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[harpieisthecarpie]

Talked to my therapist and came to the conclusion that I want to focus on community and joy so, heres an interaction thing!

Hopeful Lighthouse Poll

I just really want there to be spaces away from negativity, and places to foster community. So. Here is a little bastion of hope in the ocean.

(Yes, the horrors exist and persist, we're not ignoring them. Hope is a lighthouse that orients us through the fog. Take care of yourself!)

[PPS, feel free to rb without adding! That helps spread it >:3]

[daz4i]

ik we always talk abt how ratio and aventurine are opposites when it comes to aeons (one wants to be seen and isn't, other is seen and hates it) but. it's also interesting to observe how they're opposites with people too. i think

ratio is a somewhat controversial public figure? but mostly well liked. he has some haters sure but his fans and appreciators are louder and more common. he grew up surrounded by people oohing and aahing over his achievements, always a part of a group

and yet. does he have any actual friends? 🤔 literally the only other playable character who has any voice lines about him atm is aventurine. it kinda seems like his only other friends are screwllum and maybe the trailblazer. the other geniuses don't pay much mind to him. iirc in that one keeping up with star rail video where he was announced to be free they mentioned barely knowing him. it's literally just screwllum

meanwhile, aventurine seems to be kind of hated. tbf, he IS a relatively high ranking member in the ipc so that's plenty reason for the average person to dislike him. not to mention his luck is bound to get anyone he's betting against to wish upon his death lol. and idk if that's how he is with just tb or if he's like that with everyone but he also doesn't seem to want to leave a good impression anyway. he grew up alone, quite literally had to kill all the other slaves in order to survive, and ofc, he is the last of his kind. always forced to be separated from others like him.

but. people in his life are generally okay with him. going by numbers, there are currently 7 characters who have voice lines about him. most of them are positive or at least show some form of care or familiarity. he has bonds whether he knows about them or not. people caring about him is why and how he got out of the nihility

and. this is one i'm p sure i have seen brought up before but i think it's important to mention. it doesn't seem like aventurine likes humanity as a whole that much (and can we really blame him for that after what he's been through 😭). but ratio loves humanity to the point of it being a defining characteristic of his, to the point of missing out on what was likely his dream before.

it's an interesting contrast. and it can even add a few layers to the bond between them, too. what it means for them to have it in the first place. how it affects each one of them, and the both of them together as a unit.

[justarandomidiot1]

i saw other steven universe aus for mob psycho and felt inspired to make my own

[devondespresso]

writing my silly little fic and again im struck with how much opportunities they missed by pretending the s2 stancy breakup wasn't messy, specifically for Nancy's guilt about barb and forcing herself to grow up too fast

like s1 Nancy spends one night being a stupid teenager goofing off at her boyfriend's party and staying over to get spicy while Barb goes home. then she later realizes Barb disappeared and died that one night she was letting go and having fun. this is widely recognized trauma for her and informs a lot if not most of her actions through the rest of the show

in season 2 she's feeling the weight of it more around the first year anniversary. steve trys to help by taking her to a party to forget for a little while and 'be stupid teenagers' for a night. a perfectly set up parallel already

the way the show wants it to go, we get the bullshit argument, they fight, allegedly break up at some point, and nancy sleeps with Jonathan. later steve tells her to go with him and we're supposed to read it as Steve stepping back so jancy can happen. we're supposed to be seeing this as a happy ending.

but with the material we're given this would have been the perfect place for an emotional repeat of season 1 for nancy. she and steve go to the party and pretend to be stupid teenagers for the night. but oh no! nancy lets lose too much, lets herself relax and drink and dance, and the next day her boyfriend's pissed. hes saying she said things she never remembered saying and its hurt him and she doesn't know what to do. and kids around school are talking about them breaking up at the party, and that fits with Steve's anger she saw, so they must've broken up right? it sucks, even if she wasn't in love with him, that'd be the worst way to break up with someone (especially if she's confusing platonic and romantic feelings or convincing herself it has to be romantic when she really just values him as a friend)

and then she doesn't have time to work it out, she needs to go with Jonathan to avenge barbs 'disappearance' to give her family closure. She's got a lot of conspiracy shit to do and its stressful. so when murray starts going off about how she's not really in love with steve, how she actually likes Jonathan and he seems to like her back. they finished a lot of the hard work with the conspiracy stuff, she can let her guard down and have a quick good night.

then the next day is chaos. demodogs and labs and will being possessed. It a rough fucking day. Steve tells her to go with Jonathan while they get the mindflayer out of Will, civil like they're on good terms so she does (and thank god she did because that was rough and they needed all the help they could get)

and then everything's fine again, with the upside down. and it looks like she handled things better this time, was about to relax occasionally and still made it through.

except apparently she and steve didn't break up. he thought it was just a few fights, that they put their shit aside for the apocalypse and now they can work things out.

and it could ruin nancy. a year later and she's still hasn't learned her lesson, that letting her guard down hurts the people she cares about, that relaxing and having fun makes her lose people. its her fault for the messy breakup with Steve and its her fault that barb is gone. she's the reason she's lost friends close to her, 2 for 2, and now she only has Jonathan left (and what do you know, season 3 has her conflict with Jonathan and in season 4 she's not let anyone else get truly close to her and fred still dies)

you see what i mean?? by having conflict magical resolve itself in the background we loose so much powerful, painful character drama for her. our girl who thinks she has to keep the world around her up solely on her shoulders because she can't handle the loss of her best friend in season 1. Nancy who desperately wants to be normal and have people she loves but keeps losing them, through factors both in and out of her control, but feels like everything has to be her fault just because some things were.

and to be fair, that story is still present in the show. its there and definitely compelling, but it could've been even more so. i feel like if maybe there was less 'nancy has to be a strong independent girlboss' in there (abd it's definitely there, they want to make a point of making her a Strong Woman Character so bad) and she was allowed to have mistakes acknowledged by the narrative, this is the direction it would've gone. She could've been an excellent example of well written women who are strong and awesome through their own right instead of the narrative trying to make us like her

[mercutiodidntdieforthis]

Yknow I've just about had enough of making fun of trans people who have noun names and dress in alt fashion. At a certain point it's just Straight Up Transphobia, and we passed that point about 2 years ago lol

[atomic-sludge]

characters that make me look back at the source material and go "wait, you aren't fat?"

[trevisos]

people i want to get to know better tag meme

tagged by @transastarion!!! ty love :3

i’m allergic to tagging ppl in these usually but i’m going to be so brave and actually do it this time LMAO feel free to ignore! @menzoberranzans @undead-potatoes @bottombatch @rosieofcorona @swordbards @genderdotcom

last song?

burn your village by kiki rockwell

favorite color?

umm teal and/or blue in general. i also looove pink (hot pink my beloved) and purple :3

currently watching?

i have some sort of disease that makes me allergic to watching shows so i guess um. watching gil play bg3 on my computer?

last movie?

i honest to god do not remember. i’m going to make ramza watch the lion in winter with me tomorrow because i read the play twice in the last week like some sort of insane person so i’m going to count that LOL

currently reading?

i’m a couple hours into the audiobook for lavinia by ursula k le guin, about halfway through steering the craft Also by le guin, i just started decolonizing wealth by edgar villanueva for a work thing, and i have the song of achilles audiobook checked out on libby rn for the third time but i think listening to that after lavinia will just be a disappointing experience so i may just return it and put it on hold again for later lol. honorable mention for the lion in winter by james goldman which i have read twice in the last week, and for the lathe of heaven by le guin that i read last week for the first time and had a very weird time as someone who lives in portland. oops this was a long answer

sweet/spicy/savory?

i’ll usually pick savory over anything else but i rly like all three tbh :3c

relationship status?

i guess i kinda like @menzoberranzans / @weirdmeal idk they like live in my house or whatever :/ (we have been together 8.5 years and i love them very much)

current interests?

baldur’s gate 3. i have no room in my brain for anything else LOL

last thing you googled?

the name of my eye doctor bc i needed to log in to their portal and check what time my appointment is today

selfie or another pic you took?

putting it under a cut so no one is jumpscared by a strange faggot on their dash

last selfie i took was with wet hair in the ikea bathroom bc i wanted to show my friend my new pants/shirt combo lol

[vamp1rate]

okay so a few people showed interest in a post going further into this topic so here goes.

Hallucination: "A perception-like experience with the clarity and impact of a true perception but without the external stimulation of the relevant sensory organ." This means perceiving something to be there, real in the physical world, when there isn't actually anything in reality causing causing the perception.

these can be:

auditory (hearing things)

visual (seeing things)

olfactory (smelling things)

gustatory (tasting things)

tactile (feeling things on or under skin)

somatic (feeling things further within the body)

Illusion: "A misperception or misinterpretation of a real external stimulus." This means that there is in the real physical world, something causing the perception, but the brain is sending signals that whatever is being perceived is something else. Examples would be seeing an inanimate object as being an animal, hearing wind blowing as human voices, etc.

Both of these are things that many people will experience at least once in their lives, for various reasons. However, if it is causing impairment to functioning/making it harder to go about your life, then it is considered to be a symptom.

sources here are the DSM-V, as well as like, personal experience lol.

[astrangeriddle]

TV show tag game

Thank you @dchan87 for tagging me :D

Rules: without naming them, post 10 gifs of your favorite TV shows, then tag people

I'm going to tag @grimcoordinater @lilalilan @lilacponds @thecolorofthegame @kinneydrugsoflc @arandomeldritchbeing

[frenchfrywrites]

Okay i love the idea of human wine decanter but it IS alcohol so i just think it would be. Not that comfy?? You could do it with water, but who wants to drink water. I guess i will have to suspend disbelief if i ever read something about it. Love the idea of filling someone's bladder from the urethral end of things, it's like, adjacent to holding the cup for them and making them drink but with more immediate desperation. Also the potential for punishment?? If they're being bratty you could just squirt more into their catheter and watch them squirm. Idk i love the filling aspect but like having someone in a tiny maid outfit and calling them over and putting ur cup under their dick in a silent command for them to piss?? What if they get turned on from everything and need to be taken care of, but they have to try really hard not to pee the whole time they're getting fucked because hey that's my drink. making the maid drink more so they can service the party's need for "refreshments". I can see mammon taking a job like that for money. But i also love desperation so what if they made the maid drink a bunch while they ate dinner and saved the piss for dessert. Maybe make them wear a short urethral sound to make sure they don't piss before it can be drank... Ahhhhh thanks for introducing this I'm going to be thinking about it forever

Oho yes yay im so glad some people are going to join me on this silly journey!!

I'm so glad you brought up maid outfits, because I couldn't help but think about barbatos with this. I have this hc that Barbie sometimes goes into subspace when he feels like he's being used by you, and I think this connects to that. I can imagine him feeling so full and squirming around, feeling flushed from watching you drink from him. He gets especially flustered when you offer him a drink.

Now that you say it, I wonder about mammon! He wouldn't need money to do it, he'd only need the slightest bit of convincing lmao. God knows he'd be unbelievably worked up and flustered too! He's practically buzzing with how excited he is, bouncing on his toes and fiddling with his hands or his skirt, trying soooo hard to keep himself flaccid. It'd be so hard for him to be patient! And god if you dont plug him up and he did leak a bit, there'd be no hiding it! There'd be a bright red stain, and he'd have no excuse but to confess that he wet himself.

ehe and i love your thoughts on this soo much!!!!! Thank you for sending this ask :)💖

[prime-adeptus]

THIS ISN’T REALLY A VENT I’m just trying to word my thoughts // talking about religion and racism

OK so I don't know a Lot about my ethnicity but I had a Chinese grandma and I've been wanting to get in touch with Chinese culture, religion-wise.

My whole family has always worshipped Buddhism (Thai-Chinese) and certain Hindu deities and we haven’t had the chance to go to temples or participate in religious activities lately, but we do when we can! I had a complicated relationship with my grandmother, but I still want her beliefs and (positive) memories to live on. So I do whatever I can.

But somehow there will always be people who think that I’m not “Asian enough” bc what. I can’t speak a certain language because my household no longer spoke it? I don’t LOOK a certain way?? It just pisses me off idk

I’m already so detached from it and I think it’s a good thing I’m finding something to ground me again but people still shit on it like it isn’t a vital part of me LOL

[gccdwitch]

what color is your love language? (nick yoon) tagged by: @heirloomeds (this was sm fun tyy <33) tagging: @likeswallowstosea, @vvhimsicals, @weedzkiller, @scftlightz (+ anyone else who wants to!)

FERN - Key words: intellectual, humour, best friends. You feel like you 'click' with everybody you love and get along in an intrinsic way. You would never give somebody your heart if you felt like you couldn't talk with them about anything. You show your love by making playlists, sending late-night memes or remembering their coffee order and why they like it. The one you love is always on your mind, and you're never happier than hearing that somebody you love has been thinking about you.

[septimus-heap]

this is gonna sound so silly but over the last year I've been doing a reread of all the books on my shelves. I hit my "childhood favorites" section around December and am chugging through, and will be rereading the Septimus Heap series again once I finish the Magnus Chase series. I had the first book memorized as a kid (I could still probably pull up the first chapter in my memory if I wanted to) but I only read books 5-7 like twice before putting the series down for a few years. I'm so glad I follow you bc I know once I read those SH books again in a couple weeks I'm gonna be insufferable since they were definitely my favorite as a kid and I'm so so so so excited to read them again and to have an active fandom to see again when I do 💕💕💕 (I see your polls and recognize like 3/4 the characters but wanna read books 5-7 to get a refresh before I start voting on them lol)

Anyway this was long and rambly but I guess at the bottom: I love SH, I'm excited to read it again, I'm excited to know someone else loves it like I did and it feels like I'm gonna have someone to talk about it with for the first time in my life (never had a friend who'd read it and could geek out about it) so thank you and I'm excited to hop back in the fandom 💕 thank you for reading!!

:D

[burnedbehavior]

thinking about the queen. the weight of the world is on her shoulders and its all falling apart and literally what can she do about it? the three people she entrusted to help her make things Good , better than they were before , have fallen back into their old ways, or similarly worse ways, or maybe even worse ways than they were before. if the batter hadn't showed up, would she have tried to talk with the guardians? does she recognize, or acknowledge what the world has turned into? does she even care enough to change anything, or is it "good enough" to just leave be until it inevitably falls apart? is it ever going to fall apart? or is it all perfectly balanced on "this sucks so much, but things are still running, no one bump the jenga tower"? she makes me sick in the head. i love her so much and theres just so many different ways to think about her and what is going through her head.

[natsmagi]

btw ive made wataei in miitopia too. i wanna make the eccentrics n ex-fine first just bc element on the brain but then im gonna. have to make everyone else too. and then i can finally play. dread. pain. misery. dedication to the craft. i need it to be immersive

[goodnightwindy]

i really like the new theme. its chrismis time 🔥

YEEAAHHH christma🔥🔥🔥