#They're all so good!

[purplelea]

For the twewy fans, I know from experience how much this game can resonate with people. If the quote you chose means a lot to you, or is a part of a story you'd like to share, I'd love to hear about it in the tags.

#i can't even choose my own favorite tbh xD #they're all so good! #the characters saying these quotes (in order): Mr H. Shiki. Joshua. Mr H. Shiki. Beat. Joshua. Neku. Joshua. Neku #twewy #the world ends with you #twewy spoilers #polls

[sparkles-rule-4eva]

Watch "Sonic and Tails: Good Memories" on YouTube

HAPPY WHOLESOME SONIC AND TAILS WEDNESDAY!!!!

Go check out this AMV for Sonic & Tails my friend made and put out last night!!! It's super well done and really shows Sonic and Tails' bond through the whole franchise. 🥹

I've already watched it like 4 times 🤩🤩

#wholesome sonic and tails wednesday #happy wholesome sonic and tails wednesday #sonic and tails #sonic #miles tails prower #sonic the hedgehog #they're brothers your honor #sth #unbreakable bond #amv #sonic and tails amv #music video #i love them so much #tails #good memories #matthew parker #the song fits them so perfectly #all their adventures together 🥹 #and be sure to check out her other AMVs for sonic too! #they're all so good! #wholesome wednesday #wstw #Youtube

[agentnatesewell]

I’m not sure if you’ve talked about this before (pls disregard if so shdhdjf) but what do you make of N simultaneously being a character that would choose a cure to vampirism if it existed (not to mention how much they remain connected with humanity), AND a character that assumed the detective would naturally choose to turn, ensuring they’d always be together. Something about that contrast is extremely interesting to me.

Hello, Tunes! Thank you so much for the ask. And please, feel free to send me anything, I love talking about this.

I have definitely had thought along thine. N, we know, would choose to be human again if the opportunity arose. The Agency is apparently working on a cure for this (for reasons I can't imagine are totally benign and benevolent).

The idea that they'd choose a cure if they could and assume that the detective would choose to turn actually makes me think they're different sides of the same coin for N. Because ultimately, it makes me think that regardless of their life circumstance (mortal vs immortal), N would want to be with the detective.

Mortality, the potential to grow old together, go through life's milestones together - that everything that comes with a finite life would be worth it if you're together, even if it means there's an end (live life to the fullest, right?); immortality, not having to worry about that goodbye, taking out the uncertainty (well, sort of for N, they're still rather unsure), spending eternity with the love of your life by your side, and experiencing everything around you together.

Of course, with N, they would definitely think of the consequences. Morality, a finite time together; immortality, missing out on humanity and what the has to offer, to even miss out on the enrichments that come with the human experience.

I've been thinking a lot about this, and honestly, I believe that if you asked N? They'd choose to be human with the detective rather than the detective being a vampire with them. Of course, of course, they would respect the detective's decisions (even if they had to give their concerns, but ultimately, they would respect that decision and do whatever would make their beloved, their soul (rouhum), happy.

(okay but like, can you imagine the tragedy, N becoming human once more and the detective becoming a vampire. that hurts!)

#thank you so much for the ask! #ask #appreciate your patience was visiting family for eid! #i love this #and n you know they would worry that the detective was alright with missing out on humanity and mortality and the life they knew before #i have a few more that i will answer #they're all so good! #the wayhaven chronicles #n sewell #i don't believe there are spoilers

[strongintherealgay]

I think the key to any good friendship is to be a little in love with each other

#listen i love my partner #but i also love my friends so much and am lowkey obsessed with these losers #they're all so good! #(plus my partner is also my friend so like--)

[phoenixcatch7]

Show of hands, who actually really enjoyed the bleach movies?

#I loved each one! #They're all so good! #I know they're non canon filler but each one introduced all these extra little tidbits of lore #Just little things and characters and backstory that didn't make it into the main series #Like the underworld! #We saw that maybe once in Bleach in like #Episode 12 or something #But in the movie we got this whole fleshed out world with hierarchies and landscapes and cool new creatures! #(and Ichigo being the champion for like 30 seconds that was fire) #And we got more hollow Ichigo!! #The valley of screams #The hollow twins #The two wielders #They were all so cool!!!! #bleach #ichigo kurosaki #movies #Bleach movies

[squishablesunbeam]

🤷 least favourite whump trope? (not including triggers or squicks; just something you don't really like or get the appeal of)

Thank you!!

For this ask game!

Hmmm, well, I'll read just about anything as long as it has my favorite whumpees in them but I'd say I get the least whump fulfillment from sick fics with the common cold or flu. I'll certainly still read and enjoy them as a vehicle for the plot or character development but as a whump trope, probably my least preferred.

Unless it's fever from some kind of severe trauma! That I very much enjoy!

#thank you salads! #ask game #they're all so good! #love whump so much #i-can-even-burn-salad

[birdmenmanga]

I think there's no greater indication that disco elysium is sympathetic towards communism when it literally says "communism is failure" and then the literal gameplay itself rewards trying and failing. The most obvious one being the Shivers check at the FELD mural, which is an Impossible 20 check BUT opens itself up again and again the longer you spend in the world doing things, but even just looking at sheer probabilities, for any given white check, rolling first and THEN putting a point into that skill upon failure is more likely to grant you success than putting a point first and then rolling, but that would require failing first.

Other things too: Precarious world saying you'll 100% fail red checks no matter what (not necessarily a bad thing, btw!! throwing the boule into the sea is a success but like. in some other ways one would want a perfect petanque throw instead. but people wouldn't typically assume that failure is desirable sometimes from the start) persuading you to accept that you'll fail some things that is irrevocable, for a world where everything is just a tiny bit easier.

The faux game over screen when you faint after reading Dora's letter— emulating a sense of failure on the scale of the entire game. When it rolls up most people go "What?? Game over?? No way, what did I do wrong!!" and waking up after that, with no huge or lasting impact on Harry's health or morale really tells the player, "Sometimes things will seem so bad that it all seems like it's coming to an end, but it's not the end, it's really not the end, go drink so water, you can still go on despite this failure"

I'm sure there are other things as well that are eluding me but like. The literal gameplay rewards failing and succeeding far more so than simply succeeding every single time, and I think you get a fuller experience of Elysium that way too

#just thinking thoughts... #disco elysium #idk man when did we get so scared of failing!! #people never want to speak in class because 'what if I'm wrong :(((' #well then you are wrong... that is okay... it's normal to fail... sometimes saying the wrong thing is a great way to jumpstart a topic... #'getting a good grade in X is both normal to want and possible to achieve' #okay sure but have you made peace with the fact that getting a BAD grade in X isn't a bad thing? #a bad grade in being friends... okay... so you didn't check up on someone in 3 months... you failed... that's fine... #you can learn from it!! you can learn how to keep in touch with people. how to take care of them when they're sick. #how to resolve a dispute. how to communicate and compromise. these are all things you are not born with #and will fail first before succeeding at #Like yes I get that in the age of surveillance your failures may be recorded and preserved forever and that's not great #but if we don't normalize failure I really think we'll just suffocate and die

[inkskinned]

there are a lot of posts out there that are positive and healthy coping mechanisms for handling the holidays. this is not one of them :)

i think there's like. going to be times in your life you will be stuck in a social situation that you cannot escape from gracefully. i do not know why the internet doesn't believe these times exist. it's not always just that your physical safety is at risk - sometimes it's legit like "i just don't currently have the energy or time to put in the effort of responding to this." sometimes it's a coworker you hate so much. sometimes it's just like, fine, you know? like you know you can handle your aunt when she's cheerily horrible, but if you actually set a boundary around her, it's going to be weeks of fallout with your father.

i don't know why people think the answer is always just "cut them out!" or "don't let them get away with that!" because ... the real world is tricky and complicated. i think kind of a lot of us have an internal "radiation poisoning" meter for certain people. like - i'm talking about the ones who are absolutely giving you gradual ick damage. like, you can handle them, but you'll be exhausted.

and yes. you absolutely should listen to your therapist and the good posts about handling others and set good boundaries and take care of yourself. prioritize peace.

HOWEVER :) ...... since im often in a situation with a Gradual Sense of Ick person i cannot just "cut out" of my life (without losing someone else precious to me) - i have sort of developed the most. maladaptive form of mischief possible. because like, if i'm going to have to listen to this shit again, i like to have a little bit of private fun with it.

now! again, i am physically safe, just mentally drained by this man. you should only do this with people you are not in danger with. which leads me to my suggestions for when your Unfortunate Acquaintance shows up and says oh everyone pay attention to me.

my favorite word is "maybe!" said as brightly and happily as possible. whenever the Horrible Person starts in on a topic you do not want to go further with, particularly if they make a claim that you know to be inaccurate, do not respond to it. you and i have both tried to actually argue with this person, and it hasn't gone well, because this person just wants the drama of an argument. however, "maybe!" gives them literally nothing to go on. it is incredibly disarming. they are used to people having some response. they know they can't prove what they're saying, and maybe! treats them like the child they are. it dismisses them in the politest way possible.

i like to say maybe! and then, in their stunned silence, immediately change the subject. this is because i have adhd and i will have something unrelated to talk about, but if you can't think of topics fast enough, i recommend just pointing to something and saying, "isn't that lovely?" because fuck you let's bring in some positivity.

by the way. that second trick - of pointing to something and stating an opinion about it? - that just works on its own, like, 70% of the time. i picked it up from teaching preschoolers. it's an intentional "redirect". it stops children crying and it also stops grown adults from finishing their explanation on why women belong in kitchens. dual wielding!

keep it silly for yourself. i absolutely do not care if people think i'm fucking stupid (it's more fun if they do) and as a result i will purposefully misunderstand things just to see how long it takes them to realize i've completely removed them from the subject at hand. when they say "women aren't funny" i get to be like. "which women." "all women." "all women in america?" "no in the world." "like the mole people? the people in the world?" "what? no. like, alive." "oh are we not counting the mole people?" "what the fuck are you talking about." "you don't believe in the mole people?"

similarly, i play a personal game called "one up me." my Evil Acquaintance literally knows this game exists (my family & friends caught onto it and now also play it) and it always fucking gets him. i don't know why. you have to be willing to be a little free-spirited on this one, though. the trick is that when they make one of those horrible little bigoted or annoying comments they are always making, you need to go one unit weirder. not more intense, mind you - just more weird. "you don't look good in that dress." "yeah, actually, my other dress was covered in squid ink due to a mishap at the soup store." "you shouldn't wear such revealing clothes." "wait, what? oh shit. sorry, your son tears off strips when no one is looking and eats them. i swear it was longer before we left the building."

the point of "one up me" is to completely upend this person's narrative. we both know this person likes setting up situations where you cannot "win" and then they really like telling other people how badly you handled it. in a usual situation, if you respond "please don't say something that rude", you're a bitch. but if you let it happen, you're letting yourself be debased. they are not usually expecting door number three: unflappably odd. because what are they going to say when they're telling everyone how badly you behaved? "she said my son eats her dresses" ".... okay?"

if you can, form an allyship with someone whomst you can tagteam with. where they can pick up on your weird "soup store" story and run with it.

the following phrase is amazing and can be deployed for any situation: "oh, be nice :) it's the holidays!" i do not know why this works as often as it does. i'll say it for the most random shit. i think this is bc most of the time these people know they're being impolite, they just like to fight.

godbless. when in doubt, remember that you could always start stealing their pens.

the whole point of this is - if you can't escape. maybe see how long you can just be. like. a horrible little menace.

#this is objectively bad advice #don't listen to it protect yourself and do real work on yourself find one of the good posts i've made about this #but also. u know. if u want to have fun while u do the work of setting boundaries #.... it IS fun #i will say that my fear of him went SO down after i just started. fucking with him. #bc i used to get SO fucking upset #i'd spend WEEKS arguing with him. tearing my hair out. sick with anxiety and dread and anger about all of it #and now i just LITERALLY do not engage #instead i'm like '' haha :) mole people" and get the HELL out of any tense conversation #i kind of think some of these people are literally addicted to drama as a form of connection #they like the rush they get from arguing #but those arguments are incredibly damaging for me #so like..... i am in the process of literally rehabilitating this person to figure out how to find connection thru #NORMAL CONVERSATION #he doesn't get it yet #i also do talk to them like they're preschool kids lmafo . ''are you using a safe and kind voice right now?'' #'' do you need a snackie? you sound a little upset. let's have some hummus and come back to playtime when we feel ready''

[yashley]

The Mighty Nein Reunion: Echoes of the Solstice 

#critical role #ygifs #cr lb #echoes of the solstice live show #ashley #marisha #laura #ETHEREAL WOMEN. DEAD TO HAVE SEEN THEM LIVE #me sitting there already mentally giffing all the moments I need to chew like IT'S SO GOOD Y'GUYS I'M STILL #they're so fucking beautiful so fucking hot I'm just

[9ndreus]

So Bildad does this little gesture before the magic trick bringing Job's children back:

And guess where else we've seen it before:

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #bildad the shuhite #shuhite sunday #my point is... my POINT is... #they're so married #they like to pretend they're so different but they even take on some of each others' mannerisms 😭 #stimming #(as always if someone already pointed all this out before lmk and I'll link to it) #ID in alt text

[writeouswriter]

People sorting ao3 solely by stats and only clicking on fics with a certain amount of kudos or comments, you will not survive the winter, nor the summer, nor at all, *brings out knife,* run

#ao3 #fanfiction #because if everyone thinks like that then so many fics that might be great get buried and fall into the void #someone has to read it with no hits or kudos #not to mention sometimes people just have wildly different tastes so you don't know unless you look at it yourself #i put a bunch of exclusion filters and then go by summary and tags and open all the ones that sound interesting to me #if they're bad well easy enough to move on #but lotta good ones hidden in there with not a comment in sight and i must change that #knife tw #? #tw knife mention

[merry-fagoland]

these are all said to him one after the other

#genshin impact #genshin #neuvillette #mona #bennett #xinyan #hu tao #yoimiya naganohara #arataki itto #dehya #kaveh #wriothesley #lynette #🐁.txt #genshin textposts #been sitting on this one for like months #they're all getting tried together. and are probably going to jail #wanted to get 2 of every region so if some picks are weird that's why #edit: yknow the way bennett's is worded seems like he's defending them. which cannot be good

[brother-emperors]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

#perseus #danae #komiks tag #long post #every other week i start to say something about how greek heroes are a good case study in diaspora and exile trauma #but man perseus makes me so sad. so does danae. she loves her son :( #perseus turning a whole island to stone is a huge mood. i would also do that if i were him #anyway (salutes) take care everyone i gotta watch yunho's new video it looks like a fucking movie im so excited #(i singled out ovid bc i remember the fucking shit perseus discourse that ran through this site. i remember #im preemptively loading a gun and pointing at it before it can touch this post #it hasn't died out either i see it on twitter all the time in the most ANNOYING ways possible i am TIRED #esp bc they're actually doing medusa a narrative disservice like congrats! you made it worse! stop telling me it's better!!!!) #it’s all greek to me

[quantumshade]

can anyone explain to me at what point rose tyler was "unbelievably stupid". was it when she was inventing transdimensional travel

#what about her makes you think she's stupid. answer quickly #the whole POINT of the rtd companions - yes all of them - is that any ordinary person can shine when given the chance to #and when someone believes in them. #even besides that there is no point before during or after rose's time on the show when she is shown to be stupid. #she doesn't have like. the doctor's vast universal knowledge sure #but the point is that she's smarter than him in other ways! they balance each other out which is why they're such a good team #like the london eye scene in the very first episode for example. #that is aaaaall about how the doctor misses very simple things and needs someone with him who doesn't #all the best companions have a moment like this. thinking about when bill realizes the mother-son thing in knock knock #anyway. i'm ranting sorry. this post just really pissed me off #imagine missing the point so completely #and being so classist that you can't comprehend that dropping out of school is not a symbol of lack of intelligence #rose tyler #doctor who #delia.txt

[wellfine]

I mowed him sorry (← guy who thinks buzzed heads are handsome)

#one piece #roronoa zoro #baseball player-lookin head..... #descriptions in alt text #was talking with a friend about this and we decided ace went thru a stage of hating hair cuts/brushing as a kid #so when it got too tangled dadan would just shave it all off for him bc it was less uncomfortable in the long run #and luffy now has a cain instinct to slap the shit out of any bald head he sees #which is bad bc now he's a million times stronger so zoro nearly got OHKO'd #don't worry he ate a handful of walnuts and recovered (they're good for the brain)

[gremnda]

i decided they deserve a hug and a nap so i'm giving them both

#gremnda art #empires smp #empires s1 #esmp s1 #empires fanart #smajor1995 #smajor fanart #scott smajor #jimmy solidarity #solidaritygaming #solidarity fanart #why do these people have a million name tags #flower husbands #dangthatsalongname #they will get all the hugs this world has to offer #because i said so #something something they're both good people and they suffered enough #something something a good ending #idfk #they're constantly in my brain <3