#Streamlined Experience

[starset-sarsaparilla]

🌹 of sharon cassidy

[roots-symphony]

And it looks like I'm caught

r e d - h a n d e d

[craptainkirk]

Me realizing that my crazymaking ambivalence about everything and confusion around my personality and jumping back and forth between saying "This is how i am" vs "no THIS is how i am" and decisionmaking that is so difficult that i usually end up in a stalemate are all bc there was a Schism that happened in me when i was traumatized as my four year old self and that four year old self lives in me like a time capsule that contains the missing aspects of my personhood while the rest of me contains all of my experiences after and i fundamentally cannot get all of me to agree bc what made me divide is still unresolved

[queen-mabs-revenge]

communist generative ai boosters on this website truly like

[chaoskid-deer]

For the ask game: Victor Frankenstein, 12 and 21!

I have so many strong opinions on this man you have no idea. 

12. What’s a headcanon you have for this character?

Why did I immediately forget any headcanon I’ve ever had. This is soooo basic but I always imagine him with greasy, chin length black hair, so seeing Oscar Isaac’s victor frankenstein have exactly that was a YAY LETS GOOO moment for me (although he is too old to be frankenstein in my head. That is a floppy sad 23 year old.) 

Again, not really a headcanon so much an extrapolation of text, but i think he’s a huge perfectionist. He’s the kind of guy who would rewrite his PhD thesis from scratch just to make it “read better”. 

21. If you’re a fic writer and have written for this character, what’s your favourite thing to do when you’re writing this character? What’s something you don’t like? 

Surprising no one, my favourite thing is to make this man an unreliable narrator. He’s fighting through guilt, grief, and depression, but also he’s the kind of guy who thinks he’s smart enough to laugh in the face of God and nature and create a whole man from scratch perfectly the first time. His mental headspace is bananas and I feel like I haven’t done him justice if I’m not accurately reflecting that. 

So I love to have him be like woe is me, I’m so alone, no one understands me, as Elizabeth and Henry are like “hey! I’m here! Maybe eat some soup! Go outside! I’m worried about you!” 

Something I don’t like… hmm. I would say simple fix its, or happy endings. The thing that compels me the most is Victor’s spiral into madness and his destructive mutual obsession with the creature. I think there’s a lot of interesting ways to take a fix it, and things worth exploring, i’m just not interested in being the one to explore it. 

[oyesteryells]

ok one more crunked off the baba post

Stardew is such a bizarre game coming from my standpoint (which makes it appealing and infuriating at times) i feel like so many game mechanics arent ever clearly explained (PARTICULARLY how to take care of animals when you get them. i was so confused.) the game just throws stuff at you and hopes you connect dots that are no where near each other. this game is so nonsensical without referring to the wiki. i wouldve been fumbling around in the dark for so long if i didnt consult the wiki frequently. ISNT THAT BIZARRE. isnt it weird that this information isnt baked into the game a little better? it will just tell you stuff like "Find X" and give you no good hints about it. how was i supposed to know the Mayor's purple shorts were in Marnie's bedroom. when you get that quest it feels so mistimed bc i didnt get any Marnie/Lewis cutscene until Year 2. Maybe i failed to do what the game wanted me to do but how would i knoww 🙄 that wouldve taken me forever to figure out on my own. and then when it comes to what the NPCs like as gifts? youre lucky if you get a stray line of dialogue that tells you what a certain character likes. i feel the game is not well designed in that aspect? it is slightly frustrating thinking about it.

anyways i love this game

[derpiedoxie]

HAPPY (slightly belated) HALlOWEEN!!

HAVE SOME CORALINE FANART

[strwberri-milk]

Caleb being added is so ass their one singular interaction read entirely sibling like to me, plus bro was killed off in the prologue wdym he's suddenly back. Cheap ass writing.

And I feel like there is such a thing as too many LIs four was plenty

Lmaoo I guess I can see why you think it's "too many" but honestly lads doesn't have as many LI as most otome I've played. Typically they average around six love interests and that's usually seen just in the base game - more get added in future updates LMAOO the great thing about playing otome is generally it's pretty easy to ignore the LIs you dgaf about which is what I do CONSTANTLY honestly I don't mind them adding mainly bc it gives me the opportunity to save more in between banners LMAOO

Also idk what you mean by that interaction being strictly siblings 2 you only bc like. That's how I act with my own friends and I don't think of them as a sibling lol they just seemed like two childhood friends to me!!

I can see why you think it's cheap writing tho bc if they bring him back it like undoes thr consequences of his literal death but that's why I'm seeing how they explain it bc that is going to define whether or not it's shit writing lolol

[doedipus]

postulating the existence of a "ha ha what if I made bad garish art on purpose as a joke" to "oops I accidentally starting caring about doing a good job anyway" pipeline

[katsettee]

Studying for my biology finals by associating everything with how I think it would apply to Shadow the Hedgehog

[ebitenpura]

game design really does turn you evil

[arealcrow]

logged into steam to see a friend id info dumped abt warframe to earlier in the week had been playing this morning... yesssss the infestation spreads

[fogbreo]

something about march 2025 made me try painting after repeatedly getting close to trying it then backing out at the last second for years. its.. not that scary. its not as bad as i was expecting. i guess i just needed lineart to be more of a hassle than painting for me to finally try it. huh. who knew that trying new things would be so fun

[mariocki]

"We should stop thinking in terms of 'compensatory education' but consider, instead, most seriously and systematically the conditions and contexts of the educational environment.

The very form our research takes tends to confirm the beliefs underlying the organization, transmission and evaluation of knowledge by the school. Research proceeds by assessing the criteria of attainment that schools hold, and then measures the competence of different social groups in reaching these criteria. We take one group of children, whom we know beforehand possess attributes favourable to school achievement; and a second group of children, whom we know beforehand lack these attributes. Then we evaluate one group in terms of what it lacks when compared with another. In this way research unwittingly underscores the notion of deficit and confirms the status quo of a given organization, transmission and, in particular, evaluation of knowledge. Research very rarely challenges or exposes the social assumptions underlying what counts as valid knowledge, or what counts as a valid realization of that knowledge."

- Basil Bernstein, Education Cannot Compensate for Society, in Education for Democracy (2nd ed., 1972)

[transmutate]

Glad that 4 the words tracks time spent working on documents and also tallies them together for like projects cause I got to remember theres a time tracker and get jumpscared with 12 hours spent on a beast war fic