#this is a huge step forward

[lectorel]

Biden is closing the gun show loophole

No more sales without background checks, this is the biggest step forward towards better gun control in decades.

[leconcombrerit]

"Get lost and die"

Oh dear god I haven't so far as doodled anything in so long. So very long. I got rusty. But I felt like sketching a little thingie to celebrate the emotional slaughter that was episode 7 ! I'm suffering out there, with any hope episode 8 will finish me off and I'll consider it a mercy kill.

[fairycosmos]

i just realized how bad i am at socializing. went to a party last night and nobody talked to me. it felt like i was invisible to them.

[owlsie-hoot]

So many ways of saying "I LOVE YOU"

[tangledinink]

in an older ask (before the bracelet comic) you broke down, basically, the odds of donnie recognizing his family to different degrees on any given day... i'm curious, what would the odds be now, now that he has the bracelet?

Hell yeah let's do more Swanatello Math~

Let's say his family visits him eight times-- this time with the bracelet.

-> Maybe one time out of eight, usually less, Donnie will not be able to recognize them and will treat them as intruders, driving them off. There are occasions when he disregards the message of the bracelet or forgets it too quickly to be helpful.

-> Two times out of eight, Donnie will be able to recognize them enough to not view them as threats, but will not be able to organically recall any further details about them. He is confused and frustrated. He recognizes something is wrong, and can comprehend the research materials he's reading, but no actual memories are being pinged in his brain, leaving him in a very frightening, bizarre, uncanny-valley sort of space. He has to repeatedly reference notes and journals to try to puzzle the identities of his family together, which is upsetting and embarrassing. Days like these focus on providing comfort and support to Donnie, but the context that his research board and bracelet provide does make this easier to manage now.

-> One time out of the eight, Donnie will be able to recognize his family but struggles to comprehend his current situation or recall details surrounding it, though he recognizes something is wrong. He knows that Raph is here, and he remembers Raph fully, but has a difficult time processing why they're here at the lake instead of being at home; it's just not sinking in for him. Things in his brain are not matching up, and he is confused and frustrated. His family will have to re-explain to him what's going on, typically multiple times. Days like these focus on providing comfort and support to Donnie, but the jumpstart that the research and bracelet provide often makes this process much easier.

-> One time out of eight, Donnie will be able to recognize his family enough to not view them as threats, but will not always be able to recall further details about them. He's not able to fully process that anything is wrong unless it's explained to him, (usually more than once,) but even then it seems to overall elude him and not fully sink in. He will happily spend the day showing his lake off to his family, dancing with them, etc. His bracelet and research board help, but on days like these he often seems unable to fully retain this information throughout the day. These days are usually pretty frustrating for his family, but are overall lower-stress for Donnie, at least. False memories are common on these days.

-> Three times out of eight, Donnie is able to both recognize his family and recall details about their current situation. He remembers the family members who are currently with them, and sometimes even those who are absent, and understands that he is currently being affected by magick that manipulates his memory and patterns of thinking.

Overall, the bracelet has improved the situation. The family has to take care to try to be present as much as possible, however, as receiving this information from the bracelet and research board can sometimes be very scary or disorientating, and they've found that having someone around either during this process or immediately after is very important. Typically, if Donnie wakes up, receives the message from his bracelet, inspects the research board, and waits for the promised family to arrive... and then they don't, he'll panic and quickly lose trust in the information. He may react negatively to any family members once they do show up. Swanatello overall tends to do poorly when left alone, they've discovered.

[that-really-dungeons-my-dragons]

"I think he feels like he just keeps fucking up with Gillion and he doesn't know how to... not do that."

Okay, stab me with a dagger, why don't you.

[3ris-d1st0rtionnn]

✨🌀Distortiongender🌀✨

A gender related to the Distortion from The Magnus Archives; themes include disconnection from humanity/reality, perception of the self as a concept beyond human understanding, vivid/clashing colors and patterns, finding enjoyment in chaos, Causing Problems On Purpose, and traits of Michael and Helen Distortion in general.

(I coined this gender for myself but I’m fine with others identifying with it, just pls credit me if you use the flag!)

Anti-neopronoun/xenogender/MOGAI, DNI! This is a safe space!

[kickerofelves]

I’ve got personal mental health problems up to my eyeballs but I still didn’t agree to kill brown people to get my college paid for

[qwainte]

Me during BG3 early access: Nice try Larian, but you aren't going to get me to fall in love with your hot vampire twink. I'm not 15 anymore.

Me playing the fully released game:

[trangenderstan]

Its the anniversary of me knowing @unearthlyfromage so heres my FAVORITE SILLY LITTLE GUY from his E Stan fic (go read it btw)

ORIGIN FORD I LOVE YOU YOU TRAUMATIZED SON OF A BITCH

[thegreatyin]

anyway. unrelated to my lovecraftian horror sonic lore madness but hazbin hotel concluded today! my official take is that the show is actually pretty good when you don't have people yelling in your ear that it's the worst thing on earth and it's most certainly not perfect or even necessarily spectacular but like. it's fine. for what it is and what the team probably had to deal with it's a perfectly acceptable little series. its biggest issue is honestly just the pacing which i suspect is entirely down to amazon/publishing restrictions rather than any fault of the creators so i can't hold that against them too much in my judgement. if you can ignore that and keep a reasonable sense of expectations about its humor and plot i think you can have a pretty good time with it. TLDR, 7/10, really needed to be double the length but for what it is it's respectable and the songs are pretty bangin

[bhaalble]

The fresh hell I'm tormenting myself with tonight is after Orroros frees Orpheus and they both realize one of them is going to have to become a mindflayer to defeat the Nether Brain. They ask for a moment to think and then drag Astarion off to the side and basically beg him to compel them to say no. They won't have the strength to stop themselves from volunteering. This final realization that they are either not strong enough to be all their people need them to be, or they don't want to be.

[universescreaming]

I have a new theory that actually nothing we think we know as of yet is right. Cause here’s the thing we know from some of the very first teasers of this season that Eddie gets hurt and flung off the ladder truck, so where does that fit in into what we’ve seen and gathered?? And WHY would they be showing us THIS much right before the episode premieres if what we think, or what the promos are wanting us to think, is actually correct?? Idk maybe I’m just over thinking this, it’s possible that they’re just releasing all of this to build up hype and get people to want to watch the new episodes since a lot of people were disappointed with 6a, but idk it just feels all too easy? Likes there’s gotta be a twist somewhere that we’re not foreseeing that’s gonna whack us all over the heads, I just hope it’s a good twist

[yourqueenb]

Thank you for your answer, and thank you for putting so much thought into that 💞💞💞 mal and nia are my main LIs and at first I was really glad that at least two members of the party stayed with each other and mb even got closer but I can see how it would be annoying and/or sad for people who romance one of them exclusively. I think that I mostly just want to see eeal bonds between our party bc idk it just feels a bit hollow? In the first book they were just thrown together by chance but a whole year has passed and without MC there to hold them together it just shows how much less there is with exception of some banter and general sympathy towards one another. I also think that excluding Threep and other non-romancable characters from the main friend group makes most of the dynamic in choices hollow bc lmao all these people are here to try and fuck us and no one cares about each other beyond that. I don't really like TRR or TF but I feel like friendship was so much richer in previous books, like those two series, OH and TE - and in PM they managed to create a poly route where I could feel solid platonic bonds between people other than MC and LIs (Sloane and Hayden, Steve and Hayden or Damien and Nadia). Or mb I'm just a bit underwhelmed with the current plot course in blades lmao (sorry for rambling around the same three thoughts I just can't seem to gather my thoughts on this whole thing together 🫡)

I’m so sorry, I meant to respond to this sooner. But no, I completely get what you’re saying! You made some good points.

Even though all of these characters were kind of thrown together in book 1, personally I did feel like they were more like a family by the end of it. And I think that’s one of the reasons why everyone loved Blades so much. However, I do understand why the bonds aren’t as tight in this book. It makes sense for there to be some distance between everyone after what happened to MC and the apparent strife it caused. But I feel like they haven’t done enough to fully bring the group back together again and reform those poignant emotional bonds.

As you basically said with the exception of some banter and general sympathy towards one another, pretty much all of the focus is on each member’s relationship with MC alone. And even those relationships are very one sided with each person relying on MC for support, but not giving much in return. When the main cast is tied together by genuine relationships with each other rather than simply all waiting for their turns in MC’s bed, it’s really great to see and makes for a better book overall. That’s why the Pend Pals are still my personal favorite friend group to this day.

I will say that I actually don’t feel like the relationship dynamics in Blades specifically are hollow because everyone’s trying to sleep with MC though. And maybe that’s because I’m only romancing Mal (and flirting with Aerin on the side). But yeah, I think it’s because the writers have really been ignoring the opportunities to capitalize off of emotional beats (which I’ve said a few times before) rather than the characters just not having more to their relationships at all

[sysig]

Everything day

[spxnglr]

Good mornooning my beloveds, soon I'm going to have a specialist coach work w me in the office to help w the brain fog/short-term memory issues I have thanks to my Grave's!

I've been advised to tell them that I have suspected AD.HD (bc getting a formal diagnosis is taking me SO long and my workplace assessor empathised SO hard) and supposedly they'll know within a session or two if I do have it, and it can be included in their report if I do so I can receive further guidance for it.

Honestly I've had more help in the few months I've spent in my current role than in the years I ever spent in my last dept, I'm so grateful.