#brain-slug

[voxtablr]

(TW: Death.)

On the fourth day of 'Mongus, a Crewmate gave to me:

[thefloatingstone]

Making the Dream Guardian look squid-coded is funny but....

consider.....

[hazelnutnebula]

the siblings of slug 👍

[somniumoflight]

Watcher DLC spoilers below :)

I'm not sure if this is what they meant by the Rot Consumes, but oh boy I have DEFINITELY been consumed.

Eldritch flower friend :)

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

Being prone to medication side effects sucks so bad. Yes this medication helped with a symptom that was really bothering me. Unfortunately it also ruined my life.

[ihatebrainstorm]

I uh.. ya g guh yea yuh huh squeeble deeble

[ironmyrmidon]

I love how the brain slugs in Stellaris actually are just cool about it. They don't like, try to take over your society or mind control people. They don't even force people to get brain slugged. They just make you smarter. They do reduce your population growth, but I assume that's just because they look kinda gross.

[a2zillustration]

Someone was being a little diva because he was hungry (for brain worms)

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[medi-bee]

[acquired-stardust]

Futurama Playstation 2 2003

[magickpancakes]

babe wake up, new AM design dropped

[manhattan-gamestop]

Yes I would love to check that thing out unfortunately to appreciate it I have to be in a very specific headspace that requires harnessing the power of 1000 suns

[kittykat299]

As a character one of Piccolo's strongest values is and has always been family despite that never being addressed explicitly. His desire for a family, a place to belong, drives him even before he realizes he wants it. He grew up isolated from others with only the memory of his father urging him toward destruction, and despite being noncanon the filler bits of OGDB depicting his childhood only emphasize this (seriously though I could write an essay about the episode where he finds the family having a birthday party. I dont care if it's "noncanon" it's fucking heartbreaking). I think this is best illustrated by the contrast between OGDB and Super, where in OGDB he's isolated and destructive, always on the outside and viewed as a monster (the monster his father wanted him to be, the only approval he ever got for years was a dead man's wish for him to become a monster) in Super he's actively part of a family unit- he's heavily involved in the Son/Satan families' lives and despite putting on a show of grouchiness he clearly places a high value on his place in their dynamic.

Of course the road to this wasn't perfect, his early friendship/mentorship with Gohan is a clear replication of his own traumatic childhood. "It made me strong, so it'll make you strong too" beliefs which were directly harmful (this is the real reason he's Gohan's second dad, he literally gives the kid generational trauma).

If my thoughts were more organized I might start a tangent about how his apparent general distance from Gohan in the Buu saga could have been an attempt to rectify that mistake by distancing himself, before ultimately apologizing and making a concerted effort to be better resulting in them being close again in Super but at that point I might as well be writing fanfiction.

In any case I fully believe family is one of Piccolo's strongest character motivations whether he acknowledges it or not.

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[terabyte13]

rivuler

[lingonberry24]

My piano teacher has multiple people she teaches with long Covid, and it is clear she is explaining to people how to work around the cognitive delays and brain fog as a result.

And for me, what she said was "enjoy and celebrate what you can do" and like - sure, that's great advice for me because i never want to play as a living and it's just a fun hobby. But. Are we as a society seriously just accepting that we'll all have a harder time learning and retaining things? ??

Obviously yes but it's just....frustrating.

It is weird having a condition that many other people have, but being one of the only people with a full understanding of the seriousness of it, what it actually means for my life, and what it means for society as a whole.

As a former gifted kid and someone whose hobbies, job, and dream career are really just thinking and thinking about how to solve problems - because it's fun! - losing my cognitive ability feels like losing a part of myself. Maybe it just isn't as big of a deal to everybody else.

[personal-ly]

Watching mentopolis rn and It's soo cool to imagine what would happen if Elias got brain slugged. Would the slug be an omnipotent god who would throw out the mayor easily. Could the prefrontal PIs manage to defeat the brain slug or befriend skipper.