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Among US

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[mjhartwork]

allow me to educate y’all on THE WONDERS OF THE DEFAULT FIREALPACA FLAT BRUSH.

Or I guess just notify y’all that its a pretty neat brush, because, like most esoteric knowledge of the occult, you need to do some experimenting for yourself to figure out cool stuff!

Click keep reading for a very nice painting I was able to do in less than 2 minutes with the flat brush :3 (it works wonders! I’m not even a proficient painter!)

[mariocki]

Roger Delgado makes a brief appearance as an unnamed but helpful Argentine diplomat, in Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!: Two Against the Kremlin (1.13, ABPC, 1957)

[sambeawesome]

Has anyone done this one yet? How to draw a knee.

Reblog to help teach other artists this drawing cheat ;)

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[i-am-a-tortoise]

Classic, my rendition :)

In the style of Paperteeth! My best traditional rendition lol. You can find them on Webtoon :)

In the style of Monsters and Girls/Bugtopia on Webtoon <3

My best attempt at a manga style. It's hard to get that cutesy feel.

And then what I think she would look like playing amongus lmao (just a sketch)

[whatudottu]

This just in, local bisexual disaster finds his taste in women in need of a rain check- is the imagined kabedon suggestive enough to need a tag?

Hey what if Tranformers Prime really emphasised that Airachnid was very much a poacher and that her schtic as an (albeit temporary on her part) interrogator of the Decepticons were skills she had taken from poaching endangered game and mounting them on her walls?

[wizard-irl]

Demystifying Intuition

People often use the word "intuition" like they would "ESP" or "psychic." If you're able to guess what card someone's holding behind their back, its "intuition." If you're able to greatly feel a spirit's presence without having contacted it prior, you're "intuitive." And if you don't have the gift of intuition, you're gonna suck at magic!

This obfuscates the actual meaning and importance of intuition. Intuition is not a magical, born-with-it skill that allows you to read minds and predict the future effortlessly, and to claim such is to gatekeep things that ought not be gatekept.

Intuition, put simply, is having information become so rote, that you don't need to consciously recall it to access it.

Archive.

Really? it's That Simple?

Well... that above definition is a synthesis of what researchers define as intuition, which is still something we don't fully understand on a scientific level. But from reading up on it, that's how I summarise the research.

Now, stripped away of its magical meaning, what does the research say about intuition'?

Intuition and rationality are not opposed. This is something I see a lot in spiritual spaces, a false dichotomy between the ~*healing, loving*~ intuition and the cold, cruel logic. If you're looking down a dark alleyway at night, and you get the feeling that something bad will happen if you go down it, and decide to not go down there based on that feeling, is that an illogical decision? Violent crimes are more likely to happen at night. Alleyways are inherently small, confined spaces, which would make it hard to escape from an attacker, and because of the restricted line-of-sight, it would be difficult for someone to see you be attacked. Thus, the idea to not go down that alleyway is still a rational decision, even if its felt as a sense of dread or fear.

Intuition is not a replacement for rationality. Again, because intuition is seen as a ~*magical*~ feeling (as opposed to the sterile logic), people put undue emphasis on what it is saying to the detriment of what they can actually observe. Emotion alone is not enough to make up for a lack of objective information. Intuition works best when there is enough information from prior experience to make up for a lack of objective information.

You can learn how to be more intuitive. While some people are born more intuitive, intuition is not something you must be born with to have access to. Intuition is built on past experience, enough experience that you don't consciously need to remember it. Think to the alleyway example: How many times have you heard of people getting hurt in dark places at night? Have you ever been in a situation where being in a confined place made it easier to be hurt? Are you afraid of the dark and why? What scary things do you associate with the night? There's so much input of "dark confined places mean harm" that you don't need to remember all the discrete bits of information to tell you to not go down that alley. You see it, you get a bad feeling, and you avoid it. Without that input, would you see a dark alleyway at night as a dangerous place to be? I doubt it.

What Does Intuition Feel Like?

For me, intuition feels like a knowing. A thought that comes up that I can't prove 100%, but still feels certain. That thought could range from "I feel like something is wrong" to "That person is full of shit." My experience is mostly negative intuition, but intuition can be a positive experience. Intuition can feel gentle, like someone calmly explaining something, or like someone yelling at you to drop what you're doing and run.

For example, I was looking for magical resources, and I found a video I thought would be helpful. However, the longer I was watching this video, I felt this... dread. Something about this video was off for me, off in a way that told me I shouldn't trust what this person was saying. I check their channel, and I see ancient aliens and Atlantis nonsense. Clearly, my intuition was right.

Another similar situation: I was looking for demonological resources. I find another video, and I get this knowing vibe from the way this woman was discussing the topic. I thought, "This person sounds like a New Ager and is thus biased against demons. I should not take her claims seriously." Lo and behold, when I checked her channel, she was self-proclaimed "Pleiadean starseed" and a "lightworker." Clearly, my intuition was right.

Developing Intuition

How do you develop intuition? You get out there and learn.

If intuition is "knowledge made rote," the only way you can build that intuition is taking in input, or by experience and learning. This is supported by the research: it may be possible to distinguish someone's expertise in a subject by their intuition and how quickly they respond. The quicker the response, especially if it turns out correctly, shows that a person is working more off intuition than conscious thought.

Think of chess. When you start playing chess, you're going to make a lot of stupid mistakes because you don't have enough input to even consciously plan decisions. But the more games you play, the more your mind picks up on subtle patterns. You may not even recognise you're remembering them until you start to know what moves are best, even if you can't explain your reasoning.

Chess is also a good example because it involves the second key to developing intuition: feedback. If your intuition was wrong, you get direct feedback by having your pieces taken or getting checkmated. If your intuition was right, you get direct feedback by taking pieces and winning games. If you have an intuitive answer, check it, because that's more input for you to build upon. My above examples demonstrate that as well: I had a thought, and I checked their channels to see that my suspicions were correct. You need feedback to grow with any skill, and intuition is no different.

Intuition has its place within magic, and viewing intuition as a magical skill isn't what I'm talking about. But intuition is not a special skill that you have to be born with to do magic. If you keep practicing, you're going to eventually develop some degree of intuition. You're going to know what certain tarot cards mean in certain readings without having to consult a book. You're going to learn how your god's presence feels to you when they're with you without second-guessing. You're going to know what to use in certain spells without looking up a correspondence. All that is because intuition is based on information, and you only get that information by learning, making mistakes, and improving upon yourself.

Sources

"Measuring Intuition: Nonconscious Emotional Information Boosts Decision Accuracy and Confidence", Psychological Science.

"Intuition: A Review of the Literature", Psychological Reports.

"Intuition in chess: a study with world-class players", Psychological Research.

[the-jelliphish]

How to draw hands with amongus inspired by @you-are-a-superstar 's comment on the amongus hip post

[invinciblerodent]

oh sometimes i'm overcome with the realization of just how sentimental a bitch i am

like i really am straight up just playing make-believe with these characters like they're digital barbies

okay so in Iona's inventory, i've had this necklace

since very early in act 1.

it was in Aradin's chest at the Grove, and it was the first thing "we" managed to get with the "I distract them with conversation/busking and you steal everything that isn't nailed down" act/trick I had thought up for her and Astarion. I thought it'd be kinda cute for him to, at the end of this test run, present it with a ~theatrical flourish~ once just out of earshot of its original owner, and for her to ~graciously allow~ him to drape it around her neck, as a hamfisted and silly act of mock-courtship they both know is false. (it was kind of a... "we both know what this is all about and where it's headed, but wouldn't it be fun to play make-believe and pretend it's something entirely different" type of thing.)

I thought it'd be cute, if a touch bittersweet for her to keep it, just slotted away in her little "sentimental items" pouch, like.... next to the dog toy, her old wedding band, and the other useless junk she couldn't bring herself to throw away or sell.

and then today, i found this as I was selling stuff in the Glittering Gala.

it's the same design. and i like to describe Iona's eyes as "amber" when I write about them (they're kind of a reddish/yellowish, pretty medium brown). and she looks much better in golds and reds than she does in blues and silvers.

so. um.

guess who got this bloody thing "sneaked" into her inventory at the long rest.

if you think i won't 1.) exit a trading screen abruptly, 2.) switch controlled characters, 4.) buy a silly and utterly useless junk item AS that character (thought about just picking her pocket but.... we have 35k gold. why would i.), and 4.) keep it in that character's inventory until it "seems like" the PC isn't "paying attention", and then 5.) drop it into their inventory "unnoticed", all for LITERALLY NO GOOD REASON other than just to act out a silly little gesture and support the little fanfic in my head, well.

you'd be very wrong.

((and i was grinning and giggling downright embarrassingly the whole time too))

[pixelatedquarter]

Committed a grave mistake (listened to Heaven, Iowa through a trans lens)

[cametek]

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I’m tired of modulating it

[fruzmig]

hey! for those of you who have been having trouble following the art tips that have been cropping up, i've made this for you, i hope this helps 😊

[harmonytre]

Random bean tutorials kinda!

[anonymousad]

Shelterwood: a follow-up and apology

someone reached out to me after publishing my Shelterwood crowdfunding post with some very valid stuff that I want to address. they mistakenly sent it non-anonymously (something I confirmed with them before just responding to the Ask), so in the spirit of keeping things unidentifiable around here I am going to screenshot the entire message (so you can know I'm not selectively cutting anything out) and then I'll respond to it in chunks:

A Genuine Apology

so let's start with the first chunk of text:

I'm going to be straight with you: while there were absolutely some points you made about the Shelterwood crowdfund that I agreed with, like how unreasonable the goal seemed for a show produced by a novice showrunner, something's really sticking out here. That thing is that Stephen Indrisano and Nigel McKeon are both young, white, non-binary novice showrunners who secured some high-billing talent and picked unreasonably high crowdfunding goals, but you treated one of them with a lot of grace and understanding... and then turned around and not only accused the other of essentially being the problem with the current state of podcasting, but also called them cis in the process despite having acknowledged their pronouns earlier in your write-up. That was... certainly something. It's almost like you had a specific point you wanted to make, so you just sort of conveniently forget that Stephen is non-binary to make it. That or you don't actually think Stephen is non-binary and were engaging in some passive-aggressive gatekeeping, which also sucks, just in a different way.

this is 100% something I fucked up on, I will readily admit that. my accidental erasure of Stephen's identity as a non-binary person is not okay, intentional or not.

I wrote the initial post gradually over the course of just over a week, top to bottom, and then did a quick skim of it at the end to make sure things were still up-to-date in accordance with any updates to the campaign itself. a result of this is that between when I started the post (where I included Stephen's pronouns of "he/they)" and when I was writing some of the later parts I had forgotten this. I think part of the reason is that the campaign is not really about Stephen, so it isn't like there are consistent references to him as an individual. in the few places there are, such as the intro section of the main text and the FAQ, "he" is used exclusively, which I think mistakenly put that in my mind as Stephen having a male gender identity because I hadn't seen a self-identification as being non-binary on their website or Twitter. but someone deciding to use a specific set of pronouns in the text of something like this (to avoid confusion or for any other reason) does NOT invalidate their use of other pronouns elsewhere. similarly you don't have to outwardly proclaim your gender identity for it to be respected and not assumed as cis.

I am genuinely very sorry about this, it was a mistake and I am in the process of editing the original post to reflect Stephen's proper gender identity.

now then.

let's talk about the difference between Nigel (Among the Stacks) and Stephen and the way I approached them, because you're right that there was a difference.

I think a key way that these two projects differ is that one of them was very clearly made by someone who didn't know what they were doing and was in over their head. Among the Stacks was a clear trainwreck from the moment they started revealing how bloated the cast and crew were. I had many conversations with other creators during that early time where we were all wondering how this thing could function with so many cooks in the kitchen, and how you could have a coherent story with that many characters. it was clearly a product of someone new and over-excited who didn't have a real idea of how to do what they were dreaming of.

in contrast, Shelterwood seems to be genuinely well-thought out and approached like it was created by someone who has done their research and been part of the community for a while. it has a full concept with a clearly outlined size and goals and is a very realistic sounding first project. if it weren't for the goal and the rewards we wouldn't be talking about it at all. as a pitch it is perfectly reasonable.

I went a bit easier on Nigel because just from looking a lot of us could tell that Among the Stacks was going to end in disaster. we didn't know when or how, just that there was no way a project like that could actually succeed. I also knew from interactions between Nigel and other people that she was not very good at taking critique or hearing other people out on stuff that they didn't agree with. I went into that post with the intention of being harsh but fair, because I wanted Nigel to hear what I had to say and LISTEN. not just brush it off as "someone is jealous of my amazing idea and so they are being mean". I was still a bit mean in that post at some parts, I will admit that. my tone can swing a bit far on the sarcastic side, especially the longer I spend on a given post digging into things.

Shelterwood is full of people who should know better, something that it makes a point to brag about. it isn't just one person's dream project that they don't know how to wrangle, Stephen is clearly a proficient showrunner to have pulled all of this together (and I do genuinely find the show's concept to be interesting, even if I didn't really communicate that in the post as much as I could have). Stephen has ALSO been around the block a few times in regards to working on audio dramas, whether or not they have helmed their own. this means that from the start my expectations for them were higher.

my goal was not to accuse Stephen of being "the problem", but I think that this campaign is INDICATIVE of a lot of the "the problems" going on right now with audio drama crowdfunding.

I did seriously think about pulling the last section into a completely separate post, but what I wrote applies to the context of this campaign and so I felt it was important to have that connection. if I had been able to fully communicate my thoughts on it before now, say for the Arden campaign, it would have been part of that post. but it took me a lot of time to get those words down in a way that actually communicated what I think the problem is.

I know having it as part of the Shelterwood post has an implication, and the implication is correct that this campaign is PART of the problem, but it isn't the whole problem.

It's also very weird that you lumped Shelterwood, Arden, Among the Stacks and Afflicted in with The Magnus Protocol, which was on an entirely different level. They're not comparable. Not a single one of those first four shows actually made their crowdfund goals. In Afflicted's case, the all or nothing state of the crowdfund means 100% of that money was returned to backers. The Among the Stacks crowdfund was cancelled. Which means that for 50% of your given examples, literally none of that money ended up tied up in those shows rather than being contributed to other, smaller shows. This is not comparable with The Magnus Protocol crowdfund situation, and I think you know that.

it's 100% true that The Magnus Protocol is on a whole other level than these other campaigns, I said as much in my write-up. it is not comparable and I wasn't attempting to compare nearly $1 million USD to $26,000.

what I was attempting (and may have failed) to do was to point out that what Rusty Quill did was change the playing field for the worse. when looking at those two numbers you can much more easily make attempts to justify the high goals being asked for here, because in comparison that's downright reasonable to what they raised.

as a note: TMP had a funding goal of £15,000 (approx. $19,500 USD). so they weren't actually asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars to make 3 seasons of a show. in fact, what they asked for is less than the campaigns I'm trying to call out here. that Kickstarter has a lot of things that were suspect about it and felt slimey and exploitative, but the asking price was not really one of them.

however.

just because they didn't ASK for that much money doesn't mean they didn't know it would happen (maybe not to that extent, but still). this still had the same impact, which from what I can tell is making some people think that audio drama crowdfunding is for making a profit.

as for the next point about none of the shows except for TMA 2 hitting their goals:

the amount they are walking away with isn't really the point.

at the end of the day, it's about the fact that the more stuff like this happens, the more it is NORMALIZED. and these kinds of goals getting normalized is harmful.

as an example, in the world of video games there is something called "microtransactions". for anyone who doesn't know, these are additional, small purchases you make in a game that you often have already paid upwards of $60-70 USD for. in the beginning, they were marketed as "just cosmetic" and not going to impact gameplay. and so people didn't fight back too hard when EVERY game started implementing them. but of course, what that did was move the bar. it normalized people paying extra money on top of their purchase for something that used to be included for free with a game. and so the companies started pushing the needle further. and further.

now, this isn't a direct parallel for a lot of reasons, but when greed is being put forward as normal again and again (even when it continues to result in failure) it starts to cement it as something "normal". something to be expected.

the larger problem here is that these are unsustainable amounts of money to be trying to get out of the community.

which connects to this next section:

Speaking of The Magnus Protocol, there's also an assumption being made here that someone deprived of the option of helping one of these shows reach their crowdfund goal is automatically going to donate to another show... and I need you to remember that The Magnus Protocol's final tally was something stupid like 4000% of their original goal. Lower crowdfunding goals don't stop people from contributing once that goal has been reached. People just keep donating to that project. None of those people were donating to make sure the thing got made- they were donating because they liked The Magnus Archives, and the hard to swallow pill here is that that doesn't mean they would've contributed to other crowdfunds otherwise. I have my own issues with The Magnus Protocol thing. But the statement that that crowdfund snatched money out of the pockets of smaller shows by having an unreasonably high goal just straight-up does not hold water. That's nothing. It's 4000% less than nothing. You're allowed to be mad that that campaign got such a ridiculous amount of funding when so many smaller shows are struggling. You don't need to couch it in pseudo-logic to justify feeling that way. We're all mad about it. It's okay.

this is definitely a good call-out, this person is right that someone not donating to one campaign does not mean that money will go to another. in a lot of cases, the only reason someone sees a campaign is because it is being promoted by the things they already like (in The Magnus Protocol's case that obviously being The Magnus Archives), and that means they probably aren't going to be choosing between every campaign that is out there and deciding where their $5 is going to go. they might just as easily pocket it and buy a nice coffee the next day.

and that absolutely sucks, because it would be nice for the love that some people have towards specific shows to be something that extends to the whole medium.

but I do think there's something to be said for feeling like even a small donation is making an impact. I would feel kind of bad to only be able to give $20 towards a $10k+ goal, it isn't even a drop in the bucket towards what is needed and if I care enough to donate to something I do want it to succeed. but that same $20 to a campaign only asking for $3000? that's a lot more tangible of an impact. enough so that I could feel good about splitting that $20 between two projects maybe.

that isn't 100% the point of what you were saying, I know that. the reality is that not everyone in this community has a general investment in the success of others.

I think where that becomes the biggest problem is when some people only seem to have an investment in themselves, and no one else. that's where these things become problems, when the larger needs of the community are ignored for the sake of a few who repeatedly succeed.

I'm kind of bleeding a bit into my response to the next part, so here that chunk is:

And do I agree that we as a community need to start talking about what is and is not realistic when it comes to crowdfunding? Yeah, absolutely. You have a point there. That's a valuable and timely observation and I'm glad somebody said it. Unfortunately, the value of that point was absolutely buried by the extremely obvious fact that this time, in this case, something about this project is personal for you. I don't know what it is specifically, but I do feel the need to ask: You are aware that Tal Minear is involved in the show as a graphic designer and minor actor, right? They have nothing to do with the crowdfund or the rest of production. Their name being attached doesn't mean they're secretly running the show. This is not Tal's show. They'd be credited as a producer if they were that involved. So why do you feel the need to keep bringing them up? Anyway, it's extremely difficult to take your analysis in good faith when it's so transparently motivated by some sort of personal distaste for somebody/the people in the project, and that's a shame, because some of the things you're saying have value.

I certainly didn't shy away from pointing a bit of a finger at Tal Minear for promoting this ideology, among others. their clear involvement in this project makes me immediately more suspicious, because Re: Dracula was a self-admitted cash grab. and that stain on their character is not going to go away for me.

it's less that it's "personal" for me, and more that this is a figure in the community that I have repeatedly seen presented as an expert that MUST be listened to. including by themself. ESPECIALLY when it comes to the matter of crowdfunding.

now, if I were friends with someone like that AND they were involved with my project that was about to have a campaign, would I not lean on that resource? even just for advice on how to put it together and what needs to be included. Tal just wrote a small little article for Descript that has some very generic crowdfunding tips, so they are arguably the most knowledgeable person involved in the campaign to go to for advice and feedback.

I know for a fact that Tal has given crowdfunding advice unsolicited to people running campaigns, usually in the form of asking why crew is not being paid appropriately (a valid question in most cases where actors tend to get a huge portion of the budget). so I can't imagine a world where they didn't give at least a little input to a friend for a show that they are actively involved in.

I don't think they are running anything behind the scenes, no, Tal is not part of some audio drama Illuminati. but I do recognize the high esteem to which they are held by MANY community members.

my goal was to call out the culture that has grown around audio drama crowdfunding, and the ways that I've seen it hurting most people who attempt to do it. I have noticed that Tal is a big part of what has normalized that.

as for the ways in which I brought them up, yeah I like to be a bit snide and I probably laid it on a bit thick. it's easy to get carried away in these things, especially towards someone that I am admittedly not a huge fan of.

that is the extent to which it could be considered "personal" for me, but I understand if you don't believe that or if that still had too much of an impact on taking the rest of what I said seriously. that is your choice and I respect it, it's just very difficult for me to separate out their involvement given what I know outside of this.

You're just completely undercutting that value by surrounding it with so much pointless nitpicking and snideness. What happened to "#but actually my intention is to be thoughtful and not mean"? You claim to be acting in the interest and defense of the community, but as the creator of a small podcast that nets me absolutely zero profit, I'm not feeling it. This feels like it's about you, not the rest of us.

this is absolutely fair.

I am just one person at the end of the day. I've talked to others, discussed the situation surrounding this campaign and others like it with them, but I am the one typing it down and inserting my voice and my take on it.

as such, I am not going to be a perfect mouthpiece for everyone's thoughts about this stuff.

I WANT to be one that is largely beneficial, however.

sometimes I lean a bit heavy into the snideness for the sake of keeping things interesting; these write-ups are LONG and as a writer I recognize you have to do something to keep people engaged so they actually absorb what you are saying.

is that the right approach? probably not for everyone, but it is part of a reflection of my own voice that it comes out like this.

"#but actually my intention is to be thoughtful and not mean" is something I wrote, something that I still want to keep in mind but sometimes I fail at that. in this case, I found it hard to stick to.

repeatedly seeing campaigns like this is disheartening to me, it wears me out. there is an amount of what a lot of people might see as "bitterness", but it's not really about any specific project or person.

I think my massive fucking rant at the end of that post about capitalism ruining audio dramas with the need to make money unsustainably says a lot about how I feel about the current financial state of the world. a lot of that "bitterness" is from this deep rage towards to the system, directed outwards where it can be. maybe the flow of it was a bit strong on this one, but it is still an accurate reflection of the way that I see things.

note, an accurate reflection to ME. it's okay if it isn't accurate to you, that's part of why the conversations need to happen.

part of why I do the math breakdowns for the budget is to help myself try and get a grasp on what those numbers mean. the human brain is not really formatted to understand large quantities of things, especially something that is usually intangible in those high amounts like money. I also do it because I want to give someone the opportunity to say "actually, you're wrong because this does add up. you are just missing part of the picture."

I know the way I approached this might come off as defensive, that's not my intention. I decided to break it down like this so that no one would think I'm trying to skip over feedback or ignore certain points that make me look bad.

everything that this person said to me is a valid response to what I wrote, including the things I pushed back on.

I am very grateful that they reached out to me, and I want to continue the conversation. ESPECIALLY if they feel that I did not hear them here.

my responses are just that. a response. they are not a claim of being right or these reactions being unjustified. we are all only in our own heads, and the conclusions we come to are usually based in rationality. my mind is open to being changed, I want to see as full a picture as possible.

if you disagree with what I've said, that is fine.

if you agree with what I've said, that is fine.

if you aren't sure, that is also fine.

we're talking about something complex and nuanced and just because I'm the one bringing these things up doesn't mean I have the RIGHT opinion or that I am the person who SHOULD be saying it.

there is a reason that I am anonymous here, and it's mostly because the conversation is more important than who is speaking.

as always, my inbox and Asks are open.

feedback welcome, I mean that.

[finkisun]

[acertainmoshke]

Character intro: Nozomu Rivera

WIP: To Die Among the Stars

Age: 27

Pronouns: he/him

Appearance: not overly tall but incredibly muscular (in a practical not body builder way) with light golden skin, black almond-shaped eyes, and silky black hair just long enough for a ponytail.

From the time Nozomu started school, he wanted to be a wrestler. He was the third of four brothers and they roughhoused all the time and he love loved for it. It got then scolded but theirs was a safe family—kind and loving and loyal. They didn’t have too much but weren’t exactly starving and were able to play soccer in the streets, play guitar in the evenings, and stay in school until they graduated.

And then he achieved his dream--the wrestling leagues! That wasn't as hard as it sounds, but it was what he'd wanted so he was happy. It was competitive, but these weren't the true celebrity leagues, just the ones mostly watched and participated in by poor people from the local community. A community that he loved, and was delighted to realize that his wrestling could help his family and neighbors. He frequently won a moderate amount of prize money but never kept more than he needed for rent and food.

He was fine renting a tiny, claustrophobic apartment because he never really spent any time there. This was a community where people could and would share everything. He helped in the community garden, went shopping for neighbors, etc. He tried to feel good about the joy around him and ignore the fact that he wasn't even chipping away at the larger issues.

His other big hobby was music. He wasn't a talented musician at all, but he liked to sing and he collected all his favorite tracks in a rare physical form (idk CDs? Or would records have lasted better? I'll figure that out later).

When he saw the ad for the mission, he initially thought nothing of it--it didn't seen relevant to him. But it did to some of his neighbors, and the community council that his mother was on that year decided someone should volunteer, list their own family as beneficiaries, and the food and money would be shared. Everyone was struggling that year and honestly had been for the last few years.

The lot was somewhat random. Everyone got a chance to pull their name out, to make an excuse not to do this. Everyone remaining was physically and mentally able to do something like this, at least based on the information they had about it. He could have said no, technically, although it would have been shameful. But he was proud for the chance to really do something to help.

Tag list: @blind-the-winds @hd-literature