#Resolution steps

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[chimerafeathers]

you know what i think Mirabelle deserves to get a little fucked up freaky in how she processes learning about Siffrin’s loops post-canon. for fun. as a treat

thinking about this line in particular and stretching out the implications like taffy

this is a more romanticized, cutesy facet of her interests but she’s still framing Siffrin’s situation through storytelling. so like. What If.

i mean. this woman loves horror and gore and monsters and horrible things happening to innocent people. IN FICTION. in fiction!!! obviously!!!! and it’s beyond terrible that something even remotely close to any of that happened to her real friend in real life!!

BUT.

maybe. maybe sometimes, if the conditions are right, she gets a little too wrapped up in her imagination about the bloody, awful poetry of it all. maybe Siffrin tells a joke that's a little too dark and gory for anyone else, borderline or full-on Concerning, but she latches onto it without thinking about the Implications and plays along with increasing gruesomeness because FINALLYYYYY someone will play with her in the Horror Space (like Isabeau does in the romance space!!) and then. OOPS. the implications!!!! and she has to recalibrate out of Fun With Fiction mode into Oh No, My Friend Underwent A Horrifying Ordeal mode.

but being able to joke about things, even the awful things, is...kind of comforting, to Siffrin. makes them feel less like they're being babied and pitied and more like what happened was something...normal, almost? something that doesn't have to feel like the end of the world all over again every time it's mentioned, at least. so he tries to reassure her, and Odile and Isabeau have to go “actually can you PLEASE not joke about dying horribly it’s freaking us out and also might not be the Best for you? mentally???”

maybe Mirabelle will get a little Too Into trying to weave meaning and symbolism into the scant details that Siffrin gradually reveals, like she’s trying to finish the orange poem all over again, or eagerly meddling with the romantic reunion of the two actual people in the House with undelivered bonding earrings, writing their story for them without their input.

it’s easier to justify the tragedy of it all when it has a purpose, isn’t it? finding the beauty in the darkness, the love powerful enough to end the world. romanticizing the horrors until her friend can talk about them without shutting down.

and she feels guilty about hearing something and immediately thinking “ohhhhhhh this is JUST like Blorbo From My Novels,” because she should treat Siffrin’s situation with the gravity and care he deserves!! they’re a real person, not a character who exists for entertainment, to represent the ~themes~ of some story.

but if she admits as much…maybe Siffrin is safe to admit that he had started seeing the rest of them as actors, endlessly reciting their lines. maybe that’s just how people process things sometimes, grasping for metaphors when unfiltered reality gets to be too much. maybe it’s okay to talk about that part of it all, too.

[soriastrider]

they deserve some time to relax

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the original dirk and jake images here are pulled from homestuck (i removed their backgrounds here), i just edited them together :) and then i decided to try drawing a fake panel background lol

[saturnine-saturneight]

I am sooo good at organizing projects. Making my little mood boards and flow diagrams and whatever. The only thing standing between me and a huge creative output are The Maladies and the terminal Don't Wanna.

[aristocratic-rats]

I feel like the posts calling bucktommy people racist are being kind of obtuse. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but the difference between Buck pushing Eddie and breaking his ankle and Eddie yelling at Buck and picking a fight with him is that what Buck did is treated as something bad that he shouldn’t have done. He expresses quite a bit of remorse and we see that he immediately regrets his actions. He is called out on it and admits that he was wrong to do what he did. Eddie, however, says some things to Buck that, at the very least, should prompt a very sincere apology, but it is not framed as something he has done wrong really. He does acknowledge he was being unfair in the morning, but there is no real apology. It is also something that has happened before. He has said before that Buck is exhausting and that he always makes everything about himself when, frankly, he deserves to feel what he needs to.

I don’t dislike Eddie at all. I think his a Buck’s dynamic is delightful and I hope that their friendship does not continue to fray like this. They both have been through some really rough times, and I think they both need someone to be there for them, which could very well be each other. I do think, though, that there needs to be an apology. From experience, an apology usually also comes with the implicit promise to not let whatever behavior that hurt the person you are apologizing to happen again, which has not yet happened. I would not have wanted to be in Buck’s shoes during that fight scene, and I hope that there is a little more acknowledgment towards Eddie’s outburst.

As for Tommy’s past, I will never forgive someone who has acted the way that he did and not tried to better themself and become someone kinder and better, but that is not who Tommy is. I might need to rewatch the begins episodes again, but I remember distinctly that Chimney, Hen, and Tommy ended those episodes on good terms, often with Tommy acknowledging that he was wrong and that they do deserve to be where they are. I don’t want to sweep his actions under the rug by any means. Chimney and Hen are both incredibly competent firefighters and they both deserve much more respect than they received when they first arrived at the 118, but things were shown to have changed for the better. The montage of the 118 growing closer under Bobby’s leadership specifically shows that Hen, Chim, and Tommy are laughing and smiling and generally enjoying each others company at his transferring-to-the-217 party. Hen may not have kept in touch as much, but Chim and Tommy have been shown to be in close enough contact that Chim can call Tommy at basically a moments notice to help them with various emergencies, and Tommy shows up every time. Tommy 100% should not have acted they way he did, but I think there is something to be said for the fact that he was in quite possibly the most backwards workplace in LA. Fear is never a good reason to not stand up for others, but I can see why it would certainly be a motivator.

This show is very much about new beginnings and changing yourself for the better. Having people who love you enough, no matter, what, that they give you the room to grow and mature into a better version of yourself. No character is without flaws and skeletons in their closets. Some can certainly be argued to be worse than others, but that is a conversation for a different unreasonably long post I might not make. The fact of the matter is that Tommy continues to show up. Lord knows he needs to stop running, and I hope the opportunity arises in the show for his to do that, but no matter what happens in the remainder of this season and the next, I can definitely see on my screen that Tommy is a changed man. It is for this same reason that I have not completely abandoned Eddie as certain posts may suggest. Anyone can change for the better. Anyone can recognize and own up to their mistakes, and I hope that is what happens with Eddie.

This is way too long because it is my first post in this tag. Please feel free to let me know what you think. I am always open to discussion and I want to know if there is anything you agree or disagree with. I have hope for this show and its relationships yet, however misguided that may be.

[ennaih]

Vidya Balan in Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 (2024)

[hyunteru]

hi new moot :p i want to dye my hair and cut my bangs again as well!!

hi hi new moot :3 we should totally have a makeshift salon night in our bathrooms and do it all together !! dye, color, cut and style

[threeleggedbike]

tbh after reading akutagawas works and theory cooking with ryoshus lines i wouldnt lie that itd be a little cathartic to see her cry coming to terms with everything at the end of her canto

[cicadangel]

i am cursed with liking guys who would NEVER have the guts to ask a woman out. which means I must be strong. guys I'm plotting okay. guy I went to elementary school with. goes to a diff high school. saw him at my friend's orchestra concert. will be talking to him tomorrow. main goal is to find a way to ask him to help me learn tennis (I am playing this spring for just smth fun to do and he has been playing for many years). he doesn't have snapchat which means we must do this the old fashioned way. this is the type of guy I have to be very forward with. terrified. would never consider doing something like this except for the fact that it's senior year and I don't really have anything to lose also 3 of my close friends have bfs/are talking and like I feel left out.

[mabaris]

alright so now that we’ve gotten some actual crumbs, it feels like it’s a good time to lay out my prediction for what da4 is going to look like. writing this in a letter and mailing it to myself

we are part of an underground organization formed from the ruins of the inquisition to stop solas from ending the world

meanwhile the wardens have been researching the blight/the location of the archdemons and discover some secret about the location of the black city/what is actually contained in it

we’re supposed to be shocked at the reveal that the evanuris are trapped in the black city and the maker doesn’t exist

the ancient elves were in control of some crazy mutating technology (like in hormak) and that was the original source of the darkspawn. the whole thing about them being from the deep roads and a dwarf concern was actually just a red herring, they’re just underground because they’re powered by lyrium and this has ALSO been an elf thing the whole time :)

anyway, now we need to Double Make Sure the veil stays up because the evanuris have something even worse cooking up in the black city and we need to prevent them from unleashing a super blight and destroying all life, and our job is to convince solas to give up, not because we disagree with his plan but because his actions will have unintended consequences. even if he doesn’t care about everyone else and wants to rebuild the world, he won’t even be able to do THAT because the super blight will kill elves too. so although we WERE enemies we will have to band together to defeat the greater threat etc. it will be optional to recruit him as an ally/advisor, or you can just fight him directly and take control of his forces

we will have to cross into the fade AGAIN and storm the black city directly to put a stop to whatever’s going on in there

[25for2025]

25 for 2025- Week 14 Progress Report

Hello!

The bad news is, I'm still dealing with the bronchitis. The good news is that I think I'm finally on the tail end of it, so I can go back to the regularly scheduled chaos that we call life. (The most annoying part was that I ended up missing Camp Sunday because I was sick, which is something that I've been looking forward to for weeks.) While I might have been stuck at home for most of the last week, I did make some progress on some of the long term stuff, so without further ado:

7. Watch the Disney Animated Canon.

We managed not just one, not two, but THREE whole entries in the canon this week while I've been at home. The first two were Frozen and Frozen II, not back to back but close enough that I could compare and contrast the two films. Even having suffered through watching Frozen God knows how many times thanks to my little sister's obsession when she was little, both films still hold up surprisingly well. The first one has much stronger musical numbers and better flow, but a lot of the plot doesn't hold up to scrutiny. The second one had a more cohesive plot, but the music's a lot more all over the place and the characterization feels a lot weaker. Call me a traditionalist, but I think I'll stick with the original.

The other entry this week was 101 Dalmations, another classic Disney film featuring talking pets. While the music might not have been as catchy as Aristocats, it's a fun little film if nothing particularly special. (Yes, I realized I may have upset some people with my subdued reaction, but at least it wasn't painful to watch like some of the previous entries.)

24. Take 2 million steps.

Total is up to 653,997. Not a lot of progress this week for obvious reasons.

[luminamystere]

making a start with trying to learn pixel art through a(n attempted) Franka Arknights

only spent an hour or two on this bcuz i'm just starting out, so it's very flat and not very polished

spent the entire time repeating to myself "it's okay to draw things that are bad" but it didn't turn out quite as bad as i was worried it would?

i used a 64x64 canvas size, but honestly i want to move to bigger canvas sizes so i have more room for detail. i'm just using a small canvas size rn for the sake of learning

[capricores]

happy NYE guys!! wishing you all the best in the new year 🥺💗 are you guys doing any sort of "rituals" or resolutions for the new years?? i'm taking inspiration from some people i saw online, and i'm spending today:

• journalling all the awful shit that happened to me this year, and writing down any limiting beliefs i have/things i want to let go, then i'm going to burn that paper

• writing out resolutions/goals + affirmations/manifestations for the new year in a journal and being so extremely detailed about it so there's no room for interpretation

• making a vision board relating to the life i hope to have in the next year

i think it'll be fun and hopefully impactful in a positive way?! 😭

[zeb-z]

everyday I wish Etoiles had won the election

[snekdood]

ppl who larp about the Revolution™ almost seem to expect someone *else* to take the leading role in it all so they can sit inside on their asses and do jack shit, they know they have no meaningful skills to offer and would only slow people down, but expect to *somehow* magically radicalize most americans into doing all the work for them because awww dey're just such a weak wittle babu that needs to be pwotected and defwended awlways uwu

like. come on. get a grip. if everything went your way and someone actually stronger than you came along to take the lead, you're likely not being invited, and you'll likely be left behind... which means left to the alt right, who will no doubt come to your house to see if you're perpetuating anything "woke", and you gotta know they wont just ask, they'll barge in and look through everything even your computer.

though, you should really focus on your plan. your first step: get along with people enough to even actually convince them its a good idea, and we all know you'll never dare to try that shit. you cant even be on here w/o blocking someone like me for even suggesting you are approaching this like a child playing war and you have NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

you think you want a second holocaust (which is essentially letting trump win, i mean hitler got the majority vote in germany. thats how he rose to power. didn't just materialize out of thin air), but you dont seem to grasp the gravity of what that entails, or even that you'd be thrown in the camps with everyone else, all to stick it to jewish ppl and "the libs", even if it means you and all the ones you love die along with them. you are a net negative to humanity and quite frankly should be on a fucking watch list.

[25for2025]

25 for 2025- Week 9 Progress Report

Hello!

While this might be coming out a little later than usual (I usually try to post Wednesdays since that lines me up for a post on December 31st but it's about an hour past midnight where I live), this has been a rather productive week in terms of setting up dominoes to be knocked down. In the next two weeks I should get at least two of the goals actually knocked out, plus there's the long term ones that I keep steadily chipping away at. The weather's also warming up, so that should make some of the other ones I'm putting off viable quite soon.

7. Watch the Disney Animated Canon.

Another week where I was only able to squeeze in one movie, but once again it's a favorite from my childhood. Lilo and Stitch might not be what immediately comes to mind when you think of the classic Disney movies, but the heart and soul of this film is so incredibly touching. I had forgotten just how good the soundtrack is despite not being the typical animated musical, and while it never takes itself too seriously, the message at the core of the film shines through.

13. Decorate a cake.

It's March, and that means the first birthday in my household this year is coming up! My mom is going to be turning 47 this year (though she definitely doesn't look like it), and to celebrate I'm planning on making a cake for her birthday this week. I've got all the ingredients and supplies, and now it's just a matter of seeing if it's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake.

19. See a lunar eclipse.

We're getting pretty close to the time for this year's lunar eclipse (technically the first of two but the other one isn't visible on my half of the planet) and it's finally close enough that I can see the weather forecasts for the morning of March 14. Looking at it... it's not great, but partly cloudy is more workable than straight up cloudy. Worst comes to worse, I might have to drive a bit to get somewhere with less clouds.

24. Take 2 million steps.

The total as of now comes up to a whopping 476,796 steps, nearly a quarter of the way to our goal! Which is good because the end of March marks a quarter of the way through the year and it puts us on place to make our goals. Onward we march!