#less physical concerns

[worthyheir]

@heirtoharrenhal / vaguely plotted starter

Whether he survived this or not was fairly irrelevant at this point. Managing to spot and grab his youngest brother was all that mattered, even if flying so low as to be in range of the weapons the triarchy had brought. Spears aimed for him, for Vermax, arrows that flew from ship to ship. Some struck, most missed. It mattered very little - there was too much adrenaline coursing through his body for him to really register all of the injuries. Mostly, he was keeping Viserys clutched to his chest, taking the arrows himself that were aimed for all of them. One spear, he had seen, had struck Vermax, shortly after grabbing his brother, and it was enough to get them out of there. The dragon seemed ready enough to agree, turning them back the short flight to Dragonstone.

Two hours back to Dragonstone from the Gullet, slower perhaps with the injury in the dragon, though the wings beat quickly. The longest two hours of his life, perhaps, because he had to remain awake, holding tight to his brother, ensuring Viserys did not slip, considering only one of them was both strapped to the saddle and now pinned to it with a luckily (or in his case, the opposite) thrown spear. Words of reassurance attempt to quell his brother's tearful questions and words. 'I'm fine, I'll be fine.' Constantly, as though Viserys is unaware of his injuries - he had been there when the arrows had struck Jacaerys' shoulder and back, the spear in his leg - trying to keep both his brother assuaged and himself alert.

Leaving had been against his mother's orders, and several people had tried to stop him on his venture to the dragonmont. He can hardly remember the guards he stormed past, though he can remember the words he said to the only one who did attempt to stop him. In his rush to get out of Dragonstone, there was probably only one person who would have physically been able to stop him, and so he might have regretted what he said - 'you are not my ruler, nor are you my father. let me go' - but it had had it's desired effect. Given that he was already defying his mother's, and therefore his ruler's orders, no one else's would have ceased his efforts, and he was certain that sending the dragonseeds after him had been to ensure his survival.

That's the thought that crashes through his mind at the same moment Vermax lands, skids actually, across the cliffs, the only time in Jace's memory that he can recall the beast not having a smooth landing. It doesn't matter, landing is the most important part, and he can hear the voices, though his eyes are closed, clinging to his brother, knowing this part will be difficult. Vermax has never liked anyone but him, snapping at most, already hissing and letting out tufts of smoke. He has to stay awake long enough to get Viserys down to safety, which means long enough for someone to reach them, which means keeping Vermax calm.

There are words, commands, High Valyrian that comes as naturally to him as the common tongue, as breathing does, but even that is difficult with arrows protruding from his shoulder, his back, the pain of landing increasing the slight of the injuries. "Dohaeris, Vermax, lykirī." ('Obey me Vermax, calm down'). It's all he can think to say, over and over, and he is not sure it will help, is not sure who will have seen them arrive, who will try to approach a clearly angry dragon. His priority is getting Viserys down to anyone safely - that's all he set out to do in the first place.

[quietwingsinthesky]

the last unicorn post from earlier has me thinking about the master. that yana is still in there, you know? is still someone he was, if even for a brief flash across the life of a time lord. there’s no way to unlive that life. there are ways to twist it later, sure, to make utopia into hell on earth. but the life was lived. in much the same way that the doctor can remember, can feel, the love he held onto as john smith even as that life is ripped out of his hands. the doctor choose denial and then grief and then to shutter it all away. and so john smith died, and so professor yana died, and the doctor and the master live on. the doctor has done this before, and he lives in orbit around humanity, trying to keep the best parts of them and hold them deep enough to take root (which he can pretend he gets to choose, as a time lord. as a human, it all floods in and can’t be dug back out.) but what about the master, right?

to borrow a turn of phrase: i think there are two time lords left in the universe, and they both learned how to regret.

[quaranmine]

i think what scares me more about a snowy winter trip is not potentially being cold, but rather falling on ice and either breaking something or dislocating my fickle knee caps again

[hneycmb]

I need people to stop thinking of robots and AI in their current states of advancement as conscious beings. It's a weird amount of anthropomorphization that really misses the mark on what the concerns surrounding these things should be. When you start talking about AI and robots as anything but tools, you begin to view robots and AI themselves as the problem instead of the people in charge of them and what they're being used for. It also makes you sound like a luddite who thinks the voice in their smartphone is Literally The Devil.

[mosspapi]

Child-proof containers are ableist. That's it that's the post

[cerbreus]

meeting w the transfer admin went well!

[sunhaunted]

the specific brand of fear we feel when the persecutor group sets their eyes on one of us as a target is unlike anything else*

[spaghett-onaplate]

ok yeah my sleep schedule CANNOT continue like this

[boatemboys]

i didnt watch stream today but ive seen twitter talking about it...... i think its really interesting seeing peoples reactions to scar not thinking hes attractive. prefacing this by saying yeah he IS attractive i wont him so bad. but i think a lot of physically disabled people (especially those with visible disabilites, e.g. a wheelchair, a breathing tube) do think of themselves as lesser in a way? especially with the popularity of someone like scar, where people constantly draw a character very similar to you as either not disabled at all or with different, "lesser" aids, such as a cane.

[lovsome]

:-S

[emi-matchu]

I feel like humans get so worked up about our own cultural bullshit surrounding love

like man if my cat choosing every day to live here with me, the person she's grown to trust, and bringing me gifts, and respecting my boundaries, and snuggling up with me at the end of the day…

if we're picking a definition of love that doesn't include that, then like. what the fuck are we even doing here y'all

grow up and learn to love more like creatures do, without needing English sentences to back it up, goddamn

[silverjirachi]

Hey, look at me. Look at me. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: you need to condition yourself to being okay with being inconvenienced by things. The first time I spoke about this I meant it in a mental health way- it is good to go out to the store and see people versus just ordering alone at home- but there is another more pressing societal issue you should be more concerned about as well.

Any service you rely on for convenience can be weaponized against you the moment you begin to rely on it. Streaming used to be a cheap and convenient way to see movies at home. It is now exorbitantly expensive, you need multiple accounts just to get what you want, and any of those movies can be taken from you at any time. And unless you have gotten used to going through the “inconvenience” of owning physical media, you can do nothing about it. Same goes for buying things on Amazon. Same goes for any service like DoorDash etc. These companies WANT you to be reliant on them for convenience so they can do whatever they want to you because, well, what else are you gonna do?

Same thing goes for the uptick in AI. If you train yourself to become reliant on AI for doing basic things, you will be taken advantage of. It is only a matter of a couple years before there are no free AI services. Not only that, but in the usage of AI’s case, it is robbing you of valuable skills that you need to curate that you will be helpless without the moment the AI companies drive in the knife the way they have done with streaming. Delivery. Cable. Internet. Etc. It will happen to AI too. And if you are not practicing skills such as. Writing. You are not only going to be at the mercy of AI companies in the digital world, but you are going to be extremely easy to take advantage of in real life too.

I am begging you to let go of learned helplessness. I am begging you to stop letting these companies TEACH you helplessness. Do something like learn to pirate. It is way more inconvenient at the beginning, but once you know how, it is one less way companies can take advantage of you. Garden. Go to the thrift store (older clothes hold up better anyway). These things take more time and effort, yes, but using time and effort are muscles you need to stretch to keep yourself from being flattened under the weight of our capitalist hellscape.

Inconvenience yourself. Please. Start with only the ways you are able. Do a little bit at a time. But do something.

[lovevalley45]

rn my university is debating combining colleges n shit and people are. not happy about it so i’m reading the report abt it

and i have to say. it’s not great for the sciences (both soft and hard) but i was looking at my lil hfa left alone like ‘well at least my english department chair won’t have to worry abt digging trenches’

[arolesbianism]

Guess who's thinking abt eg au again

[no-you-can-not]

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[viperwhispered]

Sometimes I can't help but wonder about how much using community labels probably limits the visibility of my smuttier pieces.

Like, I'm mostly using the labels because tumblr says you should - otherwise, I feel like it's up to the reader to decide what kind of things they're willing to see, not me.

But, at the same time, the community labels don't really seem to be that commonly used, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(Though tbf, with my visibility settings, it's also easy for me to not realize when something has been labeled, but still. It sure seems to be impacting the amount of notes any given post gets.)

Though it sure doesn't help that you need to find the community label settings yourself from the settings, and otherwise you can totally miss them being a thing, completely unaware of the posts you're missing.