#and stance on this whole thing like most things is pretty neutral.

[gingerale14]

i think people really like to dig their heels deep on the whole “bird dinosaurs as just as terrifying” because i find that most people have this weird sense of guilt in that they personally prefer the more lizard-like versions. Those models are specifically designed to look scary! They have slanting brows and unnatural eyes and mean looking mouths! We can acknowledge the scientific inaccuracies of the film without pretending that adding feathers and neutral expressions to the raptors while removing their fluid movement (which intentionally pairs with their hissing sounds to imply snakes, an ancient human fear) doesn’t greatly reduce the fear factor. Accurate dinosaur visualization is always wonderful, and this is done stunningly well (I’m amazed at how well the models were incorporated into the clip, it’s seamless), but theres a moral stance that people seem to take (but never acknowledge, because let’s face it it’s a silly thing to think about) that i find a little absurd. it’s one of many artistic decisions in the film.

or maybe i’m wrong and feathered dinos are the scariest thing on earth and that’s how they should always be depicted. idk. my chickens can get pretty scary tbh.

@proximacentaurib you should’ve never sent me this i’ve been stewing this incoherent argument for a while and now these poor people have to see my weird addition on their post

Folks someone just made the most amazing thing I've seen in ages

the eye pinning when they're excited???? sent me

[sopjies]

yea I'm kind of disappointed, I feel like personally if they were gonna do a prank they should have chosen a series that doesn't have a fanbase separated from the regular viewers ya know.

like I get regular viewers know that they do stuff like this a lot but like…I'm not that? mad is a funny emotion to make people, disappointed isn't imo idk I just hate all the people shitting on people who are disappointed

[river-of-wine]

I hate the attitude that so many people in the RDR2 fanbase have that gun = strong. When discussing the women - Abigail, Molly and Mary specifically here because they are who I was talking about when I was told these things - who are, to me undoubtedly, strong women who withstand horrible circumstances, I am told that no, actually, they’re not strong. Only women like Sadie are strong, or maybe Miss Grimshaw, on a rare occasion Karen, but always Sadie, because Sadie has a gun and she kills people with it.

I know I pin a lot of things on misogyny in this fanbase, but in a gaming space mostly full of men, you’re going to see a lot of it, and the way men and some women who like Sadie discuss her has always reeked of it to me. They reduce her down to only being a gun, taking away the actual depth and emotion of her character in favour of seeing her as one of the men, because she wears boy clothes and has a gun and she’s nice to Arthur, so she’s cool. Not like Molly who cries all the time and wants to die, not like Abigail who’s doing everything for a man, who aren’t strong at all despite what they have been through because they never go on a shooting spree, which as we know is the only thing that makes a woman strong.

The way Sadie is viewed by these people also completely diminishes the person Sadie actually is. I have so often found that Sadie is only held in such favour by certain men in the fanbase because she is the easiest woman to turn into a man, as it were, or they’re attracted to her. She dresses like them, spends most of her time around them, kills lots of people like them, and she’s still very pretty, so if you only value women for fitting in with men or for how attractive you find them, Sadie is the perfect candidate. She challenges plenty of men, but not Arthur, so she’s a good one, and she’s even got a more neutral stance on Dutch, so she’s doubly a good one, because now she’s not angry with the cool leader either.

This is not to say Sadie gets no hate. She absolutely does, and it’s all as unwarranted as you’d expect. Sadie has established skills with her gun, she’s going to be skilled with it when she picks one up, her and her husband shared the work as she says. She is rash and she has a short fuse, but her husband was murdered and she’s not going to be at all calm about that. Her final mission is optional. If you don’t want Arthur to go on that, don’t make him. She got a lot of people killed unnecessarily. She’s flawed, she’s very, very flawed, and she’s also not the only character to cause the deaths of innocent people during the game. But just as much as overly criticising her behaviour and looking at no motivations or reasoning she might have had, treating her more critically than you would the men, reducing her down to her flaws is an unfair view of her character, so is reducing her down to a generic cool woman character with nothing happening besides guns and chest, because that’s apparently all women are good for to plenty of the men in the fanbase.

The point of this ramble is just that Sadie is more than her gun, she has a whole personality in there, and while I do think it’s a shame that the entirety of her character was hinged on her revenge until the epilogue since it gave us quite a limited perspective on her, we still get to meet her properly when the epilogue comes around and she has mostly gotten over her grief. Sadie isn’t just a gun and her strength doesn’t just come from her killing lots of people, and there is no lack of strength in Molly, Abigail and Mary because they either kill very few people or none at all.

The strength these women have does not come from the bodies at their feet. Arthur Morgan isn’t a strong man because he kills people. Why is that only a condition for the women? Why does Abigail coming from being a teenage sex worker, a dangerous industry at the best of times, to a very young mother trying her best to keep her family together, to give her son a better life than she had not constitute as strength? What about that does not make her a strong person? Same for Mary, same for Molly. Both went through a lot of abuse, Mary did all she could to protect her brother and Molly’s drove her off such a frightened, paranoid edge, leaving her convinced everybody in the gang who she already knew weren’t the biggest fans at her were laughing at her, and yet she still went through multiple sessions of being sweater by the Pinkertons - who, I’ll remind you, treated Strauss rough enough to kill him - and didn’t say a word. How aren’t they strong?

They don’t have guns. Abigail kills Milton, but he’s a character you 100% hate by now. Mary and Molly never kill anybody. If your one condition for a female character being cool and strong is they shoot a lot of people, these three don’t fit that, but if that’s your condition for the women, that says more about you. Stop using Sadie Adler to back up your misogynistic feelings about the other women, she’d hate that

[moibakadesu]

Okay, here we go, my interpretations and rambles about the 4th anniversary art. I know everybody is doing that right now and a lot of my thoughts might be the same as a lot of other people's, but the brainworms are active.

Let's start that it is brilliant that they went with a funeral theme for the 4th anni and to top it off they released it on the 4th of April. As a lot of you might know, 4 stands for death in Japanese (and various other asian countries), as it is pronounced the same.

My initial prediction for the art was, that it would be the funeral of the prisoners themselves and that we would see them lying on the frame of flowers (chrysanthemum, white lilies and white roses, all traditional funeral flowers). But as it turns out, we have the prisoners attending the funeral of their victims, so to speak.

So of course we have everybody in classic funeral attire, and sadly that doesn’t make for a lot of variety for the guys, sans the shoes, some buttons and different seams and pockets, but they all look splendid in it (and it stops Fuuta from combining it with some ridiculous fashion choices), so I can vibe with it.

For the girls we have of course a bit more to look at in terms of different clothes, the ones who are still visiting school in their respective uniforms, although in dark tones to fit in the whole composition, and Mappi with a simple dress as well as Kotoko with a chic blazer and trousers combo.

The wardens take the role of the priest who would attend a traditional Japanese funeral, how very fitting. Everybody is very pretty. I do still prefer akka’s art, but kee did a very good job capturing everybody as well.

Now the really interesting part is of course how everybody is holding their bouquets. I think the general consensus is that they stands for the victims, or in a wider sense the emotional stance that each prisoner has in regards to their murder. Let’s go in order from left to right.

Mikoto: Very prim and proper. I am in the camp that thinks that Mikoto committed the murder, not John, but also that he genuinely doesn’t remember anymore (due to stress-induced amnesia etc.). So it makes a lot of sense that he holds it in the most neutral and normal way possible. He doesn’t know the victim, he doesn’t have any particular feelings regarding it that he can remember.

Kazui: Holding it very lightly, but not as careless as if you would have to fear it falling to the ground. Maybe symbolic for the lack of emotional commitment in his marriage, due to being homosexual? Somewhat fitting to the lyrics of Cat, “let’s keep it simple”, keep it casual, these feelings are not real and very fleeting.

Shidou: Oh, he is interesting. He is holding the flowers exactly like you would a young baby, proper head and body support with both his hands and arm, while being very gentle with it. Further evidence that his murder ended up being one of his sons. As I assume ending up braindead after an accident and Shidou having to give the okay to use him as an organ donor.

Fuuta: My angry little ginger. And his anger shines through, what are you gripping your flowers so tightly for, little man? He is holding it almost like a weapon, very much the hero of justice with his sword ready to strike. I find it interesting that he is the only prisoner not smiling. I thought maybe because he is the one who is the most terrified about what his actions have led to? He was deeply riddled by remorse from the beginning after all, as much as he didn't want to admit that.

Haruka: Oh Haruka, what are you doing? His is … interesting. My theory is still that the murder he is actually is in Milgram for is a suicide, and the way he is holding the flowers does a good job in supporting that thought. He is holding the bouquet upside down, with not much apparent care for its state, some petals falling on the floor, and more importantly, on himself. I think this might represent how he has little to none self-worth and care for himself. Another thing I did see a japanese fan on Twt talk about was the meaning of an upside down bouquet. Apparently there is a superstition about holding flowers upside down, so that they … absorb water faster. This is both a good way to show Haruka’s innocence about the world as he would possibly believe such a thing as well as … very grim, as I think he drowned himself.

Yuno: Similar to Shidou she is holding her flowers a lot like you would an infant, and … well, that speaks for itself I would say. There is no ill feeling or disrespect towards the unborn life, is what just not meant to be with her.

Muu: Holding her bouquet behind her back, just like she does not want the fact that it might in fact have been her fault behind her victim act. Could also go very well with how she most likely did hide the box cutter out of sight until she struck.

Mahiru: She is holding her flowers very gently, delicately, with a lot of love, of course, it’s Mappi after all. Maybe almost a bit too close to her, if she is not careful she could crush or squish them easily. As it is in line with how destructive her relationship ended up being.

Amane: Oh Amane, the disrespect, haha. Carelessly discarded behind her. Sinners are worthless and need to be punished, right? Nothing wrong with quite literally stepping over dead bodies. The little girl is quite savage, I have to give her that much.

Kotoko: She is a bit hard for me to read. Her grip on the bouquet is concealed, does she maybe not want to admit how tightly she is holding on to it as a parallel how she does not want to admit to her sadistic tendencies, because it is after all always for justice, nothing else. Hmmm.

[self-loving-vampire]

So, even without getting into morals (since my main stance is just "I don't care either way if people like the UHC CEO die, really") I don't personally believe solo assassinations like the recent one are actually like, good or effective, but it's not terribly difficult to imagine how one would justify them while disagreeing with e.g. mob violence and the death penalty in most cases, to me?

If your primary issue there is "killing people is always bad enough that you can't justify it, no matter what" then I agree there's no way for it to work, but I think a lot of people are more like

"you can't set a goal like 'scaring people enough no one ever commits rape' and have it actually succeed, and along the way you'll kill a bunch of innocent people instead. plus, in the case of both the death penalty and having someone in a position to be killed by a mob, you already have them neutralized; they can't hurt anyone anyway"

and in that case they might think, say, "health insurance CEOs are a narrow enough group that you could actually scare them all, and they've all got blood on their hands too, so you can't accidentally target an innocent or (if it's just current CEOs) harmless person. plus, unlike vague groups like 'sexual predators' or even '(people we've decided probably are) gang members' you can't like, expand it to include minorities you dont like either."

And like again, ultimately I think this kind of thing is just not effective - ultimately the whole machine there is the issue, it's not like a CEO won't just be replaced - and shouldn't actually become like, something people emulate.

But it's not hard for me to see how someone could have consistent morals and still see it as different, either?

I think a lot of this is reasonable but also still not all that different from what certain people in the old country used to say about gang members specifically.

El Salvador is a country that, despite its small size, had a one or two dozen murders a day every single day while I was growing up. It was the most violent place in the world outside of a war zone and the gangs were single-handedly driving those numbers up.

In fact, they sometimes flexed their power by manipulating the homicide rate as if to show the population why they should be appeased. If actions were taken against them, they'd retaliate with massacres. Sometimes they instead offered a carrot rather than a stick by letting the country have a rare homicide-free day as a show of why they should be appeased rather than fought.

The idea being that the country was so violent largely because of these relatively small organized crime groups, and so wiping them out would fix the problem.

My parents even used to fantasize (in that "boomer thinking about the rosy past" way) that if the country brought back military dictatorships and death squads then gang members would either be killed off or so terrified that they'd try to remove their gang tattoos with cheese graters and try to jump ship, which wasn't really considered much of a possibility under the current system.

The thing about these gangs is that if members try to rehabilitate themselves and leave, the other members kill them. You pretty much have to leave the country and go into hiding to get away with it. Combine that with the fact that the gang members who do get sent to prison can use smuggled phones to have people killed as retribution for their imprisonment and you end up in a situation where imprisonment doesn't feel like enough to really neutralize the threat they pose and where even people who are not mad with bloodlust end up feeling hopeless about the idea of rehabilitating them.

So, just like health insurance executives, this seemed like a small yet disproportionately harmful group of people that the justice system is not properly deterring and that people believe is possible to intimidate through sufficient violence, with no realistic alternatives to neutralize the threat other than killing them.

People cheered on their deaths just like they do now, whether it was because of a shooting with the police or because there was a deadly fire in a prison. The same idea I screencapped for the other post was present: They deserved it for doing bad things and if they wanted human rights they should not violate those of others. Once you cross the line anything is fair game.

It's punitive justice at its most explicit, with the web of justification that arises afterwards feeling kind of secondary to the fact that the killings are just emotionally satisfying to most people, which seems like an inherently dangerous way to approach killing and is also kind of grim for anyone who hopes to replace the current system and its priority on inflicting pain and death on convicts.

[alliddewrites]

Staring Problem

Simon 'Ghost' Riley x Reader Oneshot

Content Disclaimers:

Mostly fluff,

Kind of sexual,

Gender neutral reader

Masterlist

You have a bit of a staring problem…

Somehow, it only seems to happen around your lieutenant though. You don't know what makes your eyes wander to him anytime he's within your line of sight, but it's never not present.

Is it his commanding demeanor that always seems to get the attention of everyone?

He has the type of personality that makes everyone listen to him. You can't remember a single time where someone in a room wasn't paying attention to him. He commands every area he enters…

Is it maybe his unsettling, handmade mask made from an actual skull?

The first time you saw it, you were kind of in shock. You never thought that kind of thing is allowed in your field of work.

It was also pretty creepy. Having another human's skull covering his face? Seems like something a psychopath would do. Which sometimes does seem to be the case with his morbid dad jokes that always lighten the near death situations you have to deal with constantly…

Is it his beautiful eyes?

Those deep brown eyes framed by blond lashes are just the most gorgeous thing you could ever think of. The most intense eyes you've seen your entire life. No matter what mask he wears, his eyes are the center of attention. Sadly not many people have the courage to constantly look into them, to admire them, but you do…

Is it perhaps his intimidating stature?

Being in the military, you're used to being around people who are more on the taller side, but he still sticks out from all of them. His height, paired with the ways he moves and stands just gives him that imposing aura.

He could be in the most ridiculous position and he would still look good doing it…

Could it be his admirable physique?

Anytime you look at him, you just can't not notice how big he is muscle wise. Anytime you see him wearing just a shirt, one that seems to cling to him so perfectly, you can't help but be mesmerized.

You can get a feel for his strength just by looking at him though, even if you haven't experienced it firsthand, but you've already had the chance to…

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Your hand-to-hand combat training partner hadn't shown up that day, so someone had to take their place. There was no one available except for the one and only Lieutenant Ghost. You had been intimidated just by the thought of sparring with him, but then he decided, unintentionally, that he would make this whole situation even more difficult for you.

He wore the tightest tank top in the whole world for this occasion. Now this wouldn't have been a problem, if you hadn't been just constantly enamored by every ripple of beautiful muscle on his body.

While you were warming up, he was waiting nearby. Stance wide, arms crossed, standing tall. A mask, different to his usual skull one, covering his face.

After you finished up, he walked up to you, he himself ready to begin as well. The only problem was you weren't ready, at all. He was way too strong for you. You've seen some of the things he has done to enemies and they were not pretty.

'What if he breaks something? What if he just paralyzes you in one move? That wouldn't be a pleasant experience.' are the thoughts that went through your mind.

"Ready Corporal?" came his magnificent British accent. God… You could listen to it all day. His deep, raspy voice…

You snapped back to reality and answered with a quick 'Yes sir!', just like you've been trained to do quite a bit of time ago. You both made your way onto one of the mats specifically set up for training sessions like these.

"Go." he says abruptly. Before you were even able to properly react, he already had you flat on your stomach in a few swift seconds. He was holding your hands behind your back with one hand, while the other was holding down your head, cheek squished to the ground. His legs by the side of your thighs, oh so close to you…

"You're distracted." he stated while he got off of you. "Again." came the command when you had gotten back in your previous positions.

You swore hell and back in your mind that you're majorly better at this usually. After all, that's how you gained the rank of Corporal. How were you failing so miserably?

"Go." he interrupted your thoughts. You tried to focus on the task at hand, you lasted a bit longer and fought back, but in the end, you still got pinned down. How humiliating…

"You're still distracted, Corporal. What's wrong?" he questioned you, getting slightly irritated by your lack of focus. He knew, even back then, that you were capable of performing better.

"Nothing sir. I think I'm just not feeling the best today. I apologize." you replied, looking at the ground, ashamed. 'This is so embarrassing.' you thought to yourself, 'How is this happening? I've never looked at him this way before. He's your superior, stop it!'.

"I can go again, sir. I'll try my best now, please, don't hold back on me." you looked straight into his eyes, courage coming back.

His eyes widened slightly, quickly going back to normal in a split second. "Okay, Corporal." he responded to your strange request. He tried really hard to ignore the unintentional innuendos that came with your sentence.

.

.

.

Maybe asking him to not hold back had been a terrible mistake. You didn't even last half a minute…

You got your face smashed into the mat so hard that you got a nosebleed and a headache. Who knew he had such strength…

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What could it be that really just makes you get lost in his person as a whole? No other person had this effect on you.

Only him…

How you wish you could just ask him…

Ask him what it is that draws you to him so strongly,

Ask him how he honestly feels about you,

Ask him if he feels the same way you do…

[sleepingdeath-sapphic]

hiiii i love how you’ve laid out your blog it’s so easy to navigate :)

could i request best friends to lovers with Gamora either a one shot or head cannons and possibly smut if you’re up for it ? thank you <3

friends to lovers hcs ; guardians of the galaxy

thank you for requesting anon <3

this includes gamora <3

reader is assumed as gender neutral <3

my account is 16+, please interact accordingly <3

note : i’ve never properly written for gamora before so this is quite short, i may eventually come back and rework this. in the meantime, i hope that you enjoy this sfw post lol <3

this is pretty much the only way to end up in an actual relationship with gamora — not just because her traumatic past has left her with plenty of trust issues and a strained relationship with intimacy and affection, but also because unless you two are something extremely casual she needs to know that she can (a) trust you to not turn her in for a bounty from her adopted father or anyone else who may have it out for her, (b) rely on you to have her back and help her out when things get difficult in general life or in the heat of a battle (yes she’s more than capable of defending herself, obviously, but having someone that looks out for her at all times massively lessens her burdens and makes life a whole lot easier), and (c) know that you’re looking out for her best interests and are willing to step in and speak out if she’s in the wrong or needs to adjust her approach for a particular mission (seeing feared and known as the intimidating assassin she trained to be is good for the ego and all, but having someone who loves her enough to stand up and correct her when she’s wrong just as much as they’ll stand by her when she’s right is really important), and having a background of intimate friendship would have more than given you the time to prove yourself to her in these ways and thus would make the transition to being romantic partners much easier for both of you

additionally, as her closest friend you were already gamora’s confidant — so trusted that you were the first one she came to about any and all fears and concerns and frustrations with the rest of the group, so trusted that she’d often reconsider her stance and approach if you advised her against it, so trusted that you were the one she’d seek out when she was more sober than she wanted to admit in order to vent about the difficulties she’d faced in her life before meeting you all, and likewise she was the one you’d go to for all the same reasons — and consequently you entered your relationship without any secrets left to keep and felt no need to hide anything from each other going forward because of this established routine (after all, why would you change what isn’t broken?)

the shift from strictly platonic teammates and (in quill’s words) besties to romantic lovers and bedmates would have been extremely slow — slow enough that neither of you would be able to, in hindsight, point to an exact moment or timeframe where things felt noticeably different — and would have felt so natural that there wasn’t really an awkward crushing phase for you both to experience because you didn’t even notice the shift happening until you were well and truly on the other side of it

it wasn’t as if one day you were just friends and the next you were kissing. no. more like you both continued to get closer and touchier and more relaxed around each other as time went on and gamora got used to casual physical intimacy until one day you just looked at each other, realised something had changed, and quietly acknowledged it without saying anything or putting a label on it because it just felt right

you never called her your girlfriend, but she was the person you’d give your life to protect

she never claimed you as her lover, but you were the person she couldn’t bare to lose

you never said that she was more than a friend, but you were always at your happiest and most relaxed when she was safe by your side

she never announced that you were dating, but she was always quick to scare off and threaten anyone who tried to flirt with you when you were out and about as a group

neither of you cared about naming what was between you because all that mattered was how you both felt, but everyone else knew that you two cared deeply and intimately for each other and were generally just happy for you both

but that didn’t mean that the other guardians didn’t (often very crudely) tease the living hell out of you both when one of you emerged looking exhausted from the other’s bunk or when they caught gamora admiring you from across the room, and it certainly didn’t stop nebula from picking up on her sister’s feelings and very bluntly interrogating you both about your relationship after she joined your ragtag travelling group

[sysmedsaresexist]

What you're doing is incredibly brave. We really appreciate the risk you're taking sharing your journey. It's awesome to see someone so vocal and with such reach openly change their stance.

We wanna know some of your thoughts about something you've been saying in all of this, about CDDs being separate from endogenic plurality. Specifically, your thoughts on when the two do meet. Like, endogenic systems that get traumatized and develop CDD symptoms? Or CDD systems that practice headmate creation, and find created headmates working like the rest of their system? Or folks in either category that relate a lot with those in the other?

We're curious because we exist in that in-between; a system with DID due to trauma, but that doesn't view our plurality itself as coming from trauma.

And if you're not at all interested in that area of overlap, or in sharing those thoughts, no worries! Have a great day!

This is a pretty nuanced ask and each mod has a different view on things, so we'll all answer!

Mod Signal: I believe that endogenic plurality and the plurality found in CDD systems works differently, but that intersection you're talking about can exist. The majority of resources for CDD systems involve how to deal with trauma and different alters reactions to it. If an endogenic system goes through some shit and gets trauma later in life, and can get use out of grounding guides, or how to deal with flooding, I say use those guides (and literally anyone can improve their mental health from therapy as long as the therapist. You know. Isn't a cunt.) That being said. There are also endos who are very certain they're endos when they may have.... a bit more trauma than they thought. And that's normal. Incredibly so. But endogenic communities can lead to a bit more harm than good occasionally with those systems if they insist that the system in question isn't or couldn't be a cdd system, or encourages them not to look into resources on how to deal with trauma.

As far as purposefully created alters, they absolutely exist, and I know CDD systems that have created alters with it going ok, and CDD systems who have been *horribly* hurt trying. I've seen some tulpamancy guides out there that made me wince the whole time I've read them. Not because they're cringy, but because any time a CDD system fucks around with purposeful dissociation, it's Incredibly easy to fuck yourself up by accident. Even some guides to meditation can be harmful to systems if you don't go slowly and pay attention to your body (something that's already very, very easy to ignore if your system, like mine, is made of 90% pain holders lol).

It's for that reason that i haven't changed my pinned intro as "endo-neutral". I dont doubt endogenic plurality at all, but I still find a lot of critiques in the way the two communities mix. The labels are fucked anyway lol so. I dont know what label would best fit that stance. The problem does seem to be slowly fixing itself though. I'm happy that a lot of endos are leaning away from terms used by CDD systems. I view these problems for the most part as growing pains that will smooth themselves over as plurality in general becomes more accepted and more research about both sets of systems comes out.

Mod Quill: I’m feel like that’s a great jumping off point for me, someone who is so weird with syscourse that labels don’t fit me. I believe in endogenic plurality, I really do, but I also know this community has done so much harm to CDDs and vice versa. Part of me wants everyone to go to time out corners and think about what they’ve done.

In terms of the overlap between endogenic and CDD systems… I think defining it, at this point, is frankly meaningless, particularly for the reasons Signal stated. There’s so many endogenic systems who are actually CDD systems. On one hand, I want them to be able to access CDD spaces because, well, they have a CDD… but on the other, as someone who’s been horrifically damaged by endogenic spaces, who has spread a lot of misinformation and been fed a lot of misinformation due to those experiences… I’m wary of letting someone like that into a highly fucking traumatized space. (But I also have feelings about CDD spaces in general…)

At the end of the day, I feel like it’s not my place to draw that line. It’s up to each individual and their own system where they draw the line, and so long as it’s in-line with current understandings of CDDs and they don’t speak their personal experiences as if they’re gospel truth for all systems, I have no issues. If someone says they have endogenic DID (as in, they formed DID with absolutely no trauma), it’s not my place to directly confront that person and tell them that’s not possible; but if they shout from the heavens about how people are ignoring the truth, I’m going to post the truth as I know it, with sources to back it up.

The same goes for this overlap. A system who says “Hey, I have created alters, and I’m a DID system, and those things overlap?” Cool! Awesome! That’s actually my type of system. A system who goes, “Therefore, DID systems should split new alters for the benefits it has”? Allow me to traumadump about how my system completely destabilized due to that practice. The overlap is there, but it’s not for me to define for others; not unless they make their experiences universal.

Mod Robo: Oh boy, I have a lot of Thoughts on all of these questions! It's stuff I think about often. I love talking about all the in-betweens and overlaps, and I'd love to hear about your experiences too. Unfortunately, I don't think I can jam all of my thoughts in this post (it's already long enough) so I'll just talk about your first question.

First off, I want to say that I don't think it's all that unusual for someone with a CDD to feel like they've always been plural, even before their CDD. Of course, spiritual beliefs can play a role in that. Let's put spiritual reasonings aside though and look at it from a purely psychological view. It's our belief that all of our alters -- everything that can be them, will become them, etc. -- it's all there from the start. We don't believe that alters come out of a vacuum. All of my alters were born the day our body was born. Many of us did not exist as alters yet, but the foundation for us existed!

To give a personal example: some of us have memories of childhood that predate our existence as alters. These memories predate our knowledge of being a system or having DID. We've wondered how it's possible to have memories that predate our existence as alters. How is it possible for several alters to have these same memories, and feel as if it's their own but also not? How is it possible that we can't really attribute "who" those memories belong to other than just...us? All of us? It didn't fit into the mainstream idea that alters are supposed to be these distinct, clear-cut people sharing a body, with separate memories and no overlap, no utterance of our existence before becoming a separate alter.

Children aren't born with an integrated self. You probably know the whole spiel -- the mind integrates as you get older, blah blah blah. So, in our opinion, we were never not plural. We had an unintegrated mind full of parts as a child, and we grew up into an adult with an unintegrated mind full of parts and eventually a DID diagnosis.

I get that some people don't see themselves as existing before their CDD and that's okay, I understand that. I also relate to that, in a way! It can be weird to consider because you as the alter didn't exist until later on. But you as the brain did, if that makes sense.

All that being said, I believe that "endogenic CDDs" are a completely separate concept from "endogenic systems with CDDs." CDDs are diagnoses -- they have specified symptoms, diagnostic criteria, and treatment. Diagnoses are not people. You are. That's why plurality is such an incredibly personal thing, after all. We're literally talking about your own mind. Your self/selves. Your internal reality. No duh there are gonna be people who conceptualize and talk about it in different ways. Like, I firmly believe that's NEVER going to be clear cut and easy to understand.

OG Dude: First, I have to say, thank you to my mods. Their responses are fantastic, I support all of them. I brought them all in pretty early, and I wouldn't be where I am without them. Their pro/endo patience while I went back and forth, screamed and yelled... I love them. I love that they saw the good in me and decided to help me run this blog.

I agree with all that they said. For clarity sake, I'll give my own thoughts, even if they overlap or repeat.

I've posted from the beginning about how a lot of things that endogenic systems talked about were actually really normal in DID systems. Created alters, characters that take on life, MADD, loving your system, dysfunction in different areas of life, on and on. I think there's more intersection than a lot of people realize, but I really like how Robo talked about personal views. It took a really long time to realize that people defining their experiences in different ways isn't necessarily a bad thing, though it's unfortunate that sometimes this confuses systems that are still learning.

Yelling and screaming isn't going to help, though. There's another ask coming, this one about my thoughts on sophie, that I think will tie into this point and expand on it a lot more, so for now, I'll move on.

I don't have all the answers. I think CDDs are something extremely specific-- I think in a few more years, diagnosis will involve brain scans, biomarkers, and we'll be able to say with a lot more certainty where that line is, and what's different.

For now, I think I've learned that the best thing I can do for myself, and everyone else, endo or CDD, is just keep pumping out information.

A couple users on here are really good examples of these lines. They have CPTSD, PTSD, whatever else they've got going on, but they still hold the belief that their plurality and CPTSD are unrelated. It took a long time to come to terms with balancing respect for that self-determination, and my expectations of technology and the specificity of CDDs (meaning like, specific biomarkers).

In the end, I realized that it boiled down to, "are people getting the help they need?" Because in the end, that's all that matters, and if someone doesn't think they need help, why am I arguing? If someone does, who am I to keep them from resources?

What if that technology doesn't reach the mainstream, what if it's decades before it's refined enough to be financially feasible in diagnosis? What if people come out with the exact same brain structure as someone with DID and still refuse to admit that the plurality is related?

Well, shit, I don't know, but I'm guessing the answer is still going to be, "Don't yell at them, respect their self-determination."

I still firmly believe that plurality and CDDs are different things. I think that treatment for CPTSD and PTSD are different, and many endos without longterm, repetitive trauma in childhood have PTSD, and would benefit more from those spaces and resources than CDD/CPTSD spaces. However, I also admit that a general PTSD space isn't going to be prepared for the complex interplay of plurality and PTSD. All that said, it's not my job to tell someone which they have, my job should be to present information on both to everyone and let people come to their own conclusions.

It's hard, but it's a skill I'm still trying to learn. Seeing more people talk about their experiences is probably the only thing that's going to help make it easier.

[many-but-one]

I didn’t want to derail your post, @the-alarm-system because I felt that your post is important and should stand on its own, but I also wanted to address that you screenshotted my tags here:

I want to explain what I meant by my tags, as I feel like you may have misunderstood what I was saying. l am supportive of endos existing. I've made that clear on more than one occasion on my blog! I meant I don’t like the phrase “the future is plural” because of the ambiguity of it and the fact that it’s been so misconstrued by so many. I feel like a better phrase that is less likely to be misunderstood would benefit the plural community but I’m not sure what that could be.

From the lens of endogenic plurality flourishing + plurality acceptance and education, I don't mind the phrase "the future is plural." I know plenty of endo systems and they are fine people who deserve to exist how they like! The only reason I don’t like that phrase is the ambiguity and how misunderstood it tends to be, and like I said, I think a phrase that is still concise but less likely to be misunderstood would be useful. I just, again, don’t know what that would be. I truthfully think it tends to be misunderstood because traumagenic systems are applying it to their own experiences (it’s what I did and why I was not liking the phrase at first, not realizing it was referring to endo plurals) and so of course we wouldn’t want the future to be plural because that means kids are being traumatized. However, from an endogenic system’s perspective and them applying it to their own experience with plurality, I can definitely see why they coined the phrase and mean it in the “I want more systems to exist” because a majority of endogenic plurals don’t see their systems as having come from trauma, which means endo plurality increasing =/= children being traumatized in order to exist as plural.

As an aside, I needed to update my “lean toward anti endos” verbiage anyway. I wrote that like…a year ago, maybe more, when I was still on the fence about the whole thing. At this point I’m pretty sure most anti endos aren’t a fan of my stance and so wouldn’t want me associating with them anyway. I say syscourse neutral because I don’t take sides in syscourse and typically don’t engage with it as much as possible for my own sake. Syscourse feels like a toxic minefield more often than not and I don’t like participating. I’m chronically terrible at updating my socials, so than a recent deletion of all of our alter info on our pinned post + an updated DNI, I don’t think we’ve updated that top portion in ages. So, thanks for pointing that out so I can change that as I didn’t realize that was still there.

Normally l'd ignore your reblog/tag screenshot but I just want it to be clear where I stand on the subject and don't want people who don't follow me to see my tags and see me as an endo-unsafe person. I am syscourse neutral in that I don't take sides, but I support endos existing. I used to be firmly anti-endo but l've changed my stance and am trying to be a better and less hateful person. I’ve said some hateful things about endos in the past and I want it to be made aware that I’m not the same person I was a few years ago (literally and figuratively, lol, I was very bitter, angry, and hateful toward MY OWN existence as a system, but with a lot of healing and acceptance of MYSELF I have also realized I needed to be more accepting of others too, even if I don’t fully understand them) so I wanted to nip your assumption in the bud and take a moment to explain my stance a bit more so my endo followers know I’m not against their existence. /gen /nm /just trying to explain myself more than tags would allow LOL

[prrism]

Language Lessons

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part ?

Summary: You’ve been teaching Techno how to speak English for a little over a month now, everything’s been going well so far, then there’s a knock at your door…

Characters: Techno x Reader

Relationship: parental

Pronouns: unspecified/kept neutral

“Now, what do you say when you greet someone?”

“Hi.” You give a playful eye roll at the blunt answer. You’ve been teaching Techno English and he’s caught on to it pretty quickly, much to your delight, although there was still a lot for him to learn.

“Okay, while that’s technically true, I was looking for a bit more then that.” You say with a soft sigh.

“Hello… greetings… salutations… good day to you…” He lists off several other greetings he’s learned.

“Alright, alright. I’ve heard enough.” You hold your hand up to pause him, seeing the smug smile on his face. “I don’t recall teaching you this much sass, mister English major.” You playfully tease, ruffling at his hair, he swats at your hands in retaliation.

“Ah, stop.” He whines still trying to swat your hands away.

“Who needs to stop what? Come on, use your words.” You encourage still messing with his hair.

“Sensei, stop…… please.” You could see he was trying to look for the right words to use, you stop your actions and grab a hairbrush.

“Okay, that’s good enough for now. Why don’t we fix up that rats nest.” Now he’s the one giving a playful glare but nods and lets you kneel down to start to carefully brush the knots out. You halt your actions when you hear a loud knock at the door, your grip on the brush handle tightening. You didn’t invite anyone over, and even if it was a surprise visit from one of your friends, no one would’ve knocked that harshly. You stand, instinctively shifting to a more defensive stance as you stare down the door, another set of knocks are heard, slightly harsher then before.

“Sensei?” You look over at Techno, who also took a more defensive stance.

“Upstairs.” You simply say, voice low and firm.

“But-”

“Now!” You approach the door, taking one more look over your shoulder to confirm that Techno had indeed listened before opening the door to two individuals you really hoped not to see.

“Good morning, (y/n).” The first says blankly

“Jett, Tarlin… Well I’d say my morning was good, until you showed up.” You reply just as blankly.

“Ahem,” Tarlin clears their throat, you raise an unamused eyebrow their way. “It’s come to our attention that you may have-”

“I’m going to stop you right there.” You’re quick to cut them off. “I don’t care what you’ve heard or what it is that makes you think you have any power around here, but let me make this clear: Try anything stupid and you will deeply regret it.” You say dangerously, giving a sharp look to both of them.

“Is that a threat?” Jett puffs out his chest to try appearing more intimidating.

“Well that depends.” You start nonchalantly, leaning in uncomfortably close to them, making Jett step back a little. “You feeling threatened?” He grabs his sword’s hilt on instinct, you just laugh. “I dare you to pull that on me, see how far you get.” You say, ready to pull your own sword from your inventory.

“Please now, we’re trying to be civil here.” Tarlin intervenes pulling Jett away, you roll your eyes.

“If this is your idea of civil then what’s being uncivil look like?” You chuckle to yourself, neither of them seemed to like your joke. Your expression hardens again and you give a firm glare. “I’ll say this one more time. Try anything stupid and you will deeply regret it, because as far as you should be concerned I’m the most dangerous thing around here. Now get off my property before I make you for trespassing.” With a low grumble and some nasty stink eyes the two begrudgingly take their leave. You close the door with a relived sigh and finally acknowledge the little eavesdropper. “You know you’re lucky those two aren’t very observant, otherwise things could’ve been a whole lot more complicated.” You turn and look up the stairs at the young hybrid peeking around the corner.

“……” It’s barely audible but you catch him trying to say something, ushering him over to you.

“You okay?” Your tone lightens up and your expression softens into one of concern.

“I… I know them. I saw them before.” He spits out, hands balling into fists.

“Let me guess, the Nether?” He gives you a a low snot and curt nod as response. “Yeah… sadly I’m not surprised.” You look away from him a second tensely but quickly relax again, placing a reassuring hand on his shoulder. “Don’t you go worrying about them now. I promised I’d keep you safe from people like them, and I intend to keep that promise.” Your words of reassurance help relax Techno more.

“Wait… If you’re going to protect me, who’ll protect you?” He questions.

“Hmm, good question… I guess, myself?” You shrug, Techno shakes his head in disapproval.

“No, not good. I’ll do it.” He says as if agreeing with himself.

“Really?” You raise an amused eyebrow at him. “I don’t know, there’s a lot of danger out there for a small piglin like yourself.”

“Then I’ll get big and strong, then no one can hurt us.” He places his hands on his hips triumphantly, you let out a quiet laugh with a side smile.

“Well if that’s the case, I’d say our English lesson is finished. Why don’t we move on to some combat training, yeah?” You offer, your smile getting bigger at the excited nod he gives you.

Taglist (oops, almost forgot this):

@maxismp1

@justmare

[ore-ion]

Helion's colour ref bc i kept forgetting how to draw him :'

a little rambling on his lore (may change someday):

Helion, a term in chemistry referring to the nucleus of helium. Forged in Iacon as a science lab field supervisor (specifically for anything that needs cryogenics)

Modeled for versatile and sudden movements, efficiency, and 3 different options for mobility (gliding, hovering, running) at all times.

Flight engines can run on energon, earth jet fuel (both last him a long while), or hydrogen (least effective, used as a last resort).

Runs much cooler than most other bots due to having a cryocooler built in. Carries around a type of fire extinguisher chemical blend at all times (commonly liquid nitrogen) , shoots it out of his arm or foot.

Fled from Nyon, and Cybertron as a whole, when rumors that citizen safety was being threatened, never bothered to look back or figure out who, as long as he got his colleagues and friends there out then they are safe. He does not want to return.

Never changed his Cybertronian helicopter model even when he crash landed on earth at the south pole, decided to become an industrial freezer instead. Got found by some scientists who never bothered to tell anyone out of Antarctica about his existence, they're pretty happy with him around actually!

He adores the job he had on Cybertron and is more than happy to help out the scientists, mostly because of his machine capability of processing chemicals safely for the humans and dispensing it in the exact amount they need. In turn, the scientists bring jet fuel and gives him regular maintenance and system checks.

Mostly docile and prefers to protect and flee than attack. Huge advantage withstanding extreme temperatures and small spaces doesn't guarantee durability against huge impact forces. He knows this well from observation.

The humans would refer to his stance nowadays as an anarchist due to him, while admitting to choose becoming a neutral, would rather take the government and factions that caused this mess down as a whole. He doesn't have any will to take actions as such and does not answer to nor want anything to do regarding his political stance.

Extra information not directly regarding him, but related to his lore in general:

he fled with his colleagues from Nyon, who he's not exactly close to. He barely remembers who they are anymore but he hopes they're alright, even without him to look after them on earth. He does miss his friends who didn't get to see leave from the evacuation.

the "spaceship" they used to escape was the titan who's assigned to accompany Helion's group from Iacon to other places on a regular basis. He was not fond of this titan at first but after some time drifting through space they become quite close. On earth, they got separated upon passing through the atmosphere, this titan would later be referred to as Pacific when Helion finds him again after years pass.

When Pacific does find Helion, he informed him that most of his colleagues and friends have left earth by tagging along with either Autobots or Decepticons, while some did stay on earth under either faction names. Helion feels slightly disappointed at this and asks him to leave, Pacific would not see him again for another 5 years and never spoke of the factions again with him.

Helion secretly feels a little guilty when the humans bring jet fuel to him on one of his first few critical maintenance on earth, it took quite a while for him to be assured that they're equally as happy to share things as he is with them. Sometimes, they would have sleepover parties near the base door connected to the hangar so he doesn't feel lonely.

by human standards, Helion is warm. He knows he isn't by Cybertronian standards though, he is just slightly colder than the average bot. The humans don't care about that apparently, nor did they care about the fact that he hates the ladders being used on maintenance and would rather hold up the tiny flesh beings. Seems like some of them enjoy that.

by size, Helion is about the same size as seekers, if not just being more squared and dense from his Cryocooler/ Industrial freezer alt mode kibbles. He's mostly specialized wires and tubes in a casing, thus hurting his plating won't do too much critical damage. Unless someone cuts off a number of the wires from him and doesn't return it.

his internal chemical processing build and chemical reserves actually allows him to make his own emergency fuel; hydrogen! In reverse, the same system allows Energon to be processed into Nitrogen and other chemicals, but Jet fuel is more complex to process so it makes less chemicals for him to use but lingers as fuel for long.

[siriannatan]

Dragon Sleeping Habits - ScfWhip

For once fWhip isn't the one who needs being taken care of :)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55694242/chapters/141905710

He'd be first to call himself a hypocrite, fWhip thought as he watched Scott during a meeting of all the emperors. Why Katherine insisted on gathering them together if all they did was argue and exchange vague and veiled threats and insults was beyond him.

But back to him observing the leven half-dragon king. Scott looked exhausted. And trust him, fWhip would know what exhaustion looked better than most. He more than once caught himself in a mirror after working on a project. And he knew, being one himself, that half-dragons were fully capable of exhaustion.

He fully knew why Scott was exhausted. It wasn't just a few weeks since his brother tried to take over the world. It must have been hard knowing your sibling was in an eternal magical prison for consorting with demons. Not to mention all the horrors they all had to go through to get him there.

So, even if fWhip was usually wary of Scott. It was in every dragon's nature to be wary of other dragons unless mated. He decided he needed to talk to Scott. Everyone else seemed to ignore the obvious. Not to mention that Scott pretty much only left his empire for these meetings. And fWhip might have overheard about him withdrawing from all his alliances. Just suddenly turned neutral to all his ‘friends’. Even from Jimmy what fWhip took worrying amounts of pleasure from. Well, he could always blame Scott being pretty for that.

So once the meeting was over. Just like last time no issue Katherine raised got solved. In fWhip's opinion best solutions involved explosives and ended with big holes. Sausage and Jimmy have been cordial ever since weren't they? Back on topic. Once the meeting was over, fWhip told his allies he needed to go back sooner but instead of going back to Grimlands he followed Scott.

He wasn't trying to hide so he was not shocked Scott landed halfway to his empire and waved at him. “What are you following me for?” The elf asked. Wings spread slightly in a threatening manner but fWhip could see them shake slightly.

“When did you last sleep?” Fwhip asked instead of responding. “Who like who, but I'd know how long we can go without sleep, no? And I can see your wings shaking. You need to sleep Scott,” he scolded, refusing to return Scott's hostile stance. He wasn't here to pick a fight for once.

Scott stared at him, likely trying to come up with a good excuse. He likely didn't but he spoke anyway. “How are you expecting me to sleep? I literally can't with the nightmares fWhip,” he huffed and yawned, likely against himself judging by the blush.

fWhip sighed. Of course Scott had nightmares. “You want a potion for dreamless sleep? It'll take a bit to make but you can stick around my place while I work on it. Who knows, some actual company might help too,” he offered. fWhip rarely offered potions to not friends or allies.

Scott stared at him in disbelief. “Do you really expect me to agree to be alone with you?” He asked but his wings relaxed.

“I can ask Gem to come over too if that makes you more comfortable,” he shrugged. Even with that one incident Gem and Scott had a pretty cordial relationship. Not to mention she had a reputation as a peacemaker.

“No need to bother her, I'll go with you,” Scott sighed, likely having thought the whole offer over.

“Okay, you first,” fWhip nodded and took a step back so Scott could take off towards Grimlands.

“Why me first?”

“So I can catch you if you pass out,” fWhip grinned. He knew Scott would hate being saved by him.

With a huff and a mutter of something that sounded like a complaint Scott took off. fWhip followed as close as he safely could. He had to admit, it'd probably be fun to race with Scott if he wasn't so exhausted.

The first thing fWhip did after they arrived was have Scott send a message to Rivendell that he was fine, just getting help solving his nightmare problem. And then let, practically dragged, Scott to his alchemy lab.

“Sit wherever, the potion should be ready in about an hour, try to sleep if you can,” he instructed while changing out of his nicer - less filthy and burnt - coat.

Scott did, taking the only chair there. Well, there was still fWhip's cot for when he couldn't drag himself into his real bed after experimenting for too long.

The potion wasn't hard. It just took some time to properly brew. So he occasionally snuck in looks at Scott. He observed fWhip carefully. Arms crossed over his chest. Clearly tense as his leg bounced up and down. Attempt to keep himself awake? fWhip felt a bit bad with how often Scott was yawning. But not enough to offer a real bed. He'd likely refuse it anyway.

Scott actually fell asleep shortly before the potion was done. Soft snoring was what alerted fWhip to the fact. He still finished and bottled the batch. It didn't look like Scott was currently having a bad dream. Aside from some mumbling between the snores he seemed quite peaceful.

With a sigh fWhip gently picked Scott up. If his calculations were correct the manor should be empty save for the patrol outside. He didn't like having people in his house while he slept.

Now, he could just leave Scott in a guest room. Put the potions on the nightstand. Maybe leave a letter if he felt particularly nice. It's what he'd do if it was anyone else in his arms - maybe aside from Gem. But this was Scott. Nothing was ever this simple when Scott was involved. Scott had fWhip's damned instincts oedge just by existing near him.

And not the aggressive, territorial instincts. fWhip had him wanting to act like an idiot. Some part - he'd never admit it was the whole - of his brain liked Scott. And wanted to mate Scott. Court him with gifts and all that. But fWhip was a realist and knew there was no way Scott would like him back. So he just suffered silently.

But as for now? Now he took Scott to his own bed. To keep an eye on him, he pushed the excitement down. He was absolutely not coming up for excuses for when Scott woke up.

Or so he could tell himself. But he could not deny the warm feeling when he tucked Scott in. His brain was too happy about the situation. So with a huff, fWhip got his coat off and removed his shoes before getting into the bed as well. Once the potions were safely on the nightstand that is.

Scott woke up the most rested he's been in days. He still felt dead tired. But not as much as when he spoke with fWhip. He felt he needed to apologise for likely making a ruckus, even if he couldn't really control it, but he felt so comfy and warm. His draconic side was practically purring in his head…

Why would he be comfy on that chair in fWhip's lab? He couldn't… Wouldn't… With panic building up Scott's eyes opened. All he could see were dark sheets. He tried sitting up but something… someone stopped him.

“Just sleep,” he froze as fWhip spoke. Voice heavy and coarse from sleep. Scott looked down. All he could see was fWhip's hair and horns. And the count was purring. Scott himself as well.

“fWhip? What… why are we in one bed?” He asked while trying to wiggle out of fWhip's hold against what his dragon part was telling him. Damn fWhip for being nice and pretty.

“You fell asleep, looked pretty peaceful so I let you sleep and brought you here, stayed in case you woke up from nightmares,” fWhip explained as if he was explaining his next plan. It shouldn't have sounded as attractive as it did.

Scott gave up trying to escape. fWhip was pretty strong for his size. And pleasantly warm. “Once I'm rested we need to talk,” Scott sighed as he settled as comfortably as he could with fWhip clinging to him.

“Fine, I freed a whole day for a nap, by the way, I can have someone bring food here if you're hungry,” fWhip continued to push all the right buttons. Scott just sighed and closed his eyes. All that could wait. He was too exhausted and touch starved at the moment to care. Their empires could survive a day or two without them around. He could be selfish for one day.

[marine-indie-gal]

I have recently watched the Most Messiest Fairy Tale Crossover Adaptation in all of its Existence made by the Same Company who did their Adaptation of My Recent Favorite German Franchise called "The Magic Riddle" and despite the film's huge wasted potential of going back and forth every single time, all of its Characters are the Only Ones that I liked about the Movie (even some of them can be a bit Annoying) but my god, was this film such an Interesting Acid Trip.

So while this Film's Target comparison has always been "Shrek" because of the idea of Fairy Tale crossovers, though one thing's for sure is how that this Movie came out 1 Year after the Original Shrek book (which in the Original Story behind one of the Most Successful franchises that we all know as of Today, the Real Shrek was never really a Fairy Tale crossover in the First Place as The Magic Riddle had its own Fairy Tale story despite mostly being its own Cinderella adaptation within a Crossover before "Happily N'Ever After" did it).

Technically, I don't blatantly understand why this Film gets compared to Shrek a whole lot, when there had already been Fairy Tale Crossovers or Ones that took place in a Modern setting, way long before Shrek was even born (I mean, "Into The Woods" or the 70s Donkeyskin Adaptation, anyone?). Still doesn't help the fact that a whole lot of people seem to keep forgetting Into The Woods' existence that the DreamWorks' Shrek actually took the inspiration from (Not putting my own Hate towards the DreamWorks Franchise nor the Book, I'm just showing my own personal stance).

So yeah, because despite this Film's Gigantic Clusterfuck of a Messy Plot that feels so much like Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" but with Fairy Tales, I will admit that this film could've had a much better plot convenience if it wasn't so confusing with its Beautiful Foreign Traditional Animation coming from the same Company behind Famous Australian Kids shows based off of Old Children's Books, this Movie did try its own best but at least it's still a cult classic much of its own.

But I gotta admit one thing, despite this Mashup Adaptation of the Cinderella Fairy Tale being a Confusing Mess, this version of their Cinderella character is really Pretty (both Her Design and her Style is Really Adorable) & since I just couldn’t get enough of her Gorgeous style, I’ve decided to create my own personal re-interpretation of her Ballroom dress from the Movie because I didn’t like on how so cheap and lazy it was all for a simple *Insert Fairy Tale Joke Reference Here*, despite Cindy and her Prince’s Romance being Bland, I really really WISH the Movie could've handled their own Relationship much better and not have them fall in love quick.

So I’ve decided to make her own Ballroom dress a Flower themed while also making it close to how I would view the Real Cinderella’s ballroom dress from the Fairy Tale. Had to do a lot of Changing but it was kinda hard to interpret this but then I finally managed to get it over with as I liked how it turned out to be. Especially for a Pretty Interesting Lead Character in a Bad/Neutral Fairy Tale Movie.

But also of note, I feel like this Movie kinda deserves a Huge Fanbase with Big Rewrites like with Disney’s Wish.

Cindy © Flying Bark Productions (since it’s former title was “Yoram Gross Film Studios”)

[songmingisthighs]

Personally I don't take the topic of cp as something light, or 'just anime' if it were to be portrayed in Mia, which I also have no idea if it does

From what I've read, the anime could be heavily sensored in Korea, all the while it has received awards and just being really popular in general (? And about the Manga, there's also this discourse about it being super sensored as well, while other people say it is 10x worse than the anime, so I really don't know what to believe

Regardless of that, it is difficult for me to be certain of what mingi was trying to say, I'm pretty sure the video was muted right before and after the anime was mentioned, so there are a lot of possibilities, whether he actually liked it or not, if he gave that warning about it having sensitive issues, if he actually recommended watching it or avoiding it, I have no idea

So yeah, the level of sensorship is a great deal for me, idk to what extent it has been 'proved' that he's innocent and all that, so I'm gonna trust that he didn't actually recommend it, but the thought alone of him consuming/recommending something related to cp is most definitely a deal breaker, not 'just anime' for me, obviously nothing has been confirmed, I really really don't imagine him as that type of person, and I'm not as stupid or immature to go around sending hate to him or directly unstan him without having proof or a clear sense of what really happened.

I just hope things get cleared up, for the people that go around sending hate and death threats to get a grip of reality, and for anyone that could have been affected by this topic (or the possibility of mingi being involved in it) to feel better and at peace

Also English Is not my first language, so bear with me while I try to see if this is actually understandable

this is gonna be long and somewhat controversial and mean, so if you (people in general) are a snowflake, pls skip

i get what you mean, really and i don't think anyone should take cp lightly as well. but i also think you shouldn't open a discussion about a topic you are not familiar about when you already decide to form a negative opinion on it. It's a whole other story had you come to me or anyone to actually ask for opinion in a way that is neutral. this is kinda hard for me to explain with words but there is a difference between "hey what's your opinion about this?" and "hey what's your opinion about this? also i think it supports cp and no one should take that lightly" bc it sets bias and when you want to make a painting of a fruit bowl, you wouldn't use a canvas with a big red splotch anywhere on it

from my perspective, you claim to not have animosity towards the anime but the way you describe it, it seems like you do so i guess it would've been better for you to accept that you're leaning more towards rejecting the anime because of what you found out about online and not because you do have personal experience wirh it when you come to ask for someone's opinion. bc it kinda comes off as "what do you think of this? fyi, i have the answer" and i just don't vibe with that. "from what i read online" is also not something anyone should use to justify their stance because if you don't have what i loosely say "personal experience" with it (i.e. you forming your own opinion based on your own interaction), this kind of discussion seem to be counterproductive.

and i find it odd that people are so surprised that anime is so sexual in either ends of the good and bad spectrum as if japan is not known for its main commodity which is porn (again, i'm using this sentence loosely). like i just found out earlier that japan's age of consent was 13 before it was changed to 16 so the sexualization of a western-standardized "minor" is part of a culture there (as bad as this sound). so to use a western standard on a culture that didn't ask for it seem mighty hoity-toity. we're allowed to form an opinion about a culture or an aspect of the culture but what we shouldn't do is act as if that culture is so personal to us when we are not a part of the culture. like i think the bride kidnapping practice is so weird and borderline a test run for a human trafficking ploy but i have yet to see any criminal activities that happen and the people who are involved are well aware of this practice so i can say it's weird but i won't put up a petition to abolish the practice. now i do realize that this is a rather controversial take and i would elaborate here but alas that's a whole other ted talk

in regards of mingi, if you (not you personally, i'm using 'you' in general) think your favourite idols can wear whatever the fuck they want, do whatever the fuck they want, i suggest you make peace that they can interact with any kinds of art or artist and form whatever opinion they want. because if you believe they're their own person, you better mean it and not make exceptions on situations or aspects that you don't agree with. if you can't support the person, support the art, if this makes you uncomfortable, fucking leave the fandom g0rl no one should readjust their whole life, personality, choices, and preferences to accommodate you. you're not the damn law and he doesn't even know you. and to the people who are somehow "affected" by mingi's life choices or preferences, literally get yourself out of the possibility of interacting with the topic and to those who made this issue about them, remember that the world doesn't revolve around you so mingi didn't do this to hurt you, you're hurt because you have personal feelings over this issue and it's not wrong but if you make it your life's mission to end this man's career, literally get off social media and get a hobby

[davekat-sucks]

I know this question may be controversial and or a rhetorical question. May I ask what your stance on politics is? I suppose you are pretty apolitical since it looks like you dislike both Kamala and Trump.

Yeah, I'm not really big into politics. Barely pay attention or care a bit much because I feel like not much has changed as time goes by. As well as the fact Jehovah Witnesses are not allowed to vote cause whole "It's not in service to Jehovah", "true ruler is Jehovah God, not some President despite the respect of high figures in religion and government are separate kinds of things", "Jesus didn't accept becoming a king when the people were about to make him so we should also follow that example, though I think positions like monarchy and democracy are also way different in itself", "remaining neutral lets them continue to spread the word about Jehovah when I think most can do that on their own in the States cause Freedom of Speech and Religion", and other crap.

[oceangenasi]

5, 21, 32, 43 for basil + rosie!

Eeee thank you!! <3 <3 <3

5. What is your PC’s idle animation?

Hmm... Rosie has one hand in her numerous apron pockets or propped on her hip, and keeps the other free to spellcast, carry a serving tray, etc. Socially, often seen with a soft smile, a friendly expression, and open posture. She tenses up when combat rolls around, so maybe her sprite gets a different expression, something frowning and determined?

Socially, Basil tends to sit/stand quite still, moving only to stay limber. He also has an unconscious habit of assuming parade rest, especially when he's uncomfortable, which is a curious quirk for someone who's never served in the military. Any time combat is a possibility, Basil gets kind of a neutral fighting stance, hands curled but not in fists, weight balanced evenly but ready to move instantly.

21. What tarot would your PC be?

Rosie is the Magician! Upright it's about manifestation and imposing your will onto the world, which is exactly how her luck magic works -- her powerful belief in the way things are rewriting reality in subtle ways. Reversed it's about using that confident to manipulate others, which is absolutely her greatest vice. She has good intentions, but she does play puppetmaster more than most people are comfortable with, once they realize what she's doing.

Basil is the Chariot, because arguably his whole character is defined by control and the fear of losing control. He became a monk for that reason, after facing so much childhood neglect and hostility, reasoning that complete mastery of his body and martial arts offers one weapon that can never be taken away from him. His worst nightmare -- which has happened to him an unfortunate number of times in the campaigns he's been in considering how triggering it is for him -- is being tied up, imprisoned or otherwise restrained. His specific passion for hurting people and his enjoyment of an enforcer-type mafia position both stem from an appreciation of clearly defined, orderly power structures. He is extremely single-minded in his determination because it comes from the purest, most unshakeable belief in power, order and control... and yes, obviously he's Lawful-aligned.

32. How much does your PC think about their actions before they execute them?

Both Basil and Rosie have excellent self-discipline in their default state, so the answer is "quite a lot, unless they're pushed to action by their specific weaknesses."

Rosie is extremely careful and strategic in social situations especially, but can be overcome by emotion in stressful combat situations -- it doesn't help that she's not used to casting spells voluntarily so it kind of freaks her out. She spends a lot of her life repressing her own feelings and sorcerous nature, so she's very good at acting thoughtfully right up until the moment she snaps.

Basil doesn't have to spend a lot of time thinking through his logic because his worldview is so rigidly defined already, but is perfectly capable of sitting on a thought/plan almost indefinitely if necessary. He's an elf, so his timelines tend to run towards decades rather than weeks, and he also straight-up has no real emotions to cloud his judgment. So he's pretty coldly logical unless he's not being allowed to hurt/kill people on the regular, which eventually makes him antsy and "frustrated" enough to act irrationally and seek out those opportunities to cause pain. Or, as mentioned, if he's been locked up, at which point a kind of animal desperation takes over and he stops acting like a person at all.

43. When your PCs make decisions, who or what are they making those decisions on behalf of?

Rosie owns an inn, and spends her entire existence striving to create an atmosphere of welcome and Hospitality(TM). TM actually very literally because she's from House Ghallanda. Her evil plan is to maneuver and manipulate everyone she interacts with into feeling safe, supported and loved, so... that's pretty much the aim of anything she ever does. That does frequently involve making decisions on other people's behalf, because she gets involved in their business and tries to help. At least her ultimate objective is very well-intentioned -- though I'm not sure that really excuses her behavior.

Basil is a mafia enforcer at heart -- he is most comfortable following orders and pursuing the goals of whatever larger organization he's part of. In his backstory that included the literal mafia, as well as a religious cult he joined for a time. In two of the campaigns he's appeared in, he was the right-hand man to an evil queen/princess seeking a throne. His loyalty is remarkably unshakeable once given, and it takes decades for him to even consider abandoning a cause. He's an evil bastard man in a lot of ways, but you can count on him to follow orders and serve as best he can.