#it was broken‚ and we fixed it

[gibbearish]

i can't take any discourse post seriously if it says "x side is refusing to listen to survivors" because if you can't accept that survivors are not a monolith and may disagree with you in regards to your shared type of trauma then it really begs the question, are YOU actually listening to survivors? or are you only listening to the ones who say what you already thought and disregarding the rest as a) people who are incapable of understanding their own trauma and therefore can't be trusted to make decisions about it for themselves or b) outright fakers?

[lyra664]

Day 6: Dimmadomes

Sorry, today was voting day in my country, so I didn't have much time to work on this.

Prev: Day 5 > Day 7 and 8

[mylittleredgirl]

well the t key on my ancient macbook has called in dead so place your bets now on whether i will do something about it before i become so fully naturalized to copy-pasting t into words as i type that i go “it’s fine actually i like living this way”

[3-aem]

and if i quit art to go make a stsg dating sim rpg (they can only court each other)

[skelecentral]

Day 6 of Bad Sansuary (hosted by @owl-bones!): Heavy

"WHY NOT??"

"because then you'd leave :("

[boarwinds]

Lucy Gray and her Snow baby

[naomiknight-17]

Hey so

It's my birthday, and my husband's glasses broke and the frames needed to be replaced which is like $170

So I'm just putting it out there, if anyone wants to help us pay for that. It's uh. Kind of important. It would be a nice birthday gift to have help with this expense.

[starflungwaddledee]

wait, since kirby has been manipulated mentored by galacta to be more cold- hearted, how does he react to affection in this state? (hugs, sharing, etc.)

cw for abusive manipulation tactics. like.. mind games. just in case. this response is a little dark just by merit of it being about psychological manipulation through lying, so take care.

kirby is as affectionate and loving as ever! he actually adores galacta knight, who stole the existing trust and familial affection kirby already felt for meta knight when they switched places.

there's a line in the another dimension fight comic, where galacta knight says "he's my family now, as he could have been yours.", and he means this truly. where meta knight was always a little stoic and guarded with his feelings, galacta knight is quick and easy with affection when it suits him, and reaps the rewards instantly

but what he does is targeted. if he were going after someone else (like bandee or dedede) he'd use a different tactic. kindness only works this well because kirby is so isolated and lonely, and craves it so desperately

this is super important i think; his core traits are the same as always. kirby is a good little guy!

he wants to be a hero. he wants to have friends and have a fun time and keep the people he loves safe. he wants to be good and to do the right thing with all his heart, it's just that what is "good" and "the right thing" is being purposefully warped around him

maybe it's good to act pre-emptively to prevent a war with the nation in the clouds, especially when they acted aggressively first.

maybe it's good to seek out and squash any trace of dark matter before it can infect anyone else, even if it's currently harmless.

maybe it's good to put that clearly possessed person out of their misery on sight, so they don't have to suffer anymore, because you couldn't save them anyway, right?

for bandee, who becomes aware this is happening, it's heart-breaking to watch. but he can't confide in kirby, because galacta knight's claws are too deep in him. also he will not put the pressure on kirby to keep a secret that could get them all killed

all he can do is try to be there to keep kirby safe, and hope he can reverse the wish before kirby crosses a threshold of misery or ruthlessness they cannot get him back from

[ineffably-human]

Trying to get over it. Can't. Feeling insane trying to get some kind of fix-it fic out of it because the canon of it all makes every other premise blow up in its face.

Rereading the speech Guillermo tries to get out and he says 'there are only two paths, to leave or to come back, and the place you return to is where your friends help create who you are, and where they build you up and support you,' and he has a moment realizing these people will never be capable of doing that. And then he sits in the other room and sobs.

The premise they're suddenly laying out is that Guillermo will only be able to find fulfillment if he gets out of there. Except we've watched him in the outside world. A boyfriend who abandoned him for his own narcissism, a human job that exploited him just as badly except they had the excuse of knowing better, a biological family that has never understood him and only came close when Miguel saw the part of him that's supernatural.

It's giving Michael from Arrested Development, except Michael from Arrested Development was shackled by it being his biological family, and he was also just as awful as them in many ways. And the toxicity was from a corrupt family culture that was hurting them all (and that they all tried to break out of in different ways) rather than being basically a different species.

This is just ugly and hurtful and I don't see the comedy in it (and this show was never a dramedy), and it even hurts his relationship with Nandor in the process. By saying 'this is the one person connected to you in all this, but he's never going to fully admit it when anyone's watching, and even if you're trying to set boundaries he will drag you back into his whims so who knows how that will impact your future? It's already fucked things up for you once before!'

Why the hell would you make that your ending? 'Hey, your pov character wasn't ever actually feeling okay with any of this, and he should have escaped from the start, and life is a series of meaningless toxic cycles we can never fully get out of.'

Someone please prove me wrong because I don't fucking understand.

[squashberri-art]

Sam compilation, what can I say I just Sam

This was actually me practicing doing his face so pls ignore some of the more beaten up ones

[nikkalick]

I have chronic back pain, have for a while. It’s not so bad now that I had surgery, but I lived with it for years. I tried to go to a doctor for it, but they just said to lose weight, so I learned to live with the pain until one morning I couldn’t get up from bed. Couldn’t move without feeling like electricity was running up and down my back, burning my spine and leg from the inside.

This had me back in front of a doctor who (thankfully) listened and then for an entire year my insurance jerked me around requiring that I try different methods to manage the pain before finally agreeing to cover surgery.

In that year leading up to surgery something inside me broke. I couldn’t do the most basic tasks. Having to learn how to move my body in just the right way so that I wouldn’t lock up trying to wipe my own ass is one of my least favorite memories. Next to it is a tie between falling at my sister’s wedding because my leg gave out and being in so much pain I couldn’t sleep for days on end. I couldn’t sit, couldn’t drive, couldn’t bend or twist or even lay down without feeling like my nerves were on fire.

Work accommodated but I felt useless. I couldn’t lift inventory anymore. Couldn’t do a key part of my job that I (oddly) enjoyed doing. Commuting the hour to school twice a week was excruciating, but it was my first year of grad school. I had to push through. My professors were kind, they accommodated so that I could be as comfortable as possible in class. But I felt like a distraction, a nuisance, a bother. It was so hard to focus on lectures and homework when 90% of the input my brain was receiving was that of pain.

I grit my teeth and bore it, my mental health hit a new all time low, and I broke down in front my my mother more times than I can count. And I did this for a year because insurance refused to cover surgery unless I proved to them I needed it. I had to jump through their hoops and play by their rules to get the procedure I needed and that my care team knew I needed. I lost feeling in my leg and foot because they made me wait.

I will forever be grateful for the doctors who listened, for the physical therapist who advocated for me, for my mom who surprisingly became my rock during the whole ordeal. But my insurance company? They can go fuck themselves.

My pain before that year was bad, but not excruciating. My pain now? It’s minimal. Sometimes I still lock up and I’ll likely never have all of the sensation return to my left foot, but I’ll take the constant pins and needles over that year of pain any day. That said, had it gone on much longer I genuinely don’t know if I’d be here typing this.

Anyways…I guess what I’m saying is IF he did it, I get it. I really really get it.

[markantonys]

ADAR

[zrllosyn-art]

家族の期待って大変そうって思った Thought that the family's expectations seemed rough

This one's in japanese, sorry

[darkxsoulzyx]

Trying my hand at a decommissioned DCA AU, Except it’s CO-OP mode and I dragged @garbagechocolate and @bbonkie with me hehehehehe ROOMMATES AU BAYBEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Warning!!: Robot parts and gore and stuff :)

I love them so much aaaaaaaaah 🕺🕺🕺

[3-aem]

MY BRAINS NOT WORKING AND THE CUTE BOY I WORK WITH KEEPS CORRECTING MY GRAMMAR THIS IS SO AHAIWIAKSDHDGRRRRHRNE

[smokey07]

I haven’t read much about Orestes and Agamemnon’s family, like his wives and kids, but from what I’ve seen-

They low key remind me of the Todoroki family from BHNA

But worse

Like wayyy worse