#weird gray area

[cassettemoon]

Burned bridges

#lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk sun wukong #lmk six eared macaque #lmk macaque #i think they've both profoundly hurt each other in different ways #i have a whole comic I'm working on about the way Mihou views Wukong after Heaven #and his subsequent death #one day I'll finish it #NOT TODAY THO LOL #for now just this #my art #lemmie know if i should tag the gore but it's pretty mild and fuzzy and all the blood is the same color as the lines so #hmm #weird gray area

[kondietorei]

alas the classic outfit swap

bonus doodle underneath ^^

drew this after realizing i only drew one sea salt ice cream orz

#my art #strifehart #cloud strife #squall leonhart #kingdom hearts #once again idk if i should tag their ff games... weird gray area #i love putting these two in the most ooc situations #a treat! for me #yes. naturally they would switch clothes. and hang out. and have fun. and share sea salt ice cream 2gether #right uh huh just as nomura intended #i had to do a lot to salvage this one #feeling ambivalent on how it turned out #i learned a lot but i wish i went with a more interesting pose #its okay guys next year. next year every1. #anyway i forget that valentines day is supposed to be about romantic love #2 me it has a broader meaning..!

[yurimage]

I had another type 1 diabetic tell me once that she didn't consider herself disabled so therefore there was no need for me to call myself disabled. I didn't say anything at the time but I think about it a lot.

I don't think T1D comes on a spectrum or anything persay, but I think some people's bodies just handle it better somehow.

The past 4 days have been hell. My CGM prescription ran out over 2 weeks ago and my new insurance has been making me jump through hoops to get more; so I've been consistently hyperglycemic since then. I've had a lot of problems with my insulin pump since thursday so this made the problem a lot worse. To the point where I haven't really been able to do much the past two days, I didn't even leave the dorm today because I could barely manage to stand for more than 2 minutes without feeling like I was going to pass out. And this isn't rare for me. Regardless as to technical issues, I have a LOT of days like this. Days where I'm too weak to stand, or so dehydrated I start to develop heart problems. This really isn't out of the norm for me.

I'm really glad that for some type 1 diabetics they can go about their life minimally affected; but it just doesn't work like that for me. I am disabled, and the way in which that affects me sucks so bad but I truly don't mind using that label for myself. It's just how my life is.

#this is sort of a vent but I also just wanted to talk about the kinda weird gray area that T1D falls in regarding disability #I know for me it 100% is a disability but a lot of other type 1 diabetics disagree with that. idk #i just needed to type this up for myself I guess #zelle.txt #type 1 diabetes

[apollos-boyfriend]

Not even just Martyn canon anymore secret life straight up has the EVO logo in full prominence

true BUT that’s something i’d personally like to wait on before being like “oh this means Everyone is playing into the bit” bc it could just be something grian added at martyn’s request for martyn’s own lore, but something none of the others will be incorporating/interacting with, if that makes sense

#muse talk #anon #even then you could argue that since it exists it’s canon to everyone #which is kind of what martyn’s lore somewhat falls into to an extent #but like. saying the ENTIRE server is taking it into their canons feels too much like jumping the shark currently for me #bc again yeah it exists in a weird gray area of it being canon to everyone’s lore through martyn. but also not canon to everyone’s lore- #-because they’re not active participants/in it

[utilitycaster]

Sort of a distant tangent off my post about Ashton, but I'm growing more and more suspicious of the fandom claim that there's no time for small RP moments in Campaign 3. I do think that it's been challenging to get deeper party bonding or serious conversations that aren't about the big philosophical questions they're facing, since those do take much more time; but then I think about Calamity, or Candela Obscura. I can genuinely give you at least a couple paragraphs about pretty much every relationship in the two Circles, or in the Ring of Brass. I can also point to no shortage of small moments between characters in the Mighty Nein Aeor or Vox Machina Vecna endgame episodes, which were all extremely plot-heavy and fast-paced, and D20 consistently nails character relationships in a fraction of the time.

I think it really does come down to, as Brennan Lee Mulligan always says, the character creation phase. Laying down a solid groundwork in which everyone has a detailed, rich backstory and sense of personality and relationship history (in the case of characters who knew each other prior to the start of the series) is absolutely crucial, and even in the case of characters who don't know each other before going in, a good amount of time spent in character creation ensures that it's easier for them to develop those interpersonal relationships on the fly. I know in actual play there's some degree of finding the character as you play, but there are games for which there is a very short runway, and I don't think it ever hurts to do more extensive character prep than the bare minimum. And if there are gaps, I think it also helps to go back and fill those in mid-way, away from the table - Travis clarifying Chetney's backstory being a great example that allowed the history of Chetney and Deanna to feel realized and full, despite only a few episodes.

I'll also be blunt: most of the time when people complain that there aren't moments because the plot keeps moving...they're mad about shipping. Which has always rung hollow to me. It was a common complaint in C2, that no time was taken for character relationships, despite them taking an entire half of an episode for the Beauyasha date and despite no shortage of moments for all three of the other couples (and plenty of platonic moments between friends). The issue was never a lack of time; it was that the characters they wanted to talk to each other didn't actually have the relationship in canon that the fans had dreamed up, and so, when the chips were down, they went to other people.

It takes two seconds to say something like "I hold their hand", even in the middle of plot-heavy adventuring. If someone doesn't say it, it's rarely the GM rushing them; it's the player either choosing not to do so, or not remembering to do so, and either of those is quite revealing regarding how the player feels about that relationship and where it stands in their priorities.

#i've felt this for a while but like. fundamentally? C3 is just...uniquely not set up for terribly satisfying shipping #even the ships I do like and that get small moments are relatively background #like 80% of quote unquote ship content is like. fanon goggles overlaying either parallel play or standard battle mechanics #which is fine! I think it's a different vibe and approach than the past 2 campaigns #i think especially in character creation; self-insert or easy for new players (c1) #followed by Morally Gray Campaign; Prove We Can Replicate This Success; Serious Characters (C2); followed by Let's Get Silly With It (C3) #which is less conducive to that profound connection of c1 or c2. which is not a bad thing! #but god. if you complain about the D&D show having too much d&d plot and not enough romance...yeah pal it's d&d not a dating sim #like I enjoy when there is romance in my fantasy but it's not a requirement. there is a genre full of romance. it is called romance. #i'm also thinking about this bc I need to watch wot s2 but i've been told that the fandom has gotten weird #like wow so moiraine/siuan is not the A plot? in a high fantasy Good vs. Evil series? WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT. #getting back to this...i'm also thinking about my own life and like. i moved to where i live not long pre-lockdown #and so i'm finding myself a resident of this area for 4+ years but with weaker connections than i'd have otherwise. and that's fine! #but psychologically i feel so weird about just starting to find my place bc it's been so long even though there's a good reason #and i wonder if the cast/Hells feels the same way ie why are we only just bonding now 70 eps in and so they're hesitant #that I Waited Too Long And Now It's Awkward feeling; that I Should Be Past This By Now fallacy #which. again. i think things early on could have been done differently but that time is past you need to live in the present now. #cr tag

[jonquilspool]

daemon and aegon ii have very similar attitudes and beliefs the only difference in outcome is aegon was primarily raised by an overbearing mother trapped in the feudal dystopia that is being female in westeros while daemon was primarily raised by a distant father trapped in the feudal incestual dystopia that was the targaryens under jaehaerys. in this i will--

#my work #do you see my vision #also that aegon is incompetent and not particularly charming but i think that also stems from like. never having to learn people skills the #way daemon (more stereotypical second son) had to #and feudal skills etc etc #anyway. tell me i'm not crazy #they BOTH threw dead baby party. they both have weird relationships with their brothers #both believe in targ supremacy and are obsessed with their dragons #both have absolutely zero morals #i'll stop now #daemon targaryen #valyrian scrolls #this is not a pro or anti anyone post btw. i don't rock with that. gray areas ONLY in this house #rhaenyra and aemond share their own similarities but that is more complicated and involves rhaenyra and viserys incest issues so. later. #aegon ii targaryen

[nicosraf]

loving the mpreg asks. i think it would be kinda cool, whether it’s sexy or not, because of the long standing tradition that exists regarding pregnancy and body horror, and for genderqueer characters that can be explored in many different ways!

damn i’m really excited for a&m

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Yeah!! In all seriousness, A&M explores body horror and, specifically, pregnancy as body horror — for the women characters and for one angel character (who explicitly identifies with manhood).

It's meant to be an element of horror and trauma, but I'm not going to pretend like it's not a little fun to joke about. And it's been really really interesting to write! I'm incredibly happy with it! I said a while ago that I figured ABM would be a standalone if it were traditionally published because I feared publishers wouldn't let me publish a book that's so uncomfortably genderqueer (especially if it's already quite problematic — Satan and Michael are gay in it)

I'm really glad I was able to self-publish so I can both continue Michael x Lucifer's story and get really strange about angel gender! It makes me very happy :)

#all jokes aside — I'm glad to be able to write this book very much #its deeply uncomfortable at times ! i love it.l #and for as body-horror-y as the pregnancy is depicted — horror and sexualization are not really opposites are they #weird gray area i think #mine #ask

[thruthetwstedlookingglass]

If anyone reads this, just know this: You are special, no matter what or who you choose to love.

This is probably the most profound thing I didn't know I needed.

I just came out as part of LGBTQ+ community after realizing that I'm demi/fictosexual (I know; it's a weird area for me).

I realize now that what was wrong with all the relationships I've been in is not because I chose to be in them; it's because I forcing myself to conform to a generally toxic society where sexual orientation is either you're straight or you're going to Hell.

So thank you @jaytoonarchives for this and affirming what I've always felt.

#confession #lgbtq community #demisexual #fictosexual #weird gray area of asexuality

[skyarly]

man when I watched all of pokemon within the span of 4ish months I was so upset after gary's last sinnoh episode knowing he wouldn't appear until hundreds of episodes later (I knew this because of the Gary Oak Wiki) but man some people had to LIVE THROUGH THAT IN REAL TIME dear god I can't imagine. I was devastated for the time it took me to watch black and white, xy, and sun and moon (no idea how long that took, it was all starting to blend together honestly. when I said I pounded through sun and moon in a week I wasn't kidding) older fans had to wait for years that's terrible

#I'm in a weird gray area between old and new fan tbh #I used to watch pokemon as a little first grader except I would always watch the first few episodes and skip to the last in the season #I went into the series with extremely vivid memories of like a collective 15 episodes across the entire anime #and movies I did watch some of the movies #pokemon #pokemon anime #gary oak #gary pokemon

[guardsbian]

anthro art is so weird because I'd say I do enough stuff with anthros to where I could like. easily be a furry to a hater. but if I spend any substantial amount of time looking at furry art outside of very specific instances I just go. oh. yeah I'm not a furry

#a lot of furry art (and like not even just the 'generic furry') inspires. so little in me. it's weird. what's that gray area then #I like anthros! don't really. have any investment in fursonas. #like I'm literally a furry insofar as someone who likes Disney's animated Robin Hood but also other classic Disney movies. is a furry. #which is to say. I'm not. really. I think

[doctorwhoisadhd]

is miracle day like real? like is that canon?

#ari opinion hour #it seems like a weird gray area its not like rooted in having the same monsters or references or whatever #miracle day #torchwood #have we had references to it in like dr who

[the-owl-house-takes]

Y'all I gotta get this out isn't Darius x Eberwolf a goddamn proship??? I've seen some mfs say like "we need more Dariwolf" ...Eberwolf is literally a borderline feral furry with animalistic features & intelligence I've seen somebody argue "It's okay because Eberwolf is on the same intelligence!" ...Not really?? They're still a dog bro Isn't that bestiality/zoophilia?? Let alone the fact Dana confirmed Darius & Eberwolf see each other as brothers I'm so confused and honestly disgusted man pls help me out I'm like 100% sure this is a proship

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#the owl house #toh #eberwolf the huntsman #darius deamonne #tw beastality #yeah eber is in kind of a weird gray area #tw proshitter

[eeveekitti]

via me and @starrymaple's co-op campaign

#rain world #rain world oc #slugcat oc #? i think anyway #theyre in a weird gray area #finding synonyms for artificer was fun

[cat-soap-opera]

i know that itd be basically impossible to sell due to copyright issues, but i think itd be sick to make physical copies of CoRV whenever i finish it..... like even just to have n give to ppl n make sure it stays available regardless of what happens to the internet n the sites hosting it

#mod posts #the cattle of red valley #tbh i actually dont know if itd be impossible to sell #bc while its very obviously a warrior cats thing idk if its like far enough from the canon wc stuff to count as its own thing #like is it in some kind of weird gray area there #i mean i wouldnt risk it either way since harper collins could just pay to get their way regardless of what the law says #but its an interesting question

[dudefrommywesterns]

i'm too fat to be attractive but i'm also not fat enough to be attractive

#it's awful #i've lived my whole life in that gray area #plus i'm shaped weird #nobody wants that #typewriter dings #body image

[dravencore]

the tragedy of vash leaning into his human traits and trying to blend in and knives leaning into his plant traits and rejecting humanity

when in reality they are somewhere in the middle and they are the only two people who would understand that but they could never actually. talk.

#they aren't human but they're much more human than the dependent plants which is what i mean by human traits #they are in a weird gray area and neither of them want to be there! but they are! #and the only other person who understands that is your estranged brother!