#and ready to have Opinions

[dull-c]

[solarpunkani]

Hot 4am take but I feel like if we want to get people more interested in making their yards a more habitable space for wildlife like insects, we have to acknowledge that ‘Don’t want bugs in your house’ is still a 100% fair and valid point of view. ‘Loves nature’ and ‘doesn’t want roaches spiders and mosquitoes in the house’ aren’t opposites.

And with that in mind, when we propose to people that spraying pesticides around houses is Not A Good Idea, Actually, I feel like we need to give an alternative asides from ‘deal with it.’

[owlheartt]

Something I really like about timebomb is that Ekko actually knows what he's getting into.

I'm not really seeing it get talked about but in season 1 they mention that Ekko and the firelights help people addicted to shimmer get off it and lead more fulfilling lives within the community. I should probably rewatch the scene for the exact wording (might be misremembering tbh) but that comment implies A LOT.

First: Ekko's mission is helping people where he can, he would probably try and help Jinx even if he wasn't in love with her

Second: He has experience dealing with severe mental illness as that often goes hand in hand with drug abuse, namely depression/suicidal ideation like what Jinx was exhibiting

Third: He's probably mapped out best course of action FOR dealing with this and has already figured out his own limits/boundaries. Meaning he knew what he was getting into trying to talk Jinx out of suicide, and was thus more equipped to deal with the aftermath

Fourth: He's probably helped ex members of Silco's gang. The firelights seem to have a theme of healing and repairing and recovering, so they've probably also learned to forgive. If they're mission is to rebuild the lanes into a safe space, they can't exclude people they don't like, they have to make room for them. I think they fought Silco out of necessity, and I doubt Jinx would be the first person they help who's killed one of them.

These all might be a bit of a stretch but I think it really fits. Beyond that, it shows that Ekko can ACTUALLY help Jinx. As much as unconditional love can do, Ekko has the tools for Jinx's recovery and a path ready for her. He also probably knows that her "healthy" will look different from AU Powder's "healthy." On top of that, I expect he knows how to respect her even in the middle of psychotic breaks and won't agitate her already frail mental state

[fantomette22]

Pretty accurate Bloodborne fandom discourse experience on Tumblr lmao

[hijinxinprogress]

Whenever the JL starts complaining about YJs public image YJ just straight up gaslights them

[oatmealcrisp-freak]

"shipping saiki is aphobic because he's aroace!"

stares at you with my demiromantic asexual in a committed relationship eyes then looks at the camera like im in the office

[javelinbk]

George Harrison and Dusty Springfield during rehearsals for their first appearance on Ready, Steady, Go!, 4th October 1963. Part 6 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10)

[sskk-manifesto]

Bungou Stray Dogs: Dead Apple and how “ability users” (opposite to “normal people”) learning to accept themselves through the acceptance of their own abilities is a queer metaphor of acceptance of own's sexual orientation and gender: an essay by me

[puppyeared]

i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you

[commsroom]

silly question for you: what would Eiffel think of deep dish pizza?

my instinct is to say he enjoys eating it, but he will still argue it's not "real" pizza. i think he kinda just likes feuding over pointless things, though, in the same way he's eager to defend the honor of pineapple on pizza. he wouldn't say that, for example, a pizza with a hot dog stuffed crust isn't a "real pizza"...

^ not directly relevant, but evidence of his regional pizza bias.

[meadow-mellow]

Was no one going to tell me how Magneto has an actual Hero/Good Guy moment in TAS?!

[somegrumpynerd]

Time for a new toy!

Cat toy won by a pretty good margin, so tomorrow there will be a little novelty cat toy in the garden!

So that means...

("Nothing" option will still attract a cat)

[bumblingbabooshka]

T'Pring and Stonn from the @startrekswimsuitspecial

[etirabys]

occasionally I get a metaphorical voice in my head saying, "I notice this scary thing will be exhilarating and open up new areas of the world map for you (sometimes literally). you should do it"

these calls are not about boring-aversive tasks but adrenalinefear-aversive tasks, since adrenaline provides propulsion and repulsion towards the aversive thing in a way boredom cannot. I ignore these calls more often than not. when I do go through with them, my world map indeed expands, since the calls are about things that are almost unthinkable. so, once I do them, I feel more range of existential motion

anyway, usually these things are intuitively scary, like partner dancing (from a starting point of being pretty uncomfortable touching strangers), defending an unpopular opinion, hosting a naked event on short notice, or trying mediation on short notice with a blogger I stumbled into beef with

but the latest thing is... D&D

I tried it twice in the past 6 years and gave up within 2 hours both times. this was fine until about a few months ago, when I (1) asked myself what single activity would directly strengthen the writing muscle I'm weakest in, (2) received "D&D" as an answer from my brain, (3) noticed I was actually scared of the thought

which automatically popped up a NEW QUEST modal in my brain, which is so so so annoying. it's ignoble... it's not glorious to overcome one's fear of commitment to a weekly RPG with friends... it's lame as hell to be in that position in fact...

[psybrepunk]

Sometimes I like to remember back in 2020 when I fell HARD for Nick Valentine and was reading every NSFW fic I could find and anyways there was this one smut one-shot where Sole undoes Nick's trousers and he's got an LED LIGHTED CYBERDICK and I've just never really gotten over the shock and mental image of that