#like if substances are involved

[spilledmilkfkdies]

Grown men btw 🗣🗣

[laufskadus]

so i wanted to buy an official siffrin plush but, as usual, i got there late and they were sold out!!!! so!!! guess i had to make one myself!!! thanks capitalism!!

anyway: here he is!! all finished up!!

and yes, every single item he's wearing is removable because i like making things harder for myself BUT HEY i adore how he came out and this was super fun to make, so please enjoy him with me

[mamawasatesttube]

do you ever think about how kon got drugged to the point of inability to think clearly and then enslaved for Two Fucking Months and then we just never mentioned that again? that is, except for when he went back to visit and help out the guys who enslaved and drugged him because he was lonely enough to befriend them after they said oh sowwy we didn't know you were a person uwu. i think about this a normal amount

[rosespark2]

putting this under spoilers but i am INTRIGUED FASCINATED AND I WANT TO SAY THINGS ABOUT TMAGP 21

I am really intrigued at the choice of a scorpion for the chosen tattoo and I know it's probably more of a "let's have fun killing you with scorpions" type of deal but I do wonder about what that kind of thing could mean.

I am not really good at symbolism and analyzing but I can say a part of me first went to that old story, about a scorpion promising a frog they wouldn't sting them if they helped them across a lake. Breaking the promise later out of instinct and killing them both.

there is something here probably but my brain has been multitasking for like 3 hours and I am not the correct person to analyze this honestly.

[revvethasmythh]

An idle thought, really, but I think it's interesting to see fandom latch on the metaphorical interpretation of things like Laudna's relationship with Delilah as a metaphor for addiction or Imogen's psychic powers as a metaphor for either chronic pain or queerness, but there's much less attachment to or discussion of the characters who explicitly, canonically dealt with exactly those things. By which I mean Scanlan's substance abuse, Veth's alcoholism, and even Ashton's chronic pain (which feels like it was discussed much more before it was confirmed canon, and seems to be brought up mostly just as ship fodder these days). I suppose one could argue the devotion to the metaphorical interpretations lies in the fact that it's an interpretation of canon as opposed to being explicitly so, meaning there's more wiggle room to project a personal interpretation onto it. Explicit canon is more concrete, less malleable to the individual viewer. Still, if we're going to talk about addiction now in a metaphorical sense via Laudna, it leads me to wonder if we will see further discussion of the characters who explicitly dealt with addiction (Veth and Scanlan), as opposed to Laudna's purported allegorical version of it

[vaugarde]

this is gonna sound so backhanded but after 3 letdowns in a row from pokemon (followed by a game which isnt terrible but i dislike because of how much it fucked up the plot of sm), then a game that i genuinely really love and want more in the style of and largely because of how it deviates from the main series, im genuinely so shocked that i love scarlet and violet as much as i do. like when i was going through that tutorial i was just cautious and waiting for the other show to drop and be bored at best, but like, graphic glitches aside, it never came. it stayed really fun and charming

[lungthief]

tiktok is such a cesspool man after receiving thousands of hate comments over 5 years i FINALLY responded to a random one VERY REASONABLY being like “hey maybe don’t do this because it’s mean” people are like “wowww silly woman on the internet doesn’t know how to take a joke” and im just like. so tired lol

[ant-diary]

I think I have maybe decided to tell someone I no longer want to be friends with them, but I'm wondering if I should give it a few more days before I commit to it

[mel-0n-earth]

Had a Witcher/Sesame Street crossover dream last night. I wish I could tell you what it was about but I woke up and forgot most of it. All I remember is Geralt of Rivia teaming up with Big Bird buddy cop style.

[blackvahana]

Wow, yeah, what a gate opened. Just ajar! Just cracked open to a vortex of black creative energy, but it's certainly - ah right. See, I swear everything in my life is heavily orchestrated and cast through time like the Big Bang slinging stars into the sky before stars even were a thing. I throw the doors open to Creation, and then this urge from long, long ago is found. Lev said to me earlier that he was sorry it was hard for my human mind sometimes, that beings like him don't exist in any one time and so they slip backwards into past selves and past states easily where we tend to need trauma to force a gate open to that happening, he was sorry basically if that was affecting my trauma forgetting of what time it was. It wasn't though, that comment stood out slightly. Right, yeah. We exist out of time.

It's so clearly a diamond-shaped crystalline star, too, I don't know why. I don't know why this instinct is hanging in this black airy void, cold like the flow from an open freezer on the feet in summer. "Something gives, something is about to bend," I hear in my head, I was about to write it before realising it is entirely unrelated and unconnected to my own train of thought.

Ah, yeah, lines of thought adding up. Lines of constellations in the stars of recent activities, the black shadow of the Leviathan through the waters of reality around me. Fascinating.

[someoldfires]

an unexpected challenge when writing about vampires is that it is really difficult to describe people’s internal and external reactions to stimuli when those people do not have a heartbeat or need to breathe

[turner-strait]

"I don't have Pizza Tower brainrot," I say as I see thr Cheese Monster jumpscare in the back of this bus seat

[somethingserious]

why does everyone think Phil was high during the q&a?? we should all be used to him being this unhinged by now, it’s his default setting

[trekwiz]

I watched a training on career development; the premise was that project managers should treat their career like a project. And one really stupid comment stuck with me: "salary should not be in your goals. That's like choosing your software before knowing the project requirements."

It was ironic, because one of his goals was "work-life balance at a remote workplace." 🙄

It was a lot of fluff about making lists of what you like to do at work and what you don't, and that somehow translates to finding your dream job. He discouraged using luck-based strategies, in favor of...a luck based strategy of mentoring people who will hopefully inspire you. 🙃

And I'm just like. "Ok, project manager. You haven't accounted for your assumptions."

But also. Knowing your budget is important to being a project manager. There's a minimum budget needed to succeed. If you're not planning that out early, you didn't really plan your project.

And I'm sitting there thinking that next, for me, isn't a reassessment of the tasks I perform. I like the tasks well enough. Next is getting a $50k-70k wage increase, to be in line with the industry average for people with my skills, performing my tasks, at my level of experience in this region. It's a 32 hour work week. And more paid time off.

I don't care if I get a fancy new title. I don't care if it's a more prestigious company. I don't care if there are more interesting challenges. I've grown my skills. It's past time to grow my lifestyle. And that's not going to happen from a like and dislike list, and mentoring people.

[lokiinmediasideblog]

How is the drugged pie fic going. I had an idea that eating the drugged pie could lead to the threesome

LMAO. I am kinda leaning to more of a thrillery angle. Trying to think of things to be forgotten. The drugged pie fic will probably be my least fucked up work yet. I see you are a Sylkius truther and I respect that.

[dongfangxunfeng]

there is so much caffeine in me