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just thinking about elden ring + how absolutely amazing kalé's questline would've been if they hadn't cut it. genuinely would've considered doing the frenzied flame ending just for that. i feel while elden ring has good character writing overall it has nothing that would've hit on that level
#kalé#merchant kalé#elden ring#miyazaki pls read#that would've been one of my favorite parts of any video game for two separate reasons#part of it is my family background#and the other is that having a character hate the world so much they just want it gone is the Real Shit#video games#kale#merchant kale
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Something I think about a lot and wonder if maybe gets overlooked in Twilight’s story and as vitally indicative of his character is actually in the very first chapter:
Anya isn’t needed for Strix. Twilight decides to adopt her anyway.
[Spoiler warning: Mostly this post deals with early chapters already in the anime but there is reference to chapter 62, which has not yet been animated and will be in season 3]
Twilight decides it — “I’m going to rework the mission so it doesn’t involve a child because that’s too dangerous” and he’s 100% right! Donovan Desmond is canonically a far right warmonger with fascistic authoritarian aims. His government made liberal use of the SSS — a group to mirror the Stasi — who continue to operate in morally dubious ways (much more likely they’re actively morally reprehensible, though we’ve mostly only had rumours of that so far). From what we can tell, Desmond is at best an absent father and likely actually worse than that: if that's how he treats his own children, imagine how he might treat others. And the timeline seems to indicate that the experimentation performed on Anya was done under Desmond's government — even if Twilight isn't aware of experimentation on children, he is aware of both human and animal experimentation under Desmond's government. Taking all that and also the complexity of Strix's aims, undoubtedly there were other things that could be done, more straightforward if not necessarily easier.
So. Why? Why entertain the change at all? And then, having entertained it, why go back when the reasoning is indisputable?
On the Doylist level, I think Endo wanted to ensure that Anya had some agency within the set up — Endo also does this with Yor. It would be much harder to be on Twilight’s side fully, or to trust him on an ethical level/take him as any sort of moral authority, if he were just straightforwardly using these two people. To have them be active and consenting participants (arguably to actually be affirming the arrangement: Twilight sets it up, but Anya and Yor actually make it happen) even if the audience only knows the depth of their knowledge/motivations/etc currently, shifts the power dynamic in important ways.
But it also the set up tells us important things about Twilight. He is largely impatient, cold, detached in chapter one. His overarching feelings towards Anya are, I think, real annoyance, real confusion, and real impatience. He just doesn’t understand this damn kid and it turns out she’s a person which is frankly unacceptable — he’d needed and anticipated an automaton, ideally of himself in miniature form. (Though I think one could ponder whether Twilight was, in many ways, an automaton himself at this point, but that's maybe for another meta 🙃)
He’s not entirely unmoved of course — we're given to understand he’s affected when Franky tells him how many times Anya’s been adopted and returned, and isn't amused by Franky's joke about names. Franky's comment — "Just don't get attached" — reinforces this. The prospect of “the future” perturbs Twilight when he’s reading the parenting books. His initial reaction to Anya’s kidnap is horror. All these are true too.
Then there’s also this, from earlier in the chapter:
It’s exposition, yeah, and it’s also exposing. "Hopes" and "joys" are very specific words to describe those events. It could simply have been "A marriage? An ordinary life?" but describing them as such — hope for marriage; joy in ordinary life — expose something of what Twilight feels about those two experiences and, on the flipside, they expose what he deems he's lacking. No hopes of intimacy; no joy in (an ordinary) life. There's an argument as well, of course, that he's being ironic but I don't think that actually invalidates the above analysis. Drawing attention to 'hope' and 'joy' at all are revealing, regardless of Twilight's tone in thinking of them. I think it's also interesting this panel, taken in conjunction with a pair of panels in chapter 62, Twilight's backstory. The above is almost a pulled out version of this below panel of Twilight's recollection of his childhood, and of course the returning image of not just a rubbish bin but a rubbish bin on fire when it comes to disposing of his identity:
Back to Strix. Both his final interaction with Karen and the whole everything of the framing of Strix is making Twilight think (and feel, ahem) things that he hasn't for some time. Twilight decides, I’m reworking this. It can’t proceed this way. Not because Anya is a pain in his ass, not because she’s not as (apparently) intellectually advanced as he’d originally thought, not even because he thinks he can find another child who would better be exactly what mission parameters called for. No:
And what changes his mind is Anya asking to come home.
One of the important parts of this to me is this:
He seeks consent.
This moment is a keystone, I think, to understanding Twilight. It’s also more telling than he maybe realises. Twilight is decisive — we all laugh because he spirals at the drop of a hat when his daughter or wife look even mildly upset but outside those (also very telling) scenarios, he makes decisions and he pursues them. Often he makes decisions quickly. He’s a dab hand at it; it’s a large part of why he’s as good a spy as he is.
He’d decided to change Strix.
Anya asks him, in essence, not to.
So, he doesn't.
But it's wild that he entertains keeping her request at all — why? Why even entertain it? It’s dangerous; it’s impractical; there are too many moving parts outside his direct control; Anya isn’t the sort of child he’d wanted for the mission if he’d spent any time thinking about what a child might actually be like; Strix is in many ways an extremely long shot anyway, Desmond could just stop attending for reasons unknown and unrelated; etc.
So, yeah, why? Maybe because of this —
In conjunction, I often think of this moment in the cruise arc:
Twilight first naming the feeling as lonesome, and secondly tacitly conceding that he perceives Yor as a companion and that that relationship is important to him, something to be missed. What makes this for me though is that Anya calls this out "Papa's you're so sappy" and Twilight's reaction is that of someone caught-out. He doesn’t say “nuh-uh!” but he may as well have. Essentially, something landed a bit close to home, hm? Maybe some of that hope for marriage? A soupçon of joy of an ordinary life?
Twilight’s loneliness underpins many of his decisions with his family — probably without him being fully conscious of it. I think he is at least somewhat conscious of it, but also if he looks too closely... Well, best not to. I could fill this post, I think, with images that demonstrate his loneliness throughout the series; that sorrowful/pensive close-up of his eye(s) is one of the abiding motifs for Twilight throughout. I'd probably start with this one from Twilight's backstory arc:
Anya's request plays directly off his loneliness. Still though, he doesn’t immediately capitulate — he emphasises Anya’s choice. Is she sure? The last day has been scary for a child (and for him, but he's ignoring that part) and Twilight, in his increasing recognition that Anya is a person, is probably aware in the back of his mind that he hasn’t exactly been warm or welcoming or at all patient with her. Things that people respond to — he's otherwise excellent at manipulating people, so of course he understands this. So. Given she'd just had this scary experience, given he hasn't exactly been great with her: Is she sure? She wants to come home — with him?
I think the moment may get a little lost because Anya says something riffing off his own earlier thoughts and self-revelation (featuring that shadowed, lonely eye motif again!)
Were this a post about Anya, I’d talk about how it’s an important character moment for her as well by way both of demonstrating her agency/choice and also that she isn’t nearly as dumb as Twilight thinks (and the audience, maybe, also thinks).
But in my view, she didn’t actually need to say anything about it making her cry. I think she could simply have said yes in that moment and Twilight would have agreed.
Twilight’s an unreliable narrator; he’s disconnected from his heart and that shrouds his own motivations from himself — something he actually also concedes in this chapter!
And it shrouds from us just how much he actually understands himself. He’s also a master of deflection. Easy to assume or say that bringing Anya home is just to align with Strix. Nothing more to see here; nothing else going on. But also that ripping off of the mask in the panel above — and the literal 'riiip' sound effects — also indicate to us that this is an unveiling to himself.
In my view, Twilight agreeing to Anya's request, deciding to go back to original mission parameters, actually shifts his motivations, subtly. Now he’s committed not only to the original mission goals, but also to Anya. He needs Anya to succeed at Strix, not only for Strix's sake, but also because otherwise the mission will end and she’ll have to go back to the orphanage, and he’s just agreed with her not to do that (not right away, in any case). I don’t think at this point he’s thinking it’s forever — his thoughts throughout the manga indicate he still expects the Forgers to be temporary. I don't think the shift in motivation is necessarily even conscious, but given the set up, I think something inside Twilight recognises that agreeing to bring Anya home is a compact, jointly engaged. Mostly all this has become subsumed into Strix: he makes decisions. He pursues them. He deflects, even from himself. Of course it's just for the mission; this saved him the trouble of reworking it, of figuring out something else. Nothing more to see; no need to think any more on it. And to be fair to him, Strix is very high stakes, resting pretty solely on his shoulders, so of course that is, objectively, motivation enough. Why even consider beyond that?
But I personally think that to the extent he's aware of it at all, there is something else going on, that he wants to have Anya for as long as it takes him to work something else out for her. If that's the case, then of course, we have Occam’s razor: the simplest solution may be the best one.
Maybe Twilight should just keep Anya himself, eh?
[Image description: gif from Spy x Family season 1, episode 1. Twilight and Anya have just found out Anya passed her entrance exam and are overjoyed. Celebratory, Twilight picks Anya up and swoops her into the air as they smile at one another. End image description]
#spy x family#spy x family meta#agent twilight#loid forger#sxf manga#sxf manga spoilers#i haven't talked too much about yor in this but ofc she is also an important part of this dynamic#i’ve been in my thoughts for weeks about twilight and they’re all pouring out 🥲#i tried to work them out in fic first but it was not enough 😤#should I put some of this post behind a cut? pls lmk if yes#also caveat that ofc i'm working from translations which may sometimes miss nuance/be somewhat off from endo's originals#here fandom take this!#gif#and i had a whole section about the complexity of consent in children and particularly a child with anya's background#ultimately tho this is fiction we're discussing and i'm sticking within those parametres pls and thx
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finally did some good art, enjoy ya animals/aff
#ace attorney#apollo justice#trucy wright#klavier gavin#klapollo#my art#fanart#yall better give this at leats 1/5th of the attention that narumitsu family shitpost got yknow?#joking idc lol#reblog what yall want besties#singles kraft forehead#lol#edited because i am STUPID and part of the background was erased so i had to fix that#also i forgor to paint his bracelet in the cheese one
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Feel free to be more specific in comments/notes if you want! If you want to elaborate further, how do you organize them? By role, species, age, alphabetical order, vibes or something else?
#I use a mix of improperly used site (Trello) and writing it all down in Drive (docs and sheets my beloved)#sure I also use tumblr but it's all already written in the sacred texts(?) so that feels like an extension of my note docs#and lol it used to be ALL in my mind. then I learned not to trust my memory too much. anything I think and I like goes down on a note.#that said I'm considering moving it all to Obsidian (as soon as I learn how to use it) because of some nitpicks I have with docs#anyway so far I organized my gw2 ocs in story-relevancy categories: Main. Extra. Background. Companions.#mains do story-relevant stuff. extras are supporting characters to mains or have minor roles in important story stuff. backgrounds are -#- mostly family or part of others' backstory. companions are pets/mounts/constructs/creatures (and get their own subcategories).#I should probably go back and change some OCs' categories though oops#poll#am curious therefore I ask#(and I need to compare how I do these things because I feel like I could improve in some areas)#I poll you answer
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Maybe it's too detailed but i always liked 'the swing' by jean-honoré fragonard for dinluke, with din as the woman swinging toward Luke and maybe away from the armorer or the other mandalorians.
Also I love this project, it's so fun and creative 🥰🥰💖💖
there is something very unrepentantly silly about this, thank you for the prompt!
painted 15 ABY by alderaan's royally sponsored artist, the painting hung in princess leia's office on coruscant for several years
museum title: the swing
alternate title: while exploring an abandoned jedi temple, grogu really wanted to try the swing they found and din wasn't going to say no, this would have been fine except no one told luke they were going to be flying at him from a tree
#dinluke#the mandalorian#digital art#dinluke art#clan of three#master work#had to simplify this a bit bc im a weenie when it comes to detail work#moved the extra background bits out of the tags bc they're my favorite part lol#had to take a short break from tumblr bc seeing my family and tumblr are both bad for my mental health#lol only so much bandwidth in this little noggin
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oc questionnaire - dhes edition
tagged by @vicciouxs (ty!! <3)
NAME: Destiny Rose (he hates his name though. anyone who calls him destiny WILL get decked)
NICKNAME: Dhestyn, Dhes, Dusty, & Tiny (that’s what his grandparents call him)
GENDER: male, he/him
STAR SIGN: leo
HEIGHT: 5'7
ORIENTATION: gay
NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY: american, latino
FAVORITE FRUIT: mangoes
FAVORITE SEASON: summer
FAVORITE FLOWER: sunflower
FAVORITE SCENT: kel's pizza breath uhhh probably his dad's cooking
COFFEE, TEA, OR HOT CHOCOLATE: coffee (he drinks it black)
AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: 2-4
DOGS OR CATS: he actually likes both, but i personally associate him more with dogs
DREAM TRIP: he doesn't have one, but honestly he'd have fun going anywhere
NUMBER OF BLANKETS: 0-1
RANDOM FACT: he was expelled from school halfway through his 8th grade year lol
tagging: @sikoi, @flovoid, @elderwisp, @birdietrait, & @mexipoopy (no pressure ofc!)
#tag game#dhestyn#myedits#returning to my blender roots of character against a solid colored background...#dhes getting expelled is actually the reason he met kel! i mean. sort of. part of it anyway.#his family had to move bc the school he got expelled from was in fact the only middle/high school in his entire small town so.#there wasn't any other school nearby he could transfer to. soooo they moved to the city!#for the record his family was planning to move anyway bc they felt the environment they were in wasn't good for dhes#they were just hoping to let him finish the year first but well. dhes. lol#leave it to him to cause a scene & derail everyone's plans
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you deserved better from me than an oversized uniform and a world full of troubles
#this is tugs#tugs zorran#tugs zip#fortezza bigg city#senjart#quick doodle before bed (1 am)#when you're only 18 and got force-fed a world full of crime and shady hard-to-trust folks#and the middle aged man that you adore and treat as a paragon of salvation is distant and cannot love you ''normally''#while the person that berates you is the one that genuinely loves you but your brain automatically registers any ''insult'' as ''bad''#and you don't know that he cares for you#family'd so hard they started to develop genuine traditional family problems#we're not beating the complicated doomed familyhood allegations with this one 😂😂😂#the faint ''have to'' in the background is like.#''do I care for you because my boss handed you to me as part of my duty''#vs#''do I care for you because I don't want you to end up like me even though I am NOT warm or nice''#also them without their hats. the one thing all z-stacks have in common that indicates them being from the same group#theres lots of details and themes and whatnot in this doodle but my brain is a mush..... erm..... have fun staring#(fixes my glasses and grins like an ape)
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actually queer people are allowed to have a positive relationship with their religious upbringing and queer people are also allowed to be religious and participate in organised religion and yes even if that religion is a form of christianity
#i'm not religious in the sense of believing in a higher power necessarily#but my family's religious background and customs are a part of my identity#and they are an important form of building community#and i'm sick and tired of americans acting like their fundamentalist sects are the only kind of christianity that exists in the world#and therefore it's all evil#shut the up#and if anyone is annoying on this post i'm blocking you#mine#queer
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Huge SA warning for the next chapter. I really do hate that Araki keeps falling on using that as a shock factor/writing crutch twice to the same character now. Though doesn’t the recent chapter kind of confirm Dragona is trans now?
yeah no iv already read the chapter so i knows what up
but for anyone else who hasnt read todays new jojoland chapter PLEASE read this
but im also like
anyone with a brain alreadY knewW she was trans, ARaki im already in her corner, I already support her, you don't have to keep brutalizing her to make her compelling or whatever
im so sick of the transmisogynoir, pick out something else to do with Dragona for the love of god!!!
araki the last 3 parts, seeing a woman and asking if anyone is going to do gross sexual harassment to them and NOT waiting for an answer
#the only good thing was#i love young dragonas lil outfit i think it is very cute her lil headband :)#also her and jodios matching Jo buckle/charm#cuuute#also im like.. id love to know more about their parents background#i dont think were gonna get it because i think the angle of this part is siblings#but im like we know their from new jersey which is where sbr ended give or take#and that Joseph went back to that area with lucy and had his family there#so presumably Barbara grew up there#but like.. did she meet her husband there#or is this a holly incident were their dad was from hawaii and they moved there to be with him#or did they just decide to move there...#TO ME MY BRAIn im like mmm#i have thoughts but probably dont make sense#but im looking im looking soo hard
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au where haku joins the akatsuki after zabuza dies & gossips about itachi with deidara (fic)
#mine#deidara#yuki haku#finally DONE!! still might fix haku's hair more but i dont want to bc i think it's pretty but also it makes it hard to tell it's him </33#itachi is like. wow! haku is just like me fr! he's so cool !! meanwhile haku h8s him for killing off a bloodline limit family kjnfkjf#i've got docs open and i'm typing away lmao god save me from my wips#i've got an OUTLINE. all so i can write the akatsukis pretty boys having a friendship triangle ksnjk lmaooo#im staring at it too much. how phoned in does the cave background look. i've drawn caves before but i'm also so lazy with backgrounds.#his hair is down bc he's letting himself be impractical sometimes <3#also bc im p sure the Hair Up in the bun is part of the hunter nin Disguise
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Perseverance! Rookie member of the EEG’s field research team. She’s a nerd-jock newbie who wants her idols to like her sooooooooooo bad.
-> Biology major with a particular interest in ecology! And bugs she likes bugs. And really all sorts of fun crawly invertebrates.
-> Perse is no stranger to the EEG headquarters, she’d been coming here for years before her official admission to the team! With two older relatives to shadow, she got to know a lot of the older members during her frequent visits. She greatly admires all of them.
-> She maintains some terrariums to raise and study copepods and amphipods. As well as several potted plants.
-> Perse has the same level of passion discussing a new and as of yet undocumented species as she does showing off the cute little house moth that almost gave Maven a heart attack.
-> She’s a hobbyist photographer with a Leica 1(A) 35mm. She’s into wildlife photography, and though her work isn’t very technically impressive, you don’t need to be an ace at something to have fun with it!
-> Perseverance maintains that she is NOT a nerd like her cousin, Maven, is a nerd.
-> She’s very athletic and energetic. She enjoys a daily jog, and plenty of exercise both indoors and outdoors. She loves going on hiking or full on camping trips with her uncle Phoenix.
-> She and Phoenix are very close. They’ve got a really easygoing and playful dynamic, with plenty of in-jokes built up between them. Phoenix was a constant in her early life, almost a third parent. He’d often visit to play with her and to babysit so her dads could enjoy a free evening every so often. He still dotes on her as much as Perse will let him get away with, but he respects that she values having a more adult relationship now. Still with plenty of fun, of course!
-> Perse and Maven weren’t really around each other as young kids, but became friends as they got a little older. Maven’s scientific leanings led to Perse finding and developing her own passion for study and exploration. Maven and the rest of her family have been nothing but supportive and nurturing, and she’s grateful for it. But she wants to make sure they know she’s not just a little girl anymore, and she’s ready to be the one offering support when needed.
-> She’s more than willing to get her hands dirty and to do ‘boring’, menial work. Especially if it means the people she looks up to see how diligent and cooperative she is :)
-> Perse is very needlessly competitive, though in a lighthearted sort of way. She doesn’t mind taking a loss, because it’s more about the challenge than the winning. It’s about the thrill. But don’t expect her to go easy on a challenger, because she still plays to win. Game night is a disaster
#image#alt text#my art#my characters#char: perseverance#set: eeg#flight rising#flight rising art#named after the Perseverence rover!!#she technically started this because i hatched her FR version to commemorate the rover’s landing#though Tune is the one who prompted me to generate a story#Perse’s tattoos are inspired by the ‘family portrait’ engraved on the real rover!!#also. Perse might have a sibling since there’s a twin rover to Perseverance named uhh Optimism i think?#if i do make them a character they’ll get a bug tattoo as well. they won’t be part of the EEG tho. they’ll be a background character#which is fitting bc the Optimism rover is for testing purposes and stays on earth#not a Spirit/Opportunity situation
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Just finished season 6 of the Dragon Prince
(More coherent thoughts in tags)
#tdp#the dragon prince#tdp spoilers#the dragon prince season 6#the dragon prince season six#Jesus where do I even begin#it was so profound#so well written#so raw and emotional and yet so triumphant in some parts#I already related to Soren because of who I am and my relationship with my father#this season was like a stab to the heart#and then it has the gall to make me cry tears of joy#because of the queer wedding and just. all the love#this season had a lot of death and destruction but also so much love#love for partners#love for family#love for friends#it was all so gut wrenching in how it could be both hopeful and tragic#anyways the writers cooked#however I will be asking them to pay for my therapy#someone please talk to me about this season#dms or reblogs idc I need to RANT#also I saw so much symbolism and motifs in the backgrounds and so on FUCCCKKK#please please someone let me ramble about the beautiful writing decisions
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O1: Ruins
O0: Fallen Down
#part 2 of a phone background set#more info in post 00: fallen down#this one features everyone’s favorite goat mom#I didn’t really think I’d like her#but I really do#she reminded me some of my own mom#this was a common theme#characters in this game reminding me of my family#it really helped me bond with them a lot more#but I’ll talk more about that in my next post#thanks#undertale#undertale fanart#toriel#toriel undertale#toriel fanart#phone background
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New art for the Bitter Rabbit Café coming in August!!
All of the Bitter Rabbit shop items are so cute I could screeeeeam
#kuroshitsuji#ciel phantomhive#sebastian michaelis#black butler#grell sutcliff#undertaker#y’all the hats with the bunny ears are seeeending me that’s sooo cuuuute#do we even need to talk about grell I mean my god she’s drop dead gorgeous?!?!!!!!!!!#and undertakers braid is making me love him when I don’t want to lol#their bitter rabbit personas should all be for sale I mean grells is adorable!!!!#and is that who I think it is in the background 👀#as always ciel’s got THE most amazingly stylish outfit on jesus he’s such a style icon#Sebastian getting some gold accents on his suit is wonderful 10/10 he should always have that#also they’re matching bc of course they are lol#Sebastian’s like the parent at Disney that makes you wear matching homemade family tshirts#he thinks it’s cool but really it’s just drowning ciel in embarrassment lol#ok I’m done now! I absolutely love every part of this 🤗#tbh if that’s all the merch we’re getting it could be better tho#mainly talking about the mug here and I can’t see the bag well enough to make a decision on that one#of course I’m always here for any edition of bitter rabbit we can get tho#thinking about flying back to Japan just to sit in this cafe and never move again and also spend all my money lol
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this fic has turned kind of angsty tbh im so sorry everyone
#my stupid brain: what if added outing by the media to the background of this fluffy family fic? because im insane#only me i stg#(the eras tour part is FUN i promise you it's about reclaiming joy in public after the media outs them moreso than the outing itself)#(the outing happens pre fic they've been living with the aftermath for a little while)#also roys just very hard on himself and has had a very hard time of it in general i fear#anyway#fic: rjk eras tour#ted lasso#royjamiekeeley#my writing#it's also literally going to be 12k long im sorry i once again don't know how i got here.
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im considering going back to making shitty youtube videos edited on imovie again just to try and feel some sense of purpose. dont have brawl stars downloaded rn because i kinda fell off on it, but i could to twst vids or something. record my dot connection game dailies or something, idk, just something to do.
#im in a rut of rewatching and rewatching old content and doing nothing all day#and im technically hired rn. but theyre running background checks and then ill have to do a physical and a drug test and whatever#ill probably not even be on the schedule til august. and even then. i could only find a part time position. 30 hrs every two weeks.#im actually starting to feel excited for school to come up just to give me something to throw myself into#so i can ignore my constantly depleting mental health and maybe even find someone else to talk to. in person#i only ever consistently talk to three people outside my family and all communication is on discord. nothing irl. which sucks.#it sucks that i don’t like going outside and meeting people. it sucks that i don’t get to hang out with friends irl. everything sucks.#so yeah. might just start recording dailies for games or something. just to have something im doing.#yea. youtube same name. there’ll probably be a video there tomorrow.
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