#havent been able to get into personally.. the methods of story telling and the over reliance on pretty anime graphics

[limitverge]

rebirth!

[ducknotinarow]

q’s for muses who had a...  r o u g h   childhood

*Questions from this ask meme but I decided to just make head cannon post off from. Only answering the ones that apply to each muse. Each muse of mine will get their own post, cause I got home from work and fell asleep so I'm wide awake now haha. Starting with.))

despite being my icon havent talked about him in a bit, on my old blog I did these but some answers have changed from those who followed me over to here.

does your muse blame themselves for their trauma? Drake more tries to act like nothing happened it why he has a habit to change his stories on his past so much, why he omits certain parts even to points of believing his own lies.

does your muse suffer with nightmares of their trauma? yes, this has a lot todo with him being a night person he has trouble with sleeping anyway thanks to the nightmares he has sometimes and they can just feel so real Drake doesn't always notice it was just a dream in the first place. And has confused moments from dreams as real memories.

what triggers does your muse have from their childhood? Triggers for Drake is anything touching on his actual past, since he lied so much about it he has forgotten what is true. Like looking back on his high school days. Any time his charater is judged as well since Drake dose struggle with an ego despite a general want to be a hero and wanting to be acknowledge for it.

who in their life was most responsible for your muse’s trauma? His parents, they were pretty neglectful and left Drake on his own a lot making him starved for attention causing him to do anything to get attention even if it wasn’t always positively received by those around him.

has your muse ever been officially diagnosed with ptsd, c-ptsd? Officially I would say not really, he isn’t the type to seek professional help and often when spoken by those who would be able to say if he dose Drake doesn't take it seriously or will brush it off. In some verse where I have he has though he brushes it off as not a big deal or even really a thing to be concerned with. 

what was the worst / most traumatic moment in their childhood? Likely some of the bulling he went through growing up, Drake was a target for jerks through his youth especially with his desire for attention being stronger then most other aspects. But much of it did inspire him to become a hero.

how old was your muse when they realized they had childhood trauma? Drake likes to ignore he has this so theres no real answer 

how does your muse react to being triggered? ( disassociates, becomes angry, etc. ) Drake usually gets angry first he has a temper and lashing out can often be his most common reaction, or he will disassociate not even able to relie on the comfort of her hero persona Darkwing duck for comfort. 

what coping methods  ( healthy or unhealthy )  did your muse learn during their childhood? I would say Drake learn much more unhealthy methods, mostly all revolving around ignoring it or actting as if things didn’t happen. His tale tells his love for theatrics much as he loves smoke bombs when making an entrace he likes to cover his past in smoke and mirrors too,  

does your muse want their abuser(s) to face consequences? Or would they rather forget any of it happened? Drake rather forget it, he wants to move on to the life he has as Darkwing duck and Drake Mallard. Even if that balance isn’t always easy to find. Drake rather start his life a new it why his past isn’t all that of an importance. 

was there anyone who was a shining light for your muse? Ie. was there any adult who they could genuinely rely on / trust? his Aunt, Drake was mostly cared for by an aunt on his mother’s side of the family he loved her as if she were his actual mother. He spent a lot of time with the women she wasnt like other adults she listened to him and spoke to him like he was a person. She also taugh him  a lot of things that have helped in his crime fighting needs. 

[sourdough-morbread]

Morgana 👀

ok so i know you left this ask ages ago and this is like so fucking long i am so sorry.

but i just... i have a lot of thoughts on morgana. *hides pages of notes made for two big morgana-centric WIPs*

First impression: this is what went through my mind in my first watch through

s1: i fell for morgana really quickly. i was like. YES she has MAGIC and she tells off uther and arthur. 

s2: i still liked her but i getting concerned about the direction the writers were pulling her character in season 2. i was quite disappointed in the way her turn to evil was written. like she was good then barely on screen and very damsel-in-distressy for some reason. and then she became evil!morgana with zero explanation and zero reluctance. didnt really make sense to me.

s3: i enjoyed her as a villain in, but at that point she was a completely different character in my eyes. not in the old character new instalment but in a entirely different person was put inside her. 

s4: she was so boring and one dimetional. just. meh. she barely felt like a threat.. 

s5: i wasnt even paying attention to her.  she has become the random conflict generator the writers rather than a character. so i just didnt care. also i skipped a few eps in my first go so. like dark tower bc i didnt want to see gwen hurt. so i missed out on the emotional impact of that.

Impression now: after rewatching i can see her character arc a lot better. i still think her arc wasnt well done. but thats because the execution was lacking, rather than the trajectory of her character not making sense. because it actually makes a lot of sense.

like in season 1, she is basically immune. she is caught aiding mordred and yet she can get away with uther yelling at her and have it all be forgotten with an apology. meanwhile tom is executed for being seen with a sorcerer. when she wants to kill uther, i dont think she thinks she will be caught. nobody would ever dare accuse morgana and arthur would never suspect it. 

then she discovers she has magic herself and all of that immunity is gone. and without that safety net she becomes willing to endanger so many people, including the allies of magic in camelot. you know, people she would be screaming at the defence of previously.  

her in 1x10 is a small glimpse of what she could have been. a force for good. someone willing to actually fight against what uther and rulers like him were doing. and i would have loved to see that. 

but thats not what the writers chose. instead she regains her footing in hatred and blaming everyone for the fear she felt of death and disgust she felt of herself once she became one of those she defended but saw as beneath her none the less. 

and i will never not be salty about how they skipped over her turning evil and how flat she became. like. let me have a deeply evil terrifying witch damn it! 

i think what makes her terrifying is that she doesnt want power. not really. she wants revenge. she wants to take everything arthur cares about. she wants the throne because arthur doesn't get to have it. she wants camelot to kill its people. she doesnt care about power beyond how much pain she can cause with it. and thats so terrifying. enemy with no goal but to cause you pain. and knows all your weaknesses and can fool the people you have wronged to think she is fighting for their salvation. how do you even fight that? 

idk i just think it was underutilised. again she was just a conflict generator the writers used until the final battle. even then mordred was more significant than morgana. 

Favorite moment: just her in the entirety of beginning of the end. if i had to pick one moment it would be her goading arthur to look behind the curtain. its just so good.

Idea for a story: again... the WIPs. but one i havent written yet.

i had one au where arthur found out about her magic on accident and like. it kicked off a whole plot of her learning magic, and arthur finally facing how terrible uther is and getting his shit together. its not a very detailed idea. morgause would probably use this opportunity to manipulate arhtur. agravain would proably be not evil, tho still a spineless slimy noble. idk.

Unpopular opinion: this is not going to be a surprise to people who know me, but i dislike pretty much all of the discussion ive seen about 2x03. 

fandom seems to be stuck on this dichotomy of either merlin should have told her about his magic and by not doing so he betrayed her— he did not. merlin tried to help her at the risk of his own life. go watch 2x03 again. or merlin reacted perfectly— also he did not. even while helping her, he still refused to acknowledge her magic.

in a situation where something invisible about you can get you killed, subtle word choices matter. merlins words, him continuing to say he wouldn't know if it was magic, even though they both knew it was and that the other also knew, means something. it means i will keep your secret but i cannot help you. this is by no means a moral failing of merlin. he made this choice out of fear for his own life, and i think it is unreasonable to expect him to react perfectly.

morgana in turn had no reason to go to merlin again about her magic. he has made it clear he doest want to be involved, which he has no responsibility to. and why would merlin be able to help her? he, as far as she knows, has no personal experience with magic except his sorcerer friend. 

besides, druids were the safest place for a her to be. it was the safest place for any warlock to be, including merlin.  her knowing or not knowing about merlin has nothing to do with it. like. everything that happens in camelot between merlin and morgana in season 2 is perfectly understandable. they didnt wrong each other. 

what merlin and morgana actually did wrong is getting all those druids killed because they didnt think the plan through. like all of those people in that camp died. aglain, the person helping morgana, died right in front of her and mordred. the druids were the only ones wronged in that situation. which i have never seen pointed out. 

Favorite relationship: her and mordred

listen there is only a singular instance of morgana genuinely hesitating to hurt somebody after her turn and that person is mordred.

Favorite headcanon: oracle!morgana. this is like a whole big headcanon thats basically the origin story of how draognlords came to be. something happened and oracles stole dragons wills and their births to give to mortals as punishment. and then a group of these people came to albion and became the Seers and the dragonlords. who have like different traditions to the druid seers and the priestesses who use methods adapted from scry methods.

thats why she can speak with aithusa even though aithusa cant speak. 

[throwing-summers-at-the-walls]

Hi, i hope you are feeling good! Im better than yesterday so i can finally answer you. First of all: i am so happy that you shared your fanfiction! i had a great time reading it! Im always open for more recs. Maybe your all time favorites? Or if you know some good h/c these are always welcome :) And YESSS please send me a link to your fanvids. -- yeah 13rw was super cursed. haha i also watched season 1 but thankfully i was able to sto watching becaue i could feel it making me feel bad (1)

I agree the suicide scene was just cringe (but i think i remember reading somewhere that they cut it out? idk) and overall this show just gave me the feeling that there was no hope and things are always getting worse instead of better and i hated that. but enough of that cursed show. can i just say i really admire how open you are about your feelings (like being suicidal and that) i realy, really admire this about you. i have so much respect for you that you can just share your feelings here (2)

I have never heard of ace attorney but that story you described sounds really good. and i get reading sth that isnt good for you and still doing it (because im a dumb bitch too :D) -- okay i might accept that Root will never grow on you (but i thought so too and look at me now :D) but i havent fully given up yet :)-- yes thats the girl. i think it was really sweet when she said that to Shaw. and i think Shaw appreciated it that someone tried to figure her out instead of just writting her off (3)

Shaw is really cool and definately also a badass and in combination with John its just great! but you will have to suffer trough some Shoot.  but maybe, maybe you will end up not hating Root. hope dies last (idk how the saying goes in english, sorry). -- Did you ever ship Caresse (in a romantic way)? cause sometimes i do and sometimes i dont and i get so confused about it :) but i think most of the time i like them more as friends. anyway her death really sucked and you are right with (4)

her death and them losing the library it felt like a different show (i mean i guess it was a different show then). i kinda get your feelings about the destroyed library because i also really loved it (and im really bad with change) but i dont think it affected me as much as you. but yeah i still missed the library very much. and while the subway is a really cool new place its not the same. (also the subway is super dark cause its underground and idk it just makes the whole thing less homey) (5)

Yes he is everything! such a great, interesting character and i wish there were more John-centric episodes! (like ones that explored his character more). that was one of my biggest dislikes of the later seasons that John wasnt featured as much anymore. i think he chuckled a few times in the show but a real laugh? i cant remember one :(  -- He did promise Joss to talk to Tyler so @show were is that talk? -- if seen the vid its awesome! thehiddenmemory has some great poi vids! (6)

yes i think so too. Like Grace would probably be relived and thankful that Harold is still alive and maybe they would even try again but eventually she would figure out that she cant trust him after lying to him for so long or sth like that and Harold would ofc realize that he is in love with someone else now. And then he finds out that John is still alive but stayed away cause he didnt want to get in the way of Harold/Grace. But then Harold comes back. And when they meet again John is like (7)

you came back for the machine? what about Grace. But Harold tells him he came back for John not the machine and then they kiss and have a happy live with Bear (sorry i got a little carried away here :D). -- Yeah Zoe is really hot and she needed more screen time! -- i hope you have a good day and i hope i havent messed up the numbers on the asks! :)

Hi ! I'm finally free from the resits, I hope you're doing okay with your thesis 💛

Sorry for replying late, there was the exam resits, and I read a bunch of fics, then I fell into pokémon and started bingewatching it. (Also I had a breakdown during therapy today so I'm gonna finish writing my answer to distract myself - it's been sitting in my drafts for so long rip)

Thank you !! It was a very personal thing, I'm really happy you liked it !! Your support and your comment made me thrive 💛💛

Tbh I was surprised to see it get kudos given that the only intended audience was my self projecting ass 🤣

So, my fav fics (my fav fic ever is in French, rip to y'all bc it's so good):

I am, I am, I am by RavenWhitecastle

Actually check the entire series this work belongs to: The Sinner and the Saint. I haven't finished it yet but I love it (I just skipped the explicit fics bc I don't like smut or sub!John)

Breaking All The Rules by talkingtothesky

Outsider Perspective by Neery

A Really Private Person by astolat

Hamartia (the hero's fatal flaw) by astolat

If Only for Tonight by spacemutineer

From Here, Where? by AKMars

Stroll by TheaNishimori

and the world was gone by lunarcorvid

a light that never goes out by vindicatedtruth

Limitations. by Michaelssw0rd

Reel you in and spit you out by Michaelssw0rd

All I Want For Christmas Is You by richmahogany

By What Power I Am Made Bold by brinnanza

Aftershocks by darringtons

At Certain Hours It All Breaks Down by nogoaway

construction of a kingdom by the_ragnarok

You Take Me Higher Than I've Gone by talkingtothesky

All Together Now by beadedslipper

I'll Let the Waters Still by brinnanza

Birthday Tradition by talkingtothesky

Things My Father Taught Me by KRyn

Truth is in the Eye of the Beholder by infiniteeight

Better Luck This Time by Lisztful

Motivations by JenNova

What's On the Table by cortue

In Another Life by Della19

I Thought We Already Were by talkingtothesky

Misunderstandings by thisstarvingartist

This is already fucking long omg so for the h/c: my bookmarks filtered with Rinch and h/c

Here's my playlist, it's mostly Rinch, but there are a few not Rinch vids, plus some scenes I like

This is long enough already, so it's time for a read more. Also, warning, we be talking about suicide

The portrayal of suicide is cringe most of the time anyway. If my suicidal ass can find a list of suicide methods and their lethality in 2 mins on Google you'd think writers who are supposed to do some research would be able to find them too but no they're like "ah yes slicing wrists" even though it's literally the shittiest method 🙄 (I just don't understand why slicing wrists seems to be such a popular method in the collective imagination ? It's weird.) At least in 13rw she took aspirin and cut herself vertically instead of horizontally but still, no hesitation wounds, and she dies even though she only got 4 wounds iirc ? I know more about jumping off bridges than slicing wrists, but it kinda sounds like bullshit to me. Also Netflix once suggested "beyond the reasons" to me, it's a sort of discussion with the cast and crew of 13rw and the only thing I remember is a moment of intellectual masturbation abt how they "opened a discussion abt suicide" 😬😬😬

They may have cut it out it's not impossible, idk I didn't hear about it, but it's not like I look for info about this dumpster fire lol. Maybe they faced backlash ? Wouldn't be surprised given how shit the show was. And yeah it has a hopeless vibe, I mean that's how it be when you're suicidal, but I didn't like it either.

You're sweet 💜💜 it's interesting that you find it respectable or admirable, I don't have an external point of view, so I'm just like 🤷 it is what it is. I understand where you're coming from though, I guess it's still quite a taboo subject, and suicidal people don't always feel comfortable talking about it, so me throwing around that I jumped off a bridge must be surprising. I'm detached enough from my suicide attempt that I'm able to talk about it without much of a problem, and I'm not really suicidal anymore.

Dumb bitches unite 👏👏👏 we be out there reading shit we shouldn't read

Yeah I think it's nice how the show didn't portray Shaw as a bad person for not having "normal feelings". Well, hope makes one live as we say in French (idk the English saying either lol) but don't hold much hope about me liking Root lmao

I used to ship careese bc they kissed in the crossing, but then I read some Rinch fics and I just ended up falling into it to the point where I stopped caring about careese. Now I think their relationship works better as a friendship.

Yeah all that change really puts me off... It just gives me "bad spin-off" vibes. Especially since there is less John :( and less Rinch :((((

Lmao yeah I just have a lot of feelings about early poi hgkfglrk. Also :/ I'm sad about the subway being less homey pls I just want happiness ?? I swear this show destroys my heart on top of owning my last braincell (brb changing my blog title to this lmao)

Mood I need all the John-centric eps, give me m o r e characterization and development and backstory and feelings hhhhhhh. I love him so much I just wanna spend more time with him. And that's what fics are for ! Yeah thehiddenmemory is so talented ! Astolat made some good ones too, on top of writing really good fics ! (Our fandom has been blessed with the presence of one of the ao3 founders hell yeah)

Also, remember how we talked abt the poi subreddit ? The other day I left a comment on there, wild I know. It wasn't a discussion about the last seasons though, I'm not crazy, it was about the impact poi had in our lives so I said it literally taught me English. Who knows maybe sometimes I'll comment again lol. I just don't wanna meet one of those people who prefer late poi over early poi.

Allow me to uuuuh write something based on what you said. Don't ask me how John survived with no major injuries, my man got that Thick Plot Armor alright. Hope you appreciate me getting carried away sjdkdksk it's kinda rushed and the first part isn't that good bc idk how to write Grace I'm just here for that sweet sweet Rinch stuff

Harold is eating breakfast with Grace in her kitchen – he can't think of her home as his home – when his phone vibrates. It's a text from the machine. It's a surprise, she barely contacted him since... He blocks the thoughts and the images coming to his mind. The machine sent him a picture. When he opens it, his heart misses a beat. Right here on his screen is a silhouette he thought he would never see again. His phone vibrates again. Another picture, this time it's unmistakably John, wearing his signature suit, Bear next to him. Transfixed, he stares at his phone until he feels Grace gently touching his arm. She goes straight to the point.

"Is it John ?" He looks up in confusion, but before he can say anything, she adds, "I hear you call him in your sleep every night."

"It's him, yes." He doesn't want to explain. He only wants to see John, to touch him, to tell him how much he loves him.

"You should go back to him. I like you, Harold. I am deeply relieved to see you alive. But I've been thinking, and... It's not working. This, us... You aren't really the man I fell in love with, the man I grieved... I can't trust you anymore." She doesn't say 'You lied to me' but Harold hears it all the same.

~

Harold sits on their bench. The machine indicated John often comes here. Soon enough, his arms are full of Bear, and John is standing in front of him.

"John. How are you ?" he asks when Bear finally calms down.

"Busy. And you ?"

Harold eyes him suspiciously – John once said he was busy when he was bleeding and way too close to death – but he seems to be well.

"I'm fine." He doesn't have time for awkward small talk." I thought you were dead. Why didn't you contact me ?"

"The machine told me you were with Grace. I thought you wanted to come back to your previous life. I didn't want to crash into it and ruin what you had."

Harold wants to be angry at him, but he understands. He did the same with Grace.

"You would never ruin anything. Besides, my relationship with Grace... didn't survive my lies. She's very dear to my heart, but she's a part of my previous life, as you said."

"So you came back for the machine, and the numbers, like the good old times ?"

Harold gets up from the bench.

"I came back for you. You are an important part of my life. The most important part."

John smiles, finally. He takes a step towards Harold, they're so close they could kiss. Harold reaches out, grips his shirt and slowly inches closer. He's still afraid of being rejected but John wraps his arm around him and kisses him. The kiss is over too soon. John's smile is even wider when they part.

"You're the most important part of my life too," he says before kissing Harold again. "You will stay ?"

"Always."

Damn I live for sappy Rinch stuff.

Bitches decided that Harold saying "always" is peak Rinch. It's me I'm bitches.

Also ofc I had to make a reference to number crunch, who do you think I am

Anyway. I hope you have a good day ! 💛

[iobottle]

atissi

replied to your post

“it kinda makes me sad when artists giving out tutorials on character...”

oh could you talk more about this? :o

ABSOLUTELY thank u for enabling me to go off about designs i love this shit this may get a bit long so its going under a readmore (sorry if ur on mobile i hope it works)

gonna start this off with im no expert Nor have i taken any sort of official art class this is me just analyzing characters from what i found that makes them memorable to ppl (most of these examples are going to be from games sorry i got them on my mind)

ok so basically making a memorable revolves around personality and appearance now theres different ways to go about showing these things and i think from consuming media you like will help narrow down how you wanna go about it, basically thinking about your character inside and out!

SO shapes and hyperstylization is a good way to get a fun appearance across in a cartoon esp media and is often what a lot of artists stress on an example of using shapes and a good silhouette to make a memorable character is sonic!(specifically comic sonic)

(had to google idw sonic for a non...u know image)

but not only do they use lots of triangles for this hedgehog they also made him blue! you’d be more likely to remember a blue headgehog over a realistically colored one!(also almost all of the sonic characters have a combination of fun shape + unusual color to help you remember them! the designs werent afraid to use color to make a bold statement)(he’s also segas mascot so of course they put a lot of work in his design)

now sonics appearance is not the only reason why people like him or remember him so much he’s also got personality! he’s cocky, fast, always getting into trouble, “you’re too slow!”, accompanied by shitty butt rock and a cool guy persona ie he’s got personality! and they weren’t afraid to give him some weird interests(see the butt rock) and he’s not perfect( see arrogance) if youve ever played a sonic game you have almost always remembered the crush 40 theme that went with it

all in all to go with his unusual appearance he’s got some unusual traits! it helps make him believable! admittedly he’s not the most embarrassing of the sonic crew (see knuckles or shadow) but he’s definitely rounded and not boring from an objective standpoint(you can not like sonic or his games i dont care)

(another example of something that requires good shapes is pokemon altho they arent really like very depthy since there are 600+ and some only have like a pokedex entry worth of info but still they have good and memorable designs)

NOW something that doesnt have the most “good shapes” design off the top of my head is link

now in the most recent zelda game his most memoriable physical attribute is that he’s on the androgynous side w his longer hair and smaller build but in his older designs he looked something like this

(art for a loz:link to the past)

not really that much of a striking silhouette, but what do we look at and kinda leaves an impression on us? his hair and hat! its very silly to see someone in such a big green hat with that big of bangs/mullet, the hat at least became so ridiculous of a look that in botw nintendo didnt include his hat in links main outfit bc it was too hard to make look good, its silly! thats good! its fine to have a normal human looking characters because sometimes stories are about humans, but if you want us to remember them include something that will strike us as strange for them

also probably a good thing to note is the noises link makes when he swings his sword, jumps, pushes something, ie any action they have always been something that has stuck with me

(another example similar to this is in mgs solid snake in mgs is this cool super spy but is rocking a full on mullet which is considered a joke hairstyle. this leaves an impression on us. a spy with a mullet! how ridiculous! another example is raiden who was specifically made bc a woman wrote that she didnt want to play as an “old man” so the protagonist of the super spy game is a longer haired pretty boy (with a huge ass))

now ive explained a little on a character with good shapes and personality and a character with a more “boring” shape design that makes up for it with almost quirky design choices but i feel like theres another series thats what originally got me thinking about how even a memorable silhouette doesnt need hyperstylization

ace attorney! (which is out on switch now if u havent played it i would def recommend it)

if you dont know the protagonist is the guy in the blue suit(phoenix), which well he looks like just a guy...with ridiculously spikey hair enough so that in his silhouette you can recognize him but also his posture (the pointing) makes for a sticking recognizable image bc if you’ve played the games you can practically hear objection just from looking at phoenix’s silhouette

which is another thing id like to talk about! not only are a good shape a way to have a good silhouette but posture is also important! how the character holds themselves can say alot about them just from a glance! such as meekness, arrogance, confidence, sadness, anger, happiness its a very important too especially when you arent relying on stylization

now onto the characters of ace attorney ive gone over phoenix's design a bit but theres a few others id like to look at with some Weird style choices that make us remember them(just going to glance over them since this post is so long)

now, this woman, franziska von karma, she dresses kind of strange for a prosecutor but her outfit is not too out there and her silhouette is not striking

but you see that whip? remember how i said she was a prosecutor? yeah she will strike people in court for getting off topic and will even hit phoenix when he starts breaking down her witnesses testimonies, which what literally strikes up about her

another prosecutor, godot, now his hair could provide a somewhat memorable shape but what we first notice is the strange mask on his face which is weird, but not the Same weird as franziska bringing a whip to court thus having both of these prosecutors being Weirdly memorable for different things (another note is his liking of coffee that he does not give up even in court ha ha)

now onto the other protag for the aa games

apollo! who also has weirdly spikey hair, but even if you put a silhouette of him next to phoenix you could tell there some was a difference between the two! its showing a pattern with the protags while also keeping them distinct enough to be able to tell who is who! although you cant say the pointy haired guy from ace attorney and not get just One answer unlike saying the prosecutor who has a whip but still they are distinct to people who have little experience with the series

sorry i dont have any sort of conclusion on this this was just sort of me rambling on about character design, but my main point is if you are discouraged bc all your characters dont have wildly different silhouettes thats ok! there are other ways to establish a good memorable character! dont be afraid to make them a little weird! give your character pink hair in a medieval setting, have them be ridiculously in love with tigers they have a striped shirt and pants, let them love childrens tv shows and have them never miss an episode, give them wacky hair or an extreme love of gum, show us some personality!! but dont forget about how they act and their values and dont forget that posture can go a long way for establishing a first impression

there are also many other methods to making a good character! like colors and dress!

silly is the way to go! have fun with it!!

there isnt just one way to make a good character!! theres plenty of more series that have good character design that i didnt mention pay attention to why you like the characters you like! also watch this video bc its really good

[thisisasupergoodidea]

just watched The Guy Who Didnt Like Musicals a second time. i didnt really process the songs properly the first time and didnt like them but now i can actually hear the tunes as intended and i love this whole thing so much. so im gonna ramble about this musical for a bit. spoilers ahead if u havent watched yet (its on youtube)

ive seen a few of the theories ppl have about the delivery of the musical, and about what happens at the end especially. i think i wanna try my hand at it too because sometimes i enjoy interpreting details. and im a gigantic sucker for reprises that stitch together all the songs we just heard into its own frankenstein song that completely changes in meaning or tone based on all the info we absorbed over the course of the program. and boi the last song of the show sure fuckin delivers

ok well i need to start at the beginning though. some ppl are confused by what the opening lil song and dance is within the context of the musical, because it introduces the main character, but at that point no one is infected yet so it just seems like standard musical stuff in the viewpoint of the audience, who expects this. but the entire plot of this musical is that the characters’ world slowly BECOMES a musical due to alien spores from a meteor infecting everyone to act as a harmonious hive mind. so in this sense its two musicals at the same time: the musical that starkid productions wrote, and the looser ‘musical’ that the alien entity is orchestrating during its antagonism of the main character. i believe that the opener takes place after at least a partially successful domination of the populace, mostly because of the fact that the characters who participate in that song are referring to ‘themselves’ in the third person and are dancing all hunched and menacingly, exactly how the alien spore compels people to dance later on in the plot. that plus a line that i might be recalling correctly about how the main character is their final story to tell, makes me certain that this is the alien telling that story

as for the main character paul’s absence from that song, i really think thats something intended in the musical to introduce what paul is like in the most succinct way possible. the guy just did not like musicals. throughout the plot he is constantly defining himself by his lack of participation, so of course the cheekiest way to set that up is to have him not participate in the opener. i think the confusing part here is when the story actually begins, because if the opener was performed by the future infected characters, when is the line drawn to differentiate between the two musicals that are happening (starkid musical vs alien musical)? or is the whole thing a performance by the alien entity? in which case, everyone on that stage is simply acting out the story as determined by the hive mind. but to whom, if everyone’s infected? i’ll get back to that later

another thing i love about this musical is how gradually tired of paul’s shit the alien entity becomes over the course of the plot, as evidenced by the tone of the songs. it just gets worse and worse. the alien’s songs turn from sickeningly cheerful to enticing, to threatening, to evoking hopelessness, then finally to pressuring paul past his breaking point. some of the songs arent even directed at paul but the change still happens, which goes to show the alien entity’s frustration. and at the end when the infected find emma, the song is happy again. they sing that awesome reprise, a really energetic mashup in which its hard not to feel like the alien plague is unstoppable. inevitable, one might say.

speaking of the end... paul’s confrontation with the meteor (my absolute favorite scene that i would rewatch a hundred times except i dont want to get tired of it too fast) contains good information to understanding what happens afterward. paul tries to blow it up, gets distracted by the appearance of his infected acquaintances, and the longer he stays there the more infected he himself becomes, breathing in such a heavy concentration of those alien spores at the epicenter of its activity. until now, he has rejected actively being the ‘star of the show’ like the alien seems to... want him to be? idk, the point is that his character defies musical protagonist tropes despite how the plot follows him. the story is ABOUT the alien, but paul is the audience’s anchor. until he goes to blow up the meteor. at that point, the alien has him. he can barely fight back against his own body synchronizing with the other infected as they goad him into giving in, but he puts up a damn good struggle considering those impossible circumstances. still, for the first time, he participates. he sings. he hates it, but it brings out some interesting thoughts: does he hate it? did he ever? or is this just the spores talking?

but what part, exactly, does he hate? in a musical, the singing and dancing act is usually the method of delivery for whatever the character is truly feeling. it is an opportunity for the audience to connect emotionally with the person who is singing. but we dont have that with paul for almost the entire show. he doesnt participate. and he’s established in the beginning as selfish, kind of a dick, and not available to anyone (except emma who is the only person he even slightly opens up to. he tries to be more friendly somewhat with bill, i think, but even then that couldve just been to get him to snap out of it and escape the school). he said himself that people singing and dancing makes him uncomfortable. so all this is to say that, on a deeper level, i think the aspect of the singing and dancing that he hates, that he fights to resist, is the vulnerability. you can witness the madness and shame for yourself as he sings more and more, letting out his worries, unsure if his feelings are his anymore. but hey, he ends that scene with a statement reaffirming the self he walked in with (which is to say, a guy who hates musicals) and finally pulls his grenade. so its cool that he was able to resist that but. guys. if the spores didnt get him. that grenade absolutely did. he didnt even bother to throw it away from himself, he flung it down right in front of him. theres no way he didnt get blown to bloody chunks, fully intending for that to be his final act of defiance

but i think it was too late by then. he’d already breathed in so many spores, and we were shown earlier on that death is not an impediment to becoming infected. i think after he exploded, he was still absorbed into the collective and reformed as a new addition to the hive mind. his explosives might not have been enough to fully destroy the meteor. and thats why, at the very end, i believe that - despite his admittedly suspicious face journey during the song - he isnt faking it. because if he was, wouldnt the hive mind know that it doesnt contain him within it? not only that, but in the opening song emma is clearly part of the group. given that she is the only one who is undoubtedly not infected in the last song, we have to assume that she will be sometime after the finale of the musical.

and now im left with my unexplored questions: is this a musical played straight, or a ‘musical’ put on by the alien entity after it wins? and who is the ‘musical’ intended for? its fun to speculate but im not sure these are questions that can be answered by watching it a bunch of times. theyre aimed too much outside of the zone of operation, if that makes sense. its like, you cant ever look at your own eyeballs normally. you need a mirror or for someone to describe them to you. these questions exist outside of the limitations of the musical format, so we wouldnt direct them at the video, we would ask them of the creators. or not. its cool to not have all the questions answered too

ah i wrote a flippin essay, huh? i guess i wanted to prove to myself that my brain still works

[tinypigeonlord]

Don’t mind me, just have had a lot of thoughts on the new Pokemon game so imma write them down. There’s been a lot of posts and videos on what people wanna see or don’t wanna see in the new game too and I wanna give my own two cents to no one in particular.

So first of all graphics. I hear a lot of shit on that. Personally I don’t really have all that many expectations? Like yeah it’s gonna be a Switch game, the quality could possibly be better than we’ve seen. But also did people look over that ‘game footage not final’? Things may still improve and be further optimized. More than that, I love the artstyle atleast? Everything looks so colorful and vibrant and alive and goooood ;w; It sure got my attention. I can’t wait to see all the new areas on my big tv <3

Pokemon popping up and roaming vs random encounters: On one hand I love how lively everything looks with pokemon showing up in the overworld, on the other hand I love the random encounters? I personally liked hunting down specific pokemon, not knowing what I would encounter. I feel like this is also more fun when you’re doing a Nuzlocke; You can’t ‘cheat’ and select a pokemon from those that are currently roaming with random encounters. Aside from that, people mentioned that the roaming aspect made areas look more vacant instead because a lot of open space is needed for bigger pokemon roaming. And finally, it makes the surprise way more fun if a shiny shows up in a random encounter, instead of roaming between the rest of the ‘mon?

Pokemon following you/walking with you: PLS PLS PLS bring this back and expand on it, for all pokemon. Also the option to select which partymember you want to walk with. That was one thing that bummed me out in HeartGold/SoulSilver. If I wanted to walk with my fave, I also needed to have it in the front of the party and throw it out in battle, even in areas where it was at a disadvantage due to type or level. And sometimes I had a pokemon in front for the sake of progression but I didnt necessarily want to walk with it, but there was no option to turn walking off in HG/SS. I believe they did add these options in Let’s Go Pikachu/Eevee, but I havent played these games so I don’t know for sure what the options are. I kinda also want to have the option to pick whether I will walk with a ride pokemon or actually ride it? Like, it was hella cool that you could ride arcanine, persian, haunter or snorlax, etc. But what if I wanted it to just follow me? :/ What I also want back is the national dex once you completed the main story. Let most of the pokemon which first appear be gen 8, and after you beat the main game, pokemon from other generations show up more and you can catch new pokemon that were previously unavailable. I hated how in SuMo, I couldnt see a pokemon’s national dex number, and couldnt get any data on it if it wasnt native to Alola. 

Also this is gonna sound surprising coming from a shiny hunter, but I want the shiny charm to be a reward for filling the entire national dex again (minus mythicals/events), and make the shiny rate 1/8192 again instead of 1/4091. As much as I love my shinies, I kinda feel like they’re becoming a really common thing and way too easy to obtain? I do like there being methods to find shinies easier, such as Masuda breeding, chain-fishing, SOS-chaining, etc, but make it atleast a little bit harder than it currently is, to make all that effort worth it.

Compatibility with pokebank/the 3DS titles!! I want to transfer all my precious bbies I caught over the years to come join me in the next adventure. That would make it even more awesome if walking pokemon also returns; I can walk with my faves then, not just the pokemon available in Sword/Shield. Also Cloud compatibility. I know Nintendo is afraid of people abusing Cloud to edit save files and I can see them not adding cloud for Pokemon to prevent peeps from somehow cloning or editing pokemons, but on the other hand... Right now, I have ALL my rare, valuable pokemon stored on a Ultra Sun cartridge. Every super rare shiny legendary I spent MONTHS on to encounter, every event pokemon from events that will never happen again, and every pokemon that has nostalgic value to me. If that game cartridge breaks, they’re all gone. If Cloud storage would be a thing for pokemon, I’d have a lot less anxiety about gathering all my babies on a single game with the risk of losing ALL OF THEM. Besides, I pay for online service and cloud, and thusfar havent been able to use the feature for my games :/

And definitely compatibility with pro controller. I really do not like the feel of the joycons, nor the pokeball plus, especially not after playing for a few hours, so I’m really hoping we’ll be able to use the pro controller. Considering we seem to be getting the old battle system back instead of Let’s Go’s, I don’t see why they shouldn’t add pro controller compatibility. Besides, I spent a lot of money on this thing, lemme use it >:v

Customization. The new trainers look absolutely adorable, but being able to make your trainer fit your style more is still great and makes things more personal. On one hand I’d love even more options for customization than in SuMo, on the other hand I fear I will never even get anywhere cause I’ll be spending hours mixing and matching outfits :’D I am not at all fashionable irl, but my characters in games have to look tip top. Most importantly, I want gender-neutral stuff!! As in, the option to wear clothes or hairstyles regardless of the gender you picked at the beginning. Give me a girl and the female pronouns, but the option to get the haircut that the boys get and that flannel he wears. For example.

Minigames! Not everyone is a fan of them, but personally I love things like Contests, PokeAthlon, the Underground, Missions in the Festival Plaza, etc. Especially multiplayer stuff. Give me other stuff to do besides battling. And on that note give me fun multiplayer features; besides trading and battling! The feature where you can call for another trainer in Let’s Go seemed fun to me. Being able to connect with other players and joining them in your game to do stuff together. Like how you can invite people to your town in Animal Crossing, go to the island and take on island challenges from Tortimer.

Story-wise, it would be great to have a big long story, also post-game, which doesn’t end too soon, but with the option to skip cutscenes if you so please, and more importantly, have the freedom to also explore. In Sun/Moon, you were constantly forced to go to a very specific location, everything else was blocked, and you had a cutscene every new area. Like, it was all very linear. I love the older games in that regard, where there is a story, but you figure out yourself how to progress without NPCs constantly telling you where to go and what to do. I always have this issue where after I’m done with the story, I’m kind of... lost on what to do next, so personally I love a long story to keep me busy. Give me a serious threat for the antagonists. Team Skull was lovely and I enjoyed their antics, but I want to feel like I’m saving the Galar region or even bigger, rather than just stomping on some bullies, PETA (Plasma) or fashion disasters (Flare). Also gimme an asshole rival. Lately we’ve had a bunch of precious bbies who must be protected, now bring back a rival who deserves an asswhooping and had it coming. :v As for the new gyms with gym masters instead of leaders, I have no opinion yet. I like the good ol’ themed gyms, I liked the trials. The arena thing looks pretty neat thusfar, but there’s not enough info yet for me to have much of an opinion now. I heard a rumor that this game will also have missions you can do to earn rewards & brownie points, and that would be really cool. I always really love missions in RPGs. I’m just hoping that there will be like, a combination of one-time missions AND daily missions so you don’t run out of things to do eventually after completing a whole list.

I’m also hoping that any potential mythical pokemon will come in the form of missions. The whole serial codes giveaways suck. Just entering a code for some random delivery man to appear in the pokemon center, just casually handing you a super rare mythical pokemon like it’s nothing is just bs. Give me new story, sidequests or missions DLC for a mythical pokemon instead. Like Celebi in Crystal + HG/SS, Mew in Emerald, Shaymin and Darkrai in Platinum, and then expand the missions even more. Pokemon Ranger actually did this really well; you had to go on a mission involving the pokemon before you got it.

Finally, maybe a difficulty setting. People always complain that the games are too easy and that you have to use self-imposed rules such as Nuzlockes to make it remotely challenging. Maybe add a normal or easy mode for young kids just getting into the games, including tutorials such as the trainer school so they can get used to how everything works. Make a harder setting for veterans who like the games to have some challenge but are still in it for the story, and a Very Hard/Ultimate mode for competitive players who know every in and out of the game and are looking for a challenge where you really have to balance your team out and know what you’re doing to progress, and for people who can’t care less about the story elements of the games.

[alxvensxoul]

1-100 because im mean.

1. Are you a virgin?

I mean technically I am? I have done things but I have never been penetrated. And that sounded so wrong to say it that way but “gone all the way” made me sound twelve.

2. Does anyone besides you know your bra/penis size?

My sister does. 

3. Do you know anyone who has any STDs?

I don’t think so. 

4. Were you married when you first lost your virginity?

Again, technically a virgin but no because I have never been married. 

5. Do you swear under celibacy?

No

6. When did you first lose your virginity? If you haven’t, when would you like to?

When it happens it happens. 

7. Have you ever gotten tricked into aphrodisiacs or alcohol for sex?

No

8. Have you walked in on someone masturbating/having sex?

My darn sister!

9. Have you ever seen someone masturbate or have sex with their permission?

No. How awkward!

10. Where is the weirdest place you have had sex?

We didn’t have sex but in the backyard at home my ex boyfriend and I… explored eachother. That doesn’t sound any better. 

11. If you had to chose one, would you have outdoor sex or car sex?

Outdoor. Car sex sounds uncomfortable. 

12. When was the age you first masturbated? Whether you knew it or not?

Not long ago..

13. Have you ever helped someone “finish”?

No

14. Have you ever had an erection in the past month? (clitorial counts, too)

I guess? 

15. When was the last time you have had an erection? (clitorial counts, too)

I don’t know

16. Have you ever had an erection and someone noticed?

Nope

17. What is your method of masturbation? (ie. toys, clitorial, prostate)

Ok so.. my sister bought me a toy. Its a little pink thing that vibrates and for the longest time I didn’t touch it. Until I did.. 

18. What is your bra/penis size?

I am a B cup. Not too much..

19. Has anyone seen your private parts other than yourself or a family member?

Yes

20. What is the strangest thing you have ever put up your vagina/anus?

That toy my sister bought me

21. Do you like rough sex or intimate sex better?

I imagine I would like intimate sex but who knows until you try right?

22. When was the last time you masturbated?

A couple days ago.

23. When was the last time you had sex?

I haven’t

24. When was the last time you watched porn?

Uhhh….

25. Have you ever bought a sex toy? If so, which one did you buy last

I didn’t’ buy it, stephanie did. I don’t know what its called. 

? First sex toy? If not, which one do you plan on buying when you do?

My sister bought me this little pink one. 

26. Guys: Circumsized?

N/A

27. Which not-genital part of your body do you like being touched?

My shoulders

28. Which genital part of your body do you like being touched?

My breasts…

29. Girls: Are you able to achieve orgasm just through breast stimulation?

Never tried

30. What color/type of underwear are you wearing?

They are pink and lacy

31. Have you ever sent someone a picture or video of you in the nude? Did it include sexual actions?

NO

32. Have you ever posted a picture of image of you in the nude on a website? Did it include sexual actions?

NO

33. Have you ever anonymously sent/posted a picture or video of yourself in the nude? Did it include sexual actions?

NO

34. Have you anonymously sent a sexual ask to someone on tumblr?

No

35. When was the last time you have had a wet dream?

I dont know. I don’t ever remember having one

36. Which wet dream was your favorite?

I dont remember ever having one

37. Is there a friend you would willingly have sex with?

Yes

38. Is there a celebrity/character you would willingly have sex with?

Dont we all have one?

39. Have you ever masturbated with someone?

No

40. Have you ever took a shower with someone that is not a family member?

No

41. Favorite sexual position? If you are a virgin, which position interests you?

I dunno. Something intimate with lots of room for kissing

42. Do you like being called a slut or whore in bed?

No i would hate that

43. Are you into any BDSM?

Thats kind of scare. I don’t like pain so i don’t understand it. 

44. Have you ever wanted to have sex with someone but knew you couldnt for any reason? Why?

I mean sure. We all have someone we would sleep with but can’t for some reason right? Maybe they’re a celebrity. Maybe they don’t know you exist. Maybe they don’t see you that way. 

45. Turn on’s?

Tall boys, deep voices, goofy personalities

46. Turn off’s?

Smoking, being rude, being too forward

47. Have you ever had a sexual fantasy about someone? Was it about anyone other than your lover?

Yes and I don’t have a lover so yes. 

48. Have you ever had phone sex? Video sex? Chat box sex?

Nope to all

49. What was the weirdest thing that has ever turned you on?

Oh god. Probably a guy in a bathing suit. It wasn’ that weird, it just came out of nowhere. 

50. Do you like dirty talk?

I think it would be sexy

51. Are you loud or quiet during sex? Masturbation?

I am kinda loud….

52. Have you ever been inturrepted during sex or masturbation? Who/what?

My sister’s cat jumped out of my closet and scared me

53. Most embarressing sex/masturbation story?

See above. Stephanie walked in and saw what i was doing. 

54. Most hilarious sex/masturbation story?

Again, see above

55. What kind of porn do you like to watch?

Romantic, sensual stuff. But its never very good. 

56. First type of porn you have ever watched? (ie. lesbian, hentai, threesome)

Some scary hardcore stuff stephaie showed me. 

57. What was the most recent type of porn you have ever watched? What category was it under?

Hardcore. My sister is weird

58. Most hilarious/stupidest porn you have ever watched?

Most of it is terrible

59. Have you ever fantasized over someone older than you? How much older? Younger? How much younger?

Yep. Just a few yeard older

60. Favorite sex toy (if any)?

My little pink one. Its the only one i have 

61. Have you ever had to break up with/divorce someone because you weren’t satisfied with their sex?

No

62. Have you ever used anything/gotten any surgeries to improve sexual performance/feel?

No

63. If someone you knew asked for a nude image, would you do it? What about a tumblr follower?

nope

64. Have you ever told someone any wet dreams/fantasies you’ve had about them?

No! why would i tell them

65. Do you like to have sex like they do in pornos?

Nobody has sex like that or at least i hope not. 

66. Have you ever confessed to someone that you got an erection over them? What about masturbated to them?

No!

67. Are you able to be secretive when you masturbate? (like able to be quiet so no one can hear?)

I have gotten pretty good at it but i don’t do it a lot

68. When was the first time you achieved orgasm?

I never have

69. Is there only one way so far that you have been able to achieve orgasm? (ie. only by using toys, only from 1 positon,only from masturbating a certain way)

Again, never have

70. Favorite type of oral?

I have only ever experienced one. That night in the backyard at home he.. well it was nice. But it didn’t last long. We were afraid we would get caught. It only happened that one time. 

71. Strangest sexual positon you’ve tried?

I havent

72. Have you ever made up a sexual postion?

No

73. Girls: During sex, vaginal or anal?

I haven’t done either but nobody is putting anything up my butt

74. Girls: During masturbation, clitorial, vaginal, or anal?

See above 

75. Do you like to be dominant or submissive?

Submissive 

76. Have you ever masturbated to someone?

No

77. Have you ever masturbated because your sexual partner wasn’t there when you needed them?

I don’t have a sexual partner

78. Have you ever had a one night stand? Do you still keep in contact with them?

No i haven’t had one

79. Have you ever had a friends with benefits? Are they still beneficial?

No. That seems stupid

80. Have you ever had sex with someone who wasnt your partner?

No

81. Has any of your partners had sex with someone else?

He probably did. My ex. 

82. Have you ever gotten pregnant? Were they your lover’s or someone else’s?

No

83. Birth control or condoms?

Both

84. Do you ever masturbate to porn?

No its weird

85. Does anyone know you masturbate? Did you have to tell them?

My sister

86. Did your parents ever find out you were sexually active?

Yes

87. Do you have any STDs?

No

88. Have you ever masturbated to a fictonal character or celebrity?

No

89. Have you ever had sex during “7 minutes in heaven”?

No

90. Spit or swallow? Or do you not like oral?

I haven’t done either but I feel like if its already in your mouth you might as well swallow it. 

91. Have you ever been rejected for sex? Have you ever rejected someone else?

I rejected my sisters ex boyfriend who tried to hook up with me while they were dating

92. Do you have someone who said they are willing to take away your virginity if you havent lost it by a set age or if you just want to have a good time?

Nobody has told me they wanted to

93. Have you ever experiented with the opposite sex?

Yep

94. When you first lost your virginity, was it intended or spontanious?

I havent yet

95. Has anyone ever walked in when you were taking a shower with someone?

No

96. Did you ever tell someone once you lost your virginity?

I will tell Stephanie when it happens

97. Does your lover know if you have masturbated?

I don’t have one

98. Does your lover know that you want to have sex with them but cant?

Don’t have a lover 

99. Do you like masturbation?

Yes sometimes

100. (Asker’s ask) If i were to ask you if we could have sex, would you say yes?

Honestly? Probably. I hope that doesn’t make you think differently of me. 

[tumblunni]

OH MAN Why Am I Dead At Sea is SO FUCKIN GOOD

god I’m full of FEEEELS and THEORIES and GAHHHH I cant talk about ANYTHING about this game without spoiling stuff!! So I’m gonna make a spoilery ramble post woo! I havent actually finished it yet so this is spoils for like... up to the very last bit before the start of the final chapter. And I’ll try and talk about stuff in order so like, if you dont mind seeing a few spoils then you can read halfway thru i guess?? I just really wanna be able to reccommend this game and gush about characters without having to talk spoils!! GAHHH!!

ANYWAY U CAN BUY IT HERE Its really cheap and really worth it! Its even on sale right now so its £1.50 instead of £3! DOUBLE CHEAP!! But absolutely remember to backup your savefiles frequently, there’s a pathfinding glitch that can make the game unwinnable. And its a damn shame cos that nearly made me stop playing before I got to any of the good bits! Its easy to avoid once you know about it, at least.

Man, I’m so sad the gameplay has that one big glitch cos its really cool aside from that?? Its super basic and probably not everyone’s cup of tea though, this is a game that you’d only enjoy if you’re the sort of people who like when a game has like.. a codex of extra info you can collect.  There’s not as much ‘control people to affect the world’ as you’d expect, its 99% controlling people to unlock different dialogue options. All word puzzles and stuff! And the easiest way to get out of being stuck is just to methodically possess everyone you havent possessed yet, and talk to everyone and click on everything using them. I can imagine that’d be frustrating for people who like.. weren’t already doing that anyway. I Wanted to do that instantly cos I wanna find all the optional insights into everyone’s character! And some funny moments and sweetheart moments and AAAA I care about these people too much already... Oh, and its even more reason to love Paulo cos he gives you tips if you chat to him, and can even outright tell you the solution if you get really stuck. So for players who dont like being all completionist on the dialogue, he’s a very useful helper! I just wish that the ‘outright give you the solution’ option was better labelled so you dont click it by accident. Its just ‘tell me more’, I didnt know itd ruin the current puzzle for me :P

And MAAAAAN this game gets really trancey and atmospheric and I cant even really explain why?? You spend the whole game within this one small area but stuff gets opened up over time and things are revealed about seemingly innocent areas when you gain the new abilities of different people you possess. And how the player character is just this ethereal floaty flame, and how you get used to all the rules of how it works, and how neat the lil animations are. And how you start memorizing the place and all the details about everyone and getting REALLY DETERMINED to protect them GAHHH And the soundtrack is REALLY GOOD

PAULO IS MY SMALL SON PLEASE TELL ME I CAN PROTECT HIM FOREVER tiny necromancer boy aaaaaa he’s so lonely aaaaa he’s on this ship cos he has to ride it all the time on his own to get back from boarding school, his parents cant be bothered to pick him up and he’s just SO YOUNGGGG aaaa he’s like a child prodigy, he’s going to this big scary boarding school several grades above him and his parents are so distant and everyone thinks he can just handle everything because he’s smart and on top of all that he has to keep the secret that he can see ghosts, and theyre like his ONLY FRIENDS even though he only gets to talk to them for a little while before they pass on. YET HE STILL KEEPS HELPING THEM! He says all ‘oh im only summoning you for selfish reasons, I want you to save everyone else on the ship’ but he still helps you resolve your own death even when he knows it means he’ll never see you again. He has to mourn his best friend every damn time he makes one! Aside from that all he has is his teddy bear, showing just how young he really is and how much he FUCKING NEEDS GOOD PARENTS no matter how damn smart the poor kid is and AAAAA... And when you start getting clues about who you maybe are, it gets even sadder cos he’s like... “I didnt know her well but... I liked her. She helped me with my geometry homework.” God he had just ONE MOMENT of incredibly ordinary minimal friendship with this lady and then as soon as he’d got his hopes up THIS SHIT HAD TO HAPPEN! No wonder he locked his door for the entire cruise and refused to be near anyone except his new ghost friend. And gahhh he must have had his suspicions from the start about who it was that died, as soon as she didn’t come back to help with his homework. From his perspective this was just like an inevitable conclusion and he was begging you to find any other answer...

MORE SPOILERY SPOILER I was so fucking terrified when his door finally opened, and all you see inside is empty space. I mean it was a punch to the gut indeed that someone else died that we only really just met, but I’m WAY more terrified that the main sidekick for the whole game is potentially gonna die! He’s just vanished though, so I’m hoping that whether you save him or not is what determines the bad endings? So it IS possible to save him right?? SPOILER ENDDDDDDD

I’m still really confused how to feel about Xu though. I mean she’s such a huge jerk but I still cant help but feel sympathy for her?? And I feel like.. if I am supposed to hate her then its kinda annoying that the game brings up all these sympathetic concepts just to sorta discard them, they only exist to be her failed excuses for her actions. I dunno, its just sorta messed up. But it also means that if I AM supposed to agree with her actions then its messed up too?? And either way its frustrating cos she’s the only chinese character in the cast and her plot is so... gah. She’s this jerkass to everybody and she steals from the customers and then her excuse is ‘but I’m so poor and I’m a minority, how dare you yell at me for stealing’ and then she NEVER GIVES THE STUFF BACK and you never have any option to tell anyone?? And its so messed up cos like.. Anton actually IS a privilaged guy and I can see why she’d be mad that he’s in this job because he ‘wants to travel’ whereas she has to take it because she’s literally homeless. I mean if they actually discussed that then it’d be a good plot. And its a shame you cant bring up the secrets you find about Anton even when you get full possession of him, you find out he also had a meltdown and flunked out of college cos he just couldnt handle it, they could have been able to bond over that and realise they were both having misconceptions about each other’s motives for things. Like, she saw him as some guy who just chose to drop out of the education she wishes she could go back to, because he’s soooo rich and he can do whatever he wants. And he’d never considered how good he’s got it, and how other people are denied the same opportunities, and how he can use his privilage to help make the world fairer for these other people! Its just.. like.. you dont even find out that Anton IS rich until AFTER the conversation about Xu stealing his stuff, so it comes out of nowhere and feels like the game is saying privilage is a stupid concept thats not real and its being used as an excuse for her to be horrid. Either that or its on Xu’s side and its saying shoplifting is fine as long as you steal from white people?? And like.. Anton didnt do ANYTHING to make it seem like he deserved it, as far as we see. He’s never even rude to her?? He doesnt seem to do anything racist or classist. Its just like she assumes he;s that way because he’s a rich white guy but the game shows him to be Super Innocent so is it saying that everyone who ever accuses anyone of racism is always lying or.. gahhh?? It just feels like its trying to make a statement but I have no clue what it is! And this is the only time racism is ever discussed so it kinda stands out?? Also.. like.. NOBODY ever discusses the name issue?? Its really confusing, cos even her steam trading card calls her ‘Xu/Sue’. Ingame EVERYONE calls her Sue except herself and the interface. But its never drawn attention to, or explained?? So like, am I actually meant to assume that everyone is mispronouncing her name? But there’s no option to not do it! Or to bring up the subject! Anyway I just CANNOT stop feeling sympathy for her every time I see the damn wrong name in all these text boxes. Even if she’s an abrasive asshole half the time she feels like she has some sense of morality deep down, and that she’s been pushed to this extent by a terrible life rather than just choosing to become this sort of person. She’s just kinda like the ‘token evil good guy’ on the team. Even though she’s committing petty crimes it pales in comparison to the bigger horror that’s going on here :P

MAN it felt so damn good to finally get the reveal on Donavan and play as him for the first time! I mean whoa what a good climactic moment! What an uplifting! And what a downlifting when it gets cut short by tragedy, lol I TOTALLY KNEW IT that he was a cop! I mean seriously he was such a clear red herring, he was being pushed so heavily as the killer and we never got to know anything actually about him. And when you read his mind the ‘I WILL FIND YOU. I WILL EXTERMINATE YOU.’ struck me as something that could easily have a double meaning if he was a detective looking for the real killer! It was just SO BADASS when you finally get to control him and you have the power to enter every room and find clues that were locked off for ages! And it feels like you’re finally making progress so it was such a great story decision that the killer gets him immediately afterwards. And how their last taunt to him is that he was NO WHERE NEAR solving the mystery! Its just a taste of power and then its all thrown away and it makes you SO FUCKING DETERMINED to finish what donovan started with your weak lil protagonist hands NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES GAHHHHH

And then finally regaining a humanoid ghost form and being able to unlock the last two people’s tragic backstories by visiting their dreams!! And gahhh it was so interesting and sad that you have to lie and pretend to be the ghost of someone else they care about, in order to get through to them and say what that person would have said if they had got the chance to be the protagonist instead of you. It was actually a genuine huge surprise to learn that Gwen wasnt remotely involved with the murder! Like, she spent the whole game being paranoid that someone is coming after her, and everyone was saying she’s JUST paranoid, and then it turns out she WAS just paranoid! But I love that the game is actually sympathetic to her paranoia and shows how it’s a legitimate mental illness. Its left more mysterious than a lot of the other backstories, but it seems that her father or uncle or someone abused her and her sister when she was a child, and her sister was killed while she escaped. And even though its over she’s been haunted by the belief he’ll find her any second now, causing her to destroy her own life through reckless decisions, jumping up and running away every time things start getting good in her life. She doesnt even know where she’s running to! And GOD I really liked how you resolve it, you dont just cure people’s mental illnesses by giving them a  motivational speech. But you help them feel like they’re able to endure it, that they’ll get better someday and that they should accept help from therapists. And NOT BLAME THEMSELVES for being sick! I just really liked the line “yes, this is a living nightmare, but if you’re awake you can change things”.

And when you do the similar dream sequence for Darryl there’s an even better climactic line! Its like, after a whole game of him blaming himself for his wife’s suicide, going over a bazillion different scenarios of how he could have prevented it, you just say... “I was sick, there was nothing you could do.” There isnt some magical REASON why she became depressed, her life with him was as happy as he could have given her. It wouldnt have just stopped if her life was perfect, she had to get treatment, its an illness. It wasnt anyone’s fault, it was just a bad stroke of chance that she never told anyone about it and never got a chance to be treated, or even to talk it through with her husband at all. Her diary is just full of her feeling guilty that she must be making it up because she loves her husband so much and it’d be like insulting him to admit she isnt happy within her own skin, when he does everything to be the best husband he can. Goddd.... its so sad that its BECAUSE THEY WERE HAPPY that she was in this position where she never sought help! Where she just shouldered it herself and hoped it would go away on its own! And god, you get to see that Darryl does indeed have antidepressants in his room, unlike her he did seek therapy and its just because of his guilt that he isnt fully accessing that help. And he’s taking these drugs instead of his proper medication, and he’s planning his own suicide at the end of the trip. And god, you get to talk him down from it and say what his wife wanted to say, and save him from meeting the same fate as her! You’re just sick, Darryl. She was sick too. Its not anyone’s fault that someone stays depressed, nothing can magically make depression go away, you have to see a doctor like with any other illness. You cant just talk it away by telling yourself that you ‘should’ be happy and youre somehow choosing to feel this way...

GODDDD I hope poor mr stubble grandpa is okay after the end of the game And I hope him and Quella stay in touch as friends! Her backstory made me cry too, goddddd She’s been diagnosed with cancer and has anywhere between three and seven months to live, because she was too poor to afford treatment until it was already too late. And she’s just so positive and okay with it?? Everyone else are the only ones crying for her.. She just wants to finish her final novel before she runs out of time, she’s crying more about not having enough inspiration for this. She just wants to be remembered, she knows she cant change her own death and this is the only thing she CAN change... I want Darryl to be her friend and help beta read her novel aaaa And dear god can everyone please be okay and stick together and GOD why can’t protagonist stay T_T I want you all to be safe when I’m gone, my friends. God I get to know them so closely yet never be able to really even talk to them, they’ll just remember me as someone they talked to only once before I died... And DEAR GOD let me rescue Paulo please!!!! everyone be safe please I don’t want to be able to hug Paulo and stay with him forever There is no way this can happen unless the worst possible thing happened I have to say goodbye okay i HAVE TO SAVE EVERYONE if all goes well I’ll never see any of you in person, okay? just let me be a shadow on this boat and pass away with no regrets knowing all of you will live a lot longer than me THIS GAME GETS ME SO EMOTIONALLLLL

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24 Access To Fall In Love With The World Around You( When You Require A Break From Romantic Love)

1. Fall In Love With Learning

Fall in love with investigating an idea, constructing new believes, piecing together a new framework for how the world around “youre working” and what you can do with that knowledge. Croak back to institution, take a course youve “ve always wanted to” take or eventually pick up that work that youve been meaning to read for too long. Fall in love with expanding your attention in ways that you never even knew were possible.

2. Descent In Love With Traveling

Fall in love with movement. Become enamoured with altering sceneries and changing view and the seduce people who occupy each new region. Open your imagination up to cultures that differ from your own and let go of the racisms youve building up over so many years. Instead of focusing on the disarray of your internal nature, focus on the enchantment of the one that circumvents you. And allow yourself to be changed by it.

3. Tumble In Love With Your Body

Fall in love with all that your body can do for you for the mountains it is feasible proportion, the miles it can traverse, the people it is feasible charity and the residence that it gives people inside yourself. Learn to treat your figure with the proper respect it deserves with the food that nourishes it, the activity that exhilarates it and the conscientiousness that allows it to thrive. Stop neglecting “the worlds largest” permanent residence that has already been, and read to take care of it instead.

4. Drop In Love With Your Work

Fall in love with the projects you havent yet started, its own initiative you havent yet taken, the changes that youre capable of making and the impact you have the power to have. Instead of letting your work happens to you, start swarming your centre into your subsistence and watch the stunning solutions that follow.

5. Sink In Love With Art

Fall in love with the passion, the enchantment, the invention of “the worlds” that surrounds you. Immerse yourself in the aesthetic grace that is available to you in abundance and then equal that productivity with your own. Learn to channel your experience of “the worlds” into whichever art organize dress you best, and surprise yourself with your own ability to designing and invent.

6. Drop In Love With Nature

Fall in love with the overwhelming attractivenes of the natural environment that borders you. Strap on a backpack, hire a compass and canoe, and take yourself entirely off the grid. Realize how few of your problems strain beyond the hustle and flurry of your day-to-day life and take solace in that fact. Realize that nature is far extremely enchanting a beast to give inessential distractions get in the way of your experience of it.

7. Sink In Love With Helping People

Fall in love with a charity, their home communities, a population that youre capable of helping and flourishing. Realize that potential impacts you can have on other people is more significant than you could ever have imagined and glean a sense of purpose from that. Recognize that you are not the only party you exist to nurture and serve.

8. Tumble In Love With Bettering Yourself

Fall in love with objection yourself, with thriving yourself, with thrusting yourself to rise up to always one more obstruction that has been standing in your way. Read those works you have been meaning to invest in. Start that fitness routine youve been putting off. Actually get down to the core of what its going to take to establish yourself appear proud of the person you are, and then do that. Fall in love with the process of becoming more yourself.

9. Autumn In Love With Manufacturing People Laugh

Fall in love with humor. Earmark yourself to revel in the absurdity of the world that circumvents you and share your quirky receives with others. Get together with sidekicks you havent saw in years the ones who build your abs hurt with laughter and allow yourself a night to let loose. To laugh at all the things that are typically disturbance you, and realize how little superpower the government had. To realise how little anything stuffs when you have people to chuckle about it with.

10. Drop-off In Love With Literature

Fall in love with reading. Pick up the books youve been forgetting for too long and open yourself up to someone elses image to seeing how “the worlds” acts. Immerse yourself in the undertakings youll never take, the beliefs youve never entertained and the sheer think of how much more there ever is to learn and understand.

11. Sink In Love With Reflection

Fall in love with re-hashing your own legend. Instead of barreling aimlessly forward, take some time to reflect on where youve been and what you can learn from those experiences. Discover how many answers youre already deeming onto if you simply take the time to seek them out within yourself. And then move forward with a much greater awareness of where you want to go next.

12. Drop-off In Love With Movement

Fall in love with physical act. Take up a play, a physical challenge or an outdoor adventure that gets your blood pumping and your soul race. Take full advantage of the impact that endorphins have on your overall sense of wellbeing and refuse to take your form for granted again. Push its limits( safely) and surprise yourself with all that it can do.

13. Drop In Love With Mysteries

Fall in love with all that you have yet to understand. Research oddities, plunge into disorders, take it upon yourself to undertake some of the large unanswered questions in life. You may not end up with any answers, but youll discover to enjoy the process of wondering. Youll learn to tackle all future questions from every available angle.

14. Descend In Love With Healing

Fall in love with whatever it takes to manufacture you feel whole and terminated again. Take up study, practising, journaling, passing anything that brought you a little bit closer to who you know yourself to be at your core. In many directions, we will be healing and hurting our entire lives. So theres no shame in taking some time to get the process right.

15. Descent In Love With Experimentation

Fall in love with the fluidity of your own identity. Tighten your clutch on the person you know yourself to be and take up temporary residency inside the mind of who you could become instead. Try out new identities, new rehearses, new numbers and new methods of self-expression. You may find that youve been curbing certain sections of yourself for far too long.

16. Twilight In Love With Expression

Fall in love with telling your own story. Earmark yourself to write it out, run it out, describe it out, sing it out, to get it out in any way that find genuine and natural to you. Stop telling yourself that your scars are all yours to hold onto. And allow yourself the opportunity to genuinely connect with others whove “ve been through” much of what you have been through.

17. Drop-off In Love With Independence

Fall in love with your absence of limitations. Become enamored with your ability to go anywhere, do anything, become anyone you want to become, without “ve had to” taken into account in somebody else. Accept the unique opening you have to explore freely and openly, and take advantage of it while you still can.

18. Sink In Love With A Community

Fall in love with a group of beings. Learn what it means to contribute to something that is bigger than yourself and to be a part of something that you could not erect on your own. Learn to give and take from others in a way that is genuine and healthy and hear to let yourself be comfortable with that. Learn to care for a cause and a group of beings that is much, much bigger than yourself.

19. Fall In Love With Music

Fall in love with people whose themes and lyricals express what your head plainly cannot and then discover to speak their language. Fallen in love with the enchantment, with the capability, with the overwhelming connection that music allows us and incorporate the professional practice into your every day life. Allow music to bring you to neighbourhoods that your subconsciou has not been able to otherwise exit, and love the process. Appreciate all that it adds to living.

20. Autumn In Love With Questioning

Fall in love with not having answers with still having chests to tick and queries to consider and an entire life of living left to do. Read to make peace with not knowing everything yet, and to enjoy the process of detecting. Embrace this as a room of living because not knowing all of the answers will be a constant for the remainder of your life.

21. Autumn In Love With Planning

Fall in love with learning what you do have the power to change, and taking concrete measures to do so. Fall in love with the process of forever striving to achieve more for yourself, and to acknowledge all that you accomplish as you go.

22. Fall In Love With The Pursuit Of Something Bigger

Fall in love with a project or a purpose or a question that is bigger than yourself and your personal interests. Devote yourself to the furthering of whatever it is that you have thrown yourself into, and recognize the impact you are capable of having on something that is so much more significant than your own inessential problems and concerns.

23. Tumble In Love With Not Knowing What Comes Next

Fall in love with uncertainty. Learn to appreciate the facts of the case that we are rarely given all of the answers in life but that we do not need them in order has progressed. Learn to feel excitement rather than panic at the prospect of not knowing whats coming next, and allow your life to undo at the tempo that its meant to.

24. Autumn In Love With Yourself

Fall in love with the single person who has always been present to fight for you. Countenance yourself to ultimately take pride in the choices that youve realise, current challenges youve undertaken and the ways in which youre constantly working to better yourself. At the end of the day, your relationship with yourself rests at the core of every other affair youll have taken part in. So make sure youre starting from a healthy residence and fall in love with yourself first and foremost.

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24 Access To Fall In Love With The World Around You( When You Require A Break From Romantic Love)

1. Fall In Love With Learning

Fall in love with investigating an idea, constructing new believes, piecing together a new framework for how the world around “youre working” and what you can do with that knowledge. Croak back to institution, take a course youve “ve always wanted to” take or eventually pick up that work that youve been meaning to read for too long. Fall in love with expanding your attention in ways that you never even knew were possible.

2. Descent In Love With Traveling

Fall in love with movement. Become enamoured with altering sceneries and changing view and the seduce people who occupy each new region. Open your imagination up to cultures that differ from your own and let go of the racisms youve building up over so many years. Instead of focusing on the disarray of your internal nature, focus on the enchantment of the one that circumvents you. And allow yourself to be changed by it.

3. Tumble In Love With Your Body

Fall in love with all that your body can do for you for the mountains it is feasible proportion, the miles it can traverse, the people it is feasible charity and the residence that it gives people inside yourself. Learn to treat your figure with the proper respect it deserves with the food that nourishes it, the activity that exhilarates it and the conscientiousness that allows it to thrive. Stop neglecting “the worlds largest” permanent residence that has already been, and read to take care of it instead.

4. Drop In Love With Your Work

Fall in love with the projects you havent yet started, its own initiative you havent yet taken, the changes that youre capable of making and the impact you have the power to have. Instead of letting your work happens to you, start swarming your centre into your subsistence and watch the stunning solutions that follow.

5. Sink In Love With Art

Fall in love with the passion, the enchantment, the invention of “the worlds” that surrounds you. Immerse yourself in the aesthetic grace that is available to you in abundance and then equal that productivity with your own. Learn to channel your experience of “the worlds” into whichever art organize dress you best, and surprise yourself with your own ability to designing and invent.

6. Drop In Love With Nature

Fall in love with the overwhelming attractivenes of the natural environment that borders you. Strap on a backpack, hire a compass and canoe, and take yourself entirely off the grid. Realize how few of your problems strain beyond the hustle and flurry of your day-to-day life and take solace in that fact. Realize that nature is far extremely enchanting a beast to give inessential distractions get in the way of your experience of it.

7. Sink In Love With Helping People

Fall in love with a charity, their home communities, a population that youre capable of helping and flourishing. Realize that potential impacts you can have on other people is more significant than you could ever have imagined and glean a sense of purpose from that. Recognize that you are not the only party you exist to nurture and serve.

8. Tumble In Love With Bettering Yourself

Fall in love with objection yourself, with thriving yourself, with thrusting yourself to rise up to always one more obstruction that has been standing in your way. Read those works you have been meaning to invest in. Start that fitness routine youve been putting off. Actually get down to the core of what its going to take to establish yourself appear proud of the person you are, and then do that. Fall in love with the process of becoming more yourself.

9. Autumn In Love With Manufacturing People Laugh

Fall in love with humor. Earmark yourself to revel in the absurdity of the world that circumvents you and share your quirky receives with others. Get together with sidekicks you havent saw in years the ones who build your abs hurt with laughter and allow yourself a night to let loose. To laugh at all the things that are typically disturbance you, and realize how little superpower the government had. To realise how little anything stuffs when you have people to chuckle about it with.

10. Drop-off In Love With Literature

Fall in love with reading. Pick up the books youve been forgetting for too long and open yourself up to someone elses image to seeing how “the worlds” acts. Immerse yourself in the undertakings youll never take, the beliefs youve never entertained and the sheer think of how much more there ever is to learn and understand.

11. Sink In Love With Reflection

Fall in love with re-hashing your own legend. Instead of barreling aimlessly forward, take some time to reflect on where youve been and what you can learn from those experiences. Discover how many answers youre already deeming onto if you simply take the time to seek them out within yourself. And then move forward with a much greater awareness of where you want to go next.

12. Drop-off In Love With Movement

Fall in love with physical act. Take up a play, a physical challenge or an outdoor adventure that gets your blood pumping and your soul race. Take full advantage of the impact that endorphins have on your overall sense of wellbeing and refuse to take your form for granted again. Push its limits( safely) and surprise yourself with all that it can do.

13. Drop In Love With Mysteries

Fall in love with all that you have yet to understand. Research oddities, plunge into disorders, take it upon yourself to undertake some of the large unanswered questions in life. You may not end up with any answers, but youll discover to enjoy the process of wondering. Youll learn to tackle all future questions from every available angle.

14. Descend In Love With Healing

Fall in love with whatever it takes to manufacture you feel whole and terminated again. Take up study, practising, journaling, passing anything that brought you a little bit closer to who you know yourself to be at your core. In many directions, we will be healing and hurting our entire lives. So theres no shame in taking some time to get the process right.

15. Descent In Love With Experimentation

Fall in love with the fluidity of your own identity. Tighten your clutch on the person you know yourself to be and take up temporary residency inside the mind of who you could become instead. Try out new identities, new rehearses, new numbers and new methods of self-expression. You may find that youve been curbing certain sections of yourself for far too long.

16. Twilight In Love With Expression

Fall in love with telling your own story. Earmark yourself to write it out, run it out, describe it out, sing it out, to get it out in any way that find genuine and natural to you. Stop telling yourself that your scars are all yours to hold onto. And allow yourself the opportunity to genuinely connect with others whove “ve been through” much of what you have been through.

17. Drop-off In Love With Independence

Fall in love with your absence of limitations. Become enamored with your ability to go anywhere, do anything, become anyone you want to become, without “ve had to” taken into account in somebody else. Accept the unique opening you have to explore freely and openly, and take advantage of it while you still can.

18. Sink In Love With A Community

Fall in love with a group of beings. Learn what it means to contribute to something that is bigger than yourself and to be a part of something that you could not erect on your own. Learn to give and take from others in a way that is genuine and healthy and hear to let yourself be comfortable with that. Learn to care for a cause and a group of beings that is much, much bigger than yourself.

19. Fall In Love With Music

Fall in love with people whose themes and lyricals express what your head plainly cannot and then discover to speak their language. Fallen in love with the enchantment, with the capability, with the overwhelming connection that music allows us and incorporate the professional practice into your every day life. Allow music to bring you to neighbourhoods that your subconsciou has not been able to otherwise exit, and love the process. Appreciate all that it adds to living.

20. Autumn In Love With Questioning

Fall in love with not having answers with still having chests to tick and queries to consider and an entire life of living left to do. Read to make peace with not knowing everything yet, and to enjoy the process of detecting. Embrace this as a room of living because not knowing all of the answers will be a constant for the remainder of your life.

21. Autumn In Love With Planning

Fall in love with learning what you do have the power to change, and taking concrete measures to do so. Fall in love with the process of forever striving to achieve more for yourself, and to acknowledge all that you accomplish as you go.

22. Fall In Love With The Pursuit Of Something Bigger

Fall in love with a project or a purpose or a question that is bigger than yourself and your personal interests. Devote yourself to the furthering of whatever it is that you have thrown yourself into, and recognize the impact you are capable of having on something that is so much more significant than your own inessential problems and concerns.

23. Tumble In Love With Not Knowing What Comes Next

Fall in love with uncertainty. Learn to appreciate the facts of the case that we are rarely given all of the answers in life but that we do not need them in order has progressed. Learn to feel excitement rather than panic at the prospect of not knowing whats coming next, and allow your life to undo at the tempo that its meant to.

24. Autumn In Love With Yourself

Fall in love with the single person who has always been present to fight for you. Countenance yourself to ultimately take pride in the choices that youve realise, current challenges youve undertaken and the ways in which youre constantly working to better yourself. At the end of the day, your relationship with yourself rests at the core of every other affair youll have taken part in. So make sure youre starting from a healthy residence and fall in love with yourself first and foremost.

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24 Access To Fall In Love With The World Around You( When You Require A Break From Romantic Love)

1. Fall In Love With Learning

Fall in love with investigating an idea, constructing new believes, piecing together a new framework for how the world around “youre working” and what you can do with that knowledge. Croak back to institution, take a course youve “ve always wanted to” take or eventually pick up that work that youve been meaning to read for too long. Fall in love with expanding your attention in ways that you never even knew were possible.

2. Descent In Love With Traveling

Fall in love with movement. Become enamoured with altering sceneries and changing view and the seduce people who occupy each new region. Open your imagination up to cultures that differ from your own and let go of the racisms youve building up over so many years. Instead of focusing on the disarray of your internal nature, focus on the enchantment of the one that circumvents you. And allow yourself to be changed by it.

3. Tumble In Love With Your Body

Fall in love with all that your body can do for you for the mountains it is feasible proportion, the miles it can traverse, the people it is feasible charity and the residence that it gives people inside yourself. Learn to treat your figure with the proper respect it deserves with the food that nourishes it, the activity that exhilarates it and the conscientiousness that allows it to thrive. Stop neglecting “the worlds largest” permanent residence that has already been, and read to take care of it instead.

4. Drop In Love With Your Work

Fall in love with the projects you havent yet started, its own initiative you havent yet taken, the changes that youre capable of making and the impact you have the power to have. Instead of letting your work happens to you, start swarming your centre into your subsistence and watch the stunning solutions that follow.

5. Sink In Love With Art

Fall in love with the passion, the enchantment, the invention of “the worlds” that surrounds you. Immerse yourself in the aesthetic grace that is available to you in abundance and then equal that productivity with your own. Learn to channel your experience of “the worlds” into whichever art organize dress you best, and surprise yourself with your own ability to designing and invent.

6. Drop In Love With Nature

Fall in love with the overwhelming attractivenes of the natural environment that borders you. Strap on a backpack, hire a compass and canoe, and take yourself entirely off the grid. Realize how few of your problems strain beyond the hustle and flurry of your day-to-day life and take solace in that fact. Realize that nature is far extremely enchanting a beast to give inessential distractions get in the way of your experience of it.

7. Sink In Love With Helping People

Fall in love with a charity, their home communities, a population that youre capable of helping and flourishing. Realize that potential impacts you can have on other people is more significant than you could ever have imagined and glean a sense of purpose from that. Recognize that you are not the only party you exist to nurture and serve.

8. Tumble In Love With Bettering Yourself

Fall in love with objection yourself, with thriving yourself, with thrusting yourself to rise up to always one more obstruction that has been standing in your way. Read those works you have been meaning to invest in. Start that fitness routine youve been putting off. Actually get down to the core of what its going to take to establish yourself appear proud of the person you are, and then do that. Fall in love with the process of becoming more yourself.

9. Autumn In Love With Manufacturing People Laugh

Fall in love with humor. Earmark yourself to revel in the absurdity of the world that circumvents you and share your quirky receives with others. Get together with sidekicks you havent saw in years the ones who build your abs hurt with laughter and allow yourself a night to let loose. To laugh at all the things that are typically disturbance you, and realize how little superpower the government had. To realise how little anything stuffs when you have people to chuckle about it with.

10. Drop-off In Love With Literature

Fall in love with reading. Pick up the books youve been forgetting for too long and open yourself up to someone elses image to seeing how “the worlds” acts. Immerse yourself in the undertakings youll never take, the beliefs youve never entertained and the sheer think of how much more there ever is to learn and understand.

11. Sink In Love With Reflection

Fall in love with re-hashing your own legend. Instead of barreling aimlessly forward, take some time to reflect on where youve been and what you can learn from those experiences. Discover how many answers youre already deeming onto if you simply take the time to seek them out within yourself. And then move forward with a much greater awareness of where you want to go next.

12. Drop-off In Love With Movement

Fall in love with physical act. Take up a play, a physical challenge or an outdoor adventure that gets your blood pumping and your soul race. Take full advantage of the impact that endorphins have on your overall sense of wellbeing and refuse to take your form for granted again. Push its limits( safely) and surprise yourself with all that it can do.

13. Drop In Love With Mysteries

Fall in love with all that you have yet to understand. Research oddities, plunge into disorders, take it upon yourself to undertake some of the large unanswered questions in life. You may not end up with any answers, but youll discover to enjoy the process of wondering. Youll learn to tackle all future questions from every available angle.

14. Descend In Love With Healing

Fall in love with whatever it takes to manufacture you feel whole and terminated again. Take up study, practising, journaling, passing anything that brought you a little bit closer to who you know yourself to be at your core. In many directions, we will be healing and hurting our entire lives. So theres no shame in taking some time to get the process right.

15. Descent In Love With Experimentation

Fall in love with the fluidity of your own identity. Tighten your clutch on the person you know yourself to be and take up temporary residency inside the mind of who you could become instead. Try out new identities, new rehearses, new numbers and new methods of self-expression. You may find that youve been curbing certain sections of yourself for far too long.

16. Twilight In Love With Expression

Fall in love with telling your own story. Earmark yourself to write it out, run it out, describe it out, sing it out, to get it out in any way that find genuine and natural to you. Stop telling yourself that your scars are all yours to hold onto. And allow yourself the opportunity to genuinely connect with others whove “ve been through” much of what you have been through.

17. Drop-off In Love With Independence

Fall in love with your absence of limitations. Become enamored with your ability to go anywhere, do anything, become anyone you want to become, without “ve had to” taken into account in somebody else. Accept the unique opening you have to explore freely and openly, and take advantage of it while you still can.

18. Sink In Love With A Community

Fall in love with a group of beings. Learn what it means to contribute to something that is bigger than yourself and to be a part of something that you could not erect on your own. Learn to give and take from others in a way that is genuine and healthy and hear to let yourself be comfortable with that. Learn to care for a cause and a group of beings that is much, much bigger than yourself.

19. Fall In Love With Music

Fall in love with people whose themes and lyricals express what your head plainly cannot and then discover to speak their language. Fallen in love with the enchantment, with the capability, with the overwhelming connection that music allows us and incorporate the professional practice into your every day life. Allow music to bring you to neighbourhoods that your subconsciou has not been able to otherwise exit, and love the process. Appreciate all that it adds to living.

20. Autumn In Love With Questioning

Fall in love with not having answers with still having chests to tick and queries to consider and an entire life of living left to do. Read to make peace with not knowing everything yet, and to enjoy the process of detecting. Embrace this as a room of living because not knowing all of the answers will be a constant for the remainder of your life.

21. Autumn In Love With Planning

Fall in love with learning what you do have the power to change, and taking concrete measures to do so. Fall in love with the process of forever striving to achieve more for yourself, and to acknowledge all that you accomplish as you go.

22. Fall In Love With The Pursuit Of Something Bigger

Fall in love with a project or a purpose or a question that is bigger than yourself and your personal interests. Devote yourself to the furthering of whatever it is that you have thrown yourself into, and recognize the impact you are capable of having on something that is so much more significant than your own inessential problems and concerns.

23. Tumble In Love With Not Knowing What Comes Next

Fall in love with uncertainty. Learn to appreciate the facts of the case that we are rarely given all of the answers in life but that we do not need them in order has progressed. Learn to feel excitement rather than panic at the prospect of not knowing whats coming next, and allow your life to undo at the tempo that its meant to.

24. Autumn In Love With Yourself

Fall in love with the single person who has always been present to fight for you. Countenance yourself to ultimately take pride in the choices that youve realise, current challenges youve undertaken and the ways in which youre constantly working to better yourself. At the end of the day, your relationship with yourself rests at the core of every other affair youll have taken part in. So make sure youre starting from a healthy residence and fall in love with yourself first and foremost.

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