#sorting through brain hard

[wrongfourtytwo]

I don’t remember what this was meant to be originally, and. It doesn’t make sense but I enjoyed creating it. Think the scene was original from a fic I’m writing

[cerulean-fantasy]

💜✨🌠🌟

[dizzybizz]

AITA if I accidentally left fish at my mayor's house for two weeks straight? And it left his house stinky?

OK- so I (26TM) moved to a small sort of isolated town during spring this year, where I work as a farmer on a farm my grandpa once owned. It's been great and I have really settled in over the course of the year.

Time passed and eventually fall was upon us. Now, during the middle of fall the town holds a small festival, where among other things you could set up a little stall with your finest products for a friendly competition and review. Our mayor (??M) hooked me up with one of those which was really nice- I had been doing a lot of fishing over the months and I had a few good ones to display so I did. I ended up getting second place- okay no, that is not really relevant-

But after the results were out, the mayor specifically reminded me to not forget to empty out my supply and bring it with my back home. He specifically went out of his way to remind me. Thing is... I might have gotten a bit caught up in the other festivities and fun things around (not my fault they were grilling burgers and had gambling). And I completely forgot, I only remembered the moment I stepped foot inside my room again.

Next morning rolls around and I wake up to a letter in my mailbox from the mayor explaining that the fish I had left were placed inside the town's Lost and Found. Which is just a big box inside his house. So I thought "OK, great. I'll head over today and retrieve them." Yeah, that didn't really turn out. I completely forgot, it completely slipped my mind. And that same series of events of - me recalling that I had stuff in the Lost and Found and meaning to go pick them up and forgetting - kept happening for a while. Until two weeks had passed and it was winter. And as I was passing the mayor's house the thought struck again. Except this time I actually REMEMBERED and WENT THROUGH WITH IT. So I knock on his door and I get let in, and the house smells like, well... rotten fish. I go straight to the box while talking about how I'm so sorry it took so long and that I was always getting distracted by this that and the other. And he's being all understanding and nodding along. But there is no way he wasn't at least a bit ticked off, right? And I do feel really bad but I cannot do much for my forgetfulness besides setting reminders maybe... maybe I will try that in the future.

AITA for forgetting to pick up my forgotten fish from my mayor's house?

[e-the-village-cryptid]

i’m curious if there’s a link here, please tell me in the tags if your inner monologue has subtitles, whether or not you have a hearing or auditory processing disability, and whether or not you learned to read early and read a lot as a kid

(by subtitles i mean that you automatically visualize the written form of the words you are thinking. the way this actually happens can be anywhere from the written form of the words just popping into your head to an actual subtitle-looking area. the only criteria are that 1. you visualize the written form of most or all words 2. it is completely automatic and happens without trying or thinking about it)

[rawliverandgoronspice]

late to the 25th year anniversary mark of oot but like

can we just... remember how absolutely mindblowing it was to play this game for the first time, and in the first half hour you get summoned by a giant talking tree who then opens its mouth so that you can dive deep into its cobwebbed vegetal insides to battle a horrible spider crawling above your head in a dark underground room --and then you win, and the tree dies anyway, tells you about a mystical legend and send you on your way?

and then you leave the forest and the world is *so vast*?

I feel like we (including myself) sort of take this opening for granted nowadays, but the absolute shock I felt when playing this for the first time? My tiny self already loved videogames back then, but I had basically zero experience with 3D or games that focused more on story or mood, and the sheer peculiar mood that blended the epic, the childlike fun, the mystical and the offputting and creepy smacked me across the face so hard I never truly recovered

[transannabeth]

i need to get more into filipino music please does anyone have any recs

[queseraphita]

Anime gave me such unrealistic expectations on hair parts and bangs as a teenager

[itwoodbeprefect]

just had the experience of succesfully sounding out แว่นกันแดด in my head, recognizing those sounds ("waen kan daet") as something i'd seen in transliterated script, confidently going "zonnebril!", and then seeing it translated as sunglasses and going wait?? that was wrong?? for a whole two seconds before remembering that no, those words actually do all fit into the same mold, i was just pouring a different language into it by accident

[bananonbinary]

What is the rusty quill situation??

okay so like i said, i am mostly very confused by everything, mostly because tma is a massive massive special interest for me and my emotional reactions are too Overwhelming for me to take an objective approach here. but as i understand it:

an article was posted two days ago titled "Who's Afraid of Alex J. Newall?" alleging that rusty quill very badly mistreats, underpays, and generally lies to it's employees, specifically favoring tma over literally everything else on the network. most of the fandom, including me, took this at face value and were horrified. a few others in the fandom have been doing some investigating of their own though, and it turns out the article was written by the marketing director of a different podcasting network (a fact which has since been edited into the article but was not disclosed at first), and generally is sus as hell. (i did notice when i first tried to read it that in order to keep all it's sources anonymous, it gave them all names of popular tma characters, which, no matter what else, is just. incredibly inflammatory and absolutely bonkers. my sibling called it "extremely tacky.")

the part that was extremely confusing to me, was that ben meredith shared the article on his twitter. although i didn't actually know until right this second when i tried to link it, he has since deleted that. idk what's up with that, if maybe he was just doing what the rest of us were and trying to show support for the alleged victims. and there HAS been evidence in the past that RQ can be at least incompetent at managing stuff, notably the official discord server that was modded entirely by unpaid fans and spiraled out of control before being shut down (i dont actually know this one first hand, i don't really discord much).

basically it seemed like RQ was doing some sketchy shit, but now it looks like it was a false alarm, but it all happened so rapidly i'm still kinda scared to actually make a definite call until everyone's said their piece and we can be sure the dust has settled. i've been through this song and dance in a few fandoms before, and it's always a fucking bloodbath before we figure out the truth.

UPDATE: RQ has posted a response. i think i might be comfortable putting this to bed unless anyone else speaks up about it.

[weenhands]

today i realized for the first time that i have made a massive improvement in myself mentally from the past two years. not so much emotionally or whatever but my mental headspace this past month has been seemingly the best it's been and this entire year so far has still been shitty but ive had alot of maturity and growth from issues ive been dealing with and yah. but i need to improve my eating...its getting worse and i think for the past month ive only been eating one meal a day ((esp bc of my insecurities of having an allowance w my parents, i feel guilty asking for money))

[wraithsoutlaws]

i agree with your chronic pain headcanon! i forgot to mention he walks a bit, hm… differently and i always thought he was in a lot of pain :( i like ur thoughts, i would kindly like to hear a few more heheh ♥︎🥹🫴🏻

Yes! His posture is a little hunched and tbh he just looks heavy (well you know, he probably is fsdakfjasl) But I definitely think pain and general discomfort is a big part of it. I will happily share a few more thoughts 🤲

Going back to the last anon re: the optics and the massive headaches that they would likely cause, I have a HC that Dum Dum (and hell maybe other Maelstromers tbh) also have a kind of echolocation cyberware. If the optics are compromised or otherwise unusable for whatever reason, they can be switched off and this can be used for sight instead. (DD is a lil bat boy i will not budge on this). They probably have built in modes like night/heat vision also and I like to think he can control separate lenses individually, like zoom on certain areas at a time, or switch on different settings between them. Also that he has a sensor at the back of his head/neck to alert him of movement. And controllable hearing cyberware that he can turn up or down, because I think it would be really funny if he's sitting in Totentanz just :3 while Tinnitus is blaring but hes got it turned down and ignoring everybody listening to Samurai or something else instead.

Oh! And he does his own cyberware maintenance if he can. He's no ripper (though I bet he's watched a lot of the procedures they've done and cut up enough people himself) but he has a good understanding of tech at least and if it's non-invasive you'll see him fine-tuning stuff, sticking a screwdriver into his tummy or whatever else concerning hardware. I see him more techie than runner, so when it comes down to coding and software I think he's a little more liable to seek outside help but he's by no means a stranger to that either.

[8aji]

reading a letter to his father by franz kafka felt cathartic, for various reasons you can probably infer, but after i finished it and inevitably logging onto tumblr for some needed serotonin yes I cried, i couldn’t help but think about megumi, and how he’d absolutely hate it. and this is not because he cannot relate to kafka’s struggle, i’m sure he can deeply empathize but only to a certain extent because behinds kafka’s apathy there’s love coming from a broken child, love that was birth from a built relationship, and i think he’d hate it because he’s got “nothing” to compare it to.

the closest thing he’s got to compare kafka’s father to is “nothing” because the only concept/idea/relationship with his dad is non-existent—nothing—because he left, and a part of me thinks he’d hate or maybe like reading this book because it could be the closest he can get to a conversation with his father.

[tarakau]

.

[badolmen]

So fun fact - the html files tumblr exports your posts as when you download your blog have the old ‘staircase’ style replies regardless of when the post was made. Idk I just think it’s neat.

[senadimell]

You know, I’d really like to know more about chronic headaches and migraines. I don’t know that most of my headaches really fit the migraine definition, but I’m not sure if it’s my high pain tolerance/ability to block out pain or if there’s something different at play. I usually have no idea what kind of headache is going on, and then sometimes the pain is just...weird and depresses my will to do anything without necessarily escalating or being the primary problem going on. (sometimes I can’t even tell you where the pain is except for “my head,” and it seems like describing where the pain is coming from is a big thing for doctors?)

 I’m hesitant to label what’s going on because I really don’t know what’s happening and struggle to put my own pain into words, but it’s a fine line between “accurately describing what’s going on, including the severity or lack thereof of pain” and “don’t want to downplay how much this affects me.” I get headaches multiple times a week, which is a lot less than I used to, and it’s been a while since I had headaches every other day. Now it’s more like every 3-4 days, with longer and shorter stretches. But I have had awful headaches and most headaches are just routine! Even filling out pain scales is hard because honestly a lot of the time the sensation of pain isn’t the primary problem.

[straydogged]

sighs in getting cancelled on by a friend AFTER getting to his house