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You, a fool, when characters state different or contradictory things about backstory events or how the world works: This is a plot hole!

Me, wise, enlightened: Not so, neophyte. Have you considered all the exhaustive possibilities in which one of these characters simply has no idea what they are talking about, or better yet, is a fucking liar?

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eat you

#rnn.img #clowderclaws art #proshipapril2024 #proship april #tungl has been giving me errors when trying to upload images lately :/ #the Feder-Mouser relationship is so important to me #referenced off of a photo my best friend took of my cat yawning for this one

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Look, with very few exceptions no one sets out with the intention of being a shitty abusive parent. A lot of shitty parents think they're doing it right. A lot of shitty parents think they're doing their best. A lot of shitty parents think that abusive shit they do is not really abusive and for the greater good of their child.

A lot of shitty parents love their kids, and would die for them, but they can still be abusive and shitty parents because they do shit they learned from their parents and don't pause a moment to think they may be doing it wrong because "I love my kid, abusive parents don't love their kids, so I can't be an Abusive Parent, not me, I'm good". A lot of shitty parents have their good moments, their good sides, and their kids can love them for it and then be doubly hurt when the good moment ends and things are shitty again.

Shitty parents are complicated people, the kids they raise are complicated people, and human relationships as a whole are a complex hot mess. There is not one right or wrong way to respond to abuse or choose how to handle the relationship to a shitty parent. No we don't wanna hear how you'd personally handle it in our shoes. You're not in our shoes. STFU.

BTW this is not some weird defense of shitty and abusive parents but for Christ's sake, this attitude that Shitty Parents - either real or fictional - are monsters out of a scary story who are contractually obliged to be shitty 100% of the time, all around, in every aspect of their lives, is actually harmful. It's untrue. It's stupid. It will lead kids of Shitty Parents to think that well, THEIR parents are not 100% evil and dastardly all the time, therefore they're not Actually Abusive, I must be exaggerating.

Shitty parents are not old school Disney villains breaking into song about how they love to do evil deeds to hurt their own children. They're people. Learn to tell the two things apart, for fuck's sake.

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forbidden

#rnn.img #clowderclaws art #proshipapril2024 #proship april #how could I possibly not do these two for this prompt #I'm a bit bothered with how Looloo came out here but working w a very light char and a very dark char is always funky

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big fan of when grief drives characters to do fucked up things that are ultimately pointless and do more harm than good rather than just like. going to therapy

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what if i was very literally doomed by the narrative itself and you used your bloody hands to bend the foundation of reality and change my fate. and we were both girls.

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Well written fiction is by definition going to be edgy and problematic but not for the reasons you think; it's because in order to present a compelling argument for or against something you also have to present a case for the other side. If you're willing to strawman the opposing case the book will not be very good

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- nitya prakash

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behold! the PMV that decided to be the most obnoxious to finish yet

#rnn.img #clowderclaws yt #pmv #Youtube

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Re-edited that bitch. Fuck yeah

#clowderclaws thoughts #new version seems to have been detected so we just gotta wait for the subtitles to be finished and then I can schedule it #kinda mad abt how it turned out bc now the vibe is completely off and some of the shots don't make as much sense bc of the new pace but meh #at least it's gonna be shared

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gonna have to wait to post the pmv for... reasons

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vegas 17 is being dumb :/

#clowderclaws thoughts #getting weird effects on some shots + others where the cropping is completely off from where it looked in the preview. grr #I was right to decide to move on to 21. argh

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FINAL SCENE OF THE PMV. FUCK YEAH

#clowderclaws thoughts #it's a fight scene with a crowd shot so it's gonna take forever but shhh. shhhh

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Gonna fully admit that the entire premise of this series can be summed up as "cats becoming humans (and all the fucked up and amazing things that entails)"

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You've been abandoned so many times and had to accept crumbs for so long that now you still feel like you have to stay in this cycle, giving up dreams and trying to accept something less, something easier, something that seems more reachable, something that, in a certain way, feels known and comfortable. Less scary. Something you're "supposed/doomed to get forever". Or at least that's what you started to believe, even unconsciously.

You have seen and maybe also helped others succeed so many times that you feel like that's the only thing you can do: help others move on while you stay in the same place. You feel discouraged, you feel like you're asking for too much, you feel tired and you want to give up cause all that you're dreaming of feels so impossible, it only feels as if you're deluding yourself once again and maybe, "at your age", it's also "stupid". And you should be more practical, more realistic (my question is: is this really being realistic and practical or just self sabotaging?)

I understand your feelings very well. But before giving up and deciding for the "easiest and known" road, deciding to stay in your old usual (at times sad and heart-wrenching) life, please give yourself a favour and try to keep on dreaming. To keep on trying, even a little. Okay take a pause, have a walk, listen to music, watch a movie, dance, distract yourself, but then... try with a little part of you to still give yourself (and your younger self in particular, the one who had to go through all those hard situations and deserves something more) the chance to believe that sometimes things can go differently also for you. No matter if it will take years. You have time. Your actual age doesn't matter. Go slow, take one little step each day, but try to believe. And try to make a change within. It's very hard but I am sure you can do it with kindness and patience. I'm cheering for you.

If it's hard to try and give it to your actual self, imagine give this chance to your younger self. Imagine yourself as someone else and try to support yourself as if you were dealing with a younger person, a child, a best friend... whoever you want.

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characters whose philosophy is “if i cannot be wanted, i will be needed and if i cannot be needed, let me be used until there’s nothing left of me.” thank you for everyone’s attention. falls off stage and dies