#and we've talked off and on a lot more

[osaemu]

wasian guy is very conventionally attractive. yum

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

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[geddy-leesbian]

We had a family meeting discussing moving out of this shit hole state last night and I have been feeling gooooood

[newtness532]

im so annoyed with everything today, i think i need some tasty food and a million hours of sleep and then I'll be back to normal

[showyoumyfavoriteobsession]

next week we're going into the peak of our conference season (starting on wednesday we'll have 6 conferences in 11 days) and our department's website decided to act up this week so we have to use workarounds for everything and still the most cosmically unfair part to me is that satisfactory 1.0 launches the day before everything gets the most busy which means i absolutely cannot play it for the next two weeks or i will be exhausted and get zero work done

[vellichorom]

Thierry/GoGu Lore that no one has asked about but YOU'VE wanted to talk about?

despite being DEVESTATED initially, when thierry finally realized rosemary was human & he'd killed- not a disposable AI, but a flesh & blood REAL human being, his regret wanes as the years go by, to the point that he only regrets it - to a petty degree, because rosemary still dwells on it 10 years after the fact & won't forgive him for it fully.

thankfully, it destroys him from the inside she won't, & he can't EVER undo that, but he doesn't- nor will he ever understand why after all this time, after basically repeating the same masochistic pattern of abusing the reset functionality of the game world to kill her thousands of times over, at her permission, at that - for YEARS, why she can't let the first hands-on instance go.

rosemary enables & lets thierry get away with a LOT of things, ranging from the little things to the, at times - scummy attitude he lives with, but that will always loom over his head whether he comes to dismiss it as a casualty or not.

& rosemary just being the slightest bit upset with him already makes him a nervous wreck as it is, too obsessively attached, but to then learn she can never let that defining instance go...

it's as though hell itself takes him over.

[mantisgodiveblog]

First off: “ We want to know if Siffrin would actually eat it if presented with One (1) raw potato during snack time.” I feel like he would. He is so ‘commit to the bit until I (perhaps literally) drop dead’. Secondly: Yeah, I can understand getting sick of seeing the same repetitive tropes! Somehow fanfic feels bite sized enough anything goes for me, but in actual books? Sometimes they feel like a nothing sandwich made of the same tropes as the last sandwich I just had.

We think that Bonnie should commit to the bit and start feeding Siffrin One whole raw potato, on grounds that it would be funny. Going to make the man commit to the bit so hard he gets food poisoning.

It's the other way around with us, honestly. Because fanfiction uses pre-established characters, all of the little ways in which poorly-handled tropes warp characterization become immediately evident. You're taking a character with their own particular personality and fitting it to a mold, and the contrast between the once-was and the is-here makes it so that every little crack is blindingly obvious. You see the shape of the roles that the characters are forced into, time and time again, and you see precisely where characters splinter to fit that, because you have that before and after comparison to show precisely where the traits are being selected.

The bite-sized-ness of fanfiction makes it a bit worse, honestly. It condenses it down to hit just the key points, and if you don't have the longform fic time to show the progress, it's all the more evident what you're introducing to get things over with in a quick period of time. We aren't immune to this, of course - we've probably got our fair share of distortions, especially in AU work - but the way that it narrows down differences to just the shift in author perception shines a brilliant spotlight on these little cracks, at least from our perspective.

It's not as though published books don't have their own flaws, but there's nothing to expose a bias like working with something people already have a vantage point on, and there's absolutely nothing that shows a critical gap in judgment as much as an author horrifically fumbling a scenario you've seen done infinitely better with the exact same characters multiple times before. Everyone working with the same tools means that it's much easier to judge execution, and it also, unfortunately, lets you know precisely who doesn't know to use the tools they've got without twisting them into something fundamentally different.

[iwanttobepersephone]

Incoming long and useless rant about my trans boyfriends family lol

So, my boyfriend is trans, and his family isn't very accepting of that, but in the manipulative way where they say they're accepting, and they call him his preferred name in front of people sometimes, and overall make him think there's a chance they'll listen when really they won't. At least, from my perspective, I've met his parents like 3 times (they hate me for some reason??? They say they "don't like the way I talk to him" loll).

Anyways, he's been trying to get them to call him his preferred name for a while, and he has recently resorted to trying to get them to call him any masculine name. He said he's gonna ask his mom today what masc names she'd be willing to call him, and asked me for name suggestions that I'd "be ok with calling [him]." I listed things like I listed things like Elliott, Oliver, Calder, just some names that I think he'd like and don't sound too terrible

To the point, though, I'm really just making this post because I have a feeling that she's either (1. Not gonna call him any masc names ever or (2. Choose the stupidest sounding one that's gonna haunt him forever, in which case I'll be updating y'all as to what she said loll

[ronanlynchbf]

hell day today and i'm only two hours into my EIGHT HOUR SHIFT

[prismatoxic]

guy with "scared people will leave me" disease: hmmm this person i'm fond of hasn't spoken to me in several days. what if they hate me and are trying to leave me

[autistic-shaiapouf]

You know how in mob psycho you can see the percentage counter for how close mob is to absolutely losing it

[kindacreepy-kindaugly]

why is it so much worse knowing how many people out there want me (& everyone in this body) dead cause we don't feel empathy than knowing about the ones who want the same cause we're trans

[poisonouspastels]

btw

[gas-stxtion-a]

//sorry i haven't been working on replies lately! you see, it's because [mid-sentence i slowly lie down on the floor and start crying really hard. i do not finish my explanation]

[cinnabeat]

its interesting bc natori is trying to protect natsume the only way he knows how and natsume is being confronted with things hes never had to before and hes learning a lot of things abt himself and his worldview

[lovelornlamb]

trying to take my boss's advice and not text him unless he texts me. return the energy. this is just eating me alive