#its just a coping thing sometimes

[chaos--gremlin]

Achoo

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Uh oh guys...... I think I sneezed myself back to 2017 (and took Mr Fuzzy with me)

[weirdmageddon]

how do people even find partners. i dont want a bullshit answer, like really

[dimonds456-art]

Maladaptive daydreaming.

[kiwi-the-bird-and-fruit]

I feel like everyone in the fandom rn is just in the family guy death pose as we all just lay crumpled in our bus seats for the purgatory field trip

[scepterno]

Love your writing, first off!!!

what are those little “raised dot” scars on Alejandro meant to be/be from?? i can’t figure it out😭😭😭

sooo the implication is that every time he loses a bet with jose, they smoke a cigar (or cigarette) together and jose gets to burn another circle into his skin (basically tallying all of alejandro's failures directly onto his body, yippee!). he has so many because he's never won a competition againt jose. think of it as a very fucked up form of brotherly bonding, which may or may not be inspired by their father. it started after carlos left the family so he didnt know about it until alejandro began living with him.

[syunkiss]

I might probably start smoking or drinking sooner or later. Or maybe both

[sparrowposting]

U know when u reach that point of mentally unwell that it's like, u realize it's stupid and dumb and your (mal)adaptive coping mechanisms and inbuilt trauma responses aren't helpful and aren't logical and you're complete aware of this and yet can't eradicate it and it's so frustrating and in some way you're more upset about not being able to force ur brain into being normal and stop being Like That, than you are upset about whatever thing happened in the first place

[malwarechips]

ok hot take: arti is NOT balanced. specifically her combat. not in an overpowered way, but the opposite. she's not strong enough for combat against scavengers. arti has ZERO abilities to resist spears outside of the parry, which requires timing and honestly quite impressive reaction speed. ("just turn the game speed down!" some people cant play with the speed lowered! (me) ive been playing since before downpour and ive NEVER used the mushrooms so im USED to this speed. turning it down throws me off so much that id die MORE) sure, she can resist explosives somewhat, she wont die to them, but she still gets stunned anyways. so who cares if shes immune to death from explosives when she cant do anything PASSIVELY about spears, the thing that matters. you survive a grenade, but then you get stabbed in the head a second later and die anyways. scavengers weren't designed to be fought. they have a reputation system for a reason. they're the sort of creature you dont fuck with because they WILL fuck your shit up beyond belief. arti goes against all of that. and shes not strong enough to. she doesn't have resistences to what MATTERS. fighting large groups can be near impossible sometimes. and sure, you can avoid those most times, but you physically cannot in metro. you HAVE to fight them at least SOMEWHAT to even get through.

i understand how people can like arti. but the problem is she's simply not strong enough. i understand that rain world is MEANT to be difficult, but arti takes it too far imo. she's difficult into unfairness. sure, losing karma doesn't matter. but doing the same thing again and again and again just... is terrible. even if you take a different route. i took different routes almost every other time i died while playing arti. i still got sick of dying. i was so relieved when i beat it. i never plan on playing her again. she brought me genuine, terrible stress. she killed my drive to want to play rain world for a while; the thought of just opening it stressed me out. games are meant to be fun. i can understand how arti could be, but she just isnt to me. she's not fun. she will never be fun for me without significant altering. and even then, i highly doubt i could ever bring myself to play her again. just looking at her select screen art makes me anxious.

[canonkiller]

if you have not experienced accessibility needs you cannot fuckin imagine how expensive it gets to accomodate even the simplest shit let alone anything related to ""luxuries"" like Hobbies or Pastimes

[derelicthorror]

@a-tenno-called-prin digital extremes does this really cool thing where they have ideas and INDULGE them and i am never going to get over how it felt to get humanframes confirmed real like (bc of course warframes are humans orokin are humans corpus grineer etc it is all people! but humanframe!)

but also i so hope that loid and necraloid come to terms with each other - the former especially. all jokes aside i think that characterwise guy!loid is in a place where seeing necraloid just kind of lands as a gut-punch for a lot of reasons, and he reacts to things that hurt him by getting cold.

you have to warm him up to his little robot twin like he's a skittish horse and you're desensitizing him with burlap

[significant-ace-nnoyance]

hey kiri :] so as you maybe definitely know from all the notes ive been scrolling through your blog like its my dash lol & i was wondering if you could rec any pjo fics ? romantic not romantic percabeth or whoever else im just curious as to what your favorites are + its been too long since ive read a pjo fic lol

WARNING!! I GOT A LITTLE CARRIED AWAY AND WROTE A WHOLE ANALYSIS OF WHY I DONT READ PERCABETH FICS AND THEN A WHOLE OTHER DISSERTATION ABOUT PERCABETH IN THE TAGS!!!

idk if this is beige flag or something but i dont read percabeth fics 😭 or like percy jackson fics in general? 😭

idk what it is but i feel like i just have such a specific understanding of percabeth and percy jackson characters in general that a lot of times doesn't map on exactly to the fandom versions and that's true for any media i consume but it like weirdly irritates me a lot more for pjo? i guess bc i care sm about it so it makes it a lot harder for me to search and sift through pjo fics to actually find ones that suit my tastes specifically and also any like slight changes bother me more?

or just when im reading the fic its really hard for me to feel like its coming from percy/annabeth because i think they feel like real people to me 😭 so its weird to see them in fanfiction because like. they exist in the world of the pjo books as People to me and so in fanfiction theyre just Characters that feel more like imitations of their Real Selves than fics usually feel like to me

and also rick has such a specific way of writing them both like its clear he really really understands them (bc theyre based on him and his wife awwww <3) and so even if the writing style is different i just feel disconnected from their pov in the fic. and on that note i feel like the books themselves read as fanfiction to me like MoA and HoH percabeth????????? godtier why would i literally read anything else. so usually when im craving that i read the books or i listen to seaweed brain podcast and talk aloud to myself about how i would have written things differently or added things or watch the show bc its also sort of fanfiction thats canon bc of how well it understands the characters in terms of their overall People selves instead of just a jumble of common tropes and attributes that sometimes fandom percabeth can feel like to me

i think its also because i tend to read fanfiction when i feel like there is something unfinished in the narrative or like when the source material didn't understand the characters as well as the fandom/me because i get really intrigued by hidden potential and also tragic storylines and fix-it fics and to me it's just a lot harder to see percabeth in an au??? or scenarios outside the book???? idk what it is because most of the media i enjoy is adjacent percabeth type relationships because i love the dynamic but when it comes to literal percabeth i just. can't deviate from the text unless it's seaweed brain pod or my imagination 💀

sorry that was a long rambling of me trying to pick apart my brain and figure out why i dont read percabeth fics LMAOO i do enjoy fics with other pjo relationships though, specifically non-canon ones like pipabeth or valgrace because they have a lot of potential rooted in the text and in the possibility of dynamics that make sense with the canon characters+backstories+traits but also go beyond the text bc they aren't actually part of the canon (so i can separate fandom leo from how i see canon leo if that makes sense)

anywayyyyyyyy, ive heard that percabethfeelsfandom writes good percabeth fics if you want to check her out, and ill let u know if i come across any good recs in the future :))))

x kiri

[autisticbiologistmess]

I love little miau miaus as much as the next person, but damnnnnn these emotionally constipated men need to put on some pants

[lunar-years]

I think the reason why people were talking about the Isaac touching scene was not because Jamie was eventually upset over the touching itself but because of his full body flinch due to nature of it. It was a reaction of shock and quite an extreme reaction as well. Even tho he got over it quick (altho he kept protecting his chest during this interaction). I do agree that others who did witness what happened in manchester should be more careful around him with especially the more aggressive and unexpected kind of touches/moves. Those do scare him and might be triggering even if it comes from someone he trusts and there is no bad intention

I especially agree with your last line about how things can be triggering even if it comes from someone he trusts and there's no bad intentions :) I completely agree that those responses are a Thing for Jamie. I'm less convinced the Isaac scene was one of those times to be honest. Sure he flinches, but I also think most people would flinch if your friend randomly karate chopped at your arm. To me it's a "wtf mate?" startle and not a triggered trauma-response, flinching-out-of-being-frightened thing and I think there's an important distinction. As a few people commented on the last ask, he was only upset because omg what if Isaac really had chopping powers, lol. I just didn't see it as anything more than a goofy moment.

That said, I also think it's all made more complicated by what happened at Wembley having never been brought up again by anyone in show-verse ever. That's something that really does bother me (but I'm still hoping it comes up and is addressed later in the season, because wow not finishing that arc would be a huge disservice) and I see why people are reading things certain ways in light of that. I just also think we as a fandom have to be careful not to go too far in the other direction of woobify-ing Jamie and make sure we give him a little credit, too. He's not fragile and I do not think he would want everyone dancing around him and avoiding typical levels of locker room/friendship typical contact.

I am by no means an expert on any of this, but that's just my two cents. Happy to hear other interpretations!

[hella1975]

by pure evil accident taob zuko's current mental state is the exact same as the one ive been stuck in for the past few weeks and that's a bit funny to me. like i started writing this chapter months ago and knew what i was doing with it even longer ago and suddenly ive manifested it into reality. we are both facing the horrors rn

[volivolition]

[guy with chronic pain voice] i should draw pain threshold

[clarabowmp3]

in other words its my ex-bsf's birthday today and I am in no mood to wish her and idc how petty or immature that makes me