#regardless of the task

[campingwiththecharmings]

this lady at my office is nice but omg she micromanages the fuck out of everyone and just does not shut up 😭

[numbuh424]

One of my favorite jokes is L muttering random percentages unprompted whenever Light does anything to indicate that it's affected his likelihood of being Kira. The more absurd, the better.

Light ate breakfast and had a glass of orange juice? 6 percent. He wore his black loafers today instead of his brown ones? 13 percent. He took a shower with cold water at night? 27 percent. Didn't say bless you when someone sneezed? He's slipping - 78 percent. Fully confessed to being Kira? He's being too obvious, 7 percent.

[swagspren]

“Adolin, investigate this broken strap,” “Adolin, solve this murder,” “Adolin, testify in court for the fate of humanity.” This is a lot of pressure to put on a horse girl who just wants to duel

[milkweedman]

finished my hat finally and its super warm and comfy and i keep putting it on and then feeling the strong urge to knit more warm items. and then i take the hat off and can be normal. and then i look at the hat. and im like oh its such a warm and comfy hat though why would i not wear it ? so i put it back on and then the urge returns.

may have knit a cursed hat, basically ?

[chayannesegg]

might be worth noting that tubbo got lore today because he made it canon he warped back from the boat.

i think this was confusing bc he wasn't sure initially how to play it (he is not a lore guy by trade we all know this), and waffled back and forth with it (with fun bits like "it's tuesday" or "it's a time rift"), but he definitely did make it canon.

he has the story: the boat didn't leave, he had his warpstone. he knew they would just steal him back, like they did the first time.

he has the reason: he desperately needed to see sunny before he left; couldn't sit idly by

and he made it clear that's what he wants to have happened. he told his chat to stop "-rp point"-ing him about it multiple times bc he's trying to make it canon (and told fit the same when he came back post-ghost bit).

he also asked sunny's admin whether she wanted their interactions to be filler or canon and she chose canon

plus he had a canon interaction with forever explaining it and asking him to watch over his daughter

and he and sunny built things and interacted with each other based specifically off the info he was kidnapped, that he will have to go, and that they both knew it was coming

so while you may have to ignore or recontextualize some of the goofier interactions when he initially came back (phil/etoiles/fit stuff esp), tubbo did come back, the code attack did happen, it's already been fit into the lore, and i don't doubt sunny is going to tell fit about it this week!!

[liars-dice]

ur either a dol player that savescums builds stats to make the game easier making bank to get rich or ur a dol player that Attempts to stay canon to what ur pc would actually do

[boxesblr]

Rotating Etho's choice to protect his allies in my mind. Obviously they made incredible escapes and held their own but Etho also refusing to sell out Cleo and Grian meant that nearly everyone else died, some died multiple times, most lost additional hearts, hurt alliances (Scott: Gem has no band loyalty!), and did not gain something like 120 hearts total

Meanwhile, Cleo and Grian get to feel secure in their alliance, not go red, and actually finish their tasks. The playing field has obviously been levelled significantly and they still suffered, but Etho facilitated his alliance gaining the most where everyone else lost the most

Obviously it's a display his loyalty first and foremost but he also played the game, ran the numbers, and counted himself out of success knowing it would be diminishing returns to go after them and I just think that's neat

[ejacutastic]

incorporating acceptance that you're just not going to do a task bc your brain/body isn't working right now, skipping the guilt and shame stage where in you still don't get it done, and going straight to just letting yourself do whatever you want or can do is honestly so good for you. shame is a fucking dog shit motivational tool.

[metanarrates]

watched a majora's mask analysis earlier today with my fiancee. my verdict is that I actually really enjoyed the op's interpretations, but that I wished that they talked more about mm's literal level and what one can get from it, rather than talking about those events as if they are strictly metaphor. yes, of course the metaphorical layer of the game is rich to dig into, but it's also such an open-ended and surreal game that it's difficult to nail down every single distinct metaphor that can be derived from its events. which is why I consider it necessary to discuss the way the literal layer presents itself and what sort of motifs and ideas exist there as a baseline before you begin looking at it as metaphor

[notedchampagne]

I think iron infusions normally take a week or two to work and it makes u feel dodgy right after :(

they lied to me

[sky-is-the-limit]

So I have two requested smutty oneshots pending, one with Graves and one with Alex, I'm curious to see if you guys are more into Reader being a civilian or a soldier/part of the TF141.

[uncanny-tranny]

There's this pull in recovery to feel behind in comparison to your peer group, and that's, of course, a valid feeling. It's understandable, but I think a lot of what we don't remember is that... they often aren't starting out in the same place you are.

I think part of the reason so many feel terrible about "being behind" is that it feels like we have to blame ourselves for being behind. If you just weren't affected by it, you'd be right where your peers are, right? It's a way to blame yourself in severe cases.

Recovery isn't about "catching up," I think. It's about pressing the play button and letting yourself live. You might never "catch up," you might never be at the "same level," but that fundamentally doesn't change that your life is worth living how you want it to.

[the-whispers-of-death]

If its not too much of a bother Stone with a reader that has a really heavy accent?

I have a really thick accent and it's hard for english speakers or Americans to understand it

combined with the slang I use that nobody knows what it means, I'll say a sentence and my friends will look am like "wtf did you just say?"

Stone's used to listening to people with a really heavy accent, Sarabi has a thick Russian accent (it was from when he was home-schooled and it just never went away) and Stone himself has a slightly thick Indian accent, so he doesn't quite care that you have a thick accent.

Okay well, he adores hearing you speak and hearing the thick accent, but he doesn't care if he doesn't know some of the slang. He just asks you when he doesn't understand the slang, patient and more than willing to learn about the slang. He then uses the new-found slang with you, so you know that he listens.

Stone gives you a sharp look at someone when they try to complain about your thick accent, his look effectively causing them to shut up. Don't you worry, he understands you.

[brittlebutch]

officially 10K into this fic and having a realization about where I'm at on characterization so far, so i'm wondering:

[jeremy-lemon]

Forcing myself to get into studyblr aesthetics and romanticizing my education when I finally go to college in the hopes of making sure I actually study and do the work cuz then I'll think it's pretty and makes me cool or something

[wordsandrobots]

Today has not been the productive writing day I hoped for, mostly because I massively overstimulated myself gaming yesterday and the storm made it even harder to sleep.

This is especially galling as I'm about two paras short of finishing the thing I was trying to write. Ah well. I'll get it done this week, probably.

(I actually managed decent progress in the fiction department last week, sketching out a couple of important bits of dialogue for later in Akatsuki's Big Adventure and getting to the halfway mark of the next (short) chapter. I just hate the feeling my brain has turned to tapioca.)

(Oh, what the hell, I'm starting to get into the swing of the main characters' dynamic so here's a sneak peak, as a means of reminding myself that I can in fact do this.)

“Hi! Sorry to bother you.” Subtly as I can, I nudge Jaén, whispering, “Hat.”

She rolls her eyes but obligingly takes it off.

The receptionist blinks. “Oh. Aren't you…?”

“Yeah, I'm afraid we're in kind of a pickle.” Helpless and harmless is probably where I want to pitch this. “Miss Jayanaleen got into a small accident just now and we really need to treat her ankle right away. Do you have a first-aid kit we could maybe borrow? Sorry, it's pretty urgent. Can't have her missing the big fight tomorrow, you know?”

I wonder if he's a fan. He certainly brightens up fast. “Yes, of course! You should sit down – please, just over here. I'll be right back.”

“I don't know what's worst,” Jaén complains as we take a seat, “you blowing up my reputation by telling someone I have 'small accidents' or that you said it was 'a pickle'.”

“Well, it is. And everyone gets into accidents, and most people want to help out afterwards. It's human nature.”

“No, human nature just grated my leg on a wall. You're acting like…”

Unable to help myself, I lean my elbows on the table and grin. “Like what?”

“Like I don't know what but I'm beginning to think you can turn it on and off whenever you want.”

“It's the ancient and mysterious art of being nice to people. You've been playing the big bad meanie too long, you probably forgot how it works.”

“Meanie? Fuck, that's worse than pickle. How the hell did I get stuck baby-sitting a weirdo who goes to lap-dancing clubs for medical help and talks like…”

“You still can't work out how to end that sentence, can you?”

“You're real lucky you promised me decent food tonight, you know that?”

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[Note: the hat in question is a beanie at present but this may change on account of official Gundam developments. Again, I swear I wrote all of this before G-Quacks was announced.]

[This scene does in fact take place in the entrance room to a lap-dancing club. The receptionist is a very nice young man called Tomas who, while lacking in the shirt department, has provided me with an excellent way of arranging an upcoming scene that will spark everything going completely off the rails. Thank you, Tomas!]

[Akatsuki's current opinion of Jaén: you are very scary but fortunately I was raised to see the humanity in scary people and also to very effectively gauge how much shit I can get away with.

Jaén's current opinion on Akatsuki: stop making me laugh, I have a public image to uphold.]