#so i'm not tagging it

[pudding-parade]

I think I'm in trouble...

So there's this world I want to use for Purposes™. (Yoder's Glen, if anyone cares.) It's a small world, and it's nice and rural because it's supposed to be an "Amish" world, and it's pre-populated by "Amish" families whom I will mercilessly annihilate and also bulldoze the pre-built lots because I'mma do my own thing. But, it has a shiiiiiiiit-ton of "wild" not-on-a-playable-lot harvestable plants in it everywhere, and aside from the fact that a shit-ton of harvestable plants can cause a shit-ton of lag, I just don't want them there. For Reasons™. But, you can't remove them with Edit Town, for reasons I have never been able to understand. But I want to use this world. For Reasons™. So, CAW is needed. Problem: I have never used CAW. I was never able to get it running with my Origin install, probably because I used a non-standard install path for the game.

So I decided to see if could get CAW to work with my current arrrr'ed game install, which has a standard install path. And lo and behold, it worked. And then I did some Googling and miraculously (because my Google skills are shit) found out how to import downloaded worlds for which you do not have CAW files into CAW. So I did the thing and, holy shit it worked. So now I can remove all the wild harvestables in this world. And remove all the seed spawners that I also don't want. And add/remove/rearrange lots much more easily, which I also want to do.

However, I would also like the world to be a liiiiiiiitle larger. So now I'm thinking, "How hard could it really be to make a world instead of editing this one?" But I don't want to make worlds, for the same Reasons™ that I really don't want to learn how to generally make shit for TS3. But still. There's this whispering in my brain. "How hard could it be?"

So, someone please tell me that it's really, really, really hard and that I really, really, really shouldn't bother and that I really ought to just stay in my damn lane and stick to editing this one. While you're at it, tell me if it's possible to make the CAW window larger. Because this 1024x768 shit has to go...

(Also, hi. Sorry that I haven't been in much of a Tumblring mood. I have been playing TS3, though! Just, you know, saves that aren't fit for public consumption, as usual. I'm kinda feeling like building some shit, though, so maybe I'll have pictures of that at some point. Maybe. Or maybe I'll continue to be a hermit. Who knows?)

[bunnygirl678]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ookido Green | Blue Oak/Red Characters: Red (Pokemon), Red's Mom (Pokemon), Ookido Green | Blue Oak, Ookido Nanami | Daisy Oak Additional Tags: pixiv red, mountain red, Mount Silver, Established Relationship, Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary:

Red lives on Mount Silver, his boyfriend brings up cookies and hot cocoa on Christmas Eve. They exchange gifts, well Green gives Red a gift, Green just wants one thing, for his mountain man to come home.

[sunnylolli]

Something, something, what if it all went really wrong and they were forced to speed-run the brotherly bonding

[lgbtlunaverse]

The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can't post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3× but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren't getting laid enough. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

[kottkrig]

People liking your personal OCs is still such a crazy feeling, I've been doing this for years and ppl asking about them still fills my entire heart with warmth and idk how to handle it

You enjoy this fictional guy I made up for fun?? Whose only content is random artwork or writing made by me and a handful of other artists at most? They have no show/book/game with a large fandom, it's just one person with an art blog?? I love u

[theenemyod]

I think people should be allowed to sleep in the same bed in a non sexual and non romantic way. I think cuddles can happen non sexually and non romantically. I think most acts of affection are non sexual and non romantic until you make it sexual or romantic (other than the obvious things like actual sex is sexual)

[emberfaye]

You know what?

I love you, fics that take months to update. I click on the newest chapter and have no memory of this place and get to go back some chapters and rediscover how much i love everything about this story.

I love you, fics that take years to update. I think of you fondly, and know your names, go search for you and see an update from this year and scream, diving in uncaring of any missed details (i will finish the update and read you in reverse because this is a treat you have bestowed)

I love you, fics that probably will never update again. Thank you for being a roman empire for my mind, thank you for teaching me about the ephemeral fandom experience, for inspiring a thousand million what if-s, for being a comfort read and a nostalgia read and a reread.

I love you fic writers, who jump into projects and stories with enthusiasm. I love you when you succeed in pumping out those chapters and that love doesn't go away when you stop.

I love you fic writers who post and then get in your own head and never feel confident enough to update, whether it's at all or whether it's just that one story.

I love you fic writers, who have a fandom or media hurt you to the point of abandoning or having a hard time with their WIPs.

I love you fic writers, who lose interest or have life changes or illness or bad memory. Thank you for being part of the fandom, a core part of the fandom. Thank you for the time spent in the fandom.

I love you, fic writers who try out something new and then stop. You're so valid.

I love you, WIP fics that may or may not ever get finished. Thank you for brightening my day in the way only you could have.

[doyouknowthisdragartist]

"what's the appeal of drag kings" because women are my favorite guy next question

[aphel1on]

i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good

[captain-legarde]

Pokemon fans be like "I wish we had darker games" then can't handle basic folktale tropes and concepts

[midnight-coffee94]

No single line has ever wrecked me as hard as this one from the Good Place and I think about it constantly

[hoofpeet]

Doing a full pivot in 2025 into dedicating this blog to Between the Lions fanart

[girpgorp]

decided my fetal kwamis deserved a little lore

[shayneysides]

hobie: kill yourself

pavitr: WHAT THE HELL BRO WHAT DID I DO

original format from @ha-youwish in this post!

[kensatou]

studio trigger understood the assignment. i would let her wreck me.

[tofixtheshadows]

I've been thinking a lot lately about how Kabru deprives himself.

Kabru as a character is intertwined with the idea that sometimes we have to sacrifice the needs of the few for the good of the many. He ultimately subverts this first by sabotaging the Canaries and then by letting Laios go, but in practice he's already been living a life of self-sacrifice.

Saving people, and learning the secrets of the dungeons to seal them, are what's important. Not his own comforts. Not his own desires. He forces them down until he doesn't know they're there, until one of them has to come spilling out during the confession in chapter 76.

Specifically, I think it's very significant, in a story about food and all that it entails, that Kabru is rarely shown eating. He's the deuteragonist of Dungeon Meshi, the cooking manga, but while meals are the anchoring points of Laios's journey, given loving focus, for Kabru, they're ... not.

I'm sure he eats during dungeon expeditions, in the routine way that adventurers must when they sit down to camp. But on the surface, you get the idea that Kabru spends most of his time doing his self-assigned dungeon-related tasks: meeting with people, studying them, putting together that evidence board, researching the dungeon, god knows what else. Feeding himself is secondary.

He's introduced during a meal, eating at a restaurant, just to set up the contrast between his party and Laios's. And it's the last normal meal we see him eating until the communal ending feast (if you consider Falin's dragon parts normal).

First, we get this:

Kabru's response here is such a non-answer, it strongly implies to me that he wasn't thinking about it until Rin brought it up. That he might not even be feeling the hunger signals that he logically knew he should.

They sit down to eat, but Kabru is never drawn reaching for food or eating it like the rest of his party. He only drinks.

It's possible this means nothing, that we can just assume he's putting food in his mouth off-panel, but again, this entire manga is about food. Cooking it, eating it, appreciating it, taking pleasure in it, grounding yourself in the necessary routine of it and affirming your right to live by consuming it. It's given such a huge focus.

We don't see him eat again until the harpy egg.

What a significant question for the protagonist to ask his foil in this story about eating! Aren't you hungry? Aren't you, Kabru?

He was revived only minutes ago after a violent encounter. And then he chokes down food that causes him further harm by triggering him, all because he's so determined to stay in Laios's good graces.

In his flashback, we see Milsiril trying to spoon-feed young Kabru cake that we know he doesn't like. He doesn't want to eat: he wants to be training.

Then with Mithrun, we see him eating the least-monstery monster food he can get his hands on, for the sake of survival- walking mushroom, barometz, an egg. The barometz is his first chance to make something like an a real meal, and he actually seems excited about it because he wants to replicate a lamb dish his mother used to make him!

...but he doesn't get to enjoy it like he wanted to.

Then, when all the Canaries are eating field rations ... Kabru still isn't shown eating. He's only shown giving food to Mithrun.

And of course the next time he eats is the bavarois, which for his sake is at least plant based ... but he still has to use a coping mechanism to get through it.

I don't think Kabru does this all on purpose. I think Kui does this all on purpose. Kabru's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder should be understood as informing his character just as much as Laios's autism informs his. It's another way that Kabru and Laios act as foils: where Laios takes pleasure in meals and approaches food with the excitement of discovery, Kabru's experiences with eating are tainted by his trauma. Laios indulges; Kabru denies himself. Laios is shown enjoying food, Kabru is shown struggling with it.

And I can very easily imagine a reason why Kabru might have a subconscious aversion towards eating.

Meals are the privilege of the living.