#but I'm enjoying it

[alex31624]

Dipcifica fics from almost 10 years ago, save me.

[rizwalda]

♫ that's not my name ♩ ♪

[luckycharms1701]

I have a request pls? What kind of personality/attitude/person would each bay boy look for in a partner? Love u lucky 🫶🫶

awww thanks anon-chan!!! love you too! ☀️💚🥰💚☀️

this was kind of hard, i kept thinking about what i think they’d need instead of what they’d actually want. thank you for asking, i appreciate the challenge!!

Leo: I think Leo would look for someone who is dedicated and steadfast, much like him. It doesn’t necessarily matter what they’re dedicated to (*cough*family*cough*), just that they are passionate about it. He would definitely prefer someone who shares his interests. I think he’d want someone quiet and demure, but would definitely end up with someone who’s not. 😂

Raph: Raph wants someone who can match his… energy is probably the best word. Someone who can go toe to toe with him in an argument and not back down. Who is snarky and intelligent and most importantly not afraid of him. They don’t have to share his exact interests necessarily, but he would like something adjacent. Like someone who does yoga to match his weightlifting, for example. Painting to his knitting.

Donnie: Curiosity is definitely a must for Donnie to be interested in you. Intelligence isn’t so much of a factor as a desire to learn. I think he’d like someone who knows when to be quiet and when to be excited. You don’t have to share his interests as long as you’re okay with him telling you about them. He would like someone who has interests that can be done quietly in the lab so you can spend a lot of time in the same space.

Mikey: We all know what Mikey’s about. F-U-N fun! He’ll look for a partner who loves fun as much as he does. More than that, though, what he longs for is understanding and acceptance. Someone who loves him not only despite his personality and turtley-ness, but perhaps because of it. As far as Mikey’s concerned, the more interests the better. He wants to share his with you and learn yours as well, no matter what it is.

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edit: haha sure did forget the taglist

head bonks: @yorshie @avery73 @justalotoffanfiction @thejudiciousneurotic

[twicetolivetwicetodie]

Epic the Musical thoughts:

I wonder which Odyssey translation Jorge read cause the translation I'm reading does not paint Odysseus in a good light. I think it's cause she emphasizes the problematic aspects of his character more?

I am planning on reading multiple translations though (I hear both the Lattimore and Fagles translations are good)

Something the translator said in the introduction though is that the art of translation is in itself an adaptation which is so fascinating to me

Just some random thoughts as I work my way through book 22 of this translation of the Odyssey and relistening to the Thunder Saga

[brinnanza]

started watching derry girls because a sitcom is about my mental speed these days and I would die for sister michael I do not care about anyone else a quip queen I want her to marry me

[bardic-perdita]

Some more of my recent sketches that I actually like. Compared to previous drawings, these are marked improvements.

[funnier-as-a-system]

Heyy I'm that game concept anon! Wanted to say that it's been absolutely lovely to read about different systems' experiences!! Nice to see we're not alone lol. I'm usually pretty confident in what we have going on, and people around us (in college) somehow are... supportive, even tho they don't understand what I'm talking about like half the time, but that moment bent me out of shape a little. Glad to report that I'm now back into the proper confident shape yeehaw :)

Also in my first ask I somehow failed to mention this, but the whole deal with the "romantic connotations" was literally just my teacher making it up himself. Like as much as I wanted to show my relationship with my husband/co-host one for one, I wasn't originally going to make the game characters have a romantic relationship. Cuz platonic relationships are very important too! And overall the goal was to show how alters should have better in-sys communication and collective problem-solving, when possible (and NOT bully each other for 'stealing' each other's life, and NOT bully the persecutors for being mean without trying to figure out why they're mean and without trying to help them, and NOT bully other alters for acting like they do without learning their reasoning, like we did, unfortunately.) I guess husband's 'Protective husband' energy was just too intense for the teacher to handle lol. But NOW I do want to incorporate in-sys dating. We'll see how it goes, I guess.

(also please take care!! That's a lot of asks to have wow. Hope you're doing well!)

Hey there!! It's great to hear from you again!

I'm really glad you're feeling better after what happened. So, your professor was just seeing romance where there wasn't any, huh? Feels like a common theme with professors whenever someone writes about any kind of close relationship – maybe it's due to amatonormativity, or maybe in this case it's just your husband's "protective husband energy", as you say, haha. But I'm happy to hear that you've continued working on your project with passion, and that you have people who support you!

I'm also happy to learn more about this game concept you're working on, because it sounds very cool! Everything that you list are important things for systems to learn, though I find many systems struggle to learn them when they first discover their plurality. As we said to a friend once, with how strongly the idea of "one body = one self = one life" is cemented into everyday narratives, it's difficult to unpack that and accept that your body and life may not be only your own, thus making it difficult to accept your system and respect your headmates. Of course, this doesn't excuse rude or cruel behavior between system members, but it's a common reason we've found for conflicts that occur shortly after syscovery. So, I find the fact that you're not just acknowledging but showing these conflicts and the process of improving relationships (with the word "relationships" being used in a general sense here) between headmates in your game to be a very good thing!

Thank you very much for the follow-up – and for the concern, haha! We'll be alright, but I think we'll soon have to create a specific tag for all these asks about intrasystem relationships. Maybe "datenight musings" will work? Hm, we'll workshop it.

[yellowvixen]

Oh I'm cooking up some real good sonic prime angst >:]

[elurinwolfang]

YO! Guess what's coming soon ;) "soon" is a lie cuz I'm slow af and of course I had to go and draw a whole group pose (yes, I make 99% of my problems) SO ANYWAYS STAY TUNED FOR MORE!! :D ☀️ (if u want to 👉🏻👈🏻)

[styxisms]

// Sorry all my writing energy is going into a project I'm working on.

[mod2amaryllis]

if i post my wip gaster playlist you guys would laugh me off the stage

[pansychubb]

“In short, he plainly hinted that we could not possibly do better than try pot-luck at the Try Pots.”

I can’t believe 19th-century American author Herman Melville made me laugh today.

[kingedmundsroyalmurder]

I am two years late to the new Lorde album, but boy, we collectively fucked this poor girl up, didn't we?

[troutfur]

Fern and Ash partician AU: yeah, I like those ideas. I think I'm still going to have the imposter take over Onestar,but it won't be connected to Darktail becoming Shadowclan's leader. After everything is settled, and Rowan gives up his lives and Darktail becomes Darkstar, and also get River and Wind to give up some of their territory so every clan has an equal amount of territory.

Oooh, that sounds interesting!

[podcastwizard]

literally drinking a beer by the lake and still opened tumblr. some of us are beyond saving

[marlynnofmany]

Add another one to the list of hilarious examples of why generative AI doesn't produce correct answers, just statistically likely ones.

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