#but personally this is what works for me and i've stuck to it

[playingplayer2]

Back when I started world building for a writing thing (that I actually need to write for) and I got to the "hmm... Needs a language" point of it I was actually starting to genuinely think about things like "do I actually like/want to use she/her?" and "how do I feel when someone calls me a girl/woman?"

So I took both my language shit and my gender shit and just went "I'll make options for myself then."

(This actually kinda made me spiral towards making uhm... Like. Seven languages to work on for my world building but I digress)

So, sidenote, mixed race/biracial/third culture kid here. I grew up around multiple languages, ended up with English as my only language, but know a number of words in Mandarin and Cantonese. So. Mama and Baba are Parent Words™, even if I've never personally used baba for my father ("deadbeat" is the nicest word I could use).

Figured out early on that... Well if I ever have kids I really, really, don't want to be either "mama" or "baba" to them so...

In Tyrnic (my language baby, child of my soul, accidentally becoming my life's work, etc), mom is Amma/Amo'ae, dad is Tato/Tata'o, and gn parent is Atam/Atam'a. The cute/diminutive/etc versions are B'ama, B'ato, and B'tam, respectively.

So whenever/if I ever have kids, I'd be Atam/Atama/B'tam. Just, whichever one works best for the hypothetical kid/s. And I'd get the bonus of anytime someone asked about what my kids called me I could immediately begin to ramble about my world building.

(tho tbh I'm pretty sure I accidentally just yoinked "amma" from Cantonese because I probably heard it when I was little and it just stuck somewhere in my head)

suggestions for gender neutral version of mom/dad? something less formal than just ‘parent’

[corseque]

another clair obscur spoiler thought that might be wrong because I would need to do another playthrough

it really strikes me that the first real world character that you speak to and have an exchange with is Aline at the end of act 2!!

Every character who speaks to Maelle before that is in some way a creation of Aline. And what is very interesting is how the ONLY criticism that Maelle ever goes through is when she's speaking to people from the real world.

When I played the game, I found the criticism from her family to be harsh, but watching the scenes again, I think the only ones that sound actually cruel still are some of the things her mother says, but even those, I think the cruelest things are things Maelle/Alicia SAYS that her mother thinks of her, not anything we actually see or hear the mother actually saying outright.

Clea especially, after hearing her really caring advice that she gives to Maelle/Alicia if you get to the top of the Endless Tower where she advises Maelle to follow her heart... her tough impatience feels different on rewatch too. She's just in mourning and her personality is sharp and she's a little condescending, but she talks about loving Verso and she compliments Maelle when she hides the painting well. She's just a normal person with her own priorities and battles. The father as well.

But none of the painted characters in the painting act even a little irrationally cruel in their grief toward Maelle when the act 1 spoiler happens. They always act extremely loving toward her, and you think that it's just a found family thing, but then you start to wonder about - like she would still have Painter powers that she could use to influence the people around her to love her. I remember there's certain lines that Lune etc say that imply Of Course They Love Maelle, almost like it's maybe something they have been painted to do, maybe just by Maelle being around them. This could also explain why Maelle wanted to get away from Lumiere as a child...? To get to somewhere real? (She is such a complicated character, I need to think about it more)

But anyway, there's SOMETHING about how the only people who seem to talk to her in a normal, real and even slightly critical way are her family with real lives and real concerns that exist outside of her....? And then this seems to be supported by the ending where she has painted Lune and Sciel to wear the exact same clothes as each other, styled the same (even though when the two were created by Aline, they had very unique fashion senses).

I've seen people call Renoir's painting of Alicia cruel and unflattering and Maelle speaks as if he doesn't understand her in his painting ("I get vertigo" she says), but imo it's genuinely such a true and heartbreaking depiction of her, like he sees her truly for who and what she is and I think he painted her accurately. It's literally a portrait of her in the last frame of the Alicia ending, stuck in place and not working on anything or even moving at all.

Like I think it was purposefully done in the story that the real people that she actually knows in her family can give her insight into herself that will help her grow and change, while she cannot get pushback or growth from the paintings....?

[clouduru-chan]

I've been crying for half an hour because I was playing Signalis.

And my friends. What a wonderful game, I didn't understand anything at first, but the feeling and love between Eslter and Ariane moved me so much.

And that gave me a fanfic idea.

I've already created the idea a little in my head, but I wanted to know if you would like something like this.

Reader was a human who had the power of photographic memory, she never forgot anything since her birth. She lived with her mother who was a depressed woman who had lost her husband in a conflict with a super villain (her father worked as one of Cicel's soldiers), and with depression and overprotection, she didn't let her daughter leave the house, her education was all at home until she was thirteen. Reader was living well, she loved music and art, and loved her mother's company. But her aunt (her mother's brother), is a damn Karen.

Who kept calling the Office of Children's Issues saying that her niece was living in terrible conditions and was stuck at home. The Office of Children's Issues went to check the complaint, and upon seeing the case, they thought it was right to take the daughter from her mother's house to do a more in-depth investigation, but one day without her daughter, Reader's mother commits something against one's own life, which forces the girl to live with her bitch aunt (by the way, her aunt wanted to have children, but couldn't because she was infertile, so she was jealous of her own sister, and now she has to take care of her niece).

Reader is forced to study at public school, she is bullied because she has never interacted with another child in her life and others think she is weird.

At school she meets Mark, who defends her from bullying (this is before he has super powers) and he becomes her great and first friend, she starts to like comics because of him.

She also befriends William, and as they strengthen their friendship, Mark makes her promise that she will always be with him no matter the situation. They grow up, Mark gained his powers at 17, and asks Reader to be his girlfriend, and they are planning to go to college together (she wanted to study arts or even history of literature, but her aunt forced her to study medicine, and since she is a submissive person, she accepts to go to the college of her aunt's choice).

And also the aunt wouldn't finance the college either, and you who didn't even have much money to finance your own college, and also didn't usually tell your problems to Mark and his friends. Reader finds Cicel and asks if he has a job for her (since her father worked for the government, she thought she could work too), and since Cicel was a friend of her father, he hires her, and she works on simple things, cleaning up brutal crimes caused by captured villains, and until she has proper training (which she learns quickly because of her ease of learning because of her memory).

The government begins a new experiment to collect memories from soldiers, and Reader joins the project because she would earn more money to pay for all her college tuition.

Mark finds out that she works with Cicel and what she has already done, he is disappointed and breaks up with her, saying that she deceived him (even though the idiot never told her that he was the invincible one). She is devastated, but continues her work, until the tragic day of her death, when she was removing all the government people from the house in front of Mark's house, since Omni Man had discovered the place and was killing everyone, and she ends up dying in the worst possible way.

After the Chicago disaster and a month passes, Mark doesn't see Reader at school or even after starting college, he believes that she abandoned everything and just works for the government now. He starts dating Amber and tries to do everything he can to be a good hero.

The project in which the reader participated began using her memories, since she had a knack for learning quickly, and they created an Android with a similar appearance to her, to solve any type of problem until the heroes arrived. The initiative of this project was to reduce the losses of human soldiers in conflicts.

And the Pentagon staff and Cicel call her Krähe (which is crow in German), she works well in a team, helps humans and has not shown any irregularities until the day she started working.

The soldiers don't like her, because they believe she will take their jobs away.

And the story would consist of a psychological horror.

I really liked the story of Signalis, and I thought about using a bit of the game's idea for a sad story with Mark. If you like it, I'll work on the story better, it's just a draft of what I'm thinking of doing.

[sunlit-mess]

I can only take so much, but lately, they have replaced my reflection. And realize I'm just as bad as them.

[juaneloriginal]

silly thingy

@blackkatdraws's sillies

[rapidhighway]

the thing with sonic 3 is I can't even be too mad at it. I knew that was going to happen. i love action too much. sonic and shadow had a high speed chase, shadow did the akira slide up a fucking building and then they beat each other up on the moon man. i am a weak weak man when it comes to cool as fuck action scenes and they made that movie for me, I was partly blind to everything else that was happening tbh. I actually will have to rewatch this movie to say anything coherent about it

[vaguely-concerned]

I think veilguard might be the one game with an unlimited sprint button that I've nevertheless spent the most time gently jogging and walking through. just to like... look at things. hang out. vibe. the environments in this game are so fucking good

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

studying Philosophy is really like

you think this is going to help you understand the world and your place in it better,

but actually all it does is confuse and befuddle you farther than ever before

and also you make friends with the most annoying (read: great, smart, lovely, kind, but argumentative as ALL GET OUT) people in the world and then you realize you've BECOME one of those people and you kind of want to just curl up in a nice quiet little hole in the ground with all your books and read and think until a complete and total understanding of the world falls out of your noggin and everything makes sense; but actually you just want to take a walk in the woods with a friend and not think about anything for at least a year.

[say-hi-intrepid-heroes]

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[ruvviks]

hey if i actually started developing my video game idea would you guys be interested if i posted about it on here

[lit-in-thy-heart]

been trying out a new writing technique recently and it's called chilling tf out and reminding myself that fic is written for fun.

[pollen]

i've been diving a lot deeper into adhd symptoms and comorbidities and misdiagnoses and whenever i tell my boyfriend something i learned that sounds like me he responds with something like

[essercipertuttienonperse]

can't have a gender crisis if you've never once felt attached to your body

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

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[aloyssobek]

applied for a library job at the school i've been substitute teaching at. got the rejection email today. not even a fucking interview. got me looking at actual teacher jobs now

[soumic]

About once a day I go through the mental gymnastics of going "god I should probably make an art insta, for ~professional purposes~ and ~networking~ and ~cultivating an audience~"

And then I scrunch my face up so hard my features cave inside my skull thinking about conceding to using an algorithmic social media platform in 2023, let alone a facebook product

(please don't take this as a call to suggest alternative social medias to me sdlkfjs I mega super promise you I am aware of them)