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i kinda want to change my name but itd be such a hassle and annoying so i just end up sticking with dave
#this is why ive been meaning to switch my tags on here from dave to klepto#cause i quite like klepto but its just my online name#i will say i do prefer david or davie or smth else instead of just dave#idk idk i just dont like inconveniencing people so i havent changed my name#also idk what id even want to change it to#i want to just have multiple names but that confuses people irl#whatever whatever it doesnt matter ignore me#<- i need to just download xkit so i can update it all but it looked complicated so i didnt#i guess i can just switch now and update old posts eventually#klepto talks to himself
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You may have discussed it before, but would you mind speaking a little bit on how you discovered you have DID?
I feel like I have a pretty stable core identity but there have been times under intense stress where I’ve experienced sudden “switches” in my personality. During a particularly bad period for a little over a year there was a time where I distinctly felt like a different person and did things I wouldn’t normally do, and I remember the specific moment where I came back into my body and became “me” again. This doesn’t happen often, but it has happened more than once throughout my life. When I see people talk about plurality I feel a little confused because their identities often seem to have their own names and genders and ages and backstories, and it seems so cut-and-dry.
I know these are all things to discuss with my therapist but I love how you talk about your own experiences. How can you differentiate between DID and other kinds of dissociation?
Thank you for asking, anon! I'm glad you are going to talk to your therapist about it while also doing the reading and reaching out-- heaven knows our own journey within the US mental healthcare system was rocky at best. The latest chapter of Madison/Belladonna is heavily sourced from IRL circumstances both in receiving the diagnosis and the decades long journey in the mental healthcare system to get there.
But to answer more directly-- (as always we are answering from a psychopathology lens for care and treatment, we recognize the beauty of plurality and do not reduce ALL experiences to mental healthcare concerns, we are approaching our own situation and experiences this way as it is how we lived it)
Our journey was guided from the outside. Both therapists and our partner who was able to see these "mood swings" in us were able to gently guide us to water despite our fierce denial and rejection of our situation. What started as "we're fine" turned to "mood swings" turned to "BPD" turned to "---maybe we should read up on OSDD?" Turned to our current therapist telling us over a year ago that we had DID after months of testing and interviewing to determine.
I should also note I likely realized it MULTIPLE times in my history and buried it again and again. I legitimately think that people in my former life knew and either assumed I knew too or worse I had told them and forgot that I told them. It worries me because I cannot ever be certain. I once asked my ex-wife about it after the divorce/diagnosis and she did say it was weird how she had a "different husband" depending on environment and social group. She said she never noticed it during the interactions, but she would always think back and feel that the "me" in any given moment was different from the ones she observed in social/work situations etc.
So like--- even if people notice, sometimes they don't even realize what they're seeing. Honestly I go full No Mask at work even when a male part fronts and no one really bats an eye. I don't think *most* people are as observant as we worry they are.
ANYWAY! Looking back these are the signs that I ignored:
- I not just wrote a consistent journal through every phase of my life (even going as far as to have a "memory list" that I populated "when I felt like it" (<- IE: when a part that associated with the memory was fronting and wanted to type about it) and more importantly I READ it. Often. I sometimes think that the majority of our memories are just imagined versions of what we wrote. That notion is helped by the fact we [used to] stop journaling during times of crisis or delete journal/chat log to prevent us thinking about distressing things.
- I wrote a lot of plural characters in my stories since my teenage years. Kinda like I kept writing female versions of myself? Funny how the Trans and DID acceptance arcs are so dang similar.
- I would emotionally cave in on myself after gatherings, berating myself for how I had acted all evening. Getting deeply upset at how "out of control" I was. We outright AVOID mood altering substances like alcohol or weed.
- When talking about traumatic memories we typically just tell the story rote. It doesn't bother us. We told therapists without batting an eyelid. This is dissociation. We were disconnecting ourselves from our memories. Emotionally distancing ourselves from the experiences.
- In the same vein, when we remember things we imagine things in locations like a 3rd person camera. Not populated. We don't hear or feel or associate. It's just a place and a knowledge. Our whole "context packet" thing where we just understand something without *feeling* it.
- Deleted emails and chatlogs, references to things we don't remember. Discord messages with people we don't remember talking to. It bothers me how many people in our online communities we were actually close to at some stage of our life and then erased. This is specific to us but Dawn has opened many accounts in the hypnokink community and Camden has shut them down and this has happened so many times that we don't even get upset when we find a buried email from 2013 with sign-up to a Yahoo Email account we don't remember having. That sounds dramatic. It's more just. Go into your emails, pull stuff up from 5-10 years ago and just scroll a while. See how much you remember and associate into. It's NORMAL to forget what websites you were browsing a decade ago. It's not normal to have an entire *LIFE* you hid from yourself.
- Sometimes people just... saw/knew us before we did and there were times when they would describe a version of us they weren't supposed to see and we got complete dysphoria over it. Sometimes it as joyful. Someone we love saw Cammie well enough to say when we transitioned that they wanted to see that "windswept girl with the big smile" all of the time. Sometimes it's mortifying, like when someone approaches Camden as if she is Dawn and Camden REJECTED that side of us so heavily that it caused emotional meltdowns and turmoil because Camden didn't WANT to be a sexy confident domme, she could barely see herself as a woman, when people saw the wrong version of us *without permission* it was just a violation that made things WORSE.
- On that note-- meltdowns-- we mentioned the whole "after a social gathering we'd emotionally cave in on ourselves" thing, there was a lot of that. After work we'd get a complete drop from having to be in Manager Mode all day or we'd have a crisis after erotic intimacy encounters because we're sex repulsed ace. The fact is our nervous system was activated during those times, our survival instincts were kicked in and brought the part associated to the surface to DEAL and when they backed off our body was still reacting to the trauma trigger and it would cause us to implode.
All of these things in therapy brought us to the conclusion of BPD. Because therapists be like that at times. A *TRAUMA* therapist gave us some DES-II, MID and ACE tests and worked out what was going on within 3 months.
It took a further 6-9 months with constant support from loved ones who were able to see us as individuals to *ACCEPT* it. This is a denial disorder, it doesn't want to be found. Asking questions, being honest and being accepting is the best way to come to terms with it. I wish it were easier and I wish you luck and support in your journey. Our inbox is always open!
You're not alone <3
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help I have been afflicted by Boothill brainrot time to share some shitty angst bulletpoints with the class (that I’ll probably turn into a fic later)
I don’t think I have to tag anything specific but be warned there’s probably something bad in here so if you understandably don’t wanna read that then scroll. Expect cyborg related angst (and minor spoilers)
Also I hc Boothill as nonbinary (using he/they and occasionally she) so if you’re wondering about the use of multiple pronouns that’s why, it’s not related to the angst, I just don’t want people to be confused.
-has a sensation of touch on the metal parts of his body, but it’s visibly muted compared to his skin and it drives them nuts
-despises hot/cold temperatures due to how they interact with the metal parts of their body, on especially hot days
-very vulnerable to hacking and it scares the shit out of him (thanks past obsession with Genji for giving me this one, the amount of “Sombra hacks Genji and he has a bad time” stuff I have read is unhealthy, even if she would only do it for the shits and giggles or a mission, a character losing control of their body is unfortunately very compelling please don’t cancel me)
-can’t remember their past life or how he died but still has nightmares of it
-phantom pain is a bitch and her name is Boothill
-won’t be seen as human by most people (even actual people write him this way which is a little weird to me, like I know the Robot/Human tag w Boothill serving as a Robot is probably just for reach, but like, he’s still human, he’s not a robot, he’s a cyborg, idk it’s just a pet peeve of mine)
-has to go to the scientist who made him to get “upgrades” (aka whatever they feel like fucking with this week) against their will
-he can’t remember his old life, but they can remember how their body felt back then and the cyborg one distinctly Doesn’t Feel The Same
-Boothill’s synesthesia beacon doesn’t just prevent Boothill from cursing, it prevents her from saying certain things entirely which makes it very hard for him to express his feelings
-charging induces sleep for them, something which Boothill tries to hide as it could be used against him
-debating between making Boothill unreasonable heavy (because metal) or unreasonably light (because high tech) both scenarios cause problems for him, feel free to torture yourself for as to why
-animals (especially dogs) don’t like them as Boothill doesn’t have as strong a scent nor the flesh of other humans which is why it’s hard for them to trust him, which sucks for Boothill because he loves animals
-doesn’t even know the planet they were originally from or how old he was when he died, Boothill doesn’t even know their birthday, so it ended up becoming the day he was brought back to life against his will
-gets called “it” by people who don’t like cyborgs or people that are non-organic/have nonorganic parts of their body/existence, I also share this for the trailblazer because of their dubious origins, I’d like to believe transphobia isn’t a thing in Star rail because it’s already tiring enough irl and there’s no proof for it unlike other real world problems, so the misgendering happens for other horrible reasons! Horrible reasons that are close to canon considering the whole organic/inorganic war thing depicted by the Sim Uni, I’d imagine a lot of people are still bitter about that (honestly I don’t know the details I was there for the jades) and/or ignorant enough to believe that only fleshy beings have a monopoly on personhood (it/its pronouns are cool but not on people who don’t want to use them!)
-constantly pushes the limits of their body (aka self destructive behavior), I doubt Boothill would be trying to hurt herself but it’s more of a “it will get fixed anyway” kinda thing, any injuries sustained still hurt like a bitch but Boothill forces himself to not care because well “it’s his job and he will get healed anyways” (also it’s implied from their LC that he’s a Galaxy ranger against his will from the whole “never living for themself again” thing, so Boothill probably has to get injured for the job and is just forced to grin and bear it
alright that’s all the angst my sleep deprived brain could cook up for now if I did something wrong or missed a tag pls tell me
#honkai star rail#hsr#hsr boothill#boothill hsr#angst#tw body dysmorphia#tw medical trauma#tw self h4rm#tw self destructive behavior#hopefully that covers everything if I missed a tag please tell me
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Food for thought.
Ok so I've seen an anonymous ask on someone’s blog recently about people being rude in the unwind community, (which first of all, if you’re being rude, shame on you.) I've seen mention of, actually no I’ll take it verbatim. “I like scrolled by multiple of peoples posts and fics about like theories and stuff, and most of them have people getting mad over them or feeling the need to prove it wrong? Like I get it, but it's just an idea 😭” This community is pretty small and I haven’t seen any other unwind theory posts lately (Unless this person is talking about ao3, I’m not on there.), so I’m left to assume this ask is about the “Connor’s brain coping after his unwinding theory.” And the reblog I left on it, so let’s break that down shall we?
Personally, I grew up on Film and Game Theory so I’ve never seen debunking a theory as something that’s rude, just a part of a community helping another have the correct facts. Which by the way, @korokeea, if I’ve upset you, I am deeply sorry, it was never my intention to do so. My reblog was supposed to be seen as playful banter. (Side note, dream endings are very amateur, don’t do them unless you know what you’re doing. Even I wouldn’t do them, (I think I’m amateur anyway <:D.))
Also wanted to add that I should be using tone indicators, and that also I’ve seen examples of people whose first language isn’t English not understanding Western satire, so my apologies if I’ve confused you.
Now that I’ve addressed the main point, there was also something else I wanted to bring up.
This is obviously a parody of LIVE SLUG REACTION I used to add to my reblogs of Conland content (Connor x Roland), I also might have confused people doing this. I don’t think Conland is anyone’s cup of tea, personally, I see it as a crack ship that lives rent-free in my head, but I can understand how I could’ve confused someone. I honestly do like A Dog With A Bird At Your Door A Lot, even if the notes say “I hate gay people.” (Like, C’mon now Kuromi.)
Honestly, I came here to create art and not be judged for it, I have one to two irl friends that I see almost daily. The rest of it are just classmates that will turn on me the moment I say something that doesn’t fit their dialogue. (If you get what I’m saying, I have to say the right thing or they’ll look at me funny.) I’m honestly super stressed and pretty prone to anxiety right now, graduation, prom, removal of wisdom teeth via going under (anaesthesia), you name it! So you can see why I find a great sense of escapism in Tumblr.
Lastly, I wanted to say that in this community it is almost impossible to create micro-communities because of our small size. You CANNOT be vague or make inside jokes because almost everyone follows each other. On the original ask post that I first talked about, the responder mentioned a “that one guy” and my poor mutual @bopeisdope thought they could be that one guy. (Which is completely wrong, she and @lazysailor are the sweetest people I have ever met here. Oof sorry side tangent.)
Anyway If you made it through this thing, thanks for letting me get this off my chest.
#I’m aware I’m being a hypocrite by being vague#But think we all know who made that post#I’m still gonna be hella active on here#When you stop being vague you’re free to come at me fuckers#lol no#I don’t need more stress in my life#unwind dystology#unwind#apology
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so even though i mainly post about seventeen on here, you guys know that one direction is one of the most important things in my life. I've already talked about liam multiple times but I wanted to share what I posted on wattpad here - I have absolutely no one to talk about this irl so I'm projecting a bit.
yesterday morning I woke up around seven like usual, drank my tea and lounged around. and then I remembered my phone had been charging since midnight so I went and took it from under my pillow to a single message from one of my friends. 'what the fuck?' with a screenshot of the google news page attached. obviously wanting to see it myself, I googled 'liam payne' right away and everything came to a fucking stop.
the only thing I remember before fucking disassociating is going to my mom and saying 'liam is dead'
this whole thing might seem a little dramatic to you. if you're not on the same page as the majority right now you might think, 'eh, esa is it that serious?'
yes it is. yes it is. yes it is.
and if you're reading this, you know it as well as me.
i spent the entire day yesterday in my head, just disassociating and replaying everything one direction in my mind like one of those youtube compilations. i couldn't even cry as much as I wanted to. i was so so numb, it was this weird kind of emptiness that made me feel so drained. for almost thirty minutes after i'd seen the news, I was shaking. my entire being was shaking so badly because it was so shocking. i knew that one day we would have to say bye to the boys but never in my entire life had I thought that day would come so soon. I didn't have anyone to talk to about this because none of my friends are one direction fans nor do they want to hear me yap about them.
one direction was always more than just a band for me - I don't have to tell you guys that twice.
i was first introduced to them by one of my closest family friends. back then I was in primary school and she was a teenager. today, she's a working adult and I'm in university. it reminded me of just how much we've grown up alongside them and their music.
'i'm so shocked. i'm trying to process everything' is what she texted me yesterday.
'he's gone' is what a girl I met at a science class four years back tested me.
please check on your friends who you think is affected by this, because it's not easy to be okay with the passing of your childhood. reach out and ask if everyone is okay.
most of the relationships in my life were made because of one direction. I've found a lot of friends because of them and I've also lost a lot of friends because of them. and yesterday I thought about each and every one of them, just hoping they took the news well.
mourning liam isn't just mourning his life and his legacy as an artist - I'm mourning the teenager that's inside of me who was trying so hard to remember their names, the teenager who was learning every single song lyrics, the teenager who watched 'one direction being crackheads' almost every night, the teenager who went to lengths to get the one direction movie copied to a DVD, the teenager who started writing because of the love she had for them, and the teenager who was dedicated to work hard so she could see ot5 live one day.
and just thinking about the fact that we've now lost one-fifth of the boys who gave life to our childhood, our teenage years is heart-shattering.
i know that a lot of you guys are feeling confused about what to do and how you should mourn. i've seen a lot of people hesitating and feeling like he shouldn't be grieved. this was a result of what went down the past two weeks and I get it, I understand the hesitancy and I understand why. but, a man is dead and I believe he should be remembered for the good things he's done and mourned because, at some point in our lives, he was a part of something that meant everything to us.
I also want to mention that nobody should invalidate your feelings and nobody should tell you how to feel at all. you're allowed to mourn him while holding him accountable for the things he did. I'm not going to sugarcoat the fact that he wasn't a good person during the latter part of his life, but it doesn't mean that he deserved to pass away without getting the help and closure he desperately needed. he had his own traumas yet it didn't give him the freedom to continue that cycle of abuse. however, this should not be the topic that should be talked about right now. a mother lost his son, a father lost his son, two sisters lost their brother, four boys lost their brother, a woman lost their partner, another woman lost the father of her child, a seven-year-old boy lost his father. this is not the time for some people to pick up their gut and talk shit about his life. this is not the time nor the place. keep that in mind.
and on an important note, nobody should point fingers at anyone who should be at fault for his death. if it's published as an accident, I'm not believing it as anything else other than an accident. don't be that person who put the blame on maya. she was brave for coming forward with it, as well as the other victims. all she did was give us a view of what went behind the curtains and the cameras, the timing was unfortunate. we simply have no right to point fingers and call out anyone as we know nothing about what truly happened. this isn't what anyone would have wanted, don't do that. what we should do is mourn his passing, stay strong and wish his family and loved ones well. because if we, as fans, are going through this much pain, I can't imagine the pain they're going through at all.
when I saw louis, zayn and harry's post today morning I sobbed for the first time. it suddenly felt too real, I couldn't believe that liam was truly gone. every second up to that moment I read louis' caption, I was trying to convince myself that it was not real. but seeing them - seeing all three of them - remember liam in such a lovely way was like a knife to my heart. we can clearly see that they all love him very much and want him to be remembered as the kind soul he was. so let's remember him as such, the sweet boy who gave most of us a purpose at some point in our lives.
I'm typing this without any direction whatsoever but I hope you guys understand everything I'm saying. never in my entire life did I think I would be writing such a thing.
one direction was what led me to wattpad, I'm not sure if you know this. i found a book about louis and harry which landed me on a strange little orange website. and then, you guys know the rest.
I'm so incredibly thankful for everything one direction has done for me. liam was a part of something I loved more than myself and I'll forever love him for that. I'm so sad that he wasn't able to get the help he needed and redeem himself but I hope he's at peace now. he was so talented and kind but the industry was so cruel to him, the world was cruel to him and I hope, in another life, he'll be able to live up to his happiest moments and cherish them for eternity. i have so much more stuff to say but I'm going to stop here for now because I'm feeling so much in the moment and it's awful.
my heart goes out to liam's family, his friends, bear, everyone he's ever worked with and everyone's who has crossed paths with him. my heart goes out to all of you, all of us who has stood by him for so long. it's valid if you feel confused right now but remember, keep a dead man's name out of your mouth if you don't have good to say about him.
if you see strangers on the internet cursing him out, invalidating what you're feeling - stay out of it. you don't have to waste your energy to prove them wrong, it's the feeling in your heart that matters. if you feel like you need someone to talk to, reach out. just remember that you're not alone and your feelings are valid.
let's all get together and grieve the boy that once gave life to all of us, he should be remembered for everything good he's done.
liam james payne, rest in peace 🤍
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hey I know you're a pro link shipper-
don't worry! I'm not here to judge u or be mean or anything-
im just curious about it is all?
I get link shipping in general cuz they're different people, but for four swords I'm just a bit more confused because they used to be one person? like they look really similar ig
is it a "well this is literally fiction and these are my comfort characters so don't like don't read" thing or is there like a reason why not?
like is it a "oh I ship them in an au where they aren't related so they literally aren't related" kinda thing?
just genuinely curious-
any answer is fine I just wanted to know cuz I see them more as siblings lol, also I am on the aro spectrum so I really just don't have a good understanding in general about this sorta stuff
It's a "don't like don't read" thing but there's also AUs I have where they are fully different people. Like, in my stardew/Four Hoes au it's up to interpretation. I didn't think much about it because I didn't consider them to be the same guy but it's like, up to the viewer if there's a magical hoe that link picked up and it split him into multiple people, or if they're all just different guys with the same legal name lol.
Overall I just like their dynamics, I enjoy them both as a "literally the same person" ship and as "they're just random guys" ship- however, I think the "literally the same person" concept can be more interesting to dig into in terms of identity and what it means to be ones self, so in terms of really thinking about them. You don't even need to ship them to like that concept, I think shipping them on top of it just adds flavour to the idea. Some good ol' existential crisis.... together !
I can 100% see the sibling reading and I don't mind it at all ! I think having multiple readings to a source of media is fine, GOOD even, and I get if that makes you uncomfortable with the FS links being shipped together. It's why I tag explicit ship art, so it can be filtered out.
I'm also aromantic, however that just means that when I ship stuff in fiction, it's rarely ever because I want something like that IRL. it's just a fun way of playing with dolls to me :]
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Roleplay Search
• My name is Mary. 30+
• My OTP and wanted for ship (to no one’s surprise) is: my anya x your bill; I’m very open to others. This pinterest board has some of my other favorite face claims. • Looking for partners 25+ ys old preferably. Mature content. Smut involved. • My username is bonafidecatlady on discord. Add me away and say hi. Just let me know where you found me and your blog/personal server. • I’m Brazilian, probably won’t have perfect English grammar or punctuation.
•Double ships {mumus} (ill play a male and a female), unless ofc you’re a male only player. • I don’t do long paragraphs. I usually do two tops so it gets the topic flowing and fast to reply. I’m a Vet irl so my time is kind of limited. • My favorite things to write: crime (bike gang, con artists, stuff like that), dystopian situations, fantasy (royalty based/witches), horror (vampires and werewolves) and lore based on tv/movies (pls don’t confuse this as me wanting to reenact them). • I enjoy adding random drama/surprises however big or small on both mine and my partner’s characters (w/ consent) • I enjoy being friends with the people I rp with, knowing just a tiny bit makes me more at ease to write as I like. • I love getting and giving excited messages, pinterests, playlists, quotes, etc and I love doing it too • I don’t mind fading to black but I like writing smut. • I like multiple plots in the same world/reality where the stories can interconnect. I also like creating “disposable/NPC” characters that make appearances just to enrich the plot.
#rp search#rp partner search#rp partner wanted#discord 1x1#discord rp#discord roleplay#1x1 rp#1x1 rp search#smut rp
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okay one more hater post before i put my phone down. i’ve stumbled across multiple people on various platforms making comments to the general affect of “im trying to figure out exactly what amir’s ethnicity and its sooo hard >_<“ with one person even mentioning trying to find background information about his VA to determine this (WEIRD?) and it’s like. well for one amir is a very common name of arabic origin and it takes like 5 seconds on the search engine of your choice to figure that out if you don’t already know. not sure how that’s ‘vague’ or ‘confusing’. unless you are trying to mathematically pinpoint exactly where on a map he’s from (which, considering that it’s HIGHLY unlikely for earth in wf99 to be a 1:1 of what we have irl especially as far as borders and countries go) not sure why you’d need to get more in depth than that. and two, idk it just rubs me the wrong way and i’m struggling to put it to words but it feels like it’s not actually coming from any basis in his character or desire to see oneself represented but just an attempt to just like. taxonomically categorize every single one of the new characters as far down as one can get. especially considering that we have next to no information about anyone yet it’s just weird. why single him out as categorically Different and expend all this energy on figuring out “what he is” (<- verbatim from one of the posts i saw to the best of my memory, that in and of itself is so much to unpack but im not trying to write a novel here) and NOT do so for anyone else. idk. am i making sense? it’s just an odd thing to say/do. especially when it’s clear that it’s not a case of “i want him to have the same background as me” . idk this whole post could be a load of nothing but i keep stumbling across it and it keeps weirding me out and i really struggle to find the words as to why it rubs me the wrong way as much as it does. it feels like it hinges on a lot of assumptions and implications about how race/ethnicity/culture Work as if this shit is like pokemon types or something.
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Hiii, I'd like some help / advice please! >.<''
So I am a singlet but used to say I was an endogenic system (I am strictly anti-endo now and no long say that I'm a system). I don't think DID or OSDD really describe my experience and would like to know what you think about it (like providing resources about different disorders that may have overlapping symptoms with DID / OSDD). I have trauma and because of it, I dissociate a lot and have sort of multiple 'personalities' / a messed up sense of identity that feels like split??
Anyways please help me out :( I cant go to professionals currently due to IRL issues rn but want to get an idea of what is up with me before I get the chance to
Thank you in advance for any help / advice you can give! <33
Hi anon! I can certainly try to point you in the right direction, and please feel free to talk more or vent if you need! This stuff is very confusing and hard to figure out, and it's ok to not be sure :)
The first thing I'll say is that not all alters are super distinct. I think online you can get the idea that all systems are just a bunch of different, fully separate people who have strict lines between them, but that's not always the case. In fact, for OSDD-1, one diagnostic option is for those who have amnesia between parts but the identity of parts isn't very different. Many systems have facets (like different versions of the same alter) or fragments (one-sided alters with limited function/personality).
So even people with DID/OSDD-1/P-DID/UDD can have what feels more like multiple versions of themselves rather than different alters. Whether this is in conjunction with fully separate alters or not can depend. Also, many systems may choose to identify different ways! For example, someone with DID who has alters with different personalities, appearances, etc. may want to be seen as one person with parts, while someone with dissociated parts who only vary slightly may feel it makes more sense for them to have different names.
The feeling of not being quite one, solid person isn't limited to DID-spec disorders! Identity confusion is a symptom that can happen in a lot of disorders for different reasons and to varying degrees. The one that comes to mind first is BPD. I'm not saying you have it, but it could be worth looking into the way identity alteration happens in BPD, which can lead someone to feel like they have more than one 'self' while not being a system. https://www.verywellmind.com/borderline-personality-disorder-identity-issues-425488
The theory of structural dissociation might help you with understanding this and the different levels of identity dissociation. Personally, the book "The Haunted Self" by Onno van der Hart helped me understand the TOSD a lot. I believe you can find a free pdf online, but there's also a lot of other information about the TOSD!
Ultimately, this stuff is really, really confusing for anyone to figure out, and I fully get not being able to get help for it irl right now. I would look into the differences between selfstates in BPD versus less differentiated alters in OSDD-1 and see if that helps you figure it out. I hope this helps, anon! Best of luck! :) <3
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Looking for RP Partners
So I just remade my blog into this. I used to be bonafidecatlady on all socials but it seems that it's starting to lose it's vibes so...
Please also refer to the 4 dots on my sidebar for my tags and pages.
• My name is Mary. 33 years old. Loved, lost and experienced shit.
• My OTP and wanted for ship (to no one’s surprise) is: my anya x your bill; I’m very open to others. This pinterest board has some of my other favorite face claims.
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Hey, anon who was asking about sending feedback here. Doing it not anon this time just to make any replies needed easier. Apologies in advance for the wall of text, I've tried to condense it, but I'm not the best at being concise. Also sorry if any of this has been brought up before.
First a couple technical issues I encountered. In chapter 7 I got the part about my mom taking care of me while sick, even though my parents were killed last chapter, then inversely when I went through again and saved them the dialogue option "“All my goodness died when he took my parents.” was available to choose.
Anyway onto the juicy stuff. So for the most part, I really liked the game so far, I thought it is a really good continuation of the story, and I'm definitely excited for more. But I obviously do have some notes, so here they are.
1) Being able to detect heartbeats isn't actually an accurate way of detecting bluffs (or lies in general). Heartrate raises if a person is excited or scared, and a good liar would be calm while lying. Plus with poker specifically, knowing your opponent is bluffing is only part of the equation, you still have to have a good hand, or be able to bluff yourself.
2) I feel like there should be the option to be opposed to control magic due to trauma rather than just general moral opposition, depending on the choices made. Like, at the very least, any MC unfortunate enough to have Julian Anderson as their birth father, probably has more reason to be averse to control magic than just "mind control bad cause it takes away free will".
On the same note, there are multiple instances where without player input, your character either uses control magic, considers using it, or sits there while someone else casually uses it. Which like, even trauma aside, if I’ve been picking all the “I think control magic is morally evil” options it seems weird my character would just casually use it to make someone forget a conversation, or be fine with their friends using it to get past airport security.
It also kinda sucks, for the above reasons, that in regards to the screening, your only options are let someone use control magic on you (whether or not you resist) or compel them first. Like I said, I feel like my MC would be very traumatized by the whole concept of control magic, and would very much not be on board with either of these options.
3) The jar of holy oil felt a bit like it came out of nowhere. Like I previously got the impression that holy oil was pretty hard to get your hands on, even for someone with the MCs connections, but then you just like have a jar of it in your bag I guess, no real explanation as to how it got there. Also IDK if this was intentional misdirection or not, so sorry in advance if it is, but because it’s first mentioned as an “unbreakable jam jar” directly after talking about the homemade snow globes (which are often made from jars), I thought the jam jar was the snow globe, up until you actually use it.
4)This one’s kind of a legacy issue from the previous games, so IDK how fixable it is at this point, but basically the game feels like it's in an odd situation when it comes to the MC, that I can best describe as being nonbinary inclusive, but trans exclusive. The game lets you choose the name/pronouns you want, but then the flashbacks just assume your character was still using the same ones back when they were a toddler (obviously there are people irl who do come out at a pretty young age, but, at least in my experience, that's the exception rather than the rule). Like obviously something to account for that could be added, but IDK if you can like update already published games, and if not adding it to the third game would probably introduce some weirdness, so IDK.
5) I’m confused as to what a “stereotypical drakaina” would be cause like a drakaina isn’t really like a thing in pop culture the same way something like angels and demons are, and the word itself is literally just the feminine form of the Ancient Greek word for dragon or serpent. Would it just be dressing up as a dragon? I realize this one's pretty nitpicky, I’m just confused.
6) In the dream sequence in chapter 8, the game seems to just like assume the MC and RO are able to have a biological kid together. I know that both it’s a dream sequence and also a setting with magic, so it’s not really a plot hole or anything per say, but I think taking that into mind, and maybe adding some text for situations where that might be in question, to explain that would be a good idea.
7) "…for the fact that the worst crime they’ve ever committed is jaywalking." I’m fairly certain forging a birth certificate is also a crime. /s
Thank you for the feedback! I've made some edits to earlier chapters based on it for next update
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So.. this is just a "Heads-up" for any new follower here, okay?
First of all, Hello! Im Gufaspins, but my friends call me Gufa / Alex (Alex is a name I chose for myself when I was younger, yet is not my real name. I dont think you could pronounce my real name so Alex is good) I'm a 23 years old chilean hobbyist artist ^^ My birthday is the 25th of August
All my social media can be found here
Anyways, uh.. Im genderfluid and I go by any pronouns tbh, Im GynoAce and.. well.. I love cats (?)
Im autistic, and have CPTSD just so you know .w.
I wont tolerate any kind of hate or stuff, okay? Please, I have enough with life, dont make my safezone another hell.
I am not in multiple fandoms as a whole, I just draw what I want to in the moment, BUT I am a huge fan of Undertale and I love RTgame videos (funnily enough. I love his jokes, I love how he absolutely hates Sans xD I understand that not everyone likes it, and I know most of that hate comes from harrassment, so its totally understandable uwu I still like the game. And I think RT is an amazing content creator. Love the guy. Love Dad) so most of my content will be revolving around those themes. ^^
Also all my art is on the hashtag "gufa art"
Rambles are under the hashtag "gufa rambles"
I wasnt gonna like, introduce myself in this post, I was actually going to warn you all .w.
So.. tumblr was my safe zone when I was younger, I used to vent so so so much here, but people who followed me would get... annoyed.. yk? So! So that doesnt happen, I made a hashtag, which is "please shut up gufa"
Any post with that hashtag will have a vent so.. if you could please like, block that hashtag, I would appreciate it ^^ Im going to modify some posts as I accidentaly put it on art so.. yeah ^^
Also! Vent posts will have a random irl photo I took, just so you dont get confused as well ^^
Fun fact, the Cat of the picture is named "MichiFuss"! He is a street cat I usually see at work ^^ I bring him food and water everyday! ♡ isnt he lovely? He was so skinny ;;;
Update 10 of March 2024
I have finally found a home, and Im getting better :3 I dont have a job anymore, but I am happier and healthier, with a baby cat and my soulmate <3
(I wont post a picture of them, cause' I need his permission first)
Also I have commissions open! In case you're interested!
Thanks for supporting me through all of this <3
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I think I may be a system and it’s making me feel scared bc I feel like I’m not real and my labels (like being lgbt) aren’t real enough as other people and I do not want to talk about myself like “my body is an 18 year old system” like talk about my body instead of me .. not be able to say online and irl “hi I’m (name) I’m (lgbt labels) and ex etc etc” but have to go “my body is 18 I’m a system here are their Intros and THEIR different labels” I know I am one person split into parts I am one whole person it just doesn’t feel like it bc that’s how the disorder is. I don’t have to use we/system/us I don’t have to call myself multiple or plural. I’m not separate people. I have a host maybe two of them. others rarely or don’t front. just pass influence and co con or whatever. I don’t ever want to be treated like multiple people because I’m not. I like my “hi im (name) I’m (lgbt labels) here are my interests and I happen to have this disorder so I feel like different people but all are me”
I want to say I’m (lgbt label) and that’s true for all of me. I have no reason to beleove otherwise. All parts of me are the real me and are one person it just doesn’t feel that way. how do I stop feeling scared and confused and bad about it all?? Is it possible to just do like I said and indeed be one person. do I have to do functional multiplicity or whatever do I have to indulge in labeling all of these parts I’m just a person who happens to have a disorder ? these are not people inside me it’s a symptom of a disorder . these are symptoms.
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Heres my thoughts: to address as a system or as a whole person is everyone's own preference. If you feel uncomfy saying being plural then there's no reason you can't address regularly like a normal person (just name, pronoun, and biological age). We also have parts who chose one from either two (introduce as plural or just the regular way) and i respected the choice,, especially when you prefer to address with "I happen to have this disorder so I feel like different people but all are me” and continuing along those lines.
Considering about symptoms.. i doubt the dissociated parts of ourselves is. Everyone has a multifaceted personality, singlets, who also have other sides of themselves are integrated unlike the situation in CDD. The real symptoms for having it are actually amnesia, usual basis of dissociation, identity confusion and alteration, as well as the disconnection with said facets, this also includes you also being a part/facet. Roles and applications (or pk bot) are just to better understand these different parts of yourself and thats ok for not wanting to use any, like how we don't use simplyplural.
Wether you need to achieve a fusion, or just go for functional multiplicity,, that needs to be discussed properly with the rest of your parts as i couldn't tell you whats the right thing to do (there is no right, just different preferences)
Before i end it right here, it's normal to not like being plural, and i know being plural can sometimes feel like life is being taken away from yourself as it is not just you that seems to be living here, there will also be lots of confusion, denial, and etc along the way. I wanted to say coming to terms and with acceptance too of what happened will help you a lot, this disorder is mainly developed to protect a child who went through debilitating trauma because i doubt it was bare-able to remember those bad emotions plus memories and have to function normally like nothing happened. I recommend you coming back to me if needed one day, hope this clears up anything you had asked.
- j
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Hi this is your invitation to go on a rant about religion because I also like religion and like hearing what people have to say about it
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OH MY GOD. /Pos
Since there wasn't any specification as to what religious topics, I'm just gonna talk about things I've researched and my own beliefs.
So I was raised by a Christian (Pentecostal specific) mother and a Jewish (bloodline and religion) father, mainly being brought up within the Pentecostal church and a few of those beliefs, while celebrating Jewish holidays. In all honesty, I have no idea what religion I really am, I just have a string of beliefs that don't tie to anything specific I know of, and if anyone IRL asks me about it I just say I'm Jewish because of my dad + it causes less confusion and doesn't require me explaining things.
Now, if you don't know what Pentecostal is, it is a branch of Christianity that has a firm belief that "if you don't speak in tongues, or have not received any holy gift, you are not saved by Christ."
"tongues" as they call it, is a holy language that only divine beings, and those with the gift of "translation" understand. Translation is self explanatory, in the sense that it can translate tongues into a human language.
As someone who also grew up with a mother who claimed to be "Messianic Jewish" as a Pentecostal woman, I can tell you,
MESSIANIC JUDAISM ISN'T JUDAISM.
Messianic Judaism is a christianized form of Judaism that stems from antisemitism. It's basically "Jews for Jesus" in the sense that they believe Jesus was God incarnate/Gods son, when the main belief in Judaism is that Jesus was kinda just a cool ass dude. It stems from the conversion of Jewish people into Christian Evangelicalism. This is because Jewish converts were forced by the church to basically abandon their Jewish-ness and assume the ways and beliefs of gentiles (non-jewish people) in order to receive baptism. The reason it isn't Judaism is because, again, Messianic Judaism contradicts a core Jewish belief that majorly separates it from Christianity. It started because these people wanted to "stay Jewish while believing in Jesus." And nowadays is basically just claimed by Christians who want to claim a Jewish heritage.
(btw I am open to correction and the opinions of others if I am wrong on this, this is based on my own research and hands on experience.)
Now onto my beliefs/things that interest me:
I am in no way Christian, as I do not believe in a singular God, however I do find the rosary (a Catholic practice) to be interesting, as well as prayer beads generally. I also find folk religion interesting, specifically folk Catholicism.
I believe in reincarnation, egregores, the existence of most if not all Gods, witchcraft, spirits, and multiple afterlives (and yes, I do also believe in the mundane/science) (just to name a few that I can think of at the moment. I'll edit later if I think of more)
"but how do you believe in reincarnation AND multiple afterlives?"
That's because I believe a soul has its limits. A soul can be reincarnated as many times as it needs to/wants to, before it can settle into an afterlife best suited for its pattern of living throughout its various lives. I believe one life is not enough for an eternal punishment or eternal paradise. It's like an experiment, there needs to be several tests done before a conclusion can be made about it, and where to move forward from it.
Thank you Anon/🧃 for requesting a special interest rant :3 <3 the autism goes CRAZY
-💌 (Callum/Cecil he/they/it)
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(temporary) Introduction!! to PICKLE'S WORLD
Hello!!! I'm Pickle! (Or rather, The Pickle God)
And I really want to develop my own world and make a TTRPG out of it! With an entire system and all!
Hence I'm the literal god of pickles, I won't waste time with labels and stuff like that, I am a pickle. And I ramble a lot, sadly
Ngl I'm really new to tumblr, so like hang in there with me please! I'm learning as I go, like I discovered formatting text just a few days ago.
What Pickle actually wants
I have a world with characters, worldbuilding, all the juicy stuff including unecessary details. I have an entire web of morons, historical events and everything, and am working on many stories that happen all throughout it (Writing one as a personal thing, and I was publishing a webcomic over another one, tho thanks to irl stuff it's on hiatus rn)
I'm actually horrible with names, and even tho I've worked on the world for 6-7 years by now, I still don't have a name for it (please help). As most creators, I wanted to share it with the world, to get feedback and improve on it! Offer my silly little concept and pickles for everyone to see. But besides that I have one more dream.
My world is in one big busy city. Filled to the brim with wonky characters, all fighting for being more and more important than the other. (and really, individuality is rewarded whilst people who are passive and grey usually end up at the edge of the society) Everything from biker grandmas living out their wildest final years, aspiring children supervillains to singing popstar priests, worshipping an entity which lives in the stars. This is reaching lore territory, but in this world, everyone has to strive to be the best and most exciting version of themselves, otherwise their past might catch up to them.
I wanted my world to be a place for other *real* people to thrive in. To create a character (or multiple!), who can go do what they truly want (and suffer in the process) I think it's just so incredibly cool when other people make characters for your own world, where you can think about them interacting with everyone, participating in the events, and having an entirely new story to share!
I essentially wish my world could once be a place for others to create ocs for and roleplay in. (now there is more to it, obviously, but like how cool is that! someone 'moving into' your world and story!)
Why TTRPG then?
Now, I work on the world and stories all the time, but I've never had them in any publicly shareable versions. Additionally, I didn't know if people online would actually ever care. But that's the sweet benefit of tumblr blogs, from what I noticed. It can be a little unnoticed blog and it's just vibing and doing its own thing!
I have friends who are reaaaaaalllly into DnD and few other games like that. I've played with them, and know even some DMs!
Now, isn't dnd great? You make your own character, explore a new cool world with possible friends, do some cool (or mostly unhinged) stuff and literally immerse yourself int everything! Really, a roleplaying game like that seems a great fit for anyone who wants people to explore their worldbuilding and writing!
But personally, conventional dnd isn't for me, and the systems are quite complicated. And as fun and intricate as they are, I also know many begginers, who may get scared away or confused. I found Call of Cthulhu much more enjoyable! Including the system in it, it's been fun, especially the sanity mechanic, and also how it offered different type of challenge and roleplaying purpuose from dnd!
Additionally, I could never imagine adapting all the mechanics into my world, seeing as my own lore offers different playstyles and opportunities. (Like I can't even use the races and classes)
So, I've decided, with a help of few friends, to try and create a new-ish system, specifically built with my world in mind!
The goal is to be simple and begginer-friendly, to shorten the learning curve, but also give more space to people who want to roleplay and develop their characters.
One of the main 'concepts is' "If shit goes down, do whatever you can."
Conflicts can be resolved in any way, from fighting, reasoning to seduction, bribery, or even just a well timed kick to the nuts, poke someone's eye out with a paper. And I wanted a system simple enough to spare us most of the math and formalities, and one which would work the 'same' way regardless of the player's actions,
I want to focus on characters, city/environment exploration and putting players as protags into stories, which are more than "slay the dragon, save the village, rock on brother"...mostly cause my world would crumble under any actual adventurers.
These are just wonky people with minimum wage jobs, physical trauma and debt, living life in a world where everyone is forced to be the protag sometimes.
The entire system is in EARLY BABY STAGES! but I want to share it, and both report on how the testing in practice goes, but also possibly get some input and advice from you, *the internet people*, to make it the best it can be? This is a huge learning experience for me, and honestly, I'd just love to take you on the adventure with me.
So, are you interested in lots of worldbuilding and lore-heavy characters? Or would you like to help with creating a TTRPG?
If so, please join me on my adventure!
Aid The Pickle God!
oh and dw, i don't think i have the capability/skills nor desire to make this system/game thing monetizable. I do not ask for any money, but please, don't claim any of my characters or stories as your own. They're very personal and important to me. I want this system to encourage more people to try roleplaying like this, and promote character creation (alongside developing my own ocs), so especially the system, feel free to use it, and let me know how it went! would love suggestions and help with it, to make it the best it can be! And I want to offer my world too, but for now, I think it's still a bit too early for that. Please get inspired and make your own worlds and stories fun and wonky! But again, don't claim my work please :)
And now, Pickle out!
Worship and devour me, mortals!
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Literary Reference and Analysis 324
Today’s Lecture: The Fault in Unsourced References
So, apparently some Pro-Life individuals are looking to make a novel series set in a dystopian totalitarian dictatorship with a 1700 youth character death count as their banner book.
If you’re a sensible blogger who realizes the hypocrisy of such a claim; then just go ahead and like my post for a passing grade in Literary Reference and Analysis 101 and consider yourself exempt from my incoming rant. Anyone who is still left; take out your notepad. You’re now on a crash course in Death of the Author.
Quick Refresher: Citation is important students. Posting a claim in such a manner as Imissedreadingclass did leaves one sounding as Tronald Dump’s Twitter account. (Yes, I have misspelled names. No, I’m not correcting them.)
It should be noted that Hunger Games was written more-so with themes of societal class oppression than it is in anything regarding a fetus. I confidently say so because when I google search “is hunger games pro life,” the first result was an essay review by the Culture of Life Studies Program (a pro-life organization, mind you) stating that “the trilogy evolves into a story that recognizes the need to be free from oppression rather than the need to stop the killing of the innocent.”
The next two google result for that search were articles written by individuals who seemed to have more accreditation that they were Catholic than they were Literary Connoisseurs.
However, if imissedreadingclass wants to take the viewpoint, then let me offer a counter analysis.
Part One: The Major Incident
Alright class, pull out your copy Catching Fire and turn to Chapter 18. Movie viewers: we’re in the interviews, look for Katniss spinning in a fiery dress and play it from there. We see our recent District 12 victors going through the 75th hunger games ordeal. As Katniss and Peeta prepare to try to save the other, the interviews roll around. Peeta now fully plans to milk the star crossed lover strategy. To Katniss’s surprise, he tells Caesar Flickerman that the two of them are already married. Peeta mentions that it’s not official, but there’s a marriage ritual in District 12 that they did, and in their minds they’re as married as they could ever be. Caesar says it’s better that they had some time together before the Quell, but Peeta says if they’d known about the Quell they wouldn’t have done it, because now Katniss is pregnant. The audience bursts into an uproar as people cry and shout, and before they can be calmed, the tributes spontaneously begin reaching for each other.
Attempting to try to reason that the citizens of the capital have adapted a mentality against “the sins of the father” would be futile as multiple generations of children as young as twelve years of age have already been murder in the Hunger Games. Upon hearing that Katniss bares a child, citizens of the capital begin protesting Hunger Games; the same games that have been conducted for the previous seventy-four years that resulted with a median death count of 23 children killed per game. Over one thousand seven hundred children are killed by the hunger games, while generations worth of children grow up in terrible conditions and under fear of the capital. Even with all of this, the citizens only grow a moral backbone when it’s mentioned that a single fetus is now involved in the games. Sorry, did I say mentioned? I meant falsified.
Pro-Choice readers of the series could note the hypocrisy of the capital citizens and tie it to certain actions of Pro-Life individuals IRL. The United States of America made the decision to leave reproductive rights to the decision of the states, with many states moving to ban abortions. Meanwhile, the nation’s pandemic of school shootings continues due to gun right activists unwilling to let gun control policies infringe upon the second amendment.
The notion of this falsified fetus either ignores or damages the argument of personhood. While capital citizens protest against the Hunger Games due to their belief that this fetus should be seen as an individual as rights, the lead characters, readers and viewers know that the argument of personhood is invalid in this instance.
Since we can’t analyze the personhood within a nonexistent character, let us now turn our eyes to our leading lady.
Part Two: Katniss Everdeen and Jennifer Lawrence
Katniss Everdeen might be the most interesting main character with the least amount of agency in a story. Her lack of agency stems more so from the situations that she finds herself in. She’s presented with few choices and many ultimatums.
Now, if the Hunger Games was supposed to be a Pro Life message, then it would make sense for the protagonist to idolize the movement. Yet on a glance, the lead character doesn’t seem to demonstrate such in her character. Katniss Everdeen never wanted to have children. At the start of the series her reasoning was that she fear that they could be reap into the Hunger Games. By the end of her ordeal, her mentality suffered due to the emotional strain of losing her sister that she goes to live in solitude with Peeta. She still never wanted to have children, yet only does so to make Peeta happy. Between her damaged mentality and Peeta’s pestering, it would be hard to say if she had much of a choice in that.
One of the fault of this character is how in the one instance where she could have solved a problem in a peaceful manner, she chose to perform violence with resulted in the death of a character. We’ll get to that one in part four.
Actress Counterpart Jennifer Lawrence self reports that she advocates for the pro choice movement. Unlike irishironclad, I have the link to support this claim.
Part Three: Amandla Stenberg
Amandla Stenberg played the depiction of District 11’s Rue. Her performance of the young girl brought up a controversy of incalculable idiocy when some audience members were baffled that a dark skin girl was portraying a dark skin girl. IQ levels dropped below zero when implications among these quite bias critics expressed that casting the young Amandla Stenberg ruined their perception of Rue’s innocence and made the character’s death less sad for them.
The level of unhealthy bias presented to the young actress should never occur to any teenager in my belief. Nevertheless, Amandla Stenberg took it in stride and used this as a platform to advocate for marginalized communities, she herself sitting at the intersection of blackness and queerness. Her advocation is matched in her bravery in coming out as non-binary and gay.
I can’t help but wonder how many of Stenberg’s haters wear their KKK robes when they shout at women and other child-bearing individuals entering or leaving plan parenthood.
Now obviously not all Pro-Life individuals hold such hypocrisy, yet The Hunger Games Series presents its setting as a dystopia that Pro-Choice individuals fear: a society that is Pro-Control.
Part Four: Antagonist, Villainy, and the Greater of Two Evils, Oh My!
If the antagonists of the series had Pro Choice or Pro Abortion themes displayed in their character, then ifriskminor’snads would have a bar stool to lean on. The fact remains though that the longest standing antagonist can’t be labeled as either term. The ruling government of Panam is a totalitarian dictator by the name of President Snow. In my eyes, he’s practically a more efficient Emperor Palpatine seeing that the span of the Hunger Games outlasted the Star Wars Empire of the original trilogy. I would also say that he could identify as anti choice (considering that he is a dictator) and anti abortion (considering that he has a daughter of his own).
On the flip side of the Coin, District 13 leader President Coin is introduced as Snow political opposition. Yet readers who’ve finished the series are left with the impression that more similarities are found between our presidents than differences. Neither of them are above killing innocent people, as Snow reveals that Coin was responsible for the death of Primrose.
All of this presents Katniss with a situation of the lesser of two evils. Neither Snow or Coin have the moral ethics to take charge of the nation. Yet I can’t help but question Katniss decision. My belief is that a Pro-Life solution would be to introduce a third candidate rather than to assassinate Coin.
Conclusion
In presenting his belief that the Hunger Games series supports the Pro Life movement through its narrative, @irishironclad commits a horrific case of death of the author without justification. In doing so, he leaves an vast opening for counter arguments to cite contradictory instances. All of this leaves the movement that was reference with less credibility than before. With all this in mind, plus the grammatical issues within the post, it is my academic duty to fail this post with a major project grade of 2%.
I can personally understand using the Hunger Games as a banner book rather than the Judeo-Christian Bible, as said Bible puts the death toll of Panam to shame with the flooding in Noah’s time, the tenth plague of Egypt in the time of Moses, and the annihilation oh the city Lot fled from. However the movement from one book to the next didn’t change the lack of source material with the only reference contradicting the movement itself (Exodus 21:22-25).
To anyone attending today’s lecture, the takeaway lesson is to back up any opinion that you plan to make public with more than mysterious here-say, otherwise a stronger counter opinion could sway the masses to see you lacking credit.
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