#psi babbling

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There has to be at least one other person on this planet who knows very little to nothing about Touhou, but arbitrarily chose a favorite character based on the Bad Apple!! music video.

I saw Ibuki Suika in silhouette and found her very endearing, idk what to tell you

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[Santa Ana Winds voice]

You might say, "Don't do it, wind

Leave these poor people alone"

But I'm a prankster

Tee-hee-hee-hee

I just wanna see what will happen

having tortured ocs is so funny bc some of em im projecting personal issues onto & some of em im just like Fuck You. Random Chimp Event

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For me it’s no longer enough that Daemon bend the knee, he’s gotta bend the niece. Over a table. They should bang it out until he feels better and ready to be a team player again

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Shoutout to all the Daemyras who are able to rejoice after that season finale. I’m with y’all but I’m also too emotionally exhausted to fully appreciate the reunion right now, because it’s been a LONG summer.

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My grandma’s a great cook, it’s just that I can’t memorize her recipe because she doesn’t use one! It’s all vibes and throwing in whatever seasoning is nearby that strikes her fancy!

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He’s handsome. He’s bisexual. He’s got back pain. He’s an avid reader. He’s politically incoherent. I didn’t say his name, but he popped into your head, didn’t he?

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Anyone got that post that’s formatted like a greentext and it’s something like

> see a callout post

> are the victims real or fictional?

> “THEYRE A PREDATOR!!!!”

> are the victims real or fictional?

> read the callout

> fictional

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Hi, this is the op from the Heroes text post. I always think of it like this: Nathan, being a politician, having that power in and of itself, while also him having the ability to fly. Making him the "one of them." He has people with abilities captured, rounded up, put into places to cure them, etc.

WHILE also being someone with abilities.

That says to me in this world right now. He would be some gay republican politician.

Getting legislation out there that puts Queer people in direct harm. And being a massive hypocrite about it. The older i got from when i first watched the show, to this day, am more aware politically and am myself Queer. So its always interesting still being heavily into something since u were little and now being able to rly understand it. (I was 10 when it aired in 2006)

I only got into Heroes a few years ago, and I think your interpretation of Nathan as the equivalent of a gay Republican is accurate, as well as popular (at least in the tumblr side of the fandom.) Many see Nathan as being literally a queer presumably-right-wing politician on top of being one in a metaphorical sense.

Honestly, the interpretation I want to push more is that Peter’s a moron, a possibility-codependent idiot. “He’s never let me down!” No, Nathan’s only thrown Peter under the bus by claiming he’s mentally disturbed in front of the press, sabotaged his efforts to find out how to save the world by ruining the painting, worked with the people who were chasing Claire, and consistently demonstrated disinterest in using policy to protect those with powers. But that’s not “letting Peter down!” (He also once punched Peter in the face for cheating on a chemistry test in the comics, but who’s counting?)

Either way, I definitely agree that it’s real interesting to come back to media you didn’t fully understand as a child and be able to see the nuances and add your own insights.

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Asking what flying whales eat actually is a springboard for even MORE creativity!

The thing about fantasy worldbuilding is that verisimilitude and the rule of cool are not enemies. Someone who looks at a pod of flying whales and asks "what do they eat?" is not being a spoilsport – they're engaging with the premise. There are any number of much more serious objections to aerial megafauna than lack of any obvious role in a trophic web that could have been raised if they just wanted to shoot the idea down; a person who wants to know what the flying whales eat is all but explicitly yes-anding the idea. Sure, you might not have an answer at your fingertips, but acting like it's unimaginative for them to have asked is a really fucking weird way to react.

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Being a shipper is so funny sometimes bc you get like a Victorian era perspective on intimacy. “He TOUCHED her ELBOW (through two layers of clothing) That’s SO intimate I’m going feral and rattling the bars of my enclosure HOLY SHIT get my fainting couch!”

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Is this anything

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rewatching Saiki K!! on episode three and hairo’s mental declaration of love caught me SO off guard lol

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If memory serves, my pretend games as a kid, at least when I was alone, included

Princess with a Little Mermaid Return to the Sea style of wanting to be a mermaid, and the witch who’d make predatory deals with her and turn her into some kind of sea vampire thing

Group of girls exploring a haunted house for a school project, getting captured by various monsters, and trying to help the ghost of a man trapped in the manor to defeat his evil witch-ghost mom

Vampire girl attending a macabre high school in a kind of knock-off monster high scenario, struggling to choose between hypothetical cute monster-boys. This character was popular but not mean, and her clique would only talk shit to a group of meaner, also-popular-ish girls. (Note that I’d play this Alone)

Witch making potions

Sometimes Sailor Scouts (I’d use a yellow headband I had to be Sailor Moon, or some sight word flash cards to be Sailor Mars)

Young warrior tasked with collecting the Four Elemental Staves to save her kingdom from… something (this was because Grandma’s house had these really cool canes my uncle’s made for her (and one for my mom) and they gave me four elements vibes)

I once played Not-Hogwarts Wizard School with my cousin, and another time I played Princess kidnapped by pirates who had to learn to adapt to seafaring life

I think I played sleeping beauty all of once

One of the things I liked to do was use Lincoln logs and pretend it was an alternate version of Puritan New England where they were going to sacrifice a person inside a five-story tall Lincoln log pyre as a “cake” for their god. (Unclear if this was the Christian God or another deity whose religion resulted in something similar to Puritanism except with human sacrifice.) The person being sacrificed was given a window to speak to their lover while the tower was being built around them

“You never pretended to be a bride when you were a little girl?” No???? Like literally never?

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Ngl I think many antis could stand to ask themselves, “Does the thought of dark themes in my fictional media make me upset or uncomfortable on an individual level, or am I just afraid of social ostracism if I were to let myself enjoy them?”

I don’t think I’m the person to pose this question to antis, however, because I’m lowkey not sure if I’m equipped to engage with those grappling with the struggles of maybe actually wanting to be proshippers or whatever.

All I know is that the brain prison of a social panopticon surgically picking through your every thought sounds nightmarish to me

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