#different mindset

[smoqueen]

for everyone asking about that daigo noodles video. If you dont "get it" you never will

[seirindono]

What would be Chara’s part to play in this AU. I know that they are probably human like Frisk or a ghost, but if they were human, would it really be that easy to get adopted by the Dreemurs? You said that Frisk was killed many times by Papyrus, so what did Chara do to not get killed? (That is, if Chara was adopted at all)

How did Chara survive? A fortunate turn of events, I'd say. But it's really largely thanks to Asriel and Toriel, respectively lesser Lord of Wrath and Lord of Envy at that time. Officially, Chara was a Human child full of wrath and resentment when they arrived in the Undergroud, and thus the perfect candidate to familiarize Asriel with his future role. Unofficially however, the two children got along very well right away and their friendship was backed up by Toriel who always had a great interest in Humans, and a great deal of fondness for her son and children. Asgore had no choice but to make an exception, but with a few conditions.

Chara was always to stay with one of them or their entourage and was not to interfere with their work. If they broke any of these rules, they would be sent home or executed.

This was a long time ago, before Gaster and Mel were banished, but they all disappeared around the same time. I'll save that story for another ask or post though! If you want more details about them!

[ask-the-celestial-family]

We have seen at least one world where you did get the star and reset the world. However you killed pretty much everyone except for Sun who you wiped. Things were really dull for you until a Moon (& a Lunar) dropped by. Though that dimension probably doesn't exist anymore since that Moon spawned a fully grown witherstorm before leaving. Which is fine because he admitted to killing his own Lunar and then mocked the 'visiting' Lunar so that "Lord Eclipse" deserved it

Mama. Mama! It huuuuuuuurts! -Eclipse🧸

Lunaaaar… -Eclipse🔥

[soulinkpoetry]

When you look at the world through trauma glasses, it looks so much different. Your reality changes once you have received therapy.

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[asillylittleduck]

I’m casting a spell that’ll cause all BMW drivers to hit me with their cars on my way to work tomorrow so I’ll have an excuse to call out

[theygender]

The more I learn about judaism the more I wonder where tf christianity got all its bad shit. Why is divorce a sin in christianity when judaism has recognized the right to divorce for nearly a millennia and has codified religious laws for it. Why does christianity consider sex to be dirty (to the point where puritans considered it a sin to enjoy having sex with your own spouse) when in judaism it's considered holy and it's a literal mitzvah to have sex with your spouse on the sabbath. Why does christianity consider it a sign that you're faithless if you question your religion when in judaism that's considered an essential part to developing your faith. I'm probably stating the obvious here but I still can't get over the fact that there's no historical basis to any of this shit before christianity started, it's like christians just said "hey guys what if we took the torah and built a new religion around it but this time it was actively hostile to human life"

[a-schmoozer-and-a-dummy]

when Angel and Husk get together- properly together, “i love you” together- Angel finally has to face the fact that what Valentino is doing to him, is abuse.

he knows that it’s bad, it’s fucked up, it’s an unhealthy power dynamic- but he’s never thought of it as abuse because at one point, a long time ago, he consented, and he signed that contract with a fairly decent idea of what he was getting into, and if this was abuse then he wouldn’t have signed up for it, right? right? and it’s not that angel is too dumb to see it for what it really is. Angel knows that Valentino is abusive and we see that when he stands up to him at the club and when he tries to get Val to ignore Charlie when she comes to the studio- but what gets me is the fact that Angel focuses more on protecting his friends than himself. Angel’s threshold for abuse is “you can do it to me, not to my friends,” and in a way isn’t that kind of consent in itself, right? so Angel isn’t really being abused, even though he openly admits to being exploited, right?

that’s what he desperately tries to tell himself, at least, even when he does try to break himself so Valentino can find another toy to play with.

so, no. Angel doesn’t think of himself as a victim of abuse until he gets closer to Husk, until he starts dating Husk, until Husk is asking for consent just to kiss him and holding him in a way that doesn’t make him feel caged in and letting angel bitch and moan all he wants. Angel doesn’t see himself as a victim of abuse until Husk apologizes for raising his voice at him during an argument and holds his shaky hands after a nightmare and listens to Angel when he asks for time alone.

and that makes going back to the studio that much harder.

because he finds has someone who will listen and respect his boundaries. he has someone who asks to touch him, even when just holding his hand, and someone who knows him well enough to make him a drink in advance when he gets home after a long day. he has someone who makes him want to get sober, someone who makes him believe in this whole redemption thing, someone he doesn’t have to perform in front of.

it’s hard to go back to Valentino. it’s harder knowing that Husk will be there at the end of the night, regardless of how fucked up Angel feels.

[thegreatcaptainusopp]

You wanna know something funny? Luffy has three grand “titles” or epithets that he achieves/is going to achieve/is associated with throughout the series, and they are:

Captain: He’s Captain of the Straw Hat pirates, and it’s a title that has great meaning to him and to his crew.

King: He wants to be King of the Pirates. It’s his ultimate goal.

God: He is the Nika fruit user, a mythical Zoan Sun God. He either harnesses the power of one or he now is one, but he is undoubtedly now fully connected to being a God in some capacity.

You wanna know who else has the exact same journey with titles? Usopp

Captain: Along with being the self-awarded “Great Captain Usopp”, he is also technically Captain of the Usopp pirates. It’s a title they fully and openly used for him and truly believed in. It’s counted by some to be an official pirate crew.

King: Sniper King! Self awarded title, and taken seriously by both some of his crew members and the world government and, by extension, the world at large. He really is seen and referred to as a King through that.

God: His current wanted poster moniker is God Usopp. That’s what everyone actually calls him now.

With both Luffy and Usopp, “Captain” and “King” are self-awarded or officially sought after. And for both, “God” is given to them by someone else

[yonch]

obligatory hand headcanons (handcanons if you will) for the isats

[nikoisme]

Okay so a little thing I noticed is how this random citizen flinches and calls Nimona "freak" when he sees her. This is actually a lot of people's reactions when they see someone using this style (punk rock ig, vibrant colors). And in my experience a lot of queer, especially trans people enjoy this style. You can see that Nimona's design is much different than those of the citizens', even when she is in her "human" form trying to blend in. Everyone is dressed pretty casually, like you could walk down the streets and see someone wearing their clothes. But Nimona stands out. And a lot of people are judgmental purely if someone stands out and doesn't follow their traditional beliefs, norms and roles.

[insecateur]

Does it matter?

[woolying]

Danganronpa WLWeek Day 2: Protag/Antag !!! feat. kirizono

I saw this post by @/ministarfruit and it rewired my brain forever thank you for your service

@danggirlronpa

[serendipitous-posts]

I fucking loved the movie but they did cut out some things that I wished stayed in

The treatment of the Tributes. The way they dance for food, they're treated by vets, they're chained to the truck in the parade while corpses are dragged down the street

The little plot line where Lyssie is saved from the bombs by Jessup and defends him on camera

The moment that implies Tigris was a prostitute

Clemensia up and about

Ma Plinth and her relationship with Snows, because it's so Fucked and I can't not think about it constantly

In general the Capitol being kinda uncertain about it all? In the books a lot of them are uncomfortable about it and make it known but here it's just Sejanus and Tigris really

Don't get me wrong, I really really like it, I was just surprised they skipped over some of these

[web-kindle]

Frederick and Bright Eyes Original Storyline

I've seen so many interesting convos since I joined trying to explain this old storyline, and public threads of people asking and sharing what they have on it.

Since there’s new canonical storyline mentions from Erik of these characters now and more fandom interest about their old storyline...

Here's video, clips and captions regarding this story that have currently been shared by the fandom (until April 2023), organised. Let me know if anything is missing.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uWSDmNL4bcMVX7bHvOQOIwWBn_ioqTgP

Note: Remember that this is mostly no longer considered canon. The characters are still relevant (although the 'Bright Eyes' listener character is now mentioned offscreen as Frederick's progeny), everything in other audios mentioned about them is relevant, and the official timeline (Oct 2020) basically has a summary that is just the first video (With one main creative difference, that being Quinn's characterisation). But the other story stuff here is no longer canon.

I just thought it would be fun to share.

[sadsongsandwaltzes]

I am not a psychologist so I have no clue if this is just my own crackpot theory or what. And my apologies if I’m speaking out of my ass here.

We were not made for a fallen world. We were made for Eden. Since we have to live in this world corrupted by sin, the brain does what it has to in order to survive.

A toddler doesn’t know what “hot” means, until one day you warn the child not to touch a plate because it’s “hot,” they touch anyways, they feel the sting, and now they understand what “hot” means. The brain, now acknowledging this is something that can be a threat, has an immediate response to “hot.” Anytime someone says “hot,” we immediately recoil and make sure we don’t touch whatever is believed to be hot. The brain is simply trying to survive.

I think there’s a similar thing happening with trauma response. It’s the brain doing the same thing, but to such an extreme degree that it’s almost impossible to function. If someone survives a near fatal car crash, they may panic when they go near a car. Why? Because the brain has learned this thing to be an immediate and serious threat. The brain is now trained to fear and recoil. If you lived in a war zone and learned to sleep with one eye open so to speak, the brain is now trained to sense danger at every turn, especially when you’re in such a vulnerable state as sleep. You’re living in a constant state of anxiety because you expect a fatal threat. It’s why sudden noises and movements can trigger anxiety.

The brain is doing what it does. It adapts to perceived threats for survival. This heightened state of anxiety is deemed necessary by the brain, but we were not made to live in such a state. We cant. So the brain is, ironically, slowly killing itself. The brain is rewired and burned out and always looking for that next serious threat. It’s always reminding us that the threat looms. It’s where the subconscious lives. It’s why there’s constant anxiety, why there’s nightmares.

Of course, this can be exacerbated if the trauma is accompanied by severe grief or guilt.

This brings me to my point. If you would not tell someone to just pray the cancer away, I don’t think you can tell them to just pray the trauma away. We’re talking about a real physiological problem happening.

I think grief and guilt can be assuaged by the gospel. But the brain’s inner working itself? It’s a medical problem the same as any other. God absolutely can heal trauma same as cancer, but sometimes he doesn’t. Faith can absolutely bring about peace in hardships and give us the strength to carry on, but it’s not a guarantee that God will remove the hardship. That would be prosperity gospel.

And with all of this we can also recognize that certain treatments or habits may help relieve symptoms without fully curing, it exists on a medical spectrum.

And I think this is true about a lot of mental illness.

For the record, I think most mental illness in modern America is actually spiritual illness. And I think most psychologists are looney tunes. But people abusing a certain field of study and being stupid and misdiagnosing doesn’t negate the field of study as a whole.

If every sick person who walks into a doctors office no matter the symptoms gets diagnosed with cancer, it means the doctor is a quack and we have a problem of over diagnosis of a disease. But it doesn’t mean the disease isn’t real and that a certain percentage of the population doesn’t actually suffer from it. That would be a downright foolish thought.

Hormones, brain function, all of it can affect the mind. The brain is a complex organ. We still can’t fully understand it. And I don’t think we ever will. We know the brain can affect the mind. If it didn’t, people with TBIs would never suffer from sudden mental illness or personality shifts.

It seems wholly unchristian to deny the reality of both our body and the fallen state of the world.

[randomminty]

Just a buncha cynthias