#i probably shouldn't but im testing things out

[henryscircus]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SKETCHBOOK RAHHH

TW: ME A T. LOL

13 years is crazy, I remember this shit traumatizing me back then now look at me.

[formulatrash]

from following you on twitter im absolutely certain you have (far more informed than mine) thoughts on whatever the fuck williams is doing. very interested in hearing them, if you’d care to share?

so like, from the off: I have always been a Logan Sargeant defender. people who didn't follow his junior career just saw an American, assumed he was a pay driver and didn't check any further. the guy had a better karting career than Oscar, was competitive with him the whole time they were in the same series - they were the George and Alex of their day.

sometimes those drivers fall off. Jack Aitken was, in fact, George's main rival up to F2 and then got mechachromed (or technically hewlanded) out of the running for more than a guest spot. but Logan didn't - he just ran out of money. that year in a Charouz (a backmarking F3 team struggling to score points) was when he really proved himself, especially on being solid at development and leading a team.

that was what convinced Carlin (at the time, not putting in the best showing in F2) he was worth it. and his time at Carlin was what convinced Williams. not money. Logan never had sponsors pulling the strings for him. he knew he might well not get to F1 so had already started experimenting with prototype racing, which he was good in. man was being pragmatic about how to have a career in Europe if things didn't all shake out right.

but they did (sort of) and he got the Williams seat. he was probably one of the least-prepared drivers for quite a long time, with close to zero F1 testing prior to, err, F1 preseason testing. the Williams driver academy, at the time he was in it, amounted to pretty much a gym membership. a pass for the factory canteen and some branded sweaters to wear rather than some structured programme and he'd only had one year in F2.

we know the Williams is not like, the best car. the team has had Some Issues and despite the investment from Dorilton, is still rebuilding pretty heavily. I mean remember it was (in 2023) five seasons previous that they turned up to testing like whoops, no car. our bad.

then in 2022 they had Jost Capito and FX Demaison living in a weird student flatshare while they tried to work out what the hell was going on in the team, only to both leave prior to 2023. at which point James Vowles turns up and goes my god you're running this whole team via a spreadsheet. truly, we (a team whose history includes the owner's wife, who was actually the owner, locking up the factory and telling the bailiffs to fuck off every other week for years) were so fucking back.

(if you want to read a really, really, really good book about F1 then Williams: A different kind of life is exceptional)

so yeah it's a bit of a Charouz of a seat but then Logan's flourished in that circumstance before. except you're going up against a guy whose only second-fiddle circumstance was against Max fucking Verstappen. you're an underprepared rookie and you're against someone who did at times hold his own against Max Verstappen, even as an underprepared rookie himself and he's been in the team for a year already, leading all the direction and development. fucking yikes. that's not a low-pressure seat where you're both just hoping things might work out.

saying all that because: I think Logan was given an incredibly tough gig. that doesn't mean he shouldn't or couldn't have risen to it. but that Williams seat wasn't an easy ride in his first year, where he showed he could improve when he gained momentum and confidence, something that's massively important. when things turn against you and keep turning against you, it's incredibly hard to reverse that in motorsport - just look at Daniel Ricciardo at McLaren.

and yes I know there's a lot of mad conspiracy theories that for some reason the team would want to lose points in the constructors' for the express reason of humiliating a driver they were paying an obscene amount but please let's be realistic: McL really badly wanted that one to work out. and Williams seemed to, too, in Logan's first year. they weren't babying him and he had clear targets and goals but there was a desire to see that work out for both of them.

this year that, uh. hasn't seemed to be there. I know, I absolutely know, why James Vowles felt taking Logan's car and giving it to Alex in Australia was the right thing to do. Alex had scored a point there the previous year, although it's historically not been a great track for him. that point could be the difference between 9th and 10th in the constructors - millions of dollars.

but if you want to absolutely implode your driver's brain and publicly announce you have no confidence in him then that's certainly a good way to go about it. and the thing is Australia is one race whereas Logan was supposed to be in that car for the rest of the season.

it's hard to underestimate just how much F1 teams are swayed by the media. Nyck de Vries is an incredible recent example: yes, he scored points in that Williams weekend but in the same year he was driving like absolute shit in Formula E. probably because he was so focussed on F1 but any FE journalist could have told you the guy was not, in fact, the second coming of Senna - extremely likeable, weird, idiosyncratic and actually fun to watch but far from performing at his own best let alone anyone else's.

so when he was hyped to high heaven as about to wipe the floor with Yuki there was widespread eyebrow-raising from a paddock no one in F1 cares to look at. but teams bought into it, fought over him. in a matter of races the media turned on him, shredded him and Red Bull shrugged, said they never liked him in the first place and binned him off after, realistically, exactly the performances you could have expected him to put in.

the media has never been very kind to Logan. he is a little shy, he is quite softly spoken, he doesn't go for bragadaccio and he's not particularly goofy. he doesn't insist on pointing out he's there on merit. he's quite careful with what he says, guarded. he does not like things to get weird and with the motorsport media, things so often do.

trepidation about his F2 record from people who barely tune into the races being broadcast in the media centre they're in raised questions before he was in F1. Williams' re-signing of him was deemed a bit controversial, perhaps proof the team was soft. yeeting him from his car was proof they were hard enough, in fact, that rending confidence from your driver like flesh torn off a bone is somehow a useful function of the sport, from people who a mildly critical comment would send into a 5-day spiral.

(I would know)

Logan has not performed poorly this year. he hasn't performed as well as Alex but Alex has been throwing together Lando-grade drives, as you'd probably expect given the pair of them have (close to) equal experience in F1 or at least the same number of years chewing through the gristle of it.

(why am I using so many visceral meat metaphors? perhaps 3am is not the time to write anything)

all things considered, the fact that Logan did not dissolve into a puddle of goo after Australia is commendable. he has also outqualified a fucking Red Bull multiple times. he has crashed a bit, yes, because that's what driving on the edge with an air of desperation starts to look like - when Charles did it (really a lot more) in 2020 no one thought it was because he had run out of talent.

Logan has not been driving the same car as Alex. Alex himself has confirmed this. that's, uhm, fucking dire if you're trying to fix things in the simulator because that will be correlated to the upgraded car, which is what the team is interested in. even if they load yours back in, the correlation will be steadily migrating away and they won't be too interested in what it's telling them because it's the old car.

to say that Williams lost interest in Logan early this season would be an understatement. they spent a huge amount of effort and got back a bunch of world champions to film an hour-long feature with Logan's sponsor and him. it got mentioned, like, twice? because it came out the same week Alex got re-signed.

I'm not saying re-signing Alex Albon isn't exciting. hell, I'd be very excited. but that was probably the moment I knew this was going to get horrendously messy.

James Vowles is a charming man who has lots of likeable qualities. he is first and foremost an engineer and looks for engineering solutions, something he was very able to translate to strategy. he is, however, not used to being a figurehead for an organisation.

do I think the public way JV conducted the search for Logan's replacement was fair on the team, any of the drivers involved or, especially, Logan? absolutely fucking not. made all of them look like they were taking turns in a fake taxi that instead turning into a sexy thing was a clown car with JV dressed as the Joker.

I don't honestly know how Logan kept turning up and driving through that. it's one thing to believe you can do something, anything, to prove yourself and another to know you just: can't. there's nothing left you can do. there are no other seats on the grid. time to start talking to teams in other series except if you do that someone will hear about it and then you'll be even more undermined.

I think that, when he looks back, James will realise he fucked this very badly. he obviously wants to do what's best for the team and is overruling quite a lot of sensible interpersonal stuff to do that and particularly how he should act with the media which, again, not something he's had such exposure to despite his long F1 career.

Logan Sargeant has, like his car last weekend, burned in a pyrrhic symbol of what Williams want to exorcise from their team. they want to stop losing.

but like James was saying at the start of the season, before the rush of chasing new drivers caught him up, the main problem is they need to fix the car. Franco Colapinto will not do that. he is a perfectly good stopgap replacement for someone who, yes, has probably now reached a mindset where it is perhaps kinder to not expect him to drive an F1 car.

but it will probably be more telling when Carlos Sainz Jnr is also just a driver, unless the team pulls miracles over the winter.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

hi, i'm fourteen and i have this friend who asked me if i wanted to try eating her out. not a girlfriend, a friend. i don't have any feelings for her but i do think she's gorgeous and she's probably the best friend i have and the most mature 14 year old i know. i trust her a lot. im definitely not opposed to trying to give her head, either. i'm just worried it might be a bad idea, and i'm anxious that i won't do it right and she won't even feel good. i definitely don't want to have sex this early but does giving someone else head even count as real sex? she wouldn't really be touching me at all, except for she did say she'd want us to make out before i did it, though i'm not entirely sure why, but i am okay with it. i'm also worried about, like, STDs, because i've never been with another person like... sexually, i've kissed other people but i haven't in a while. but i think she might have done stuff with people? i don't know how recently. like... i don't know, do you think this is a really bad idea and we're too young or is this fine? how do you even eat someone out, like, what do you do? sorry if this is annoying i just really need an adult to ask about this and it's not like i can ask my parents since i'm not really supposed to do this.

hi anon,

thank you for asking! I'm really grateful to be an adult that you trust enough to talk with about stuff like this. it's not annoying, and I'll do the best I can to give a helpful answer based on everything you've told me.

I think maybe, in your case, this might not be a great idea right now. it sounds like there's a lot about this situation that makes you nervous in a way that's not fun - the kind of nerves that come from being excited to connect with a new person are one thing, but I'm hearing much more anxiety than excitement in the way you're talking about this.

oral sex (using your mouth) definitely counts as real sex - it's definitely not just putting a penis in a vagina! - and can be just as intimate and emotionally complicated as any other kind of sexual expression. you said you don't want to be having sex at your age - which is totally normal, and completely your choice to make! - and that includes oral sex as well, so maybe it's best if you sit this one out for the time being.

I want to be super clear that I'm not saying this out of any sense that no people your age should be sexual; I think wanted sexual exploration between young teens can be a great way to start exploring sexuality and finding what feels good! but that doesn't mean that every teenager has to be having sex, or that they're immature if they don't. people are ready to explore sex at lots of different ages (and some people never do at all), and none of them are weird or wrong. you could feel totally different in ten years, one year, a month, or even a week, but right now you don't feel ready, and what you feel right now is what's most important.

holding off until you've had time to learn more about sex may also help, because every situation is less scary when you feel more prepared. (it's why they make you spend so many godforsaken hours practicing driving before you can take the test to get your license.) in the spirit of learning, I want to share some resources about some of the things you had questions/concerns about.

this page on Planned Parenthood's website talks about lots of different kinds of sexually transmitted infections (STIs, also frequently called sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs), including how they're spread and how to treat them. I don't want to make STIs sound scary - I recently wrote a whole post about how they really shouldn't be! - but because it is important to know what risks there are if you plan to be sexually active so that you can do your best to minimize those risks, and what to do if someone does catch an STI. an important thing to remember is that, at your age, it might be difficult for you or your friend to get tested for STIs without help from your parents, which may be awkward and unpleasant or totally impossible if you're unable to tell them why you need a test in the first place. that's an important factor in deciding whether or not to have sex!

additionally, here's some info about dental dams, which are basically condoms for oral sex - they're a flat piece of latex, like a condom that got rolled out, that goes between the mouth and the hole.

and to help with your question about how going down even works, I recommend this video by sexologist Dr. Lindsey Doe. you won't be seeing any real genitals in this video, although there is a drawing and some nude Barbies, and you'll probably want to listen with headphones unless you're alone. there are also links to more of Dr. Doe's videos on the topic.

and lastly, for more thinking about this topic, I want to direct you to Scarleteen's answer to help figure out when you're ready to start having sex, which is very good on its own and has links to some other good reading on the topic. Scarleteen is a great resource specifically designed and run to help answer teenagers' questions about sex without judgment, and I recommend them very heavily.

I hope that this has been useful, and helps you feel empowered to make whatever decision is best for you.

[baby-tini]

i present my idea ✨knife kink dabi✨

TW: knife play, toxic relationship, Dabi hits her once, blood, threats, licking of said blood.

It was a weird request at first, he'll admit that. Then again, he's asked worst from you. His handprint branded into your ass proves so. While he does give you a little side-eye, he's absolutely not opposed to holding a sharp little thing to your throat while plead for him to not press down so hard. His pretty little princess wants him to hold a knife to their throat? Say less.

"Which one you wanna use, angel- actually, I probably shouldn't call you an angel anymore, huh? I think masochistic slut fits better, yeah?" Your lips form into a little pout, eyebrows furrowing as you pull on his coat. He chuckles at that, fingers fisting in your hair to pull your head back. His right thumb gliding over your little pout, index tapping your lips and slipping in to press down on your tongue. Sticky drool running down his hand as he finger fucks your mouth. Slipping his wet digit out to gloss your lips with your own spit.

"Why are you so mean Dabi," he scoffs at that. With a flick of his wrist, you're left with a stinging cheek and your head looking to the right. There's an immediate cry that's rips itself out of your throat, feet stumbling back. Quickly snatching your arm before you could fall, he brings you over to the set of knives he has laid out for you. "I won't ask again, either choose one or I will, and trust me... you won't like my choice. I promise you that."

With a meek nod, you glance at the assortment of switch blades, there's pretty black one with blue flames on it that you're positive Dabi would've chosen. But your mind's already made when you see a black steel-blade with rubies embedded into the handle. Pretty vermillion glare at you from its place on the counter. You slide your thumb over it at first, finger playing with the pretty gems. Picking it up to test the weight, you glide your palm over the blade. Sharp. So very sharp, Dabi could kill, given he presses deep enough.

"That one? The blue one is so much prettier," he finishes with a scoff as he pouts. You ignore his comment, nodding your head, you hand it over to him. Taking it from you, he gestures to the bedroom, twirling the deadly blade around his fingers as he stares you down. Glancing at him in uncertainty, you walk past him towards the room.

The room is warm, remnants of Dabis heat still trapped in the comforter, smells like him too, strongly of ash and cigarette smoke. It makes your brain foggy, he always smells so good, his musk is a comforting scent. There's the harsh sound of combat boots walking towards you, eyes snapping to the door, in a first-hand witness to his taunting eyes.

"You look shy doll, I couldn't possibly understand why, you came to me with this request, 'member?" You give a nod, inhaling a shaky breath as you lie on your back. He coos at you in faux sympathy, stepping closer and closer, like a lion, hunting, prowling.. but Dabi isn't one to lie and wait for very long. Especially when you look so innocent, like a helpless fawn who isn't yet aware of dangers like him. You're basically teasing him at this point, eyes too wide for to not think about fucking you, destroying you 'till there's nothing left.

You blink for a second, only for a second. It's quick, no- he's quick. The blade feels cold against your throat, sharp tip pressing a little too deep into your jugular for comfort. The smooth metal running down your throat to your tits, smoothing it over your nipples, perked for attention for the sharp tip. Your skin lifting in goosebumps, hair standing at the back of your neck when he twirls it around your left nipple.

"...I wonder, what do you think would happen if I just-" he presses the blade down harder in-between your breasts, "- ah, well.. would you look at that, hm? You're just as pretty inside as you are on the outside, oh how lucky I am." It doesn't hurt, just stings a little. The sticky scarlet immediately staining your clothes, dripping down your chest in little rain-drops. He eyes the wound for a minute before leaning down and licking it off your tits.

He hums, pulling back to look you in the eyes, "better then I thought, but not nearly as good as that little cunt I love so much." There's blood staining his teeth- your blood at that. The tip of his tongue licking away the remainder on your chest as he moves the tip of the handle of the blade to press into your clit.

There's an immediate jump-back, hand shooting down to grab onto his own, and he doesn't like that. Not even a little. "What? You got a problem with this but not when I'm lickin' blood off your tits? Some priorities you got, huh?" He swats away your hand as he presses the handle back into your clit, sliding it down over your underwear to press into your slit.

"I'm gonna fuck you with this blade, you know? See if it makes you cum quicker then my cock." You want to close your legs but he swats at them before you can even think to do so. "Try an' close 'em, and your chest won't be the only thing leaking pretty red for me." Your eyes twitch close when you feel the solid press into you, fucking you through your panties.

"Ahh, there we go, got that pussy leaking real pretty for me now, huh slut? You like this shit? 'Course you do, you're my bitch after all, ain't that right?"

[its-gotham-innit]

Tommy secretly builds a portal to the nether in the hopes of escaping exile... and ends up in Gotham!?

Info About Tommy

- This is CHARACTER Tommyinnit, NOT content creator Tommyinnit.

- He's got all the skills and abilities of a Minecraft SMP character including but not limited to: Access to an inventory, hunger bar, and health bar that no one else can see, breaking things with his bare hands (given enough time), carrying things far heavier than he should be able to carry, crafting things that shouldn't be possible in a normal world, healing by eating food, and multiple (three) lives.

- This Tommy came straight from exile so boy is he TRAUMATIZED.

- Tommy became a shapeshifting meta human upon ending up in Gotham. He can turn into anything :)

- Teleporting to Gotham reset all his lives, so he's a (relatively) healthy boy as of starting out, but he can still lose his lives all over again.

- No, it doesn't have to make sense. Gotham's definitely seen weirder.

- Adoptive son of Philza and adoptive brother of Wilbur. Probably found in a dumpster on the side of the road or smth ngl.

- Tommy's chat followed him into Gotham and out of Exile. His chat, like any living being, can be hurt :)

- Anons signed off with a 📺 can be considered apart of Tommy's chat.

- Tommy will not and I mean will NOT eat anything if his hunger bar becomes full, even if he seemed hungry just moments ago.

- Tommy has Borderline Personality Disorder. This headcanon is just me projecting lmao. Anyway. Tommy’s BPD favorite person is Dream. He relies on him for emotional support and validation and would have most definitely a breakdown if he felt like he was being abandoned by Dream. When thinking highly of Dream, Tommy will push anyway anyone who tries to separate them. When thinking horribly of Dream, Tommy will lash out, accuse Dream of not being his friend, accuse Dream of abandoning him, and see everything bad that Dream has done and turn that shit up to eleven. Tommy will also sometimes try to test Dream’s loyalty by lashing out and pushing him away. If Dream leaves, he just confirms Tommy’s worst fears, but if he stays, Tommy will still have a hard time believing it’ll last for very long.

Idk why I wrote so much for that i’m so sorry im just trying to let everyone (and my partner who plays Dream) know what to expect im sorry

- Tommy is an age regressor. I’m sorry. More projecting.

- While Ghostbur melts in rain, Glatt in sunlight, and singing and dancing would permanently off Boo, Ghostinnit’s weakness is physical affection (from living beings).

- I made a roll call post for all the DSMP x DC blogs I have found. Feel free to add to that list by making blogs of your own!

Rules For This Blog

- Do not come at me for being a DSMP fan and making this blog a Tommyinnit roleplay. That's literally all I ask. I can like the DSMP without liking the content creators that played in it.

- Do not be suggestive or otherwise inappropriate. Tommy is a minor. He's seventeen. I don't care if he's "close enough to adulthood" do not be suggestive with my boy.

- No asking to ship characters with Tommy. My interpretation of Tommy has him being aroace, only "liking women" as a front to appear normal to society.

- All DMs are out of character. Do not DM this blog in character.

- This Account Is Shared With My Fiancé. My Blogs And Side Blogs Are: @its-gotham-innit @pig-from-the-pits @gothams-fluffiest-therapist @a-bloody-influence-over-gotham @what-a-time-to-shine @greeting-gotham-with-open-arms @gotham-and-the-infant @captain-fluffy-in-gotham @dream-in-arkham @godream-in-gotham @imma-creeper-gothams-grimreaper

- Fiancé In Question's Side Blogs Are: @arkham-warden

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- Blog Inspired by cyperss173 on Tiktok

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- In between dividers by patorucho on tumblr

[babybearnation]

Gender neutral baking uni student 👀

Liam, Jack and Arthur?

-💙

im assuming this is meant to be a uni au with a reader who loves to bake but forgive me if im wrong lol. also all of my knowledge is based on uk unis so please forgive me if this seems unfamiliar/weird to my non-brits. alsoalso i randomly assigned them degrees lol

gn!baker!reader (university au)

liam lawson (music major):

you two probably met at a university event where you were hired to bring the sweet treats and he was hired to bring the sweet tunes

you two bond instantly, especially when he realises you made the very yummy cookies that he's been snacking on in between sets

he's always very willing to taste test new recipes you work on and if they're really truly amazing, he might (keyword: might) be willing to share with some of his friends

if you get demotivated or something goes wrong, he will try and bake something himself to prove to you that you're fantastic and literally any mishaps can happen to anyone (because, let's be real, he's not good at it)

always willing to spend money on ingredients and equipment for you because he benefits from it (aka... more sweet treats)

will try and make a cake for your birthday because you shouldn't have to make your own birthday cake in his opinion - it takes him multiple tries and its not very pretty but its the thought that counts and it does turn out very delicious

jack doohan (sport science major):

a secret lover of all things sugary and sweet, even considering his major, and therefore is always found buying sweets from you when you have bake sales and stuff

eventually, after being at literally every single day of every single sale you have during the first semester, jack decides to ask for your number and you two soon find yourselves dating

your personal assistant and willing taste tester, jack can always be found in the kitchen with you because he loves helping you bake and claims that the food tastes even better because he made it with love (feel free to laugh at how cheesy he is)

jack is so sweet and kind that its very hard to get demotivated around him, but if you do, or maybe you're too busy with uni work to focus on your baking, jack will legit just do everything for you and, when something maybe turns out wrong, he will demand you teach him (he's just a lil silly guy)

much like liam, jack is willing to spend all amounts of money to ensure that you can continue baking because, again, he benefits from it

absolutely loves sharing your sweet treats with friends, family, his classmates, his professors - literally everyone must know how good your baking is!

arthur leclerc (engineering major):

you are close friends with his brother and therefore, when you first brought some snacks with you to the leclerc household, arthur had only one thing to say - can i have your number?

even though he loves your baking and sweets, arthur very much considers you to be the sweetest thing of all

do not let arthur in the kitchen with you. he will break something, hand you the wrong ingredients, burn something, etcetc. - literally, if there is something that can go wrong, arthur will 100% make it go wrong

arthur doesn't let you get demotivated - he can't bake, and he refuses to eat store bought goodies, therefore you'll just have to make good treats for him and revel in the multitude of praise he has for you

the first time you followed one of his maman's recipes and didn't tell him until you handed him the sweet treat, he burst into tears because you were so sweet and you got along with his maman and his brothers, and isn't that the best combination?

a hoarder, an over-snacker, and definitely not a sharer. arthur gets all grumpy when you give your baked goods to anyone who isn't him and he's not afraid to tell you that

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[majorproblems77]

Four. By Hylia do Four. Honestly I don't have many ideas for an actual prompt but since I saw that you love Sky, maybe Four looking up to Sky (since he's the hero right after him) and Sky feeling guilty for the curse and the like. Or could be them bonding over it if you want it to be fluffy lol

(this was fun, and good practice for me, I dont write four very often! But this was fun!)

Link It was amazing to hear from you, It calms my soul to know that you are in good company on your quest this time. As for what you've told me, It surprised me to learn that you are travelling with the Skyloftian hero of legend himself. I did a little digging for you and from what Zelda tells me The skyloftian hero was a kind-hearted man who put others before himself in every way.

I understand your concerns, but Sky seems the type to air your concerns too. He doesn't seem the type to not be observant and if you've been avoiding the conversation for long enough he's probably taken note by now. He might even try to speak to you himself. Remember link you're a hero too, and im sure he knows that and trusts you. But your inner thoughts seem to be fighting again. Maybe you should ask your brothers in mind to talk it out for you. Maybe ask him if you can hold that sword you keep telling me about. I've still not found out how exactly he forged that thing with no equipment to speak off but my search continues.

Just keep that in mind. Write soon Grandpa

"Hey four! You got a letter from home again?" Wind bounded over to the smithy as he put the letter back in his bag. Musing over its contents.

"I did, i asked my grandpa for some advice." He said softly, smiling at his bag before facing the sailor. "How can I help you, sailor?"

"Sky's been asking for you. Not sure why, he's doing his 'just do it but nicely' voice again." The sailor sat beside him. "Probably to spar with him. I know pretty much everyone else has by this point."

"I'll go and see him."

Grandpa was right...

"Thanks, smithy!" The sailor shouted as he ran off towards the captain.

He walked through the camp, smiling to the others as he looked to Time expectantly. the man shrugged his shoulders and pointed to a gap in the trees to the other clearing they'd made into another part of camp.

"Sky?"

"Hey, four!" The skyloftian smiled, and picked up a training sword.

"Wind said you were looking for me?" He questioned, crossing his arms as he looked to the skyloftian.

"Yes..." The skyloftian paused, looking behind the smith before smiling again.

'That was weird...'

"Fancy a spar!" He waved the sword in his hand, before throwing it towards the smith. It landed on the ground with a clatter.

"Sure." He looked to the sword on the ground as Sky picked up his own weapon. "Any particular reason Sky?"

"No." He rolled the sword through his hand. "you're the only one I've not had the chance to spar with yet."

A chance to spar with Sky is an opportunity we shouldn't pass up!

"That sounds like fun."

You know he's only doing this to test how good you are. It's the logical choice unless he needs to speak to us.

"Great!" The skyloftian readed his training sword holding it across his body in a defensive stance. "Okay. So I'll maintain a defence, if you try to break through it we can see..."

Why's he doing this in the first place? Does he not think we can do anything?

Sky's seen us fight plenty of times. It dosent make any sense.

Unless he wants us to get in close.

He wants to talk to us. But doesn't know how to approach

We aren't exactly the easiest person to approach.

"Four?" The skyloftains question broke through his inner turmoil. As he blinked back to reality.

"Oh yes!" Focus link... "Ready when you are."

The skyloftian raised his sword, sitting in a defensive stance again.

This is highly irregular.

You think he's still on that conversation we had the other night?

The timeline talk?

Where we very much looked upset that we were second on the list.

Sky's direct successor...

You think we make him proud?

"Four?" Nothing. "Smithy?"

"Link!"

"Im here. Im here." Stupid overthinking. "I'm good."

"If you're not up for it I can ask Wars to spar instead." The skyloftian placed his sword down. "Everything okay?" He approached and sat on the ground. Patting the grass beside him in an invitation to sit down.

"I'm fine Sky." Now isn't the time to make him think you are anything less. He sat beside the skyloftian loth of them looking to the sky above them.

"Okay well now your lying to me." Sky didn't look at him, his eyes tracing a cloud that swam laizly across the sky.

"Im not."

"What is it really?"

"I..."

"I noticed you've been avoiding speaking to me directly. Where you can speak to the rancher easily. Or even the captain, or Hyrule." He sat up, pulling his knees to his chest.

HE KNOWS?

"Did I do something?" The skyloftian asked, his eyes searching for any sense of an answer for the smith.

Sky feel's bad? Why does Sky feel bad?

"You've not done anything directly."

"Then me being here then." The Skyloftian thought back. "You've only been avoiding me since..." Realisation shined in his eyes as he visibly deflated. "Oh..."

That was not the reaction i was expecting

Wait, sky looks sad. Sky looks so sad!

His eyes! Did you see that?

"The only explanation is that now you know where we fall in the timeline. You wish it wasn't me before you."

Where did he get that idea from?

"What? Sky?"

"Or you're ashamed."

"Sky... Sk im not ashamed of you, I. Oh god."

I wish we'd split. I'll give him the talk he needs.

You are the last person I would send into this

And what's that meant to mean?!

"Im sorry. Im sorry I failed to stop the darkness and that you had to live the life you have." The skyloftian looked away, gripping the corners of his sailcloth as he took a steadying breath.

What?

Sky dont say that!

"Sky. My life as a hero has been eventful yeah. But I wouldn't change it for the world. I dont think any of us would."

"But you've gone through so much pain, lost loved ones. Lost friends." He gripped his hand. Covering the back of his right hand with his left.

"If he was here my friend would slap you."

I miss him.

"I've been avoiding you... yeah. But not because of that."

"Then why?"

Come on! We can do this!

Sky is the kindest of us, if anyone gets it it's him

He took a breath before looking the skyloftain square in the face. "Because. I look up to you. I have my whole life."

"What?" The skyloftian sounded genuinely shocked to hear this. His face swam with a mix of emotions.

"The hero of Sun, or the hero of skyloftian legend. is a story that people in my time read to their young before they go to bed." He fiddled through his bag. "I dont have a copy on me now, but Ill ask my grandpa to send me a copy with his next letter."

"It is?" Sky asked. "I'm a story?"

"Yes. It tells of a man from the clouds clad in green chosen by the gods to save the world. He broke a path through the sky itself to defeat a rising evil so dark it would shroud the world in darkness forever." He sighed. "When you told us about your journey, I discovered that I was the only one to know of your legends like that..."

"You figured your place."

"I did."

"So, you're a successor that can't have come much after me. A few generations at most."

"I think so."

They sat in silence for a moment before Sky shifted again, placing his hands behind him as he looked skyward again. "When you get that book from your grandpa, I'd like to read it if that's okay. I'd like to see how history remembered me."

"If we make it to my time you can ask Zelda, I know she's done a lot of research into the hero of old."

Sky gave a laugh as he stood, offering a hand to the smith. "Come on, we should get back."

"Sure thing." He smiled, taking the offered hand and standing. "We should 'spar' more. Helps quiet the thoughts."

"I can agree with you there."

[theamityelf]

what do you think of aus where makoto goes through the Kamukura Project instead of hajime? i've seen a few around, but im curious about your take on the concept

Ooh, that's a good question!

For my own headcanons, I imagine, in his early days of consciousness as Izuru Kamukura (or Izuru Kamukura Iteration 2, if the Hajime version still exists in this timeline), he isn't aware of himself as a person pretty much at all. Even when the scientists talk to him, he isn't really aware that he's a person who is alive. He's really focused on them and understanding what they're saying and doing and why, but the fact that he doesn't process himself as a participant or agent in anything that happens to him means he's more witnessing the scene from a perspective of "I understand. This is a laboratory, and they're experimenting on a test subject. I wonder if their work will ever be done. They don't look happy. How do I know that? Because they hold tension in their faces. Because of the diameter of their pupils. They looked happier when they walked in than they are now. Why is that?"

(In contrast, I believe Hajime Izuru's analysis of the situation always included himself. I imagine, around this point in the Project, he saw things more like, "When *this stimulus* happens, it results in them doing *this thing* that hurts me. I have a vested interest in preventing this outcome." Makoto still experiences pain, but since he doesn't consider himself a person with agency, he just takes it as a thing that sometimes happens.)

It isn't until he's placed in a room with a two-way mirror that he sees things differently. (Similar to a thing I said about Izuru in Panel, but a little different.) He's looking at his reflection while the scientists run tests on him, and he's thinking, There are five people in this room. I only see four, until I look in the mirror. Right. The fifth one...That's the test subject. The one they're always talking to. He's bleeding. He shouldn't be; it looks like they made a mistake. Probably related to the visible signs of sleep deprivation in Dr. Sano. They shouldn't be handling the injury that way. That's not the way a normal medical practitioner treats a patient. Ow. They're very accomplished physicians; they know better than to treat someone this way and allow them to feel unnecessary pain. Ow.

And then he watches a drop of blood run down the middle of the test subject's face at the same time that he feels it happening, and it fully registers: That's right. I'm the test subject. The surreal feeling of realizing he's Someone dazes him for a second. If he's Someone, it's possible he can move. He can...talk?

"Dr. Sano?" he says, startling everyone in the room. "You usually use the polydioxanone sutures for lacerations like this. What made you choose the non-absorbable polypropylene this time? If it's related to your conversation with Dr. Fujita at your last shift, I don't find it likely that he actually felt that strongly about your work. He murmurs to himself about his family a lot; I think his frustrations about his son's grades fed into a mild complaint he had toward you."

The scientists all look at each other, because this test subject has been anomalously unresponsive, and suddenly he throws out not only a full sentence but an extremely comprehensive take on everything that's happening and everything that has happened.

They call in a bunch of other doctors to just assail him with questions, but while it's exciting that he's become responsive, they soon determine that it's easier to get a direct answer to a direct question out of him when there's fewer people to draw his attention. He doesn't treat them hierarchically, like he should. If the head doctor, in an otherwise silent room packed with lesser doctors, asks Makoto something, he might choose to ask one of the lesser doctors where his usual pocket protector is, or observe aloud that someone smells like watermelon.

Like the first Izuru Kamukura, this one is unemotional and largely unmotivated. Unlike the first Izuru Kamukura, this one doesn't resign himself to the tedium of life or live in pursuit of an end to that tedium. He just kind of lives vicariously through those who care. His thought about any given thing is, This is completely uninteresting to me, but it must matter, because someone cares about it.

(Possible scenario: "Makoto, kill that guy!"

"Okay." (starts strangling) (stops strangling) "Never mind. I think he doesn't want me to kill him."

"I know, but do it anyway."

"Why? He doesn't want me to.")

I can't stress enough how much he can't be motivated by pain or harm to himself. Unless someone else expresses that they don't want him to be hurt, it doesn't occur to him to make avoiding that a priority.

[featureenvyproductions]

happy new year time for me to bother you with a TRAILER for my short animated film about a mars mission 🎉

surprise I have cobbled together shots I have done from my [traditional] animation I'm working on along with a TEST recording (which is why it sounds like it's being recorded in a toilet that is also a cathedral) of some of the music clips. I tried to edit it like a Real TM Trailer but the pacing is a little weird bc it's a silent film sorry

OK LOTTA BACKGROUND INFO UNDER THE CUT

So if you haven't seen my other posts, I sort of have this thing for doing projects I know damn well shouldn't be done by Just Me however if there's 3 things I enjoy it's exacerbating my wrist problems, traditional animation, and social isolation so last year to get my mind of the trash fire of an election season I bought a bunch of cels and paint and started working on this short film. It's gonna be maybe 10-15 minutes when done and, aside from a handful of tweaks*, it is all traditional 2d animation - hand drawn AND painted (which is why the frame rate makes even the recycled clips in 80s he-man cringe) .

Anyway if you didn't gather from the intertitles, this [a FICTIONAL STORY WHERE EVERYONE IS FICTIONAL PLEASE NO ONE SUE ME] is about the US and Russia collaborating on a mission to Mars where they're gonna send some folks up there to hang out and do research indefinitely until another mission happens. While the crew - comprised of an astronaut Adam and a cosmonaut Yuri - is in transit, war breaks out between the US and Russia back on earth, snapping the ever tightening rubberband of willing cooperation between the countries. Everything goes to hell, and in this case it also threatens to compromise the mission, meaning an uncertain future for the crew, who have to choose between loyalty to the death cult of blind nationalism, or loyalty to science and each other.

I am aiming to finish this in 2025...The story has been in the works for a while, but I only recently felt like "huh I kinda wanna animate this"

Im sorry the music is so....Like That lol. I wanted to get this done today before I go back to work and like I don't think anyone who follows me really minds if it's not perfect rn. See I only have a keyboard at the moment and I was trying to do an aux cable from it to my laptop to keep from recording the UNMANAGEABLE CLOMPCLOMPCLOMPITYCLOMPPP of the keys but it just made the sound toilety uhg oh well. Anyway I am writing some original stuff for the eventual whole film, but for this trailer I arranged some snippets of Tchaikovsky's sleeping beauty for piano (the score is in the public domain fyi...My arrangement is my own...). I've got some other bits of that in the works as well which will also show up in the full film.

Oh another thing is, most of the technical stuff should be fairly grounded in science (maybe aside from some Artistic License Engineering for story/ease of animation reasons, but....). So there's that. I don't think it makes much of a difference for the trailer but IM TELLING YOU BECAUSE I DID SIT THERE AND PAINSTAKINGLY RUN A FUCKING ORBIT PROPAGATION ALGORITHM TO BALLPARK WHERE THE SHIP SHOULD BE AT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE NARRATIVE AND YOU WILL KNOW I SUFFERED. FOR YOU, THE AUDIENCE.

*full disclosure by tweaks I mean stuff it's barely noticeable to you but impractical for me bc cels are REALLY expensive, so stuff like blinking and mouth movements I drew in photoshop because that's probably 100s of mouth-or-eye cels I can't really afford to waste, and you can only scratch paint off and reuse a cel so many times before it looks like crap. Some of the panning I also did by scanning the hand drawn cels and then changing the subject position in photoshop for each frame because I'm compositing frames essentially by sticking them face down in a stack on my scanner bed and haven't found a good way to do it yet. I've attempted to built a little track before but can't get it flat enough for the cover to make contact with the frames and smash them into the glass. If you have a solution for this, let me know.

anyway the target audience of this is people who liked Apollo 13 but wished it was worse quality and was more gay and anarchist so if you are vaguely that please enjoy and follow for updates on this costly and questionable venture

[c0zy-fluff]

Guys idk why I just thought of an angsty hc for Bubba, buuuuut here we go (im so sorry):

Y'know when some ppl sit and they're huddling their knees to their chest?

I feel like when Bubba's stressed out and/or upset abt smth, he'd go into the huddled position and then he'd hold his ears over his face with his hooves, in an attempt to prevent anyone from seeing him in the state he's in. Another thing, although im not sure how lengthy his tail is, he'd probably try to hug himself with his tail in an attempt to somewhat comfort himself. (I'm not the best with descriptions, but y'all probably get the idea)

StarStudent bonus scenario (i actually did NOT expect to write this much):

Kickin would see that Bubba is stressed/upset and kneel down to his level and attempt to reach his wing/hand out to Bubba, as if he's thinking on how they want to comfort Bubba. He'd ask Bubba what's the matter, but Bubba would slightly shuffle away as a message saying 'don't look at me please' b/c Bubba would expect himself to be better than crying over smth 'stupid'. (like a bad grade on test/quiz, things not exactly going the way he expected, literal a n x i e t y, etc.) Seeing Bubba upset like this, Kickin would be concerned, yet patient on if Bubba wants to talk yet or not.

When Bubba does start to talk, he peeks out from his ears and questions Kickin if he's even good enough to still be the 'calm and collected smart one'. Realizing what Bubba had said, Kickin tries to intervene, but Bubba immediately hides his face underneath his ears again and tells them to nevermind what he just said and that it's 'stupid'. (Yes, I got inspired by Episode 4 of Murder Drones to write this part, leave me alone-)

Kickin, as soft and gentle as he can, tries to get Bubba's ears off his face and tells him that it's alright to fail at things and that he shouldn't let even one small mistake overcome his emotions. Bubba, still looking as miserable as ever from his mini panic attack, slightly looks back at Kickin for reassurance from beneath his ears and then starts to take a few deep breaths.

Bubba smiles at Kickin, finally relieved of his mini breakdown and feeling reassured enough, and thanks them for helping him get through that. Kickin returns that smile, gets back on his feet to offer Bubba a hand, and then offers him if he wants to watch a few horror movies w/ him and see if they're any good. Bubba agrees and then they just snuggle and watch some good ol' horror movies for the rest of the night. (This ending part was honestly inspired by @skelexguts :3)

[coldflasher]

im actually so fucking tired, you know. i've been in this horrible drawn-out state of burnout for weeks now, and i've been hanging it all on, oh, it's this test hanging over me, the end is in sight, once it's out of the way, things will be better and i can move on with my life. but now i've failed---not that i'm especially surprised---and i'm back in the fucking rat race with no end in sight. back to paying £300+ a month for lessons for the foreseeable future, back to fighting thousands of other people for a test date every monday, or allowing my instructor to hold all the cards and pay through the nose for the privilege of buying a test from a reseller and knowing i'll probably fail that, too, back to spending all this fucking mental and emotional energy, back to thinking maybe i should just give up because i've worked so hard and put so much into it and almost a decade on i STILL can't pass the FUCKING TEST, and so literally nothing else i've done matters---the hundreds of hours of lessons, the fact that literally everyone tells me i can drive perfectly fine, the fact i could confidently go out on the road by myself with zero issues does not matter because the one thing i CAN'T do is confidently go out on the road with some twat with an iPad breathing down my neck. I CAN DRIVE!! I CAN DRIVE JUST AS WELL AS OR BETTER THAN MOST OF THE PEOPLE I KNOW!! but because i can't keep it together for a 40 minute test without turning into a dissociated panicked mess because of all the aforementioned stressors, i'm FUCKED. and i have to walk around and watch other fucking people BREAKING ALL THE STUPID RULES AND IT LITERALLY DOESN'T MATTER IN THE REAL WORLD!! NONE OF IT MATTERS!! i was walking home today and watched some fucking twat in a postman's van drive up onto the kerb ON PURPOSE WITH TWO WHEELS AND PARK THERE and NOBODY CARED!!! but because i knocked the kerb on my test this morning, i failed instantly! people speed constantly without consequences but because i drove too far UNDER the speed limit for a few minutes, i failed! NOBODY ELSE KNOWS THE HIGHWAY CODE, NOBODY ELSE SIGNALS WHEN THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO, NOBODY ELSE CHECKS THEIR MIRRORS WHEN THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO, NOBODY ELSE HAS TO PULL UP ON THE FUCKING LEFT EVERY FIVE MINUTES, LITERALLY EVERYONE WHO CAN ACTUALLY DRIVE LAUGHS AND TELLS ME HOW FUCKING STUPID IT ALL IS AND THEY DON'T CARE BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE TO DO ANY OF IT BUT I DO!! and then all people can say is that i'm mentally weak or that i just shouldn't be allowed to drive because clearly i can't handle it---which is just fucking typical because for 7 years i agreed with them and said i just couldn't do it, and funnily enough when you CAN'T drive, people call you a leech and say it's a nEcESSary LIfe SkiLL and that you're lazy or entitled, but then you struggle with it and suddenly they're all "guess you shouldn't do it, then. until you actually need lifts anywhere or cause any inconveniences due to not being able to drive, in which case we'll change tacks and go back to the whole 'it's a necessary life skill and you're a lazy useless leech' thing".

KILLING BITING SCREAMING YELLING I'[M SO FUCKING SICK OF THISSSSSS

[pucksandpower]

Hii Nat!! I have a strange medical question

So basically ever since I got my period I've always had issues with putting in tampons, originally I used to put it straight up but was then told it had to be inserted at an angle. either way it was always really painful no matter if i did it right or not (on one occasion i had my mum in the bathroom with me while i tried putting one in and burst into tears because of how badly it hurt)

I recently got a referral to a gynaecologist and saw her earlier this month, i explained everything i pretty much put on here just a little more extensive and with a separate issue of birth control. Anyway she ended up doing a swab test for thrush and it still hurt so bad to the point i nearly cried again. afterwards she explained how my hymen is potentially an 'imperforate hymen' and that the thrush hasn't made it any better either and that when i go in for my operation for my IUD she'll check and potentially break it for me.

The only issue is that after the appointment i did an extensive search on google, which i know i technically shouldn't trust as its unreliable in some cases, but an imperforate hymen would mean that the likelihood of having a normal menstrual cycle is slim to none and so i'm wondering if it is definitely an imperforate hymen or is there a different type that she meant and i simply misheard her.

I know this probably makes no sense but im just a bit confused at the moment. I would ask her but she hasn't called me about my upcoming surgery, which still hasn't been booked, nor about my results from my failed attempt at a swab test

Hi, my love! That totally makes sense, and I get why you would be confused. You’re absolutely right that a true imperforate hymen would block menstrual blood from coming out, so it’s unlikely that’s what she meant if you’ve had regular periods. More commonly, people can have a microperforate hymen (a very small opening) or a septate hymen (extra bands of tissue that make the opening narrower), which can cause the kind of pain you’re describing with tampons or exams.

It sounds like she was using “imperforate” a bit loosely, but either way, she seems to think there’s some extra tissue making things more difficult for you. If she’s planning to check and possibly remove it during your IUD procedure, that could help a lot.

As for your results and surgery scheduling, it’s frustrating that she hasn’t followed up yet — maybe try calling the office and asking about both? You totally deserve to have clarity on what’s going on.

[hazbinsponsoredbyvee]

So Vox- Since it appears poison doesn't affect you I think it'd be safe to say that the love potion/valentino's venom shouldn't either- Now! Just to be sure I think we still could test that theory out! I'll cross Alastor off since okay I don't wanna torture him an all okay fine I get it. You both are probably like the same power level so of you're immune to poison and possibly the love potion he's too! tho the poison part is something to test out... Either way! Honestly? I think you can handle it! Like c'mon- I get it's a drug an all but you're immune to poison! And you've had it in your system a lot I'm guessing so it's not like it'd be anything you wouldn't be familiar with! since you know you were with val and all-Now I'm not saying I'd inject it into you- No I would NEVER- heh-But I think we could test the theory out.... for the sake of science-! (I wonder how other characters like Charlie who are also very powerful'd react to it....(not like I'd ever try it out on Charlie Im not THAT crazy(genuinely)))

/does slip a bunch of love potion into Vox's coffee in the middle of talking while said man is not looking ABSOLUTELY PRAYING the yapping session is enough of a distraction/

"Okay, first of all, Valentino's venom is not the same thing as Love Potion. It's just one ingredient in the thing. On its own, Val's venom will make you horny and suggestable, but it's way milder than the drug Velvette makes, which will damn near drive you insane if you don't have someone to help you out. I would no longer be able to control myself, and I'm not putting myself in a position where I won't listen to Alastor say no. So, don't you fucking dare try to slip me that shit, and you'd better not even think about trying anything like that on Charlie."

[aspd-culture]

hey, so i recently did some research and took the mmpi and a few other tests that i knew were well regarded as diagnostic tools by professionals, as well as self reflection and matching myself with criteria. (all tests found free probably illegally online via links on reddit cause i dont got that kind of money) and it appears that i have aspd.

I consider myself a good person, i try to always be good to everyone which is a lot of effort because it’s something i dont do naturally, and imo that makes me better than a “normal person” but i digress

finding this out, while relieving in the way that it explained a lot of stuff, has also made me feel more alienated. i cant tell anyone im close to because theyll just hear “sociopath” and think i dont care about them or ive been manipulating them this whole and leave, and i wont be able to find new people because im bad at connecting with others so ill be alone. and no one online with aspd seems to have my experiences (also a lot of the online spaces are filled with pwBPD and pwNPD using our tag lmao and i dont relate to them either obviously) so i feel alien here too.

I dunno, finding this out was helpful in some ways but in others i just feel worse.

I guess it’s a net good now that i know that my way of thinking and going through life doesnt make me a bad or manipulative person its just how i naturally think bc of my disorder, and as long as im choosing to be good to people it shouldn’t matter. i just wish it wasnt so stigmatized to have, and i wish people would realize that i am capable of being a good person just as much as they are, i just have my own way of doing it.

I actually dont get why having it Come Naturally is such a good thing anyway, isnt it more meaningful if someone isnt “good by nature” but actively chooses to be anyway? I think it means less and is less reliable if someone is good by nature because then it means that they don’t actually know how or why theyre doing it, and if they have a moment of fluctuations in their empathy then they could be worse than any of us disordered folk who had to learn they why and how of this stuff.

lmfao ok uh sorry for having a character arc in your ask box you can delete if you want idc

No, no worries! I'm sorry it took me this long to get to honestly because yeah I agree with this - it is in my opinion objectively better to do good things by choice, even when it's hard for us. And, in fact, the NTs feel that way too but they don't like that it applies to us.

It's a whole cliche people like to throw around, that it isn't easy to be a good person and that the only truly good people are the ones that doing it when it's hard too - that the easiest thing isn't always the right thing, all of that. They just don't like that those things apply to us too and therefore we are very much their definition of good people.

The world has so much stigma against us, and I'm sorry you're struggling with it, that any and all of you are. We shouldn't be treated this way as a result of us being mistreated as kids. It's not our fault, but we're labeled and demonized anyway. And it sucks, and even though it says everything about them and nothing about us, people believe them bc they're so used to thinking we're the scary ones so we must be wrong.

That seems to be slowly changing, and I hope I (and you) are around to see when it does.

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No, no worries! I'm sorry it took me this long to get to honestly because yeah I agree with this - it is in my opinion objectively better to do good things by choice, even when it's hard for us. And, in fact, the NTs feel that way too but they don't like that it applies to us.

It's a whole cliche people like to throw around, that it isn't easy to be a good person and that the only truly good people are the ones that doing it when it's hard too - that the easiest thing isn't always the right thing, all of that. They just don't like that those things apply to us too and therefore we are very much their definition of good people.

The world has so much stigma against us, and I'm sorry you're struggling with it, that any and all of you are. We shouldn't be treated this way as a result of us being mistreated as kids. It's not our fault, but we're labeled and demonized anyway. And it sucks, and even though it says everything about them and nothing about us, people believe them bc they're so used to thinking we're the scary ones so we must be wrong.

That seems to be slowly changing, and I hope I (and you) are around to see when it does.

[atla-what-is-this-site]

Things that we should teach children:

Its okay not to be cishet, Here are some umbrella labels in case you think you may not be (genderfluid, NB, bisexual, trans, lesbian/gay, ace/aro [probably, depending on age, soften the explanation of this, obviously a five year old shouldn't know about sexual attraction])

math

you are a wonderful little being who has been given the gift of life. you get to decide how to spend it.

how to identify bias in a reading selection

Cultures other than white exist. Maybe talk about said culture's practices. You can celebrate your culture with people from other cultures if you want, its all cool and fun

your body type doesn't define you

yeah everybody's brain works slightly differently, Amara there has a special condition called adhd so she might have more energy and a shorter attention span, don't be mean to her

disabled people are still of value, Mario over there in a wheelchair might not be able to walk, but he WILL win the spelling bee

morals

What we should not teach children

people will invade your privacy constantly (phone/room searches) (actually just in general actually don't be a controlling asshole to teens)

immigrants almost definitely mean harm (drug cartels, arab hate, just in general being mean to immigrants)

unless you can acchieve over a 90% correct score on a test you're fucking stupid (school)

the truth is whatever the adults around you believe ("i am ALWAYS RIGHT" "TRY TO PROVE ME WRONG" "I AM YOUR PARENT, I DO WHATS BEST FOR YOU")

women are ✨🍑💞frilly and incapapble💞🍑✨ like little delicate fairies 🧚‍♀️ and men are 💪💪🔥🔥🦵🦵manly strongmen💪💪🔥🔥🦵🦵who don't have feelings (stop please, im begging you, STOP)

all common neurodivergent symptoms are actually moral failings (untidyness, fidgetiness, issues socializing, tardiness, the tendency to space out, etc)

all people should grow up, get a normal office job and 2.5 children

hate your parents [except for abusive ones, they are doing their best]

[ask-tighnari]

Hello Tighnari!!!!

Has anyone ever tried to mansplain to you something about general cultural/physical traits of the Valuka Shuna? People keep trying to explain traditions of my peoples to me, and they get so many details incorrect :’(

PLEASE TIGHNARI IM REACHING OUT FOR KINSHIP HERE, AT LEAST PRETEND YOU CAN RELATE-

p.s: your general being causes loud sounds of crunching metal to happen in my brain (this is a good thing, but overwhelming)

"Has anyone ever"

It's half the conversation I have outside of my friends and family.

If you don't mind, I'm going to take this moment to get most of that out, because as much as I love Cyno, Collei, Kaveh, and Haitham, they are all humans and just fundamentally do not understand this to the same level as myself.

I still remember being asked by a fellow student "did you know you're named after the Tighnarians?" Yes. I did know I was named after the common name humans chose for Valuka shunas without ever considering to look at our own language what we already called ourselves, by all means when you have them feel free to introduce me to your child "ⴰⵎⴷⴰⵏ", I'm sure they'll love that name. :)

I simultaneously care about correcting people on "Tighnarian" and can't be arsed. We came from Tighnar, "Tighnarian" as a name is closer to Tanit or Afiyah than a species name but we don't have a common name for our species so we keep getting called it.

I've met humans called India or China or Africa or Jordan and you have no issues with those being names, my name is like that. In another time, I was called Ashavan or Lokapala or Vimara.

When I was teaching, I had a Valuka shuna student one time, so I'd write in both Sumeru's script and ours. We can write our language in their script, but sometimes you're just tired and don't want to bother reading that. One of the human students asked me why. I answered. Remember, I am an Amurta graduate, I was teaching Amurta students. "But it's a dead language." Shouldn't need to say this, but if an entire community or multiple speak a certain language, it's probably not dead. And the entire Haravatat Darshan will agree with me.

Once, at the grand bazaar, I had a human who has never once been in Avidya tell me I should be using such and such to keep my fur good quality in the humid climate. What they were advising is actually for dry climates. Like the desert.

As Forest Watchers, because we're in contact with wild animals nearly every day, we have to keep up-to-date with rabies vaccines. My human colleagues only need six months between (yes, I know the rabies vaccine lasts a year, but those tests were not done with people at high risk of exposure, and this is what Zakariya decided was best for our protection and livelihoods and finances), but I have to get them every four (again, discussed in depth with an immunologist, but a Valuka shuna and not Zakariya).

One time, Zakariya was busy so I sorted out bookings for everyone for the next year rather than him and the receptionist (with no medical training) said directly to my face "Oh, Tighnari doesn't need every four months, he's fine with twice a year, same as the others." Ma'am, while I am sure you haven't met me enough to match my name to my face, if there is one person different to the others, and you are speaking to a Valuka shuna, I would think it easy to assume that different schedule BELONGS TO THE VALUKA SHUNA IN QUESTION. I would like to not get rabies, please. Rabies is not fun.

As the only Valuka shuna actually living near Sumeru City, a lot of people, largely Vahumana students come to me as a local source of Valuka shuna religion. Once I explain that we have a variety even just within the rainforest and I do not represent every interpretation of my own beliefs, nor beliefs that differ from my family's - myself especially because my mother and father are of different religion that don't typically marry, so while plenty of us grow up knowing and interacting with people who follow these different religions, few of us grow up with them entwined in our lives to such an equal extent, none of my pre-Akademiya classmates share this with me - I have to then deal with reactions to our/my religous beliefs.

Something I grew up with and do still believe is that everything has a soul, me, you, your pets, wild animals, plants, fungi, the rivers, the ground beneath our feet. Everything. The most common belief in humans here is not that, I can understand their reasonings for the water, rocks, some pathogens, etc, because they aren't living beings under the scientific definition of life (look, they are for us, and when I meet humans with pet rocks, how do you argue with me here, you have adopted that rock as your pet.) I will never understand the barrier between animals and plants/fungi. Plants, fungi, some pathogens, are living beings under the scientific definition so I cannot comprehend why a dog has a soul but a tree does not, but I don't need to because it's not my religion and my existence should not affect how you interact with your religion.

However.

Without fail, every single time I have explained this to someone, I have been met with "well yes, but the human soul is different to animal souls".

I am not a human. You kind of just told me my soul is lesser than a human's. To my face.

We as people are significantly less gendered than humans, I don't know enough about other non-human cultures in other regions to know if that's a thing across all of us, and that humans are the odd ones out, but we are very ungendered. So, frequently, if I am attending a celebration, I will have henna on my hands. For us, perfectly fine and normal for men to do that.

Just that little bit controversial with humans.

I get a lot of shit from people for it which is one of the more uncomfortable parts of living in a human society and the only time I don't (from others, the friends are all good) is people assuming I'm a trans woman or otherwise queer in a way that I am not (we treat sexualities differently to humans again due to that lack of gendered-ness). Which, I love you all, but I am not one of you, and that is a very awkward thing to explain to a stranger.

If I'm tired enough, I'll just let them think I'm a woman rather than explain that I have a different concept of gender and sexuality to them.

I still wear henna, I'm not going to stop because of them and I am currently convincing all of my friends to let me draw on their hands. Sethos is quite eager to engage in a lot of my culture, I think Cyno genuinely got jealous that I was so excited to give Sethos henna, Kaveh is a little on the fence about it, and I'm not bothering with Haitham because he just doesn't like having things on his hands and I'd feel mean pressuring him into it.