#comes to these sorts of tasks

[johnconstantinekissesmen]

iv got one better. invite someone over or call someone you trust not to judge that state of your room, and use their presence as a steadying focus point. someone you can talk at as you clean to get excess energy out, who you can sit with inbetween tasks, and who can help you pass the seconds in between motions with

they dont even need to physically help, and it helps!

[valewritessss]

Why is it that most of the time they either make Annabeth seem like Percy’s mother or they make her a tool for him to be more angsty and dark and disregard all of her character and trauma? Can we normalize making them equals

[frobby]

rin 1000000% has a list somewhere of things hes good at that yukio is bad at

[dykedvonte]

wanted to say I appreciate your nuanced takes on MW and especially Curly. i don't get the claim that the fandom is full of Curly apologists when majority (esp yt and tiktok) say he's worse than Jimmy. Yes there's commentary about bro culture defending people, he def messed up in trying to placate Jimmy (tbh "we'll fix this" sounded more like trying to keep someone prone to outbursts like Jim calm and not hurt Anya/himself) but I don't think he did nothing to help Anya, since she continued to confide in him and he had less than a week to resolve it before the crash (I also don't get everyone saying he knew for ages when it seems like Anya told him that same week). I get Jimmy's a pos but saying stuff like Curly should've known he'd crash the ship or that Jim had a criminal record he ignored, reducing them to obviously horrible villain and willfully ignorant sidekick feels like a disservice to the game. If your best friend turned out to be horrible, what would you do in a confined space in the span of a few days to respond? I'd say some of the horror comes from trying to do good but ultimately failing, Curly's state after the crash is meant to be tragic horror not revenge/punishment

Thank you and this is what I want to get across.

A lot of information we have to supplement when it comes to how long things have been happening on this current ship. I think people try to add on to the horror and negligence by making things more obvious so it can feel like it was easier to avoid when, true to life, its not. Jimmy clearly didn't deserve or appreciate what Curly did for him in getting him the job, but do you think if Jimmy was that big of a menace on Earth he would've given him a position where he could have that level of power over people's lives? There's something in the fact he specifically chose to pick a position so close to himself where he could watch Jimmy.

I hate the bro code argument because that is a whole can of worms people really don't get. That sort of mentality is born from the general respect and preference of male matter over female ones. Curly is clearly not that guy, he is absent minded about the issue and inadvertently dismissive but he clearly believes Anya, he just can't understand what she's going through. It's an onslaught of information that no one really reacts right to. Additonally, the entire discussion of her assualt plays to heavy into the idea that there is fault outside of the perpertratior when it comes to SA. It's too close if she only did this or if Curly had protected her better but the fact of the matter is Jimmy did what he did. He did it before any of the conversations with Anya about it and it's why her behavior seemed to change so drastically in those last two days.

He has other conflicting thought and while his role as a Captain should've taken over, people act like it's not a very human thing to have such a toxic presence cloud your judgement. It is never easy to separate friend from coworker once that connection is formed, you want to help them, especially if they were friend first and for a long while like in this case. It's not right, but people act like it would be easy when the game clearly points out that no choice is easy to make, especially when you have to make it for more than one person. You have the weigh the consequences, look at all the options and make a plan. People can headcanon and decide how long things where happening, but if we look at what we were presented through the characters eyes, the only person given time to do that was Jimmy.

He waited two months after the crash to appoint himself Captain. Every time a problem was brought up he immediately took action and refused to sit on it and find a better solution. I think it's important to look at the warped way Jimmy takes initiative where Curly didn't as it works as a good contrast of why you don't just run in to "fix" things. The quickest and easiest option may not be the safest or most beneficial. I think some thoughts on the game suffer from the black and white thinking the game doesn't operate on along with us being voyeurs. We see what exactly led to what but the characters don't. They don't have the hindsight and foresight we do and even ours is scrambled by the non-linear story telling.

Like it's hard to talk abuou those grey zones without sounding like an apologist because you're explaining why taking responsibility isn't easy. It's not and it's weird to act like it would be in a scenerio that led up to the events of the game knowing what we know. We see all these characters in such isolated moments with various things before, in between, after and even during we aren't privy too. The idea that Jimmy is worse than Curly heavily banks on the words Jimmy was saying to Jimmy before he crashed the ship. That whatever happened on the ship was his responsibility to bare, which is true due to his position. But, are they not still not responsible for taking the actions Curly then must bare?

Like i feel like people think that these are situation that become easier with age or when you are in a postion of authority and they aren't. You don't lose your biases or gain some sudden knowledge that makes it easier. It just becomes more tiring as you keep dealing with it. I would be first in line to say Curly fucked up and should've done more but the idea he knew how bad it could get or he really saw the worst in the people around him and ignored it pretty much ignores a huge aspect of his character and the game.

[puppyeared]

u know when youre bored of everything and it feels like theres a hole that youre trying to close but it just keeps sucking everything up

[rickybaby]

"At the end ... I say at the end, but honestly, Q2 was - we need to talk about it and figure it out. At the time, it didn't make sense to me, but also you can't have drawn conversations because time is the essence. But yeah, both runs I felt like our plan was well off. At the end, we're struggling to get the lap in, so creating enemies in the last corners overtaking. I hate when people do it to me, but I'm being told to do it, otherwise we won't get a lap in. Still, you start 1 - 2s behind Zhou, you're not going to get a good lap in dirty air. That was certainly not one of our good sessions. We will address all we need to. What's done is done now. We're 15 and that's that, but we've struggled this weekend. The last three weekends haven't been easy but we've found a way to make it work. This weekend, as a team, wasn't going to be easy and the frustration comes from that as well because we don't have the luxury to not get it right. I felt like both runs in Q2, we were doing a very questionable run. Far from optimised, but not saying we could be P8 or something like that, but we didn't give ourselves a chance today. After we debrief and get everything off our chest, I'll look forward to a hot shower"

[icewindandboringhorror]

Recent images I suppose ~

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Anyone else have near-perfect executive function at work; but at home, have literally no energy or motivation to do anything except lie in a dark room, with something in or on your ears for several hours?

[cogitxtio]

Amiya filled my office with fresh flowers today.

[zipquips]

three days into thr academic year and i feel like I crashed ;-;

[thesixthstar]

my toxic trait is that i legitimately have so many little organizers/trays/drawer separators that help me keep my room clean that are literally just cut up cardboard boxes from things I bought - a 12-count clif bar box but horizontal turns into a tray for hair care stuff, and another clif bar box cut vertical for pills/painkillers, old box for period pads with the lid removed becomes my sock container in my drawer, and another for undies. cardboard panels from an amazon box now separate my pants from my shirts from my skirts-and-misc in my clothes drawer. Another clif bar box holds pens and pencils.

which would be fine except. it means that i feel like I should hold onto all my cardboard boxes forever just in case inspiration strikes and it could be a good organizer tray size, so i am forever fighting the urge to keep what is usually just actual garbage (well, recycling at least)

[ghoulodont]

i dont like to hear things like "based on their name/image/etc i thought ghost would be sooo heavy and yucky but actually its normal music :)" umm you sound very closed minded to me

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

rewatching 13s era for me is not so much diminishing returns as it is something opposite and eviler...............increasing losses? increasing losses

[hotsugarbyglassanimals]

it's probably the sunnier weather that's doing stuff to my brain to make me more optimistic but it's so interesting having a brain that craves a lot of self-fulfillment to the point where I can move past some hang-ups around perfection by going "oh I really wanna do that though" and then I do it well because researching how to do it right is also a rewarding part of the process

[caterpillarinacave]

So I haven’t written anything in a month

[peliginspeaks]

5 and 10 for hallowrove!! - @letheology

5. What is your OC's preferred self-endulgent snack?

Hallowrove's favourite food is a meat pie that can be eaten on the road, but if you asked them to indulge.... Any sort of honey-soaked pastry, especially if it also involves almonds. I haven't yet figured out if this is a thing they would've had in childhood or if they tried it in travel somewhere, but they are a big fan of that combination.

10. What is your OC's favorite stim?

He has lots! One of the most fun is letting Sneeve do a sort of ladder climb over his moving hands, usually while sitting and waiting for something (like the train). Other common one is spinning something between and across his fingers - like a coin, or a pen, or a knife, although the chances of that last one being interpreted as an unintentional threat keep it mostly out of public. Foot tapping is another really common one Hallowrove does, though I wouldn't call it a favourite so much as just a sign of boredom at best and unease or discomfort at worst.