#you'll never tell

[treesandwords]

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[commissionsdarian]

Is this the real world or the other world? How do I tell?

It's whatever world you believe it to be. Does it matter which world you're in when your brain can convince you of the opposite? You could have been living in the other world your whole life, understanding it as the normality, with the real world awaiting. But you'd just see it as the "other" world, wouldn't you?

[agentark]

see you around, rvb

[miveus]

big thanks to mr. strade boyfriendtodeath for keeping me from having an artblock that's very cool of him

[starflungwaddledee]

some rather strong first impressions were made.

required reading for the magical "voice" headcanon and another for starstruck's signature in particular. asked by @trainerbob23 !

[rad-roche]

the one-off i'm doodling right now as a break from Big Project contains, if i may be so bold, the silliest face i've ever drawn. i know i say this every time but i've really hit it out of the park on this one. and not from the character you expect either

[thebibliosphere]

Hey, SPN folks getting heated in my inbox; I know this might be an extreme request for some of you, but you realize you can be normal about things, right?

[pipisguy]

@spamtonsometimes uhh... I was pretty sure you had answered my tags saying "ah the perry the platypus effect" and telling us that you changed your style to draw biblically accurate Spamton... but I can't find the post so maybe I dreamt it up??

Anyway

[heartshapedgreen]

really hate how 'avoid therapy speak' writing advice is to write your characters not able to convey their emotions period, instead of y'know... making them convey them less clinically (which is what i think 'therapy speak' is supposed to mean?) and more in line with your character's view of life.

like if your character is someone who is very self-aware, or someone who ruminates a lot (hello ocd), they're gonna have A Lot to say when asked about their feelings. maybe it's unreliable. maybe it's diverting from the real issue. maybe they're lying. even untruthful/'wrong' answers can reveal so much about a cynical mindset or that they hate their self or that they've been gaslit so much their entire conclusion is wrong, and it's a "oh..." moment for everybody.

i even have a character who actually would say 'umm... not good, i guess? i have no idea' to being asked 'so how does this make you feel?' but that's cause. they literally have alexithymia. or, i guess if that could be an appropriate reaction for a character who is overly guarded & has trust issues. i also wonder if displeasure at 'therapy speak' has to do with the fact most of us probably don't have many people who ask us about our feelings, and conversations like these feel sappy and uncomfortable and like fanciful imaginings of unrestrained trust that won't be betrayed, because often IRL trust like this goes betrayed. most 'therapy speak' advice comes across as really jaded, and i'm saying this as someone who has trust issues lol. also, considering that alexithymia is actually very common, i wonder if that plays a role in how weird these conversation seem to readers who have it. (i'm actually curious about this.)

[r0setyler]

thinking about the roses on this makes me -

[givethispromptatry]

“Are you pretending to care right now?”

“No. I am legitimately being sincere.”

“... You confuse me.”

[bogbees]

Iruka and Kakashi are married HOWEVER it's a secret bc keeping secrets in a village full of ninjas (nosey busybodies) is their favourite passtime

[danieyells]

PC: I'm feeling watched. . . .

PC: (shines their phone flashlight into a dark corner)

Rui, no longer fully hidden by darkness:

[beatx-mavie-archangelx]

there should've been at least a full view of Fíli's body in the funeral scene

"Fíli you didn't deserve any of this" we all say in unison

[soup-child]

Riz Gukgak is going to come out and everyone is like yeah we all knew and he will be upset no one told him

[vorestarr]

a frustrating thing about larian changing actual game content so often is that now when someone says something i think is factually incorrect (for example, saying that a character does/doesn't do a certain action in the game), i don't know if it's because the person just hasn't seen that content in game bc the game has so much content, or if it's that the game has actually changed since i played that content and now the content is gone from the game entirely.

it kind of makes it hard to engage with the game because you experience it one way and then draw conclusions and make connections or interpretations based on that, and then the game just deletes or changes it without even telling you.

like, im perfectly willing and able to change or ignore canon in my fandom contexts, but that is a very different thing from basing an interpretation or thought on a certain event and then having that event just completely removed from the game.