#which feels shitty

[gophergal]

Guilt tripping people does nothing but cause vulnerable folks to spiral and make folks who dont live with moral OCD feel negatively toward your cause

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Kiss Kiss Fallen Tree!

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[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

anyone else have multiple traumatic memories associated specifically with holidays/family vacations? because that is a topic I never see discussed in all the So You Had A Shitty Childhood, Now What? self-help books i've been reading. but for me, it was a significant thing. and the more i think about it the more it seems like this would be an (unfortunately) common experience. would be grateful to hear if this matches other peoples' experiences...

[uncanny-tranny]

It's honestly frustrating that I've seen non-Russian queer people almost bragging about how they would be illegal in Russia, labeled an extremist or terrorist. Russian queers are in danger, their government has made it clear where it stands, and it's made this effort for the better part of a decade (even longer, perhaps). This will kill people, don't mistake this for a quirky little proclamation from a government, akin to somebody saying the sky is pink. Russian queer people were already expressing their fear, and the least we can do now is express our love for them, and advocate with them.

Russian queer people, I love you. I love you all so much. I am so sorry, I cannot begin to express the grief that I feel, and I hope that you are safe. Words cannot encapsulate how I feel as a non-Russian, and I cannot hope to comprehend how it feels to actually be in this situation.

[benevolenterrancy]

Scholarly peak is catching up on recent literature

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

I'm sorry but James Vowles criticising how Red Bull has treated their drivers in the past, only to go and then treat Logan far worse while pulling the exact same shit Red Bull did, ie the exact behaviour he criticised and called them out for, is so freaking infuriating like the sheer hypocrisy -

[prettyupsetnerd]

[semi-completely-original]

a twitter mutual of mine and i recently became fast friends and started up a minecraft server together as hkv (not as a roleplay thing but more of like. a gimmick. a gag perhaps. they're just our skins) and let me tell u. some of the interactions we've been having are canon as Fuck

[wishesofeternity]

The thing about HotD is that it while it absolutely minimizes the agency and ambition of both Rhaenyra and Alicent, this is specifically used to glorify Rhaenyra and frame her as righteous while condemning Alicent and framing her lacking. That's the key difference in both their textual portrayals that has directly led to 90% of the fandom hailing Rhaenyra as the second coming of Christ while spewing the most hateful vitriol at Alicent just for existing. But y'all are not prepared for that conversation.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

okay unironically I love so much that porter is like this world SUCKS its BAD here and it HURTS you why do you care abt it!!! and literally every single bad kid is like ngl we just hate ur ass it does not matter what ur philosophy is

[blueskittlesart]

*sigh* thoughts on Nintendo's botw/totk timeline shenanigans and tomfoolery?

tbh. my maybe-unpopular opinion is that the timeline is only important when a game's place on the timeline seriously informs the way their narrative progresses. the problem is that before botw we almost NEVER got games where it didn't matter. it matters for skyward sword because it's the beginning, and it matters for tp/ww/alttp (and their respective sequels) because the choices the hero of time makes explicitly inform the narrative of those games in one way or another. it matters which timeline we're in for those games because these cycles we're seeing are close enough to oot's cycle that they're still feeling the effects of his choices. botw, however, takes place at minimum 10 thousand years after oot, so its place on the timeline actually functionally means nothing. botw is completely divorced from the hero of time & his story, so what he does is a nonissue in the context of botw link and zelda's story. thus, which timeline botw happens in is a nonissue. honestly I kind of liked the idea that it happened in all of them. i think there's a cool idea of inevitability that can be played with there. but the point is that the timeline exists to enhance and fill in the lore of games that need it, and botw/totk don't really need it because the devs finally realized they could make a game without the hero of time in it.

[melonisopod]

Made a post a long time ago about how Gregor compares to his book counterpart and now I’d kind of like to amend it. I think Gregor is supposed to be a bit of Franz Kafka himself mixed in with the book character (Gregor Samsa in the story is kind of a self-insert of Franz anyway)

And you know, Franz famously had a cripplingly low self-image and an impression that everyone around him hated him or barely tolerated him at best. Gregor doesn’t say this outright, but he kind of projects that feeling. It’s why he tries his damndest to be inoffensive and not step on anyone’s toes, and why he puts up with a fair bit of bullshit from the other Sinners (see: silently glowering at the little horse doodle Rodya drew on the window to go “Look Gregor, it’s you!”).

People have pointed out he’s not gotten a lot of “notable” moments like most of the other Sinners have since his own Canto, and I think that might be why. He’d prefer to fade into the background because he’s convinced he isn’t well liked within the group, even as they’re slowly coming to see each other as a found family. I think he has that lingering doubt that they care about *him* specifically, and he’s even kind of drifted a bit from Dante (After all, Manager-bud’s too busy keeping tabs on the other, more important Sinners, right?)

Hopefully, we get an event that addresses that side of Gregor more directly. His insecurity and feeling of being disconnected from everyone else, the sense that he’s not needed or wanted (could be further reflected in how a lot of his IDs are *good*, but not *game-breaking* on the level other Sinners have). I hope he gets a similar moment to what we got in Canto 7, the other Sinners reassuring him that they do love his presence in the company.

[sonknuxadow]

hey guys look what i found in my drafts. from a few days ago .

[leupagus]

Poll time! Since Dragon Age: The Veilguard is only about a month away, I need to gird some loins. So please answer as best describes you.

And finally if you did play any of them, please tell me if/who you romanced in the games (yes that's a big part of the games, yes it's amazing) in the replies.

[cripplepunkbarbarian]

I am so glad that the kid spectrals have such normal and caring spirits who will definitely not physically endanger and/or cruelly betray them in the midst of their lives already being destroyed by cults, monsters, and interpersonal drama. It’s so cool and nice 👍

[toomuchbloodinmyalcoholsystem]

The absolute whine Pickles lets out when he realizes he is indeed going to pay Seth so he can get back into his own band kills me every time.