#new or existing bonds!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

zany to me how these um actually nihilists like to pretend that "um actually love/friendship/cooperation/kindness isn't real bc we evolved that way to benefit ourselves as a species..." um YES? that's also where tool use comes from? that's where cooking comes from? am i supposed to think social bonds & tool use & cooking aren't "real" because they evolved over time instead of appearing fully formed from the ether?

sorry u can't enjoy things. im a superior being twirling a fork in my bowl of delicious noodles whilst staring in adoration at the world

[scarycranegame]

guys. guys listen.

if you wanna write and/or post a fanfic but are worried that no one will like it.

do not be worried. at all.

because even if no one else is interested, YOU are. you enjoy this idea. you're passionate about this concept. you should write for YOU, not for potential critics.

and even besides that, i guarantee you that there's at least 1 other person out there who would also enjoy your fic. it's essentially statistically impossible for you to be the only person on the planet who thinks the way you do, and enjoys the themes and ideas and characters and settings that you do.

write it. post it. take pride in the fact that you created something that you value. your fic exists, and that in of itself is amazing.

antis dni, this isn't about you or the graphic threats of harm you send to real people whom you dislike. get a real hobby.

proship/comship/profiction/etc. safe!

[warning-heckboop]

Oh to be able to make the complex lore comic that lives in my head about the concept of fairies, anti-fairies, and pixies once being a civilization of one single species of fae that splintered both metaphorically and literally due to internal conflict

[myymi]

nine has absolutely no idea what the hell a chili dog is, he only said he hates them because he knew sonic would take it personally

[theluckiestlb]

as a self-identified adrienette girlie....kinda miss them, ngl.

[cubicpeebles]

ANOMALY

My headcanon for Enot is that they are immune to the lore due to basically just being a sentient glitch, which Saint does not even remotely understand.

(Bonus under cut!)

[kdelarenta]

may god bless the dinosaur that died to make the fossil fuel that was treated to become gasoline in the car that took @intimidatingpuffinstudios to the hospital to be born so that they could write one of my favorite IF dynamics of all time.

[fakesorbet]

thinking So hard about the fact that fabian’s little sibling + figs step sibling is going to be immortal and get to have the rest of their whole life to have a mom who isn’t drinking everyday . they’re going to know who their real parents are while fig had to find that knowledge through her own volitions . im thinking so hard about abnormal things

[evergreen-endo]

my selfship with takiishi literally would not work without endo and the reasoning is chika’s burger obsession

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

for the megumi and the world's most inconvenient custody battle, i just head canon geto and gojo screaming at each other in front of kfc (AGAIN) and the conversation goes something like:

Geto: I HAVE MORE EXPERIENCE I HAVE TWINS AT HOME ILL BE A BETTER PARENTAL FIGURE THAN U!

gojo: THATS MY BABY I CHANGED HIS DIAPERS! HE CAME OUTTA MY WOMB! GIVE HIM BACK!

megumi and the kfc workers are so so done someone get these gay men couple therapy pls

i have so normal feelings for ideas i totally dont think about them every single day.

The funny thing is that Megumi actually have no awareness of Gojo at all during the custody battle due to the intricacies of the binding vow (there's a clause where Megumi has to kill himself if Gojo intervenes at all during the span of the agreement. Geto wanted the clause to be that Megumi has to kill his sister, but Megumi threatened to kill Geto and then himself if he made that the clause. Geto doesn't actually want to make Megumi kill himself, it's just a dead man's switch to keep Gojo from swooping in and ending the entire thing prematurely. There's nothing Geto can do to actually stop Gojo, but he can deter Gojo with the consequences of a binding vow which even Gojo cannot break, and he knows Gojo won't actually risk his son, so he'll let the entire thing run it's course naturally). So it's just:

Megumi: *very grumpily going ice skating with Geto's twins because he's under binding vow to play nice and cooperate with the cult members during the terms of the vow*

Geto and Gojo, squatting behind a vendor's cart: *having the world's quietest and most hostile divorcee bitch fight*

[fayesdiary]

Came to the realization that Robin is everything Grima wishes they were and I'm gonna spend an indefinite amount of time obsessing over it

[coochiequeens]

So sorry to post another article about the Kardashians but I really wanted to highlight the term “Vanity Surrogacy”

Everyone thinks Kim Kardashian didn’t want to get fat but actually, she didn’t want to die. 

A hole in her uterus caused by the ripping fingernails of a medical professional was the last straw in a macabre conga-line of fertility issues for the woman who has everything. 

An emergency after the birth of her first child, North, meant: "My doctor had to stick his entire arm in me and detach the placenta with his hand, scraping it away from my uterus with his fingernails," she wrote. After that, everything about her second pregnancy was complicated.

Threatened miscarriage. Endo. Pre-eclampsia. Placenta accreta. Failed surgeries. 

It’s a list that would leave a lot of women – ordinary, feet-of-clay women – thinking that two kids were enough kids. 

But Kim Kardashian is not an ordinary woman, and she wanted more babies. And so, she called someone. And she started researching and, two children later, she’s the self-confessed surrogacy whisperer for Hollywood’s elite. 

Her sister, Khloé, sought her advice when her obstetrician told her that having a second baby would be complicated and risky for her health, too.

"I'm not gonna get into specifics on camera," Khloé said on an episode of The Kardashians. "But they said it's an 80 per cent chance I'll miscarry... [My doctor] said she would feel terrible putting [an embryo] in without warning me that most likely I wouldn't be able to carry."

And Paris Hilton, who was once Kim’s boss, but now inhabits an entirely different world, called her when she got married, and wanted a baby, but didn’t want to get pregnant or give birth.

“Kim told me about (surrogacy) as well,” Hilton told Glamour magazine. “I’m using the same doctor, Dr Huang, who’s the best, and he has a concierge team that deals with everything.” 

She’s helpful like that, Kim. She’s a get-s**t-done kind of woman, and she has strong opinions on the right way to treat the person who’s going to be implanted with your embryo and carry them to full term. 

You should give them extra money for organic fruit and veggies, so you know what’s going in (sister Kourtney thinks you should get to dictate what kind of TV your carrier watches while she’s pregnant, but Kim thinks that’s woo-woo), she said in the same episode of The Kardashians. Kim knows you need to negotiate out all the details upfront, and that you should be mindful of your gestational carrier's feelings.

"I think the right thing to do is get them to come and see the baby at some point before they leave [the hospital]. You have to make decisions like do you want them to pump and send the milk to you every few days." 

Luckily, what Kim also knows is that in Los Angeles, you don’t have to think of all this stuff yourself, because it's a town full of surrogacy attorneys, and surrogacy concierges. In the "surrogacy capital", it's a multi-million dollar business, and although we may never know how much the Kardashian sisters pay for their babies to bake, with all the discretion and extras required, we do know that a more basic model would set you back around $150,000 US. 

Here in Australia, it’s entirely different. 

Surrogacy as a business model is illegal. People who want or need to use a surrogate are only allowed to compensate for expenses incurred. And, although rules vary from state to state, most places in Australia require proof that a surrogate is needed, not only wanted. 

So Kim and Khloé yes, but Paris, probably not.

Back in LA, there are no such boundaries, unless fertility clinics choose to put them in place. And there are two schools of thought about how appropriate that is. 

On the one hand, reproductive science has made parents out of armies of people who might otherwise never have become parents, never experienced parental love, and never have built families they now couldn’t imagine being without. A selfless act of service, to carry a baby for someone who desperately wants one. The most beautiful gift. 

On the other sits a discomfort with the idea of the rich renting the bodies of the less-rich to do the undoubtedly difficult and often risky business of carrying their children. Avoiding the physical toll of pregnancy for a variety of reasons, and the one that people can't shake a suspicion about is... vanity. 

Vanity surrogacy, or Lifestyle Surrogacy, is a contentious issue to some. 

And it doesn't matter how many times Kim or Khloé talk about why they made the choices they made to build their families, there's a bubbling argument that they – and other celebrities, like Hilton – are normalising surrogacy at scale, and it's not to be celebrated by all. 

For example, Proud Fertility, a surrogacy clinic in Canada, declares its opposition to the process on its "about" page.

"Vanity Surrogacy does away with honour and the sole purpose of being a surrogate. It is when a woman who is medically capable of carrying her own baby refuses to do so for cosmetic reasons such as maintaining their body shape. Vanity Surrogacy can only be described as renting the womb of another woman... It is similar with putting up babies for sale or even breeding animals for the market. A woman who chooses to be a Surrogate Mother should do so from her own willingness to give the gift of family to those who are not able to have it."

While others insist it's not anyone's business why a woman chooses not to carry a child, or why another chooses to carry one for her.

“I don’t have issues with it,” Dr Vicken Sahakian from Pacific Fertility Centre in Los Angeles, told The Guardian. “What’s the end result here? Somebody wants to be a parent. I’m facilitating that."

He says that it's not usually superstars like Kardashian who would use "vanity" surrogacy anyway, but mid-tier actresses and models whose livelihood depends on their bodies, and whose schedules will not allow for breaks to get pregnant and give birth. 

"I understand that it’s controversial, it’s borderline unethical for some people, but put yourself in the shoes of a 26-year-old model who is making her living by modelling swimsuits. Tell me something – is it that unethical, to say let’s not destroy this woman’s career?

“If you’re a 28-year-old model or an actor and you get pregnant, you’re going to lose your job – you will. If you want to use a surrogate, I’ll help you.” 

Thanks to Hollywoods sexism and ageism the average of a model is 21 to 23. Using fear of losing jobs to postpone the aging out of a highly competitive industry is a disingenuous reason to exploit another woman.

That's a reality felt by Jamie Chung, an American actress who had twin boys via surrogate in 2021 because she felt she couldn't risk pausing her career. 

"I was terrified of becoming pregnant," she said at the time. "In my industry, it feels like you're easily forgotten if you don't work within the next month of your last job."

For Paris Hilton, her fear wasn't work or money, but birth itself. She has spoken about being assaulted in faux-medical exams as a teenager at boarding school, and said her fear of blood tests and examinations is overwhelming. 

"When I was in The Simple Life," she said. "I had to be in a room when a woman was giving birth and that traumatised me as well. But I want a family so bad, it’s just the physical part of doing it. I’m just so scared… childbirth and death are the two things that scare me more than anything in the world.”

After listening to Kim's advice, Khloé Kardashian did go ahead with surrogacy, and brought her son, Tatum, home in July last year. Just last week, she spoke about how hard it was to go through that process, even with all the concierges in the world.

“A surrogate process – Kim knows – is very hard for me. It’s a mindf**k. It really is the weirdest thing,” she said, on The Kardashians. “People do say it takes a minute to feel connected, but Kim said hers was easy. This is not easy.”

As no choices women make about fertility ever are. However and why ever they make them. 

[go-go-devil]

so tell me about your demon's souls player character (no i haven't started it yet but i want to hear about them all the same!!)

Sure thing!

My Slayer of Demons is an Eastern Woman named Chirin, a lone wanderer without a purpose who willingly ventures into the Fog in hopes of gaining great power. She's a middle-aged woman, I'd say in her mid-to-late 40's, and already has graying hair.

(For the record the game doesn't have any names for regions outside the game. I'm calling her eastern because it just calls skin tones North, South, East, and West)

Unfortunately I've been having issues with actually developing her character like I was able to do with Leiurus. It probably has something to do with the level structure of the game and much shorter story compared to Dark Souls, but at the moment there hasn't been much motivation for me to develop her personality

If anything, I'd actually be saving that for my 2nd playthrough of Demon's Souls!

Next time I wanna recreate Chirin as a temple knight, which off the bat feels more in-line with some of the game's themes compared to a lone wanderer. Having someone who devoted their life to a Forgotten God willingly going into the fog to find answers and quell their doubt in faith, only to discover the truth of their "God" in the most horrific way imaginable... That's some juicy angst right there!

Not to mention it would make her relationship with Patches a bit more interesting ;)

[ziracona]

MI dead reckoning was SHIT

[stars-in-my-damn-eyes]

Wow Vermillion thats so fine and normal!

(Verm my beloved is from @earth2068 )

[kelpiemomma]

i really need to draw khan and emmet hanging out bc they would be such buddies. ingo hates how quickly they bonded bc khan took one look at emmet, at how excited emmet is to battle, and seemed to Immediately like him (it only bc khan had already bonded w ingo, but like hell will he ever admit that. that proves he has emotions! he has to hide those.) khan & emmet battling each other. khan takes over for ingo sometimes on the multi trains except he and emmet get so into battles that they need a chaperone to keep them from getting too rowdy bc somehow (???) they've managed to destroy a couple of train cars??? khan challenges the subway himself (he battles using himself but also his pokemon. he'd rather battle using himself, but ingo and emmet get awfully concerned when he faints so he stops doing it so much). khan and emmet discuss battle tactics (khan insists "offense is the best defense" and "go balls to the walls immediately on attack" and emmet argues for better strategizing and well rounded move pools) and help each other train, offering suggestions and tips and "hey, let's try this maneuver" or "i think it would be better if you did this move first".

not that they don't enjoy an off day, but they definitely bonded well over battles.