christ... STOP FUCKING SAY "GO NONVERBAL," "GO SEMIVERBAL." NO SUCH THING. STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!!!!!!!!! STOP TAKING WORDS STOP STEALING STOP STOP STOP!!!
[pt: christ ... stop fucking say "go nonverbal," "go semiverbal." no such thing. stop it stop it stop it!!!!!!!!! stop taking words stop stealing stop stop stop!!! /end pt]
speech loss, verbal crash, so many other words, let look in tags without seeing wrong wrong wrong
this go for alter too!! not nonverbal, alter who not speak. not nonverbal, not nonverbal
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Something that makes reading TOA so devastating is how fucking much Apollo feels about Everything. There’s so MUCH. Like I don’t even know how to describe it to you if you haven’t read the books yourself. He has so many complicated thoughts and emotions about just about everything and he cares about everything so much and there is just SO MUCH going on in his head. And yet none of it ever reaches his mouth!!
He almost never says what he’s feeling. What little comes out of his mouth about his thoughts barely even scratches the surface of what he actually means. Like he’ll be having a long ass monologue about how incredible someone is, showing a deep understanding of them as a person and empathizing with them so hard you’d almost think it’s projection but it’s not he’s legitimately just mind melding with this random person he met like a week ago and he’s thinking the softest, kindest thoughts about them like he knows they’re fucking incredible - and what comes out of his mouth is just like, “you’re a wonderful friend :)” AND ITS LIKE. THERES SO MUCH MORE UNDER THE SURFACE. the sheer admiration and adoration he has for everyone around him……… UGHHH!!! But he never VOICES ANY OF IT!!!!!! He never tells anyone about what Zeus did to him……. He never tells anyone except the reader about his realization that Zeus is abusive…. He never even tells commodus about how much he adored him, not then and not now… he refuses to tell anyone when he’s in pain or tries to justify the things he does when he actually had Decent Reasons for why he did something… I’m. I’M. AUGH. AHHHHH
HE DOESN’T EVEN TELL US ALL OF HIS THOUGHTS IS THE THING. THERES EVEN MORE THAT HE IS NOT TELLING US!!!!! THE FUCKING OCEAN OF FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS HE HAS ABOUT EVERYTHING IS THE CLIFF NOTES VERSION. I AM IN DISTRESS.
And YET…. Even what slips out of his mouth is so fucking devastating it is SO devastating. He’s so fucking kind and gentle with Harley and Meg and and other younger Demis and his kids… he’ll act like an obstinate idiot and then turn around say something that drags the core of the person he’s talking to into the light like nail on the fucking HEAD like he reached into their soul and gave them the words to express something that they were struggling to say aloud or that they didn’t even realize about themself. Around the 2nd book he starts putting voice to some of his feelings and thoughts about others and even that tiny fucking sliver is overwhelming to the people he’s talking to bc he’s SO. AUGHHHH
Personal vent post, how I tag things, apologies for this probably showing up in search results because I'm not censoring words (do not have the spoons rn)
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So I'm getting really frustrated (at the situation, not at individual people! Sorry to vague right after getting a request, I was gonna make this post like a week ago) that multiple people have asked me not to tag Bro/Cal reblogs as Stridercest.
Stridercest does not mean incest, it means Strider/Strider relationship. I'm tagging it for followers who don't want to see Strider/Strider at all (or for those who do, too, I guess). On MY blog, it has NO bearing on whether or not something is incest. Lil Cal has been a Strider since Day 1 to me, way before any of the events after Act 6, as a pure vanilla puppet. A Strider by marriage, in my opinion. But I'm not opposed to calculating the amount of Strider that got put in Lil Cal, as I've done before. You also have Dirk/Hal which is also Stridercest, but not incest (at least in canon, sometimes it is incest in fan depictions). Or Guardiancest, which I don't think counts as incest in canon either (but usually always is in fan depictions). Even selfcest between one Strider (beta!Dave/beta!Dave in a time travel situation, for example) is still gonna be Stridercest to me.
The ONLY Stridercest I add the specific ship tag for is Bro/Cal, because that's otp5eva for me, separate from any other Strider stuff (Stridercest probably doesn't even make top 3 HS ships for me). Everything else only gets the blanket Stridercest in reblogs, because I already tag a lot, I don't have the energy to add nuanced tags for weird Strider situations, and whether or not that constitutes incest, or which version of a character it is, especially when the artist/authors don't usually make the difference explicitly stated in their own caption/tags, and sometimes it's vague on purpose! (I'm currently writing a fic where Bro and Dirk are the same person! I'm not gonna make the distinction a big deal.)
It's mostly frustrating because then I have to decide if untagging the relationship as Stridercest is going to make someone else following me uncomfortable who will then see it untagged.
Going forth, I am going to delete whatever reblog I made if I get this request from someone else again. I'm trying to remember names, so I don't reblog any future content that would conflict with their requests, but this has already happened with three people in like the past two weeks. Had to block one person for telling me to die because I tagged "Stridercest" on the post preventatively, as usual, because I care about tagging for my followers. (I literally checked their blog like 3 times to make sure they didn't have a DNI pinned, and I still got told to die for my efforts lmao.)
Literally, please just DM me privately (thank you to the other people who did, sorry for the trouble!), and I will either delete the reblog, or block you if you request that. I'm not TRYING to make people uncomfortable, which is the whole reason why I tag it to begin with.
So, I'm not un-tagging shit anymore, it's delete only from now on. I'm not going against my own blog rules I set both to try and accommodate my followers, and to make searching my blog easier for myself. (Used to not tag anything from like 2011-2016 or later, and I'm still in the process of back-tagging everything, since it's been so frustrating to find old fandom posts.)
i have no respect at all for the approach to political debate that relies on out of context/limited context quotes from singular, often reified historical figures as some sort of trump card. i find it so childish and also deeply stupid. you are not being serious and i’m not going to treat you as though you are. lol
Hey about your Yeshua name hc! It reminded me Jesus is called the Morning Star like Lucifer, so it would be funny if they named their kid after Jesus for all the other reasons you mentioned, not knowing that lore, and then a few years later they learn about it 🤣 Lucifer jumpscare
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OH MY GOD YOU'RE RIGHT I'D FORGOTTEN ABOUT THAT LMAOOO
which is actually really funny because in the bible the term morning star is actually used more often for good things in comparison with the one time it is subtly used in order to make a reference to the devil
it's just fascinating to me how that one time eclipsed every other mention of it to the point lucifer is now used as the name for the devil when that's just,,, not really supported in the canon books? or at least not in the ones that are mostly accepted as canon
because it's not even directly about satan! those verses are actually about king nebuchadnezzar! they're talking about how he started thinking so highly of himself because of his own glory that he started to think his throne would be above god's. they're calling him 'shining one and son of the dawn' because he was one of, if not the, most powerful king at that time. that's kind of what lucifer actually means it's not supposed to be a name it's barely a title it was just,, a way to describe someone who had a lot of glory on his name
it does have a double meaning and it's generally agreed upon that it's also talking about the devil but there's almost no evidence to support that Heh·lelʹ or Lucifer was ever meant to be his name at all
so it's just!!! so interesting to me that it completely morphed into becoming his name in the general public knowledge that i completely forgot morning star also was used for jesus even knowing all of this akdjskdnksk
i'm so sorry this was meant to be about michael freaking out he indirectly named his kid after his brother on accident he'd be so mad about it he made all that research and For What >:(
adam wouldn't care as much but he would totally use it to complaint about how michael rejected like 85% of his list of names for not having the meaning and/or vibes he wanted for their kid's name aksjakks
as your bestie who has been a furry for majority of her life and enjoys furry character design,,,,,,,,,,,, i can try helping you if that's okay!!! there's still ways to be interesting even if what you got is a simple brown/white kitty <3
i love you i love you i love you tori you are the coolest fuckinng guy in the whole world and i would blow up the heavens for you youre mmy best friend in the iniverse and i love you one million angels singinf a heavenly choir for you. share with me your beautiful mind