#reactive people

[teophan]

a fantastic commission from @themetalhiro of my Dungeons & Devil Fruits 5e Sniper Marksman, Vinsmoke “Starfall Gunner” Beretta!

it was an absolute treat to work with you, looking forward to the next opportunity to do so!

[mimmixerenard]

FINALLY going to see the Les Mis French revival au Châtelet tonight, I'm so excited (I've had the tickets since April lmfao)

Pardon my French, mais je pense que ça va être une dinguerie, trop trop hâte d'y être

Here's a barricade Eponine doodle to celebrate

[sunlitpath]

“Beauty is to be appreciated, not scrutinized”

This is one of my biggest lessons from Aphrodite, Goddess of Love

I’m no stranger to obsession with the mirror

To nitpicking every possible imperfection till the image in front of my eyes lost meaning

To wanting to- be perfect

Feel perfect

Hair, makeup, face, clothing

Because I equated perfection with safety

With security

With: no one will hurt me if I they can’t find a reason to

My point here is- Thank you, Aphrodite. I wasn’t aware how miserable I was. How much fear and mistrust was built in my heart

[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.

[op-dumpstertruck]

I just realized! Sanji had one of Zoro's earrings, but it looks like he gives it to Kuina. I'm assuming this is a way to let the crew know that he's still alive somewhere, right? Or it's something sad like: Sanji doesn't know if he'll make it out of there, but Kuina can so he can at least show that Kuina is Zoro's kid.

It's a bit of both, I think! I think it was hard for Sanji to part with it, cause he sees it as the wedding ring he never got to have, but he gives it to Kuina as some sort of proof that she's not lying. It's good that she has Zoros hair and generally looks similar to both of them, but... I have not yet explored that here, but I think Zoro changed in the aftermath of their 'deaths'. He's not gonna look at Kuina and go 'oh my kid', he's gonna be enraged by the thought that someone is trying to trick him.

[queer-boo-radley]

[abirddogmoment]

there's this woman in my condo complex with two chihuahuas and they look like nice dogs but she walks one without a leash and this thing has run snarling at rory five times now, crossing streets and parking lots to come at us, and I won't stop walking and let rory greet it because it's maaaaybe 2lbs total and she could crush it by accident with one paw and also shouldn't have to interact with dogs who are barking and snarling at her even if they're tiny, so we keep walking and this dog chases us snarling and this lady is talking shit about me to the other dog owners in the complex but like??? a leash costs $1 at the dollarama down the road

[dykedvonte]

i saw that u have ur own hc for curly and jimmy's backstory; do you have one for anya as well?

I do!!! It's actually a lot less depressing than you think!

I imagine that Anya grew up in an average happy family, well average for whatever lower middle class family is in a world we can assume exist in a place where late stage capitalism won. I'll try to keep this in line with how I describe Curly and Jimmy's backstories but she had a family that tried to uplift her when it matter. They paid attention to what she cared about and made sure they knew she cared. I believe they couldn't support her in school due to her path and the modern expenses but they encouraged her and her every choice. She didn't have parties but she got gifts to help her express and explore herself.

Life was something I think Anya handled well. She was not the top student but she was a good student. She managed her job and school as well as she could and took the PE job so she could go back. She had nothing saved up but she planned in accordance, hence her concern about the baby. She had a good circle of people, maybe not someone who ever got her, but people that heard her out and understood enough to where she always got herself. She had partners and thought about futures but always thought about hers specifically first, not selfishly, but truly asking if they were facing the same directions.

She was always in her own head, not in a bad way though. She was always thinking about what she could do. I think she just liked knowing she could. I think she became a nurse because she wanted to give people choice in the same way she understood it. Doctors just fix a problem but nurses walk you through it, I think Anya

I genuinely believe that because she lived thinking of all the choices she had and all the ways she could overcome things, the fact that she was trapped on board with so little escape and choices, while not being heard or understood really just put the pin in her final acts of agency.

[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...

[thevulturesquadron]

I’ll go ahead and say it so others don’t have to - the real reason some people complain or dislike Rook is cause they’re not the Inquisitor/Lavellan.

Hope now we can all stop waltzing around it, let people have different opinions, and accept they are just opinions and not The One and Only Truth or ground-breaking criticism they often pretend to be.

[flowersforthemachines]

Useless Veilguard fact of the day: Day 16

Veil Jumpers are the only faction that doesn't have a faction-specific goodbye line with the companion of the same faction before the final battle of the game.

Check out the tag for more useless facts: #useless davg fact of the day!

[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!

[vaguely-concerned]

my capacity to see a bad fandom take and just blithely say 'okay! I disagree' internally and move on because it's not my responsibility or concern that someone else thinks that has leveled up so tremendously over the years. I haven't quite escaped the pit of misery yet but I think I'm getting there

[santae-salt]

Good riddance to all of the staff who left. We need people who are level-headed and not so emotional and reactive. They are unpaid volunteers who are here to work for us as the players… Well if you don’t want to do that because you feel CJ is a transphobe, good bye. nobody is responsible for your feelings but you. They can’t stand the game they “work” for — socializing is working now??? I hardly saw half of them ever do any real work moderating and the other half choose sides based on favoritism. Let’s just pray Kytten isn’t the next mod LOL.

not very often is it cloudmin opinion time. but i will say a very heavy fuck you to you. i will choose to believe youre unaware of the pure abuse ive seen from cj towards some of these people

[fadetouchedsilk]

I think it would have been nice if the grocery shopping scene came a bit later tbh, like after we had some more time to get to know everyone. This is less a criticism and more wish fulfillment lmao

Let me use the shopping trip as a chance to make some nice gift purchases and get a smallish cutscene with them after. Perhaps let me turn that into a flirt option too while we’re at it. Lucanis specific, it would be 10/10 if we bought him that knife after hearing more about the wyvern thing. Like yeah he loves the gesture in the moment regardless but imagine how much more !! he would be if that exchange took place weeks prior & Rook Remembered