#vague gaslighting

[404sketches]

Second post! I would like to do DS9 stuff, but first I gotta simplify and stylise the cast members so I don't have to spend god knows how long painting them fully. Here, I've done that with Kira and Sisko. More to come.

[kaurwreck]

okay, honestly, I'm obsessed with bsd!fyodor. i stand by my problematic wife who compulsively lies and has a gambling addiction.

[terrazooid]

I’m having ideas rn

[maramcna]

@nectaric starter

It was... Strange this new life of his. Apollo hadn't left his side in days like he was afraid that this would be a dream, that if he had left Hyacinthus alone then he would vanish. This was the first day that his lover had left him alone, he couldn't put off his duties any longer.

The Spartan found himself in the garden. It was oddly quiet and he wasn't quite sure of what to do now that he was alone. Wandering around aimlessly until he heard footsteps approaching, turning to face them with his lover's name on his lips. "Apo-- Oh, hi."

[acerikus]

the funny thing is. i ALSO went into the game already knowing The Twist but i FORGOT like almost instantly. so i was squinting at loop trying to figure out their deal forgetting i was already told by my wonderful mutuals on tumblr dot com. it was great

SFFSHDFHFHHDSGGDHF THAT'S AMAZING

I don't think I'll be able to forget exactly but I still have the timing and exact specific and the how of the whole thing to see and learn about and I'm excited

[karlobears]

Once again, redesigning my fave WOLF girl. So she looks like an actual wolf. Im reclaiming her, adopting, making her the badass dont need no man girl she used to be. My beloved girl you deserve so much better than what you have.

[here-there-were-dragons]

i have to wonder what super hardcore militant vegans think should be done about obligate carnivore animals, because in all my painfully-rapidly-approaching-30-years i've literally never actually seen anyone give a clear consistent much less halfway feasible answer on that

[chaos-in-one]

Today on "words that need to be put on a high shelf because people keep misusing them": gaslighting

[cecilthecowardly]

oh my god every time i hear a young child in distress it makes me think about my daughter when i was renfield. oh my god hate it here

[the80hbee]

wait. EXCUSE ME? what the everloving fuck is THIS, flanagan

(book 2, burning bridge)

what the fuck. “If I were twenty years younger..”?! 

please tell me it’s not just me.

I was in the middle of washing an hour and a half’s worth of dishes when I suddenly remembered this moment. that felt relevant, by the way. fuck if I know why

idk maybe halt’s reaction is fine?? he does preface everything with an acknowledgement of the fact that he’s Much Older than alyss? so maybe this isn’t weird? it could be normal/understandable human reaction? y’all please. check me on this. I sincerely don’t know anymore.

is this kind of weird and slightly fucked up or is it just me

[image ids: two screenshots of white on black text. the first screenshot reads:

“The Ranger nodded. ‘More than I realized,’ he said. Alyss urged her horse close behind his and leaned over to kiss him on the cheek.

‘That’s for Will when you see him.’ A ghost of a smile touched Halt’s face.

‘You’ll understand if I don’t pass it on in person?’ he said. Alyss smiled and leaned over to kiss him again.

‘And that’s for you, you jaded, bad-tempered old Ranger.’“

the second screenshot reads:

“A little surprised by her own impulsiveness, she urged her horse ahead of him. Halt touched one hand to his cheek and looked after the slim blond figure.

If I were twenty years younger... he began.

Then he sighed and had to be honest with himself. Make that thirty years, he thought.”

[turian]

tbh i do take a bit of psychic damage every time i'm asked to explain my race / ethnicity bc like these social constructs shift based on context and also explaining the reality is difficult and also if i'm saying certain things i really do need to add so many qualifiers and also because of the whole mass killings thing there are some aspects we just can't really define with any degree of certainty and yet living here all of this is considered other people's business. + i was taught that exposing myself as anything other than the acceptable types of european could get me hurt or killed and there is family history to back that up. and when i bring up what i am in public settings someone will get weird about it. this complaint is sponsored by broad yet invasive questions on job applications

[boyfridged]

sorry for being pedantic but do people realise that utrh (the movie) was written by winick and this is the iteration that made the idea that jason was revived via the pit popular. and originally in the comics there’s also a similar setup to explain his resurrection:

it was later retconned by winick in annual 25. (he retcons his own works all the time btw)

[north-park]

The recent discourse and discussion around Panderverse, representation in franchaise people already like, Spiderverse and Barbie is making me feel like i'm a fucked up intersectional feminist joker

[amatres]

oh right, for the stuff that was going on in balaerras plot is that her teacher was a lich (dont know if thats the right word but were going with it) who sustained their life by stealing the bodies of their apprentices after cultivating their power. they were also involved with the absolute cult, under the agreement the cult wouldn't target balaerra (bc they didnt want their new body to be under someones contol)

however the cult planned to betray them and so they tried to kill balaerra and steal her body before they could. because of this, they were messier than usual, and balaerra caught on and killed them first. however because the cult was coming to get her at the same time, they captured her as she was escaping and infected her. however her teacher won't go down that easily, of course, and so she realizes theyre haunting her ass and her plot would involve either exorcising them entirely, or allow her to consume their soul instead to take their power

[earl-grey-love]

Last night, I went on a long infodump to my husband, analysing the themes and writing of my mystery man's source, but going beyond the media itself to discuss the real world cultural exchanges present in a meta sense. Which I am only able to do because of the depth of my knowledge on multiple different relevant subjects, including a whole other media that has clearly inspired this one, because all of it is interconnected in a grander scheme of my core special interest (humanities). A culmination of decades of built-up knowledge used to analyse an inherently silly show I watched for a pretty man in it, explained in a way that would make any academic weep.

Only for me to follow it up with "anyway heres some pics of Levi 🥰" and spammed like 6 of them.

[oliveasaltylife]

I want to write a thoughtful and informative post about Chiari for Chiari Malformation Awareness Month, but I am so fucking exhausted from this condition (paired with tethered cord & co) that I can't even fully form my thoughts.

I am constantly trying to correct my posture throughout the day to hopefully ease the pulling sensation that comes from the base of my skull, but that only does so much. I try to find resting positions to help with the cramps and knots in my neck, but I have less than a handful to choose from. If I have my head down (looking at my phone for example) for too long, my face and eyelids start to feel droopy, my vision gets fuzzy, I become tachycardic, and often feel fuzzy and faint--I've been told this is likely because something is effecting my brainstem and/or compression of vasculature in my neck. I have constant tingles and less feeling in the right side of my face/head/mouth that intensifies without warning, but also after activities like sitting still for an hour while I get diagnostic imaging done. Sometimes the tingling turn to shooting pain that goes through my teeth and I can't close my mouth. I have had migraines since I was in elementary school, that have progressed to daily--possibly even one long migraine--since college.

Lifelong symptoms for conditions that have only progressed because medical "professionals," and even my own parents, never took me seriously. Ignorance and arrogance in the medical field allow conditions like Chiari to be systematically overlooked because it's considered to be "rare," along with a number of other disabilities and even comorbidities. Chiari is not rare, it's rarely diagnosed. And even when it is diagnosed, too many physicians put too much weight into the size of the herniation being the determining factor in the severity of symptoms and/or pain their patient is experiencing. SIZE DOES NOT MATTER.

There are also too many physicians who are unaware of the necessity of distinguishing if the Chiari is congenital or acquired due to other conditions like tethered cord, AAI/CCI, spinal cord injury, etc. Addressing what caused, or is contributing to, the herniation is the safest way to proceed in treatment, gives the best chances for a better outcome, and the best possibility for managing symptoms.

TLDR; living with Chiari and related conditions SUCKS SO MUCH