#some of us are so wildly different

[shallowseeker]

Wait, there are some of you out there who didn't read, "Yes. Your problems always come first," as Cas's specific brand of passive-aggressive sarcasm?

#complex cas #some of us are so wildly different #it's fascinating #sometimes we are aliens to each other i swear

[mishapen-dear]

tbh i think that even unwinnable fights should be winnable. some of the BEST fights i've ever run as a dm were ones i built kill the players (in a fun way. I had some cutscenes prepped so even the loss would be a different flavour of win)- but then they were clever bastards and managed to either win the fights or pull themselves out of trouble. I think it's perfectly fine to plan for a fight that players aren't supposed to win, but you need to let them. if they can't win, they can't lose, and the meaning of that encounter is diminished. do that too many times, and they stop trusting you to give them roleplay prompts and start expecting to sit there waiting while you drive the story for them.

but if they can win... if there is always the chance to win, no matter how impossible the odds, then they ALWAYS have hope. they always get invested. they feel the big emotions of success or the big emotions of failure, and you fucking Win as a dm/roleplay prompter/lead bastard.

#qsmp neg #qsmp crit #discourse #<- for blacklists #im not grumping or anything im just musing on like. the mechanics of why everyone is so upset about the latest fight #and how it can be avoided while still keeping these fights genuinely difficult and intense #its hard because there's so many players and they all have wildly different strengths and weaknesses #so someone who could take on the code easy needs that enemy scaled differently than someone who isn't a big fighter #but it's hard to do that in a world where they interact w the same enemy #and you only have so much man-power to cater to a big server like this one #and then you bring in the big powerful items that the players can and can't access but which the admins have ultimate power over #and the fact that some of the admins themselves have lag issues or aren't super great at pvp so they accommodate that with better gear #and it starts getting messy #but for the fights themselves yeah regardless of what armour or gear or killing-methods they use there should Always be a win condition #and idk maybe there was one and we just didn't get to see it #but if that win condition is 'parents sit in the safe room with their babies while the others are overrun' #then i think there are ways to build better win conditions #anyway i love game design and player/dm interactions qsmp hire me now i want to know your behind the scenes #jk im too busy to apply #but man. i wanna nerd out so bad that sometimes i think about it

[otaku553]

My brother recently got into Demon Slayer so I wanted to make a kny oc for him since I did it before with both me and my sister and never got around to my brother :)

But I started by refreshing my own design because wow?? It’s been 4 years since I first made my kny insert character and a lot of things are now outdated! Not to mention my art has improved a lot, I hope. More details under the cut!

Meet Ebisu Koharu: youngest of the Ebisu family and physically the weakest. They only barely passed Final Selection by hiding for the entire week and surviving off tips from their older siblings. Nonetheless, they still want to contribute, which is why they hold onto a thick, leather bound book that records every demon they’ve ever met in precise detail, with labeled diagrams and scribbled calculations in the margins of different strengths and weaknesses.

After spending a few years on the job, and properly seeing their data contribute to the successes of other demon slayers, they’ve come a bit more into their own as a competent researcher and fighter, though they still do tend to request paired missions with friends and family to act more as a support role rather than a fighter.

The Ebisu family is one of scholars. The eldest daughter Kaoru is a doctor, and the eldest son Shougen is a chemist. By nature, fighting is not necessarily their strong suit, which is why their family breathing style and techniques are all poison-assisted. Of the three, Koharu is the weakest and most averse to combat— they wield a short half-length blade, with more of a smooth ceremonial hilt and sheath than any practical weapon.

#kny oc #kimetsu no yaiba #demon slayer #it’s so much fun seeing my brother be so late to the party for kny lmao #I love him but his takes are kind of shit ngl. #his character will be absolutely hilarious to do as well #because you better believe I’m going to lean far into how much he simps for giyu #looking for names is so much more fun when I can read some kana and am not using google translate #I found out that the combination of me and my sister’s names form kanari which i will not stop thinking about for ages #four years of improvement and four years of character development! Better character design and research skills #it’s a lot of fun thinking more about details when designing now #I.e. brushes are wildly impractical tools for writing on the go so koharu’s main choice of stationery is an imported fountain pen that cost #a decent amount of their savings #and they wanted their records to last longer so they also invested in a proper leather bound journal (also imported) rather than #a normal string bound book like their normal daily journal. this is also why the books open in different directions #in the event that their fountain pen breaks they Will Cry but they will also commit the details to memory and write them in with a bruh #with a brush after the battle ends

[autistic-sidestep]

someone remind me to write up my fh disability theory reading meta at some point

#ive got something. it's gonna overlap a bunch with the transhumanism theme and discuss ortegas internalised ableism #alongside the allegories of the enhanced for disability + racism/disability/poverty/queerness (cigs inherent queerness of fh post is inspo) #mostly started with thinking abt the parallels between sura and ortega and how they choose to deal with their disability #some similar and some wildly different #i love that so much of the cast is disabled and in such a variety of ways #owl lost her legs during the nanosurge and ortegas highly experimental mods let them walk again and enhance their agility/strength #+ other things (at Extreme cost.) #chen is multiply disabled with the multiple amputations and the gut issues #argents got the nanovore stuff and chronic pain #sidestep is autistic coded! also the paingate being broken can be an allegory for chronic pain/fatigue. no longer being able to push through #like they used to. #ramblings #fh meta

[giurochedadomani]

Mountains of gold

“It cannot be that bad”. 

The first button of Shanks’ shirt is missing. Mihawk lightly plays with the string of his collar as he tries to work past the sudden tightness in his throat. Is it bad, really? It seems like a reasonable request. Why can he not bring himself to actually say it?

Mihawk has a wet dream about Shanks.

READ IT ON AO3

#mishanks #akagami no shanks #dracule mihawk #one piece #one piece live action #opla #just some fluff #and mihawk having a bit of an existential crisis because he's not used to him and shanks having wildly different levels of experience #they're rivals! which means equals! #is mihawk correct when he thinks that shanks definitely has experience? #not quite as much as he thinks #but mihawk sees him talking to people so confortably so amicably so affectionately #and he feels a bit insecure #because this is something in which he won't be able to match shanks #and just something something mishanks and miscommunication about really stupid stuff is sdfghjkl my jam #anyway hope you enjoy it #not my priority when it came to finish wips but the wip that have decided to finish itself #I don't write I just follow the characters around and take notes

[kafkaguy]

if you're bilingual/multilingual i really suggest doing translation as a hobby. nothing serious, just getting your favourite songs or poems or book passages in one language and trying to translate them into another one. it can be really relaxing, it has the same effect as doing a sudoku or crossword puzzle. it's just the right amount of challenging and soothing and also stretches your understanding of each language and may even reveal things about the meaning of the text you're translating! so if you wanna do something creative but feel kind of unmotivated, some light translating is a good way to go 👍

#i do this a lot these days its a nice way to wind down #its especially fun trying to find ways to get english songs to work in greek #cos phonetically theyre such different languages. wildly different use of syllables. #greek has some specific ass words for specific ass things and english has one word for multiple things #but then it also applies vice versa?? so theres no safe harbour #its really fun thogh. i did it a lot when i was younger reading greek translations of english books #and then getting pissed when i read the english version cos 80% of the time the greek translation sucked 😭😭 #so i did it a lot out of spite. not entire books. but a good chunk of them #i did once translate an entire greek graphic novel into english 👍 #so yeah #🍪

[sharkneto]

Why don’t you want five in school?

Oh, I've ranted about it before in the tags of THIS POST but in general it makes me wildly uncomfortable. As an adult, the thought of hypothetically being forced back to high school is the fucking pits, you could not pay me enough to do it - and I even had a good time in high school! Five is almost 60 years old and they're going to force him to go to classes and hang out with teens? That feels bad from every angle! It forces Five to act in a way he'd only do under great duress and fucks his agency and autonomy as an adult so badly. There are better, more interesting ways to play with the consequences of his physical vs actual age than sending him to goddamn high school. There's other, less dominating options for the "he looks like a kid and never actually graduated" problem.

You do you if that's your jam, don't let a random dude on the internet yuck your yum, but Five in high school is a squick for me.

#i'm not here to tell anyone to do one thing or another #or ruin anyone's fun #but it's a thing i will not engage with (except to complain because that's my right on my blog in asks asking me specifically about it) #anyway #it really just comes down to how badly it fucks five's autonomy and erases his actual identity for it to work and him to cooperate #he gets absolutely *nothing* out of the situation #he's so wildly in a different life stage and situation than anyone in high school #and forcing him to hang out there for a quick gag is a waste of the limited time we have left with him as a character in a final season #use that moment for some actual character exploration and something that actually tells us more about him #and how he deals with no powers and new universe #my personal pick is he's drinking A Lot and doing Not Much because he doesn't actually know what to do without a Goal to work towards #and passed between siblings because he can't get his own place because he Looks Like Child #the dichotomy between his physical and actual age is one of my very favorite thing to explore for five - the consequences of it for him #and this does it in a Bad Way imo #makes me feel Bad and Uncomfortable #a squick! #ask response #shark's enemy: five in high school #i have strong feelings about this thing that has a sliver of a chance of happening #but it does have that /sliver/ of a chance so i can't just dismiss it #and this is the end of shark's negativity corner now

[constantvariations]

After playing Baldur’s Gate 3, where there's several situations where ascension is continuing a cycle of violence and abuse, V9's ascension plot is somehow even dumber and ickier than before

#rwde #finished the pale elf quest last night and I WAS NOT READY #spawn star all the way babey #ive seen the way he talks as an ascended and by gods it is so wildly different than who he is usually #considering how much abuse - both individual and systemic - is in rwby you think thered be a message better than 'abuse bad :(' #like where tf is the commentary on cinder doing whatever it takes to survive as a child and now she doesnt know how else to live #and even tho emerald clearly likes her for who she is (for some reason) cinder cant trust her and uses fear to keep em by her side #(or maybe emerald loves the security and purpose cinder represents rather than her as a person) #rwby is rife w power imbalances and intriguing dynamics but never FUCKING USES THEM AAAAAA

[hideawaysis]

"well as an autistic person i don't agree with this because i don't do this thing and" oh boy, wait until i tell you that autism is a SPECTRUM.

#hideawaysisposting #it is physically impossible to have one autistic person speak for everyone #that's the case for every group of disabled people but ESPECIALLY autistic people #experiences vary so wildly from person to person that it's difficult to even quantify the typical autistic person #because we're all different. some of us talk some of us dont #some of us can eat textured foods with no issue some of us cant do so without gagging five million times #some of us can mask all day and some of us cant mask period #so when you hear an autistic person talk about something you dont experience personally and youre tempted to say like #“well actually as an autistic person we dont” STOP. DONT SPEAK #just listen. because you dont do this #but other people do #and its important to listen to what they have to say #now how about YOU get that gigantic stick out of your ass and be quiet for once #if you know the person on here who provoked this i am so sorry

[carfuckerlynch]

thinking abt the opening to hill house in the context of the parts of physics that offer the claim that there is no such thing as absolute reality

#my dad is super into that kind of physics #like at its most basic level it comes from the idea that our brains need to do so much interpretation of the information offered by our #bodies and thT every brain (bring different) interprets that information in a unique way. there’s so such thing as quantifiable provable #reality #the way i see the color red may vary wildly from the way another person sees it. so beyond the wavelengths how are we to say what red is #and even the wavelengths are mediated by the tools we use to measure them and the ways we represent the information gathered by those tools #on paper. and then our brains interpreting what we’re seeing when we see the information #so therefore which of those things is the real one #plus. no living being can continue to exist long under conditions of absolute reality. even larks and katydids are supposed by some to dream #hill house not sane etc. #odhran.txt #unreality #<- tagging specifically bc like. when i think too long abt that physics stuff it starts to fuck with me

[neverendingford]

Therapists have two genders:

Professional Asshole and

Well-meaning Incompetent

#color says shit #text post #replying to my therapist is the most frustrating thing in the world. ma'am you think you're building rapport with me? #I hate to tell you but you've been wildly unsuccessful if that's what you think you've been doing here. #stop trying to educate me about my bullshit diagnoses that I already know about from my years on the internet. #like. babygirl I'm over here trying to build up to feeling comfortable enough to talk about the six-layer trauma cake I've got going on #and you're over here showing me a diagram consisting of two concentric circles meant to convey the idea of self versus other #you're very nice and trying to be helpful but I don't want to fucking talk about the girlfriend I want to talk about the issues that matter #girlfriend is an experiment. the other shit is stuff that lives in our fucking soul. shit that made me into the weird person fragment I am #and I had to fight for an hour. therapist kept on scheduling us for half an hour. HALF A FUCKING HOUR HALF AN HOUR ISN'T ENOUGH TIME TO TALK #I had to fight for it and even when she finally scheduled us for an hour she still tried to cut it short #I had to pull up the appointment confirmation to prove I had an hour allotted. like seriously what the fuck. #one of those people who had their own mental struggles and then is like “I want to become a therapist and help other people uwu” #and then is fucking useless and projects their own issues onto someone else and shoves their personal solutions onto you #like someone in r/aita projecting their own shitty relationship onto someone else. some of us are different Daryl #ugh I'm so fucking pissed and I'm not giving up the controller until I get this shit sorted out for now. #r wanted to hop back on this morning in the shower and we had a shouting match but our deal was she takes a week break so I'm keeping it #because too much shit has built up and she's been not doing so hot so I'm gonna get this mess cleaned up before I let her back on. #I bought groceries. I did laundry. I got the car repairs done. I got our bike fixed up. I showered. I did dishes. I'm going to #and I'm going to get even more done tomorrow. maybe then I'll go back to watching over her shoulder and backseat gaming but not for a while. #it feels nice though. like I get to finally stretch my arms and yawn real good. #and btw to answer the question she's always fucking asking. she's not ace in the slightest lmao. I am and the bleed over confuses her. #there. question answered so maybe she can stop asking about it. #I feel like in her push to find herself she kinda pushed me back into the corner. which... ngl that hurts a little. #oh well. you don't need to hear about our lovers' quarrel. I'm going to bed in these cozy fresh bed sheets I just put on the bed.

[alagaisia]

Thredup is a great site for if you care only about what brand your clothes are and not about any of their features

#all of the search and categorizing options are so terrible #I mean the options are fine. it would be nice if selecting them meant you were shown clothing that matched them #also. you say on the site that sizing is wildly inconsistent between brands (we know) #you also provide (some) measurements for most items #why are you using tag size to sort things. you could use the measurements #‘my size’ is a basically useless filter because you want to put in the full range of sizes that might fit you in some brands #(since there’s not one size that fits you in all or even most brands) #but then 98% of results when you actually click on something cute are not your measurements anyway #because that size in that particular brand doesn’t fit #also why do you use only chest measurements for dresses. where is the waist measurement. #those are different things and there’s not a consistent ratio between them you can’t skip one #same with skirts having waist but not hip #although usually I’m looking for (and not finding because again filters don’t work) for styles where the hip measurement is irrelevant #you sure can search and sort by brand though! #thank god nobody cares about the style and fit and characteristics of their clothing and only the name on the inside #mine #tangent in the tags #not really though it’s all very much on the same topic lol #I got bored with poshmark browsing last time so I decided to switch it up #you would think a site where everything runs through it would standardize their stuff better but no it’s somehow worse #than the site with a thousand random people doing different things #thredup #thrifting

[x-letsbreaksomerules-x]

the DA comics have some great action and fight scenes but they cant keep Fenris(or other characters) consistent for shit. His eyes AND his skin tone change color multiple times. sometimes on the same page! how do you fuck up like this.

#his eyes are only green in blue wraith and switch to straight ice blue in dark fortress #his skin tone is so wildly inconsistent i can't even fathom it #'but the lighting!1!1' shut up you're bad at lighting a scene if you can't keep a characters base skin tone consistent #do comic artists just not have color guidelines at all or what. #I've used a million different lighting techniques #I use the same skin tone for fenris in. all of them! if not the same color then the same greyscale value #it REALLY isn't that hard like it really fucking isn't #idk i don't generally talk about topics like whitewashing because im white and theres a million people who could cover it #way way better than i ever could #but as an artist it gets annoying to see shit like this bc theres always some asshole who is going to defend it as just #'the comics style' or 'a lighting inconsistency' when it's not. Vaea is generally pretty consistent through the comic(as far as i can see)

[scary-senpai]

Idk. Felt cute, might delete later:

—Oi, wolfboy. Sit.

Suiryu watches him with the patience of a river carving itself into rock. The effect on Garou is the same; wearing him down as he wears away.

Garou narrows his eyes. —Why?

Suiryu sighs, shaking his head. —Why, why…You love that word, don’t you?

But Suiryu is already shifting his body, making more space, trusting that Garou will follow as surely as smoke follows beauty, or night follows day.

Above them, the sky flares with the first flames of a firebird sunset. Lurid hues of orange, and red consuming pallid shades of yellow and blue.

Garou is shivering. From the cold, from the scene, and from something else. He digs his fingernails into the bare flesh of his crossed arms. He shouldn’t feel like this.

—Sit with me, Suiryu says. Please.

But Garou’s body is already moving for him, toward him, moving on its own. There’s no question of heart; it doesn’t occur to him. But the answer comes easily enough.

Suiryu watches with a sly smile and eyes you could drown in—how chilling, how dark, how deep.

Garou stares back with eyes like flame; with a gaze as readily kindled as extinguished.

#one punch man #opm #opm fanfic #garou #garou x suiryu #idk probably won’t delete? Unless I come up with a wildly better draft and even then #my drafts are like my children I love all of them equally #it’s just that some of us are no longer on speaking terms #if you couldn’t tell it isn’t going to end well #I think I am getting tripped up writing this bc at that age / in this scenario I am definitely Suiryu #as in ‘indulging people’s desires without understanding that they have different feelings about sex than I do”’ #‘so uh we did some stuff last night… technically what does that make us?🥹’ ’idk dude very close friends?’ #I bring a ‘consenting adults are free to explore whatever mutually beneficial arrangements best suit them’ to the conversation #that many heterosexual men do not like to hear from a 21 y/old girl #(and still don’t really like to hear from a 30-something woman tbh) #anyway sir please kindly get dressed and leave my dorm room I would like to go back to drinking $5 Trader Joe’s wine & reading atlas shrug #*shrugged #plot twist ! the entire time I was asexual which in retrospect explains a lot

[sealab420]

please god let me be an opener again i’m sooooo so good at it & no closers will ever have to come in to an empty rack ever again

#it’s happened 4 times to me #in the last week & a half #and apparently several times to other people too & im just #what the hell are you guys doing #filling the rack is literally your only job #well that & dough but you can make pizzas while you’re making dough #it’s not hard! #we have 6 pizzas! 5 of which are the same every day! #i’m gonna ask johnny to put me 1 on 1 w **** so i can get the security ppl up to speed #i wonder if i can just be a trainer #we could use some standardization in the kitchen #the pizzas shouldn’t be so wildly different you can tell who made what!!! #anyway #inshallah i won’t be a closer soon i’m so over it #my sleep schedules fucked #i have to do half the openers work on top of mine #it’s lifetime 2: electric boogaloo except at least here there’s really not a whole lot that needs to be done #which just makes it all the more annoying tbh

[cidnangarlond]

have not actively watched nor cared about doctor who for a very long time but I had a nice dream related to it so I've been thrown off a little

#why was the event being held like. in a tiny room in a building near the hoover dam (which looked wildly different btw) #and there was a body of water like Right Outside you could get into Very Easily that attached a bit downstream to water that went to the #hoover dam and that meant you'd be sucked in more or less and every time I looked at the dam it sent me into a fight or flight state #also there was some stuff before all that about my mom and I being in danger and rushing to get to. walmart. where they were #locking things down. and someone was following us I think? and I couldn't get this like clearance until my health check was done #or something. and my mom's was like immediate she already had hers by the time I caught up and I was like ok how'd she get it so quick #and the guy was like oh she took the canada route. (note I have no idea what that fucking means but it made sense to me in the dream) #so we go on this elevator/staircase whatever down to the basement and we're in this line and then the dw stuff happens #dreams r funny !