#it's like low key traumatizing

[leandra-kinard]

I guess they mean being 'too' empathetic towards someone else's pain and distress. Though there are people who are super empathetic in real life and can still divorce themselves from that sentiment when consuming media - a concept I cannot fully grasp because, yes, I cannot watch any horror that is too gruesome unless it's like super campy bizarre-funny splatter horror.

When I even think of something like the Saw movies (never watched them, but know of them), the thought of something like that happening to a person is close to unbearable to me. I know it's just fiction, but it could be real, you know? So yeah, I cannot deal with something like that at all.

Supernatural horror is different, because I do not believe in anything supernatural at all, so I can make that disconnect between pure fiction and fiction that isn't real but could be happening in real life. There are, after all, many (serial) killers who have tortured their victims in some of the most gruesome ways in real life.

I so guess it's a type of empathy (an almost intrusive kind where you keep thinking about the events in the movie, and they just feel too real), not empathy as a whole, that makes horror more difficult to stomach for some people.

I suppose it's more of a question of how connected you feel to the emotions fictional characters are experiencing, in particular pain and fear, and how deeply you relate to that yourself rather than general empathy in real life.

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[theartofjessicalivian]

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[gohannygo]

Why does she swirl the blood around right in front of her like… omega is sitting right there oh my god 😭—

[yourfriendlybi]

Ya'know how it's canon how Dream can't read in English?

Well, I got this little nifty headcanon that Ink taught Dream how to read in English and other bullshit

[phantamic-moriori]

We as a society collectively don't talk about Courage the Cowardly Dog enough

[thatgirlonstage]

Thinking through the logical conclusions of lore that the source material has clearly not thought that deeply about can be annoying or depressing in the sense of seeing exactly how deep the plot holes go but so long as it doesn’t inherently break the suspension of disbelief or ruin your enjoyment of the overall story it can be really fun to figure out what you can use to plug the holes. Like that’s just free real estate now baby. If the lore implies X but the story wound up at Z, then you can make the journey through Y be whatever you want it to be

[web-spinning]

Spawn Astarion and Ascended Astarion are two different people in my mind.

[vampirebeverage]

man idk. i lived with very "sex positive" people who somehow couldn't find a way to respect my very simple and normal boundary of "I don't want to hear explicit details about your sex lives"

i didn't offer up any scorn or judgement, i just didn't feel comfortable being privy to extremely intimate details (things like "i hooked up with so and so" is fine, just not like... "I did xyz with so and so and then we did this other thing because so and so has this fetish...").

anyway, they made me feel like it was an unreasonable boundary. as much as i could, i reinforced my own boundary by leaving the room which... kind of meant i couldn't have the same access to shared spaces in the house. it's also much harder to leave the room when you're in a car together.

i don't know what my point is here. maybe that self-described "sex-positive kinky people" are... uhhh insufferable twats? that there's like... a baseline level of propriety that should be upheld? that we should all just be "sex-neutral" and understand that people are going to have different levels of comfort when it comes to sex and also be neutral about that?

[meri-meri-mwah]

2005 was such an interesting era for Capcom. It was really the era of traumatized but stylish men. 💀

But we can't deny that they gave us the most iconic versions of these two.

(It's kinda funny looking back at og RE4 Leon cause people mentioned how ooc he was and...now that I think about it, I don't think there's any other version of Leon that's similar to the goofiness of RE4 Leon. 🤔)

[blue-banditt]

Fun fact ummm I used to not be able to take pills and the only reason I can now is bc when I was 14 a nurse in the psych ward was kind enough to teach me instead of yelling at me to "just do it" —as if I should already know it innately — like everyone else had up till then.

[purple-dahlias]

scrubbed in on c sections today !

[benetnvsch]

out of spite for that One S KK love child design that is basically just Dazai with blue eyes down to the haircut that ppl had the fucking audacity to name after chuuya's irl son who died tragically young and had a devastating impact on chuuya I was like hmm what if outta spite I make my own satirical like,, knkdz love child design

wanted to just make the design Silly as possible and name it after the most ridiculous thing ever so I was like,, ah I could name it after the dog in that one short story Dazai wrote about hating/being scared of dogs and so I read that story to find the dogs name but Wow... I actually really liked that story and now im just thinking about it,,,

[clemencetaught]

this applies to all verses, but more so to verse one specifically, but patrick is agnostic, leaning more towards atheist. originally he was brought up christian both by his birth parents and his adoptive parents and while he never was a serious practitioner, he always did vaguely question it...but it was never something he seriously thought about.

this, however, changed drastically as a result of felicity's death. his reasoning is that: "if there truly is such thing as a benevolent god, then what happened to felicity and the others would have never occurred in the first place."

[itspileofgoodthings]

okay but Kola saving Mills not once but twice … KILLED me

[unfried-mouth-wheat]

Yeah Hunter's player couldn't make it so the DM had to make his character off doing something else

Hunter: Hey guess, sorry I couldn’t make it last session, did I miss anything.

Luz: Belos died man.

Eda: We stomped him to death. Hunter:

Hunter: after all the work I put into the Golden Guard’s backstory with Belos, you’re just going to kill him wITHOUT ME?!?!

Philip, slightly concerned as to what that implies: We can always try again next campaign.

Hunter: *DISTRESSED NERD NOISES*

[rainbowgothdisaster]

im not putting it in the tags bcuz i have a little doodle to show everyone and two stories

i was tubing (giant tube pulled on a rope behind a speed boat) the weekend before 8th grade and then i lost my bikini bottoms and my finger started hurting like crazy outta no where so i let go of the handles. they told me to keep my finger in a cup of ice but that it was probably sore. then my grandfather tried to force me to go to youth group even though i was in horrible pain and i managed to beg him to take me to the hospital after a like 1hr boat ride and 1hr car ride. then when the hospital said to go to the bone doctor (the orthepedist or something?) he didnt take me for like 3 weeks and now my fingie's all fucked up. the small fracture worsened in the splint bcuz i needed a cast (our children's hospital doesn't give casts) and a piece of my bone broke off and shifted down. so the upper part of my finger tilted to the side.

fun fact i hold my pencil against my ring finger on my right hand, so of course i broke my ring finger on my right hand.

and now i have another most story

i spent a month visiting family in Florida and during the last week me my cousin and her friend went to go scooter around the city. we ate at a creperie and then went off to rent those electric scooters. after multiple problems (including my card running out and my brakes not working at one point and i fell within the first 5 min) we decided to head back to the car. unlike while roaming we were getting constant green lights and it was really fun. then i lost control of my scooter. the scooter went left i went right. i slammed my left collarbone into the curb while i did a complete 360. somehow did not get a concussion. also might've managed to chip my jaw but i haven't checked yet, just know that there's a mysterious chunk missing on my jaw on the same side i slammed into the curb.

uh 7/10 scootering was fun, um maybe dont go if you have no sense of balance. what i learned is that my dream of driving a motorcycle is a dead dream.

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