#well one is brand new i haven't developed him yet and one is new but went through a whole arc in discord very rapidly

[elleryhart]

i have three whole new fallen london ocs that I haven't begun to tell y'all about bc i can't think of how.

[bleachbleachbleach]

[Bleach 072]

This scene is important to me for the express reason that Hitsugaya was apparently the one to tell Jidanbou about these rules. Because they are friends! We know this not from any in-story interactions but from one line in Hitsugaya's Souls profile:

[Souls 133]

I'll be honest with you, I've never actually read Souls and have never thought about where it ties to canon temporally, but the answer to that is apparently sometime before Hitsugaya confronts Ichimaru.

This amuses me because at this point we know all of five things about this guy, and one of the five is that he's friends with Jidanbou. We don't even know the name of his Zanpakutou (that's the "?" in his stats profile box), but we know he's FRIENDS WITH JIDANBOU.

I don't have the English version of this page, apologies, but basically it's just like, Hitsugaya is a shinigami who comes from Rukongai, he's the youngest Captain in history, and he's currently investigating the Rukia business and trying to bring Ichimaru's shit to light. By the way, he's friends with Jidanbou and taught him the "Rules of the City." (Then the bottom sidebar is about how Hitsugaya treats Hinamori like blood, and wants to protect her.)

Which honestly makes this Jidanbou connection even funnier because Hinamori, the reason Hitsugaya is even in this story and the only reason we know this much about him (through Hinamori's Academy flashback), gets a neat sidebar, but the line about Jidanbou is just thrown in at the end of the main narrative like, beeeeee-tee-dubs!!

I've always wanted to write fanfic about this, but I haven't yet come up with a premise that was actually interesting to me. I assume they get paired up in this way for the size kink, though internal to the narrative that only gets us so far. After that it's like, okay, they're both associated with West Rukongai, so there's that. They're probably both socially ostracized: According to himself, people in Junrinan find Hitsugaya off-putting because of his white hair and his, well, off-putting demeanor; people probably make fun of Jidanbou because he's enormous and speaks with a lisp (though this doesn't carry into the Viz)/doesn't come across as normatively cognitively developed. But I'm kinda like, okay, sure, whatever. The most interesting part about that for me is still that Hitsugaya has a casual friend at all, because what few relationships we do see are extremely not casual. But also BTW Jidanbou!

I still think my favorite version of this relationship is the one where, while Hinamori's been off at school, Hitsugaya casually mentions to her that he's friends with Jidanbou the Gate Guardian, with absolutely zero explanation, as a child might about a brand new ride-or-die friend, as though this were completely normal and natural for him, and that's all that's ever said about it. Hitsugaya is definitely someone who has a mental white paper for anything he's ever done, which is why I find the contrast/discrepancy so appealing.

If my life depended on writing Hitsugaya Jidanbou friendship, though, I'd probably start with the City Rules. Because:

Jidanbou has been guarding this gate for 300 years. We don't know how long Hitsugaya has been living in Junrinan, but we do know he would not have had first-hand experience with any City Rules more than ~35 years ago. Not that you need to go to the city to know the rules, but I think canon Hitsugaya establishes pretty well that he doesn't talk about things he's not interested in or things that he doesn't have personal verified knowledge of. So for the first 265 years, no one bothered telling Jidanbou very much about this place he was guarding (not even his brother). He's a utility, and one that lives outside the gates (FUGAIKUUUU)--also one that's not perceived as smart enough for that information to be meaningful. But that whole vibe is not really Hitsugaya's style, because he loves an infodump--but also because he has a bone to pick with the notion of instrumentality.

If we're making a point of saying that Hitsugaya taught Jidanbou the "Rules of the City" (in quotation marks), we're introducing an interlocutor's specific POV. I'm not saying Hitsugaya's just making shit up for the hell of it, but how important these rules are, why these would be the top 3, what their original contexts were vs. being pulled out like this, and what's a literal municipal code vs. a social more vs. just something Hitsugaya has personal commentary about, are up in the air. What I'm saying is, I feel like these have "a gigai is for eating beans" energy.

At minimum, I enjoy this because this is all information that is completely incidental not only to the main storyline but ALSO to the Detective Hitsugaya B-side. But I love that Bleach is consistently so, so interesting about all these characters and their POVs and the rules that do or don't exist in the world, particularly at these early junctures, where most of what we've heard about Soul Society is from Rukia, and a lot of it we've already seen contradicted; and we'll continue to as the arc unfolds. Who even NEEDS Kyouka Suigetsu??

[scarfacemarston]

Have you seen the rumours that they are remaking/remastering Rdr? I don’t really know if they are fully remaking it or just remastering it because every source says different. How do you feel about it? Do you think these rumours might be true? Personally i would loveee if they remade it but i highly doubt it.. Maybe remaster yes, but a remake is highly doubtful in my opinion. If these rumours are even true ofcourse..

That's a great question and I wrote about it here! TW: R ape mention

I agree with you, btw. I don't trust Rockstar to do it right. Look at the horrible mess that was the GTA remake. I'm also nervous for the following reasons: 1. People are going to complain that Arthur isn't in it and get aggressive towards developers. (This one is NOT dumb.) The developers may throw a cameo line in there if it's updated, but that's it. This is not directed at you - but people need to realize that Arthur was NOT created yet! 2. A lot of the content did not age well. There may need to be a disclaimer or removal of content. Some of it is racial base, some of it is gender-based. 3. I'm worried that people are going to defend Dutch and Bill, who are literal monsters and are even serial r*pists. 4. The hatred towards Abigail will grow to brand new heights. As a mega Abigail fan, this sucks, but what sucks more is the anti-sex work and misogynistic language that will come with it. Just like the "We all had her line" ---that's Dutch literally lying. It's legit not possible, but people throw it up. (out of context, too, since most haven't even played the game!) So seeing that awfulness is going to suck as someone who is a fan and is literally as a job trying to uplift the story of sex workers in the old West. Positives would be people finally respecting John since he's kind of the laughingstock of the fandom. (People forget that without John, we wouldn't have an Arthur.) John showing how much he loves his family, especially how he tries to repair his relationship with Jack. We see the beautiful graphics, the scenery and the haunting soundtrack. People get to meet Bonnie MacFarlane! I love Nigel West Dickens and would be excited to see him. Leigh Johnson, the Sheriff, is great, too, and of course, there is Landon Ricketts which is really just Sam Elliot.

[gamesception]

Sception Reads Cass Cain #41

Batgirl (2000) #20 - November 2001 writer: Chuck Dixon...............pencils: Damion Scott inks: Robert Campanella......colors: Jason Wright

That month long hiatus turned into two months & change. Whoops. And I'm not really back on a regular schedule yet either, am super busy with real life stuff through the end of June at least, so this project won't be back onto a reliable weekly schedule till then at the earliest. But it's been too long since I posted one of these. so here we go.

We've got a pretty interesting issue from a couple angles here, in that it's sort of an echo of Cass's early appearances with Tim, where Cass first appeared together with him in his book, an appearances that imo didn't work very well or build an interesting dynamic or present Cass in a good light, but then Tim appears in Cass's book and is handled much better than she was in his, and they do take the time to start building a dynamic while acknowledging that the previous teamups were more strained than they needed to be.

Well we sort of have that again here, where Cass's first interaction with Steph over in Robin 88 was brief and gruff and had Cass acting kind of uncharacteristically rude and dismissive, but then Steph appears here in Cass's book and the interaction is a bit more substantial, with more of an effective dynamic built up, and with Steph handled imo better here than Cass was there. One ~could~ start to frame a pattern of Cass's creative team treating guests from other gotham books better than those teams treat Cass, an impression I admit to having back in the day.

However, that framing isn't (and wasn't) well founded, especially in this case. Mostly because, while this is Cass's book, Chuck Dixon, Robin's usual writer, is guest writing this issue. There's also far less of a disconnect between the depiction of Cass and her interactions with Stephanie going from Robin 88 to Batgirl 20 than there was for Cass and Tim going from Robin 73 to Batgirl 18. Which I suppose isn't too surprising given that Dixon wrote both Robin 88 and Batgirl 20, but it's also worth pointing out that there was far less time separating those issues than the other two. Cass was still brand new when Robin 73 released, and those writers not directly responsible for inventing her can maybe be forgiven for not quite understanding her back then.

I do think Dixon does a much better job with Cass here than he has when writing her previously, and while Scott's art certainly factors into it, it's not just that. Like, seriously, I've complained about Dixon in the past, but this is a good fun book worth reading if you haven't yet before I go spoiling it. It's also a proper Cass story - 'street level' story with no super powers or costumed villains, somewhat downbeat tone - despite Steph livening things up a good bit. Emotional/interpersonal focus, with themes of family connection, obligation, and strife - which keeps Cass's core motivations and relationships in mind even though they aren't brought up explicitly in this issue.

Honestly, I remember liking this one even way back when it first came out, and at the time I hadn't even noticed that there was a guest writer at all - though looking back there are a few tell tale signs.

Cass's attitude towards Steph still feels kind of uncharacteristically rude & aggressive, very much in line with her portrayal in Robin 88. While you can kind of feel them building a bit of a rapport over the course of the issue, you don't get the feeling of a fundamental shift the way we did with Tim's comments towards the end of Batgirl 18.

Then again, Tim is a self reflective and verbally expressive character, and Cass isn't, so a similar "I realize I've treated you unfairly in the past and I'll try to be better in the future" would have been even more out of character for Cass. Especially at this point in Cass's development where she's still more or less at a low point - living on her own, not really having any life or connections outside of Batgirl, 100% believing that Shiva's going to kill her in a few months. Which I guess is a fair enough in-character explanation for her attitude towards Stephanie, so there we go

That's a lot of rambling without even getting into the actual issue? I kind of don't feel up to the whole panel by panel playback, but it is a solid issue and worth going back to look at for fans of Cass and Steph - particularly as a pair - through the years. This isn't their first meeting, but it is their first adventure together, their first real interaction, and the start of an interpersonal connection that would come to be particularly important for both characters, a connection for Cass outside of her foundational dynamics with Bruce, Babs, and her father. Something they tried to do with Conner though it didn't quite take.

The set up plays naturally. Cass accidentally interrupts a money exchange situation for a kidnapping, ends up with a ransom note and a bunch of goons too dead and/or unconscious to interrogate over the kidnappee's location. Cass can't read the note, and she doesn't want to ask Bruce because she doesn't want to disappoint him by not being able to take care of the situation on her own, and she doesn't want to ask Babs because she doesn't want to disappoint her by demonstrating how little progress she's made on learning her letters. So she turns to Steph, someone she isn't worried about disappointing because, to put it bluntly, she doesn't respect Stephanie and so doesn't care about her opinion.

so a few things to point out from these panels alone - once again we see the most immediately identifiable difference between Puckett writing Cass and anybody else writing her - that reliance on narration blocks to convey Cass's interior thought process instead of letting the art do that work. Not that narration blocks are inherently bad, or used poorly here. They're kept short and sparing, they authentically feel like Cass's voice, and they don't clutter the panel art. As we've discussed several times, working with another artist they might even be necessary, especially with Cass's full face mask. Though with how Scott draws Cass I think they could have been pared back even further.

Speaking of Scott's art, I love these panels. The close up panels on isolated bits of text conveying how meaningless and arbitrary the markings feel to Cass. Her 'ugh' facial expression as she realizes all she's got to go on is this written note that she can't read, meaning she's going to have to ask for help. That panel with Cass and Steph sitting on the bed, lit by the window behind them is also amazing. I'm sure a lot of the credit there goes to Campanella's inks and Wrights colors as well, so yeah, once again the whole team for Cass's initial run really was great.

It's not just Cass, either. Stephanie's expressions are also fantastic here - in the bits where her face is visible. In costume, Scott doesn't do the drawn-through / shrinkwrapped face thing like with Cass, you can't see steph's expressions in the costume as that would mess with the look of her mask & hood, though I think Scott could maybe have pushed the expressiveness of her costumes eye shapes a bit more, spiderman style.

Some other just random bits I like in this issue:

Take out the speech bubbles and the target retinue and I'd love to have a poster of this panel of these two just sitting on a street light.

Though I'm not sure what the point of the target is here? I don't think anybody has a gun pulled on them?

Fighting as a team. Real dynamic duo stuff.

Oh, yeah, turns out the kidnapping was faked, with one guy pretending to kidnap himself to get money his brother had refused to just give him for his latest scheme. A fun little twist.

And we end on this nice bit which potentially sets up more of an ongoing relationship between Cassandra and Stephanie. And she does appear again periodically, more so than Conner did, including in the very next issue.

Adly, though, she didn't really become a regular supporting Character on par with Bruce or even Barbara. Which is too bad. As I said with Conner, the addition of a voice in Cassandra's life outside of Bruce & Babs, more of an emotional peer rather than mentor/parent/older sibling type, someone who could provide a more effective counterpoint to Bruce's emotional influence, would have done Cass good as a character, and might also have provided some appreciated levity to Cass's book, which, yeah, the sombre tone is intentional, but sometimes it can be a bit excessively downbeat.

And while Conner could have done that, Stephanie is a much more natural choice for it - fitting into Cass's street-level focus, plus all the natural character parallels with them both having villainous fathers - an obvious connection that somehow doesn't come up here.

Then again, the regular presence of someone as chatty as Conner or Steph might have been overbearing - overshadowing the less verbal Cass in her own book and working against that foundational principle of letting the art carry more of the burden of conveying the narrative and characterization. So maybe its better that Steph was used as sparingly as she was.

Still, there's a reason why a duo book pairing Cass and Steph was #1 on my comic book wish list for the longest time - pretty much right up until the new 52 reboot that removed the version of those characters that I was invested with from continuity. And the strength of the pairing can already be seen here in their first real outing.

[hoeneymilktea]

can we get cypher head canons ☹️☹️☹️lwk miss him

I have like five asks about cypher headcanons, and I'll just post them all on this one since it was the first one I see! Lol damn yall thirsty for headcanons! a lot of cypher headcanons are already... kinda explained in the plot... but I'll give very random ones I remember giving him back in the day lol.

fucked a girl once by kunimi's recommendation... let's say it was the worst fuck he's ever had LMAO. her coochie staaaank bad and she was like a walmart version of a gyuaru aesthetic (mind you these aesthetics are very cute when done WELL, but this girl was like... overdoing it, and almost looked like a british chav girl)

how oikawa got his car was actually through years of modification. veilside body mods are expensive, so how he ended up getting his car was insane years of cultivation. he traded in his beater '96 honda civic for an ODM '99 mazda rx7. it wasn't brand new, in fact he had to replace basically everything inside to make it function well. funnily enough, he cheated and did an engine swap to a v8 twin turbo LMAOOOO he crazy

his love for "normal" looking gaijins probably started for his developing crush on gabriella montez from high school musical LMAAAAOOOO that normie girl look got him BRICKED UP

this is one of his more toxic traits... but do yall know that one scene from euphoria where rue is narrating nate jacob's likes and dislikes in girls? well.... i hate to say it... but that's cypher's type too OOP... (If yall haven't seen it yet... here you go) but he is 100% the type of guy to literally murder for you soooooo i guess it evens out

tbh i can't think of anymore but i'll let yall know if i ever do and i'll just respond to it with one of the bajillion anon messages i have about cypher headcanons lol

[thegayhimbo]

Stranger Things Science Camp Review

If you haven't yet, be sure to check out my other Stranger Things Reviews:

Stranger Things Six

Stranger Things Halloween Special

Stranger Things The Other Side

Stranger Things Zombie Boys

Stranger Things The Bully

Stranger Things Winter Special

Stranger Things Tomb of Ybwen

Stranger Things Into the Fire

Synopsis: It's the Summer of 1985, and Dustin is at Camp Know Where, eager to put his knowledge of science and mathematics to work. However, things take a turn for the worse when a mysterious stalker shows up and counselors begin disappearing. Now Dustin is in a race against time to figure out who the culprit is before the camp is closed for good........

Observations:

This is what I'm talking about: Here is a comic that takes certain elements from the show that were given little to no screentime, and proceeds to expand on them in a meaningful way. We get to see what Dustin did during his time at Summer Camp, as well as the circumstances behind meeting Suzie and developing their relationship. We also get an intriguing mystery that pays direct homage to the first Friday the 13th movie while also being its own story. And it's all from Dustin's POV. Yay! 😊

I know I usually wait until the end of my reviews to say whether I'd recommend a comic/tie-in book, but this time I'm giving that opinion early: This comic is a personal favorite, and I strongly recommend checking it out.

The comics I tend to enjoy more (i.e. Zombie Boys, Tomb of Ybwen, Winter Special, The Other Side, Dungeons & Dragons, etc) are ones that either focus on the main characters and their dilemmas, or take place in-between seasons to paint a picture of what was going on during those periods of time. Will's week in the Upside Down, for instance, is something I wanted to see for years, which is why I was happy they wrote a comic focusing exclusively on his POV during the events of season 1. Same thing goes for Dustin and his time at Camp Know Where: Even if it doesn't play an important role in the main arc, it's nice seeing the writers take an obscure event and expand on it so that it could fit into the continuity of the show. I wish they would do this more often instead of writing comics that either focus on characters nobody cares about (Troy and James from The Bully) or introducing brand new characters who will play no part on the show (Francine and Ricky from Six and Into The Fire).

It's nice seeing Dustin embrace his intellect at camp, as well as demonstrating other qualities that make him lovable on the show: His compassion for others, his awkwardness around girls, his bravery, his imagination, and so on. His continuing character development is a joy to watch: From being able to stand up to the bullies at the beginning of the comic.....

...to befriending Steven and getting him to come out of his shell.....

...to crafting his own D&D Campaign as Dungeon Master (something Mike's usually been in charge of in the past) and drawing on his own experiences to make it a fun adventure....

....to meeting Suzie at camp and bonding with her (despite a few awkward moments beforehand)....

....to even forming a party to take on the culprit.

Contrary to what the camp counselors say about the kids at the beginning, Dustin's never been interested in gaining knowledge to elevate his popularity, but because he's genuinely interested in topics that fascinate him. He's also someone with a strong moral compass and believes in doing the right thing even when it's tough. All of which works when he's the one leading the mission to root out the culprit who's causing problems at the camp.

Speaking of which, as mentioned earlier, the main conflict centers around an insidious figure who specifically targets camp counselors:

The mystery is taken straight from the first Friday the 13th movie, with a few plot elements changed around. There's even a tongue-in-cheek reference to the movie in the comic:

I won't give away the identity of the culprit or their motivations in case people want to read this comic for themselves, but I will say I was satisfied with how it ended.

Something else I liked was how they wrote the bullies. Early on, the counselors remark that since a lot of the kids coming to this camp are nerds, this is their first time getting to be on top of the social pyramid. Two of those kids (Trevor and Dean) act antagonistic towards Dustin and Steven initially, and it's their goading that leads Dustin to create his own D&D Campaign to spite them. However, to Dustin's surprise, they actually express interest in wanting to play his campaign because they secretly love the game and are implied to be outcasts back at home who are looking for friends who share their interests.

On top of that, when push comes to shove and there's a real danger of the camp being shut-down because of the attacks on counselors, Trevor and Dean willingly join up with Dustin to help track down the culprit, showing they care as much about the camp as Dustin does. It's small, but it gives some depth to them, and it's a nice subversion of the one-dimensional bullies from the show (*cough* Angela *cough*).

Suzie also gets her time to shine in this comic. They introduce her as being shy and awkward around Dustin when they first meet, but once they get to know each other, she becomes fiercely supportive of him and helps rally the other campers around Dustin. Their interactions in the comic are sweet, and they thankfully avoid using the cringe-inducing nicknames of Dusty-bun and Suzie-poo 😖. We also get to see what inspired the duet they sing in the season 3 finale:

I'm curious if the Duffer Brothers will bring back Suzie for season 5, and if she'll finally find out about the Upside Down. In the past, she's usually made brief appearances where she acts as a plot-device to give the characters vital information (Planck's Constant in season 3, or the coordinates to Dr. Owen's silo in season 4) while being left in the dark about what's really going on. I get the feeling she might serve that role again in the final season, but I'd be a lot more interested if they expanded her character beyond that role, and either have her integrate with the Party and get to know the other main characters better, or give her more depth beyond being Dustin's smart girlfriend and having a stereotypical Mormon upbringing.

As for Dustin, I don't know if he and Suzie are intended to be endgame or not. It could go either way. It depends on whether or not Suzie is clued into everything, or if Dustin even survives (I know people keep saying the Duffer Brothers don't have the guts to kill off their main characters, but considering it's the last season and they need to keep the stakes high, I am betting on several main characters biting the dust before it's over).

On a final note, I liked how the comic highlighted Dustin's relationship with Steve and why it's important to him:

If Dustin ends up dead in season 5, the emotional fallout from Steve is going to be devastating. Same for Dustin if Steve dies (which A LOT of fans have been predicting for years now ☹️.)

It all depends on what happens in season 5.

[beecreeper]

For the Tav ask game: 4, 12, and 91 😊

~ @bardic-perdita 💜

Answering for my durges as well because why not!

Long answers under the cut

4. Is there a reason why your Tav starts out as Level 1?

Briar and Ferox both got a hard reset from Orin's attack and getting dissected by Kressa.

Molli just genuinely is level one. She never got the chance to be a proper bard before she got confined, having only basic bard skills. Gortash only let her play an instrument as a very occasionally metered out reward, so she wasn't able to develop past where she was before. Though, she often sang or hummed to herself and practiced the fingerings for notes in the air to pass time/dissociate, so that was enough to keep her skills *at* level one. Her warlock powers she got while on the nautiloid so those are brand new.

12. How does your Tav feel about Us? Did they free them, maim them or leave them behind?

Briar crushed Us immediately lol very much a tone setter for her run.

Molli's state of mind upon waking up was very much "there is so much happening right now that I am just. Not going to process any of it on a conscious level right now." Making her way around the ship in a confused haze and so disconnected from reality that she hardly registered just how terrifying everything was until after the fact. All this to say that, yes she helped Us out. She was honestly just grateful to have any direction at all. "Help us" and "Go to the helm" are much more concrete and digestible ideas than... everything else. When she meets Us again at Moonrise she gets attached to it immediately because it's *like them* 🥺

Ferox also freed Us, more out of idle curiosity than anything. Kinda compromised with his urge which really really wanted him to mutilate that corpse. Like, his urge was telling him to stick his hands in there and the front of his mind kinda backdoor justified that as "I guess I want to help take this brain thing out. Why else would I want to stick my hands in a corpse? That's the only logical reason here good job Ferox 👍" Once Us was out and started talking, he a) was kinda weirded out ngl and b) decided to follow it anyway because it was his best lead on what was going on. I haven't gotten him to Moonrise yet so I'm not 100% sure what his reaction will be to meeting it again.

91. Does you Tav get a happily ever after?

I really love to write both good and bad endings for my characters (thank you Arcana fandom for burning the concept of upright and reversed endings into me). So, yes!

Molli is the one with the clearest happy ending. In her good timeline, she defeats the brain and goes to Avernus with Karlach, where I INSIST that they find a way to fix her heart. They also have to chop off her warlock arm to break her pact but don't worry about that. 😊 Anyway, after that, they come back to Baldur's Gate, get rich selling all the rare hell stuff they've accumulated, get married and retire together. They buy a tavern, but they don't, like, run it. They hire someone else to actually do the managing part and they just hang out with patrons whenever they aren't off having eccentric retired lesbian vacations. They name their tavern "The Mockingbird and Goat."

Ferox will ALSO be getting a good ending but it's not as solidly planned in my head. The part I know for sure for sure is that he rejects Bhaal and then takes up a new Oath of Devoation and dedicates himself to actually being the paladin he's always wanted to be. Probably gonna join Lae'zel in her war against Vlaakith but there's a chance I could be swayed to something different when I actually play through it.

And then Briar's endings are... well okay they're both bad. On one hand she gets everything she wants and takes over the world in Bhaal's name, which *she* likes but is pretty bad for everyone else (and also it ultimately makes her feel hollow in the end but she doesn't know why and she would never admit it even to herself). On the other hand, she gets talked into rejecting Bhaal (thanks Sunflower!) but just feels so so so *empty* afterwards. She feels *nothing*. She has *NOTHING*. She just peaces out to be a weird reclusive mushroom hermit and never talk to anyone ever again. She also resurrects Gortash's body as a mushroom zombie and takes it with her, though she doesn't really know why. It just FEELS right.

[theduckofindeed]

FNAF Sun and Moon Fanfic Update: 4 Chapter Drafts Are Done

Good day, folks, I've been making a lot of progress on my FNAF fanfic starring Sun and Moon, but first...Tumblr's been kind of weird for me lately.  Sometimes, it makes my web browser crash, and then logs me out.  Sometimes within seconds of trying to use it.  I don't know what the heck is going on...

Ahem, anyway, rough drafts of chapters 1-4 have been written and span roughly Sun's first month in the Daycare.  They're not quite ready, though, as I haven't done my final edits yet.  Plus, I keep needing to retcon previous chapters as I write later ones, as I keep getting new ideas or realizing that a certain detail should have been elaborated on sooner.

For the first 3 chapters, Sun won't seem quite as in-character.  As mentioned before, he's a brand new AI, so he's still developing his personality and learning how to communicate with us fleshy humans.  I had a lot of fun writing chapter 4, however, as this marks the point at which I'm more able to embrace Sun's silliness.  I also thought I knew where chapter 5 was going, then I came up with some new and better ideas that require some restructuring, but should be well worth it in the end.

So far, my chapters are rather long and span roughly 5000-6500 words each.  Sometimes, writer's block makes these chapters take a while, then a burst of inspiration comes, and I'm able to write 2000 words in one sitting!

Anyway, I'm very excited to eventually start publishing these chapters, but I really want to make sure they're ready before anyone sees them.  As mentioned earlier in this post, I keep needing to backtrack and change past details.  So once I have the earlier sections of the story more "set in stone", perhaps I can start posting the earlier chapters.

I also just wanted to mention two more things.  One, this story will be published on Archive of Our Own.  And two, Sun is gonna go through some hard times in this story, including abuse.  So just a heads up.  I've got a feeling the staff wouldn't always treat the robots very well, especially ones seen as "less important", like Sun and Moon.  (It actually fits in quite nicely with his clear disdain for staff in Help Wanted 2.  It took me a while to get used to Sun's new personality in that game, but I'm warming up to it.  Finally.)

I'm kind of struggling with chapter 5 and onward at the moment.  While I like my new ideas, I'm having a hard time actually implementing them into the story.  I'm sure I'll figure something out if I just press on....  Also, I'm very excited to finally get to the part where Moon is introduced.  (Sun and Moon can't communicate right away.)  I like my take on his character.  But it might take a while for him to show up, as I think a longer build-up will have a greater impact.  Anyway, that's all for now!

[epickiya722]

I would like so much, to discuss how people are so inclined to hate Katsuki, and ignore any development he has had to this moment. Though, i am not sure how to even begin. Would you have any thoughts on it, as well?

I just know this is gonna be a long post because as I am typing this I feel like I have so much to say. So, yes, this is a warning.

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To begin, what bothers me is that people who hate Bakugou do tend to ignore his development. Look, regardless of how it's written or how much of it is, at least the development is there. Yes, Bakugou is still Bakugou. He still yells and explodes, but let's be for real. I said this before. If he was nice, like Koda nice, some of you would then find him boring as hell. (I love Koda, I'm not dissing him.)

Not only that, I feel like some people don't like characters with flaws and personally, if you prefer no villains, no jerks with hearts of gold, etc... that sounds like a very boring palette to me.

With that said, I feel like some people also tend to ignore his development for two reasons.

One, they don't want to acknowledge that this character they like hating on so much actually grew, actually realized that he has flaws he needs to work on. Like "how can I hate on this character who is aware of how they are and is working to change". Are you afraid you'll like Bakugou? And maybe, it's like looking into a mirror for them and themselves don't want to be reminded "Hey, I'm an asshole and I should change that".

Two, they don't know Bakugou's development exist. Lately, I've been seeing some people saying they dropped BNHA years ago and then they find out something happen and be all confused or whatever and honestly, it amuses me. It also annoys me because then that tells me that you have little knowledge about BNHA. Therefore, why would I (someone who is caught up with both the anime and manga) would listen to someone who only seen the Sports Festival and have yet to pick BNHA back up?

Regardless of what you say, you're going to be wrong. I'm not going to listen to someone who insists they're right about something they know little of.

You know what, I was gonna stop here but I feel like continuing.

Here's something else I don't get.

People who hate on Bakugou and yet be fans of characters who are much worse or just the same and/or have yet to have development themselves or none at all.

Example, I have crossed a Dabi fan blog once who hated on Bakugou (commented on one of my posts) and all I can think to myself is "didn't Dabi like kill people"?

Look, before anyone says anything, I do like Dabi. His backstory is fucked up and I get that's why he's the way he is. He entertains me as much as the rest of the League do. But one thing Dabi has that Bakugou doesn't is a damn kill count. And we didn't even get any Dabi backstory until what? Season 6?

Before then, Dabi was just an asshole without a backstory. And here's the thing. Before we found out he was even Endeavor's son, people ADORED Dabi.

I say this again. Dabi is an asshole. Bakugou is an asshole.

Yet, Dabi has fans and I barely see people hate on him as much as Bakugou is hated on. And this is BEFORE Dabi's reveal now. I do not see people having whole Dabi hate blogs (not saying you should, I don't get that either).

As much as people whine about Bakugou being mean and how cruel he is, it's baffling that some of those same people will be swooning over someone like... Overhaul.

Like who you like, but please keep your bullshit over there. We're not gonna pretend that one character has bad things and the other who also has done bad things didn't do those bad things.

It's just... what is it exactly that gets this antis so pressed over Bakugou, of all characters?

First of all, he ain't some new mean character. Let's not act as if we haven't had asshole characters before in any media. It is not new to have a jerk character that contrasts the nice one. Stop it now, don't act brand new.

Is it because it's so "illegal" that hero characters aren't always sunshine and rainbows? "Oh my gosh! He's supposed to be on the good side, why is he so mean? I'm clutching my pearls!" Honey... you would find him boring if he was nice. Ever heard of "variety"? There are villains who are nice and don't kill! What? Does everything gotta be "by the book"?

We do not need rules set on how these characters should be. Give me a break.

Second, is it because he's popular? That's one thing that I will probably be amused by. Bakugou is hated, but he's been #1 in how many popularity polls? Besides Midoriya, isn't he like the next character to be shipped with almost everyone? (I actually hate that. Like they shouldn't be that damn shippable. Thank you, exclude option.) You know how many fan songs there is of Bakugou?! Fanart?! MERCH?! DAMN EDITS?!

Or let's not forget the "He reminds me of someone who bullied me in school". That is a valid reason to hate him, I totally get it. Look, I had people like that in school. However, what I'm not going to do is going around with reblogging people's post to put them down about liking Bakugou and using my past that I have moved on from as an excuse to put down that Bakugou fan because I'm feeling some time of way.

Which some of you do.

Which I don't get.

You know what, in general what I don't get about Bakugou fans is how much time and effort they spend hating on him?

Let me get this straight. You hate Bakugou, but you spend hours and hours going around spreading that hate like it's some agenda?

How do you put in more effort on a character you hate more than his actual fans?

Maybe I missed a memo or something, but I thought if we hated something we don't spend our energy on that thing we hate?

For now, that's really all I gotta say.

[theriu]

D, N, and O? And is H the one you made up on the fly?

(These are Asks for my Mystery OC Ask Game!)

Oho, I did not expect multiple requests for D! Also, I see that my original wording was NOT clear! I have edited it to clarify: I will be giving three facts about each character requested, and ONE of those three facts will be newly invented for each one! None of the characters are brand-new (aside from their new nicknames XD) Sorry for the confusion!

ALRIGHTY, three to start out, let's do this! :D

D. Small Sparky Nerd

Brock, age 11, has the ability to manipulate electricity. He can't "create" it, but he can absorb and hold electricity, and he can affect electrical charge in the air around him. He's not super strong yet, but he's learned some handy tricks, like disrupting camera and audio signals so the evil scientists don't know about the kids having secret discussions once every week or so.

He is VERY VERY into superhero comics, especially Zap Captain, a fictional electric superhero. These were the only really "fun" thing from the Outside that he ever got to read while stuck in the illegal human experimentation lab that gave the kids their powers. He has most of his knowledge about the normal world (Outside) from them, and they help him feel good about his powers. One of the scientists would sneak them in and let Brock steal them, but don't be fooled, that guy is Not A Nice Person.

Whenever Brock gets his first try of chewing gum, he is going to be OBSESSED. Which might be for the better if only because it might slow down his constant excited chatter.

N. The Falcon But Bug Wings, Sr.

Val Daniels, early 40s, a technology-based superhero whose named USED to be Red Falcon before The Falcon of Marvel fame because popular, and I haven't decided on his new name. But I replaced his metal bird wings, so now his armored flight suit now has a pair of folding wings modeled after earwig wings due to their ability to fold super small and expand super big. He subdues criminals via nonlethal stun technology.

Val is very smart, much like Tony Stark or Batman, but unlike those two, he does not own his own company. His WIFE, however, DOES run a successful company, and after figuring out who he was and marrying him, now funds his projects. This helps Val keep a low profile, as he technically works for his wife in "Research and Development" (and to be fair, they DO sell some of the technology used in his suit, just in different forms).

Val is a total dog person. His best day involves being smothered beneath an avalanche of dogs on the couch. They are between dogs at the moment because he and his wife are so busy, but Val dreams of inventing the perfect robot dog. His daughter Kara teases him that he will replace her with a robo canine sidekick.

O. The Falcon But Bug Wings, Jr.

Kara Daniels, 19-year-old daughter of Val and Sarah Daniels. Just recently took up the mantle as her father's sidekick, Valkyrie. Her suit looks and runs very similar to his, with the same foldable wingpack and reinforced flight suit. The suits also, unbeknownst to everyone outside the family, utilize light anti-grav technology, which allows for easier powered flight as well as seeming enhanced strength and speed (due to being able to change an opponents' weight to a small degree). She prefers to fight with a bo staff but is also skilled at Taekwondo.

Kara wasn't allowed to go out and do actual superheroing, but after graduating high school at age 18, her father finally allowed it. She has trained for this for YEARS in the secret lab/lair, though, and takes the job VERY seriously. Maybe a bit too seriously at times.

She is allergic to cats but stubbornly refuses to admit to it, despite having a pet cat. The cat's name is Villain and she frequently has to vanquish him in his efforts to knock everything off her shelves.

Thanks for the asks, @misscrazyfangirl321 and @4-am-in-the-desert! This is fun! =D

[scifriskyxy]

I've been thinking lately a lot about the new sonic game and recently heard about a restructuring that Sega went through a while back so I went searching for more information and pondered on the companies actions

By what I can tell somewhat by their actions Sega seems to be one of those few game companies that haven't been taken over by greedy CEO/managers, incompetent higher ups or controlling ones...ever since the restructuring I can feel the freedom something I haven't sensed or seen In a large company ever since I was a kid when I first played sonic frontiers it felt like cold water was dumped on me and at the same time a sense of something that I haven't felt in a very long time

I got brought back to my childhood I wasn't as informed as I am today the game that officially Dove me into the community with was sonic and the black knight, even tho it was a budget game I adored the characters...Sir lancelot is the one that I still remember vividly even now

The game that gave me a taste was ironically what's considered the worse game ever aka Sonic 06...even now I'm not sure what's wrong with it maybe it's because I focus more on the story more than anything else, how they introduced shadow,silver...the death of blaze...when blaze died I cried I'm not sure why but it did I didn't understand what exactly happened but I felt what silver felt In that scene his heart shattered...

Now today because of sonic frontiers drenching me in water and pushing me off a cliff,Im re-developing my first and only Full fledged OC currently doing art and modernizing her and getting her more lore accurate basing myself on the original idea I had for her a knight well the next user of caliburn after sonic left...even tho sonic and the black knight was a budget game i fell in love with some of the characters I wanted to give caliburn[the sword] a second chance in my own special way as I felt he would never be used again i wanted to make someone that would be part of the sonic lore but not a part of the main cast yet she or he aware of the team while they arent...an ancient evil an explanation to what happened to Avalon after sonic left on how it became but a myth a story...a legend at the same time I want to keep her story as accurate as I made her as a child...my memory of her isn't the best but I'm gathering the fragments and revitalizing her into a brand new light... someone that was tarnished by war loss ,alone once parallel to sonic but lost everything events didn't pan out,alone... even tho they'll never encounter eachother I want her to be a cracked yet still shining light someone that shows what sonic could have becomed properly if things didn't turn out right someone even shadow can relate to if they ever encounter, someone Amy would have a very hard time with making friends with someone knuckles would be amazed by him having a proper glimpse of the past and maybe even a glimpse of his people and perhaps even what caused the eventual downfall...someone whom can remind and tell tails that having two tails isn't evil or a bad thing but a blessing a sigh he's meant to do great things and go far

Someone shadow would be shocked that there is an ultimate life form that wasn't created in a God damn lab and maybe she'd some light on parts of his creation mainly DNA related that made him look as he does

Sonic the hedgehog was my childhood I wish Sega the best and I hope they don't end up corrupt and greedy once more and don't lose their momentum and fall into the pits of greed and power like many of the game-developing companies today

I hope Sega truly manages to reach the stars and be a force of good in this sea of greed, corruption, and control

[darkestrellar]

Muse Info Sheet

Tagged by @jocundcompany thank you! Tagging please steal it and tag me!!!

{Basics}

Name: wouldn't you like to know weatherboy

Alias / Nicknames: "Svern" is the primary one that he uses.

Gender: Male (he/him)

Age: 23+

Species: Human

Zodiac: aquarius / aries / cancer / capricorn / gemini / leo / libra / pisces / sagittarius / scorpio / taurus / virgo / unknown

Abilities/Talents: Born with stupid smart disease. This allows him to learn, adapt, and grasp new things at an exceptionally rapid rate, as long as he's actually interested in them. He's good at acting, pretty much everything of his mannerism is fabricated and altered from his core state. Mentally very resilient due to being chronically detached and not processing things in a standard way. Core skillset includes computer science and programming; he's also held significant interests in chemistry and biology. Physical set, he's got excellent reactions, great stamina and as much strength as he needs. His parkour/agility skills are more highly developed than his combat skills, but he's perfectly competent in self-defence. ...Oh yeah and there's also the stuff he gets from dedicating himself to a fuckin weird rock. These aren't well developed yet, but he can perceive the mental states of others and potentially gain an idea of their vulnerabilities, and manipulate and condense negative emotional energy (there does need to be a source). He can also use it to generate that specific brand of crystals.

{Personal}

Alignment: lawful / neutral / chaotic / good / neutral / evil / true

Religion: None. He does have his whatever's-going-on with the Shadow Crystal but that's not really a religion.

Sins: lust / gluttony / greed / sloth / envy / wrath / pride

Virtues: chastity / temperance / charity / diligence / kindness / patience / humility

Languages: English first language. In the Pokémon world, he's lived mostly in Unova, Galar, and Almia, so if we wanted to be strict, that would be English and Japanese. He may know Spanish (Paldean) too. This is a flexible area, he can learn if he wanted.

Family: Parents that he doesn't like. Bunch of extended family that he doesn't like. One grandfather that he likes.

Sexual Orientation: heterosexual / bisexual / pansexual / homosexual / demisexual  / asexual / unsure / questioning / other

Relationship status: single / dating/ engaged / married / widowed / open relationship / other

Libido: sex god / very high / high / average / low / very low / non-existent / idk not able to answer this one yet

{Physical}

Build: twig / bony / slender / average / athletic / curvy / chubby / obese

Hair: white / blonde / brunette / red (favoured) / black (natural) / other

Eyes: brown / blue / green / black / other (favours amber, natural colour turquoise)

Skin: pale / fair / olive / light brown / brown / very brown / other

Height: under 3 feet / 3 feet to 3 feet 11 inches / 4 feet to 4 feet 11 inches / 5 feet to 5 feet 11 inches / 6 feet to 6 feet 11 inches / above 7 feet

Weight: under 100 pounds / 100-150 pounds / 150-200 pounds / 200-250 pounds / above 250 pounds

Scars: Probably some, but I haven't gotten there yet

Facial Features: His eyes would be the most notable feature. Big, observant, staring, they might glint or sparkle, or turn vacant and straight up unreadable. It can change in an instant. They have the capacity to be unnerving depending on how he looks at you.

Tattoos: n/a

{Choose}

Dogs or Cats? (cats thematically)

Birds or Hamsters?

Red or Blue?

Yellow or Green?

Black or White?

Coffee or Tea?

Ice Cream or Cake?

Fruits or Vegetables?

Sandwich or Soup?

Magic or Melee?

Sword or Bow?

Summer or Winter?

Spring or Autumn?

The Past or The Future?

[isa-ghost]

I HAVE BEEN ENABLED.

(I am about to elaborate on this way more than I need to. I'm normal. I swear.)

OKAY SO I've made a metric FUCKLOAD of rpPhil headcanons and one that I have steadily (esp now over the course of Squidcraft LMAOOOO) gained infamy for is ✨ The rp!Phil Harem ✨ (or Polycule if we're being serious, which I'M BOTH /J AND /SRS, BABIEEEE).

So obviously we know rpPhil has been slutting it up over the last year and I couldn't be more proud of him for that.

I've shitposted about this polycule in the past (ie: joking that Fitza has done unspeakable things behind Fit's gym in QSMP), but then I was enabled via asks to make Actual headcanons about it, so here's the headcanons where I initially talked about the polycule existing, and here's where I actually went into detail about them.

10/10 recommend reading those, but for anyone who isn't That interested, lemme break it down simple style:

Phil's accidentally formed harem/polycule contains:

Goddess of Death (ofc. she is SUCH an enabler of this all btw)

Missa

Fit

Etoiles

By association, you Could include Pac in this (he is Strictly /r with Fit, everyone else in this polycule he is ONLY /p with. I won't break down any other dynamics in the harem here, that's what linking the headcanons I linked is for LMAOO).

And as a brand new development: Mr. Phillip.

This harem also included Forever prior to.... All Of That.

I barely know anything about Mr. Phillip since I've only just met him, but my dash has been saying he's practically Missa's other boyfriend, so I guess I'm considering him /r with Pissa (he told Phil he has a nice ass, as you surely know if you were watching SC or follow people that were) and suffice to say he Would Be /p with everyone else involved (hilarious bc this Actually Works since the other Polycule members were also in Squidcraft, but afaik they haven't interacted with Mr. Phillip to the same degree he has with Phil).

(Mr. Phillip's involvement from a /srs headcanon or Somehow Canon Compliant Fanfic perspective is complicated and currently undeveloped. If I include him when taking this headcanon seriously from a canon perspective that means Squidcraft is canon to QSMP and I'm unsure how I feel about that. But also Phil practically canonized it when he was joking with Missa on the first day anyway, so I suppose if it IS canon to QSMP then the SC deaths just aren't permanent. Because SC being canon to QSMP means scPhil is also smpe + hc + c + q Phil and that mf can't die-die and just- SEE, THE LOGISTICS GET REALLY FUCKING HARD 💀 I GET TOO SERIOUS ABOUT THIS. I THINK I'M GONNA KEEP SC NOT CANON, MR. PHILLIP IS BANISHED TO SHITPOST-&-HEADCANON ONLY LAND.)

ANYWAY.

(yeah that's right, I'm not done yet)

POV: I made those polycule headcanons that I linked when the QSMP Ender King possession arc was JUST starting to cook, so I got asked about what the polycule would do to fight possessed!Phil.

WELL.

If you look at those headcanons, you'll see IT EXPLODED INTO A FUCKING FANFIC. Currently half completed. AND I WON AN AWARD I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS NOMINATED FOR FOR IT?

SO YEAH. UH. I'M IN DEEP. The way this headcanon went from me joking about qPhil having too much goddamn rizz to ALL THIS is. Fucking WILD. I like talking about it way too much and it shows.

Enjoy being enlightened I guess. Or perhaps this was an insurmountable amount of psychic damage. I thrive off providing both. 👉🏻😎👉🏻

Also bonus polycule meme brought to you by one of my beloved mutuals

Thanks for coming to my TED talk or whatever LMAO

he what

[the-mothmaam]

Opening up to a friend

·  Friend — Today at 11:03 AM

Hey girl, when and where is this art thing?

·  I feel like you sent me a flyer, but that was 100,000 years ago

·  Me — Today at 11:04 AM

(Location and time information)

·  Friend — Today at 11:04 AM

Aight, cool

·  And are we meeting there?

·  Me — Today at 11:05 AM

was just about to ask if you're down for that or if you want me to pick you up so you can save gas

·  Friend — Today at 11:06 AM

Nah, no sense in you driving for 9 hours this evening, we can meet there

·  Me — Today at 11:07 AM

ok, I'll probably be there between 7 and 7:30

·  Friend — Today at 11:07 AM

Sounds good

·  Also, did you just change your discord avatar?

·  Me — Today at 11:09 AM

yes, like just now

·  Friend — Today at 11:10 AM

I thought so, on my side one message had the old one and the next has the new one

·  Me — Today at 11:10 AM

been plugging different formulations into an AI generator

this was the most entertaining one

·  Friend — Today at 11:12 AM

Lol

·  Friend — Today at 11:37 AM

So how are we going to play the art exhibit?

·  Me — Today at 11:38 AM

you be the distraction while i surreptitiously replace the best pieces with counterfeits

·  Friend — Today at 11:39 AM

Okay. I'll pose as a prospective buyer representing a wealthy art collector and engage the staff in pointless conversations about the deeper meaning of the pieces we're not interested in stealing

·  Me — Today at 11:40 AM

(nod) sounds like a plan

·  Friend — Today at 11:40 AM

Do you have a fence or will we need to get in touch with a fixer?

·  Me — Today at 11:41 AM

i have a fence, but i haven't dug the post holes yet so it's more like a pile of wood. :p

·  Friend — Today at 11:44 AM

Goddess help me. You have to develop the contact before organizing the op

·  Me — Today at 11:45 AM

I could also just be acting dumb so that I can steal the art from under your nose and book it to Zihuatanejo.

·  Friend — Today at 11:49 AM

1: I think you know better than to double cross me, remember monty? 2: You wouldn't be planning to stay at the safe house I told you about in Zihautanejo would you?

·  Me — Today at 11:51 AM

Monty... Monty...I might have Eternal Sunshined him out of my head. And also, pffft, like I wouldn't have my own safe house. But just to be sure we should probably exchange address information and swap keys. Just in case.

·  Friend — Today at 12:00 PM

You really should go visit them. Their doctors have rigged up a little device that lets them type out messages. Though they mostly beg to be put out of their misery

·  I guess we'll use my fixer. I hate bringing her in on something like this though because she is such an art poser. Just be ready to be bored to death when we meet with her

·  Me — Today at 12:06 PM

i live my life that way. Shouldn't be a problem

·  Friend — Today at 12:07 PM

But Mothybaby, you are paying me a lot of money to help you get better at being evil, you really should be paying more attention. If you had hired someone less scrupulous they could very easily rob you blind

·  Or worse

·  Me — Today at 12:08 PM

is that what's been happening to my bank account? Here I was thinking Filipino teens were just scamming me.

·  Friend — Today at 12:10 PM

Marialos works for me, though likely not for much longer

·  So I guess it's both?

·  They're too careless. I told them to ship you boxes so you wouldn't catch on for at least a month or two

·  Ah well, it's why I don't like working with remote henchmen

·  Me — Today at 12:12 PM

Thank you! If I'm going to be scammed the least someone can do is make the lie last as long as possible.

·  Friend — Today at 12:13 PM

Marialos seemed so promising, but I think they won't get further than scamming tourists and people on reddit before their carelessness catches up to them

·  Me — Today at 12:13 PM

I want to be old a gray when I realize the video games I've been playing weren't name-brand titles and were instead really engaging bootlegs

·  Friend — Today at 12:14 PM

Why ship games when you can ship empty boxes and point to the ad saying in small print it was just the box?

·  I made a lot of good money on ebay in the aughts selling 360 and ps4 boxes

·  Me — Today at 12:15 PM

in the aughts? you were ambitious selling ps4 stuff

Friend — Today at 12:17 PM

Yeah, well the best mark is someone who thinks they're getting shady merch. None of the ps4 buyers ever even reported it

·  ·  Me — Today at 12:18 PM

lol, probably too embarrassed

·  Friend — Today at 12:18 PM

Embarrassed or worried they'd get in trouble for trying to buy one

·  We haven't really covered confidence games yet because that doesn't seem like your strong suit, but one way to ensure you get away with it is to make them think what they're doing is also illegal

·  We'll try a ring drop if you want to get a taste

·  Me — Today at 12:21 PM

ok but wouldn't the best fleece be a situation where the legality actually is in question for both parties?

·  I've seen Matchstick Men several times, I can spot a rube at 50 yards

·  Friend — Today at 12:23 PM

They're hard to setup and if everyone knows they're committing crimes you'll be taking on too much risk if things go sideways. Some gas station owner is going to call the cops, a fence might break your spine

·  Plus when dealing with other low lifes you really should stick to your word, you don't want to get a bad rep or no one will work with you. Don't shit where you sleep and all that

·  Me — Today at 12:24 PM

see but what if the entire racket is actually just a complicated layer of Inception?

·  How can you tell we're not in a simulation right now?

·  Friend — Today at 12:25 PM

It's safer to assume you always are. That way no surprises

·  Me — Today at 12:26 PM

the surprise would be that you're not (sad Price is Right music)

·  Friend — Today at 12:27 PM

Perhaps, but it makes other things easier too if you are assuming this is all a simulation it doesn't really matter if you put a bullet in someone trying to pull one over on you

·  Me — Today at 12:29 PM

Do subroutines not feel pain or experience fear? How maliciously unrewarding creating something like that must be.

·  What is the point of life if you can't learn to hate it?

·  Friend — Today at 12:30 PM

Well, like I tell my other clients, if you enjoy hurting people, do that in your own time. We're here to get results, not jollies

·  Me — Today at 12:31 PM

speak for yourself

·  also; I asked Chat GPT about you and I think you'll aprreciate what it has to say.

·  Friend (adjective): Describing a quality or characteristic that is exceptionally rare, unusual, or unique, to the point of being nearly or entirely unparalleled. Something that is so uncommon that it stands out prominently among its peers.

·  Friend — Today at 12:32 PM

Aw, chatGPT you flirt

·  Me — Today at 12:32 PM

right?

·  Friend — Today at 12:32 PM

The word actually means: made of or consisting primarily of tangible matter

·  Me — Today at 12:33 PM

at what point does something become un-Friend?

·  or is that a Thesus' Ship thing?

·  Friend — Today at 12:35 PM

Surprisingly there are few grey areas.

·  And very related to the ship though. The second ship the caretaker builds is conceptually a ship and thus exists as part matter, part idea until he hits the threshold of reality

·  Me — Today at 12:37 PM

kind of like something that exists within The Dreaming?

·  Friend — Today at 12:37 PM

In a sense, yes

·  Me — Today at 12:38 PM

you are much more fun to talk bullshit to than an AI. This is a compliment.

·  Friend — Today at 12:39 PM

Uh, that's because I have my bs in bs. Some hyped up language model will never replace me

·  Me — Today at 12:39 PM

that's the spirit! Denial until you're plugged into the Matrix forcefully!

·  Friend — Today at 12:41 PM

No need for force. If the machines were like, "yo, we taking over" I'd be first in line to be hooked up, especially if those robits promised me a working uterus in the matrix

·  Me — Today at 12:42 PM

·  Friend — Today at 12:42 PM

I wouldn't have much time before my biological clock ran out, but I'd do my best to have a baby

·  The poor thing would have a terrible life though. Batshit crazy mom, absent father, always on the move

·  Me — Today at 12:43 PM

yeah? being pregnant would be interesting, but i have no desire to raise a kid, it would probably just grow up to hate me

·  Friend — Today at 12:44 PM

I have wanted to be a mom since my 20's. I think I'd be a terrible mother, but I think I'd try anyway

·  Me — Today at 12:44 PM

that's commendable

·  Friend — Today at 12:46 PM

I'd raise my kiddo to be very independent and support them in whatever direction they wanted to go in life. But my mental illness wouldn't just go away, you know?

·  Maybe their father could be a more stable influence in that regard

·  Me — Today at 12:47 PM

That's assuming you co-parent and aren't a badass on your own

·  Friend — Today at 12:48 PM

Honestly I'd have to co-parent. I couldn't do it by myself. I am too broken to not have help raising my daughter

Me — Today at 12:48 PM

Thing I learned just now: Anteaters and sloths are the two most closely related animals to one another.

·  I've known some pretty bat-shit crazy single parents

·  Friend — Today at 12:49 PM

How did their kids turn out?

·  Me — Today at 12:49 PM

mostly human, partly harmless

·  Friend — Today at 12:49 PM

I want to make sure Samantha has every chance she can to be successful

·  Me — Today at 12:50 PM

Samantha is the name of my friend who recently lose her estranged husband and son. It's a really good name.

·  Friend — Today at 12:51 PM

It's a great name. I'd call her sam. If she turned out trashy like her mom she could go by sammy

·  Sam, goblin, and little one would be my nicknames for her.

Me — Today at 12:52 PM

plus you're naming her after this genius

·  My Samantha is totes a Sami

·  Friend — Today at 12:52 PM

It's such a flexible name

·  Me — Today at 12:53 PM

with an I though, because we went to HS with a boy Sammy

Friend — Today at 12:53 PM

Well see, if she turned out trans he'd have sam and sammy until he could change his name to something he liked better

·  Me — Today at 12:54 PM

I'm going to go shovel nutrition into the rotting hulk of a corporeal essence. So I might be slow to respond for a bit.

·  Friend — Today at 12:54 PM

No worries. I'm day dreaming about motherhood now and watching tiktoks

·  Me — Today at 12:56 PM

Does it make me a bad tabs woman that I don't want a baby?

·  Trans not tabs

·  Friend — Today at 12:57 PM

No more than it would make you a bad cis woman. It's your life to live as you choose

·  Me — Today at 12:58 PM

I used to think I wanted twins, each of the binary assignments. But my view of the world has changed a lot in 20 years.

·  Friend — Today at 1:01 PM

Yeah, it's not really a good time to have kiddos. And honestly I literally can't be a genetic parent at this point, so my desire to have them is meaningless. I'm too crazy to adopt. Meeting someone who already had them would be about my only way in at this point and I don't know how I feel about being a wicked stepmother

·  Me — Today at 1:02 PM

I never had a male name picked out. But my daughter would have been Cassiopeia

·  Friend — Today at 1:02 PM

Fun fact, suicidality, and some mental health diagnoses are automatic disqualifiers for adoption

·  Bailey would be me son's name

·  Me — Today at 1:02 PM

My sister had fully embrace it.

·  Me — Today at 1:03 PM

I did not know that. That's very sad.

·  Friend — Today at 1:03 PM

Yar

·  I talked about it a lot with my ex wife, but she didn't want kids with me. Though she gave birth to twins less than a year after we separated (while we were still in the process of getting a divorce)

·  That was devastating

·  Me — Today at 1:09 PM

I bet. That's one of the things my ex said to me after she revealed the miscarriage. That she thought of be a bad parent. I don't know how much she meant it versus how much she just wanted to hurt me.

·  Friend — Today at 1:10 PM

Even if she meant it. Her opinion of you is not worth caring about

·  Me — Today at 1:10 PM

Sad but true

·  Friend — Today at 1:13 PM

It could also be empowering. She doesn't matter, her opinions don't matter, she is a piece of shit narcissist who uses people and discards them

·  Me — Today at 1:13 PM

You know what they say, never marry your heroes.

·  Friend — Today at 1:14 PM

Was she your hero?

·  Me — Today at 1:15 PM

At one point. Long, long ago. She helped show me a world worth caring about and fighting for. Then somewhere along the way she decided i wasn't up to the task i guess.

·  I've been realizing just how helpful that was when she decided to start treating me down.

·  Tearing*

·  Friend — Today at 1:19 PM

Helpful how, I don't think I follow

·  Me — Today at 1:20 PM

It's incredibly dour and depressing are you sure you want me to explain?

·  Friend — Today at 1:22 PM

Only if you want to.

·  Me — Today at 1:23 PM

It just seems that the more intimately you know someone, the easier it is for them to attack your weak points for massive damage.

·  Friend — Today at 1:23 PM

That's very true. Only the people we are vulnerable with can really hurt us

·  Me — Today at 1:25 PM

I know it's the bad that makes the good worthwhile though. So I guess I just feel like touching the stove is always going to burn me, you know?

·  Friend — Today at 1:28 PM

Can you unpack what you mean by that a little?

·  Me — Today at 1:29 PM

If everyone you try to connect to ends up stabbing you in the back, is it worth the risk to keep letting people in?

·  That's where radical acceptance falls apart for me.

·  I feel like this is something I should talk to my therapist about. You know the one I actually pay to listen to me ramble.

·  Friend — Today at 1:33 PM

I would say yes, that is a great idea. But I also have some insight on what becoming isolated and distant from other humans is like.

·  Me — Today at 1:34 PM

It's why I find talking to you so easy, that and you've got a good sense of humor and we have overlapping interests.

·  I dare say you might even be a friend.

·  / dripping sarcasm I know we're friends

·  Friend — Today at 1:36 PM

I don't know about all that now, lol. Bad influence? You bet. Mischievous menace? 100%. Friend? Well that seems like a stretch

Me — Today at 1:37 PM

Okay as long as we're on the same page. I don't mind cutting wits with u but I also don't want you to think I take you for granted.

·  ·  And if I don't spell out SARCASM from time to time I'd be worried you actually believe me

·  In always afraid of hurting people that way

·  Shit, I think you're more effective than my therapist. I haven't been this open with myself in a while.

·  Friend — Today at 1:40 PM

I know, maybe one day you'll feel confident enough in yourself to believe that people like your company and won't abandon you because of a small issue

·  Me — Today at 1:41 PM

Lol yeah we'll work up to that one

·  Friend — Today at 1:41 PM

It's a marathon, not a sprint

·  Me — Today at 1:43 PM

fuck you for using the same words i've used against me

·  Friend — Today at 1:43 PM

I keep wanting to convince you to be mean to me just so you know that you can make mistakes and do things that hurt other people without it being the end of the world

·  Friend — Today at 1:44 PM

Me — Today at 1:44 PM

I have a sticky note with Fred Rogers on it looking at me right this second. I don't know how nasty i can be in that scenario.

·  ·  Friend — Today at 1:45 PM

He worked for OSS during World War II and likely killed a bunch of people

·  If that helps

·  Me — Today at 1:46 PM

nah, cause the post-its also say "You're special" and "I like you just the way you are" I have a hard time believing anyone with puppets could kill a man... feel free to make that my epitaph

·  Murdered by a gang of roaming muppets

·  Friend — Today at 1:47 PM

Well good news, snopes says that's a bunch of hoey

·  Me — Today at 1:47 PM

i do know Bob Ross used to be pretty angry

·  he's probably the better parallel.

I don't know if this will help you or not, but I've been carrying it around for the last few months in my noggin

Friend — Today at 1:50 PM

Bob Ross was in the Air Force in the 1960's and part of his gentle demeanor was a response to the aggressive nature of life in the service. I saw an interview he gave about it once. He said he vowed to never raise his voice after he left the air force

Me — Today at 1:51 PM

yeah, that's me

Friend — Today at 1:51 PM

What was it like being in the air force during the cold war?

Me — Today at 1:52 PM

I once raged so hard that my ex was literally afraid of me. This was back in the first or second year of the marriage. But that look... I can't let anyone ever look at me like that again.

it was fear, and betrayal, and disgust all rolled into a very unappetizing tamale

it made me feel like what all the bullies i ever had said about me. That I was a monster. It's why i surround myself with horror. I feel at home here.

·  to go beyond the pale and embrace my emo side, "the darkness is a comforting blanket"

·  Friend — Today at 1:56 PM

I can relate. I had a lot of anger problems as a teen and would often be quite aggressive

Me — Today at 1:57 PM

i got it from both of my parents. My dad was a rageaholic and my mom very likely had BPD. Not that I'd ever burden her with that opinion, especially since she's cooled the fuck out as she's aged

You know, the fun part of being a millennial is that we're the last great generation doomed to suffer physical punishment in droves.

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A lot of discussions pass away out because of one straightforward factor. Therapy can aid when your normal function is endangered, Egel recommends. She describes therapy is typically a good option when you struggle to do things you normally would or have a difficult time locating pleasure in your life. If you maintain developing crushes that do not work out, it may aid to explore possible reasons for this, on your own or with a specialist. Pals as well as family who recognize what you're undergoing can likewise help take your mind off your crush by offering emotional assistance and recommending new interruptions. If that holds true for you, currently is the time to attempt something new.

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And what's the best way to get over a crush when you choose that's the best path ahead? These deep feelings of infatuation are normal, very real, and completely valid. This holds true also if you have actually just gotten on a few dates, have been buddies for years, or haven't even talked to each other prior to. Cancers are deeply sensitive which swings both in the positive and also unfavorable direction.

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If you are looking to get to know your crush (or anyone) much better, understanding the right questions to ask can aid you take the conversation to a much deeper level. Learning more about your crush also better starts with the standard inquiries, from their favorite color to their favored attire to any type of pastimes they do and much more. When you like someone, whether it's a crush or your long-term companion, sometimes simply informing them you like them isn't enough-- showing them how much you care can speak volumes. Here's 50 creative methods to tell somebody you like them without just all out claiming it. Particularly if it's a budding relationship, these little activities can be the perfect means to drop tips.

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The connection that you 2 have is one that lots of people just remember experiencing during teenage years. This will certainly assist give you viewpoint on your ~ crush situation ~. Inform your besties about what you speak about together, and also what they message you.

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In the end, we all wish to remain in healthy connections with people that appreciate all that we are. Also if this person wasn't a good fit, it doesn't imply you won't discover someone else who is-- which individual can come around when you the very least anticipate it. So maintain those positive vibes, find out to enjoy yourself first, and others will certainly like you back, too. Everyone experiences this experience a minimum of once in their lives (if not more)! Remember that you will certainly make it through the truth that your crush does not like you back.

Your crush will really appreciate it when you send them a text wanting them good luck on the test they casually stated a couple of days in the past. It could sound quite noticeable however try to spend time around your crush, without coming off too solid. If you're simply starving over them from afar, they will not obtain a chance to learn more about just how incredible you are. Sit next to them at lunch, ask them to be your gym partner, or even suggest hanging around over the weekend. The one-on-one time will certainly offer you two the possibility to bond and also connect, opening the opportunity of a common destination. If your crush remains for longer than two years, it's technically identified as limerence.

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"A Caspian?" Benjamin asked, impressed. "My. It really does sound like Tilly will develop an attachment. Her tastes tend to border along the snobbish."

Although he was joking, he imagined it was a comfort for her to glean some proper rest, not to mention a bit of companionship beyond his own.

Genya giggled at his side. The sound was vibrant and warm, and he found himself smiling despite the pain throbbing through his middle. "You just might have to. It appears we have a budding romance on our hands."

"A romance?" Benjamin asked, amused. "So my horse gets a romantic partner in this cruel, unforgiving world, and yet all I get is shot? I'm sensing a bit of unfairness here."

Chuckling to show his jest, he winced at the strain to his wound and exhaled through his nose, forcing his smile to remain intact. He didn't need Genya preventing him from his travels.

Fortunately, she seemed far too preoccupied with their conversation. "Both," she replied. "My father taught me most of what I know of horses and he'd take me riding with him every chance there was, especially because I was always begging him to. Sadly, I haven't ridden since I was twelve. The help isn't permitted to do so here."

Benjamin hummed under his breath. "Not at all? Not even to deliver messages?" Upon catching her gaze, he decided, "Well, that just won't do...perhaps sometime in the future, when I'm much, much less full of holes, I can return and take you riding? If you think you can sneak away, of course..."

Despite his disdain for her present state -- it was clear she viewed this place as a prison -- Benjamin also knew better than to promote risk. Were Genya's employer to find out, it was doubtful that he would be the one punished; no, the proverbial axe would assuredly swing upon herself, and he couldn't live with that sort of guilt. His mistakes branded far too many as it was.

A comfortable quiet befell the barn, and as Benjamin finished off the last of his stew, Genya turned towards him and posed a new question: "Tilly must miss a simpler life outside of the military."

He hesitated, his jaw nearly locking around the piece of bread in his mouth. "Military?" he said around the mouthful, swallowing with visible difficulty. "Oh...you mean because of her service." Feigning nonchalance, Benjamin brightened again. "I don't know...I imagine that just like with humans, animals become resilient and adapt. If you don't, you can't survive."

A hazy bleakness overcame the air, causing his posture to curl inward. "But I thank you again for the meal. My list of gratitude grows ever-longer by the minute."

Relief crossed John's face. Evidently, he cared very much about his quadruped companion -- yet another thing she found she liked about him. Someone who cared so much for an animal tended to be a good person, a kind person, as if that wasn't already apparent.

"Strider?"

"That's right. He's a silver Caspian. A unique and prize-winning stallion."

Strider was the Lantsov's pride and joy, but Genya hated to see him paraded around for the sake of the show. No animal should have to suffer through such trivial antics.

"Although not a solitary creature, Tilly doesn't really interact with many horses beyond her duties. I hope these two don't become enamored with one another, because then I'll have to take him too."

Her duties?

"You just might have to," she giggled, "It appears we have a budding romance on our hands."

Fortunately, John didn't seem to mind that she'd moved closer, his friendly demeanor emanating like warm sunbeams in the afternoon. Genya felt drawn to him, although that could possibly be chalked up to her loneliness.

"And what about you? Do you like riding, or are you just knowledgeable because of your chores?"

"Both," Genya replied, "My father taught me most of what I know of horses and he'd take me riding with him every chance there was, especially because I was always begging him to. Sadly, I haven't ridden since I was twelve. The help isn't permitted to do so here."

A brief pause followed as John resumed his supper and Genya couldn't help but wonder if she could catch John off guard, her curiosity concerning various comments he'd made in conversation getting the better of her. He might prove too smart to be fooled, and yet he'd been so comfortable speaking to her, that maybe there was a chance he'd slip.

"Tilly must miss a simpler life outside of the military."