#but invisible to everyone else

[teaboot]

Going from rural living to city living is weird. Used to be Mom and I’d go outside and smell something uniquely bitter-sour-sweet and I’d go “smells big” and she’d be like “could you go take care of it?” and I’d go out and find a sheep or deer in the bush and that’d be my afternoon. Now I step outside for foot patrol and someone’s be like “ugh stinks like trash” and I’ll just go hmmm. Raccoon. Could probably find it in about 10 minutes. Not my job tho

[tiredbit]

Hey, if you’re saying that transandrophobia isn’t real because trans men aren’t as oppressed as other trans people

And your evidence is that there aren’t as many trans men in history and that trans men don’t show up in public statistics as much

I need you to sit down, and think very very hard about why a population that consists of people who are considered to be women, property, barely not children, would not show up in statistics as trans men

[call-me-copycat]

PSA To My Hero Academia fans on RedNote/ Xiaohongshu!

I've seen a lot of people going to Xiaohongshu! That's great! However I think this is something you should know (;´∀`)･･ｧﾊﾊﾊ･･

My Hero Academia is the only anime that is a major taboo! As a long term MHA fan it saddens me greatly - but it offends the Chinese people so don't post anything My Hero Academia related!

They're very lenient with foreigners fortunately, but there have been cases of death threats and harassment to a couple MHA posters. It's essentially banned/blacklisted (socially at least)

I've seen people asking, but so far it's an MHA only type thing - no other anime (to my knowledge) has this type of resentment.

It's not an"oh this anime is cringy" type hate. It's a deep seated resentment - because of Dr. Garaki.

So for those that don't know, way back in late 2019/early 2020, there was this whole catastrophe regarding Horikoshi-sensei's naming of him. His original name was "Maruta Shiga". Many saw this as an ode to the WWII experimentation on Chinese citizens by the imperialist Japanese army and unit 731, and seeing that he's a doctor who experiments on people (to make Nomu)... This wasn't taken well

The Chinese saw it as him pretty much spitting on their history, and saw it as a mockery of their patriotism. Therefore, My Hero Academia as a whole is extraordinarily offensive on any Chinese platform in general

However this was entirely a mistake on Horikoshi's side. As we all know, he likes to have fun with his names and names his characters by appearance, power, or behavior. "Maruta" was meant to portray the Doctor's roundness (as Horikoshi said, "he's a short, portly man"), but it was also the Japanese word for "log" - which many saw as a reference to Unit 731 (many many trigger warnings for those who look into that. It's horrific). "Shiga" was chosen simply because it was similar to Shigaraki's name. It was an unfortunate combination.

Horikoshi didn't intend for it to be such an insensitive reference and immediately changed the doctor's name to Garaki within a week on all digital copies. He's apologized as well, but still to this day My Hero is a big taboo (⁠｡⁠•́⁠︿⁠•̀⁠｡⁠)

I'm very sorry to my My Hero Academia friends! But I ask of you to keep it invisible on Chinese platforms like Xiaohongshu - just save it for other places like here, okay?

[hellsquills]

Thinking about feral ford, and how his whole deal is that he had to learn to survive in literal animal conditions just to see the next sunrise. How that turned him into a permanently caged animal, skittish and angry, violent and so, so scared.

Thinking about those dogs and cats that grow up in shelters and will snap at anyone, even if they have good intentions. He will NOT let them close. What's close to you can kill you easier than what's far away.

Ford hides, and stays away, because he likes things to be at arm's length. Obviously, there's a point after he leaves whatever dimension made him like this that the feeling slows down, and he starts feeling like himself again. It's a slow process, mainly because he's still in danger everywhere he goes, but he grows out of it. For the most part.

It's post-Weirdmaggedon, and all the threats Ford has learned to live with are gone. There's no Bill, no dangerous monsters around, no one after him. Just him, and the kids, and his brother, and his brother's kids. It's wonderful, of course. He has no complaints. He never thought this would happen, and he couldn't be happier.

But that happiness isn't always obvious, not in the way he thinks it is. Stan's new family is nice to him, as he is with them, but every once in a while he catches them staring after he says something, and it rubs him the wrong way. He will be doing whatever and someone is looking at him shocked. They never mention anything, they try not to stare, but there's something there and it's driving Ford crazy.

Stan is different. He's still the brother he remembers in some ways (the important ways), and honesty is still one of them. Stan tells him things straight to his face, without sugar-coating it, and he always understands Ford when he talks. He looks at him and he sees him, and Ford couldn't be more thankful.

So he goes to Stan for answers, because his brother has always been good at reading people. He asks him whether his family is okay with him being here, if they resent him now that they know his story with Stan, and why (or if) they're looking at him weirdly sometimes.

Stan simply replies that Ford has mannerisms they're not used to. Every once in a while, Ford will go non-verbal for hours, or just speak in sounds, or do things that the average person doesn't do. Ford is embarrassed about it and apologizes, saying that he'll try to abstain from doing such things, if only Stan explains what exactly it is that he's doing wrong. Stanley simply states that he's doing nothing wrong: he does things differently, sure, but it isn't hurting anybody or making them uncomfortable.

Ford isn't convinced by this, so Stan rolls his eyes and mentions some things the other people in the shack do: Soos is very touchy, and sometimes he doesn't understand physical boundaries and has to step back; Wendy is really snappy, and she will often let her mouth run faster than her judgment, which she always apologizes for afterward; even Melody, who has been living there the shortest, makes herself known every now and then by hiccupping or shouting involuntarily. Those are just things they do, but they aren't that big of a deal. Sure, sometimes Soos hugs you one too many times in the day, and Wendy makes an unwanted comment, and Melody yells right outside your door while you sleep. Those are just things they do and can hardly avoid, but there's no harm in them.

Thinking about Ford being so scared of having forgotten how to be a human being now that he's back on Earth and finding out how wrong he is. About him learning not only not to bite any hand that comes near him, but also that those hands are sometimes helping ones. That he has finally, finally escaped the kennel, and he's now at a loving home.

[itsnotmourn]

simple monster lore

[sloasis]

Lowkey ... a Chris NDE would go so hard in future seasons , hear me out though like of course we DON'T want to see him get hurt or put in distress , more than he has with his CP but like . The Tsunami arc is one of the best because he was directly involved with it and Denny just had a scare with that car crash and Karen having to do a field blood transfusion so like imagine him and Eddie doing that !! Or Eddie running ragged and losing his mind because he thinks he lost Chris ... and Buck is RIGHT there by his side trying to calm him and himself and keep them level headed while they figure out what happened / where Chris is and if he's okay even though he's absolutely losing his mind as well and it's just gonna be really tense but also really sweet because Buck LOVES that kid like his own son He probably would straight up yell it at someone ( a cop or a doctor ) when they try to get in their way and then they bring up THE WILL !! And they have a really nice conversation , Buck , Eddie and Chris in the hospital maybe , about it and Chris calls themthe Buckley Diaz family .. oh I would die for something like this

[aropride]

i think the uhc shooter was in the right, & i think luigi is being framed & it's horrifying to see it play out like this, & fuck the nypd and the fbi etc. and i agree that people shouldn't refer to the uhc shooter using luigi's name or assume that he did it just bc the cops say he did it. bc there's a lot of reasons to doubt that and speculate that he's being framed. that being said. "innocent until proven guilty" is a legal principle meaning the judge/jury/etc should always assume innocence until there's proof of guilt beyond reasonable doubt & the burden of proof is on the prosecution. it doesn't mean u personally as Just Some Guy* (*or other word with different gender connotation) and not a member of a jury/etc can't have or share opinions on the guilt of someone before there's a legal case.

and tbf there's also something to be said as well for the fact that seeing a bunch of people referring to the uhc shooter as luigi will influence people to believe it's him either consciously or unconsciously. and that could influence the jury/the court in general. which is a fair point. but i think "innocent until proven guilty" is the wrong phrase to use.

maybe i'm nitpicking, but the only other time i really see that phrase used to mean "you ('you' being Some Guy*) can't Post or Behave as if someone's guilty of something until after the courts say so," is with sexual assault / abuse allegations when people don't want the accused to be held responsible. which might be a me thing, but it does bother me. and again to be clear i don't think he did it! i think he's innocent! but the way people phrase the idea that we shouldn't assume luigi is the shooter makes me feel. for lack of a better term. eughck

[chalkscrub]

babygirl doodles from a little while ago

[transsexula]

No. Google. I'm actually looking specifically for trans MEN. I know a lot of articles talk about trans women. But I'm specifically looking for stuff about my subset of the trans community. Why the fuck are trans men so hyper-invisible.

[stars-in-a-jam-jar]

Guys.

I don't think Kipperlily's great metatextual crime is level grinding.

Kipperlily Copperkettle's metatextual dungeons and dragons crime is metagaming

[vickyvicarious]

“I made a mistake, Kemp, a huge mistake, in carrying this thing through alone. I have wasted strength, time, opportunities. Alone—it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end. “What I want, Kemp, is a goal-keeper, a helper, and a hiding-place, an arrangement whereby I can sleep and eat and rest in peace, and unsuspected. I must have a confederate. With a confederate, with food and rest—a thousand things are possible. “Hitherto I have gone on vague lines. We have to consider all that invisibility means, all that it does not mean. It means little advantage for eavesdropping and so forth—one makes sounds. It’s of little help—a little help perhaps—in housebreaking and so forth. Once you’ve caught me you could easily imprison me. But on the other hand I am hard to catch. This invisibility, in fact, is only good in two cases: It’s useful in getting away, it’s useful in approaching. It’s particularly useful, therefore, in killing. I can walk round a man, whatever weapon he has, choose my point, strike as I like. Dodge as I like. Escape as I like.” Kemp’s hand went to his moustache. Was that a movement downstairs? “And it is killing we must do, Kemp.” “It is killing we must do,” repeated Kemp. “I’m listening to your plan, Griffin, but I’m not agreeing, mind. Why killing?” “Not wanton killing, but a judicious slaying. The point is, they know there is an Invisible Man—as well as we know there is an Invisible Man. And that Invisible Man, Kemp, must now establish a Reign of Terror. Yes; no doubt it’s startling. But I mean it. A Reign of Terror. He must take some town like your Burdock and terrify and dominate it. He must issue his orders. He can do that in a thousand ways—scraps of paper thrust under doors would suffice. And all who disobey his orders he must kill, and kill all who would defend them.”

There's so much going on in this conversation. First, the obvious irony of Griffin telling Kemp how he understands now that he needs a helper he can trust, while Kemp is trying to ensure he gets caught in the next few minutes. Griffin saying that he will be easily imprisoned once caught but that he's hard to catch, as Kemp frets over whether they will be able to catch him now. That's pretty obvious, and both funny and also sad. It's perfectly understandable for Kemp to want Griffin to be caught even before he talks about this plan, but it sucks that Griffin's sincerity is just completely bouncing off him. Griffin is for the first time trying to make a connection with someone (something that could potentially turn this situation around) but he's been rejected from the start.

But there's also... what is Griffin talking about? This goes from 'yeah, Griffin, you shouldn't be going it alone' to 'no Griffin not like that holy shit' real damn fast. And it's really interesting in the context of the rest of his behavior, because... this really doesn't seem to match it throughout most of the book so far.

Griffin has used plenty of violence before now. He defaults to threats or physical harm when he feels too vulnerable or powerless. But while he's been reckless and careless with it, there has never really been premeditated malice to anything he does. He's not scheming evil upon others. He's mostly reacting, again, often in what seems a kind of panic. When he gets most violent, at least. He has done harmful things with forethought, but those are mostly limited to theft, and are informed by selfishness and a lack of consideration/awareness of potential consequences.

He also has been consistently motivated by curing his invisibility. He wants his resources back, and privacy/freedom to work in order to do just that. He very quickly decided making himself invisible was a shortsighted mistake, as he encountered drawback after drawback in the immediate aftermath. He also wasn't motivated by any particular single goal of seizing power when he made himself invisible. He was deeply depressed and clinging to 'seeing it through', and then panicked when he came into conflict with his landlord. His paranoia about his invention was intense, but that too is linked to him seeking control over his own life, not others' as such.

So then, why this turnaround? Well, last chapter he said this:

"I had one hope. It was a half idea! I have it still. It is a full blown idea now. A way of getting back! Of restoring what I have done. When I choose. When I have done all I mean to do invisibly."

So, now it seems Griffin's motivation has shifted. He no longer wants immediate relief from invisibility. Instead, he wants to do things while invisible first. He wants to establish a Reign of Terror, to take over a town by utilizing his invisibility in the only way he can see it being of practical use: murder and the spreading of fear. But he says that as a 'must' as 'judicious'. So it's still not for the pleasure of it. Then, why?

First, I frankly don't believe Griffin is actually capable of enforcing the kind of siege he describes here. Physically maybe (depending on how unprepared others are), but emotionally I don't think he could keep it up. He'd collapse, he'd succumb to the guilt he clearly does feel at times. When he's not in a constant state of high emotion (largely fear, which with Griffin transitions seamlessly into rage) he wouldn't be able to keep murdering people so coldly and logically. He can of course work himself up over time, and can hold a grudge, which might be enough to get him started enacting this plan, but I don't believe he could see it through all the way. Still enough to do monstrous things, of course, just not enough to be effective at establishing his goal. (And even that shows his typical lack of forethought. Does he think that no one else would help them? That this town would just succumb to him in total isolation?)

But why does he even want it? I think it actually reflects all his same motivations until now. He feels cornered and he reacts badly, lashing out at others. As the rejection builds all around him, as his options dwindle, as his fear and helplessness grow - he consistently reacts by escalating and proving everyone's worst assumptions about him correct. And right now, even though he has found Kemp and thinks he can mostly trust him, it's not enough to make him feel safe. There are lots of people actively hunting him, now. And he can't just stay in Kemp's rooms forever. He would hate the idea, would feel imprisoned. He doesn't think much of stealing from others, but absolutely hates being stolen from (and he has so little, that the loss feels correspondingly huger), especially something like his books which contain the key to freeing him. So being here is a brief reprieve but he's still deeply afraid. And that makes him deeply angry. And so he wants revenge, he wants to punish them (in general, who make him feel afraid - and Marvel in particular, who has 'betrayed' him).

He also quite likely knows even with his idea it will take an unknown but likely significant amount more time to perfect his cure. So even if all he wanted was to be cured, he would need a safe place to work until then. And the tension is so high right now, his fear of being betrayed is so strong, that I don't think he believes it would be possible to do the necessary work unless he has the town cowed under his invisible heel.

“I don’t agree to this, Griffin,” he said. “Understand me, I don’t agree to this. Why dream of playing a game against the race? How can you hope to gain happiness? Don’t be a lone wolf. Publish your results; take the world—take the nation at least—into your confidence. Think what you might do with a million helpers—”

This line is also key. Kemp urges Griffin to confide in others. All his considerations of the usefulness of invisibility were from the perspective of a lone man against a cruel world. Very selfish and very assuming of a hostile environment. This too is reflected in Griffin's treatment of the few people he has reached out to - Marvel and Kemp. In both cases, he seeks understanding and sympathy. But he also seeks it at metaphorical gunpoint, by threatening them with what he could invisibly do to harm them. It's because as much as he may pour out his heart to Kemp here, he doesn't fully trust him. He doesn't fully trust anyone. By collaborating with them, all he is doing is giving them power over him, and that means they have power to hurt him. So instead he clings to his own power to hurt them first.

In Griffin's eyes, there is no such thing as an equal relationship. There is such thing as trust rewarded, or even given freely. And so in order to ensure his own safety he has to be the one in charge. He has to convince Kemp that they will both reap great rewards, he has to be able to hurt him and get away should anything fall through.

It all ties in perfectly with his backstory of being an outsider (albino, not socially adept at all), and being poor (in many ways powerless). And of course, it is such a self-fulfilling prophecy of terrible outcomes. If you only give violence, you're only getting violence in return. Someone has to let their guard down first, someone has to be willing to trust and be vulnerable for things to ever change. But Griffin is convinced that would be a mistake to ever fully do. And as much as I want to tell him he's wrong, his experiences corroborate that view. Everywhere he goes, he's experienced rejection and hate, or nosiness and distrust at best, no matter how much he tries to be on his best behavior. Every time he even partially lets down his guard or reaches out to others, they turn on him. And of course so much of that is because of the way he never fully relaxes, the way he always keeps a threat hanging over their heads, but he's not gonna see that. All he's gonna see is that he's been right all along. That he truly is in this alone. That he has to be selfish and he has to hit first and hit harder because he is outnumbered and if they catch him he won't be able to get away.

[powerfulkicks]

ppl need to talk more about how the experience of getting diagnosed with chronic conditions can lead chronic pain sufferers to literally question their own sanity and experiences

like after getting so many tests and they all come back fine, you eventually start to question if you're even feeling pain at all or if you just somehow made it all up. you can't even identify if you're in pain anymore because every test is telling you that you're healthy. maybe everyone just feels like this and you're the weak one for not being able to handle it.

this is on top of the shit you'll get from doctors or friends or family members saying that it's all in your head or that it's somehow your fault for being in pain. you just need to exercise! you just need to eat right! do yoga! you're not doing enough!you start to think they're right, because nobody can find anything wrong with you. so it MUST be your fault!

it starts to take over your mind until you can't figure out if what you're feeling is even real. it makes you doubt that you can accurately label your own experiences. it makes you feel like a liar in your own head!

and it took me a long time to realize that i'm not tricking myself into feeling pain and what im feeling is real. and even though i might never get a doctor to tell me yes, your pain is real, and i know what's causing it, at least i can tell myself that what i am feeling is REAL. i am in pain and i am not making it up!

[yeonban]

VALENTINE'S PERSONALITY QUIZ ! ↳ Tobias.

Why is this unironically accurate as all hell... I need every single one of you guys to do this too ASAPPP

[simplydnp]

so funny watching this video with the context of the dan and phil of it all

[idiot-draws]

she's finally visible again!!!

[comatosebunny09]