#is elevated intensity

[lith-myathar]

this might be a smidge too raw but do you ever wonder about the things your heart wants that it expresses through fiction as catharsis? do you ever worry that what your heart is saying is "i don't feel worthy of love, so i want it to hurt?"

[icewindandboringhorror]

I know this is just a silly bad quality random screencap of a screencap that I found on facebook lol, BUT it's a succinct enough image to easily describe the concept in a quick/accessible way hopefully :

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(and of course, feel free to elaborate in tags, etc.! (especially elaborating about other senses as well.. can you "hear" in your mind just as well as you can "see"? taste? etc.) It's an interesting topic to me, as someone who's like a 4.5 at MOST lol. I'm curious what option will be the most common :0c )

[ghostofsnails]

so did you guys know theres this character called tristan vik disventure camp and

[corrodedcoughin]

Steddie definitely have elevator races and elevator vs stairs races. As well as ‘who can go down more stairs in one step’ competitions. So far it’s a tie on both accounts but there’s been multiple injuries along the way

[notbecauseofvictories]

[ Open House Chicago 2024 — All Saints' Episcopal Church, Dank Haus German Cultural Center, St. Mary of the Lake, Riviera Theater, Wilson Avenue Theater]

[kugamoogle]

Okay wow the "forgetting Edgeworth's elevator trauma" goes deeper than the one elevator leading into the hidden storeroom, the Bigg Building's roof doesn't have any way up aside from an elevator. I'm not sure the Bigg Building itself has any stairs at all. Wtf.

[brella-boi]

Which dev who worked on Avatar Frontiers of Pandora DLC#2 decided to start incorporating horror elements to the narrative because first of all . Fuck you. and secondly great move it takes me out every single fucking time becsuse there was zero horror in the base game or first DLC. genuinely need a moment after they happen

[thesassywitchofthenortheast]

Question:

When I finish My Beloved Ghost and Me (part 2 of D-Y-I-N-G) and it’s posted (which, pray to the gods is tomorrow cause she’s almost there fam I swear) would yall want the playlist I wrote them to as well? Like a fun extra you can listen to while you read?

I’ve done that before in other fandoms and I’m wondering if that’s a thing yall would want too?

[zappedbyzabka]

This is just something else honestly.

[torchickentacos]

[a-gay-little-cat]

what always makes me laugh when i read the horus heresy books so far (as well as previous blingels books) is when space marines interact with human characters, especially female ones

the writers endless need to point out how pretty and attractive they are but firmly putting their foot down and pointing out that at least an adeptus astartes would have to assume so for he is beyond such trivial things and must always think towards war

yet they also love pointing out how handsome fellow marines would be if not for their conversion to an astartes, though even with that they are describe handsome at time

[jeannemarythefourth]

and another thing. it is my firm belief that quill kipps considers him and lockwood to be ARCHRIVALS. NEMESES. and that perhaps they have a little unspoken homoeroticism in their rivalry, and kipps is the only person who calls lockwood by his first name, and it’s a relationship singular to each other that can never be understood by anyone else on their teams or frankly in the world

however lockwood 1) does not think this 2) has never thought this and 3) fully considers his homoerotic rival to be the Golden Blade, that asshole, who kipps does not know exists. so kipps is in an unrequited archnemesis situation without knowing and anthony lockwood (a child) has made a lifelong enemy out of a random 26 year old man whose name he doesn’t know

[araneitela]

I arrived almost 12 hours ago, I've had two stupidly filling typical French meals, I've done too many loads of laundry than I'd like to admit because dryer, I've been spoiled with and am spoiling myself with coffee, my stress is diminishing, I got to read some great meta, and I'm chilling with Mara (who has numerous sleeping spots involving fuzzy blankets in this temporary repose, one of which being the fluffiest nest ever) while listening to and jamming out to Hugh Laurie leading the show in my ear. In other words, while yesterday was a time, I'm having a pretty darn nice time right now, because even if my back aches, my wrists are happier. Let's see if I can get any writing done on these 4/(5?) hours of sleep I've gotten in the last 48 hours, cause I'm pretty hype.

[the-composer]

When he Ascended, he’d wanted more than anything to excise his humanity from his Soul’s composition. He’d been convinced that part of him would be left in the ashes of his death from which he rose, anew. But for a demigod, that’s not the case.

His humanity represented everything that was wrong with his life and broken inside him. The last thing he wanted was to tote that baggage into the afterlife. It was a second chance, but not necessarily a clean slate. What the Composer couldn’t carve out of him, he’d bury. What he couldn’t bury, he’d doggedly disregard. Simply pretend it didn’t exist — which would prove much harder than he thought when the novelty of being a veritable god wore off and all the afflictions of Yoshiya crept back in. The mental malaise, the distorted thinking, unstable emotions, loneliness, the ennui —

His human half is weak. Inefficient. Disruptive. Messy. It forcefully reminded him how to dread, ache, and cry.

To cope, he had to develop resilience through spiritual evolution by harnessing his divinity enough for the two warring divions to co-exist. 

He didn’t get there on his own. Most of the progress was catalyzed by others, and by learning to love, and to trust, and lean into those to be vulnerable in a way he never could as a human.

The human embodiment known as Yoshiya was finally accepted by Joshua and assimilated. In spite of his neuroses and, he’d go on to build an empire that’s unrivaled by anything the Higher Plane had ever seen. Ironically, it’s that pesky humanity that set him apart and lended itself to much of his success in relating to those he served.

It’s yet to be proven that a Composer’s existence is interminable, or invincible for that matter. Shibuya’s Composier is on record as one of the longest standing, but the Higher Plane could remove any Composer at any given time. If Shibuya’s Composer wished to rule without that looming fear, transformative changes needed to be made.

The second Ascension came as a surprise; it was premeditated but not by Joshua, not like his initial choice to cross over. With the aid of his disciple, he climbed the ladder to the stars, reaching the apex of his consciousness — fully apotheosized.

Strangely, it didn’t feel much different. It didn’t feel like anything. He didn’t feel anything. He could hear, see, and comprehend everything outside of himself, but inside it’s utter silence. Did he finally lose it — what made him human?

Ironically, it terrified him. It hit hard. There was a period of deep irreconcilable panic that he couldn’t describe, much less rationalize. What he’d wanted for so long…

The epiphany is profound. Joshua realizes that it’s his humanity that made him special. His human emotions allowed him to feel trust and love, to be open and be seen and change for the better.

If his human side disappeared, what would that leave him? A God that could no longer relate, that could no longer care, and most importantly could no longer be with them, be among them, be human.

He searched and searched and searched until he found his truth:

You will never be human again. That part of you is gone. There is no going back, which will hurt and must be grieved. But —

Your humanity is ingrained in you. There’s a difference between being a human and possessing humanity. That is what makes you special. That is what makes you an exceptional Composer, and a God to be lauded.

The fact you even feared such a thing speaks to how deserving you are. You will always belong to your people, and you don’t have to give up a shred of your humanity to be with them. You have lost nothing you haven't been ready to release and gained more than you ever imagined you'd ever hold. Congratulations, Yoshiya Joshua Kiryu ~

[the-casbah-way]

it’s very funny to me how jed makes fun of octavius for complaining about his job when all he has to do is ‘sit in a fancy office and get paid for doing nothing’. but then once he and octavius get together jed is suddenly like ‘oh my god my poor overworked little lamb i can’t believe they made you make a spreadsheet all by yourself do you need a nap should i cook you some dinner come here and rest your weary head my love’

[sastielsfandom]

Took a nap, proceeded to have a nightmare. Very fun. I never know how detailed my dreams can get until I'm locked in an elevator, pushing every button to get out, unable to. And when it's finally pried open, I don't even know how it happened but there were multiple people injured. Anyway my dreams can fully produce the image of dead and injured people with blood and bones, organs showing.  And I didn't know that until now.  My description does no justice to what I saw and felt. So yeah.