#it's really hard to explain sometimes

[craftboxsys]

"corporate claims" is really loose btw, cogs were more like walking talking advertisements for industries in the human parts of the world or uh, outside of toontown.

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Aroace Sonic pt 14

If you know you know

[seventh-district]

Figured I'd try my hand at some Redacted character post/text edits!

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Credit to @/sainthowlzon for all the Listener icons, and to @/elisacaleisa for their google drive with all the canon icons!

(slightly alternative version of the Solaires' GC edit below the cut bc i had a lil too much fun with what Vincent would name his contacts)

[nyaacatboy]

i'm having thoughts about amatonormativity and why it sucks and they're long-winded and hard to properly express bc it's late at night but i wanted to share them so i summarized them with a meme

this realization brought to you by the realization that a lot of people who say acephobic shit without actively denying asexuality exists just mentally swapped "virgin" for "asexual" and carried on with their lives. this best evidenced by people being "accepting" of asexual women but ignoring/erasing asexual men.

[dissociativewriter]

this might be a bit spoiler-y for what i haven’t released but,

i just wanted to clear something up in unnatural affinity because i saw a comment under part 11 on ao3 where someone was talking about how they don’t understand why authors have reader do the isekai confession because its not realistic for a person to immediately believe that the world is fake so i just want to explain,

i never said the world was fake.

xavier believes it and so does reader. they both struggle with derealization/dissociation and being in the present, so the thing they are going to notice with reader’s odd origin story (for lack of a better term) is the fact that the world was created in a sort of unnatural manner (since reader explains its origin as a game). however, we see xavier say that his experiences were real to him and that’s enough. that is a sort of progression for him in a short amount of time that could come back in the story.

im keeping the rest of this somewhat vague since its not released; rafayel is going to react differently because he has different struggles and beliefs than xavier and reader. he struggles with feeling wanted/needed and being someone’s priority. his focus is going to be on the fact that there are other men that em is (sort of) romancing. zayne is a bit more complicated. he’s not unusual in not having himself as the priority, but his almost want for self-sacrifice does set him apart. he’s really going to focus on how this affects reader and em, instead of what this means for him. sylus was sort of similar in this manner, although he understands things the way reader explains them, whereas zayne looks at it almost clinically and separates what he think is emotion and what he thinks is fact.

caleb is going to fit in completely differently just because his involvement in reader’s… strained relationship with em is going to change how they interact from here on out.

i just wanted to clear up that i’m not confirming or denying quite yet if the world is fake. the beliefs right now simply revolve around the characters’ beliefs and ideologies. it also depends on how reader explains things and how well the love interests and figure out what is actually true vs what reader believes due to their own struggles and insecurities. reader has very complex emotions throughout the story that affect any actions taken, and that definitely affects how the isekai event is explained.

this is kind of messy but i realized this might not be completely clear as i write unnatural affinity. i’ve done this with a few comments just because i realized i explain a lot in comments that doesn’t necessarily come up (like em’s characterization reflecting who she’s around).

anyways im working through requests right now so it might be a couple more days until part 12, not sure yet. let me know what y’all want to happen with each love interest, or what should come next (ill also answer any questions y’all might have since i know im not the clearest lol) i like seeing y’all’s thoughts :)

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[coelacanthropology]

i love having a non traditional family dynamic and extended family im not actually related to because it’s great but also because the other day my friend complimented my pencil case (it was originally meant as a makeup bag but i don’t wear makeup so i use it as a pencil case) and i genuinely got to say ‘thanks, my mom’s ex boyfriend’s ex mother in law made it for me’

[flamemons]

i think neither takuya nor kouji are very book smart. or have attention spans.

inspired by this text post

[clumsypuppy]

whenever someone asks me for help or advice i want to beam all my lived experience and advice that helped me through it directly into their mind to try and spare them as much pain and stress as possible, but because i cant actually do that what ends up happening is i dump everything i know related to that topic hoping something helps them like

[deservedgrace]

it is so frustrating to me when people only learn to be empathetic or care about something when it personally happens to them or someone they care about

and like, yes, obviously i'm glad when people learn better and do better, and i don't want to shame people that are now doing better because ultimately it's not helpful and changing at all is a good thing and i do want to acknowledge and celebrate that

but also why did it take you needing an abortion and almost dying to become pro-choice and advocate for abortion access? why could you only see the humanity in queer people when your brother came out? why do you only view racism as a real issue now that you're friends with a person of color?

why do things have to personally impact you for you to give a shit?

[plushie-lovey]

FINALLY!! At long last, I've gotten my hands on a Pumpkin Kitty, after a whole year of wanting and waiting.

Her name is Latte! (Short for Miss Pumpkin Spice Latte) You can also call her Miss Spice!

[billdenbrough]

kevaaronmas

on the sixteenth of december, there was: watching as it snows outside

happy sixteenth day of kevaaronmas / aftg advent (thank u as ever, @allforthegamebingo!!) to all who celebrate! this one's a little odd, but it's set in a Specific Universe which sorta mandated a specific kinda tone lmao (idk if anyone will be happy abt it LOL but also bonus points if u can guess). tomorrow we will return to our regularly scheduled programming LOL

[twobrokenwyngs]

although the universe has not been kind to me this year, my god, my friends sure have. I am so goddamn grateful for the extended community I’ve built for myself over the years. makes me feel like the most fortunate person alive even when everything else is completely falling apart

[king-lena]

i hope this makes sense bc i truly mean this in the most respectful and level headed way, but the heaviness of emotional intimacy in the instances david takes on the role of roger’s mother on ‘the wall’ makes me so fucking emotional. like the lyrics are so incredibly vulnerable and heartbreaking. and of course they are based around roger’s own personal expierences and roger trusted david enough to actually have him sing these lyrics and really help bring them to life. he trusted david enough to actually speak those words out loud to roger as his mother and to hear david singing about her baby which is obviously roger. wow i just can’t imagine how emotional it was to hear, like especially for the first time……. 🥺😔

[jinnies-lamps]

no matter how many times I learn grammar or get better at it, there will always be some things I do not understand in English and it is okay.

[fruityfroggy]

I have no clue how it took me this long to realize that Medicine Pocket’s banner is called “Level Seven Biter”

And you know what? I’ve never really thought about it until now, but yeah,

They would bite people

That is all.

[amidnightqueery]

I don't hate my job or anything, but man, being a float educator is so fucking thankless