#THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE A PROBLEM

[revenantghost]

Untitled E fic has officially passed 10k...............

[westanovencleaner]

"percy takes annabeth's last name—"

"annabeth takes percy's last name—"

"they combine last names—"

"they don't even get married because of hera—"

give me a crackfic where percy and annabeth kill zeus and hera and anyone who stands in their way just to get married, and, in killing zeus and hera, they become gods, eliminating the last name problem because they won't even HAVE last names as gods

[apradonite]

God the soriel scene. Why can people acknowledge that it was BOTH an irresponsible decision and kris and susie have a right to be upset about it, AND that toriel has the right to move on with sans AND that that she is like a.. hundred times better parent than asgore despite her failings.

Toriel can have failings as a parent without being completely shitty.

(Asgore on the other hand... fucking yikes. I'd respect him a million times more if he was going after rudy, a married man, rather than repeatedly going after his ex like GET AWAY FROM HERRRRR, the only benefit of sans and toriel getting drunk at her house rather than at sans's is that it means that asgore might visit and sans might open the door for him. Hopefully, that will be enough to get it through asgore's skull. I used to sympathise with financial situation, but now i wonder if it's actually brought on by his obsession to get back to "normal," leading him to neglect moving on and taking care of himself)

Sorry for the asgore paragraph. Anyway, I need to see an awkward breakfast scene between her, sans and kris as she tries to smoothe things over and try to properly introduce sans while kris is trying to get out of the door as fast as possible.

Also, we gotta admit the soriel scene is cute. Someone compared it to the lalondes' drinking scenes in the homestuck and think that's important. It's cute and joyful, which makes it hurt a little more (im not wording this right, but hopefully it makes sense? Like, i wanna be happy for her but also ouch. Its the right mix of clashing emotions)

Anyway sans. I support toriel liking him but it has made him too confident. He needs to be bullied by teenagers.

And on a final note, toriel being much taller than sans is wonderful and needed. I keep seeing art that makes lanino much taller than elnina and it gives me the ick. I'm so glad Toriel is so much taller than sans, we need that.

DUDE EXACTLY like yea i 100% agree that not watching how much you drink and getting super drunk when you got kids coming back later that night absolutely wasn't a responsible thing to do (i don't exactly blame her for not calling kris considering this is what. the third time they've gone out to hang with friends via suddenly disappearing and being out of reach. but it still should've been a safe bet that they're coming back at the end of the day) and whether or not that's a consistent pattern of behavior SHOULD be discussed. or even how kris's disappointment might be rooted in how just how fast their whole life is shifting around (especially with a guy that just moved into town) considering the theming of chapters 3 and 4. but some people's criticism of her in that scene is absolutely rooted in the idea that asgore is still entitled to her just because he wants her back and really any mention of "asgore is better/she should've stayed with him" is what gets me the most. she literally could not make it more clear that she's not interested! kris is allowed to be upset and uncomfortable with how quickly and messily their family's dynamics are changing just as much as toriel is allowed to want to move on! let that 6'8 woman hang out with her short ass boyfriend

[ricksanchezbignaturals]

remember when the random rick that breastfed clancy brown in season 3 made it to the semifinals of the most smashable rick poll and we got a bunch of fat titted old man fanart wasnt that crazy

yeah this isn't my first time drawing him so what

[redpandavvstuffs]

"We need more clomplex female characters!!!"

Yall mfs couldn't even handle her 💀

[celtrist]

I really want to see a more fucked up version of Charlie in canon. Like, okay, I am a die-hard for sweet bubbly girls in media. But I always see how some people make Charlie actually, oh I dunno... demonic? And it's so refreshing for her type of character. I could honestly see her having low empathy (and we kinda see this with how she handled Angel's situation or even Vaggie's nervousness about taking control on an activity). An exploration of that trait (if it was intended) would be interesting to see for a protagonist, especially when her main goal is about helping others. I would love to see her actually have a level of difficulty in understanding others' feelings from the other residents, sinners, and even her father.

But give her a fucked up side. Not a "she gets more power when she's angey uwu", but a "oh, she's a little fucked in the head". It would give so much to her character that she just doesn't have.

@/murmurmurena (don't wanna bother them so slash there we go) has some fun ideas with Charlie. I highly encourage people to check their stuff out! So many fun dark ideas with her character while also still keeping to her canon personality pretty well! Personally, I think Charlie being a bit more naive to her own messed up traits would work best but her also being aware of these traits can make for some interesting character for her.

THIS FIC, "A Game Between You and I". RIGHT HERE WITH THE FIRST CHAPTER. A bit of spoil for the fic here: but I love how they handled Charlie’s absolute ignorance as to why the idea of Russian roulette is horrifying to Angel Dust. It doesn't feel like her being intentionally malicious or aware that she's the odd man out here. This is also a pretty old fic going by only the pilot, but the point still stands that it was such a fun take for her character!

Charlie is one of my favorite characters in the show in part of the POTENTIAL she could have as being the most bubbly sweetheart character while also being the most messed up character in the show. I can't say I have strong confidence with the show's writing and fully expect them to stick with Charlie being the "nice girl but oh no, don't get her angry or she gets scarwy". Which isn't bad for a character mind you, there's just so much more potential to Charlie outside of that trope, especially when you get into the theories of her either being a doll, Roo's biological daughter, or what have you. And for the MAIN CHARACTER of the show, it would be not only interesting but also bring the spotlight back to her.

There's really no question that the side characters steal the show, particularly all the male characters. If I'm honest, Charlie does not feel like she gets a lot of love from the show itself when she's supposed to be the main character. She feels far more flat compared to the rest of the characters (again, the male cast in this "female-lead" show has more depth than most of the female cast currently. I wouldn't be pointing this tidbit concerning the genders of characters if it weren't for the fact Viv defended Helluva's lack of development with their female cast by saying "Hazbin is a female-lead show and Helluva is a male-lead" and Hazbin ended up with it not feeling female lead (to me) and the male cast just completely stealing the show. I don't normally care about gender stuff, especially since I do personally lean interest towards male characters. But using one show as a defense for poor development of the female characters, and then that show not really holding up with no very interesting well-developed feeling female characters irritates me. It's just very clear that these shows don't seem to care much about the female cast :/)

If you like how Charlie is written that's totally fine. PERSONALLY, I just think they're missing so much opportunity with her character by just making her the standard female character type. I honestly don't have a lot of faith they'll actually do something with Charlie's character though. She's a pretty static character in S1 being the same from start to end. Not changing or learning anything to create any development. What does the end of season Charlie do that start of season Charlie wouldn't do? Fight back? Because we see with the pilot (which is the “first episode”) that Charlie does fight people if pushed like with Katie Killjoy and even Valentino. Static characters can work in media depending on the show or their role. But Charlie is the MC of a show about “bettering one's self”. So to have her as a static with not a lot of strong dilemmas for herself (like we see with Angel Husk Al and even Vox) seems silly. Plus, considering Hazbin is telling a whole story and it's not a fun episodic thing, characters are expected to grow on some level. Or else, what was the point of their hero's journey?

[magentasnail]

Hey, how are you doing?

well I just started art uni and it's going so much worse than I expected,,, genuinely considering dropping out but that just makes me feel worse about myself !

so yknow, great !

[ragnarokhound]

as research for a gladiator au jaytim fic, i read all of the captive prince books in less than 72 hours. i fear that i was, in fact, the target audience for that series. and that i will need to be very careful not to accidentally write captive prince fanfic in the middle of my jaytim fanfic. OOPSIES

[lizasweetling]

I knew about the closet thing- that one's been passed around as proof before (though it's great fun to see that happen in cannon <3)

But I really can't figure out when Boris is talking about!

Dupree spent practically all of the first bit of the comic on Castle Wulfenbach, and Gil dropped out of the story for so long that there's a joke panel about if he's even still a main character!

So scenes with both of them and Agatha can comfortably be counted on a single hand!

I really have no idea....

[rxttenfish]

Did any specific animals inspire you while redesigning Aaravi?

well, considering her design is supposed to be specifically evoking images of unicorns, yes!

mainly i wanted something to contrast against miranda while also fitting with aaravi's own themes... i already knew that she was fae, because that was something that was retained from the original rps that got me shipping miravi, so i wanted to toy with that and toy with that as part of her dual nature. i also wanted something that... didn't actually evoke specifically images of "danger"? as in, i didn't want to lean too heavily on the monstrous or even the predatory. part of it is the fact that she's extremely human-passing, even compared to her own brother, so ultimately i didn't want anything that stuck out too obviously, and because i felt extremely exhausted of all the half-human half-monster designs that go too far into the same token predatory animal motifs over and over...

and because it's still a really common Thing, in the fandom, that if you're talking about aaravi you're taking her as... aggressive, in a way that's hard to explain? because she's more of a complicated person than that. like, i ship miravi so i feel the urge to compare her to miranda, specifically in how i don't think miranda actually wants or likes her specific role in the merkingdom vs. the concept of being a princess alone (which is understandable! a lot of little kids want to be princesses for good reason! it's being told you have inherent worth, no matter what you do and that you don't have to "earn" it, that you're beautiful and loved and admired, and that everyone looks up to you and wants to keep you safe in the same turn), but most interpretations of miranda don't pick up on this. it's like this with aaravi, in terms of being a slayer. she likes protecting people, being admired, being the person to save the day and the person that people can go to and feel safe and like they're protected by, she likes feeling hypercompetent and admired for her skills that she worked hard for, she likes feeling like she can solve problems and fix things. it's just that the circumstances of her life have told her that being a slayer is what's going to provide her with all of this, and because the entire structure of everything she knows has been built around this, she can't really begin to untangle one from the other.

which is to say, aaravi is a lot more nervous and scared and uncertain of a person than a lot of people think of her as, and ultimately because she doesn't want people to think or realize that she's actually feeling this way, least of all herself, it can become really easy to think it's actually how she IS.

which is why i ultimately ended up going with associating her with prey animals, and even moreso with unicorns. because she doesn't want to be seen as vulnerable, because that can get her preyed upon. because this then makes her project such an image of strength that she has to constantly hide anything even vaguely contrary to ensure no one even wants to look twice at her. because she's not really liked or accepted into social situations or circles, in a way that SINCERELY bothers her and upsets her, but is desperate to convince everyone else she's a lone wolf who likes this, actually.

likewise, i think a lot about unicorns specifically in the older kind of idea of, an embodiment of virgin wilderness. of truly untouched wilderness, which repels and is dangerous to humanity, which they cannot go into or face because it is so far from civilization. untouched purity, sure, but the double-edged sword of that, of then being something that cannot be sorted back into society or civilization and is inherently contrary to it. i think about unicorns being so fearsome that they were depicted fighting lions and with the lion as their counterpart, and about the virgin being so important to the unicorn myth because that's what induced docility in them, what allowed hunters to capture or kill unicorns due to what valuable resources could be extracted from them.

and i think this fits aaravi a lot. she's not docile, she's not easy to get along with, she's sincerely quite a difficult person, but being a difficult person doesn't mean you're unworthy of love or that you need to then discard what makes you difficult. i think about the strange way people see her as valuable to them, valuable to take advantage of or throw in other people's path or valuable just as a point of entertainment from the in-group making fun of her, but how this value necessitates not caring about her, herself. i think also about the singleminded way she throws herself into things, the way she charges into everything almost certainly because she's (similar to miri...) always lowkey suicidal and doesn't care if this kills her or not, and how unicorns were said to charge so ferociously at lions that, if the lion dodged out of the way, the unicorn would then lodge themselves in a tree in the charge.

this is why she has the lion's tail that's so drapey and flowing — i wanted to evoke the vine-like tails that classical unicorns get drawn with, with many tufts of fur along the length sprouting off. i also liked how it complimented how much body hair i draw her with, since it also makes it look similarly luxurious, with many tufts and ridges of hair (along her back, over her stomach, over her chest) like regal manes.

that's also why i ended up going with her ears being their specific design. because, aaravi's indian, and the indian rhinoceros is literally called the indian unicorn (with the latin name Rhinoceros unicornis!), and so i wanted her to have ears like one. same thing, for showcasing the seeming vulnerability of a prey animal and a herbivore, but also one that's known for being notoriously ornery and aggressive! i also thought it was nice, as so much of aaravi's mentality as a slayer is that monsters are preying on humanity, and so i wanted something that really showcased that herbivores are not passive and are not docile, that they can be equally or moreso dangerous than carnivores, and should not be taken as nonentities in their own environments. especially an animal that can absolutely kill its own predators too. :>

i also thought about using both the rhino connection and aaravi's connection to insects and arthropods to add some natural armor to her... but ultimately it didn't make the cut. i wanted some arthropod in her because i didn't want her to be straightforwardly mammalian, and there should be something off about her that suggests she's not just a humanoid design with a tail... her dad is effectively all of a forest mashed into one roiling mass of condensed nuclear magic, and she does have some (even if easily hidden) traits that would immediately clue other people in on the fact that she's only half human, and i don't like a lot of those... well, "fantasy races" designs that just puts body hair, a tail, and ears on a human. they feel off to me in a way that's hard to explain, and might just come down to the fact that, it feels like the people making them don't actually understand these traits, evolution, or why they end up selected for... and, again, i wanted the point that aaravi wasn't selected for! she's a first-generation hybrid, she has a lot of weird genetics that are also kinda working against her and would count her as disabled! this doesn't mean what she looks like is wrong or lesser, or that her intense shame and fear around these things is right, but moreso i just wanted to give the correct impression. that she's in a really complicated position that's basically only accepted because she's deemed "human enough", and that she feels pressure to hide or obscure anything and everything that isn't appealing enough about her.

and, honestly, adding arthropod in does this well! it's far enough away from mammalian that it's worth questioning, and doesn't feel like the kind of thing she SHOULD have, and sits a lot closer to the uncanny valley to a lot of people.

this is also why all of her body hair and her nails naturally grows in as purple! i saw on her original design that she had purple hair and purple nails, and she never struck me as the kind of person to dye her hair (nor paint her nails, really... she's butch, to me, in my heart), and i liked the thought that they just... naturally grow that way. that's her natural color. and, of course, both are made of keratin, so everything in her body made of keratin would be colored similarly, and chitin is pretty close to keratin too, isn't it? but it's the kind of thing people wouldn't notice, unless they got particularly close to her, unless they started putting together the pieces. so i ended up REALLY liking it, so now aaravi's body actually produces chitin, not keratin, and it's naturally a soft lavender-color too.

and the same for her mandibles! i wanted more major muscle and skeleton differences in her, since her dad doesn't even have DNA to begin with, but, again, she needed to be able to hide it easily. same goes for liking these differences being basically useless — hybridization isn't meant to be a superpower or to make you a mutant, it's just supposed to be another point of variation in the world. in the long run it's beneficial, certainly, but often it's not in ways that anyone can see, and certainly not in ways that anyone in the moment can tell. so giving her strange teeth (so long that they're worse than normal human teeth) and mandibles (so far back in her mouth they're basically only good for biting herself) fit both really nicely. she also has larger front incisors and a chipped incisor tooth, because i have those as well, and i never see them represented in designs.

her eyeshine is intentionally based off of both crocodiles and tigers, and because it being red is just close enough to being similar to human redeye to where it feels familiar but strange.

also, because it complimented miranda! miranda has blue eyeshine, but she's directly based off of both crocodiles and big cats in her design! miranda also represents both the dragon and the mermaid, in terms of "what she is", and i liked adding aaravi as the unicorn to contrast both of those. miranda's the princess and aaravi's the hero, but they're also the virgin and the unicorn, the dragon and the knight, the mermaid and the unicorn. they're both helpless against larger powers, but also fearsome and evocative in their own rights. i wanted aaravi to represent something that could be both savior and condemnation of miranda, and miranda to represent the same to aaravi, being someone who could kill her as an embodiment of evil, or someone just as good and just as worthy of love. they're both fantasy creatures that have gone the whole gambit, from being embodiments of the wild and untamed, to sexual entities, to representing virtues and beauty, to resources to be exploited, from being loved, to being commodified, to being used as inspiration for children's toys, to being hated and loathed and treated as jokes. they're both wildly different, and look wildly different, but they're also the same in fundamental ways, and find solace in how similar they are even with those differences.

[burningcheese-merchant]

You've mentioned that deep down pepper jack is insecure to en extend.why? Is he scared he'd hurt someone? Does he feel like he's not enough? Drop the angst🙏🙏🙏

Are you referring to that one line in his soulstone description? Haha

Jack has some insecurities he's grappling with internally, yeah :( they have different forms, but ultimately come from the same place: the fear he isn't good enough, like you suggested. There's a more general side to it, plus one more closely related to Burning Spice

🔺 Jack secretly fears/worries that his father does not like him/is disappointed in him. They're quite different from each other in a lot of ways and don't always know how to communicate their thoughts/feelings to each other, so there's a bit of a gap between them in that sense (one that doesn't exist between BS and his sister, which makes it a little worse). He yearns for his father's approval and often goes out of his way to do things that he thinks will earn him that (ex: asking BS to read history books with him, or asking him questions about the past. Jack likes history already, that's a natural-born interest of his, but because his father was once the Herald of Change/History, there's that additional point of "if I show my dad I'm smart like him, and like the same stuff as him, he'll be happy. He'll be proud of me"). It isn't necessary, of course; his fears are entirely unfounded, Burning Spice loves his son dearly, just as he is. He just isn't the best at expressing it sometimes (I imagine BS being. Like. Very emotionally constipated lol. He makes a lot of progress w GC but a brand new hurdle is made with the kids bc he can't necessarily talk to them like he does to her, at least not right away. Children need to be handled/spoken to differently). They'll patch this up eventually but it's a bit difficult and awkward for a lot of Jack's childhood

🐦 Jack naturally holds himself to a very high standard. It's just who he is and has always been. He's not arrogant by any means, but he does expect a lot from himself. Admittedly a little bit of it comes from external forces - his family, his friends, the kingdom - but it's really mostly him. People expect a lot from him (not out of malice ofc, no one is trying to make him feel pressured/insufficient at all), but he expects the most from himself. He needs to always be his best, for everyone else's sake.

I've been drafting little playlists for both kids (I like doing that for characters I like + OCs, it's a way I help myself understand their vibes) and one song I attribute to Pepper Jack is "Surface Pressure" from Encanto. These lines in particular encapsulate his feelings pretty well imo:

"Under the surface, I'm pretty sure I'm worthless if I can't be of service"

"Under the surface, I hide my nerves and it worsens, I worry something is gonna hurt us"

Under the surface, I think about my purpose, can I somehow preserve this?"

"But wait, if I could shake the crushing weight of expectations"

"Who am I if I can't run with the ball?" / "Who am I if I can't carry it all?" / "Who am I if I don't have what it takes?"

Jack is the firstborn. Jack is the son of two gods. Jack IS a god, himself, by virtue of the power he inherited. Jack is the crown prince, expected to one day inherit his mother's throne. Jack is the older brother, meant to be his sister's protector and guide, meant to be a good example for her. Jack is a hero, he wants to be a hero, he's supposed to be a hero; someone who uses his power for good, who serves the public. The strong have a duty to help the weak. He's strong. He has to be. So that duty falls on him. All the time. No matter how heavy it gets. Who is he, otherwise?

... But he's scared he'll fail. There's nothing he fears more than failure. Letting everyone down. Everyone thinks so highly of him... everyone expects so much from him. People count on him for things. So he'll be strong. If he can't, he'll pretend. He'll put on a mask. His feelings matter less than his responsibilities. If both he and Paneer are scared of something, he'll be the one to put on a brave face and hold steady, because being there for her is more important. Others will always be more important than him, and he always has to do a good job for their sake. A self-sacrificing perfectionist. Dangerous combination

[codenamesazanka]

Shigaraki/Tenko wanting to destroy the false sense of peace All Might and Heroes created

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Shigaraki/Tenko wanting to destroy everything that lead to the existence of that house, which he conceptualizes as the embodiment of rejection and injustice in the world. Be a Hero for the Villains.

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AFO basically literally created that house

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Shigaraki/Tenko helps defeat AFO

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Deku telling him 'you already destroyed it' is... apparently Shigaraki/Tenko having finally gotten rid of the true cause of (his) rejection and injustice? main antagonist's big problem that represents an overarching major issue of the story/in-universe society... solved? (main antagonist's big problem that represents an overarching major issue of the story/in-universe society not actually being the problem he thought it was but now also solved?)

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No longer a need for there to be a Hero for the Villains, Shigaraki/Tenko dies.

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Heroes not to be blamed in the first place. also fuck everyone else and all other 'actual' outcasts I guess.

[cementcornfield]

Ugh I can’t stand how chiefs fans are making fun of jamarr and calling him a diva (among other names) when Travis literally screamed in his coach’s face during the Super Bowl and has been ejected from a game before for disrespecting the ref.

tbh i don't mind chiefs fans shit talking ja'marr, they have every reason to hate him. he's embarrassed their team plenty and has done more than his share of shit talking. let them have their fun (although i agree it's def hypocritical after that travis moment that i guess no one ever wants to talk about!)

what upsets me SO much though is seeing our own fans turn on him. calling him selfish for the hold-in, blaming him for the contract debacle, saying he's overrated, saying we should trade him and keep tee (when they were all saying the exact opposite when tee requested a trade TWICE a few months ago 🙄). and i do understand that ja'marr was in the wrong for this penalty, but getting ridiculous penalties against the chiefs is kind of just what he does! like it cannot be emphasized enough how much that man hates the chiefs lmao.

ja'marr has been STRUGGLING these past few months and it's obvious how much of a toll this has taken on him. i'm not at all surprised things boiled over to a tipping point when he thought he was tackled in a particularly dangerous way (whether he was right or wrong, he DID believe it). right now he's taking a huge risk being out on the field at all without any real guarantees for the future. that shit is scary, it's scary betting on yourself even when you do believe in yourself 100%. people play better when they feel secure, when they feel valued, and the front office did everything they could this offseason to make him feel the opposite.

i'm really hoping he can have a big game this monday. supposedly the commanders defense is Not Good, so that should help us! (i just hope it isn't a trap game for us. but the fact that we're 0-2 i think will make the guys take it seriously.) winning helps cure all ails for competitors like ja'marr, and i believe we've got a lot of that ahead of us!

[pardonmydelays]

all jokes aside, our show is in sixteen days and i've never been more anxious about anything in my entire life

[microwavetoaster-selfships]

I think I need that "Wow, I haven't stubbed my toe in five months! I was then shot fifty-seven times." Audio again

[thanatologie]

honestly (i say, piggybacking off of @fatedvoyage's post) the fact that so many ships i've had through the years have started as a joke says some...interesting things about me, i guess.

buckytony wasn't a joke, necessarily, but i lost the steering wheel to the bus on that one pretty early on and it's been a [mumbled number of years] since that whole thing even started and they are, by far, my favorite, top tier ship for tony. i love them and their stupid inside jokes and their stupid little domestic life and their stupid little adventures.

a friend and i had a ship for tony and maccready (yes, that maccready) that started out as me testing a romance mod on a tony fo4 playthrough that led to several unfortunate ingame events (you ever try to romance a companion and get turned down because buddy-) that i got laughed at about until we weren't laughing anymore because it was like you know what and still has a special place in my heart umpteen years later just because it existed and was some juicy characterization digging and a...slightly unorthodox take on romance in the irradiated world.

emmrich and zevran, i...i honestly don't have any excuse for that one, i hate that it literally started out as me bullying dean about taking that old man to pound town on a playthrough and he picked zevran and now i hate myself for how much i kind of love?? them??? like i am legitimately mad about it. this was supposed to be for giggles to make fun of dean about, i wasn't supposed to sit here and rotate them in seriousness.

anyway, trip down memory lane to the gazebo we're standing in today listening to zevran's bad pick up lines aside, that's the thing, right. like the ships i still look back on most fondly (like maccready's rper no longer writes on tumblr, for example) or that i hold closest to my heart have a common element of like...we were joking until we weren't? or we tossed out the script (such as in buckytony's case) because the inmates were running the asylum, anyway, you know what i mean?

i do not, under any circumstances, set out to ship just to ship, it's just not my thing, but man when the blorbos click, or they click unexpectedly, that's just. 👌😩 there's a couple here that are starting to veer into that territory and i'm sitting here nose pressed to the window like SICKOS_yes_HAHA_YES.jpg over it all.

sometimes your blorbo points at the idiot blorbo you were making fun of and says that one, and you're stuck with those bad decisions until you gaslight yourself into looking at them as warm fuzzies, is what i'm saying.