#void’s thoughts

[happy-for-harkers]

favorite mina scenes from the book?

Hi anon!! So sorry for replying this late T-T I literally just discovered that I do have asks on this blog, wow!

I think my favourite scene from the book would be the one where Mina helps Lucy get back to the Westenra’s house in Whitby after she has her little sleep-walking adventure all the way up to the cliff. Mina has many more memorable scenes in the book, where she just rocks and proves how much of a great heroine she is, but I really like this moment, because it’s something that just seems so close to her personality and character. She sees her dearest friend is gone, goes out alone at night (as a woman in these times!), finds her in a situation that is so dangerous and scary to them both, and leads Lucy back to the house in the dead of night (with no shoes on, I can’t imagine the coldness and the fact she could’ve stepped on something, you know). In the end, Mina is caring, courageous, and bright, being able to set her personal fears aside and focus her mind on the current situation she had to deal with, in the name of protecting her friend. I think this speaks so much about her, and reflects so much of who she becomes in the story later on, how she develops as a character.

[smallvoid]

Thank you to @toothsheeran who has inspired me to get creative again. It’s not writing but it’s the first time I’ve drawn in months.

[smallvoid]

It’s even worse when it comes from those who are disabled. Like “oh I just use crutches and now the world is my oyster uwu”

Like it’s not??

I’m both physically and mentally disabled. The world is literally inaccessible. I can only work in my (part time) job because my employer gives me so many accommodations. Don’t sit there and tell me that the world is my oyster when I fall over due to curbs or fall over in my house or have to pay for my own disability aids because the government hasn’t yet decided whether I’m truly disabled.

And that’s not even including the days where walking is literally impossible. Where my feet can’t move because I’ve worked too much, done too much or the weather was actually just cold so my joints are in pain and sluggish.

So don’t tell me that a disability doesn’t stop disabled people. Yes, I can be joyful and disabled. I can live and be disabled. But don’t tell me that my disability can’t stop me when it affects every single part of my life.

idk who popularised the narrative "i don't let my disability stop me" but it needs to be stomped on, pulverised by a meat grinder and then thrown into the depths of the sea never to be seen again.

it is by far the most popular ableist narrative and i see it so much and immediately just think i'm a bad person for not being able to 'get over' my disability despite the fact it's an incurable, permanent and severely disabling disability.

stop stop stop stop pushing the mindset that people have to persevere despite their disabilities in order to be a worthy person

leave me alone and let me be disabled in peace

[lizzy-bonnet]

Working in the yarn shop on Sundays, I have a group of regulars who come in specifically then for my advice on their knitting projects and over the years I've gotten to know a lot about them - their ailments and their spouses and their children and their careers and their mothers are all things they find themselves telling me about over the course of trying to bring forth a knitted piece. Most of them are women, most of them are over 50, and most of them have been through a lot and are trying to reclaim something for themselves through the act of creation. A while back, one of these older women opened up to me about how when she first came to this country it was just her and her daughter and they were so happy until her husband joined them, when he promptly began making her miserable. Now, decades later, all her children live far away, she spends all her time taking the husband to dialysis, her sciatic is bad and she may need heart surgery (who will take care of her, I find myself wondering), and she comes to see me once a month or so to talk about a new project and tells me it is the only thing she does for herself.

Today she came in with a smile on her face and delightedly introduced me to her son, who will soon move closer to home with his family. Then she says, as if commenting on the weather, that on Friday her husband died, and tomorrow they will hold the funeral. For a second I had tonal whiplash from the conversation and then I realized, oh, you're unburdened now. Like the relief in her face and her body were palpable. The son shows a picture of a cardigan to me and asks if it can be knitted, and we pick out yarn and a pattern. She's so excited to make it for him. She beams when she looks at him; he is tall and handsome and polite, and wants to wear something she made for him. She is proud of this man she raised.

It just made me think of the many, many women who come from cultures where leaving a crappy spouse isn't an option so they shuttle along doing their best and trying to find some beauty and joy in whatever way they can. Kids may not visit often because their spouse isn't welcoming or there is bad blood, so they are lonely. I remind her, we have our social group. She hasn't come to it much before because she is always taking him to dialysis, but now she says she will come often and meet the other women. Many of them are like her, but in the craft they find companionship that has been absent for so much of their lives. I hope there will be renewal for this dear lady and that she can learn more about herself and what brings her joy.

[oh-snapperss]

they'll fund a genocide and let their poor regions be destroyed. don't fucking forgive them for that.

my hometown is completely gone from what pictures i can find of it, i have not heard from my family (including aunts, uncles, parents, one sibling, and a grandparent), and the infrastructure in the mountain communities is wiped out. i cannot stress how catastrophic this is, or how difficult it will be for these communities to build back. i am angry, and scared, and heartbroken by everything that's happened.

and our government is spending it's money to fund a genocide.

free palestine, and don't be complicit. realize that this is not something happening that doesn't affect you--although it shouldn't take this to care about the deaths of thousands of people anyway.

[egophiliac]

WAIT when did he get FANGS

[smallvoid]

I’ve been able to do this for as long as I remember. I thought it was a superpower.

I later found out that it was dissociation. These feelings siphoned into something else.

I’m worse at it now, although the dissociation had got worse. Apparently, that’s called healing. That’s called being alive.

Turning off your feelings feels like a neat little PTSD life hack until you realise that you can't turn them back on again so easily

[magpiedraws]

Jon he's really trying here cut him a break

(tumblr crunched the resolution of this comic a lot rip)

[wickedcriminal]

Oh that's where he went

[ghosted-jazz]

I like to think breaking the canary curse via dying in the void had some effects on Lizzie

[qcomicsy]

I think a thing that people get wrong about Jason's anger is that it's not explosive.

It's cold. Jason isn't the type of person who storms off at every little thing or goes throwing tantrums and setting things on fire blindfully.

He's the type of person who's very practical. He keeps to himself, always. You rarely see issues where Jason's anger is reactive at the moment where the trigger happens to him. If you see his character up close, most of the time when he's triggered his reaction is calm. Even cold.

He gets triggered -> He keeps to himself → He makes a plan → And then he reacts.

Jason's anger being something explosive and out of character and out of place is actually how other people (characters) see it, because they have no idea on how it's playing out on Jason's head.

And that's a thing you can see operating since he was a child.

Where the only exceptions about this effect is either when someone he believes needs his help is involved.

See Nightwing Annual (2021)

But In Batman #411 when Jason learns the fact that Two-Face was responsible for his father's death and Bruce was keeping that from him as a secret his first reaction isn't to blow up on him.

Was to seethe.

Bruce goes up home after dealing with a Two-Face case (in my field we call that poetic irony) and asks Alfred where Jason is, Alfred's answer is that he's been sleeping all day (which is a conclusion that Alfred drew probably after going to check on Jason and seeing him in fact on his bed all day).

But when you see the next panel, even though he is on the bed, He's fully awake and both his expression and his body language shows that he's in fact angry.

This is the first time he appears again in the comics after learning that Two Face killed his dad.

Jason doesn't go towards Bruce immediately to demand an explanation or ask why he did this, or even to throw the truth on his face.

(Which could be debatable that that's something the Dick would usually do, but I'm not that literate on Dick's comics)

His reaction wasn't immediate.

His reaction was to go to his bed and stay quiet. Jason stayed calm and collected the whole trip until meeting Two Face again.

But the moment Jason as Robin has the opportunity to get his hands on Two-Face he does this

From Bruce, and maybe Alfred's perspective it could be interpreted as out of place or him storming off.

But it isn't. Jason was able to keep his cool (even though he shut off), until he was face a face to Two Face.

Does that mean he planned that to happen?

That's debatable, in any moment of this issue it is shown that Jason was actually planning to get to Two Face and do this. I my personal opinion, other and much more plausible explanation is: That he was in fact trying to keep to himself but couldn't hold back the moment that he saw his dad's murder.

You can see the same thing happening as Jason learns that Batman got another Robin in Red Hood: Lost Days.

Talia asks "You all right?" and Jason's first answer is "Sure Why Wouldn't I Be Alright?"

When he's alone he finally has the moment to break down.

(Actually both Red Hood: The lost days and Batman: Under the Red Hood are great case studies on how that usually play out on Jason's head.)

Jason is way more in control of his emotions than people ever give him credit for. The thing is that Jason holds it back until he either blows off or is capable to throw it back in someone's face.

[happy-for-harkers]

Can you share your paper! The subject is so interesting

Hi anon!! So sorry for answering this later than not.

I wrote the paper for school, and to my knowledge I can only share it after a certain deadline, if I remember correctly a few months after my graduation. Believe me, I am awaiting that deadline, I really would love to share that little analysis of mine and explore it more, since due to word count and etc. I don’t think I could get as much in depth with this subject as I could - meaning when I finally get to share it I’m probably not gonna shut up about Mina, Lucy, and female autonomy in the book in general haha

[smallvoid]

When your mental health worker makes extra accommodations to help you go to a mental health group that your team is encouraging you to partake in but you don’t wanna go because you’re not skinni™️ enough.

Like, I have agoraphobia anyway which is separate to my physical disability but being perceived is 👁️👄👁️

[dandyshucks]

being in love with a fictional character will make u produce art u didnt know u were capable of

~

[if ur part of the "fiction doesnt affect reality" crowd: please fuck off lol]

[smallvoid]

People forget that:

Dropout has been running since 2018

Uploads pilots/first episodes of each series to their YouTube channel

Releases 4+ videos each week (with some videos like Dimension 20 being roughly around 2 hours per episode)

Was born out of necessity due to what happened at CollegeHumor. CollegeHumor was going bankrupt due to IAC.

Dropout was then taken over by Sam (CollegeHumor Creative Director) in 2020, which involved a massive downsizing in both the company employees AND the budget for Dropout shows. They fully went back to basics and upped things in direct proportions to their profits. Shows like Drawfee, whose cast were laid off during this downsizing, were allowed to create their own properties and exist as separate entities on YouTube.

It should also be noted that Dimension 20’s high production costs are partially subsidised by selling the set designs, minis and maxis at auctions, with those costs going straight back into funding Dimension 20.

Dropout also massively sticks to its own values, makes predominantly adult content, is advertising free and actually encourages users to share one login if financials are a concern.

Any tours done under Dimension 20 are limited and fairly rare, as well, unlike Watcher.

TL;DR Watcher is none of this, has done none of this and has gone against the ethos Shane, Ryan and Steven like to portray. In the words of Brennan Lee Mulligan (D20) Capitalism is always the bad guy.

i truly do not get the comments that are like "i love this for them" or "it's such a smart move to follow dropout"

this is above all a shitty money oriented move they do not have the platform for

[senjuop]

New void state technique? (must read)

Okay so I'm no pro with the void state yet, but I just wanted to share sth I just found. Cus we're gonna live our dream life no matter what. And I don't gatekeep. A few moment ago, I came across this video The man is talking about an ancient technique to enter the "no mind state" which means the "void state" and it's really simple. Everything he's talking about in the video is literally about the void state. This is his video's description: "In this video I share a technique you can use to access no mind or the void. The technique detaches the mind from the body and allows the spirit to roam free. Experience anytime the ultimate truth with this simple and easy technique." He mention things like:

-leaving your body -relaxing and peace -knowing how to exist without the limit of the mind -being in oneness -being connected to the source -calm mind You can check the video for the tutorial. Personally, I tried it and I have a problem with holding my breath for a long period. But even just by doing this for like 8 sec, I felt this calm sensation, idk how to describe it. I just tried it at the moment, and now I'm just writing this to share immediately. In the comments, people share their experiences with the technique, and they said things like their body detaching. I really hope this help anyone who are into shifting, and manifesting their dream life. I'm telling you if I entered the void state, my consciousness will probably not be living in this reality, bc I plan to manifest my dream life and it's very different from here. 😭😭😭 Looking forward to all your success!!!