#so just a huge bummer

[serpentineshine]

My drawing file was not recoverable…

[antigonick]

There was no real comfort in being alone with her thoughts, her memories, but somehow the illusion of freedom lessened her despair.

— Octavia Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, Book I)

[kit-screams-into-the-future]

world's most time-blind onion

[telluricdog]

kingisle whenever they need to coax older players back: HEY YOU PERSON WITH A WALLET!!! REMEMBER DRAGONSPYRE?!? REMEMBER HOW SAD THE LAST ACT MADE YOU FEEL? HERE'S SOMETHING REFERENCING DRAGONSPYRE!! ISNT THAT YOUR FAVORITE?!

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

i actually hate travelling with other people. it is 1000x more stressful than travelling alone because you end up bound to their unhinged decisions and unable to cut loose and make sensible alternative choices that would save you hours of your life and probably a fair bit of money, not to mention the sleepless nights and grey hairs of stressing about other people's complete failures to consider things like whether their forms of transport actually join up, scheduling wise

[faelapis]

i'd love more SU content. but actually there are two more reasons i'm not super keen on a war-era SU show is: 1) it would be kind of a bummer? at least the ending. 2) i feel like the war flashbacks we have are so specific and encapsulates those core moments so well. dunno if we need more.

they're also so wonderfully subjective. the format of indirectly seeing garnet's pov, pearl's pov, lapis' pov, etc as its told to steven. none of them have the full story. none of them can describe everything objectively, so we have to fill things in and get to see how their emotions filter what they talk about. i like that. the war era definitely captures the feeling of the sublime, where we are overwhelmed by the scope of it and are teased by a world we can't quite see. even so, we understand it emotionally. because the characters are resonant, and we understand how it impacts them.

but again. let's be totally honest. i want a bunch of post-future anthology specials focused on different characters, mainly so i can have jasper finally having a shot at happiness. because that's only going to happen in that era.

we can still do lore backstories, btw. i really want a diamond special too so we can have gemkind origins with beautiful poetic & religious framing teasing a mythology of gemkind's earliest history. we could have various characters reflecting on their pasts.

BUT i just want it to be set in the future era (with the necessary flashbacks) so we can have some damn happiness for these characters. because nobody's happy in the war era lol.

[kaiserouo]

i dreamed of a huge fucking uk gabriel as a boss in 3d maplestory with wf harrow like diamond cross helmet redesign and there's moveable parts for his cross/diamond thing as if he's a fucking robot instead of an archangel while having attack skills as fancy as the style with the bosses in actual 2d maplestory in the recent 5 years but i can't draw them out because of how colorful they are

what the fuck am i saying

[autumnrory]

watching rory's joy at the beginning of her internship at the stanford eagle gazette and later when she worms her way back in during season 6 (which like hey whatever happened to that lol) is why i simply cannot accept a universe where she doesn't have a career in journalism

[mwagneto]

markiplier fnaf videos have done more for me than the hungarian government ever has

[possamble]

Post. That. Sad. CHIAPTER.

I genuinely appreciate this so much but that poll is not encouraging so far LMAO

[dorindameddler]

Sorry I know I make this post like once a week but it’s just soooo hard to enjoy bg3 fandom when the racism is such a huge elephant in the room

[represseddepressedqueer]

How do people deal with being in the minority of people in their twenties who no one has ever had a crush on? Knowing that I’m functionally undesirable and that NO ONE has ever looked at me and had a serious romantic+sexual, non-fetishising crush is really fucking bumming me out.

Like I can’t talk about this with friends because they don’t believe and just say that I’m putting myself down, I can’t afford a therapist to talk to about this, and now I’m no longer aroace so I’m getting crushes and finding people attractive while knowing that I’m never going to experience those feelings reciprocated.

I’ve been through objectively worse things in my life but knowing that I’m always going to be yearning for a connection that I’ll never get is enough to make me wanna truly end it all.

Any genuine tips for dealing with this???

[iamnotawomanimagod]

I love over-analyzing media and I have pulled magnificent theories and headcanons out of my ass on the tiniest crumbs in other fandoms before BUT

y'all might be taking this improvised comedy show that is greatly determined by dice rolls a little too seriously

[butchvamp]

i want to get the veilguard artbook but i fear it will make me bonkers in a bad way

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

money doesn't buy happiness or mental stability but it is true that anxiety about concrete things is a lot easier to solve if you have money because the worst-case scenario is just... not as bad

take travelling: one time i was travelling and it turned out my accommodation booking had got lost so i arrived at the hotel to find it was booked out. an event in town meant there was no affordable accommodation nearby. if i had been alone, i don't know what i would have done, because i definitely couldn't afford to stump up the money that would be needed to find last-minute accommodation in that city. but the person i was with had a company credit card, and found me a hotel room. the larger your budget, the smaller the chances there will be nowhere you can stay

another time my flight was delayed, causing me to miss the last bus from the airport. i didn't have enough money to pay for a taxi the whole way to my destination, and my phone wasn't working well enough to let me call my accommodation and let them know i would be arriving after the normal check-in time, either. in the end my family had to transfer me extra money so i could pay for the taxi, and call the accommodation from their phone to pass on the message. if they hadn't been able to do that, i'd have been stuck in shannon airport forever (or at least until someone took pity on me) -- not great

a missed bus or a lost accommodation booking or a delayed flight or a suitcase going astray is a lot easier to deal with if the worst-case scenario is "I have to pay a bunch of money about this" vs "i am stranded with no way of getting to my destination/sleeping alone on the floor of the train station in an unfamiliar city/wearing the same clothes for a week straight with no access to my meds"

now sometimes there is no amount of money that will get you from one location to another because there simply isn't any transport and there is no amount of money that can buy things which aren't available to buy, which is why rural travel requires substantially more planning. however. it can still usually make it less miserable being stuck wherever you ended up / increase your options in general

(also, wow travel emergencies have got so much easier to deal with since roaming data, google maps, + mobile banking became a thing... so much less likely to find yourself lost and penniless, unless travelling somewhere super remote, in which case you've got bigger problems anyway)

[pentaghast]

ok so im having fun w veilguard i do like the characters but idk it hasnt Hit Me like the other games do. there's just something a little off