#but let me have my fun

[limon-rat]

I'm doing a lot of thinking tonight, and one of the things I'm thinking about is the names of the Hatchetfield characters.

A lot of them have meaning, obviously, that's how characters work, but they're all so simple, mostly their first names.

(i talk a lot so more under the cut)

Paul, Emma, Alice, Ted, Peter, Tom, Becky, Bill, Gerald- So few characters have names that you wouldn't find out in the wild. They have people names. Names that regular ass humans have. Names that any dude you wave to on the street might have. Names that the lady you pass in the grocery store might have.

Some of the few characters that have unique/even remotely different names are Lex, which is a nickname for Alexandra, Ziggs/Ziggy, who's nonbinary and chose their name, Deb, which is (probably) short for Deborah, and Miss Holloway, who has to use a different alias every decade or so and can never give out her real name, which might just be a regular person name.

And all these normal people names makes it hit harder. This is just some dude that happens to live at hell's gate. Even people who now hold great importance and can't escape the narrative have normal people names. General John Macnamera's name is John, Hannah is Hannah, Ted's full name is Theodore and that's still a regular ass name.

None of these people were meant to be tormented by Eldritch gods. They weren't supposed to be important. They're just people and they're stuck in the most cursed town in existence and it's not their fault that the narrative chose them.

[light-cornflower-blue]

I'd say Brekker, but then you'll ask me which one I mean

[princess-aeducan]

Okay I’ve been fairly neutral on Lucanis for most of the marketing but today he wins. Unreasonably excited for possessed emo boy 2.0 Antivan Crow edition I get it now.

[tomaytow]

imagine venti making an effort in the morning to feed you an amazing breakfast because he’s such an amazing lover and once he serves it to you, you sleepily look at him with a raised brow

“what is it?”

“there’s way too many ketchup.”

venti, who dies a little inside when you didn’t comment on the cute octopus shaped hotdogs and on the long sweet message he wrote on the omelette with said ketchup, flinches hard. “THAT’S WHAT YOU’VE NOTICED??”

[iwatcheditbegin]

Calcium Harvest mention

[narcoticwriter]

So if anything a large enough group of Orks believe is true then comes to pass, does that mean that if enough of them believe that The Imperium sucks, that this can cause The Imperium to have noticeable trouble with the Orks regardless of anything they have going for them?

[kenapiece-main]

Can you believe I'm having to make this meme even after successfully finishing up taxes and applying to job

[capybara-platypus]

so uh apparently no ones done this yet. behold the touden friends. smiling meshi. delicious in friends. etc.

[hinamie]

alongside someone like you

[machinerot]

[dkettchen]

cursed construction core hi vis bra that came to me in a dream

In the dream I saw it in the window display of a hardware/DIY/trade shop, implying it was meant to be a practical garment designed for actual female constructions workers in a Female Armour level missed-the-brief attempt at gender inclusion

The practical support from the visible underwire combined with the hi vis implying it’s not meant to be worn as an undergarment, I just-

I blame my binge-reading ND Stevenson’s gender comics talking abt masculinity and femininity incl the one abt Victoria’s Secret lingerie yesterday for this monstrosity x’D

[inkskinned]

there are a lot of posts out there that are positive and healthy coping mechanisms for handling the holidays. this is not one of them :)

i think there's like. going to be times in your life you will be stuck in a social situation that you cannot escape from gracefully. i do not know why the internet doesn't believe these times exist. it's not always just that your physical safety is at risk - sometimes it's legit like "i just don't currently have the energy or time to put in the effort of responding to this." sometimes it's a coworker you hate so much. sometimes it's just like, fine, you know? like you know you can handle your aunt when she's cheerily horrible, but if you actually set a boundary around her, it's going to be weeks of fallout with your father.

i don't know why people think the answer is always just "cut them out!" or "don't let them get away with that!" because ... the real world is tricky and complicated. i think kind of a lot of us have an internal "radiation poisoning" meter for certain people. like - i'm talking about the ones who are absolutely giving you gradual ick damage. like, you can handle them, but you'll be exhausted.

and yes. you absolutely should listen to your therapist and the good posts about handling others and set good boundaries and take care of yourself. prioritize peace.

HOWEVER :) ...... since im often in a situation with a Gradual Sense of Ick person i cannot just "cut out" of my life (without losing someone else precious to me) - i have sort of developed the most. maladaptive form of mischief possible. because like, if i'm going to have to listen to this shit again, i like to have a little bit of private fun with it.

now! again, i am physically safe, just mentally drained by this man. you should only do this with people you are not in danger with. which leads me to my suggestions for when your Unfortunate Acquaintance shows up and says oh everyone pay attention to me.

my favorite word is "maybe!" said as brightly and happily as possible. whenever the Horrible Person starts in on a topic you do not want to go further with, particularly if they make a claim that you know to be inaccurate, do not respond to it. you and i have both tried to actually argue with this person, and it hasn't gone well, because this person just wants the drama of an argument. however, "maybe!" gives them literally nothing to go on. it is incredibly disarming. they are used to people having some response. they know they can't prove what they're saying, and maybe! treats them like the child they are. it dismisses them in the politest way possible.

i like to say maybe! and then, in their stunned silence, immediately change the subject. this is because i have adhd and i will have something unrelated to talk about, but if you can't think of topics fast enough, i recommend just pointing to something and saying, "isn't that lovely?" because fuck you let's bring in some positivity.

by the way. that second trick - of pointing to something and stating an opinion about it? - that just works on its own, like, 70% of the time. i picked it up from teaching preschoolers. it's an intentional "redirect". it stops children crying and it also stops grown adults from finishing their explanation on why women belong in kitchens. dual wielding!

keep it silly for yourself. i absolutely do not care if people think i'm fucking stupid (it's more fun if they do) and as a result i will purposefully misunderstand things just to see how long it takes them to realize i've completely removed them from the subject at hand. when they say "women aren't funny" i get to be like. "which women." "all women." "all women in america?" "no in the world." "like the mole people? the people in the world?" "what? no. like, alive." "oh are we not counting the mole people?" "what the fuck are you talking about." "you don't believe in the mole people?"

similarly, i play a personal game called "one up me." my Evil Acquaintance literally knows this game exists (my family & friends caught onto it and now also play it) and it always fucking gets him. i don't know why. you have to be willing to be a little free-spirited on this one, though. the trick is that when they make one of those horrible little bigoted or annoying comments they are always making, you need to go one unit weirder. not more intense, mind you - just more weird. "you don't look good in that dress." "yeah, actually, my other dress was covered in squid ink due to a mishap at the soup store." "you shouldn't wear such revealing clothes." "wait, what? oh shit. sorry, your son tears off strips when no one is looking and eats them. i swear it was longer before we left the building."

the point of "one up me" is to completely upend this person's narrative. we both know this person likes setting up situations where you cannot "win" and then they really like telling other people how badly you handled it. in a usual situation, if you respond "please don't say something that rude", you're a bitch. but if you let it happen, you're letting yourself be debased. they are not usually expecting door number three: unflappably odd. because what are they going to say when they're telling everyone how badly you behaved? "she said my son eats her dresses" ".... okay?"

if you can, form an allyship with someone whomst you can tagteam with. where they can pick up on your weird "soup store" story and run with it.

the following phrase is amazing and can be deployed for any situation: "oh, be nice :) it's the holidays!" i do not know why this works as often as it does. i'll say it for the most random shit. i think this is bc most of the time these people know they're being impolite, they just like to fight.

godbless. when in doubt, remember that you could always start stealing their pens.

the whole point of this is - if you can't escape. maybe see how long you can just be. like. a horrible little menace.

[lefthandarm-man]

Steve Rogers // Captain America

and his habit of putting his hands on his belt

[gertritude-art]

WHO WANTS TO BE THE EMPEROR? is a micro visual novel about an amateur assassin and an unlucky guard trying to hide a politician's corpse. It was originally made for the O2A2 jam 2024, but has undergone edits since its initial release. Takes about 5-10 minutes to play! Totally free! Play it here!

[starspilli]

FINALLY did some of the x men & dc crossover stuff that’s been rattling around in my head lol. & trust me i have more. i just think these ones would have interesting / funny dynamics lol

[ladyhavilliard]

mo dao zu shi tarot

the tower: sudden change, upheaval, chaos, revelation, awakening

death | wei wuxian