#week-old-thread

[week-old-tiramisu]

bee collar bee collar

[cinamun]

[pocketgalaxies]

the psychological warfare that you wage on yourself while studying for a board exam is both so unbelievably insane and also the only thing that makes you feel sane

[auntie-browning]

"♫ Puer natus est nobis et filius datus est nobis: cuius imperium super humerium eius: et vocabitur nomen eius magni consilii Angelus. ♫"

"♫ Cantate Domino canticum novum quia mirabilia fecit. ♫"

"♫ Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto, sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen. ♫"

"♫ Puer natus est nobis et filius datus est nobis: cuius imperium super humerium eius: et vocabitur nomen eius magni consilii Angelus. ♫"

"♫ Cantate Domino canticum novum quia mirabilia fecit. ♫"

[ghostlycod]

“I have this scene in my head for my fic that I really love but i don’t feel like writing all of the other stuff to get to it.”

I see this comment like 5 times a day in fic writing spaces lol

a scene that you don’t want to write is a scene you don’t want to read. don’t write stuff you don’t want to read.

me, personally: wait until the scenes that get you to that first initial scene you were excited about are just as interesting as that scene too. it won’t be the first, second, or third thing you think of. if u have a scene you really want to write, write that, and keep writing only those exciting scenes that come to you. eventually you have a million interesting scenes for your fic and they become puzzle pieces for you to arrange and then eventually the strings come together and you realize you really do have an interesting way to get to that original scene, and you’re just as excited to write it, if you haven’t already written it when you were brainstorming other scenes earlier in the writing process that you didn’t even realize could carry your story like that.

[digisurvive]

A little post about Aoi's values...

...so that we can appreciate how deeply ideological her corruption arc is.

Previously, I talked a bit about how Plutomon's extremism ties with the game's conflict around individualism and collectivism. What makes this corruption great is that it's stemming from the values Aoi has always held; as much as they enable her to be someone who can be very generous and kind, they also serve as justification for her most intransigent and oppressive postures. This is because what she values can be summed up as follows:

Social propiety: From talking to your superiors and elders with the due respect, knowing your place in the hierarchy, and general politeness and good behavior, you can see her correcting others based on this multiple times. Which is part of the reason the group is so hierarchical earlier on, as she enforces this a lot.

Social conformity: This is mostly apparent in the way she tries her best to fulfill the external expectations placed on her, be it academically, socially or in her own behavior, despite the misgivings she might hold (which are a lot, given Labramon's rather bad-tempered and opionated behavior. However, no matter how much it might aggravate her, she sticks to upholding proper behavior as a way to preserve group harmony).

Duty to one's community: Another thing that deeply drives her is wanting to be a valuable member to her community, that responsibility she has as an individual to contribute to society. You can see this in the way her Cerberumon's cut scene is phrased, as one of the main catalysts for it is the sense of responsibility she feels over everyone as one of the oldest kids. She doesn't want to protect just the people close to her but make sure she can proactively get the everyone back home.

Cooperation: This is actually one of the things she names out loud, and people constantly foregoing it and leading to more workload/stress for her is actually one of her main resentments. Her Plutomon mad rantings about being always the one saddled with the most work evidence she values everyone doing their part. This type of reasoning can be a double-edged sword as it can be used to be deeply cruel to mentally ill/ disabled ppl, + other kinds of minorities irl. To her credit, she usually has the good grace not to directly impose this on others, but her violent Wrathful behavior coupled with her belief everyone should be like her (and fulfill societal expectations as diligently) to reach her "perfect world" show she can think like this.

Fairness/Justice: She cares about everyone getting their due and the general betterment of conditions for everyone, which is the aspect to her values that can finally factor compassion in. But it's telling it's the one value about which the answer to her arc hinges on—it distinguishes between Rightness and Fairness for good reason, as social conformity and not being disruptive/acting right don't necessarily have to center treating others fairly (think of the contrast between the rethoric used for Anubimon in contrast for Plutomon...)

Most of her values evidence her commitment to not causing disruption to a group and ensuring its proper functioning. Because she values politeness, it can mean she prefers negotiation over direct confrontation, but this isn't always a good thing. The game is rather in your face about it with how ineffective the group is at handling Shuuji following hers and Takuma's conciliatory approach. Her talk about reaching mutual understanding can either fall into the aspect of social propriety or justice, so it can muddle the group's capacity to resolve conflict.

However, not only prioritizing Harmony above all else can lead to problems going by unresolved and festering, it can also be used as justification to enforce rather unyielding and strict social norms (as we very clearly see Plutomon do through enforcing a strict hierarchy in her debut). Ultimately, she needs the others to guide and support her to be fair just as much as she guides them.

[week-old-tiramisu]

i made strawberries!!!!!!

[whentherewerebicycles]

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[batfall-done]

* so on this blog i will be keeping my follower count down , i really want to develop and write with my mutuals as much as possible. that being said i know i have been super slow but? yeah i just wanna start doing things for ✨me✨

[titsthedamnseason]

nobody like us is……longer than some kind of perfect?

[readwebcomicsgdi]

"Black Dram is a character-driven comic about monsters, the humans they eat, and the humans that hunt them. These three categories are not mutually exclusive.

The comic contains some violence against humans and animals with accompanying blood and mild gore, and occasional swearing and nudity."

https://blackdram.com/comic/1

Lana can be found on Mastodon!

[austerulous]

Anyone who has ever remade a blog – do you recommend it?

[ohitslen]

I love them and they have never done anything wrong in their life they are free of sin and they are just being silly (I am aware of their flaws and it’s all I see all the time I need to say this to myself constantly to not spiral down into insanity and create balance)

[ptolemveamoved]

i swore that i posted a thing last night about this but i either did not post it or i'm overlooking it . . . anyways . . . i promise that i'm not ignoring anyone but am simply going through some things / trying to rest a bunch at the moment . i hope to get to all my dms sometime this week . <3

[talentforlying]

got a wild headache and i'm in a funky headspace today, so i'm gonna stay offline for the most part and rest my eyes. hope everyone has a lovely day!

[week-old-tiramisu]

"beer is my fuel"

call that embroide-beer