#and only vaguely recognize it

[chamerionwrites]

Possibly The most surprising thing I have discovered on the internet is the number of people who will unironically refer to others as "degenerates" without expecting anyone reading this to immediately assume that they are a straight-up fascist

[canisalbus]

My headcanon for Modern!Machete before he encounters (re-encounters?) Vasco is that he works in some high-powered but low-profile position for an influential and well-known multinational. Like a corporate lawyer or accountant for Apple or Volkswagon or Shell. He's very, very good at his job, his assistants and staff think he's a good boss, his boss thinks he's great, but half his colleagues can't stand him because they think he got promoted for sucking up to their boss instead of for his skills (it was for his skills). He's got exactly enough interpersonal skills to recognize the problem and not enough to fix it. He gets paid extremely well, well enough to mostly pretend that he's happy and fulfilled (he still ends up happier in the Modern!AU because his job only sucks a little instead of literally destroying him. Also because modern medicine means his medical situation is much better understood and controlled). Yes this is all just the modern equivalent to what canon!Machete's got going on but it's startling how much carries over with no changes.

Oh that's so well thought out actually, I love that.

[silverskye13]

rotating some asks you answered back in July in my head

uve told us so far that if a hermit grows past their problems, the helsmet that was a manifestation of those problems dies, and if a helsmet grows past that problem that they were made to address, they become their own person, and sometimes even a saint

...what happens to the hermit, in that second case? do they still have those problems? does it change shape? is a new helsmet created to take the spot the other helsmet left behind?

Some important distinctions:

If a hermit addresses the problem that made their helsmet: An RnS example being, if Tango realized he had a codependency problem and worked on that problem, so that codependency was no longer a problem that impacted his daily life, his helsmet would die. This is growing past the problem by solving the problem, and changing so that the problem no longer harms you.

If a helsmet addresses the problem they were made from: An example being, if Tanguish realized he was the manifestation of Tango's codependency issues, and recognized that wasn't the only thing he has to be, he is other things as well. This may end in solving the problem, no longer being codependent, but doesn't necessarily have to end that way, the emphasis is on becoming your own person, not on solving a specific issue. This is growing past the problem by not letting it define who you are.

When a helsmet self-actualizes, becomes their own person undefined by the problem that created them, nothing happens to their hermit counterpart. Their other half was already their own person. I think at most they might feel temporary relief -- something that was weighing on their soul, dragging them down, reminding them of faults and failures, is gone. However, the root of their problem isn't solved. So the universe could make a new helsmet. Or, because that problem no longer weighs as heavily, a new problem could take its place and the universe will make a helsmet for it instead [this is what I imagine keeps happening to Xisuma lol].

In my mind, the helsmets are like the incarnations of a narrative device. The hermits have no reason to change -- they live in a relatively consequence free world. To inspire them to change and be better people, a helsmet is made. In a standard character arc, they would meet their evil half, do their battle at the center of the mind that addresses that evil half, defeat that evil half, and leave changed for the better.

But if a hermit doesn't want to live that story [Tango] or if a helsmet doesn't fit that story [Tanguish], sometimes the universe does weird things.

Hopefully? That answers your question?

[antiyourwokehomophobia2]

I wonder what it is about breaking up with someone and starting new that I find so upsetting. I realize that people also find break ups heartbreaking, but I know I take it to an extreme. I've never liked the idea of having different partners throughout my life. The idea of having an ex has always been something I hated. The type of breakup didn't matter to me. That is to say whether we ended on good or bad terms didn't make the idea of ending a relationship better to me. I'm not trying to be pretentious about it, I'm just being fr about a sentiment I've held for as long as I can remember. I've never been the type of person who enjoyed the idea of hook ups or casual dating. For better or worse, I've always held the belief that romantic relationships should be all in and serious from the beginning.

I think this feeling is definitely exacerbated by the fact that I've been passed up for another person before so I know what it's like to have someone "move on" from you, and it genuinely sucks like all fucking hell lmao. So the idea of "moving on" and being with someone else has been incredibly tarnished for me.

[wouteke]

Alcaraz as if I saw him once in a dream and rendered him thusly

[thingsaday]

Battling art block back with a large stick - come join the battle by suggesting some character(s) for me to draw!

[totmatsu]

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[saturnniidae]

New favorite phenomenon is when I dig through archived blogs for decade old httyd art then my mutuals reblog it back into circulation like yess go forth my warriors share this piece of our history spread it far and wide

[peribirb]

my beloved friends and mutuals, i am sorry to report i have once again changed my profile picture now that i have some Cool Fursona Art courtesy of @shyhandart (and @ilikecorndogs who didn't make it but did pay for it so kjdfgh)

[oncillaphoenix]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Characters: Verbena | Anthea, Dark Trinity | Shadow Triad, N | Natural Harmonia Gropius, Helena | Concordia Additional Tags: the dog does not die btw the dog is fine, actually none of the humans listed in the tags die either, it's more of a 'haunting the narrative' situation Summary:

Fifteen years after the first time Team Plasma disbanded, Anthea Harmonia runs into someone she never thought she would see again.

[chimaerabutt]

If you’re afraid of reading anything written by anyone with conflicting views to you because you think consuming media of “the enemy” will lead to thoughtcrime, you should perhaps do some deep thinking on the religious trauma you still need to deconstruct, and examine why you have replaced religious dogmatism with an ideological dogmatism your belief in is somehow so fragile that simply reading the wrong thing could shatter it.

It is important to read things, even doctrine heavy manifestos, by those ideologically opposed to you. It is important to understand their viewpoint and the people that wrote them.

Understanding is NOT agreeing with. Reading is NOT agreeing with. If you do not understand, do you even know what you are opposing? If you do not understand what you oppose, do you even know what YOU believe?

The less you understand those you are against, the less you understand about their beliefs, the shakier your own arguments, the more susceptible you are to propaganda, and moreover, the more likely you are to Other them. Normal human beings are capable of absolutely terrible things. YOU are no less capable of absolutely terrible things because you think the Right Thoughts ™️

Your enemy is still human.

Your enemy is still human.

Your enemy is still human.

Do not cling to political ideology as though it is a new religious doctrine with its own forms of “Sin”.

Important and Good are not synonyms. Many important things are terrible.

They are still important.

[williamkisser]

✰— Ossi Oswalda on vintage postcards (1920s)

[dreampearls]

oh yeah and it goes without saying the colleikillua isms exists. somehwere.

[totheidiot]

one good thing about writing a very time-period accurate short story set in the 70s is that i can make a part of my character's backstory that he summoned the ghost of winston churchill and that was how he had realized that he just had the ability to summon ghosts.

[supersodapop]

I was being vague in a twitter post today to avoid transphobes and one of my supposed friends got offended by it and when I clarified they only seemed to get more angry and I'm like IDK how to get out of this situation now because I made it clear it isn't about them but I feel like this now:

[pawbeanies]

me cutely and politely calling a doctor's office in the morning for work related reasons

they r Firm (MEAN!!) to me