#and...everyone else basically. eventually.

[gearbox-dollhouse]

hi !! do you have any tips for a bodily singlet whose transitioning to plural/DID ?? ^^

Sorry this took so long, anon! We were low on spoons;;;

Here's some transplural tips!

For us, subliminals are a godsend! Our main playlists are here, here, here, and here! Please tell us if the links don't work!

Talking to yourself helps! Hold conversations with yourself when you're making decisions, doing something you like, etc!

Pretend you have an audience! What I do is if I'm working on something, or reading something, or whatever, I'll pretend like someone (the alter) just walked in and asked what I'm doing. Then I'll pretend to have a conversation with them about it and invite them to join me! (I'll read out loud to them, get extra paper out for drawing, ask them questions about whatever it is we're watching, etc!) Engage with them like you're hosting a friend at your house! I'll also do it if I'm outside by myself, pretending I ran into a friend!

Personal rp/plotting! I've kind of always done this? It's basically the above stuff, but you pretend to be the alter and instead talk to other headmates or people from their source! The best part is you can do whatever plot you want! I used to do this with Harry Potter characters a lot. It also helps if you're stuck on to progress the plot of a story you're writing! Pretend to be the main character, make a decision, and then imagine how everyone else would react!

Fake it til you make it! We set up pks and simplyplurals for, and basically roleplay as the alter we want. Eventually, they'll show up!

As a bonus, you can engage with intentionally stressful, traumatizing, or triggering things while doing these to help make splitting them easier, depending on what kind of origin you want! We'll also do stuff like imagining super bad things that could happen to us (easy with our anxiety causing us to overthink and imagine every horrible possibility) while engaging with media of the desired alter/imagining them!

Hope this helps!!

Feel free to ask questions or ask for more specific tips!

[galaxyg1204]

I MANAGED TO FINISH MY ESSAYS THAT WERE DUE TODAY SO I'M POSTING THIS AS A LIL TREAT FOR MYSELF

Basically, a scenario in which the Inversion had just ended and Marie Greer appears, worried for the sake of the pack and for her son.

(I don't write often so please forgive me if it's ass)

The dreadful apocalypse has ended. Everyone was getting treated, frantically finding loved ones, relief, agony, pain, almost any emotion you could think of. It was here.

"You still holding up?"

"I'll manage."

A few members of the pack were gathered together, getting treated by the doctors and healers present. David, Asher, Tank and their mates, huddled together keeping each other company.

"David!"

A distant cry caught their attention, and members of the pack knew that voice all too well.

"...Marie...?" David says, in a state of disbelief.

He, and everyone else, saw the woman rush up to them, a mix of worry and relief on her face as she cried out to them. Once she reached them, she immediately pulled David into her grasp.

"Thank the stars above you're alive!" She cries, "I was so worried!"

She begins to hug and check everyone.

"Are you all alright?"

"We're fine, Marie. There's no need to worry," says Asher, trying to reassure her.

Marie let's out a sigh of relief and took one last look around, and that's when she realized...

"...David...where's Milo?"

"..."

David stays silent, unsure of what to say as to not worry her. But Marie was far from calm already. Sure he managed to communicate with him, but his whereabouts? Unknown to him.

"David, where is my son!?"

"...I-"

"David..."

Tank catches David's attention and points out into the distance.

"Look."

Everyone turns to see a dark figure moving closer amongst the mist. As it grew more clear, it was someone carrying another person in their arms, and as it grew even more clearer, everyone's eyes widen.

"...Sneaks..."

"...Milo..."

Marie immediately rushed up to the two, seeing how the detective was struggling to walk, ultimately falling to their knees.

"Miles!"

Sweetheart looked up to see their boyfriend's mother rushing to them, crying out in a panic. Marie, once close enough, reached out and touched their face.

"Oh honey, are you alright?"

"I'm...fine, Marie..."

Both of them turned their attention to the man being carried. His eyes closed and breathing patterns uneasy.

"...Miles..."

Marie kneels down and gently cups her son's face. The injuries that she saw visible on him pained her, and the fact that he wasn't awake didn't help either. She then places her other hand on his chest, trying to feel his heart.

The rest of the pack eventually catch up to see the state of their pack member and friend. Some look away, not bring able to bare the sight, while others feel like the can't look away.

Marie cries as she worries for her son, but a small shiver runs through her body when he feels a rough hand over her own. She looks down at her hand at his chest, and saw a rough, scratched up hand had slid over hers.

Marie turns back to her son's face, seeing how his eyes were now ever so slightly open and a weak smile forms on his face.

"...Hi, ma..."

Marie breaks out into tears and a smile, as she moves to rest her forehead on his. Everyone else became relieved when they saw him awake.

"Even after all these years, you still find a way to have me worried sick," says Marie.

"Yeah yeah, scold me later."

Milo winces in pain as he tries to move.

"Hey, don't try to move too much," says Sweetheart,"I got you..."

"...Alright, all of you, healing stations. Now."

[kintatsujo]

eventually I would like to talk more about how Ryoko Kui writes about bigotry and her characters' own unexamined biases but I'm having trouble tracking what people don't know yet because I'm waiting to watch the anime XD

That said, Kabru's unexamined bias against demihumans (mostly from extras that won't even make it into the anime) is specifically interesting to me because he's essentially the setting's most self examined character when it comes to this shit, so far as we know; he's actively THOUGHT about the relationships between the short lived and long lived races because of his own experiences, and he's the closest the story has to basically a short-lived race rights activist, and on top of all of that he's also one of the most compassionate and least self centered members of the cast, and has a kobold friend he's shown to be very kind to, the same way he's kind to everyone else

and yet he still has that one blind spot

This is extremely human and real.

And at the same time for reasons I won't go into (because I KNOW the anime isn't THERE yet) we also know he must grow past the places he has room to grow, because while all the problems of the world aren't solved it has to be good enough to see the changes happen person by person, even in the people who seem like they've got it figured out at first.

So even after what we see of them in the story, we know these people are still developing and growing and even changing for the better a lot of the time.

And idk, she's such a good fucking writer, I want to throw things about it

[bluerosefox]

Fenton Coded

Tim... Tim just stared.

He...

Huh.

He had once entertained the idea that he wasn't really a Drake, a very long time ago when he overheard his mom and dad arguing and some words were said in the heat of the moment, but to be honest Tim always thought the obvious culprit of anyone being his dad would most likely be Bruce (Bruce even admitted he had a small fling with his mother but that was two years before her marriage)

But before little Tim's curiosity could really take hold on the idea, he had saw on the news Robin performing a Grayson flip and the hint of Tim not being a Drake left his mind. Robin was Dick Grayson! And if he was Robin that had to mean Bruce Wayne was Batman!

Then well... his stalking of the Bats started and the rest became history.

But now, as Tim was staring at his own DNA test, something he never bothered to do until that damned Demon brat wanted to make sure he was ONLY blood son of Bruce (and doing a DNA test something even Bruce never thought of doing due to well… how he was towards Tim during his first months as Robin)

He well…

He kinda needs to find out who this Daniel Jackson Fenton is.

(Tim finds out he isn’t a Drake, but also not a Wayne (because Damian wanted to make sure he was only blood son) but is instead a Fenton)

[fishyartist]

Ui idea tests, thrown together bc im eepy. Was planning on doing more but I spent all my days energy on the second one oops

[here-there-were-dragons]

just read the new hatchling skin rules and am having Some Type Of Initial Emotional Reaction and am now writing down said Initial Emotional Reaction uncensored as i currently Strongly Feel A Type Of Way and Require Venting. i cannot word this more politely. i do not have the capability to render this rage into polite borderline corporate-speak for the sake of the damn rules that act like anything short of apologizing for being alive to make up for having even the most constructive understanding friendly criticism or even personal mild non-critical dislike of something like a color or a breed is tantamount to personal targeted hatemail. i cannot wait until i cool into calm bitterness later because if i think about this enough to write about it again i will just go right back to being furious and the fact that everyone ielse who's complaining is focusing entirely on the lolita fashion thing and not on in my opinion the far more significant and offensive part is pissing me off even more. extremely angry unedited ranting ahead

fr having it's own "female presenting nipples" moment right now, not that i'm particularly surprised, they've been a prime example of "conservative protestantism in a lefty-language veneer" for a long while now.

"don't adultify" is such a fucking vague and easily selectively interpreted rule, not to mention insulting for a number of reasons,

but putting that part aside the whole idea of "nothing that suggests that the dragon is an adult in a young body" is. look, i'm not exactly fond of the "adult who looks like an anime schoolgirl" trope myself, but i fail to see how in the absolute FUCK having it be canon in-universe that it is both possible and legal for someone to be forced to stay as a child permanently, is somehow LESS creepy than just saying eternal youth dragons have dwarfism. also, fuck you to anyone with dwarfism apparently i guess?

and "no zombie baby dragons" is just stupid. even fucking minecraft has baby zombies, and microsoft has steadily butchered that game into one of the most t for toddler babymode things on earth this side of cocomelon.

and "no scars on hatchlings" so fuck you to any kids with scars too apparently, even though that's way more common than anyone seems to realize. you hear that, kids? if you're under 18 and have scars your very existence is too obscene for public view. 13+ year olds will be irreparably traumatized if they have to know you exist at all! fuck you disabled kids and fuck you amputee kids and fuck you any kids that have suffered anything ever at all for not appearing as a perfect unspoiled image of conservative christian child-doll innocent purity. flight rising staff says your body and existence is inherently too nsfw to even be acknowledged as existing much less visually seen. everyone knows REAL children don't get damaged at all, and if they do then they're too horrifying and defective at their job of Being A Child Properly to exist in public spaces! how dare ugly things that might make us uncomfortable with their existence by contradicting out ideals about aesthetic moral purity be allowed where good respectable normal people can see them!

i don't say any of these words lightly, and i'm very much not the type to go around calling people whatever-ists and in fact find that kind of thing extremely annoying, useless, reductive, and more or less only ever see it used as a blunt cudgel to shame people into line so they don't question you, and have historically found it especially annoying when people pull out the accusations-of-ism card on fr staff over things that are far more likely just completely understandable (if dubiously competent) issues of certain things simply not occurring to someone on code and design level due to lack of sufficient exposure to the idea, and have always been of the belief of giving them the benefit of doubt (even if often that just means i think they either most likely made an understandable mistake that i would likely also make, or, when i'm feeling less kind, that they're simply not particularly competent rather than actively hostile) so understand how much it means coming from me when i say- flight rising staff, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, fuck you, you ableist batch of pricks, so far up your own asses with your performative veneer of vaguely lefty-flavored language that you don't realize how fundamentally extremely conservative all of your actual beliefs underlying them are. for every update you make that i approve of there's another that does twice as much damage as the good update fixed (and i'm starting to wonder if you maybe know what you're doing with that too-always batching the fucked up shit on the tail end of some big thing you know people will be excited about, always hiding these controversial moderation changes under something shiny and new, to the point that now i dread any new good update that genuinely seems a step in the right direction and/or is something we've been wanting for awhile because i'm just constantly expecting the knife hidden behind the footnotes afterwards, the fucking "ban tiktok/gay marriage/strip rights from this population/end net neutrality/whatever/ect" clause stapled onto the end of a bill about something entirely unrelated functionally holding a change people want hostage until they allow the fucked up part through. i've been here most of the site's 10+ years and i've seen this sort of thing happen far, far too often.) and every year the shit that gets pulled on the management and moderation end of things makes me more and more almost glad i've never had an income to spend on this, and the fact that apparently the moderation behind every single other petsite in existence is somehow significantly worse fucking astounds me. the only reason i stay around here is because It's Free Dragon Pictures, because it's literally the only actually good petsite game i've ever played and not gotten sick of within a week or so (and really the only good low-energy game i've ever played in general, which i'm increasingly convinced is in spite of it's management), and because somehow, despite all of this shit, i still genuinely love the game itself, because unfortunately by some accident of creation it seems they apparently stumbled purely by coincidence into making an actually good game idea no one else quite has. and after all the fuckery that gets constantly pulled, i refuse to believe the game being good is anything other than, much like many of the of the incidents i think they're unfairly accused of malice and -ism over, an accident.

Disabled children too obscene to fucking exist. fuck you. good to know half the child population's existence requires a trigger warning to even be allowed to be acknowledged as existing to you. good to know if the heart surgery i had when i was 11 had left any visible external scars i would be considered inherently too obscene to exist to you. good to know if the overhealed and benignly potentially cancerous scar on my back from whatever actually happened when i was a toddler (i don't trust either of my parents to ever be accurate about something like that) was in a more visible spot you would demand i have a trigger warning to post selfies online. good to know if any of the shit that's broken me emotionally left visible physical marks you would think it was good and right for me to be forcibly hidden from good normal people's view and considered too taboo for even the slightest discussion without hiding it with makeup and lies, just so i don't make good, lucky, undamaged, normal people uncomfortable, god fucking forbid. should we hide the gays too, since they also make so many people uncomfy? i imagine it won't be long before disabled adults are too obscene for your polite societytm sensibilities too. i've had the feeling for a long time that amputee and disabled skins were living on borrowed time with your rules, kept technically not explicitly dissalowed where all other forms of injury and ""body horror"" are banned simply out of fear of the backlash it would cause to include them, and well. the doomsday clock on that one just got a little bit closer to midnight, huh?

the only reason i wasn't a (physically, visibly, externally) scarred kid was pure sheer fucking luck. the only reason you weren't a physically scarred kid too is pure sheer fucking luck. the only reason you're not some type of disfigured or ugly or amputated or visibly injured or whatnot is pure sheer fucking luck. you're lucky. nothing more. if having to contend with that fact-the fact of how easily it could have gone a different way and there is nothing they would be able to do about it- makes good normal tm people uncomfortable, then well, get the fuck used to it, other people children very much fucking included don't exist to cater to the aesthetic sensibilities of a lucky perfect few. the only thing that separates you from the damaged ones you find too obscene is a bad day and an unlucky hand. and one day, even if you were lucky enough to escape being damaged when you were young, you and i will both be just like them too.

more festival skin winners slots is good. elemental swords sound fun.

[dykevanny]

had a really funny idea for an ask blog ft. Vanny and another plex employee oc,,

[pixelatedraindrops]

Hellooooooo

Have you ever thought about what Yomi's like when ill

probably just as insufferable as when he's healthy LMAO

[moongothic]

Crocodile having such an explosive debut in his early 20s and such deep trust issues could also point to him having an even EARLIER start a la Shanks as an apprentice or something to an older pirate and their crew as a child/teenager — doubling down on the humiliation factor from facing off whitebeard as also a failure to “come of age” and broader sense of betrayal in watching eager encouragement fickly turn to “what did you THINK would happen”s like the kid who gets egged on by their peers into doing something dangerous and then immediately abandoned when they hurt themselves

Can't say if he did have like an early start for sure, since we really don't know anything about Crocodile's early childhood

But simply considdering how Oda typically layers backstories, I absolutely agree, I do think it's more than likely he has somekind of pre-Whitebeard trauma, be it either unrelated childhood trauma or early-pirating-life trauma (or something else)

Like the way Oda structures backstories, although we always remember like The Big Life-Changing Tragedy that happens at the end of the flashback, more often than not the flashback already begins with something horrible to indicate the character's already had a rough life

Robin was already alone, abused and rejected by most of Ohara even before the Buster Call Incident (followed by a life of running in fear for decades)

Franky had already been abandoned by his family before he lost Tom and got ran over by a train

Law had already lost his entire family before Doffy killed Rosi

Etc etc. Like not all the flashbacks are entirely like this, especially the East Blue-saga ones, but the backstories have been growing in complexity and structure, adding layers to the tragedies (like 🧅 onions 🧅) as the story has gone on

And with Kuma, his backstory doesn't end at two layers of tragedy. Like there's the early childhood tragedy of slavery, then there's the tragedy of losing his loved one in the most cruel, inhumane way possible, and we know there's at least one more gut-punch of a tragedy coming in the next two chapters to finish it all off

So with Crocodile especially I feel like... Like yes, possibly getting betrayed once in his life and having his dreams crushed by Whitebeard could break the man's psyche. But considdering just how seemingly broken his psyche might be, I do absolutely believe there's more layers here. Like his trust must've been broken more than once for him to end up the way he has.

Which alone gives Crocodad a bit more plausibility in my mind, because being rejected by the person you loved and trusted the most would most certainly break your heart (even if it was understandable why). And that really would make for a fine Final Nail on the Coffin for Crocodile's ability to have faith in others

But to really get that broken trust to be an on-going theme in his life that just happens again and again.... yeah it needs to start earlier

Personally, I think some kind of early childhood trauma would make the most sense, at least to me, not just because it could help Crocodile get started "on the wrong foot", but also because Rough Childhoods is just. A General Theme in One Piece lmao. Of course, it wouldn't be The Key Life-Changing Tragedy (I think Dragon would be that), just a "bad start"

[hsohangout]

sort of repost since i deleted the post yesterday (didnt like the other doodle) but ive recently been thinking about a clone au by @risesthemoons and decided. hey why not make some silly doodles. and so i made silly doodles.

(icantbebotheredtodetailthehakurenuniformimsorry)

[sunlitmiracle]

smashes my current interest together with my old interest (aka yet another "what Dungeon Meshi but Gamers?" AU)

Once when I was a child I had a complete crying meltdown over Creatures, because the manual insisted that the complicated AI of the Norns made them truly alive and 10-year-old me was freaked out at the idea of being solely responsible for making sure these real animals wouldn't die. The funny part was that this was the Playstation version of Creatures, which has no biochemistry and very basic AI compared to the PC/Mac games where players actually were debating whether or not it was true artificial life. A PSX manual gave me existential dread and it wasn't even telling the truth.

Anyway, kid!Marcille would also have a meltdown over the Creatures series, especially if she had the computer games and got to see how vastly different some breeds' lifespans are. Like in C2 where you have Norns that live for around 5 hours and Norns that live for 10, both of which are vastly more than Ettins who don't even live for 1.5 hours (and usually less due to radiation or starvation).

Lucky for her, having the computer version means she could download modified genomes made by other players that make creatures live longer or even outright remove certain death triggers. However I think she'd have more fun learning to read and edit the genomes herself, to get a better understanding of how the game works and how to change it to suit her own tastes. And because she could pretend she's one of the mysterious ancient Shee who created the Norns, Grendels, and Ettins and then vanished, leaving behind relics of their old society.

(Speaking of Grendels, she would unfortunately dislike them because they're the Designated Evil Species and she'd hate how they harass and attack her Norns. I think she'd also pity them though, because they get sick a lot and have short lifespans. Likely she'd just end up downloading/creating a genome without the aggression towards Norns. Ettins she'd like except for in C3 when they dismantle her meticulously-placed gadget setups, so she might mod out their hoarding compulsions too. Both of them would of course also live for however long her Norns would live.)

Also. While standard creatures' lifespans are counted in hours, if you modify the half-lives in the genome editor you can increase it to centuries. Or even just over a millennium if you set the half-lives to their max length (assuming you also leave the old age death trigger at its vanilla value).

and I like to think that elven Creatures players would pass around copies of what they consider a template genome that's appropriate to their own lifespans. Something that would make their creatures live for weeks or months of continuous play. I also like to think the Creatures DS Warp is still active in this AU because of the hilarious frustration when these long-lived Norns travel to worlds run by short-lived players whose Norns have vanilla lifespans, and vice versa.

(Most of the time in Creatures, offspring of parents with different lifespans will just have one or the other, but there's a chance the genes cross over right in the middle of the various age triggers and cause unstable aging rates. Like a Norn that goes through the childhood stages in hours but then has a very extended adulthood. Or a days-long childhood followed by suddenly dropping dead of old age once the vanilla adulthood genes kick in. Or, if the child has one parent's half-life decay rate and the other parent's age triggers, all sorts of odd things could happen. I once had hybrid Norns who lived for 20 hours and would die of organ failure before reaching the old age threshold!)

(Now that I think of it, Marcille would absolutely hate fast-agers. The first time she watches a creature hatch, turn old, and die in just one brief minute of life, she would be sobbing for days. One of the first things she'd learn to mod out would be mutations that cause the Ageing/Life chemical to decrease unusually fast.)

On a lighter note, while I don't know what her favorite designs would be I think she'd love choosing cute breeds to use in her world. Once she figured out how to give her creatures the comfortable life she wants them to have I can see her redirecting all her gene-editing efforts into changing color expressions. She might even learn to sprite or model her own custom designs.

[kyouka-supremacy]

Mmmhh...

[silverutahraptor]

Cursed Eyes AU plot bunny

it came from the looong list of plot bunny docs

This is meant to be an inverse of the common trope “Red eyes are Blessed”. It came up in discussing the trope with @denialcity and @firecoloredwater, who have an absolutely stunning fic with that trope, the Blessed Sacrifice AU (which everyone should go read right because the worldbuilding is AMAZING).

Anyway, here’s a snippet from my Cused Eyes AU.

Concept:

They say red eyes are a warning from the gods—a warning of the greatest sin done, or the sin yet to come. After all, the gods would not bestow those red eyes on anyone other than a bloodline thief. An eye thief. Someone cursed to grasp for what can never be theirs. The Uchiha, of course, see it as their sacred duty to remove this evil from the world.

The river changes many things. Too many.

There are good things, too—Niisan has the Sharingan! So early! Even his former friendship with a Senju might be forgiven for that.

But what cannot be forgiven is Senju Butsuma’s youngest remaining son. Eyestealer, the Clan already whispers. Cursed by the gods with the vivid warning about his crime either past or yet to come. Only those who would commit the foulest of crimes are cursed with bearing those red eyes, so that the Uchiha may be warned in time.

No one wants to stain their hands with that blood, afraid it will bring misfortune and the very thing they fear on them, and yet it’s the Uchiha’s sacred duty to kill them. A duty that the Clan Head family has always taken up… but Izuna swallows and looks at his family. Tousan, who seem determined, yet there’s an unfamiliar tightness to his shoulders and the corner of his eyes that makes Izuna think of his two brothers buried in the last year. And Madara… he may not be Senju Hashirama’s friend anymore—it’s for the best—but Izuna knows with sudden, bone-chilling certainty that if he has to kill Hashirama’s last brother, something inside him will break.

“I’ll do it,” Izuna says instead, interrupting a low-voiced discussion between his father and his brother. “Let me do it.”

Madara immediately tries to dissuade from it. Izuna remains stubborn. “It makes more sense for me to do it.”

Their father looks thoughtful. “It might be for the best, Madara,” he eventually says. “Because of the age—Izuna’s and the... cursed one’s—there will be some leeway. He’ll have more time.” Tousan straightens up and puts a hand on Izuna’s shoulder. “Yes. You’ll have more time.”

_

And Izuna does have more time—even the most strict of the Elders are loath to send such a young second Clan Heir onto the front lines without enough preparation, it seems. And Izuna is optimistic: he'll train really hard and then he'll kill Butsuma's cursed son and make sure he never can steal any eyes.

Everything will be fine! His Clansmen seem to believe so, too, because Izuna gets to train with a lot of different people and the blacksmiths’ even make a sword just for him! He learns so many new jutsu in a short time! Tobirama will be dead very soon.

[piplupod]

shoutout to the time i thought juggalos were just a random type of clown in the same way rodeo and pierrot is, and I off-handedly mentioned them in a conversation about clowns to one of my DQ managers when I worked there, and she fucking lost her mind laughing and I was like. damn. I didn't think my joke was THAT funny but okay. and then I never looked up what a juggalo actually was until just last year, like four years after I'd stopped working at that place 🧍

[thegardengrows-infrozenrain]

him: babe i'm coming over you better not be bitchy rarity when i get there

me asf:

[kindaorangey]

an episode of spy x family where anya goes to becky's for a sleepover and so loid and yor get to take the evening off from being parents. they each make a big show of leaving the apartment to do their own thing before induvidually coming back home and taking a nap. bed-sharing shenanigans probably ensue.