#which is sooo true

[flutterbyfairy]

btw sexuality labels do not have to be super specific with strict boundaries of what "qualifies" as being that sexuality. you do not have to base how you define your sexuality on the first description that comes up on google; history, culture, the nuances of personal experience, and what you feel connected to are just as important a part of how you choose to identify!

[5hrignold]

this is all i got

[coquelicoq]

we get a lot of really great stuff in system collapse about murderbot's relationships with ART and ratthi, which makes sense, because it spends almost the entire book with them. but i also love how even though mensah isn't there for most of the story, other people keep reminding mb of her:

chapter 2, page 25: “From ART’s personnel file, she [Karime] was older than Mensah and she didn’t look like an intrepid space explorer, either, even in the protective environmental suit.”

2, 27: “It took Karime three seconds to process the abrupt statement. (She was almost as good at not looking annoyed as Mensah was.) She kept her expression neutral and patient.”

2, 28: “In the underground colony room, Karime lifted her brows. ‘Another occupied site?’ I thought she was being careful not to show too much reaction. It was the way Mensah would have played it.”

4, 70: “Iris looked at me and I saw her hesitate, because her hesitation looked a lot like Dr. Mensah’s hesitation. And I realized I really didn’t want to go down there.”

5, 104: "Iris has that same thing as Dr. Mensah, the thing where she’s able to look and sound calm under circumstances where shit is possibly about to go down.”

it's spent so much time with her and it knows her so well and respects her so much that she's the model against which it compares all other humans. it thinks about her when they're not together. it's protective of her. it has such total faith in her competence. it (non-romantically) loves her and doesn't want to not see her again. idk man, it just gets to me! and they were teammates (oh my god they were teammates!!)

bonus:

I said, aloud, "You have to be kidding me." (ch. 2, p. 28)

seven pages later, in reaction to the same thing:

Mensah had had time to review the feed video. She muttered, "Oh, you have to be kidding me." Yeah.

twinsies 🥰

[ruinationz]

personal opinion warning i don't think ragatha is the ""mom friend"" of the circus i think she just has some extremely dogshit coping mechanisms for being trapped there. tags rant go !

[milimeters-morales]

me trying to keep calm in the tags/comments when ganke is drawn skinny in milesganke fanarts bc the movie could be the artist’s only exposure to him and they don’t know ganke is fat in the comics (i’ve set my house on fire)

[dnahelix]

some thoughts on jam that i want to share:

id say jay isnt really in touch with his emotions. throughout the series, he never really talks about how he feels aside from physically, and obviously if your blacking out constantly then you're going to be worried, but emotionally and mentally he never speaks about it. tim on the other hand; he speaks and is pretty open about his emotions once you're close. hes trying to get better, trying to find a solution, and is trying to live a normal life while mentally and physically getting better. theres many differences between those two, but i feel like the sole difference is how they handle themselves compared to the other. tim obviously gets worried about jays health as they begin to work together, and even makes jay get signed up for meds or therapy, i cant remember which one.

regardless—while tim is hard on jay sometimes, its mostly just to get him in touch with reality again. jay gets so incredibly unaware of how fucked up his actions are, but hes paranoid and struggling and doesnt know what to do. thrusted into a situation where a genuine child nightmare monster follows you no matter what you do and basically warpped your friends minds so badly that theyre just. a shell of the person they used to be. its not jays fault, but he makes it worse for himself because he desperately just wants answers and in the end, doesnt get any. and tim cant help. tim tries, he really does, but if somebody doesnt want help the only thing you can do is watch and hope they realize what they're doing.

they hold onto each other as they escape from whatever hell it came from, but never lay in the same bed and ask if this was really worth it.

[snowflakeb0ttles]

[onlinecasualty]

shoutout to all the podfic creators out there yall don’t know how often i fall asleep to your voice

[druidonity2]

Sketch of Anduin's trauma.

[keshetchai]

Roommate #2 has already put up the Christmas tree (no ornaments yet) and a bunch of Christmas themed decor, which is peak unhinged gentile behavior, frankly, because we haven't even had Thanksgiving.

[thedanceronthestreets]

The thing is, bucktommy can't compete with buddie because of all the Lore but buddie can't compete with bucktommy due to instant insane homoromantic vibes

[muirneach]

it is fascinating to me that the majority of people it seems have never considered that borders are just lines on a map? its just a piece of paper? not to have anarchic tendencies but like. it’s just words

[sieglinde-freud]

i think the fell xenologue does a great job at characterizing some of the royals beyond the vanilla game mostly because every single royal has like one or two core principles that really make them who they are and so getting rid of those one or two things completely converts them into a completely different person. like alcryst losing his self doubt, celine loses her empathy, hortensia loses her resilience, etc etc. but i think my favorite version of this has to be fogado, who has in my opinion the most drastic change. i think all of the other royals have very outward presenting traits that you can easily catch onto and see theyve lost. but fogado is just a little different, because what fell fogado lacks isnt really a trait; he loses his sense of love. (rest under the cut bc it turned into an essay. my bad also fell xenologue spoilers obvs)

“our” fogado (?? idk how to differentiate between them. work with me here) is not an easy person to read in universe. he makes it very clear in chapter 13 that he’s pretty good at deception and is very willing to make use of that skill. his supports with timerra and pandreo also tell us he’s gotten used to keeping up a specially crafted persona meant to kind of suppress his feelings (that timerra and pandreo can see through but. like 1. theyre smart 2. sister and bff ok moving on). but he doesn’t do it out of malice or because he just likes being tricky, he lies because he loves. everything in fogado’s life is shaped by what he loves: his country, his friends, and his sister. every single motivation he has is fueled by this: the constant partying, how often he leaves the castle, all his acting. its even in his goddamn class name (cupido) and birthday (feb 14) if you needed the game to spell it out for you

so thats why when we get to the fell xenologue, the fogado we meet is changed in that one specific way: his love is gone. we know this because of a few things, the first of which is that he is honest. aside from the robe (in which he is assassinating someone! but also. lets be so honest with ourselves here. you can see his fucking face) he’s immediately upfront with his intentions: he wants the bracelets, he wants power, and he wants you to die. and thats it. he just kind of hands you that information, and then fucks off when you win. on what earth would our fogado do that? dude wouldnt even tell you if he broke his leg, he just partied a little hard last night. but thats just it isnt it? our fogado lies because he loves people, hes protecting them. fell!fogado is transparent because he’s not protecting anyone, he doesn’t care.

but the biggest kicker in fell!fogado’s lack of love is in his interaction with our timerra. our fogado loves his sister more than anything, as he literally plans his entire life around making HER life easier. he sacrifices even just spending time with her just because he needs to make sure hes fully prepared to keep her safe (not that timerra wants that for him but he doesnt really get that. which is another topic i could dive into but this post is long enough lets not make it a novel). fell!fogado though? well you see–

any love fogado holds for his sister, or any love at all really, is just not present in fell!fogado. and you could say that maybe its just because of the corruption, but then why do we still see love between the fierenese and brodian siblings? even fell!timerra still loves her brother if her conversation with our fogado is anything to go off of. but the writers know that fogado lives and dies on his love for people, its his entire being and so much more so than the rest of the cast. which is why thats what had to change in him for the fell xenologue. it wasnt really just a flip of the switch haha murder thing (though. it could have been handled better. lets be real) but it was the loss of everything that makes fogado him. and i think the fact that this gets to be highlighted in the dlc just makes base game fogado all that much more interesting, because it cements his motivation now that we know what he's like without it. fogado is a guy driven by love and its just fucking great

[commander-gloryforge]

mental illness

[horrorsequel]

adult cartoons r so crazy cos its like "its just a silly show idk why ppl take it so seriously" and then it will literally be a canon event that the teenage protagonist/s have been sexually abused. etf do u mean I'm not supposed to take it seriously at all "its a joke" i know it was SUPPOSED to be a joke , howeveer...

[anotherpapercut]

I was shopping at the surplus/damaged goods grocery store bc shits cheap as hell and I bought quite a bit of stuff but the cashier has to manually input the price of each item and she rang me up and said "$109...." and there was a moment where me and her and the guy behind me just stared at the total in shock and horror and then she went "there's no way that's correct" and fixed it but I seriously almost passed out when she said that