#my brains been broken lately

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

Aaaaaaah why am I having genuine like physical reactions to the asexual pride flag?????? This is so stupid!!!!!

[knockknockitsnickels]

I've been thinking about the debate about whether Slay the Princess is a horror game (my answer is "yes") and about how imo Fury is one of the more thematically horrifying routes.

While I was never really scared of her during my playthrough, her whole existence became more upsetting the more I thought about it. I think Fury's route is one of the only times the game fully realizes the horror potential in us (the player) being able to somewhat control the Princess through our perception of her. Whether you got to Fury via Adversary or Tower, it's clear that Fury liked the way she was before, and we took her identity away from her either because we thought it was funny, or because we didn't like how she was.

I doubt everyone's going to have the same interpretation of her chapter (my Fury is going to be different from your Fury, after all) but for me, the whole route made me question my feelings towards Tower, who was originally one of my least favorite princesses. What right did I have to do this to her, just because I didn't like how she was acting? I've turned her into something she hates.

[eternally-tired-cryptid]

I have another one but it's separate so here.

If you have insomnia bc of anxiety, or your insomnia triggers anxiety (similar but different things 🤷) pick a Thing. For example, during the day, when I start thinking depressive or anxiety thoughts, my go to is "I wanna curl up in my bed and sleep". It doesn't fix it but sometimes there isn't fixing or talking yourself out of the thought, so a broken record response helps.

Specifically with insomnia, I will pick something to "write a story" about. This is when I do most of my oc fanfic plotting, bc I'm more likely to be able to figure out those ideas again when I wake up bc there's an original source material (if I were to think about my original works I may make the insomnia worse bc I NEED to write it down before I forget). But you could pick something you really enjoy talking about, something you're studying, music, whatever. Just pick something that's your "topic for the night" and whenever you start to drift into thoughts that make your insomnia worse, just jump back to the topic.

It sounds a lot simpler than it is, trust me. Sometimes I'll lay there just repeating the topic word over and over in my head bc the moment I stop I'm spiralling again. But trust me when I say that late at night when insomnia is keeping you up is rarely the time to unpack all those thoughts, it's okay to just avoid them in whatever way you can. If it's still a concern come the morning sunlight you can take steps to work through it then.

[oh-yeah-no]

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[spotforme]

chaps, never forget

Red still holds the record for coming up with the most fucking compelling ship i ever did think about. and when i say "think about" let's just say you could ask me anything about chiken farming

so many though, so many possibilities, let me just tell you they fish on the lake okay???? they fish on the lake, Rocky gets the worms (sorry)

[elmelloill]

if i *really* try to pivot to tumblr again will i feel less lonely on social media. if i just start making text posts about my wol here even though i made a sideblog for him will the fraction of my followers who are actually still here throw me a handful of pity likes. maybe if i try to actually follow new active people also.

[randomartmaker]

Idk why but remembering the line from Melinoe to Chronos saying that she's from the future weirdly got me thinking of ideas...very unhappy ones.

Just imagining the situation being absolutely horrid that Chronos is forced to send her back despite the risks. One being Melinoe likely won't remember much and will very likely forget about him now but it's a risk he's willing to take the risk of being forgotten for good. That and he will no longer exists as the future they live in now will change once Melinoe is sent to the past to prevent whatever is the situation they are in now in the future. Once Melinoe is gone, He just starts literally falling apart as just sending her so far back taken a huge toll on him (his body already in bad shape so doing this was already a death sentence and he knew it would lead to his end). Unable to fly anymore as his wings fallen apart. Reduced to sand. As his body starts to crumble away to sand, He just sits down somewhere (the moment it's become too much to even more nor breathe) and is left to his own thoughts. Left wondering about what will happen next. If his granddaughter will succeed.

[crazyw3irdo]

do y’all ever think about how yancy knows how to break out of prison and actively chooses not to. do you ever think about how when he breaks us out he knows the way so easily as if he’s been there a million times before. do you ever wonder if at some point he considered breaking himself out and just couldn’t go through with it.

[islenskihesturinn]

This is a picture from half a year ago, but it occurred to me yesterday while I was keeping Lilja’s head in place during her second treatment that these animals really have to trust us a hecking lot to just let us do these things to them.

She’s been drugged to stay calm and feel a bit less as her teeth get filed down from being like a staircase to nearly straight (it was bad, now it’s almost good). Machines that make loud noises and vibrate get put in her mouth and there’s weird smelling dust everywhere. Meanwhile her human is gently patting her hair and praising her for staying put, and half an hour later she’s back with Fjara and eating hay like nothing happened.

Same goes for the other 3 (namely Týra, Solita and Ieniemini), who just come walking up to you after all that, asking for a treat (and a brush bc it’s shedding season and they’re all itchy ladies).

I don’t really think about it often, but sometimes it’ll hit me how much they trust that we have their best interests at heart and they know this in their own way.

[blinkbats]

I really dont know how im ever gonna feel like a real person and im really really tired of trying so hard and never getting anywhere

[jazzzzzzhands]

Doing practice sketches until the art block goes away, Day 2

I wasn't sure about teeth at first but man oh man, I think I really like Barn with teeth! How else is he supposed to have a shit-eating grin?

[reading-writing-dying]

Time to go to bed because the thoughts are thinking hahahaha

[paradife-loft]

Knight Artorias continues to be one of my absolute favorite boss fights

"victim of the Abyss" is the sexiest description one can read on a soul in this entire game by far

decided midway through fighting him that I wanted to go for a no-healing kill, mostly to prolong the experience and see if I could, and: success!! I can and did!

[help-im-a-medstudent]

You know its bad when you have to put a TL;DR at the end of a documentation of a family discussion

[thehalfbloodfreak]

Just binge read Once Upon a Broken Heart and was like "Wow this feels a lot like Caraval-"

IT'S LITERALLY BY STEPHANIE GARBER THE SAME AUTHOR AND I DIDN'T REALIZE ASFDAJKHSJBHJ

[danothan]