#internal arguing

[multiplicity-positivity]

Here’s some positivity for systems whose headmates have vastly differing opinions!

It is a common occurrence for many systems for members to sometimes fight, clash, or disagree. Thought it may make system life challenging sometimes, there is nothing wrong with having views and ideas that vary across your collective. If your system has members with vastly differing opinions, this post is for you!

💫 Shoutout to systems who have always struggled with chronic indecision!

🫂 Shoutout to systems who struggle to accomplish or try new things due to headmates having difficulties coming to a consensus!

💕 Shoutout to headmates who have become passive or aren’t able to voice their own opinions due to fear of being overruled by the rest of their system!

💫 Shoutout to systems who want to develop a collective identity, but can’t due to strong individual differences between headmates!

🫂 Shoutout to systems whose differing opinions make it difficult for them to practice new skills or hobbies!

💕 Shoutout to systems who have a sense of dread about their future due to the stark differences between headmates!

💫 Shoutout to systems whose headmates have differing political views or moral values which make their lives complicated!

🫂 Shoutout to systems who are learning to facilitate in-system discussions to better work through their differences!

💕 Shoutout to systems who try to respect and embrace each other’s differing views, opinions, and ideas!

💫 Shoutout to systems whose differing opinions among headmates causes their whole collective a great deal of confusion, distress, or impairment!

🫂 Shoutout to systems whose chronic indecision causes them to need accommodations like more time to deliberate, extra or combined options, or a caregiver who can help them make choices!

💕 Shoutout to headmates who are learning how to compromise when different system members want different things!

Folks, please know that indecision and vastly differing views, ideas, and opinions often comes with the territory of plurality. You’re not wrong or bad for having opinions that differ from the majority of your system. You’re not rude, broken, or inconsiderate if arguments and difficulties deciding often cause dysfunction in your collective. You matter, your system matters, and your voices and opinions deserve to be heard and expressed just the way they are!

Our hearts go out to you as a fellow system whose indecision and differing opinions can be overwhelming and debilitating. We hope that learning to work together and take each others’ ideas into account will become easier for your system with time and practice. Please do your best to treat yourself and your system with compassion, and don’t be too hard on yourselves if your differing views causes complications to arise in your lives. We hope you all will be able to breathe, take your time, and ultimately reach conclusions that work well for everyone. Know that we care about y’all and we’re wishing y’all the very best in all that you do!

[inkskinned]

don't worry, they're joking! they're always joking when it would be something, like bigoted. because i'm not a bigot, obviously, i just vote for bigots - well, they're not bigots either, you can't really call someone a bigot just because they have religious views. this is the land of the free, and it's a christian nation, after all. you can pretend otherwise but let's just be real here; all our values are really based on the bible. anyway, i know you liberals get your panties in a twist - can i say that, or are you gonna cancel me, haha, #metoo - about every little joke he said and every little dramatic political view. oh, fascist this and fascist that. you are online too much, you love the word fascist because it's big and you're just paranoid about things.

well, no, i don't, like, read the policies. i have a life. and so what if they wrote - stop it, it's not a manifesto, okay? he eventually backed off from that - oh the vice president? who cares about that guy, that isn't real power. you're being dramatic, they're just spitballing. everyone makes big claims when they're out there campaigning. he just means he personally wouldn't get gay married. you want him to divorce his wife and get gay married? anyway, even if they cancelled gay marriage - it wouldn't happen, okay? nobody i know really cares about that - it'd be states-rights like those abortions you love so much. and you live in a blue state. you live in like the gay capital of the world. i don't know why it'd be so bad for you, you're borrowing trouble there.

and besides, you're missing the point of his campaign! you people want to be victims so bad you completely ignore what we're really voting for. there are tons of good things that happened because of his name and his policies - the economy, for one. oh stop, just because i can't tell you what a tariff is off the top of my head doesn't mean i don't have eyes. and stuff was better under him! well, yeah, anything good is his work, obviously. what? no, all the bad stuff was biden. and probably also obama. what do you even care about this, anyway? it's not going to effect you. it's four years.

oh my god, not the climate change argument again, i'm not getting into that. i don't care about it. if my house is beachfront that's great news for me. and we don't really know what's causing it. no, i saw you forwarded me those articles and i just laughed. what, do you think i have time to sit on my ass and read shit? huh? well, no, i like reading the babylon bee. they actually had a great article about all you climate freaks. and in the meantime, what do you want me to do? i'm not paying 4 dollars for gas. liberals love to talk about solutions but never pay for the solutions. what do you mean blocked because of congress. you gotta stop with the conspiracy shit.

no, my side doesn't have real conspiracy theories. the vaccine thing is a real thing. besides, you yourself don't like big pharma. just because i have an opinion, suddenly now you think big pharma is great? and this is serious, okay? your mom's friend's coworker has a kid that died from a heart event. i don't want you getting any more vaccines. i regret that you got them as a kid, i'd redo them. what do you mean you'd vaccinate your own kids? are you finally thinking of having some? you know i want grandkids - oh stop, i've never pressured you, i'm just saying that if you're going to get gay married, you might as well give me some normal grandkids to love.

stop, you know what i meant. what? no, he's not going to take away your right to adopt. besides, you could always use a sperm donor, haha, i know your high school ex would love to - jesus! okay! no need to snap. i'm just saying that you don't need to be married to have a kid. the only real benefit to marriage is taxes, haha. it won't change anything. oh my god, no, there won't be a rise in hate crimes. well, it's not his fault what people do in his name! he eventually spoke out against that, anyway.

what do you mean he supported them? i didn't hear him say that. oh. well, yeah, he said it, but like, he's clearly joking.

[fatedroses]

he really just yoinked the coolest title ever and has one of my favorite themes v-v

[bumblingbabooshka]

The Mentor-Mentee Situation on Voyager Harry & Janeway: If anyone on this ship gets hurt it's our sacred duty to kill every member of the group that did it and then ourselves. Kes & Tuvok: Some alien says that if we drink this potion we'll be legally dead for 24 hours before being revived. Don't you want to see if there's really an afterlife?

[starcurtain]

Just caught up with Natlan's archon quest and lord help me, I have a burning need to see Alhaitham and Ororon interact.

I truly feel that they would vibe perfectly. Not in a ship way, but like, in the way of Kaveh quietly wailing: "For archons' sake, he's brought another tacky thing into the house. Traveler, please do something; they've been staring eye to eye over the coffee table for like an hour now but haven't said a single word. I don't know what to do. Send help."

[necrotic-nephilim]

what's fun about shipping Tim with Dick, Jason, or Damian is he has, at some point, hallucinated all of them to comfort himself. even when he doesn't like them or particularly get along with them, he has to imagine/hallucinate them just so he has the power to go on. Tim's concepts of the Robin mantle and what it should be is so fun, because he respects the others through the Robin mantle. Tim worships Dick because he was the first Robin. he wouldn't be Robin if Jason hadn't died in the mantle. and a lot of his frustration with Damian is he feels Damian isn't honoring the mantle correctly. when you ship Tim with the other Robins you can't divorce their identities as Robin from it because Tim will always see them as a Robin first and that's so fun and fucked up. like.

batman (1940) #456

Tim perceiving Dick as *Robin* cheering him on, not Nightwing, which is the version of Dick that Tim actually knows? that's just. wild of him. he will always view Dick as Robin first, his personal hero but also the original of the legacy. his love for Dick is shaped by that.

and then of course, even when he's hallucinating/imagining Jason cheering him on, it's *still* through the lense of being reminded how Jason failed? subconsciously believing that Jason got himself killed because of his actions, and that being a lesson for Tim to learn from? Jason isn't a person to Tim, he's a moral lesson about how to be Robin. any potential idolization he could have of Jason isn't because he loves Jason, it's because of the lessons Jason's death taught him.

and then, even though him hallucinating TIm is from the New-52, which makes characterization all kinds of questionable, i do think it makes sense for TIm to hallucinate/imagine Damian after Damian's death in an attempt to cope with it.

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to an extend, he sees Damian's death as in part his own fault. and even hating Damian, Tim needs the comfort from this to cope with Damian being gone. he's angry that Damian even was Robin, and has to learn something from Damian's death and how it impacts the Robin mantle, and teenage heroes as a whole. like, Tim can pretend he hates Damian all he wants, even getting taunted by the image of Damian, but there's still an underlying love to their relationship.

i think that's just the fun of shipping Tim with any of them. you will never divorce Tim's views of them from the Robin mantle and how fucking Unwell he is about anyone else who's been Robin before or after him, to the point he has to hallucinate them comforting him when he's at his lowest. it's always going to be a little unhealthy, a little toxic, and driven by Tim's relationship with being Robin as well. i need more Tim being weird about Robin in these ships.

[critter-wizard]

ep 43 had me tearing up in a fucking shopping centre ‼️‼️

b+w alt version that I truly couldn't decide if I liked it more . Also I included a lot of thoughts in the tags but they're somewhat incoherent<3

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

The “I could see you as my new addiction, you can see me as a secret mission” to “you kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath” to “why’d you whisper in the dark just to leave me in the night” to “at least I had the decency to keep my nights out of sight” to “I loved you in secret” to “I don’t want to keep secrets just to keep you” to “playing hide and seek and giving me your weekends” to “that's the thing about illicit affairs and clandestine meetings and stolen stares, they show their truth one single time but they lie, and they lie, and they lie a million little times” pipeline 🙃

[kiyomitakada]

impromptu meta at 2 — oh wait 1 in the morning thank you daylight saving time

the thing about light yagami is that we all know he is repression incarnate. and we also know that kira was born out of his desperate need to justify sort-of-accidentally killing two people. and so therefore kira isn't what light's repressing, not at the outset; kira is an extension of his repression.

and the death note and his need to hide it very quickly takes over light's life. so it's easy to say that light is light yagami on the outside and kira on the inside, and maybe light feels that way. but. kira is just as much a persona as light yagami. a more hidden persona, but still not the real him, whoever that is.

and the thing is that no one sees past that. ever. most people obviously fall for the charming boy act, but even the detectives — L, near, mello — god, even ryuk stops at part two. i think a lot about how L set up the mock execution because he thought that kira would have killed his own father if necessary. can you see light doing that? eighteen-year-old light yagami who said "if anything happens to you, dad — i'll see that kira gets the death penalty. i swear it."? remember when ryuk laughs at how good an actor he is afterwards and light doesn't look at him?

light never thinks kira is evil. even in yotsuba arc he acknowledges that they think very similarly, just that kira has gone too far. (ha, ha.) for all of death note light yagami is light yagami, who says if kira wins then kira is good, who has convinced himself he is doing the right thing. he gets frustrated when other people don't perceive him the same way — lind l tailor, misa killing police chiefs while pretending to be kira — but the anger has nowhere to go other than murdering more people.

light yagami is kira is light yagami. but L, ryuk, everyone doesn't manage to see through kira in the end.

and after L dies, well. no one will ever measure up to L, in light's eyes. he almost idolizes him in the weirdest way possible. so maybe, he thinks, if the only person in the world who could ever possibly see all of him (this isn't true, it's just what light believes) thought he was just a murderer, then maybe —

i think he hollows himself out in the second arc. in the anime he seriously considers killing sayu; in the manga he never does that but justifies his unwillingness to himself by saying that this way soichiro and light won't come under suspicion (they weren't going to in the first place). light doesn't really have a sense of self. L said he was evil and of course L is wrong — was wrong — will always be wrong — but isn't it easy to play into that stereotypically evil image of himself? especially after soichiro, his last moral compass, dies: isn't it easy to nullify misa's memories, to say she's not intelligent enough to be my partner, to kill kiyomi in the most painful way possible?

("light would have done the same things in the first arc!" sure. but not with that much callousness.)

it's just. it's tragic, you know? light has always pretended to be nicer than he is but he isn't the cold any-means-necessary person they thought kira was either. he is constantly playing someone he thinks he is but he can never escape being light, in the end.

does this make any sense do i sound insane

[blackhholes]

teen wolf meme: [3/5] motifs -> resurrection

It's different now. I think dying did something to him. It did something to me, too. But none of it was good.

[evilkitten3]

I don't understand why Uchiha clan believed that Madara stole his brothers eyes and killed him... Haven't they saw that Izuna was mortally wounded by Tobirama?

they saw izuna badly wounded by tobirama, yes (well, the ones there that day did), but it's quite likely they weren't actually there when he died. we don't even know what exactly killed him - infection, blood loss, organ failure... no clue. most likely, only a handful of people were actually there when he passed, if anyone, and we'll probably never know.

the main reason for how this rumor started isn't ever stated, but it's certainly implied: madara's communication skills are dogshit. he doesn't trust people, he's distant and uncommunicative. he's also a bit of a quitter, socially. he doesn't believe in telling people things or sharing his side of the story bc as far as he's concerned they've all already made up their minds and it's pointless to try and change them, which leads to the gap between himself and his clan widening, which leads to him closing off, etc etc the cycle continues.

long post w/e a couple images below

according to hashirama, by the time izuna died, the war was pretty clearly going in the senju's favor. it's difficult to say how much of that can be blamed on who/what, but imo it's in large part due to the senju suddenly having a walking forest deity on their side. but from the uchiha's perspective, the on-and-off clan war that had been more or less even for however many years it had been going on was suddenly looking more and more unbalanced.

moreover, it's likely the uchiha's financial situation was starting to worsen as well. when we first meet tajima and izuna, both of them are wearing armor

but by the time hashirama and madara become heads of their clans, only izuna is

(couldn't find the manga version but i own the volume and this is more or less accurate)

it makes sense for tajima to prioritize himself and his sons, not even as a father but as a pragmatic clan head who knows one of them will succeed him. even madara (still can't find the image so i just took a picture with my phone, sorry for the poor quality)

you can't really tell in the first one but by the second it's pretty obvious - madara wore armor on the battlefield until he became clan head.

as i said, it made sense for tajima to armor selectively from a pragmatic standpoint, but it makes sense for madara as a character to forgo armoring himself at all, both bc he's deeply arrogant (and correctly so - the only person who really poses a threat to him is hashirama, and armor is only gonna help so much there) and bc i think he's the sort of person who wouldn't use a resource for himself and not his clan, especially if he didn't really think he needed it. that last bit is just my best guess, though.

so anyway i imagine the tide of the war turning combined with a worsening financial situation (each likely not helped by the other) had already primed the uchiha to view madara as a bad leader, regardless of how much of that was his fault.

so, here's what we know happened immediately pre-ceasefire:

-izuna is grievously injured -madara retreats from battle with izuna; several uchiha surrender to the senju -izuna dies and madara takes his eyes (unclear what order this happened in) -madara shows up to fight hashirama (+co but he doesn't care about them lol) by himself (note: it's possible that in the anime he brought other people with him, but in the manga madara is the only uchiha we see present during the pre-founding fight) -madara and hashirama agree to end the war

we don't know how madara broke this to the uchiha clan, we don't know how much they know of what actually happened. here's what the uchiha clan knows happened immediately pre-ceasefire:

-lord izuna is grievously injured -lord madara retreats from the battle, which likely means they lose, and several uchiha desert to the senju -lord madara, whose only (as far as we the readers know) heir has just died, fucks off to go fight the senju (presumably he at least told them he was going to go do this. i hope) -lord madara comes back and tells them the war is over and they're going to be building a village to share with the senju (or something along those lines) -at some point during all of this, lord madara ended up with lord izuna's eyes

whatever else they learned about the situation, madara would have had to tell them himself (with his words, in a conversation with other humans) or they would've had to find out from someone else who was there - i.e., someone from the senju clan. here's what the senju clan knows happened pre-ceasefire:

-lord tobirama wounds uchiha izuna -the uchiha retreat and several of them defect -uchiha madara shows up, briefly has a yell-off with lord hashirama (uchiha madara says uchiha izuna is dead but left him "power to protect the uchiha", lord hashirama mentions a peace agreement, uchiha madara says "fuck you fight me"), and then fights until he literally can't move anymore -lord tobirama attempts to kill uchiha madara, which would effectively end the war for good, and is stopped by lord hashirama pretty aggressively -lord hashirama tries to reason with uchiha madara again but gets told "if u want me to trust u kill urself" to which he says "ok bet", orders the clan not to continue fighting the uchiha after he's gone, and makes to stab himself in the stomach, which would effectively end the war for good in favor of the uchiha, who had basically already lost -uchiha madara stops him from killing himself and agrees to the truce, meaning the uchiha have in all but name lost and conceded the war to the senju

we don't know how much of the two clans are aware of hashirama and madara's childhood friendship, but it was probably impossible to hide that something had happened. hashirama is naturally charismatic, so he could probably win back his clan's trust pretty easily, but madara.... not so much.

so if your clan head with a history of not-so-reliable(-seeming) behavior abandoned the clan to go fight his ex-friend right after his brother and heir died, having taken his eyeballs, and then came back announcing a truce with your age-old enemy, and then you found out from the grapevine some version of "madara could have won the whole war if he'd just let hashirama harakiri himself but actively chose to stop him".... what would you think?

don't ask yourself "why would the uchiha think madara killed izuna and stole his eyes", ask yourself this instead: why wouldn't they think he did that?

[hammerhead-jpg]

I know I already posted this drawing once before but it bothered my SOUL because imo the rendering is so nice like I cooked so hard w it but their faces looked so fucking weird to me and I just needed to fix it up a little (also my Will design changed a bit)

Og under the cut....(Jumpscare warning)⬇️

I can't describe the relief I feel now that I can appreciate the top tier rendering that I did without feeling horror at looking like their faces

Like Nico WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?? he is directly behind you idc how far you turn your eyeballs you are not going to be able to see him!!!

[shithowdy]

While your comment on non-US artists’ prices are valid it also shows your US-centrism………………. Not all people can pay in USD. In my country it’s somewhat similar that 20 is worth a 100, so this thinking is cutting out a majority of the customers who don’t earn in USD. Why are you Americans so stupid hahahah

I had a feeling someone would come at me with this when I made that post, but if you are going to be advertising your prices in USD and in english on social media sites that are by default already very western-centric communities (twitter, reddit, tumblr), you are going to and most certainly intend to attract largely American and western european customers. If that is the currency you are using to advertise yourself in a freelance position where you have the opportunity to set your own labor value, then you are literally selling yourself short. Would you rather do a single drawing for 100 USD, or burn yourself out over five drawings for 20USD? The monetary outcome is the same, but in the first, your time is more respected.

Art is a luxury and a skill, not a basic life necessity like food that must be openly available to all who need it. You don't need a "majority" of customers paying you minimum wage if you have a small handful of customers paying you much greater sums.

The onus is not just on the artist to change this, though. US customers also need to stop taking advantage of international artists and pay them the same they would pay a local artist, and if they see someone setting prices like that, there had better be a meaty tip attached.

[chronically-chaotic-cryptid]

turns out Danny Healy-Rae was the one force strong enough to unite the left and right in Irish politics

[aroaceleovaldez]

do. you consider the graphic novels to be canon (in some way)? and if so, what do you make of sadie and carter wearing the chb and cj t-shirts respectively at the end of tot i think

I consider the graphic novels to be their own individual canon - they're an adaptation of the source material and follow a different series of events than book canon, so they're in the same category as like the movies, show, or musical to me (and DS game, lmao). They exist completely separate from the canon they're adapting from, so they're their own entities.

The material I consider strictly "canon" is the first series, so Percy Jackson And The Olympians only. Then HoO and TOA as extraneous canon on top of that - sort of a like "recommended but optional." TKC and MCGA also kind of operate as their own canons within themselves but can be linked to main PJO canon, so similar category. Published companion novels and similar material (so like Singer of Apollo) are also optional add-ons.

Stuff like Un Natale Mezzosangue and Nachos After The War where they weren't ever formally published are non-canon official material to me, kind of in the same vein as promotional material released alongside the books (the activity guides and such). The official art exists in the same sphere to me. I also personally consider CHB: Austin's lore to be semi-canon or non-canon official material, because they're actually affiliated with Rick Riordan (he has directly interacted with the camp's activities in the past) and I think it's just kind of cute.

The ReadRiordan articles are just straight up strictly non-canon. They just are. That is just an objective fact about them. I am slightly more lenient towards some of the old official Riordan website's media, like the interactive Argo II map descriptions, just since those descriptions were one-and-done and presumably had to have been approved versus a ton of articles with different anonymous unaffiliated authors. It's at best in the same category as the non-canon official promotional material.

As for Sadie and Carter wearing camp t-shirts - it's a cute cameo! And also kind of interesting in that they're technically one of first official published depictions we have of the camp shirts with any kind of details on them (the old official art doesn't count actually cause that was also bonus material).

[fernhelm]

people who are afraid of fem sirius are the weakest links in this fandom