#that's what i assume this is idk what else it could be

[theunconcernedembalmer]

Purple sop purple sop purple so

[littlemissshifter]

I really didn't expect you to have only shifted for such a short amount of time... Idk, I always assumed you were a shifter who had spent years in your DRs. You give very solid advice and seem to be very experienced, that gave me the impression that you've shifted for long periods of time. Are you planning on permashifting soon? And how easy would you say shifting is for you now that you've shifted so many times—does it get easier? Do you wake up in your DR EVERY TIME you want to shift? Would you say you could shift tonight without anything holding you back like scripts, CR tasks, future plans etc...

Knowing that others like you who've shifted already also don't shift instantly/on command whenever makes me feel both a little disappointed that even knowing and having experienced it, shifters still struggle at times, and it is also a little relieving as we're all human and it'd feel a little out of reach that kind of level where you shift anytime you desire at any moment.

I'd be really happy if you could answer my previous questions, and also, have you ever shifted to an animated/2D? DR?

Haha thank you!!! Honestly I'm surprised too. Knowing so much already I still struggle sometimes. But it's that knowing that has helped me not to be desparate. I may not have shifted a lot but it's not like it's impossible for me. The reason for shifting so little is also the reason why I'm able to give good advice. Lots and lots of experience in my current reality. Like I mentioned I'm been going through so many spiritual awakenings. Even if I don't shift I feel the connection heavily to my DRs. I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse but I love it either way.

About permashifting, I'm still unsure. I'm working on my better CR script at the moment so let's see where my mind leads me.

Shifting is easy. I do know that. We contradict it ourselves. It was always easy. After shifting and 'not shifting' where I wanted to I'd say all you need is trust. Not in shifting itself but in yourself. That you can do it. No one else can instill that trust in you but you. That's the only thing that's keeping me going atleast.

I don't wake up in my DR everytime I want to shift. But I don't look at it the way people would expect me to. Because there's really nothing to look forward to when I go to sleep. I don't force or hope for my shifts. Whatever it is I'll go along and live in my truth. Because honestly we're already where we want to be. It's a matter of becoming what you want and not changing what you desire. Reality already is. It's you who's becoming it. I just take it as a sign to keep going.

I haven't yet. Also I wouldn't call it a animated DR but one time I did shift to a reality where an anime character looked like/was a real life human. It's the exact opposite of your question but that's as close as an experience I had to anything animated.

Hope this answers everything!!<3

[all-for-the-game-confessions]

idk if it's mean to say and I don't mean it meanly at all. I think there's a weird culture of trauma dumping in this fandom though.

especially when any kind of discourse comes up, ppl seem to feel the need to 'prove' they can talk on a topic/have more authority than others on a topic by telling stories about how they've been through things the discourse is related to.

like when there was discourse around kevin/jean/riko and the cult thing or whatever. and there were ppl giving their opinions, but also a bunch of ppl chiming in to tell traumatic stories about them being in a cult. and it's not that I don't want ppl to speak about their experiences, but rather, I just think it's crazy that some ppl seen to think its relatively normal to jump into a conversation about fictional ppl with real stories about very triggering subjects with no warning whatsoever.

they also often assume by default that anyone who won't speak openly about going through traumatic shit hasn't been through it. which I don't think is good or fair.

I'm not trying to single ppl out either. it's not all the people who were in a cult or only them, its just the first example I could think of. it happens with basically everything though! from rape to homophobia to being abused by your parents, and so on.

I think the bigger problem which I briefly touched on is that it often comes with the assumption that those who don't speak openly about experiencing these things are assumed to not have experienced them. and ppl who do speak openly about it, will often explicitly make those assumptions.

bringing it back to the cult thing cuz it's the example I started with - I remember somebody would make a post (with admittedly a bad take), and then somebody would respond with their take + the fact that they'd been in a cult & add on a bit at the end being like "you wouldn't write a take like this [the original bad take] if you knew what it was like to be in a cult". and while I understand the frustration of ppl saying stupid or offensive or ignorant stuff, it's also stupid, offensive, and ignorant to make the automatic assumption that because someone's take/opinion on a tough subject differs from yours then that means they haven't been through similar experiences to you. because many ppl can experience the same thing and come out with differing opinions.

I just think it sets a bad precedent. it's also often completely unfair to the person they're saying this stuff to, even if they hadn't experienced that stuff themselves. because it also now means that the person hearing the trauma dumping has to respond with perfect civility, be perfectly calm and understanding, or else they'll be seen as not taking the person's experiences seriously. and while I obviously think you should handle somebody telling you their bad experiences with kindness, understanding, etc, this expectation is a little unfair sometimes because it often expects the listener to be perfectly nice, while the person doing the trauma dumping gets away with not being civil back. like they can throw stuff like "fuck you, you stupid bitch" or whatever into their post, essentially freely insult the other person, but the person hearing it can't do anything similar back without looking like The Asshole.

even if u are perfectly calm & understanding anyway, you can still look like The Bad Person if u continue to even respectfully disagree, becuz the trauma dumping person can just say something like "I experienced x and told you My Opinion and you still disagree 😡". and unless you want to openly admit you've also experienced x, you can't rlly defend urself.

all this to say. I don't think it's good to have this attitude of only being able to speak on things or having authority over others to speak on things if you've experienced said things. becuz on a platform like this, the only way to know if somebody has had those experiences is if they tell you. so it sets this expectation to talk about it. and I think it's normal not to want to talk about the bad shit you've been through with strangers on the Internet for brownie points. additionally. everybody's been through shit. it might not be the same shit as you, but it's important to remember that. we should all be trying to not make bold assumptions about people we don't know just because they think differently to us.

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[fortheturnstiles]

graham gives an update on a football game during the show

[egophiliac]

messing around with techniques! I...like the foxman and the catboy a lot okay

also, a couple of quickies that honestly don't deserve any more effort than I've already given them:

[anghraine]

One of the weirder parts of being formally tested for autism as an adult—apart from the hellscape of hours of math hell—was that they kept asking me for my conclusions or opinions about things I had very little knowledge of. These weren't basic facts you'd expect someone to pick up in the course of a standard US education, and I kept repeating that I would have to do actual research to form opinions on subjects I had no significant information about.

Obviously, "not opinionated" isn't a major problem for me when I do have a reasonable amount of information, but my eventual diagnosis specifically mentioned that I kept repeating that I would have to do more research to acquire the necessary baseline of data for forming opinions on [whatever], and that the phrasing of my various refusals tended to be identical or very similar (I didn't see any need to alter my wording when I was simply repeating the same position over and over).

*cough*

Anyway this is also about Star Trek. (Surprise.) I knew Spock would be relatable before we started the grand TOS watch, but did not expect him to be the most relatable character on television ever, and his continual refusals to deliver opinions without enough data for informed theories was actually a big part of this.

[somegrumpynerd]

Does anyone else hc that Nightmare can like, absorb his tentacles back into his body sometimes? Like the way Stitch does with his extra arms?

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

I am once again going down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out the ages of the Gallifrey characters

[nostalgia-tblr]

"are people not into that?" i ask, after posting my weird niche shit to the internet, despite knowing it to be weird niche shit.

[ssaalexblake]

feel like knowing the difference between a show/movie that has been made for adult consumption but has been totally defanged and sanitised by removing all blood and colourful language to keep the rating down so it can have a wider and younger audience, and a piece of media that was Always made to be consumed by children/young adults and is therefore deliberately made to predominantly work for those age groups, is an important skill for media analysis that many in fandom lack.

[mouse-wife]

liberals when u say u dont like joe biden

[risingsunresistance]

"To put it bluntly, players running Slime Minion setups are generating far too many coins every day, through corrupted fragments. This sell price nerf only applies to corrupted fragments."

damn, goodbye my beautiful minions o7

[agayconcept]

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[futuretrain]

having kara zor-el thoughts today about her getting out of her ship, and she does not yet know what she is doing so years after she was supposed to. she is trying to focus not on what she's lost, but what she still has, and her first thought is "kal can't sleep without a lullaby, i need to find him and sing him to sleep, he must be so scared and alone" because she is scared, she is alone, she wants nothing more than for someone to sing her to sleep, but it will never happen again, and if she amounts to anything now that the future she was supposed to have is gone, she will do it for her little cousin, who will never even know krypton if not for her

but her cousin is not the little baby she used to babysit, he is a grown adult, older than kara is, and she wonders how the people who took care of him got him to sleep without knowing the kryptonian lullabies he was used to (how will she sleep now?), how quickly kal adapted to the lullabies of earth instead (did he forget the sound of his home entirely?), or who she would have to sing to sleep now that kal-el doesn't need her (who can she ever share with? will she forget, too?)

[priceofreedom]

rebirth is gonna destroy us i just know it

[adarkermiserablecrow]

Ok so now im kinda scared for 8x08 bc there is so much Stuff to sort through and it's still 42 minutes and there's a big emergency and it's the fall finale