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You've never seen snow before?? Coming from a 907 area code, i think you nailed cold down pact. I don't think i could describe like a beach or something. Do you have resources that help you describe weather you are not familiar with?
Never seen snow! Okay no well I've seen it from a distance in a plane on a mountain, and I saw it from a distance once in the UK on a mountain, lol.
But up until those points, I hadn't even seen it on mountains up until my mid-30s.
As for resources, they're honestly kind of like "the same" as they are for everyone else - the internet, TV, books, etc. I say "the same" because not everyone knows how to research? But I enjoy researching stuff, and I like recreating the sense of things.
But I always did find it amusing that you know the first two really long fanfics I wrote on this site heavily feature snow, snowing, ice, blizzards, ice powers, cold temperatures and so on and meanwhile the place I live hasn't seen snow since like the dinosaurs. :D
#asks and answers#SALverse#shadows and light#pia on worldbuilding#it's like the same free stuff everyone else has access to#but maybe not everyone knows how to access#also - also - it is a fact of life that we often put more effort into describing things we've never experienced before#over those that we have#so sometimes we may describe stuff we're very familiar with#like say tropical weather or the desert heat#in a less visceral way#so i do think it helps to just approach *everything* in some ways#like you're describing it to someone who doesn't know what it is#and if that's your description style#people often don't notice you *also* don't know what it is#dslkfdsajfas
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Some really clever wordplay by Brennan/Indri in today's episode.(Spoiler warning, it's still early in the day)
She lies about hoping there will be more witches of Ame's station and then says something that could mean that even if Ame is the last she was at least deserving of attaining that station. Grandmother Wren chose well, and its unfortunate that it's come to this. Nothing personal!
What she was actually saying, I think, is that Ame deserves to be the last one, the one that gets killed, because Indri wants her dead on a personal level now for daring to bring up her time as an apprentice.
#wbn spoilers#worlds beyond number#the wizard the witch and the wild one#indri's visceral reaction to bringing up her apprenticeship could mean that she hates being reminded of when she was less than she is now#but it could mean that she had a very bad apprenticeship with a cruel teacher and that is part of what made her this way#not sure which yet!
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#i never really thought about a person being a finite thing. you can see the effects of a person after they die. in the unfinished projects.#in the rooms of clutter. in abandoned closets. in pictures and in mermered phrases. and you can see time#chipping away at those things. eroding away the evidance that a person existed. clothes move into other people's closets. projects are boxed#away. and a person becomes confined to photos and memories. and thats existentially terrifying but its not a bad thing. time erodes away all#things. that's how life works. matter and energy transforms.#we arent made to last forever. i dunno. i guess im still just rattled from being home even tho ive been back a week and a half.#and my brain tends to fixate on the wrong things. nearly 27 years of knowing someone eclipsed by a visual sequence lasting less than a day.#bc i just cant get over how scary it would be to die like that. to start losing control of your body. to not be able to feed yourself or get#to the bathroom. to have your mind be overcome by the toxins building up in your mangled and broken body.#and it could have been worse. it could have been a lot worse. but its still not fair. theres no good way to die. i dunno. i guess i just#miss my mom in some abstract way but i find it more viscerally upsetting to think about the people that have to deal with her absence.#it makes me sad that my dad is alone now. i dunno. grief doesnt feel like i thought it would. most of the time i dont even know what im#crying about. its undirected. it doesnt feel like: i miss you. it feels like: youre gone. how can you be gone? why does everything feel the#same? and its not that it doesnt make sense. its that nothings changed. the terror of that.#and im walking around in an acumulation of my dead mother's clothes. and no one knows. theyll never know.#and there's nothing to be done about it. so it goes.#i guess im just sad. and its hard to breathe at the thought of returning to school at the end of August.#unrelated
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**slips and slides into the room with socks on and breaks the wooden table as i fall down on the floor in a haste** so anyways i actually just scared myself because i thought of exactly how deep Malorn's and Malistaire's parallels went. like in post-updated tutorial malistaire was said to have been kind and caring towards his students right. just like malorn right. just like malorn, right? isn't that just like malorn? hey everyone doesn't that sound just like malorn? kind and cares for his students? 'kind' and 'caring' are certainly two adjectives that describe malorn arent they huh? (is slowly sinking in quicksand as i desperately reach out to you as i say this) so if we are to say that malorn and malistaire are two sides of the same coin then what is truly stopping malorn from having one traumatic event from shaping the rest of his life into a descent of madness, grief, and isolation? Guys tell me what the difference is between this reality and an Evil Malorn AU guys? guys hello? hello guys? **(the quicksand has actually transported me to the Backrooms now, no one can hear me call out in distress)**
#not to say that malorn is the exact same as malistaire and would have the ecact same visceral reactions malistaire once did btw#like this isnt me expecting him to become The Joker one day but like can yoy guya think about. can you guys think about-#just how easy it is. for a well adjusted sane person to become the opposite of that. didnt the vampire guy from bdg3 say smth like this#im literally trying to find a serious way to say joker's incredibly memeable “one bad day” speech IEJSHSSJ#what's malorn's switch. what's his very last thread that he's hanging on#what THE FUCK MAKES MALORN SNAP?????? (grabbing at your shirt in a panic)#thinking about malorn of all people suffering malistaire's same fate much less trauma in general hurts my heart dearly. he is fictional#i should not be upset over fictionals. (<- she said insincerely. very much being upset over fictional characters)#malorn has certainly CHANGED from his experiences (in my fantasy la la land) but at most he's resentful and angry. jaded. but not in crisis#evil malorn au.......#wizard101#wiz101#w101#text posts#malorn ashthorn#malistaire drake
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twitter was having a shit fit earlier when the SGF happened and the s2 cast was revealed and like
i understand part of the rage at two crossovers and bison already being back, people wanted the big faves to come back like the sf3 cast in general, cody, menat, etc
but think of the LORE, gang, the POTENTIAL
and also when it comes to growing rosters and what characters get in, you gotta get used to the odd choices and potential disappointment, this is why the smash dlcs still worked even with characters like piranha plant and min-min, so i was kinda surprised by all the anger on twitter, and it was genuinely hurting my own hype because yeah i didn't think bison should've been added this early either, but since he is here now anyways, it's time to deep analyze on what they could do with this, because they could prove JP to be the bigger bad if they play their cards right
anyways guess im lurking on tumblr for a bit, yall are stuck with me now KFHSLFND
#sf6#street fighter 6#not even joking when i say twitter's reaction exhausted me#like look i get the disappointment but like#some people were saying they were gonna walk away from the game if their fave didnt get in like#guys its season 2; we have time#its disappointing to not have them now yeah i get it since i wanted falke#but like it feels like theyre having a visceral reaction and i cant help but be concerned bc of it#like guys sfv had like 6 seasons give em time#i rather have 4 dlcs this season than 6 dlc btw if it means less crunch for the devs#basically i have lots of feelings about peoples reactions and it feels like whiplash bc this community's been pretty calm otherwise#sometimes later is good! sora was last for smash dlc and it worked way better than if he was introduced earlier#many thoughts head full; i think the fighting game connecting universes is cool enough to warrant it#also i saw someone being directly rude to takayama like bro why#its not that big a deal just dont buy the dlc if youre not gonna use the character-#you literally get them in WT for free and i know that bc i only own ed and yet here i am with akumas style on talon
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Y'all ever get like. Gently grounded by who you work with
Context being I've been doing a lot of witching and also fucking around and finding out in research and shit and I wanna continue on the research front but like Asmodeus has been insisting I take a break and due to both understanding and the terms of an arrangement we have in place I'm just gonna sit my ass down for rest but I'm still frustrated about it because I don't like suddenly needing to be idle while I'm on a roll but I also know that if someone else didn't gently but firmly tuck me into bed figuratively speaking I can and will end up way overdoing it
#astor speaks#demonolatry#witchblr#witchcraft#last night particularly was kinda rough but idk how to talk about it#and like ive been thru the process of remembering past iterations but#i know for a fact ive had less visceral moments of clarity like that take way more out of me and had Asmodeus not been next to me#im pretty sure id be down n out for like a fucking week#at LEAST a week
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for better or for worse jeff vandermeer writes the way I wish I could write
#more or less#I don’t want to ‘tell’ a ‘story’ I want to throw 375829572 images at you and then say ‘or something. you understand’#<- not saying this is what he does exactly and also I’m exaggerating slightly I do want to tell a story I just am way more interested in#cultivating a mood/tone/aesthetic than relating events. if that makes sense#I haven’t read southern reach but I’m going to after this#I also haven’t seen annihilation because when the trailers came out I had literally one of the most viscerally horrifying nightmares of my#entire adult life after I saw it#but I think it’s been enough time that I should watch it
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i think one of the things that upsets me the most about velma and shaggy's relationship in sdmi--and boy there is a lot--is that not only is her constantly ''correcting'' him for minor, harmless, and usually completely reasonable things with physical and emotional abuse, well. abusive by itself. but so many of the things he does that she treats him that way over are very autistic things, and what she subjects him to is textbook abuse aimed at autistics in particular. (including the part where she gets more and more pissed whenever attempts at said emotional abuse fly over his head, because he's too bad at picking up cues for them to land fully.)
[cws: anti-autistic ableism, ABA, self-harm, physical and emotional IPV, victim-blaming, and abuse apologism. it's a lot and it's really fucking bad lmao]
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like. there's a lot of examples there; shaggy's behavior coming across as autistic is worth a whole post of its own, and a lot of media depicts abuse targeted at autistic traits because ✨️hooray ableism.✨️but she straight up tries to Fix Him (read: force him to perform a Presentable Personality) by forcing him to wear clothes that are sensory hell, and trying to condition him to self-harm every time he does some small harmless, reflexive thing she thinks is Poor Socialization until he stops. and to catch himself doing it, and punish himself, without being prompted. i cannot fucking overstate how fucked up that is.
they even got down the fun little aspect of ABA where the methods of conditioning-through-pain are presented as toys and kiddish things: she gives him a rubber band to wear on his wrist, and tells him to snap it as hard as he can every time he says 'like.' 🙃🙃🙃🙃
like. this does not begin to scratch the surface of the abuse she puts him through in general. and again, characters being abused for autistic traits with the approval of the narrative is a common thing in media, which sucks. but holy fucking shit! they really took the 'violent ableism that is done to autistics irl' to the next fucking level here!
.......and it's portrayed as kind of cringey, immature teen drama on both sides. the self-harm, his dread over how much he knows it'll hurt, and the extreme pain it causes him to the point of screaming are all supposed to be funny. and her arc is all about learning to accept that she deserves better, because she was repressed and had low self-esteem and therefore putting him through fucking DIY ABA didn't make her happy.
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anyway if you couldn't tell i can't fucking stand sdmi velma and i have a lot of words in me about it. when one of your main heroes would have made a way more compelling villain as they are, on a more mundane level compared to all the wild fantastical shit they go up against, holy shit go back to the drawing board you have fucked up. she could have been genuinely good representation of a marginalized person dealing with the trauma of her experiences in some shitty ways she has to grow past, and an interesting flawed character, without being absolutely despicable--hell, she'd have made a great foil to pericles if they'd handled him decently too. they have a lot of parallels, which only gain more depth when you add their respective parallels with cassidy into the mix. and it really fucking sucks that we got this instead.
#sdmi#scooby doo mystery incorporated#velma dinkley#shaggy rogers#SDMItag#cws in post#sdmi velma lies at the intersection of A Lot of Hard Feelings for me; in ways both inherent and personal#so she is viscerally upsetting to me in a lot of ways mostly re: framing; and that makes it difficult to analyze her in a sympathetic light#even though i recognize she is very much a depiction of a hurting; traumatized person lashing out in nasty and interesting ways#but the older i get and the more perspective i gain; and the more i unpack and understand about my own experiences#the more important it feels to me to talk about this stuff#i still want to try writing fic sometime about newniverse velma and how she ends up being a non-abusive; less shitty person#without just *being* a completely different person who's All Nice Sweet Sunshine with No Hard Feelings About What She's Been Through#and about the confusion and grief newniverse marcie goes through when one day her loving girlfriend is gone#and in her place is someone who is so much like her and has clearly been through a lot; but is Different in ways that hurt more and more#that marcie keeps trying to justify and make excuses for; and sits in the pot and slowly boils#until she finally has to face that this isn't the girl she fell in love with; that that girl will never come back; that this is velma now#i'm totally not working through anything here lmao#and a nasty; pretentious; controlling; insecure young adult who's up their own ass about Being Super Intellectual and Telling It Like Is#abusing a teenager to make them stop saying 'like' because it's Annoying and What Stupid People Say and Not Gramatically Correct(tm)(tm)(tm#definitely does not hit dead on some very specific 'hi that scarred me for life and i don't think it's particularly fucking funny' buttons!#anyway. protect shaggy and marcie and daphne while we're at it#SDMIcrit tag#the crit files
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looking at some takes on characters or relationships or scenes in which things happen between them and just thinking,
How in the hell are people interpreting it this way??? But then i step back and realize that the story or character in question is fundamentally and extraordinarily different from the average person's life experience and I go,
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you guys just... don't have a deep enough understanding of trauma responses...
#mine#vagueblogging again i guess but this applies to many things#its honestly okay that the general public doesn't grasp the deeper layers at play because tbh theyre not often explored in media#to that degree at least#ive known someone with deep. Deep. DEEP traumas#shit that no human should ever go through and sounds almost cartoonishly evil#and the truth is#healing from that is UGLY. the impact it has on how a person interacts with their life is unimaginable#and it often makes NO SENSE AT ALL to someone who hasn't experienced the same shit#it's not as simple as 'i'm sad or scared and i cry easily but if youre nice to me and love me it'll go away'#in my own experience of loving someone like that#you sometimes have to work at helping them rewrite their entire philosophies.#things you wouldnt even think of#sometimes expressing sadness or pain is the hardest part about it because they're so used to turning the other cheek to survive#sometimes theyre so used to being manipulated that they reject any kindness you offer in the most viscerally violent way#and it hurts!#communication is HARD!#receiving love is HARD!#i was listening to Raon Lee's cover of Kokoronashi#and thinking about how raw the emotions are in the lyrics#and how so many average joes out there wouldn't be able to make any sense of it but those who do get it really get it#(essentially like... 'i wish you would just get it overwith and tear me apart#bc it would hurt less than the confusion i feel at how you're kind to me and holding me and promising to never let go...#at least i know how to handle the pain of dying#this is so confusing and frightening what youre doing to me. i hate it i hate it but please... don't leave me alone')#(its such a gorgeous song)#sHIT AND THEN 2 SECONDS LATER I FIND KOHANA LAM'S COVER OF IT AND IT'S SO MUCH MOR E#for the love of god look up that song and turn on lyrics captions
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Is it fucked up of me i actually care way less when queer is used in a reclaimed slur way vs when people claim it is no longer a slur and try applying it to anything and everything
#I am still viscerally uncomfortable when called that but dont care at all for personal reclamation you do you brother#I just think its weird when people are like Its not a slur anymore. huh when did we all decide that. I dont think i was there#Tbh i also think i care way less when its used personally vs corporations and shit using it LOL#When a company calls me a queer it makes my hackles raise might as well have said HELLO FAGGOT COMMUNITY! ✨BUY OUR SHIT
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On the rare occasions when we talk about the spectre of veganism you can probably physically tell the amount of psychic damage that we take from seeing people throw out any part of a carcass.
#we speak#hey man you can use that for stuff. there is a use for that. you can use that for things that aren't just letting it rot. sir.#this is maybe part of why we have so many fur scraps but like. you can use that stuff. please use that stuff. we are begging you.#did you know that sinew is useful and can be used for cordage? it's true! you should use it!#do you think that a given part is Useless? you're probably wrong! give it to us. please. we are begging you. please.#we are a very specific type of person and that very specific type of person is the type of guy where improper corpse handling harms us#personally and physically. every time. at least put it in the freezer or something if youre killing it you better be ready to process it#we have very strong and extraordinarily specific opinions on things that have been known to make us disagree with people#the animal will die at some point regardless of whether or not you were the one to kill it#and because you have a big brain and the luxury of most likely not needing to do this to survive#you can grant that animal a relatively swift and painless death and then bring its body to as much use as possible#USE IT. FOR THINGS. PLEASE. WE ARE DYING.#we understand viscerally why failing to field dress an animal in assassins creed kicks you out of the simulation as Out Of Character#we are the same way and every time a piece of media has the protagonists kill a bear or whatever and just Leave The Body There#we are taking large amounts of psychic damage from every single frame#you cannot imagine how much hatred we hold for the existence of prion diseases and the fact that you can't eat meat from CWD deer#killing an animal does not have to be animal cruelty if you're not an idiot#we think that wasting parts of the body SHOULD count as animal cruelty though#not legally for obvious “that would open a legal can of worms that should stay closed” reasons but like. in terms of avoiding it#animals kill and eat each other all the time. its natural. you are an animal and you can kill and eat other animals and they will be tasty#however for the love of whatever god you worship PLEASE put the effort in to actually put the whole carcass to use#it will not make the animal suffer less to refuse to partake in its remains. it only means that those things will go to waste.#a body is not a sacred thing. it should not be treated as specialer than anything else but we think it's disrespectful to not make use of i#for related reasons we have a deep and abiding hatred for the laws that mean we can't choose what to do with our own body after our death
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#Should I make a new tag for this kind of stuff? “drawing progress”????#I often forget that drawing.....Involves sitting (in my case lying) down for a extending period of time#I wish to beam the drawing onto the paper but cramping hands and neck pain make it realer#if drawing was easy it would mean less to ke#in a way#Visceralness is what makes art art#to me#if it intended soul for drawing#even if it's uncomfortable#or “poor quality”#it is still wonderful because a perosn put lots of effort onto it it has soul itself a person in that way#Anyway. im drawing a big picture and my hands are already seizing up please send
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ilu all but if i have to listen to alfie talk for more than five minutes in the movie i'm going to kill myself
#i rewatched the warehouse scene the other day and all i could think was Shut Up#it's not really. i don't know what it is. but it's just the way he talks that fucks me up every time and not in a good way#say less#i could literally imagine nothing more viscerally unpleasant here
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always hated Clank (of Ratchet And) always just standing there like a dipshit
#honestly i just dont like his design i find him repulsive#i also find ratchet repulsive but in a different way less visceral way
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#i love living in a world wh re all the least horrible suicide methods to find someone after are completely illegal and impossible to get#can't get fucking ddmaph can't get nembutal can't get the anti-emetics id need for any other method#it's great! my only options are to be found in ways which are viscerally upsetting and traumatising to whoever sees them#guess it'd at least be fitting that the last thing i did was ruin someone's month. in keeping with the rest of my life#everything has to be as miserable as possible because for it to be any less miserable would be too fucking humane#considering heroin overdose at this point#68 percent reliability but what does that matter at this point. it's worth a shot
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Love Core Keeper to death, but it managed to cram in the single worst phobia of mine as a biome and ive had to put off getting items from there for weeks before working up the courage to go in and explore 😭
#chattin#its MOLD. its fucking MOLD#the biome looks so nasty and it literally made my heart race when i saw it on the edge of my vision#and theres mold puffs and mold spores and 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭#and theres a food item thats just a mold puff and i cant even bring myself to experiment w it bc its MOLD#genuinely i do not think ive ever had such a visceral reaction to something like this#and in a pixel game no less#its just. they did a very good job. of conveying. mold.#the enemies are actually okay but its the biome that is just 😭😭😭#and the food has to be grown on the mold tile. no ! i am not putting mold tiles in my base!! i hate you !!!!#oh i must mention that the reason i was so freaked out#was bc i was in a cute grassy biome#and it gave way to a pocket of weirdly colored blocks#and i couldnt break the block; it was too strong#and when i moved around the block to find a way in (did not know it was mold yet)#there was a small opening that had like 20 enemies swarmed together#and this is a game that has grubs and maggots as enemies#so i was scared it was going to be that too#and seeing them swarm AND see mold blocks was like. too overwhelming. i had to take a break#now i am good :) its not bad to look at anymore. my want to be a completionist always overrides my fear of things#and the game is cute :) so eventually it just blended in w the style of the game
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