#good heavens i am ill

[bittersweetbeet]

[Rubs hands together like a fly]

Ohohohohooo buddy

You do not now how much I've thought about this. It fucks me up.

Cause it is true that Sec doesn't really know anything about Chosen besides how he saved him and his friends and was essentially an ally to them. Hell, Sec might even look up to him in a way and have this perception of Chosen based on what he does know about him, which isn't much.

Sec jumps at the opportunity to help and protect Chosen despite not knowing what to do and being dragged into this situation so quickly because he views Chosen as a friend. And Sec is naturally protective of his friends!

You really just can't help but wonder how Second would react if he does learn about what Cho and Dark used to do. Like even if Chosen doesn't DO that anymore, that preconceived view that Sec had of Chosen was basically shattered. The guy he may have looked up to in a way and viewed highly, the guy who saved him and his friends, had taken and ruined COUNTLESS lives. It'd be kinda like a 'never meet your heroes' type of thing imo. Even if Chosen has changed and doesn't do that stuff anymore, how else is someone supposed to react to their potential idol being an (ex) terrorist?

I would also like to raise the idea of vic using this information to basically manipulate Sec teehee

making a whole nother post with it too. on orange's reaction on chosen's backstory and terror in the internet with dark

[muzsmocsing]

Ling Wen: All this heavenly misogyny is really bumming me out man, want to help commit arson?

Pei Ming, already cancelling the date he's supposed to be on in twenty minutes: men ain't shit girl let's go

[faaun]

Jack Marsh (2005), Friendship Otherwise - Toward a Levinasian Description of Personal Friendship

[fangirlofallthefandoms]

Aziraphale fell first

Crowley fell harder

[cent-scratchnsniff]

[dramaticmotionblur]

babygirl aziraphale i love u with my whole life don’t listen to the haters pookie <33333

[llitchilitchi]

Idk what "disho" or "dh" is but I fully agree on that I wish people would be more accepting of subtextual queerness. Like I get it, because part of the point is that people become more accepting and if it isn't outright stated then they can just ignore it, but like. If someone's queerness has 0 plot relevance, then I don't think it /should/ be outright stated.

I like how the McElroys did it for TAZ, where they just straight up stated "hey this character is trans, it's absolutely never gonna come up in the story so we just wanted to say it here so that it was known." Even though with having a twin that /could/ have been plot relevant. I guess that's harder to do for other media but ngl I would mind a book foreword saying "yeah that person's ace but it's not gonna come up so just wanted to say :)"

Anyway. I agree

DH and Disho refer to a Particular Game Series that I didn't tag nor mention by name fully as not to spam the tags. lots of queer rep in there, none of it stated outright beyond mentioning that a female character had a girlfriend, or hinting at another wlw couple being a thing, a trans character being talked about being 'a different person than before' or how 'she'd been born into the wrong life, so she set about making it right' in relation to her transition and similar. it's handled really tastefully, in my opinion.

what TAZ did sounds really sweet, too! it's definitely a way to go about things, though as you said, not entirely possible for all media (I can't imagine watching a show and every time a new episode starts they have to put a THESE CHARACTERS ARE OF THESE IDENTITIES before the actual plot starts)

to be fair it's likely best different stories and different media do things differently. I personally like subtlety so if a sexuality or gender identity is only hinted at it's fine. (I do also like when it's brought up more directly once or twice without it being relevant to the plot. sure, your macho man warrior casually mentions how he had a male lover back in the day while your heroine bitches about soldier boys)

it also makes sense that within a more casual medium like a podcast or an improv show (I am looking at all the MC roleplay servers) it might be stated a lot more bluntly and in your face, and that's really cool! but it would feel off to have a disclaimer or a character making such declaration in a regular novel, or in a movie. there's a lot of space for nuance here.

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

set it off concert..good as hell

[iiscpr]

more bullshit

[bravevolunteer]

1:30am. plagued by thoughts of michael and everything going on in his tiny 10-13 year old head :(

[muzsmocsing]

The Wacky Misadventures of Slenderman and Sleeper-Build has been about 60% of my personality for MONTHS and now I there's only one book left. What will I do with myself when it's over??

[rosicheeks]

Unfortunately relatable. I grew up in the church and have a lot of Christian trauma from that. I show up for special occasions for my parents… sometimes. But it’s uncomfortable from the moment I step through the door. Bigoted pastor, the self-righteousness disguising the prejudice, the political comments from the altar. Shots at young people left right and center as if the hell on earth wasn’t caused by the same older generation 90% of the congregation belongs to..

I miss being young in the choir and the youth groups and not struggling with it. It’s wild to look back at the younger version of me who was unshakeable in his faith and honestly just saddening.

I was texting my sister today about it and she said

“I 100% think ALL of us have a ton of religious trauma and everyone else in the family just doesn’t realize it cause they’re still drinking the kool-aid.”

I ran out of tag room and didn’t want to delete any 😭 seriously not lying I could write a book about all my thoughts and experiences

[aromanticasterisms]

feeling so fucking normal about kaeya's hangout. btw

[astrxealis]

HI droppin by for a bit just to say hello and hope you all are doing well, don't forget to take care of yourself 🥺💞

[a-moth-to-the-light]

storytime!

so earlier i mentioned the pure joy of staying up late reading, and i have a little story about it that i wanted to tell y'all :) the end is positive and lighthearted, but just know i'll talking about my disabilities quite a bit on the way there !

so in middle school, when i started dealing with my mental illnesses, i had really bad sleep problems where i would wake up at like 2 or 3 am almost every night and be SUPER freaked out by the dark and not be able to fall asleep again for at least a couple of hours

it was miserable, but reading helped me make it through--i remember reading the entire Eragon Cycle primarily between the hours of 2 and 6 am (i don't particularly enjoy the series anymore, but i also don't care because i'm just happy that kid-me liked it!)

in high school, though, my relationship with reading really changed when i developed chronic pain. even when i was mentally able to focus on a book, the physical work of holding it up & trying to sit in the same position for a long period of time caused me so much pain that i wasn't able to get really immersed in reading like i used to--often, i would be too distracted by pain to focus at all. all my energy would go to reading for school, which was enough physical and mental work on its own, so there really was just nothing left over to devote to reading for fun

as you might have guessed, then, not only did i read a lot less in those years, but i also lost those nice moments from my childhood--being able to read for hours and hours, to stay up late binging a book

it's kind of sad how long it took me to consider audiobooks as a valid option for myself, but last december, i finally started reading via audiobooks and it's been AWESOME (!!!), to the point where i've started using text-to-speech software to read for school, too (best idea EVER for me)

earlier this month, i read Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado, and i quite literally stayed up all night to finish it because i loved the story that much (i think i went to bed at like 8 am that day?) and i just cannot describe how happy it makes me feel that audiobooks allow me to do that again!! staying up that late to read isn't something i'd like to do frequently, per se, but it is something i appreciate being able to do every once in a while--with audiobooks, i am physically capable of turning to books for comfort, of losing myself in them in the quiet night hours, made safe and sound in my own mind through the company of words!!

even better, my sleep problems are much more mild now, and i'm no longer all that scared of the dark, so i can get my late-night reading in while being confident that i'm safe and will fall asleep when i'm ready :)

[trans-leek-cookie]

Let it be known that i FUCKING HATE GREEN HAIRED ZENINS. EUGH