#in which i'm dooming myself

[elialys]

I can tell I'm going to get extremely compromised by this fic and not just because I have to kill off Joel soon in order for this AU to work.

“D’you think we’ll get to see cats?”

For what feels like the tenth time today—which is saying a lot considering it’s not even noon, judging by the sun in the sky—Tess is taken aback by Ellie’s question.

One of many.

They’re slowly making their way toward the hotel, she and Ellie leading while Joel purposefully stays back. Part of it is him playing the tough lookout, but she knows he’s mostly avoiding having to talk to their unexpected companion.

Tess finds herself suppressing a small smile, not her first one today either. “Cats?” she repeats. “Why do you want to see cats?”

“I’ve never seen a cat,” Ellie says, almost dreamily. “Read all about them though. They seem so…fluffy, and fun.”

Tess snorts, shaking her head a little, unable to stop herself from remembering the few cats she’d had, pre-Outbreak Day. “They were also a pain in the ass. Cute, but deadly, always on the lookout for new ways to break the rules, or anything fragile, really.”

“Aww, sounds just like me!”

[deerspherestudios]

I'm so sorry if this is asked frequently but when are you releasing the full game of mushroom oasis?

That's fine! I do get asked this a lot, but I get why! I do appreciate people being excited about the game. I mean, I can't say when the 'full' game will be released since it's updated chapter by chapter (or in this case, Days), but with how things are going the 'full' game is probably released with the Day 5-6 update, depending on where I take the story.

That's when the game is considered 'done.' Until then it's still gonna be a work in progress.

[iwonderwh0]

I'm not depressed or even feel nearly that bad for this to be a thing, but I can't shake off the superstitious feeling like I'm living my last weeks/months. Can someone who experienced this in the past and doesn't feel this way anymore please tell me I'm just needlessly paranoid and it'll pass?

[slippery-minghus]

oh gods. new paycheck starts soon which means i Have The Money to make impulsive purchases.

i'm sure it'll wear off once the novelty cools down and i can get back to my typical iron grip on myself buT.

fuck.

shiny things *grabby hands*

[lichtbrenger]

did anyone even check see if Lucifer's VA is listed for s2 😭

[redrosecut]

So I've been reading about ADHD in women because well, it sounds a lot like I operate. I'm just very surprised that some psychiatrists apparently refuse to test women for it when they were good at school.

From what I gathered ADHD is at brain level mostly a lack of dopamine and the chasing of the next rush of it. Well that is how, in hindsight, school worked for me. School gave me a constant influx of dopamine in most classes simply from being good at a subject and feeding into my need for understanding everything.

Great that exactly that can now be used against me if I ever seek an official diagnosis

[inkydoc]

sometimes you just gotta give things time to be lost. y'know, before they can be found.

thank you Carol, that was sorely needed :"D

[a-passing-storm]

Oh... I've finally gotten back around to reviewing/relearning Latin, and verb forms are probably the thing I struggle the most with/need to review the most urgently. So I...

I'm using this as a checklist... the ones with the periods are the ones I Definitely Remember And Could Do In My Sleep* and the others I either have not quizzed myself on yet or just... know that I won't be able to do them.

How did I KNOW all of these??? At any point???

To be fair, I never knew the subjunctive all that well (I mainly went off of, like... "I know indicative verbs and this sure doesn't look like one!"), but... this makes me so sad. I've forgotten so much.

And that's not even getting into participles and infinitives. Imperatives are fine, probably.

I think I'll be good on prepositions and ablative uses with just a little bit of review, but the various subjunctive uses are going to be a pain in the ass to learn/relearn. (To be honest, that's another case of learning more than relearning. I was able to guess/use context in class, but I'd like to also actually know them well.)

*There's the caveat of... my first-person singular future active indicative of "superāre." For which I wrote "superam." Which I guess is third conjugation rules? Or third-io? I don't remember? I guess it's good that I vaguely remember conjugation rules from a different conjugation, but... help.

[livetogether--diealone]

Oscar is actually so Seb-like

[loverboybrightsideghost]

this is the year (and going forward, the life) of not being an asshole to myself for [checks notes] not being able to work at maximum efficiency 100% of the time 24/7.

[writeouswriter]

Me: *Has written plenty of great opening scenes that I'm actually quite fond of*

Also me when trying to write a new opening scene for a new project: I have never written an opening scene in my life, what's an opening scene any more, has there ever truly been an opening scene to anything, there is no beginning, so there is no end, there is no one out there watching over this monstrosity, I am in the void, my mind is adrift, how do I open this scene without a key, where did I leave my keys??

[dolores-slay]

Spring got me feeling like a hounded prey animal

[camellia-thea]

.

[snootlestheangel]

Drowning out my feelings with Dr. Pepper, falling back in love with Silence is Golden But Consequences Are Red, and thoughts of Mother Hen Wolf Shifter!Ghost

*rant in the tags if y'all want*

[xiaomao-ai-wo]

some dummy (me) is putting a lot more people in this one so it is more daunting but I think I am becoming happier with the general idea of what I want to do with it.

[suncaptor]

there's something specifically inside my head that is closing up that makes trusting anything so hard. i have to manually keep my mind open to the potential of anything being significant. i am so used to things being bad and things hurting and things not working and being powerless that it takes an exorbitant amount of mental energy to make sure I don't let myself shut down possibility. and I do it because I never want a certainty inside of me besides love to rule anything. but I want my brain elastic again. i want it open like breathing. it doesn't erase the unfairness or the critique or any of the bitter-built philosophy.