#is a symptom of something bad

[alarrylarrie]

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[kelocitta]

i saw your post on how you were thinking about handling the Whole Artificer Thing and i say, let em be a villain! i think it would be fun

I don't have any qualms about Artificer being cruel or whatever; I just don't think that when working them into an anthro doing a 1-to-1 transfer of their behaviors and/or making them just flat out racist/genocidal is an interesting or accurate way to characterize them. (and I just have. Negative interest in working with that type of character) People can do whatever they want but ultimately I just find the idea that anything other making them aggressively genocidal is like, woobifying them, tiring.

Artificer is obviously not good in the context of the game. But the problem and focus of their actions is the scale and spiritual aspect of it, not the actions themselves. Other slugcats are perfectly capable of killing scavengers, most players likely will and many who don't are only held back by the consequences. Scavengers are also warriors, and Artificer's whole campaign is basically set up on the fact that scavengers are defensive and very much follow a 'shoot first' method of self preservation.

So why does Artificer have always be the one thats uniquely villainous in behavior (now with significantly more moral weight behind it than they had as an animal) when the other slugcats, and even the scavengers, get properly 'civilized' when people make them anthros? I just don't think its an interesting way to utilize them, and I won't fault people who do- but like- I feel like if Artificer is going to be Like That when they can walk and talk and do taxes or whatever than at bare minimum the other slugcats and scavengers' relationship with violence/murder/hunting should be touched on.

I'm not making Artificer a good person. I don't want them to be a good person, because I think the fact they are so bad that they have problems on a spiritual level to be the interesting part. Technically, the Artificer I do for anthro stuff has already done their 'Scav King' and found their 'closure'. They set out to do something awful and did it, they got their ending. So now theyre just old and tired and mean and miserable because getting what you want isnt a solution.

[katmaibearfan]

a personal update

i've been having some Mystery Health Issues for the last month or so, and one of the main symptoms i have been getting is extreme fatigue. in addition, there's some other life stuff happening which, with the fatigue i have been having, has been pushing me very close to (and sometimes over) my limits.

i have a doctor's appointment tomorrow to hopefully start getting some answers about what's going on, but that will almost certainly take me out for the whole day, between travel and bloodwork and such. in addition, my father-in-law and his girlfriend are visiting this weekend, which will take up a lot of my time and energy as well.

this is mostly just my exhausted-and-rambley way of saying that i wish i was posting more than i can right now. while i was hoping to use the month of august to get those ID and Lore posts out (since many of the bears go on walkabouts this time of year, action slows down on the cams), i think its very likely that these life events and health issues will be taking the majority of my time for the foreseeable future.

to be clear, i will still be posting here when i can! its just that i will probably not be able to as frequently as i would like for a while. hopefully these health problems are easily diagnosable and easily treated, and i can get back to spamming y'all's dashboards with brown bears sooner rather than later.

[rapidhighway]

Ahahaaaa oh my goddd can you not make "ADHD undereating" and "ADHD overeating" into a competition of who has it worse and who has nothing to complain about, that'd be awesome

[tj-crochets]

Further quilting delayed until the AC gets fixed because I, someone who has a long track record of doing very badly when it gets too hot, forgot I handle heat exceptionally badly I thought I'd been having an allergic reaction on and off for like two weeks now, and was concerned about why benadryl wasn't working well, but the overlap between "beginning stage allergic reactions" and "starting to overheat" for me is like a circle. Good news is the AC is still working downstairs, more or less, so I'll just camp out downstairs until it's fixed. Bad news is all my sewing stuff is upstairs and difficult to move, so that's delayed Also, and I wish I was joking about this: I've been having pretty bad muscle cramps (because of the dehydration from overheating), so I've been using hot water bottles. Like. All the time. That did not help lol

[rutadales]

honestly favorite character type in dsmp is "immortal but did something fucked up to get here". cdream, sam, foolish. the "came back wrong" trio. the "should have killed me when you had the chance" triplets. the "immortality should be a diagnosable disorder in the DSM 5" gang

[oursystemblog]

Hi ! I read a bunch of your comics/asks and you said that you used to not hear each other's voice while fronting,

I was wondering if there's anything you did that helped you guys improve your communication? We're kind of in the same situation over here, and also have no inner world, so internal communication can be quite complicated...

Hrmm I guess early on we tried to communicate with visualizations instead of words which was kind of easier for some reason (??) -- though that required sitting down and focusing because we have a horrible mind's-eye but most communication we do requires that either way, we also started off by frequently asking small yes or no questions which was all we could do for a while and then eventually we just Got Better At It

[why-the-heck-not]

”having cats is so cozy :3 they’re so cute aww look at her purr aw what a sweetheart”

i’m collecting pieces of a bird into a plastic bag on this fine sunday evening

[swordsonnet]

the most annoying thing about me/cfs is that it's more like 10 different illnesses in a trenchcoat. i'll wake up with a new symptom and be like "oh okay, guess that's what we're doing today"

[kirby-the-gorb]

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

A good way to judge someone's moral and ethical character is to see how they react to and speak about homeless people and drug addicts. It works everytime and most people are quick to reveal just how disgusting they are as soon the topic comes up.

[marc--chilton]

(mgv) wilson lashing out at house for making fun of him for wanting pups and spitting that this, too, can be blamed partly on house, just like how julie said house may not have broken up their marriage but certainly didn't help, either. and house looks away from him, gaze flickering as he processes. his neediness has once again kept wilson from happiness. and if anyone deserves to be happy, it's him.

"pup me, then."

"scuzi?"

and house just shrugs, struggling to meet wilson's eyes. "you have no wife, no girlfriend, and in spite of the fact that you could adopt, you've not done so, ergo you want one with your DNA. i could give you that if you wanted."

"could you?"

"last i checked, i did have those parts, but it doesn't hurt to double check--"

"you know what i mean."

and house drops his gaze again, bounces his cane on the floor. "if that would make you happy.... i would."

the beat of silence is heavy. house can't decipher the look wilson's giving him.

"let me..... let me think about it."

[dreamlogic]

[the-spooky-children]

Can't stop thinking about unhealthy co-dependent teen!fireskulls..

[dreamwinged]

every single day i have at least one episode of remembering something i don’t want to remember at all and it’s just like hhhhh. more exhausting and upsetting than i have words to express. either trying to hold myself together in a public place or trying to shut it all out when i’m at home……. it’s just the worst either way

[cypheragent]

i hate this post so fucking much lol i kinda seethe every time it crosses my dash. the tone is bonkers like OP seems to think they're better than other people with OCD because they're medicated and that other people with OCD are engaging in some kind of moral failing by not being medicated. as if everyone has the privilege. medication doesn't even work for everyone, especially when it comes to something like OCD. there's a reason the term "treatment resistant" exists. the lack of empathy is just so fucking unnecessary. as if "turn off your anon messages now" is enough to avoid triggering one's OCD and that anon asks are the only thing that could possibly trigger people with OCD. telling people with OCD "you are 20 years old and need to fucking calm down." again, just a completely bizarre lack of empathy. literally telling people with a mental disorder to "calm down" and framing anyone who struggles with moral OCD as just stupid 20-year-olds i guess. OP of this post should genuinely be ashamed of themselves