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[sternentreue]

What warms my heart the most about Veilguard is the many people crawling from the shadows and talking so fondly about the unique and first-time things we got like Lucanis ("hey, I'm ace, finally there is a romance for me") or Taash ("they are just like me!!"). The other day I saw a streamer crying about their trans Rook being acknowledged because they were so happy that they got to see a part of themselves in a game that is usually so heavily underrepresented and it mattered so much to them. For the allos and the cis, these things might be minor or annoying or even worth criticizing but just seeing people step forward and saying "this mattered so much to me, I finally feel seen" tells me that Veilguard is a very good game and they did something great with it.

[janegumball]

Do Ritzy & Ditzy have like, any positive attributes?

Probably not

[gammaraydeath]

as attached as i am to ghoul ro the very short timeline of mass effect 2 does make things a little harder to work out... i want her hair buzzed for lazarus, but also i want it to grow out long enough for her #Iconique hairstyle for at least the latter 2/3 of the game. i want her to be at her absolute worst, not sleeping, not eating, drinking heavily, smoking, spending her downtime staring at the door to her cabin with a gun in her hand, i want her talking to NOBODY but garrus, and i want her to start getting better, putting on weight and muscle (emaciated stickbug to alpha chad) and warming up to those around her, including miranda jacob and edi. i want her relationship with garrus to start out so codependent and intense and to have them simmer down before things get physical. but girl how can all this happen in the span of a few months like come on

[wanderingcritter]

I wish ppl talked more often abt how therianthropy/non-humanity can potentially impact your entire life. I dont just mean having to deal with smaller scale things like daily shifts or species dysphoria (although those can also definitely have long term impacts), I mean like how it can very literally change the trajectory of your life.

Because of my wildebeest theriotype, I have an extremely strong desire to live a nomadic lifestyle, and I 1000% plan to do so as soon as I know how to do it safely/get the money. I will likely never be fully content staying in any one place for a long period of time, I will always seek out drastic and extended types of traveling, which is gonna really impact me down the line given the current structure of human society.

[likethexan]

Honestly Dionysus' love for his mother is on a whole other level

[azaracyy]

"...that's all from me. does any of you have any questions?" "nope! crystal clear." "kew!" "that's good! um... thank you for this discussion." "you're the one who came up with this awesome plan, lopmon. have more confidence in yourself." "kew, kew kew kew!" digimon survive week 2024 day 2: cooperation

[luniviravosshipper]

I have drafted up too many posts about my feelings about being in this fandom lately and particularly about how that feeds into my views on the show. I don’t know.

Was even going to add more onto this but then I’ll probably not be able to even finish my line of thoughts for this post and also again end up saving this to my drafts.

[faaun]

Struggling w identifying the line between arrogance/confidence and also to what extent cynicism is fine

[carriesthewind]

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[npdkondraki]

was telling our sibling abt the weirdo who said not to make ocs and it said "alto clef is the original gary stu" and like. yeah. yeah <3

[cmchill]

Highly self-disparaging vent under the cut, regarding my productivity and effort and suitability for hiring.

[equalperson]

to post some good news on here for once: I finally went from clinical avoidant personality to just avoidant traits!

I've been feeling less avoidant for a while now, but the more I've thought about it, the more I've realized that there's so much more that I can do now without getting self-conscious that I wasn't able to do before.

I can talk to people without ghosting them. I can say things and anticipate praise or neutrality rather than rejection. I actually believe that I'm likeable and not just a smart person doomed by social incompetence.

to visualize it, here's how I registered on the DSM-5 AvPD criteria, IDRlabs' avoidant test, and the social phobia scale when My avoidant personality was at its worst:

...and here's how I register now:

I only fit one criterion (down from four), score high on three domains (down from six), and score 20/80 (below the threshold for pathologization) instead of 30/80 (above threshold).

nonetheless, I say that I have "avoidant traits" instead of that I've fully "recovered" because I still have several issues related to being avoidant: I'm a people-pleaser, easily embarrassed, and prone to shame spirals. but not so much so that it completely prevents Me from having a social life or positive self-image like it did before.

while I don't often subscribe to the notion that My own disabilities are these horrible things I'd never wish on My worst enemy, being avoidant really was/is one of the most difficult things I've had to endure, so I'm honestly rather proud of Myself that I've been able to develop beyond it so much.

[elizabethrobertajones]

Character opinion: Vrtra

I think he's probably my favourite or second favourite character out of Endwalker... Maybe favourite just because I have way more thoughts about him than Zero, who I just want to chew :P

My main approach with weird child characters who talk like they're 10000 years old is to say "You're secretly an immortal dragon!" and the twins got me SO good. I was convinced they were until Alphy's post ARR Hubris journey where I realised only a 16 year old boy could be this confident because an ancient dragon could only do this if they were critically sheltered and had never interacted with humans before, but Alphy seemed so proud of his debate club lyfe that couldn't possibly be true any more.

So I was like "ha ha ha very funny, game! Great work tricking me into thinking that I was about to see my favourite trope and then yanking it away!............................. But I will not stop applying that theory to every weird clever child you drop in front of me."

Anyway, never give up and never stop being you in your own special way because people try to harsh your vibe. There may yet be a kid who has to beg his adoptive big siblings not to overthrow the satrap for mistreating him because he is in fact that very same person they're accusing of child labour violations.

[hehearse]

You got two of the trinity down. No pressure <3

Disregarding our holy trinity of selfless martyrs… I love your S-classes that I raised fanart. I recently got into it, and once again, ur art captivates what I love about this story 🫡

(ps. Kkomaism is my favorite ORV author, and what a delightful surprise that you, my favorite ORV artist, did a collab with them!!!!)

HAHA i haven't read enough of the trash of the count's family which i assume is the third one... maybe i should try reading it again!

AND THANK YOU s classes my beloved.... so many evil things are yet to be drawn.... so much despair to be depicted.... (<- evil intent)

(kkomaism is GREAT, still thinking about their little cannibalistic yoohyun and the "what if the wish maker was yoohyun"... heh <3)

YOU'RE TOO KIND! and kim dokja's cracking face my beloved.... the cracks where he fixed himself up in the dumpster... the cracks on the fingers due to all the strain... the ink leaking through them... heheheh

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Something something about Buck and learning and or teaching.

Something something about Buck teaching when he really needed to be learning.

I just keep thinking about how the show has increasingly - especially last season - put Buck into the role of 'teacher' - including his coma dream. (i'm using teacher for the lack of a better term!) and how in the aftermath of the coma dream - he's been trying to teach but it hasn't worked - instead he's been learning.

I've been musing on the fact that even back in season 1 Buck has been in a teacher role -

Abby learning to chose herself and go for her happiness,

Bobby learning to let people in and Buck being a major part of that because of their developing father-son type relationship

'teaching' Eddie that he could rely on other people for help

Maddie learning at Bucks hand that she didn't need to keep running, that she could lean on him for support and build a new life for herself

Ravi being tutored by Buck in the fire house

even Lucy being given advice by Buck - teaching her through his own experiences in dumb luck

Buck making himself into a teacher in his coma dream and the idea that all these people he has helped teach teaching him that he has a place with them and that he is important

and so many more examples through the seasons that I won't list or I'd be here forever!

Because there has been a lot of emphasis on teaching and learning since Buck woke up from his coma - he learnt he was good at maths, but then wasn't allowed to help Chris with his maths homework because it would be cheating.

used his maths skills to win at Poker - but got taught lessons even in victory - rather than teaching others lessons (whatever they might have been)

Natalia being interested in him because he could teach her about death and things going south pretty quickly when it became evident that Buck needed to learn how to live again rather than be stuck in death

And now we've had several mentions by Tommy of him teaching Buck things - teaching him to fly, teaching him Mauy Thai, all the way to him being his bi awakening is teaching him about a part of himself he didn't know. Things are turned on their head - Buck is the student not the master now

Even with Eddie this season, we've seen him teaching Buck things - rather than Eddie learning from him - Eddie handing over this really important thing going on with Chris - Eddie knowing that Buck would be a better option - that Chris would open up to him more - is teaching Buck about his importance in the Diaz family - re-enforcing that he is part of their life. Its also Eddie who has had the good advice for Buck this time rather than the other way round.

Something something about 'you like to be the guy with the answers' to Buck becoming the guy with the (maths) answers - only for it to fade away and now he's having to learn

Something something about the tie to Buck and death and the resurrection and how Christ was the teacher up to and immediately after his death and resurrection when he left others on earth to spread his teachings and he ascended to learn at the right hand of god

Something something about how that is the key to happiness and that is what Buck has figured out and that is why his journey to figuring that out has had him wearing the bright blue - because in Christianity - that shade of blue is the colour of the kingdom of heaven (because it is the colour of the sky!) so putting Buck in it at all these key markers of his journey is showing him as being on the road to ascension.

This post is a mess - I don't even know what it is any more! I started with one idea about teaching and Tommy and then more kept coming and we ended up here!!!!