#this was fixable!

[arkon-z]

TOTK is a good game and it's got a good story to boot. But the thing is, that story doesn't connect very well to BOTW. It really does read like a sequel fic of someone who loved the source material but really wanted to gush about how awesome the Zonai were. I'm not a game dev or writer, so maybe this is just my inexperience showing, but with two delays, you'd think they'd have enough time to polish up the story.

[bog-mommy]

[inkskinned]

it mattered because when my brother asked me what if this is the happiest you'll ever be? the best you'll ever get? the thing i felt was fear, not peace. everybody thought you were so perfect for me. even i thought you were "helping me grow". i had to challenge every internal clock. make myself more thoughtful, more kind, more beautiful.

i told my therapist it was good because i like the changes i made and there's something so strong about saying i did that. the problem is that i can like the difference all i want, but i changed for you. something akin to getting your name tattooed, all my progress is stamped with fuck you.

it was the happiest i'd ever been and also the best i'd ever gotten. i would still get in the car and think what the fuck just happened.

[dragonpyre]

I'm a chronic migraine Jason Todd truther. Except he doesn't know they're migraines. Poor guy will be layed up on his couch for days wondering what wizard he pissed off cuz light hurts, sounds hurt, he thinks he's gonna throw up, his vision doesn't work right, and also there's an invisible rail spike driving itself into his skull. Then his thinks it's a Pit side affect or some other weird thing.

But no. It's just migraines

[rithmeres]

hey maggie wtf was all this

[heywriters]

i have always used MS Word for writing, but my laptop wheezed and went into a coma last fall and took my MS 2007 with it.

i carefully switched some projects to Google Docs, but now it's promoting its "AI" software to me.

so i just downloaded LibreOffice and moved my GDocs over to that.

anyway, if anyone has bad news for me about LibreOffice, tell me now, please, thx

[mattodore]

yeah go download the trapezius slider

[kankuroplease]

My brain infestation ship~

[winepresswrath]

shang qinghua transmigrating into su she and working his way around to fucking jiang cheng... yes.

[napo-leo-art]

Not dreams. No.

[antiloreolympus]

To Rachel,

When people say, "I wish she'd bring back her old style," I don't think this is what they meant..

Bonus panels:

[utilitycaster]

What would it take for you to redeem Liliana?

The pithy answer to this is "I can't redeem Liliana; she has to do it herself" but in all seriousness, either she needs to leave the Ruby Vanguard and begin working against them, despite the risk to herself and without the expectation of forgiveness from Imogen (which, to be clear, I think she will probably grant), or she needs to irreversibly sabotage the efforts to free Predathos from within the Vanguard. It is definitely possible! I do not think she is irredeemable; in fact, that's what makes her so interesting. But she can't just show up when called and be helpful in a way that doesn't blow her cover and look sad while still continuing down the path; she needs to either leave outright and join the opposition, or destroy from within.

[a-dragons-journal]

Forgive me for showing my fangs a little here instead of being as delicate in phrasing as I usually am, but. Periodic reminder:

sweeping "humans suck, humans are evil, the world would be better off if humans disappeared/had never evolved" statements may be cathartic but they're thoroughly inaccurate (ie, the vast majority of uniquely bad effects of humans on the planet are a) extremely recent, like within the last couple centuries, b) the fault of an extremely small minority not the entire fucking species, and c) fixable)

hating being human isn't the same as hating humans. I get species dysphoria is a thing. I get that it's often hard to fit in as a nonhuman in human social groups and that can make it easy to slip into hating everyone around you. Please fight that instinct

villainizing people for traits they didn't choose, such as the species they were born into, is neither cute nor fair. No species is inherently good or bad

misanthropy is cathartic in short term vents or whatever but genuinely embracing it wholesale as a philosophy is liable to lead to you hating humans, human society, and being in a human body more and more over time and thus make your life worse by constantly reinforcing a thought pattern that makes you angry and upset

you are not immune to being part of human society (translation: just because you're nonhuman doesn't mean you're not included in statements about the effects of the human population on the world, ie "humans are killing the planet")

related, you are not better than humans for being nonhuman. looking at my fellow dragons in particular on this one. I get it, draconic pride is a thing, dragon brain probably says you're the supreme being and all else is beneath you especially anyone who annoys you. Mine does too. Please recognize that is an instinct you are supposed to FIGHT, not something that's TRUE AND THAT YOU SHOULD EMBRACE. Good fucking gods.

some nonhumans are also human (it's me, I'm some nonhumans) and you are making sweeping "humans suck, why would I ever want to be human, all humans do is kill the planet" statements in the presence of people included in those statements, which is insanely rude (and no, you don't get to "but you're different because you're nonhuman" me! you do not get to decide to ignore half of who I am because you don't like it, you do not get to decide I'm not "really" human, and also see the previous bullet point). this goes doubly if you're in a space like a DIscord server where people have expressly stated they're not comfortable being tacitly included in statements like that

saying "but I don't REALLY mean all humans, I just mean the specific ones at fault!" after the fact does not actually change anything if every other thing you say is constantly "humans humans humans" and not the group you're actually referring to, or at the very least doesn't change how it reads to everyone around you

[what-even-is-thiss]

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[lanternbats]

What if Bruce and Hal were divorced and the batkids had to “parent trap” them to get them back together?

Oh my GOD I want this fic so badly. Damian joins the family and finds out Bruce used to be married to The Actual Green Lantern who he just so happens to think is unbelievably cool (Maybe Hal helped out on a mission or two and Damian became an instant fan because Hal didn't look down on him), so he goes to all the other batkids to find out what they were like as a couple and why they broke up in the first place. In doing so he gains all of his siblings onto his side and they start trying to get them back together... chaos ensues.

[wispstalk]

finally messing around with clip studio paint...here's the suffer puppet