#turn to your elders

[furiousgoldfish]

Abusive parents will straight up talk in front of their kids like the kids were a bad investment. They'll say shit to the kid like 'after all you cost me' like they're a stock in some company and the value isn't to their expectations. Like they're losing out on a bet they made 10 years ago.

They say that to kid's faces. Shamelessly. Without considering that maybe they're revealing themselves to be a monster in this scenario.

[feykrorovaan]

She was arrested for public acts of horseplay,horsing around, and three acts of lollygaggin'.

[funeralprocessor]

I feel like the existence of the skirmishers (and everything from Chimera Squad) make XCOM come across as massive pricks wrt the aliens. Like the game goes out of its way to dehumanize the aliens (exclusively referring to them as it, saying their all brainwashed and mind controlled, etc) but then turn around and have ex-Advent be people who were at least aware during their time as drones, vipers and sectoids and mutons being obviously sentient and having their own culture, hell, the Ethereals are clearly people too. And then Chimera Squad shows us a future where they're actually treated as such and nobody makes as big a deal about it as I think they should.

[bisupergirl]

just saw someone say that cw supergirl stole the last name "danvers" from post crisis linda danvers and that cw kara should've been called linda lang instead..... i don't necessarily disagree with that last part but how about you read some real fucking literature before speaking on my princess:

[jjcattt]

i think the biggest sign that our entire existence is fucked is that spirk was canonized and it didn't make the servers of every social media platform go down from the sheer force of 60 years worth of fangirling being released at once

[mugiwara-lucy]

I've seen how some people (especially after the last chapter) think how the eventual meeting between Luffy and Dragon will be a "high tension" reunion moment for both Luffy and Dragon. But, personally....I think the tensions will be strong on Dragon's end while Luffy will be as apathetic as ever 😅

[theannoyingmosquitoinyourroom]

studying? sorry, you mean attempting to quickly draw my blorbos with the limited onenote tools?

[hog-wif]

I know I'm experiencing YouTube enforced Skyrim mania rn, but! I've developed a theory. A theory about a theory. A meta theory. That's where I am in the rabbit hole.

IF the elven creation myth (and the similar ones shared by some of the races of men (mostly the ones they used to rule)) is correct

IF it's true the Aldmeri Dominion is attempting to destabilize Mundis by deactivating the towers that either hold the sky up or reality together depending on who you ask

And IF my understanding of Aetherius is correct as the timeless, formless spiritual soup of pre and outside creation (and also the gods and daedra as at least experiencing time differently)

Then the Aldmeri have already failed, and will continue to fail. Forever. Linear time is an aspect of the physical and mortality, so if you destroy those: you destroy them. Not just from then on, cause that would be linear time, which no longer exists. So the only way for Mundis to exist is if it's impossible to make it not exist. At least to fully dissolve it

The only way to take actions to kill your past self in the present is if your future self fails to kill your past self so your present self can exist, attempting to kill your past self

So the only way to take linear steps to dissolve time back into non-linearity is if you fail because if linear time could become non-linear then it wouldn't be linear and you couldn't take linear steps to make it non-linear

Right?

[coquelicoq]

yeah natori is 23 and since matoba is one year younger, he's 22 at the very start of the manga/anime :))) i think it was like around season 3 of natsume when i learned this and went ????????????? and had to go lie down for a while

unacceptable. midorikawa-sensei answer for your crimes. the thing that's killing me currently is i know i learned this information back when i read a bunch of fic after watching the show for the first time - which was less than a year ago - but apparently REPRESSED IT because it was sooo does not compute. and then had to learn it all over again just recently. my poor brain tried so hard to protect me from this knowledge but alas.

FREE THEM they're baby adults they should not have this kind of weight on their shoulders and have like. employees and shit!!! "oh look a dumbass teenager with a heart of gold. how about i protect him with my life" HOW ABOUT YOU WORRY ABOUT YOURSELF YOU MAN-SIZED CATERPILLAR!!! they need to be in their cocoon era not in their head-of-the-family life-and-death-decision-making era. when you're 22 you're legally obligated to make questionable life choices and it seems self-evident you should not have to be forming lifelong contracts with supernatural beings until after you've gotten some of that out of your system but WHAT DO I KNOW, i'm just a thirtysomething with over a decade on natori who still does the modern-day equivalent of unplugging my answering machine so people can't leave me cursed voicemails. i look back on my 23yo self and i want to cry from how much she was learning and how hard she was trying. i love her so much it breaks my heart. stop putting these young men into situations they need to be in situations but maybe ones less fraught with mortal consequences. maybe some situations more along the lines of figuring out the hard way not to buy dryclean-only shirts because who has time to go to the drycleaners? that's just one idea, i've got more of these. midorikawa-sensei are you listening??

[bibleofficial]

where is my fat husband

[smitten-miqitten]

Thinking about the Hero of Kvatch, post-Greymarch but pre-fully mantled.

Maybe, during their trials and tribulations, they grew fond of the mad old coot demanding they save his realm. Maybe, bizarrely, they miss him. Despite knowing full well what fate awaits them sooner rather than later, they mourn him. Wouldn't that be silly?

But the Hero won't have to miss themselves for long.

[thedosianexplorer]

HAGGING OUT: MAY

I spent the festivities enjoying decadence that was gone too quickly to photograph but some highlights:

Spiked ice tea (hibiscus/cherry/rosehip/berry tea and Queen Charlotte rum)

Chocolate croissants and cream puffs

Brioche French toast

Bread drizzled with hot honey and spices

Basically if it was a rare treat, an indulgence, or intoxicating in some way, we partook and delighted in the transition to a new season. It coincided with some truly lovely weather, some of the first we've had this extremely fickle year.

April is a hard month for us here between the inevitable (taxes) and difficult anniversaries, so we cut loose on the 30th and put it behind us for another year. Thanks to springcleaning I had time to create a new devotional piece:

This is for Freyja's shrine and is the box lid for containing objects offered or dedicated to Her. I painted it to look like an amber gem bordered with amber beads. Everyone at my altar gets a themed box and I'm working my way through all of them. Painted with Arteza acrylic paints (highly recommend, great pigmentation, blends well, and dilutes without being grainy).

[badsalmonella]

I can't stop watching Jim Henson's Dinosaur TV show because every episode reveals a new nugget of unexpected lore and world building.

[anemonator]

One of the reasons I find Lizzie so interesting as a character is that, of all the interns, I feel like her characterization is the hardest to nail down.

Like, she has an aesthetic, to be sure, and a bit of a sarcastic, irreverent demeanor, and I think most fanon is content to run with that-she’s the punk, the rebel, the delinquent. But if you look at what she actually says and does over the course of the game, it doesn’t really align with the surface level interpretation. She’s the Bad Girl-who uses less profanity than either of the ten-year-olds. She’s the delinquent-who thought she got a buzz from a pickled onion. She’s the slacker truant-and one of the few interns to actually work on their assignment. She’s the edgy badass-who runs around in the woods pretending to be a vampire.

But it goes beyond just subverting her surface aesthetic. She comes off as almost chronically indecisive. She takes part in the intern’s shenanigans, but almost never on her own initiative, always as an accessory to another intern’s antics. She’s the one to suggest Raz use mental connection to change Hollis’s mind...and then she seems to immediately get cold feet about the idea, if her passive-aggressive “You’ll get kicked out of the Psychonauts for trying, but what the heck?” is any indication. (Interestingly, this the second time she brings up getting expelled from the Psychonauts as the inevitable consequence of rule-breaking.) She spends almost the entire middle third of the game hemming and hawing about getting a goat to follow her, without actually doing anything. She has tattoos, but are they real? Temporary? Drawn on with marker? Projected figments a-la-Helmut? Honestly, given that we only know her for half a week at most, it’s entirely possible that even her goth getup is a more recent development than we might think- it certainly does have an amateurish “i’m gonna wear all this cool stuff at once” vibe about it.

One could reasonably argue that these inconsistensies are simply the result of the limitations of writing and screentime - obviously Doublefine can’t fully flesh out every secondary character in the game. But given the writers’ attention to detail, and the relatively consistent writing of the other interns, I can’t help but wonder whether this apparent incongruency speaks to some deeper facet of Lizzie’s character. How does she understand herself? Does she even know who she is?

[wutaijiemei]

also on the chris keller/iwtvposting grind genuinely one of the most shocking random takes i have glimpsed multiple times is people dead serious referring to louis as having been a serial killer targeting gay men in sf in the 70s as if that is a normal and insightful piece of analysis serious understanding of the show but i do blame the writers etc for cultivating the kind of overly serious and critically camp-deficient environment where people are not even immersed enough in vampire fiction as a broader genre to default think of human murderdrinkimg in metaphorical terms before literal ones

[iiboronii]

i think that i might've posted about it before but i <3 all the little -ler blogs on here. i'm being so fr. nothing clears my skin more than seeing a -ler blog answering questions. i love you guys please keep making silly little -lers.