#kind of. this is very mild

[sketchz]

guess who speedran the game in 2 days and completely wrecked their sleep schedule

[asurrogateblog]

The Syd Poll

the topic of this poll is one that is frequently avoided in the pink floyd fandom, but inevitably one we all consider – our individual views on what we think caused syd's psychological struggles (and by extension, led to his departure from the band). I think that – at least in this neighborhood of tumblr – this is a conversation we are capable of having in a way that is civil, nuanced, and at least minimally disrespectful to syd.

So, to help facilitate this, here are some ground rules:

let's all assume we have a mutual understanding of the complexities of this. syd could never actually be reduced down to a poll, and all of our viewpoints are limited in various ways

the poll options just serve as just a conversation starter, and responses are not necessarily a statement of absolute beliefs

feel free to discuss as much or as little of your own perspective as you feel comfortable sharing.

in the case that debates break out, please try to assume good intent – and also demonstrate it (unless, for instance, someone is being blatantly insulting beyond a misunderstanding that needs correcting)

please do NOT vote if you are not actually a pink floyd fan with at least basic knowledge about what we're talking about here.

The options I've included below are not meant to be exhaustive, they are simply the "theories" that I have seen most commonly circulated. I have also decided not to include combinations. I'm fairly sure we'd all agree multiple factors were involved. Rather than make the poll too complicated, I ask you to instead select the one that you think is the "most" important to your viewpoint, and clarify further in your tags/comments as you wish.

so. here we go.

READ BEFORE VOTING ^^^^

(note of correction: "late-onset schizophrenia" should just be "schizophrenia". the typical timeline for onset of symptoms is late adolescence/early adulthood, so syd would've been well within that period at the time)

[diddlesnap]

joniss for the soul

[andy-clutterbuck]

TWD - Inside 8x07

[peargreen-jellybean]

making a cute little fic, still in the pining, soft morons category tho. also! i will be posting some writing snippets that i cut from several fics bc they didn’t fucking fit but i like them still

T-Rating bc it’s just gonna be fluffy pining with Logan being a shit and swearing

[merlins-strawberriesandroses]

Freylin lovers… all four of you out there…. please talk to me abt them. I will love u forever

[violasmirabiles]

when i say all my fic drafts are written in two languages. this is the kind of nonsense i mean

[marlynnofmany]

I might be allergic to fairies

Me: *sitting in parked car with the window open*

Wind: *blows gusts through the nearby trees, sending sycamore seed-fluff in every direction*

Me: *entertained as the bits fly in the window*

Me: "These are like friendly little fairies! I can even hear kids laughing in the background, which is just perfect."

Me: *posts about it online*

Friend: "Ooh is it tree-fluff wish season?"

Me: "What do you wish for when you get a fluffy fairy down your shirt?" *fishing one out*

{one coughing fit later}

Me: "I suspect the answer to my question might be 'allergy medicine.'"

[yrlocalghost]

i really do hope deltarune asriel still has traces of being edgy. even in a world where he got to grow up and didn't have someone kill themself in front of him to change the trajectory of his life forever, i absolutely refuse to believe that that guy does not have issues. the popularity and the awards in his room are some kind of facade. problems and issues would find him in any universe

[marrowtheninth]

Why is it that when I say things people always seem to think there's some hidden message behind it?

Like, no, just because I stated that I like chocolate chip cookies doesn't mean I hate oatmeal raisin cookies? I literally never said that I did?

That's an oversimplification of when this usually comes up for me, but my point is that it's ridiculous. I don't understand why people come to conclusions that have nothing to do with my original statement.

[xoxo-ren-xoxo]

really weird thing ive noticed lately re: hermits getting critiqued for stuff theyve said or done is that as soon as someone holds a shit opinion (even if it's just them being stupid, or a centrist, or saying a bad word without knowing what it means, or whatever) people immediately seem to flock to the 'this guy should die' 'kys' 'why are we giving this person a platform' rhetoric and like. that's not how meaningful change is made?

like, yeah, if one of my beloved CCs posted a tweet or video tomorrow about how much they hate gay people, or believe in conservative ideals, or they just said a bunch of slurs or whatever (these are hyperbolic examples obviously) then yeah, fuck them, they should go rot. but like, having some dumb takes, or saying bad things in the past, doesn't = evil terrible person...

idk, i feel like we can critique content creators without getting so insane about it. like, shit, there are things some of my favourites do that i don't like, but theyre not even really worth bringing up tbh. unless its something actually important, i feel like it just creates more drama out of nothing and all these assholes come crawling out of the woodwork to tell everyone how much they hate that creator. or find their content boring anyway so clearly they have no real merit to anyone.

more of an explanation of what i mean in the tags but yeah.

[gomzdrawfr]

You ever just read a popular poll post reblogs and get fascinated by the opinions

[release-the-sheep]

fox just informed me that "everyone at school is super supportive of you being catholic" so I've got that going for me I guess

[outsideyourhousewithaknife]

You HAVE to love the moment after your phone dies and you are left hunched over the screen, your eyes deprived of the blue light to which they have grown accustomed, your mind deprived of the distraction from the horrors of your reality, to behold your own image (reverse Narcissus) in all its double-chinned, acne-scarred, chocolate-stained and cheeto-dusted glory, and horrified by who you have become, and you are full of guilt and (remorse) exhaustion, and you are (entirely, devastatingly) alone, and you blink, and you get up, and you (cry) (look in the mirror?) go plug in your phone and get some more cheetos

No, really, you have to love it. It's the law.

[magistralucis]

A small (but *instant!*) linguistic spoiler in the Korean Disco Elysium translation

A plot point in Disco Elysium is that you have no idea what your name, age, or rank is until you’re several hours into the game proper. Your party member will not clarify and other characters only offer hints. It’s not until you find your actual documents you can piece together who you were (on paper), and furthermore, where you stand in your profession’s hierarchy compared to Kim.

In the Korean version, you can tell instantly that you are Kim’s superior, because he addresses you with the formal polite speech register (’hasipsio-che’ / ‘하십시오체’) right out. He will maintain this register for the whole game even if you become friends, since formalities based on age and rank are not generally something you can ignore in Korean, socially or linguistically. This is an inherent feature of the language, so there isn’t a way to get around this spoiler, but I reckon it adds a whole different texture to the game.

(You, of course, talk to him very loosely, using the most informal second person pronoun ‘neo’/‘너’ the majority of the time. You might feel entitled to, but you shouldn’t be. It’s mostly because you’re a mess.)

(Unless you’re being Shakespearian together. Here you both mess around in the very formal polite register (’hasoseo-che’ / ‘하소서체’) - yet the familiarity indicated by ‘thou’ in the English is not retained, replaced by the sense that Kim is playing along as if you were a higher lord.)

Overall Kim reads quite differently in Korean than he does in English. The senior-junior angle is strong and apparent. He’s incredibly polite, even when delivering much-needed criticism (e.g. his telling you to ‘get your shit together’ is somehow made genteel). The moments when he defers to your authority sound natural, even if you haven’t done anything to merit it, just because the language itself backs it up. I get the feeling that Korean Disco Elysium conveys a softer-spoken, but a much more rigidly hierarchial world than it is in English... which Korea is, in a nutshell. I’m not far in but I’m eager to see more.

[maledepravityarchive]

bro you know whats fucked up... their epic gnc lesbian swag is literally being erased rn. and its just another man doing all of the cool shit again. like thats fucked up