#they just dont listen to anyone who needs anything

[writers-wrongs]

Have you seen Arkham Knight VR? Riddler's self-aware in it! Could have some existential horror potential if you wrote headcanons or something for that version of him as a yandere >:-D (or just about self-aware Eddie from the mainline games...?)

as a ddlc fan, i love self aware game characters. and if anyone in arkham knight was gonna be sentient, itd be him. unfortunately, i havent seen AKVR, so this is just regular arkham knight

yandere!self aware!arkham!riddler x gn!reader

-edwards the most intelligent man in gotham, of course he noticed that his life was a game. and over time, he learned how to manipulate the game around him and "see" into the outside world

-the disc hes on was sold by the original owner, and now gets passed from person to person from secondhand game shops. the disc is always returned because somethings wrong with it. nobody puts two and two together and realizes they only start having game issues when they look up answers to the riddles

-then you buy the disc. edward is mildly interested in you, as he is with everyone who buys his game, but he assumes it wont last when you struggle with his riddles. whatever, at least he can enjoy messing around with your game

-but then you dont look anything up. he watches you intently, he even hacks onto your phone to check if youve been searching answers, and youre all clear. sure, you struggle at some of his puzzles (who doesnt?), but you never cave and look up how to solve it, no matter how long it takes you

-now that hes poking around on your phone, he sees that youre kind of a shut in. you dont have many contacts, and the one social media you have is tumblr. but it looks like you fixate on him a lot, almost to an unhealthy degree. its flattering- of course someone as excellent as him deserves sycophants! and he especially deserves one as devoted as you! youre smart, and determined, and oh lord, hes in love

-you have things to do during the day, you cant spend all your time with him on the disc, so he listens in on you from your phone. theres not much to do when youre not playing the game, so its his favorite way to pass the time. when you get home and start playing, he tries to interest you in his sidequest over everything else. he even keeps an eye on you as you sleep! he has to make sure youre safe, after all

-when youre not playing, he focuses on finding a way out to you (or bringing you in to him). he needs to be able to hold you, to keep you safe himself, and if he has to drag you kicking and screaming into the game with him, he will. not that he really knows how to do that, but he'll figure out something

-on your end, you dont notice anything at first. maybe his lines when you play are a little... flirtier? but other than that, the game is fun. you feel particularly drawn to the riddler sidequest, hes your favorite character after all. then, you notice that his lines are strangely specified to you, making references to your interests and personal life. maybe its just reading your console? yeah, a fun little meta thing!

-but then it gets concerning. he calls you by name. not the name on your console, your real name. hes talking like he knows you as a person. hes saying how much he needs you, how much he adores your dedication to his riddles, your dedication to him. you decide this is too weird, you have to return the game. so you go to take it out, and-

-you wake up in what looks like the abandoned orphanage from arkham knight. you try to move, but you feel arms squeeze you tight

-"there you are, my dear player. we're going to have so much fun together"

[stupidscav]

really love how my school forces me to do a class that makes me want to off myself because I can't understand any of it and any time I tell them "hey this is really stressing me out I can't do any of this" they say "just ask for help" even though it literally NEVER GOT ME HELP

all of my math classes are like this. im going to get yelled at. I'm going to get grounded. I'm gonna get punished. I'm gonna get everything that keeps me sane taken away. because I can't do this fucking class. I just know it my family is going to be so disappointed that their "smart little child" is fucking breaking down from this bullshit class. I can't keep a C+ forever.

I love how my school treats students who need more support!! they just said "fucking deal with it not everyone is having the same problems" when they literally are. it does not help that I've always been used to one style of teaching: the teacher.. guess what

ACTUALLY TEACHING US!!! I love you last grade math teacher Mrs. N I love you so much Ms. I is a BITCH

I know I'm gonna end up in a ditch before I finish schooling.

[feline-evil]

Never gonna be over how unutterably pathetic and in dire need of ANY kind of companionship or friendship that doesn't revolve around their band the entirety of dethklok are. I love these horrible idiots who are so devoid of any real connections outside of themselves that they will latch onto anyone unfortunate enough to get too close to any one of them! And GOD help anyone they latch onto!!

[grapecaseschoices]

there is always some clown that shows their ass about wyll on youtube. like no one wants your bad opinion on a positive video about wyll. no one wants your regurgitated bile that you yucked down from some other clown who has also never played his route or had him in their party or really spoken to him in camp, but wants to say The Reasoning Why Has Nothing To Do With His Blackness, I Just Don't Like Goody-Too-Shoes CharactersTM.

get out of here and misinterpret YOUR faves, not mine.

[arthur-r]

(stupid vent in the tags i’m maybe struggling a lot. not feeling particularly real or handling my life and relationships maturely at all)

[lieblogger]

I FUCKING HATE CULINARY

[toytulini]

dont get mad at me this is a subjective opinion but like. like i enjoy stardew a lot and this is by no means a criticism, more of like. just a Wish.

I want a game very similar to stardew valley in terms of play and "difficulty" but animated/artstyle like, botw.

[bl00dw1tch]

the way i have absolutely no business being the way i am

[violentviolette]

the things you've said about bipolar disorder are focused on BP I. they are not wholly true for BP II and cyclothymia. for example, long term therapy is strongly insisted upon as part of treatment for BP II and cyclothymia. there are specific therapies for people with persistent mood disorders, and can be custom tailored for the needs of the patient. this is a fact.

there is higher risk of persistent and often permanent degeneration of cognitive functions in patients with BP II and cyclothymia (with medication). there is a significantly higher risk of relapse in patients on medication, due to a number of factors including the above mentioned cognitive decline. thus, continued "supervision" and support is often required.

patients with BP II are much more likely to die of unnatural causes than with BP I (again, even medicated), and this can only be extrapolated from to imagine how many people -actually- die from suicide or drug overdose or risk seeking behaviours who had BP II but were misdiagnosed with something else. Many people with BP II and cyclothymia end up undiagnosed as the manifestation of these disorders is often misunderstood or mistaken for something else.

while lithium and other mood stabilizers have been used to treat BP II, their effectiveness can undermined by persistent depression and requires other medications to be added on top of it, increasing instability and risk of relapse. the truth is that usage of lithium and other medications for BP II is simply taken for granted because it works for BP I. meaning that those might actually not be the best compounds, but further research into better solutions is lacking.

no well meaning or informed person would ever advocate against taking medication for any kind of bipolar or other persistent mood disorder. these are absolutely necessary to increase the patient's chances of survival, to preserve some kind of quality of life, and any evidence to the contrary is anecdotal at best. however, the reality is that when it comes to BP II and cyclothymia, it is very much not a case of "set it and forget it". the prognosis of a patient with these mood disorders, even on medication, even with therapy, is not as promising as it is the case with BP I.

there's some new stuff coming out in terms of pharmacology, that supposedly performed as well or better than lithium for BP II, but as it's always the case, only longer term and more widespread use will tell how that works out

there is definitly way more nuance to these things when ur having a deeper conversation about it for sure, and bpI vs bpII absolutely have their own different needs and bpII is unarguably the more difficult one to treat with much more personal variation between patients for a lot of the reasons u stated. ur absolutely right on those points and we dont disagree there at all there are some things in here i do disagree with, and I also have some of my own thoughts that are just theories, particularly about the inclusion of trauma and how that impacts ppl. i would theorize that severe enough trauma combined with genetic potential for but not full expression of bipolar is more likely what creates bpII and thus why treatment often fails and patients relapse. because their brains arent malfunctioning as an organ the same way bpI brains are and its the underlying trauma which is the actual cause and it is not being properly addressed and treated (which isnt to say trauma doesnt cause physical changes to the brain because it absolutely does, but those changes are going to be different and therefore require different approaches). but again that is just a theory and has not been clinically studied, but i do think as our understanding of trauma and the parts it plays in mental illnesses expands these kinds of things will be explored more

but also what i want to make very clear is that this statement "no well meaning or informed person would ever advocate against taking medication for any kind of bipolar or other persistent mood disorder." is completely untrue and its the entire reason i made that post. that IS very much what people are advocating for in what they think is good faith and talking about. i have seen this SO much over the years, people saying that meds are poison, that they change u, that they'll kill ur creativity and make u a zombie, that big pharma just wants u to take more drugs. i once had someone tell me drs only pushed lithium for bipolar because of "big lithium corps" when lithium is literally a naturally occuring mineral and thus a generic that cannot be patented. i have been in many discord servers where ppl tell u to just "raw dog" ur mania. that its good for u because its ur brains natural cycle. which is why i started on this topic at all, because the original reply was upset about there being so few bipolar discords, and these kinds of harmful sentiments being common place among those servers are one of the main reasons none of them last more than a few months and thus there are so few. because shockingly bipolar people off their meds and elbow deep in their own manic delusions arent exactly the best support network for sound medical advice

[savage-rhi]

I'm very much a, "fuck yeah and fuck you, I don't need validation! I'm me, cunts!" kinda fella, but sometimes I could use support.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[noloveisunconditional]

We'll stop calling these nonbinary bitches who whine about how uniquely oppressed they are for having a pussy when they stop talking like and working with terfs you goon

i want everyone who's caught up in this discourse to take a step back for a minute, outside of all of this online infighting I want you to consider what is actually happening here

This started because a couple nonbinary people on twitter had afab in their bio, and were being weird about it, I'm not even arguing that people using their agab as a shield is fine and shouldn't be criticized, but thats NOT what's happening here, and this narrative that people are "whining about how uniquely oppressed they are" is right wing talking point that you have fallen for. Instead of looking at this on a case by case basis a lot of people have decided that this means that ANY nonbinary person who happens to be afab is fair game. Just, let's really internalize this for a second, you're attacking nonbinary people based on their agab,because of some twitter discourse that you decided must apply all nonbinary people. that is the root of what is happening here, do you really, truly, think that is the right course of action here?

And let's be real here, people have taken this and ran with it, there are doxxing campaigns committed to finding and outing nonbinary peoples agab because of this, you're supporting a movement that is intentionally exposing nonbinary peoples agabs for the sole purposes of harrassment. There is no sugar coating it and you might feel like that's not what's happening because we're in a bit of a bubble here on tumblr but everywhere else, and irl, that's how this "theyfab" shit is being used.

How is an afab nonbinary person talking about their unique experiences with misogyny different from an ftm trans man doing the same? Or an mtf trans woman? All of these people will run into misogyny at some point in their lives and all of them deserve a space to talk about that. Yes there were some weirdos on twitter making it a misogyny competition, but that's true for any group, there's always weirdos on twitter.

The level of infighting here is really concerning, there seems to be a lot of queer people who are very focused on making this community palatable to The Straights. That means they'll turn their back on anyone who they think they can throw under the bus in order to gain better standing. Make no mistake that is what is happening here, it happened to bi and trans people in the 2000s and it's happening to nonbinary people now. The term theyfab didn't originate in this community it was a term made by those who hate us, and wanted to mock queer people. THATS the movement you're playing into when you believe that all afab nonbinary people are assholes that you can disrespect.

Like, again let's really think about this, my position is that we should not criticize nonbinary people based on their agab, we shouldn't treat ANYONE differently based solely on their agab, that's my position, why is that a controversial statement?

[craftycalico]

its just a bad day

Idk if this is part of the concussion lol

Feel free to send asks if you wanna chat or go interact with my rp blogs

[iamfuckingsorry]

Writing the acknowledgement part of my thesis and god it's so frustrating. I don't really feel like I got that much support from my direct supervisor, I have been extremely asocial throughout and also just haven't really felt welcome/like I belong in this lab at any point (like, people here are all ambitious, have their shit together, talk about what frying pans they like and what gym they go to and their kids, and they all voluntarily wear business casual attire - for context my previous lab, which I quite liked, was like "no visible stains on your cargo pants and anime tees please" and my supervisor had 5 identical shirts to wear monday to friday, ate a head of lettuce for lunch every single day, and worked 5 am - 2 pm because he hated crowded trains that much). I did an extremely meh job as a direct result of how I felt about the department/lab (which, yes, can't really blame anyone else for this but anyway) and quite possibly fucked up my future chances of ever scoring a job in academia. But obviously I can't say that, I need to thank my supervisor and the PI and the department for providing support and being welcoming and whatnot, but it just feels so fucking /fake/...

Man, I'm too autistic for this shit

[arcadequeerz]

ton of shit i need to do and i'm just

[our-lady-of-mcr]

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