#you're still stuck with them

[paintedcrows]

they make me feel unwell

(continued: Stan & Young Ford)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Council of lovefools.

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[starry-bi-sky]

realizing i have. a lot of untapped trauma potential for clone^2 danny because i just Fully Processed Four Months Late the fact that his parents were capturing and torturing ghosts in the basement before he became Phantom. and the fact that he was on house rest for 2 weeks. during that time period. and he wasn't really leaving the house. he could hear their screaming through the floorboards

*points at clone danny* i can give you suuuuuuch a bad time babe ahaha. i've got two untouched years before you meet damian what fucks you up before then

[everysongineverykey]

genuinely killing undyne in a neutral run and then walking through hotland later and seeing alphys' posts go "just realized i didn't watch undyne fight the human... well i know she's unbeatable i'll ask her about it later v . v" completely unaware of what's happened is one of the most unpleasant and harrowing experiences in undertale and i am not kidding even a little bit

[aeb-art]

my birthday is also my genshin anniversary, so i doodled myself with some favs 💕 happy four years, my beloveds

also looking at the cake lineup in my inventory makes me so happy ehehehe (also the xiao lanterns)

[uncanny-tranny]

The whole "humans are inherently awful and bad!" spiel is so tiring to me as a survivor of abuse because it comes off as abuse apologia. If humans are inherently awful, then why should it matter if you're abused - that's what humans do best! Like, genuinely, I think this mindset can harm abuse victims/survivors because they're being inundated with this idea that, well, how bad can their abuser be? All humans are horrific, why complain, why escape, and why try to resist it?

I really wish people would critically analyze where these ideas come from and where these lines of thinking can lead. Maybe it's a matter that I'm looking too deep into, but this very bleak ideology is not going to help in the long run, I think, and some of the first people who are going to be crushed by it are the people who are vulnerable or who are put in vulnerable positions in society.

[bleaksqueak]

Honestly, I'm really grateful that my brain isn't wired to jump from hyperfixation to hyperfixation. It has its own unique drawbacks, sure, but I've always found it really comforting that I know what to expect from myself.

[molalom]

shellendorf musical is crazy man. i was listening to the soundtrack just now and got flashbacks to shucking yoko binder cap'n cuttlefish

[in-fair-verona-we-set-our-scene]

I think a key thing to remember when judging all those "Astarion/Minthara/Lae'zel disapproves" reactions to like... helping orphans is that in context they're often rather realistic and practical considering what's being asked of them. If anything it's the more good-aligned companions willingness to drop everything and risk their lives to help randos in need of help that is unreasonable to expect.

Remember, from their perspective things like save-scumming are not real. They cannot metagame and prepare for what specific enemy or attack they might face. In-universe, death has consequence and you can die. Plus we're on an unknown time limit here to potential squid-ifying, not to mention their own personal baggage.

It's like... they're playing blind and on Honour Mode, and the consequences of failure isn't just a story going the way you might not like or your fave character dying. It's actual life and death. There are real stakes here for them.

So while yes they can approve of just... petty asshole stuff or even genuinely evil stuff, it's not unreasonable for them to have a problem with risking their lives for random strangers. Because if they're in your party, that's what you're doing. Making the choice to put their lives on the line for strangers. If anything they're all oddly brave and ride-or-die for whatever bullshit decisions you make from the start--I mean it takes a lot of reckless altruism while also being an asshole to them specifically (it's not hard to balance their approval by being nice to them directly on a good playthrough) to get them to hate you, let alone ditch the group.

[clementineskesh]

palisade has been sooo good for me because pre-palisade it truly felt like i was the only jesset guy in the world and now i see people talking about him and i'm <3 <3 <3

[chr0n1c-ag0ny]

I think Bram and Lovecraft should find a (probably haunted) ship that just drifts out in an anomalous and liminal, to put it frankly, odd, bit of sea, forever a drift, surrounded by nothing but fog, no wind, no rain, no waves, no storms, just quiet. I think they should hole up there and sleep for a couple hundred years. yeah. I think that would be nice.

[winepresswrath]

THANK YOU for explaining the Louis/Armand fight with such clarity. Like obviously Armand has the ultimate power over the relationships here and the way he behaves in this episode is world class terrible, we can all see that, but I feel like I've been going crazy when people are softening Louis's words as light banter while Armand responding somewhat in kind is framed as malicious suicide baiting.

It's not my take but I would understand if people were approaching this as "Armand sucks so bad and technically can leave whenever so I give 0 fucks what Louis does or says to him," but "Louis was just being mean" doesn't track for me. He is at this point in his life using regularly enough that Armand's first response when he gets vicious is a bitter "here comes the drugs." He's used to this. Addiction is a complicated and terrible disease but Louis is Armand's partner, for whatever reason, apparently (big caveat) of his own volition and he responds to Armand being upset about his cycle of risky drug use and insincere apologies with a "you're boring and smothering" speech before turning on a dime to "cringe of you to be a victimized. it's given you a real victim mentality" when Armand says he's boring too. It's legitimately reprehensible behaviour! And that's fine. I will continue making heart eyes at him whenever he appears on screen undeterred.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji goes to Lotus Pier (No relation to the AU of the same name)

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[quatregats]

I feel like the only way I can describe the tragedy of Hornblower chronology is that there is a horizontal asymptote at "Consistent Essence of Hornblower" and a vertical asymptote at the space between Atropos and Beat to Quarters/Happy Return, and his character arc is the line -(1/x)

[glitterghost]

Some days (nights) just feel like loss

[marenwithanm]

I don't wanna come off as a jerk here, but I really dislike Quaver. Not her design, but her personality. I really hate it when people use Undertale Yellow's version of Integrity as their headcannon for the Integrity soul. Yes, Integrity did kill some monsters, but she only killed them in self-defense. Also, the monsters attacked Integrity first and she had every right to defend herself since they were after her soul. Like I said before, I don't hate Quaver, I just really hate how most people see the Integrity soul as a heartless and evil girl when that isn't the case at all.

Hey fair enough. And to be clear, Quaver's not evil. She killed a lot of monsters but they were trying to kill her so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I mean, she already had a standing hatred of monsters before she fell, but who knows, maybe if they didn't attack her first, she could've learned to overcome that and get along with them. Having the integrity soul be the most violent isn't what I would've initially chosen either, but like I said before, my human souls are all essentially a reaction to Clover, so I gotta work with what's there in undertale yellow canon. Still, I don't think that undertale yellow was trying to imply integrity as being evil either. The monsters definitely see her that way, with how they talk about the "snowdin incident", but it's a nuanced issue. To the monsters, humans are evil and they keep proving that by killing more monsters as they fall down. To the human souls, the monsters are evil as they keep attacking them just for existing. Our information about integrity in the world of undertale yellow is told to us entirely from the monsters point of view, therefore it's presented in a way that shows her in the worst possible light. That doesn't necessarily mean that the monsters are right about her.

So yeah I don't think integrity is meant to be evil in the world of undertale yellow, and she's definitely not evil in my interpretation of her as Quaver. She's a scared, angry kid who just had all her preconceived notions about monsters proven true when they attacked her after falling down. Of course she goes on the offensive. Whether or not she's right to do that is a matter of nuance and debate, but I digress