#reactive people

[mandana-the-service-pup]

Boomers sure are offended when they think you’re rewarding your dog for “doing nothing”

“Your rewarding for nothing?! You’re just giving treats and hoping for the best!”

If you think my Malinois is doing “nothing” by volunteering a chin rest with her back turned to multiple dogs barking & lunging at her that’s a you problem. My girl gets as many treats as she wants and in return I get a calm dog who volunteers for multiple injections & blood draws in a row with a happy tail and no restraints. If being calm under stress isn’t reward worthy, I’d hate to see how you with your little Yorkie would react to the alternative. Ugh

[epersonae]

Not to be old, but I am thinking about things we lost with the end of over the air TV syndication as a common cultural vector.

I was in a conversation (several conversations) about where to start with Star Trek, and where people started, and ended up formulating the thought that the best way to start is to just randomly encounter whatever happens to be on at the time and go from there. (I know a few people a little older than I am who started with The Animated Series which is a hell of a starting point.) And for decades that meant random reruns in syndication.

Then I just posted about the role of M*A*S*H in my childhood, and that too was all about it just being on kind of in the background all the time.

Then @piratecaptainscaptainpirates posted about seeing declining participation in OFMD stuff, and I was thinking about the same thing that happened gradually after the TAZ Balance finale, and then about fandoms for old shows (both recent-old, someone I follow has been posting a lot of Gallavant gifs? And old-old, like @frommybookbook with Perry Mason), and then, of course, Star Trek.

How much of Star Trek being THE fandom show is due to those years in the 70s and early 80s when TOS was in syndication at whatever random time on whatever local station? (similarly in the US with Doctor Who through the 80s on local PBS stations) When new fans can just happen upon the source material by turning on the TV on a Saturday afternoon, or every weeknight at 7, etc etc.

Idk, I'm sure someone with an actual scholarly background has written something about this, and idk what this means for the future of our little subculture(s), it just made me ponder the landscape that I grew up in that simply does not exist now.

[sergle]

i was a chihuahua disliker in a past life but have Grown Up since then, but earlier i saw one that made me clench my fists in agony. i wanted her so bad...

[3gremlins]

me: i care less about dragon age now, it's been almost decade, i am tired.

*a few crumbs of dragon age news*

THE BEACONS ARE LIT! GONDOR THEDAS CALLS FOR AID DISCOURSE!

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

if 9&10 were "dont wander off", and 11&12 were "the doctor lies", 13s rule #1 is "dont question me"

"have we not had a good time together" shes pointing yaz to the rule that yaz very well knows is there: we can travel if you dont ask me any difficult questions. yaz knows this is the rule - "because you ask too many questions", "this team structure isnt flat" - but she also was the one to invite the doctor into her home so im pretty sure she also knows shes not gonna kicked out that easily. she has some leeway. which she has been using between revolution and flux, which is why the doctor reminds her of the rules

i dont think she'd kick her out though. she wouldnt. i think it's just that the more you break the rule, the more unpleasant she becomes to be around, and eventually youre gonna walk out on your own. she doesnt want you to, she'd rather you stay and dont ask questions. but if youre gonna try to ask questions anyway, i think thats whats gonna happen

and yaz must think so too. because she does back off. because she doesnt want that to happen either. and it does anyway

[valiantvillain]

Do you think Wyll told his father all about Tav, how wonderful they are, and their entire love story before he proposed to them? Do you think Duke Ulder Ravengard watched his son's eyes light up with love and just softened, remembering bitterly just how much time and how much of his son's life he had missed in sending him away? Do you think he gave Wyll and Tav his blessing? Do you think he congratulated Wyll when he gleefully reported back that Tav said yes? Do you think father and son were considering the very tentative plans for a wedding when this was all over?

Do you?

Because I do. I think a great deal about it.

[yeats-infection]

some malkmus / pavement screengrabs from 1992-4

frankfurt 1994 - reading 1992 - australia 1993 - london 1992 - rennes 1992 - bielefeld 1992

[blackbackedjackal]

On top of being a taxidermist, I also have an incredibly well trained puppy so that I'm stronger and sexier than the average dog owner and no one can tell me shit <3

[aingeal98]

I like to think there are two types of mind controlled Cass emergency codes based on the regular Gotham villains that use mental attacks. So for the first instance say the Mad Hatter gets control of Cass. That's a big oh shit moment. If Batgirl is down thanks to a Code Hatter that means every batfam member needs to be calling their superpowered friends for backup because no one is taking any chances after last time when Bruce was all "Let's keep this private and handle it ourselves." and ended up getting kicked around the city by a bloodlusted Cass while the rest of the family either chased after them or Hatter.

But at the same time a Code Hatter is much more preferable to the alternative, which is when she gets hit by Fear Toxin or something similar. Regular mind control they can sort of handle because the villain tends to have a plan for the person they're puppeting. But fear toxin Cass is something else, it's a "Drop everything and find her, yell for Superman if you have to. Just find her and stop her as quickly as possible." situation. It's is a Code Red emergency, batfamily member near the brink of death and needs immediate assistance. Because if left alone with fear gas in her system there's no way Cass doesn't fall back on all her worst mental health moments. Her greatest fear for too long was her own potential as a monster, but she's also very decisive and unafraid of making extreme moves in any battle. This would be no different.

And ultimately they'd all rather deal with a few broken bones than be on 24 hour suicide watch.

[the-writing-mobster]

Because I constantly get hate for WDYW Chapter 49,

(I get it, it's polarizing) allow me to like,,, explain why I went with the plot point? I don't really owe anyone an explanation, and literally fuck any of my haters, they're ants, but I think my readers/people who actually like my writing would like to know the lore behind my choices.

So, context, in chapter 49, Frisk is drugged into obedience by Muffet and Muffet, being the money hungry cunt that she is, sells Frisk's body on the black market. It's a really uncomfortable concept, and when it happened it caused a lot of readers to drop the fic or rant at me in the comments, talk shit about my fic in private forums behind my back, or even imply a bunch of horrible things about me as a person lmao.

So why did I decide to go with this plot?

Well, for one, it all stems from two books: The Hunger Games, Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins and the Empress by S.J Kincaid.

In both of these books, there is a pivotal character who is drugged, manipulated and used for political gain by a dastardly authority figure. In The Empress, this plot point was ESPECIALLY devastating, because it completely changed and corrupted the character into a horrific shell of their old self to where they were actively antagonistic and irredeemable!

This plot device has intrigued and fascinated me ever since. Drugging a protagonist to make them wholly dependent on their abuser/villain, manipulating them, having them at rock bottom is, in my opinion, one of the worst things that can happen to a character... And seeing how the character can overcome it is the greatest triumph!

Ever since reading these books, this plot device has buzzed in the back of my mind and there is a part of me that always tries to recreate it, but I can never come close to perfecting it.

Either I always miss on the addiction part of the manipulation, or I can never commit truly to character corruption. Either way, the closest I've ever gotten to scratching this itch has been in WDYW part 3, but even then, I barely came close to getting it right.

My second reason for choosing the route; In WDYW, Frisk's whole arc is about having control over her own agency/autonomy/fate. What happens to her in Part 3 is the culmination of everything she's ran away from, fought against, and her greatest nightmare come to life. It was the lowest point I could bring her character, and make her face her past demons in a horrifically evil way. But my plan had obviously been that despite all of the torture she survives, that she not only survives but fucking WINS!

That was the whole point, but when I wrote it I was like,,, 17/18 😅, so there was definitely things I wasn't as graceful about.

With that said, would I change anything? Yes. If I could change anything I wrote about part 3, I would do a couple things:

1. Take out that obedience spell Muffet puts on Frisk. The reason I made that was because it was like a catch all spell to keep Frisk in Muffets clutches? But it was pretty OP and seemed like a hand wavey excuse to brush aside plot holes. I should've just simplified the spell to where she was simply tethered to Muffet's soul so Sans couldn't kill Muffet, or teleport Frisk away.

2. Frisk's "obedience" to Muffet should've been entirely addiction based, which would make the plot point of Frisk using determination to burn out her addiction in Part 4, and then eventually Determination becomes the addiction instead, (because overcoming addiction is really fucking hard actually and a constant struggle) a lot stronger.

3. I would probably be much more careful with my word choice in chapter 49. Some of it comes off as sexualization. Not my intention, but it was because I was writing in the creepy photographer's pov and he was objectifying her. In my head I was like, "surely people can read between the lines right???" (They can't. Only a select few fanfic readers have media literacy apparently)

So, TLDR, No chapter 49 was not some author's barely disguised fetish (that's honestly a really gross way to think about my writing and about me as a person) it was my genuine worst nightmare as a woman, and one of my favorite plot devices from two of my favorite books 😭 Please lay off me about chapter 49, and Part 3.

Last but not least... Some art is meant to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.

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[cubbihue]

Yeah I kinda figured that you’re playing a narrator for the story and this narrator you know has some lines that clearly contradict stuff that we see in the asks, which makes us as readers wonder what else the narrator is wrong about. Good job btw! I like it :)

Me every time I post a new FOP update that borders on horror and hoping my followers understand that this series has been dark since the very beginning despite the cutesy artstyle and can apply proper reading comprehension to it.

[rileys-battlecats]

PSA, keep your dog on a leash when you're in a public, unfenced area. dedicated to the lady that just tried to reassure me, "no she's nice! put your dog down! she's nice!" babe i believe you when you say your dog is nice. what you have not considered is that the dog I am holding is NOT nice and WILL attempt to attack your dog if I put him down. also we are RIGHT next to a busy road and there is Nothing stopping your dog from running into traffic. pls put her on a leash im literally begging you it is SO dangerous for her to not be on a leash here

[milktian]

I know I don't go to mha (unless) but why have people automatically assumed "omg he couldn't see or speak to his friends for 8 years" like guys 1) that's not what happened 2) that's just what having friends as an adult is like

when you get older it becomes almost impossible to meet up in person w/ ur old friends. I haven't seen my high school friends in person for actual literal months now, but I still talk to them??? phones are a thing??? long distance communication exists???

I don't think 1-A cut contact completely I think they just stopped meeting up as much cause of work. because they're adults with jobs now.

[liam-summers]

Just watched “Alien: Romulus” and bitchhhhh the gasps I guspt during the last 30 mins…almost started praying cause how tf am I supposed to get THAT imagine out of my mind now? Huh????

[sammygender]

so many people can’t conceptualise emotional neglect as anything other than ‘my parents were cold and distant and never talked about feelings with me’, and this, while being just a general awful problem of course, is also what leads to so much john winchester mischaracterisation. in this essay i will

[stuckinapril]

Its crazy that the US healthcare system still continues in its current form

No it’s SO BROKEN… I have been behind the scenes several times and it’s like wow. The people running these places really do have the passion and enthusiasm of someone who’s been working an office job for 60 years. This genuinely keeps me up at night bc I’m scared that as I grow up / get closer to becoming a neurosurgeon, I’ll lose more and more of my humanity and just become another hospital drone who sees lives as a chore more than like??? Literally humans in need of immediate help???? I def wish things were different but I absolutely intend to be loud where healthcare advocacy is concerned bc I would not stand being complicit in such a dysfunctional system