#bc they don't want to go to ground

[hooned]

more i-land lore 🍨

[rustedleopard]

okay so I hadn't seen your tumblr until this so the whole being a follower thing is new but your stuff about the Ketsukane mansion (and other recent posting) is the Good Shit so i'm going here now. Anyway!

The home gym feels like a very realistic choice because it's something that Chujin should definitely have been able to tell Ceroba would use, but there's not really much *personalization* to it. You don't really need to engage with the idea that someone enjoys exercise to work off it. You add a room, you get a few pieces of exercise equipment like a treadmill and an elliptical, you have a hanging bag to punch on one side, you have somewhere to get water. Maybe you paint it in red and white. That's a good gesture towards someone you love! But in your grand architectural vision you don't really need to interrogate your knowledge of their interests.

Something less immediately likely but that I think could still happen with a BIT more thought without even diving *too* hard into headcanon territory: ...some sort of art studio.

One thing that we do see very solidly about Ceroba is that she enjoys the creative work of the people she cares about. She loves Chujin's artistry in his robotics and even if there are OBVIOUSLY ISSUES with it she loved seeing him creating the estate and his garden. Kanako's art is displayed all over the place and the photo of her holding up her finished mask is kept very specially. Her implements in the pacifist final boss fight are Chujin's gently adorned staff and Kanako's mask. She may find Starlo's hardcore sheriff larp stuff a bit silly, but she still thought it was fun regardless until he pushed it too far.

I think a space for a few different potential kinds of artistic expression could be a really nice gesture. Like, hey, you enjoy art a lot, but you don't seem to have made much of it yourself, maybe you could try things out and see if something clicks with you and *we* can love *your* work. She's buff and lived in the area back before it got totally desertfied; maybe she'd get a kick out of sculpting wood if she had the chance. Maybe she could learn how to paint. Maybe she might not click with any one thing in particular but can still try and share it with the people she cares about.

Diving more into hc stuff on what she might *actually* enjoy having her own space for that can go in a Rich Person House: ...I think she'd like a bowling alley. I know that's random but it's got some fitness elements while being more of a game that you can play against others *or* solo, can work off some anger by throwing a heavy object at some stupid things to make them scatter. Can be real fun in decorations, and it'd be fitting to have a couple TVs in there for watching movies or the like when they're not being scoreboards. It's something you generally dress down for (nobody looks fancy in bowling shoes). I dunno, I think it'd actually be pretty fun for her.

Hey, no worries about being new here. It's nice to have you!

(in relation to this post) *points very intensely at your idea of Ceroba having a room dedicated to some sort of artistic endeavor* I love that idea a lot!

I think a gym would be the most realistic option for Ceroba from what we see out of Ceroba and Chujin's relationship, since she's so damn self-effacing and thinks that maturity means slotting herself into the role of a housewife that she doesn't really let herself have fun. The only thing she really mentions about herself in the Steamworks is that she used to go to the gym until she quit about a year before canon (which, considering that she had to pick up work at Cafe Dune to support the family financially and how Chujin passed away fairly recently, really paints quite the picture for why this happened). A gym would be the most likely option since it was like... the one thing she brought up about herself. But as you brought up it isn't exactly personal.

Having a home gym for her would have been the bare minimum though. Even if it's not as personal as programming a videogame for Kanako, it would've at least shown that Chujin is paying attention to Ceroba's wants. I headcanon that Chujin at least tried to make the kitchen as nice as he could for Ceroba, but that doesn't erase the fact that a kitchen is heavily tied to the domestic duties of a housewife. Unintentional as I imagine it to be, slotting your wife into the role of a housewife while your kid gets to be a kid in her space and you get to be yourself in both of yours? That's pretty Cringe-jin 😬. Ceroba didn't express a strong interest in cooking that would have justified this either.

But if Ceroba and Chujin did have a healthy relationship with each other, I could definitely see the art studio idea playing out, since as you said, both Kanako and Chujin express themselves creatively in their own ways and it would be great if she was encouraged to as well. Maybe it's the amount of pottery videos I've watched recently speaking through me, but I love the idea of Ceroba getting into ceramic art. She doesn't strike me as the sort to mind getting dirty, I can just see her at the end of a rough day tying back her kimono sleeves with tasuki, slapping a slab of clay onto the pottery wheel, and just going at it, even if nothing good comes out of it. Letting Starlo shoot at her rejected projects because the glaze didn't come out of the kiln well so eh. go nuts breaking them, I don't care. Her gifting the Sunnyside family a homemade vase or bowl. Maybe experimenting with kintsugi. Letting Kanako work alongside her making coil pots and pinch pots. Or your wood working idea that you brought up! Something more hands-on!

(Also, it's funny that you brought up the bowling idea since someone who does seem to like bowling in canon is Martlet, considering that she has an attack where she drops bowling balls. Maybe if Chujin were closer with her, he would have invited her over and they would've bowled together. Ah well, c'est la vie...)

[sergle]

There's something about like. A certain genre of posts / Online Opinions about insecurity/depression/misery/complaints that are so unhelpful that they wrap right around to being straight up hilarious. and it's the ones that are more or less written to the tone of "Feeling bad? That's gross!" Like, just so you know, don't voice your insecurities/ have low self esteem, because that's offputting! You're gross and weird. Don't be insecure about that, though. That would be stupid if you felt insecure about people disliking you for being insecure. Not attractive. You should be thinking about being as attractive as possible. You shouldn't make comments about suicide, even if you're suicidal! Keep those thoughts entirely to yourself. Make sure nobody around you knows you're thinking about this. It would Make Them Uncomfortable. It's better to keep these thoughts in your head where they can fester. Don't post OR talk to friends with complaints about you feeling miserable or depressed. Tbh people who are sad/upset a lot? Kinda a red flag! You are probably miserable because you're a bad person and you've brought this on yourself. If you don't have friends, it's because you're awful to be around. Easy! Solved the problem for you. And no, there is no nuance to this, got it? So, make sure to feel bad about feeling bad, but don't feel bad about it, because, well, that's just gross. And annoying! You might've wanted your brain rotted thoughts to be Peer Reviewed, you might have just needed to vent- you might've been hoping for some comfort, to get things off your chest. Well, don't! Don't talk about thoughts or feelings that are negative with your friends, you'd be burdening them and that's only meant for THERAPY. #SponsoredbyBetterHelp #MentalHealth like, DAMN. that's so helpful. you're so good at helping. I um really liked the part where these are all hard and fast rules that encourage keeping feelings bottled up and keeping your friends at arm's length. That's really funny of you.

[ohboy-herewegoagain]

working on the sampo compilation post i mentioned a little while ago but. there is such a tragic lack of sampo and black swan being reluctant homies in fan content. Most of her story quest is them having to put up with Sparkle's bullshit (affectionate) together.

[rimouskis]

can I be so open and vulnerable with you guys. the card I was given from people at my old office was sincerely so nice and really validating but also I feel like the main impression I left other people with was "she's really nice" WHICH IS GOOD, I DO WANT TO BE KNOWN AS NICE but also part of me is like... should I maybe strive for "innovative" or "creative" or "a go-getter" because being The Nice One just feels a little mealy-mouthed of me y'know?

[timeskip]

I can't allow myself to have hope that the remaining Tetro pairs will survive. I cannot. I need to brace myself for them to die. I CANNOT ALLOW MYSELF TO HOPE. EVEN THOUGH I WANT TO SO BAD.

[cuntwrap--supreme]

Lol. Lmao even.

[taraxippos]

Idk if it's me getting older or less fandom brained but I don't really get the 'shipping' impulse for the most part. Like I have to either REALLY believe a romantic angle is being intentionally written (and I tend to go into things with a hard skeptic angle to avoid disappointment LOL), or be really desperate for a femslash option (and even then it has to be at least a little plausible to me).

Like I do get heavily invested in fictional characters' relationships but it's usually more of an 'as-is' thing. I don't really understand the appeal in putting characters together romantically/etc just because you Can.

[depresseddepot]

okay. can someone reassure me that I will have other chances to see the northern lights because I am feeling very end of the world-y right now

[korattata]

where on the internet can i ask for advice on how to repair my relationship with the wasps that live outside of my house

[asinglesock]

just realized my fatal flaw and the great struggle of possibly the rest of my life. while watching a cdrama.

[katierosefun]

playing minecraft is a bit dangerous for me because i’ll tell myself that i’ll play only for 20 minutes and then it’ll be approximately two hours later

[rustycottoncandy]

Lmao I need therapy

[abyssalpriest]

I think whatever I end up doing the lesson is at its core "you need to stop seeing all attempts at saying you experience something as you taking up too much space and being dangerous, and you also need to understand everyone always makes mistakes sometimes (nothing anyone thinks is fully right) and you're not lesser and amateur at channelling because you aren't fully right, and also some third thing he says there is but idk what it is"

[truthdarespinbottles]

every so often my depression causes me to impulsively look up my ex best friend and ex boyfriend from high school a million years ago on Facebook and ya know? I always feel better about myself afterwards

[ssaalexblake]

seen a lot of Marvels discourse around and i can honestly say it surprised me bc i had No idea there was a new mcu movie out, which IS surprising bc i can't avoid that normally even though i actively try to (got mcu fatigue at like, the third cap movie, i have no idea how long ago that was now but it's been a while).

So I guess maybe i think an advertising issue might be another thing going on here.