#truly The Struggler

[autism-swagger]

Seriously though can we talk about Daisy after she's freed from Hive?? She literally goes through dopamine withdrawal, symptoms of which include (but are not limited to) anxiety, panic attacks, dysphoria, depression, agitation, irritability, suicidal ideation, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, generalized pain, and drug cravings.

Not to mention the fact that dopamine withdrawal has to chance of becoming protracted withdrawal syndrome and can last anywhere from months to YEARS. Get my girl in a detox center NOW 😭

[eggsplice]

life when youve become a butterfly hive <3 and also butterflies as a hair fashion statement idk

[chorus-the-mutate]

This will probably never happen but I think it would be nice to see Guts and Casca's story culminating in them becoming the king and queen of Midland. Mainly because I think Guts' arc has always been about finding purpose and community in the world around him. And to see him prove himself worthy of an entire kingdom's trust and to find purpose in protecting these people in turn feels like the perfect end to his arc.

For Casca, becoming queen alongside Guts would not only be a nice new beginning for their relationship, it would be a great payoff for her character as well. Her arc has always been about her relationship with womanhood and how that effects her ability to gain agency for herself in a hostile world, her ability to protect herself and her relationship with power. If Casca became the Queen of Midland alongside Guts it would not only give her the permanent leadership position she deserves, it would also show that Guts and their people love and trust her enough to reign them all in when needed.

As for the Moonlight Boy, I like to believe that he would be saved from Griffith's grasp by his parents. And only then would he be able to gain the throne Griffith destroyed his family's lives for. Even if it there is a risk that the Moonlight Boy's relationship with the throne would be tinged with the trauma of being a mostly powerless vessel of Griffith, I think there's hope that he could find purpose as the next king.

It would also be a thematically fitting case of irony that Guts, Casca and the Moonlight Boy, three of Griffith's biggest living victims, would be the ones to reclaim their agency and their senses of purpose by stealing everything Griffith dreamed for. And with how Guts has come to learn the importance of community, how companionship and love tether him to his humanity, he would be a better king than Griffith could ever be.

[kingofdinosaurs]

idk

[lipstickontheglass1985]

why does everyone else get roommates who are like cool ppl they become friends with and i get this.

[vengeancemoths]

ousted from bed at 5:30 am should be illegal. so eepy

[dungeon-strugglers]

✨New item!✨ Ebonclaw Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a monk)

These black iron gauntlets menace with spikes along the knuckles. While you are wearing these gauntlets, your unarmed strikes deal an extra 1d6 piercing damage. 

If you kill a hostile creature of CR 1 or higher with an unarmed strike while wearing these gauntlets, you draw some of the creature’s life energy into yourself and regain 1 ki point. 

Curse. Each time you regain ki using these gauntlets, a darkness begins to take hold of you. When you do so for the 7th time, your spirit becomes addicted to the life force of others. You can no longer regain ki points when you take a short or long rest, but the ki points you siphon from each creature you slay is now equal to one roll of your martial arts die. Additionally, your maximum number of ki points is doubled. When you finish a long rest you lose all remaining ki points if you haven’t regained ki points using these gauntlets since your last long rest. 

When this curse takes hold, the gauntlets undergo a transformation, revealing their truly sinister nature. They now deal extra necrotic damage equal to one roll of your martial arts die on a hit instead of the extra piercing damage. Ebonclaw, forged of infernal soul-stealing iron, shackles the wearer to the pain they can inflict with their clenched fists. - 🖌🎨 Like our work? Consider supporting us on Patreon and gain access to the hi-resolution art for almost 200 magic items (wow!), printable item cards and card packs, beautiful creature art and stat blocks, and setting pdfs with narrative hooks and unique lore!🧙‍♂️ Thank you so much for your support! 💖

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[knackeredforever]

It’s funny that most anime only dunmeshi fans know marcille as the struggler character who’s “going through it” when the anime isn’t even at the part where marcille is truly “going through it”

You people aren’t prepared.

[annabelle--cane]

As someone who is a Homestuck, each time you make a post about "Hal" I need 5.8 seconds to recalibrate and go from "huh, the ai guy?" To "OHHH right! The vampire!" So thanks for that. /Lh

notable fictional hals:

homestuck ai guy

2001 a space odyssey ai guy

shakespeare's king henry v, also known as "prince hal" or "harry" pre-coronation

the struggler vampire, henry "harry" "lord harry" "hal" yorke. yes I know he has the same name and nicknames as that king and his last name sounds like the medieval english royal house of york but truly there is no connection, this hal was born as just some guy. I think the "lord hal" title is a bit tbh I don't think he was granted a real lordship.

[anonymocha]

OOOOH may i hear more about the oc that sounds fun

YES YOU MAY LOOK AT MY BABYGIRL… It is a “Beyond” creature fished from the sea… And she is a lil silly. RAMBLING UNDER CUT…

She is like if Jiu Niangzi, Marcille (from Dungeon Meshi), Hitori Gotoh (pink girl from Bocchi the Rock), an electric eel, and a sea angel got thrown into a blender…

She’s an employee at Laplace with a mysterious background; A fishing boat caught a MASSIVE indestructible ‘egg sack’ from the west pacific ocean, which the foundation quickly acquired the moment it hits the news. Empyrean was soon ‘born’, straight to the adult form, and it would’ve gotten the Jessica treatment if it weren’t for their almost-instant learning in humanity’s customs (as if it’s all already preprogrammed) and physiological benefits (limited but infinite electricity maker). She was discovered to lack of any memories before her ‘birth’, or at least that’s what she said. Whether it’s true or not is still questionable.

Anyways, as a worker, she is an absolute mess of a creature who excels at creating and maintaining machinery but is a Struggler in Everything Else (exaggeration). They are a very friendly and warm presence in Laplace’s cold/serious setting, not in an upbeat/jolly kind of way but her relatively quiet and easy presence simply makes the mood less tense. But also because sometimes it does dumb shit like fucking up the coffee maker and making it explode. Always gives everyone a good laugh. Of course, she fixes it with ease.

When they do put their mind into an important project, their work is almost always flawless. She tailored many weapons for herself as leisure projects, powered and ammo-d purely by the electricity she conducts. Any machine maintenance/production project assigned to her goes swimmingly. And of course, Lucy maintenance yaaayyyyy.

+ Likes to collect electric trinkets. Her friends!!! They would pray with these machines every morning, connecting their hair (cables) to each of the machines. Nobody knows why she prays. She mentioned that she just ‘feels the urge to do so’.

An unserious and awkward goober with a lot of implications. :3 Also here are previous renditions of her:

Truly the lesbian fish of all time. If you ignore Meg. I will write more about her in a doc later.

[autism-swagger]

I like to think I'm funny.

[aikoiya]

I wanted your personal opinion on this, in this video (yes I’m aware I’ve sent this to you before) it was implied, or at least I took it this way. That ganondorf wasn’t always evil or at least he wasn’t a psycho murder. I know you’ve talked about ganons upbringing, and it seems that we both agree that ganondorf is a product of his environment. But I’m confused…in Totk if he wasn’t always evil why was he so easily taken over by greed after seeing the secrecy stones??

(We’re I’m getting this is the ganondorf Japanese ver of totk)

Ah, yes!

Do you mean this scene?

If so, then my theories aren't to say that TotK Ganon (whom I refer to as Wrath) wasn't evil, more so that he is, but he's thus because Kōme & Kotake raised him that way. Basically, pigeonholing him into the position of tyrant.

In my mind, he was raised to be a social darwinist amidst a warring country in a place that hosts a very harsh environment. Not to mention that he was also raised the only male in a society of all women, which is just a recipe for all kinds of mental health issues & developmental stunting.

In other words, everything around him was basically working against him & he responded thusly.

I think that growing up in constant conflict caused him to not know what to do with himself when Rauru came along & united Hyrule's peoples, thus bringing peace. He'd thrived on the warring life & I think that, in many ways, he was stuck in the past & wished to return to that time because, in his mind, everything made sense then.

Like, war? That made sense. Conflict? That also made sense.

Peace??? He has no idea how to live in a world of peace. Sees no inherent value in it.

Of course, I think this is the case for him on a subconscious level. Outwardly, he's a social darwinist, specifically the Struggler type. However, I don't think he's as sincere in his beliefs as he claims, because as shown in the game, he's a sore loser. And if he truly believed as he said he did, he'd have yielded upon realizing that he'd lost. Which, part of this could be influenced by narcissistic tendencies brought on by being born & raised as what amounts to a god-king in the Gerudo culture.

However, I also think that the stone & 10,000 years sealed away likely exacerbated his preexisting issues to the point where he was fine giving up everything in order to make everyone else miserable.

In a lot of ways, I think that the Dorfs, regardless of which iteration, are all extremely unhappy people & this results in them lashing out.

I think it's possible for him to be a good person, but he'd have to be raised by someone other than Kōme & Kotake.

However, even then, I think it's possible for him to be better, just not good per se.

Though, he'd need the influence of someone who was able to prove themselves to him. Someone able to meet him head on. Someone level-headed & honest. Someone who wouldn't be manipulated by him. Who can cut through the crap & speak directly to him.

They'd have to be able to pose their thoughts in such a way that it doesn't necessarily clash with his own beliefs, while still managing to give him a new perspective to contemplate.

[mythicalgeek]

As far as modern fantasy shows goes these days, The Dark crystal age of resistance and Willow are painfully understand gems, even though they are very different from one another (Dark Crystal being an epic dark fantasy and Willow being a fun campy quest adventure) they both go back to mythical forms of storytelling, there both passion progets with a lot of love and care put into them and I wish these kind of shows got more recognition because, they are some of the only fantasy shows we've gotten in the last few years that truly give me that sence of magic that so many modern fantasy strugglers to capture.

[monsterlikerr]

i have things to be doing but i'm thinking about my sexuality instead. i'm putting this under a readmore because i feel insane i just need to get it out somewhere

okay so i'm definitely some kind of aro/ace but i genuinely don't know what at this point. i was in a relationship for 3 years and i mean i enjoyed it! we broke up for unrelated reasons. i would say i was attracted to him romantically at least but my memory of my life is fuzzy because i have issues but like. i was romantically attracted to him. sexually is different because most of our relationship was when we were minors and i didn't really think about it because i felt weird + anytime i did it was mostly a "this is how i feel like i should feel" thing. i'm looking at stuff and aegosexual is probably what i connect to most but the thing is i don't... knoooow. and i know i don't have to figure all of that out right now or even ever but my brain will just not let it go. but it really does fit for the most part. i don't imagine myself having sex when i think about it, it's always someone(s) else.

i also genuinely don't know what people find hot or attractive on a person because it just doesn't... work in my mind? like i can look at someone and appreciate they look nice but i don't know if it's a "shame of feeling overbearing and admitting that someone is hot" or "i literally just don't know what makes someone hot because i don't feel it". could i imagine myself having sex? yeah in theory. i think i would give it a try. could i imagine a specific person/people or what we'd even be doing? no not really other than general "sex!". it's not a self-image thing either, because i've thought about it and if it weren't for obvious privacy concerns, i wouldn't care about posting nude/partially nude images of myself/sending them to friends (who'd be comfortable/want that)

like i joke sometimes that i don't really like boobs/ass/etc outside of general aesthetic appreciation. i just don't get the appeal from a sexual standpoint at least not in My Eyes/reality a lot of the art i reblog isn't even "i'm sexually attracted to this" it's a lot of "i like this character and this art is fun/pretty/nice" tbh. which isn't to say "i don't like having this blog" i do! very much i do. if i disliked it or was uncomfortable then i wouldn't be here. but i feel like sometimes it's weird because like... i don'tttt feeelll sexually attracted to a lot of these characters. or any of them. if i'm imagining sexual stuff about them it's not "i want to do X to them" it's "i want to imagine someone else doing X to them". sometimes i'm literally just reblogging art because i know one of my followers would like it and/or i think the art is good and op should know it.

there's probably also something in here about my brain blurring the lines of "where does it cross the line of having romantic feelings for someone VS platonic VS some secret third thing". like i don't knowwww. heart emojiiiiii. i'm probably not aegoromantic i'm just 'i have a job and school rn so i don't want to think about romance' mode (+ the fact that i really truly do NOT get dating apps/talking to someone with the express intent to date. i never have. i really never have). so when people ask me about dating i'm just likke ^_^ ummmmm. hmmm. idk! (<- the struggler). because i really don't know! i don't have a type. i don't have a specific subset of person i'm attracted to. in terms of fiction i tend to LIKE female characters more but it's not like.. an actual attraction thing as said earlier. like alice tmp i call her my Wife and say i Love Her but i'm not thinking about dating her. i just like her a lot and she makes me happy! alice just as an example but there are plenty of other characters. i think sometimes i talk about things in the way i Think i should but sometimes i'm just saying words i do not mean <3. ok this is word salad soup but i have emails to write and i've been here for like 10 minutes. thank you for reading muwah

[desigirlmag]

via Creating Freedom Movements (July 3rd, 2024 on Instagram):

Tomorrow is July 4th or "Independence" Day in the USA (and July 1 was the equivalent in 'Canada') — a settler colonial nation living on the land of the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island. At Creating Freedom Movements, we are committed to #LandBack — here on Turtle Island, and around the world.

We are reposting work from @wgssa.utsc and @tupacistan, created for IDEVAW (Nov 25) '23 and Land Day (March 30) 2024, drawing connections between sexual & colonial violence, focused on the ways that Indigenous Consent is ignored, coerced, negotiated, violated, and enforced. The teachings in this post are primarily from the @yellowheadinstitute 'Spectrum of Consent' as explored in the Land Back Red Paper and from the @palestinianfeministcollective and their work against Colonial Feminism, Reproductive Genocide, and more.

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original caption, via @wgssa.utsc — For almost 9 months now, we have been witnessing violent escalation of the 75+ year long occupation of Palestine.

On #IDEVAW 2023 the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC) called on feminist co-strugglers and all people of conscience to once and for all #ShutDownColonialFeminism and for Feminists to #SayNoToGenocide

WGSSA UTSC is a critical & intersectional feminist collective. In solidarity with PFC "We reaffirm that Palestine is a feminist issue and assert that feminism is incompatible with Zionism."

This post includes teachings from Yellowhead Institute & PFC to connect the dots between Indigenous Movements like #LandBack & meaningful Consent Action.

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— Referenced sources & Other Links:

Spectrum of Consent — excerpt of Land Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper

Shut Down Colonial Feminism on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women Statement & Calls to Action* — Palestinian Feminist Collective

December 2023 CNN article

PFC's All Out for Palestine Digital Action Toolkit 🇵🇸

#SayNoToGenocide Joint campaign from INCITE WOC Against Violence & PFC

ReproductiveGenocide in 🇵🇸 Statement + Resources

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[definitelynotshouting]

Hi! This is the anon that binged your fic a few days ago! I just got the time to read the newest chapter and I am SO sticking around to find out where this story goes. As someone who’s struggled with mental health I’m able to connect with Grian so well and that only doubles the desire I have to see him flourish and overcome these struggles. The way you write description is so inspiring too; I’ve learned several words since reading! I didn’t know anything about the hunger au when I started so some of the world building was a little lost on me at first, but as I continued it made a lot more sense very quickly! Amazing work, I’m very excited to see where it ends up :)

- binge reader

ANONNNN THIS IS SO INSANELY SWEET THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SENDING THIS ASK,,, i was thinking abt this earlier today but i rlly am writing this story primarily for all the recovery girlies out there. My little way of holding everyone's hand and saying its gonna be okay, actually, even if it gets so hard you want to lie down and cry forever. Mental health strugglers rise UP we are OUT HERE we are GOING TO MAKE IT!!!!!!!!!

Im really flattered you enjoy my descriptions, its something i think im most proud of in my writing :] smth about finding the perfect word to help paint an incredibly vivid picture really appeals to the autism in my brain, although i do frequently worry i might be going a bit,,,, overboard kdsbkdnekdk

and yeah, this is admittedly a rough draft of the story-- its missing quite a bit of connective tissue at the start, which is mostly bc i genuinely assumed only a handful of people already familiar with the world would pick it up and see it. In the hypothetical future polished version of this fic, i'd want to make the worldbuilding a bit more concrete right from the start-- i think its very easy to tell that im still sorta worldbuilding as i go, and there are definitely details i'd want to put front and center right away :] nonetheless, im pretty proud of how its shaping up, considering when i posted the first two chapters i had NO CLUE where it was going 😂😂😂😂

Im very, very happy so many people have gotten into the fic and its worldbuilding. Its a truly indescribable feeling when yall come into my inbox and tell me stuff like this ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ i hope you continue to enjoy the fic, and im really happy you feel seen by it-- that means a lot for me to hear :]