#how to be self-reliant

[theroguebanshee]

U.S. Marine Survival Prepping Secrets: How to Be Ready for Anything

Are you ready to uncover the survival secrets of a U.S. Marine? In this episode of the Undependent Podcast, Marine Gun Builder dives deep into the survival mindset, resilience, and practical prepping skills you need to be ready for anything. With real-world experiences from military survival training and life lessons learned on the field, he shares why mental toughness is the most important tool…

[noodles-and-tea]

For the twins in time AU, I genuinely wonder what kind of people the young twins grow up into because of Stan’s/Ford’s influence. Especially if it takes years for the portal to get fixed.

(Sorry if it seems like I already sent this question, I don’t know if it got sent the first time I asked)

I haven’t fully fleshed out how Ford grows up in the past but I do have thoughts on Stan presently

[bixels]

As cameras becomes more normalized (Sarah Bernhardt encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use cameras because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by manufacturing companies. I paint not because I want a painting but because I love the process of painting. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

if i have to explain to you that using a camera to take a picture is not the same as using generative ai to generate an image then you are a fucking moron.

[thebeeshaveknees]

When they were in the war room (Trolls writing room) they had to think of four new trolls that could feasibly be Branch's brothers so they just took all four of his braincells and made them individual characters and I love them

[chainofdespair]

I'm thinking about how Odysseus showed that he was willing to sacrifice anyone in his crew the moment he decided to go to Scylla's lair without cluing them in. His crew had beeswax in their ears and were dealing with the other sirens when Siren!Penelope and Odysseus were talking, so they couldn't have heard what the plan was.

This is emphasized when he orders Eurylochus to hand out the torches without explaining what they're for, putting the fates of who will be the six men to die in Eurylochus' hands. Who died didn't matter to Odysseus. Odysseus was so determined to get home as fast as possible that he didn't bother to consult his crew to find another way - he could have gathered the siren corpses, for example, or they could have tried to fight - but he chose not to. He chose his wife already, above all the other lives on his ship.

So it's not surprising that the crew doesn't listen to him in Mutiny. They already know, deep down, that they aren't making it home, not only because of the hell they've all been through, but because, to their captain, they are all utterly expendable. Of course they've given up, because their captain has given up on them.

[leafatlaw]

Also ! They are highkey pushing nander/the guide for some reason, but I appreciate how the guide seems to have very little interested in Nandor. Hopefully she gains enough self respect from banging Jerry she can reject him whenever it comes up.

(Also I feel the need to state that I believe Nandor is once again trying to throw himself into another relationship like he constantly does, in order to ignore his feelings about Guillermo/emotions in general. He’s trying to find someone to rebound to after everything that happened in s5, because he values being in a relationship, it doesn’t matter with who.)

[trainerethan]

If they were in a non pokemon au I can see red being a tradesman/handyman who does odd jobs for low prices. I can't see him being able to stand an office job or anything customer servicey. Green being in some research field would be cute. He goes off to college to study but he refuses to use oaks money to pay for it because he wants to be independent and prove himself. To who? Only he knows. In pokemon you can just say oh he's a pokemon professor without expanding but if I wanted to actually write an au for this I think I'd have to choose an actual specific field. Which is unfortunate. Because I don't want to do that 🩷 they're from the same small countryside hometown but lose contact either after middle school or highschool and only meet again as adults. Same childhood friends to bullying for validation/out of jealousy arc as every other reguri story.

[lycankeyy]

Starting to think maybe I shoulddd. Have a mini break from socializing so much soon. Because my brain is doing the Scary Thing again

[tittyinfinity]

I overshare online because I need constant validation that every thought and action of mine is Good and Okay and Normal. Surely this is a healthy coping mechanism

[qoldenskies]

Question! if the curse in "coming undone" happened in post-cw canary continuity, how would you imagine it going? ik its unlikely donnies brothers would even let him be placed in such a position, im just curious how the hiding would pan out differently

i think he wouldn't get to keep it to himself as long, because a big part of the misunderstanding in CU is that they really just assumed everything was,,,, fine. donnie wasn't a good liar but his habitual self-destructive behavior never crossed the line into A Big Fucking Deal until he locked himself in his lab for three days, the concerning ways he was acting before were typical, especially because they know well enough that a ton of work and a whole move when he struggles with change is already going to be difficult for him. they feel guilty for not understanding that this was always a bad thing

^^ and mind you in CU i think both all the work he had to do and the grief of feeling responsible for karai and shelldon's death is a GIGANTIC factor when it comes to him keeping it to himself. i think if he'd been cursed before any of it happened he would have eventually folded, but he still would have taken too long to and probably just gotten an earful about it because they would've assumed it was an "i have an image to maintain" thing and not something built from him deeply fearing he is undeserving of love when he's not materially useful lmao (which would be a really upsetting misunderstanding because donnie would go along with it. because he'd rather die than talk about the actual problem)

ANYWAYS

in canary continuity they watch over him a lot more and intentionally keep a close eye on him compared to each other, but i still think it would slip past them for a little too long. i dont think it would get to the point it did in CU, but they'd be worried when they watch donnie fall back on concerning coping mechanisms because it does mean SOMETHING is wrong, but that can mean anything

like in CU its more of an "i am going to keep this from them forever and i am more okay with it killing me than i realistically should be" but i think cc!donnie in that position would be preemptively, DESPERATELY making up for the fact that he KNOWS they're going to find out (and he's scared they're going to be upset). that's the kind of mindset that gets him doing shit like doing chores in secret, even if its strain on his stiff wrist or when he's coming down with something which is dangerous with his chest issues, etc.

cc!donnie would start out with not wanting to be a burden on them further and wanting to make up for it because he knows they're going to be worried about him, but as the pain progresses he'd fall back on that old instinctual mindset of "they are going to find out and they're going to HURT me", either for him not telling them in the first place or just because that abused dog part of his brain is screaming at him that taking up too much space and being "annoying" makes that an inevitability

i think it would break his brother's hearts. they know donnie is struggling, this really shouldn't be a surprise, of course something like this would happen, but every reminder of it still hurts like a physical blow. i think he'd still get to the point where he's in too much pain to move or function properly, and its especially hard for them to watch especially knowing what they've gone through.

[bottombaron]

I'm starting to wonder if there is actually something legit about the 'right time' to turn Guillermo that Nandor keeps talking about...

It was brought up again in the premiere and something about how Guillermo said that "deep down I'm not ready [to become a vampire]" before Derek jumped him...

...what if Nandor hasn't actually been putting it off for no reason...what if there is actually a 'right moment' for it and this whole time we were thinking that moment had to do with Nandor being ready but what if it's about Guillermo being ready??

[fairyfleshprison]

I had a thought while i was working on my human blaze the cat (sonic the hedgehog) au :

THIS CHARACTER + THIS CHARACTER

Equals

like it clicked Immediately during research, i dont care if im late to this 🤣

[cheerfullycatholic]

I think I'm gonna be thinking about hermit crabs for the rest of my life

[eatember]

After no wifi and no grocery stores and no gas for 5(6?) days in the outskirts of Asheville, I keep thinking about "bread and entertainment" the same way we were all thinking about tigers in cages during covid

[cultivating-wildflowers]

was having a great day until I opened up comments under a Katmai video and saw that Chunk attacked Grazer’s cubs last night 😭

I didn't watch the full video, only the first part, and then I read through comments for a summary. The first cub got to shore and treed itself (people call the tree it chose the Nanny Tree because mama bears often stick their cubs up their when the boars are getting mean). The second cub was moving after Chunk briefly grabbed it and shoved it underwater, before Grazer fought him off. It sounds like later on down the river, 504 left her two teenager-cubs and rushed into to help Grazer, presumably on instinct. Not sure if Grazer has been seen with both cubs today; the comment that first sent me on this track suggested one was missing, but I can't confirm that.

I've been cheering on Chunk becoming more of a dominant bear (he took over The Office fishing hole that Otis typically spends his time in) but I guess I didn't take into account that this meant he'd be attacking cubs.

(In related news: Otis is still MIA. So is Holly. I'm willing to bet Otis is gone, but I'm hoping Holly has a cub and more sense than Grazer and is lying low this year.)

[library-fae]

me getting jumpscared every day by my boyfriend actually being attracted to me