#dishes are still a problem

[lydiacatfish]

i think being back on the vitamin d is working. i did a BUNCH of chores today and we had extra time after dnd so i worked on my sewing project for the first time in a few months.

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

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[vimbry-moved]

the silly linguistic absurdities in homestar runner that you need to take a moment to register anything wrong with were a huge influence on my sense of humour. "the geddup noise wins a year's supply of our home game" is one of my favourites.

[sleepyorchidmonster]

Chen'ya is such a constant presence in NRC that he even has a (fake) student ID.

During his first year, he would often accompany Trey during classes, staying invisble while being a general nuisance (people though that Trey was swatting flies, Cater has a lot of funny videos).

After Riddle enrolled, Chen'ya also started to follow him around, and even acted as a bodyguard in the weeks following the redhead's overblot.

Chen'ya's favourite pastime is impromptu tea parties with his friends. Just a random teacup or tart appearing for Trey, Riddle and/or Cater. He also likes to steal tarts at unbirthday parties and even go hang out at other dorms (he absolutely LOVES Monstro Lounge's food, also annoying Azul is always fun).

The other students don't tend to notice him, since he is always invisible, though a few beastmen and fae are often on edge for seemingly no reason.

He once growled at Malleus and Leona during a dorm head meeting.

[terresdebrume]

Had people over for a crêpes party today! Started making the crêpes at 8am, finished just around 12 when most of the guests came in, which was excellent timing, though not fully on purpose xD

We used to have one of these once a month when I was younger, and I never knew why my dad seemed so reluctant (he was the one in charge of the crêpes) but as I contemplate the dishes waiting for me in the sink after all this I'm like ... Yeah, I get it now oO

Despite that, I think that's one of the traditions I'd like to keep with Baby if/ when it comes so I think maybe I'll try and have another one after I move and go from there

[look-at-the-stars-tonight]

the amount of effort that goes into figuring out what to cook and eat every day is RIDICULOUS. i used to think people were so weird and boring for eating the same thing every single day but it truly does make life so much easier

[figofswords]

anybody remember the stephanie brown essay I was working on under a research grant fully last summer? yeah it’s not done yet it super needs to be done and I’ve been avoiding working on it for weeks. someone tell me to just do it already

[krshush]

Washed all my plushies and now the entire bathroom and I smell like peppermint.

Bugs, beware me.

[kaasiand]

It's kinda weird how, compared to Metroid Dread, Metroid Fusion was so much more blatant in

its prioritisation of linear story progression over exploration

its linear presentation (literally naming the areas sector 1–6), though it still does the classic "linear game pretending to be nonlinear" thing by taking you through them in a different, but still fixed, order

the way it literally directly tells you your every next step constantly

yet when playing the games, it felt to me that somehow, despite all of this, Fusion felt a lot less frustrating in its linearity to me than Dread. In Fusion it was immediately clear that I would just be sticking to a single sector for each part of the game and those sectors themselves would still be mostly freely explorable in a way that felt more similar to Metroid II, but in Dread there was just no telling AT ALL when the path behind me would be blocked off and it also felt wayyyyy less justified than in Fusion, especially with just how often Dread would be doing this.

With Fusion's extremely tense atmosphere being present throughout the entire game and so much of the story taking place and developing during the game itself, I was totally understanding of its structure and restrictions. Dread on the other hand just kinda made me feel nothing, except

frustration at the lack of exploration with every single door locking behind me constantly for no good reason. Even some obstacles don't *go away* but instead switch from blocking the path forward, to blocking the path back: the thermal doors, the lifts that go down if you stick to their spider magnet walls, the big boxes that you had to move with the charge beam (or grapple beam idk? or both?) it just gets soooo annoying

frustration at how you need to use 3 buttons simultaneously to perform one single god damned action

frustration at how abilities felt extremely underused in the level design—you rarely grapple your way across the ceiling to cross a pit like in Super (which is the kind of level design that allows for sequence breaks in completely natural ways that encourage player experimentation), no, you just open the grapple beam door lock with your grapple beam door key. Literally every single ability in dread relies on this WAY TOO MUCH in painfully obvious ways, including literally every single power beam upgrade

frustration at how missile tanks feel worthless because getting only 2 is just not worth my time (yet the total number of missiles is similar to the other games... a sign of the game being too long/padded compared to the old games)

frustration at how energy tanks feel worthless because every boss does 100+ damage per hit; you're just not allowed to be tanky and the game is forcing you to play in only one specific way. The full energy tanks are just straight up given to you at way too hard-to-miss points—it's not a reward for exploration, it's forcibly scaling up Samus's health so it can scale up the next bosses' damage accordingly and absolutely nothing ends up feeling different. And to make things worse, the energy tanks that you DO get to find on your own don't actually DO anything because they're fucking energy PARTS. They just deliberately made exploration as unrewarding as it possibly could've been

frustration at how almost every area looks the goddamn same and has no music to stand out with either

I must say Dread's final boss was actually really reasonable though, it was really generous with the heals/restocks provided in between & low damage numbers making it so that my collected energy tanks FINALLY felt like they were actually making a difference. I will hate that one arbitrarily locked door in the escape sequence though

[dzozef]

ive decided that my newest hobby is mixology this is who i am now

[manicali]

Anyone ever fear that all of your mental problems are something you cleverly gaslight yourself into believing were true and you’re actually clinging to an illusion that you’re fucked up because you crave salvation you don’t need?

Just me? Cool.

[the-bluestreak-cat]

I’m enjoying being an adult who previously didn’t think they were gonna make it past 17 but like. Damn they really don’t tell you about the consequences of living like you’re not gonna make it past 17

[phagodyke]

aouuugh my uterus......

[redflannelsheets]

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[thateclecticbitch]

Request to move into basement failed. Sad.

[possum-tooth]

aita for doing the dishes