#my personality for the foreseeable future

[machine-saint]

(somewhat hesitant to reblog this because there is a foreseeable future where this post gets engagement from dipshits going for Epic Dunks on OP, but here we go anyway)

i disagree with this pretty strongly; there are certainly some kinds of mental illness/conditions that are neutral; hearing voices is not inherently distressing, for example. but depression is, almost definitionally, a negative experience! and of course there are other more debilitating conditions like dementia.

even for the less negative conditions like ADHD, i find that it gets in the way of tasks I want to do that have nothing to do with any kind of professional obligation, but are things that I want to do for personal pleasure. hand-waving this with "standards of capitalist productivity" seems like a cop-out; the standard answer is that it would be easier were it not for the 9-5 job, but I've had year-long periods in my life where I had no work obligations and didn't have monetary concerns (a retirement in miniature) and I was still unable to focus on personal projects, washing dishes, and so on.

and in turn I would ask, are migraines that mean I have to lie in a dark room with no noise instead of the reading or talking that I want to do simply "value-neutral variants in the incredibly wide spectrum of human existence"? when I had food poisoning, was the misery of vomiting and my inability to eat solid food simply because I was unable to participate in capitalist notions of society? if we can describe "physical" conditions as illnesses, why not mental ones?

what do u think ab the whole ‘mental illness wouldn’t exist under a different political economic arrangement’ line of thought

this is a really common point of misunderstanding with regards to both anti-psych critiques and the 'social model of disability'. although there are some specific forms of affective distress that would probably be drastically reduced or eliminated in a communist society (for example, stress and alienation that people experience as a direct result of poverty), anti-capitalist critiques of psychiatry are not promising to eliminate all mental / emotional suffering through political action.

rather, if you hear someone say that 'mental illness' per se wouldn't exist in a communist society, they're usually making the following argument: all humans experience distress, including mental distress, and have limitations, including mental and emotional ones. what makes these things disabling, or an 'illness', is living in a social context in which we are denied support or accommodations for them, and are expected to function in specific ways and conform to specific social expectations, particularly standards of capitalist productivity. in a non-capitalist society where people are valued intrinsically rather than on the basis of economic productivity, we should provide for one another and accommodate each other's unique needs and experiences.

therefore, things we currently identify as 'symptoms' of 'mental illnesses' (eg, anxiety, hearing voices, self-injury, &c) would still exist as part of the spectrum of human experience, but would not prevent us from having our material and social needs met. rather than (as we do now) assuming a very specific set of experiences and abilities as a 'baseline', with a wide range of other behaviours designated as pathological aberrations, we would expect human mental experiences to be varied, including sometimes in ways that are potentially distressing or that limit certain abilities and functionality. so, this line of critique isn't saying that the experiences we currently identify as 'mental illnesses' would all vanish outside of a capitalist context, but that we would treat them as value-neutral variants in the incredibly wide spectrum of human experience, and would create a society that is not hostile to them, or to providing for people's many and varied needs.

[femme-enby]

FNAF SB AU ideas off the top of my head.

You’ve heard of coffee shop AU, now I present:

Fast food. Plenty of options- American, Mexican/“mexican”(cough-TACO BELL-cough), Chinese/“chinese”…

If you’ve never worked fast food (must be nice to be one of the favorites…) it generally sucks. Crazy rushes. Tight on space. Running into each other/swift dodging. You’ll get 20 separate orders of basic shit, cool! All of a sudden, your average order cost of $5-$20, with $50 bein a “big” order ain’t shit bc you just got some asshole in the drive thru askin for 50 $2 value chicken sandwiches & 50 $3 value burgers. “Tf you mean you want 100 sandwiches rn and you’re gonna pay $250 in mostly 5s and 1s??? Sicko. Drop all the mini chickens & I need a full grill of mini burgs for the foreseeable future. Idc that the grease bucket for the grill is overflowing, you know you don’t either. Don’t slip bc they’ll make me clean the mess since I can’t get any biohazard type illnesses.”

You’ve all heard of the beloved Roller Rink AU, we’ve all seen “y/n is pizzaplex janitor” now get ready for their loathed hatechild- retail AU. Naw, not no designer shit. We fightin for our lives in the “MalWart.” “Yeah no it’s crazy that they want us to complete 10 pallets in hardware in 4hr when each pallet takes about an hour… wait WTF you mean they’re all screws and washers???? That whole pallet????? Fuck me… and fuck them. And fuck that pallet actually, bc that’ll take at least 2hr all on its own. Yeah no I did mean that it would take YOU two hours. It would take ME the whole shift. Some of us ain’t blessed with the speed & dexterity of a supercomputer powered body you show off.” (A million possibilities! Deli, bakery, dayshift department options of your choice, overnight stocking, security, etc)

Nothin? Not lovin it?

Tbh I’d suggest some others but I know I’ve seen them already- someone’s already got a general amusement park AU (the fic is somewhere in my 150+ tabs… I will find you…) although they do focus on being a ride operator… so there’s still food & beverage, security, janitor/“maintenance”/“Park Services”, actual maintenance as in like dealin w fixing basic issues like broken chairs/tables, as well as tech dealing with minor errors in rides, lights, audio, etc. character/character “buddy” (think Mickey Mouse & his Disney employee handler).

I’ve also seen like… goth IHop somewhere… I miss you…

Also seen psych ward, school, VR, someone… someone’s got haunt but w jackomoon in a corn maze… (I’m gonna find you again too… you won’t escape my love…) seen street racers, a… surprising amount of cops… hmm…

Aiight I know someone’s got the restaraunt AU, think it’s the same person w a hair salon AU, but!!! HEAR ME OUT!!! Basic restaraunt. Step up from fast food in terms of quality & money earned, BUT!!! We all still fightin to not knock out some of them damn customers. The best part of the shift is when the server gets to slink into the kitchen and stare longingly at the cook, who either eagerly or “grudgingly” makes them a meal. Bonus points for inhaling the food and fighting the chipmunk cheeks away as they rush back out to the floor.

Another idea I had was “translator” as in the human has moved, whether out of personal desire or demand from employers, to another country where they don’t speak the language, one way or another they come in possession of the DCA. DCA can act as a translator, assist in assimilating, take on the roll as your first “friend” in the new place and guidance around the city… idk. I think it would be a cool way to utilize the “computer” part of them.

Also… gaining sentience. Personally I tied it into the “translator” idea- they come to you as a fairly simple animatronic in the sense that they don’t really differ too much in personality between Sun & Moon, generally devoid of much of a personality, baddabing badaBOOM (idk tech, I had them struck by lighting like Dr. Frankenstein type nonsense) they’re suddenly two separate people w whole personalities & shit, but also tryin to figure out this whole “being sentient” thing (which I am not the first to have that specific idea, can’t remember who but I saw someone who did something similar but it was like… some storm related surge at the pizzaplex? And then they started zappin all the animatronics… I… think I know who wrote that, but bc I ain’t sure I’m not sayin shit bc I’d be so fuckin embarrassed if I got it wrong and I gotta go to sleep so I can’t look it up myself right now… so tired.)

[hownicethatis]

[warriordragonart]

- Messmer the Impaler -

Had to get the Shadow of the Erdtree fanart out of my system so I can return to being a productive member of society, so here’s an edgy snake boy!

[takami-takami]

Fuckass university update. I feel condescended to. "High demand for student housing," does this person realize the entire point of social safety nets is not fucking supply-demand economics? "There's a high demand for housing right now 🥺" you have ZERO low or no cost housing options OR fee waivers OR forgiveness programs. How exactly is "high demand" an issue if you respond to that demand with ZERO supply?

You prioritize paying customers to your housing. They're the ones who get first and only dibs. That's the crux. You fuck over anyone who can't meet it due to emergencies, abuse, or disability. You have no forgiveness plans. You squeeze them dry. You wring every cent out of your most vulnerable students.

And you won't waive rental fees, defer rental debts, offer rental assistance programs, or do ANYTHING ELSE with the properties you operate.

And as mentioned previously. It's not just no housing assistance or rent waivers or emergency housing or anything of the like.

It's the zero.

ZERO FUCKING DOLLARS in the student emergency fund.

ZERO. EMPTY. NOTHING! AND WILL BE FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE!

The AUDACITY of her to tell me, the person who is actively telling her this is not helping me, that she actually IS helping me in a "real, tangible" way and I'm just too short-sighted to see it is fucking insane.

I genuinely think they want me to shut up and stop bothering them so they can get back to not having to face the actual consequences of neglecting the student body. I don't give a fuck about your demand problems. I don't even trust you to give it to me at this point, my abuser has already broken me so thoroughly at this point, but there are real people out there who will be in my exact situation and that makes me so angry.

OG email by the way, for context:

I sent a MASSIVE email detailing all my concerns and asked for an alliance with Title IX and the school "care team" to address student needs and THIS is what I got back.

Mind you, right next to my class I had today I saw they have a construction site labeled, "New LUXURY student housing coming soon!"

A warm hand off? A fucking warm hand off to a fucking random homeless shelter?

Are you fucking kidding me?

[musette22]

I just can NOT get over the whole Sebastian wanting to do a play with Chris thing, you guys. I know it's just a hypothetical at this point, but even just the concept is just so incredible? Like, Sebastian wasn't even prompted into bringing up Chris, he just did, like he'd just been waiting for an opportunity to do so. And then he says he wants to do a Broadway play with Chris? Even implies he's talked to him about it, that he brought up the idea with him repeatedly and is just waiting for Chris to agree to do this with him? Like, it might actually happen?

And what I maybe love most is that this means Sebastian has given this a LOT of thought. He's been going about his life, doing his busy important movie star thing, and meanwhile he's been thinking about Chris, and about how much he wants to work with him again, and how he wants to do this specific play with him that he loves, because he thinks they'd be great in it together. But at the same time, he admits that he'd basically do any play with Chris, as long as they get to work together again. He could've said he wanted to work with anybody, any of his former co-stars, all those people we know he's still friendly with because anyone who works with Sebastian falls a little bit platonically in love with him and vice versa, but no, he specifically says Chris Evans. Out of everyone he's worked with, he wants to work with Chris again for this, he's trying to get him, they're doing this, goddammit.

And another amazing implication of all this, imo: even though Sebastian's been very vocal about rejecting the idea that some people have that they get to tell him what to do and influence his life somehow just because he's famous (about which is absolutely right, by the way) -- he just kind kind of seems to forget all about that in the moment he decides to call on people's help to convince Chris to say yes to his idea. As though achieving that particular goal is more important than all of that other stuff lmao.

And listen, I know he's just messing around, and deep down he knows full well that we don't have any means to contact Chris anyway, and Chris is very good at protecting his peace these days so he's not going to be seriously bothered by anyone about this, but still, the fact is that Sebastian literally told us all to bother Chris, text him, DM him, make posters and send them to him, anything to get through to him and make him see the light. Like, Sebastian wants this bad. AND he knows that there are lots of people out there who would love to see him and Chris reuniting, on stage this time, and he's cunningly using that fact to get what he wants. It's kind of incredible. I just can't get over it, guys.

[courviknight]

happy holidays and a happy new year, @ko-rka!! i am your secret santa for @fmasecretsanta ^^

i drew for you emo punk ed fashion, cats, and stars... and let me tell you, it's been SUCH a pleasure drawing as i've listened to your mcr playlist!! i ended up liking a lot of songs on spotify back-to-back, but some of my favorites were "to the end" and "sleep"

i hope you like it, and i'm wishing you the best for the new year! :]

[elephants-with-reading-glasses]

oh my god I have made a terrible mistake, I just watched series 1 of Sherlock for the first tie, and holy SHIT I am already in so deep, just 3 episodes and already these 2 idiot men have a strangle hold on my whole entire soul. If there's one thing I definitely didn't need it was another obsession, but too late now! I will be obsessed forever. I can tell. why have I done this. Help.

[nymika-arts]

[a-loose-collection-of-ants]

[verdantglow]

I finished reading Not friends, no we're something in between by @prudentseer about 45 minutes ago.

I am still getting hit by random waves of residual emotion whenever the slightest thought of it creeps back up in my mind.

Please go read this fic, y'all. Please. It's so good. Please.

[hypogryffin]

i cant believe i wasn't following u b4,,,,,ive just been silently scrolling through your blog for like a solid YEAR and just haven't even noticed????? n e ways what are tha thoughts on literally anyone in p4 being trans bc i live for that 🎤

the way my brain decided that this was asking for pronoun headcanons and did not reread to make sure that was what you were asking before drawing all of this…... well anyways

[nightcrow712]

It’s HERE!!!!!!

[teadrunktailor]

In the bookstore the other day wondering why tf can't I find the Warhammer 40K stuff

[iwanthermidnightz]

MILEY CYRUS | ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION

[victorianpining]

My cold has turned into a sinus infection so I’m currently trading off between being so dizzy I can barely lift my head and being jazzed out of my mind on sinus meds