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Shane you live next door to a wizard.

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SO WHAT IF YOU CAN SEE THE DARKEST SIDE OF ME?! >:3

Music: Three days Grace - Animal I have become + Neco Arc cover

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been playin a lot of stardew valley lately so drew some of my fav hermits in stardew vibes with one of the default procreate palettes :]

(full disclosure: the background is (poorly) traced from the stardew valley intro screen art lol)

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I’m sorry

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TAKE A FUCKING GUESS HARVEY

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Welcome, friend. Would you like to send them on? It would be my pleasure.

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It also makes it harder to talk about the mental illness.

Like, I am pretty sure my aunt is a narcissist. She legitimately seems to have difficulty with not thinking about things in terms of how they affect her. But any time I bring this up, I feel like I have to clarify, "I mean as a mental illness, not as an insult."

My aunt, as far as I know, is not abusive. She's done some shitty things like stealing from my dad, but she's not abusive. Ironically, I think her narcissism comes from abuse - while Dad never talked about his dad very much, the bits and pieces I've got from various sources make me think that the man had a drinking problem and was a very mean drunk. One story I heard from my mom is that apparently, when my aunt was a teenager, she got pregnant and Dad had to stand between his dad and her to protect her.

And like, if you think about it, that kind of scenario is what probably created my aunt's narcissism. Her brain probably went into a survival mode of focusing on herself to make sure she was okay, and she has trouble breaking out of it - especially because no one sees narcissism as a mental illness, but rather as a judgement of someone's character, so no one thinks to suggest therapy. (Even me - I'm not close enough to her, to start with, and secondly I don't think anyone would take "you're probably a narcissist" very well, even if you mean it as a mental illness. Even if I said "you seem to have trouble not centering your experiences around yourself," I don't think it would go over well.)

I think a big part of the stigma around actually diagnosing and treating someone who has narcissism is that we have this idea of it that's so entangled in being a judgement of character. It creates this area where there's this mental illness that people have but it can't be properly studied, diagnosed, or treated, because no one wants to talk about it like the mental illness it is.

Your parents are not "narcissists". They're typical authoritarian assholes who treat you like their property because society allows them to.

Your ex boyfriend is not a "narcissist". He's a typical misogynistic douchebag who treats women like shit because society allows him to.

Your boss is not a "narcissist". They're a typical classist dipshit who thinks workers' entire purpose in life is to generate profit because society allows them to.

And even if they happen to be a "narcissist", that's not what gave them the power to get away with abuse.

So stop blaming mental illness and start blaming society's normalization of abuse. Stop acting like someone has to have a mental illness in order to do something cruel when ordinary people have been doing atrocious things since forever.

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I think I can trace my intense hatred for the whole "regulations are just corporate bullshit, building codes are just The Man's way of keeping you down, we should return to pre-industrial barter and trade systems" nonsense back to when I first started doing electrical work at one of the largest hospitals in the country.

I have had to learn so much about all the special conditions in the National Electric Code for healthcare systems. All the systems that keep hospitals running, all the redundancies and backups that make sure one disaster or outage won't take out the hospital's life support, all the rules about different spaces within the hospital and the different standards that apply to each of them. And a lot of it is ridiculously over-engineered and overly redundant, but all of it is in the service of saving even one life from being lost to some wacky series of coincidences that could have been prevented with that redundancy.

I've done significantly less work in food production plants and the like, but I know they have similar standards to make sure the plants aren't going to explode or to make sure a careless maintenance tech isn't accidentally dropping screws into jars of baby food or whatever. And research labs have them to make sure some idiot doesn't leave a wrench inside a transformer and wreck a multi-million dollar machine when they try to switch it on.

Living in the self-sufficient commune is all fun and games until someone needs a kidney transplant and suddenly wants a clean, reliable hospital with doctors that are subject to some kind of overseeing body, is my point.

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When I was a kid, even though I was good at reading, I had my parents read the Star Wars scroll text to me. Under most circumstances, a kid won't read if audio or video is available.

Captions are for people who have trouble hearing, regardless of age. They should be accurate to the audio they're captioning. Otherwise they aren't fulfilling their purpose of giving a hard of hearing person an accurate account of what's said.

Captions shouldn't be censored. If the video says fuck or cum or cunt the captions should say the fucking word.

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For anyone who hasn't seen them before, Hidden Search Operators are handy tricks you can use when you're either searching or filtering AO3.

summary: string is a generic way of explaining that you can search AO3 for a specific word that appears in a summary. You can do this from the search bar in the header, from the Any Field box at the top of the Advanced Search form, or from the Search Within Results box at the bottom of the filter menu.

Examples:

summary: Bruce

summary: "Bruce Banner"

summary: Bruce OR summary: Banner OR summary: Hulk

You need to put quotation marks around your search term if it is more than one word. The quotes make sure that the site searches for those two words together.

The other two operators listed work best in the Search Within Results box.

expected_number_of_chapters: 1 will return results where every fic has only 1 chapter currently posted.

You can use expected_number_of_chapters: -1 if you want results where every fic has more than 1 chapter currently posted.

otp:true will return results where there is only 1 relationship tag on the fic. If you want results where there are 2+ relationship tags (and no fics with only 1 relationship tag) then you can use otp:false

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grian and scar hugging in real life 🫂❤️

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im not okay by the way,

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local dwarf sneaks past the extremely accurate height check where grian definitely isnt cheating