#which means there's *real* buy-in

[etz-ashashiyot]

Friendly reminder that A Land for All is an excellent organization that is still, even now, working to create an equitable resolution to the conflict. Please check them out:

I also strongly recommend reading through their full proposal here.

[shellxrls]

thinking about how there is a half empty bottle of lotion by rafe’s bed

[transmascutena]

thinking about how akio sees his younger self in utena and wondering if there's any fondness there. doesn't change the horror of what he does to her obviously but i do wonder

[blacktabbygames]

Scarlet Hollow is today's Daily Deal on Steam which is apparently a pretty big accomplishment! And it's my birthday so you have to buy it if you don't already own a copy ;) It's ~twenty-five percent off~ for the next week, which is as cheap as it'll be until the full release, so if you've been on the fence and have been waiting on a sale, *this* is the sale you want to go for!

[cozynb]

wanting to engage socially about the things you like but the community being so nasty and negative that you leave all your groups and threads and revert back to silent obsession

[ghostpebble]

make characters like each other? no.

make one character hate the other with a burning intensity while the other thinks it's funny how hard they try?

yes. always yes.

[hikarry]

Okay children, gather around. It's "Spencer Complains and Acts a Little Mad" Time:

I have been raw dogging life for 1 month without my adhd/depression/anxiety/mood stabilizers medication and without a single Therapy appointment

I haven't left my house in 1 month, I haven't spoken to any of my (in person) friends in over 1 month, I haven't seen my family in 1 month, I haven't seen my bloody cat in over 1 month, I've barely left my bloody room in over 1 month, and I've been listening to my bloody voice almost every day for 1 hour so I can finish editing the bloody podcast for over a month

To top it all of: I haven't had a decent night's sleep in about 4 days now (in which I just don't sleep or I have extremely vivid nightmares with my departed mother and/or scenarios where I die over and over and over again but can't speak to ask for help before it happens - fun for all the family, if you ask me) and I might or might not be completely and absolutely going insane, with only Good Omens season 1 (6/6) and season 2 (5/6) and the existence of Crowley/red haired Fire Pokemon David Tennant Edition being my sole producer of any amount of serotonin

How am I alive? Good question. Beautiful genderfluid demonic content can be some very nice very distracting content for individuals that simp for Fire Type David Tennant Pokemon like myself

I am quite sure my only contact with anything mental health related in the past weeks has been my best friend whom is very very annoying and refuses to leave me the heck alone and whom is a nurse and is working extra time to advice my stupid ass the best she can, bless her heart

So, with my personal nurse's permission, I have doubled my sleeping medication for the night and, as Fall Out Boy once wrote for the song "Alone Together" in one of my favorite albums to have ever been created "Save Rock and Roll": I'll check in tomorrow if I don't wake up dead

[perilegs]

truly nothing worse when there's a good product but its packaging is so incredibly annoying and cringe you loathe to see it in your house

[supersecretnerd]

Ok so these designs are cute as hell, the Internet is just mean

I have too many thoughts about a game I still need to watch

[britneyshakespeare]

i am at the looking-at-dolls-as-self-soothing part of the night. i definitely wanna beef up my bratz collection since unboxing my alwayz bratz yasmin was just like... oh... oh man... and... and i didn't think it'd be like that for me man i didn't think i had as much nostalgia for bratz as i actually do not just buy owning some but by touching them and playing w their clothes and their hair.

and one of my issues of course is that i'm a redhead and as a redhead my Default Lookalike Doll is meygan (not that having a doll that looks like you is the most important part of bratz, but it is so much of the fun right? the fact that there's a character out there for just about everyone?). and i like meygan as a character well enough, that's not the issue. but of the meygan dolls that have been reproduced, there's none of them that are like, hardcore needs for me except for sweetheart meygan. and i did not buy sweetheart meygan in time. i was not really collecting at that point. that was like 2022. i had a few... na na na surprise dolls at that time. which is funny bc i have four of those that i got all either on clearance or w giftcards and i do really like them even though a lot of doll collectors thought they were kinda dumb, and they were. i just liked the gimmick of the fabric bodies and there were just enough dolls i thought were really cute that i kinda caved at one point. i also knew it was a brand i wouldn't go overboard with. anyway. we were talking about meygan...

sorry meygan back to you girl. i know original 2000s bratz that have not yet been reproduced at crazy expensive on the secondhand market and it's genuinely out of control. but sweet heart meygan, both the repro and the original, are selling for triple digits on mercari, ebay, what have you. that's just ridiculous. frankly. i'm not buying her at that. i don't even like her enough to hunt for her regularly, if that's how it's gonna be. there are plenty of more readily-available bratz dolls that are either regular retail price or clearancing online andin stores. did you guys know alwayz bratz jade is going for 15 bucks on amazon right now? that's crazy. the other always bratz dolls aren't going for that low if they're even marked down yet. that release wasn't even that long ago. anyway i'm thinking of getting jade from that line bc i know some ppl thought that alwayz jade was a let-down, but i thought she was cute. yasmin was my favorite from that line and that's why i got her but jade was my second fave there easily.

i also wanna get the kumi they reproduced sometime and maybe girls nite out cloe since i see she's still available. it's funny there aren't that many core girls i've wanted from the repros but if i go for any of the cloes, new or old, it's gotta be girls nite out. cloe isn't even usually my favorite character no offense blondes she's just kinda. she's just kinda cloe to me. idk i love her but i'm not gagged over her most of the time. these are still bratz standardz we're talking about here so obviously i love her.

there's nothing going on in the world right now other than my bratz dolls. and if someone we won't mention wins the election, i'm definitely going doll crazy. i'm gonna be buying dolls after this anyway, but i'm gonna justify spending an unusual, nearly-irresponsible amount of money. you know. bc i'm an adult and i can.

hey also and of all the lines they could've reproduced why is their most recent slumber party? why? why? when the poll posted by mga had tokyo a go go WINNING? bc tokyo a go go is the correct option? i mean the slumber party line is cute and i like the base dolls and the accessories especially the stuffed animals are cute. but. everyone knows the bratz audience these days is adult collectors. which adult collectors are losing their minds over dolls in pajamas and bathrobes? again they're CUTE. but why. also why did they reproduce bratz babyz when those things were nightmare fuel

[scalpelsister]

I have in one evening talked myself into buying a ren kit from scratch so I can go this year as a gothic knight. I do not get paid to act like this.

[asiancatboy]

the snack hoarding is starting to get dire lads

[studentbyday]

I made a plan of reset activities to do over the winter break. I just added to it "sleep marathon"...

I am so tired.

I feel like I need like...2 days of >10h of sleep to get some of my old self back 😅

And then we'll work from there...

[beneaththebloodylake]

「You're thinking 'people from Kansai are stingy' aren't you. ... Actually it's just me who's personally stingy.」

literally me but with uk/europe/whatever distinction americans decide to assign me

[erynalasse]

Good Omens 2 spoilers! You’ve been warned!

I have a lot of feelings about how that kiss and the… not-breakup? went in the final episode. Mostly sad feelings, but also oddly satisfied ones, because I think it’s very in-character for them both.

Nina and Maggie were, as many other people have pointed out, right on the money. Crowley and Aziraphale don’t talk to each other. That’s their whole problem. While talking about their feelings is the obvious bit, there’s also a lot of unresolved issues about their role-swaps in Season 1. When Crowley went to Heaven and Aziraphale went to Hell, they both saw things that they never should have seen. And I would bet my ass that neither of them have brought it up.

Crowley? He looked at Heaven and said, How sterile and cruel. He holds a grudge for how they treated his only friend, as shown by his confrontation of Gabriel. The clear subtext of that scene is that Crowley is trying to protect Aziraphale from the pain of seeing that Heaven has never valued his friend properly. Their morals are a mask for apathy. And, of course, Aziraphale choosing to walk back into that is the worst thing Crowley can think of.

Aziraphale? He looked at Hell and said, How filthy and hateful. It’s clear he’s always put Crowley in a different box from every other demon. There’s lots of moments where Aziraphale makes a comment along the lines of “You’re not so bad after all!” The biggest example this season was the story of Job. What’s more, I would posit that Aziraphale sees Crowley’s defection as him moving closer to the side of Heaven. Sure, neither of them is allied with Heaven, but neither is allied with Hell either. And so Crowley choosing not to continue that movement, especially to be together, given the chance is the strangest thing Aziraphale can think of.

The thing is, I’m pretty sure that neither of them expected this conversation to be relevant. Their defections are meant to be final—no second chances. So when the chance does come along, their different perceptions dump them on their asses.

And it’s no wonder things went so badly. Feelings aside.

[perilegs]

oughohuggiig i got the 2nd volume of sanctify in the mail today, im so excited to read it