#I can give a summary if you want

[themathomhouse]

this disability pride month, stop making jokes about people in wheelchairs standing up or walking.

can I stand and walk? sure, for a short while and with pain. the consequences for trying to be out all day without a wheelchair are that I'll be in bed for the rest of the week, too tired and in too much pain to move.

but the government won't give me my own wheelchair because they have the same attitude as these jokes - I can stand up, so I don't need one. exercise is good for you, you should walk!

it keeps me trapped in the house, unable to do anything more than short stints anywhere without borrowing or hiring a wheelchair - one that causes me pain to sit in and relies on someone to push me (usually with difficulty), because they're not going to have a high-end chair for that sort of thing.

it's not a miracle that a wheelchair user can stand or walk. it's something we should aspire to see more often.

#disability #disability pride month #chronic fatigue #fibromyalgia #cfs/me #post exertional malaise #like fucking hell people we should really be long past this by now #why am I seeing these bullshit jokes on my dash in twenty fucking twenty three #i did a short walk to a cafe yesterday because I thought I was up to it #and my right leg has seized up #my ankle can barely take my weight and my hip won't move properly #also lol I almost certainly have hEDS but cannot persuade a doctor to give me a referral #in summary #stop being fucking dense #i would rather people who don't need mobility aids use them than have people struggle because they don't want to be seen as a faker #or have people think that you have to reach a certain level of severity before you need it #also if I had a wheelchair I would bring my cat with me more places but that's by the by

[eyrieofsynapses]

good evening, all. it is May the 25th. our lilacs are blooming, just as the ones at the Watch House did. and I am thinking about remembrance of the fallen, and GNU, and the love in commemoration.

y'know, I read Night Watch… oh, maybe a year ago and some months ago. and the lilac symbolism, the remembrance of the Watch, has always struck me with the depth of the emotion of it, the tangibility of it in the flowers. but I wasn't aware that today was the day until I saw commemorative posts, all that gorgeous artwork and more, on my dash.

I was also not aware, until now, that fans commemorated the day not only because of the book reference, but in support of Terry Pratchett and of those with Alzheimer's. which knocked me over a bit because of course, of course the group that would use GNU to honor him would do that. and… I've been thinking about GNU a lot, lately, and this caught me again.

I read Going Postal a bit ago, and reread it recently. both times, the parts about GNU made me tear up. this idea of the names, the memories, the lives of the clacks workers who dedicated themselves to ensuring that people heard each other's voices—all those names spoken again and again and again by that which they poured their souls into, winging along in the air as they could not, an eternal reminder that they were loved—how could that not touch a person's heart?

when I found out that fans online used it to memorialize him, I damn well cried. hell, I still tear up just thinking about it. do you know, there's a code for an HTTP header "X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett" written by Reddit users to put in webpages, where it goes unseen by the average user? and in 2015, when Netcraft took a survey, there were eighty-four thousand websites using it? it's eight years later—how many thousands upon thousands of websites have this now, do you think? how many little cables of light has his name flown along, now? how many times?

that alone is absurdly and unimaginably lovely in its own right, but… there's something else to it. there's something about remembering with the lilac sprigs every year, just as Vimes and those who were there remembered their dead. something about how, when we take up our lilac sprigs, we carry a little piece of the characters in our hearts, too. I kept trying to put my finger on why that makes me tear up the way it does. the conclusion I came to is this:

what greater way to honor a writer is there, but to honor them the way they did the characters they poured their heart and soul into? what better way to say we know you and you are not forgotten and your work and words and gifts to the world are held in our hearts forever than to remember them by their own words, their own vision? how else could we say you embodied all the good you believed in and wished to see in the world, but to memorialize them after the little pieces of their soul they wrapped in ink and put upon the page?

it is a knowing of the writer, to remember them in their way. it is not a worn-out faceless platitude, but a reminder that their work has been read and will continue to be, that the characters and world they loved enough to bring to life last just as their name does. such remembrance is warm and loving and delights in their memory even as it grieves.

and now Pratchett's name has been written in his tradition, over and over and over, across the vast plane of the Internet, where it will—with any luck—continue to fly for generations to come.

there is no way to truly express the beauty of that… but perhaps we can catch a glimpse of it in the lilacs, both ours and the Watch's.

#the glorious 25th of may #night watch #gnu terry pratchett #discworld #I cannot express how much I love that our lilacs bloom at the same time as they do in the books #also I dearly wanted to include this little fact in my accidental monologue but it didn't fit. so in the tags it goes: #GNU Terry Pratchett is ALSO a Minecraft splash text #which is just. aaaaaaaaaaah of course a game with something like the End Poem would do that but aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah #I have many feelings on this and a decent summary of a lot of them is about the beauty of how humanity remembers and loves our dead #and also just... the love. the love that can be held for someone you never met #but whose writing and words can pierce your heart in the best of ways #and the love for characters--for the best of them are these little shards of the writer's soul that they decided to share #because that's really the nature of writing. baring your soul and your self to others in those persons you breathe to life on the page #and then sharing it with others just in hopes that it might ring true and inspire them #give them insight #help them in ways no one else could because only YOU could write that character and share that part of yourself #and by gods if Pratchett isn't among the best at that then I don't know who is #anyway. I have feelings and I accidentally turned them into a monologue whoo #have a good evening all

[valentjin]

art summary 2023 (template from here)

#my art #art summary #these things are always mildly stressful cause it's like jeez did i even draw enough to fill 1 slot per month? #and the answer is barely LMAO basically just sketch city for the first half of the year #you can tell about when i got out of my shitty old job and into a better one right? LMAOOO #anyway like solidly 9/12 of these are my ocs thank you dnd/ttrpgs/etc bc they make me want to draw my Guys. my blorbos #and the one (1) raphael in the november slot isn't exactly representative of the 545874344849 times i drew him LOL #so thank you bg3 for giving me another blorbo #here's to me hopefully drawing more in 2024. blorbos and otherwise #also yeah i am such a pedant i edited the template to say IV instead of IIII

[crescentfool]

going to keep this vague on purpose but playing reload has reactivated brain chemicals in me that i forgot i had.

i think i'd want to make a more thought out post later, but i think my favorite thing about reload (aside from seeing minato in full HD glory) is how much it's made me think about video games as a storytelling medium- specifically with what mechanics and game design imply for characters.

there's a lot of quality of life features added to reload that help players easily enter a flow state and get immersed in the gameplay (most notable with tartarus)! which is so dope! reload has been such a nice blend of the mechanics from both FES and portable and it feels like a love letter to persona 3 fans.

there are definitely mechanics i miss from FES (minato's ability to wield multiple weapons being one of them). i can't deny that FES has some dated mechanics that don't necessarily feel fun for the player experience... but!

i think i mostly miss things from FES because i feel like so much of minato's characterization (for me) was informed by the gameplay experience and mechanics (e.g. fatigue system). obviously there's still other ways you can put together his personality (his dialogue responses), but i think game mechanics are a bit part of it, for me.

but in spite of that, i think reload is a really nice introduction to persona 3, it's so much more accessible and has a bunch of things to help make it more fun :) so far i think i'd recommend it to people :D

#persona 3 #persona 3 reload #i don't even really talk about mechanics from reload specifically here but just in case haha #lizzy speaks #im really enjoying this game. i dont want to get into specific details abt reload in a text post atm #and if i do in the future it'll be under the cut #but my god this game is giving me big brainrot #i know i tend to mostly just be like 'hehe fanart reblogging time and here is me talking about the two guys i like' #but playing reload again reminded me of how much i loved playing FES because it was so fun for me to see how FES was designed #like... every time i finished FES i'd think about how much modernsona evolved the gameplay formula and built upon it #and now every time i finish reload i think 'goddamn they've really nailed the formula this experience is so fun' #but also it's fun for me to think about the different experiences curated by both FES and reload #i don't really know if anyone would play FES anymore with reload being out but i still really like the takeaways from FES #FES mechanics may not be the most convenient for the player but they definitely help sell the narrative in ways that only a video game can #like sometimes i just think about the movies and while its a good summary of the events it feels more like supplementary material #like p3 is 80+ hours and in order to have that 6 hour movie experience there's so much that has to be condensed/removed. they hit different #sometime after i finish reload im going to make a text post about my favorite mechanics from FES and how you can read into minato's- #character from it (i don't feel like it's very original but GUYS I LOVE GAME DESIGN GAME DESIGN IS SO COOL AND INTERESTING) #anyways. i needed 2 get my feelings out there. im on august 4th rn. this game is so awesome i love experiencing minato's day to day life #and i fucking LOVE TARTARUS!!!!!! (this tower is my beloved i can just live here forever). #i love having no expectations for video games ever because then i get knocked out of my seat im having so much fun. ok bye. back to the voi

[crossbackpoke-check]

18 + swaymark!!

oooo thank you!!

#18 - pleaser, wallows + swaymark

okay i know they are canonically obsessed with each other but. the song is in some ways about feeling like you’re failing in your relationship and being not quite as obsessed with them as they maybe are with you, and in this video of them talking about being a tandem, there is the slightest pause before swayman answers “do you miss him?” that makes me want to probe a wound. we’re not talking irl reasons of how that’s an absurd question (how do you miss him. you’re coworkers you’re seeing each other all the time) we’re talking that maybe this whole goalies-in-love thing got blown out of proportion and now swayman’s having to buy into the bit too hard. linus loves it & everyone’s asking about their bromance & how they love each other so much and the thing is—linus is safe. he’s got a wife and plausible deniability and jeremy? jeremy is gay. sure, he can crack jokes and people-please but the more people ask the more they're going to find out until maybe they find out something jeremy doesn't want them to know. and the longer this goes on, the more jeremy has to sit at linus' dinner table with linus and his beautiful wife and pretend like he isn't a little bit in love with him. and you know what? the longer it goes on and linus doesn't dial it down jeremy does stop being in love with him, because it just feels cruel, until he finally is done enough that he stops biting his tongue and ruins the moment.

#…this so is not a five sentence summary but ALSO this manages to perfectly align with something i was obsessed with (that media video) #like yeah is that pause reasonably a buffering time to a weird question? yes!!! do i want to read into it & make swayman a bit uncomfortabl #also yes!!! sorry i decided to give them tragique but they were assigned by spotify. the other option for this song was an ED fix-it fic #about healthy sex and learning that it can be a part of a normal relationship!! sex is weird and fucked up!! but like. that’s just because #i have always interpreted this song as a) unrequited best friend love & you’re worried you’re gonna fuck it up b) virgin who doesn’t know #what sex is and is scared to tell anyone and then option c) people pleaser keeps going along with it but can’t anymore #also OBVIOUSLY they end up fine. whether that ends up being jeremy finally telling linus (oblivious) i don’t want to do this with you #i need to get over you & them creating a platonic space & sway ends up with someone else OR linus has the oh. true. i simply never #considered that i could be gay for you option OR the one i have just invented but is now my favorite because i love a good polycule is that #linus & his wife simply add jeremy to their relationship. and then this song becomes jeremy scared to have sex with linus’ wife at first lo #liv in the replies #the interviews in that video doing the lord’s work fr but also that ‘do you not miss him’ feels SO uncomfortable. say no! but then he leans #in with the dirty jokes comment & i know i’ve made like eight variations already (sorry. that’s how my brain works) but it is soooo fun #to me personally if they are broken up but now have to act nice & keep doing all these rituals & sell us on the narrative & they’re just #trying to see who’s going to crack first. needle each other into laughing or getting irritated enough it shows through & the other one wins #do even more aggressive hug rituals!! get a medical warning from the athletic training staff!!!

[jefferythejelly]

I gotta hear more about dogboy foolish 👀👀 -rutadales

@rutadales started this one recently and really like it so far, the idea started out silly and then i ended up doing a lot of worldbuilding and accidentally gave foolish a lot of trauma. whoops!

(also read more bc i talked a lot)

basic premise is that karl and nolan are roommates (similar to how it is now they just moved in with each other instead bc foosh as a streamer does not exist. bc he is a dogboy) and they decide to get a pet. after bickering back and forth about dog vs cat karl agrees to get a dog on the condition that nolan be the one to take care of adopting it and doing all the care stuff karl doesnt want to do. nolan ends up accidentally adopting a dogboy thru a shady website (foolish)

ok slight worldbuilding dump: hybrids in this universe were created by Science sometime in the Past (i am doing barely any research to make this make sense just play with me in this space) and a lot of misinfo was spread by their creator who claimed they were unintelligent and controlled by instincts (theyre basically like humans with animal features but it is omegaverse rules and theres alphas/omegas). in modern times they exist in more of a gray area where its still legal to own them as pets but they can become independent thru emancipation (i think thats the right word? i googled like one article about emancipation of minors thats kind of what im basing it off of. idk like i said barely any research im having fun fuck it we ball)

i'm kind of playing it fast and loose with the plot but the basic idea is karl (and nolan but mostly karl bc the fic is from his pov) trying to teach foolish to be an actual person while also dealing with all of his dogboy-isms (and past trauma. bc uhhhhh plot twist the place where foolish came from before being adopted by karl and nolan was like. the hybrid equivalent of a puppy mill. idk how it got slightly angsty it just happened)

theoretically it's endgame koolish also but it's gonna take a while to get there lmao

#theres little bits and pieces im leaving out to give a more coherent summary of what i have so far #but also theres not That much done on the plot besides some basic ideas of events i want to happen At Some Point #so like idk you can ask for more if u want but thats the basics of what this is so far #no idea if im ever gonna finish it. its a mess rn #asks #wip game

[jugglingjujube]

hi to everyone who has started following me for knitting stuff. unfortunately this blog is primarily about a necromantic lesbian book series. enjoy

#the locked tomb is a really good series #if you haven't read it I recommend it #first book is Gideon the Ninth #I can give a better plot summary if people want

[cowsaresushi-coral]

Summary of 2022

Significantly less than last year given general exhaustion, but I’m surprised I had something for every month! And comparing the art to last year’s, uh, I didn’t realize it, but it’s definitely gotten better! Can’t say it’s a quality over quantity thing because though I drew less, I only spent a little bit more time drawing. Just got better, I guess. How dandy. Oh, and June when I did that commission was when I finally learned how to draw human heads, which I’m very happy about!

Was a very rough year, but hopefully next year will be better! Came out of 2022, and I’m here for 2023!

#coral yaps #2022 #summary #I'm also excited to turn 23 this coming year because uh i think 23 is a fun number :) #Also I hear older folks say it only gets better when you get older and I want to see what they're talking about #BTW I know some people may have seen I was uber ooooooofffffff from april-september give or take a month or more here and there #I was having a rough year ;v; but I feel pretty okay this month! Woo!!! #Thankee for sticking by and on to more projects #or more bs. i got a piano and i want to spend next year trying to get back into tap dancing learn some piano (and how to read bass clef #faster) and yeah. want to do animatics and more comics #hope i have the time to work on it! #anyways happy new years! I'll see if I can post some art that I wanted to do for the holidays and new years

[kalmeria]

btw i originally read obbligato right after ariadne so if you are someone who has just read ariadne bc of the english release but havent read obbligato yet.. why not do it right now? come cry about tatsukana with me

#no actual reason you have to read them back to back #for me it was just that i really wanted to read it when i found out abt it but was like. need to read stuff released earlier first #but this is how much i was able to manage before giving in #uuuu i wanted to say take my hand bc thats such a fun expression but cant say it bc #bc. not currently operating in the mode that can handle that lmao #oh and btw!!!! there are two translations one of them is still a wip so its unfinished and the other one is finished but doesnt have the #first some chapters? last i checked that was the case. so make sure you read it all #the wiki has the chapter list with summaries but it isnt the same trust me #enstars

[gottagobuycheese]

genuinely truly wholeheartedly cannot fathom people who go running before work. what do you mean you don’t get out of bed 10-15 minutes before you need to be fully dressed, breakfasted, equipped, and out the door? why would you voluntarily wake up SEVERAL hours early and go get sweaty in the dark and cold and then have a shower in the MORNING only to go to work all day?? incomprehensible.

#context: my housemate and I went for a run/walk this evening and we remarked on how nice it was and how we should do it more often #but realistically the only way we'd be able to do it during the weekdays is before work #which like. lmao. #I'm sorry but your insomnia and my insomnia do not line up enough for this #the only person who comes to mind that I actually know does this is my high school ap chem teacher #but she also got her phd at 25 so she doesn't count #I do like running in the mornings the few times I've done it! #but the only way we'd be able to get it done before work here is well before sunrise #which I am intrinsically opposed to #and also if I have work right after I can't just come back home and go back to sleep or slouch on the couch for 3 hours straight #I was going to say something but there was this HUGE gust of wind and rain and other noises lashing my window and I forgot what it was #anyways in summary I still don't want to go to work tomorrow #and I'm rrrreeeaaaaallllyyyy hoping that the ‘don't want to be here’ energy of Friday carries over to today #phenomenal job on Friday 6 out of 8 of my co-worker's people didn't show up #I yearn for that sort of attendance #please. please give me nothing to do. let me catch up on my other stuff. you do not need to come in for this. this can be an email. #(to be fair I would also hate it if it were an email sdkjfhskfjh) #(...yeah actually maybe don't make it an email) #(but please please PLEASE no more backstories tragic or otherwise) #(please let it just be simple and straightforward enough to finish all my notes as they come) #(I still have to do Friday's because I slept like all of Saturday and half of today) #ah shoot and I still need to study... #you know what. I'm gonna have to say it: I miss December #Cheese's personal molasses #Cheese evaporates about...job?? #okay I should go to sleep now and stop fantasizing about a tree missing everything but landing exactly across our driveway #rendering it impossible for us to go to work #OKAY STOP WHINING #IF WE MAKE IT THROUGH TOMORROW I'LL LET YOU DO SOMETHING ART RELATED A N D EAT SOME COOKIE DOUGH HOW'S THAT

[synonymroll648]

👀 sokeefe fic snippet? Perhaps?

Few knew that the King of Good-Hair Land had also been almost crowned the King of Bad Logic, but he tried to reason his way through his mortification anyway.

#keefe is. goofy <3 #ask #squishmallow36 #sokeefe gift fic #there was a funnier line i could've given you that i wanted to give you #but i might use that as part of the ao3 summary. so. can't really give that part away #yet #also we have finally reached a point in the fic where it's easier to write #so. big win :) #ALSO i passed in public today!! got referred to as 'his' w/o me saying anything about my gender #even bigger win. esp since i'd talked at that point which tells me my voice can pass as masc w/o voice training #all hail binders and baggy shirts guys

[bumbleblurr]

blurr is so asian. To me

#ok to be clear to ppl who may nof know i am chinese sjhdkfjfk #mixed race asian actually but im not. discussing that on my robot blog this is not the place for that #i just think asian blurr humanformer is swag bc... heehee hes just like me fr :] #seeing white man blurr it just. it doesn't feel right to me #ESPECIALLY when they make his skin so pale its literally paper white like does this man ever go outside- #i understand that blurrs robot design does have literal white plating for his face but consider this. who give a shit #some of them have literal purple & blue faces we're not playing this game #besides the fandom already has this problem of considering white to be the default #legit saw. this exchange on twitter #abt someone calling out an artist for making the majority of their humanizations white while only. jazz was the only non white person #i think they even made windb1ade white which. :| ok #and another person defended them by saying there ''arent even that many poc characters'' #like wdym theyre all robots how can u say theyre white . its you who is defaulting them as white bc u think thats the norm :/// #anyway thats my off hand rant of the day #summary. blurr is asian bc i want him to be and i think its cool :] #other characters that have the asian badge of honor to me (that i can remember rn): pr0wl‚ j@zz‚ shocky‚ w1ndblade of course #dare i say. roddy also :] #OH wheeli3 too hes my little cousin who loves dinosaurs #(i actually have a little cousin who loves dinos so i think of wheeli3 in the same way) #my interpretation of him is largely based on my lil sis & my lil cousins so he has to be asian as a result. sorry i dont make the rules #ok ok thats all im going to say on this its already becoming incoherent #🐝 could you repeat the last part? 🟦

[t-lostinworlds]

me, writing: how many days should she be captured & tortured until they find her? only a couple hours? a full day? two? three? what's the right amount of trauma i can induce for everyone involved?

also me (lowkey scared): .......are you okay

#fanfiction is just giving your fave characters More Trauma™️ #LKASALK it won't make sense without me spoiling it #but i'm trying to weigh how far i can take it LMAO #and yes this is a bucky barnes fic #take that as you will #and i'm tempted to share a summary #but i want to keep it a surprise #i'm actually so excited for this #ramblings

[dulcetmuses]

also give me a plot based off of the movie cruel intentions.. thank you <3

#if you haven’t seen it i can give a brief summary but.. yeah! #give it to me!! #ˊ * 𝐷.𝑀.⠀ ⠀( wanted plots. )

[chatter-by-the-fountain]

the thing is that sometimes I make OCs that vaguely represent stuff I dislike in others which is cool in the sense that I have material for them but i'm also constantly reminded that I would get along terribly with them if I met them

#can you guess who this is about #its hard bc even if i base a certain character in stuff i dont Like about others I still want them to be enjoyable #and i wanna think about them outside of the stuff i hate about them #in summary: yeah i wanna give them depth to make them cool but still remwmber they represent stuff i dislike in people

[jigenstits]

ooh, since you've seen part 1 and bits of part 2, do you have any episode recommendations/ favorites? I've only seen the episode of part 1 where they meet goemon (classic), and a random assortment of part 2 episodes

oo ok ok so

in p1 my favorite pre-goe ep is prolly episode 4, but thats probably just bc alot of it is lupin screaming that he isnt lupin JKHJGH (imo the episode is better in the sub than the dub purely bc i prefer yamada's voice work better than tony oliver's for this one lol)

post-goe id say my favorite ep is episode 13? idk its hard to say bc after goe joins the gang the episodes get consistently good imo

tldr as a whole for part 1 i recommend episodes 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13-19, and 21-the finale the other episodes are fine but nothing i really remember (except episode 3, 3 will always be my least favorite JKHGJFHG)

for part 2 i think my favorite ep so far is episode 15? (tw for suicide if you watch it) but also keep in mind thats the last episode ive watched so far before restarting oh also episode 10 was pretty good iirc

i dont have alot to say about part 2 rn bc i havent finished it + i havent rewatched it 3 times like i have with part 1

#if you want me to i can give you a loose summary of the part 1 episodes to see if they sound interesting to you #i stg i could go on for years abt part 1 i know it like the back of my hand at this point #also sorry if this isnt structured in a way that makes sense HJGH adhd brain go brrr #//txt #//inbx #i can also give a vague summary of ep 15 p2 but i dont remember it as clearly as the p1 eps #(oh also i got the jigen education hcs im just waiting until i can think well to answer them JKHJGH)