#they're going thru it so it's okay

[merrinpippy]

on masks

so shockingly miracle mask has huge mask theming in like every aspect. basically every significant character is 'wearing' a mask literally or metaphorically, except for luke who remarks in ludmilla's costume shop that he doesn't think any of the masks suit him (since the events of the previous game luke can be authentically himself now.) this is fun to notice on its own, but there's more to be discussed than just the presence of masks.

every mask in miracle mask backfires on its wearer to some degree! the most obvious case of this is descole and the masked gentleman straight up underestimating their own mask/s and failing to see their plans to the end, and the resulting consequences. dalston and henry's masks of stoicism turn out to have kept them from years of friendship they could have enjoyed, and paint them both as suspects in the masked gentleman case. angela's aloof facade and distance from everyone around her allows her to be kidnapped for a significant portion of the game without anyone but the professor noticing (and even then, he notices that something's up with her, but chalks it up initially as not knowing her anymore). less obviously, emmy's mask only means she'll end up hurting the people she has come to care for even more when the time comes.

most interesting to me, though, is hershel! even as a teen he's remarkably reserved, though clearly passionate. he keeps himself very controlled, and seems to care very much about coming across to others as helpful, grounded, and 'normal'. the interests that we know he has he keeps locked up, literally hidden away in cupboards, not to be acknowledged aloud to himself or others. he never gets angry or ever really displays any stereotypical teen behaviours apart from awkwardness.

now what this means is he is treated as the reliable one who will nonetheless go along with whatever randall wants him to do. he's never particularly assertive (something he will learn to be as an adult) so his willingness is taken for granted. he's put in mortal danger in akbadain because it never occurs to randall that hershel's protests are anything more than for appearance's sake.

and when randall falls and hershel is alone, he yells! he falls to his knees, completely overcome. he cries. he pushes through. and when he reaches angela and henry, alone, covered in dirt, looking completely haunted... they don't even ask him if he's okay. angela bodily shakes him. in the past and present, nobody treats hershel as if he's been through something traumatic - to everyone else, he was either a bystander to or complicit in randall's death, but controlled, mild-mannered and rational hershel is never considered a victim in his own right even after years have passed for everyone to think on it. years after the fact angela apologises to hershel... when she realises she needs his help. and henry immediately accuses him of betraying randall's memory and abandoning him.

and to be clear this isn't me saying oh they're evil or whatever but it's significant that they acknowledge how the trauma affected them and their behaviour from that point forward but it doesn't occur to them that hershel's behaviour and life trajectory was also altered forever! because hershel has for his whole life masked so well that to everyone else he does not have an interior life that isn't puzzle solving.

and the absolute funniest thing about it is that when hershel confesses this all to emmy and luke.... it's immediately back to the investigation, "where do we go now professor!" i'm sure there's no reason to ask if hershel's okay, he's probably unaffected by all that, let's go! readers i laughed out loud. tfw you mask so well everyone forgets you're a person

[writesology]

how grateful i am, to be able to call you mine

[sillyabtmusic]

okay next morning reminiscing. one of my conundrums is in the middle of a concert it always feels like it drags on foreverrrrrrrr even if im enjoying myself but with onewe it felt soooooo fast ....... like idk every song wasn't short by any means but before i knew it the setlist was done and then the encore was done and i didn't realize it bcuz i was having Such a good time and wah ...... they're such a blast to see on stage and it's kind of unreal to me that i got to experience all that :0

[seventh-district]

tfw you're trying to write a Genshin fic but ur memory is shit so u have to leave urself [REMINDERS] to come back and correct your spelling/figure out NPC names/scour the wiki to double-check character and story lore, because if u even so much as glance away from the google doc in the moment you'll lose all of your writing momentum

coughs [link to some other (better) excerpts from the fic since the post didn't make it into the tags and i'm too lazy to remake it]

[periwinkle-the-11th]

chat is it wierd that i know the exact date we became mutuals and lowk wanna celebrate our one year anniversary of being friends?

[bumpscosity]

i'm gonna be honest i'm doing pretty bad rn. i'll live but somethings gonna snap sooner or later

[f0rtuned]

Hi ! It's the anon who asked about the duo stimboard, just wanna say it's alright !! The way I typed that ask does seem confusing anyway, oops, sorry about that !

Anyway can I get a duo stimboard for Plasma B Cell and Memory B Cell from Cells at Work! with themes of books/ library, microbes, and maybe general blue and purple theme? Sorry if it's too much (or too little ) and thanks !

Plasma B Cell & Memory B cell stimboard for anon!

reblogs>>>likes

[bluedesertbruja]

had to go to mexico today (Tj) and this is the cool stuff i saw\happened:

the little ceasers there has a drive thru. american innovation ur nothing.

ordered a frappe fm a coffee shop and it was for real loaded with coffee. i have never had anything so strong. they are holding back the caffeine intake in america. it must be stopped.

i think the barista loaded it the frappe on purpose bc i paid in dollars and she had to do the peso to dollar and vice versa calculation. and i was flustered when i ordered. im sorry.

the caffeine crash wasn't fun : (

the mcdonald's had an ad saying they were selling espressos now. american fast food ur nothing.

we got detained and sent to a secondary location for inspection and it was 'so random'.

has never happened to us. did not enjoy it. was absolutely premeditated.

i hope that white man gets ran over and anyone who chooses to work for border patrol dies <3

[manic-pixie-dream-dude]

I've been watching/reading Death Note every once in a while for the last couple of months and this is the funniest most unserious serious anime ever.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

pinning to the workshop corkboard: you've heard of winston "i'm cassandra" billions clairvoyance concepts for fun & profit, hear also of winston billions sphinx concepts (you must be This understanding of what he means to proceed)

[ofgentleresolve]

( updates. )

i know this was like a really quick turnaround, but i think?? i'm mostly finished with renovating this blog ( i didn't end up changing the url just bc i think it still can work for the muses here...that and i can't really think of a good one at the moment, if i do though i might go back and change it then... ) - i still do need to update the bonds page on some of my muses though!!

but for the time being, aside from switching to a simpler theme ( and darker aesthetic ) here some overall changes i made to the roster:

rewrote & condensed my rules.

moved ga-ram, nell, & alfred over to to main muses status. will eventually make full profile pages for nell and alfred ( planned on doing that for a while anyways - this way, i feel like i have more permission to go ham with them ^^ ).

moved mana & aeri over to request muses. please note, i'm not dropping any threads or dynamics with them- this is just because they both don't have as many active dynamics and threads as the others do.

also moved raphael over to request muses- i was going to take him off, but i know there are still some ppl whom i'd like to throw him at. at this time all threads with raphael are dropped, however.

that's it for now bc i'm tired and i wanna do something else, but hopefully i can get to writing something maybe on sunday/monday, we shall see!!

[serene-sabo]

me reading spoilers abt how wild, wacky and a lil weird maomao and jinshi's relationship is gonna be before they get better and cute and become official much later on in the series that literally wont be animated for a hundred years

[rose-quartz-elephant]

yea okay im not keeping up with this shit anymore

[cursed-spirit-manipulation]

listen this may be Nothing but. Junpei + Kokichi friendship and/or romance. I have some actual reasons for this but a good chunk of it is "I think they have a huge amount of wasted potential + Vibes"

[thebluebygracieabrams]

mann i totally get now why kids with no siblings are so selfish and don't know how to share

[karmaphone]

okay but as someone pretty new to this is there a protocol for getting fundraisers vetted? Like if someone messages me asking to share and they're not vetted yet, is there someone I can ask to vet them?