#my brain no longer functions

[sugarcoatednightshade]

thinking about how Humans Are Space Orcs stories always talk about how indestructible humans are, our endurance, our ability to withstand common poisons, etc. and thats all well and good, its really fun to read, but it gets repetitive after a while because we aren't all like that.

And that got me thinking about why this trope is so common in the first place, and the conclusion I came to is actually kind of obvious if you think about it. Not everyone is allowed to go into space. This is true now, with the number of physical restrictions placed on astronauts (including height limits), but I imagine it's just as strict in some imaginary future where humans are first coming into contact with alien species. Because in that case there will definitely be military personnel alongside any possible diplomatic parties.

And I imagine that all interactions aliens have ever had up until this point have been with trained personnel. Even basic military troops conform to this standard, to some degree. So aliens meet us and they're shocked and horrified to discover that we have no obvious weaknesses, we're all either crazy smart or crazy strong (still always a little crazy, academia and war will do that to you), and not only that but we like, literally all the same height so there's no way to tell any of us apart.

And Humans Are Death Worlders stories spread throughout the galaxy. Years or decades or centuries of interspecies suspicion and hostilities preventing any alien from setting foot/claw/limb/appendage/etc. on Earth until slowly more beings are allowed to come through. And not just diplomats who keep to government buildings, but tourists. Exchange students. Temporary visitors granted permission to go wherever they please, so they go out in search of 'real terran culture' and what do they find?

Humans with innate heart defects that prevent them from drinking caffeine. Humans with chronic pain and chronic fatigue who lack the boundless endurance humans are supposedly famous for. Humans too tall or too short or too fat to be allowed into space. Humans who are so scared of the world they need to take pills just to function. Humans with IBS who can't stand spicy foods, capsaicin really is poison to them. Lactose intolerance and celiac disease, my god all the autoimmune disorders out there, humans who struggle to function because their own bodies fight them. Humans who bruise easily and take too long to heal. Humans who sustained one too many concussions and now struggle to talk and read and write. Humans who've had strokes. Humans who were born unable to talk or hear or speak, and humans who through some accident lost that ability later.

Aliens visit Earth, and do you know what they find? Humanity, in all its wholeness.

[xwilltruman]

ok i want your input here. what am i missing

garcia, santos - lesbian

robby, shen, walsh(?) - bi

whitaker - bi?? but like repressed abt it?? don’t worry trinity is working on it

abbot - straight (don’t ask him about the three men he has been attracted to or the one he fell in love with)

(nurses - jesse is gay, idk abt the rest)

garcia santos and ellis lesbianism cult and i think the nightshift nurse in charge (bridget) gives off wlw vibes as well never mind if she’s aware of it or not

walsh just slutty fr

robby and shen bi though i have some Thoughts™ on shen’s biness that we don’t have time to get into (ive written a full draft about it)

whitaker lowkey a virgin so santos will have him trying anything and everything, come the exciting part of experimenting with ur sexuality

abbot is gay don’t ask don’t tell boykisser im sorry. like idc what shawn hatosy has to say about it that man is off the rocker anyway. abbot is a widower sure but it is his husband that died

jesse may as well be gay i would for sure do him but i fear he could also be one of those het guys just very comfortable in his sexuality which makes him sexier and gayer presenting automatically

mateo pan (and fuck boy) donnie straight, dana is straight as much as ive seen some lesbians wishing otherwise. collins as straight as taylor swift.

princess and perlah lowkey give off straight girls allies that will fuck up any homophobe who dares to look at you wrong (+they’re icons at the local gay club) they might’ve kissed once when drunk but they weren’t into it

langdon is bi but might not know it yet

mel bless her heart heterosexual

samira javadi uh straight. i wish they werent but they are. mccay too as a punishment from god. samira would make a great lesbian tbh so she’s missing out

kim tate devastatingly straight and down bad for virgin boy ratkiller whitaker

kiara tbh she deserves to have a loving wife at home and a kid or two

i think that’s all but if i missed someone let me know

[aroaceleovaldez]

actually one of the details that frustrates me the most from TSATS, relating to how much the book completely erases or absolutely bastardizes neurodivergence, is how Percy's cameo is characterized.

One of the consistent things aspects of Percy's relationship with the education system throughout the series is that Percy is smart, and he does try in school, but he has a learning disability. The only reason he gets bad grades is because he has a learning disability and the way the modern american education system is built is inherently at odds with that. In the first series we actually have explicit references to Percy doing better in school when he's in environments that actually accommodate for his disabilities! It's not that he's not trying, he's disabled.

So it is so disheartening and horrible to see Percy characterized in TSATS as just being disinterested in school, and his failing grades being made a joke about implying him ditching classes because he just doesn't care. That's the number one ableist thing ADHD/dyslexic students hear! Implying that they "just don't care" and dismissing their disabilities. It is so horrible to see that joke being made in the Percy Jackson series of all franchises. Especially when you add that on to the rest of the quite frankly ableist characterizations in TSATS and how much the book erases Nico and Will's disabilities/neurodivergence.

[axewchao]

For folks who didn't get my hint from the ask, the show I've been thinking about is Final Space! God I miss that show... :'D

I wouldn't be surprised if Ventrexian OCs were kinda overdone by now, but fuck it, space cat warriors sound awesome. So here's Meowcchiato and his little sister Purrfait, the Clawmore siblings.

They're on their own as a result of the war Ventrexians had with the Tryvuulians. Meowcchiato tries his best to avoid getting into too much trouble, but when you're a member of a race of intergalactic warriors, plenty of people are gonna come after you for a variety of reasons.

Meowcchiato already lost his parents, he's not about to lose his baby sister. Good thing he's got over 300 years of combat experience under his belt.

Purrfait hasn't made a sound since the loss of her parents when she was three, and has just turned eight by the time Final Space begins. While she's about as curious as most kids her age would be, the past five years have kept her from indulging in anything beyond what's safe to eat and what isn't. After meeting the Team Squad, however, she shows intrigue in mechanical work.

Emphasis on intrigue. Nobody's letting an eight-year-old touch power tools.

[idl3dr3ams]

I've come to realize that my increased paranoia about being watched is probably coming from the sleep deprivation I am 100% experiencing (it is entirely my own fault.)

hyperfixating on tma probably isn't helping

hyperfixating on The Ceaseless Watcher definitely isn't

but the main factor here is definitely the fact I keep staying up till 5 in the morning trying to make my brain function well enough to sustain a rp

I need to not do that (but I don't want to stop doing it)

[ratcandy]

holding the game over you like a tasty carrot. i will literally purchase the game for you if you do intend to play it!

revealing the game will totally reveal who this anon is but ANYWAY it's a cute halloween themed rpg game called horrorvale where you try to get your kidnapped dog back

also theres bugs. one of the main characters is literally a spider. it's really good, made me cry, made me laugh, and the plot... omg near the end it pulls the rug out so many times

again, i will literally buy the game for you, it's only $15 and im getting a new job eventually. you dont have to stream it or liveblog it either i just want someone to be as insane about it as i am

it took me about 40 hours to finish it but i also did a lot of sidequests. playing just the game probably isnt that long, but the sidequests are fun!

this Does reveal to me who u are LMAO (i've seen ur postings... hehe)

but Waagh!!! You don't need to buy anything for me don't you dare !!! I will think on it and I will Sees... I do like rpgs so it is possible I would enjoy it too ... Once I am no longer brainrotted . I will get back to you .I prommy. Remind me in 2-3 business months

[capricioussun]

okay well now I just can't work on anything. ? Idk what's going on in my head but this is extraordinarily frustrating

[star--nymph]

Eurydice has to leave her children in Skyhold for their own safety after their home is blighted. She is on her knees trying to reason with her oldest children, Psyche and Farron, because they are 11 and 10, respectively, and they're so old now.

Psyche has been training with her wooden sword; Papae said before this that someday soon, she might get to wield a real one.

Farron has been studying magic with the Keeper and his mentor, Kieran! He knows how to cast a fire with his hands now!

They can help! They can go with her!

And Eurydice has to hold them and beg them to listen, to understand. "No, stay children as long as you can. Play with your siblings, listen to your aunts and uncles, eat and sleep. Dream of good things. If you must do anything for me, do that."

Eurydice couldn't save them from seeing the terror of the world this young, but she won't steal their youth from them. She won't have them grow up too soon, not now, not when they can be protected. Farron tries to understand, but he's always been the more sensitive of his children. He weeps against her but stops asking her to take him.

Psyche refuses to understand. Her eldest child who tries to play the hero. Perhaps it was her fault for letting her hear those old war stories. She thinks of herself as braver and bigger than she is. She resents her with tears in her eyes; why should she stay a child? Why can't she fight? Eurydice can only kiss her forehead and tell her one day she will understand. One day she will treasure the childhood she had, even among the wreckage of a blight.

Cullen watched this happen and turned away, covering his face so she couldn't see him overwhelmed by his tears.

The other children are hard but easier. Bridget is only five, she is only aware of so much. That her mother is leaving and one of her fathers will be following after her in a few weeks. But she is safe and in a fairytale castle with pretty dresses and big gardens to play in. It will distract her long enough. Eurydice cradles her in her arms and tells her to be good for Papae and Babae (Bull and the Chargers have been "contracted" as bodyguards for the children, but Bull needed little excuse to stay with his child or the rest that he has all but adopted as an uncle to). Bridget cries because that is what she must do, but it is better she does so now over the temporary separation than a real one. Maybe one day, the heartache won't even be a memory.

Lir clings to Cullen's leg and refuses to look at her. Cullen had told her that a few days prior, he had watched him put on his old armor and burst into tears. The sheer notion of both of them going back to war had shaken the headstrong, wily eight-year-old enough to grab his father's hand (the father he loved to annoy and prank and laugh at) and beg him not to die. Now, he can only look to the ground when Eurydice comes to him and touches his golden curls. Asks him to be kind to his father and the rest of Skyhold, at least until she comes back. She whispers into his hair as she holds him that he's good at making others smile. When she lets go, he runs back to Cullen's leg and hides his face into his side. He doesn't want her to see his tears.

Finally, she finds Zander on his own. Remote and cautious. He had already seen how cruel the world was before Lir and her found him starving and huddled in a charred ruin. It doesn't shake him like others when she announce she'd be leaving; some small part of him still didn't trust her or Cullen not abandon him. Or maybe it's the world he doesn't trust not to take them away and leave him alone once more. Either way, when she comes to him, he doesn't cry or bargain with her. He looks at her with his sea-foam eyes and simple acceptance, and this is what needs to happen. He nods somberly when she asks him if he remembers what she said two years ago when she brought him home. "That we would make the world safe for you."

That's what she must do now. He will be safe in this place with his family, and when she is done, he will be safe when he leaves these castle walls. Trust her to do that.

Zander doesn't say if he will, but he holds her a little tighter than the rest before she gets up and goes. His scent lingers on her the longest--for some reason, he always smells like the sea to her. When she's in Minrathous, and overlooks the water, she will remember his eyes, and her heart will ache.

[hatkuu]

so like if you have a baby bailey tries to take them to the orphanage no matter what right? what do you think kylar is gonna do. how will he react when you have his baby and bailey tries to take it

screeches at the top of his lungs if he's there to see it. you know this man is holding your hand while you give birth (he definitely cries with you, does not look at the doctor when they're speaking to him, he's waaaayy too focused on you because this might just be the most important thing that has ever happened in his life.) so when that cranky old asshole snatches your baby from you he's fighting like a rabid dog—gets even worse if you try to soothe him or assure him that bailey means well—your precious baby shouldn't be tainted by the hands of that asshole!

idk. i really hope vrel can let the baby stay in kylar's manor like with alex on the farm. like. surely kylar's parents would love their first grandchild... lotta potential for an event where pc catches one of kylar's parents looming over the side of the manger cooing at their grandchild. like. CMON!!!! make the monster parents loveable pls. i want them to like me :( pls guys i literally want to marry your son :( pls like me even a little bit

but yeah. kylar would be furious. idk if he'd pull a knife in a hospital though, probably didn't bring it with him because even though he knows the doctor is just doing their job he does get a little jealous at their position between your thighs... yeah. he's THAT cringe.

[pollen]

i've been diving a lot deeper into adhd symptoms and comorbidities and misdiagnoses and whenever i tell my boyfriend something i learned that sounds like me he responds with something like

[mosskissed]

the cold i was fighting off the other day has finally struck TnT;

[krisispiss]

PROS OF HAVING HAD THIS BLOG FOR NEARLY 10 YEARS: a LOT of my artistic history is here, a LOT of Kris's history is here, as well as my other characters and their lore, and its easy for me to go look at how far I've come since I started drawing furries back in 2014

CONS: holy FUCK there are some DARK AND PAINFUL things on this blog that I wish I could get rid of and forget for good, but there is no way to do that or even find said things half the time and I am helpless but to watch and wait until I get jump scared by a notif on something and can go delete it

[jaime-in-chaos]

been having a brain funk recently :/

[liu-anhuaming]

okay fellas, i made it through the winter alive. now i just gotta get through the rest of the year

[lunaetis]

[ wish me luck in attempting to finish the birthday asks i got for eden bc it's been more than a month & eden is about to claw my eyes out. ]

[domjaehyun]

jisung is so… fascinating. i’m looking closely 👀