#but it feels fucking impossible

[evilwriter37]

Me in a shaky voice on the verge of tears: Maybe I should read?

[mikqchoux]

Imagine being so basic at content ideas (me)

[benevolenterrancy]

("Always. Continuously. With increasing apprehension, and decreasing hope. I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this." -- paraphrased from The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket)

[madootles]

tma tma tma

[thekittyokat]

you ever just have a lot, a LOT of feelings all at once about a character and not even remotely enough words or brainpower to FORM the words to describe everything you're feeling. so it feels like you may explode. yeah

[somnolentsuggestions]

you have to stay kind. you have to find a way somehow

[hawkeshep]

datv critical post: well thought out, eloquent 5 paragraph essay expressing their disappointment and highlighting what’s wrong with the game and what could’ve been improved upon

bioware dick rider: WELL ACKSHEWALLY the game is amazing and none of you have any reading comprehension or critical thinking skills!!! also you’re fucking stupid and I hope you die xoxo

[sugarcoatednightshade]

thinking about how Humans Are Space Orcs stories always talk about how indestructible humans are, our endurance, our ability to withstand common poisons, etc. and thats all well and good, its really fun to read, but it gets repetitive after a while because we aren't all like that.

And that got me thinking about why this trope is so common in the first place, and the conclusion I came to is actually kind of obvious if you think about it. Not everyone is allowed to go into space. This is true now, with the number of physical restrictions placed on astronauts (including height limits), but I imagine it's just as strict in some imaginary future where humans are first coming into contact with alien species. Because in that case there will definitely be military personnel alongside any possible diplomatic parties.

And I imagine that all interactions aliens have ever had up until this point have been with trained personnel. Even basic military troops conform to this standard, to some degree. So aliens meet us and they're shocked and horrified to discover that we have no obvious weaknesses, we're all either crazy smart or crazy strong (still always a little crazy, academia and war will do that to you), and not only that but we like, literally all the same height so there's no way to tell any of us apart.

And Humans Are Death Worlders stories spread throughout the galaxy. Years or decades or centuries of interspecies suspicion and hostilities preventing any alien from setting foot/claw/limb/appendage/etc. on Earth until slowly more beings are allowed to come through. And not just diplomats who keep to government buildings, but tourists. Exchange students. Temporary visitors granted permission to go wherever they please, so they go out in search of 'real terran culture' and what do they find?

Humans with innate heart defects that prevent them from drinking caffeine. Humans with chronic pain and chronic fatigue who lack the boundless endurance humans are supposedly famous for. Humans too tall or too short or too fat to be allowed into space. Humans who are so scared of the world they need to take pills just to function. Humans with IBS who can't stand spicy foods, capsaicin really is poison to them. Lactose intolerance and celiac disease, my god all the autoimmune disorders out there, humans who struggle to function because their own bodies fight them. Humans who bruise easily and take too long to heal. Humans who sustained one too many concussions and now struggle to talk and read and write. Humans who've had strokes. Humans who were born unable to talk or hear or speak, and humans who through some accident lost that ability later.

Aliens visit Earth, and do you know what they find? Humanity, in all its wholeness.

[gaylactic-fire]

I feel like the only difference between the FNAF timeline and the LoZ timeline is that FNAF fans have gaslit themselves into thinking Scott Cawthon is some genius cryptic storyteller. Zelda fans I think at least have the self-awareness to understand the timeline / cohesiveness is an afterthought to Nintendo

[citricjoy]

can somebody get this 14 year old out of the club

[calebsrottingcorpse]

hits him with the pony ray (closeups below the cut)

[mellodeth]

Noticed that Alot of the people in the tcc have ASPD , DID and sometimes BPD .

[isuggestwishcraft]

i think isafrin dynamic, especially postcanon, is so funny to me because (among other things) isabeau is the notorious Gets Scared When The Horrors Appear type of dude, but also happens to be madly into a guy who, for lack of better words, can be aptly described as The Horrors

[zwoftt]

ok at least the entirety of the cast is also getting edged on dorym shit too its not just us guys! dorian's worry for orym, his little "are you alright?" when orym comes back from the vision with the wildmother, and was asking him a lot of questions about the meeting can i mention WILL telling ORYM to BE HAPPY AND LIVE HIS LIFE??? to not LIVE IN HIS SHADOW??????? TO BASICALLY MOVE ON??!?!!111!!?!! dorian calling orym's plan fun, saying that his backdoor idea was "cool". spin the bottle. i feel like they were constantly looking at each other the whole time. (right?? or was i tweaking?). the way liam laughed when dorian had to kiss chetney.... orym watching dorian sleep, but dorian wasn't asleep either (just with his back towards orym!) ((goddamnit robbie daymond))) the EXPRESSIONS THIS EPISODE... during orym's wildmother meeting, during dorian's 'mostly' truth spiller about his brother though didn't mention that cyrus was murdered by lolth (was ALSO ORYM'S question), dorian speaking to mainly orym during his truth confession??1?/1!1!!!! that being said. orym saw our pretty boy off that pedestal for once, and omg guys he is still very much in love (but im also just glad that liam was making sure he got some dorym action in there too even though robbie was making most of the moments recently!)

[saberdramon]

i can't be normal about pre-85 saemaji now because like. we see so little of majima before anagura and how it broke him bad, and he is just, profusely impossible to deal with after that, especially during his interactions with saejima in 4 and 5. but saejima prevails. sticks with him. punches sense into him if he must. and i just have to wonder what compels him to persevere and i feel like it must be something that he knows that the players never really will. because he knew majima before everything went to shit, and even though they've both changed he still sees that person in majima, and he can dig that out of him, even if in little pieces. i see just so much love here, maybe even a bit of a sunk cost fallacy in that majima's never going to be that same person ever again no matter what saejima does. i think they're both really unwell here chief

[veerbles]

I know it's certainly been said before, but I just know in my heart of hearts that ronan (impulsive, romantic, religious, all or nothing) woke up with a ring in his palms the morning after he and adam kissed for the first time. and then he probably didn't dream for a while, after his mom and gansey and cabeswater and noah - but once he started again and also started sharing a bed with adam I just know that he dreamt rings again, and I just know at some point adam caught onto it, and I just know adam (practical, logical, love-skeptic, took a year to consider his feelings before making a move) freaked the fuck out. and I think that's hilarious.