#i try first to summarize

[enden-k]

im wheezing, why he looking like that

[accirax]

(Whit did, in fact, gaf, but he wasn't about to let anyone know that.)

[lbhslefttiddie]

youve heard of sex flowers get ready for the flower that makes you into a celestial shoujo herione complete with particle effects you cannot turn the fuck off and creates a wifebeam so powerful it can incapacitate and maim and keeps making you burst into tears and fall on your ass which makes the wifebeam More Powerful and you also cannot turn this off either. and is also still, sort of, a sex flower

from one of my favorite fanfictions, Celestial Afterglow by elanor_pam, a fic that defies description in the best possible way

[cy-fi-theansweris42]

I've been thinking about the story of the Psychic 7 more and the world of Psychonauts, and I think part of the reason why it just stuck so intensely in my brain is because of the little glimpses we get of their past, and how towards the end of the game, after everything that's happened, the group is reunited. Yes, there's things to work out, things they have to talk about (primarily looking at you, Ford), but despite everything, they're all together again.

Let me explain. (Also, please keep in mind I haven't played the game in almost 2 years and I only recently started rereading things for the games, I could miss some details).

In the world of Psychonauts, the world is not kind to psychics.

We're told this right away in the beginning of the first game. When Raz is reciting the text from the pamphlet for the summer camp, he has these lines:

Raz: You were born with a special gift but the people around you treat it like a curse. Your mother is afraid of you and your father looks at you with shame in his eyes. Come to Whispering Rock psychic summer camp and you can show them all! Back home your powers make you a loner, an outcast, a circus freak, but in this dojo in this psychic dojo they make you a hero. 

As they show different campers in this scene, we know that these words hit home for them. They can all relate to the words Raz is reciting. Even by Raz's time, even after there's been a Psychic organization helping people for years, psychics aren't fully accepted.

To anyone that's ever felt othered, felt like they didn't belong somewhere, these words are relatable. We instantly relate to our main character, and potentially to the other psychic characters we meet. We know what their struggle is like.

Now like I said, this was in Raz's time. But back in the Psychic 7's time? There wasn't an organization like the Psychonauts. Back then there would have been even less reason for them to be accepted, so I think things were potentially even worse back then. There was far less known about how psychic powers worked since Otto and the others were the ones to do the research, and no doubt people were probably more afraid of psychics then.

However, despite living in a world that was even less accepting of psychics, the Psychic 7 still found each other. They still found each other, found others just like them, and they basically formed this little family.

Personally, what makes this hit even harder is the fact that none of them were exactly young when they all found each other, they were all adults and well into adulthood. They all had different backgrounds, different experiences. Lucy had already married and lost a husband, Bob had already lost both parents, Helmut was a struggling performer, Cassie escaped a dangerous environment, and more. They were all adults with different lives and came from different places, but they still found each other. Making friends as an adult is hard, but they still found each other and not only became friends, but became a little family.

And then, after Maligula, after losing Helmut, after being separated for so long, once they all see Lucy, they hug. They're back together again. They're not missing any members of their family again.

So that's what really makes it Hit Different for me. The fact that, despite the world they all lived in at the time, the Psychic 7 found and made their little family, and even after so much time and tragedy and separation, they came back together.

[mieczyhale]

"This image, now viral and representing Wisconsin all over the world, was created by J J Sedelmaier - a UW grad, noted Animator, Illustrator, designer, author and film director/producer, known for co-creating the "Saturday TV Funhouse" segment—including The Ambiguously Gay Duo and The X-Presidents—on the TV series Saturday Night Live and over 500 other TV and advertising projects. On Wisconsin." - Wisconsinology

[gemini-queen42]

I've always described my gender as "hyperfemininity to the point of uncanny valley", but there's a bit of a spectrum goin on & its debatable on if u consider the other side fitting the description entirely- so I present to thee:

The Gender Experience™️*

*my gender experience. Specifically. Obvi.

You can pretty easily summarize this to "I am outside the Natural Order" vs "I am the Embodiement of the Natural Order" lol

[dreamofmourning]

i wanted to post this because the second sentence has always had a very memorable resonance to me, a la "how long and complicated lila's suffering had been" and in each of those cases it's the narrator both 1. attempting to recreate the other's point of view ("must have seemed so close") but also 2. imagining points in a chronology that the narrator wasn't there to directly witness. so it's both attempting to reconstruct a missing point of view and this magical fantasy of chronological completeness that i was posting about before. the fantasy being that the missing point of view is only missing because there's gaps in the chronology, because that's easier than grappling with the total opacity of this other person

[lasmari]

i've somehow become the default interpreter for this french erasmus girl in our team

[sodacowboy]

every now and then I have a dream that makes me stop and think wait am I attracted to women?? and it’s like?? idk man

[downsteepy]

it is a singular few minutes after midnight but that means its the 7th and that means that me and ally have been dating for a year .!!!!!!

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

War Anniversary Press Conference

As always

it's not 1:1

quotes are marked

I paraphrase and summarize

I could get things wrong because too fast or I don't hear the translator or ...

(First few minutes are missing because of issues with my internet.)

Like everyone else in society, Ze says, he changed too. Got tougher.

He tries to be as honest as possible when he talks / to everyone. But sometimes he can't talk about all the details.

Ze says very important new detail about France support is coming soon - but he wants Macron to announce it

Ze still hopes in Congress support because otherwise he can't understand in which world we live in in

he met with Congress members and they know all the details what they need and Ukraine hopes for a soon decision

there are security garanties for the money from the US

Ukraine must be supported today not till the end or the end will come soon

the Poland matter is an internal matter, a political power struggle

using Ukraine as a pressure on EU insitutions is not fair

it is important to mantain the alliance with Poland, Ze says

if they don't find a solution, Ukraine will protect it's business

Russian matter is strong / intense in several places

Ukraine has reduced their advantage but they still have advantage

Ukraine has to reach the point where they can conduct a CO, until that point they will still loose land

but it's more important to not loose (more) people

Ukraine needs to put pressure on the partner's on the already agreed packages so Ukraine gets stuff and can succeed against Russia

the US support is not about money, it's about weapons

Ukraine has the weapons they have and that's it - they need more weapons to continue

there are different types of weapons

if US doesn't deliver, sime weapons could be given to Ukraine from other countries but that's difficult because not all countries want to give their weapons

Europe is really shifting and changing to increase production (ammunition, artillery, defense), their attitude towards the war is changing and understanding that Russia / Putin / the war is also dangerous to them

they start to understand that Putin will continue is war

Ze says the problem is not the military sector not being ready, the problem is that the European socities are not ready for Putin to come to them and he hopes Putin will not come to them - hence why it's important for Ukraine to be strong and fight (and defeat Putin)

Ze says Ukraine lost about 31,000 soldiers in the war so far

Russia: 180,000 (total amount 500,000 - KIA, WIA)

they don't know for sure how many civilians have been killed by Russia because several places are still occupied and people have been deported

every partner believes that Ukraine will be in NATO in the future

US and Germany are the main ones who have a lot to do with the invitation to NATO

Ze sees no risks of Ukraine in NATO

Ze and Putin had an unofficial meeting during the Nomady meeting in December 2019

Ze explained Putin that the agreements would not work and it would not work how Putin imagined it, especially with the troops still present

they talked about the possible frozen conflict for 20 years

they also talked about the exchange

Ze doesn't remember all the details because it's so long ago, like from a different life

Taurus missiles are important

Ze is thankful for the strong German support / support from the Chancellor

the US still stands above Germany and Ze sees the problem in the US not in Germany

but Ze is optimistic that US will move their position and they will get results / what they need

Ukraine speaks about jets with partners and that's all he wants to say

if partners continue their support depends on a lot of things: diplomatic contact, upcoming election results, society, ...

Russia will try everything to underminde the support

Ukraine improving the production in droes

everything is about making Putin a poorer person because that's what Putin cares a lot about

if the frozen Russian money is transferred to Ukraine it will weaken Putin, Ze thinks

big oligarchs and big businesses will not be happy (Russian ones)

if Putin gets poorer (like with transfering the money) he will start calling everyone not just Ze to stop the war

Ze knows that Canada supports Ukraine

the new document with Canada will support and strength Ukraine until they're in NATO

Ukraine would be happy if Aserbaidschan would support Ukraine and Ze thinkgs they would because they support the sovereignty of Ukraine

Ukraine is working on the countries who don't support Ukraine to join them

Ze thinks this is not the weakest moment

February 24 was a shocking moment

the most difficult period was that the world started to forget that the war is still going on, not only because of the Middle East

neverthelss they feel the effect with less weapons

the first year was all about survival, the second about resilience

third year will be a difficult year (elections, fatigue, ...), full of challenges, it's a turning year

this year will define the format of the ending of this war

Ze doesn't understand why they spilt the grain - he understands it's about politics but still doesn't understand it

it's bad that Poland's actions (the spilled grain) is playing into Russian Propaganda and that shouldn't be

it's not happening on Ukraine territory so Poland has to / can stop it, not Ukraine

Ze is not telling the Polish gouvernemnt what to do, that's not his right, but in regards of relations it's not right what the people do at the border

the longer this war goes the bigger will be the casualities (civilian, military)

losing time means losing money which is frustrating

the longer the war the longer the horrors for the people

the longer the war the longer it's hard for the countries who support

Ukraine can not loose time

(Huge part is missing because the livestream was having massive problems and made it impossible to follow.)

there has been evidence that Russia is using artillery and missiles from North Korea

there is nothing Ukraine can do besides help Ukraine

North Korea will continue to give weapons to Russia

Ukraine is not negotiating with partners on the use of their armys on Ukraine territory

strongest security guaranty would be Ukrain ein NATO

Ukraine will have a difficult time in the next few months because of the US

EU has shown their ability of leadership and support

Russia will prepare their CO at the beginning of summer / April if they can

Ukraine will be prepared for Russia

Ukraine will prepare their own planes

the US elections will show Ukraine what it will be after that

Ukraine prepares the first Peace Summit ad prepares the document about a just peace and the end of th war for Ukraine and everyone

what the end of the year looks like depends on a lot of factors

END

[bucklikethedollar]

i think one of the things that annoys me the most about booktok is how the majority of them absolutely refuse to read anything other than boring mafia smut or thinly veiled reylo fanfiction. obviously everyone is gonna have their genre preferences, but to never venture outside of them?? this obviously includes their unilateral dismissal of classics, but they completely ignore the overwhelming majority of all books that exist on this fucking planet.

it’s one thing for me to say that i prefer horror and thriller books while also deeply loving antiwar novels and realistic sci-fi, these people say they like “spicy seggsy enemies to lovers only one bed” or whatever the fuck and just don’t even try to find out if they like anything else.

[sweet-beezus]

Thashyr

A wandering rogue with a love for alcohol and a bone to pick with authority. Not much else is known about them, but they are rumored to be pretty good with magic!

[cesium-sheep]

anyway I was thinking about that because I was reading the first volume of wandance, it's a solid Music Manga I guess is a good term for it and the art for the dancing is incredibly dynamic even though I'm never very good at following movements in stills so I still don't actually know what they're meant to be doing most of the time lol (this is true for me of basically any manga where there's movement more important than walking around so I don't think it's the artist's fault at all.)

they actually talk a lot about the main character's stutter, even though it's not like a central focal point it's just a part of his experience, and people are occasionally shitty about it but it's not like he's the class target or anything like that, it's just teens can be pretty thoughtless sometimes. and I like that his friend that's generally the biggest jerk about things in general is also genuinely trying to be supportive of him, like worrying about whether he's having fun and then throwing his support behind him when he's able to see that he is.

I also just generally like Music Stories ofc as long as they're not Completely Obnoxious like that manic pixie headphones girl one I read a while ago. and since it's dance there's some overlap with the good beats of a Sports Story too.

pretty fun. I'd definitely be interested to read more. I wonder if we'll ever figure out what that girl's deal is tbh cuz she's clearly got Something going on but it's been focused on the main character so far. and thank god he does not exhibit a lot of the traits that tend to get on my nerves when we're tied into a male character's head. (for example no obvious male gaze fanservice panels, not constantly obsessing over the girls, etc. just genuinely interested in dance and in the things going on around him.)

[gentlethorns]

girl i continue to underestimate just how little 2k words actually moves the plot along. i STILL haven't written that scene i'm excited about despite putting 2k words in every day since i started this chapter on like sunday

[5-htagonist]

i love art, im very grateful for adderall for gifting me with the executive function, ease of prioritization, and clearness of thought <3