#this is just me whining ignore me

[dreamofbecoming]

so i have 2 windows in my bedroom, and normally they’re both open, but obviously open windows are a terrible idea in new york rn, so all the windows in the house are closed, right? except one of the windows in my room is in a really hard to access position, and on top of that it sticks, and the last time the smoke hit the city i physically injured myself closing/reopening it, and i didn’t really want to spend another 2 weeks healing from a wrenched shoulder, so i’ve boarded it up with the plastic trays i bought to keep plants on my windowsills in, but they aren’t quite the right size so there are two little slivers of screen still exposed bleeding poison into my air, and i’ve got the air purifier running but idk how effective it is when the room isn’t sealed and my head hurts and my chest hurts and i’m just having a bad time yall

[hxhhasmysoul]

idk what is with this fandom... the same people who hate sukuna and are oh so sad about gojou, also buy into what sukuna said to yuuji in this chapter... i guess maybe sukuna displayed gojou's level of comeback so they latched onto it. what can yuuji possibly do? how can sukuna be even defeated if gojou failed and kashimo failed.

since the beginning yuuji's shown superhuman physical abilities. plus amazing tactical sense and superhuman speed at which he learned things, especially all things jujutsu. but his most impressive and consistent ability has been his super reinforced soul capable of caging sukuna. and that soul did its job without him knowing how to influence it. now he's been given guidance. he also practiced by ingesting more cursed objects containing souls. he also showed that he can possibly soul swap.

also since the beginning sukuna has shown incredible superiority and detachment towards everyone. except for yuuji. he was ready to mock praise and tease everyone to get more entertaining fights out of them... except for yuuji. yuuji he bullies, diminishes him, tries to break yuuji's spirit. that smells like worry, maybe fear, definitely an attempt at psychological warfare. yuuji irks him, unsettles him.

jujutsu fights are about strength and cursed energy output etc, and so on, but they are also about compatibility as mentioned by gojou and nanami and mahito. also they are about planning and strategy. about understanding jujutsu and the soul, so yourself, your strengths and weaknesses. but also being able to understand your opponent as much as possible, their motivations, their behaviour, their techniques. this is why kenjaku and sukuna bested gojou because they both kept the fight on their own terms. kenjaku by not picking a physical fight at all and making it all about intrigue and cunning, sukuna by exactly tailoring his strategy to his opponent. this is also why gojou lost because even though he knew about the compatibility he didn't think that mattered in his case because he was him, he was gojou satoru, the strongest.

yuuji can win where those two lonely losers failed because:

a) he always performs best when he's fighting alongside others and he's not going in alone. being oriented towards others is the core of his character and it has always been like that. he's bested opponents stronger than him while learning and adjusting during the fight and the presence of others only spurns that on.

b) he's clearly going in with a plan, considering who he's going in with. and he mentioned before that he had a plan how to save megumi. he's been preparing for this. unlike some who decided to wing it...

c) he has a unique understanding of sukuna. and there's also been some hints that there's more to his connection to sukuna, some heian backstory. it's also possible that gojou was right and some of sukuna's technique rubbed off on yuuji, likely sukuna's true technique whatever that is. or at least yuuji has some understanding of it that he could use against sukuna.

d) there's something about yuuji that even sukuna senses and doesn't like. and one thing we can safely say about sukuna at this point, he's got expertise when it comes to these things.

e) yuuji was made specifically by kenjaku to imprison sukuna, and kenjaku is another expert in their field.

f) sukuna has ruined yuuji's life, has made yuuji question himself constantly, has given yuuji so much trauma and guilt, has taken so many people from yuuji. including megumi who yuuji might still hope to save. yuuji is uniquely biased against sukuna and uniquely motivated. gojou and kashimo had no emotional investment in sukuna apart from "senpai notice me i want to be one of the cool kids like you" and "senpai notice me i want to ride the belly mouth" respectively. yuuji has so fucking much more emotional investment. for him it's super personal on so many fucking levels.

this is why yuuji stands a chance against sukuna. this is why his win will never be an ass pull or main character magic. he's been meticulously built up as a character throughout the manga. if someone pays attention to the story, none of what i've written here is shocking to them.

[fuckyeah-bears]

whhhhyyyyyyyyy is everything sooooo motherfucking expensive????? don’t they know I can’t afford all this shit???

[revenantghost]

Eugh. Gotta do something real scary and adult today with legitimately everything riding on it and I dun wanna ):<

[adamshallperish]

just saw someone in the drive away dolls tag complaining about how pedro pascal was only going to be in the movie for five minutes and how that meant "clearly he's being exploited". bestie i'm sorry the lesbian roadtrip movie is about two lesbians on a roadtrip and not pedro pascal.

[ganonfan1995]

I just hate 2 be a spoil sport, but I really have no desire to see my favourite video games brought to the big screen.

I like them b/c they're video games well, mostly.

I cannot say that LoZ has a particularly thrilling story which translates well to film. I dunno??????????

They're exploration, dungeon crawling, puzzle games.

Mario made so much more sense as a film b/c of its loose canon and cultural ubiquity.

LoZ is a modern conservative fairy tale abt...uhh???????????????????????????? u tell me?????

[elvthali]

Artfight revenge for @dreameroftheblue's Kaitou and Raziel!

[20001541]

we lost so bad today afo fans....

the volume 40 cover just released and afo did not appear on it

[cluster-b-culture-is]

is it possible to be aspd if you dont “engage in criminal activity”? what if you mask really well and hold yourself on an incredibly tight leash despite how much it distresses you? the DSM doesnt do a good job at explaining what ASPD actually IS aside from “violent criminal disorder”

It is possible, yes. From criterion one, there are seven total symptoms, and you [technically] only need three to qualify for diagnosis (along with meeting the requirements for the other two criterion--note that we personally view the DSM as incredibly flawed, especially when portraying personality disorders such as NPD and ASPD; however, we are (unfortunately) at whims of the world in which we live, and so are largely beholden to the guidelines made by a bunch of neurotypicals who can only view things through the lens of how our disorders affect them or look to them, generally just totally ignoring the internal experiences of the people with said disorders. So much for having empathy, I guess).

We're an example of someone who has not engaged in criminal activity to the DSM's standards; note that the criminal activity had to have been or would have been enough to get you imprisoned, so something like getting a speeding ticket wouldn't count for this symptom (although it would count under reckless behavior, but I digress). Largest reason why we don't (technically) fit the symptom is that we're physically disabled which prevents... a lot of the things we would otherwise do.

[isfjmel-phleg]

😶

[medieval-canadian]

so i'm crocheting a temperature blanket this year. my initial instinct was to say it's for my 32nd year but that's not actually how birthdays work so instead i'm awkwardly going with "the year i'm 32" and shortening it to just 32 mostly. anyway, that's besides the point.

i have the colour palette/yarn, i have the pattern (toni lipsey's linen stitch pixel temp blanket), i made a gauge swatch, i've started tracking temps (i've recorded hi/lo starting on dec. 8).... but fuck, i'm having so much trouble figuring out the temperature gauge!!!

i can't decide what the intervals should be, i can't decide if i want purples to be warm temps or cold temps or where to put the neutrals, i can't decide if i want to fiddle/tweak(/cheat?) and use the lows for the cold temps instead of the high which was the initial plan.... i just don't know!!! ugh.

[zehina]

Sometimes I wonder if I'd be missed. Not out of guilt for me not existing anymore, but because I was important to others.

[hersurvival]

it is never-ending, i have become a project, shoved and torn in different directions, limb from shaky limb, without proper evaluations or communication hearing "situational" or "not typical" or "definitive" based on various observations. but no one knows. because who casually prescribes one of the strongest anti-depressants on a whim for "ocd tendencies" on a wednesday from their strip mall office? who looks at the way a patient's hands tremble without any other information or examinations, tests, and scribbles an anti-convulsant down onto a pad saying to come back in a month? how did it take five weeks to get a psych evaluation while i was crying and scared, dissociating with demons in my head calling for blood? seven doctors in six months, twenty-one appointments, five different medications: start this, go up, switch, up, i said up, one week trial of this for nothing, full stop and crash, start over, go up, start another, switch two days later, taper off the one that helps you because oh, it might be making something else worse, "you were never evaluated." i still don't know what is wrong with my body and i am scheduled for a second round of evaluations with psychiatry because in an hour, we couldn't get to them all.

tonight i start something new with the potential side effect of insomnia and nightmares but that's how i have always lived so why not? it can't possibly get worse, right? two negatives make a positive type logic.

[scattered-winter]

sometimes i see a post and its like. hm. you actually care very little about the story or characters or plot at all bc all you want is for the token male twinks to kiss.

[roses-and-elixir]

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[evilsapphyre]

Just to quickly vent, look, I get it that i apparently have a bunch of RL friends who just want to go to a big geeky party. That’s great. But maybe, I’m no longer comfortable with it? Is it wrong that I don’t want to spend a huge sum of money to go hang out with people and drink?

My husband is all jealous, but I’m like .. what would we be doing if we went? Would we go to panels? Or would we walk the overcrowded shopping area and see things we can’t afford? Would we have to carve our way through overcrowded halls, just trying to find people that we may know? Would we do anything but hang out the same people we could make time for locally and drink? Because I don’t like drinking that much any more, and I am struggling to justify using our money (and time away from our child) to go to this event.

And let’s be real, my husband wouldn’t want to go to half of the panels I would, and I refuse to fly solo in a crowd that size. We have differing tastes, which is great, but that doesn’t mean I want to be abandoned.

Plus, our child has illness induced asthma. Do we really want to expose him to concrud or worse because we wanted to party?