#the vent is your only option

[dykedvonte]

Mouthwashing Saw au but no one is actually punishing them Pony Express is just that incompetent and the Tulpar that poorly maintained that entering a room and trying to get out without injury just feels like a saw trap.

[son-of-crows-and-rats]

I've rambled about this game before in tags and while I have a lot of complex thoughts on Curly as a character and what he should have done and how fandom responses and discussions have had good and bad takes (and it's all complicated and has layers which is a core point of the game!) one take I've never seen explicitly said for "Curly should have xyz" which I'm surprised to not see is "Curly should have asked Anya what she wanted". We don't know how much he would have listened or if her plan would make sense, but I think it says a lot about how the game's POVs (and some of the fandom) show Anya with little agency and someone who things happen to not someone who does things, and the men on board as the ones who make decisions and decide the course of the narrative for better or worse. I've seen people saying Anya should have been able to get angry and kill Jimmy, and people saying not all victims want violence and it's okay if she just wants to escape and move on. There's also arguments saying Curly should have reported Jimmy, shot him, put him in cryostasis, etc. and arguments saying Curly wasn't being malicious and that he was worried about things like their pay being docked, being locked with that conflict for months, not understanding the situation, etc. And it is complicated! But part of that male-centric view the game critiques (and fandom is against but accidentally perpetuates at times) is saying that it should have been Curly's choice at all. We don't know if Anya would have wanted to have shift scheduling and where she stayed and who spoke to Jimmy changed so he's kept away from her and to leave it at that. We don't know if she would have wanted to report him directly to the company's HR. We only see her when she's at her breaking point and even then her goal is to defend herself and prevent Jimmy from harming anyone. Anything past that is speculation. Obviously certain plans like a murder suicide or something like that would make sense for Curly to be against, but he never bothered to check. He said he would do anything, but didn't ask what that "anything" should be. Not all victims are the same, and not everybody has the same priorities. Part of getting rid of that male-centric toxic rape culture is letting women and victims have their own voices and decide their own paths, and framing the ideal situation as "the man in charge should have decided to protect the woman in xyz way because that's what she needed" instead of "the man in charge should have asked the woman what she needed and protected her that way" is still ultimately one man having control of everything. And we know from the game that doesn't work, even if he's a "good man that means well" and thinks he's inferring what's best. The only way to make sure victims get the support they need is to ask

[lyfrassiredda]

introducing the unwilling captain of the Dynamos, former Inspector Second Class Lyfrassir Edda! 

The AU where lyfrassir tries to hunt the prison mechs down with their shiny new eldritch powers (and a gun) for ditching them while their system was vored by a crusty imperialist’s eldritch sugar mommy.

Unfortunately, they’re not the only survivor of a Near Mechs Encounter interested in finding the crew of the starship Aurora— not by a long shot.

[pampel-mousse]

It will never not completely puzzle me how someone will disrespect a person on purpose and then get surprised that person hates them for it

[silversiren1101]

So that IGN interview with the BG3 team somehow soured my perceptions on writers and designers even more than they already were. Incredible, lol.

[blaze-art]

Me: Oh boy! I can't wait to roleplay on this blog I have spent so much time setting up! All the thought and care that went into-

Tumblr: Bitch you thought! Get deleted motherfucker!

Me: WHAT?! Why?

Tumblr: Spam :)

Me: What about it said to you it was spam?! Ok ok, fine, I've sent a repeal, now give me my blog back.

Tumblr: ...

Me: Tumblr it's been two days where the fuck is my blog?

[choirose]

Noooo I hate y'all who made those wolf cut edits

ALL THE GUYS with this teenager TikTok hair made my ovaries dry and implode ☠️

[phagodyke]

wanted to go to the gym social tn but as I was getting my stuff together to go out, a friend said smth that rly pissed me off and now I'm too fucking angry to go out. fucks sake man

[savage-rhi]

Late night magenta.

[ella-ashmore]

i wonder how you get a license to kill

[kittlyns]

A hard pill for me to swallow lately has been that, despite everything, I'm probably the best version of myself that could've existed. And that's not really a comforting thought.

[thethingything]

so we use these little packs of disposable travel toothbrushes that we can keep next to our bed and don't have to rinse after using them or anything because between executive dysfunction, sensory issues, and fatigue, this is basically the only way we can keep up with brushing our teeth regularly.

anyway, I realised we'd almost ran out and went to buy more and they suddenly aren't available anywhere. we'd get a pack of 24 for relatively cheap and now all I can seem to find are packs of 1 or 2 "travel toothbrushes" that are basically just normal toothbrushes for the same price as a pack of the ones we normally get. the brand that made them has nothing about them on its website besides a pack of 2 toothbrushes listed under the same name that aren't the same product.

so anyway now I need to figure out an alternative for the sake of actually being able to manage our dental hygiene because the one thing that was letting us do that somewhat adequately isn't available anymore

[nekosaskia-v2]

Been trying some diy radical honesty DBT (Dialectical behavior therapy) with my wife (both BPD) where we take a xanax or 2 and then try to talk honestly about our past trauma, problems in our relationship, and sex life and all that stuff. We've only been doing it for like 2 weeks and it's honestly been life-changing. It's helped our relationship so much, especially in vocalizing things that we otherwise just bottle up until one of us snaps at the other. It's been very successful at helping us be more open and honest about how our BPD makes polyamory hard because of irrational jealousy confronting the level of severe codependence we've ended up in. And it's been super helpful in reframing and untangling my wife's sexual/emotional trauma by challenging the narrative that she formed at the time and has reinforced since, creating a scapegoat out of a guy she had a traumatic but non-abusive relationship who hurt her really badly emotionally and had some very bad experiences with taking her virginity when she was like 14, and then projecting all the trauma that happened concurrently and afterwards with getting groomed online by multiple adult men on to him because it's easier to do that to an ex who hurt you irl than an actual predator who is just an avatar sending you texts and pictures online.

[goatmilksoda]

Some people will see you eat something moderately resembling something healthy and go "omg why are you dieting?? You're so thin!!!"

[ask-artsy-oncie]

I'm just so sick - I'm fucking ill.

I just want someone to look at me and see a man. Please. Even if it only happens just one more time.

Is that really too much to ask for?

[radiumrat]

One day I'm gonna ruin my friendship triangle with a Sw*ftie and a l*na del r*y stan by not being able to keep my mouth shut about not being impressed by mediocre white women