#but I've reversed the reasons for it

[atherix]

Oh? Are we allowed to know said change?

Yeah sure!

In the past I mentioned Elves keeping their hair long as a sort of natural headcovering, and was a way to show respect and honor for their god.

Well, I'm changing it to be that Elves keep their hair long still as a way to honor their god AND their ancestors; the first Elves were created fully-formed, designed by the Fae god, and she gave them long hair- and designed as they were... Elves keep their hair long to honor their god's wishes/design as well as honor their ancestors, and honor is such a big thing in the Fae culture(s) that it naturally became important over time.

So rather than long hair mimicking headcovers, it's headcovers that mimic long hair for the Elves; an Elf who wears their hair short (for personal comfort, mental/emotional health, or because their job/role in society is not easily performed with long hair) will often wear a headcover- whether that's a scarf or a veil or even just ribbons or something else is up to the Elf ofc- in place of keeping their hair long.

Ofc it's all optional in the end, but long hair (or in its place, a headcover of some kind to mimic long hair) is the most obvious and open display of honor and respect among the Elves. An Elf with short hair is often seen as either dishonorable or even disgraced or disrespectful, which does suck but not all aspects of Fae culture can be nice. Luckily Humans in the Fae realm, even those who have been Fae-claimed, are generally exempt from these expectations; they're solely placed on Elves, and not any other Fae creature, because the first Elves were all designed with long hair.

Huh. I wonder what it means if someone forcibly cuts an Elf's hair :)

#ask #midnight series #MidnightLore #It's a very subtle change #Elves still do headcoverings and stuff #but I've reversed the reasons for it #i.e. they don't wear long hair in place of headcovers- they wear headcovers in place of long hair #'if our god designed all of the first Elves to have long hair then certainly that is their desire' and boom Elves keep their hair long #but it's a bit of a shitty and unrealistic expectation to ask ALL parts of society to do This Thing especially when not everyone is nobilit #so compromises were made lol #it's not all sunflowers and roses ofc #society is still society #choosing to forego either often leads to social pariah...ism?? #but it is technically a choice #THANKFULLY hairstyles are a thing so

[fishareglorious]

I do find it amusing that a ton of people have been lured into playing the game by the lesbian chow that is miss Ada Tennant and then bluepoch proceeds to hit us with the yuri sledgehammer in the face by whatever the hell is going on with the women in the main story

#reverse 1999 #she was not the one that convinced me to play the game but probably the reason i became aware of it in the first place #i've seen so many people livepost themselves losing their minds over her voicelines. shit got me heckling but like. yeah. i'd lose my mind #i'll probably be picking chapter 3 up tomorrow before i resume rimet cup #certified storm moments

[tvckerwash]

rvb au where everything is the same but the soldiers on chorus all wear odst armor

#ideally they'd be in marine armor so felix locus and the pirates could be in odst armor but the limitations of machinima #or felix and locus could keep their armor but it's gotta be a plot point that it's reverse engineered pfl armor #which in turn can act as a plot point for the bgc + wash to be sus of felix instead of whatever they did in s11 bc that was lowkey semi ooc #as I've mentioned somewhere in a past post #like i get it the guys were stranded and desperate and lina and epsilon were mia but they weren't THAT bad off #or blue team wasn't at least since wash was being petty af and didn't bother to tell the reds that he hooked blue base up to the ships power #also tucker and caboose being in on it would be so funny #wash: im not going to hook up the reds for.....reasons #tuck and boose: lol okay. fuck those guys! (affectionate) #rvb #red vs blue #not t/oaru #will maybe rb this later w some art examples but atm I've gotta go out and garden and mulch the raised beds while it's not 85°f+ and humid #bc lemme tell yall the summer is brutal. i hate going to water the garden when it's so hot out

[titaniumions]

#reverse 1999 #r1999 #regulus #reverse 1999 regulus #i don't intend to do this for EVERY character ahahahah #it's just that i've been thinking about the main cast as ponies #and figuring out what type everyone would be #and i think i've mostly figured it out #with their cutie marks and all #but i am So Lost on regulus #for some reason i feel like anything would work for her #anyway the results on the ponytin poll has been. Intriguing

[kyouka-supremacy]

Mmmhh...

#(Basically rant on my last two posts) #I know I've said it before and sorry for coming off as annoying– #but I really wish we still had a central bsd blog on Tumblr like fy-bungoustraydogs or bsd-central or things of the kind. #I think now everyone rushes to post news first. And although there's merit to it in knowing news as soon as they happen‚ #in the long run the death of this kind of central official content ***fan*** blogs is such a huge loss of fandom spaces‚ #especially for the archiving purposes they solved. Especially today that T/witter and G/oogle have basically become unusable. #Literally. Literally. I've been doing official content archiving since I was 11 #(because that's the very specific kind of mental illness I have) #and let me tell you that the quality of web search and especially reverse image search only got worse– #in a way that is very evident and noticeable. Which is crazy tbh and not how things should work. #If anyone would like to start a bsd-central kind of blog I'll be the first one to follow. #Actually if anyone actually wants to establish it feel free to contact me and I'll be more than happy to share the resources I have!!!! #It just needs to be something multi-modded for a series of reasons I won't get into right now #I just can't personally do it (not as main admin at least) because that would be modding my FIFTH active bsd blog– #and that's a little too much even for me. #On top of some ethical concerns I have regarding whether it'd be fair for me to mod a fandom central bsd blog– #when I feel like I can't genuinely share the same amount of love for the franchise other fans share #On top of. You know. Getting a degree eventually hopefully. #Then years after the blog has been solidly enstablished and aquired enough credibility it could even open a free donations found to invest– #in buying and scanning and releasing bsd content that hasn't been shared yet like the guidebooks or illustration books or everything else– #for everyone to see... #The dream. (Is realistically never going to happen) (Won't stop me from daydreaming about it every day) #((Still salty I couldn't afford the guidebooks only due to the shipment prices. I *would* have scanned and uploaded them.)) #That was a long and idealistic rant. Kyotag out #Edit: *Modding my SIXTH bsd blog #Apparently I mod so many blogs I lost count of them

[skyyworker]

this pic of ewan is my new obsession

i have a vision and it involves this ewan playing pada-wan because of reasons

#this is beautiful i've looked at this for five hours now #the reverse master au is strong with this one #ewan mcgregor #obi-wan kenobi #star wars #obikin #reasons is that jedi master skywalker would eat him up

[dredshirtroberts]

it is not slacking off to write or create it is not slacking off to do things that are fun i am not slacking off or procrastinating right now i'm allowed to do things i enjoy doing for fun including playing games and writing and such

#if i say it enough i will remember it's true #can you guess which aspect of capitalism i'm struggling with today? #it does not help my bones are somehow WORSE than yesterday even after all of the rest i took so that's Super Fun:tm: #so i've got that on in the back of my head #ugh #i... am putting off calling my grandma - i meant to do it last week but i got too in my head about it #and uno reversed myself into forgetting to do it at all until the Worst Times Possible #(generally around Normal Fuckin Meal Times) #i want to call to wish her a belated mother's day and check in re: grandpa but also... #also i don't want to have to do a phone call i don't want to talk to them about anything at all #they stress me out to talk to and it makes me super uncomfortable to be on the phone in general let alone with a Heavy Topic over our heads #like.... i'm comfortable with where i'm at acceptance-wise with Grandpa's whole situation #and i know i am late for a better relationship with the pair of them in general #like i'm not going to repair a relationship that wasn't built to collapse down to this point this is as far as it got built up to #i'm not building more relationship between me and someone who i know is passing soon when they didn't take the opportunity either #like they had just as much chance as me to improve our relationship after i became an adult and they chose to use my mother as #an intermediary which has stunted their connection to me and that's not my fault #i admittedly did not reach out but i was not taught i could safely do that to anyone #because my parents badmouth literally any person they know for one reason or another #i regularly fuck up in conversations with my grandparents because i'll say somethign that is a holdover from my understanding of them #through my parents and it's like. kind of really insulting! and i've been doing it my whole life and i know as soon as i get their reaction #and i can't recover because i don't actually know them at all #so i can't be like ''oh my god i know that's inaccurate i have no idea why i said that'' because i *don't* know until after i've done it #every goddamn time it happened the last time i got a call from them too #like... my bio fam/family of origin is just not good at keeping in touch and i know i'm a product of that #and i know theoretically how to adjust for it but it does require work on the other end of the line too #and unfortunately i know my bio family too well and know they won't do their part #i grew up in the group project everyone hates #and i'm on my way to deciding they can show up to the presentation day without me #i've started a new family project over here with blackjack and hookers

[daisywords]

finally realizing why it's so common for villains to also be amazing fighterguys at a statistically unlikely level, in addition to whatever else they have going on......I did not do that and now at a certain point it's like...yeah that person is evil and very clever but at the end of the day it's just a person...you could just kill them. and you wouldn't even have to try very hard....

#but haha uno reverse I've made my applicable bigbads hard to get rid of for other reasons #for example one is close enough to a mind reader to predict your next move in a physical combat situation #another doesn't actually come within stabbing distance of any of the protagonists once they know he's the guy #plus there's no way they could get away with bumping him off. immediately get caught red-handed and sentenced to death #and also...you can't just get rid of one guy and solve the whole situation...most of the time it's more complicated than that #but anyway I can see why it is simpler to just tack on that your evil emperor also happens to be the best swordsman in the west or somethin #this is probably unreadable I am very very tired haha

[coquelicoq]

apparently one of the guests at my best friend's wedding this summer liked the wedding crossword i wrote enough that she would now like to commission me to write one for her wedding. we don't even know each other so i don't know if this is going to go very well lol. how do i write a crossword for someone i don't know? should we just start hanging out??? the wedding's not till march so we have some time to become besties i guess. would love to be like "yes my commission rates are you take me out to dinner as many times as it takes for me to understand you and your partner as people and as a couple. but it doesn't have to be anywhere fancy. mostly you will be paying me with Intimacy." yes. great idea. what could go wrong

#this is like an indecent proposal but in reverse. and inside out. upside down? i don't know. we are subverting an indecent proposal #in some undefinable fashion #also i have never seen an indecent proposal. can you tell. #cruciverbs #in reality probably i will just do a generic theme and then enlist her help in making the clues more relevant to her and her partner #but it's just really funny because my friend texted me like 'hey i hope you don't mind but i gave your email address to [name] bc she #liked your xword and wants to commission you for her wedding' and i was like oh! okay! have i met her? #and my friend was like 'she went to high school with us...she gave the toast...' lol whoops #then i looked her up in one of my yearbooks and yeah i recognize her face just not her name & idk if we've ever actually had a conversation #i have no idea what the going rate is for a personalized wedding crossword. i could just quote her what the nyt pays constructors #which i don't remember off the top of my head but i think it's between $100-200? does that seem reasonable? #i have no idea. i've never planned a wedding. also never been paid for a crossword. brave new world over here fellas

[my-chemcial-romance]

Very proud of my bf for getting a vasectomy. Not because I have asked him to, he's been thinking of getting it for years and I 100% support him. His body his choice baby!!!

#Pregnancy scares and disgusts the shit out of me and neither of us are fit to be parents anyway #so it's one less thing to worry about #however I've heard stories of vasectomy reversing themselves multiple times so new fear unlocked #now if only it was as easy for me to get a hysterectomy :/ #personal #personal post #my post #october 24th #2023 #my bf #my partner #he did ask me what i thought of it before he made his final decision which was nice and thoughtful #to me it was a relief bc then it's one less thing that's on ME to prevent (i am on birth control anyway but for medical reasons)

[battywitch]

So obviously the regular depression and anxiety and disability shit are still there, but holy fucking blessed darkness, finally, I am ALIVE again

#reverse seasonal depression #is finally over again #like. I'm basically only Pretty Good for parts of January & February lmao. but i get relief from about October to the beginning of March #my issues with the sun (which are many) is one of the (many) reasons I've been accused of being a vampire (many times)

[wild-at-mind]

Hacking my brain on depression: one of my favourite things to do when depressed is convince myself that me feeling like shit is actually good, because it's an appropriate reaction to all the horrible things happening in the world.

The way tumblr social justice culture used to be structured was very based on 'bad feelings in a privileged person=something good is happening'. This came from the idea that people in privileged groups often feel very defensive when introduced to new ideas about how the world is structured in their favour. Their negative feelings about learning this eventually (in theory) translate into learning more and understanding more about the reality of marginilised people.

This is a real thing but it's not all there is. It's actually really weird now I come to think of it that the tumblr social justice sphere (and later the twitter version of same) latched onto this so hard. There are many other ways to come across information that makes you seriously change your worldview about privilege. There are also many things that can make you feel awful without any kind of productive thought and no benefit to anyone else or to yourself. Feeling like shit in reality usually doesn't translate to doing anything productive. (I'm not convinced it works in most social justice contexts except someone discovering a new idea for the first time, actually.)

So occassionally you still run into the kind of stuff like above on here, and it's really bad for my brain, personally. I actually use it as a kind of emotional self harm during the depression spirals. (This is probably obvious if you read my blog.) I get so I can't even contemplate trying to access outside help with my illness, or the simplest internal coping mechanisms that would help (e.g. if reading horrible tumblr blogs makes you feel worse, stop!). So I try and hack my brain by telling it- actually it's really important that you stop this because otherwise you will actually be worse at social justice stuff- if you can't engage with anything without shutting down how is that a good thing for any kind of cause? And I try and use that to get myself out of a spiral. How well it works will be seen- if I write 20 tumblr posts in the next few hours: it didn't work. If I'm not seen agian for a while: it worked.

#depression daze #something i noticed recently is that tumblr and other social media really likes individual scapegoats #for problems we know perfectly well are societal. #for example a damning anecdote about a specific well-off white gentrifier #is more compelling than an article about how structural and policy changes can reverse gentrification. #i get why the 'if you feel bad it's a sign you need to change' ideas caught on i just don't get why they didn't in other regards. #e.g. if you feel really horrible in an unexplained way when you think about trans stuff as an assumed cis person maybe you aren't cis? #that was kind of my journey #maybe it's not that common to have this happen but i've spoken to other people who recognised this experience #the thing with privileged vs marginilised dynamics is that anyone can be in either one for a particular reason all at the same time #it's not good vs evil #like because everyone has a mix of characteristics i mean #not explaining this part well

[glados-kisser]

im straight up gonna stop using social media at this point lmao? like, find me nowhere!!! i’ll have my friends, we’ll keep hanging out. but at this point i’m kinda done w tumblr lol. call me when they stop acting like fucking balloon animals.

#tumblr update #tumblr algorithm #im not joking. sorry. if you want to reach me uhhhhh. friend me on discord? #mutuals or followers idc #ig if you wanna harass me too but like i'll play with you like a beast given fun enrichement #my username on discord is astalron #oh #for context!!! tumblr is implementing algorithms and im absolutely not fucking here for that #that's been THE REASON i've been here #bc tumblr doesnt use them #i dont actually have a lot of faith they'll reverse this which is why im like. teetering on deleting this account??? #but also ig internet preservation. i didnt post much but i hate to see shit vanish. #and if they DO reverse it it'd suck to lose all this shit lol

[uiruu]

jesus... Streetlight Manifesto's The Hands that Thieve is 10 years old this year... that's weird to think about. that was such a formative moment for me. i was a junior in high school and had been into Streetlight for years, but the release of this album was huge. i got a bunch of friends together and we drove down to rhode island (we live in new hampshire) to see them play live, and we sang all the words to every single song. that was the first real concert i had been to

i saw them live three times after that too, over the years. in college, i wore a streetlight manifesto shirt (actually toh kay, but that's beside the point) and another kid in the class commented on it, and we became friends. eventually we started dating and we're still together. that was 7 and a half years ago

#it was so formative that i just copied and pasted this and posted it on facebook. i havent really posted on facebook in years #but i know connor and liam might see it #i went to that first concert with those two and my girlfriend at the time and one of her friends #well... initially it was a girl i merely had a crush on and one of her friends. except the roles were reversed #between the time of buying the tickets and going to the concert... me and the friend of the girl i had a crush on started dating #she was my first significant other. it was weird then to go with her and her friend (who i initially invited because i had a crush on her) #did i explain that well enough? let's call them K and B. i asked out K and she said no lol. months pass #we all got into this new streetlight album pretty heavily. i suggested we go see them live. then B and i started dating #was it weird that K was still going then after that? idk lol. we havent kept in touch since high school. wonder where she is now #B and i had a pretty awful horrible breakup a year or two later for unrelated reasons. it was always a pretty bad relationship. #it is weird though that 2 of the 3 significant others that i've had have basically been because of streetlight manifesto lol #it's just that one was a bad relationship and the other is very strong and has lasted for 7 years. going on 8. #streetlight has kinda been the backdrop to a lot of things that happened in my life lol #and to think... somewhere in the between is just way better hahaha. hands that thieve is good but lets be honest here #personal #long post

[heyitsphoenixx]

thinkin about blowing $100 on a new comforter and pillows and satin pillow covers just to feel something

#to be fair my current duvet is falling apart at the seams and i do desperately need new pillows lmao #im just reluctant to buy anything important for some reason #i've dropped more on clothes hauls where like a quarter of them i dont wear anymore lol #the comforter and half the covers would be this nice deep green #and the other covers the black satin #comforter also reversible to a lighter green

[oveliagirlhaditright]

So... this is me being super nit-picky, I know, but... in Re:Chain of Memories, when you beat Sora's story, you get this poem:

"There is always sleep between part and meet with our usual words on the usual street.

So let us part like we always do... And in a world without you I'll dream of you.

When I come to, let us meet with our usual words on the usual street."

But to be honest, I preferred what was given to us in the OG Chain of Memories instead:

"Fading memories

Reconstructed memories

And a dream—

a dream of you

in a world without you."

-shrugs-

#though there might have been reason to change the poem. i guess. since re:com gave us a second one that connected to the first one after #reverse rebirth. which IS cool #like i've seen the theory that the second one is about rokunami (which i definitely think is true) and i think the first one is def about #sokai. so having one about sokai and a second about rokunami. with similar terminology. is very fitting #but there's just something about the simplicity of the first one i love. that i feel is more beautiful and even more poetic #i also feel like i might be the only one who's played the og com and re:com who's even noticed the poem was changed. or maybe not #it also might have something to do with different localizers translating com and re:com perhaps. though i don't know that for sure. don't #quote me on that at all