that way with her.

The other girls could sense that there was something wrong but none of them said a word because it wasn’t their place. Chloe just rests a reassuring hand on Makos shoulder and gives it a comforting squeeze. She also knew that mako was in the wrong too but she hated to see you both so distant from one another. She knew that you both were most likely hurting over this but she was alos fully aware of the severity of the situation. Youboth needed time alone, time apart from one another because it had always been Mako and yn since you were five years old, you’d never got to know what life was like without each other. And maybe that was the reason mako had done what she did, because all that time the two of you had been conjoined at the hip, you knew everything about one another. Even if Mako didn’t realize it, maybe she was just scared of someone she didn’t know taking you away and changing that.

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[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Idk if this is weird to say and I don't mean to sound like a hater or anything, but is it just me or does it feel like the creator/s of twst don't care anymore??? Like, I can't exactly pinpoint when I started feeling this way but I really feel it nowadays... It just feels like everything's for cash and not love for the characters or story if that makes sense? Or maybe I'm just crazy??

I don't think this is "hating" on Twst at all to express your dissatisfaction with it; it's important to be able to critique what you love--it shows that you care about your interests and want Twst to be better. It only becomes "hate" when you cause harm and/or refuse to hear other opinions on the topic.

Twst definitely feels different than it was at launch, but I don't necessarily think it's because the devs "don't care anymore" and that everything they do is "for cash and not love for the characters or story". What is posed in the ask is based on the assumption that the devs love the characters and story to begin with which... may not be true. (Yana may like Disney and be excited to work on Twst, but we can't assume the same of everyone.) We have to remember that, to the Twst devs, this is work and they are under constant pressure to put out new content (which is the nature of live service games). 5+ years of working on the same project under that kind of environment could also cause feelings to shift. Sure, maybe individual devs are still very attached to their work or passionate about what they do, but the goal or their product (like other gacha games) has always been profit first and foremost, not to share a love for the characters or story.

I feel I must remind everyone: the devs/creatives do NOT get final say in what happens with Twst. The devs just make art and write for the game. It's the higher ups in corporate giving approval on what content gets put out, what collabs Twst gets into, the direction of the project, etc. Let's not blame the devs for "losing love" for what they do when it is most likely NOT them making the decisions. If Twst feels like it's more focused on making money than expanding on the story or characters, then that's NOT a fault of the devs.

Now, what do I mean when I say that Twst "feels different" than it was at launch?? Simple: Twst is no longer JUST a game, it now feels like a full-on franchise, something a company actively promotes to get more eyes on their product (and therefore more money in their wallets). Think about it. We have so many more merch releases and irl events (pop-up shops, collab cafes, livestreams, exhibitions, con panels, even the 3D live concert in fall 2025). There's the manga, light novel, and, very soon, the anime adaptations. The EN server now exists in North America, Singapore, and Australia.

Along with that, there's been a shift in in-game content. We're getting staff cards and even overblot cards, which have long since desired since Twst's early days (meaning a lot of players would happily spend or save to get them). We're getting Halloween characters and birthday cards (ie more things to roll for). New banners consistently come out (usually with groovies locked or timegated), which induces FOMO and encourages people to roll now rather than later. However, despite getting new cards more frequently than we did before, we are getting fewer vignettes and instead get furniture, which many (myself included) believe is not a suitable replacement. Voice lines by themselves are also not adequate, as they hardly tell a story even when stitched altogether. We are, quite literally, getting LESS story and NO gems (each vignette you read, you get 5 gems back) for rolling some of the shiny new SSRs. For example, the Clubwears, hometown rerun SSRs, AND book 7 SSRs have no vignettes. In some cases, event Rs like GloMasq Riddle and Ruggie, have no vignettes either.

Another thing that may contribute to Twst feeling different is how... daring they've gotten with flaunting the "Disney"-ness of it all. Disney characters only used to be vaguely alluded to in stories or as figures in a time long since passed. They felt almost mythical, even Mickey (who was the only Disney character we could actually "meet"). But now there are so many overt references to it and cross-promotional campaigns. For example, we had not one, not two, but THREE Tsumsted Wonderland events, each with multiple SSRs you could roll for. Then there's the Lost in the Book events where we literally meet multiple Disney characters straight from the films. And how about the entire Platinum Jacket line, which exists as a part of Disney's centennial? The in-game promotional campaigns and relevant event reruns to promote live-action remake releases? It gives the sense of Disney corporate using nostalgia to promote sales and emotional attachment.

So long story short: yes, Twst has changed, but I'd argue that's natural and to be expected of a game that's been running for years. (The quality of writing also naturally fluctuates with a live service game, so I'm not going to count that as a point for Twst "changing" or now feeling different.) With the success it has achieved, it must be giving the higher-ups more money and confidence to "branch out" and increase the revenue via other streams. This means more merch, more events, more adaptations, more banners--but it also unfortunately means fewer vignettes, more peddling of other Disney IPs, and seemingly never getting a break from Twst. It's very much a double-edged sword, and everyone's going to feel a little differently about it.

[the-sour-patch-crew]

"People never talk about the darker parts of having a dissociative disorder"

Well, have you considered that the darker parts are *hard* to talk about? Talking about the scarier and more disabling parts of the disorder can be triggering. It can be overwhelming. But also some people just *don't* want to talk about it and that is their prerogative.

You want to encourage discussion? Then share your experiences. The more people share the more comfortable others may become or may be interested in sharing because they relate and see an opening for discussion.

Change starts with you. It doesn't start with shaming others for not doing the same things.

"People making light of their disorder is insulting to systems who are actually suffering"

Once again, let me remind some of you that for some people humor is the only way they can cope with their disorders. Choosing to joke about, or only share the lighthearted and funny moments, does not mean they are not also suffering or that they are promoting DID being a joke.

"Endos and other fakers make DID all about the alters"

Well, for endogenic systems it's because they typically aren't claiming to have DID. They are likely not experiencing the symptoms that come with DID. So, the main experience to share is their headmates.

As for CDD systems, again, it is their prerogative and choice. They can focus on their headmates if they want to. If doing so helps lower barriers, improves communication, or makes functioning and understanding themselves easier then all the power to them.

Hot take. It can even be because they simply think being plural is cool or find enjoyment in sharing information about their system members.

Stop pointing fingers and shaming others in the community. Targeting them is not going to save you from the people out there who think DID is a joke and fake. Calling people fake or cringe and blaming them is not going to make you more palatable to the ableist out there.

Be the change you want to see. Talk about what you find important. Don't insult other CDD systems. Don't blame endogenic systems. Don't point fingers. Create instead. Break the mold and contribute instead of adding more hateful spam to the tags.

(A post I saw along with others recently inspired this. It's the same old complaints I've seen over the years I've been in syscourse. Nothing new really)

[smartzelda]

Sometimes it's frustrating having worked in video game retail and knowing anything about game/console prices and deals watching people just. Say things online

"Look at this nintendo add for the SNES you could get the console and super mario world for like $100! Companies never do that anymore they're so greedy hahaha"

Yes, companies still bundle consoles with games. And yes, often this means the games come at a reduced price. (Mario Kart World for Switch 2 is $50 in the bundle versus the $80 for physical. When Gamestop was bundling games and controllers with new ps5s to keep away scalpers in like 2022, the games included often would be discounted between $10 and $20 for that bundle.)

Don't get me wrong. Of course less than $200 for a console and a first party game would be swell these days BUT. When you decided to get up in arms over prices these days, did you adjust for inflation? (Because like. It's one thing if the new console you're doing comparisons with the old one is much more expensive even when factoring in inflation. But also like some of those old consoles adjusted for inflation are worth about the same if not more than a switch 2, then it's like...okay? At that point the prices aren't the problem. The root issue is the companies not paying you in accordance with rising inflation.)

Believe it or not YES. Nintendo still does console deals where you can buy their most recent home console with a first party game added in for free! (Listen to me. Listen. In 2021 and 2022 for Christmas it was possible to walk into a video game store and buy a $300 switch bundle that included Mario Kart 8 deluxe and like 3 months free Nintendo Online. In like 2022/2023 for Christmas they also did $350 switch oled bundles that included Mario Kart 8 deluxe and 3 months nintendo online for free. The price of a console for a $60 video game and 3 months of the online service. This isn't some mythic business practice that stopped happening in like 2005 or something. I promise.)

Yes obviously the companies are greedy. They use deals to pull you in to get you to spend more than you expected. They also often have more sales than you're even aware of because they benefit more from people paying full price. They underpay people and they use whatever excuses needed oftentimes to raise prices to keep that profit rising. But it does no one any real good other than allow people to get pissed off to lie or assume things which aren't true. There are so many reasons to dislike companies (esp. Nintendo), you don't need to rely on acting like things used to be so much better in cases that they're not, or treating things that are industry wide standards/issues as something one company is the sole perpetrator of.

Moral of the story, maybe perhaps like do a bit a research instead of assuming whatever thing that pisses you off greatly is 100% true, and direct your ire in the right direction. Ground yourself emotionally and mentally, know what's going on. Be pissed at corporations. You're allowed to be fuckin pissed at corporations. Just please know what tf you're talking about and what exactly the root issue is

[dracocheesecake]

No because I'm going to be sad about this forever:

The fact one of the last things Redimus' father did was insult him from his deathbed. The fact Redimus then immediately left to live in Solas, a place so different from his home, and took a job as a mapmaker, so different from what he knew. The fact when he came back to the forest and stumbled across his brother, he tried to bond with him again and invited to show him around the city. The fact he tried to have a nice time with his brother, and then they get drunk and his brother begins insulting him, bringing up the past and how their father found fault in him. The fact Redimus then decided to "prove himself" in the worst way possible, and labeled himself as a monster for what he did (reasonable because it was monstrous). The fact that he spent his newfound freedom just trying to atone for what he did, and what his actions cost Eva Nine.

[citrsworld]

Happy birthday ritsuka uenoyama the entirety of given DOSENT DESERVE U AT ALL

[dangaer]

love renditions of sh.u that recognise he is not, infact, winning the idgaf war between him and rei.ji.

[krimps-archive]

anna croft drawn on google keep :3

[rivilu]

ok you know. the Ellu in dav crossover au is very fun but i am a little bit enchanted by the concept of him AND Rynn at once. Best of both worlds in a sense.

[widowshill]

r/v + loneliness.

102 / Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca, ch. 4 / 4 / 8 / Art Wallace, Shadows on the Wall / 603 / Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca, ch 4. / 473 / Richard Sherman, Demo: "Lovely, Lonely Man/Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Finale" / 2

[liinos]

Feel crazy seeing everyone talk about how good maestro is... I think it's okay at best 😭

[chaosisinsane]

*tests different styles and this happens*

uhm do I need to I explain or

ok imagine this is paldea, so teratypes exist

soren is mainly a ghost type trainer, but his main mon is jigglypuff with a ghost teratype. pretty cool right?

why is he a ghost type trainer? I think this is obvious given his backstory 💀 but basically laguz ignore him, he feels like he doesn't exist, so he feels kinda like a ghost!!!!!

[johnbly]

WIP game!

i was tagged by @tortoisesshells ✨

so i have two fics going one rn: 1) in the boat purgatory in at world's end, james comes across gov swann and the two have a final conversation together (not using that for this since i haven't done too much but something to look forward to i guess) and 2) bolt's "what if james had a dragon" fic and subsequent discussions and questions has me now doing a "what if hornblower had a dragon" fic so here is an excerpt from that:

“Who are you?”  The dragonet is speaking French, and internally Hornblower swears. Is French the only language the creature knows? It’s no issue for him, of course, but how can it be expected to be a British dragon if it only knows French? “Captain Horatio Hornblower, most recently of the HMS Sutherland,” he replies, also in French – awkwardly so, because it’s a ridiculously formal introduction to make to a dragon, but in light of never having conversed with one before he’s fallen back on the old habit of saying more than is necessary. “That is not a French name,” the dragon says. In English. “Non – no, it is not. You speak English, then?” “I do.” Pause. “That was a long introduction. I hope you don’t want me to use it whenever I want to call on you?” The idea of a dragon wanting to call on him at all is no less ridiculous than having a conversation with one, but it – he? The voice is deep – has a point. “You can call me 'Hornblower',” he says.

i don't remember who all is writing things that hasn't already been tagged, so if you see this and are a writer, feel free to share!

[jeanjwould]

anyways one thing led to another and now i'm daydreaming about may and nona dancing to "can't take my eyes off you" by frankie valli in the middle of their living room like goofballs because neither of them are really that good at dancing but they ARE really good at holding each other and laughing with each other and being mega in love

[marzipanandminutiae]

Sophia, the Boston woman from 1875 who haunts a lamp I got at Brimfield: what is a stay at home girlfriend, if you please?

me: well, it's a woman who's financially supported by the man she's dating, and she lives with him and usually keeps house and cooks for him

her: and they're not married?

me: well, no; hence "girlfriend" rather than "wife." I know that may alarm y-

her: oh calm down I know about Kept Women. he has no legal tie to her, though? she has no sort of standing with him in the eyes of the law? only his word that he'll follow through?

me: yes

her: and remind me again- you don't have to be financially dependent on a man anymore, right? there are more than like three careers open to women that will let you support yourself at a decent level now? and society isn't pressuring you 24/7 to get married and stop working outside the home?

me: yes

her: so these women. CHOOSE to be dependent on a man. who could leave them at any moment without legal consequence. because they don't like their jobs. the jobs, while imperfect, that let them live on their own, answerable to no-one

me: yes

her: that had better be some absolutely amazing jewelry they can pawn off if he leaves them, then

me: it's usually not

her: THERE'S NOT EVEN SECURITY JEWELRY?!

me: oh by the way they blame feminism for "having to work"

her:

her: I became fully dependent on my in-laws who hated me, after my husband died two years into our marriage, because I was a 23-year-old orphan with no marketable skills in any avenue besides Running A Household and the only men left unmarried in my social circle were widowers thirty years my senior. I also couldn't establish lines of credit as a widow because the merchants said my husband dying so soon meant that I didn't have stable enough income. and that was entirely legal

me: yeah

her: I'm going to go slam some doors please do not bother me