@demialien replied to your post “i'm sorry i'm still thinking about "they were...”:
Where they written as brothers though? I have 4 siblings that I'm close to and I honestly cant see it. I feel like most people are so insistent on the 'they are brothers' because seeing people shipping them makes them uncomfortable. Which happens an awful lot in fandom. I wonder what people with DID feel about the shipping discourse.
i don't think they were. they were written as alters.
i can see why people might jump to siblings. that's not a good description of the relationship, but i can see why someone might jump to it.
anyway, everyone i know agrees that shipping them is fine and normal and something that people need to be quiet about. intra-sys relationships are quite common, representing a variety of things.
(also most people who aren't in the fandom want to be left out of mk discussions. i'm touchy about this one because a few of my friends who didn't care about mk got pulled into a discussion about it and were very justifiably upset about it. this is just me sneaking in a reminder that there are lots of systems who HAVE offered to answer questions and you should not bug the ones who haven't.)
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yknow i never noticed the sheer rareness of images having ids or alt text on this website until i started adding alt text to my art (and trying to remember to add it to any images i post in general, especially text screenshots) and that makes me kinda sad
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the way people online talk about autism is getting really weird, like do they know that neurotypicals still have interests? that someone being passionate about a hobby doesn't mean they're autistic? you guys know that right
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Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"
Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.
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can you believe that we have fanfiction. that we have websites dedicated to fanfiction. that there is a place that you can go and read tens, hundreds, thousands and thousands of pieces of writing that strangers have made. people who are not "writers". people who come home at the end of the day and have feelings and say, i am going to put that into words. i am going to share those words. short, long, sweet, sad, horny, funny, wonderful words. we are all just human and we all love to make and remake and share that with others. can you believe that.
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I gotta say, one of the greatest achievements of my 20s was that I learned (mostly) to differentiate between:
"I truly do not want to go" and
"I'm just feeling the Demand Avoidance, and I will like it once I get there."
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I just love it when video games let you do really stupid shit that kills you immediately. I love being like "oh this is a terrible idea" and being able to do it and then die. It's good game design.
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