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sherlock-is-ace · 11 months ago

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#oh wow...#i just had an oh shit fuck moment #wow #i usually complain about the one therapist i had in my entire life and how she wouldn't just listen to what i was saying #if it didn't fit her textbook definition of whatever she was thinking at the time #and how i talked to her about my anxiety and how that made me feel and she would only focus on how i acted #so the example i gave her was the one time i went into a shop to buy something by myself #because my mom didn't want to go in for me and arguing with my mom in front of the shop in public and then inevitably have to #go in myself either way was way worse to me #because of the embarrassement of arguing in public. the fact that my mom was gonna spend the entire walk home telling me how i have to #''just suck it up and learn and just overcome my anxiety because i don't have a problem'' or whatever #and then having to go into the shop where the lady had been watching me from inside the entire time how i clearly didn't want to go in #and possibly be even more awkward with teary eyes because of the anxiety and awkwardness i already bring to the table any day...#all of those things that were going inside my head were trumped by the fact that i did go in and did buy what i needed #although my heart was coming out of my chest the entire time... all that didn't matter to my therapist because in her words:#''if you had anxiety. you simply wouldn't have gone in''#which is ridiculous #but anyways... i just had an epiphany... that was masking wasn't it?#forcing myself to do something that brings me major discomfort to make my mother and the shop lady not judge me?#pretend i'm a normal human being just doing normal things instead of someone who's about to have a heart attack buying embroidery thread?#panicking the entire time because i wasn't prepeared and hadn't scripted the entire transaction in my head?#yet still going in and putting on my ''normal person'' mask to try to seem like i wasn't just dying seconds ago (and still was)?#isn't that literally what masking is?!#and the ''autism specialist'' ass therapist was like ''if you did it then you don't have a problem''#when i'm literally telling her how much of a problem it actually WAS?!#you know what's the best part about all this #that when i told my mom after i left that therapist that she didn't listen to me because [insert everything above]#my mom's response was ''well sometimes therapist will say things that you don't want to hear but you have to accept them''....#same woman who's always saying how much she hates therapists because they ''will say whatever and pretend they know shit''#ok so it's only The Truth when I tell you it isn't...

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fromtheseventhhell · 4 months ago

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Okay but? Arya's training is going to make it so fascinating to see how she comes across in other POVs. She knows how to rule her face so she doesn't give away her emotions, how to tell and detect lies, and now has the added experience of her apprenticeship with mummers. Everything about her interactions with others will be incredibly intentional on her part and I need to see what that looks like to other characters.

#arya stark #asoiaf #we're so getting Arya putting on her /Lady's face/ and I'm so here for it #also one of the reasons I think the back and forth between her and Tyrion will be very entertaining #I think he'll be crafty enough to see beneath her mask and intentionally try and provoke reactions from her #love that her skills are still blended with her personality though...there'd literally be no point if she loses what makes her /Arya/#still on my /Arya will accept her identity as a Lady but define the role in her own way/ agenda 🫶🏾#we get an Arya that learns to act more /refined/ by social standards but isn't afraid to speak her mind and be her true non-conforming self

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404-art-found · 10 months ago

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mwah

#my art #lethal company #masked #oc: buddy #who said that. anyways #'are you going to elaborate on this' no all the information here is what you need #'didn't buddy literally kill and eat the first other masked it saw' listen bashing in other masked is mentally taxing #and there are only so many ways to deal with them and if 'killing them' or 'locking them in a room' isn't in the cards. well #'are you going to elaborate on this' no(elaborates on it #I may be unwell. hm!

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realtapiocafan · 1 month ago

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justin 😭😭😭 my babyyy

#the way i would have legit melted down at this 😭#public speaking is my worst fear #i can literally see justin having a mini anxiety attack up there 😭😭😭#in my mind he's staring directly at ja'marr and joe BEGGING for help #so many thoughts on how the original lsu trio all have their shy introverted sides (and probably all prefer to stay like that)#but developed an outgoing socializing mask at lsu with the other two #because forcing yourself to be uncomfortable is part of growing up and isn't that what they did at lsu? grow up together?#joe's very obviously introverted and i've talked a lot about how meeting justin at lsu brought ja'marr out of his shell #bu i also think justin has that same quiet side #like he did an interview after his extension where he was like 'i like being alone and at home and that's why minny's perfect for me'#which doesn't fit what a lot of people think when they think of justin jefferson #we talk so much about perfect pr-trained justin but how much does that take a toll on him?#i'm sure he does adore being the center of attention wherever he goes - but it must get exhausting sometimes huh #and he CONSANTLY talks about how he has two masks: justin (himself) and jets (jets being the flashy confident wr1 on the field)#(ok my headcanon that ja'marr gave justin the 'jets' nickname makes this just 😘)#he does like being that charismatic guy that laughs off mistakes on the prompter -but that's not who justin really is #never forget that justin was a two star recruit all scrawny with horrible grades before coming to lsu #like -i think justin brought ja'marr out of his shell but i also think ja'marr also gave justin more confidence #and he's blossomed into the guy who's constantly decked out in jewelry and isn't afraid to wear this amazing glittery suit #isn't that so beautiful? changing someone and being changed by that same someone in return?#lmao just realized i wrote a whole essay analyzing justin #disclaimer that i don't actually know these men lmao #justin jefferson

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bibxrbie · 1 year ago

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It is so difficult loving Luke Skywalker and being Jedi positive.

#what if i told you that Luke loves his dad without it being attachment?#what if i told you that at the end of ROTJ Luke practices non-attached love when he lets Vader die instead of dragging him to escape?#because instead of letting Vader suffer through Luke’s desire to see him live; Luke sets it aside and removes Vaders masks #stays with Vader until he dies; fulfil Vader's last request even when it isn't something Luke really wants to #'our attachments make us strong' Luke literally lets Vader go! he mourns and moves on #Luke Skywalker is THE Jedi!#he is the foundational cornerstone of all things Jedi #i hate you 'time travel fics where Luke judges all of the Old Order'#luke would absolutely be the people's padawan bothering all of them about learning new things #luke skywalker #pro jedi #jedi positivity #luke skywalker loves being a jedi #their philosophies and way of life isn't for everyone but it's a life HE chose and he chose it out of love #star wars

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lucifer-kane · 8 months ago

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just saw a twitter post saying malevolent tumblr is media illiterate because of the way they critique malevolent/harlan. HUH.

#I JUST KNOOOOOW that these people haven't been in the fandom as long as the people making crit #someone saying they went through the malevneg tag and saying 'people dont understand stuff at all huh'#and 'the christmas special was funny idk why they're taking it like an attack'#ah op is boiling it down to it being because of shipping reasons and ppl being mad a relationship isn't canon. okay #99% of the malev fandom on tumblr literally knows they're not gonna kiss what are you fucking ON ABOUT #masked #malevolent neg #idk if i should tag it as that bc it's not abt malev but idk i feel like it needs it just in case

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candy-pants · 1 year ago

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my babysitter's a vampire + villains (insp) as in characters with naturally evil tendencies and actions, not just creatures/people made evil by mistake (usually benny's) or created by someone for a specific purpose

#mbav #my babysitter's a vampire #vampireedit #stern #jesse #richard waugh #joe dinicol #i am NOT tagging all these people lmao #flashing tw #long post #meus #usereris #i hated the lucia and jacob ones but i just couldn't find any shots that worked so this will have to do #debbie dazzle is in this because she became obsessed with being alive but IN MY OPINION!!!!! that had nothing to do with the spell #she became evil on her own accord #sarah being possed by the spirit from the netherlands- i mean world was because rory was stupid but the spirit was already evil #and the mask not being here was because rory put it on thus making himself 'evil' which he naturally isn't and neither is the mask tbh #it was just doing what it was meant to do which clearly does not fly in this century #and cyberdontist and evil sarah literally aren't real

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phoenixcatch7 · 7 months ago

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The thing with stories of any type is that everything is a translation. Sometimes literally, from the author's own head, from another language, from book to TV.

Then there's things like visual metaphors, props and fake backgrounds, set pieces, onomatopoeia, paragraphs of description that everyone will visualise slightly differently, animated contortions, unrealistic but helpful sound effects, camera angles to emphasise mood.

In fantasy or scifi settings you can't even assume they're speaking the language you do. That their culture is exactly what's shown and nothing more.

So much of what makes up good world building is shorthand, is making it work to the audience, is using something in the right context rather than digging up every detail that would make or break the illusion.

A character in a magical world, or even simply a non English speaking country, would not use the same curse words. Leather could be presumed to be cow but could just as easily be any number of bizarre creatures. Booking a hotel could require a very different system to one we're used to. Champagne, the word, wouldn't exist without France but it carries the meaning of expensive alcohol for celebrations and parties, the readers would understand what it means.

Tolkien did it with LOTR and it was a masterpiece. The prevalent themes of dark and light being mere shorthand for expansive good and evil, used to convey the messages it needed rather than entirely new words the readers wouldn't intuit? The characters not even going by their actual names? A whole entire conlang that never even gets mentioned in the actual story??? That's a man who has a grasp on how tightly interconnected the world, history and culture all reflect each other. I mean of course he did, it was his job, but what he did was nothing short of fantastical.

All this to say, I believe this is the root of all world building. Cohesive, well balanced, feasible, detailed-but-not-too-much, no words that'd break a reader's/viewer's immersion, expansive enough, realistic, resonant, coherent, believable. All of it, whether fantastical or realistic, stems from one thing.

Is this a good translation of what you had in your head?

#All of this and it's a post about how people occasionally have svsss characters swear which is great for making them feel alive #But it's also a pretty big plot point that Sqq caught sqh out as being from another universe entirely after hearing one (1) f bomb #Of course neither Sqq nor sqh would be saying that PARTICULAR word because they're Chinese but that's the literal irl translation lmao #That's what I mean though!! *slaps desk* isn't it so cool??#In cartoons and animation when backgrounds change and people get big heads when yelling and lightning crackles #The characters aren't actually seeing that. That's just the way it's (emotion) being conveyed to the viewer.#It can be a weird way to think of it because they're not real they're not seeing anything lmao but it's massively helpful #If you want to make your own thing or struggle to reconcile an immerse breaking moment in media.#Lampshading is a perfect example of this. There's always going to be cracks in the immersion mask - how are they dealt with?#svsss #world building #worldbuilding #story writing #story ideas #writing #fiction

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nobodybetterlookatme · 5 months ago

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Update 2: the germaphobia didn't win bc he sneezed so hard he cried kinda and I can't not hug the people I like when there's tears so that's where we're at now lmao I'm literally so fucked but at least I'm not doing anything the next week 😭 checked him over since caution has been thrown to the wind, dude for sure has the flu but I'm hoping I can dodge it bc I got vaccinated so fingers crossed there. Ran out of tissues, so he's resorted to napkins and his jacket which isn't nearly as hot irl as it is in fic, but this is what it's come to 😔 also he's gone through three more masks and I'm lowkey scared he's gonna run out of those too 😭😭

#kinda snz again #how am i supposed to tag this actually #obs? is that what people call it??#idk #anyway #I'm not actually that worried about runn out of masks bc we have so fucking many and also i bring my own #i am worried about him getting me sick tho but it seems unavoidable at this point 😔#i feel so bad for him but I'm still disgusted ngl #dude has a hell of a fever like you hate to see it #had to go sit in the back where we put the patients so he could lay down for a bit and try to nap #bro literally sounds worse and worse as the hours go by it's fucking horrific #i fr feel like a mom rn patting this dude's back and getting him shit smh #like I'm the mom friend always so it tracks but doing vaguely medical things @ someone who has a higher scope than me is wild lmao #also for the record my partner isn't antivax he just planned on getting them closer to the end of the month #that's not working out so well for him now but it's not like he wasn't gonna get them at all so there's that at least lmao #partner posting

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mad-hunts · 8 months ago

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alright, who's gonna take one for the team and give barton a big old kiss to get him to stop talking when he's being an arsehole... with his mask on

#OF MONSTERS AND MEN: musings.#okay i know. I KNOW WHAT Y'ALL ARE ABOUT TO SAY AND I AGREE THAT HIS MASK IS GROSS BUT #i honestly think that barton would literally worship the ground you walk on if any of y'alls muses kissed him with the mask on NGL #and that's because no one seems to want to be around him (gee I WONDER WHY BARTON LMAO) when it's on much less have-#physical contact with him so man's may or may not think ' OOP. this one might just be the one you guys even though we've only been on like #two dates 😍 ' JSJSJ not to criticize anyone who believes in love at first sight or anythin' but if you don't hate his literally ROTTING-#FLESH mask then you are immediately one of his favorite people okok LMAO ahh... he really is insane but he's free (???)#though that isn't uhhh. Necessarily a good thing NGL

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jimmyjrsmusoems · 11 months ago

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my husband : i wanna leave early for the party, do you think you can be ready in 30 minutes?

me :

#it is 4:30 btw #the party isn't until 7 #i was literally sitting there in my robe. hair in a towel. sheet mask on. nails drying #what do YOU think #oh i'm also wasting time by making this post #personal

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noperopesaredope · 1 month ago

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Lacie from "Nosedive" (Black Mirror) is so high-masking autism coded

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countdown-til-sanders-take-over · 7 months ago

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this is a formal apology for every time i've read ur fnaf theories, gone "ah... of course! yes!" and then forgotten to respond

This is a formal apology for every time I've read one of your asks, not immediately had a TQ&/E, and forgotten to respond

#The box can wait my questions that need to be answered are why there is already a body in a Fredbear suit before the Bite #and what can 'I will put you back together' mean solely within those four games #like yeah it's robot kids but it wasn't then #that isn't 'four games; one story' that's using the next game in the series to elaborate on the previous one #(and the then new addition of books)#also what the hell was Fnaf World on about but I think I'm the only person that's thought about Fnaf World in years #yeah yeah Happiest day it's about CC I got that WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE PLAYER WAS ONLY CREATED FOR THIS PURPOSE!!!#Okay yeah that's probably just an explanation for why the game exists but what the fuck is glitchy Fredbear #and why do *we* need to be told to rest #It's fucking important that they're clocks goddamnit #As of the Halloween update the story of Fnaf 4 still remained 'completely hidden'#So (I think) what Sister Location (AND THE SILVER EYES) tells us about it is the version of Fnaf 4 that the version of it that the communit #''''would accept''''#But the pieces didn't vanish into thin air after the custom night update for sister location dropped #And I think their being put together is reliant on the constant separation put between the GF kid and the rest of the MCI #And the body in the parts and service room #Could not tell you what CC saw though since I should hope that that kid's body hasn't been there for weeks #When I was talking about 'what if this isn't the first time CC had died' I mean basically dream theory with extra steps #I don't think I'm right but in literally every part of this franchise what is hammered in over an over is going into memories #and setting past events right to rest their soul #Happiest Day + Into the Pit being the biggest examples #And tangentially spirits not being fully anchored or aware after death #and reminding them of what happened to them involving crayon drawings and/or being shown their body #(The Fourth closet + Coming Home + the movie)#(and maybe Give Gifts Give Life....? it'd be stretchy)#Regardless of whether the Fnaf 4 gameplay and minigames are CC reliving the events leading to his death over and over as a wandering spirit #or pre-mortem nightmares or the effects of sound illusion disc gas on Micheal(/CC?) or any combination of the three or whatever else #I don't think the Crying Child's spirit was settled and aware until Happiest Day #(that being the first and only time a spirit is shown wearing a Fredbear mask and the kid has to put it on while the other four are already #And if for some godforsaken reason I am right about nightmare spirit journey Fnaf 4 then post Silver Eyes/Fourth Closet

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pa-pa-plasma · 1 year ago

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i'm going to fucking kill someone. i got screamed at & called selfish & stupid for telling my mom to wear a mask. she gave me covid

#& you wanna know the kicker? she's going on a vacation. yeah. she's going on a plane right now while badly sick with covid #how do i communicate with people who are literally missing their brain?#it was my sister who screamed at me btw. she feels the need to play devil's advocate whenever i open my mouth #my mom did what she always does & coughed 17 times without covering her mouth & then sat down in the livingroom to doomscroll for 7 hours #what the actual fuck is it with parents & not covering their mouths when they cough or sneeze? they straight up just spray people with covi #& then laugh about it when you point it out as if spreading the fucking plague is funny #best part is that we're pretty sure her getting covid 5 times a year because she refuses to wear masks killed her husband #not joking about that btw. all she had to say oh ''ooh yeah that would explain it''#like ??????????????????????#i didn't get the chance to go grocery shopping either so now i dont have any fresh food #if i have to eat one more frozen or processed meal i'm gonna fucking kill someone. & now i cant do that because i have basic empathy #i don't even feel right ordering food cuz like. i have to interact with someone to do that (can't pay online)#i avoid covid for this long & then get it because ''people look at you weird if you wear masks. you wouldn't get it''#bitch i'm queer. i wear queer pins. i wear a queer jacket. you're telling ME i wouldn't get receiving weird looks???#god my sister wants to be oppressed so fucking bad. i'm sorry but bitch isn't a slur & you're a fucking coward for not wearing masks #i hope you cant fucking work for weeks because of this bullshit. bitch

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balladetto · 1 year ago

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which tarot card are you?

tagged by: plucked from my dash like a bug! tagging: whoever would like to do this but hasn't done so yet!

link // the tower.

where is the line between awakening and self-destruction? is it thin? are you walking toward it? on it? already too far gone? there is nothing more disheartening than trying to find yourself, only to learn that you detest the person you've been looking for. can i tell you a secret? you are allowed to love yourself. required to, even. how can you go forward without it? make no mistake — it is not easy. but it is essential. you will get there, and it will be warm.

number: 16. upright: sudden change, upheaval, chaos. reversed: transformation, fear of change, averting disaster.

#* lionheart / study.#* intermission / ooc.#[head in hands over awakening and self-destruction being synonymous. oh my god. oh my GOD]#thinks about how link feels stuck in identities and feelings and /time periods/ that define the trajectory of (the rest of) his life #but not who he actually IS. and how he doesn't know what that even is because he wasn't who he thought he was before Everything Began #and now that he isn't explicitly; persistently; urgently TOLD who he is....well. how can he know? what-who is he beyond what everyone needs #him to be? and when discovering that involves so much disentangling and examination of the self that he constantly distracts himself from #with travelling -- how can he hope to seriously answer it!#AND THIS ISN'T EVEN ANYTHING NEW i know i hammer in these points whenever i can but they are always so relevant!!#he has such a complicated relationship with his title as the hero of ti.me!!#ngl it is why i think he'd be a little hesitant to take up a name like 'time' with other li.nks #at his stage of navigating life it is less a celebration of his achievement(s) and more a reminder of this is all you are (will be)#(also for someone who feels like he's at once stuck in it and burdened by it...alsfkjd leaves a bad taste in his mouth)#'masks' is hardly better for him because it's almost accusatory with what literal and metaphorical masks he wears to hide the self #that even he hasn't looked at super closely.....ALL THAT TO SAY #kid's got Issues. and i'm very happy with this result!!#long tags cw #* intermission / queue.

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cryolyst · 2 years ago

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starting a list of things to say when people comment on the fact that i still wear a mask.

you couldn't handle how beautiful i look under this thing. and you don't deserve to see it

i use it to hide my botched face tattoo actually

i'm not going to kiss you so stop asking to see my lips

i use it to spare you of my monstrously stinky breath

i have a rare condition where all my facial orifices bleed if i smell anything

i have covid right now at this very moment but i'm being so brave by going out despite the government saying i shouldn't. do you want me to cough on you now so you can be like me

suggestions welcome <3

#some guy at the bar i was at tonight had the audacity to say 'the smoke isn't that bad inside. you don't have to wear that thing'#it's literally a special air quality statement + a provincial state of emergency by the govt. regarding the smoke. leave me alone.#he had a website on his shirt and i went home to look up what it was and of course it's a fucking right wing american ''news'' site #bro we aren't even in america. why do you stan this random fucking news site so hard.#i actually hate going to bars for live music bc no matter what sort of 'no hate or harassment' or 'respect masks' policy they have #there is always some motherfucker that will have to say something to me. leave me alone!!! im not asking you why you don't wear a mask #they speak!

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