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A lot of pop psychology gets thrown around and since I already have a headache, here's preventing you lot from making it worse.

Love-bombing: A manipulation tactic of increasing affection and grand gestures before or after doing something abusive, specifically to weasel one's way out of consequences.

What it is not: A streak of affection and generosity towards friends/loved ones.

Trauma-bonding: Knowingly traumatizing someone to take advantage of their vulnerable state, to then act like the "hero" or the one who cheers them up.

What it is not: Bonding over similar traumas.

Gaslighting: *Knowingly* convincing someone they cannot trust their own perception of a situation in pursuit of one's own narrative.

What it is not: Misaligned perception of events.

Narcissist: Someone afflicted with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a traumagenic cluster B disorder, that struggles with self-obsession, paranoia, craving validity from the public, delusions of grandeur, and social disconnection.

It is not: Your rubbish ex that cheated on you.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

-Xanthe

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Notes: Part 1 strictly refers to the period between game launch and The Grand Temple of Time: Solomon. EoR strictly refers to the period between the Shinjuku and Salem singularities. The early Lostbelt Arc strictly refers to the period between the Lostbelt Prologue and Olympus. For the purposes of this survey, Heian Kyo onwards is currently referred to as the later Lostbelt Arc. (Edited.)

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Camazotz ("Death Bat" in the K'iche’ language), a Lord in Xibalbá, Mesoamerica

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My boyfriend was showing me his cat and I leaned over to kiss the cat on his soft little baby head and he went "meow" and scrambled away because I'd been wearing my headphones and I accidentally jabbed him with the microphone.

And I said "Damn, this is exactly like in the Iliad"

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gonna cope with how mid 8th anni is with convincing myself that tonelico/aesc/summer morgan is the lady of the lake, which is like 33% accurate from the actual thing.

#fate grand order #fgo #daisy's fgo personals #fgo morgan #oh well good for morgan fans i guess #which i am one but... #it does feel a bit like pandering

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A BALUT MENTION????!!!! IN MY FATE/GRAND ORDER?????????????

#granted it was one word in a metaphor #but still #fate grand order #fgo #daisy's fgo personals #man i dont eat balut #but i didnt expect one of my cultural stuff be referenced #not gonna tag spoilers because im prolly the only one who noticed #and its like one word sooo

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I’m so fond of athena and odysseus conceptually.  like here’s the goddess of wisdom and warfare and craft and art, and here’s her pet liar.  he does tricks.

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every cell in my body greets grief in the morning and yet i keep getting up to live more

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the world is dogshit and finding beauty in it is stupid

one day the world will be more than 8th grade nihilism & you will have a fresh peach so good, the feeling of its furred skin in yr palm will bring u to tears

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Rocky Horror is turning 50 next month and people still act like being gay was invented by Ellen in 1997

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So, you wanna prep for Lostbelt 6 by reading a bunch of fairy lore for background information. Luckily for you, I’m a turbo nerd when it comes to this particular brand of folklore. In this post I’ll be compiling links to assorted text and audio sources of information and entertainment related to all the real-world fairy lore that pops up throughout the chapter. I’m gonna try to avoid just wikipedia links as much as possible, so some of the text sources are gonna be a little dense, but that’s ye olde texts for you. This will be semi-ongoing as things pop up, so you can keep an eye out if you want!

Note: I’ll try to keep the spoilers to a minimum, but there will be possible spoilers as to what’s in the chapter ahead, so watch out!

Without further ado, here’s the list under the cut:

Keep reading

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my morgan has a hat

#fate grand order #fgo #i play the game and the game is playing me #daisy's fgo personals

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sometimes I see things that are so absurdly horny that it circles back around to being sexless you know what I mean