#healing has been. very not fun :(
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BREAKING NEWS!!! Local idiot ghost absolutely blown away when boyfriend gives him a nickname for the first time, more info after this broadcast.
Bonus pet-name edition:
(Yeah I know it's ooc for grovyle to EVER use the term "babe" but lets go ahead and assume he's done it accidentally a few times rather than intentionally. He's deeply in love with the dumb ghostman, ok. Sometimes it just slips out.)
Dusknoir is still recovering from hearing it. And when he finally calls grovyle "love" himself on accident a few days later, he falls deathly ill for two weeks cause his body couldn't handle the aftermath and started rapidly shutting down on a molecular level.
#dusknoir he is dying pls for the love of god just give him the heal seed already#i headcanon that grovyle starts to call dusknoir just “noir” simply because it's less effort but dusknoir is legitimately touched by it#he's never had a nickname before so he cried happy tears for only 2 hours after this interaction#celebi thinks noir's drama over the entire thing is very funny so she starts calling him “beloved” even more and he has a meltdown#and dusknoir being a literal functional storage unit is my favorite thing he is so good at HOLDING stuff for his BF and GF#he carries water bottles and snacks for them like a total mom when they go exploring#(he got the habit after hanging out w/ echo and sora. those are his kids so of course he's gonna have treats!!!)#what's in the void you ask??? who knows probably a pocket universe or the elusive pmd2 remake#i had way too much fun drawing this is it obvious?#and i really like the new brush i've been using lately so i'm happy#also first comic i put decent effort into!!!! yay#actaeonshipping#future trio#dusknoir#grovyle#celebi#pmd#pmd2#pmd eos#explorers of sky#my art#tw blood
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You ever just see people talk about the Percy Jackson books and know somewhere, deep in your heart, that none of these people have understood that this is a series made for middle schoolers. And that fandom will very frequently lie to them like, all the time. No, that character probably isn’t ooc, you’re just thinking of what the fandom turned them into. No, this book isn’t a horrible stain next to the others before it, literally all of them were like this. It’s Percy Jackson. It’s cheesy and occasionally makes a very questionable writing decision.
You gotta be in this for the long haul or jump ship my guys. Be cringe and free or be gone
#percy jackson#tsats#solangelo book#rick riordan#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo#the sun and the star#text post#yall are astounding me in ways i didnt know was possible god bless#also this was mostly written by mark not rick. like yes he signed off on it but still this is mostly mark#but its still Fine??? its fine?????? besties a book abt our favorite gays not being perfect is not the end of the world#did i cringe? hell yes. but was i free? tremendously. and i had a lot of fun i think#'bianca is in elysium but she was reincarnated??' yeah thats odd. anyway that scene was cute wasnt it#'everything is so on the nose' yeah its for middle schoolers and percy jackson isnt known for subtlety. its very rare#'will was ooc' weve literally barely gotten anything on him and no povs until now this IS establishing his character#'the puffs remove nicos whole trauma' no it doesnt. its a fantasy way to sort of explain that nicos trauma is now open instead of repressed#do i wish it wasnt sometimes explained as 'now the trauma is gone'? yes. but i think its moreso meant to be a way of nico dealing with them#he still HAS that trauma fellas. hes still going to be living with it. its just gonna be easier now. thats part of healing besties#also we dont know how these puffs are gonna act in the future so like. hush. shhhhhhhhhh. shut. it was literally never going to be perfect#its pjo. i love this series to death but. its pjo. it is. in fact. sometimes badly written. as it has been many times before in books before#and what else??????? it may not be written the greatest but its MY series that isnt written the greatest square up
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bestieesssss /platonic
(Xīn Yá belongs to me, Sailor belongs to @crow-cap)
#some of these are kind of out of context so I’ll explain a bit djshdhshs#Xīn Yá’s fruit are ‘oranges’ but this could also mean fruits like tangerines and clementines#their taste also changes depending on Xīn’s mood. it does taste like orange but it could be sweeter or sour. if you get them really mad it#could be spicy somehow.. however the fruits healing powers and taste only work if you’re within a certain range of Xīn Yá. if u try to leave#the island with a shit ton of her fruit you just have a bunch of regular oranges. so you can’t just grab a bunch and save em for later exp#expecting it to work. although crow told me Sailor would take some oranges with him fully knowing they would end up being regular oranges#once he leaves. the idea of him taking them as souvenirs makes me cry EVERYTIME#LIKE CMON.. XĪN IS SO USED TO BEING USED AS A TOOL TO HEAL PPL OR SERVE OTHERS SO JUST. ACCEPTING EVEN READILY TAKING THEM#WITH YOU KNOWING ITS NOT GONNA DO SHIT IT JUST REMINDS YOU OF HER.. OUGGHHFFFFHHHH#on that note since sailor is their first friend it’s very fun watching their interactions dhfhsh. Sailor has actually been around and#might even have a social life so Xīn is learning a lot of new things sjfjfs#bc of that Xīn is probably possessive of him and hates it when he leaves. sailor asking them to come with him would also be a good chance to#show them how to ride and sail a boat so they can come with him but their reclusiveness outweighs that. sorry sailor shfhfsg#I lov themb#myart#my art#doodles#Lego Monkie kid#lmk#Monkie kid#lmk ocs#lmk oc#Xīn Yá#Xin Ya#little sailor#friend oc#my oc
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gwuh. havent drawn in 3 months but i managed to doodle out something quick and sloppy in about an hour and twenty while waiting for chickpeas to cook on the stove (they burnt. it was fine. i made more this morning ffsdklghfgs)
belladonna is, as always, the one thing i find easiest to draw
slapping a mature label on this for the bare titty just so i dont get smacked but. yes, enjoy some transfem tiefling flirtatious stretching sketching as i try and warm up to drawing again <3
(extra art rambling in the tags)
#my art :)#keeping this on the side-blog as its a little more low effort than what would feel right putting on the main blog#was nice to use pencil brushes to break out of my funk a little- stop being a perfectionist (which has been my main block)#paper textures and super nice pencil brush was the way to go. wild. probably only going to be drawing like this for a bit but ive got some#fun plans for it#anyways#god is it SO affirming to draw pretty high-femme trans women who are also bricks LOL#broad shoulders. wide set breasts. rare blessings in trans art from what ive managed to scrounge through. trying to make more of it#so rare that i see women who look like me in anything at all#so might as well try and do it myself ksjfghskfgjhfg#very healing. bless
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Cannibals, Pirates, and PhDs: How Did I Get Here?
I mentioned in some tags earlier that I’ve only actually been a real fan of Pink Floyd for under a year, and that the confluence of events that led up to it is pretty absurd. Some interest seemed to be taken in this, so I though I’d elaborate.
I didn’t know how to shorten this timeline and have it make any sense, so it’s... long. But idk, I think it’s pretty funny. If you’re nosy like I am this is for you.
My Backstory Timeline:
early childhood: my parents essentially mainline me and my little sister with The Beatles. I know almost no songs written past the 70’s until at least sixth grade. I develop a childhood crush on Paul McCartney, a joke that the universe really decides to play the long game on.
2014: my dad calls me over one night, and gravely tells me he’s been waiting to share something until I’m old enough. I brace myself to be told about sex or secret half-siblings. Instead, he tells me I need to listen to The Wall. Irritated at the idea of wasting an hour and half of my night, I nevertheless comply and go up to my room and put it on. I do not come back from this, clearly having inherited some sort of generational curse.
Around the same time, I am also secretly watching Hannibal every time my parents send me upstairs because Game of Thrones is “too gory”. This will trigger three important things: an interest in psychology, a love of horror media, and a classical music phase will train my attention span to last well past the three minute mark.
2014-2023: Over the intervening years, I become a casual fan of Pink Floyd, but make a deliberate point not to learn anything about the band. I like being able to imagine my own meanings for the songs. Also, I am motivated against this by a childhood memory of being deeply frightening by a picture of old Paul McCartney (LOL). I do not want that to ever happen again, so no learning.
Cut to April of 2023: I am finishing up my first year of my PhD program studying media psychology. I am in a bad place mentally, and am going through another horror movie phase to fill the hole. As a result, I get very into American Psycho. The main character, Patrick Bateman, is a fan of superficial 80’s pop music, particularly Genesis. I decide to start listening to Genesis to see if I agree with his tastes. While researching “best Genesis albums”, I come across The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. I listen to it, and am blown away. I had no idea that the Phil Collins band made music like that. This sends me down the prog-rock rabbit hole. I still won't learn any lore.
Summer of 2023: MEANWHILE, I am also going through another pirate phase. I have a fairly encyclopedic knowledge of 18th century piracy (and am still quite active in the Black Sails fan community). Around this time, I get really obsessed with this one random guy named Dennis McCarthy who was hanged in 1718.
I decide to work poor Dennis into a science fiction story I’ve been working on. The premise is essentially that the universe is an abandoned simulation, and a ‘glitch in the matrix’ starts to, among other things, bring people from the wrong time periods back to life. The format of the story is vaguely monster-of-the-week, in which the characters have to solve various problems caused by mistakes in the code. I think, “hey, you know what would be perfect for this? that fanfic I wrote about The Wall in high school.” Said fic (which that stupid fucking beatles movie stole from me) is about a world in which Pink Floyd never existed, but a wannabe rock-star discovers a box full of their records and decides to copy them. While he is touring his plagiarized version of The Wall, he realizes that the events of the album are starting to happen to him in real life. By working this concept into my new story, I go through another one of my periodical The Wall phases. It's in full swing when fall rolls around.
September of 2023: This semester, I take a grad-level narrative theory class in the English department. I decide it would be helpful to follow along with a specific example, so I choose The Wall. Using the terminology I am learning in the class, I start to realize that The Wall is…. incredibly narratologically fucked up. To help orient me, I watch the bootleg concert recordings, and the trick with the surrogate band sends me so out of my mind that I decide I must break my rule about never learning band lore.
This is where the two plot-lines converge. I don’t remember which came first, but around this same time, I think to myself “hey, if Genesis was hiding such an incredible album under the 80’s pop, what must Pink Floyd be hiding?” On that whim, I put on Piper at the Gates of Dawn, which equally sends me so out of my mind that I decide I must break my rule about never learning band lore. I needed to know what the fuck happened to get them from Piper to The Wall.
September-November: In the two months between the onset of this and finally making another sideblog, I dedicate all of my free time to learning as much about Pink Floyd as humanely possible (and writing a 20 page essay for that narrative theory class). As you can imagine, this is a lot to unpack all at once for someone who didn’t even know who Roger or Syd or any of the rest of them were. Luckily, I am over-educated enough to be a very fast learner. Aside from the band lore itself, I of course also fall in love with the rest of Pink Floyd's discography musically-speaking. Having this interest to latch onto genuinely pulls me out of my depression.
Cut to February 2024: I am really enjoying myself, and want to keep this going as long as possible, but I am starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel on Pink Floyd lore. I decide I need to feed the fire by supplementing with lore from another band. The Beatles seem to have a strong fan presence on tumblr, why not revisit a childhood favorite? The universe laughs at my expense.
That about brings us up to date. I have gone through so much character development over the last eight months, it’s crazy. Pink Floyd is definitely one of those things that is less of a “phase” and more of a permanent part of my mindscape. Weirdly enough, since I am studying media psychology, all of this has also been really good for my career? I never took an interest in -real- media figures (as opposed to fictional characters) before, and I feel like I have a much clearer sense of things now. It's definitely influenced my research, so whatever domino effect this has on my future is bound to get even funnier.
Anyway, that’s my backstory!
#it’s interesting re-examining how my relationship to The Wall has changed over time.#strange how you can love something as a kid but not really personally relate to it. and then you grow up and suddenly you’re like...#...oh shit. there -must- have been a door there when I came in#//#that makes it sound less fun than its been tho#god. i've had so much fun. im actually glad i took so long to get into band lore so I could learn all this -now-#i had kind of worked myself into a (very silly) mental spiral of 'what if I've run out of new things to discover'#and it's been so. idk... healing for me to realize all of this has been here the whole time#(clenching my teeth: ....emotional vulnerability....)#personal lore
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i love dnd..i love playing heavy utility/support/backfield and i love having three to six attacks in a turn and an insane ac. at heart im a support player ill get my hands on whatever we're missing in a group
#looks at a druid a fighter and a bard fighter. okay cleric time.#i LOVE playing cleric turns out.#though abjuration wizard is still super super fun its a different flavor of support#it's not buffs it's 'i am going to transfer literally all that damage to myself and war caster style succeed my witchbolt concentration'#doing insane amounts of damage while taking damage (+ with temp hp and then just a lot of hp. im taking the tough feat as soon as possible)#aabria iyengar was right these abjuration wizards are craaaazy. but war domain clerics also fuck hard#my abj wiz is very much an experiment in 'what if someone who is not at all suited to this life tries to adapt as well as she can'#the point is that she isn't a cleric. do u understand. she's not a cleric and that's the point it's the. hbbbgbfhb. she's out here#functioning as a combat medic on some aasimar features + healing kits/potions + arcane ward. Look At Me#i also really enjoy playing nonreligious characters in these worlds where deities 100% exist not in a 'fuck the gods' way but in#a way somewhere between 'i'm all i need' and 'i called and no one answered' and 'may or may not go on an insane power hungry spiral and#try to get a touch of godhood' which is in part very due to my own agnostic and people-loving heart and 'haha what if i icarused this girl'#a resentful caution towards gods an immense respect towards religious companions and 'when your god isn't here to help. i will be'#anyway REACTION arcane ward you don't take damage im fine. next turn reaction shield ward's back up. the thing is.#she will drive her hp down. the ward isn't much like it goes past that temp hp. it's 14hp that shit goes down and carries to her hp#but it never drops. any leveled spell puts hp back into the ward. a 1st lvl shield puts it at 2hp and she can use it again#she is not suited for these conditions but my god it is fun to watch. i care her.#i explained that subclass feature to a player that's not in that campaign and said. like. yeah she can take damage. when her ward drops to#0 it carries to her. any leveled abj spell puts it back up. and she can use it and drive her hp down again.#do u understand what i am explaining to u! do you get it! she is and has always been a punching bag!#she was a very valuable asset to the army and the group she was drafted! into. because when she's there. people just don't fucking go down#aside from her. aside from her. AAAAH. she's so cool. she is very smart i am still riding the high of critting every turn w witchbolt and#reacting to ward a party member against a crit that would have dropped him by taking the hit herself. and she didn't break concentration#badass
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I keep thinking of how I want to taxonomize Siffrin and Loop bc it feels significant to me that Loop and Siffrin both have inherently diverged from the same Traveler Mold they came from. But because I am like a 7 year old I keep sagely nodding to myself going "ah yes... just like mega mewtwo"
#do u understand me. do u understand my vision#they're both siffrins they are just two pathways of how the same one guy develops through their experiences in timeloops#that are the same in basic structure but different in how they affected them#so like siffrin and loop are distinct people. but they're also just branches of preloops siffrin. much like mega mewtwo x and y are distinc#but they are also mewtwo#<-(said like this is somehow profound and not stupid)#liek do you guys get me... i think loop and siffrin are very much in sync#to the point where as seen in canon it's pretty easy for loop to divine what siffrin's thinking down to the phrasing#it's really striking how much loop talks and siffrin fullass does not reply but loop keeps on rollin just fine#but fundamentally they don't think the exact same way when it comes to bigger things#like how loop never fully accepts the idea of talking to the king as something reasonable to do#or how act 4 siffrin is in their own damn world while loop is left going. Stardust what the hell are you on (morose edition)#i think it's fun to find the gaps between them#i've always thought it would be fun. in a postcanon timeskip scenario#for loop to be. flatly worse at reading siffrin than they expect to be. because siffrin has been healing and trying to get better#while loop has been becoming steadily bitter as they tried and failed to cut the rope on their own attachments as some kind of last measure#of self defense against the pain of paving over their old relationship with the party with a new name new role new personality new stardust#to exist alongsides#likewise i think it's fun if siffrin overextends his new understanding of loop as being another self and the feeling of recognition for loo#is simultaneously comforting and Tremendously grating coming from Fucking Stardust#especially if siffrin just assumes shit wrong cuz for as much as hes the only guy who can relate 2 being trapped in a timeloop for months i#was not exactly the same now was it.#isat spoilers#Sorry this is a lot of thinking outloud on a post where i call loop and siffrin mega mewtwo x and y
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Some people are literally just not even worth acknowledging or responding to. The best most mature and healthy thing you can do in a situation where you’re approached with misplaced hate and conflict is literally just ignoring it and/or walking away. People like that are simply not worth the time or energy.
#while they put all their energy into trying to harm ppl bc of their own insecurities you can choose to put your energy into 1/?#love and kindness and helping people and healthily coping and healing and growing. you really do not have to engage.#I understand there are situations in which it is very hard or impossible to just walk away from because I’ve been in them many times.#I still am in them often and it’s not fun. but I have made the decision to be the more emotionally mature person every time#and I stand by it. and doing that has definitely been beneficial#there’s no reason to fight over petty shit. there just isn’t.#but just do your best to not allow people to get to you. it doesn’t matter what some insecure bitch thinks or has to say#Important#mental health#having haters means you’re doing something beautiful and someone is jealousssss#upload#text#healing#emotional maturity#reminders#self reminders
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haunt·ed (adjective) 1. inhabited or frequented by ghosts. a haunted castle. 2. preoccupied, as with emotion, memory, or idea; obsessed: His haunted imagination gave him no peace.
Unfortunately for me, it's both. It's been over two decades since you passed, but I still see you in the mirror every morning. Your judgement echoes in my ears and your haunting white eye continues to scrutinize my every move. My technique. Never quick enough. Foot work is always sloppy. Missed a spot cleaning that revolver barrel…
Was it love or obsession? Did you really love me, or were you chasing the remaining desire for my late Mother? I see her when I look in the mirror too. In my own reflection. In my features. I was not woman enough to be the daughter she wanted. I was not loyal enough for my Father's pride. I was not obedient enough for my Brother's care.
They all share your grave now.
Sometimes I feel ill when I miss you.
I remember when Father gave me to you. Like an object or a toy he'd discarded, something he'd grown bored of after I didn't fulfill his expectations. After I filled him with disappointment. I don't blame him entirely. After all I betrayed all of them. Not just the family… but the entire crew too. Even when he gave me to you, you didn't want me and I wanted nothing to do with you. I was a burden, but you made me useful. While Father ensured I'd never see the inside of another cockpit you honed me into a fine weapon. At first I hated you for it, but you taught me discipline and over time I learned how to be a ghost, just like you. Your very own protégé...
...But you are gone, and I still feel your gaze from behind. I still feel you watching when I look over my shoulder. When I am with someone new. Heckling me about having a particular type. That I am still soft. Vulnerable. Weak. Womanly. A hound ready to obey. Maybe I am.
He says it too and in many ways, he reminds me of you. He is one of the few people on this star who has proven to be worthy of my subordinance. But unlike our troubled past, he doesn't force me to be something or someone I don't want to be.
He is the catalyst to my healing.
He has taught me my choices are my own.
From now on I will no longer be a slave to my past.
((There's a bit of context in bullet points under the cut for this if it interests you but it's really raw because she's got a very long and complicated story as I've been writing her since 2011.))
Some bullet points on Blink's early history:
Blink was born into a life of Sky Piracy.
Her Father was the Sky Pirate Captain of the Harbingers.
His First Mate was a man named Judas, who was known in more public circles as a ghost-like assassin.
Blink fell in love with a pirate in a rival crew and tried to secretly elope with them. Her Father found out, he saw it as a huge betrayal, and sent Judas to hunt her and the lad down.
Judas killed the guy in front of her, brought her back to her Father.
Her Father disowned her after arranging her marriage to Judas (something neither of them wanted)
Judas viewed her as a burden, and basically decided when life gives you lemons, you turn them into your protégé and train them like a soldier.
This brought the pair of them closer over time… and as they'd both been screwed by the Crew's bullshit hierarchy and politics they decided to do something about it together.
Judas wound up fighting Blink's Father for Captaincy, and won. While it was supposed to be a fight to the death, he let the man still walk away with his life.
He was a good Captain for a while, with Blink as his First Mate and under the two the Crew had a prosperous window.
But, unfortunately her brother thought he was entitled to inheriting the title of Captain and was furious about Judas killing his Father. So eventually he wound up fighting Judas and killed him-- in front of Blink, taking up the role as Captain (and he was terrible at it.)
Blink wound up going into hiding for six years after this. There was some more trauma laced in this I won't get into. But when she surfaced again she had enlisted with Garlemald to become one of their soldiers. Which is a whole other arc I won't get into tonight. But… that's some context to this story/post.
Fast forwarding past the Garlemald years... I will at least say that Blink eventually wound up fighting to get the Harbingers back and served as their Captain for a good while (The crew's choice). It was basically the crew's golden years with her in the lead. However, eventually she decided it wasn't the life for her, so she wound up retiring to do piloting work and that's how she fell in with Firelight Trading Co. To this day, the Harbingers still revere her as their Captain even though she's passed that title on to someone she trusted.
But yeah, ask me about those Garlean years sometime... those are a doozy. Like an Event Horizon inspired arc through Void Ark... :|
#A very rare moment where I write in 1st person#God this character's been through it#She is a bad ass in her own right but this deals with her vulnerabilities#touches on coping with her past traumas#She's lost almost everyone she's ever cared about#So allowing herself to be close to Rex and the people in FTC has been a huge step in the right direction for her Character's healing proces#Anyway ask me about her enlistment with Garlemald post her Husband's death... that's a really fun time in her life too (/s)#riftdancing - screenshots#character - blink vaniro#riftdancing - writing#Let it be known though#this woman is tough as nails#side note: I had to summon all of my courage to put this out there#I accept her story isn't for everyone#but I love her and I love her *fiction*
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Finally caught up with Natlan main quest and aaAAAAA
#//Remember how I said I always put my oc through SO MUCH FUCKEN SHIT#//YEAH#//WHAT THE FUCK#☆ ┆ ( .ooc. );#//So (spoilers) she is basically deffo NOT going to live for very long in her Genshin verse; huh? OOF. At least not a typical lifespan#//Unless she gets cursed maybe; but that’s a whole OTHER problem#//So what I’m getting at is; while the doses of abyss energy she gets exposed to wouldn’t normally be enough to doom her#//I did have her get attacked by Rifthounds at one point in her story#//So she’d likely have lingering abyssal corrosion from that; even after healings; that she could never get rid of#//That would have happened abt a year or two before canon Genshin storyline begins; chronologically#//And if not that; then fucking around in the Chasm a little after Traveler did DEFFO would NOT have helped; considering the mud/ooze thing#//And that’s without mentioning she’s half Natlanean#//Her mother most certainly is suffering leaving without the Wayob’s blessing; that’s for certain#//But what abt HER#//Is her Natlanean blood tainted with Abyss influence too; even if her father is from Sumeru?#//Esp since her mother is the Natlanean; could the Abyssal corruption been passed to her while in the womb???#//THINKINGS#//But yeeee#//Regardless; there’s no way she ain’t gonna live for long until there’s a Definite solution to the Abyssal corrosion#//RIP#//I always attributed her volatile emotions and stuff due to ptsd but holy SHIT; does Natlan’s whole thing give new perspective#//And that’s without mentioning the other ocs that are worked into her story#//One Khaenri’ahn and TWO Natlan-descended folks#//not to mention a half-adeptus with his own share of corruption#//Hoo boy; this is Fun#//Holy shit; what does that mean for ppl like Diluc and Yelan who actively fight the abyss? Could they have remnants of it too???#//Or is their exposure to a lesser extent so mostly inconsequential?#//And Yelan has FAMILY that fought in the chasm; could she have had it passed down to her???#//THINKINGSSSS
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sorry i haven't updated fics recently :( i'm hoping i'll have some time next week
#ani.txt#tailbone still hurts but it's gotten a lot better#and i'm almost finished with the moving process#i was hoping i'd be able to keep up monthly chapter cadence for sage advice. unfortunately that didn't work out.#healing has been. very not fun :(#thankfully things are getting easier#thanks for all the kind messages about all of this too. i rly appreciate them <3#i have a few other wips i'd like to finish soon#october pls be kind#fic updates
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Ugh, the saga of the tooth continues, at least hopefully for the better after getting a lot worse again on Monday. Also, sorry to the folks I haven't responded to, this situation has really worn me out, and I didn't have many spoons to begin with. (More under the cut, nothing really descriptive about dental work, but just to be on the safe side. Also, I have a wee rant about how frustrating and draining this has been.)
So I had the root canal on the 1st (a week ago) and by Saturday felt a lot better, there was hardly any pain. It was a smidge worse on Sunday, then Monday it hurt so fucking much when I woke up. I went into see the dentist about it yesterday, and she said it's probably because it was the first tooth that had contact when I bit down. Apparently the little ligament that holds the tooth in place swells after a lot of work, which pushes the tooth up or down (depending on which jaw it's in). She ground down the bridge on that tooth just enough that it doesn't hit the bottom teeth with a normal bite and told me it should feel better soon. Sure enough today there's a lot less pain. (Gods I hope that was the problem, because the dentist said otherwise the tooth had a fourth root she didn't find and she's going to have to go back in there to find it. I don't relish that thought.) I'm just so, so tired. It's been over two weeks since it really started hurting, and I want to sleep for a week. Also my brain has been absolute mush because of the pain, which is super annoying. Especially because there's something I've been meaning to do for a friend, but haven't been up to it. And I wanted to start a little writing challenge for myself this month, but I can't write for the life of me. *sigh* It will pass.
#at this point I won't consider the ordeal over until after I'm all healed after the permanent filling is put in to fix the bridge#no dental work is fun but I have to say this has been one of the shittier experiences I've had#though I really like this dentist - she's very nice and efficient#I've had some bad experiences with dentists so I'll for sure be going back to see her
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"Lol, your d+d group made you be the cleric?"
You don't want to roleplay someone who thinks she's her deity's favorite prophet? Who won't admit why she was kicked out of the clergy? Who's a little too happy to see her teammates grievously injured so she can show off her healing powers? She's my best blorba yet
#I mean I tried to make her a boring support/healer but everyone else immediately said 'I like how you're breaking the 'good cleric'#stereotype. she's so creepy it's really funny' and I was like damn am I that bad at playing a good guy. Ok then corruption arc here we go#If this was a different and longer campaign I'd have her become a necromancer but this is almost over so best I can do is she has a crush o#the evil paladin. And keeps accidentally saying very mean things to everyone she meets#asdfkjl just remembered her basically implying 'i assume the mother left you' and 'it's not really your kid is it?'#while healing this single father who'd been shot lmao#...anyway. if you think clerics arent fun its a skill issue
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It's been a couple of weeks since I watched The Perfect Game, but I'm still reeling from the fact that one of the best Catholic priest portrayals I've ever seen onscreen was played by Cheech Marin.
Can't wrap my head around it. Actual Cheech (of 'and Chong' fame) playing a kindly, lovable, devout Catholic priest who serves as mentor and friend and role model to this team of baseball-playing boys who take their faith seriously. He blesses the boys before every game. Teaches them doctrine while still encouraging their love of baseball. The faith is just part of their very human lives. I didn't think we could see it on-screen and especially never would have expected that casting.
#my 'i wish we saw good christian portrayals in media' post has been going around again#so i feel it's only right to mention that i found a good one#i think it may be a christian movie company so maybe it doesn't count#but the fact that i'm questioning it means that the movie doesn't feel like a hokey christian film which deserves points#as a film it's a very rough start and i don't understand why the mc has a southern accent#there's a subplot about the mc's lack of faith that never really goes anywhere#but once it finds its feet it's a pretty fun film#i legitimately got invested#laughed at several jokes#it was a random pick and i fully expected to abandon it as garbage within half an hour but i'm glad i didn't#the scene where the boys refuse to play without their blessing healed years of scars from bad movie religion portrayals#it's not great cinema but it was a fun time and i'd watch it again#catholic things
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Me: looking out the window when my mom mentions our neighbor's dog is out
My dog: a single, commanding bark
Me: okay okay i'll pay attention to you and not another dog calm down!!
#the timing was SO funny#i think she just randomly wanted attention (she has been very much of an affectionate puppy today)#and barked when i didn't notice#but it was so funny#but she deserves her attention she had a big scary eye doctor appointment today#(in which the doctor Just Looked At Her Eye but she hates it so i can imagine it's not a fun trip)#(she got a small scratch in her eye somehow and we've been to regular check ups; she's healing fine!)#i took her for a nice long walk and she decided she's a runner today so we had a bit of a race#i swear she's so lively for a 16yo it's wild#i love her so very much <3#personal#my dog tag
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told myself to take a break from getaway car so i don't burn myself out like i did last year, and of course my brain wanted to go think about my scarlet/violet fic, sooo have some rambling below the read more
like. one of my ideas has always been that i want juliana specifically to have quaxly not just bc he's my favorite starter in that region, but because it turns into quaquaval, a pokemon that is supposed to be known for its dancing abilities. i like to think they're a pokemon that only needs to see a dance once or twice before they've got it memorized.
i love the idea that a huge part of juliana's overall character arc is admitting to herself how much she wants to learn how to dance in some way because of course she happened to pick the pokemon that loves to dance. so she's basically learning alongside her pokemon throughout his evolution stages, mutually gaining more confidence until he's a fully grown quaquaval.
and!! not just him, but probably the three friends as well! it may not be something any of them are really interested in to begin with, but juliana and quaquaval make it a ton of fun. she probably even takes the time to learn an individual dance of some kind with each of them, and is the first to drag anyone to any festivals happening in the cities and towns.
(bc i am who i am) nemona's the first friend juliana ends up dancing with. while juliana quickly realizes how much quaxly likes music, nemona is the one who tells her about how he's going to turn into a pokemon that loves to dance. she mostly just enjoys having fun with them and learning whatever juliana is into. something that really helps juliana come out of her shell, which leads her to opening up to arven and penny around the same time
not 100% sure of styles apart yet but i mean...penny's has to be some nerd dance lol. i also kinda love the idea of arven learning a very formal spanish style dance with them.
idk i just want the core pillars of this story to be something along the lines of, music, song, food, and dance are all forms of love and connection and can be healing and--- AH i just want them to have time to really develop as a friend group throughout the treasure hunt.
#look my therapist has been saying this about me since the very beginning but i think i'm only just now really accepting it#writing is my therapy#i've seen so many posts saying you don't have to write as therapy / you don't have to write from experience / most people don't do that etc#i dunno. i internalized it all in a weird dumb way#the old bs take of 'if you share your trauma stories you're clearly trying to trigger other people and so ur just as bad'-#-was also stuck in my head#all of that to say i'm excited to work on this story one day since it's written entirely for my younger self#i can't change any of the bad things that happened to us in the past but we can live a little vicariously through fictional characters#let juliana have the friends and the love and support we never felt like we truly had#let my younger self who was traumatized by my mom's dance studio know that dance isn't a bad thing#it's weirdly healing and having fun is so much more important than being good at it#not everything you do has to be with the endgoal of turning it into a career or something that makes you money#at the end of the day i'm writing for me#the fact that other people have read my work and liked it is the biggest bonus i could ever ask for#writing tag
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