#Conscious Interaction

[cherrycharai]

I lovvvee this little comic from Ryoko Kui 's Daydream Hours ♡. I would read a whole slice of life manga about Falin and Marcille's time together at the magic academy (⁠´⁠ε⁠｀⁠ ⁠)

[rubyfunkey]

ponders them...

[michellesanches]

Book Summary - "The Conscious Parent" by Dr. Shefali Tsabary

“The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children” by Dr. Shefali Tsabary is a ground-breaking book that redefines the way we approach parenting. Released in 2010, this thought-provoking work challenges traditional parenting paradigms and advocates for a new approach that prioritises self-awareness, mindfulness and conscious interaction between parents and children. Dr.…

[plutesboots]

Me discussing the necessity of masks with another masked individual

[qiu-yan]

imagine the following scenario: one day, the MXTX protagonists + love interests find out, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they are fictional characters; that they were created to star in a romance-genre web serialization centered around their relationship.

in this kind of situation, i feel like all of the MXTX protagonists would experience some level of existential crisis.....except for luo binghe.

fo luo binghe, the reveal would be twofold. first, there would be the PIDW reveal: that luo binghe was originally to be the protagonist of the webnovel PIDW, and that his fate changed when one of the novel's anti-fans, peerless cucumber, transmigrated into the body of shen qingqiu and derailed the entire plot.

second, there would be the SVSSS reveal: that, in reality, all of the above was actually the plot of another novel - the scum villain's self-saving system - and that said novel is not concerned with any of luo binghe's feats or conquests or the like, but rather is about the romance between shen qingqiu (shen yuan) and luo binghe. and that, rather than being the protagonist, luo binghe is instead the male lead to shen qingqiu's protagonist.

except literally both of these reveals are massive Ws for luo binghe?? first, for the PIDW reveal, luo binghe finds out why shen qingqiu pushed him into the abyss - not because shen qingqiu hated him, but rather because the system literally forced shen qingqiu to do so upon threat of death. furthermore, luo binghe learns shen qingqiu's real identity: someone who read about luo binghe from an alternate universe and came to love him, someone who loved luo binghe across dimensions so much that, upon seeing that luo binghe's story was to end with zero true emotional fulfillment, rejected this ending so vociferously that he ended up changing luo binghe's entire fate.

and then, the SVSSS reveal: this entire universe only exists because MXTX wanted to tell the story of the romance between shen qingqiu and luo binghe. from the beginning, shen qingqiu and luo binghe were fated to end up together. and, if shen qingqiu is the protagonist, that means luo binghe was literally created to love him.

absolute ego boost. massive W. every other MXTX character would be experiencing the existential crisis to end all existential crises, but not our luo binghe. nothing but victories for him.

[apple-cores]

Link having a very normal and calculated out of body experience. SURELY you'll find her this time

[aroaceleovaldez]

i think the Piper cameo at the end of TSATS is particularly amusing to me because, like. it treats Piper and Nico as though they're close friends when like the only one-on-one interaction they've ever had was Piper dragging a half-unconscious Nico away from a couple of leopards.

is this wlw/mlm solidarity.

[hraeesvelgr]

so.. costume epsilon, huh?

[orengejoshi]

do u write fanfics? i need to GOON 💔

damn brother, you just gonna come at me like that? alright I see you

that's a great question tho! I have indeed thought about writing a fic... for years tbh...

but there's a myriad of problems

well first of all I'm not native in english. that is probably noticeable more often than not. I sometimes even use a translator, I always secretly got google/dict.cc open in a second tab. didn't formally learn english, I just snagged it by proxy listening to American Youtubers and reading manga online. that's why I prefer to ramble a bit in public or to my damn self in private areas than live-texting 1 on 1/in groups; bc I can take more time totally judgement-free. you're gonna see me "typing..." for 30 minutes and wonder wtf is taking this mf so long?!

apart from that there's dyslexia. I can't spell one word correctly without swipe-to-type autocorrect. I think all arguments I've gotten into stem from me mistyping, using completely wrong words, messing up the sentence structure etc

my brain is a single dense cloud of fog that'll occasionally split open to drizzle down a bunch of jumbled thoughts that I could turn into barely cohesive words if I'm brave enough and exude copious amounts of energy.

so my linguistic skills are not up to par. my intelligence lies more in... intrapersonal and existential departments.

unsurprisingly I've thus become a visual artist to express myself.

the catch is... that I understand paperhat, I do.

but I can't seem to draw toxic dynamics. my head is just empty about how to depict it. it's like it doesn't come naturally to me. not without going overboard and making a whole comic that I would likely abandon before even reaching the half mark. I've been given these angelic skills along with the curse that I shall only draw joyous, bright scenes.

however if I could write it... now we're talking.

as a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure that most of my ideas are way too dark and sober. people don't know me like that so I'm petrified about the presumably shocked response when and if I did drop smth like that.

I'm not ready for that... I have really severe OCD (that the internet is making way worse with their anxious tendencies to interpret smth sinister into any and all fiction that is not happiness and rainbows. which seems new to me, idk where this mindset to read so deep into shit is suddenly coming from. I was here 2017-19, left for like 3 years and all of a sudden everybody's fallen off their rockers)

writing domestic stuff is too boring for me... there's gotta be gut-wrenching horrors and drama and tragedy and conflict!

none of this would be PG (which is what I assume you're asking for anyway) I'd just write smut with sprinkles of character studies and a pinch of comedy mayhaps, but I used to do that about 10 years ago and it was so bad. the way I describe these scenes comes off very plump and cringe

I... might. dip my toes into it later this year.

I'll drop a few ideas in the tags... maybe 2 ideas. very roughly. without spoilers, just in case.

[shoezuki]

No no no

I want a beauty and the beast story with canniblism and Sampard

I want more of your Sampard

GOD DAMNIT. i saw this ask n then got some stuff done but now i been thinking about this. its the cannibalism aspect that got me.

vague ideas i been thinking of. but where sampo is Technically the 'beauty'. but he's cursed too. sampo being a once well known thief who was cursed with obscurity, where as soon as he leaves peoples view everyone forgets about him entirely, he is only ever perceived if he has peoples' full attention on him.

initially thinking maybe jade cursed him with this, but then i got the funnier thought of sparkle doing it. where sparkle was his previous questionably human 'partner' and fellow thief, and when he dipped on her with the spoils after she tried to marry him she cursed him until someone would love him 'even though they see you for the piece of shit snake you are'.

but sampo? hes chilling. like ya ok losing his fame as a world renowned thief sucked and also that his home as brughel in epsilon was sold to someone else cuz everyone forgot she lived there and ya if he puts his things down too long and leaves people will take it from him, or also that he always has to mend his own wounds and cooks for himself and not to mention that one time he bought a room in a tavern only to be woken up by the grossly drunk and flirty couple that just bought his room. but its FINE. he uses it to his advantage, robbing people blind, swiping wares from stores when the shopkeepers back is turned, keeping to the peripherals of peoples vision until he wants to sell them on something and vanishing as soon as he scammed someone.

at some point he ends up travelling to Belobog. Im unsure what way id want this but one thing im thinking is that belobog has or had a mining town in the mountains overlooking it, with a massive fortress built by the founders of the town. It Had been abandoned, until years ago when a monstrous creature started attacking anyone that approached the mining town. Or at least just attacking and consuming anyone who approached the fortress, maybe leaving the mining town idk.

a 'curse' was placed on the mining town, creating a barrier that keeps any humans from entering or leaving. (but really, cocolia placed it) the two towns are kind of at a standstill, with cocolia offering a huge reward to anyone who can break the 'curse'. im thinking either a) belobog knows the mining town is still alive, as they trade minerals for food with the town through the barrier which is Heavily controlled by cocolia, or b) they assume the entire town has been eaten by the monster.

either way sampo doesnt give a shit about the cash reward, but the idea of an abandoned fortress is tantalizing monster be damned. he discovers that hes not just cursed to not be seen by people, but the 'curse' doesnt see him either. hes able to get into the mining town and the fortress, but trips up and somehow the monster is able to See him fully. Somehow this hulking thing is able to chase him down even when hes out of view, is hyperaware of him and starts to learn sampo's tricks every time he breaks into the fortress.

basically just. gepard, cursed by cocolia or something after she thought he was asking too many questions or something and she tried to use witchcraft to corrupt him into an thrall and under her complete control, but gepard's willpower causing it to fail and his protective nature becoming toxic and having him unthinkingly trying to protect the mining town and everyone from the dark magic cocolia was performing in the fortress. And sampo just.... being technically cursed but chill with it when he shouldnt be and constantly getting chased away by the beast.

and gepard eats people. very important

[avengersome]

I wish I understood what people want out of a fic.

Sometimes I write something I think is average and it gets a tonne of effusive comments. Sometimes I write something I really like and it gets tumbleweeds.

Somebody please tell me what it is about Eye of the Beholder that means even the people I would usually expect supportive comments from haven’t even acknowledged it. What am I missing here?

(I’ve accepted now that Back to School won’t get much interest, but that’s only got a few chapters left to go at least, and it does have some nice followers)

[voidcat]

This is what Bachira feels like to me

[rambling-robot]

sometimes I get weirdly self-conscious or worried about someone recognizing my username on a fic, either for kudos or a comment, and I’m like, ‘oh no, what if they hate my taste and think I’m weird 🥺”

and then I remember “what were YOU doing at the devil’s sacrament? 🤨” and leave a kudos and comment

[wyn0rrific]

do y'all think the primarchs struggle with chronic pain

[ouransisters]

I've seen fics where Danny (Phantom) is a baby ghost and the others don't realize it- and I've seen fics where when ghosts mature they physically change

I raise you: combine them

I just think it's cool ok. The inherent terror of slowly turning into something vaguely human at most with no warning for Danny. Puberty 2 electricboogaloo. Some ghosts being horrified at what they've done to a baby, others not really caring, and some seeing it as a reason to be more cruel. It's just interesting. Danny going through changes and desperately trying to figure out what is happening combined with his rogues seeing these changes and realizing just what is actually going on

[swiiivet-screamathon]

"What's got you sitting here then?"

"Ensuring nothing catastrophic occurs and mild amounts of watch duty."

"Is he up to... mild mannered not-worth-standing-up-for trouble?"

"It is him yes, but I wouldn't quite call it trouble, not as of now at least."

Lily sits down next to Pv on the wooden bench, following his eyesight to Crepe's workshop, its large barge doors wide open with dark smoke pouring out and within are two small cookies doing... well, something, it's hard to tell at this distance with it being so obscured.

"That's, not- trouble?" She asks as she lays her head on Pv's shoulder.

"Seems to be working as intended in fact. Crepe knew this would happen and wanted to make sure no one bothered them thinking the place was on fire."

"Because they knew everybody would listen to you?"

"I don't want to be that egotistical, I'm sure our kingdom would listen to Raisin too."

"Hmhm~"

They watch on as they continue working on it, Smilk floating around in circles around Crepe as they both seem to be working on what best can be guessed as some sort of engine.

"I know I'm the problem in this sentiment, but I still can't believe out of all cookies the two of them paired up into what sounds like a functional duo-- You've got any idea how that happened?"

"I wouldn't say I do, probably some curiosity killing cats though."

"Ah, right, of course thats the case. Has he gotten along with anyone else so far?"

"He was certainly less sociable than he is now, that's for sure."

"Not the grandest of friendpools then, huh? More than one is still a positive though."

"Agreed."

"...My mind is just occupied with him now, how funny. After everything we've been through and yet he still manages to be the main character whenever he's around after so much time. You've still not managed to get him into a new set of icing?"

"He's got a loud presence, a good skill for an actor I'd say. Though you are right, I have not."

"Have you tried at all?-- Nevermind, I'm not even sure what I mean with that question; forcing him into a shirt seems very strange hmhm."

"I have asked him, though no forcing anyone in any shirts-- but he seems incredibly apprehensive about it. Every time I get a status update it seems any comment made by anyone of an kind makes him give up on trying for long bouts of time."

"I didn't take 'obvious' to be a trait of his, power of a title I suppose. I've got motivation to throw my hat in the ring though given the circumstances."

"Really? Did your encounter with Salt make you into fashion? :p"

"I suppose fashion tends to aim in the direction of bold, doesn't it? If I can be frank with you though, I think I mostly want to build rapport; bringing the Fount of Knowledge into the modern day sounds quite interesting, and you've sure been taking your sweet time getting him to act in line. ^^"

"Don't be so restrictive on him, and don't let your ulterior motives get the better of you. You're the most curious person I know but you know what happens if you go wild with it."

"Dramatic sigh-- She can be crumbled in the crust for hundreds of years and I will still be haunted by it. /lh I've got little desire to hinder your rehabilitation, I'm just not quite the same kind of altruist as you are. :p"

"If you start studying him like you did in school--"

"Wha~at-- There's no grade on the line, and I'm sure the teacher won't notice."

"No matter the form you take you'll always be a disaster. :D"

"x)"