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starryylies · 3 months

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Hi !!! Idk if you've done this already but can you do my angel boy Gaz and Ghost with a girl who love scary movies ??? I feel like they'd totally have the mentality of "I gotta comfort her when she's scared" but Gaz specifically flinches and I think Si would like "brace" if that makes sense like wincing his eyes. I dunno if you've done something like that but your emo story reminded me of me and it made me so happy I'm a metalhead and I was gonna ask for more but it was already in there and that just mad emy day ilysm already okay bye -🫀

Simon n Gaz watching a horror movie with s/o

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Again so sorry (I’m sorry for saying sorry sm) but like Omg I love this cuz I love horror smmmm!!! Insidious,suspiria,Bwp, conjuring you name it I love them omgggg.

So thank you so much for the awesome ask and I hope you enjoy it 🩷🩷🩷

Also I used the movies sinister and lights out for the references :))

SIMON-

♰ he thought watching the movie sinister will be fun cuz he thought he could protect you from the jumpscares

♰ he needs to be protected from the damn movie tho (okay this movie is fucked up tho and it’s totally normal to be scared)

♰in the beginning he thought it will be some poorly made movie with shit ass jumpscares but boy was he wrong

♰ when the scene of the family hanging themselves comes on he was taken aback and he lets out an audible wince shutting his eyes

♰ he genuinely finds the movie scary and gory, cannot help but find himself wince and shut his eyes whenever he thinks there will be a jumpscare

♰ as the movie progressed and the other tapes were revealed he just couldn’t take it anymore, his limit broke off when the mowing scene came

♰ but you seemed to be enjoying the movie, anticipating what the next scene will reveal

♰ he shut the tv before he could see further, it was too much for him

♰ “fuckin hell love this movie is a fuckin nightmare” he groans

♰ “noo It’s a well made film :( plus I enjoy a good scare ya know”

♰ god how could you be so chill with it, he can’t tell if he should admire you or keep his distance

♰dw he admires you :)

♰ keeps on ranting about how he’d never do such a stupid fucking thing

♰ says Ellison was a stupid fuckin idiot for getting his family there and curses him for the rest of the day

♰ asks you your opinion on the movie and who you think is recording the tapes

♰ ends up going on the net to see how the movie ends cuz he can’t let it go

♰when he finds out the ending he has an ‘aha’ moment.

♰ tries watching the movie again but ends up stopping in the beginning itself cuz he can’t handle it.

♰ probably doesn’t want kids after this movie

GAZ-

♰ Awh this poor guy just wanted to watch a scary movie with you to hold you when you’re scared but it kinda ends up being the opposite

♰ you both decide on watching lights out (I wanted to pick hereditary or mother but too much cuz I’m writing this at 3am)

♰ see lights out is a Pretty chill film but Diana is creepy as hell and sadly gaz became a victim to Diana’s jumpscares

♰ when she killed the dad gaz visibly flinched like on the edge of the sofa hoping the dad would survive

♰ but boom the bitch killed him :/

♰ felt really bad for the brother (Martin)

♰sympathised with him a lot by saying he’s a good kid and that he’s really strong.

♰ surprised on how you’re not getting scared or anything

♰ thinks that you have watched this film before

♰ gaz got shit scared during the scene where Rebecca and her boyfriend came and Diana creeped around them

♰ the end made him tear up just a lil :(

♰ you ended up comforting him holding him close cuz he felt bad about their mom

♰ thinks it’s adorable how you give lil facts about the movie from time to time though.

♰ cursed Diana for the rest of the day,

♰ if you take any medications, don’t worry you’ll never miss them now cuz gaz will make sure you eat yours on time

♰ keeps the bathroom and living room lights on that night

♰ will search for movies like lights out

♰ will never watch them though

♰ is proud that he got closer to you tho

♰ will definitely hold you the entirety of the movie

♰ will never have a horror movie date again tho

♰ but will watch a horror movie with you if you ask him cuz how can he say no to you :))

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soracities · 9 months

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Oh this femininity convo is superb. I myself have recently started just being myself shamelessly, including wearing what i want without thinking will people like this or react badly or will people be disinterested in me etc I think it can be a big part of how we represent who we are to the world yknow 🤔 like i love long skirts and dresses to death (with pockets especially omg), i hate makeup (for mostly sensory reasons), i dont like shaving my pits even tho ive been told i should many times, i like boots and sneakers but also heels. I love cute delicate and feminine things but also functional and comfortable clothes. my outfits are kinda strange to look at i guess since they dont fit into any niche or aesthetic or even streotypical femininity but are rather an amalgamation of things i like that i think go nicely together and idk if i could even label it. Bc yeah i am a woman who likes feminine things but im a human being, and human beings are extremely complex and have several layers that dont fit into niches or aesthetics or boy girl categories (i also kind of hate aesthetics and how out of control its become everyone thinks they need to fit some aesthetic or category or group to be an acceptable person but yknow let's not even get into that rn bc lol thats a whole conversation by itself)

Point is we all care waaay too much what other people think and we try to fit ourselves into boxes to be acceptable and loved which is fair ig bc who doesnt want to be accepted at the end of the day, but putting on this show is so harmful to us and yet we still insist on the diets and the plastic surgery and shaming others or hating whats different. This isnt a new conversion its thousands of years old, yet we only seem to be going in circles :/

Oh anon I absolutely absolutely LOVE this for you, truly💕 I could not agree more and I think the one thing that really gets on my nerves about this whole thing is the way it is erasing all the multi-faceted dimensions that are inherent to being a human being in the first place--and that is such a deeply insidious and slippery slope to me.

I think the fact that this conversation is so old just shows how deeply important community and belonging is to us--and in a way I think it's a good thing that we are still having it because each and every time we get to improve a little; it means something, in my book at least, that even if we haven't fully succeeded in resolving it we are able, each time we talk about these things, to open a realm of possibility for someone, somewhere. And that's so important 🤍

#also dont get me started on aesthetics i absolutel despiseeeeee what they've become through social media & its Brand Management ethos #i do not need to categorise & package & present every random thing i like sometimes I Just Think Its Neat and we should leave it there ty #ask #anonymous

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the-acid-pear · 1 month

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Rating movies by how good they scared you is kinda shit because the last insidious movie which seems to be hated by everyone but me had me so fucking scared I thought I was going to pee or shit myself I literally started typing on my phone to calm down yet I cannot say that was better than idk evil dead rise just bc it scared me more -_-

#luly talks #THE TUBE SCENE WORST MINUTES OF MY LIFEEEEE

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myheartismadeofstars · 6 months

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idk maybe it's me, but I didn't really see Sunny's mom as a particularly bad mother?

"She left him alone for three days with no food!"

Did she?

We know Sunny's perception of things isn't exactly accurate. He sees what he wants, whether it's there or not. He just... doesn't see the closet. Who is to say Sunny didn't just only see the steak because it was what he was looking for? Hero makes breakfast after the sleepover and iirc he doesn't mention going to get food from home or Othermart. He cooked food that was IN THE HOUSE. Sunny probably just doesn't feel up to cooking or eating anything else (probably why she left him the steak, his favourite food. Something he could warm up and eat safely and easily, and could enjoy it (she literally says she didn't mean to leave him without power, and power seems to be restored, Sunny just doesn't use it, but again, Hero cooks. Also he had money, which very likely was from her! (probably in the hope it would encourage him to leave to do SOMETHING)

"She left her mentally ill son alone with knives!"

Boy rarely goes downstairs because he's afraid. (We do see that he can overcome this when hungry so he could still feed himself) it's not super likely that Sunny would overcome his fear enough to get downstairs to hurt himself. Is it possible? of course. But Sunny has lived for four years in the same house and could easily have taken a knife when Mom was at work.

"She never got him therapy!"

The canon game takes place in the 90's-00's. Therapy wasn't affordable yet, and especially not for a single mother who had to pay for a funeral and a divorce, while still paying for bills and mortgage. Not to mention, therapy can only help if you want help. Sunny couldn't open up to anyone. Plus, what was she supposed to do? Drag him out of bed, down the stairs and into the car? That wouldn't be very productive. She probably tried, but was unable to convince him (nothing said she can't get him therapy now if he's willing to so)

"She didn't do anything about him locking himself up and sleeping all the time"

Who says? Also, Hero's parents didn't either. There were two of them, but Hero stayed in a depressed funk for almost a year, he came out of it on his own. Who's to say Hero's parents wouldn't have let him mope for years?

The only things I can really say with any certainty that she did wrong was: forget to tell the power company they needed a couple days (she's busy guys), leave Sunny for three days straight (certainly an issue but most teenagers are more than capable of caring for themselves for a few days), and be a tad condescending to him in her messages and notes.

Meanwhile I personally think Hero and Kel's mom is a much more insidious parent, showing blatant favouritism and treating Hero as the Golden Child but it also seems like Hero is a bit parentified as well, seeming like he had to take care of Kel (snapping out of his year long depression when he realized his parents didn't care about Kel's pain implies a history of him being the only one who cared) Hero, and to a lesser extent Kel, kinda have boundary issues (Both get very involved in things that are other people's issue and Hero goes to get the pictures of Mari, disregarding Aubrey literally saying she didn't want them in there). Hero and Kel's mom also constantly plays the victim. "The dinner I worked so hard on went cold while you were out *checks notes* saving your friend from drowning" and "I can't believe you want to spend time with your friend who is moving away instead of with me, who you will be living with for the rest of the summer" to Hero feeling like he should go all the way to Fix-It to get flowers for her to make her feel better about him... spending time with friends. Sounds like she guilt trips him pretty hard, not to mention convincing him to give up his dream to do what she wanted... that doesn't seem like a very good mother to me...

#omori #I don't like everyone assuming Sunny's parents know what happened?#Where would they even get that idea??#I'm currently replaying but i have yet to find any hints that Sunny's parents knew anything #the only kids who don't seem to have fucked up parents are #the twins + Mikhail #Cris (seashell girl)#and Sarah arguably (anniversary couple)#oh and Charlie seems to have a good relationship with her mom #but her brother is... unfortunate

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klapollo · 9 months

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im 100 percent saying this in good faith so please try not to get upset with me over this but. as a deeply eccentric/weird neurodivergent probably autistic person i kinda dont see how those incriminating tiktoks prove the dj crazytimes guy is, at least intentionally, being ableist towards autistic kids. i only watched a couple but i got the impression that he was just generally making fun of typical little boy behavior -- thinking girls are icky, wanting fast food on a car trip, being overdramatic about things that are objectively low stakes but high stakes to children like telling ghost stories on a trip.

at the very least i'm not really sure i believe he made these videos with the intent on making fun of autistic kids. like idk how i feel about being like "this guy is a raging abelist" when it seems like the most likely scenario is he was making fun of a lot of normal eccentric kid behaviors that happened to overlap with neurodivergent kid behaviors. which is bad but not like, nearly as insidious. maybe i missed some particularly damning videos? i have zero interest in defending this guy and i dont rly care about him at all i just think we might be missing some nuance here. unless i missed something which is entirely possible

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blackbellybella · 9 months

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The Barbie movie was great. My only gripe was it was too fast paste it seemed a bit rushed even with it being 2hours. And I was kinda left wanting a bit more.

I think that just maybe movies nowadays bc insidious also felt like that. Barbie was way better than insidious tbh…. It was not their best work. But they added a black female character so there’s that I guess idk

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kqtmansmokeschronic · 8 months

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got a headache, kinda discouraged from editing now i was happy cause it seems like our channel has gotten into the algorithim but im just not supposed to be good at the game or upload content i guess idk idk why im letting it bother me or care i know they're jelous that they cant kek, or they can and they're clips arent getting a couple thousand views, or they get rekt by tryhards and they just cant get good at the game. but depression is just, insidious.

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cogbreath · 8 months

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good lord people are acting THAT way about the cake post?? man idk both them ppl sound like they don't fit for eachother they both have different standards. i guess i kinda relate to the guy in that there is a difference between cake for birthday and cake for other purposes and i too would prefer my favorite cake for my birthday. ultimately though the fact she left him means to me that there was more going on in this relationship. i think these ppl were pissing eachother off for a while and straw brake camels back. usually how that shit goes. ultimately i can't relate to ppl who think theres some insidious abuse dynamic going on. they rlly just dont seem fit for eachother. she seems to rlly value baking as a craft and tgats why she's embarrassed and hurt by what he said. guy however doesn't seem all too interested about baking in that way. nobody is rlly wrong for how they feel but these ppl just don't seem compatible. end of the day shes out of his life and hopefully will find someone who admires baking the way she does. hopefully he will find someone who knows he isnt interested in anything more than what he specified. its fine. anyway though we only know what is told to us so ofc we only know that much. there could be a lot left out the other person might have a different perspective you know how it is. so thats why i try not to take it too seriously. we r outsiders looking into a cross section of someone else's relationship dynamic based on one incident. ultimately do i think hee the asshole? maybe a little bit. but idk. it's not the end of the world. frankly dont understand aita posters bc im not worried about if i was or wasnt an asshole in a situation. it doesnt matter to me. its not the end of the world if it turns out i am one. atp im more focused on fixing the situation and making amends than judging if i did something bad or mot that cant be undone anyway. i find it strange that it matters to so many people. whatever.

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illzazzorino · 11 months

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I was a baby weirdo in the aughts when people suddenly discovered furries and I remember being so exhausted by the, idk, the moral panic? The second I saw it. Like everyone was all "Omg, people are drawing..... Animal people??? AND SOME OF THEM ARE FUCKABLE?????? AND SOME OF THEM DRESS AS THE FUCKABLE ANIMAL PEOPLE 😱😱😱😱😱🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀" and I was like "gdi yeah people are weird I'm glad you figured that out 🙄" like enen before I fully understood why I was weird (and marginalized) I kinda knew I had to defend my fellow weirdoes

Now that I know about the massive overlap between queer people and furries all of that hate suddenly seems a lot more insidious

#queer #furryposting #posts made over my morning coffee

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dzpenumbra · 11 months

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6/5/23

I have a doctor's appointment at 1 PM tomorrow, so I kinda have to do this quick. It's just a physical, hopefully nothing comes of it. I honestly don't really know whether it's worth bringing up mental health shit with them, which seems to be the big issue right now.

I was a bit frustrated this morning, waking up. This whole... no one being able to help me thing. Since I was very young, I had my mom taking me to doctors to figure out what's wrong with me. And, somehow... there was never really an answer... hmm... weird, right? See, in my experience of life, this was very normal. I never questioned the idea of being ferried across state lines as a teenager for scans and procedures and shit as being... abnormal. Even though... it didn't happen to anyone else I knew... even my own brothers... It just never really occurred for me to question that, you know?

That's the insidious part about really difficult things - I don't really know how to word that, honestly... I'm struggling with accurate phrasing. I guess trauma? But like... family shit? And just... environmental shit, you know? Like... how I was talking about how people respond to a cat wanting to play by assuming the cat is being "a dick" or "angry" or something, because they were taught that's what it means, and then shutting it out of the bedroom permanently. You get used to that, it becomes normalized, and you just... never question it. When a cat attacks you, that's what's happening. You already have the answer to that, there's no need to question it.

So... like... me going to doctors is hard. Because there's a really long history there. But also, what I was wrestling with this morning... being told "we can't help you" is super hard. Like... point me in the fucking direction of someone who can, do something! I can't even count how many times I was just told "sorry, can't help you, good luck" and sent off to kick fucking rocks. Doctors. Therapists. "Life Coaches". Vocational Rehabilitation. All the same.

So... again, not sure if it's worth even mentioning that I've really been struggling with anxiety and depression... and PTSD... and grief... and, to be blunt... since I've been shying away from the word a lot lately... agoraphobia. There is definitely phobia attached to me not leaving my apartment, that's indisputable. My therapist and I are addressing all of it, but the plan is... insanely slow-moving, and kinda feels like... Okay. The plan is basically, as far as I can tell, to teach me some skills to try to repair my own self-confidence and self-esteem, and to maintain them properly... so that I can... Get out there and start from scratch. Meet friends, make professional connections, live life. How to do that? Where to go? Who to meet? No fucking clue. Just gonna sit here in my apartment and keep making art and chant to myself nice positive things 5 times a day until I finally get a giant spike of confidence, then I'll... be talked out of going to do something to move my life forward because it might overwhelm me.

Bah. Idk. See, all this over the simple thought: "should I bring up my mental health struggles with my doctor?" The only way he can help is meds and honestly? I do not want to be walking back from the pharmacy through a... what I consider a bad neighborhood... with a fucking controlled substance in my pocket. And I really don't think they're gonna let anyone deliver that shit to my door. And honestly, with how hard it was to get off these things, I really don't feel comfortable voluntarily getting back on them. I don't know, I flip-flop on the idea a lot.

I had this issue with meds when I was on them... the idea of missing a dose or not being able to get a prescription refilled - which happened way too often for comfort - ended up creating more anxiety and stress than not having them. By that I mean... the meds helped reduce how much of that everyday stress and anxiety I felt, but what they don't tell you is that just because you don't feel anxiety and stress, doesn't mean you're not experiencing it. Just because you're anesthetized doesn't mean your body isn't registering pain or damage caused from that, and it still takes a toll. So... I still experienced the everyday stress and anxiety, and the added stress and anxiety of med-related problems. "Did I take my meds?" "Did I miss a dose?" "Did I double-dose accidentally?" "Am I going to have to go into withdrawal because this pharmacy refuses to refill this prescription for whatever reason?" Shit like that.

So yeah. I guess I'm just trying to sort out whether it's even worth bringing up. Because I know for a fact that if I talk to the guy about this the way I'm talking right now? My real voice. The entire appointment will be about that, because I go on forever, and I likely won't leave with anything. That's why I usually let them take the lead and just answer whatever questions they have, unless it's like... urgent.

That said... if I can get prescriptions delivered? I'll have that conversation. It just seems unlikely to me that that's a thing.

Okay... here's thing of the day number 2. I got downstairs today and found my tomato plant... collapsed. It broke my heart. It was like... flopped over at a 90 degree angle. I was on the verge of tears, honestly. I have no idea what happened. It was very cold last night, and... I'm guessing windy? And I watered it last night... And then I wake up and the whole thing is collapsed. The main stem was bent, but not broken... So I scoured the apartment for something to use as a stake. I ended up settling on a plastic coat hanger, which I cut the big long straight section out of, and loosely tied the plant to the stake. And... it actually seems to have stood itself back up over the course of the day. I legit don't know if it's going to survive, but... I think it might! But god did that scare the shit out of me. Poor thing. I remember back when I had a legit raised bed garden and tons of tomato plants (my first garden, which I completely got myself in over my head with...) I had a ton of trellises that I used for the tomatoes. This kit that my brother got me, it's a cherry tomato plant, but it's grown in a big glass jar full of soil. They never once mentioned any kind of stake or trellis needed for this. Now... I'm debating getting something for the chili too. Just to be... proactive.

The good news that goes with that? And why I was so devastated... The tomato sprouted its first flower buds, they're still very very tiny but if the plant recovers well... the flowers should start before too long! And the philodendron cuttings are doing really well. Two of them are almost ready to be planted. I'm just debating whether I want to plant them separately or have them share the same pot. I'm guessing separately makes the most sense. My blackberry seeds have not germinated... unfortunately... I don't know if they still need time or not... but hell, it doesn't hurt to just give it time. So I'm thinking of just giving them another week or something and then if they still haven't sprouted, I'll toss some basil starters in there and get that going.

I'm very excited about being a plant-father. I did do the whole outdoor garden thing one summer with my ex (it was basically just me, tbh), but that felt much more... hands-off. I kinda just let them do their thing, and they did great, even got a bunch of watermelons out of the deal! ... Actually, now that I think about it, I think it was 2 summers. There was... lettuce, onions?, green beans, jalapenos, and a bunch of tomatoes the first year... no, it was broccoli, not onions. But the broccoli, idk what happened, I think bugs got to it. The second year I think was more lettuce, strawberries, cucumbers and watermelons. Hard to remember, it was a while ago.

I am much more... attentive to my plants now, I know them much better. And that is a very two-sided feeling. I love the adventure of getting really passionate about something new and diving into it - it's a huge part of my life, something I am constantly trying to do, always try new things, always learn, always grow - but the older I get, the more I feel that whole... beginner's shame thing. The clumsiness. Making avoidable mistakes. I felt so much more... immune to it when I was younger. Now... it's weird, it feels like a social expectation that if you're an adult, you aren't going to make beginner mistakes... at anything. My family is absolutely an extreme example of that, but I really do think it can just be put onto people by society. Like... I remember at the bagel shop I worked at... If a teenager fucked up, it was kinda expected. If someone over 40 fucked up? Like a simple mistake? It always felt like... "hey man, you should know better." And honestly, that's kinda bullshit on both sides. Don't assume that young people are inept. And engage with them if they make mistakes so that they can learn what happened and how to course correct. Don't just go, "ugh, dumb kid, I'll go fix your mistake, get out of my way." And with older people, don't just get mad if someone is new at something. You can't just magically know how to do things, this isn't the fucking Matrix.

Anyway, just mentioning that because I kinda felt that when the plant fell today. I just... I know it was just a fluke thing, but I kinda blamed myself. Like I should've known better. And I have been a bit reserved about propagating the succulents in fear that I might... "fuck up"... due to inexperience. But, thankfully, that feeling was actually motivating for me. I need to fuck up. I need to fuck up and see that it really is not the end of the world, and learn from that, and move forward. It's so goddamn important to do that. Not to be blind about it, or arrogant about it... like... don't go too far in that impulsive direction... but I need to push forward out of my whole "play it super safe" shit. It is the anti-anxiety. It's me being super scared and saying fuck it and dropping in on a quarterpipe when I haven't done that in over 14 years. I need that. Mini leaps of faith. They are so good for confidence. I just need to be okay with the fact that sometimes, I'm gonna fall, and that's okay. That's why we learn how to fall safely.

It's getting late, tarot time.

Past - XII: The Hanged One, inverted (Opportunity for new perspective, evolution through stillness and stagnation, evolution through sacrifice or loss. The interconnectedness of perspective and sacrifice, and the need to act on them for substantial change. Let go.) Present - XXI: The World, inverted (Dreams and passions being rewarded. Newfound success. Reaping what you have sown.) Future - VIII: Strength, inverted (Overcoming fear, mastery of emotions through equilibrium and inner strength.)

Another three inverted cards... XD Yay!!! This time, all Major Arcana cards. Let's dive in, this one doesn't seem... too complicated, at first glance.

The start of the thread is... a blockage or disorder/dysfunction in... finding a new perspective? Maybe being stuck in loss, or stillness? I was going to look for more guidance from other sources on this, but I'm just going to try to work it out myself. The concept of the Hanged One is... as far as I recall... at least in part a reference to a story about Odin, hanging himself upside-down from a great tree in order to... gain great insight and wisdom. It's a literal sacrifice made to elicit a metaphoric transformation, and a shift of perspective. A new way of seeing the world. One of great sacrifice, but the gift is worth the price, kinda thing. So... if that's not working... maybe I'm missing the message? Or haven't fully transformed yet?

That connects to The World, inverted. Which is... the big reward. The culmination of hopes and dreams, goals and aspirations. And... it's also stuck, or blocked, or... something's wrong with it, something's preventing it. Likely that transformation that hasn't finished.

That is connected to... Strength, inverted. Which is the embodiment of a symbiotic alliance between emotions and intellect. Harmony with your fear, an inner strength. Which... is blocked, or gone on the fritz, as well.

So, tl;dr... I'm missing something in my new perspective? A blind spot? Or I haven't finished transforming yet? And that is why my ambition is not paying off. Which, in turn, is causing fear to rule my life and my emotions to run rampant. So... what am I missing? What more do I need in order to transform? ... I drifted off in my head there for a bit realizing the silliness of grilling myself to find what blind spot I have. XD As though pressing harder will make me just magically see it!

Alright, I really need to get to bed. Fingers crossed I can get to sleep in a timely manner and this appointment goes well.

#diary #journal #online journal #stream of thoughts #stream of consciousness

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tailsrevane · 1 year

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[movie review] ginger snaps back: the beginning (2004)

teenage mutant ninja turtles iii. back to the future part iii. men in black 3. insidious: chapter 3. and perhaps most relevantly, underworld: rise of the lycans. do you know what all those threequels have in common? all of them are either set in the past or feature the main characters time traveling to the past, because i guess that’s just what you do with your third movie when you don’t have any other ideas. (heck, we can even include star trek iv: the voyage home on that list, since movies ii-iv in that series are kind of a trilogy within the larger series.) obviously we’re looking at a bit of a mixed bag in terms of how these generally turned out, in the case of ginger snaps back it’s almost worth it for the title alone?

yeah, no, in all seriousness if we didn’t take thematic intent into account, this movie would be just kinda okay? like, it definitely drags a bit in the middle, but there’s some pretty unrestrained werewolf action at times so that definitely helps? it’s not as good as the second movie in that department, but it’s still not nothing?

when we take thematic intent into account… i mean, the sisters’ ancestors (who look & sound & are named exactly the same as them, idk man, just go with it) are up against a period in history where the patriarchy is even stronger than it is today, and it does some interesting stuff with that, but the end result is a movie that feels very oppressive & unapproachable, which fits but doesn’t really make it a super fun watch?

what really sinks it imo is the super racist depiction of an indigenous dude who initially seems to be their ally but who later b ends up stabbing in the back (metaphorically; she actually stabs him in the front; do you stab with axes? whatever, she does whatever you do with an axe in the front.) apart from that i would otherwise love the direction the movie takes with this version of ginger & b vowing to protect each other before literally mingling their blood to infect b with lycanthropy, but it’s just hard to enjoy it as much as i otherwise would thanks to all the racism.

c-rank

#ginger snaps back: the beginning #ginger snaps back #ginger snaps #werewolf movies #werewolves #werewolf #movie review #movies #reviews

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silasbug · 2 years

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dream log Nr. -005

26/05/2022 (extracted from a chat, unstructured)

hade:

I had this weird fucking dream

m sister and BIL came back from UAE and tensions were a bit high, my sister was acting super fucking weird and saying weird stuff that was oddly religious and not in line with her usual beliefs I guess

and eventually he goes to their room and I'm like "wtf is up with you"

it was really dark and insidious

and she mumbles something about a cult

eventually I manage to squeeze out of her that they had become part of a cult

but she seemed scared

so I pushed further and she told me she had been "cleaved" (idk why she used that word, it makes no sense, but in the dream it meant "kidnapped") and that the cult had used that to pressure BIL into joining/converting him to get his wife back but then he actually became part of the cult and she was forces to also conform

and she seemed really scared and was kind of crying and just looked a little traumatized

and I held her and she told me she shouldnt have told me because that puts me in danger from BIL

eventually he comes out of the room and I try to get off the couch eithout being seen but with our livingroom that obviously doesnt work

and he seemed a little crazed and dangerous, it was scary honestly

so I manage to make a break for it while my sister insists ahe didnt tell me anything or that i dont know anything

(she wasnt in danger from him, it was directed at me, or I wouldnt have ran without her obviously)

so somehow I run to my workplace (Rewe) which was a larger warehouse like store at this point and somehow try to hide my identity as I work (I had a shift or I switched with someone to be there right then to have an excuse to hide there) but it only works so well (like I put on a headband and hide my hair or sth)

and eventually he shows up there

the girl from the Tennis field the other time was also there and apparently a coworker of mine for some reason

and then I eventually kinda wake up and idk man whatvthe fuck

Tuffi:

the dreams that are mostly realistic are the most disturbing for me, especially in cases like this when the dream shows something negative

because it feels like it COULD be real

even if you know it's not

hade:

especially because it connects to reality in a way that makes it seem like time was passing normally

or like it was something that could happen normally (them returning) with something so horrific

Tuffi:

like dreaming of your partner being with someone else, then waking up

yea exactly those things

hade:

so you let your guard down because it feels actually possible at first

yikes

like it was so fucking realistic at first

but the time and world started flowing weirdly when I escaped and got to Rewe

thats where I was close to waking though so it makes sense that the structure of the dream was starting to fall apart

#dream log #retrospective dreams

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specialagentartemis · 3 years

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@beast-glatisant said: what on earth is hopepunk

Good question! It’s whatever people want it to mean.

More seriously, this is kinda long, but: “Hopepunk” is a term originally coined by Alexandra Rowland to mean “the opposite of grimdark”. They expanded in this post, and later in this article.

You may notice that the philosophy is incoherent, mainly boiling down to “the things I like are hopepunk and the things I don’t like aren’t.” It builds a philosophy out of opposition to a strawman of “grimdark” that doesn’t really exist. So hopepunk means you keep fighting for what you believe in regardless of what that is, and violence isn’t the answer, except when it is. Hopepunk is about being kind and soft but also about punching the bad guy with the gun. Hopepunk is a morass of FEELING REALLY STRONGLY ABOUT THINGS!!! without a fundamental core of... anything concrete. A Song of Ice and Fire is usually given as grimdark, and the people fighting for a better Westeros and living their lives in the gaps of this Game of Thrones among the nobles don’t count because... idk, people like Rowland don’t like it, whereas The Handmaid’s Tale is hopepunk because even though it’s horrifically bleak it’s about fighting to make the world better. That’s hopepunk in theory, and it’s frustratingly incoherent.

Hopepunk in practice is unbearably twee. The goal is to be to inspire a feeling of hope in the reader, which means that nothing bad is allowed to really happen, characters aren’t ever allowed to mess up or be mean or have flaws, and any mistake is well-intentioned and quickly & easily resolved by talking about your feelings.

One self-styled hopepunk work I’ve read is a supposed dystopia where the Bad Guys are blandly evil and dystopian, and the good guys are all kind and sweet and gentle and understanding and Inspirational, and the setting’s dystopianness doesn’t seem to actually reach them at all because they’re too busy modeling perfect mental health coping mechanisms for each other. It’s a 700-page long manifesto on self-care and The Power of Hope pretending to be a fantasy novel.

Another is an exoplanet colonization story where a small crew of terraformers from Earth go to a new planet to start a new life... and it’s all about how they love each other and are supporting each other in this strange new world, because they are “definitely *good* people” (the writer’s own words)! To the point where the narrative frames everything the characters do as supportive and good... including having absolutely no curiosity about the ecosystem they are here to terraform and all the living beings that already live here. The animals who already live here are treated like dumb wild animals without any fundamental rights to their own planet, and there’s no consideration that they might be intelligent, might have feelings about humans coming in and stomping all over their world - it’s just never even considered by any characters that they might have a responsibility to understand and collaborate with potentially-intelligent aliens, even upon encountering alien whales and alien dragons. Colonialism, but make it soft and queer and everyone doing the colonialism is just so nice to each other, and that’s hopepunk!

So anyone saying great things about hopepunk is, in my experience, 1) extolling basic storytelling devices that have been around forever as something new and brave, 2) making up their own definition to make it actually make more sense, or 3) focusing on the aesthetics of softness and hope and then creating something vacuous or even insidious.

This is why making fun of hopepunk is my hobby.

#replies #beast-glatisant #not naming-and-shaming here but feel free to follow up if you want to know more about the works I'm complaining about

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