#i hope my message comes across

[kataracy]

Kataang Week 2024 DAY 1 // Cultural Sharing

“I’m nervous. Am I doing okay?”

“You’re doing amazing Sweetie.”

[celestialecho]

🌦️&💤

on childhood best friends.

via ill give you the sun by jandy nelson // via the art of ponyo by hayao miyazaki // jack johnson, we're going to be friends // a message from my childhood best friend // mitski, i guess // via a little life by hanya yanagihara // adventure time, island song (come along with me) // via unknown // abba, chiquitita

[borzoiboogers]

Now that it is no longer Halloween, I'm going to show off some of my favorite looks from this year. I've been vampmoding publicly for over a year now and am loving how confident and happy this has made me.

A few years ago, I was told that I have some growths in my eyes and that I need to avoid sunlight as much as possible. It shifted my life to be mostly indoor and nocturnal. I sulked about it and mourned it, and my friends would jokingly call me their vampire friend. But in the past year+, I've been embracing that and presenting this way full time. It has changed one of my most negative and fear-based things with my body to be something I can embrace and at least have fun with if I have to follow the same rules anyway. I have never spoken about this health stuff publicly, but I in some way hope that someone else can find this and choose to view something about themselves with joy rather than upset. I encourage everyone to find a niche that carves joy into your existence.

[lyxchen]

You know I'm such a lesbian about Agatha Harkness and I don't want to hide it. Like she's my wallpaper, I bought a shirt with her face all over it, I really want to get a giant poster of her and hang it up in my room, I need everyone to see how into her I am and I need them to know how lesbian I am for her

[lornasaurusrex]

I miss you Lorna… this is such a mess

This is an old message and I had several other similar messages, but I miss you guys and hope you’re all doing well!! I’m sorry to see nothing has improved.

I saw I was kindly mentioned by @awesomefringey and some other commenters the other day, so just wanted to log in and say hello and log back out for a few more months. 💕

Sending so so much love to all of you. Take care of yourselves and each other, please.

The video is still on YT.

[rouge-fauna]

I think you’re talking about these posts [here & here], I don’t know if there have been others.

I'm not gonna say what I did was right, you are correct I should probably just not respond to asks getting me to talk about other people. I will say for these two posts those people had already blocked me I’m pretty sure, so it’s kinda hard to talk directly to them in that case. And I was not doing so anonymously and had not blocked them so I wasn’t hiding what I was saying. I did not follow them, I am not part of the innitor community, and not that that makes it right but I do think it is kinda different. Though you make a good point, perhaps we should stop this pattern of responding to asks about other blogs and such.

Still, the biggest thing to me I realized, back in elementary school when I first dealt with this, was that honestly all the time we talk about people behind their back. Talking about people when they aren’t always in the room is kinda just inevitable and part of socializing, however I think the important part is how you are talking about other people. It’s when you are insulting them, talking negatively about them to people they know, spreading false information and so on that it becomes not okay. Hopefully that makes sense.

In these cases I merely focused on the lore. I didn’t insult them or talk shit about them, as a person, as a blog or say their takes were stupid or they are stupid or speculate about their trauma or mental history. I just talked about reasons why I disagreed, or saw things differently and why we might see things differently. They were also not the only ones I saw to say similar things so I think in my mind I was making more of a general discussion, not trying to target them specifically. I didn’t post beyond that about them. But you are right, regardless it was probably not the right way to go about things.

But just to be clear, if I am a hypocrite it is not my intention. I haven’t vague blogged anyone or meant to vague reblog anyone. I think this week is pretty much the first time I’ve ever been not naming, passive aggressively talking about blogs, and even then I’m not trying to insult them, trying to cancel them. I’m just expressing that before you go off about how I’m stupid and unable to have a discussion about it, the very least you could’ve done was give me an opportunity to try.

[dizzybizz]

trick or treat *cries*

apes

[quixot1sm]

i think, and this may just be my zekrom bias speaking, that if someone wants to experience the full value of bw's story it's better to play through white first. black has the issue of coming off as very dismissive towards plasma's legitimate and well-founded claims that pokemon abuse DOES occur (and it does! from the kanto games' marowak to bw2's liepard there's instances where it's put in the spotlight, so it certainly does happen)... by assigning the protagonist to truth, it feels pretty evident that n's beliefs are "wrong", and the game just seems to brush any questioning aside.

on the other hand, white giving n the hero of truth role means we're basically forced to think about what that means for the relationship of people and pokemon at large. to translate a point n makes in chargestone cave: if you allow people to coexist with pokemon, even if the majority of trainers treat them well, there will always be someone somewhere out there who abuses or neglects them instead. are we okay with that? should those pokemon still be allowed to suffer, just because what they experience is an outlier to the general rule? while not outright stated, zekrom's association with hope and the strive for the ideal suggests that we don't brush off these facts, but instead take them into consideration, and aim to change the world based off of them... like how in bw2 society in unova puts a lot more emphasis on the bond between people and pokemon, and on pokemon as equals (see: iris's dialogue before entering your team info the hall of fame).

i think black version has its own unique avenues to explore, but on the surface level, it's a much more cut and dry, "no, you're just wrong", type of story that kind of makes you work harder to fit it into bw's overall theming of "the world's not black and white, there's not a singular objective right or wrong perspective."

[averlym]

hi hi hi! not sure if youre still taking requests but.. could i get some parrward? I adore your art style and im so glad youve been alive and active again!! I remember I found your acc back in 2019-2020 and I got curious looking at my old acc and I had SO many of your posts liked- and here we are now! Hope life is treating you well ! :)

hihihi!!! some parrward for you <33 i hope life is treating you well too!

[fakeuwus]

Quit vaping its embarrassing

[andr0nap]

(good taste anon) Oh I'm just a silly furry with thoughts I cannot form into proper ideas/questions about centaur Triguns now! Anything you have to say on it sustains me lol. (And knowing whether or not you like receiving fanfic inspired by your stuff would be nice to know, should thoughts take a more solid form.)

im 100% okay with people taking inspo from my aus to write fanfics!! thank you for asking :3

[mysterygrl20]

from a fellow ace, yes I’ve had people tell me this. You haven’t tried it so how will you know?

Would I in the future? Perhaps as there are sex-positive aces and that still doesn’t diminish that they are ace.

It’s a big leap for kawi with pisaeng. It’s understandable that he has these thoughts.

And Pisaeng will be there to hold his hand through it.

[if-mirrormine]

Why do I feel like the chapters are pretty short, we gone to chapter 3 already while only two days pass in the story and the book is a 30 minute read max

idrk how to respond to this... like long would you rather it be?? you want time to move slower in game? when the whole point is that it continues going no matter what, whether you're ready for it or not?

[inkedberries]

Yeah it would be like the world's worst buddy cop character it'd be great!! mogami IS so tragic and sad, and shigeo is so traumatized but does still understand him. the dynamic is so grim but I love the idea of shigeo having to admit he needs help and the only one he can call on is someone he has such a tentative 'allyship' with

i honestly would like to think of them as something close to friends. like how dimple is with shigeo. lol another evil spirit to hang around him😂

the thing with mogami arc that i absolutely LOVE and think of 24/7 is how mogami found minori. i mean, i like to come up with a story on how mogami found and possessed minori.

imma be talking about suicide under the cut so feel free to uh just not read it if you're uncomfy about it.

so it is understandable that the chapters about mogami arc deal with suicide. the loss of hope to the point of seeing death as the only escape from it. and it's interesting to note that mogami *knows* there's an afterlife.

and even more interesting to note is that the preface of mogami arc is the story of the ghost family that shigeo hesitated on exorcising bc they really weren't doing anything wrong! they were just a family having a peaceful life together until they pass on. why are living ppl treating them this way? shigeo empathized with the ghost family GREATLY because to him both the living and the dead are on the same plane of existence. he sees spirits on a daily basis. he co-exists with them. so you see the great divide and otherness of shigeo being a psychic here. i really wish we could have explored more of that in the series but i digress.

now to mogami.

he is the same as shigeo as having lived and co-existed with the living and the dead. but i assume the people around mogami who used and urged him to use his powers for their benefit did not concern themselves with what mogami feels about it. and i doubt mogami was open to expressing his feelings of doubt and the conflict he feels inside him. he needed the money. i think he'd only probably warn them about the dangers of evil spirits but nothing about his feelings about it, if that makes sense.

he sucks it up and does one unspeakable thing after another because he is DESPERATE!!! his mother's condition worsens and not even his showbizz money was enough to pay expenses to save his mother who i ASSUME is his only support system throughout his life. i mean who else would you kill for? and when she dies, who is there to blame? her son who killed for her.

lol you could IMAGINE what that could do to mogami. the only person he has ever felt safe with. the only person he trusted that only sees him as mogami keiji, not the world's greatest psychic of the 20th century. and what's more is that mogami doesn't blame his mother for making him feel like absolute shit. he doesn't blame his mother for blaming him for her death, no. he blames the people who used him. he blames the people who pushed him to the brink of self-destruction. he blames the people who dismissed his warnings and belittled the effect of the spirit world to the land of the living.

he goes on at the end of his life as wanting to be the vessel of revenge and hatred for the people who suffered under exploitation and oppression, like how he was treated when he was in showbizz or even maybe throughout his childhood. i think the term was, he wanted to be the grudge of the world????? something emo like that lmao. he self-appointed himself as something like judge and jury. he does whatever he see fit to the people who torment others for their own amusement.

now enter minori.

why did mogami possess minori?

now please hear my proposal...

you see how minori treated shigeo in mogamiland? it was mentioned time and time and again that the way minori bullies shigeo and controls the class with her status and wealth is something she does on the regular. she targets other people the way she targets shigeo.

and please imagine that these children that she targets on the regular, her classmates, are not psychic. are not strong willed and as kind and as resolved like shigeo. they can read the room, they are self-aware. they know when they are being talked down to and why they are being talked down to. they think of themselves as being lesser. they think to themselves i dont want to go to school anymore. they tell their parents that they dont want to go to school anymore. and what do their parents say?

"you're just being sensitive."

now i know i dont have to hold your hand to lead you to where this is going. imagine how many of her classmates tried to commit suicide on the rooftop of their school. or at home. because of her.

it was enough for mogami to show up.

and throughout mogami arc we see mogami trying so hard to convince shigeo that minori isn't worth saving. that the thinking of "people can change" is naive and immature. that he's afraid that someone as powerful as shigeo will be used the same way as he was when he was alive.

we can read the line "...to prevent you from going the same path as me" as something mogami said to shigeo. mogamiland was mogami's bootcamp on trying to open shigeo's eyes to the principle of "kindess isn't always the answer" which shigeo debunked in world domination arc but i digress lmao

but you know what happened in the end? shigeo FORGAVE minori. even after all that. AND!!! he picked up a different lesson from mogamiland which is to appreciate the people who help him, inspire him to change and to become a better person. which is something mogami never did. that's their difference, i feel. and i think that's the reason why mogami respected shigeo's decision in the end. because he saw how strong shigeo's character is. he even tried to give shigeo advice in world domination arc!!!

so yeah i think there is a mutual respect between the two of them. lol even in the fanbook under mogami's section, shigeo was the only person who could say nice things about mogami.

so yeah. i think they would make great friends if given the chance.

[deadpoets]

✒️<3

[torgawl]

do you think part of the reason diluc still struggles with his resentment towards kaeya is because kaeya is more like what crepus wished diluc to be? crepus was so proud of diluc for his accomplishments as a knight and lived his dream through him as well and we know how much crepus' approval meant for diluc, more than any title or doing. i sometimes wonder if diluc feels hurt knowing that kaeya gets to live the equivalent to his past life as a knight as if nothing happened when he had to make sacrifices for his own peace of mind and sense of justice. i wonder if that's what pains him the most, not the fact kaeya ommited the truth about his past for so many years but having felt like he was the only one who cared to do something regarding his father's death and who showed any sense of uprightness when confronted with the knights' request to cover their mistake and negligence. i always think about how diluc might have felt like everything was a lie and his sense of betrayal. but maybe that didn't matter as much as having the support of his brother and someone he could share his pain with would have mattered. maybe the worst thing wasn't what kaeya did but what he didn't do; maybe it was never about his actions but the lack thereof.