#topic tracking

[gailynovelry]

I don’t like getting intense over petty things, but why are people calling large paragraphs “bad formatting” now. It’s just formatting. Sometimes, a larger paragraph serves its text well, and sometimes it doesn’t, and there is a LOT more that goes into making a text block readable than length alone.

Please please please fucking please stop inventing all-encompassing arbitrary rules about what features define “good” art and “bad” art.

[waywardstation]

Pokemon Masters shared this on Twitter after a period where everyone was able to vote for their favorite story events. Submas being number 1 and 4, and PLA content getting 2, 5, and 7 makes me very happy :)

[coffeehelly]

its really interesting to me how kaidou says he feels like saiki is protecting/looking out for all of them somehow. like do they all have some kind of innate sense that the Weird Things happening around them are saikis doing? or do you think saiki gives off a strong "if anything happens to my friends im going to become the joker" vibe that he doesnt even notice

[yogoblog]

my piece for @bloodlineszine: serket edition! sometimes when you do a whoopsie, what can you do but say... my 8ad?? and also perhaps peruse the full zine, as penance? 🕷️😅

[hualianisms]

something i find tragic and messed up is how XL's worst trauma and HC's worst trauma are the same event - XL being stabbed 100 times. why that was traumatic for XL is self-explanatory. for HC, witnessing that was so traumatic that it single-handedly turned him into a supreme ghost king. it was the trauma of being powerless, watching his beloved go through hell unable to do a thing to stop it.

this trauma directly parallels HC's original childhood trauma, of being powerless as a child who couldn't defend himself from his bullies and abusers. he hates himself and judges himself very harshly for being "weak" as a child, blaming himself for his own trauma. just see the way he treats e'ming (who i believe represents the emotions of his child self), the way he drew himself in his mural, and the way he treated the statue of hong hong-er in the extras, and you can guess how HC views his child self.

HC's trauma response was to spend 800 years becoming the strongest possible, extremely wealthy and powerful so that he can protect and provide for his beloved the way he never could when he was a human kid or a small ghost. he also wanted to be as strong as possible so that he never has to feel like that "weak" child again. the trauma of powerlessness truly shapes so much of HC's personality

[creekfiend]

ppl who have used T in topical gel form, how many days of application did it take before u started feeling/seeing changes?

ETA: specifically low dose T, specifically looking at stuff relating to chronic illness & pain but anything else is fine data too

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

I don't think i have a particular love language nor do I believe & understand the concept of having one defined love language , we need different forms of love at different phases of our lives , sometimes you need someone to listen to you and you wish to hear the words of affirmation which makes you feel understood, sometimes a hug can worth more than a thousand words or just holding hands in silence can be more meaningful othertimes it's about how you want to share things that are dear to you like your music, the photos you took , sometimes when things get busy it's important to go out on long walk to spend time together but it is also important to realise things can get exhausting oftentimes in life and all you want be is in peace so being a form of peace to your partner is also a way of expressing your love for them , remembering the small details about someone can make them feel seen I am not talking about the way they dress but rather avoiding certain things which can upset /disappoint them or randomly bringing white tulips while coming back home cuz they love it , I also believe love is stored in the all small acts we do and it's just about how we want to bring it out , I still remember reading how Kafka fell in love with Melina cuz she was able to translate his works and Kafka felt deeply Seen and understood when he read them .

[daz4i]

atsushi being sassy/salty, imo, is just a little comical way in which his... not quite essence, but inner feelings? express themelves. and i don't think that contradicts him being soft - in fact, i think these qualities enhance each other

atsushi being sweet despite having the ability to be cold, even murderous (i think beast shows it well, the fact he DOES have this instinct inside him - not just by showing how easily he became a killer, but also that bit about the beginning, how beast!akutagawa's solution to starving was eating weeds, while canon!atsushi went straight to thinking how he's gonna have to become a thief), is just proof that he's making that choice consciously

even when he's like, complaining to the audience, kinda, about his money when he takes kyouka on their "date", the fact is he still took her on it, he still made a choice to spend it on her to make sure she has a good day. he can be salty, but despite it he chooses to be kind

even with akutagawa. he's always like ready to attack him on sight, but he DID let him lean on his shoulder in that boat, he did protect his head while breaking through that window, he did show kindness to someone who is supposed to be his enemy

atsushi comes from a harsh background, his instincts lean more towards rudeness and selfishness at best and violence at worst, and despite that he chooses to be kind, to help, to be gentle when needed.

this is another way in which he embodies one of bsd's core messages, i think. while other characters lean more towards "you can always start again, you can always be good now even if you weren't before" (dazai, kyouka, akutagawa, odasaku just off the top of my head), atsushi is a slightly different version of this sentiment - "your past doesn't define you, your actions do".

and the beautiful thing is he still struggles with it. he's still quite violent at times, he has an entire breakdown about it in dead apple, he doesn't kill but he does maim. and yet he keeps going, he keeps making that choice every day, because he knows that's what he needs to do in order to live.

[a-vague-yet-menacing-agency]

Old news but the fact that Cody was manager at hot topic is so unexplored in fandom. Like he wasn't some shithead employee he was the boss Entry level retail workers are so rarely promoted to manager nowadays, like, was Cody just that good at selling/managing the store? Also, managers make good money. Okay, haha, it's a hot topic, but store managers make like 70,000$ a year (CAD). They have health insurance. So Cody was actually doing pretty well. It's kinda weird to pretend he was on the same level as his friend with just a standard sales associate position, even if that friend was also full-time. Like the power and responsibility that Cody actually had is kind of impressive especially for 28.

AND then! To become a carnie! Like sick move and also Cody lost all his money anyway but the financial disparity! Was Murph probably thinking of like an assistant manager position which would make more sense with Cody's vibe? Probably. Is it funnier to imagine that Cody had to make sales reports to corporate and design store planograms? Absolutely.

Cody was management.

[ckret2]

i know this is like a weird and terrible question😨😨 but does bill get periods?? and how would that look like??

You're not only not the first person to ask, nor the second person; you're also not the first or the second person to insult yourself for asking a common question about a basic reproductive function. And I'm pretty sure I've got another menstruation question or two that I didn't manage to dig up.

Don't insult yourself for asking a question. I didn't call you weird or terrible.

Anyway, tl;dr: he quickly figures out what's going on because he's been closely stalking humanity for thousands of years; steals Mabel's pads; tells no one because he doesn't want sympathy or help. It's not a big deal to him. Just another fluid excretion to manage.

Due to the fact that I'm writing this fic in the dubious style of "what could the show slip past the Disney censors if S&P were really stoned that day," Bill's periods will not be explicitly discussed in fic; but for my own amusement I am mentally keeping track of his cycle.

He's PMSing in chapter 39 and bleeding in chapters 40-42.

This is a contributing factor to his behavior.

You're welcome.

[jesse-pinko]

Y’all keep talking ab Warrior Cats incest like y’all think the Erins are going to respond normally if they deign to give a response and just Stop Writing Incest when y’all should know by now that if they address it at all it will be w Moonpaw or basically any Firestar descendant turning to the screen and saying yes my parents are related six times over but it’s okay bc I’m a cat :) no homo tho or the sinister voice in Moonpaw’s head will be like Moonpawww… the clans have to stop inbreeding or terrible things will come to passss… and then we’ll get an entire Warrior Cats psa arc ab why incest is bad is that really what y’all want? Is it?? The monkey’s paw is getting carpal tunnel

[daughterofhecata]

I just realized something about my childhood.

My dad, coming home from work: Why is your backpack still on the stairs and not in your room, where it belongs?

Me: uuuh, forgot about it.

My dad, predominantly autistic: You just have to establish a routine, then this doesn't happen! Look, when I come home, I put my shoes here and take my backpack there and I always do it in this order and then nothing can go wrong!

Me, 12 years old, predominantly ADHD and unmedicated: *blinks in confused silence because I don't even have the words to explain how much I can't just do that*

[hey-hamlet]

Little mouse au, does Izuku sleep in Eraserhead's scarf? Nedzu had him when he went to work at UA when Izuku was around 3 years old.

Oh 100% - you have to be careful when Izuku is around at UA because he always gets into the tiniest, coziest spots and no one wants to sit on him. Aizawa, on pain of death, will never admit he thinks its really cute. Partly to preserve his frightening persona - partly because Nezu is possessive about his baby and his teeth are sharp.

[deus-ex-mona]

when the slowburn makes the ship extra cute~~~

[soupmanspeaks]

you ever wonder if the Glamrocks's face tracking acts up when they look at Glamrock-Freddy, like they'll look at his face, and the recognition will register as Freddy, but their systems for whatever reason or another think that there is a face overlapped on Freddy's do you think they see two small squares next to him, at his side, roughly child sized, but no one is physically there.... right...?