#i wanted to be respectful of mental illness

[verosikastrikerexcuser]

Okay. So the new ep. I was so mad about this line from Stolas I can't lie: "I didn't realize you think so low of me"

Oh really? What reasons have you given him to think highly of you Stolas? You:

A) Gave Blitz a choice between his career or having sex with you (Blitz's career also supports his daughter and the other IMP employees, their well being was on the line too). And to boot, this proposition took place while Blitz was in a high pressure scenario being hunted down by a crazy serial murderer human trying to kill him. Which Stolas was aware of and watching. He chose that moment to make his proposition and laud the grimoire over Blitz's head.

B) Constantly make weird fetishy remarks about Blitz's species/race, calling him an impish little plaything and "itty bitty". Also while being weird towards other imps too, using your butler as a stress toy and calling Moxxie, Millie and other random imps "little ones" all the time.

C) After the power imbalance of controlling his business was set up by you, you proceeded to constantly toy with Blitz despite how much he resisted and showed he clearly doesn't like it. You give him an annoying demeaning pet name he didn't ask for with the "Blitzie" shit. You make crude sexual remarks that make him uncomfortable and make them in front of others too, humiliating him in front of both strangers and people he is close to. You grab at his face condescendingly. You idly use him as an ash tray. You treat him with a completely disrespectful degrading demeanor and there is nothing he can do or say about it that will make you stop - in Loo Loo land when Blitz expresses that he does not want you to attempt to solicit sex that day from him you respond "You are so cute when you are serious" like its funny hes mad about that. All of this unwanted sexual attention is to the point Blitz has a panic button for when YOU specifically show up at his office like what else is there to say really.

D) You also treat your daughter like shit. You chase Blitz instead of focusing on her even though shes clearly very mentally ill and struggling. You make weird sexual remarks about Blitz, the guy who you're cheating on your wife with which is causing chaotic familial breakdown in the home Octavia has to live in (and Octavia KNOWS its Blitz specifically that you're cheating with she is very aware). She is clearly constantly uncomfortable and yet you put her through that several times Stolas.

Then you try to do the right thing and free Blitz. Good, great, a step in the right direction. But when hes so unused to you respecting him and thinks you must be lying you have a whiny little breakdown and storm off about it.

BUT NO WONDER BLITZ THOUGHT IT WAS SOME KIND OF FUCKING JOKE AND THEN WAS LIKE WTF YOU STUPID FUCK. Look at everything you've done holy shit! I felt Blitz's "What the fuck" in my soul. What is with this shows attempts since S2 at a weird perversion of the truth. What is with this pathetic poor me I'm just a poor widdle victim! Act from Stolas. Its just so gross its disgusting.

Stolas was born with his wealth. He was born with immense wealth, connections, authority, and physical power. He never has had to comprehend making the kinds of choices Blitz has had to in order to make rent. And Stolas actively exploited Blitz's class. He actively exploited it along with Blitz's obligations to his employees and daughter, those he loves, to get sex out of him. And then when Blitz sees him for what he is he is a self victimizing baby over it. How slimy can you get?

[kipperlillyforpresident]

Legally you are required to tell me your thoughts on oisin/kipperlilly and lucy/ivy

OKAY SO. oisin x kipperlilly is a really funny story, actually.

i've been rotating around different ship ideas with @ivyembracertifiedbitch , and we landed on thinking that buddy x ivy is really fun. in that ivy is constantly ""tempting him into sin"" (literally just like. Kissing Him.) and the idea that well, buddy doesnt kill people, Helio kills people and sometimes acts through buddy. and if buddy doesnt do anything and just lets ivy kiss him then he's not really doing anything it's just happening To him. and so its acceptable.

and then we were talking about oisin making fun of ivy for this. and i said ivy might say "well, at least IM kissing MY uptight blond, unlike you lmao".

and when i said this, i was meaning adaine. but he replied "oh do you want to share your kipperlilly x oisin thoughts?" and i was like... well i didnt mean that. but now let me Cook.

Basically, here's my main thoughts:

We canonically know that Kipperlilly had a strong instinct to 'protect Oisin', as seen in the Aelwyn convo.

Oisin is the only other Rat Grinder we see actively Enacting plots - teleportation at last stand, pingponggate, etc.

Although Kipperlilly definitely WANTS to be the leader, there's a good case to be made that Oisin is the one who is actually SEEN as the leader among TRG - he's the one who helped get the name changed, after all.

We know that Oisin's type is 'academic blond girl who has 100 mental illnesses.'

So I think this combination of facts can be used in some very fun ways!

Kipperlilly, who hates that Oisin is doing so much better then her, getting to lead the adventuring party, who has a stupid fucking Special Backstory with his grandma. And yet. And yet.

She sees first hand how hard he works, and she has to respect that. It makes her want to work even harder. Nobody else seems to be taking this seriously, but Oisin IS.

An alternative and funny scenario is the idea of them fake dating to try and make Lucy/Kristen/Ivy/Whoever you please as a crush for Kipperlilly & Adaine jealous. And then it just works out a little too well...?

Ivy x Lucy I don't have as much of an insane ramble for. But it's mainly built on these things:

Ivy was the one who saw Fake Lucy at the party. That feels like symbols and motifs, right...? Ivy seeing Fig's disguise and immediately knowing it's not Lucy. She would know.

I want Lucy to be weirder and not Dead Wife Montage and i think dating a mean girl would be an excellent way to achieve this.

[erigold13261]

what would the inmate's minds look like some time after p1

Don't know why I don't like the word inmates in this context, even though the patients technically were inmates, it seems more dehumanizing, so I'm going to call them patients and not inmates. (Though I guess that's the American in me talking since a lot of media tends to dehumanize inmates, so the term inmate doesn't sit right with me, especially with mentally ill individuals).

But uh, I have no real idea. I don't think we ever go into a mind that was bad and then got help (other than revisiting minds but they don't change much), so it would be hard to say what someone's mind would look like after it was helped.

It would probably be safe to assume that the patients still need some help, because you can't just cure mental illness, even in the Psychonauts world, especially after just one psycho-session in someone's brain. There would probably need to be a few sessions that are done to help someone become more stable, kinda like more intense and interactive therapy. But like Hollis said, Psychonauts are there to help people, not fix them.

So, while I do think their minds would be different, I don't think it would be something completely separate from what we see. Take Fred for example, his mind is very much based on the game Waterloo-O because of the trauma of being humiliated by losing so much to Crispin (along with possibly being altered by the Psitanium deposit of the place). After we help Fred out, he is now WANTING to play Waterloo-O instead of being FORCED to play by his psyche's version of Napoleon. So I believe his mind would have remnants of the game still integrated into his mind.

The mind is an ever changing thing, so one week going into someone's mind compared to another could lead to a vastly different experience. Someone with Autism who lost a special interest and is feeling depressed could have a mind that looks extremely different from their mind in a day when they find a new special interest. It all depends on the moment I believe.

Now actually thinking of it, the minds of the patients might not actually be as changing as a "sane" person's mind. If we take the quote by Albert Einstein: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result", then it could be possibly that an "insane" person's mind is more stagnant, which is why they need more help than someone who is "sane".

So potentially, the patients minds haven't changed too much. Such as Boyd still feeling like he's being watched at times, or having anxiety, but his mind isn't as broken and separated as it used to be. Gloria's mind could still very much be set in a theatre themed place, but she would no longer be reliving one part of her life (or the bad parts of her life) over and over again.

This is just becoming more of a rambly mess now. The patients minds probably still have the same or similar themes that we see in their minds in PN1 but have a bit more variety to them. These people aren't "cured", they can be doing better, but you can't cure mental illness. We see what happens to some people who forcibly try to cure mental illness (in this case being Psychic) with Loboto. Being lobotomized did so much damage to Loboto and his mind. It's better that people (trained Psychonauts) try their best to help these patients along with anyone else who needs mental help.

The minds of the patients will probably be similar to what we see in PN1, just with some differences such as being a bit more stable or having a different main theme to them.

[heir-of-the-chair]

Hey who here wants to start a new movement similar to loveless aromanticism about just unsubscribing to the concept of/the word “empathy.”

Cause it’s stupid and I don’t want it anymore, it’s become so watered down and meaningless and I no longer wanna engage in the concept of empathy I think empathy is frickin stupid okay that’s all good night.

[deservedgrace]

something that i've been struggling to articulate but has been bothering me for a while is how some christians engage and interact with science and what i'm realizing is they have a like... almost love-bombing/discarding relationship with it. and i recognize science isn't a person and that's not literally happening but the christians that i grew up around have this relationship with science where it's real/valid/correct if it supports their side and fake/invalid/wrong if it doesn't. it's this like... engaging with science to get something from it when it can prove their point and condemning it when it doesn't. and this also ties into the belief that you, a layperson with no background in science, are more knowledgeable than actual scientists simply because you have god on your side, and therefore you can use science in whatever way you see fit, which means engaging with it in a way that is ultimately anti-science (but that also doesn't matter because god said it was okay). and it's exhausting engaging with these people for me because it's not that they believe all science bad, it's that they believe most science bad but some science good and they have the authority to determine what is bad and what is good, despite, again, not having a background in science (because what is a "background in science" to an all-knowing god that you have a personal relationship with?). the thing that is so frustrating to me is how these people recognize science is valued and use it to strengthen the validity of their points and to gain credibility while simultaneously refusing to acknowledge the validity of science as a field at all or put in any effort to understand/respect it.

[a-wondering-thought]

hey quick message to adults, if you're condescending when trying to teach teenagers about shit, then they aren't gonna listen to you no matter how important the shit you're saying is.

[forcedhesitation]

okay I redid the last astarion picture I shared a wip of because it was a) too graphic for its intended purpose b) didn't fit with the more dynamic posing of the other pieces

here is a peak at the new astarion pic & a look at the wyll & lae'zel wips

[sailorgrams]

Pic of me dead on the floor as this uploads

Man these lines got crunched so hard just before I colored them haha

Cas may have dragged Tally's coat through the mud and snow on purpose... he'll never tell

[ehh-is-the-name]

It's past 11 on a school night and I'm fucking crying over robot sentience.

I could never understand what it would feel like to be created with the intent to kill and maim. Maybe, the intent to work and be worked, but not kill and maim.

I will never understand what it's like to be created with the intention of being a product for the masses, either. I think, I hope, I beg, no one does.

I will never ever be able to fully comprehend why hours of people's work, time, and money would be put into formulating my sentience only for me to be seen as disposable. Even if I could be improved, even if I were "defective", there is no reasonable justification for giving me emotions only to dismiss them by pushing me as a product for a year before starting anew.

It's... It's cruel, to the machines. Sentient or not, it's cruel. Though, I guess we are cruel.

[inniave]

so fucking sick of the constant misgendering. it's exhausting. even from fellow queer people??????? who know me?????????? HELLO?????????????

[angelnumber27]

Having and enforcing your personal boundaries is not “mean” or “bitchy” it’s necessary, healthy and important. If someone makes you feel like upholding those boundaries is a negative thing, they’re 1. Wrong 2. probably not a good person and 3. are just trying to manipulate you by attempting to break down the walls and barriers that you have built which, hmm interesting, have to exist in the first place for your protection from people like that

So let me say it again:

Having and enforcing your personal boundaries is not “mean” or “bitchy”

It is not weak, it is not selfish or stupid, it doesn’t mean you are too much or too little of anything. it’s not pathetic, it’s not lame. Its beautiful and shows that you know your worth and respect yourself . And people that think those negative ways about other peoples’ personal boundaries shouldn’t be people you should ever be around to begin with. Like the audacity of some people (mainly men ngl) never ceases to amaze me. The entitlement.. it’s wild

Distance yourself wherever possible from any type of energy like that. You don’t need that in your life, you deserve better, and you deserve full respect from yourself and others.

[siriuslynephilim]

after all we are the strongest

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

There’s a real paranormal attraction near me open at night!!! :D

…but everything is done in such a tourist-attracting way that the whole business appears to hinge upon sensationalized exploitation of the mentally ill >:(

[maschotch]

[stellacadente]

and that's on top of pinning my distress and suffering and the awful time i'm going thru on the fact i'm on hrt

[hecksupremechips]

Fucked up how happy I get whenever I make content of Shinjiro Aragaki being actually loved and getting to heal and learning to love the little things in life and getting to express himself. What’s up with that