#i think that ex is just like. Ok. This guy is so pathetic that i'd feel bad extorting him. What the fuck is he doing.

[syn4k]

Well damn, Mumbo was back.

Evil Xisuma didn't have a comms device of their own. They figured this out because the man himself flew up to them asking about diamonds.

"Uhh, hello, X?"

"What?" they asked, turning around to see a very nervous Mumbo (oh, who were they kidding, he was always nervous) standing behind them, holding a shulker box.

"Oh, you're not- my bad," he said, stepping backwards. "Sorry. I thought you were Xisuma."

"That's a first," muttered EX. "How the Hels did you fuck up that badly?"

"Right, you can swear," sighed Mumbo. "I'm sorry to bother you, but I just- do you know where X is?"

"Nope."

"Okay," said Mumbo. "Do you think you'd be able to help me with-" [he waved his free hand vaguely] "diamond stuff?"

EX had zero idea how this man found them, or what the hell he wanted, or even why he was talking to them at all. Most Hermits just avoided this part of the Nether, and let them do their thing. But here Mumbo was, just standing there, diamonds in hand. Sure. Why not.

"Elaborate," they said, leaning back against the wall.

"Okay," started Mumbo. "I left the server a few months back to go on a trip, right?"

"Allegedly."

"When I- when I left, I was the richest Hermit. And then I got back, and I thought well I'm definitely not the richest Hermit anymore, but then I checked in my vault and there was substantially more diamonds in there than I remember?"

"What does any of this have to do with me or X?" asked EX flatly. At this point, they were just considering telling him to shove off and let them continue building this wall. This was a waste of time.

"I was wondering," said Mumbo, looking anywhere but their face (did this man go to therapy for anxiety? EX sure hoped he did. This was embarrasing.), "if you had perhaps lost any?"

What the fuck?

"I know you haven't been around," said Mumbo with a sigh, "but this is why I was looking for X first, and I just got really lost on my way there, and maybe there might be a chance that you-"

EX paused him with a wave of their hand. "You are smoking warped mushrooms if you think I have been anywhere close to the Overworld," they said, walking closer. "If this had been any other person, or any other situation, I would have said that oh yeah, I took your puny little diamonds, but this? I'm not even going to pretend that I have. Come on. Seriously, how did you get all the way out here?"

"I thought it was worth a shot," said Mumbo, stepping back two paces and almost tripping over a dint in the netherrack. "Since, y'know, that was sort of your whole thing in season 8-"

EX sighed. "We don't talk about season 8."

"Sorry."

There was a dead silence of about 10 seconds in which EX turned back around and continued building the wall. Hearing no footsteps or rockets, they turned back around and raised an eyebrow. "X's portal is about three thousand blocks southwest of here. If you want to make it before the sun goes down in the Overworld- maybe it's already set, who knows- you should probably get on it."

Mumbo cleared his throat. "Uh. Yeah that'd be good. Thanks?"

"Do you go to therapy for anxiety?"

"What?"

"You need therapy. Get out of my swamp."

Mumbo nodded and, almost dropping the shulker box, flew off in the direction that EX had specified.

They watched him go for a while longer, hands on hips. What a guy. What a weird fucking guy.

[noodleblade]

megatron for the ask game?

Hmmmm idk which Megatron because they do slightly change with each continuity so I'll do TFP because he was my first:3

First impression: I did not care for him. TFP was my first transformers show so I had preconceived notions of "Bad Guy" in my brain and uhhh he's in a coma for a good portion of s1 so I didn't really care about him for a while.

Impression now: i love him i love him i love him. hes batshit on crack obsessing over his ex and i love him. love his unfocused gaze as rusty crusty mouth i want to kiss- right. I love how unhinged he is through tfp. Its just soo good??? There is also an artist I found that drew him in such a unique cringegirl way that really helped shape my opinion. (I'll try to find them and link them)

Favorite moment: UGHHH HOW DO I PICK??? THERE ARE SO MANY. I think I'd go with this moment when Optimus and him are fighting with their cringe swords and Optimus sends a wave blast with it?? Megatron is watching in dismay from the Nemesis and Optimus (its a barely there) winks at him and it destroys him. To quote @honkytonka "that's going to set him back years" I think its a really defining moment of how obsessive he is of Optimus in general. Love it love it love it.

Idea for a story: pff ok. I have a megop idea I want to write but its really low priority. I want a sad, desperate, probably drunk Megatron leaving really pathetic awful voicemails for Orion on his commlink...except they still go to Optimus and Optimus is just dealing with this conflict of Megatron mourning their past but viciously denying a possibility of a peaceful future. (also, because im horrible, the idea of this did spur from Arkham City's Joker leaving these deranged, romantic voicemails for Batman throughout the game:3)

Unpopular opinion: hmmmmm what are his unpopular opinions?? Oh, maybe just the show's decision to make him so unredeemably evil? I like Megatron with more moral ambiguity, but there is something very delightful about a Megatron that is fullstop evil, horrible and cruel. idk, i think its fun:)

Favorite relationship: Romantically, megop. They are doing this horrible divorced but still obsessed with each other plotline that makes me rabid. Very much love them for it. Platonically, Soundwave. I like their mutual loyalty and trust. Its not very explicit and the show isn't very deep, but you can see the foundations of genuine friendship there that I think really adds to both their characters.

Favorite headcanon: haha doihaveheadcanonsfortfpmegatronuhhhhhh maybe tfp megatron also writes poetry. i think stylistically it could be neat to see the progression of madness and obsession from a poetry angle. I'M NOT THE PERSON TO WRITE THIS. IM HORRIBLE AT POETRY. But i think it'd be really creative and neat to see it deteriorate from structure and rhythm to chaos and ruin.

[kayotic-catgirl]

live blogging my reaction to tmagp 14 in one post lets goooo

this episode title is...intruiging. can't wait to see whats all thats about!

alice and celia!!!! my two faves!!!! love them so fuckingn much <33

SAMCELIA DATE MENTION samamakhalid mostly talking about work on a date is so funny i love him .celia called sam a "sweet guy". they are in love (im insane)

[furious note taking] celia likes lillies. and so does alice

samama khalid and his pathetic weirdo rizz <33

oh no interpersonal relationship issues......

......ALICE X CELIA!?!?!??!?!?!?

[praying] pleaseplease polyamory......pleaseeeeee. ok but fr i think celia should kiss both sam and alice. she deserves all the love she can get.

(but on that note, im not so sure about sam x alice. feel like alice should probably move on from him tbh. its okay coolest pathetic girl failure in the wordl, you can kiss his girlfriend and also gwen!!)

you can't tell me this wasn't celia having the biggest Bi Panic known to man. god bless this woman. she's so fucking real. if i went out with a pathetic meowmeow guy and while trying to figure out of his cool ex gf was okay with that she started jokingly(?) flirting with me, i think i'd collapse. i love you miss ripley <33

hi lena and sam!! i think its so cute how sam hums while working, he's just a silly guy

GWEN WHERE ARE YOU DARLING

HI CHESTERRRRR HIIIIIII!!!!!!!!! <3333

PARASITE MENTION????? THIS IS HOW THE CORRUPTION CAN STILL WIN GUYS

OH MY GOD CORRUPTION GIRLS (gender neutral) WE ARE SO BACK

these descriptions sure are descriptions alright. sbakes :))

SOME SORT OF INSTITUTE?? LIKE THE MAGNUS INSTITUTE PERCHANCE?????

oh oh no. not fun. horrible. so bad. (affectionate)

im gonna eat this casement its so good.

me and sam share a braincell we thought about the same institute

OH HEY GWEN!!!!!

omg the girls are fighting....

COLIN.....COLIN SWEETIE WHERE ARE YOU?????

conclusion: i have OFFICIALLY been sold on alice x celia alongside my already present adoration of samcelia. I ADORED THAT CASEMENT. ITS SO FUCKED (AFFECTIONATE). and i am worried about everyone

[donnerpartyofone]

I made the mistake (well, it had no consequences, but it was pointless!) of asking Quora how NPD is treated, because it's something I've always been curious about, and of course I got this long pompous answer from a "former consultant child psychotherapist" about how "mental illness" doesn't really exist, it's just a diversionary metaphor forced on the world of emotions by the medical industry, and also any psychology professional who claims to specialize in anything in particular "has lost their way". Like, I have long since realized that people use Quora almost exclusively to work out their own personal problems--I'm lucky I didn't hear from someone who tells me to "buckle up" for an answer in the form of a long story about how they hate their mom or whatever--but I still think there are ways of answering my question that could avoid troubling taxonomy issues.

What I was getting at was, for instance, when I was being treated for depression, we were really addressing my feelings of self-hatred and unworthiness--and not that that's EASY exactly, but in the grand scheme of things it's not so bad when a professional tells you that it's ok to like yourself more, to acknowledge your own virtues, and learn to treat yourself as a deserving person instead of punishing and depriving yourself all the time, and subjecting yourself to other people's abuses. I imagine that, on the other hand, if your problem is that you consider yourself way more deserving than everyone else, and you expect everyone to react to you with fawning admiration and loyalty no matter how you torture them, and you're mostly in pain because you can't understand why other people don't reflect back your grandiose fantasies about how superior you are...then what an honest therapist would have to say to you could be way harder to hear, than "you're BETTER than you think and you should give yourself MORE credit, etc."

I think about people I've known who were constantly weaving elaborate jerkoff fantasies about themselves and their personal importance, and how obvious it was that their problems were rooted in that difference between how they thought of themselves and how the world responded to them, and the elephant in the room with all their friends was always "Too bad we can't just tell X that they need to be less obsessed with themselves, and more considerate of other people, too bad they're making it really clear that facing that reality would send them to a rubber room--and anyone who has ever confronted them is immediately banished and shunned anyway." Like someone who is always obsessing over how everyone should worship them is not going to want to hear that their exact problem is that no one owes them worship. I'm thinking of my ex who used to absolutely lose his mind if he wasn't greeted at every door with bowing and scraping--even if the ones who failed to celebrate his arrival were animals or five year old children. I'm thinking of how he accused people who actually liked him of harboring secret insulting thoughts about him, just because they didn't grovel for him like peasants. I'm thinking of one night when we weren't even dating anymore, at about 4am, he chatted me a set of instructions for his funeral, which included loading his corpse into a space rocket to be shot into the sun; he was trying to position this as a way of completeting obliterating himself, like it was really humble of him to want to be annihilated like that, like this was not the single most expensive, ostentatious, attention-starved thing he'd ever dreamed up about himself in his whole pathetically narcissistic life. How do you tell THAT guy that he has narcissistic personality disorder, and that he'll be a lot happier when he stops believing he has to be the God of everybody? Surprising no one, Quora cannot answer my questions, but I'd still love to know.

[fernsensei]

there are two types of hilichurls

before i start, i want to point out that this theory was born in my head because i really love those guys: i have a fic where things happens to them (a lot of hilichurls oc) and a lot of things that take place there wouldn't make sense if ALL of the hilichurls where ex-humans. so there's a possibility that i'm pointing dots that can't be pointed and there's no way of two different types of hilichurls!

(there may be some spoilers so be careful)

exhibit a: the chasm

in the story quest with that mf dainsleif we can see poor khaenri'ah souls in the last moments of their pathetic lives. poor creatures lying on the dry grass, being not able to even stand up... and....... there's no elemental hilichurls among them; no samachurls, no mitachurls....? perhaps, the poor indie studio mihoyo couldn't afford itself any more animation of dying hilichurls, but they could've at least change a textures to a few! yet, mihoyo didn't, and there may be (or may be not) a reason for it.

exhibit b: the lavachurls

ok, imagine pov: you're the celestia god and you curse a shitton of people into demons. and these people, after some time, turn into a gigantic elemental monsters. you can take them down, yes, however doesn't it seem a little op? idk, i'd rethink my actions if the people of the nation i hate could turn into op elemental monsters.

exhibit c: the unu

hilichurls have a god that they believe in. i don't think that ex-humans could made one up. and i honestly doubt that celestia left them enough mind capacity that would be enough to ask questions about their surroundings. besides, it just doesn't sound right that a nation who was cursed by gods suddenly starts believing in them.

exhibit d: the hilichurls were around before the catastrophe

it was pointed out in some game text that '500 years ago, the hilichurl population suddenly rose' WHICH MEANS over 500 years ago hilichurls also were around.

'maybe celestia always cursed people into hilichurls, and that's why before khaenri'ah there were a few?' yeah i guess you can say that. tho i like my theory more. and why celestia doesn't turn anyone in hilichurls now? so nobody could point that out? than why nobody noticed the curses before khaenri'ah?

why do they speak khaenri'ah then, huh?

this is fully my headcanon and speculation: after the catastrophe 500 years ago, the ordinary hilichurls were almost completely pushed out by ex-humans, and, since there was no way to tell them apart, the original hilichurls had to learn the new language in order to communicate with with the 'new comers'.

bonus exhibit: the samachurls and mitachurls??

have someone noticed that samachurls have one eye and mitachurls have two? i. i don't know what's up with that it's just weird af.

i hope i wrote that clear for understanding and easy for reading! sorry if the text gave you brain damage. stan hilichurls, stay hydrated, and say to your beloved ones that you love them

[pacifymebby]

Hey bestie it’s age gap crush anon and so I may actually have another age gap crush??? But that’s not actually the pressing story. So basically I went out on my own last night and some men invited me to join them and basically I think I was sexually assaulted by the one??? He started touching my thigh and up my thigh up until my underwear and I feel quite bad about it. I did allow him to do it and it felt nice at the time but I was also quite drunk and he had bought me two drinks and one was a double (I had already surpassed my limit and told him that that night so I should not have accepted). But yeah idk how to feel about it. The worst part is he ended up kissing me and it’s not bad because he kissed me (although he was an awful kisser and all I thought about was how much better my ex was) it’s bad because I was actually into his friend that was with him.

So the story thickens because I’m 100% sure the assaulty guy was trying to fuck me of course but he decides to rope his buddy in on it and he wants to have a fucking threesome. Now I don’t have much dignity but I’ve got a little and it was screaming at me. Now I didn’t end up having a threesome with these guys thank god but that’s only because while the assault guy was taking a piss the actual nice friend and I made the moves on each other and when the guy came out of the bathroom we were full on making out.

The nice one proceeded to take me home but of course I’m me! Fucking insatiable nowadays so I convinced him to drive somewhere and I ended up sucking his dick

So that’s where I’m at right about now. The guy I’m into is only six years older than me so not quite as jarring as nine. But the funny thing is the difference those three years can make!! Fuck like this man spoke like someone born in gen Z of my time and I was floored cause I thought he was close to my ex’s age and my ex was adorably behind the times on lingo and stuff but so am I so it worked!! Idk man also like this guy doesn’t even live in my city he lives hours away and won’t be back until the end of the month. And of course I still fucking want my ex to take me back over anything else which is pathetic. But I had such a good time talking to this guy and yeah idk. Worst part of everything is that I missed my last bus home and my friends told me to message my ex and I did and now he’s gonna see that I unsent a message to him :/ ok yes I need to end this message it’s getting tooo big haha so sorry for all the drama I did not expect this to happen and I didn’t even mention some of the craziest shit

This one's gonna be the longer message just a heads up. Sorry I haven't replied for a little bit, I've been super stressed and not felt up to it at all.

So I think you're going through a lot of complicated feelings at a complicated time in your life. You're clearly emotional vulnerable right now and honestly, I don't mean this in an offensive way at all, you're not putting yourself in particularly safe situations (this is in no way blaming you at all, going out alone should be a safe situation!!!)

Its going to feel like a difficult one to process because you were drunk and like as you say in your messages, it felt nice at the time, but ultimately you were really drunk and didn't want it with him. So yes I'd say that counts as a sexual assault. He shouldn't have kept giving you drinks when you said you were at your limit. We all have a duty of care for one another, even those we don't know and at the end of the day, he broke his by giving you drinks when you were obviously drunk.

More than that, he did those things to you when you'd said you were drunk. So he knew you couldn't consent and did it anyway, then he tried to take it futher, tried to get you to have a threesome with him and his mate... I don't want this to sound like a harsh reality check here at all but i feel like I need to tell you how this sounds. It sounds like those two men were looking for a drunk girl they could get to sleep with them both. If not then the first guy definitely was looking for someone to take advantage of.

I really think you should go out with your friends when you're feeling so tumultuous, men look for girls who are on their own becayse they know no one will step in or protect them.

And this older guy that you were talking with, he also knew how drunk you were and he let his friend do that to you. He isn't a good guy either and i wouldn't advise setting your sights on him, even if he was nicer and he was chatting to you, he still did all that when you were way past your limit and he knew it. He shouldn't have done that and if he was a genuinely good guy he'd have driven you home and would have told you that if you still wanna suck his dick when you're sober then you can.

Idk bestie, I want you to go out and experiment and have a good time but I want you to be able to do it safely, the thing is the more negative experiences you have with sex when you're drunk and when it's sexual assault as well, the less secure you'll feel about yourself, and the less secure you will feel in future. Sexual trauma is really hard to get over and really really difficult to navigate. I'm in a fully trusting and supportive relationship with someone I adore but when my muscles have a ptsd spasm I cannot have sex, no matter how much I want to, my body just works against me.

I'm not blaming you (I know the more I say thst the more it sounds like I am blaming you but bestie pls believe me I am not!) I'm more trying to warn you not to persue guys that let that stuff happen, thst let their mates touch you, you can't trust them and they don't value you. And also trying to warn you that when you're going through emotional turmoil and a breakup, you can sometimes lash out at yourself as a form of self harm, going out and getting super drunk on your own, engaging in sexual activities that make you feel icky the next day, going out alone and sad drinking or whatever, its not healthy and you'll end up getting hurt.

I don't want to tell you you already have been hurt because I don't know fully how bad you feel after what happened, but I would say what happened to you was bad, it wasn't your fault and if it's hurt you or made you feel bad that's not your fault either. It's pretty scary that you wound up in that situation and it might take you a bit to process that.

Anyway yeah, I don't think this new age gap guy is the one for you because even if he wasn't actively bad, he has friends who are and good men are not friends with bad men. They don't excuse their behaviour and they definitely don't take you home to get you away from their shitty friend and then let you suck their dick in the car. That's like ultimate performative nice guy behavior for sure.

...but I'm also not your mother and I'm not having a go at you or lecturing you. And if I've misread the situation at all pls let me know.

I hope you're okay angel, please stay safe! ❤️❤️❤️