#that may or may not help but eh

[danwhobrowses]

Well Critters it's Bells Hells Live Show Day! That snuck up on us quickly didn't it? Felt almost like a few weeks ago that they announced it!

Alas, being across the pond (also tomorrow's Father's Day in the UK) I will have to wait for the VOD, sitting here with my usual Thursday night doses of anticipation, imagination and anxiety, but I hope all that are attending have a great night. So much can happen, so much stuff I want to happen too but ofc some things are long shots - anyone who looks at my feed can tell what I want to happen let's be honest, and there'll be dress up and whatever beyond extra entrance Sam has planned to make his anticipated and grandiose return.

So sing the intro loud, tag your live spoilers just in case, do creepy whispers if Laudna performs a Sending, tell them to stop it if they sneeze, and most of all enjoy the show!

[banesberry-anomoly]

Wonder...

[greasydumbfuck]

thinking about frank and sex (in a sad way)

[junkyardpop]

my contribution to the donnie propaganda, GO VOTE FOR HIM !!!!

i wouldnt be mad about mob winning though (or anyone really lmao its a poll) i love mob i just NEED THE PURPLE AUTISM TURTLE TO WINNN

@autismswagsummit go vote there !! :) o7

[thatisratbehavior]

i am FERAL i am GAY i occasionally get fixated on literary classics(?) but thats OKAY

[ofashesandthorns]

please please please don't bring me to tears when i just did my make up so nice~!

[hahaheart1]

You know how Evoloution is the Youthful Naturalist's ambition?

I wonder if it'd be possible to rewrite it as if the Naturalist was a player doing a preset ambition. Like how someone plays, say, the "Bag a legend" ambtion etc.

I'll probably work on this the moment I get time because it seems like a fun project tbh.

[cannibal-nightmares]

i need to retire my current Wraith and Silco text tones because they've started cheese grating my brain, so i'll characteristically probably make some of Stein soon. Saying this here to ask if anyone would be interested in the files I make and what quips y'all would request. Preferably lines without background music, but i might be able to work around those too cause yeesh theres a lot of music in soul eater, i'll be realistic

on this note i keep thinking at work, "And then I thought, those two have found a love that is sure to last forever..." and subsequently, more poignantly, his ruthlessly delivered, "I know."

the potential is always endless. for example, my general text tone is "Here to ambush me, [Jayce]?" and tones for friends is "Nice of you to join me" and "You're really one of a kind, [Mirage]!" the sound for my work is "Have they had enough?"

[sprontisdabest]

does anyone have any idea how i can slow down my brain? i need to sleep but the voices are too loud

[shock-micro]

in stars and time having the repeated line (You breathe in, and out.) has done wonders for my mental state. like i never really saw the importance of breathing exercises, but having learned a way helps center me when stress is high and keeps things stable otherwise

not only bc of the breathing itself but also bc it gives me a specific thought to hone in on instead of whatever's making me worry!

i actually made the line my status on discord, and one of my friends mentioned it helped them remember to do it too?

[chromotps]

hi hello i had another acelu supernatural AU thought while I was working... I know Original Anon said it wouldn't get into the angels/demons storyline, BUT

what if there was still the doomed-brother plotline? Like, if it's Luffy who's like Sam, destined to be the vessel of a Lucifer-figure... maybe Nika (who I haven't gotten to in my OP read, so I'm just going on vibes) has chosen Luffy as its host. And it's mostly a creature of chaos/not purely evil, but it's so powerful that the longer it inhabits Luffy, the more likely it is that he'll be lost/"taken over"

meanwhile Ace is still the son of Roger, famed demon hunter and has taken on all his skills and tricks... but it's the way Ace is different from Roger—that he still sees Luffy as his brother, someone he knows and loves and has learned to trust—that allows him to save him

[skysybil]

"i don't understand why the murder mystery quests are so hard" (voice of man who forgot speak with dead existed in bg3 and used it for the very first time in act goddamn three)

[medicinemane]

I get very tired of dealing with people who are so busy being "practical" that they're just totally prescriptive

I tend to be, I think, a fairly pragmatic person. Like most years I spend about... maybe $50 on myself for the whole year (this year is going to be a bit higher, but there's also specific utility to what I'm spending it on). I tend to not bother buying myself snacks, cause I know I'm mostly hungry, and if I'm hungry real food is a better deal (I sadly tend to fail to get ahold of the real food either)

My point is that I tend to be very goal oriented (not in a ladder climbing way, in a I set goals and then work towards them kinda way), I tend to be very focused on what will push my situations into being sustainable, I tend to look for high efficiency, low cost, long term solutions

I was... I was talking to that friend I'll say is Dr Jekyll and Mr Dumbass (I was more trying to talk to my dad, but they were both there). It was definitely Mr Dumbass today

For one thing, he was already saying a bunch of really fucking dumb shit where... it's so stupid I'm not even going to repeat it, where it's like the answer for why we don't do that is because it's obviously a moronically stupid idea on top of being immoral, and also totally ineffective you dipshit

So I already wasn't in the mood for him

Then, while talking about visiting my grandma, I mention how in order to start cooking I need sharp knives, none of my knives are sharp (cause my mom's a fool and dulls them all), and how it would really help if I could just take a knife from my grandma since she doesn't cook anymore and just... keep it as my personal knife that I keep sharp

(I can't do this, cause my grandma is... bug fuck crazy, and legit believes that if you gift someone a knife they'll kill people with it which like... where do you even get that idea, like she has literally said before that she'd give money to buy a knife but wouldn't give one as a gift... what?)

Anyway, Mr Dumbass starts going on about how I can just buy a new knife, and it's like no... in your quest for objective practicality you've lost all pragmatism

I don't need to buy a new knife, I need to learn to sharpen knives which... which I just have a bit of a block on cause I've had trouble figuring out how to sharpen stuff so far (I've come to suspect that which of the hard and soft stones you use first and second isn't intuitive and I've been trying to hone with the sharpening stone and sharpen with the honing stone)

Like... to get mean for just a slight moment, shut your fool mouth, you've got more money than I've ever even touched, and while you were poor at one point when you were younger you've clearly forgot, and not everyone can just buy stuff

Also you're saying a bunch of dumb shit tonight with such confidence and it's pissed me off

He's capable of being a very very smart and compassionate person, and then other times he's a damn fool, and far too often he... he talks about practicality without actually understanding how to be practical

Being practical requires working in the confines of reality

...I don't know, I don't think I have all the words I need to explain what I'm saying, but the point is he's annoyed me and people who act like him annoy me where it's like... nothing matters in the end other than if you actually solve something

You can talk all day about what someone "should do", but what matters is what they will do

So it gets frustrating talking with my family with him cause he has all this ideas where it's like... that functionally won't work, and like some of his great ideas are how I can just wait for my grandma to die and get the knife then and it's like... yeah... but I need a knife now dummy, and I have knives, and which is more useful?

Dropping a pretty penny on a new knife, or finishing learning a skill I really fucking need badly and that makes it so I can sharpen things for next to free forever?

...I'm just tired of having to do everything myself and getting no help, that's all. How about you shut your fucking mouth, stop trying to offer advice that's worse than my plans I'm already slowly turning the gears on making happen, and just let me bitch about my idiot relatives?

Laughing at this fool antics when he chooses to do that, legitimately is more helpful than any attempts to help

[lozey]

hi I saw your tags on the musicals poll and im kind of curious about the homophobia comment at the end. is there homophobia in cats? or the cats movie? sorry i only know a little about cats in general

Hey! I'm terrible at explaining things, I really am, but I mean a lot of people who don't like Cats (not *everyone* but a lot), well it comes from a lot.... Homophobic roots. They think its weird, there's "no plot", they think the costumes are strange and they just want to not like it, but a part of them not liking it is inherent homophobia because a lot (and I mean A LOT) of queer people LOVE Cats. Not only that but majority of the actors/actresses who perform in Cats are not straight/ are gender nonconforming. And when you watch Cats, it is unashamedly gay as fuck, either in subtext or context, you can't watch that musical and think everyone performing in it is straight (unless you closed your eyes the entire time). Its in your face about it, even with Rum Tum Tugger, who is portrayed as a womanizer, is hinted at having a romantic relationship with another male character, Mr. Mistoffelees (and sometimes the actors even choose to kiss during Tugger's number, thats how in the face it can be sometimes). And that is just ONE example, I could pull out 50 more.

So you're looking at a lot of LGBTQIA+ people loving this weird and fun musical and some who are performing in this show and you (ambiguous you, not YOU specifically) think its gross and weird. You think the people who like it are strange. The people who are, again, mostly queer.

Its like how a lot of people think furries are gross and weird, and its really telling when majority of furries are people in the queer community, you know what I mean? And you immediately look at furries as a weird sex kink (when its not, it really isn't. Most furries I've met are actually asexual, and I used to go to furry cons all the time, some of the nicest people I've ever met who actually don't appreciate being sexualized).

AND HEY let me clarify that you can hate Cats and NOT be homophobic. Cats isn't everyone's cup of tea, I get it, it IS weird, I'm not saying you have to like Cats or you're being homophobic. I'm a huge Cats fan but I can see a lot (a loooot) of reasons why someone wouldn't like Cats. But there is a certain subset of people (in theatre and out of it) who do not like it for unfortunate reasons, who look at it and see all these queer people in it and immediately don't like it because of that.

Also yes the 2019 Cats movie is super homophobic (imo) and I hate it. It goes out of its way to be SUPER straight, like its overcompensating for its source material being very gay.

Its just a shame that musical theatre fans will be like "We are such a unique group and everyone is valid we love all art here!" and then the second someone says they loves Cats they're like "That show is so weird! Why do you like it? You must like it IRONICALLY, thats the only explanation! IT SUCKS, WHY DO YOU LIKE IT"

And a lot of musical theatre fans will claim its a shame that certain stage actors were in Cats! Why is it a shame? Why do you not like this actor being in Cats?

A huge amount of people don't like Cats because when they think of Cats, they immediately relate it to queer people.

Anyway, thats about all I have to say about that.

[ssaalexblake]

making episode gifsets for me is just making an absurd amount of gifs and then spending days trying to arrange them in a way i find aesthetically pleasing until i give up and get it to ‘eh i guess that’s okay’ territory and hit post in defeat

[moredifferentthanusual]

wait im so confused. people in the notes were acting like it was bad for the doctors to discuss your case in the room? its a shared room and thats where the patient is, obviously they discuss it there. do usians not have shared hospital rooms? do their doctors not talk to them about their health? do they drag the patients out of bed to a consultation room? huh?

Thread from Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez on her experience in a hospital in Cuba