#how to step into your power

[deathandnonexistentialdread]

something something love gives you strength something something kaiba is gay and obsessed something something

[ludinusdaleth]

"I'm trying to work with you here, please!"

-Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 98, "The Nox Engine"

[gonzofromspace]

i fully believe that swann arlaud's hair holds magical powers n if i touched it it'd cure me of my ails

[clowndensation]

actually if i can speak fondly about scientology for a moment. i really liked the "how to use a dictionary" course we took. like fundamentally a huge reason i was such a big reader as a kid is because of that course, and learning from a young age that the basic principles to learning a new word are:

1. look up the word and find its derivation so you know where it came from.

2. find the definition of the word that fits your context.

3. define the word in your own terms so its definition is solid in your mind.

4. make up sentences using the word until it feels comfortable for you.

5. repeat all previous steps with the other definitions of the word.

was all like. kind of vital to me discovering how cool books are, and how impactful language can be. scientology k-2 not that bad. unfortunate that quite literally every other aspect of it was incredibly damaging.

[xavalav]

explodes forever and ever as i think abt dnd session from tonight. we beefed it so hard and now my freak is having a mental breakdown.

[rubbership]

the reason why callout culture sucks that no one ever directly wants to say is that a lot of severe trauma survivors get called out for the shit they wrote when they were really sick and ill and not okay, and instead of the callout focusing on getting the other person to see that they need help or REALLY need to take down whatever work they made its just like "KILL THIS BITCH" and no offense but it really sucks. like a lot. its one of the reasons i talk about proshipping so much is because even from an outside pov i can just tell so many people who are into prokink/proship are severely severely traumatized people who have become convinced that they cannot get better, enjoy regular sex or get past this issue and the problem is for the most part if they get caught there IS no "getting" over it there is no "doing better" in the eyes of people online so theres literally no incentive to recover or do better or even take any of the work down. the idea that you are just perminantly tainted and unrecoverable goes hand in hand with the exact mentality victims are forcefed by their abusers that if you're an incest or csa survivor that your abuser has essentially "tainted" you and made you just like them for the rest of your life. that because you were hurt by this person you've been forced into a life of hurting people in the same way.

and that isnt TRUE but you don't realize how much thats shoved on you and told to you over and over and over as a survivor of this shit, it really becomes part of your understanding of yourself. and i see a lot of cases where someones been caught for drawing or writing something really fucking gross right when they're hitting adulthood, and then they get called out and it follows them. Not just for a few years but for the rest of their young adult life and it makes me sympathize with people who allow that public and constant harrassment to force them into a shame corner. This is what I mean when I say society TARGETS victims hard core, because the idea of a victim is someone who was never involved never looked never experienced and was wholey traumatized. Anything else, any other sort of behavior or role in your trauma you take and you are seen as a deviant just like your abuser. Sexual assault especially childhood sexual assault is seen as something that invades and sticks to you and infects you.

I think a lot about Deliah and Springtrap, about how the creator for that got "canceled" for writing some genuinely henious shit. But they were also literally a teenager, they said that the comic was based off their real life and they took a lot of inspiration from their experiences and personality for both the characters and the story. They are used as a periah and publically mocked and harrassed for posting the shit they did. I still see it joked about regularly and it just makes me sick to my stomach. How loud does a kid need to scream for help before anyone hears them? Why does it get to be a joke to others? It really, really really jades me. Its just geoss.

[coworkerjonathan]

This is a call out post for your toxic behavior

...Ahem.

Thank you very much for the delicious lunch today. You looked - let me check my notes - very gender while preparing the food. Just the most mascufeminine aura while eating with me, a truly trans-a-gressive conversation and very nonconforming cuddles afterwards. Not a single binary to be found.

[missanathea]

Just rewatched the movie Miss Sloane, for the first time since its first release, and I knew there was a reason I loved it that much when it first came out

It is such a satisfying movie

If I loved it less I might be able to talk about it more

But my brain is in shambles from how good it is

I’d have to do a whole essay to give it justice

I’ll probably settle to browsing the tag in the hope that other people expressed all that there is to express

For now my mind is deliciously blown

[bunnieswithknives]

sorry if idk this but what do you think about Wordgirl now in 2024 do you still like it do you still want to make art or talk about it or are you just done with all of it forever and plus i seen that you haven't made art of it since 2022 so you just done with all of it oh yeah and what about The Magnus Archives + Wordgirl ao3 fic too like is that just going to be and i know that your working on 2 au's now just wanting to know that's all

My interests tend to come in intense bursts and then fade. Unless something like, big happens like it gets a reboot its unlikely I'll be coming back to it anytime soon. As for the fic I don't have any current plans to finish it unfortunately.

[itssofuckingover]

steven this would be endlessly more fascinating

[sadaveniren]

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[pkmoth]

having swap au thoughts. *slaps roof of claus* there's so much mental illness in this guy. im gonna blow up everyone in the room and then myself

[weedle-testaburger]

the weirdest change in politics recently has been going from doomers mostly being more soft left people who knew The Revolution wasn't just around the corner to save us more hard left people only now realising The Revolution isn't just around the corner to save us

[sidesteppostinghours]

should i be asleep right now???? probably. but i cant do that right now because im busy crying about the parallels between step and argent.

[enjoyvoidblack]

Was midway through typing out a defense of Jon's decisions in light of how everyone (including Jonny) seems to think he could've done much better, but then I remembered he walked up to Jude Perry's front door and knocked and yknow what post cancelled actually. For that alone this man is an idiot (affectionate)

[ceasarslegion]

The leftism leaving peoples bodies when you tell them that literal terrorist organizations arent the good guys just because theyre against a bad guy