#having experienced all of the options

[jacenpetertodd]

Listen, I'm not gonna say you can't criticize current comics just because older comics were worse, but sometimes I do get whiplash when I see people talking about how they badly want popular, well-reviewed comics with diverse leads and creative teams to end because they're doing "irreparable damage" to preferred characterization and how they'd rather just not have books starring those characters than have books where those characters aren't written to a high enough standard.

As someone who has been in this fandom since the time when beloved characters had functionally been wiped from continuity because the people at the top were openly racist/misogynistic/etc, y'all don't seem to have any idea how much worse you could have it. Like, there are ways to express that you don't care for the current direction characterization is being taken without saying you think it would be better if those characters were written out of continuity.

[codecicle]

Heyyyyyyyyyy shoud I watch the scu? idk man idk i want to I just never do it lol

WE GOT ANOTHER ONE

SHORT ANSWER YES LONG ANSWER ALSO YES BUT THE WAY OF VIEWING IT IS COMPLICATED‼️‼️

^ This is what I would recommend watching through if you just want the main story that everyone loses their mind over. starts and ends with [God reverb mic] APPLE and has all the key videos that are story based!! watch through this one if you want a shorter but authentic scu experience

^ and this one is charlie's official playlist for the SCU‼️ everything in here is technically considered canon and i strongly recommend watching the videos in here one way or another purely because they're so funny LMAO not even from a story point of view they're just good videos

fair warning!! the official playlist has Carson in its videos, and the other playlist doesn't if that affects your viewing experience at all :D (the Roll. video also has DM Jared so if you'd like to skip that one aswell it's luckily not that lore centric just a cool video 👍 again no stress or worry just a warning)

anyway in all honesty the scu is one of my favorite things ever and it will make you brainrot one way or another :] i hope you enjoy watching if you'd like!!!!

[satanfemme]

"no mental disorder makes you a bad person" is very very true and a good statement to promote, but "if someone does something bad, they must've chosen do it, there's never any other possible explanation, and it's especially never b/c of any mental disorders" isn't true?? besides the fact that people can make honest mistakes (even big ones) without realizing what they're doing, or the fact that life circumstances can influence what choices someone even thinks are available to them in the first place, my hot take is that mental disorder can influence you to do bad things sometimes and that should be acknowledged.

that does NOT mean a person with a disorder would be a special extra evil kind of abuser compared to a neurotypical person (ie "narcissist abuse" is still a meaningless and harmful term). it also does not mean that abusers are more likely to have a disorder than to be neurotypical. but disorders are disabling, they cause disorder, it's right in the name, they negatively affect you and your connection to others... why do you think that wouldn't that affect your behavior too sometimes? I know my disorders affect mine. often in negative ways!

besides just "mental disorders are never disabling in ways that make me feel uncomfortable" being ableist, understanding this is important if you believe in prison abolition (which you should). "someone did something bad because they randomly chose to be bad idk" is just as unhelpful as "someone did something bad because they were born bad". but "someone did something bad because of X thing they're struggling with, or their Y need is unmet" is helpful, that's something you can work with and fix. integrate this into your anarchist worldview.

and lastly, tbh it's isolating to have "scary" or "bad" symptoms, and then get told by armchair "mental health advocates" online that you're just choosing to have those symptoms and maybe you could be a better person if you simply chose to stop having mental illness in the first place. so you know, don't be fucking rude lol

[poppies]

2023 was the worst year of my life. not sure what's to come or where to start but i know things have to change, i have to fix things somehow

[enypneon]

speedrunning through elden ring until i get to miquella's haligtree

[esterigermaine]

Headcanon:

When Astarion is in severe pain, you have a 50/50 chance of him becoming absolutely feral or completely mentally shutting down.

[optiwashere]

Reddit scrolling in the middle of the day is already a bad idea, but doing it in the BG3 subreddit is choosing one of two paths where you either read the same bad joke, or fall into a pile of knives reading people's absurd rants

ignore my own absurd rant in the tags I'm different and special

[mayxo-hxh]

Going to the same fandom from one social media to another is so funny feeling. its like two neighbors that never really spoke to each other with one finally knocking on the others door like "hello. i brought my cake to your house because my house kinda sucks right now. wanna eat together?"

[trash-bin-ary]

Yknow in my play through I never got the uh knife thing I only know about it by looking at possible achievements, so when it’s talked about (which is understandably a lot) even though I’ve played the entire game I do not have context for it

[carrotpiss]

🐰🧡🐻

[somfte]

Flint's face journey as Gates tells him he won't help him fight the Spanish warship

[portokali]

how can we lose when we're so sincere 🥹🥹🥹

[corvidcall]

sometimes ill see a post about how (thing i like) is bad and i shouldnt be enjoying it, and i try not to let that stuff bother me. its fine that i have different values and priorities than other people! i try to live in accordance with my own values, not those of a stranger.

that being said. the worst version of those posts is when they try to say something i like is Bad but their argument isnt even GOOD. like oh my god just let me do it. you dont even know WHY it's bad. let ME, as a fan, tell you the argument that you actually want to make here, because you're not qualified!!!!

[orthodera]

Mom said it's my turn on the hyperspecific polls

[movedtodykedvonte]

Mmmm, Spamton, getting forcibly reconstructed, torn apart and sewn together as some mocking parody of yourself, what a beautiful violence and pain

And yet, I can't help but to think about what if...

What if he managed to break the phone in time as well, What if he got visited sooner and saved from this fate

What if he got stuck mid transformation

The way the I figure addisons work is they don't have organs in the traditional sense. Addisons are specifically meant to mimic human lighteners, key word there, mimic. They need certain of their organs to work but not all. and it varies per addison based on what they sell. In my head the caller would target these specific ones in first in the transformation. I feel like Spamton had a choice, despite obviously not having one, choosing to stop the transformation where it was or keep going. If it stopped, then it's an abrupt end to his highlife, the mechanisms he needs failing him. He wouldn't know he was choosing his death. In the case he somehow lives, it wouldn't be long and it'd be painful, literally fake pieces of his compromising the rest.

Now breaking the phone couldn't have worked in his case cause as I've said, the caller's abilities become more severe when you are more aware of it. The caller can affect and mess with Spam anywhere. the fountain created a small barrier but it can still happen hence chapter 8Banner may be affected but they don't have the same level of exposure, the phone and that day is a bad haunting memory for them. For Spam it's a nightmarish reality. The caller could simply keep it going, the ringing, the burning, the transformation. Could've created the illusion or reality of a hundred ringing phones then and there cause Spamton knew of its capabilities and believed it could. It's not just the case of believing but, Spam was in way too deep.

The lack is visitors is actually the reason the caller got so mad in the first place.