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I think what a lot of people fail to realize is that WE ARE the player we're not p.w nor a yellow Mannequin., but we are OURSELVES. WE are the employee thats why we are referred to as "they." The game doesn't know our gender.. Poppy playtime is basically just a self insert game.

I'm sorry I have to get this out bc it just bugs me

I will say this until proven wrong, but I am 99% sure we are the player

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i think the worst thing for the kids alongside getting experimented on and then losing their mobility, emotional and mental intelligence and then expected to just work, is that they aren't seen as alive by workers and scientists alike.

the cargo hold full of holding cells of children, literal children, crying for whoever they somehow remember, or even just nonsensical noises because they lost their ability to process any vocals, and the workers are just "fuck they've started up again, I thought we were going a have quiet one".

they are literally making them work for RATIONS. not even enough food, and if we are counting the fact the Doey is three children at different ages, thats not going to work if he has three times the appetite. not to mention they force those who are rightfully not able to do anything or just cant even process their lives now with the threat of starvation.

Riley even suffered from an obvious case of a phantom limb, she can still feel her fingers but she cant separate them, yet somehow she still had the ability to at least write which is likely the only thing that connected her to humanity still.

i cant imagine how many kids and adults had to live through confusion once waking up in a new body they didn't recognise, lifting a heavy head and focusing on a hand that's not theirs. being spoken to and about as a number or a name that's not theirs, not even looked as an equal but as a tool.

i can't imagine how it felt waking up and hearing two other boys echoing in your own head and not understanding where your doey toy is, or why you can hear your mummy calling for you but you can't speak to say you are there.

I can't imagine being stuck in the same place behind a glass case, something that was meant to keep you safe in conception but a prison in hindsight, unable to do anything but hearing everything. knowing what is happening but you cant do anything to stop it.

i can't imagine how you were placed on higher regard by someone high above who simply saw you as nothing but a pet, interfering with your abilities and slowly isolating you to the point this person was your world, the only thing that could give you any form of connection now, and then suddenly, he's not there any more. you can hear him calling for you, but you cant find him. you cant reach him. he is no longer in the same office you remember. his voice was still there but physically? you are alone.

these were children. they are still children.

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can I just autism at y'all incoherently for a bit. Aite.

I think Harley becomes a bit easier to understand as a character when viewed as a story of generational trauma. When analysing a monster, one has to ask "what could have prevented this?" In Harley's case, it was just... if he had not been so steadily drawn to one conclusion: that there was something fundamental that separated him from humanity.

What are people to someone who was never a person to anyone? He was kept half-alive only to use him, and even before he had done anything wrong, he was never a person to anyone - he existed in others' minds only as what he could supply to them.

The ARG note, "HE TOOK EVERYTHING. I THOUGHT YOU CARED." combined with his boss fight dialogue, "It was supposed to be mine! My recognition!" draws the connection that after sending a young Harley Sawyer away, Elliott took the research Harley had done with him and claimed credit for his discoveries.

Imagine for a moment that you have never been loved. Not by parents or peers or superiors. That they all showered you in praise of your objective talents, but wanted nothing to do with you in any other respect. At every turn, they attempted to find a way to divert your abilities toward their own goals. Others have always blabbered on about connection and harmony - concepts that simply do not exist to you, for you have never experienced them.

You thought you had experienced them. Once. You almost thought you'd found a father. Before he sent you away penniless and took all of your work as his own. Now you know it for certain: connection really isn't real, and everyone else is lying or faking. The only people who have ever pretended to care about you were lying. You may as well be the only person in the world, because you are completely alone on Earth.

Imagine that you believe that love and happiness are truly false lights. Pipe dreams. Would you be able to empathise, see yourself in your fellow man, see your fellow man as a person?

You don't know what it's like to be thought of as a person. So you haven't the slightest idea how one would go about thinking of others as people.

I still will not budge on the fact that Harley genuinely thought he was doing the right thing. But again, if morals are alien to you because you have never been exposed to them, then your 'right thing' looks deeply different to others'.

There are certain lessons that cannot be learned through just the acquisition of information. Harley was never taught any lessons that were not objective - empathy, morals, emotional control. As much as he could be familiar with ethics, he could not understand anything that can't be understood with logic.

All monsters grow from children.

He saw himself as their father. Their mentor. Their saviour. He made them just like him - the only human in the world.

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After seeing the chapter 4 of Poppy Playtime as well as the notes from the ARG, I want to talk about one thing I haven't really seen be talked about much: Harley Sawyer is a cautionary tale about not leaving troubled children behind. When Harley was accepted into the Young Geniuses Program, he was described as very driven and having an outstanding intellect. It's clear that science and experiments are his greatest passion, the main thing that brings him joy, and that he values progress above all else. However, he also displays some concerning qualities, mainly: - a lack of interest in forming friendships - not missing home - being serious all the time, to the point of rarely ever smiling and not caring about fun activities - being very prideful - not caring if the progress he achieves will be for the betterment of humanity

When Elliot tries to convince him, that all progress should be for the sake of helping others, Harley gets angry, stating that progress doesn't care how people feel about it. Despite this, Harley still looks up to Ludwig and seemingly views him as the only one that understands and cares about him. So what does Elliot do as the main role model to a brilliant child who shows potentially antisocial qualities and feels alone in the world?(Although we don't know how much he knew about the last part.) He evicts him from the program, telling him to make some friends and get a new perspective. Here we see, that for a person who cares so deeply about children, Ludwig sure as hell doesn't understand child psychology. Everybody knows, that when you anger a child and then tell them to do something, they aren't going to listen unless you make sure of they do. Additionally, Elliot talks about how "bouncing back from rejection and hardship through connection" was what helped him, but he totally ignores the fact that Harley doesn't understand the point of making friends and likely doesn't have any back home (or ones that he would miss anyway), and kicking him out of a prestigious program for bad behavior is sure to make it harder for him to form connections. Children can be cruel and Harley was almost bound to have been unpopular before due to his attitude, so this definitely wouldn't help. Besides, Harley's smart and was sure to have known that the program would have made it easier for him to get both a good education and a good job, being evicted however was sure to raise some eyebrows on interviews. All Ludwig did, was take Harley's dream situation away from him and crush all respect the boy had for him, leaving him bitter and resentful. My best guess for why he did this, is that he mistook Harley's intelligence and seriousness as emotional maturity, when in reality he was quite prone to anger and outbursts, leading him to completely miscalculate how he would react to his letter. It's rather obvious, that instead of giving up on Harley after he refused to change his motivation, Elliot should have stayed and guided him in a positive direction. Progress for the sake of progress isn't necessarily a bad thing, as long as it doesn't hurt anybody and that strong motivation of his could have been easily used to push him to be better. Ludwig could've taught him the value of respecting others and teamwork during scientific studies, with best results achieved thanks to different specialties, points of view and ideas cooperating. That proving that something can help humanity helps with garnering support and funding for research. That connections with others can help you during burnout, bad mental health, bad financial situations and even with becoming a better, more capable person. The Doctor we met in the fourth chapter likely could've been prevented, if Ludwig was willing to put in the effort to help Harley, when he was still young and impressionable. Of course I'm not saying that he's to blame for all the horrendous things Harley did later in life, by then he was an adult who knew better, but that this was one of his many failures which unintentionally led to a creation of a horrible cycle of violence we see all over Playtime Co. The lesson here, is that as a caretaker you can't just get rid of a child when they show signs of trouble and hope that they will magically turn out fine as an adult with just a few vague instructions. It's important to step up and be the positive influence they need in life, because it might just save others so much pain in the future.

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The real barbie is Y/n.

Y/n’s a doctor, a cop, a scientist, an agent, vet, hero, villain, astronaut, lawyer, spy, criminal, artist, chef, engineer, psychologist, architect, journalist, firefighter, event planner, mechanic, photographer, musician, actor, interior designer, bartender, fashion designer, barista, florist, forensic scientist, flight attendant, profiler, tour guide, translator, etc.

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I'm so confused about all the people that have been insulting targaryen!readers and ocs as "boring" lately.

You expect me to believe that a reader/oc that has a fucked up family and can ride a dragon is somehow uninteresting...? This is a big fandom. There's room for everyone to write what they want. There's no reason for some people to be so judgemental. Fic writers are providing us with free content about our favorite characters. They are taking time out of their day to write us stories. You aren't expected to like every fic. This entitlement in fandom is ridiculous. Fanfiction writers owe you nothing. If you don't like what they write then that's your problem not theirs.

Most of these characters have hundreds of fics written for them, there is no point in dwelling on the fics you don't like. The Aemond/ofc tag on ao3 has over 2000 fics, the Aemond/reader tag has over 1000 fics, but yet I'll still see people whining in the fanfiction tags on tumblr about how a writer dared to write a reader/oc or plot they personally didn't like. Again, you are reading free content, we don't need to hear your criticisms. Not liking a fic is not some crisis we need to urgently address. You can keep your thoughts to yourself and move on to something else. My rant is over. Be kind to fic writers. Life would be miserable without them.

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Syrax @ Vhagar “I TOLD MY MOM AND DAD ON YOU AND THEY SAID THEY’RE GONNA BEAT YOU UP. GUESS YOU AREN’T SO TOUGH NOW.”

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“Nothing left to lose without my baby. Birds of a feather, we should stick together”

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Cutting off a dragon’s head and parading it through the streets calling it a traitor and celebrating its death is like shouting “we aren’t Targaryens” into the biggest megaphone there’s ever been because that is the absolute stupidest, worst thing to do and the most disrespectful you could possibly be to your entire bloodline and family history

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Friendly reminder that with season two of House of the Dragon coming out in less than two weeks, DO NOT GET ON HERE ACTING A FOOL!

I better not see ANY hate towards ANY actor in that show. I repeat: DO NOT GET ON HERE ACTING A FOOL AND SENDING HATE TOWARDS THE ACTORS.

Actors are NOT their characters.

If you cannot differentiate between fiction and reality and separate the actor from the character that they play, then you have NO business consuming that piece of media because obviously you are not mature enough.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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What’s up? What’s going on? What’s happening? Is anyone else concerned that certain blogs are being sent death threats because they wrote for Aegon or any Team Green members and or Team Black members?

Are you that delusional? What’s happening? Is it serious to you that someone is writing about a fictional character? How detached from reality are yall really? I’m concerned, I’m confused and quite literally baffled.

Leave people alone. Let them write who they wanna write. Who gives a damn which team you’re on, no one cares. It’s not a real issue to be heated about. Sending hate and death threats is crazy over some damn fictional character who doesn’t exist. It’s cool to complain and debate about stuff, but yall are taking this too seriously. It’s quite easy to scroll away and mind your business.

When people wrote for these characters, they know the bad they’ve done you don’t need to tell them. They’ll write what they want to write and honestly, that’s their business.

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this is so real for me... I thought for a long time that something was wrong with me. All these conversations and jokes, I just didn't understand them. In some cases, when someone from my environment did not understand me in this aspect and began to push me, I began to feel an unprecedented level of disgust for me. I am very glad that at least now I know that this is normal. And that I shouldn't feel guilty about it.

y'know, one thing i don't see get talked about much in regards to asexuality is how it feels to never be 'sexually motivated' by anything

and not just when it comes to advertisements using 'sexy' models to try and sell you stuff, but like. in general

sex as a favor, sex as a bribe, sex in exchange for whatever

casual sex, 'friends with benefits' situations, even simple flirting

it all looks a whole lot different from the perspective of someone who's immune to manipulation via sex appeal, who has virtually no understanding as to why sex would motivate someone to cheat on their partner, etc. etc.

sex is worthless to me

i mean, it's useful as a story element in fiction, but it genuinely perplexes me that sex is such a driving force behind so many aspects of irl society & of people's individual lives, for better or for worse

and that it's so deeply ingrained into how the average person views the world & various situations, because the average person feels sexual attraction, whereas i do not

i think the barrier between aces & allos is actually even deeper than it seems on the surface at times, because it's more than just the grating expectation that everyone must want to 'settle down' and have kids, it's also the fact that the majority of the world is sort of 'in' on a joke that aces will never truly be a part of

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«Crossing the clouds»

House of dragon x fem reader insert

I’m posting this snippet because I adore this idea of ​​mine, but I physically don’t have enough time to write it now.

AU where fem Y/N, Viserys and Alisenta's youngest child. Daeron's twin.

I see her as an honest and caring girl who tries to put a huge amount of effort into protecting ordinary people. Since childhood, her entire personality was built based on ancient legends about noble knights.

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-"Helena.. My dear sister! Please come with me! You know this war will destroy us!"

In the Dance of the Dragons, she does not join any of the teams. Instead, she will try to protect civilians caught in the crossfire whenever possible.Towards the end of the war, Helena will be the only relative she will continue to love. She grew up looking up to Helena.

-"You killed them all!! You mercilessly killed hundreds of civilians, Daeron! Just to give vent to imaginary revenge!! I will not leave this unpunished!"

Swiftstrike roared, mirroring his sister's fury. Without hesitating a moment, the gray beast crashed into the blue queen. Sharp fangs pierced the beautiful blue scales of the dragoness's wings. Not paying any attention to Tessanion's fangs that sank in response, the Cloud Knight tormented his opponent with the greatest anger. The ashes now scorched by dragon fire were stained with the blood of powerful creatures.

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Her dragon Swiftstrike (among civilians his nickname is "Cloud kinght")(son of Dreamfire)Gray in color, merges into a cloudy sky, fog and smoke. At the end of the dance of dragons, slightly taller than Vermax)

it was he who, after the death of his rider from the crossbows of the fleet, would kill Otto.

«With several spears protruding from his body, deprived of the previous color of the cloudy sky, now a tart red color, he flew staggeringly, but steadily. Towards one goal known only to him. People said that when Swiftstrike descended, he looked much more like an infernal than a dragon. Full of burning rage, spraying blood and smoke, the dragon attacked Otto. They say that the beast did not just burn him, no... The beast tormented him for several minutes, tearing the half-dead, former right hand into pieces. And he calmed down only when not a single recognizable part remained of the Heitauer’s body, only a bloody mess. The dragon did not eat a single piece or even burn what was left of the body.

The great beast died an hour later. Flying a little further than the dragon pit. He died untouched by the hands of angry peasants. Peacefully, letting out a final, mournful and agony-filled roar. In memory of the first and only rider, soul sister.”

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government is trying to ban tiktok meanwhile millions of poor and disabled americans are about to completely lose their internet access at the end of april because congress wont renew funding for the affordable connectivity program

hell fucking world

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I wish Americans fucked with more foreign music. You don’t have to know the language to appreciate a good record. Folks in other countries listen to our music and don’t speak a lick of english. Music needs no translator

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I’ve never come across a more threatening magnet

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choices made in anger is such a crazy image. if you know what i'm talking about