#it was the sheer lack of awareness

[red-akara]

what in the actual heck is happening to my job...

(long post in tags)

[fiapple]

i'm getting towards the end of the skypeia arc, & i'd like to say just how much i adore the way the female strawhats have been treated.

just... every aspect of how the way their characters have been previously contextualized influences the story-line is treated with a masterful amount of consideration. we're given so many layers to both of them that enrich not only their characters specifically, but the arc, and the one piece world as a whole. without nami & robin having their specific skills, and their specific values, without those being built upon, the story would have come to a halt.

you could not have skypeia without nami & robin being who they are as individuals. not just because they never would've gotten there without nami, but also because the way these women think is itself foundational to the machinations of the arc as a whole.

to be totally upfront, if you think any other strawhats were more central to the skypeia arc than nami & robin were you are full-on fucking lying to yourself.

[hinotorihime]

pro tip. a little fun fact, if you will. if you, an atheist, come on to a discussion about how it's really shitty to force or trick a member of a marginalized and persecuted minority culture into breaking their religious dietary restrictions, and you proudly proclaim that you would never commit that particular aggression but you would still "laugh at them" for "believing that their God cares what they eat or wear", you perhaps do not actually have the moral high ground you seem to think you do!

[whalesfall]

a few days without tiktok, and ousting twitter on the same night from my life, I've finished one book and halfway through another, which is a bit like realizing the cursed object you've been carrying around going "I have control over the cursed object. the cursed object isn't affecting me in any great way." was in fact cursed, and ruining your life, and maybe you should've paid more attention to the signs that someone out there might be able to have a healthy relationship to the Curse of Short Form Internet Content and Inane Discourse. but you are not one.

[spectordameron]

truth be told I think one strong reason I will never truly become utterly obsessed with the prequel era and its media is the simple fact that the discourse around it bored me. lots of pretentious sounding people arguing over fictional characters that are all doomed by the narrative of the tragedy they're trapped in, does not sound like a fun time to me. the amount of arrogance steeped in so many takes I've seen is just annoying and frustrating. you must be so fun at dinner parties,

[lefreck]

I wish more people put their age on their blogs because at least then I’d know that the horrible post they made was because they are 18 and cringe and not because they just have excruciatingly bad opinions and an inability to critically think

[whydoifeelthisquiet]

I’m sobbing and having a panic attack outside of group therapy….I can’t deal with a life this shitty, I just can’t. I’m so tired. I’m so tired of being there for everyone else in their struggles and people doing jack shit for me. My 1-on-1 therapist said to be thankful for what I do have and to understand that others don’t always show their struggles and I AM, I DO, but nobody fucking understands TRIES to understand what I have to go through because of my disability and it’s always compared to everything else. To be completely honest, I envy other peoples’ normal life problems because I will never have them. Like I wish I could get my heart broken by some dipshit or deal with day to day drama. I’m so sick of being compared, my struggles are valid too even if they aren’t the norm. I validate everyone else but people look at me and are like, “how can I make this about me or about the normal population’s struggles?” Then I agree just to appease them and shove my feelings down knowing damn well if anyone else had to live even 5 minutes of my life they’d throw a tantrum and get everyone to rally around them.

[shinondraws]

I'm going to scream

[ohdeargodwhy]

I need to not book the quiet zone because inevitably there will be a group of middle aged women drinking alcohol and having a raucous conversation, or middle aged businessmen loudly taking phone calls and i will be silently seething with rage for the entire 4 hour duration

[3416]

i do think willy/kyle is definitely the most interesting dynamic of his besides whatever the hell the swede polycule has going on

[starry-toya]

i hate how difficult it is to form personal opinions about people and their actions in real life for me

[gretamaya]

I had to go look this up and this quote is in it: “It was cathartic and revealing; I thought I’d left my people-pleasing days at school, but this disclosure demonstrated to me just how often I’d been the person I believed others want or expect me to be, rather than being my true self. It’s a skill that can be useful in journalism, but obstructive in dating.”

I mean, jesus

Omg "peak Guardian" doesn't even begin to cover this one

[cravingsunshine]

JP. My guy. What is wrong with you?! This cutie is giving this her all, and you're like a piece of wood. Wild.

[friedaaaaaaargh]

Managed to safely use chloroform for the first time this week without any near misses. But I did nearly knock myself out on the fume hood, drop many items, pull a big metal thing off a machine, took a student out with a door to the point they screamed, jammed a plate reader, had the shower box catch fire whilst I was showering, accidentally rubbed the labels off all my samples, walked straight into a wall, shared a taxi with four strangers across the depths of Cambridgeshire in the middle of the night, and got called a disappointment. I knew I shouldn't have walked over those three drain covers.

[keferon]

Ok fun idea for mech pilot au, Jazz's lack of awareness of his human body leads him to not taking the best care of that part of himself, regularly forgetting to eat, sleep, drink water, etc.

Its all fine until Jazz needs to leave his mecha to stretch his actual legs and realises "oh wait I feel awful and I'm completely exhausted now" and can only make it a few steps back inside before falling over from sheer lack of self-care

Oh I imagine him just. Fucking shaking wobbling crawling out of his mech because he mecha-piloted for too long and forgot he needs to maintain his own body too not just his mech. Like. He has double vision from using his visor for too long, his head hurts, he is dehydrated and everything.

It’s okay though I think at this point Prowl would know enough to help :)

[theladygazingatemptiness]

it's so funny how the majority of people on social media who are like "nintendo shills are so cringe" immediately follow that sentiment up by blatantly shilling another multi-million dollar video game corporation