#also this is why the people who are like 'have fun finding people to work for you if capitalism is abolished🫵🏻🤪' are funny like

[just-sg]

You don't even have to do that! At the very least you don't have to start there.

You don't have to assume a positive. What you do need to do is not assume a negative. And if you can't do that, at least work on getting better at casting doubt on the negative.

"I think people DO like me and WANT to spend time with me!" - Difficult! Especially when you have evidence to the contrary. Sets yourself up for failure to apply too liberally, even, because not everyone will like you (or anyone!), and if you start out trying to assume the impossible, of course you're going to run into times it's not true, and then you accidentally trick your brain into believing it's never true. Still ideal to assume about people who have already established decent or better relationships with you, but if you can't?

"I think people DON'T like me and DON'T WANT to spend time with me." - Easy, cowardly, and frankly really mean to the people who like you! What, do you think they lie to you maliciously for fun? Do you think they're the kind of people who just pity you? Not "do you think you're the kind of person who 'deserves' that", but do you think they are the kinds of assholes who would do that? If so, look for better friends. If not, stop making mean accusations about your friends to server your own self-loathing. Also, simply an unrealistic thing to assume. Everything always being bad is just as unlikely as everything always being good.

"DO people want to spend time with me? I DON'T KNOW. I can't know what they're thinking! If they tell me directly, they could be lying, but they could not. I guess the only way to find out is to try. Sometimes this will not go well but at least I won't be assuming wrong." - Neutral, and potentially more helpful for brand new people especially, even if you should still work on getting better at assuming positives. Going in expecting disappointment is possible but not just assuming it to a point of making it self-fulfilling is a light but functional guard. If you never let yourself risk getting hurt at all, you also guarantee you'll never get any of the rewards those risks may have earned. But it doesn't have to be all or nothing. You can brace yourself and reduce how much it hurts IF (IF!!!) it does end up hurting, and still put yourself out there.

And lastly-

"I think people DON'T like me or what to be around me, because CLEARLY I'm so awful. Then again, if I'm really so bad, why would my judgment be the one single thing I'm amazing at? If I think other people are better than me, and some of them are saying I'm better than I think, maybe I should try trusting they know better than me and see how that goes?" - Sometimes that's where you gotta start. If you simply cannot bring yourself to see anything about yourself that isn't overtly negative, stop asking your own opinion and trust the people who like you, even if you can't believe them, even if it's only just enough to say "I guess there's a chance I could be wrong." Believe in the friends who believe in you.

assuming that people like you and want to spend time with you is crucial to making friends. unfortunately this is the hardest thing to do in the world

[genericpuff]

I find something that annoys me is how people misunderstand why Persephone is considered the goddess of spring.

It’s because Demeter makes it spring when she returns. Not because Persephone has some awesome sick flower powers and she makes it all pretty before returning to her 10000/10 husband.

Agreed! But also, if I can offer up my own food for thought / interpretation: Demeter didn't necessarily create 'winter' as we traditionally perceive it, rather she created famine.

In that same sense, Demeter isn't even necessarily "making it Spring" when Persephone returns - she makes the land fertile again, allowing mortals to harvest their crops and thrive. Thus creating the "seasons" of harvest and drought.

Like many of the myths we've preserved and still read today, The Hymn to Demeter was a story created to explain natural phenomena that we didn't yet know how to explain. In Demeter's case, the story of her separation from her daughter explained the cycle of nature - why the clouds would no longer rain, why the ground would dry and crack, why the soil would become brittle, and why the crops would lose their will to live. It wasn't necessarily because she brought about 'winter', it was simply that she stopped performing her own duties, which were specifically dedicated to the harvest, especially that of wheat and grains (both of which are INCREDIBLY important foods that played their own massive role in the evolution of the human race - they weren't only essential to keeping both humans and livestock fed with their carb-heavy components, but could also be used to make fabrics and tools.)

Just as people prayed to Poseidon for safe travels across still waters, so too would people pray to Demeter for a bountiful harvest. Whenever there were droughts, you could understand it as the period when Persephone would return to the Underworld; or you could even blame it on yourself, or even your own fellow mortals, if you felt that perhaps Demeter had been disrespected in some way so as to bring about a drought as punishment.

This is why The Hymn to Demeter also functions as a foundational story for the founding of The Eleusinian Mysteries - a cult that worshipped Demeter, and other deities attributed to the harvest (ex. Dionysus) whose initiates were sworn to secrecy, never to speak aloud what practices were happening within the cult. And they did a damn good job of it too, because to this day we still don't fully know what went down in those cults. They're mysteries, after all :')

Demeter wasn't the only god who was attributed to the harvest and the weather patterns that would cause drought, but she's certainly one of the most popularly discussed, undoubtedly due to the fact that her story is one of the oldest and most well-preserved, and she was attributed to some of the most essential crops of that era.

But as it would happen to many myths over the centuries, the exact cultural contexts and intentions behind her original story have become either lost, or re-interpreted so many times that we can't even fully trust that Homer's version is "accurate", at least not without any way to retrieve those original oral stories that predated both him and other famous poets whose work we still study and analyze today.

But hey, that's just my own interpretation! One out of the thousands that have existed and the thousands that will undoubtedly go on to exist. I'm sure my own interpretation of it isn't perfect or foolproof, but I hope it offers up some fun food for thought!

[dunmeshistash]

Maybe I am to yaoipilled but does Lycion have a crush on Mithrun? (Thinking he looks strong and handsome and not wanting Kabru to touch him; this could be elf racism too to be fair)

Being yaoipilled is being correct.

I mean... yes Lycion seems to have some fondness for Mithrun, most of the canaries actually! I think Otta is the only one for their squad who seems indifferent (or even negative) about him, in the AB she's translated as calling him as slave-driver and for people who aren't native english speakers (like me) slave-driver is "a person who works others very hard"

For the others Fleki thinks hes funny, Pattadol respects him as a captain and Cithis respects him cause he resisted her mind control before and Lycion's opnion of him is "つよーい" which is like "he's soo strooong" (the dash makes the sound longer) which is pretty yaoi if you ask me

Going over the things you mentioned yes he compliments Mitrhun unprompted when they manage to find him even calls him handsome (男前)

And like you said he's overprotective of Mithrun when he thinks Kabru is being overfamiliar, this can be racism but from his track record I'd say he's being jealous, especially because his wording is "you're acting way too familiar with the captain there" "Don't pretend to understand him just because you spent a little bit of time together" sounds very jealous "you dont get him like I do"

It's different from when Pattadol, for example, was saying something similar to Cithis for being overly familiar with Mithrun

Might not be a crush but I think Lycion definitely has affection for Mithrun and is very yaoi about how he shows it, which matches his pretty boy trope.

Also fun fact but each guard is responsible for 2 prisoners and in Mithrun's squad Lycion and Fleki are under Pattadol while Cithis and Otta are under Mithrun

So maybe the fact Mithrun isn't responsible for them directly makes them like him more too? (Cause in comparison to Pattadol he's way more chill, but anyone is) and perhaps that's also why Otta is more annoyed at him since he's directly responsible for ordering her around lmao.

[ramorazinn]

I don’t hate people. I mean, I have specific people that I hate. I think everyone does. But I have a “work husband” and “work friends” and whatever. I’m not sure what you’re imagining about my life, but my contempt and hostility is for The Neurotypical Code™️, not the concept of interpersonal connection.

I’m sorry, you can gussy it up, but I can’t parse it as anything but NTs tricking me into asking what they want me to ask. “Nothing” as a response to “what did you do [time period]?” gets “aww, surely you did SOMETHING fun?” because The Neurotypical Code™️ has mysterious rules about balancing how much each person talks, so I have to give a “good” answer or they can’t talk about the half-marathon they ran and the funny thing that happened at dinner afterward.

I have had work-friends tell me “so-and-so-you-don’t-know-well is upset you didn’t ask about X after she asked you,” like we’re in kindergarten. I have had my old BOSS tell me to remember to reciprocate small talk questions. (I am not front-facing; small talk is not part of my job description I was failing at.) And I do try, but again, threading that needle of not lying but not telling the truth is WORK. I don’t always have anything left to remember my cues with. People largely don’t accept that.

NTs in my new office (where, as my prev tags stated, old hiring practices have left about half the seats filled with NDs) tend to spread out their visits more, and they come right in and start the conversation with what they want to talk about. They have learned that cornering somebody is not the way to have an enjoyable conversation. And I don’t always get them or care about their specific drama or even remember who they ARE, but doing the call-and-response where the onus is not on me to come up with a “correct” answer is ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE less stressful. And they get the validation or attention or encouragement or connection they wanted! Everybody wins! (Except when it turns into #3 above, losing 2h to chatting.)

But most people stick with that “I have to ask you first before I talk about myself or it’s rude” Neurotypical Code™️ bullshit. I assume you will object to me characterizing that as them not caring whether I’m comfortable. But again, I don’t know how else to parse that. I don’t read social cues well, obviously, but if someone stammered and um-er-ahhed and never seemed to have a good answer when I asked about their weekend, I feel like even I would grok that I shouldn’t ask about their weekend? Eventually?

And yes, I’ve learned to lie without lying. I can dodge “OMG isn’t she the cutest baby you’ve ever seen?” with “she has your nose” or “I love that outfit” or whatever true thing I can find, because no, that is not the cutest baby, but my wife trained that social hack into me. I don’t like it, because it still feels like lying, but I do it. I don’t understand why people would phrase things that way if they didn’t want you to lie and agree. I was always told “don’t ask a question you don’t want an answer to.”

(P.S., it’s often uncomfortable when they “return the favor,” because I cannot always read the cues of when I am supposed to stop talking, either, and they are bound by The Neurotypical Code™️ not to make it more clear, because that would be “rude.” I read an article when I was 8 or 9 that said conversation had two parts: talking about yourself and waiting to talk about yourself. That sounded horrible to me, so I vowed to talk about myself as little as possible, until people got mad about that, too. Still haven’t found the sweet spot.)

But also… I don’t understand why I can’t just love people because they do their job and that means I can do mine. That’s way more important to me as a trust exercise – and when you know you can trust people, you have REAL conversations instead of “small talk.”

I'm trying to figure out a good way to say "you really should actually learn the basics of small talk" with sounding like I'm biased against autistic people.

[sandeewithtwoe]

Now i actually want a post about why you like inkxbroomie so much lol

Well, of course I’m not gonna say it’s the perfect ship. I don’t take shipping seriously, mostly because I know that a very VERY few of them in this fandom is gonna be canon anyways, so I just try my best to have fun with it.

Anyways I think Ink x Broomie is the perfect ship and everyone is sleeping on it.

We need to look further than just tropes and angst to conclude if a ship is good or not. “Oh, Broomie is just a brush how would that even work?” It can work if we really want it to work.

We can assume that Broomie is somewhat sentient in canon. We have seen it moved by itself and has expressed emotions in Comyet’s art. While we don’t really know its personality, it gives us a lot of room to make up for one! That leaves us, the creators, to be creative about this!

And a point I wanna mention, is the concept behind it. And I’m not talking about fucking a brush. I’m talking about Ink, the character that represents creativity in the fandom, being with the very thing that helps him create and design, taking “married to their work” very literal. In fact, Broomie has been by their side since… well maybe forever! Everyone else, as far as I’ve seen, is always disappointed or upset at Ink for his morals and/or behaviour, but Broomie has always loved them. It has always helped them make their dreams and ideas come true, despite what everyone thinks of them. And I think that’s beautiful. It makes sense for them to be together!

Also, if you like aroace Ink, you can see this as Ink finding a way for people to stop asking him out. He doesn’t want to be in a relationship with anyone, so he dates his brush to have an excuse to say he’s already “taken”. Their (platonic) relationship can be a declaration of Ink not giving a shit about anyone romantically. Plus, he’ll find everyone’s reaction to this information very funny.

Anyways, this ship makes me very happy and is also fun to experiment. I keep imagining what their marriage would look like, how everyone would react, their problems in their relationship (i see this as an artist having art block), and more. I feel like I’m the only artist in this fandom who doesn’t see this as just one big joke, so i guess I’ll just make more art of them being together, I guess. In my eyes, Broomie is like a personification of creating, so why wouldn’t Ink fall in love with it?

Thank you for the ask, anon.

[scurvyboy]

Not to beat a dead horse or whatever, but you don’t see fiddlestan being healthy at any point? I feel like your version of them would have most of their issues figured out by the time they’re old and stuff. Can you talk about their dynamic a bit more pretty please? (I know you just had an ask about this so sorry to keep bringing it up aha 🤪. I’m obsessed with them, and I love your art/au and want to understand them.)

the basis of why i like the fiddlestan ship is strictly because it doesn't work and is doomed to fail. it's a relationship between two extremely damaged people that are only together for transactional reasons.

the way i see it starting: fiddleford comes back to gravity falls after being kicked out by emma may in hopes that he can patch things up with ford. he finds stan there instead and decides to help him fix the portal despite his crushing anxiety about it because he has nowhere else to go. they're both stuck alone in this situation and urges become apparent. things are awkward for a while before they start banging fuck nasty brokeback mountain style.

fiddleford wants stan because he's delusional and still in love with ford. sure he grows to appreciate differences between them and has a separate chemistry with stan, but he is also completely out of touch with reality and rebounding off of his failed marriage with a man who looks just like the one he cheated on his wife with. working on the portal triggers intense panic attacks, which makes him use the memory gun more, which makes him less and less stable.

stan is working himself to death trying to get ford back and just needs affection. the sexual aspect of their relationship helps him blow off steam, but fiddleford also treats him like a person with a brain and allows him to be emotionally vulnerable for the first time in a long while. having someone finally break down his walls is equal parts frightening and addictive for him; he wants to be loved so badly but knows deep down that fiddleford doesn't actually love him, just the person he represents. he's just second best again.

things start to fall apart when it becomes clear that fixing the portal will be impossible without the other journals. fiddleford basically gives up trying to do the work in earnest and just lives in a domestic fantasy world. stan starts to get more and more impatient about the lack of work getting done and the stress makes him a lot more irritated and volatile. the two enter a vicious cycle of violent fights and honeymoon phases until things boil over: stan confronts fiddleford about the memory gun and kicks him out after he tries to use it on him.

post break up fiddleford, now with his cult and savior complex, murder suicides the portal and their affair from both of their memories. however, stan gets his portal memories back being at the shack and goes on to do what he does in canon.

the whole relationship takes place over the course of a few weeks and is as canon compliant as i could manage. i think it's a really fun concept and i think about it all the time.

to be real, i really dislike the idea that all relationships in media have to be healthy and resolved in order to be compelling. the idea that characters NEED to end the story happy and together is just plain unrealistic. i prefer when stories go outside of the limits of "and then they got together and everything was great after that", especially if being in a relationship isn't necessary to a characters arc.

i do think that them getting together when they're older could work and be very nice. however, i also don't think it's entirely necessary, especially since i did make their relationship rotted gutted awful bad. it is cute though, they can kiss and watch tv and marry for taxt purposes i guess.

[marinettesaltprompts]

Prompt by @kawaiichibiart Here's a prompt based off my favorite fanfics to read, groupchats

Marinette Salt, canon divergence:

It starts off simple, Ladybug makes a groupchat (gc for short; also this won't be brought up, but the gc does work on their civilian phones as well) for her, Chat Noir, Rena Rouge, Carapace and Queen Bee. They use the gc to talk, keeping things vague when it's about their civilian life, and to alert each other of akuma attacks.

It's all fun and games until Ladybug starts training to be the Guardian. She starts to keep more secrets and Chat Noir doesn't like being left in the dark for no reason and wants to know why she's being more secretive. Ultimately, this divides the team and as people join, they're either on Ladybug's side or they aren't.

The majority of them side with Ladybug.

The one's who don't, don't side with Chat Noir, but decide to remain neutral.

As time passes, the team gets closer and they have a system worked out.

And then Miracle Queen happens. Chloe is kicked out of the gc. Ladybug becomes the Guardian and digs her heels in deeper about the secrets she's keeping.

She becomes more snappish at everyone, yelling at them for goofing off in the chat, making the decision that the chat is for professional use only now. They had their fun, it was time to be serious. If they had a problem, she'll fire them the same way she did Chloe.

Whenever someone brings up the fact she looks more tired, more stressed, she'll retort that she'd be less tired and stressed if they were actually good teammates.

Eventually, one of them, probably Rena, probably Pegasus, makes a new gc for everyone but Ladybug. And, without a feeling of remorse, the first thing Chat Noir says is "You know, I can see why we should let Ladybug keep all those secrets, it's not like not sharing them is hurting anyone, oh wait!! 😒"

Yeah...they deserved that.

They use the second chat to have fun, still keeping things vague about their secret IDs, and to talk about how to help Ladybug.

But no matter what they do, Ladybug won't budge. The team that had once been nearly fully on her side, was now pulling away from her. She wasn't the same Ladybug. She was stricter. She held team meetings where all she did was reprimand them for not following her plans.

And anytime they bring up that maybe should tell someone at least some of the secrets she's holding, because clearly since she began keeping them she's become more and more irritated, she'll just tell them to mind their business and holds their miraculous against them, reminding them she can take it away whenever she wanted.

So, when the day comes she loses all but hers and Chat Noir's miraculous, none of them feel bad for her.

Because I don't go fully into what diverges from canon above:

• Marinette doesn't tell Alya she's Ladybug, and thus doesn't make her a permanent holder.

• She still gives Alya her miraculous when she has to leave for a while, but she ends up doing it by pulling Alya away while she's on her way to the park. In short, she throws the responsibility into Alya's hands.

• Adrien does quit temporarily, becoming Catwalker, before going back to being Chat Noir. Because he and all the temps. are repairing their bond after what had happened in the first gc, he does tell them why he quit as best as he can (feeling like he wasn't seen as Ladybug's equal, the secrets, wondering if he even had a place on the team anymore, what happened on the roof, etc.).

• Everyone definitely notices when Ladybug gives Flairmidable her full attention. And it looks so familiar to them, they just can't tell how or why.

• Unlike at the end of S4, Chat Noir isn't as forgiving with Ladybug. He'll still help her, but he doesn't forgive her.

• This part is something I'm not sure I want to happen, but I'm including it anyways incase someone wants to make it happen: she does end up losing her miraculous. Su Han finds out what happened and sees her unfit to be Ladybug or the Guardian, so he takes her miraculous (and jsyk, she doesn't lose her memories. She didn't quit or name someone else as Guardian, she was fired, so her memories are still there)

• while the first chat dies down, the second, surprisingly, is still up and going. They're not going to question it, logic left a long time ago. They're just happy they can still talk to each other.

[y-avann-a]

So skeleton crew, eh?

the "funny-kids-adventure" is going to be the star wars story that finally handles the whole disability/inclusion/ableism theme in a realistic and touching and realistic way? "She doesn't have the patience for it" is such a gut punch! To feel like you are lesser even for your best (only) friend, always having to be useful and do as they say... Or even just.. not be a burden. Because "sometimes her augs just get bad but she's fine" seems attentive, but actually she is not fine! She needs maintenance! But because the able-bodied don't need as much time to recover or as much rest or a more intense maintenance, they wouldn't even think about it - because she has always been finde shortly after it... Because if I am not ok and fun and capable and joyful and the very best I can be then I might not be the first choice to hang around anymore.. or even any choice at all

But also "I don't have spider legs like you" just right after that - and the realization that maybe I am not as good a friend as I thought I was and maybe all the talk about how "you're not different, you're better" might just be a toxic pile of positivity that is just not helpful - because we are different from each other and it is important to see all the differences to see as assets, but also to see and address the challenges that brings.. because "you can't just tell me I am amazing and can do it and then I magically can!" That's not how this works.. and why do I have to do all the work anyways? I am amazing at adaptation because I have to be, not because I want to! It's exhausting and I wish I wish so hard that for once the responsibility would not be on my tiny little shoulders!

I came for the cute elephant and the day-dreaming jedi-wannabe and I fell in love with the self-sufficient rebel biker and her tech-savy girlfriend, but I stayed for the heart wrenching realization that the world is a dark place and your sheltered upbringing cannot shield you forever because ignorance is not in fact bliss and why do some kids have to fight every day when their home is supposed to be the same as ours and why are we not helping them and instead isolating ourselves and sitting on a dragon hoards worth of credits while the galaxy is once again falling into ruin, just like we have witnessed in the past and just like then we just do nothing about it and let the droids and the supervisors control our lives.. and I know our parents love us and only want what's best for us, but how can we live under in this "perfect" bubble this wonderfully boring and ordered world with stable lives and jobs and nothing to worry about, when there is adventure outside? And how could we just seek out adventure when there is all this suffering and these worlds and people who could live so much better if not for the pirates and Mega-Corps and the looming dark forces of totalitarian terror and their darwinistic capitalistic selfishness and exploitation

Ugh I am not feeling normal about this

[bluestar22x]

Unfortunately Abby never took the time to find out who she was actually hurting and failed to understand if he was in the wrong, so was she.

I could argue Cee had more reason to kill Ezra (seeing as the shoot out was over "loot" and not lives - and even though I see Ezra killing Damon as a mercy kill by that point since he was already dying). But in shocking news everyone's just trying to survive in these scenarios. Joel was trying to save a 14 year old girl for crying out loud. Seeing the bigger picture is bullshit reasoning.

No good parent would not try to save their kid. Selfish or not. Abby's father would have not sacrificed her - I saw that scene where she asked him if he would in game. It's easy to throw people under the bus if you have no connection to them and you are selfish.

Also, there was no reason to believe it would actually work - they only had a theory - the scientists were no better than those who experimented on children and minorities in the past. It's not fine and dandy even if you say the ends justify the means - for the families of those people it absolutely didn't! There is a reason legal adults are the only ones able to volunteer for science nowadays in countries with humane laws - and why we aren't allowed to sacrifice people even during mass epidemics. Doctors have a rule - do no harm - scientists should have a code too - do the least harm possible. That's not taking someone's brain out before even trying anything else. And let's not dive into how real life doctors have said over and over it wouldn't work. The game's creators gave a stupid reason to kill Ellie. So why shouldn't we be upset by it?

I've said this in one form or another over and over but I can't help myself. The reasoning behind killing Ellie for the cure was flimsy and killing Joel was hypocritical and naive and Abby's friends paid for it more than she did. Nobody's innocent in this but those to blame most were already dead (the firefly scientists).

It should've ended there.

TLOU 2's main plot was a disgrace to the first part imo. Would've been much more interesting Joel and Ellie dealing with their different views on his actions (still), and the main plot being a threat to Jackson, their new home where their loved ones are. If Joel needed to die he could've, by non-revenge, something like helping save Jackson, and making things maybe not right, but doing something majorly good in the end (even if it didn't make up for the past). Much more compelling to me than a depressed revenge plot for a scientist who deserved to die, imo.

At least John Wick is fun because he goes after truly bad people in a non-survival situation who killed the last gift he had from his wife, which happened to be an innocent puppy (truly evil) just because he retired and tried to be a better person for his wife. And then they kept going after him. So they asked for it. It's fun when actual villains get what's coming to them.

Ezra and Cee, Acacius and Lucius, they were intelligent characters/dynamics. Cee saw Ezra wasn't evil and protected her, and Lucius saw that Acacius had been just doing his job and the true enemy was the emperors, an enemy they shared. Lucius adjusted and put his anger in the right place.

what casting directors see when they need some guy to kill a character's loved one for plot reasons

[aurorialwolf]

Was inspired by seeing other ppl do this so,, a short little fun fact list about my ocs (some of this is also from shorter little one-off posts I made)

These are all prime universe but I may do one for their Imperium versions another day,,

Aria: - Can speak Irish (her and Salvia communicate this way to keep up practice) - Has a 5 y/o little brother - Her favourite video game is The Stanley Parable (because of its absurd dream-like vibes) - She's connected more to Irish culture - so if you've seen her mention fae, that's why, she's researched the mythology and such a lot as well (hence why when she first got stuck in the imperium she compared the dimension swap to entering a faerie circle, and she compared Aurora to a fae because of the 'names obtained' in the bio of the sideblog) - She drinks an unhealthy amount of cream soda,, but doesn't like energy drinks or coffee (caffeine makes her tired)

Millie - Best shot out of her entire Surveillance and Containment team; solos them all when they go to a firing range for practice - She's from South Carolina, and has a slight southern accent still, but she covers it up for work often - She's VERY much not used to getting attention; Mouse paying attention to her and actually reaching out makes her pretty flustered, but positively so - Her favourite video game is Halo Reach.

Salvia - She's a spy for her clan's Queen (she's a member of the House of Baz), relaying classified information from DUMP so that Monarch Baz can have the upper hand in terms of information. - She's lesbian, and before she was turned, she had a girlfriend. They'd both been unempowered, so she's unable to go back to Ireland to see her. - She was turned after falling from some cliffs while talking a walk through the forest with her girlfriend.

Kayli - Used to be incredibly violent, but not aggressively so; measured, calculative, as she used to neutralize enemies of the Chorus, or those the Chorus found to be interfering. She went on trial for war crimes once the main conflict had concluded. She has been reformed for hundreds of years now. - She left a sword in a lake, as a symbolic way to wash away some of her violent sins. ....She may be the source of a couple "Lady of the Lake" 'sightings' in the past. - She pretends to be much younger than she is while she's on the job, acting around 70, since being significantly older can unnerve people. She also usually talks very "human" while on the job; which is only reflected once on her tumblr blog, which she usually uses to speak normally

Cassie - Wanted to be a baker when she was a child. Still has a vague wish of opening a bakery one day. She always has some kind of baked good in her house, or in her car (properly sealed, of course). She offered some of said baked goods to dct-n when they needed to be picked up and driven back to the place they were staying. - She's buff as hell. One day I'll draw it or find a good reference for what she looks like. Most of the pics online are too veiny and skinny? She's very bulky and healthy buff, not really exaggerated bodybuilder buff. - Her last name is 'Bernheim', a Jewish last name made from the Yiddish word for 'bear' and the german word for home, 'heim'. Picked it because it makes sense for her as a bear shifter and a very comforting homey person.

Amelia - Honestly, probably my least favourite out of the probation officers,, feel lowkey bad but she's got the least buildup so far.. maybe one day I'll flesh her out more and give her a roleplay blog but for now alas she doesn't get one,, - She's (somewhat) based off this sporty extrovert girl who's one of my classmates. - She's a sonal energetic,, that's a fun fact because probably no one remembers that because I said it maybe twice LOL - Had an alternative phase in highschool - From Los Angeles originally.

Tagging @lancerthatisntfree and @localpigeon22 and @original-bookshelf cuz their posts inspired this,,

[bleue-flora]

"He has friends, Tommy. I'm right here. I'm his friend... What are you gonna say about that? You think I'm not his friend?" — Punz —

Thought it was only fair that I do c!Punz after doing c!Dream, so here he is, ready to fight anyone who messes with his friend. And yes, just like with c!Dream all of his Minecraft skin elements and colors are apart of the design in one way or another.

[icewindandboringhorror]

indeed my exact process once every 8 months or so

[ask-codeearasure]

Hit the nail on the head there, thank you for your service. Insane is one of the many terms tossed around because of motherfucking pop psychology and the fact people just don't give a shit about its actual meaning and previous medical usage, which is also responsible for the irresponsible, dismissive, and derogatory uses for words like delusion, narcissist, bipolar, psychotic, psychopath, and sociopath.

Now... here's the definition of insane given by Google, since people tend to forget that insane and insanity are occasionally used as medical terms to describe severe mental illness.

The term "clinical insanity" doesn't exist in a fucking vacuum. Describing severe mental illness was one of, if not the only, first uses of the word insane before more privileged populations let's say, decided to use it to describe everything they didn't like or found wild.

You see one shitty kind of person and immediately assume they're mentally ill. Doesn't matter if they're an abuser, murderer, or whatever the fuck else is an inherently bad thing to be.

This is one of the BIGGEST reasons why characters like Insanity!Sans needs to have a name change at the very LEAST, because calling an excessive axe murderer cannibal or whatever he's supposed to be a product of "insanity" to the point that is his only title does in fact add to the stigma of people who suffer from insanity.

I don't give a shit that Insanity!Sans might have been made by a kid merely trying to have fun. This is still the result and it SHOULD be changed.

It passes the notion that mental illness is inherently tied to murder, abuse, cannibalism, etc. It sends the message that we are inherently a danger to others, and/or that calling something "insane" that isn't actually insane is perfectly okay when by all means, it shouldn't be. Casual usage of the word is where the second definition came from.

It is the same thing as saying you are "sooooo OCD!" when you're only bothered that a painting on the wall is tilted a little to the left. It is the same thing as saying you're "sooo delulu!!!" when the subject you find ever so painfully "delusional" in the first place is your attraction to a character who would be fully capable of wringing your neck if they existed.

The casual usage of these words makes it seem like OCD isn't as serious of a condition, and that delusions aren't stressful or perplexing at all to whoever suffers from them. If you're doing this shit, you either don't understand what these experiences are or don't give a shit, and if the latter is the case, go have a seat over there you asshole.

Stop FUCKING using terms meant to describe symptoms or experiences of mental illness for your semblance of "fun" and convenience when any other word not tied to this subject matter will work just fine.

You don't have OCD, you just have a pet peeve. You're not experiencing a delusion, you're just horny and/or feeling intensely for a character and you want to express that in an "over the top" manner.

This character isn't insane, they've been fucking programmed against their will and broken down and reconstructed repeatedly to be a weaponized bitch for the benefit of their abusers. And heck, maybe that kind of torment would drive that character to absolute insanity if broken down past their limits. Under that context you could call Killer insane, but knowing this fandom and all the impulsive fuckheads in it that don't care about people less fortunate than them (or just don't know any better), that mode of thinking won't get far without being twisted so wildly out of context it loses meaning.

And in reality, that has already happened. So FUCK YOU. If this is how you're gonna keep using these words, don't use them at all.

-- Sarco

I really hate when people reduce Something New to “sans went insane and started killing everyone!!!” the only one who uses that type of language is sans/killer himself. Like, he calls himself crazy and insane, aka the mentally ill man known for demonizing himself and encouraging people to treat him badly because he doesn’t trust himself and doesn’t believe anyone else should either.

Every other person in his canon that isn’t also trying to take advantage of his mental state, aka color—dream—swap—all of them are very against the idea that Killer is someone irredeemable or “insane.” Color fiercely refuses to kill Killer even when he asks him to.

Rahafwabas herself has never said Killer was “insane,” and in fact said he isn’t when someone directly asked—he just struggles to tell what is and isn’t real now due to the constant Resetting and induced dissociative state he was put into. Not to mention the heavy fucking gaslighting and manipulation of his entire reality via the damn Reset button.

And frankly I find it very stupid to pretend that what Killer was put through—psychological torture, conditioning, coercion, literally having his code and soul altered, his identity stolen and rebuilt in a way that suits external forces and their desires—would make him a nonviolent uwu baby and claim it’s ableist when a mentally ill character who’s entire trauma is built around the idea of coerced and forced actions—forced perpetration—handles and responds to their trauma in not very fun or cute ways, because what they went through and did was not very fun or cute, or exactly in the context of how they were made to be and exactly how their environment demands they do to survive physically, mentally, and emotionally.

The whole “two personalities”/“split personalities” thing can be argued, but i think people are forgetting that rahafwabas didn’t fucking know English. She never claimed Killer had DID or was a system or any of that—she tried to convey what was happening in a language she was still learning. I find it stupid to blame her for misunderstandings.

[honeybard]

adhd advice will be like people with adhd struggle to get their thoughts organised. also to get diagnosed you need to get your thoughts on why you have adhd organised in advance in order to convince the doctor you have it

[tittyinfinity]

contemplating deleting my blog soon I might make a new blog but idk

[irenespring]

Time for one of my favorite TV traditions, "watch the new episodes of Selling Sunset and argue with the screen like the people can hear me."