#its a neverending cycle

[ho3sferatu]

I always have such a hard time motivating myself to play TS2... but when I load up the game I always end up having a great time lol

[matcha-x-matcha]

anytime my friend and I plan to go out together (which is like once or twice every month or two because both of us are homebody introverts) I always get them a gift and never tell them until I get in the car like "bitch I got u something" and every time they're like "Bitch how"

i always manage to have a gift no matter when we hang out, even if its on a whim and every time I baffle them with a strangely personal gift because my love language is gift giving and everytime they forget this and are surprised when I give them a gift and I personally think that's the funniest dynamic

[crows-murder]

to me fullmetal alchemist is just about cycles.

hohenheim, 400 years ago, created the first homunculus trying to bring back his dead son. izumi curtis tried to bring back her own child. ed and al followed both their father and their mentor's footsteps and tried to bring back their mother. time and time again, it is always about love and grief, and you can never learn, because you can never stop loving. you can never stop fully giving yourself to someone and being willing to do anything to bring them back. maybe ed and al didn't know their mother would have lost something important, being brought back to life after death, but izumi and hohenheim must have, in the back of their minds, known, lost as they were to grief and uncaring for the consequences.

this show, to me, is a tragedy because it is driven by love. love turned to grief led ed and al to try and bring back a version of their mother. ed's unwavering love for al leads him across the country, leads him to doing whatever it takes to bring his brother's body back. love drives al to the same goal. this is the price we pay to love, and fma makes sure we know this, over and over. grief is the price of love. playing god, thinking you could outsmart unmovable forces, is the price we pay to love, to grieve love lost. after all, what made orpheus walk for days in the underworld only to turn back when he was within the sun's reach to make sure his lover was still there? what made him turn back, if not love? what made them all sacrifice everything, every painful part of them they had to give, simply to be able to hold the person they love again?

[fraternum-momentum]

i am once again in that period where nothing i draw is coming out the way i want it 2 b

[themanwhomadeamonster]

me when the video game confronts you with the despairing indifference of the universe and its temptation of nihilism and that you know this story will end with your tragedy no matter what because it's happened over and over so many lifetimes and universes without fail but because of your connections to your world and its inhabitants, you still need to look after one another and try despite because you are not in this alone

[captainspaulding]

i wanna make a maniacs moodboard to go with my others but theres literally 5 people in existence who have seen that movie

[trick-of-the-troubles]

me when my symptoms make it difficult to eat:

me when my symptoms are worse because of not eating:

me when my symptoms continue to make it difficult to eat:

etc. etc.

[wolfbabedeluxe]

me, idiot (knows scientifically and through personal history that this will not work): what if I stayed up all day to fix my sleep schedule? 🤔

[sneakystorms]

Maybe I should've seen it coming with the weight placed on the concept of "desire" but i really wasn't expecting dungeon meshi to turn into a full on buddhist lecture

[verflares]

they should do another link "good morning kings let's push this boulder" adventure game ala majora's mask and link's awakening tbh. been a while since we've had one

[witchsabre]

I think the lords of fortune (though I haven't actually met them yet, so just guessing-) would've been a much better fit for Faust's indiana jones vibe going on. that being said , itsense for them to have tried and failed with the Veil Jumpers just because it was NOT a good fit. they're a little too much of a reckless adrenaline junkie to be working with artifacts in that kind of academic setting and never quite fit in. so me maybe choosing the wrong bg kinda works perfects with the side of fausts character that can't really find themselves a fitting home

[woodfrogs]

i need to go back to classes i need it to be winter. i need to be doing my masters

[rewritingcanon]

me: i wish i had more friends

me when i meet someone new: i dont like this person

[p2ii]

this is all my brain is good for anymore

[elegyofthemoon]

Sorry, but I saw your comment about how Gepard is in that piece like Serval's shield, and I guess you mean in general how that's the role he has as the captain of the Silvermane guards and how that's the role he tried to get to get "even" with Serval due to childhood, but also... The fact that at the same time Serval is still literally his shield? That always makes me soooo ajfkabfksndjd when it comes to them and their dynamic.

DONT MAKE ME THINK ABOUT THIS IM TRYING TO COOL OFF LMAO

[mitahanvittua]

u know im like 99% sure i have ocd? my old psychologist made some tests for me but also told me that i probably wouldnt be diagnosed since i dont have any compulsions (which ive now realized isnt actually true!! rumination is a compulsion!!!) and since my symptoms kinda fluctuate and i do have like long (like actually long periods when i feel like 96% alright (-> when im ok i will have intrusive thoughts but the anxiety isnt as high and im able to stop the ruminating before it even properly begins) idk if it actually counts as OCD or if im just an anxious person with some ocd-like symptoms