#and I'll reply privately

[humblemooncat]

Would anyone be interested in a tarot reading?

I got a new deck recently and haven't had the chance to really use it, so I wanted to offer in case anyone was interested.

[dkettchen]

PSA for anyone tryna go private for trans related surgery (in the UK but probably in plenty of other places too):

anything that can be done with a non-trans-specific service (ie face surgery, boob jobs, certain revisions even), make sure to at least ask the non-trans-specific services, bc a) it'll likely give you more options (like when I had my face surgery and literally only one fucking guy in the country knew how to do the thing and had never done it on a trans patient before), b) there might be less red tape when it's legally classed as a plastic surgery than the gender affirming/reconstructive one it actually is, and c) I just found a place that literally charges almost double what they charge for cis guy top surgery (to get rid of gynecomastia) for the trans version smh

[byanyan]

i've changed my mind again!! i am, in fact, going to delete a fuckload of my drafts bc i am!!! not vibing with having all this old stuff & having it stopping me from starting new stuff!!!! this is the year where i finally say fuck it!!! i'm gonna run this blog the way i wanna and i'm gonna do what's the most fun for me!!!! ...not that i didn't enjoy any of the threads i have in my drafts bc i did, i just. i have to do something to get myself energized again and clean slate (mostly) is all i got rn askjfhds

i'm not deleting everything — i've got some specific verse stuff, some plotted and/or specific character moment things, and some starters that i'm holding on to, but. yeah. everything else has to go, i'm so sorry

[aintgonnatakethis]

I just need you to know I love the way you write Telford. He as a character is fascinating and I have accepted all of your fleshing out of him as canon.

And I read all your Telford/Rush work on AO3 in like a day. You’re super talented, thank you for sharing it with the world.

Oh my god, thank you, @worlds-tallest-fairy! 😊🙏😄

He truly is the #1 character for me. When SGU originally aired it was Young, but I barely got into my first rewatch before the David Telford Bug™ caught me, and it hasn't let go of me since. It's been *checks* 15 years? *old man noises*

I'm so happy you've enjoyed the fic I've written! Any particular favourite? SGU fans are scarce and Telford enjoyers even rarer, so I'm starved when it comes to talking about him. Do you have any headcanons of your own for him?

[aimer-arts]

I rly wish i could draw your characters but my hands have a physical aversion to drawing lines, what if i wrote you some sort of short story or something? It probably wouldnt be more than 1000 words since like, i have 18 million things going on, but like, if i were to, what should i know?

OHHHH MY GODDD?? I would absolutely LOVE that ;_; <3 <3

I'm assuming you'd want to make something about Team Fate (my explorers team)? In that case, I don't think there's a ton of information you need to know; all of their personality traits and quirks are implied in the art I've made of them, so I don't think you could go wrong!

here's a guide I quickly put together!! hopefully it's somewhat helpful

(more rambling below)

So basically, my pmd teams pretty much follow the canon personalities they have in the games: for example, Piper (eevee hero) has a very reserved and quiet personality just like the player character in the games, and doesn't speak or emote much - but she talks and laughs the most around her partner.

Clementine (vulpix partner) is pretty similar to the explorers partner; she's jittery and nervous, but loves to ramble about adventuring to Piper (who loves to listen). She scares easily, but feels stronger with Piper - so in a way, they basically complete each other. They balance out each other's weaknesses, and give each other strength.

[mari-lair]

some of you are too comfortable on Anon so I am disabling it from my asks for now, chill.

[reinemichele]

(For the sake of transparency: I absolutely don't mind being asked to reblog Palestinian fundraisers— I may delete messages with campaigns that aren't vetted unless I believe they're legitimate, out of caution, though

— but I seriously have less than 100 followers; I don't want to post the number, but I would feel bad if anyone was under the impression that my blog has a substantial audience. In addition, my family lives paycheck to paycheck, and we often have to borrow money/only eat once a day. So I usually can't spare anything to donate to any campaigns, but I do donate whenever it's possible.

I'm not asking for pity or attempting to stop anyone from reaching out, I just want to be completely honest and realistic with people on this subject. But regardless, I'll try to help how I can. 🙏🏻❤️)

[trans-yllz]

AKHDMCUKSNDM Hours after essentially giving up on getting an education job I got an email back for a position I applied to literally yesterday?? which would be an after school teacher at a private school in the richy rich part of town which is actually so so funny to me but well. it's a job

[starlightshore]

Thanks for the Measured Response™. Unfortunately the character limit doesn't allow for much nuance in asks. My issue isn't so much with the character's actions as the way their conflict is framed. It always feels like we're supposed to judge Asriel way harsher - for ghosting the person responsible for their trauma - than Chara, who is actively trying to hurt them. I know you don't want to trivialize abuse, but the story still botches the subject pretty badly. Still, good luck with the rewrite.

(sighs) please anon, while I do appreciate the effort to acknowledge the lack of nuance in the previous ask, I would much rather you approach me more reasonably. I don't appreciate you coming to me, a complete stranger to both of us, with this attitude of already guilty. can you please learn to talk to people more reasonably? like, I'm living my life out here and you come and accuse me in a really rude way of promoting abuse or whatever the far-fetched conclusion that ask could come across as.

I am more than happy to accept fault over my writing and do my best to improve, but I want to do so on friendly, acceptable terms. please withhold condemnation and explain how and why you feel the story was mishandled. You do so really nicely in the second ask and I appreciate that.

Ultimately, regardless of my intent, my story didn't convey the message and that's, at the very least, mostly my fault. I can try to explain why I'd argue I didn't fuck up as badly as you paint me as, but I will accept that the story I wrote was not emotionally paced well made it weigh more towards cruelty without the hope and understanding I wanted the story to be read as.

I want to stress that I take abuse deadly seriously. I'm a victim of emotional abuse myself and this is something I am desperate to portray in all of its ugly, dirty detail and I want to do it without hurting people. I obviously failed when I first wrote this and I want to say thank you for coming to me about it, even if I feel there is still some friction here I want to express that gratitude. But also please be aware of how you approach people. (referring to the OG ask here).

Anyway

i wanna defend myself here a little and say I think you're missing the bigger picture of the framing of that scene. I feel you forgot the context of that scene and where it's placed in the story. It's this post.

Previously, that entire chapter had Chara idolizing the Asriel they knew as a child. Their timetravel ability being removed meant they longed for that power to control the narrative and live in the past. its like, metaphorical shit for how when growing up its hard to move on from the past and accept that you're aging.

That scene was the point where Chara realized that Asriel wasn't perfect -and has never been. The story is framed by Chara's POV exclusively and navigates Chara's feelings about their separation from Asriel. The "abuse" of that scene is the feeling of an older sibling telling them to "fuck off" and "stop acting like a victim" which are like... like devoid of the context of Asriel's perspective (which we didn't have at this point in the story) is a very hurtful and emotionally damaging thing to say to someone. I can see how someone reading that, who could have been through a similar situation, would react very badly to seeing that in the comic. Thus the content warning. I honestly don't know if "abuse" is the right word here, but what is someone going to have blacklisted for this? Like I said, my goal is to avoid hurting so I'm not going to not tag it. It's an issue of vocabulary vs. accessibility. I still wouldn't know what to tag this tbh.

the overall narrative of the comic is that Chara's perspective of Asriel was holding themself back. they were wallowing over a perfect picture that never existed -which reflected how they hate themselves for not living up to the perfect angelic ideal that they obviously could never have lived up to.

Chara condemning Asriel for being Flowey and being a jerk is the first step towards chara acknowledging their own blame in the equation. pretending the problem doesn't exist and that you're inherently awful doesn't fix things. Immediately after tossing out Flowey, they realize they are a flower as well. (literally becoming the thing they just condemned Asriel)

Once The two reconcile with the help of Actual Adults in the situation, the story changes POV to Asriel. It's then we're given context to Asriel's perspective and to show, that yeah, both of them Suck as people. That both are capable of majorly fucking up. And that's because the tools they're given a life of trauma and being reborn into a world that doesn't understand your damage is in itself traumatizing.

so idk man. the framework here serves a purpose and while I plan on showing a more nuanced and balanced pace -I really need to show the characters having more things going on than their larger conflict + be happier with each other. (the problem with writing for an askblog is that its very reactive and its easier to lean into tension and relationship drama than focus on the lighter but necessary moments. I know for sure the redraw will be better at this)

But yeah the framework, as it stands, feels good to me. Maybe in the details of how it's shown I'll be able to handle the nuances more gracefully but with the larger goal in mind, I'm not sure how I can change that? I would really love to hear your thoughts on that.

[kairithemang0]

wasn't trying to annoy you. Genuinely was disappointed to see that that from you but I don't think we view the issue in the same light. Don't think a DM will help. Feel free to delete. Sorry again.

alright anon. you get my genuine thoughts on this. First, I'm going to apologize for making you feel laughed at. I legitimately wasn't expecting that ask

That post was not meant to sound entitled or rude. In the post, I said that they probably had their reasonings, and whatever they are I do respect that. I'm sorry you read my post that way, I do greatly apologize if it came off that way, since that was not my intention. I do believe I am allowed to feel somewhat disappointed for that. I am not throwing a fit saying "how dare starkid not keep it up permanently" and if it came off that way, I apologize.

However, what sort of, in my opinion, makes your original ask lose all focus and that does seem like a genuine attack on me as a person is "Because I am not sure you will ever be happy, if this didn't give you joy and comfort knowing that starkid cares for their fans."

I was brought joy and comfort by this. I was very happy to see starkid putting VHSCCS out there. I'm very glad that they did. I am forever grateful to starkid for letting their stuff be so accessible. It is genuinely very amazing to see. I was more of pointing out something I had noticed with TCBOB and now, VHSCCS. I had someone explain to me why TCBOB wasn't going to be permanent, and I understood where TCB were coming from with it now. Maybe they were only putting VHSCCS out there to get people to buy tickets for Chicago, which makes perfect sense to me.

I hope you realize how much of a dick you sound with saying "because I'm not sure you will ever be happy". Like. You do realize how much of an ass you sound like there? You are telling me, someone you are considering a friend by your other message, that, from my perspective as a teenager with mental health issues that I am doing my best to get over, that you do not believe I will ever be happy. That you do not have faith in the fact that I can live a fulfilling life DUE TO THE FACT THAT I WASN'T A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED THAT A SHOW WILL NOT BE ON YOUTUBE PERMANENTLY.

That. Is incredibly laughable. And sad. Again, I do not know who you are, but your other ask said "I'm a friend. I consider you my friend". And I would not be putting this out on my public blog if I could, sadly you are anonymous and I can not send this to you privately. Once again, I would've rather you simply dm me so I would not need to bring negativity to my blog, I do that enough to myself already

I hope this makes sense. I did not find the first 2 paragraphs of your ask overly funny, and I do believe we could have had a legitimate conversation about my post. I do believe it's a bit extra to add that last bit though, and that is what deserved the very very (i am being very sarcastic here) well written response of "lmao"

Have a good day anon, truly hope we can eventually see eye to eye on whatever this is.

[kethsi]

woah its RSN Kethsi :o idk if you remember me, but my RSN is Scuzzy Beta, we were friends in game, hows it going? ^^

Well I remember you being very kind to me when we did talk. It's nice to see you in my little corner of the internet again, falling into the quintessential runescape stereotype of never fully quitting, just taking breaks :P It's been going pretty slow, I have to admit. Still haven't comped or gotten good at combat, even on my main. I do suppose some things never change after all, hahaha. Been trying osrs though. It's getting pretty fun now that my levels aren't completely horrid. How have you been?

[b-blushes]

oh yeah i keep meaning to ask about this and keep forgetting, but does anyone have any advice or just, like, thoughts about this? I am disabled. As such, i'm only really able to leave the house once a week, or do one big activity at home once per week. If i do more than that, i become too unwell to keep on top of my housework, and then snowball into Even Worse Health. the problem is that, despite only having one friend that lives locally, and only hanging out with family other than that, i'm somehow 'booked', like, 6 weeks in advance when you factor in stuff like haircuts, medical stuff, any errands that i need to do personally, or things that just come up. this means that i'm a) pretty much always working at about 95% of my capability because i'm doing as much as i can pretty much all the time. that means that it does not take much to tip me over the edge into various types of even more ill health. b) So Scheduled!!! i almost never have enough 'free' time to do anything on a whim, because I have to make sure i keep enough health capacity to keep to my arranged Events. on one hand this is a lucky position to be in, on the other hand it means that i'm just 'getting through' each thing that i can just scrape through with just enough energy, and resting is also mandatory and scheduled so i feel extremely trapped there. c) because i'm able to do so 'little', it also gives me almost no wiggle room for working on physical therapy. I have been prioritising "life with other people" over "physical therapy progression (alone at home), which may increase stamina long-term but means i can't do other stuff short-term, because that takes the activity slot of a 'leaving the house activity". my fitness and strength is extremely down because i just have not had the capacity to do housework, and fun but also medical/other activities, AND for example cardio, without getting so fatigued to the point of injury. hate that for me. I don't think that it's especially 'good' to always be, like, 'getting through' and working so close to things being Too Much, although i'm so so glad that i often have a couple of times a month where i am doing a planned nice event! (instead of having nothing nice with other people planned, and only doing medical stuff or stuff by myself). I'm feeling that it's been quite bad for my mental health also to be working at close to full capacity all the time, so i feel constantly nearly at my limit but also not feeling fulfilled because i'm *just* managing to stay on top of everything and cope. So it's as if i'm having to really really search for the good bits because i am almost always just moving from one rest period in the day through a short chunk of activity to the next rest period in the day. wow this is really hard to express! it feels as if i'm explaining a non-problem somehow! I am struggling to problem-solve this! and i know i have lots of disabled friends on here, so i am wondering if there is something obvious i'm missing, or if there is no easy fix. Perhaps it is the whole 'being disabled means you are disabled' thing, and the problem is not my time management or approach to life, but just that i have multiple conditions which all significantly impact my ability to do daily tasks, so there is no 'trying really hard to problem solve or fix it'. Maybe the best thing to do is schedule in a 'free' week per month, where i don't have any plans, so i can pick whatever i like (or just do nothing!!!) for one of my weekly 'activity' slots each month? The downside of that is that that will mean i'm 'booked' even further in advance, and means i will be seeing less of my friend and family. But maybe that sounds smart? Wondering if anyone else is in a similar situation? Or has any thoughts?

[skania]

I noticed you replied to my ask and it seems like you misinterpreted my question! I did mean to ask why you think kana would be the most predictable choice for the endgame - is it just a feeling or did you notice some clues etc. while reading the chapters?

Ohhh my apologies anon, thank you for clearing that up for me! I have to admit that it didn't occur to me that other people may not notice it, to me it's just extremely blatant because of the basic tropes and clichés behind it: first girl wins, light to the boy's darkness, "oh he's his old self around her", etc. But in all honesty, the biggest thing to me is how the series just won't let us forget that Kana has feelings for Aqua. Remember when Aqua and Akane started dating for real and the manga was like: Have you seen how sad Kana is over him?? And that Aqua is obsessed with her? How sad, right? And here have Aqua and Akane on a date—but Aqua is attracted to Kana! And here is Kana crying over Aqua again! It just stands out to me because they don't have the development to warrant that kind of attention, yet it's there. But mostly, it stands out to me because I've already lost two shipping wars for this very same reason and my gut won't let me forget lmao

But like I said before, it's possible that Aka wants us to feel this way because he is planning to subvert all these tropes and deliver a platonic Aqua and Kana ending. I can only hope that's the case, so that's the reading I want to focus on in my posts because it's the one I personally find the most interesting and rewarding set-up wise 😂

[garbagequeer]

all of you guys need to keep your archives open and blogs searchable sometimes a crazy bitch you dont know has to find out your business

[sforzesco]

I hope this doesn't sound too weird but, are you open to people just - dropping a message in your inbox to chat? I just think you re a really cool guy with a lot of interesting stuff to say and I want to talk about it more but I don't know how open you are to that !!

dhdhgh I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to answer this one, because I'm not exactly opposed to chatting with people, I'm just. not really online! I publish asks and sometimes it takes me forever to reply, I only really check my messages once a month because my notifications are broken and the bots are annoying™, and frequently I forget to reply to comments because I'm. mostly just busy offline with other work because I Have Bills To Pay. sorry! I don't really have a good answer for this RIP

[joyfuladorable]

YT won't let me upload my 43 minute long All Rise Casey Scenes compilation so I've trimmed it to just the yelling parts UwU