#it's all psychological

[spockoholic]

I went to a filipino food/cultural fest with my filipina friend this weekend and tried balut (steamed fertilized duck egg) which was a entertainment hit with both my friends family and with the granny who was at my table who filmed and narrated me eating it 😂 caucasian girl tries balut for the first time

#my friend said i was going to be dinnertime enterainment for several families in the philippines lmao #verdict? #it was okay #i was doing fine until the beak bit got stuck in my tooth and i had to pick it out #then the rest was difficult #it's all psychological #kinda tastes like soup though tbh but the texture is rough #i'm going to #food #tw this lol #in terms of strange eggs i have eaten i like pidan a lot better #im mad though because the pidan i can get at the grocery store taste so much worse than the ones i had in china #like i see why people dont like them now the ones i had just tasted like an egg but worse the flavor was not there #the ones i had in china that my host dad's mom made had like.... i don't know how to describe it like a herbal almost anisey flavor yolk #i was really dissapointed coming home and getting some here it's just not as good #like i know its not rose tinted glasses i was living in china like maybe my host grandma did something special to them but they were so good #i ate them every time i went to her house #i ate like half of one i got from the grocery story and was like :///// ehh

[mo-mode]

Okay, but has anyone mentioned yet that Grover is also a vegetarian so when he says “Thanks for the emotional abuse and the cheeseburgers,” he’s like doubling down on Ares’ shittiness?? Ares even mentions how practically all satyrs are vegetarian or vegan when he said all they do is eat tofu. I bet when Grover said that at the end, he was cursing him out so thoroughly on his head, Ares could hear it. “Thanks for the emotional abuse and cheeseburgers you @&!$ing $!@? and you didn’t even get a %£#!ing salad. Oooo you got a big &$%! plate of fries? Whoop-dee &!#@ing doo!! What kind of #&*!ing god are you? A piss poor @#!$ing !%@$ one. Athena’s owl my €@%#.” That’s probably why Ares didn’t bother with the paper towels.

#like that must have been so insulting #I have a dietary restriction myself and if someone was like yeah I got all these massive entrees that you can’t have but oh! we got … #you a plate of fries cuz I know you probably haven’t eaten in like an entire day? I would be PISSED #yeah Grover get his ass #Grover probably sat in silence for thirty minutes staring at that massive plate of burgers then thought yeah I’m gonna mess this bitch up #and psychological warfare Grover was born #grover underwood #percy jackson #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo tv show #pjo spoilers #percy jackson tv show #percy jackson the lightning thief #pjo series #ares #ares pjo

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Tfw you realize you’re so predictable a winning bingo card was made about you in less than an hour and there was never a way for you to win the game because you ARE the game

Where’s that post where someone was saying Brennan was probably stressed out during the entirety of his scene in “Pencil’s Down” because he was ready for it to be an elaborate scheme targeting him specifically? Because I’m pretty sure that’s the same shirt he was wearing so there’s a non-zero chance those were filmed on the same day, which is why Brennan was probably already on-set/available on such short notice. And since the set is still intact, that means this was filmed immediately before his Pencils Down scene and it is absolutely reasonable to assume he was waiting for it to be another elaborate setup.

#like it’s definitely possible that he was called in and wore the same shirt because it’s all they had on hand for him #but it’s funnier to imagine he came off of getting psychologically tortured #only to immediately be put into a 100% normal #non-rigged episode of game changer #brennan lee mulligan #sam reich #game changer #dropout #dropout tv

[l0ve-sicc]

#these all affected me psychologically #I LOVE QUEER MEDIA!!! #nimona #the owl house #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #steven universe #the hollow #dead end paranormal park #adventure time #gravity falls

[chihirolovebot]

on a real note that bit near the end of the video was genuinely haunting. hearing somerton talk about how gay writers are erased from history was one thing (with all the irony being that he stepped on the backs of numerous underpaid, underprivileged and uncredited queer writers to build his youtube channel) but when h revealed it wasn't even somerton's quote in the first place? the worst, most crushing sort of irony. how do you lament about the erasure of gay people and gay writers in history... whilst erasing a gay writer and taking his words as your own?

#it's genuinely unconscionable and its given me a lot to think about #i found somerton through his video essay on killing stalking #one of my favourite psychological horrors #i was overjoyed to find someone who seemed to recognise it for the dark character study of trauma and abuse that it was #and not a love story #now all i want to do is go back to that video and search up the phrases in google #to see who really wrote those words and phrases that got to me so deeply #fuck man . what a disappointment #james somerton #hbomberguy #veetxt

[beescake]

back in the day we had pantskat

now we have sagg sollux

#homestuck #hs2 #sollux captor #karkat vantas #solkat #sol's still blind but pls suspend disbelief for the sake of cursed pants meta #the contrasting parallels in fan reaction upon each reveal may have amused me more than it deserves #i wasnt there but. i think the general consensus is that pantskat = cute/funny and sagging sol = cool?? hot?? degen????🧍 #lore extended: karkat briefs sollux boxers ????? #vioart #2023 #listen there are very clearly deeply rooted psychological reasonings behind their preferred choice of trouser orientation alright...... #we all see it even if we cant explain it.......

[schnoobums]

How many of your co-workers did you just eject into space to get rid of me, huh?

#borderlands #tftbl #tales from the borderlands #tftbledit #gamingedit #videogameedit #handsome jack #rhys strongfork #edits by kara #i cannot begin to explain how much i LOVE this line #it is THE perfect reply to destroy your enemy psychologically #you think you're a hero? that you're the good guy? #did you even blink at all the death you caused in sake of taking me down? #rhys definitely deals with this trauma forever #flashing gifs #1k

[melancholic-pigeon]

Just to be extra clear—when I talk about how raging antisemites/bloodthirsty tankies/Glorious Revolution LARPers etc are "supposed leftists" or "shitty progressives", I don't mean it in a No True Scotsman way. I mean that our movement is, unfortunately, beset with members who claim to espouse certain views (compassion, truth, justice, kindness, the bettering of the human condition) and then act in a way that is vicious, conspiratorial, unjust and cruel and explicitly crow about their desire to make things worse for humans (but it's okay because they're the BAD humans, see)

It's not that shitty leftists aren't really leftists. It's that shitty leftists' actions contradict their stated morals and they're really, really bad at furthering the goals they claim they want to further.

#don't be awful to each other #I still feel physically ill from all the psychological whiplash

[yashley]

Then why are you here? What is it you want? I want to free you.

#critical role #cr lb #ygifs #cr3 #imogen #liliana temult #maybe a bitch cried and that bitch was me #anyway the psychology of imogen using her responses as questions to get liliana to talk it out more it's so good #the 90 episode payoff is SO GOOD FOR ME #the TWO 31 rolls like the dice said it's laura bailey guys #also like it has to be ludinus planted that liliana's go-to is the ''children'' like something's not right there matt #it's so reset to factory settings and strange that she's hollowly committed to a concept that isn't even actually real #but it Was real for liliana when she first set out to protect her daughter #like how really All There can you be when your work husband is ludinus daleth #imogen getting her conversation I'm just framing it

[mun-dane]

All About Love, bell hooks

#a woman in love is a delicate thing #bell hooks #all about love #psychology #literature #books

[twilightcitysky]

Everything Is Meant (long S2 analysis, part 1)

I cannot figure out for the life of me how to make gifs so this will have to be a gif-less essay. If anyone more tech savvy than me wants to reblog with relevant media, please do!

I've seen a lot of people saying how Aziraphale's actions in the final ten minutes come out of left field and are OOC, and when I first watched the episode I felt the same, but now I think I couldn't have been more wrong. And I don't think Aziraphale is being controlled... I think the entire season showed us exactly what was going to happen.

On first watch, what struck me was the number of plot points that seemed disconnected. I couldn't figure out how Job related to the present, or the Victorian era, or the Nazi zombies (still at sea on the zombies part tbh). I didn't know where the Maggie/ Nina subplot was going, or why we were bothering with it. Then I put my "psych hat" on and it was like seeing one of those 3D pictures come into focus. It's a psychological networking rather than a plot-driven one, which is what Neil told us to expect.

Detailed analysis under the cut, with spoilers:

I went back through the season in my head and started asking myself: why is this element there? What does it contribute?

1. Start with scene one. Why include it? Does it matter for the climax that Az knew Crowley as an angel? YES. It's actually huge. Angel Crowley was joyful, he was bursting with delight at creation, he was idealistic. He wanted to be a part of everything rather than run away from it, and that's still how Aziraphale feels. He loves being a part of things. He's a joiner. He's a landlord. He dances at clubs and he makes human friends and he learns magic. Crowley the demon doesn't seem to want any of that, and I think that's hard for Az. He wants Crowley to be free of the cynicism he thinks prevents him from enjoying life now. At some level, I think he senses that Crowley is depressed (empathy's not his strong suit but I'm sure he's aware that Crowley's in a "what's the point of it all" kind of mood; see the eccles cakes scene). He wants to fix it. Aziraphale is a fixer. Metatron offers him a chance to do that.

Another thing is that Aziraphale knows Crowley ended up Falling just for asking questions that seemed innocent. That's not okay with him. He thinks that with the two of them in charge they can actually MAKE the changes that Crowley wanted to see way back at the beginning, starting with a suggestion box.

2. Okay, now Jim. Obviously Gabriel/ Jim is the central mystery, but why does he matter? First and foremost: he's there to show Aziraphale that angels can CHANGE. Gabriel terrorized and threatened Aziraphale. Az has been terrified of him. He ordered Aziraphale's execution. And now here he is, drinking hot chocolate, doing noble self-sacrificing things, with morals that suddenly align with Aziraphale's. What an absolute game-changer that must have been! He thought Heaven was unfixable, but here's Gabriel in his shop for weeks, slowly convincing him otherwise.

Then two other things happen. First, they find out that this all happened to Gabriel essentially because he fell in love. He was fired and his memories were stolen and the only reason he recovered was because Beelzebub happened to give him the one thing that could save him. That must have seemed like incredible luck. Now, how does Aziraphale feel about memories? He lives in a bookshop that is stuffed to bursting with the records of all of human history, essentially. His memories of his time with Crowley are incredibly precious. He sees, there at the end, that everything he is can be taken from him as a punishment for falling in love. Aziraphale doesn't have a magic fly container. He'd be forever robbed of Crowley, his life, himself. It's a very real threat in his mind when Metatron intervenes.

Which brings us to the second thing. Metatron saves Gabriel. Not only that, he prevents him from being punished for loving Beelzebub and lets them both go. What better way to win currency with Aziraphale? HE doesn't want to go off to Alpha Centauri, he never has, but suddenly he sees that Metatron might protect his relationship. And he's probably the only entity with the power to do so.

So we come to two conclusions: Aziraphale, when he goes off to talk with Metatron, is feeling like maybe it's not intrinsically bad to be an angel. He believed all the angels sucked, and only God was good... but now he sees that even Gabriel can change. He met Muriel, and he likes them. (He also had a huge crush on angel Crowley, which is neither here nor there but he loves Crowley in all his forms.) So if Crowley became an angel again, would that really be so bad? In his mind, it wouldn't change who Crowley is. It would just make them both safer and allow them to be together. (He's wrong! And Crowley doesn't see it that way! But this is a key miscommunication. Aziraphale doesn't really believe that becoming a demon changed Crowley. Back to the first scene, which Aziraphale references during the Job minisode. In his eyes, Crowley is the same person (just more cynical because of what's happened to him)-- so why would it matter if he's an angel again? I truly don't think he was trying to save Crowley, or saying that Crowley would be Better as an angel. To him, it doesn't matter what Crowley is. Which is reductive and harmful, but not the same as thinking Crowley needs rescuing from himself.)

Second conclusion: he sees that an angel and demon can be in love, but they have to run away to be together. Gabe and Beelz couldn't go home again. Earth is Aziraphale's home, but after the attack on the bookshop he learned that without Heaven's protection he can't really keep them safe there. Metatron says: "Come with me, do this thing, and you can have guaranteed safety AND be with the love of your life". Poor Aziraphale wants this with every fiber of his being. All he's ever wanted was for Crowley to be safe. He's never been able to offer it. Over the past four years, he thought they were safe, but he's just learned that he was wrong.

This is getting long. Continued in Part Two!

#good omens #good omens analysis #good omens meta #good omens season 2 #good omens season 2 spoilers #gos2 spoilers #everything is meant #the psychology of it all #forumulating a TV show in my spare time what can I say #crowley #aziraphale #character analysis #putting the pieces together

[nowimnothing-inc]

Serial Experiments Lain (1998)

Creator: Yoshitoshi Abe

#serial experiments lain #experiments lain #laincore #let’s all love lain #lets all love lain #cyberia #club cyberia #old anime #anime #90s anime #90s nostalgia #1998 #90s #1990s anime #1990s #1990s nostalgia #lain iwakura #yoshitoshi abe #animecore #psychology thriller #psychological anime #シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン #avant garde #the wired #90s anime aesthetic #岩倉 玲音 #cyberpunk #cybercore #techcore

[mylittleredgirl]

actually you should see how much i’m NOT putting on your dash right now. i could always be so much worse.

#‘why not create a sideblog’ well. see. #i spent my twenties collecting my fragmented identities and reassembled them into a unified psychological whole #and now we all have to suffer for it

[sea-buns]

wait but she's adorable. she's wearing a big sweater and her hair is so cute how could she possibly be involved in this conspiracy?

but seriously as much as I am a sucker for a billion buckles, it's so much cooler and impressive to do simplicity in a fantasy setting. her design and outfit are so simple but it's done SO WELL

#one of my faves for sure #all the bad guys have killer designs and its a new kind of psychological torture #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #lucy frostblade

[psychological-alchemist]

Some budget alchemy, in the hopes Truth would exchange enough knowledge for exams

#this hung above my head all throughout #truth probably laughed at those shaky lines #this just enhanced my fixation #it worked though?? #i cant escape fma #“we will pass” #fma #fmab #fma brotherhood #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fullmetal alchemist #psychology #exams

[hellspawnmotel]

“caroline, please kill me” by coma cinema

#i hope this is readable lol #deltarune #susie #noelle holiday #suselle #art tag #man i had a whole thing to type up here and now i forget most of it. ummm #basically ive been thinkin about suselle with the new info we got from the sweepstakes #specifically from noelle's perspective. because up until chapter 2 she wants susie but she doesnt KNOW susie #its an extremely shallow crush which is normal for teenagers but what makes it interesting to me is #how noelle sort of seems more attracted to the danger susie poses than susie herself #and she doesnt really make an attempt to get to know susie personally until ch 2? iirc? #and before that almost seems to hope that susie will treat her as badly as she treats kris #and you could argue whether its bc of noelle's psychological problems or if its just. yknow. a fantasy #either way my point is shes not really thinking about susies feelings. shes not trying to reform the bully or something #so consider this little lyric comic as taking place in noelle's fantasies pre-ch1 #BUT #all that said it doesnt mean noelle isnt open to getting to know susie. obviously #when she sees an opportunity noelle does reach out and not in a way where shes trying to provoke susie to hurt or threaten her #she gives susie a gift and invites her to study together. not to mention the whole ferris wheel thing #i actually think noelle didnt even consider that as an option until susie and kris became friends #and even after chapter 2 noelle doesnt really know susie all that well. and to her susie still exists mostly in the realm of fantasy #but its a start. and they have so much more room to grow and understand each other better #plus susie clearly already cares a lot about noelle #moral of the story is suselle is more compelling than just 'shy girl plus mean girl' #and i like it #good night