#that was...a lot

[theperplexednavigator]

Some Heart thoughts:

Heart is a bitter, resentful, pessimistic person who is jaded by the world around him. He struggles with his depression (or rather, Mind would say he's "ruled by his depression"), and he has very unhealthy coping skills, instead allowing himself to fall into states of numbness (during these states, he wonders sometimes if this is what being Mind feels like, cold and unemotional).

Because he is the emotional side, this makes him a lot more sensitive to criticism, and since "emotional side" means the full spectrum of emotions, he may become angry in response to these critiques, making him lash out, often with violence. Thus the Juno incident.

Mind thinks that Heart is allowing himself to fall victim to his own emotions on purpose, even accusing him of using his emotions to manipulate others. But Heart can't help it, and if he is, in fact, manipulating others, then he is doing it unintentionally and unawares.

Heart tends to focus on the negatives, being the jaded pessimist that he is. He also has a hard time letting go of the past. Thus why when Mind is asking for help during Light, Heart instead elects to focus on their past interactions and fights. He has a hard time accepting the fact that Mind might not actually be the villain that Heart thinks he is.

Despite these flaws, Heart would not trade being the emotional side for anything. Because with emotions come compassion, excitement, empathy, happiness, and the pursuit of comfort. He can even be gentle with those he cares about.

So he just lives with it, lives with the goods and the bads of emotions. What he needs is a balance, a check on his worse emotions and impulses. Which is where Mind comes in. Unfortunately, Heart has a hard time reaching out for help.

He seeks comfort, thus the plushies from my previous headcanon. Being attached to the past, Heart can be very nostalgic.

Sometimes he cares too much, except for when Apathy closes in, and he ends up not caring enough, such as in the end of The Heart Acoustic. Otherwise, his emotions run intensely, as he feels things more deeply than your average person.

(Slaps Heart's shoulder) This guy can fit all the emotions in him.

(All three of these guys have flaws, and the worst qualities of these flaws keep obstructing their points of view. Each of these guys is the problem in their own way.)

[edgepunk]

ok I think I'm gonna finish watching sm2 tomorrow I only have like two hours left and I'm v tired

[ryumisadei]

Me after experiencing Asakura for the first Time...

[yeepof]

I understand that tall men are our POV characters, but surely being like a foot taller than everyone around them would have some occasional consequences

[alivingtypo]

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

[canonkiller]

I just think everyone should take a moment to consider the question "what is your visual shorthand for cruelty?" and then follow it up with a critical "and who taught you that?"

specific examples include but are not limited to

why is an evil timeline character design disabled? (why do the heroes go through equally punishing battles and never lose an arm, a leg, an eye?)

why are the futuristic scifi terrorists uniformly darker skinned? (why are the heroes so much lighter?)

why is the greedy boss fat? (why are the heroes skinny?)

why is the criminal mastermind heavily scarred? (why is the brooding, traumatized hero unscathed?)

why is the predatory creep a bearded person in a dress and makeup? (why are none of the heroes trans women?)

who taught you that this is how things are?

how long do you plan on repeating it?

[magnus-rhymes-with-swagness]

hey reminder that connecting humanity is extremely low on esims rn and desperately needs esim donations and also that there are a lot of cool things you can get in exchange for a donation

[sirompp]

hi. i made some images.

feel free to take them and use for whatever you may need them for. no credit required

[sheepydraws]

The secret Dungeon Meshi sauce that's getting people to eat better is that it's so non-judgmental. Senshi and the rest of the gang never talk about what not to eat besides things that taste bad and literal poison. They don't even talk about "health" that much besides the importance of a balanced diet. It's so much easier to eat well when you think of food simply as something your body needs, and that it's often worth the extra effort to make it taste good, especially when you understand how to connect "things your body needs" with "things that taste good"

[vamprisms]

i feel like a lot of the 'i hate kids' crowd would be more tolerant if they understood that due to a kid's limited experience of the world that 4 hour flight might just be the longest they've ever had to sit still for or that trapped finger might literally be the most pain they've ever felt in their short life or they might not have ever seen a person with pink hair ever so of course they want to touch it or nobody's told them yet that they can't run around the museum and they only just learned cheetahs are the fastest animals so of course they want to put that to the test. how were they supposed to know etc etc.

[brawnie]

*grabbing mlm shippers by the shoulders* guys nobody needs to be the twink. nobody needs to be the sub. nobody needs to be the femboy. they can both be big fat hairy men who bask in each others masculinity or they can both be unspeakable monstrous creatures with inhuman genitalia it’s okay I’m holding your hand. Let me show you the way

[moodsandtenses]

There's something hilarious about how so much subsequent media has positioned Vampires and Werewolves as, like, binary opposite entities, and then you read Dracula (1897) and realize that wolves are that guy's preferred solution to every problem. You'd say something to Dracula about "ah yes, werewolves, vampires' great eternal enemies," and he'd just be like "you mean my subcontractors?"

[dilfsisko]

you there. high quality production youtube channel with a team of people. why are your captions autogenerated.

[marisatomay]

People will claim to be a fan of some thing and then hate all of the themes and motifs and story lines and plot lines and protagonists and antagonists like man I don’t think that you actually like it here

[almondpiglet]

ppl were drawing mikus from all over so heres habesha miku and her lil twin sibs rin and len!!

[eridan-ampora]

baby animals move like theyre playing a new video game & havent figured out the controls yet