#how to control behavior

[manticore239]

Everyone I asked said their worst accidents happened while wearing a seatbelt.

[kiwi]

as a former escape room host i highly recommend doing an escape room as a first date. its a great way to learn how ppl react under pressure and how well they collaborate with you right off the bat. also more than once ive seen people enter an escape room as a couple and exit broken up LOL its a fantastic litmus test

[polymerclay]

Worrisome Jenny

[shima-draws]

Kieran has me in a chokehold. His character arc is so GOOD. You can tell that his bitterness and anger doesn’t just come from everything that’s happened to him recently. It’s pretty obvious that he’s been living in Carmine’s shadow for a LONG time and she’s always kinda treated him badly. But it wasn’t until the player character came along that he was finally able to voice that in his own way;; Just when he thinks he’s made a true friend in someone, someone that can and will stand up to his sister and is able to defeat her in battle (which inspires him to start speaking up for himself more), Carmine steals them away. And that’s a big betrayal to him. He clearly has self esteem issues which leads to him thinking that Carmine was talking shit about him behind his back and getting the player to believe that he wasn’t worth being friends with. And that makes him think both of them were laughing at him and making fun of him. And THEN the player goes and takes the last thing that Kieran has, the last thing he truly cares about: Ogerpon. It’s no wonder he got so frustrated and petty and lashed out 😭 Still breaks my heart to see but they did a really good job showing that progression of him losing more and more of his patience with Carmine. And him generally feeling like everything he cares about is being torn away. And losing to the player over and over just makes things WORSE. He’s not strong enough to beat them, he’s not strong enough to stand up to his sister, he’s not strong enough to be worthy of Ogerpon, he’s not strong. He needs to get stronger. Stronger and stronger and stronger.

GODDDD. He’s going to live rent free in my brain forever now. I can’t wait to see the direction they take with him in The Indigo Disk

[metanarrates]

worth bringing up as sort of a corollary to my severance thoughts is that severance does an excellent job of showing that different forms of power & control (cult/corporation/family/government) tend to bleed and overlap and propagate in similar forms. in that particular vein, speaking as a cult survivor, it's worth saying specifically that it doesn't do much good to exceptionalize cults as a rare oddity of how societal power can sometimes take shape. lumon, though fictional, is a really good example of how those mechanisms of control exist in many forms throughout society and should be broken down and scrutinized when they do appear.

[bunnyboy-juice]

what a wonderful day to be a dyke ❤️‍🔥

[kimkhimhant]

kim is so fascinating because of how quickly he switches course between hot and cold. when Chay shows up at his studio, in the time between seeing him and Chay's confession, Kim fully looks like he's about to dismiss chay and send him away. and then chay confesses and kim kisses his cheek and looks delighted when chay hugs him. when they're lying on chay's couch, kim seems to be flipflopping by the second: he looks blissed out, and then regretful, and then scared, and content, and then remorseful. he smiles at the food he's served, and then the moment chay's back is turned, kim is preparing to flee. when chay confronts him outside his apartment after learning his identity, after kim fought to protect him, kim is so dismissive, at first, and then his expression shifts to something that is pure grief, and then he's brushing it off and pushing chay's hand away and saying a "sorry" that doesn't sound sincere at all even though it clearly is, based on that grief that we literally just saw.

as the audience, its so hard to know what kim is thinking through all of this. he seems to controlled and careful, but i think the rapid back and forth of his behavior and expressions is proof that he's not. someone who knows what he wants and how to get it would not be so unstable in his behavior. kim is battling himself and his feelings and his upbringing and he's a mess. everything about kim's character is a constant fight for control over everything and everyone, and i think its because in reality he feels like he has no control over anything, not even himself.

[age-of-moonknight]

“Scars,” Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu, (Vol. 2/2024), #5.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Devmalya Pramanik; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

[dykedvonte]

It’s almost directly stated in the game Curly did not know Jimmy as well as he thought he did but the very same thing can be said about Jimmy with Curly.

Almost every conversation they have is awkward and stilted. Jimmy says something that clearly upsets Curly or makes him more dejected and doesn’t care due to his own projections. Post-crash he is just more demeaning and uncaring and puts just as many words in Curly’s mouth as he takes out of his own. Hell, you can argue he would not have chosen to crash the ship the way he did if he knew Curly would’ve tried to stop him, but he didn’t know because he didn’t really know him. Just like Anya and Daisuke and Swansea and likely anyone else in his life, Jimmy knows and understands people through the lens of his own self-centered projections. He can not fathom motives outside of his own hence not even considering Anya killing herself or the very real idea Swansea was saving the pod for Daisuke.

He understands people through the positions he forces them into in his life and had his first glimpse of how Curly was outside of his influence or desires in a while on the Tulpar and between him and Anya cause it was the first time Curly wasn’t just trying to cater to him and he fucking hated it.

[oblisker]

shitty and dangerous friend vs literal eldritch god physically and psychologically abusing his ex-worshipper to the brink of complete insanity

[justafewberries]

weird as fuck to name and shame a fanfic just because you don’t like it

[shakingparadigm]

It's a bit silly that found it unlikely for Luka and Till to be the final match back then. The more that I thought about it, the more it made sense. Sure, Luka and Ivan are incredibly similar in terms of personality and image, but in terms of circumstance Luka and Till are opposite sides of the same coin. I really couldn't envision a better matchup.

[malarkyyy]

this song makes me think of him

[jewishvitya]

Still thinking sometimes about how I asked my dad to go to therapy so we could have a relationship, and he responded with "I don't need therapy because my religion instructs me to always be happy."

[mwolf0epsilon]

I have some major gripes with the premise of 'Day of the Diesels' and honestly think it could be fixed if, for once, the stale 'Steamies vs Diesels' plotline had been disregarded and the movie actually showcased the diesels in a more sympathetic light.

I'm not here to say characters like Diesel, Arry & Bert, and Diesel 10 are completely blameless in their acquired bad rep. Lets face the fact, they're deceitful, have a rather aggressive approach to things, and more often than not they are out to cause trouble for others because they think it's funny.

But come on man... Going for the same kind of storyline where Steam Engines and Diesel Engines are at each other's buffers just for the fact they're different types of engine is kind of lazy at this point (especially considering the fact this was done before in 'Calling All Engines').

Wouldn't it be much more compelling if, for once, the diesels actually do have a rightful reason to be causing a ruckus (their home is decrepit, unsafe and lacks basic amenities for maintaining them) and (because they feel like they can't be upfront about their concerns due to their past misbehavior), they end up making this grand convoluted scheme that goes terribly sideways, but that ultimately gives way for some actual exploration of why Sir Topham Hatt's management of the diesels feels so underwhelming in comparison with the great care he takes in tending to his steam engines?

It could even be that the fat controller doesn't realize he's neglecting them a bit because he's so focused on trying to keep the steam engines from ever wanting for more (I mean, the time of steam has come to an end in the mainland, so of course he'd be worried about the future of his beloved steam engines he's had for so much longer!).

On a logical standpoint, it's considerably easier to get diesels and new parts for diesels nowadays, so Sir Topham Hatt would postpone something he feels like can be done in the snap of a finger versus something that might potentially take much too long... And that's the mistake here.

The fact the diesels can get new stuff so easily but don't, could be the crux of the issue. Prioritization, procrastination and perhaps a bit of forgetfulness and obliviousness to the mess one has made...

[pedulum-chronometry]

After seeing so many people, my dad included, say that Severence is ‘slow to start’ or ‘tedious’ or ‘unrewarding to watch’ I have a theory.

People who are entrenched in corporate hierarchy or have to deal with it enough that they develop a tolerance for it, do not watch Severance the same way the rest of us do.

For people living with the corporate bullshit daily, Severance is just a weird office show with a funky premise. They absolutely do not clock anything as too terribly out of place until way too late.

I saw someone say that the S1 waffle party was such a weird out-of-left field thing for the show to do and they felt it was unnecessary. They got that far in thinking it was like a sci-fi office mystery or something and the cult elements inherent in corporate power structure and control just didn’t land with them at all.

It’s like people not being able to smell themselves because they’re too used to their own baseline scent. They are nose blind.

My current theory is this: How far you get into Severence before you actively clock something is wrong is approximately how much corporate culture poising you have. I’ve decided to call it the Severance bias. Thank you for your time.