#so it doesnt seem as scary

[me-beef]

@im-ashl downloaded the wilting y romhack onto our 3ds for me and im having a BLAST

here's my team so far, I LOOOVE having so many pokemon available to catch

also you would not BELIEVE the difference it makes for gym leaders to use a full team of mildly strategically built pokemon. i rolled up expecting to just button mash my way through like normal and viola ROFLSTOMPED me

[bunnihearted]

being too weird and unlikable and off putting and always being shunned and turned into an outcast everywhere i go and not having felt the connection and healing friendship has on you for so many years has really done a number on me

[sethdomain]

never give c!drm emphatizer ability to analyze c!tommy cause i just saw the worse cluster b and c!tommy analysis ever it makes me want to die.

[imageingrunge]

they will never free my girl nina from that atrocious hair

[gelarshiesprofruitboarder]

tgese pictures haunt me every day what the fuck was this for theres no reason for this to behappening im so scared

[taxinealkaloids]

my take on the agnes/gertrude/elias situationship is that gertrude seems like the most normal one to outsiders (she's less prone to arson/creepy mind reading at inopportune moments), but she is still the archivist and therefore kind of eldritch. everyone in the institute has just sort of accepted that yes, the archivist does sleep with her eyes open/is muttering incantations, and it's the least weird thing she's done this week

ok the funny thing is, technically, if by "most normal" we're going off of who is the most human, Gertrude is the normal one. but I don't believe for a second that that's how she's perceived among the rest of the archive staff lmao. like...all her assistants wind up dead, she actively works to make sure her filing system is the least effective one possible, she takes random mysterious vacations and comes back looking like she's just gone ten rounds with a tornado...I absolutely think that Gertrude has the reputation of being the eccentric on staff. I've prepared this diagram to illustrate my point:

[lemon-wedges]

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[faaun]

i feel rly sad and conflicted abt one of my best friends on earth but idk who to ask for advice bc i usually would have consulted her in this situation lmao

[planetbass]

does anyone else have a hard time comprehending turbo and king candy as being the same person or am i just a specific kind of insane

[matoitech]

the issue with the 'harris cares about you personally and your life would be better w her as president' argument is that it just doesnt work for me bcuz ive seen absolutely zero evidence that harris/the democratic campaign cares abt any issues related to me personally or issues i care about. shes not a fucking candidate for me bcuz the dems rn treat being asked policy like its a silly stupid question u only care abt if ur a republican, Obvoiusly theyre better bcuz theyre Serious politicians unlike trump. obviously if she was the most supportive to me personally campaigner ever i would still not vote for her b4 the democratics in power who have the ability to do it Right Now without even needing to be voted in for it put a fucking arms embargo on israel and actually end the genocide. participating in a massive public genocide is not a Tiny Issue

[this-should-do]

i might need to go on suicide watch or something, for my own safety, im not doing well but i want to make it anyways but i dont trust my brain at the moment to stay on track

[todayisafridaynight]

Is that character gay? *points at Mine*

Allegedly.

[wolfisland]

im halfway through the call of cthulu and im gonna be real i havent actually been given any real reasons to hate cthulu yet beyond "he looks scary and feels evil" and like i imagine that there HAS to be more reasons cthulus seen as irrevocably evil in pop culture as a whole, but the issue is that for lovecraft to convey something being repulsive and evil and scary he has to compare it to or associate it with people of colour, overwhelmingly black people and to a lesser degree nonblack indigenous people.

its kind of absurd the hold that this has on pop culture because it honestly feels like its so blatantly racist and deranged that it doesnt feel like... this could possibly be the seed for some other genuinely interesting horror and fantasy concepts. like ive seen obviously lovecraftian concepts and works that have been just as interesting and scary without even REMOTELY conjuring the same absurd racist imagery was his own actual work does. honest to god the scariest thing about this so far is how fucking RACIST it is.

like its blowing my mind that this was the start of an entire subgenre of horror. what a RIDICULOUS beginning.

[kaseyskat]

my Thoughts on like, normals character and where he's going btw are highly based on his own flaws and like. idk ive kinda seen both sides (normal is a baby and must be protected versus normal needed this ego blow because he was getting too into his head) and I think it's maybe more nuanced than that? cause the thing is. normal is RIGHT to think that his side of things are the morally correct side. he's the one whose seen what the doodler wants and fears and where it came from, he had more perspective on the quest than any of the other teens and I'm not arguing otherwise because it'd be silly. it's HOW he's going about it that puts him firmly into the, "teen character is going to fuck up because they're a teenager" category: as much as he does genuinely try, he's not good at connecting to other people and he does put himself on this pedestal of "i know better and therefore im the best" that isn't exactly the MOST healthy mindset, as a self-proclaimed leader.

that being said, I absolutely understand where he's coming from in this episode in a very. he is hurting and lashing out kind of way? we know why scary is acting the way she is (her own past with her dad + willy trauma=she's still looking for the trauma that justifies her inner darkness) and we know why link is acting the way he is (he's hurt and scared and he never asked for this and he just wants to ensure that he's not the one actively hurting people, he never forgave himself for the casualties of ep2 and the last thing he wants is to add more) and one of normals flaws is his pride, the way he's so sure of what he's doing, he's the best for this and of COURSE it's the right way, he knows that!!!

but he can't empathize with scary right now. very specifically he cannot empathise with her because he can't trust her. and if he can't trust link he can't empathize with him either. normal does view himself as the reason the team is together, and I think that's why he was suddenly on board with kicking scary out when before he was so deadset on helping her: if he personally can't trust anyone, does he really have a team he can lead?

that being said, the shots taken on him recently have been sooo low in comparison. scary has done nothing but bully normal since they reunited. link has been sassy and snippy with normal even since ep26 and it's only gotten worse. normal and taylor don't really have much of a relationship outside the teen friendship circle in general. hermie is angry at normal- and I kinda agree with will that it should NOT solely be up to the players to remember anthony's fucking npc, as funny as it is. as much as I want normal to listen and understand and empathize with scary and link both, it IS a little frustrating when in comparison normals been fucking tanked at every opportunity by the other players- and link's line to normal after he found out about hero actually made me so upset on normal's behalf like dude.

I'm still on the boat that normal should get and deserves a mild villain arc. I desperately want him to team up with hermie and go to the goofs realm alone. I think it might be good for him- both to have a solo adventure with hermie and to have a solo adventure in general, so he can find out why he loves having friends so much. and I think him going through a villain arc would be so narratively compelling, because again, he's not WRONG about the path they should be taking: it isn't underestimating links personal trauma to admit that normal is actually right and he's just so bad at following through. it's just kinda a little tiring sometimes when normal actually does his best to keep the group together and it doesn't work (looking at episode 27 in particular) or when he tries to bury that oak family generational anger the way sparrow and henry do. let him be angry!!!

[discoidal]

queue running low. so is motivation. but i love you and i hope we all eat well i made patty melts and animal style fries while the pink sauce makes it look veryr upsetting it does taste very good and this was my first time caramelizing onions without cheating so if u think about it that way it's been a very big day. i forgot to take pics bc my brother started shovelling things in his mouth at a very fast pace and i had to keep up. american food is good. i used cheddar instead of american cheese bc we dont have any near me but next time im willing to inch closer to a heart attack via patty melt i will source some. also im making cheong (strobbry :))) today or tomorrow whenever the kitchen frees up basically. sorry to everyone i owe letters to. also i swim again tomorrow hopefully i can do a """normal""" amount of laps but ive been constantly in pain the past week so we'll see. if you've made it this long i love you more than the rest shh dont tell them. anyways how was your day

[icewindandboringhorror]

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