#providing context and definition

[uncanny-tranny]

Even if you don't agree with incarcerated people having access to education, monetary compensation for work, or whatever, I really hope you acknowledge that so long as you provide the state incentive to imprison people (free labour or whatever it may be), the state will continuously imprison people - especially for non-violent crime.

[micewithknives]

because @thebirdhivemind​ told me to (and i love her dearly (and im bored) so im listening) - some vaguely context-less archaeology quotes:

“we’re so covered in bureaucracy that we wouldn’t know Indigenous management if we tripped over it”

“the Belle-o-meter says 47m” “its not 47m” “it is. i am a very precise scientific measuring instrument”

“welcome to archaeology. please leave the meaning of any and all days at the door”

“WHO FILLED IN THIS PAPERWORK. [extensive pause] oh. i did. i filled in this paperwork.”

*the artefact analysist* “i cant wait until tomorrow when my name stops being a question and just becomes a name again. When I’m just “Steve” not ��hey Steve?”

“one of the fun things about archaeology, and by fun i mean horribly challenging”

“where’s the bag of rice gone though?” “in the back of the Hilux, in the bottom of the white box labelled ‘paperwork’“

“my hands are relatively clean - they’ve only been touching clay”

[mantisgodsdomain]

The base concept of the party we are attempting to build: It is a time of famine. Our main focus is on a pride of bastards. The king of the pride, an unscrupulous "businessman", primarily concerned with his own benefit with no regard for those in the territory he rules, and the lionesses who enforce his will. Regardless of motive, every character here will be working under the same primary motive: power for the pride, resources for the in-group, influence for their king. The precise means through which this is done and setting in which this is accomplished is very malleable, and we will be Fucking Around a lot. Does not matter what species because modifying what species characters are in most TTRPGs is a matter of just reskinning it.

The general aesthetic of what we have to work with: Very chaotic blend of pirate-y apparel (scimitars and eyepatches and ships and et cetera) and what we can best describe as "post-apocalyptic chic". We have no intent of actually including a lot of oceanic themes but the Miscellaneous Piratical Aesthetic Wear is easily appropriatable for our general aesthetic core. We are operating off of "only things that can be obtained in the month of January" for the petsite whose one-cub-a-day mechanism we are using to generate characters so this will be somewhat scattered.

Our selections are based on What We Have Already On Hand mostly from charity bundles, and pre-existing knowledge of modifying TTRPGs for fun. This is, functionally, a glorified creative writing prompt type of thing.

Links to TTRPGs already in the poll: Blades in the Dark, Beam Saber (Afterbirth of the Shadow King), Dangerous Times

[yellowocaballero]

No one left behind 😭👍, that was so cheesy of Felix but I love that for him.

It was SO cheesy and I'm SO proud of him. I think Felix has the biggest heart in the Blue Lions, which is saying a lot. He's way too loyal and loves way too much and it burns him. He's one of the characters who changes most throughout the story, and it was rewarding to show him grow up. And I loved writing him as a POV character, he was perfect - perceptive, insightful, funny, provocative, has lots of internal conflict, starts a lot of external conflict, says what he thinks. and emotionally intelligent or stupid as the situation calls for. 10/10 character.

The conceit of the AU was, of course, "what if the Blue Lions stayed together during the time skip". They were each other's only safety and security, the only people they trusted, and in the most dangerous situation possible they were each other's only safe harbor. The Rules were why they stayed to take care of Dimitri (ergo, it's also "AU where Dimitri wasn't alone for five years"), but I think it was taking care of Dimitri that finally solidified them as a family. To them, it was a replication of what Byleth had done - gaining the ability to show compassionate, empathic, and unconditional love because that love was given to them. As Byleth gains the ability to feel love through the love felt for her. Byleth's upcoming arc is very much a 'oh no, I'm having feelings' journey. AKA Come get your Dimileth food lol

I think Felix is a very loving person, but his love had fueled his hatred and resentment, and he had to re-learn how to show it. That involved releasing a lot of things within him. Becoming a caretaker tends to mature you fast, for better or for worse, and Felix had to process a lot of stuff very quickly. I think namely the fact that Dimitri and Felix had been caught in a toxic PTSD cycle of Felix punishing Dimitri and Dimitri using Felix as a way to punish himself. I think Felix's desire to punish Dimitri was stonewalled by Dimitri's psychotic break, because it must have become incredibly apparent that Dimitri was punishing himself enough for the both of them - and that there was no point to punishing Dimitri at all when Dimitri could barely even understand him. Everybody's seen Dimitri homicidal now and everybody believes him. The homicidality has lost a lot of its monstrousness and evil - it just seems sad, now, the misdirected fear of a sick person. There's no satisfaction out of hating Dimitri anymore. There's no longer any point. And Felix is left alone with the fact that the boy he loved is sick, and needs him, and if Felix was cruel to him now then it would only be cruelty for the sake of cruelty, and he would be no better than Dimitri. I think Felix forgave him, and I think it took a lot of maturity.

Felix's journey is super interesting. He got, like, two side stories with his POV just because I found him so interesting. This is also really why I'm not a Dimitri/Felix person - what they actually have going on is just so much more interesting (same reason I'm not a Dimitri/Dedue guy - Dimitri and Dedue's actual thing is FAR more fascinating). Felix's decision to forgive Dimitri wasn't about Dimitri - it was about Felix, and Felix being nineteen years old, and facing a crossroads of his life where he decided what kind of person he wanted to be (again, another journey Byleth has). Would he exhibit decency, humanity, and compassion to the person he hated the most? And if he did, would it release something old and rotten within him? Who knows! We will! When I post Catleth!

[shiryawashere]

it's going great guys

[obstinaterixatrix]

i just wanted to tell u that i love your tags on the “are you an oldest/middle/youngest/only child” post you’re genuinely so right, the “it’s like astrology for family systems and it’s bullshit” line ESPECIALLY

l've had a death grudge against alfred adler's birth order theory for years because it spawned this whole other thing with bowen like THESE are the traits of OLDEST BROTHER of BROTHERS and THESE are the traits for OLDEST SISTER of SISTERS and THESE are the traits of YOUNGEST BROTHER of SISTERS' shut up shut up shut the fuck up you cannot break the human experience down into definitive reducible categories, The Human Experience doesn’t happen in a vacuum where taking into account one (1) single element of context ✨Solves Personality✨ like at least with OCEAN it’s about levels of traits and different combinations and not about If You Experience [X] You Will Be [Y]. equipotentiality and equifinality. DUH.

[brainwashed-parxie]

Why is there always something going on

[whoredmode]

actually referencing a post i made forever ago i don’t know why i hadn’t realized sooner that marshall winslow’s kids would be about the same age as xóchitl. similarly if we’re to believe that NPC dialogue in sr2 that the hughes family has an adult daughter, she would be close to around like. shaundi’s age in modern day.

i suppose the common through-line here being that these ages provide for a much different interaction and instance of interaction than say, monica and xóchitl or the hughes daughter and the other saints. one thing i’m especially curious about (like what i’d mentioned in the post i linked) is how the winslow kids would interact w xóchitl in particular. bc she has no frame of reference for the saints at all, does not know their history or stilwater’s history, and just kinda got dragged along w them bc of anteros’ interest in her. and for the winslow kids, they’re just the people who helped kill their dad.

which. on a completely different note to this whole post but tangentially related to my last thought. would really like to see all the news/exposés that came out surrounding the aftermath of 2006 (and even up to like. 2013).

[ourladyoftheflytrap]

1 month ago today my exes mom died is it too soon to tell him I unfriended him and ignored his message because I kind of think he raped me

[wild-at-mind]

In all seriousness, when I was in my 20s I spent way too much time reading tumblr and trying to figure out the right opinions to have on everything. It was pretty soul destroying now that I look back.

[kaigome]

my queue is set to fill about 2-3 weeks of my absence but i'm getting married hopefully in the coming year so checking out some wedding venues in pakistan and dubai so i'll be mia from dash for a few weeks! please please reach out to me on discord ( @ / sesshomaru's no. 1 enemy#7911 ) during this time (i fly out june 8th and return july 6th). my dash presence is gonna drop so please bare with me! much love.

[obsidian-vineyard84]

Alright that's enough art for the week

[bluezeri]

more star wars bullshit w a hardly noticeable anakin redesign

[rooolt]

”I would view it this way, I feel like [they] were… young, high school lovers and only knew each other and then they had a really rough break up and then they, you know, dated other people, got some life experience, and then they came back and now they’re like ‘wait, what we had truly was special and we’ve gained a lot of experience through being broken up.’”

“really great makeup sex” …….

WHICH COULD MEAN NOTHING!!!!

[akkivee]

something i like about stage canon is that with the sasasama duet from track 5, it lends itself to the assumption that after their break up the next time samatoki saw sasara was thru radio as he climbed up to stardom and it validates my hc that media was how samatoki found out sasara was just fine without him lol

[ms-bluejay]

mini dump of cursed edits I’ve made to lovingly terrorize my friends